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Random thoughts 1: Just Sayin'
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Lexicus
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I thought it was a movie starring John Cusack
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If that's true then that's dumb
Lexicus
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It doesn't, snowflakes are awesome
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As long as the temperature is below freezing, melted snowflakes just aren't as awesome.
Lexicus
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I too am a big fan of water. It may not be the flashiest or best-tasting beverage but it never disappoints.
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And it has a higher alchohol content then most american light beers.
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Water is life. 
And alcohol is civilisation!
And alcohol is civilisation!
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I've always found this to be a rather silly zinger to try and throw at people. Humans are made up of an extraordinary amount of traits and expressions, all matched up in different ways to varying levels of presence and importance. Even if you line up ten people with the same interests and same personality type, they'll each be unique in some shape or form upon inspection. The statistical chance that there may be someone exactly like you in some village on the other side of the planet is meaningless and does not reduce an individual's uniqueness in their local environment.
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You're Unique and Special. Just like everyone else.....
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But for any one situation, most of that uniqueness is irrelevant.
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I'm not coming across right. Which is normal, I'm sorting it out myself too.
I guess let me put it this way: a drink of water is meaningful enough that water itself is often considered sacred. After 4 hot hours of not having enough of it, water tastes like... life? I guess?
A breath of air is much the same, but you miss it differently over a different timescale. But you can replicate the gasp of it after not enough, like in the 4 hours in the sun without water thing. I do not recommend this - it's stupid and likely to get people hurt- but: if you ever knew somebody really really good at that party trick where somebody squeezes your neck just right to cut off oxygen to your brain without hurting you hurting you? And they let go right as they can tell your eyes lose focus? Two things happen - first, you lose the air you need without the suffocating fear response, second, when it all comes flooding back people will stop and ask, "What the hell was that?" Well, that's... life? I guess? Like the tall drink of water was.
Finding your tribe is sort of like that for most people. Not everybody, some people are actually loners, but even then it's not binary - there's a scale of need. And here's the takeaway I get from this tortured line of logic that gets my brain from point a) to b) on most things - Give the pansexual art students a pass. Most humans need a tribe like they need air or water, just on a slower scale. And part of their irritating arrogant exhuberance is simply... life. They had an unfulfilled need in life they may not have even totally figured out, and they just started drinking of it. It's probably easier just to think of it like we're fish, and fish are mostly water.
I guess let me put it this way: a drink of water is meaningful enough that water itself is often considered sacred. After 4 hot hours of not having enough of it, water tastes like... life? I guess?
A breath of air is much the same, but you miss it differently over a different timescale. But you can replicate the gasp of it after not enough, like in the 4 hours in the sun without water thing. I do not recommend this - it's stupid and likely to get people hurt- but: if you ever knew somebody really really good at that party trick where somebody squeezes your neck just right to cut off oxygen to your brain without hurting you hurting you? And they let go right as they can tell your eyes lose focus? Two things happen - first, you lose the air you need without the suffocating fear response, second, when it all comes flooding back people will stop and ask, "What the hell was that?" Well, that's... life? I guess? Like the tall drink of water was.
Finding your tribe is sort of like that for most people. Not everybody, some people are actually loners, but even then it's not binary - there's a scale of need. And here's the takeaway I get from this tortured line of logic that gets my brain from point a) to b) on most things - Give the pansexual art students a pass. Most humans need a tribe like they need air or water, just on a slower scale. And part of their irritating arrogant exhuberance is simply... life. They had an unfulfilled need in life they may not have even totally figured out, and they just started drinking of it. It's probably easier just to think of it like we're fish, and fish are mostly water.
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Most things are irrelevant.
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Why would you disagree with "everyone is unique and special" anyway? The only real reason would seem to be to edgily establish your superiority/cynicism over all the fools who actually believe in Something rather than Nothing. I mean, we're all dead and nothing we do matters, so we have to embrace delusions if we're to remain sane. Better "we are all special" than "being white makes me special."
It's sort of like the soul. I used to spend hours typing hundreds of words about how the soul was not empirically verifiable and thus could not be said to exist. Way to miss the point, past me! Saying we have souls is a way of asserting our common humanity, and our inherent worth as humans. Arguing against that is, frankly, lame.
It's sort of like the soul. I used to spend hours typing hundreds of words about how the soul was not empirically verifiable and thus could not be said to exist. Way to miss the point, past me! Saying we have souls is a way of asserting our common humanity, and our inherent worth as humans. Arguing against that is, frankly, lame.
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