Wow and that is a college professor? I'm sorry.

If I had a choice between life long slavery and giving birth to children who would die slaves and being beaten and so on, or freedom with AIDS I think I might lean towards the AIDS.

Well, not all slaves had horrible lives, really. Lived better than a lot of lower class people today, really.

I mean, obviously it sucked regardless, but if I had the choice between a slow and agonizing death and slavery with a decent "master", I'd take the slavery. And clearly most slaves had the same thought.. else they'd have commited suicide or gone on a rampage and gotten themselves killed.

I don't even know how to respond to this... I can't possibly imagine living in a society where you are bred to some stranger and your children are sold off and away from you like litters of puppies. Especially a slave woman where it is quite possible and perfectly okay to be used for any and all sorts of things the most even decent of masters had a right to do. I don't think that is anything like being lower class, maybe the fact that they got fed, clothed and a roof over their head, but that is not what life is all about and many many many did try to escape. Many of the songs my parents use to sing to me are derivatives of special code songs used by slaves in order to give the directions to escape.

I think I could imagine it...

But life is still better than death.

Is life so dear, or peace so sweet as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it Almighty God! I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty or give me death!
~~Patrick Henry and me

You don't know much about lower class life then, where women are in a very similar situation when it comes to the rape and needing to give up their children and all that 'good' stuff.

And ok.. slaves wanted to escape..but there were a lot of slaves.. and the fact that there were a lot of them means that, in general, life as a slave was better than dead.

I'm not saying I support the idea of slavery in any way.. i'm just saying, I'd rather be a slave to a decent master in a fairly comfortable situation (where you're cooking and cleaning or looking after kids, which is what a good number of female slaves did) over death.

slavery still sucked ass though

Yes, okay, we get it. Slavery sucked, though it may or may not have been preferable to death. It's purely opinion, and I doubt any of you are/were slaves.

Ahem.

Why can't I ever find any enchanters?

Because they all live in my manse room. They enchant for me constantly, it's pretty hot

I hate that I have no printer, need to print something, and the school never has free computers. And of course, this things due first period.

Least its fun writing the journal of a German Noble during the reformation!

woot I'm back.... fo a while.. don't know for sure... but, I'm gonna re-instal all of the old crap I had!

To work

Always nice to have people back.

I hate that I've got some sort of weird dark speck that's floating around in or on my eye, so that when I look around, it floats across my vision. It's distracting and cause I kind of instinctively try to 'see' it, I'm giving myself eye strain trying to bring it into focus, but cause it's either in or on my eye, it's too close to bring into focus.

I want to go to the doctor to get it checked out, but I can't afford my insurance's copay until next week. It'll probably be gone by then anyway, but it's seriously bothering me. There's something in or on my eye and I don't know what it is!

You probably have one of these:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Floater

Try to ignore it until you can see your doctor, unless you get any serious complications.

Thanks Phred! Though my 'floater' doesn't look anything like the ones in the picture, it's probably one of those. Long as it's not some horrible form of eye cancer or a blood clot just waiting to blind me or - like that kid on House last night, a worm or parasite or something.

Hopefully it'll be gone before I can afford to go... I'd rather keep my $35.

Well, Noola, don't fool around with it. Check other on-line sites and compare the symptoms to others. Things like Retinal Detachment aren't things to fool around with, and time's an issue. But just read up on it--follow some of the external links the article noted.

A floater can be annoying if you're not used to it. In fact, by bringing this subject up I'll bet a bunch of people are gonna "notice" their floaters today while looking at thier computer screen.

I would go insane. Seriously.

I didn't mean to scare you--just read up and determine if it's a floater or something worse.

Oh, I two or three of those in both eyes, but I don't even notice them anymore.