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Follow your dreams

School says to follow your dreams. That only happens to those who are
1.Get lucky and become wealthy
2.Are born into wealth.

Its so sad that only a few people in the world are able to live the way they deserve to.
05-28-2008 11:46 AM
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Re: Follow your dreams

magic Wrote:School says to follow your dreams. That only happens to those who are
1.Get lucky and become wealthy
2.Are born into wealth.

Its so sad that only a few people in the world are able to live the way they deserve to.
3. Work hard to become wealthy.
4. Don't dream of being wealthy.

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05-28-2008 02:51 PM
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Re: Follow your dreams

Are you retarded?
I'm sorry but I have about had it with your F*$^# threads, sorry this is a pet peeve of mine where I have to get on someone cause due to their ignorance.

So your saying just because your lower class you can't follow your dreams? THATS THE MUST IGNORANT THING I HAVE HEARD IN MY ENTIRE LIFE.

Oprah Winfrey came from fucking shit.

Stevie williams a african american skateboarder came from barely anything, his mother didn't even have the money to buy him new skateboards when they broke, and to add onto that they were wal-mart boards. Now look at him, he is a professional skateboarder with his own clothing line,skateboards, and etc.

Jesus man.

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FredTheMannequin Wrote:Are you retarded?
I'm sorry but I have about had it with your F*$^# threads, sorry this is a pet peeve of mine where I have to get on someone cause due to their ignorance.

So your saying just because your lower class you can't follow your dreams? THATS THE MUST IGNORANT THING I HAVE HEARD IN MY ENTIRE LIFE.

Oprah Winfrey came from fucking shit.

Stevie williams a african american skateboarder came from barely anything, his mother didn't even have the money to buy him new skateboards when they broke, and to add onto that they were wal-mart boards. Now look at him, he is a professional skateboarder with his own clothing line,skateboards, and etc.

Jesus man.

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Im thinking of those who have a really hard time becuase of the fucked up goverment
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magic Wrote:
FredTheMannequin Wrote:Are you retarded?
I'm sorry but I have about had it with your F*$^# threads, sorry this is a pet peeve of mine where I have to get on someone cause due to their ignorance.

So your saying just because your lower class you can't follow your dreams? THATS THE MUST IGNORANT THING I HAVE HEARD IN MY ENTIRE LIFE.

Oprah Winfrey came from fucking shit.

Stevie williams a african american skateboarder came from barely anything, his mother didn't even have the money to buy him new skateboards when they broke, and to add onto that they were wal-mart boards. Now look at him, he is a professional skateboarder with his own clothing line,skateboards, and etc.

Jesus man.

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Im thinking of those who have a really hard time becuase of the fucked up goverment
Oprah especially had it worst then all of us.
RACISM, SEGERATON, EXTREME POVERTY. Are you even attempting to think outside of the box?

I think I just blew your irrelevant opinion out the water.

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Yes, blame your class/luck for your own failures, that's the spirit!
05-29-2008 06:16 AM
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I think its really hard today because of so many damn corporation controlling the market, and possibly control your life.
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If your dreams are all about money, you're probably going to get fucked over regardless, unless you're lucky. But if your dreams are about things that really matter to you, and you go after them anyway, as best you can... money has this weird habit of following you around when you do that. I dunno how that works, but it seems to work.

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I dont see the point of jobs. Money is non existent and created by the government to control people.
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That may not have been the intention in the beginning, but it is quite true nowadays... On a completely unrelated note if you buy a gift card while there is a 2-for-1 sale and use both cards to buy more cards... and so on. You can easily multiply the amount of money you have to spend at that store. (Walmart, good choice)

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Quote:On a completely unrelated note if you buy a gift card while there is a 2-for-1 sale and use both cards to buy more cards... and so on. You can easily multiply the amount of money you have to spend at that store. (Walmart, good choice)

That actually works? Laugh Surely they would have some measure to prevent that?

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You would think *shrugs* They don't have any measure I've seen. The gift cards are good on "any item for sale in the store", so, legally I would imagine you could.

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