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Off-Topic Discussion => General Discussion => Topic started by: Polpolion on May 24, 2007, 07:10:09 pm
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Has anyone else been going insane lately? :confused:
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Ummmm......
Huh?
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Define "insane".
Insane like in this video (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6X0S4nYyaTk)?
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I guess not really insane, it's just that I've been feeling really down lately. And after thinking about it for a while, I have really no reason be be sad. I actually have more of a reason to be happy. It's just... blegh!! :shaking:
It's like looking forward all day to eating your mostest favoritest dinner, but when you have it, you're like "WTH? this isn't all that great of dinner!!". It's really strange.
I shall ponder this matter throughout the upcoming days and see if I can come to a conclusion.
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Define "insane".
Insane like in this video (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6X0S4nYyaTk)?
How dare they destroy that childhood memory of mine.
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How dare they destroy that childhood memory of mine.
I think Calvin would appreciate that video if he ever had become older... :lol: He might even show it to Hobbes. ;7
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How dare they destroy that childhood memory of mine.
I think Calvin would appreciate that video if he ever had become older... :lol: He might even show it to Hobbes. ;7
Stop it! Stop it!
*rips out old C&H comic collections and reads fervently*
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I guess not really insane, it's just that I've been feeling really down lately. And after thinking about it for a while, I have really no reason be be sad. I actually have more of a reason to be happy. It's just... blegh!! :shaking:
It's like looking forward all day to eating your mostest favoritest dinner, but when you have it, you're like "WTH? this isn't all that great of dinner!!". It's really strange.
I shall ponder this matter throughout the upcoming days and see if I can come to a conclusion.
Usually there's something else. Thats been my experience. I have my bouts with feeling down...tends to be seasonal and then correlated with something that I'm not happy with.
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dude ive been insane sence day 1. stop faking it :D
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I feel the pain :shaking:!!!!!!! Must play freespace! :mad:!! Oh God I can't help it any more! :shaking:
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I guess not really insane, it's just that I've been feeling really down lately. And after thinking about it for a while, I have really no reason be be sad. I actually have more of a reason to be happy. It's just... blegh!! :shaking:
It's like looking forward all day to eating your mostest favoritest dinner, but when you have it, you're like "WTH? this isn't all that great of dinner!!". It's really strange.
I shall ponder this matter throughout the upcoming days and see if I can come to a conclusion.
I've had bouts like this. It's usually not something serious. A lot of times (for me, at least), it's caused by some small thing that I can't put my finger on. One day I'll just wake up and realize what it is that's been bothering me, and I'll do what I need to fix it. Then I usually bounce back to being my old self.
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I used to go through two week phases. Happy phase, sad phase. Nothing really intense just a general "emotional backdrop"
I blame it on brain chemistry.
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I have a personal motto, and unlink when most people say that, I actually say this to people pretty regularly.
"Repression kicks arse".
You'll thank me when you're awesome and have no problems.
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an0n, you may open fire at any time.
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*nuke wheels in a device labeled anti-emo device*
*runs*
its really a nuke
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i wanted to hurt myself. mostly because of things that the people around me do.
i hurt my brain instead. i took double dose of aderall and coffee and im sleep depriving myself.
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That must explain your political opinions :p
(sorry, I had to swing at that)
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I guess not really insane, it's just that I've been feeling really down lately. And after thinking about it for a while, I have really no reason be be sad. I actually have more of a reason to be happy. It's just... blegh!! :shaking:
It's like looking forward all day to eating your mostest favoritest dinner, but when you have it, you're like "WTH? this isn't all that great of dinner!!". It's really strange.
I shall ponder this matter throughout the upcoming days and see if I can come to a conclusion.
Hows the weather out there? You know that it can severely influence a peersons mood.
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there was this one time i rode my bike infront of a truck because i felt depressed. but we arent gonna talk about that, or the overdose, or the fact that ive become master noose maker. if you want to see real insanity, check yourself in to the local state mental hospital (or the equivalent for all you non-us people). :D
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That's really funny. My best friend actually ran in front of a truck. That experience is one of the biggest reasons that keep me from doing the same...
EDIT: This message is a counter to Nukes previous post which IMO seemed to handle the issue of suicide and trucks too lightly. My view of course is affected by personal experience. This post should not be considered should not be considered to be any kind of joke or meant to ridicule the issue.
It also should not be taken too seriously, but instead as simple opinion based on experience that suicides are not funny.
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That's really funny. My best friend actually ran in front of a truck. That experience is one of the biggest reasons that keep me from doing the same...
Funny ha-ha, or funny strange? I can't really get a handle on what you mean by that that, and it's making it really hard to gauge the rest of your post.
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Use logic. Funny strange.
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I think I got it.
I think it's just because I haven't been playing enough computer. You see, yesterday I remembered that I had a copy of Operation Flashpoint, and I started playing that. And now I'm not sad anymore!
Come to think of it, that is rather sad in itself. Oh well. I'll live, even if I am that fixated on playing games :drevil: .
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Use logic. Funny strange.
Well I don't know, do I? It's a bloody forum, it's not like I can read his tone!
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Hows the weather out there? You know that it can severely influence a peersons mood.
Good point, I am very influenced by atmosphere in general.
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Well I don't know, do I? It's a bloody forum, it's not like I can read his tone!
Suicide of a friend is generally considered to be not funny. However considering some of the characters who occasionally shine upon these boards, your point is a valid one. I have now taken steps to prevent any further misinterpretation
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Yeah. See, it just sorta looked like you were about to launch into a funny anecdote. I know that sounds morbid given you were talking about a friend that killed himself, but that's just how I read it.
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all gamers are depressed or insane or something
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suicide is ultimately the most selfish act anyone can do, or so I've been led to believe...
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whos being funny? ive wracked up more attempted suicides that anyone else on the boards. ive come to the conclusion that im not too good at self destruction. so i focus my destructive energies on society as a whole. am i really crazy? well thats how my psyche profile reads. but i think everyone is crazy theese days, as if its become trendy.
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suicide is ultimately the most selfish act anyone can do, or so I've been led to believe...
Maybe not the most selfish, but certainly the most stupid.
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suicide is ultimately the most selfish act anyone can do, or so I've been led to believe...
Hmm I wouldent agree with that. :blah:
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Maybe not the most selfish, but certainly the most stupid.
No, there are far stupider things one can do with one's life. Moreover, suicide is the most selfish thing a person can do, although under certain circumstances it can be both prudent and honorable.
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Suicide is just like any other course of action. Under different circumstances it has different meanings, and there are different motivations (selfish and unselfish) that someone might have for it.
What you're implying is that somebody can kill and rape and steal from as many people as they like, just for the fun of it, and they still won't be as selfish as someone who chooses to kill themselves.
Even if the suicidal person was 82, had lived a full life, and was facing a terminal illness with medical bills that would bankrupt the rest of their family.
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Damn you and your relentless logic!
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:spock:
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I apologize for my generalized comment. What I mean was people who have families, things to live for, the people they would leave behind scarred because of the suicide the person committed.
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(http://img329.imageshack.us/img329/6591/jumpwt3lh6.jpg) (http://imageshack.us)
(http://img243.imageshack.us/img243/6979/emosmallsh8.jpg) (http://imageshack.us)
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*emo picture*
Oh, so true. It's so fun watching those emo types especially when you live in somewhere like this (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamilton_County%2C_Indiana) where there's essentially no such thing as a truly bad household.
Same goes for the white kids who think they're "ghetto."
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Having to worry about school, career and money to even maintain ones place and status in modern day society can cause havoc on certain kind of personalities. Take a person who is shy, has no ambitions and is not competitive. He has to struggle like hell against more aggressive people in order to get a decent job, home and a family - The only things he ever wanted from life. Moder "civilized" society is demanding. Not everyone is cheerful, smart and productive. But that doesn't mean they are lesser as people. Not does it mean that they automatically think life has someway wronged them (unless ofcourse they specifically say so).
People who whine about everything are a pain. People who think they are better than some other people are a pain. People who feel lost and are drifting without a clear idea how to proceed often feel pain. The two first are not helpful when the third is trying to push forward.
Some "emo" people are genuinely stressed and mentally troubled. Some are just plain jerks. Please remember that.
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Same goes for the white kids who think they're "ghetto."
Oh I know all too well! I live in the northern suburbs of Detroit, in the second richest county in the US, and there are plenty of kids usually from ages 10-18 who fancy themselves inner-city Detroit people, when in reality they live in three story houses with happy, rich families in perfect little subdivisions with white picket fences. I propose some day the REAL ghetto people from inner city Detroit go out and raid those subdivisions and show the sub-trash what its REALLY like to live "ghetto".
EDIT: And I totally agree with Prophet's post above, although I think less than 2 percent of all emos in my area actually have issues.
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less than 2 percent of the emo people in my area have an IQ in at least the double digits...
I'd rather have poser-emos than stupid-emos.
Hey, are you guys sure the plural of emo is emos and not emoes?
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Since it's a slang word, I doubt no one knows. Maybe the plural is also emo?
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Emii? :lol:
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For a long time I have been wondering how is the society more competitive and worse for people than it has been before?
Thanks for clearing up what the word "emo" meant, I have had no clue about that before. Dealing with those kind of people is tricky and requires exceptionally good eyes for seeing if the stuff behind that kind of behavior is justified.
Mika
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For a long time I have been wondering how is the society more competitive and worse for people than it has been before?
There's a lot more people around, and things are becoming a lot more internationalized. Nowadays, people can outsource jobs to India or wherever, where people have training in computers and are willing to work for much less. Many people are coming here from Japan and other countries, and either taking jobs and or getting education and then taking that knowledge back to their home country. (Not that I'm saying this is automatically bad and we should do something about it.)
The population is also growing, so there are more mouths to feed and a better chance of people who want to go into the same sort of job that any given person will want to go into. There are also now large established corporations in fields that were, before, mostly the domain of a number of much smaller entities. (For example, Microsoft or Google) The more huge conglomerates you have, the more they can set the bar and make potential employees compete for jobs, rather than the potential employees making the companies compete to hire them.
I've also seen people linking suicide rates to areas with higher population density (like Japan or China) and the US has, naturally, become less sparsely populated with time. All those people have to go somewhere.
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Jordan has the lowest suicide rate, I remember. Something like no suicides since 1970, according to a mid-90s records book. So there's low population density for you.
It's more competitive today than before not because life is more difficult, but because people have more potential to gain money and power, and they want to gain more. I mean, it's possible to totally slack of and land a job for $10,000 a year. In the US, that's considered to be at the poverty line, but that's considered middle- to upper-class in most parts of the world. You can still feed yourself, buy a car, buy a TV, and so on. In fact, you can live in a 100 sq. ft. apartment and play FreeSpace Open all day on a yardsale computer. But because education is so readily available today, people have plenty of potential to expand beyond that, and they try to do the best that they can. Compare this to just 200 years ago, most of the population was rural, your place in society was to be a farmer (or a similar job), there was little potential for you to go to a good university or advance much at all in life. Urban workers faced a bit more competition, and had a bit more potential to excel, but even then, they had little chance of making more than a little over minimum wage during their lifetime. So everyone just relaxed, there was no need to be competitive as it wouldn't get you anywhere.
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I was more referring to the situation here in Finland, but I didn't write it there. Sorry. But I asked about this because I cannot really find my country from the description Prophet gave.
But in general, society has only a little to do with outsourcing jobs, but I find it mostly because of idiotic, greedy and short-sighted management strategies. The problem with that train of thought is that if those jobs disappear from the western countries, to whom exactly does the management think they can sell the products then? Someone figured out outsourcing would be a perfectly good idea but forgot that every other company would also follow, and in time the buying power of the nation is crippled. And that does mean that the high-end product will be much harder to sell to people who have less money. But what do I know, I never read any Economics courses.
Besides, I suspect it turns out that outsourcing was never that cheap after all, and created a lot more competitors to begin with. Surprisingly, technology transfer is usually required in order to have a permission to enter the business in outsourcing coutries. Having followed the actions in the countries where things are outsourced, I find it very disgusting to buy a product originating from those places. It has something to do with the ruthless actions by the upper management in those places that I cannot stand. On the other hand, I know that there are factories that use some 400 people (each controlling a single valve) in those countries when the same thing can be done here with 5 persons. And when you see that happening you automatically think "Oh, these people would be so sacked" at home.
More so, the people who have studied in Western countries and returned back to home also understand the value of money and may have higher salaries than their counterparts in USA or Europe! But even more so, while their education is at the same level, they have less (or not at all!) experience of actually manufacturing something. This is another reason why I think it won't be that cheap. But try to convince the management of that.
One part of this mess is also the general population in Western Countries. The more you see advertisements that promise easier way of life it is no wonder the easy way is preferred - and this also extends to upper management. How long do you accept that the management is raising their bonuses and giving you nothing? How many bad decisions are needed until the management is sacked? Currently, the management level people are not claiming their responsibility of failures, so this seems to be the only way. But have they ever done that, or is it only my imagination that the CEOs were sacked much more easily over stupid mistakes 20 years ago?
Ah, this is already ranting. My time to quit.
Mika
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I think WMC and Mustang hit the nail on the head there. I heard the reason why the dutch were the happiest people in the world was "low expectations".... although id suspect some other stuff too. ;7
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Just to mention, Scandinavian countries have exceptionally high suicide rates and the population density is very low here.
Mika
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Climate?
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real pain is when you have to go shovel dirt 6 days a week and are so tired when you get home that you dot feel like rummaging around your trailer looking for the asprin/vikadin/cocain.
i dont know what theese emo kids have to ***** about, what, a text limit on their cell phone. their girlfriend left? good riddance, thats why they invented the robosuck2000. what the **** is with the beatles haircut? is this hippie movement mk2? i know a guy who beat hippies with leaded nightsticks at the pentagon. now do you want to be the hippie, or the guy with a nightstick full of lead :D
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Real pain is when someone rips off your toenails, then takes a knife and slowly cuts off one of your feet. Then the other. Then they rip off your fingernails. then one of your hands, then the other, then your legs up to the knee, then your arms up to the elbow, then your arms and legs completely, then they take out your non vital organs (if you haven't bled to death yet), then they take a paper clip and repeatedly shove it in your eyes and ears, then they make these notches all along your body with a saw. After that, they take your torso and put it into a meat grinder, and then feed it to your children. raw. Then they take your intestines (which they cut out earlier) and strangle you, after they slit your throat. And this is all done in 150 degree weather.
Of course, I wouldn't know.
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Ah, no... if they did it to your kids / loved ones first, and made you watch, that'd be worse (for you).
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Ahh yes, how could I forget that? They would do that to everyone you know. Except the people you hate. They would be the one's doing it. And before they would do it to any females, they would rape them. THAT'S pain.
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ever consider a career in death metal?
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death metal is overrated
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indeed, thats why i listen to black metal.
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Only one out of sixty-three songs on my mp3 player has lyrics. [proud]
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Folk Metal beats both!
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sometimes