The Mixed Emotion Thread
- WobblyTable
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So my cousin committed suicide a few weeks ago.
It's been one huge mess for all my family members over here, except for me. It really didn't surprise me that much. He was always a really good, fun-loving guy, but recently he was very angry. He was angry that his marriage failed, angry that he didn't get full custody of his kids, and angry when he couldn't seem to get anything else working again. Plus he blamed everyone around him for everything that went wrong in his life rather than trying to sort things out on his own.
He was also acting much more erratically than usual, which included stealing his ex's car because he felt it should have been his.
When he did kill himself, everyone was shocked or angry or sad, but I wasn't. I was more relieved. I fully expected that he would commit murder-suicide on his ex-wife and kids, and was grateful that he didn't. Yes, I'm sad that he's died; he was a guy I really looked up to when I was a kid. But mostly I feel relief.
It's been one huge mess for all my family members over here, except for me. It really didn't surprise me that much. He was always a really good, fun-loving guy, but recently he was very angry. He was angry that his marriage failed, angry that he didn't get full custody of his kids, and angry when he couldn't seem to get anything else working again. Plus he blamed everyone around him for everything that went wrong in his life rather than trying to sort things out on his own.
He was also acting much more erratically than usual, which included stealing his ex's car because he felt it should have been his.
When he did kill himself, everyone was shocked or angry or sad, but I wasn't. I was more relieved. I fully expected that he would commit murder-suicide on his ex-wife and kids, and was grateful that he didn't. Yes, I'm sad that he's died; he was a guy I really looked up to when I was a kid. But mostly I feel relief.
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Alja-Markir wrote:Being an observer to war is painfully conflicting. America's current wars in particular are decidely so.
Remote viewing horrifies me in a way, and yet am I just to sit back and remain ignorant? Would it do any good to let these people die and not even mark and note the crimes against them? Cannot I not at least judge the killers amongst us, if not carry out a sentence?
The burden of knowledge is sometimes heavier than I think I can manage, yet I cannot bring myself to abandon the cargo.
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During the early stages of the civil war some families would go to battlefields and have picnics near them as they were going on so they could have some lunch and watch the north effortlessly murder the south so I guess what i'm saying is the civil war ruined a lot of picnics
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WobblyTable wrote:So my cousin committed suicide a few weeks ago.
Bugger.
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Oh dear...
The sib, (nine year old, innocent, naive etc,) has named one of her plush toy dogs "Biscuit". Fair enough. She's playing with him happily, imagining he's real... standard kid play stuff.
Then she decided the dog isn't heeling as he shoud, causing her to loudly proclaim:
"Come, Biscuit! Come, Biscuit!"
I am trying so hard not to laugh. I'm going to hell for this.
The sib, (nine year old, innocent, naive etc,) has named one of her plush toy dogs "Biscuit". Fair enough. She's playing with him happily, imagining he's real... standard kid play stuff.
Then she decided the dog isn't heeling as he shoud, causing her to loudly proclaim:
"Come, Biscuit! Come, Biscuit!"
I am trying so hard not to laugh. I'm going to hell for this.
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I'll see you there, as my mind immediately went here:
Urban Dictionary wrote:Cum Cookie:
When a group of males get together and all proceed to masturbate and ejaculate onto a cookie. The last person to ejaculate has to eat the cookie. Popular high school fraternity game.
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eeeexactly.
Remember, you americans, a biscuit, to us, is something you usually have with a cup of tea and covered in chocolate.
Remember, you americans, a biscuit, to us, is something you usually have with a cup of tea and covered in chocolate.
Yaxley wrote:I think life occasionally needs someone to ask "Okay, seriously guys. What the hell is going on?"
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Ha, tea.
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If "hot coffee" is anal then what is "hot tea"? Urophilia?
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Wouldn't it logically just mean vaginal intercourse?
Because tea and coffee are similar in the same was anal and vaginal sex are.
Because tea and coffee are similar in the same was anal and vaginal sex are.
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What the smeg are you guys on about?
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Mad Madam Mimm wrote:eeeexactly.
Remember, you Americans, a biscuit, to us, is something you usually have with a cup of tea and covered in chocolate.
Oh now, great now I'm thinking of chocolate hobnobs, but I does not have chocolate hobnobs. Curse you america for not having them. WANT HOBNOBS!
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That's weird, we can get Hobnobs from any grocery store here. I love 'em. But then, we were a colony until a later date...
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Well the local shops here, do not seem to have hobnobs I've gotten to the point that I may ask my mates to post me some.
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I've found that trolling far-right message boards is a ton of fun, but I can't shake the feeling that I'm adding to teh problem.
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Freerepublic?
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I've got a friend with whom I serially argue, and after every big argument we don't talk to one another for a while. Last summer it lasted the whole summer, and I think this time it's going to last even longer. It might even be permanent for all I know; he told me that it seemed there was a direct correlation between the amount he cared for me and the amount he got hurt.
Now, for pretty much every argument in the past I would end up apologizing just to get him to talk to me again because I am terrible with losing people. So... I miss him already. On the other hand, if this lasts I won't have to listen to him scold me for having a different morality than him (or not even really know what my morality is at this point), listen to him state opinion as fact, and malign my friends to me and call it "protecting" me.
But... when he's not being an ass he's a great friend, and I miss him a lot.
Now, for pretty much every argument in the past I would end up apologizing just to get him to talk to me again because I am terrible with losing people. So... I miss him already. On the other hand, if this lasts I won't have to listen to him scold me for having a different morality than him (or not even really know what my morality is at this point), listen to him state opinion as fact, and malign my friends to me and call it "protecting" me.
But... when he's not being an ass he's a great friend, and I miss him a lot.
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Theremin wrote:Stormfront.
that was my second guess. Freep has some incredibly thinly veiled racism but Stormfront is a lot more up front about it.
I know a lot about racist internet forums apparently
e; but yeah every troll p much reinforces their beliefs vOv
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That's my fear, but will not trolling them do anything positive?
Very few people actually change and update their beliefs, even if you've got contradictory evidence in front of you.
A complete face-turn, (in this case I'd call it a recovery) is almost as unlikely as seeing a nine-legged mastubating transsexual unicorn.
Whatever opinion-based fallacies you grow up with tend to stick with you.
Very few people actually change and update their beliefs, even if you've got contradictory evidence in front of you.
A complete face-turn, (in this case I'd call it a recovery) is almost as unlikely as seeing a nine-legged mastubating transsexual unicorn.
Whatever opinion-based fallacies you grow up with tend to stick with you.
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When I was in the escapist politics forum, I always had a feeling that I was trolling due to the fact that I would post articles as is. It's SOP at several other forums. Opening comments are not nessasary, the conversation should develop anyways. Part of the reason your posting the article is because it expresses what you wanted to say in better terms than you could.
Nonetheless, the response...
Nonetheless, the response...
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Theremin wrote:That's my fear, but will not trolling them do anything positive?
Very few people actually change and update their beliefs, even if you've got contradictory evidence in front of you.
A complete face-turn, (in this case I'd call it a recovery) is almost as unlikely as seeing a nine-legged mastubating transsexual unicorn.
Whatever opinion-based fallacies you grow up with tend to stick with you.
I dunno. I had been a pretty crazy liberal in middle school and early high school. After spending a year in a forum where I repeatedly had the tar kicked out of me by far more experienced (though not always much older) users, my beliefs took a 180... well, more like a 90. It also helped that while in one thread I was being debated into the ground, in the other we could cheerfully discuss FMA and Zelda.
But in those cases, given how extreme they are, and how ingrained those beliefs are, a few encounters on the internet are not going to do anything.
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Were your parents liberal or conservative, out of interest?
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Whatever their politics were (I suspect liberal, to the extent that they thought about it), they never really said anything to me.
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