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Hello everyone,

If you were here a long time ago, you may have remembered me (Duelix). I had an interesting reputation on this site.

I tried logging into my old accounts, but they were all banned. I therefore created this new one.

Anyone want to see what growing up does to someone?

Ask me anything.
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Why were you banned?

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Many many things. I faked my own suicide, then faked my own friend who faked my own suicide.

I was also basement dwelled (many many years back) for controversial threads such as "niggers suck ass," etc. I was just a troll (a bored young kid).
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I've read some of your older posts.

Welcome to the new School Survival! Lefty or righty?

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Neither, if you are referring to political views.
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I think he's referring to your dominant hand...

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(12-28-2013 07:00 PM)IvoTheMagnificent Wrote:  I think he's referring to your dominant hand...

...Actually, he's referring to the jacking-off hand, which need not be the dominant one. Though he did forget to include "both".

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(12-28-2013 07:00 PM)IvoTheMagnificent Wrote:  I think he's referring to your dominant hand...

...Actually, he's referring to the jacking-off hand, which need not be the dominant one. Though he did forget to include "both".

Which fool is stealing my question?!

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Long time no see. This should be interesting. Laugh

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I'm doing various things. Reading, mostly.
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What are you reading, aside from replies on School Survival? Smile

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Organic Chemistry.
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Interesting.

Do you intend on reading any novels?

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Do you work? What kind of work do you do, and/or want to do in the future?

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I may read some novel at some point.

Education is a necessary evil, my friends. Changing the world requires specific knowledge, but one must willfully take it up the ass from society to prove that they possess this specific knowledge.
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No one minds education here, of course. It's the compulsory schooling that turns us off.

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By education I refer to a college and graduate education (many years of schooling).
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College beats the compulsory k-12, but I'm not a big fan of the so called "General Education" thing being mandatory. The best reasons are mostly "better citizens" and "well-rounded person". My understanding is "Giving you the education you really should've learned in k-12".

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Agreed.

My real dream was to become a Buddhist monk, but that shit ain't gonna happen.

Instead, I'm gonna spend my time cooking drugs, taking them, and writing experience reports.
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I'm INTP by the Briggs Myers Type (nearly 100% in each catergory).

But upon further analysis, I realize that the MBTI is a pile of horseshit. I just happen to be described perfectly because I fall far to one side of the distribution in every category.
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(12-31-2013 02:52 PM)Duelix3 Wrote:  I may read some novel at some point.

Education is a necessary evil, my friends. Changing the world requires specific knowledge, but one must willfully take it up the ass from society to prove that they possess this specific knowledge.

There are lots of ways to make it in the world... and there's more than one way to acquire knowledge. Demonstrating one's value to others is another step... and traditional credentials are just one way to do that of many.

Consider Joi Ito, now director of MIT's Media Lab, who never completed college.

Or Kio Stark, author of Don't Go Back to School: A Handbook for Learning Anything, "I’m a grad school dropout from Yale, author of the novel Follow Me Down (Red Lemonade, 2011), an advertising copywriter, and I teach at NYU’s graduate Interactive Telecommunications Program. Some of the things I’ve taught myself include how to develop and print photos, novel-writing, the psychology and neuroscience of delusions, and the history of art theft and forgery. I’ve developed courses at NYU on designing stranger interactions, on intimacy and technology, and on the illusion of authenticity in technology."

These are just some of many examples.


(01-01-2014 01:57 PM)Duelix3 Wrote:  My real dream was to become a Buddhist monk, but that shit ain't gonna happen.

Instead, I'm gonna spend my time cooking drugs, taking them, and writing experience reports.

Why isn't becoming a Buddhist monk going to happen? And, why drugs, instead of a range of other ways to develop and influence your mind?

(01-01-2014 02:02 PM)Duelix3 Wrote:  I'm INTP by the Briggs Myers Type (nearly 100% in each catergory).

But upon further analysis, I realize that the MBTI is a pile of horseshit. I just happen to be described perfectly because I fall far to one side of the distribution in every category.

That's interesting, and something to dive deeper into. Which test(s) have you taken?

And, as Jung's theory explains, and several of us on your MBTI thread have explained, there's more to MBTI than just per-category distributions.

Regardless of the validity of MBTI, I wonder why you fall so far to the extremes. How would you describe it, in terms of the questions themselves, and how you find yourself responding?

And, what kind of results do you get on the Big 5, and what do you think about the questions and results there?

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(12-28-2013 05:07 PM)Duelix3 Wrote:  Many many things. I faked my own suicide, then faked my own friend who faked my own suicide.

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Consensual incest is very common. You know people who have been involved, whether you know it or not.

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Some say "Your sibling should not be your lover." That is not a reason. It begs the question. Many people have many relationships that have more than one aspect. Some women say their sister is their best friend. Why can’t their sister be a wife, too?

Some say “There is a power differential.” This applies least of all to siblings or cousins who are close in age, but even where the power differential exists, it is not a justification for denying this freedom to sex or to marry. There is a power differential in just about any relationship, sometimes an enormous power differential. To question if consent is truly possible in these cases is insulting and demeaning.

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(12-28-2013 05:07 PM)Duelix3 Wrote:  Many many things. I faked my own suicide, then faked my own friend who faked my own suicide.

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What did you learn from your time trolling?

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(01-16-2017 03:27 PM)Subb Wrote:  Because he was messed up. Got into a lotta shit with the site after this. We don't like to talk about him.

He's not really messed up, is he? He's just a narcissistic cunt.
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