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TODDLER
Forum Senior Member VIP Member Joined: August 28 2009 Location: Vineland, N.J. Status: Offline Points: 3126 |
Posted: May 27 2014 at 10:22 | |
I believe a glance at first sight can lead to intimacy. I believe that 2 conversations can reveal destiny for 2 people who are misfits in the world. I think when two people are overwhelmed with each other and never act on it, it can cause great pain and dysfunction to their life. Life is very imperfect in this way. The fate one has depends on the strength of their will to not commit the act. That meaning , (in this case), your priorities sustain the feelings you have for someone will and must eventually subside and you are left with a memory instead. The timing for you and this person is obviously bad and it boils down to making a choice between free will and priorities. It's like a test to see how strong your feelings really are and you must only dream on it, never acting it out , and always wondering for the rest of your life if it was your calling or deception. The world is very imperfect with unpredictable experiences such as these and its frustrating
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ExittheLemming
Forum Senior Member Joined: October 19 2007 Location: Penal Colony Status: Offline Points: 11415 |
Posted: May 27 2014 at 09:00 | |
I don't pretend to understand what autobiographical aspects there are to your post (if any) but I would venture that romantic love cannot possibly be the basis for a life changing decision based on TWO conversations with the object of anyone's avowed obsession. You are always going to desire other women as you are hard wired that way biologically. (Pun intended) I'm separated from my wife (amicably) but the cause of our estrangement was not the intervention of any third party interloper, but a gradual realisation that we had grown apart as far as values, motivation and sacrifice were concerned.
Yes, that's regrettable and painful but I'm glad we've both moved on as it now gives both of us the chance to find another nurturing relationship in the future. |
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TODDLER
Forum Senior Member VIP Member Joined: August 28 2009 Location: Vineland, N.J. Status: Offline Points: 3126 |
Posted: May 27 2014 at 08:25 | |
I believe that a man who has been married for 15 years, never cheated, ..has children, and feels like he is falling romantically in love with another woman he's had conversations with only twice, is in the most pathetic situation existing on earth. He imagines that this woman is a freak, but it doesn't turn him away from the unexplainable connection between himself and this naturally beautiful woman. Across a room..their eyes often connected and it was torture for them to resist meeting. The man steps on to the porch of his house and stares at the blue sky and ridiculously white puffy clouds..but only to see her face again. The man wants to sleep so he can dream about her. The man hugs and kisses his wife goodnight and hopes that will relieve him of his desires for someone else. His friends tell him to have sex with his wife and think about the woman instead. The man finds the idea repulsive . The man walks around in a daze and becomes angered over the fact that he cannot control his romantic feelings for this woman. He wants to escape reality and is sinking into a dark hole.
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HemispheresOfXanadu
Forum Senior Member Joined: June 28 2012 Location: Canada Status: Offline Points: 4339 |
Posted: May 26 2014 at 23:20 | |
Dear people who hit the lock button on their vehicle's keychain in excess of five times when I'm walking around the parking lot collecting carts for the store: I need my job more than I need your air freshener.
Edited by HemispheresOfXanadu - May 27 2014 at 08:26 |
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Man With Hat
Collaborator Jazz-Rock/Fusion/Canterbury Team Joined: March 12 2005 Location: Neurotica Status: Offline Points: 166178 |
Posted: February 15 2014 at 19:02 | |
People who insist on parking on the street when it's snowing really piss me off. It's one thing if you park well, off near the curb, but when you park in the middle of the f**king street so that people can't get out of their driveway and/or the plow can not get down the street/actually plow the street anywhere close to acceptable you are doing nothing but being a selfish oafish waste of human skin. I hope the cars that do this are horribly injured in the snowstorm by the plows, other cars, or people with common sense. f**k off already and think of what the f**k you are doing. Try to realize how insignificant you are and that you are not the center of the world and we should not cater to your f**king tiny egotistical mind.
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Dig me...But don't...Bury me
I'm running still, I shall until, one day, I hope that I'll arrive Warning: Listening to jazz excessively can cause a laxative effect. |
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Guldbamsen
Special Collaborator Retired Admin Joined: January 22 2009 Location: Magic Theatre Status: Offline Points: 23104 |
Posted: January 31 2014 at 16:53 | |
Miscommunication is my guess. Students in Denmark get just enough money from the system to get by, which is awesome compared to almost every other country in the world, but when the machine f*cks up, there's nothing you can do about it - other than curse yourself for turning down that temp job that was offered you a little while back - big doh
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“The Guide says there is an art to flying or rather a knack. The knack lies in learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.”
- Douglas Adams |
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Padraic
Special Collaborator Honorary Collaborator Joined: February 16 2006 Location: Pennsylvania Status: Offline Points: 31169 |
Posted: January 31 2014 at 08:09 | |
How did that happen?
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Guldbamsen
Special Collaborator Retired Admin Joined: January 22 2009 Location: Magic Theatre Status: Offline Points: 23104 |
Posted: January 31 2014 at 07:45 | |
f**king motherf**k f**k f**k f**k
I was supposed to receive something like 11.000 kr today and got a little over 3000 instead, which means I can't pay for my apartment, warmth, electricity, internet and all those things one tends to forget... Life is grand. What's that the old and wise say? Adversity brings out the best in people? |
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“The Guide says there is an art to flying or rather a knack. The knack lies in learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.”
- Douglas Adams |
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Guldbamsen
Special Collaborator Retired Admin Joined: January 22 2009 Location: Magic Theatre Status: Offline Points: 23104 |
Posted: January 23 2014 at 14:24 | |
So you're suggesting that I start acting a little less my age then? (that's not possible) Edit: Just checked my outbox and it turns out that I've replied most of the mails, which means that i still have a good deal of the ones I thought I'd lost. Pheeew
Edited by Guldbamsen - January 23 2014 at 14:30 |
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“The Guide says there is an art to flying or rather a knack. The knack lies in learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.”
- Douglas Adams |
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Jared
Forum Senior Member Joined: May 06 2005 Location: Hereford, UK Status: Online Points: 19378 |
Posted: January 23 2014 at 14:18 | |
^^ David, if you were a little less popular, then no-one would PM you.
Take a leaf out of my book... |
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Music has always been a matter of energy to me. On some nights I believe that a car with the needle on empty can run 50 more miles if you have the right music very loud on the radio. Hunter S Thompson
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Guldbamsen
Special Collaborator Retired Admin Joined: January 22 2009 Location: Magic Theatre Status: Offline Points: 23104 |
Posted: January 23 2014 at 14:13 | |
AAARRRRGGHHH
aaaaaaaand for the second time I manage to erase every mail in my inbox while trying to delete a few in order to make more room... I am utterly worthless on the computer or maybe I don't read too well Damn what a bummer.
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“The Guide says there is an art to flying or rather a knack. The knack lies in learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.”
- Douglas Adams |
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JJLehto
Prog Reviewer Joined: April 05 2006 Location: Tallahassee, FL Status: Offline Points: 34550 |
Posted: November 06 2013 at 10:13 | |
nah nah, it's all internal fear and etc which pisses me off more! Since it could be so easy to just stop this all, but I just can't/won't
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Dean
Special Collaborator Retired Admin and Amateur Layabout Joined: May 13 2007 Location: Europe Status: Offline Points: 37575 |
Posted: November 06 2013 at 09:23 | |
Boo! |
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JJLehto
Prog Reviewer Joined: April 05 2006 Location: Tallahassee, FL Status: Offline Points: 34550 |
Posted: November 06 2013 at 08:51 | |
I hate that I'm such a f**king coward
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dr wu23
Forum Senior Member Joined: August 22 2010 Location: Indiana Status: Offline Points: 20625 |
Posted: November 04 2013 at 08:33 | |
I don't think the 'Bill Evans' parody is funny.......it's as obnoxious as those who posted the social network begging requests.
But then everybody's sense of 'humor' is different.
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One does nothing yet nothing is left undone.
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Dean
Special Collaborator Retired Admin and Amateur Layabout Joined: May 13 2007 Location: Europe Status: Offline Points: 37575 |
Posted: November 04 2013 at 07:44 | |
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stegor
Forum Senior Member Joined: March 23 2013 Location: Minnesota Status: Offline Points: 2030 |
Posted: November 04 2013 at 07:23 | |
Apologies to those who have seen this countless times already, but this was an email that circulated over 10 years ago, before Facebook. I haven't seen it since then, so I was thinking maybe a lot of people haven't seen it. Excellent parody! Billy Evans, the Boy who Needs a Body Transplant My name is Billy Evans. I AM A very sick little boy. My mother is typing this for me, because I can't. She Is crying. The reason she is so sad is because I'm so Sick. I was Born without A body. It doesn't hurt, Except when I try to breathe. The doctors gave me an artificial body. It is A burlap Bag filled with leaves. The doctors said that was the Best they could do ON account of us having No money OR Insurance. I would like to have A body transplant, but we need More money. Mommy doesn't work because she said nobody Hires crying people. I said, " Don't cry, Mommy and " and She hugged my burlap bag. Mommy always gives me hugs, Even though she's allergic to burlap and it makes her Sneeze and chafes her real bad. I hope you will help me. You can help me if you Forward this email to everyone you know. Forward it to People you don't know, the too. Dr. Johansen said that for Every person you forward this email to, Bill Gates Will team up with AOL and send A nickel to NASA. With That funding, NASA will collect prayers from school Children all over America and have the astronauts take Them up into space so that the angels can hear them Better. Then they will come back to earth and go to the Pope, And he will take up A collection IN church and send All the money to the doctors. The doctors could help Me get better then. Maybe one day I will be able to Play baseball. Right now I can only be third base. Every time you forward this letter, the astronauts can Take more prayers to the angels and my dream will be Closer to coming true. Please help me. Mommy is so Sad and and I want A body. I don't want my leaves to rot Before I turn 10 If you don't forward this email, that's okay. Mommy Says you're A mean and heartless b*****d who doesn't Care about A poor little boy with only A head. She Says that if you don't stew IN the raw pit of your own Guilt-ridden stomach, she hopes you die A long slow, Horrible death and then burn forever IN hell. What kind of cruel person are you that you can't take Five freakin' minutes to forward this to all your Friends so that they can feel guilt and shame about Ignoring A poor, bodiless nine-year-old boy? Please Help me. I try to be happy, but it's hard. I wish I had A Kitty. I wish I could hold A kitty. I wish I could Hold A kitty that wouldn't chew ON me and try to bury Its turds IN the leaves of my burlap body. I wish that Very much. Thank You, Billy " Smiles " Evans |
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Jim Garten
Special Collaborator Retired Admin & Razor Guru Joined: February 02 2004 Location: South England Status: Offline Points: 14693 |
Posted: November 04 2013 at 02:27 | |
Thank you Dean. |
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Jon Lord 1941 - 2012 |
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Dean
Special Collaborator Retired Admin and Amateur Layabout Joined: May 13 2007 Location: Europe Status: Offline Points: 37575 |
Posted: November 03 2013 at 11:46 | |
Social Network Emotional Blackmail ...this kind of crap seriously pisses me off. The ideas, thoughts or the sentiments behind these messages may be noble, good and right, I may even agree with them to some extent, then I get to that last bit... the emotional blackmailing, the implied "if you don't share this message then you're not a nice person", and the whole message becomes tainted in insincerity. Is it now just a statement of the original writer's self-righteous smugness.... or is it something more sinister?
What we have here is a chain-letter plain and simple, no different from the "good-luck" snail-mail chain-letters of old or the urban-legend/internet-hoax posts that also frequent the social network sites. The original writer's intent in this example is not to show support for soldiers (dead or alive) but to manipulate people, to presure them into doing some trivial action such as sharing the message. While there is no actual harm in these kinds of chain-letters (aside from perhaps an implied but ultimately hollow threat) what they are is a form of social media bullying by another name. Often the content of these messages is irrelevant, other than to prick at your conscious or perhaps your fears, but some are designed to unnerve and provoke fear, such as the "killer in the backseat" hoax that a friend of mine innocently shared on her timeline a few months back.
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The.Crimson.King
Forum Senior Member Joined: March 29 2013 Location: WA Status: Offline Points: 4596 |
Posted: August 04 2013 at 01:24 | |
Ya, Facebook is a weird thing...people get sucked into it and it becomes an addiction. A few months ago I did an internet search looking for old friends I hadn't seen in years. I found 5 of them now had facebook accounts...so I made a facebook account too so I could ping them. I got 2 responses. I traded a few emails with one and it only confirmed why I stopped being her friend in the first place The other worked out, we rekindled our old friendship and discovered we only live a couple hours away from each other and we're going to hang out on labor day weekend. Then I promptly cancelled my facebook account and plan to never return
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