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 Posted: Thu Aug 04, 2005 6:39 am
This thread i figure can be the ever changing topic thread. Where the topic changes occording to events or experiences that effect my own personal thought.
Alot of ED threads die out because the topic is explore and then repeted and they go on and on and on and on and on.....
So I figure if this thread dies my theory is wrong.
The topic may change without any warning, so get your opinions in quick.
Like I said this is a thread about topics on my mind, so please don't be crule to me, because like everyone else I think of myself only sometimes.
I think alot of my thoughts are a cross between philsophy and physchology, because I feel they are mostly the same thing, so some of my topics might follow something along thoses lines.
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Posted: Thu Aug 04, 2005 6:43 am
Hey all sorry about not being very good with this thread,
I'm in the middle on my final year of high school and so things are a little hetic, but today i had a revelation, and so I'm announcing I'm FINALLY changing the topic!
Curent Topic: In philosophy today we started our study of Christianity. As usall, we got off topic and began talking about our personal beliefs. I don't believe in a God, but i believe in karma and that everything happend for a reason, as for the reast, I'm still working on it. During my thoughts, i reached something i believe to very profound. I relized that i could just die and that's it. I know this sounds very simple, but i got such a sudden sugre of emptness in my chest, it actually physicaly hurt. It was the realizatation that this could be it. The emptness filled me for some time and consumed my entire being, however once this strong feeling of emptyness left me, I felt better, but i still understand how profound it felt. Iris Murdock said that humans are covered by a veil which protects us from the harshness of the world (if i remember correctly) Today i think I'm somewhat pierced that veil and as exciting as it felt, it was also so terribly scary. I think that the fact that i don't feel such emptness anymore is due to this veil. but i have the memory of it, but somehow it seems less important. I think this is the way philosophy and the world works, as soon as you reach something so profound and scary like i did you mind stops you from feeling this way. It's almost a terrible game. Has anybody else experienced something like this? Or has something to say? Please do.
Past Topics I know (not that one can turly know anything, but for the purpose of this topic, we'll over look that for now) that I handle things alot better mentaly then most my friends. And I find myself getting inpacient with them for etting so worked up over somethings. I tell them and myself that pretty much everything that has and will happened to us over the next few years is just part of being a teenager and that it's not the end of the world. I just find it so hard to understand how one person can take something so well, while another simialar persons dosen't at all. Is it that simpily my outlook is brighter then theirs and if so, they can ajust theirs and not get so worked up since that's what they want.
Just talk about this, I'm not nessarly looking for any answer, just to know I'm not alone, in thinking something like this.
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Posted: Thu Aug 04, 2005 6:44 am
Past Topics
Mental capilities and why ect.
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Posted: Thu Aug 04, 2005 10:58 am
M.C Curent Topic: I know (not that one can turly know anything, but for the purpose of this topic, we'll over look that for now) that I handle things alot better mentaly then most my friends. And I find myself getting inpacient with them for etting so worked up over somethings. I tell them and myself that pretty much everything that has and will happened to us over the next few years is just part of being a teenager and that it's not the end of the world. I just find it so hard to understand how one person can take something so well, while another simialar persons dosen't at all. Is it that simpily my outlook is brighter then theirs and if so, they can ajust theirs and not get so worked up since that's what they want. Just talk about this, I'm not nessarly looking for any answer, just to know I'm not alone, in thinking something like this. Well....I suppose I can agree with that. I may have to dissociate myself from my old group of friends, partially because I've been getting threats from some of them, but mostly because they're filled with drama, thus the threats. Plus, I take everything in stride, and where people get nervous, or snap under pressure, all I do is look and laugh.
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Posted: Fri Aug 05, 2005 6:55 am
People are wired differently. Sometimes the same person is wired differently (don't ask, I'm not even sure exactly how it works, but it does).
But yeah, I've experienced it as well. Example: One of my friends stopped eating. I flipped where as the rest of them just tried to encourage her to start back up again.
There have been other times that one of my friends has flipped over something, whilst I barely noticed it had occured. So I guess, all in all, it's all about how you look at it.
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Posted: Mon Aug 08, 2005 12:38 pm
I think that how you look at things also depends on your life's experiences. I mean that maybe you would understand certain things more, like, lets say your friend's parents are getting divorces, and your parents have gotten divorced before, so you know more about what it's like, whereas your OTHER friend's parents have not. So, maybe your reaction and your OTHER friend's reaction to the issue might be different.
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Posted: Mon Aug 08, 2005 12:53 pm
RawMaterial I think that how you look at things also depends on your life's experiences. I mean that maybe you would understand certain things more, like, lets say your friend's parents are getting divorces, and your parents have gotten divorced before, so you know more about what it's like, whereas your OTHER friend's parents have not. So, maybe your reaction and your OTHER friend's reaction to the issue might be different. i agree with you on this one. Its all about what youve experienced in your life that determines your outlook on things in life. I personally have been through the example you gave, the whole parents getting divorced, and when i hear it from some of my friends that their parents are getting divorced, i tell them ways to help cope with it. several people i know were raised quite differently than me, allways being looked after, allways getting what they want, so when they hit the teen years, they get all rapped up in it saying "My life is horrible" or "why me?" and those sort of comments. Me, i i was faced with the same things like not being able to get a bike or whatever, i don't pout. I figure out ways of getting one, like getting a job. I put my mind to it rather than relying on hope. Seeing this, i do think it all depends on life eperiences that determines how you may look upon life.
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Posted: Mon Aug 08, 2005 3:19 pm
insanekiba RawMaterial I think that how you look at things also depends on your life's experiences. I mean that maybe you would understand certain things more, like, lets say your friend's parents are getting divorces, and your parents have gotten divorced before, so you know more about what it's like, whereas your OTHER friend's parents have not. So, maybe your reaction and your OTHER friend's reaction to the issue might be different. i agree with you on this one. Its all about what youve experienced in your life that determines your outlook on things in life. I personally have been through the example you gave, the whole parents getting divorced, and when i hear it from some of my friends that their parents are getting divorced, i tell them ways to help cope with it. several people i know were raised quite differently than me, allways being looked after, allways getting what they want, so when they hit the teen years, they get all rapped up in it saying "My life is horrible" or "why me?" and those sort of comments. Me, i i was faced with the same things like not being able to get a bike or whatever, i don't pout. I figure out ways of getting one, like getting a job. I put my mind to it rather than relying on hope. Seeing this, i do think it all depends on life eperiences that determines how you may look upon life. Not just life experiences, but maturity can have a role to play. When I was living a sheltered life, I thought it sucked. I thought I had a crappy existence, that at the time I could not wait to end. Now, I've been homeless for five months, living in a shelter, and I'm actually happy with who I am right now. Because then, I was a child, not knowing how good I had it, and hating everything because of it. Now, I'm a man, and I know what I need and how to get it.
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Posted: Fri Sep 30, 2005 2:12 pm
Cougar~
Freedom definitely plays a huge roll in happiness, doesn't it? I had almost the exact same experience as you described. Hated my childhood/teen years, even though I was so sheltered from reality. Then I was homeless for 6 months in which time I was happier than ever. But, my outlook on society went through some major changes. When I was homeless, I had a great anger and disgust for anyone with money b/c as a society, we waste our money on the stupidest things.... while there's people out there who are homeless, jobless and hungry. But as my economic position got better, so did my outlook. I mean, nobody can really help you... you must help yourself. You can ask for handouts, and that will get you by in the short term - but long term? Well... reminds me of that saying:
You can either give a man a fish and feed him for a day, or teach him how to fish and he can feed himself for a lifetime.
Anyways, my old perceptions are still floating in the background. I do hate myself a bit for having money and wasting it on such stupid things. And I can't say I'm happier now than I was when I was homeless. Probably more depressed now, because I have responsibilities. I want my freedom back! ha ha... But I want to keep my worldly possessions and lifestyle too. If only I could HAVE my cake and EAT it too. Although I hate that saying. Cuz obviously you HAVE your cake WHILE you're eating it. But afterwords you have nothing. You don't have cake and you aren't eating it, either. xd
*spins in circles*
Wheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!
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