Ironbound

Yes. It's a sad life if you can't love or believe in yourself. I thought you said you didn't want the existential or heavy questions?

That isn't a yes/no question but I don't think about them ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Seriously, one can't do anything about such things, so one may as well not care. People you can respect, whether friend or enemy, will say their piece to your face. Do you have four meals a day regularly?

Happy birthday

My family's ancestral house is pretty much the ideal kind of home in my eyes. It's now over 300 years old, an architectural specimen owned by a trust of the state government, and is partially in ruins. Someday, I'd like to buy it back and restore it to modern completion while still preserving that old charm. To try and describe it: it's a large, rambling old house built almost like a fortress, of stone and mortar, sitting towards one end of its own large grounds, which once had a a stream and several gardens and orchards. The house is two-storied and long, rectangular in shape with an inner courtyard containing a pond or tank, with broad, shallow steps leading down to the water. The style of building architecture is known as a manduva logi, and is characterised by a lot of corridors, tiled awnings, open terraces and a wraparound inner and outer balcony on two floors with several windows and pillared halls. Large, simplistic, very well ventilated and as much outdoors as in. In general, I like a home to be airy and open, simply but solidly furnished in the traditional style with heavy wood and stone, with a lot of sun and rain and large grounds with many plants and trees and preferably a water body somewhere nearby. I prefer keeping to my own peace, without too many other people around.

No Temp

I see that you have too much time on your hands.

Nope Spine

I'm so tough... I didn't eat potato chips in 8 years And then, I ate one yesterday Just one.

Everyone is a hypocrite, sometime or the other. If you recognize your own hypocrisy, are you a hypocritical hypocrite? Can such a thing be possible?

Not a single mention of Eeveelutions anywhere? What is this. I now nominate the man of many name-puns: Kommo-oander, a.k.a Calm Minder, a.k.a the one and only Scummander.

Micky

That fact would bear little or no relevance in deciding whether I like the person or not. It's not a factor by itself. It's very like asking: "would you like someone who's tall/has a moustache/is older than you/etc". These things are (at least to me) very irrelevant criteria to like or dislike people by. If you mean to ask, "do you like the trait of so-and-so in a person", then the answer is different; One can like or dislike height, moustaches, age, etc in people. That said, I don't particularly appreciate self-deprecating humour. It seems gloomy and saps fun. I don't mind playful arrogance or even outright rudeness, but, not a big fan of self-deprecation. Then again, several of my good friends employ that kind of humour, but like I said, it doesn't matter. Do you have a moustache?

I'm so tough, I spilled my coffee this morning... And only burned down 9 cities!

That's correct. We have a fractional timezone in order have the whole breadth of India under one time. I'd put mine as +6 GMT, for this purpose, though, since I'm on the Eastern half of the country (but not by much) And yeah there'll be large concentrations of Rebornians from America, parts of Europe and East Asia, in three broadish categories.

Run while you can Micky

You slept for almost twice as long as I usually manage, though Spine

:[ meanie y u no sacrifice Micky

I have been summoned without sacrifice; I am displeased. Micky, sacrifice thyself upon the altar of bad puns to appease my wrath.

The world's too full of idiots to care. Bearing a grudge against someone empowers them, as you acknowledge their power to hurt you. Grudges are also a manifestation of impotence: an evil residue from past bitterness that we keep within ourselves, intending to let it fructify against the object of it at some future date, but all it does meanwhile is cause us harm and upset out mental peace. The logical thing to do when displeased or otherwise hurt by someone is to resolve the situation as soon as possible, by whatever methods you choose, or, if nothing can be done, to simply put the resentment out of one's mind. We can all do with less spite. So no, I actively discourage myself from carrying grudges. I view bearing a grudge for another as an act of disrespect to myself, as I am displacing my own peace, empowering the importance of an unworthy other, and also displaying my powerlessness to do anything better about it. In every way, a despicable weakness. There are no rightful grudges. They're all quite bad, you know. Do you smile and laugh often?

so all I had to do was turn the serious filter off, huh? No, haven't even done anything to warrant police action. Do you like coffee?

Nope, no idea about that franchise. Actually, I asked because there exists a thread (in fact, I had made it, a long while ago) where these kinds of more in-depth discussions are welcome. It has been gathering dust for a while, in my absence, but it used to be a nice, relatively quiet place that was yet active in its own way. I'd be happy if it saw some frequency again. (That said, I won't much show up here since I have little to contribute in the nature of everyday questions.) Shameless link to the aforementioned thread is here: Do you like rain?

No, it's me Spine, you're reminding me of math. I did math years ago. I kinda miss it; it's so much better to just focus on delivering an accurate result and its applications than to take finacial decisions based on interpretation and estimation. Spine?

No person can claim to have never lied or broken a promise; but that said, people all learn from their earlier experiments with truth and develop a code of personal conduct as per their own natures and circumstances. My upbringing has reinforced to me the uncomplicated power of being frank. My exposure to the world has shown me how lies are used and abused. My career in accountancy and finance has shown me both the value of truth, fairness and objectivity and the difference in how they can be interpreted in various grey areas. My nature, then, is a product of all these factors. I keep my word, but I am careful in giving it; promises are made to few, unqualified or unplanned promises made to even fewer, and promises without contingency made almost to none. Thus, by both explicit arrangement and the confidence I inspire with my own code of conduct, I make the contingency of my breaking a promise very remote, and minimize the risk and impact of even that event. I think that planning considering, and limiting increase the value of one's word, not decrease it. TL;DR: Am I man of my word? Yes. That's more so because I don't give my word easily. I also notice that the number and frequency of participants in this thread have decreased considerably as the seriousness or quality of questions intensified and crystallized into their present nature. So, I ask you: do you prefer these kinds of questions to be asked here or do we go back to asking material or everyday kind of short questions?

I don't always post here, but when I do, bibs suffers for it:

No. One can't light a candle in a storm and beseech the Gods to protect it. Mere love, or dedication, or passion of any kind, is by itself insufficient to solve many problems, though they can fuel actions in meaningful directions to achieve wonders. This question is rather melodramatic and thus its interpretation will decide its objective truth; much as poetic or motivational language may argue, metaphors can't be extended to such great absolute power in practice. However I do agree that compassion is a potent tool to disarm conflict, and is indeed a necessary precondition to approach to many an issue. Wonders can be done by people who can selflessly love, and who are determined to a commitment. But such idealism must be juxtaposed with the bitter cynicism of reality, in that most people are too selfish, lazy, crooked or slipshod to rise above mediocrity, even in love. Are you an adaptable character, able to assume a different face, different codes and different nature in different company? Or are you fundamentally the same person to all, and let others adapt to you?