A Beholder is a type of monster that's basically just a giant eye.
To behold means to observe.
The joke here is that the monstrous female Beholder only wants to 'behold', but the adventurer doesn't really dig the idea of her perving on him while he washes.
I would like you to lay down the arms you have as being useless for saving you or humanity. You will invite Herr Hitler and Signor Mussolini to take what they want of the countries you call your possessions. Let them take possession of your beautiful island, with your many beautiful buildings. You will give all these but neither your souls, nor your minds. If these gentlemen choose to occupy your homes, you will vacate them. If they do not give you free passage out, you will allow yourself man, woman and child, to be slaughtered, but you will refuse to owe allegiance to them.
If one Jew or all the Jews were to accept the prescription here offered, he or they cannot be worse off than now. And suffering voluntarily undergone will bring them an inner strength and joy which no number of resolutions of sympathy passed in the world outside Germany can. Indeed, even if Britain, France and America were to declare hostilities against Germany, they can bring no inner joy, no inner strength. The calculated violence of Hitler may even result in a general massacre of the Jews by way of his first answer to the declaration of such hostilities. But if the Jewish mind could be prepared for voluntary suffering, even the massacre I have imagined could be turned into a day of thanksgiving and joy that Jehovah had wrought deliverance of the race even at the hands of the tyrant. For to the godfearing, death has no terror. It is a joyful sleep to be followed by a waking that would be all the more refreshing for the long sleep.
Religious fanatics rarely deserve the adulation their beliefs receive.
I HAVE A DUTY FOR YOU. AN UNDERTAKING OF VITAL IMPORTANCE. WITH ONE OF MY MOST TREASURED ARTIFACTS IN YOUR CARE. YOU WILL PLEASE ME WITH THE OUTCOME, OR I WILL FEAST UPON YOUR SOUL LIKE CROWS UPON A CARCASS.
"A-anything for you, o mighty Forest Lord!"
[drops a smartphone into the terrified cultist's hands] CHARGE THIS. AND WIPE THE SCREEN DOWN WHILE YOU'RE AT IT.
Yes. Birth rates in developed countries naturally drop without government intervention.
That being said, socialism is more than just basic needs being met - it's a question of who owns what laborers produce. Under socialism, the idea is that the workers themselves own what they produce (or the fruits of their labor, more generally), as opposed to shareholders or firm owners.
The vast majority of people saying Chinese people are 'peasants' are racist, but if someone told me that they met someone in Fuckknowswhereville, USA, who genuinely thought that mainland China was still struggling under a feudal regime, living hand-to-mouth with villages of illiterates who lacked the educational tools to organize against their overlords, and was genuinely overjoyed to hear the contrary, that the Qing Dynasty had fallen and that China entered the modern world, rather than disbelieving or dismissive... well, I've heard too many innocently stupid opinions from my fellow Americans about international issues to reject that out of hand.
Admittedly, being from Fuckknowswhereville, USA, also greatly increases the chance of them being horrifically racist pieces of shit.
Depends on the opportunity cost. If you need to take time or effort away from your labor to lug a battery along, or your labor is so important or specialized that you would need an assistant just for lugging the battery, the ambulatory battery might be cheaper than trying to do it purely on manpower.
Explanation: I only know a little bit about Chinese history, but as I understand it, Taoism (sometimes transliterated as Daoism) is a religion/philosophical school that began in ancient China. It advocates that one is to live in harmony with 'the way' (or Tao, hence the name), a natural, universal order that it is most moral and most conducive to human happiness to follow.
However, this interest in knowledge of an intrinsic natural order also led Taoism to become heavily associated with/involved in Chinese alchemical practices - including the ever-popular search for an elixir of immortality. One might suggest that such a blatant departure from natural processes may not be entirely harmonious with any intrinsic universal order - but I'm sure with just a little more mercury in the formula, all of us doubters will have to eat our words!
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I liked the avatar. That's about it.
I prefer posters with avatars, personally.