Which one of these is the most overrated?
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Topic: Which one of these is the most overrated?
Posted By: stonebeard
Subject: Which one of these is the most overrated?
Date Posted: August 09 2009 at 22:41
Personally, think they're all pretty well crap.
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Posted By: Concentration Moon
Date Posted: August 09 2009 at 22:46
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Love.
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Posted By: MovingPictures07
Date Posted: August 09 2009 at 22:47
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Hmmm... I'd say love is the most overrated, because my two experiences have totally sucked. Animals are 2nd; I'm not really a pet person. Then again... Life is pretty overrated too. I guess that's a close 3rd. The only thing NOT overrated on that is artistic expression, probably. ------------- 
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Posted By: Concentration Moon
Date Posted: August 09 2009 at 22:48
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Turn on the radio and chances are, you'll hear a love song including the phrases "in your arms", "with all my heart", etc.
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Posted By: JJLehto
Date Posted: August 09 2009 at 22:56
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Damn, this is tough. I'm going to agree Stoney that all are pretty f*cking over rated EXCEPT animals.....but honestly, (prepares for stoning by prog community) my vote went for artistic expression. Leads to epic douchebaggery. Life, despite what I want to think, is not all that bad. Same for happiness. I like sensory perception and I LOVE animals. One of the great things about living and observing nature. Though love is a very close second.......... f*ck that |
Posted By: mrcozdude
Date Posted: August 09 2009 at 23:23
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Life for me or society's interpretation of what life is.If there was a people option I would of gone for that.
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Posted By: Henry Plainview
Date Posted: August 09 2009 at 23:28
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F*ck happiness. I've always believed it's overrated Dogs are awesome though. ------------- if you own a sodastream i hate you |
Posted By: manofmystery
Date Posted: August 09 2009 at 23:36
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Is that the album Animals or just animals?
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Posted By: Drew
Date Posted: August 09 2009 at 23:49
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I feel a lot of people would rather save their animal's life over another human beings....so I chose animals.
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Posted By: BaldJean
Date Posted: August 10 2009 at 00:04
"Holmes, what do you conclude from this poll"? "My dear Watson, it is elementary. The originator is deeply disappointed from a failed love affair. Now he considers life to be overrated because he is considering suicide, which I sincerely hope he will abstain from..." "Wait, Holmes, how do you know the originator is a man? It might as well be a woman. "My dear Watson, only the highly rational and organized brain of a man could concoct such a list; a woman would merely have acted on impulse, with perhaps the exception of irene Adler. But let me continue: He considers suicide, that's why he thinks life is overrated. He considers happiness to be overrated because he wants to play down his current unhappiness, He is not an artist of whatever kind, painter, writer, composer or the likes, else he would express his feelings in an artistic way. Since he can't do that he considers artistic expression to be overrated. I am actually pretty certain he has a kind of bureaucratic job like accountant". "What gives you that impression, Holmes"? "His way of making a list even in such an emotional matter makes it almost a certainty. But let me continue. That he considers love to be overrated is immediately understandable since his own love just failed". "And why animals, Holmes"? "His own sole companion now is his pet, which is most probably a German shepherd; bureaucratic types have a special liking for this breed. Since it can't give him the consolation he needs right now he considers animals to be overrated". "But why sensory perception, Holmes"? "Isn't it obvious, Watson? He considers sensory perception to be overrated because he asks himself how he could ever have fallen for the beauty of this woman, the sound of her voice, the smell of her skin, the touch of her hair, the taste of her mouth when kissing". "Holmes, you have outdone yourself on this one". "My dear Watson, I assure you it was nothing but a trifle". -------------  A shot of me as High Priestess of Gaia during our fall festival. Ceterum censeo principiis obsta |
stonebeard wrote:Posted By: stonebeard
Date Posted: August 10 2009 at 00:14
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Posted By: ghost_of_morphy
Date Posted: August 10 2009 at 00:24
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Hmmm, I had to vote against artistic expression because kittens are just too darn cute and I can't vote against them. ------------- 
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Posted By: Vompatti
Date Posted: August 10 2009 at 00:30
| Definitely happiness. I do my best to avoid it. |
Posted By: The T
Date Posted: August 10 2009 at 17:26
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Artistic expression. We adore guys who choose not to work for a living. And we feed their egos. And it's as useless an activity for the preservation of mankind as it gets.
Animals are NOT overrated. Human beings are.
But then again, love is NOT overrated, and we humans are capable of that. So in the end we're not so so bad.
For those who say happiness and life are overrated, I think you better start finding any kind of justification not to kill yourselves when life gets REAL hard. ------------- 
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Posted By: manofmystery
Date Posted: August 10 2009 at 19:36
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Animals are delicious so maybe they aren't overrated
this is tough
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Posted By: The T
Date Posted: August 10 2009 at 19:50
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Posted By: J-Man
Date Posted: August 10 2009 at 20:08
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Animals. More so than the animals, it's the people associated with them. Save the forest, man. It's... uh... like a consipiracy dude... we need to like save the trees because they give us peace in our hearts man.  I can't stand hippies... ------------- 
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Posted By: The Quiet One
Date Posted: August 10 2009 at 20:10
Awesome! One of the most brilliant posts ever! haha, great job Jean!  |
Posted By: Man With Hat
Date Posted: August 10 2009 at 23:45
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Hmmm....well...
Happiness and love are certainly excellent. If anything they are underrated.
Sensory perception is nice. Seeing, hearing, touching, etc. Also, haven't really hear people rave about these things often. Even, I just said they were nice, which is pretty blah way to describe things. Thus, I don't see how it is being overrated.
Artistic expression. Hmm...Well I like artistic expression thus it can't be overrated.
This leaves me with Life and Animals. Its a tough call between these two. People rave about animals all the time. Honestly, I don't see whats so great about them. Sure, I like certain animals...penguins, octopi, sea cucumbers, ducks, aardvarks, etc. But there are plenty I don't, and many common animals fall into that category. Also, humans are animals and I hate humans. Life is also raved about often by the people who have it good, or at least have what they want. Pain is plentiful in life. Life always seems to have a way to kick you when you're down and will never let you get too far ahead. Also, you have to deal with all the bullsh*t from everything else in life. As for the alternative? No one seems to know, so it's impossible to know if it would be worse.
It's a tough call. I'm leaning towards animals. But life is just so...unbearable at times that animals pale in comparison. Although...if animals cause the unbearableness.....Hmm...
This will take much contemplation, perferrably over at least 6 long island iced teas. ------------- 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. |
Posted By: stonebeard
Date Posted: August 11 2009 at 00:08
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Posted By: Atavachron
Date Posted: August 11 2009 at 00:17
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Animals are winning? Shame on you. I picked love. |
Posted By: SaltyJon
Date Posted: August 11 2009 at 00:33
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I pick love as well. I can't say I think life is overrated, as without it none of the others would be experienced. I enjoy being happy very much, and I enjoy being able to do something artistically (even if it usually ends up poorly done). I've always been somewhat of an animal person, and I very much enjoy my senses. Love...eh.
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Posted By: Jim Garten
Date Posted: August 11 2009 at 11:06
I was going to post something vaguely ascerbic as to the pointless-ness of self pity... 
...then I saw this:
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Posted By: Man Erg
Date Posted: August 11 2009 at 12:09
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I've been overrated on many occasions.
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Posted By: Slartibartfast
Date Posted: August 11 2009 at 12:32
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You left out the best choice: polls about "overrated" things.
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Posted By: Tin Of Hurri Curri
Date Posted: August 24 2009 at 16:19
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I voted for happiness. People say, "Go out and achieve your dreams! Seek your happiness!" I say, "No thanks. Trying to achieve things is too difficult. And I'm perfectly fine with being unhappy." Artistic expression is pretty cool, but it is a bit overrated as well. Love is also overrated. Life, animals, and sensory perception, on the other hand, are not overrated.
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Posted By: KoS
Date Posted: August 24 2009 at 18:23
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Happiness because it's the most difficult thing to achieve. You can make anyone or at least some one love you. Artistic expression is also hard to achieve but it doesn't make everyone happy. Animals are so tasty. I love my senses or else I don't think I would know if I am. |
Posted By: topofsm
Date Posted: August 24 2009 at 21:52
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Life: It's pretty important. Though I think Death is a bit underrated myself.
Happiness: Pretty overrated, though not as much as...
Artistic Expression: Which a lot of the time is a bunch of bull, even though I adore some of the effects of this overrated substance. I voted for.\
Love: To me is pretty much second to life.
Animals: WAAAAY better than humanity.
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Posted By: CPicard
Date Posted: August 25 2009 at 06:00
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Artistic expression. But my opinion may be biased: while I have to get up on 7 o'clock to go working, my brother sleeps until noon, because he spent his night in a club, being the DJ, having concerts, recording an album and all that jazz. And I'm the one who pays the bills!!! |
Posted By: ExittheLemming
Date Posted: August 25 2009 at 09:47
That's quite brilliant (Why ain't you a published author ?) I voted for sensory perception as it's not the first time I've snuggled up to the cat thinking it was Mrs L... ------------- 
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Posted By: Slartibartfast
Date Posted: August 25 2009 at 09:57
Yeah, happiness is overrated. Misery on the other hand... ------------- Released date are often when it it impacted you but recorded dates are when it really happened... 
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Posted By: JLocke
Date Posted: August 26 2009 at 15:05
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Love, love, love . . . There's nothing you can do that can't be done. Nothing you can sing that can't be sung. |
Posted By: The T
Date Posted: August 26 2009 at 21:55
I really don't understand how happiness could be overrated... So is sometimes not desirable to be happy?  Let's define happyness....
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Posted By: JLocke
Date Posted: August 26 2009 at 22:31
| ^ I think who say happiness is overrated are just bitter. Happiness is very real, it just isn't always in the package we may prefer. |
Posted By: camilleanne
Date Posted: August 28 2009 at 21:20
Life...
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Posted By: progkidjoel
Date Posted: August 28 2009 at 22:17
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This poll is overrated
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Posted By: The Pessimist
Date Posted: August 29 2009 at 10:52
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Happiness. I like being grumpy.
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Posted By: JD
Date Posted: August 29 2009 at 16:25
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Animals it is. Thank you allergies. ------------- Thank you for supporting independently produced music |
Posted By: Anirml
Date Posted: August 29 2009 at 17:35
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Real happiness is the most underrated thing i could think of. (I find it in prog mostly) Life: I love Life! I feel I'm free (Thanks to Yes!) Love: What kind of love? I find lots of Love in Prog! Love for many things! Animals: I like them. Some people are a to obsessed with them tho! |
Posted By: King Crimson776
Date Posted: September 10 2009 at 16:37
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Love is the most overrated of these. I think it's kind of a flawed thing to begin with, and I'm genuinely not saying this due to failed love or anything like that... I've just thought about it a lot. A LOT. Life: Without it there'd be nothing whatsoever, (just matter and energy, nothing to experience it) it can't be overrated. Happiness: This can't be overrated; let's be clear, happiness isn't, "Oh Yay, I'm excited about everything, tee hee." No, it's peace of mind, enjoying life, all of that. Artistic Expression: Not AS essential as life and not as important as happiness, but it is imo the greatest achievement of man-kind. Animals: Humans are animals too. Moving on. Sensory Perception: Basically life without sensory perception is just meat, alive but unfeeling, unseeing etc... meat. Not overrated.
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Posted By: June
Date Posted: September 10 2009 at 21:47
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Happiness is overrated.
Too many people now seem to think that happiness is purely based on the satisfaction of one's immediate needs and desires that the whole concept almost disgusts me now.
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Posted By: Man With Hat
Date Posted: September 13 2009 at 22:34
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^ But does that really diminish the good of happiness? If you know that the path of instant gratification isn't the one to follow you would (or I guess I should say) you should follow a different path to happiness. Is that happiness any less satisfying? As for the poll...I should of voted for life. Sure, some animals are annoying and decrease the enjoyment of life, but a few bad apples (at least comparitively) shouldn't spoil the batch. But life on the other hand... ------------- 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. |
Posted By: crimhead
Date Posted: September 14 2009 at 13:27
| I was hoping that one of the choices was going to be the band 'Nirvana'. |
Posted By: WalterDigsTunes
Date Posted: September 14 2009 at 13:28
Zing! Haha. |
Posted By: clarke2001
Date Posted: September 15 2009 at 03:26
By heavens, Jean, that is one of the best replies on PA ever!!!  ------------- |
Posted By: FordPrefect
Date Posted: October 10 2009 at 13:31
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Love is definitely the most overrated. Most people are capable of only loving themselves -if even that. Those very few people in the world capable of real loving will NEVER find a person that will "return the favor". So where does that "Love changes everything for better "-nonsense come from? And just when and where in the whole humankind's history love has really made this world better? ------------- Don't panic |
Posted By: inrainbows
Date Posted: October 10 2009 at 13:55
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Happiness, as this thing doesn't exist. There only happy moments and that's all. Real life is far of what is considered happiness. ------------- 
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Posted By: SaltyJon
Date Posted: October 10 2009 at 13:57
And you know what the Guide says about love, anyways. ------------- http://www.last.fm/user/Salty_Jon" rel="nofollow">
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Posted By: inrainbows
Date Posted: October 10 2009 at 13:58
Jesus love maybe? How could love be overrated? Can you imagine our life without love? (the extended meaning of the word) Me personally, I can't. -------------
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Posted By: SaltyJon
Date Posted: October 10 2009 at 14:03
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"The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy has this to say on the subject of love: Avoid, if at all possible."
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Posted By: inrainbows
Date Posted: October 10 2009 at 14:08
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^^^ Can you not to love your parents, your brothers, your children your friends etc., (there is not only man and woman love), and how your life would be without their love towards you? -------------
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Posted By: SaltyJon
Date Posted: October 10 2009 at 14:14
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Just because I believe it's the most overrated doesn't mean I don't think it's around, I just feel like it's probably the most overrated of the list.
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Posted By: FordPrefect
Date Posted: October 10 2009 at 14:40
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I might have written that but was the fool not to obey a wise line/order. You people with the faith in "higher love" -carry on! ------------- Don't panic |
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Date Posted: October 10 2009 at 16:37
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Love shouldn't be viewed in the romantic, marketed sense. True love comes from within, and gives you an appreciation for all things. That includes yourself. So, if your love is honest, all of the other things are taken care of. The only one I would single out is sensory perception. This is what gets us into trouble. Basically your sensory organs take in information, and your brain attempts to decode it. This goes through all sorts of filters, including delusional thinking. So how can it really be trusted? ------------- a.k.a. H.T. http://riekels.wordpress.com" rel="nofollow - http://riekels.wordpress.com |
Posted By: FordPrefect
Date Posted: December 12 2009 at 16:05
You propably live in some other planet.  In my planet honest love get spit on.------------- Don't panic |
Posted By: jampa17
Date Posted: December 12 2009 at 16:32
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I think happiness is what is more overrated, because there are few goals towards pure happiness... all we want to do is pure instantly satisfactions... brief moments of happiness do not justify all the suffering... love worth... not happiness...!!! ------------- |
Posted By: himtroy
Date Posted: December 12 2009 at 17:15
| I enjoy artistic expression and sensory perception (or altering of) very greatly, so I can't pick those two.... |
Posted By: UndercoverBoy
Date Posted: December 14 2009 at 21:37
| Hmm... I would definitely do not think that Artistic Perception and Sensory Perception are overrated, of course. Animals are sort of overrated; they aren't as noble and flawless as some people think, but some are really cute or taste really good. I would have to pick Love, or at least the romantic kind of love. The way society glosses over it really irritates me, and most love songs make me puke. "We will be together always"- yeah right... |
Posted By: moe_blunts
Date Posted: December 14 2009 at 22:41
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Posted By: stonebeard
Date Posted: December 15 2009 at 13:33
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I love how half of the people here apparently think I'm serious.
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Posted By: friso
Date Posted: December 24 2009 at 05:45
| The effect of sensory perception is overrated. Inner stillness is preferable. Animals aren't overrated at all, humans are animals themselves! |
Posted By: himtroy
Date Posted: December 24 2009 at 20:01
| Humans are animals isn't a good point, because humans are DEFINITELY overrated. |