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10. To quote Lady Sybil:

Sat Sep 13, 2014, 08:55 AM

Sep 2014

"Because it's the gloomy things that need our help. If everything in the garden's sunny, why meddle?"

http://www.springfieldspringfield.co.uk/view_episode_scripts.php?tv-show=downton-abbey&episode=s01e06

That's why we see so much gloom here on DU.

-Laelth

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Have you ever felt like the whole world is screwed up? [View all] clydefrand Sep 2014 OP

I think the world has always been a bit 'screwed up' Sunlei Sep 2014 #1

Rarely do I think that it isn't. hobbit709 Sep 2014 #3

The whole world... TeeYiYi Sep 2014 #6

Screwed up compared to what? tridim Sep 2014 #7

It's always been screwed up, thanks to homo sapiens, MoonRiver Sep 2014 #8

Point to a time when it wasn't Spider Jerusalem Sep 2014 #9

To quote Lady Sybil: Laelth Sep 2014 #10

My father used to say... TreasonousBastard Sep 2014 #15

I think we are just exposed to so much more now. femmocrat Sep 2014 #11

See sig line... pinboy3niner Sep 2014 #12

Yeah, most of my life dumbcat Sep 2014 #13

Alas, even the Buddhists can get violent FrodosPet Sep 2014 #14

Perhaps this will explain some of it newfie11 Sep 2014 #17