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Originally posted by Yoepus ahh you mean those life stories. Yea, those were really uplifting eh good joke, but did you hear the one why God gave the Jews the Ten Commandments? God first went to the Egyptians and asked them if they would like a commandment. "What's a commandment?" they asked. "Well, it's like, THOU SHALT NOT COMMIT ADULTERY," replied God. The Egyptians thought about it and then said, "No way. That would ruin our weekends." So then God went to the Syrians and asked them if they would like a commandment. They also asked, "What's a commandment?" "Well," said God, "it's like, THOU SHALT NOT STEAL." The Syrians immediately replied, "No way. That would ruin our economy." So finally God went to the Jews and asked them if they wanted a commandment. They asked, "How much?" God said, "They're free." The Jews said, "OK. We'll take ten!"

Don't like to nit-pick but surely at that time it woud have been the Assyrians?

Anyway I'm surprised you didn't come out with the classic Israeli (crap) joke and ask us why Moses spent 40 years wandering the desert! Come on I'll let you give us the punch line!

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Originally posted by squirrelly That was the funniest thing I've read in a long time!

Yeah, now that I look back it is funny. But it's not so funny when the Baboon is threatening you with a hand grenade. Well, actually, it is, but it's both funny and scary at the same time.

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Originally posted by Yoepus ahh you mean those life stories. Yea, those were really uplifting eh good joke, but did you hear the one why God gave the Jews the Ten Commandments? God first went to the Egyptians and asked them if they would like a commandment. "What's a commandment?" they asked. "Well, it's like, THOU SHALT NOT COMMIT ADULTERY," replied God. The Egyptians thought about it and then said, "No way. That would ruin our weekends." So then God went to the Syrians and asked them if they would like a commandment. They also asked, "What's a commandment?" "Well," said God, "it's like, THOU SHALT NOT STEAL." The Syrians immediately replied, "No way. That would ruin our economy." So finally God went to the Jews and asked them if they wanted a commandment. They asked, "How much?" God said, "They're free." The Jews said, "OK. We'll take ten!"

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Originally posted by DrUg_Tit0 Yeah, now that I look back it is funny. But it's not so funny when the Baboon is threatening you with a hand grenade. Well, actually, it is, but it's both funny and scary at the same time.

Nope, not scared, just laughing

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Originally posted by occrider Well since the drama is flowing right now, I might as well add to it. I'm so fucking pissed because I ended up sleeping with my ex last night.

Not that I want to seem as though I'm trying to make this into a competition or anything, but substitute "ex" for "female friend" and "last night" for "three times last year" and you might be able to guage the predicament I got myself into late 2004. The problem was that this friend of mine "liked" me a lot more than I "liked" her and - with my propensity towards lechery in certain states - I caved in more often (i.e. 3 times more often) than I should have. The first two times nothing overtly sexual happened, but the third time it did and I can now tell you right now that if you want to fuck up a friendship with a female, try sleeping with them and then explaining later-on that you only did what you did because you were too fucked-up to properly know what you were doing. Six months later and she's still largely ignoring me everytime I see her out (we often still go to the same events, which makes things especially awkward)...

Now I wouldn't feel so bad, but she's had a hard family life and (even though she's never really discussed it directly) I get the feeling that she's prone towards depression as well. I'll be damned if I didn't wake up the next morning with a shocking comedown and a feeling of guilt that's never really quite left me. Still, without wanting to sound like a dick, I learnt a lesson or two from that and I can tell you, fairly certainly, that I'm not going to be doing anything like that ever, ever again...

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Eh I know what you're all thinking, look at me, I'm whining about getting laid ... boofuckinghoo. But I think at the same time that some people here can understand what I'm saying because you all seem to have value systems that you try to adhere to ... you're not willing to stoop to the lowest common denominator in order to maximize personal gain, otherwise you would all be spamming the COR, sucking up to everything with a vagina like a lot of the tools do.

There's nothing wrong with sleeping with someone (on any sort of level), so long as it's consensual and so long as both parties are fully aware of the circumstances. Values be damned: if you both had a good time and no major drama is likely to come from it, you can hardly say you did the wrong thing.

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Originally posted by DrUg_Tit0 Yeah, now that I look back it is funny. But it's not so funny when the Baboon is threatening you with a hand grenade. Well, actually, it is, but it's both funny and scary at the same time.

In all seriousness, if I could choose my mode of death, "death by baboon grenading" would have to be pretty high up there. It'd make for a hell of an epitaph at least...

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Originally posted by trancaholic Taking the debate here because your mammoth post would stand out embarrasingly in the one-liner thread, huh?

Haha, that obvious, was it?

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Anyway, crying as in "having a lump in one's throat and burning eyes" I experience on a fairly regular basis. When I read good books or see good movies, I cannot help absorbing myself completely in the narrative, and laugh out loud and get the crying feeling as the story calls for it.

Apart from "The First Man", as I mentioned above, I've never really been able to find myself emotionally involved in novels. I can remember getting the "lump in [my] throat and burning eyes" during movies, although I can't remember any specifically atm. ET gave me nightmares for about 3 months when I saw it when I was about 5 though - does that count?

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Furthermore, I can't stand funerals, as I usually get the crying feeling when I see how deeply affected those bereft of their life's partner are. That really tears at me, even though I never feel any particular sadness on my own behalf for having lost someone I liked.

I know exactly what you mean. I've never felt any sorrow about anyone close to me that I've lost (although, apart from my grandparents, I've been lucky enough not to be in this situation too often) but seeing the misery of others - without wanting to sound sound like a bleeding-heart liberal - really does get to me against my better judgement sometimes.

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So, we (my friend and I) was discussing some existential matters, as we often do when we drink casually.

Yep sounds like me after about 10 beers...

(Only difference is no-one's actually willing to listen to me by that stage. )

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At some point during the conversation I came to think of my co-worker and how he constituted yet another great proof of the lack of an omnipotent good God, and everything just seemed to click into some flawless mosaic, where I got this feeling of realization of how empty, unfair, and horrorfull this world is. Of course I was intellectually aware of this fact beforehand, but I didn't really get it until that moment. I then stopped talking and tears rolled silently down my cheeks. My friend immediately got upset and started crying himself, because he thought that there was something very wrong that I kept hidden from him, which immediately caused me to feel even worse. So it was a great night.

Sorry, I couldn't help but crack a smile at that story. It's actually quite beautiful in it's own sort of way.

In all seriousness, though, I do understand the feeling you must have felt, but it's a feeling I've trained myself - if, indeed, one can ever train one's own emotions - to avoid over the past couple of years. I read in what must have been Nietzsche's "Anti-Christ" (can't remember precisely and can't be bothered looking it up ) about pity being the most vile of human emotions, and I couldn't help but agree with him. If you encounter someone who is clearly encountering certain hardships, you can feel pretty certain that the last thing they want to feel is "pitied". To feel pity is, afterall, to condescend to someone and to feel condescended to, on top of all the other hardships they are facing, must feel pretty damn shitty. That is why, even when I encounter someone facing fairly evident hardships - like someone begging for change on the streets, for instance (pretty common in Melbourne, btw ) - I try to greet them with a smile rather than an sympathetic frown. Afterall, people feeling sorry for themselves would much rather sense of hope, I would think, than pity, regardless of how sincerely the sense of pity is intended.

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Oh, about your father experience: It's been a while since I read my "Introduction to Psychology", but I think that it's quite a common development for boys to grow angry at their father at a young age, and not really restoring a healthy relationship until they grow of age. And then, with the realization that they have been relatively cold to their father, they are hit with a feeling of remorse. Just something to carry with you till you get your own kid.

I think it's what Freud described as the Oedipus complex - that is, all boys necessarily feel a degree of antipathy towards their fathers because they have a latent desire to have sexual relations their mothers. While I'm not so sure about the sexual emphasis he places on this theory (I'll let the rest of you decide for yourselves ) or, indeed, all his other theories (I get the feeling that he was the one in need of psychoanalysis for his obsession with sex), I think it does ring true that most boys, at one stage or another, feel antipathy towards their fathers. At least, this seems to be the case amongst most of the friends that I've discussed this with...

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Originally posted by George Smiley Or better yet, check out this website! I dont think there has ever been a website so jam packed full of cool things to do! Brilliant!

thats yours isnt it yoepus? some pretty fancy flash skills there

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Originally posted by trancaholic How did you get out of your predicament?

To make a long story short: Pills.
Although it clearly hurt my pride not to have solved it on my own. But the shrink only made it worse by actually letting me speak out my bullshit theories and agrreing to actually LISTEN to what I had to say, thereby signalizing a sort of a legitimation of my feelings. By trying to analyze and "win somethoung" out of my thoughts he definitely motivated me which let it totally escalate since all I did was running in circles, only faster and faster.

It was the psychiatrist that, after listening to my "smpytomes" for 3 minutes harshly interrupted me by saying: " Been there, done that. You're not unique, you didn't revolutionize the world of philosophy, you didnt reach enlightenment, nor did you discover another world. You're a bit ill, not more, not less. It's like breaking a leg. Thinking about how you broke it, anaylzing the exact procedure and so on won't change anything. What you need is fix that mental leg, and then, at some point in the far future, if you're ready, sit down and ponder about the mental background for this crisis. But not now, it's a dead zone".

And he was right.

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Originally posted by DrUg_Tit0 It's a long story, although kinda funny in an obscure way. Let's just say it involves hand grenades, large sums of money, sex with cousins, and a guy whose last name was Baboon. And no, I'm not joking here

Seriously one of the funniest things I've read here in a long time. That's actually sig-material.
Something the narrator of a fucked up Guy Ritchie film would say

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is it only me that see the tragic in that?

but yeah, sounds like a hollywood movie

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Originally posted by St_Andrew is it only me that see the tragic in that?

Yeah, it looks like nobody here has any understanding for that dramatic period of my life..it's the guy's last name's fault, I guess...

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but yeah, sounds like a hollywood movie

Now that you say it, I might write a script about it, it has a pretty interesting storyline. Unfortunately people wouldn't realize that it's based on a true story, they'd probably think that I'm a bizarre fiction writing weirdo with some serious sexuality issues having come up with a story like that.

Hehe, that yoedian.com thing still exists? It looks the same as the last time I clicked to view that some 2 years ago.

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