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Direct Link To This Post 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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Direct Link To This Post 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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Direct Link To This Post 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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Direct Link To This Post 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.

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Direct Link To This Post 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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Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 31 2014 at 16:53
Originally posted by Padraic Padraic wrote:

Originally posted by Guldbamsen Guldbamsen wrote:

f**king motherf**k f**k f**k f**kAngryAngryAngry

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? LOL


How did that happen?

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 dohErmm 
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 31 2014 at 08:09
Originally posted by Guldbamsen Guldbamsen wrote:

f**king motherf**k f**k f**k f**kAngryAngryAngry

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? LOL


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Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 31 2014 at 07:45
f**king motherf**k f**k f**k f**kAngryAngryAngry

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? LOL

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 23 2014 at 14:24
LOL
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. PheeewEmbarrassed


Edited by Guldbamsen - January 23 2014 at 14:30
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 23 2014 at 14:18
^^ David, if you were a little less popular, then no-one would PM you.

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 23 2014 at 14:13
AAARRRRGGHHHAngry 
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 wellDead
Damn what a bummer.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: November 06 2013 at 10:13
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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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Direct Link To This Post Posted: November 06 2013 at 09:23
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: November 06 2013 at 08:51
I hate that I'm such a f**king coward
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Direct Link To This Post 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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Direct Link To This Post Posted: November 04 2013 at 07:44
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: November 04 2013 at 07:23

Originally posted by Dean Dean wrote:

Social Network Emotional Blackmail


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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Direct Link To This Post Posted: November 04 2013 at 02:27
Originally posted by Dean Dean wrote:

Social Network Emotional Blackmail





Thank you Dean.

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Direct Link To This Post 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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Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 04 2013 at 01:24
Originally posted by Epignosis Epignosis wrote:

I've got a rant.

I don't use Facebook, Twitter, et. al. and I do not plan to start.

But I am tired of showing my wife something or telling her a piece of news about my family and her saying, "Oh yeah, already saw it on Facebook."  Maybe I'm just getting old and feeling nostalgic for old-fashioned conversation. 

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 Wink  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 LOL
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