Stop Your Sulking (1832 hits)
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Submitted by electrictoothsyndrome (View user info) at 2006-02-15 13:47:23 EST
Anyone who feels that life is all about the persuit of comfort are forgetting the age-old truth that life is about stuggle and it's not supposed to be easy.
It seems to me that, when boiled down to its most basic components, the direction of your life is dependent upon whether you live it in persuit of personal gain or in persuit of a greater good - a grander goal - something that cements your mark upon the face of history such that the repercussions of your actions and the example you live by will echo through the ages and along the corridors of time.
As we stand here at the threshold to the future of our species, and peer into the darkness of things to come, it's easy to lose faith in the essential 'goodness' of things. It's easy to analyze and dissect and pick apart every little motivation of this limited body in the search for some universal 'purpose' we always expect to just pop up and start singing and dancing for us, making its presence obvious. It's easy to look at the disgusting TV Culture we've created and retreat in search of a quiet place to expel our vomit. But the general fallacy in that train of thought lies in the realization that by sitting and doing nothing, by sitting idle, listening for this pretty song of purpose, we're betraying our real purpose which, if anything, is to continue to propel this species forward into the universe, regardless of the idiots around us who can't seem to get their heads out of the sand.
Turning our faces to the stars and realizing that we're floating on this insignificant ball in an endless expanse of space, we can't help but see the immutable beacons of what's out there amid the vastness - these countless, tiny dots that signify islands of light and hope in an ocean of cold and dark. In this modern age wherein we THINK we understand what we're looking at, we can't help but wonder whether there really is a God, and whether he even gives a shit about our insignificant troubles.
It is only when we turn our gaze to the space within ourselves and realize that the entire universe we see layed out above us is reflected in our own hearts and minds can we understand that as much as we need the universe to exist, it needs us to witness it.
Life is a sacred communion with something of which none can speak but everyone knows in his most quiet of moments. Like Moses looking into the face of God, anything we write down and bring back for the second-hand viewing is only going to be the subject of laughter and ridicule, for any attempt to capture and hold that which dwells in the ether of spirit cannot succeed any more than taking a picture of someone you love can convey that love to others. Every utterance, every syllable of description is a blasphemous poison that sends the spirit fleeing.
Throughout his history, man has been humbled and enraged in the face of this universal principle like a proverbial David - hurling his stones of Art, Science, and Success in defiance and celebration. Chasing the spirits of genius through the valleys of existence with butterfly nets in hand, man has authored the course of his own history, even in his failure.
Who knows what the eventuality of our evolution will hold? Who can tell whether we will one day shuck the shackles of this earth and touch the stars? All I know is...it is against our nature not to try.
John Kennedy said, "We choose to go to the moon...not because it's easy, but because it's hard." In this way, we should all be encouraged to discover our hopes and follow our dreams, not because they're easy...but because they're hard.
Then again...what the hell do I know?
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Submitted by electrictoothsyndrome (user info) at 2006-02-17 14:35:03 EST (#)
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Thank you, Katie.
I guess it shouldn't surprise me so much that such a relatively innocuous post would receive such a backlash. This really wasn't even addressed specifically toward the users of uber. It was a response to an email I got from a friend that I just decided to go ahead and post for the hell of it.
Submitted by TigerLilly (user info) at 2006-02-17 02:27:16 EST (#)
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I really like this post. I think I said that before though. Anyway, I liked this Brad.
Submitted by coley (user info) at 2006-02-16 16:46:27 EST (#)
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I'm going to do you in the bum
Submitted by coley (user info) at 2006-02-16 16:46:12 EST (#)
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fuck you fuckers
Submitted by rad1101 (user info) at 2006-02-16 08:43:36 EST (#)
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*cries tears*
Submitted by GuinnessSince1759 (user info) at 2006-02-16 03:07:50 EST (#)
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http://www.ubersite.com/m/84024
Submitted by digdug (user info) at 2006-02-16 02:25:44 EST (#)
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So I'm supposed to look to space, and someday I'll get a boring-ass bridge and a latently homosexual dove? Where do I sign up?
Submitted by Serious_Melvin (user info) at 2006-02-16 02:08:27 EST (#)
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I think this is -1 material. Then again... what the hell do I know?
Submitted by knucklesnelson (user info) at 2006-02-15 23:07:34 EST (#)
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Wah wah fuckin wah
Submitted by apollo88 (user info) at 2006-02-15 20:08:19 EST (#)
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didn't read it.
Submitted by thorpe (user info) at 2006-02-15 19:51:09 EST (#)
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Submitted by FilthyAssistant (user info) at 2006-02-15 14:11:04 (#)
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"the direction of your life is dependent upon whether you live it in persuit of personal gain or in persuit of a greater good - a grander goal - something that cements your mark upon the face of history such that the repercussions of your actions and the example you live by will echo through the ages and along the corridors of time."
I think you almost contradict yourself here. If your motivation is to "cement your mark upon the face of history" then your motivation *is* personal gain. You gain by believing that you are important, that your life has meaning and that you will be remembered. There is nothing selfless about wanting to save the world, because it's only your world that you're saving.
Personal gain and the pursuit of a greater good cannot be separated into two distinct checkboxes.
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Yep.
Submitted by Caulaincourt (user info) at 2006-02-15 19:45:08 EST (#)
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raped again...jesus, I think he's enjoying it!
Submitted by indoninja (user info) at 2006-02-15 19:19:06 EST (#)
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Submitted by electrictoothsyndrome (user info) at 2006-02-15 16:19:03 (#)
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Why is it I can't say anything here without someone saying I'm trying to be clever?
The way I see it, I'm just trying to express myself. That's all.
But again, that's not going to be possible. You're only going to hear what you want to hear.
Perception is everything, which is pretty much EXACTLY what I've stated here REPEATEDLY.
Funny how every time you open your fucking mouth now, you're just proving my fucking point. But of course, you have no idea you're doing it, or you'd take the hint and shut the fuck up.
How you like them apples, Poncho?
Caul, *I* sound like me when I was 16 years old too. The difference between you and me is, apparently I don't just throw away truth when I see it. I'd rather keep it an build on it.
You people act like I'm claiming to be the fucking Messiah here when all I'm doing is pointlessly musing to myself.
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You are trying to express yourself, while trying to point out how everyone else isn't as aware or conscious or as wise to the world. Anyone who disagrees with you, or doesn't fall down worshipping your crap and applauding it you assume is an idiot. Don't say you aren't trying to sound clever.
You go from "perception is everything" to claiming there are universal absolute truths that nobody who is aware can deny. Anytime somone points out a flaw in what you say on any subject, you ignore it or claim that is what you are saying. Pick a fucking philosophy for christ sake, or at least don't make a post about every half assed one you crap out after reading fortune cookies and finally thinking you know what zen means.
If I am proving your point, why do you get bent out of shape? Why do you think I have some vendetta?
You call me mexican rainwear again I will rip your head off.
You sound like you are 16 because you haven't grown since then (or maybe you weren't there then). You haven't built upon anything, you are regurgitating bad conversations I had in high school, fuck, in middle school.
Pointlessly musing to yourself would not involve defending your ideas to people who disagree, and acting bitter or condescending toward those that do.
Honestly I envy you.
I wish I was so simple minded I could spit out some half baked basterdized phiolsophy from other people and think it clever, or original. I wish I could know less than an honors physics student in high school and be confident that I could solve the world's energy problems. Yeah, your posts aren't preachy or attempts to be clever at all...
Submitted by electrictoothsyndrome (user info) at 2006-02-15 18:24:11 EST (#)
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Submitted by electrictoothsyndrome (user info) at 2006-02-15 15:12:55 (#)
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How is it I can agree with every bit of that, yet still stand by everything I wrote here as well?
You figure that one out.
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cuz you're as unbalanced as a bipolar pregnant woman?
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I might be unbalanced, but I'm fresh as a summer's eve.
Submitted by inion_de_trua (user info) at 2006-02-15 18:09:24 EST (#)
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Submitted by electrictoothsyndrome (user info) at 2006-02-15 15:12:55 (#)
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How is it I can agree with every bit of that, yet still stand by everything I wrote here as well?
You figure that one out.
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cuz you're as unbalanced as a bipolar pregnant woman?
Submitted by Caulaincourt (user info) at 2006-02-15 18:06:14 EST (#)
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Submitted by The_Yellow_Dart (user info) at 2006-02-15 17:39:18 (#)
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Hey Caul, you should come down to Toronto and go to a Leafs vs. Habs game sometime. Make sure to wear a habs jersey too. You'd have a ball getting in arguments and yelling at all the stupid ontarians giving you nasty looks. Guaranteed. I'd go with you, but I only escourt attractive women. Not that you're not an attractive wom...
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The only times I went to Toronto, I passed through it and I intend to keep it that way. Even people who used to come from Toronto tell me how bad it is.
Montreal > Toronto.
Submitted by electrictoothsyndrome (user info) at 2006-02-15 17:39:18 EST (#)
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For a post I expected to get <300 hits and <20 reviews, this post sure stirred up some pointless shit.
Submitted by The_Yellow_Dart (user info) at 2006-02-15 17:39:18 EST (#)
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Hey Caul, you should come down to Toronto and go to a Leafs vs. Habs game sometime. Make sure to wear a habs jersey too. You'd have a ball getting in arguments and yelling at all the stupid ontarians giving you nasty looks. Guaranteed.
I'd go with you, but I only escourt attractive women. Not that you're not an attractive wom...
Submitted by Caulaincourt (user info) at 2006-02-15 17:32:33 EST (#)
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Submitted by electrictoothsyndrome (user info) at 2006-02-15 17:23:44 (#)
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I didn't use the word "the" before "truth", and I didn't capitalize it either.
I don't know what 'truth' you have or don't have. You never take the time to express yourself unless it's to criticize something someone else said.
How many times do I have to talk about perception before you will actually get it?
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Well, from my perception your truth is absolute crap. Obviously that bothers you. Perhaps we should all fall in ranks and follow your teachings.
Fucking idiot.
Submitted by The_Yellow_Dart (user info) at 2006-02-15 17:29:24 EST (#)
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Submitted by Caulaincourt (user info) at 2006-02-15 17:21:48 (#)
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Submitted by The_Yellow_Dart (user info) at 2006-02-15 17:17:32 (#)
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Please don't associate him with us :-(
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Ontarian. ‹^› ‹(•¿•)› ‹^›
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*weeps*
I think Caul just needs someone to argue with here and ETS is taking life far too seriously.
"Life is far too important to be taken seriously"
Both of you should eat a banana (to calm down, not for any sexual reasons (that's for your own discretion)) and read this: http://www.poee.co.uk/doc_files/pd.pdf
It's highly assuming and packed full of "truths"
Submitted by The_taste_of_Monkeys (user info) at 2006-02-15 17:26:56 EST (#)
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Jesus you two, get a room already!
Submitted by electrictoothsyndrome (user info) at 2006-02-15 17:23:44 EST (#)
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I didn't use the word "the" before "truth", and I didn't capitalize it either.
I don't know what 'truth' you have or don't have. You never take the time to express yourself unless it's to criticize something someone else said.
How many times do I have to talk about perception before you will actually get it?
Submitted by Caulaincourt (user info) at 2006-02-15 17:21:48 EST (#)
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Submitted by The_Yellow_Dart (user info) at 2006-02-15 17:17:32 (#)
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Submitted by electrictoothsyndrome (user info) at 2006-02-15 17:12:29 (#)
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Read that again, Caul, you annoying little Canadian shit.
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Please don't associate him with us :-(
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Ontarian. ‹^› ‹(•¿•)› ‹^›
Submitted by The_Yellow_Dart (user info) at 2006-02-15 17:17:32 EST (#)
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Submitted by electrictoothsyndrome (user info) at 2006-02-15 17:12:29 (#)
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Read that again, Caul, you annoying little Canadian shit.
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Please don't associate him with us :-(
Submitted by Caulaincourt (user info) at 2006-02-15 17:16:10 EST (#)
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Submitted by electrictoothsyndrome (user info) at 2006-02-15 17:12:29 (#)
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Submitted by Caulaincourt (user info) at 2006-02-15 16:25:51 (#)
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Caul, *I* sound like me when I was 16 years old too. The difference between you and me is, apparently I don't just throw away truth when I see it. I'd rather keep it an build on it. """
Holy fuck, you're more arrogant than Christians. The Truth? You got THE motherfucking Truth? Even though seconds ago you said everything is perception and that you're not the Messiah? Well shit...who knew!? Lead the way O on-line sheperd!
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Read that again, Caul, you annoying little Canadian shit. I didn't Capitalize 'Truth' and I didn't use the word "The".
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Well, my emo american friend, you did say that you don't throw away the truth when you see it. That you keep it and build on it. Now, I'd like to know what truth I so foolishly threw away. Is this post? Or everything that you say?
Enlighten me.
Submitted by Shlongy (user info) at 2006-02-15 17:15:17 EST (#)
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This is like a "cat fight" only better because in theory, in addition to pulling hair, swinging your purses and clawing at each others' faces, you can still kick each other in your mini-nutsacs.
Submitted by electrictoothsyndrome (user info) at 2006-02-15 17:12:29 EST (#)
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Submitted by Caulaincourt (user info) at 2006-02-15 16:25:51 (#)
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Caul, *I* sound like me when I was 16 years old too. The difference between you and me is, apparently I don't just throw away truth when I see it. I'd rather keep it an build on it. """
Holy fuck, you're more arrogant than Christians. The Truth? You got THE motherfucking Truth? Even though seconds ago you said everything is perception and that you're not the Messiah? Well shit...who knew!? Lead the way O on-line sheperd!
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Read that again, Caul, you annoying little Canadian shit. I didn't Capitalize 'Truth' and I didn't use the word "The".
In short, kiss my Messianic ASS!
Submitted by Caulaincourt (user info) at 2006-02-15 17:12:26 EST (#)
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I realize that you don't really have anything worthy to say. Out of all the things I said you put the emphasis a silly defenition I used as a foot note.
Selective arguing only works with children.
Submitted by Caulaincourt (user info) at 2006-02-15 17:10:22 EST (#)
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Submitted by electrictoothsyndrome (user info) at 2006-02-15 17:07:23 (#)
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Oh and by the way...
You're wrong about 'vendetta' too:
ven·det·ta Pronunciation Key (vn-dt)
n.
1. A feud between two families or clans that arises out of a slaying and is perpetuated by retaliatory acts of revenge; a blood feud.
2. A bitter, destructive feud.
Boy don't YOU feel like a fucking jerk!
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OH. MY. FUCKING. GOD. PWNIFIED!!!
Seriously, that was ghey. Now please resume preaching.
Submitted by Caulaincourt (user info) at 2006-02-15 17:09:17 EST (#)
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English is not my language so I have a reason. If you want to compare yourself with an ESL, go ahead.
With that aside, I want you to tell me about Truth, man.
Submitted by electrictoothsyndrome (user info) at 2006-02-15 17:07:23 EST (#)
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Oh and by the way...
You're wrong about 'vendetta' too:
ven·det·ta Pronunciation Key (vn-dt)
n.
1. A feud between two families or clans that arises out of a slaying and is perpetuated by retaliatory acts of revenge; a blood feud.
2. A bitter, destructive feud.
Boy don't YOU feel like a fucking jerk!
Submitted by electrictoothsyndrome (user info) at 2006-02-15 17:02:47 EST (#)
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Vendetta...thank you Caul. I would never have known.
By the way, it's usually called DELUSIONS of gradeur. Not 'illusion'.
de·lu·sion (d-lzhn)
n.
1.
1. The act or process of deluding.
2. The state of being deluded.
2. A false belief or opinion: labored under the delusion that success was at hand.
3. Psychiatry. A false belief strongly held in spite of invalidating evidence, especially as a symptom of mental illness: delusions of persecution.
I just thought that since we were in the process of resorting to definitions in our attacks...
Submitted by Caulaincourt (user info) at 2006-02-15 16:48:46 EST (#)
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and you haven't answered this: http://www.ubersite.com/cgi-bin/message_get.cgi?message=114002924358401631#1840605
I want you to tell us about that Truth of yours. Don't be greedy, we want to know too!
Submitted by Caulaincourt (user info) at 2006-02-15 16:47:08 EST (#)
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Submitted by electrictoothsyndrome (user info) at 2006-02-15 16:37:12 (#)
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"I had arguments with all Uber and my posts get less slammed than yours. Being a pessimistic self-pitying little cunt, you will say as usual that people are out to get you but it's really just this "I'm special. I will guide you. Open your eyes, sheep!" attitude that makes people hate you.
You need a swift kick in the face. And then perhaps some medication to temper those illusion of grandeur."
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I rest my case.
You don't have a personal vendetta, but you assert that I need a "swift kick in the face" to help me get over my "illusion of grandeur".
And who's contradicting themselves, here, again?
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Will you spend the rest of your life assuming the world is against you? I just think that like me when I a little pompous pseudo-intellectual 16 years old, you need someone to reset your brain and take you down from that pedestal of yours.
I might not be very good in english but I recall the meaning of vendetta in french and it's a bit of strong is it, my little vitcim?
Meaning of VENDETTA
Definition: [n] a feud in which members of the opposing parties murder each other
Submitted by Shlongy (user info) at 2006-02-15 16:40:58 EST (#)
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"Yes it's time...for you to stop...all - of - your sulking...
Yes it's time for you to stop, all of your sulking...oh oh hoh
There's one thing you gotta do...to make me still want you.
Gotta stop sulking uh huh, yeah, yeah, stop it stop it stop it...."
Submitted by electrictoothsyndrome (user info) at 2006-02-15 16:39:36 EST (#)
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Well it's a long way down and there seams to be a distinct lack of oxygen which may explain quite a few things. I for instance am already feeling light headed and yet and the same more at one with myself than I have ever been before. It's like I feel the energy in and energyless system simply by being unaware of it's absence and that awarness feeds energy into the system which is at the same time completly free and yet held within finite boundaries. boundaries which are imutable and permenant but which begin to crumble the moment my awarness passes through them.
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heheheheheh
I love it.
Submitted by electrictoothsyndrome (user info) at 2006-02-15 16:37:12 EST (#)
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"I had arguments with all Uber and my posts get less slammed than yours. Being a pessimistic self-pitying little cunt, you will say as usual that people are out to get you but it's really just this "I'm special. I will guide you. Open your eyes, sheep!" attitude that makes people hate you.
You need a swift kick in the face. And then perhaps some medication to temper those illusion of grandeur."
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I rest my case.
You don't have a personal vendetta, but you assert that I need a "swift kick in the face" to help me get over my "illusion of grandeur".
And who's contradicting themselves, here, again?
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Submitted by mbstateside (user info) at 2006-02-15 16:08:23 (#)
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Fuck me I'm starting to sound like you.
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Mission accomplished.
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OMG! He converted you to The Truth!? What's it like up there on that pedestal?!
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Well it's a long way down and there seams to be a distinct lack of oxygen which may explain quite a few things. I for instance am already feeling light headed and yet and the same more at one with myself than I have ever been before. It's like I feel the energy in and energyless system simply by being unaware of it's absence and that awarness feeds energy into the system which is at the same time completly free and yet held within finite boundaries. boundaries which are imutable and permenant but which begin to crumble the moment my awarness passes through them.
See who said ETS doesn't make sense. You just have to be 10,000 feet in the air and half starved of Oxygen to get it.
Submitted by Caulaincourt (user info) at 2006-02-15 16:30:18 EST (#)
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Yea, at this point it isn't so much about the post as it is about people's personal vendetta with the author. """
I had arguments with all Uber and my posts get less slammed than yours. Being a pessimistic self-pitying little cunt, you will say as usual that people are out to get you but it's really just this "I'm special. I will guide you. Open your eyes, sheep!" attitude that makes people hate you.
You need a swift kick in the face. And then perhaps some medication to temper those illusion of grandeur.
Submitted by Caulaincourt (user info) at 2006-02-15 16:27:11 EST (#)
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Submitted by mbstateside (user info) at 2006-02-15 16:26:09 (#)
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Submitted by electrictoothsyndrome (user info) at 2006-02-15 16:22:27 (#)
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Submitted by mbstateside (user info) at 2006-02-15 16:08:23 (#)
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Fuck me I'm starting to sound like you.
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Mission accomplished.
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OMG! He converted you to The Truth!? What's it like up there on that pedestal?!
Submitted by electrictoothsyndrome (user info) at 2006-02-15 16:26:30 EST (#)
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Submitted by Coyote (user info) at 2006-02-15 16:19:39 (#)
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"I like the shit your posts always seem to stir up."
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Yea, at this point it isn't so much about the post as it is about people's personal vendetta with the author.
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Submitted by Coyote (user info) at 2006-02-15 16:19:39 (#)
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On the other hand, reaching for the stars is a damn good way to
BURN YOUR WHOLE HAND OFF, MAN!
Them little bright bastards is hot.
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Speaking of which, you should see what those black holes will do to your cock! Who needs enlargement surgury when you've got those great, chocolate holes in the sky!
Submitted by mbstateside (user info) at 2006-02-15 16:26:09 EST (#)
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Submitted by electrictoothsyndrome (user info) at 2006-02-15 16:22:27 (#)
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Submitted by mbstateside (user info) at 2006-02-15 16:08:23 (#)
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Fuck me I'm starting to sound like you.
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Mission accomplished.
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Bastard! I feel used.
Submitted by Caulaincourt (user info) at 2006-02-15 16:25:51 EST (#)
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Caul, *I* sound like me when I was 16 years old too. The difference between you and me is, apparently I don't just throw away truth when I see it. I'd rather keep it an build on it. """
Holy fuck, you're more arrogant than Christians. The Truth? You got THE motherfucking Truth? Even though seconds ago you said everything is perception and that you're not the Messiah? Well shit...who knew!? Lead the way O on-line sheperd!
The difference between me and you is that I don't pretend to be enlightened and that I'm aware that changes don't thing by preaching on the Internet.
Do the world a favor and cut yourself deeper next time. You are what we call: bois mort.
Submitted by electrictoothsyndrome (user info) at 2006-02-15 16:22:27 EST (#)
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Submitted by mbstateside (user info) at 2006-02-15 16:08:23 (#)
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Fuck me I'm starting to sound like you.
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Mission accomplished.
;)
Submitted by The_Yellow_Dart (user info) at 2006-02-15 16:19:41 EST (#)
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Submitted by Caulaincourt (user info) at 2006-02-15 16:12:19 (#)
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It seems strangely arrogant and, dare I say it, american of you """
BLASPHÈME!!! QU'ON ME COUPE LA TÊTE!
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People who can speak english properly often say "whilst". It's not like I'm going to ask you why you say "Blasphème" just because it's beyond my french vocabulary (assuming it is, of course).
Submitted by Coyote (user info) at 2006-02-15 16:19:39 EST (#)
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I like the shit your posts always seem to stir up.
On the other hand, reaching for the stars is a damn good way to
BURN YOUR WHOLE HAND OFF, MAN!
Them little bright bastards is hot.
Submitted by electrictoothsyndrome (user info) at 2006-02-15 16:19:03 EST (#)
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Submitted by indoninja (user info) at 2006-02-15 15:49:55 (#)
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Submitted by electrictoothsyndrome (user info) at 2006-02-15 15:29:47 (#)
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"Like I said in the post, to speak at all IS to contradict yourself..."
-Nope, just when idiots try to speak.
"To try and relate any of this is like bringing the 10 Commandments down from Mt. Sinai on stone tablets...(tablets that can be destroyed and eroded with time)."
-The stone tablets may have been destroyed, but the Ten commandments are still passed down, because if you believe in god or not they are good rules for a society to live by. Your words fade because they are worthless, but way to make them seem important by comparing them to the ten commandments.
"There is no way to relate the things we all feel in the deepest recesses of our hearts without packaging them into words...(words that can be redefined and twisted and misunderstood)."
-Words can be twisted and misunderstood. Yours come out twisted in a bad attempt to seem clever or have a hidden deeper meaning.
"There is no REAL communication but that which is made in complete silence."
-It is like you are a parody of yourself. Is it a contradiction or is it? Are my responses foolish or wise? Do my posts make no sense because I am leading you to figure it out for yourself, or because my barely coherent babbling looks clever to me? Throwing out ripped off half assed "zen"-like quotes is not clever.
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Why is it I can't say anything here without someone saying I'm trying to be clever?
The way I see it, I'm just trying to express myself. That's all.
But again, that's not going to be possible. You're only going to hear what you want to hear.
Perception is everything, which is pretty much EXACTLY what I've stated here REPEATEDLY.
Funny how every time you open your fucking mouth now, you're just proving my fucking point. But of course, you have no idea you're doing it, or you'd take the hint and shut the fuck up.
How you like them apples, Poncho?
Caul, *I* sound like me when I was 16 years old too. The difference between you and me is, apparently I don't just throw away truth when I see it. I'd rather keep it an build on it.
You people act like I'm claiming to be the fucking Messiah here when all I'm doing is pointlessly musing to myself.
Submitted by Caulaincourt (user info) at 2006-02-15 16:12:19 EST (#)
Ranking: 0
It seems strangely arrogant and, dare I say it, american of you """
BLASPHÈME!!! QU'ON ME COUPE LA TÊTE!
Submitted by TigerLilly (user info) at 2006-02-15 16:10:05 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
Submitted by FilthyAssistant (user info) at 2006-02-15 15:52:54 (#)
Ranking: 1
And technically we've only ever had anal sex.
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This comment was priceless.
Submitted by mbstateside (user info) at 2006-02-15 16:08:23 EST (#)
Ranking: 0
Not everything that exists can be seen,
I hate to contradict you old boy but you're wrong again here. Not everything that exists can be seen with the naked eye but seen it can be. Even if only 'see' it by the effect it has. If something has no effect on anything does it exist at all?
Fuck me I'm starting to sound like you.
Submitted by FilthyAssistant (user info) at 2006-02-15 16:04:48 EST (#)
Ranking: 1
Submitted by Caulaincourt (user info) at 2006-02-15 15:58:32 (#)
Ranking: 0
I have a question...why say "whilst"? Cookielass does it too. She also says "flat" and "y'all" a lot.
Is it to remind the world that you're Briton? I mean, you don't see Canadians writing "aboot".
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It's not a conscious decision, Caul - there's no motive behind it. 'Whilst' isn't a slang term - it's a perfectly legitimate word which you will find in any english dictionary.
It seems strangely arrogant and, dare I say it, american of you to suggest that just because I may use different words than you, I'm doing it for your benefit.
Submitted by electrictoothsyndrome (user info) at 2006-02-15 16:04:16 EST (#)
Ranking: 0
Submitted by FilthyAssistant (user info) at 2006-02-15 15:43:31 (#)
Ranking: 1
"How are you going to make "ripples on the pond of history" without being remembered? History *is* memory, dude. There is no objective truth here - it's all about what we collectively agree happened."
History is NOT just memory. History is influence. Reality is made up of things that are NOT remembered as well as it is things that are. Not everything that exists can be seen, yet its influence is none-the-less real.
For every action there is a reaction.
"Apathy is not an unnatural response to the world and I'd argue that it's a necessary one."
I was gonna respond to that, but.....ahhhh......fuck it. I lost the will.
Submitted by mbstateside (user info) at 2006-02-15 16:04:00 EST (#)
Ranking: 1
Submitted by Caulaincourt (user info) at 2006-02-15 15:58:32 (#)
Ranking: 0
Submitted by FilthyAssistant (user info) at 2006-02-15 15:43:31 (#)
Ranking: 1
Whilst a monkey with an Etch-A-Sketch watches.
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I have a question...why say "whilst"? Cookielass does it too. She also says "flat" and "y'all" a lot.
Is it to remind the world that you're Briton? I mean, you don't see Canadians writing "aboot".
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No but you damn well should Frenchie!
I write Fookin' all the time but that's just 'cause it's a cool word. On a side note I've found I'm starting to think in American.
Not good, not good at all.
by the way the +1 was for the review not the post.
Submitted by Caulaincourt (user info) at 2006-02-15 15:58:32 EST (#)
Ranking: 0
Submitted by FilthyAssistant (user info) at 2006-02-15 15:43:31 (#)
Ranking: 1
Whilst a monkey with an Etch-A-Sketch watches.
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I have a question...why say "whilst"? Cookielass does it too. She also says "flat" and "y'all" a lot.
Is it to remind the world that you're Briton? I mean, you don't see Canadians writing "aboot".
Submitted by mbstateside (user info) at 2006-02-15 15:57:44 EST (#)
Ranking: 0
Submitted by electrictoothsyndrome (user info) at 2006-02-15 15:29:47 (#)
Ranking: 0
Submitted by mbstateside (user info) at 2006-02-15 15:19:49 (#)
Ranking: -1
This inane inconsistant drivel.
You make no points and you contradict yourself several times.
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Like I said in the post, to speak at all IS to contradict yourself...
To try and relate any of this is like bringing the 10 Commandments down from Mt. Sinai on stone tablets...(tablets that can be destroyed and eroded with time).
There is no way to relate the things we all feel in the deepest recesses of our hearts without packaging them into words...(words that can be redefined and twisted and misunderstood).
There is no REAL communication but that which is made in complete silence.
"We will go
Nowhere we know
'Til we find our one and all
Your hand me downs
Flypaper towns
Stuck together
One and all"
~ Beck "Ramshackle"
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ok I sincerely hop that was just to fuck with me. If not I think it's time you started riding the shortbus to school.
Submitted by FilthyAssistant (user info) at 2006-02-15 15:52:54 EST (#)
Ranking: 1
Submitted by Caulaincourt (user info) at 2006-02-15 15:49:21 (#)
Ranking: 0
Submitted by FilthyAssistant (user info) at 2006-02-15 15:43:31 (#)
Ranking: 1
In summary: you've done too much acid.
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BUT YOU STILL GIVE HIM A GOOD RATING BECAUSE HIS PENIS FEELS GOOD AGAINST YOUR VAGINAL WALL, RIGHT?
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No, I give him a good rating because I'd rather see a post that makes me think, regardless of whether I agree with it, than another "OMFG!!1!! Emo kids r teh suck!11!!" or "WTF??!11! My name iz Pepe LaFlamme!1!!"
And technically we've only ever had anal sex.
Whilst a monkey with an Etch-A-Sketch watches.
Submitted by Caulaincourt (user info) at 2006-02-15 15:52:05 EST (#)
Ranking: 0
indoninja just raped you with bull penis.
Submitted by indoninja (user info) at 2006-02-15 15:49:55 EST (#)
Ranking: -2
Submitted by electrictoothsyndrome (user info) at 2006-02-15 15:29:47 (#)
Ranking: 0
"Like I said in the post, to speak at all IS to contradict yourself..."
-Nope, just when idiots try to speak.
"To try and relate any of this is like bringing the 10 Commandments down from Mt. Sinai on stone tablets...(tablets that can be destroyed and eroded with time)."
-The stone tablets may have been destroyed, but the Ten commandments are still passed down, because if you believe in god or not they are good rules for a society to live by. Your words fade because they are worthless, but way to make them seem important by comparing them to the ten commandments.
"There is no way to relate the things we all feel in the deepest recesses of our hearts without packaging them into words...(words that can be redefined and twisted and misunderstood)."
-Words can be twisted and misunderstood. Yours come out twisted in a bad attempt to seem clever or have a hidden deeper meaning.
"There is no REAL communication but that which is made in complete silence."
-It is like you are a parody of yourself. Is it a contradiction or is it? Are my responses foolish or wise? Do my posts make no sense because I am leading you to figure it out for yourself, or because my barely coherent babbling looks clever to me? Throwing out ripped off half assed "zen"-like quotes is not clever.
Submitted by Caulaincourt (user info) at 2006-02-15 15:49:21 EST (#)
Ranking: 0
Submitted by FilthyAssistant (user info) at 2006-02-15 15:43:31 (#)
Ranking: 1
In summary: you've done too much acid.
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BUT YOU STILL GIVE HIM A GOOD RATING BECAUSE HIS PENIS FEELS GOOD AGAINST YOUR VAGINAL WALL, RIGHT?
Submitted by Caulaincourt (user info) at 2006-02-15 15:47:01 EST (#)
Ranking: -2
Whatever. Please get out of your parent's basement. You sound like me when I was 16 years old and a self-acclaimed spiritual philosophing pothead. I wish I could go back in time to punch myself in the face.
Submitted by FilthyAssistant (user info) at 2006-02-15 15:43:31 EST (#)
Ranking: 1
Submitted by electrictoothsyndrome (user info) at 2006-02-15 15:10:07 (#)
Ranking: 0
A few of you seem to have a problem with my notion that its the ripples we make on the pond of history (excuse the metaphor), regardless of whether we are specifically remembered by people, that makes up whatever 'purpose' we have here.
Our 'purpose', if there is one, is in the way we carry the torch of humanity forward.
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How are you going to make "ripples on the pond of history" without being remembered? History *is* memory, dude. There is no objective truth here - it's all about what we collectively agree happened.
I could sit on my arse watching Oprah all day every day and still be carrying the torch of humanity forward, simply by being alive. Who's to say what effect either my actions or my inaction will have on humanity? Certainly not you.
"by sitting and doing nothing, by sitting idle, listening for this pretty song of purpose, we're betraying our real purpose which, if anything, is to continue to propel this species forward into the universe"
Apathy is not an unnatural response to the world and I'd argue that it's a necessary one. You have to employ some level of apathy or you would end up killing yourself - because as much beautiful and amazing shit that there is in the world, there's a lot of sadness, a lot of suffering and a lot of pain. If you were to give your full attention to the things that are wrong in the world, day in day out, you would cease to be able to function. And then what good would you be able to do?
Being able to continue to eat your dinner whilst watching starving kids in africa on the news is a protection mechanism, and it's a worthwhile one, no matter how heartless it may seem.
In summary: you've done too much acid.
Submitted by electrictoothsyndrome (user info) at 2006-02-15 15:41:44 EST (#)
Ranking: 0
Submitted by Caulaincourt (user info) at 2006-02-15 15:37:54 (#)
Ranking: -2
-2 for pseudo-intellectual caca
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I prefer the term "pseudo-spiritual caca"
Submitted by Caulaincourt (user info) at 2006-02-15 15:37:54 EST (#)
Ranking: -2
-2 for pseudo-intellectual caca
Submitted by Caulaincourt (user info) at 2006-02-15 15:37:40 EST (#)
Ranking: 0
Submitted by electrictoothsyndrome (user info) at 2006-02-15 15:29:47 (#)
Ranking: 0
Like I said in the post, to speak at all IS to contradict yourself...
To try and relate any of this is like bringing the 10 Commandments down from Mt. Sinai on stone tablets...(tablets that can be destroyed and eroded with time).
There is no way to relate the things we all feel in the deepest recesses of our hearts without packaging them into words...(words that can be redefined and twisted and misunderstood).
There is no REAL communication but that which is made in complete silence.
"We will go
Nowhere we know
'Til we find our one and all
Your hand me downs
Flypaper towns
Stuck together
One and all"
~ Beck "Ramshackle"
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Perhaps you should go take a walk outside. You're ruminating your brain.
Submitted by electrictoothsyndrome (user info) at 2006-02-15 15:29:47 EST (#)
Ranking: 0
Submitted by mbstateside (user info) at 2006-02-15 15:19:49 (#)
Ranking: -1
This inane inconsistant drivel.
You make no points and you contradict yourself several times.
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Like I said in the post, to speak at all IS to contradict yourself...
To try and relate any of this is like bringing the 10 Commandments down from Mt. Sinai on stone tablets...(tablets that can be destroyed and eroded with time).
There is no way to relate the things we all feel in the deepest recesses of our hearts without packaging them into words...(words that can be redefined and twisted and misunderstood).
There is no REAL communication but that which is made in complete silence.
"We will go
Nowhere we know
'Til we find our one and all
Your hand me downs
Flypaper towns
Stuck together
One and all"
~ Beck "Ramshackle"
Submitted by The_taste_of_Monkeys (user info) at 2006-02-15 15:22:21 EST (#)
Ranking: 1
Submitted by The_Yellow_Dart (user info) at 2006-02-15 15:08:49 (#)
Ranking: 2
Submitted by The_taste_of_Monkeys (user info) at 2006-02-15 15:02:32 (#)
Ranking: 1
DRILL...INTO...MY...BONE!
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Did he count the rings to see how old you are?
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HA HA yes...then he drilled into my brain and came out with a number half that
Submitted by mbstateside (user info) at 2006-02-15 15:20:05 EST (#)
Ranking: 0
Other than that it was pretty good
Submitted by mbstateside (user info) at 2006-02-15 15:19:49 EST (#)
Ranking: -1
This inane inconsistant drivel.
You make no points and you contradict yourself several times.
Submitted by electrictoothsyndrome (user info) at 2006-02-15 15:12:55 EST (#)
Ranking: 0
Submitted by inion_de_trua (user info) at 2006-02-15 14:12:27 (#)
Ranking: 0
echoing through the ages of time is a fairly selfish pursuit of immortality in the eyes of others. and if you don't try to make your own life better first, you can't help anyone else, and making it easier is the general idea of life in the first place. from the beginning it's not like people built shelter, and skinned animals for the pursuit of the greater good, it was about surviving the easiest way possible. they could've moved to warmer climates, and grazed and ate bugs and gotten mostly the same shit out of all that. all progress was made for only three reasons basically, the need to make things more convenient for survival, curiosity, or the mix of boredom and creativity. if people didn't try to make their lives as convenient as possible then we wouldn't have things like art and technology. that's why so many cultures stayed in the stone age while europe and asia grew into societies. europe and asia had the opportunity and environment to sit around after developing farming and livestock breeding skills. you didn't see that shit in africa, or aboriginal australia, or north/south america. they had art but no technological advancements beyond the basics.
life is about the pursuit of comfort, comfort allows for freedom of thought and progress because it takes your mind off of shit like food, water, getting chased by things with sharp teeth, and freezing the fuck to death. if that's all you worry about you can't do anything else with your brain.
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How is it I can agree with every bit of that, yet still stand by everything I wrote here as well?
You figure that one out.
Submitted by electrictoothsyndrome (user info) at 2006-02-15 15:10:07 EST (#)
Ranking: 0
Jeeze, this post struck more nerves than my last political post!
Like some of you said, I was mostly just crapping on the page, contradicting myself (AS ALWAYS).
If you speak long enough, you're sure to contradict yourself sooner or later. Of course, the irony is, that's part of what I was talking about here.
A few of you seem to have a problem with my notion that its the ripples we make on the pond of history (excuse the metaphor), regardless of whether we are specifically remembered by people, that makes up whatever 'purpose' we have here.
Our 'purpose', if there is one, is in the way we carry the torch of humanity forward.
If there is life after death, of course this purpose involves much more, but if there is nothing but worms waiting for us, then we can either sulk about this sorry state of affairs all our lives, or we can try to make the most of it by finding a reason to forge ahead.
For me, this seems to be it...the ripples.
Submitted by The_Yellow_Dart (user info) at 2006-02-15 15:08:49 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
Submitted by The_taste_of_Monkeys (user info) at 2006-02-15 15:02:32 (#)
Ranking: 1
DRILL...INTO...MY...BONE!
___________
Did he count the rings to see how old you are?
Submitted by The_taste_of_Monkeys (user info) at 2006-02-15 15:02:32 EST (#)
Ranking: 1
I had a doctor drill into my bone to remove bone marrow yesterday...DRILL...INTO...MY...BONE!
you dont hear me complaining, do you.
Go Science, WOO!
Submitted by Drone_of_Industry (user info) at 2006-02-15 15:00:34 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
Food, water, running from things with sharp teeth, and not freezing the fuck to death sound like a solid purpose in life to me.
I think alot of you are more reactionary and defensive than this is pompous... this particular piece that is. ;)
As far as personal gain vs good for everyone, those do go hand in hand. At least I know, if I play a song to a group of people and they perchance laugh, cry, or rock, and then tell me afterwards that they were sincerely moved by it, then it is the connection that I made that is so gratifying.
true. Do not spend a life in vain.
Submitted by Sacrilicious (user info) at 2006-02-15 14:57:54 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
Submitted by CaptainThorns (user info) at 2006-02-15 14:50:38 (#)
Ranking: 2
Submitted by Sideburns (user info) at 2006-02-15 14:13:03 (#)
Ranking: 2
In comparison to everything on the front page right now, this is a +2.
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Couldn't agree more.
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Almost everything, indeed.
Submitted by CaptainThorns (user info) at 2006-02-15 14:50:38 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
Submitted by Sideburns (user info) at 2006-02-15 14:13:03 (#)
Ranking: 2
In comparison to everything on the front page right now, this is a +2.
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Couldn't agree more.
Submitted by badassmofo (user info) at 2006-02-15 14:50:16 EST (#)
Ranking: 0
envy zak, of what?
Submitted by TigerLilly (user info) at 2006-02-15 14:48:02 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
"it's easy to lose faith in the essential 'goodness' of things."
Yes it is.
I enjoyed this. Great picture too.
Submitted by Caulaincourt (user info) at 2006-02-15 14:42:01 EST (#)
Ranking: 0
Submitted by badassmofo (user info) at 2006-02-15 14:37:56 (#)
Ranking: 0
oh my god Sideburns totally made a funny...because he said that 'he's kind of new around here' but really he's been here for a long time.
holy shit that is 100% Grade A comedy gold right there folks
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all right, maybe it wasn't that funny :~(
Submitted by zakalwe (user info) at 2006-02-15 14:41:50 EST (#)
Ranking: 0
envy does not become you, badassmofo.
Submitted by _Aries_ (user info) at 2006-02-15 14:41:38 EST (#)
Ranking: 0
I digged up sideburn's dead granny and raped the shit out of her, then I cut off one of electrictoothsyndrome's balls and ate it. That was a fun day.
Submitted by Sideburns (user info) at 2006-02-15 14:40:27 EST (#)
Ranking: 0
It was just a joke. Calm down.
Submitted by badassmofo (user info) at 2006-02-15 14:37:56 EST (#)
Ranking: 0
oh my god Sideburns totally made a funny...because he said that 'he's kind of new around here' but really he's been here for a long time.
holy shit that is 100% Grade A comedy gold right there folks
Submitted by The_Yellow_Dart (user info) at 2006-02-15 14:34:52 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
Submitted by loki (user info) at 2006-02-15 14:24:39 (#)
Ranking: 2
we're on a road to nowhere...
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Bullshit.
We clearly have the technological capacities, as well as the ideals, to get what we all really want out of life; what humanity really is here for: A city made entirely of chocolate.
Everything chocolate! What more do you pagans need?!
I think we'll all just keel over and die, once we achieve this, in amazement and stupor.
Let's do it for God!
Let's do it for Cancer!
Let's do it because you all are thinking in the back of your heads: "What else is there to do? That'd actually be pretty sweet!"
And you'd be right. What the hell else is there to do? You people need a purpose? Well here it is.
Although, we may have to block out the sun so it doesn't melt our precious...
Submitted by Caulaincourt (user info) at 2006-02-15 14:34:47 EST (#)
Ranking: 0
Submitted by Sideburns (user info) at 2006-02-15 14:31:01 (#)
Ranking: 2
Oh, I get it.
I didn't really get the whole ratings system. I'm kind of new around here.
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hahahah
Submitted by Sideburns (user info) at 2006-02-15 14:31:01 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
Oh, I get it.
I didn't really get the whole ratings system. I'm kind of new around here.
Submitted by badassmofo (user info) at 2006-02-15 14:29:02 EST (#)
Ranking: 0
Sideburns - there are no rules to rating, each individual rates each post how they see fit.
sorry for my immediate reaction below, you obviously inspired some sort of emotion in me so for that you get the 0.
thruthfully this post felt like religion to me, someone who knows nothing about me, has never walked in my shoes is presuming to know how or why I should live my life and then to top it off they are expecting that I should listen to them.
bah, you write very well ETS and because of some of the things you say I try to read all of your posts and carefully examine them.
i did that here and the comments i've made are truly how your post has left me feeling.
Submitted by loki (user info) at 2006-02-15 14:24:39 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
we're on a road to nowhere...
Submitted by Method (user info) at 2006-02-15 14:24:31 EST (#)
Ranking: -1
Oh Bradley, what am I ever going to do with you?
Submitted by Caulaincourt (user info) at 2006-02-15 14:19:29 EST (#)
Ranking: 0
You're fatalism is tiresome.
Instead of sitting in a corner and crying about the state of humanity, you should practice what you preach : "propel this species forward into the universe, regardless of the idiots around us who can't seem to get their heads out of the sand."
I have met only one person in my life who really does try to change things. She has accomplished a number of things. She is not a pessimistic misanthropist and she actually does something instead of pontificating on all the problems of the world on the Internet.
+0 'cause it was well-written.
Submitted by FilthyAssistant (user info) at 2006-02-15 14:15:52 EST (#)
Ranking: 1
Submitted by inion_de_trua (user info) at 2006-02-15 14:12:27 (#)
Ranking: 0
...comfort allows for freedom of thought and progress because it takes your mind off of shit like food, water, getting chased by things with sharp teeth, and freezing the fuck to death. if that's all you worry about you can't do anything else with your brain.
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Good point.
Submitted by Sideburns (user info) at 2006-02-15 14:13:03 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
When someone rates a post, what to do base the rating system on? Do we rate the writer against his other stuff? (Was this just as good as that last 1.97 overall post?) or do we rate him against what we *think* he's capable of? (You're talented, you can do better, 0).
Do we rate in comparison to other works of art in literary history that have made us think? If so, this is nothing new. Bland at best. It's not inspiring. Basically, just a recycled message that's existed for centuries.
Then again, can these raters really do better than this?
In comparison to everything on the front page right now, this is a +2. Nevermind the fact that others think you're conveying a pompous message. Sometimes we need recycled "Live like there is no tomorrow" messages thrown in our faces to make us realize that we are insignificant.
+2.
Submitted by inion_de_trua (user info) at 2006-02-15 14:12:27 EST (#)
Ranking: 0
echoing through the ages of time is a fairly selfish pursuit of immortality in the eyes of others. and if you don't try to make your own life better first, you can't help anyone else, and making it easier is the general idea of life in the first place. from the beginning it's not like people built shelter, and skinned animals for the pursuit of the greater good, it was about surviving the easiest way possible. they could've moved to warmer climates, and grazed and ate bugs and gotten mostly the same shit out of all that. all progress was made for only three reasons basically, the need to make things more convenient for survival, curiosity, or the mix of boredom and creativity. if people didn't try to make their lives as convenient as possible then we wouldn't have things like art and technology. that's why so many cultures stayed in the stone age while europe and asia grew into societies. europe and asia had the opportunity and environment to sit around after developing farming and livestock breeding skills. you didn't see that shit in africa, or aboriginal australia, or north/south america. they had art but no technological advancements beyond the basics.
life is about the pursuit of comfort, comfort allows for freedom of thought and progress because it takes your mind off of shit like food, water, getting chased by things with sharp teeth, and freezing the fuck to death. if that's all you worry about you can't do anything else with your brain.
Submitted by cuberat (user info) at 2006-02-15 14:11:55 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
Then again...what the hell do I know?
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Well from the sound of this...a hell of a lot.
Submitted by FilthyAssistant (user info) at 2006-02-15 14:11:04 EST (#)
Ranking: 1
"the direction of your life is dependent upon whether you live it in persuit of personal gain or in persuit of a greater good - a grander goal - something that cements your mark upon the face of history such that the repercussions of your actions and the example you live by will echo through the ages and along the corridors of time."
I think you almost contradict yourself here. If your motivation is to "cement your mark upon the face of history" then your motivation *is* personal gain. You gain by believing that you are important, that your life has meaning and that you will be remembered. There is nothing selfless about wanting to save the world, because it's only your world that you're saving.
Personal gain and the pursuit of a greater good cannot be separated into two distinct checkboxes.
Submitted by HighVoltage900 (user info) at 2006-02-15 14:10:39 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
Agreed.
That's all I have to say, I agree with you.
Submitted by MrSparkle847 (user info) at 2006-02-15 14:08:27 EST (#)
Ranking: 0
Anyone who feels that life is all about the persuit of comfort are forgetting the age-old truth that life is about stuggle and it's not supposed to be easy.
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If it were easy, there would be no pursuit. Somehow, that sentence of yours negated itself.
Submitted by MyNameIsTim (user info) at 2006-02-15 14:06:41 EST (#)
Ranking: -1
you need better first sentences.
Submitted by Jeanneee (user info) at 2006-02-15 14:05:14 EST (#)
Ranking: 0
I'm a mental coprophagic.
Submitted by OneCheapGeek (user info) at 2006-02-15 14:04:22 EST (#)
Ranking: 0
I buck the trend. I'm a mental anorexic.
Submitted by BLITZKREIG_BOB (user info) at 2006-02-15 13:59:57 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
Most people are mental bulemics.
Submitted by zakalwe (user info) at 2006-02-15 13:58:55 EST (#)
Ranking: -2
I couldn't bring myself to read this. I know you're not a stupid man, but you are also long-winded and really really pompous in an unfortunately vacant way.
Submitted by leilani (user info) at 2006-02-15 13:58:34 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
ease up
stop your fussin and fightin, yeah....
Submitted by creep_firebombing (user info) at 2006-02-15 13:58:08 EST (#)
Ranking: -2
Wow. I forgot how surprising it can be when someone you consider to be a talented writer shits the bed.
Submitted by Jeanneee (user info) at 2006-02-15 13:58:08 EST (#)
Ranking: 0
generic
Submitted by indoninja (user info) at 2006-02-15 13:57:30 EST (#)
Ranking: -2
Anyone who feels that life is all about the persuit of comfort are forgetting the age-old truth that life is about stuggle and it's not supposed to be easy.
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This is pretty funny coming from a middle class white kid in the richest country in the world.
Keep writing this stuff ETS. Your attempts to be profound, original, and eye-opening may fail miserably, bu they do amuse ma, and help my self esteem.
Submitted by Grimm (user info) at 2006-02-15 13:57:13 EST (#)
Ranking: -1
very little
Submitted by JillTheLass (user info) at 2006-02-15 13:56:56 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
And the pic too!
Submitted by JillTheLass (user info) at 2006-02-15 13:56:23 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
I love this!
Submitted by badassmofo (user info) at 2006-02-15 13:55:13 EST (#)
Ranking: -2
who are you to determine what we are supposed to do with our lives?
sometimes you come off as so fucking presumptuous it makes my fucking skin crawl
Submitted by leilani (user info) at 2006-02-15 13:49:32 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
It's easy to look at the disgusting TV Culture we've created and retreat in search of a quiet place to expel our vomit.
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