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rockstarjim22
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i want you guys to criticize me
Don't go easy you SOBs
Pls move this to general talk
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You still haven't changed your signature, your avatar is screwed up, you only have 4 internets, you posted in the wrong place.
Happy?
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RE: i want you guys to criticize me
The o in your username needs an umlaut.
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rockstarjim22
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Just do it you douchebags (trying to provoke you guys)
I am 14, and have my own computer repair business! And I'm a small time DJ also. No joke.
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Your hair doesn't smell preferable.
There, done. Woohoo.
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Ario
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I hate your "maymay kid" le 9gag jokes
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The girl you like is probably a stupid slutty cunt who's mother whored with everyman in town, and romance is for desperate losers who are afraid to be alone, a real person doesn't depend on sex and a lover for happiness. How did it go with the girl anyway? She probably turned you down or wants to use you for her own pleasure, you no nothing bout love.
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(07-02-2014 01:17 AM)Cianna200 Wrote: The girl you like is probably a stupid slutty cunt who's mother whored with everyman in town, and romance is for desperate losers who are afraid to be alone, a real person doesn't depend on sex and a lover for happiness. How did it go with the girl anyway? She probably turned you down or wants to use you for her own pleasure, you no nothing bout love.
I like you a whole lot more now.
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(07-02-2014 01:17 AM)Cianna200 Wrote: The girl you like is probably a stupid slutty cunt who's mother whored with everyman in town, and romance is for desperate losers who are afraid to be alone, a real person doesn't depend on sex and a lover for happiness. How did it go with the girl anyway? She probably turned you down or wants to use you for her own pleasure, you no nothing bout love.
Oh shit, I feel offended.
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(07-02-2014 01:17 AM)Cianna200 Wrote: The girl you like is probably a stupid slutty cunt who's mother whored with everyman in town, and romance is for desperate losers who are afraid to be alone, a real person doesn't depend on sex and a lover for happiness. How did it go with the girl anyway? She probably turned you down or wants to use you for her own pleasure, you no nothing bout love.
I like you so much more now!
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Your left nostril is noticeably bigger tham your right nostril.
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@rockstarjim22, can you explain why? I'm curious... it's an interesting concept.
However, I've gotta say I'm disappointed in the trend toward low-quality, "ha ha" based tone of the responses, and I can imagine things heading further in that direction.
Everyone:
I can see a role for asking for serious constructive criticism, as a source of feedback and possible guidance on things to reflect on, change, or just come to terms with. But, throwing around low-quality insults, nitpicking irrelevant details (Wes...), making up stuff (Alistorov), isn't going to provide the kind of worthwhile feedback that school, parents, peers, and even SS in general aren't necessarily providing.
I understand people's concern about a forum that's a total "hugbox," but I also think that nonsensical, random, frag arena-style interactions are a rather poor use of the opportunity we have to use this as a new learning environment that rivals school and helps people make sense of their lives and improve their situations.
Also, I think that when people do criticize, providing some thoughtful guidance on possibly ways to resolve the underlying problems doesn't necessarily hurt, where applicable.
Thoughts on that?
@rockstarjim22, I got the sense that your question came from a place of looking for something more than just the frag arena style responses. Is that true?
And, in terms of criticism: here's mine:
(1) You could probably find a better way to use your time, by and large -- especially over the summer. It might help to start by looking at your interests, things you believe in, and things you'd like to accomplish in your life, short and long-term. Not everything can happen immediately, but if you take some time at points during each day to say, "what might I do?" it could help.
(2) On the forums, you post a number of things in random lately. Maybe you could balance that out with some serious, thoughtful posts? You've posted a number of higher-quality posts regarding your own situation... maybe apply some of that ability to some other topics... maybe responding to other threads with your thoughts, feelings, related stories from your experience, resources you've come across, and so on.
(3) I don't know enough about your situation to continue into more specifics... maybe share more, like blog-style, about some of the things that happen in your life, and what you do, in order to have more to work with?
(But, I do caution against falling into this "frag culture" stuff that's all about tearing down and never about building up or doing anything with whatever insight has been gained from other people's often-irrelevant feedback.)
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Your feet smell strange.
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(07-02-2014 01:17 AM)Cianna200 Wrote: The girl you like is probably a stupid slutty cunt who's mother whored with everyman in town, and romance is for desperate losers who are afraid to be alone, a real person doesn't depend on sex and a lover for happiness. How did it go with the girl anyway? She probably turned you down or wants to use you for her own pleasure, you no nothing bout love.
I love you(r way of insulting other people)
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(07-02-2014 01:17 AM)Cianna200 Wrote: The girl you like is probably a stupid slutty cunt who's mother whored with everyman in town
Hot.
Quote:and romance is for desperate losers who are afraid to be alone, a real person doesn't depend on sex and a lover for happiness.
A real person would see the logic in the continuation of the human race, and the concept of how offsprings brought about through the pleasurable act of sex(which itself is an end to various means mainly for the pleasure of the act) would be, in a sense, the continuation of one's self.
Quote:She probably turned you down or wants to use you for her own pleasure, you no nothing bout love.
Yummy.
This thread is confusing. I'm not understand this request for criticism. If it was in random, I'd assume it was a form of silly nonsensical humor.
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Although I was kidding of course, I hate sex still but it is seldom used to continue the human race and the continuation of oneself requires one to discover who they really are. Though I have yet to meet a person who does not want to keep bringing people into the world, I want to see one who wants to bring joy, love, freedom and peace to this world, because without these very important things, we won't survive even if we keep having children.
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So hypothetically I'd want to bring joy, love, freedom and peace to the world by being the most evil, vile and most hated destroyer of this planet. Why? Because through the horror of evil will mankind seek peace and joy.
My hypothesis would be that when a person or group manifests the global hatred, anger and evil of humanity, and expends it, thus destroying much thoughts of anger and hate.
An example I'd use would be Star Trek, where the Earth hits the deepest pits of hell when society becomes a fragmented, corrupt and decayed nightmare. Then the hippy stuff happens after enough of the horrors are spent, leaving the only viable option of peace and freedom.
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Unfotunately, mankind still hasn't woke up, I'm starting to think we are not really smart after all.
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We're smart, but we have a tendency to overestimate ourselves as a species in pretty much everything...then get disappointed when we encounter the truth.
It's why we make up all the nonsense of our ancestors being stupid cavemen, when in reality we are pretty similar in many aspects with only the technological differences being the main contributor of difference between us and them. Otherwise we're practically no different from a human 1000 years ago.
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You're a dick
You're a dick
You're a dick on a stick
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(07-05-2014 06:28 AM)KFC Nyan Cat Wrote: You're a dick
You're a dick
You're a dick on a stick
I bet that sure sounds delicious to you.
jk.
I missed my old username
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(07-03-2014 04:59 AM)Cianna200 Wrote: Although I was kidding of course, I hate sex still but it is seldom used to continue the human race and the continuation of oneself requires one to discover who they really are. Though I have yet to meet a person who does not want to keep bringing people into the world, I want to see one who wants to bring joy, love, freedom and peace to this world, because without these very important things, we won't survive even if we keep having children.
You hate.... sex? Me thinks someone has issues no? Why hate love, life, pleasure, joy, and bonding? Maybe tis none of my business.
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Hedonism ftw
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