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I wouldn't die for soemone I love. I don't have a "Special Someone" 'cause no one else gives a ********. People always bring to mind stereotypes, and I refuse to let that happen to me. I've had enough bullshit about acting like others. People think that if you're not ******** perfect, you don't belong. Besides, I don't let people get close enough to love.


Plus my porno mags are all I need. xd

No..I dont care..this topic is ghae.. stare

Tei has no one "special" so he is to cold and bitter to care

I have all ready placed my opinion. I would not die for the one I love. I would either have us both live or us both die. ...Well, it would be up to him on whether he wished to die or not. I do not force anyone to do anything...well most of the time that is... sweatdrop
But yes, stereotypes are quite annoying.
"You're not gay! You aren't all feminine!" I seriously hate that one. It was very funny when a blonde b***h said it. ...Boy did I have fun.
"Hmm, since you like stereotypes then this one must be true as well... You are a blonde which means that you are a whore. You give out to anyone that will give a glance. You get down on your knees and blow any guy that you can. You could suck a bowling ball through a garden hose. And I am speaking the truth since you, my dumb blonde b***h, believe that all stereotypes are truthful."
...I get mean at times.
...And I gotta go now. Bye bye~

I was told by an annoying b***h, "You're bi. You blaspheme the natural order and shold just kill yourself." >_< I told her, "Isn't one of the Ten commandments, 'Thou shall not kill'? That includes suicide, and inciting suicide." I was left alone. *Continues to rant about stereotypes, including the word, ********, several times*

I'll reply when i find someone that i actually care that deeply for ... but humans are really pissing me off lately biggrin this could be a while razz and if i had to choose... id pull them close to me and be like at least we will die together >> even if we dont have to... but then id technically be a murderer.... hrm...~

With the recent sky-rocket in people coming out and such, many would think that it is becoming quite the trend. But is it really just that? Is it really just as easy as looking in a magazine and picking out the "most fab" shirt to just say "Hey, I'm gay!" or "Hi, I'm bi!"? Doubtful. Now, yes there are more people coming out, but that is only because it is a more accepted thing in today's society. It is no longer that you will be lynched or something along those lines to be gay. But it is still considered to be a freakish thing to be gay or bi to some people.
Now, in my opinion it is not so much of a trend, as it is a bunch of little bitches trying to get more attention. Little attention whoring bastards.
"Look! That girl has facial hair and muscles bigger than the football team!" Everyone will look at her and she will be the center of attention for quite a while. She is a lesbian by the way. But ya know what? She was not put up to not shaving. She was not made to work out that much, or in some cases just a bit with some football teams xd .
"That boy is wearing such frilly, light coloured clothes!"
Again, everyone will look at him and he will be the center of attention. He is gay by the way. Guess what though? No one put him up to wearing those clothes. He did it for the sheer reason of gaining attention.
Gay pride parades: Attention whores. You do not necessarily have to yell it and have damned parades about it just to make it clear that you are gay. Hey, maybe I should go get tattoos all over my body that say that I am gay and damn proud of it! razz stare No. Just say what you are, you can yell it the first time if you wish, and then shut your damn mouth about it. You don't have to go all over national television. But the attention whoring little bitches like their fifteen minutes of fame. And what comes after it? They get to be ridiculed by everyone who does not support them. Now doesn't that just sound like tons of fun? To me: ******** no. I told people, I clarify my positions on things, but I do not feel like just yelling it out and being a damn freak. That is probably also why people consider gays to be freaks, they act like god damned freaks. Why should you be so insulted by someone calling you a freak when you act like one on TV and by having all these ******** up in the head parades? You shouldn't. Now, bisexuality was also in this, it just isn't as common. So, I couldn't really talk on that one as much. But when I research it further, I will have information on that as well.
Now what are your insights to this topic? Do you believe my arguments? Or do you have some of your own on the topic of it being a trend?

Well, that's where I can help. ^_^ I agree with Tseta on the whole, "I'm gay/bi, give me respect and attention!" Sorry buddy, that don't work. There are some cases where you feel you cna trust someone to tell them that. Personally, I believe that, yes, while it is your choice to tell, you shouldn't have to yell it across the nation. As for bisexuality, there aren't many big parades and s**t for that. Most people think that you should just be comfortable how you are, you shouldn't have to make a huge-a** to-do about it. I don't, and I don't think others should. If you trust someone enough, yes, you probably should tell them, but only if you trust them not to ditch you, and treat you like a freak.(Even though some of us are. *Points at self*) But those are just my opinions.

Jimmy is a good little boy. He was taught that honesty is the law of God. He was taught that everyone should tell the truth no matter what. And he did just that. He saw a rather large lady in the supermarket once, and his mother said when that lady cut in front of her, "You stupid fat b***h," under her breath. Jimmy went up to the lady when his mother wasn't around and told her, "My mommy called you a stupid fat b***h." The lady asked Jimmy who his mother was. Jimmy pointed to his mother who was in the checkout line. His mother ended up getting a rather large purse upside her head.
When Jimmy grew up, he was honest with his boss' wife. Jimmy went over to a dinner party with his boss' family. His boss' wife served the mashed potatoes and there went Jimmy's honest mouth. "I see why Mr. Kyle likes to have sex with the secretary now. You really are butt ugly. I wonder why he ever married you in the first place?" The wife ended up divorcing the boss, and Jimmy ended up getting fired from his job.

In another part of the world, Amy was a very bad girl. She was a liar to the core. She would tell people to do things that were never called upon them to do. She told one person to take a left to get to a shopping center on a highway, instead of taking a right. That person had asked, "But isn't that a construction zone?" She simply said that it only looked that way because the shopping center didn't want people at that time. They were the ones that set up those cones and everything. The person drove left and went off an unfinished bridge, crashing into the rushing ice cold river below. He died from hypothermia.
Later in life, Amy was working as a lawyer. She told her client that all he had to do was plead guilty, and he would have a smaller sentence than drawing it all out. She also said that he would have a better life. He plead guilty and spent four years in jail. After he got out, he learned that the evidence against him ended up being false. He got a group of people together, found Amy's house, and beat and raped her. Then he took a knife and slit her throat.

But which is actually better: Honesty or Dishonesty?
Is it benefiting to lie at every chance you get?
Or would it be better to tell the truth in every single situation?
Is there such thing as someone that is entirely truthful in this world?
Would it be healthier if the two were just taught that honesty is good but too much is bad for your health? The same for dishonesty?

FIrstly..I wish to bring up the point of Amy's dear frined who spent four years in jail. Was it not better, even if his evidence wa proven to be false, that he only spent four years instead of the life sentenceing he is now going to spend on charges of rape, battery, and man slaughter ? If anything, Amy helped this man in a life lesson. You do somehting bad, you go to jail, you do good, you get out....even if you went to jail for th wrong reason..hell, I know at least 16 people who have been imprisioned, and either later found out their evidence was fake, or the true criminal was found out or trned himself in...that in no way made them feel they had to go out, beat, rape and murder someone just to get justification.



on to the next little tid bit.

Which is better?

A life of Honesty?
Or a life of Dishonesty?


Personally..neither fo them are better. Life can not be pleasant, without a varying mixture of both lies and honesty.

You can go your whole life never telling a lie, and vice versa, but you will never achive anything. by telling the honest brutal truth you run the risk of hurting people, and pushing them away from you, and you live the rest of your life as a sad depressed person...oh sure, you are honest, but that means absolutley nothing once you are getting ready to die and realize you have no friends.

You can also go your whole life never telling the truth, and that also will never acheive anything. Making a lie out of everything leads people to beleive you to be untrustworthy and it is true. you will live life as a bitter closed off habitual liar. never letting anyone close enough to break your sheilds and let them see the true nature inside you, and I doubt if you will even life to die of old age. as with Amy, you wil either be Murdered due toa lie you told, or you will Commit susicide becasue you have no frineds and no one ever beleives you. either way, you lose.

Now, this brings me to the last little bit of explanation. A mixture of both Honesty and dishonesty

this has got to be not only he mos unhealthy lifestyle to lead, but also the easiest and healthiest at the same time.

there is physically nor mentally any way to survive in the world wihout being truthfull and decitfull at verying times in your life. Sure, you may want to be a good person, but the Human err wont ever let you do that. When you feel good about somehting, you have no problem being truthfull with those around you. but when somehting feels bad or even at times embarrassing a quick lie, or even an elaborate one to cover your tracks, can help you avoid uneasy conversation, or even penalty




ok..I could have gone into alot better description for each fo tehse pints I brought up..but again..I am in alot of pain..Im still trying to cope with it.

I hope some of it makes sense to you all.

You need some mixture of the two, or else, as Tei siad, you will most likely eat pie, and pie alone. But that's just my thought.


Tei was here

Why tell you? ^_~

Ah, an interesting topic... I will answer these questions in the present, not how I have felt in the past, as I have changed as an individual ONCE. I've been on Mission Trips and a bunch of other things that were quoted as "life changing experiences," but only one thing has changed me- that being the wonderful guy you all know who started this thread.

But let's see here...

Is there someone important to you, and that is why?
Yes, that is why. Mikey is why. Mikey is always why. Okay, maybe I have my own selfish intentions now and again, but they all have to do with Mikey. If Mikey is happy, I am happy. It is therefore good to keep the Mikey happy!

Do you just want to be better than the rest?
Sure, why not? ^_^
On this subject though, you'll probably all be nodding your heads and saying 'that figures.' I feel that I am better than others. I believe I was told that I had a superiority complex? Ding, ding, ding, ding! Correct. I won't deny it, as it would be utterly stupid to do so. I've been taught I was better ever since I was little, and because of it, I've really tried to live up to it. I'm an overachiever who likes to flaunt it, or what have you. I use it as back-up. Someone can't tell you you're stupid when you've got years of straight A's backing you up. Also, someone can't tell you you haven't gotten any experience when you've gone to Peru or spent hours upon hours painting your house or putting up a fence.
But as for if it's 'just' all I want, no. I want a happy life with Michael. Sure, having a mansion hermitted out in the woods with pizza delivery and a indoor heated pool would be nice. So would being the world's most read author, whom everyone wants an autograph from. Doesn't everyone want to be better than the rest? But if they all were, well, they wouldn't be!

Why do you do the things you do?
A good question. What sort of things? I guess the things that I do! But what do I do? Homework, chores, Gaia, Mikey (O.O), writing... Some are easy to answer. I do homework and chores 'cause it needs to get done. There's the benefits of education for the homework, and benefits of payment for the chores. Gaia is/was a way to express myself and see if anyone out there in the world cared (they really didn't but fishing is fun). Mikey... well, he's mine. There's no greater thing in the world than Mikey, so doing anything with him is always better than doing it without him. In his very own words he told me over the phone: "I was playing videogames... but they just weren't as much fun without you nagging me for attention!" Plus he makes a great friend, and a stress reliever... Writing I've always done because it kinda makes me happy. Again, it is freedom of expression, and it allows me to dive into my own little world and ignore the rest of the world (obviously, I did a lot more writing when I didn't have my Mikey). I'd like to be able to influence people with some of my writings too.

Why the way you do them?
I suppose this relates more to my personality, huh? In other words, why am I so damned stubborn? Because I am. I've been bred that way, and while I could leave it at that and 'pass the buck' I won't because if I really wanted to, I could act much differently- and have in certain circumstances in the past.
Cheerful isn't my thing. I'm much more likely to be on some pessimistic bent trying to get my way. I won't necessarily act unpleasant, 'cause that doesn't get anyone anywhere usually, unless you're just asking for a cookie or two... But I might b***h, moan, and complain in a way that doesn't seem like bitching, moaning, or complaining! Why? One, it feels good to get it out and have someone agreeing with you. Two, something might get done if you can get someone on your side thinking 'gee, she's right.' Three, if I believe it to be so, even if you don't, you will know that I believe it to be so!
An interesting thing about me is the fact that: If I want you to know there's a reason. Somehow if I tell you something, that's going to relate to something else, bigger, better, fixed, or relieved... just something! I'm not a blathering fool who's mouth runs rampantly, though sometimes it may seem that way to the other's who are like 'hey what the hell?' Take, for instance, the recent occurence in the OOC. At first, I made the joking comment of "Aw, Tei I was really looking forward to your response!" Obviously, that didn't work, so I went for a more extreme methodology. I used what I knew from the guild against the guild. Why? Because I thought it was unfair that I had been threatened with bannination if I didn't post, and others could get away with it. And I wanted you all to know I felt that way because I didn't want to see if happen more/again to others or myself.
In a lot of ways, I am outspoken. But that's not stopping me.

Why do each of you press on, and live?
Because I know there's life ahead. If I gave up now, well... where would I be? Besides that, I've got a bright future ahead of me (10 months ago it looked much bleaker than it does now). I know what I want, so I'm gonna try and go for it. Sometimes I'd really really REALLY rather not go on, but what choice do I have? None at all. I'm not in control. I am, but what the moment gives us to deal with, we have to deal with in our own way. I've cried a lot and will cry a lot more, but in the end, I will see what it is at the end, and I will see it with my Michael.
Before I met Michael, I just put my life in the hands of God. No, that doesn't mean I didn't do anything, and I really didn't do a whole lot of praying. I might have prayed once a week at the most on my own violation. I figured if I kept doing what I thought was right, kept saying what I thought was right, and living, everything would be okay. Turns out it worked out perfectly. I prayed one night: "God, just give me a boyfriend, and I'll be happy." And voila! Insta-boyfriend. Upgrades to insta-fiance, soon to be upgraded to insta-husbie. Seems like the world has worked out to me! Now I pray maybe once a month, more likely once every two or three months, praying simply in thanks, or to help Mikey get over his cold. Michael has been all I've needed since I got him, and he is really the reason I still press forward. Because of him and for him. He needs me and I need him; we'll go forward together.

Why don't you give in? Why? What are your reasons? Why are those reasons enough? Why.
I don't give in 'cause I can't. My reasons are pretty much all stated above. And those reasons are enough because I make them enough. That's why.

There we go. Don't know who will go through the effort to read all of this besides Forlani, but you never know. By the way, pretty lover boy of mine, what was the inspiration for this thread? And you better answer the questions yourself as well!

I've been informed that I am to respond to my own questions... so here goes...

Why do you do the things you do?

I really don't know the why of what I do... I have a keen lack of foresight... which tends to get me in trouble quite often. Much of what I have done has, in hindsight, gone really well with whatever I happen to do next.

Why the way you do them?

I do things the way they make the most sense to do! Most sense to me, at least... I usually do things in a very odd and difficult manner... not quite sure why... but it usually works!

Why do you press on, and live?

I go on, because it is what I do. It is by far one of the things I am best at, pushing forward. s**t happens, and I'll be damned if I get stuck in it... it'll never truly leave me, nor will I leave it, but I can keep on going.

Why don't you give in?

I don't give in because that would be giving in. I have never really liked the idea of having to submit to someone elses will... and will only do so until I have the chance to get out. Giving in is a sign of weakness in my eyes...

Why? What are your reasons?

I don't even know all of my reasons... but I do know I have them, and that by my will I shall continue to move... and to breathe. I will never die, because I refuse to allow myself to die. I may sleep, but that is only another part of living.

Why are those reasons enough?

I am no always sure that they are enough... but they must be... for I am still here. Pushing ever forward, and not letting it all come to an end...

Is there someone important to you, and that is why? Do you just want to be better than the rest?

Yes, I do have someone important now. I did not always, but I do now. I will go forward, so that I may protect and provide for her, etc.

I also really just wanna rub my success in the faces of my family! Especially my sisters, who deserve that the most!

um...Because I said so?

This Debate & Discussion topic has been in the works for a while, but I finally got the urge to actually type it up and post it, as I am currently going through said topic...so without further ado..and after many long month, I give you...THE CURRENT D/D!!! biggrin







For a long time I have struggled with internet addiction. and I'm trying to curb it slightly so that I may once again use the internet in a healthy way. I;m not going into details as I'm not allowing myself anymore than 20 minutes on the internet a day as it is, and not MY computer or I will be too leinient..

What do YOU think are the warning signs of internet dependancy/addiction?
Have you noticed any in yourself?
How do they affect your social/family life?
Do you try to do anything to steer yourself away from internet addiction?

I apologize if this is short, but I'm out of time.

Plus, it's nicer to HAVE a D/D topic, regardless of its size biggrin

Wow, this is totally something related to my brother... gonk

Myself personally, I have never been truly addicted to the internet. Yeah, sometimes I might spend hours upon hours, but then the next day? No, I'll probably be doing something different that would seem "an addiction." Besides, having a Mikey keeps me from said addiction. I guess in other words, for me, there's always something that I would rather be doing, so it's not an addiction.

In the case of my brother however (who is eleven). He wakes up in the morning and gets on the computer. Sometimes Mom has to nag him multiple times to get him to eat breakfast, and then he goes right back to it. Sometimes he "takes breaks" from the computer by playing on the videogame systems we own. Back before we moved, his computer was in the living room with the TV, and sometimes he would usurp both (to my GREAT irritation) and be running around the internet or spriting while raising his chao or anything like that. Once or twice, I even caught him at his computer, gamecube controller in hand, his gameboy around his neck. He was doing three things at once. Completely addicted. Totally, I'm telling you. And he denies it. Sometimes when we manage to get him at the dinner table (likely the place where he spends the second most amount of time because he takes forever to choke down his veggies), he'll even brag about how he isn't like his friends and that he can detatch himself and "wow, aren't you proud, mom and dad?" At the table he usually will talk to seemingly himself, because it certainly doesn't fit in with the current topic being exchanged by myself and family. Dad may be talking about his day at work, and suddenly, Riordan says "Did you know that the emblem in Sonic Adventure Two is hidden in that one boss stage??" Or something to that effect.

So as for the "Warning Signs" of internet addiction...

1) Waking up, and it's what you want to do NOW!
2) People have to nag you or bodily force you to do anything else, be it chores, a BOARD game, or eating.
3) You don't talk about anything but the computer and your world, while everyone else is in reality.
4) No one really wants to see the "way past cool" thing you just discovered on the internet.
5) You won't go to bed. In fact, you make up excuses not to (perhaps clean your room, eat a snack, etc?) and then just play more on the computer.
6) You have dreams about the computer, and wonder why no one cares when you try and tell them.

I'm sure there are more warning signs, but these are the ones that I have extracted from my little brother. WATCH OUT FOR THEM!! MWAHAHAHA!

Even though I am online for hours on end, I do not find myself to be particularly addicted. It is just that I literally have nothing else to do. Where I am currently living, there isn't any job I could take on. Trust me. I've looked. They aren't hiring summer positions. All the job openings are for more permanent positions. I STILL haven't heard back from some places I gave applications to in MAY.
I am not an outside person. I'll go for walks when I need to just get away. And that means get away from everything. When I don't feel like being online or can't stand it for that matter, I'll go for a walk. It can be midnight or 4 in the afternoon. I will still go for a walk in whatever attire I feel like putting together. My last walk had me in a sweater and tight swimtrunks. No shoes. Let's not mention it was 96 degrees out. Only to get hotter as well. But considering I wear long sleeved shirts a lot, no one really stared at me. I wasn't sweating either. I was breathing heavy because I have troubles breathing in the thin air of death. I can't stand it. I grew up on the beach. Not on damned land. I like the water.
But that isn't the point. I am not addicted. The main reason I go online is to be here for everyone that needs me. If I didn't have any responsibilities online...do you really think I would be online? I don't think I would be. And when I don't currently have something to do, I try to find something to do. Tis why I am such a signature nazi. Learned that I had to do it another way, so I am trying to do just that. Tis much more difficult for me. But tis what I must do, nonetheless.
A subreason for why I am online all the time is to keep me from going ******** insane. I get my mind off of itself most of the time and I keep the last bit of sanity I have for as long as I can. Then I break down and do stupid s**t. Like the other night. I deleted 36 people from my friendslist! You really think that is something I would normally do? I also quit six guilds. Six guilds that I actually enjoyed being in. But no...I just quit for no real reason. I gave reason to one of them...but that still isn't the point. I could very well get back into another one, but I won't. What's done is done. I'll just resend the Friendslist requests and such. And the four on there...don't even ask why they are on there. I just deleted and deleted. But I guess that showed how much of a true friend I am, huh?
I'm really not feeling well. But this was the only time I felt able to answer this topic to the best I could.
I do admit that I will stay online from the time I wake up (sometime in the midafternoon) to the time I go to bed (7 AM most of the time). But that is because of my lack of anything else to do. The five days that I'll be in Boston...I'm glad there isn't net access simply because all the ******** idiots online are sickening me. Both mentally and physically. I personally believe such people should be beaten within an inch of their lives until they ******** know to follow the rules and at least gain half of an inkling of what literacy is.
Well during those five days I'm in Boston, I'll be having fun. Going to Maine, Salem, around Boston, New Hampshire.... I'll be having fun away from electronics. That doesn't happen often. The only other time that had ever really happened when it came to locations was the beach. But tis been a while since I last went to the beach. And ya know...I stopped going when the thoughts came at such a frequency and power that they are getting to. I would start losing myself at the beach. Start becoming depressed and just shutting myself out of the world. Not a very good thing when underwater at the same time. You tend to forget that you're under the water and will stay down for much longer than you should. I also tend to forget to breathe. Strange I guess. But depending on the situation, I will forget to breathe. And I'll stay like that until I either pass out or someone notices and snaps me from my entranced state. It really sucks when I pass out during games. XD
My social/family life... I don't have much of either. No one's around for me to have a social life. I find my grandmother to be a (long list of negative adjectives here) b***h. My grandfather works two jobs and he doesn't talk all that much. Nor do I really wish to talk to him. Since my grandmother will just butt in and start yapping away. She has no respect for anyone during a conversation and considers her opinion to be much more important than whatever else is being spoken. I'm online to get away from them. Though when I was at home and had the net, I was online only to get away from my family then because my sisters were bitches and my parents hated me without them knowing that they hated me. All their derogatory comments. All the things they said. I couldn't take it. So I would just lose myself online. But as you can see, that came to be a good thing. Otherwise, Planet Aura wouldn't exist. And this conversation probably wouldn't be happening.
As I said earlier, I don't really try to steer away from going online all the time since it is a way for me to keep the thoughts under control. It doesn't always work as has been evident with so many of my ******** up actions in the past, but it does work. Else I probably wouldn't be alive right now with how bad it's getting.

Now to Zen...

1) Normally when I first wake up I try to dry my eyes of the tears I woke up to. Then I decide to get dressed. Then I walk over to my laptop and plug my headphones into the headphone jack on the side of the laptop, then turn the volume all the way up. Then I'll check if I have any new mail or check the topic I was watching that morning as to see if anyone replied to my blunt comments. I'll also check to see if any of my PM's of signature violations have been taken care of. Then after all that, I decide to go brush my teeth and wash my face. I don't eat till about an hour after waking up. Else I'll get nauseous and let it come back out.
2) People have to do that with me even when I'm not delved into the net or some game. I'm stubborn. It all depends on my mood. Sometimes I won't eat at all. I like to eat...but I won't because I truly don't feel like it. Board games...I hate those. Too simple. I used to use Trivial Pursuit as ways to study for Scholar's Bowl tournaments. It worked too. Also, no one bodily forces me. I'll bite. I don't care who it is. Try to physically force me to do anything and I will bite. Don't ever ******** touch me. Be caring or comforting...but being rough like that...may end up having you lose a finger. And I don't mind the taste of blood. I used to bite myself as a way to relieve boredom. Would bite straight into the flesh and taste the blood every time.
3) I only talk about the computer as much as I do because that happens to be the field that I am going into. Computer Engineering. And what I speak of is not the happenings of what I do on Gaia, but rather what I am doing in trying to further myself in that field. Also, if I speak of anything else it would be the recent literary additions I have made and put up on various sites as to get me to be better known and out there. So as to get a publisher's eye and maybe get something published finally. I speak to people around here when I have to and try to see if they know any good publishers. Apparently it is better to search in a better city.
4) I would never say that, for one. Things I discover online I don't care about half the time. The image map I made is something so nice because of the simple fact that I have been wanting to make one for the past year. I finally have one. That makes me rather happy. And the sheer fact that I made it after reading a tutorial. I didn't have to download a bunch of coding that made no sense to begin with and wouldn't even work since I didn't have the programs on my computer to allow such to run. Also I am slowly learning how to use such coding to further my learning in the field of computers. I am having fun with this image map and trying to make many of them to test out everything in them. In this set of coding anyway. My next try will be the way of .php instead of just .map as it currently is with the simplistic way. I would very much like to be able to set up a rotating image map. Where it is like a randomizer but with the qualities of an image map. One image will have links that go where ever, then the next will have its own set of links. That is what I want to be able to make. Twould really be an accomplishment for me. Also, seeing as that most of my family is computer illiterate, seeing such things is quite an accomplishment to them as well.
5) The time I go to bed is right around 7 AM. I then sleep till midafternoon. I hate the daytime. I tend to thrive during the night. Twas why I was looking for night positions above all in the jobs I was searching in. Plus the nightshifts get higher pay. Known fact. Anyway, the only time I don't go to bed at any time while online is when I am truly in the middle of something. An RP for instance. I just wouldn't want to cut out right in the middle of something. Doesn't seem like the right thing to do. So I try to inform the person that I have to leave and we try to leave it at a point that we both can come back to without having to read up on past posts. It would also be rude to just get offline right then and there. Also in conversations. If I was currently in some kind of conversation with someone else over IM, I wouldn't just want to leave in the middle of it. If I was debating or consoling, I would want to see it through to the end. Not just leave midsentence. If there is ever a time that I don't go to bed and stay online, the reasons behind such normally are good reasons. Not stupid ones.
6) I have dreams of my own demise. I have dreams of my friends' deaths. I have dreams that help me further my writings. The only time a computer is involved is either part of the story...or somehow linked to a death. Such as a friend sitting at his computer and then it suddenly exploding and a shard piercing his chest, piercing his heart, and instantly killing him. Those are my dreams.

Now, yes there may be more warning signs. But I have just well refuted yours with my own opinions on myself.

If there is anyone else that wishes to post their reasoning on Internet Addiction, then please do so. I'll have fun with debating against you. I play the devil's advocate quite a bit. I don't pick one side over the other. Tis how I am.
~Tseta~
Side note: This post is not long. Those who believe it to be, you don't know what it's like to be a true ED'er. This was one of my traditional posts back then. The ED nowadays is filled with a bunch of idiots who think they are smart by posting a topic in the smart kids forum. Too bad for them that all the smart kids left for the GGN to get away from the smart kid wannabes.

*Nods to your post, Tseta*

Well, my reasons were based off an eleven year old child, who is currently out in the living room making loud noises as he pretends to shove a sword up his a**...