Author Topic: What do you do when everything crashes around you?  (Read 7143 times)

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Offline Styxx

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Re: What do you do when everything crashes around
To those here who think willpower can solve all your problems:

Supposing someone stuck a red-hot poker up your behinds. You don't have to scream. I'm quite certain there are people out there who have enough willpower not to scream in such a situation.

Do you :)?

I'd have hit him upside the head way before he had a chance to do that. :p
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Offline Manunkind

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Re: What do you do when everything crashes around
To those here who think willpower can solve all your problems:

Supposing someone stuck a red-hot poker up your behinds. You don't have to scream. I'm quite certain there are people out there who have enough willpower not to scream in such a situation.

Do you :)?

I'd have hit him upside the head way before he had a chance to do that. :p

Usually it's not 'him' but 'them' :p

Just to follow up on my previous point - some here say that commiting/not commiting suicide is a moral choice. But every second of one's life is a moral choice. And I really don't mean to dis anyone's work here but modding Freespace 2 instead of doing community work, for example, is an (im)moral choice as well. So why do so many of us keep choosing the easy way out (which actually isn't a way out at all)? Can't we take the more difficult, but better choice? Can't we take it anymore? Have we succumbed to pain? Have we succumbed to pleasure? It's only a question of willpower, after all...

We're being tested all the time. Have we passed each test? If not, then what have we done about the part of us that brought about our failure? Has calling ourselves 'pussies' helped (pussies according to whose standard)? Has calling ourselves 'bad mofos' helped (bad mofos according to whose standard)? Has justifying ourselves helped? Maybe someone can answer 'yes' to at least one of these questions. The original matter of this thread is a little dated, I admit, but maybe the answer can still prove helpful :)?


  

Offline achtung

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Re: What do you do when everything crashes around
IMO debate teams should come here and practice with you guys.  Although they might never win.:p
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Offline kode

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Re: What do you do when everything crashes around you?
IMO debate teams should come here and practice with you guys.  Although they might never win.:p

arguments are never about winning.
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Offline aldo_14

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Re: What do you do when everything crashes around
Arguements are about the spectators.

 

Offline achtung

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Re: What do you do when everything crashes around
Arguements are about the spectators.
:nod:
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Offline Manunkind

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Re: What do you do when everything crashes around you?
Apologies if my previous posts came across as pretentious, I hope this one won't.

Just one more thing - I'm vying for some consistency, fairness and self-honesty here. Let's not apply double standards. If we call others names for their failures, we should call ourselves the same names for our failures, too. Ditto with any self-congratulating or self-justifying. But let's also be honest to ourselves and if any of these reactions don't work the way we intended them to, let's change them both with regard to ourselves and other people :).