“and asking big questions of life. Like, are humans giant cats, or are cats tiny humans?” - I’ve been laughing for minutes at this line.

What are you on about? I don’t realize I’m doing what? It hasn’t been done. You can’t find a shred of evidence. You came in screaming and shrieking like a madman, accusing and condemning based on nothing more than the whims of your mind. I’ve never said nor implied anything about holding anyone to any standard. It…

Well of course cells can be changed by trauma, hence scarring.

Individual cells cannot get ptsd. No.

Why did you feel the need to pass judgement on your co-workers ability to empathize? I bet our answers are fairly similar.

Yeah, having grown up in central New York, and now living in New York City, it’s hard. Even Central Park just seems to be a parody of nature.

True enough, but then you can’t really compare non-contemporaries by praising one for being ahead of his time.

Just like a piss.

Point taken

Look, I’m reluctant to getting into a discussion with a person as seemingly unhinged as yourself but I’ll make an attempt. Nothing in this discussion has mentioned or been about race. Please, find one comment of mine, go through my history, present any evidence besides the fervid gurgling of your imagination that I…

Pryor is great, too. But I prefer Murphy’s movies generally. Beverly Hills Cop, Trading Places, Coming to America are all pure gold.

Now I’m thinking how great it would be, but vexed by my lack of riches.

And besides, by your own dictum, shouldn’t you extend a sympathetic ear to your coworker? Perhaps he has been having a difficult time, perhaps he himself has suffered some loss, perhaps he just isn’t as enlightened as a being as you, in which case the onus is definitely on you to extend your sympathy to him.

I hope you don’t think of sympathy so lightly or hold it so cheaply as to equate it with thinking “oh thats so sad” for half a second.

Thieves respect property; they merely wish the property to become their property that they may more perfectly respect it. -still the best-ever quote about robbery

If I were rich, I’ve always wanted to build house based on Roman or Chinese courtyard houses. Similar concept.

Well, to be fair, the wealthy probably don’t care much for his problems or yours. But it is odd that he thinks robbery is a rich person problem since it happens to poor people every day.

And Jim Carey in Dumb and Dumber, one of the movies I will begin watching any time I cross it on the television, and I think I could sit down to watch just about any moment,

Murphy is great. Obviously, I wince at some of the bits in the 80s specials now, like the homophobia, but I still think he has given me more gut laughs than any other human with the possible exception of Mel Brooks.

ODBA (overall dynamic body acceleration) made my entire body shudder due to my visceral hatred of acronyms.