Recent content by shadeau

I haven’t read the whole thread about Euphoria over on MERB, but I did read some of it, and an exchange between the escorts Jaelynever and Lunaseraphim is (in my opinion) worth reading, so I’m reproducing it below. My long post above could be seen as dismissing or minimizing the abuse and...

I don’t see that quote anywhere in the Radio-Canada article about Euphoria. Nor is it in the old La Presse article about XO. Where is this from? And what case does it refer to?

I’m a Torontonian who doesn’t speak French and has never paid for sex in Montreal, so my knowledge of these cases comes only from the articles from La Presse and Radio-Canada articles that Haggy64 provides links for. (Thank you Haggy64.) I had Google translate them for me. I had already known...

GreedyBoy wrote: "AI will be an enormously powerful tool, but will it favor the masses or the owners? In the short term it will be ownership class…." Call me cynical but, in my opinion, it will be the ownership class who will benefit in the short term AND the long term. Good luck with that.

I had no memory of Timothy McVeigh being motivated by religion. So I asked AI this: “Did Timothy McVeigh blow up the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building for a religious reason?” The AI says no, that "McVeigh was motivated by extreme anti-government views and anger toward federal law...

Of the answers given in this thread so far, this is the closest to how I feel. The news is mostly propaganda and nonsense with a little bit of truth thrown in. As we all remember, George Orwell fought in the Spanish Civil War in the 1930s. In 1943, in the essay “Looking Back on the Spanish...

Thank you for your well-informed and interesting perspective, Onomatopoeia. The Paul-as-Vince-McMahon comparison is an amusing one. Do I agree or disagree? I don’t know — I’m thinking about it! I might need some time to contemplate the matter.

You’re saying that the Catholic Church wanted people to believe that Jesus was anointed by a prostitute? The church adopted the Pauline anti-prostitution stance. The heads of the church had no motive to want people to believe the story. People did not believe that the Magdalene was a...

Ah, so you were adding context and information. My apologies for misunderstanding. There are biblical scholars who are disputing the idea that Mary Magdalene was from Magdala. Here are two articles about that position...

Onomatopoeia, if I’m misunderstanding you, please feel free to correct me, but you seem to be saying that, because Magdala was in Galilee, Mary Magdalene therefore could not possibly have been in Bethany (which is where Jesus was anointed) because the two locations were many miles apart from...

Milana, I am a client who has been paying for sex for decades. I am also a non-denominational Christian. (I was raised as a protestant, not a Catholic). I believe there is a God and I pray every day. (Well, maybe I accidentally miss the occasional day.) Your church attendance is better than mine...

I agree with Lunaseraphim. No doubt this escort is very sweet, and making food for you was considerate of her, but I would caution you, Gentleman777, to not read too much into it. She likes you as a client. She does not “truly desire” you. When Greensquare wrote … … I suspect that he was joking.

Afterhours Agent, I have quite a few friends, but, until I read this post, I hadn’t realized that they’re all either friends from childhood or friends who I met (in one way or another) through my work. That includes past girlfriends (some of whom I’m still friends with). So I don’t really have...

That’s a good and interesting point, Patron. I suspect that Yeahyeahyeah would draw attention to his post (#50) where he emphasized depression numbers in the stats that he’s talking about. But I’d be surprised if he didn’t also take the longevity numbers seriously. Of course, if I’m correct...

I’m pretty sure, and you can correct me if I’m wrong, Yeahyeahyeah, that the stats that you’re referring to are not stats that have anything to do with the lifestyle that I’m advocating for. You’re talking about stats that compare married guys to single guys, NOT stats that compare married guys...