I work in non-profit healthcare that focuses on the people who need medical insurance the most. Granted I work in the finance part of the non-profit, but its still a non profit.
Slytherin forever!
			What the hell is with people's fondness for Slytherin?
	    
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			I think it's more because people are rejecting facile black-and-white depictions of the world.
	    
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			I can't help but think a children's series is the wrong venue for this sort of protest.
	    
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			I can't help but think a children's series is the perfect venue for such a protest.
	    
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			Maybe there's also room for different takes on morality in children's books?  - 26/06/2017 07:58:21 PM
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			I mean, I tend towards black and white morality as a general principle, so...  - 27/06/2017 12:46:53 AM
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			How is Gondor theocratic? I think I missed something *NM*
	    
	         - 26/06/2017 05:45:55 PM
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			Appendix J to the Return of the King is essentially just religious laws of Gondor.
	    
	         - 26/06/2017 07:49:08 PM
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			I remember the first time reading those appendices at the end of The Return of the King
	    
	         - 26/06/2017 08:09:18 PM
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			I recall that one. Very bittersweet. As is most of the end of the trilogy. *NM*
	    
	         - 27/06/2017 12:43:16 AM
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			I didn't say it was, I said that people like coming up with nonsense like that *NM*
	    
	         - 27/06/2017 11:05:58 AM
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			I got placed into Slytherin at Pottermore back in the day.
	    
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			Re: I got placed into Slytherin at Pottermore back in the day.
	    
	         - 26/06/2017 05:43:34 PM
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			Your replies do show a large streak of Slytherinesque views. I think you were mishoused.
	    
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			Nah. I have vague glimmerings of a conscience. Disqualifying trait for House Sociopath.  *NM*
	    
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			Yet you're studying for the bar so you can join Profession Sociopath.
	    
	         - 26/06/2017 07:56:47 PM
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			Ugh. Don't remind me. *NM*
	    
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			I'm going into public defense. Don't be too proud of yourself.  - 28/06/2017 08:31:04 PM
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			Just a self-righteous and masochistic form of sociopath. *NM*
	    
	         - 28/06/2017 10:05:18 PM
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			How many years, do you guess, as a PDA before he bails for the bucks?
	    
	         - 28/06/2017 11:13:43 PM
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			I went to law school specifically to be a public defender. Bailing is unlikely.
	    
	         - 29/06/2017 12:19:42 AM
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			You are an American, bail---ing is part of our judicial system
	    
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			I thought about making that pun but demurred.  - 29/06/2017 03:22:46 AM
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			Well we slytherin folk we have our own role models in regards to humor
	    
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			Well we slytherin folk we have our own role models in regards to humor
	    
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			The Practice aired what 8 seasons, 7 with Bobby, only to be replaced with the much better show
	    
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			I re-watched the eight HP movies a while back.
	    
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			You think "Eyebrows" Watson improved the films? Yeesh.  *NM*
	    
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			What do her eyebrows have to do with anything? And yes, I do. *NM*
	    
	         - 27/06/2017 06:13:20 AM
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			They comprise about 98% of what passes for her acting ability.
	    
	         - 27/06/2017 06:14:31 AM
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			Nonsense. She does a great job - at least in those movies, haven't seen her in anything else.
	    
	         - 27/06/2017 06:20:26 AM
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			Hasn't BEEN in anything else. That anyone else saw, anyway.
	    
	         - 27/06/2017 03:18:48 PM
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			Pretty sure that a lot of people saw her in Beauty & The Beast
	    
	         - 27/06/2017 03:26:29 PM
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			In which, incidentally, she could neither act nor sing. *NM*
	    
	         - 28/06/2017 03:13:32 AM
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			That's not the point. The point is she was seen in a film that garnered over $1billion. *NM*
	    
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			The point is she hasn't been in anything that would support a positive assessment of her ability
	    
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			One of the rather few things in the series that I'd say Rowling got wrong...
	    
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			As a fellow "Never Slytherin"...
	    
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			Anti-hype?
	    
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			Stop it, you are meant to enjoy the books not analyze them to death.
	    
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			I don't watch anime. RWBY is safe. *NM*
	    
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			Hun, that product is made in America it is not Anime  - 28/06/2017 03:17:45 AM
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			That's anime. I don't watch anime or its derivatives. But if you want me to criticize it... *NM*
	    
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			Enjoyment =/= thinking about, or having feelings toward, something. Good to know
	    
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