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Hi All!
(except chosen excludees)

Greetings And Goodwill

Far better, is the slayer
That confesses to the kill
Than a pilgrimage of liars
Bearing
Greetings and goodwill.

Do you agree or disagree?

Thank you, and prosper diligently!
Mark...

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I agree!

And diligent prosperity to you as well...

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@mark noble,

mark noble wrote:

Hi All!
(except chosen excludees)
[...]
Thank you, and prosper diligently!
Mark...

[facepalm]

Rolling Eyes

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@Reyn,

Hi Reyn!
I am sorry! May I award you prime location as a gesture of sincerity?

Excluded file - Now reads: (Reyn (Prime excludee), Electronic Mail, Rockhead, Pepijn Sweep (exilee), Tico (with or without 'Pig' motif), and Dlowan (demoted, yet original, excludee).

Mark...

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@mark noble,

mark noble wrote:

Hi All!
(except chosen excludees)

Greetings And Goodwill

Far better, is the slayer
That confesses to the kill
Than a pilgrimage of liars
Bearing
Greetings and goodwill.

Do you agree or disagree?

Thank you, and prosper diligently!
Mark...

out of context, i'm not sure of your quote's meaning...what is your question?

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@Razzleg,

Razzleg wrote:

out of context, i'm not sure of your quote's meaning...what is your question?

He wants you to guess! That's the fun of it! And then, no matter what you say, he'll thank you and wish you a good day!

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@mark noble,

mark noble wrote:

Hi All!
(except chosen excludees)

Greetings And Goodwill

Far better, is the slayer
That confesses to the kill
Than a pilgrimage of liars
Bearing
Greetings and goodwill.

Do you agree or disagree?

Thank you, and prosper diligently!
Mark...

Agree, wholeheartedly.
Cloying as the serpent in the garden.

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@Razzleg,

Hi Razzleg!

It's a statement. and the final verse of a much longer poem of mine. I am introducing it in reverse, one paragraph at a time, so as to draw the preceding (when not in reverse) paragraphs into attention.

The question is "Do you agree with the statement?".

Do you?

Kind regards!
Mark...

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@mark noble,

mark noble wrote:

Hi Reyn!
I am sorry! May I award you prime location as a gesture of sincerity?

Excluded file - Now reads: (Reyn (Prime excludee), Electronic Mail, Rockhead, Pepijn Sweep (exilee), Tico (with or without 'Pig' motif), and Dlowan (demoted, yet original, excludee).

Mark...

Sure, whatever.....

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@Zetherin,

LOL Zeth!

Mark...

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@mark noble,

mark noble wrote:

Hi All!
(except chosen excludees)

Greetings And Goodwill

Far better, is the slayer
That confesses to the kill
Than a pilgrimage of liars
Bearing
Greetings and goodwill.

Do you agree or disagree?

Thank you, and prosper diligently!
Mark...

Disagree and agree

Agree - because it feels right. I would rather know who the killer is, than hang out with some pleasant liars. The confessor is much more noble than the liars, more true to himself and others.

Disagree - the pilgrimate of liars are pleasant (sound pleasant, anyway). So if I want to shape my experiences/reality in a pleasant way, ignoring the true or false dilema, then liars greeting me are far much nicer to experience than a killer confessing his kill.

It goes down whether we believe in seeing the true or the pleasant Smile

It also goes down to what "far better" means...

If I am to choose one, though, I would agree! Smile

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@hradska,

Hi Hradska!

Well observed! Good description also!

Kind regards!
Mark...

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@mark noble,

What was the motive of the slayer? There are generally accepted moral reason for killing. If its some dood wantonly slaying people. I think the liars are better. I'm fairly aware myself and the differences between compliments and flattery. I'm fairly aware of the state of the world and not likely to fall for people blowing smoke up my ***. I also assume that if they are on a pilgramage, unless it is a metaphor for a succession of one liar after another, they have an agenda, as most pilgrims do, and often a deluded one. So we got a violent crazy person and some not violent ones. I go with the violent one is worse.

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@GoshisDead,

Hi Russ!

Notice how I use the word 'Slayer', not 'killer' or 'murderer'. The slayer is an honest and repentent slayer - a vigilante, maybe? Depends on your interpretation of events and whether you would rather be in the company of an honest, repentant slayer or a seemingly pleasant, yet deceitful, gang of sweet-bearing child molesters...

Your choice! You can add to or lessen the extremities as you so choose, until you gather a happy medium, maybe?

Nevertheless - The conflict remains.

Kind regards Russ!
Mark...

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@mark noble,

Ah I took confessed slayer as someone who simply admits to killing, not confessed as in repentant

but I suppose it depends on the motive still, a crazy potentially violent repentant man is still crazy and potentially violent

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@GoshisDead,

Hi Russ!

Why is the slayer suddenly a man that is crazy and violent? I never awarded my slayer character with such attributes.

How vile do you need to make this slayer to balance out the deceit of the pilgrims?

Kind regards!
Mark...

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@mark noble,

you also didn't show us the beginning of the poem, you asked a question. As you may have noted I said in my first post, it depends on the motive of the slayer. If he were crazy and violent with a crazy violent motive. I also noted that there are acceptable reasons for killing. You also didn't reveal that the liars were possibly child molesters in the OP. And aside from all this why are you arguing, you asked if people agreed. That is petitioning an opinion not an argument. so throw out all my other posts and this is my answer

It depends

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@GoshisDead,

GoshisDead wrote:

[.....]
It depends

“It depends” seems to be a very popular answer (and a reasonable one at that), but on face value, I’d rather be with the Slayer. The Slayer, I know is capable of killing and thus I can prepare myself accordingly. A liar, nonetheless a group of them, are capable of anything, most of which quit possibly out of my control. Fun question, I agree.

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@mark noble,

mark noble wrote:

Hi All!
(except chosen excludees)

Greetings And Goodwill

Far better, is the slayer
That confesses to the kill
Than a pilgrimage of liars
Bearing
Greetings and goodwill.

Do you agree or disagree?

Thank you, and prosper diligently!
Mark...

A confession is praiseworthy, and a lie often isn't, but far better in my eyes is the one that has taken the purse from my beloved and lied than the one that has taken her life and spoke truthfully.

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@fast,

Hi Fast!

A) Depends on how much you care about your wife.
B) What if her killer was your mother who had discovered that your wife was about to fataly poison you?
C) What if the pleasant thieves intended to use her identity to bait her into the Thai sex-trade?

Kind regards!
Mark...

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