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Pathetic

pathetic

1. Expressing or showing anger; passionate.

2. Affecting or moving the tender emotions, especially. Pity or grief; full of pathos; as, a pathetic song or story. Pathetic action. No theory of the passions can teach a man to be pathetic. (E.

(Science: anatomy) porter) Pathetic muscle, the fourth cranial, or trochlear, nerve, which supplies the superior oblique, or pathetic, muscle of the eye. The pathetic, a style or manner adapted to arouse the tender emotions.

Origin: L. Patheticus, Gr, fr, to suffer: cf. F. Pathetique. See Pathos.


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... im 20 years old with a brother and father that could grow beards when they were 18 yrs old and I can only get sideburns, a little goatee, and a pathetic mustache. Theybalways make fun of me for it and I hate not being able to grow a beard lookin like im 15 or somethin. But the point is, I dont ...

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Anthropogenic global warming?

OK, this should put a damper on the pathetic Suzukian mewling morons, the self-chastized "climate criminals". Look at who is emitting more CO2...it's the backward countries nearer the equator and China as well, of course...Canada ...

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by Crucible
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if humanity was so pathetic, we wouldn't be here. That is not true. The same could be said of certain people that are generally thought of as helpless and unable to survive. And yet, they manage to do so. Also, we were not once so ...

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by zachariah34
Mon Mar 28, 2011 12:47 am
 
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Human Inferiority

if humanity was so pathetic, we wouldn't be here.

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by JackBean
Sun Mar 27, 2011 7:33 pm
 
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Re: Human Inferiority

By inferior i mean that we are more pathetic and less deserving of life than other life forms on the planet.

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by zachariah34
Sun Mar 27, 2011 6:49 pm
 
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