Hmm ... you don' t leave much room for pep talk but I' ll try anyway. 1. i nearly failed school due to my own stupidity and since my math score was so low its unlikely any college will take me Unlikely =/= impossible, and as you mentioned some jobs are no-brainers. 2. i have no money neither does anyone in my house/no job/I'm single/virtually no friends/0 social life/a dead love life/and most of my family has turned on me. You should get out of that house. 3. the girl i love more than anything is thinking about getting married hint not to me Welcome to the world. 4. im over 400lbs and ugly as **** i despise what i see in the mirror I' m pretty sure fat people is a fetish, I' ve seen porn sections dedicated to them. 5. i got rejected from a job where they said they were hiring anyone with a pulse Did they say why ? Maybe they just reached their quota, or you did/said something wrong. How about trying other job offers ? Just the one hardly qualifies as trying. 6. im going blind and losing my hair Blind ? Myopic I guess ? Watching things that are close all day long will do that to you. You need glasses. As for the hair ... remember that thing about fetishes ? As long as you watch your hygiene your looks don' t matter that much. Plus, love is blind. Also, you won' t find it in your house. No really, get out of that house. 7. i have no talents no skills and nothing to look forward to Maybe you do and just haven' t found it yet. Again, look for a job. 8. im the only reason my moms alive ??? And that' s bad ... because ? 9. my mom said not intentionally that the only reason the girl i love was even attracted to me was because she's a whore and likes anyone who will give her dick Says what ? Her guts ? Her magic 8 ball ? I' m confused, have you slept with the girl ? If you haven' t that pretty much invalidates what your mum said, especially if she' s the soon to be bride you mentioned earlier. 10. my whole house is falling apart and is likely going to fall on me. I may not have stressed this enough : GTF OUT OF THAT HOUSE !!! 11. i have ****** luck and i have never won something without me having to cheat or use dirty tactics. For all we know you escaped a shitload of bad stuff from an inch without even noticing. 12. my entire personality conflicts with every chance in life ive ever had I ... have no idea what that means, but the less people you hang out with the more out of touch with society you' ll be. 13. ive wasted nearly every chance ive ever had to do anything with my life Every day is a new chance for a change. 14. I only have 3 hobbies in life and all 3 of them are useless 15. I cant really show my emotions without a million questions attached to them and then a lecture on top of it I' m pretty unreadable too, not that much of a problem to me. http://www.forbes.com/sites/jessicahagy/2011/11/30/how-to-be-interesting/
Well statistically ten times the population = ten times the batshit. They do seem to raise the batshit bar higher, but I' ve never actually been there so it' s hard to say ... It happens to me often. It was disconcerting at first, but now I just smile and say "he' s not the one I' m gonna yell at". Works wonders.
Super Sentais in a nutshell for you. I grew up with the Japanese ones, but from what little I' ve seen Power Rangers just americanized the recipe. http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Franchise/SuperSentai?from=Main.SuperSentai The one parodied in that vid is Choudenshi Bioman, the first Power Rangers series came up seven years/seasons later. If they keep americanizing the latest Japanese sentai, as usual, then I guess the next Power Ranger series will be an adaptation of that sentai : http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Series/TokumeiSentaiGobusters And then a season later that one : http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Series/JyudenSentaiKyoryuger
I guess now we know why you' re an athiest. xD
I had recursing dreams/nightmares when I was a kid, one of those involved me jumping from atop my bunk bed, bouncing on my lil' sister' s bed and flying right out the window. Icarus, Da Vinci ... the ability to fly is one of humanity' s classic phantasms. I think that' s why I enjoyed sea diving so much, it was the closest thing to those flight dreams I ever experienced irl.
... Okay, first, are you just mad that I called a movie you thought was smart "mindless" (although mentioning I haven' t watched it yet implies I' m aware I might be completely off the wall) ? Or is there something else on your mind ? I can' t say that it was a terrible movie, but it didn' t blow my mind either. Too bad the sociopaths were unleashed before the characters were even established, then barely developed further on, I couldn' t care less what happened to who. That' s too bad, it was skillfully directed. As for the social commentary ... I' m not sure what you saw there exactly. The movie, through a pinch of self-awareness and fourth wall breaking, suggests that movies just might have something to do with our society violence. Unless it' s just bad parenting ? Oh well, it just throws those tired up patsies up in the air and doesn' t try and make a single point beyond that. Which I guess in itself was the third tired up patsy, reflected in the victims' apathy : who cares ? I thought the Scream movies handled their self-awareness better, granted they didn' t push their subtext further than Funny Games. As for the social critique, I read most of Stephen King' s (or rather Richard Bachman) early work; Running Man, The Long Walk, and especially Rage. It' s hard not to compare Funny Games to them, which doesn' t exactly turn out in its favor imo.
^ I wasn' t suggesting necrobump, just informing him that there are such threads in here already. I' m fairly certain they contain exactly what he' s asking for.
Looks more like a mindless Saw/Hostel torture porn than a profound social commentary to me. I' m downloading it right now, I won' t say more until I' ve actually watched it. I think there are already threads about that movie in the spam zone, but the search function seems unable to retrieve anything posted before the Xenforo jump. Don' t expect me to skim through the spam zone history manually.
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Debating which one is better or whether it' s good or bad can be interesting on an intellectual level, but even if you could prove it' s actually good a skeptic still wouldn' t believe it. All he cares about is whether it' s true or not. In the movie, the matrix looks like a much more enjoyable place to live in than the real world, it' s still an illusion though. As emotionally comfortable as they might be false beliefs have consequences, they impact our behavior. The more false beliefs you hold, the less pertinent your decisions are, it' s the reason we have asylums. I discovered the Atheist Experience on you-tube last year, I watched dozens of episodes since. The concept of that show is, basically, call and tell us what you believe in and why, we' ll point the fallacy. I haven' t seen them fail to point one yet. The show helped me to realize that, although I never really believed in God, being sent to catechism for years had planted a lot of nonsense in my head. I can' t imagine what I' d believe in now if religion had been spoon-fed to me when I was even younger than that.
I met a schizophrenic once, he was convinced he worked for the NASA. In southern France. Sure. It was disturbing on too many levels for me to count. Funny conversation though. For those of you who wonder, I hadn' t watched A Beautiful Mind yet. Good movie.
Oh hey, what' s up with that thread titl... I' m outta here.
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Ah, yes, I probably wouldn' t resist answering to this. ^^ I assume you pointed out we don' t get to choose our beliefs. Anyone who disagrees is free to stop believing in gravity and jump out of a tenth-storey window.
Same reason you feel like your head is still stucked in your butt when you wake up. "Get out of sleep" might sound like a simple, single action to you but it' s not, it' s a lot of different actions, and some of them have a noticeable loading time.
Imagine that you were already using both of your hands to do something, and that I suddenly threw something at you, yelling "catch this". There would be a chance for you to watch it crash to the ground instead of catching it. Windows does everything you ask it to do with a single "hand", so when you ask it to do several tasks there' s a chance for a bug to happen, especially if those tasks needed much "focus" (computing). Internet connexions can also bug by the way. Sometimes the information packages you receive have been altered along the way, a 0 replaced a 1 for some reason, and the whole package doesn' t make sense anymore. So, yeah, bugs happen.
Shit happens. You' re the one I explained that Windows A+B stuff before right ? Adding a task out of the blue can lead windows to, err ... stutter, sort of. The more stuff it was already doing the higher the chances for it to stutter.
Half of the population is atheist in my country. We probably have a few cuckoo crazy religious freaks hidden somewhere, I just never met any irl. Most of the religious "arguments" I' ve had, if we can call' em that, I' ve had on US forums. I' m sure I would fit what you call the atheist stereotype much more if I lived in a country whose religion chart looks like a pacman and if its separation of state and church was spat on daily, but religion just isn' t an issue at all in my day to day life (despite half of my family being catholic).
