Contemplation: How to Change a Life (NSFW?) (1474 hits)
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Submitted by Mountain (View user info) at 2007-05-15 13:21:59 EDT
I watched the movie "Déjà Vu" the other day and as horrible as it was, it got me thinking.
It reminded me of a movie out there with a young Owen Wilson... he's in a cab, I think, explaining his theory on dreams. I wish I knew the title.
His explanation was that when both life changing and marginal decisions are made in everyday life, the result of the unmade decision continues on, just not in this dimension.
I see it as a giant oak tree. The trunk is essentially your life as you know it. The branches, the leaves and the little veins within every leaf represent every decision you NEVER made.
I buy this concept.
It easily explains the phenomenon of déjà vu and dreams.
Somehow, your mind subconsciously and continuously records these unmade decisions deep within the uncharted, subterranean parts of the brain. When you dream, your brain is essentially remembering some form, although obviously abstractly from time to time, of the paths in life un-chosen. At the same time, déjà vu is similar, although more logically oriented. Clearly, *unmade decision life paths* will inevitably weave in and out of *made decision life paths* as a result of a thing called destiny. Some life events will occur regardless of the number of choices you make to arrive there. Some *unmade* choices will arrive at these conclusions sooner than actually *made* choices. So, when a destiny is reached through the greater number of choices, it has already been previously recorded deep within your mind, resulting in déjà vu.
Don't get me wrong, I don't believe that you're destined to be something, somebody or that your entire life is already predetermined. I do strongly believe, however, that some life lessons or events are inevitable. The path of your life is always changing; each new decision is influenced by how you reacted to the previous one. These reactions are ANYTHING but predetermined.
They evolve.
Fuck.
I need a drink.
Oh, and by the way, that fucking Denzel Washington is a racist. Ever since the movie "He Got Game," Mr. Washington refuses to have a love scene with a white woman... it's in his contract.
What THE HELL is WRONG with Milla Jovovich??!?!
Oh... and here's a list of the cities with the worst road rage as according to Yahoo! Associated Press:
1. Miami
2. New York
3. Boston
4. Los Angeles
5. Washington, D.C.
6. Phoenix
7. Chicago
8. Sacramento, Calif.
9. Philadelphia
10. San Francisco
11. Houston
12. Atlanta
13. Detroit
14. Minneapolis-St. Paul
15. Baltimore
16. Tampa, Fla.
17. San Diego
18. Cincinnati
19. Cleveland
20. Denver
21. Dallas-Ft. Worth
22. St. Louis
23. Seattle-Tacoma
24. Pittsburgh
25. Portland, Ore.
...Denver's gotta rank higher than 20th.
Fuck that shit.
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Submitted by Amontillado (user info) at 2007-05-16 15:42:50 EDT (#)
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my city's about right...
Submitted by COMountain (user info) at 2007-05-16 10:42:09 EDT (#)
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Actually, I'm pretty sure it's Milla... the pic is from the sequel, "Return to the Blue Lagoon."
Submitted by Unabonger (user info) at 2007-05-16 00:46:30 EDT (#)
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Submitted by JonnyX (user info) at 2007-05-15 14:50:08 EDT (#)
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Y HELO THAR CHAD CHAMLEY
(isn't that a pic of Brooke Shields?)
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yeah I thought it was too...Blue Lagoon, right?
Submitted by konohasaiyajin (user info) at 2007-05-15 17:02:28 EDT (#)
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it's like two posts in one!
Submitted by HurtByTheSun (user info) at 2007-05-15 15:42:44 EDT (#)
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Road rage? Paris.
Submitted by kaos-king (user info) at 2007-05-15 15:41:43 EDT (#)
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C'mon wind, blow the hair...
BLOW THE HAIR!!!
Submitted by JonnyX (user info) at 2007-05-15 14:50:08 EDT (#)
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Y HELO THAR CHAD CHAMLEY
(isn't that a pic of Brooke Shields?)
Submitted by maiorano84 (user info) at 2007-05-15 14:02:11 EDT (#)
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The movie you're probably thinking of is "Bottle Rocket".
Submitted by AsshOly (user info) at 2007-05-15 14:00:48 EDT (#)
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by which I mean phoenix should be about 11th. but they were close.
Submitted by AsshOly (user info) at 2007-05-15 13:59:53 EDT (#)
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Yeah, chicago is about right. I feel road rage sometimes and think to myself, hey, 6th best.
I like Denzel.
Submitted by Shlongy (user info) at 2007-05-15 13:56:39 EDT (#)
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I can't believe Hilton Head isn't higher on that list.
No one wants to give up track position down here...bunch of fucking assholes on the roads.
That includes me, of course, but fuck them.
Submitted by maiorano84 (user info) at 2007-05-15 13:47:22 EDT (#)
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Not "Waking Life"?
Submitted by lungfish (user info) at 2007-05-15 13:45:37 EDT (#)
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#6 woo hoo!
Submitted by COMountain (user info) at 2007-05-15 13:40:57 EDT (#)
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anyone know the Owen Wilson movie mentioned?
Submitted by COMountain (user info) at 2007-05-15 13:40:00 EDT (#)
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Fuck "Training Day"...
hopefully you weren't serious... he won that oscar because he was black and Sidney Portier (fuck spelling) was in the audience.
HORSESHIT
Submitted by Wildman (user info) at 2007-05-15 13:33:31 EDT (#)
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Sweet, a lit'l some'n some'n for everyone.
Submitted by Unabonger (user info) at 2007-05-15 13:33:15 EDT (#)
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There's no way Houston is that low.
And Pittsburgh shouldn't even make the list at all.
Fuck Denzel.
Submitted by The_Drake (user info) at 2007-05-15 13:31:32 EDT (#)
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Denzel was AWESOME in "Training Day" though.