Are happy people boring?
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shiels
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This is what I assume you were doing with the boring depressed people chat. A shaman-jester move to undercut the common sense and get everyone riled up is it
entertainment
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and some would say that this is where sweeping ideology enters, utopianism and historicism as ways of salvaging the incoherences, giving rationalized expression to this dissatisfaction
entertainment
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the forum pyromaniac, tossing unextinguished cigarette butts by his wayside, waiting to see if smoke appears in the rear view mirror
luka
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Yeah we all know what we are supposed to think and feel and we all know we think and feel all sorts of things over and above what we are supposed to think and it's good to allow for the whole spectrum of it isn't it? It's much more wholesome and hygienic and as you say, it's necessary for conversation. Without it piety stifles everything.
entertainment
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I don't this feeling that depressed people bring me down, though. It's like with shy people, there's a window to something very real there.
In any case, I'd rather stare at the wall with a depressed person than make small talk with a gardener
In any case, I'd rather stare at the wall with a depressed person than make small talk with a gardener
luka
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A good friend of mine is a depressed gardener. I will introduce you.
luka
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I can understand Simon Silverdollar and others getting defensive because they're right, obviously. Being married having kids and wearing a suit to work doesn't mean you're boring, doesn't turn you boring.
I also understand the fear and resentment that creeps in when your peers start doing those things and you feel left out in the cold.
I also understand the fear and resentment that creeps in when your peers start doing those things and you feel left out in the cold.
luka
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Very often the words we say are there to express emotions, to vent something, rather than to state some thought through position we are willing to stand behind. Part of learning to read, part of learning to listen to other people, is about learning to distinguish between the two. Is this a programmatic statement. Is this lashing out. Is this self aware self mockery. What is going on here?
Entertainment started a thread about how he feels watching his peers settle down. I know that feeling. I share that feeling. It's natural and inevitable.
Entertainment started a thread about how he feels watching his peers settle down. I know that feeling. I share that feeling. It's natural and inevitable.
luka
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You were born 30 years too late.
craner
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Not for online food shopping, I wasn't.
shiels
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Places like this are great if you enjoy trying on positions to see how they play out. Daft takes can be great to force people to clarify their position. I start to get claustrophobic when the chat gets too serious for too long, and equally if it's only bantz allowed, like is a stag do whatsapp group say. I often wonder if this holds me back in life.
entertainment
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the boring thing about life is that you can't really call any of these things boring by nature
obviously it's all a balance. gardening, escapism, realism. the comfort of conformity or the allure of adventure. furnishing your bubble or vicariously taking in the misery of the world. being uplifted by the company of easy-going happy people of affirming the depth of life in empathy with depressed people. they all have their place.
obviously it's all a balance. gardening, escapism, realism. the comfort of conformity or the allure of adventure. furnishing your bubble or vicariously taking in the misery of the world. being uplifted by the company of easy-going happy people of affirming the depth of life in empathy with depressed people. they all have their place.
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Corpsey
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What's stopping you?