At 10/27/09 01:22 AM, DragonFyre9 wrote: I am bi-polar, it can make me happy for weeks. Then I can go into a deep depression for possibly months. Whether I'm manic or depressed it really fucks with my life sometimes. When I'm at a low point I'm unmotivated and do the bare minimum in school. I will admit though I'm a cool guy to be with at parties since I go fucking manic and just do all sorts of crazy shit. I do sometimes find fun within my disorder.

This interests me.
Have you taken medication (pardon my ignorance - is there medication you can take?) for your illness? If you have, how did it make you feel? If you haven't, why not?

SECULARISM LOLOLOL

No, but f'real, I'm glad this happened. I don't dislike religion(s), I just dislike its seemingly heavy influence in politics, you know, where it doesn't belong.

I envy those on roller coasters.

Do you ever get the feeling that your life is a continuous routine of non-necessities, and cheap thrills? Odds are, you've experienced this at one point or another. I feel like this quite often, and in some regards it's something to revel in - a life of stability, with few complications and even fewer downers.
But what of the other life lived by few? You know, the borderline bi-polar, eccentric individuals so caught up with their emotions that they experience both sides of the spectrum, I.E. - the extremely happy, and extremely sad.

Certainly you're not one to agree once you see the bouts of depression, but it's hard to forget the sky-high joy you've witnessed as well.

So what I'm asking you is: If you had the choice to be an emotionally stable human being, experiencing neither great highs or lows, would you want to be? Or would you prefer taking the ultimate good with some of the deeply bad?

Aye.

I want to celebrate halloween with some buddies, but I barely have a nickle to my name. What costumes can be purchased/created/whatever for cheap?

All ideas welcomed.

What turbid waters fill your weary eyes. To ward off such demons, a mother's kiss, no more. No, no more.

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At 10/23/09 04:02 PM, GiantDouche wrote: ...could you be taking this thread more seriously?

Who else read this in Chandler Bing's voice?

At 4/8/09 03:41 PM, JohnnyWang wrote: I've never been that spontaneous a person. People are different, some really just do want stability. My sense of adventure can be satisfied with art and works of fiction (books, movies, TV shows, Anime, video games...), and those are much easier to acquire with some stability.

That's cool. I can understand where you're coming from. I don't need to experience something empirically to be satisfied as well.

I'm fine with not having experienced everything; I'm perfectly content of reading someone's account on trekking a jugnle instead of embarking on the trip mysel, that's the beauty of the modern culture.

I on the other (while not needing to) like to go out and do stuff. So I guess that's where we might differ, which again, is cool.

At least you're cognitive of your position, which is all I could ask for really.

At 4/8/09 03:27 PM, JohnnyWang wrote: There's more to a good job than just money.

Stability; a job that you can count on still having the next month, and the month after. Atmosphere; working with people with similar background as you.

And high education is a reward in itself, to me.

Well what's so great about stability? Yes, it gives you the security of living. But doesn't that just seem dull to you? I'd rather live life with risks than being stuck somewhere I can merely tolerate.
Why not fly to Mexico with a backpack full of clothes, and a pocket English to Spanish dictionary, and nothing else? Now that's a thrill, living in a completely new environment with nothing but your intuition to count on.

And I agree with you, a higher education is intrinsic to me, rather than instrumental. I just wish that SO many people didn't use it as an instrument to be 'moderately happy' in life, when it's meant for so much more than that.

At 4/8/09 03:07 PM, TheLameSauce wrote: personally, i value my education both as an accomplishment and as a betterment of myself. but, college isn't for everyone. it's not some magical establishment that guarantees it's participants a blissful existence. if you'd rather do something that doesn't require a college education, don't waste your time there. however, if you have no specific plan in mind and just don't see the point, it will be a lot harder to decide a couple years into your adult life that you want to pursue something that requires a college education than to decide you want to be a cabbie two years into your college educated employment.

That is a very valid point, I didn't think of it like that. Better safe than sorry, essentially.

I wonder if there's a way to focus young adults to choose a career, earlier (and with more precision)... without imposing too much pressure. Honestly, I don't think that's possible.

What I wish people would do is shake the image that money = happiness, because I do know of a lot of people who are going to college strictly for that reason. They're the one's who will most likely be in that cubicle because of a lack of any real passion.

On a purely sexual level, women are attracted to being dominated.
On an emotional level, they want the Romantic.

The reason why aggression and "being a dick" works is because it's provocative to their sexual desires. Women aren't attracted to the soft guys, they want the hard men. I mean that both figuratively, and literally.
Think of the things that turn a women on. Chiseled features, hard muscles... my god even the sex organ (a man's dick) is something that is physically HARD.
Now what turns a male on? Softness, frail bodies (that are just waiting to be dominated), curvaceous features (breasts, ass). -> The exact opposite of a female.

It's nothing personal... it's just human nature. Actually, when it comes to sex, we're more like animals then we are humans (that goes for BOTH men and women).

I've been thinking about the whole idea of "leaning." It's funny the way that the status quo nowadays is to get your high school diploma, only to immediately go on to college.

Why?
Well the answer is simple, to put yourself in a better position career-wise.

Well why would I want to do that?
So you can get the job you want that allows you to earn a decent income, provide for many of life's securities and financial necessities.

What happens after that?
Then you're free to be happy.

The problem I have with this is that I see a moderately successful man, with a full college education, a briefcase and a business suit, probably making 100K a year. He's happy, yes. But probably JUST as happy as the cab driver who drove me around earlier today, who is did not receive that college education, and is not as financially well off. Then that got me thinking about those who went to college and got the job they've wanted, only to become depressed soon thereafter (and buried to the neck in loans). And then I compared it to the local retailer who is in his mid 30's, but has enough joy in his life for him, his family, and his friends.

I realize it seems like I'm preaching on the whole "money doesn't buy happiness" phrase... but what I'm really having a go at is the point of getting a college education. Sure there are definitely those who get an intrinsic value from learning at a university or college, but I'd place those individuals in the minority. The majority will tell you that it's about earning a higher income.

Is this something the majority should aspire to? Many positions do rightfully call for those with the proper education (doctors, psychologists, economists), but I'm not quite sure everyone who went to college is currently even doing what they wanted to begin with. Think of how many people sit at a cubicle, doing mindless and endless work, only to be read by no one.

Meh.

wost

Waking up, I go about my life vicariously, hoping that something exciting, enthralling, something different will happen. Never do I go to sleep with an uneasy mind, doubts of my actions for the day and how one thing or another could have been played differently. At home, I arrive only to find no new notification of the only one I truly care about. How I long to escape the wretched cold, back to the days where hugs and smiles were in season.

I really don't like the argument that people use, "But atheism is the belief of no God, therefore it runs on a belief system making it a religion," (or something of that nature).

Just because you believe that there isn't a God doesn't suddenly constitute a religion. I believe in a lot of things, should I make a religion out of every one of those things too.

-I believe that it's easier to manage in colder temperatures than in warmer temperatures.
-I believe that eating pizza tastes better warm rather than cold.
-I believe that washing your hair everyday is good hygiene.

Should religions be made out of everything people believe? No. Perhaps some, such as the belief in a higher power.

Some people might even believe that atheism IS a religion, and I have no gripes with that. I just dislike it when people predicate labeling atheism as a religion simply because it's something people believe; as if it's suddenly a written rule that belief = religion.

I agree, Vampire Weekend is a very refreshing sound.
I love how practically all their songs are upbeat, and poetic. Rarely do I ever pay attention to lyrics, because let's be honest; most of the songs popular today are filled with utter shit with regards to "lyrics." But Vampire Weekend forces the listener to pay close attention, using a plentiful amount of literary references fused with the happenings of every day life.

My favorite song might just happen to be Campus, but one cannot argue with the opening line of Oxford Comma.
"Who gives a fuck about an Oxford comma?

So far, nobody...

Sorry, but this has to be said.

I really, really despise people who say "thank you for your time." What is this, a fucking therapy session? Am I getting paid to read your shit on the BBS or something, why are you thanking me? I come on these forums with the intent of wasting time, don't make it worse by bringing it to my attention that I'm doing so.

Fuck, this is a place to relax, why do you have to make things so formal for?
So fuck you, whoever says "thank you for your time." Rot in hell.

P.S. - fuck you for your time, I don't give a shit.

I'd appreciate some critique on my writing. If you click on my profile, my latest news submission is something I wrote a few months ago (so pardon the obscure references to events that were happening at that time).

Thanks in advance.

At 7/3/08 03:35 AM, Tykwa wrote: Happy birthday, and althoug hthis cake is slightly out of order, it shall work

That caek is relevant to my interests.

At 7/3/08 03:31 AM, sldghmmr wrote:

At 7/3/08 03:29 AM, slackerzac wrote: For your birthday present.....................a kick to the scrotum.

Well that doesnt sound like a good B-Day present at all

I disagree; I think it sounds like the best damn present ever.

At 7/3/08 03:00 AM, TwistedPersonality wrote: It seems there is no cake. You shall satisfy yourself with PIE.

FUCK THAT. Pie is for pussies and mathematicians.

At 7/3/08 02:26 AM, Adio-Element wrote:

At 7/3/08 02:26 AM, Thechickensparta wrote:

2. We are the oldest country ever.

Fucking idiot.

Really? That's the only one you want to call him out on?

provide me with caek or die

Sorry if this has been answered already previously, I just don't have time to weed through all the posts.
Let me just state that I am a complete noob when it comes to paintball (never owned a gun yet).

I was hoping somebody might be able to help me with a question about the Tippmann Alpha Black.

Looking at the pictures, the barrel seems just a little too short. I was wondering if it were possible to buy a standard 14 or maybe even 16 inch tippmann barrel, but not have to sacrifice the foregrip, because I think that's awesome looking. Is the foregrip attached to the stock barrel? If so, where could I find a good replacement barrel (14 or 16 inch) with a similar foregrip attached?

Thanks in advance for your help.

At 6/6/08 08:23 PM, acidcrash3 wrote:

At 6/6/08 06:20 PM, yurgenburgen wrote: You wouldn't wake up. In a world like that, you'd be dead within seconds.

our ancestors lived in that world and it looks like they made it seeing how we are around. In a world without rules people would still be around we'd just have mini wars each day with our neighboring towns.

Though I'm doubtful that we'd be dead within seconds, it's also important to recognize that the world we live in today is much different than the world our ancestors lived.

At 6/6/08 07:58 PM, iMiserable wrote: My god...with an imagination like mine...I'd probably fuck every hot girl within my peripheral vision.
Later, I'd tie them to my bed so they can't move and then fuck them so hard their eyes will pop out of their sockets. I'll then skull fuck them.

Any questions?

Are you a virgin?

At 6/6/08 07:44 PM, Guest8792 wrote: I see a slight similarity between these.

Hahaha, oh wow.

Imagine yourself awaking one morning to a world without rules or regulations. One where any act committed leaves no worries of lawful repercussions. There's no such existence of law enforcement, or any governing body to protect/restrict your rights.

What would the world turn into?

I apologize for disobeying that rule; I thought that it would be alright as long as I didn't credit it as my own.

I was so fascinated by his work, that I asked if I could basically promote it; he was all for it, as would any sane person would be.

You are right though Mindchamber, it was wrong of me to post others works, friend or not.
I only ask, since the response has been overall very good as it is, that this thread be allowed to be the one exception.

Pretty please?