Anonymous A started this discussion 15 years ago#6,164
I'd like to take this opportunity to share with you some of my personal beliefs. I believe that everyone thinks they can write. This is not true. It is true, however, that everyone can have negative feelings. I believe that the Laws of Karma do not apply to the internet, where bad things happen to bad people on a fairly regular basis. Quite the contrary; I believe that most injustices go untold and never resolved. I believe that what doesn't kill us makes us bitter. I believe that the obsessive worship of movie, TV and sports figures is less likely to produce spiritual gain than praying to Thor. I believe that Larry was a vastly underrated Stooge, without whom Moe and Curly could not conform to the comedy law of three. I believe that if you can't find anything nice to say about people whom you've helped to make wildly successful and then they stabbed you in the back, then don't say anything at all.
I believe that there are actually several cures for the summertime blues. I believe I've spent my life expecting people to behave in a certain way. I believe that when they didn't behave according to my expectations, I became angry, sad, confused and occasionally pessimistic. I believe these expectations are the reason I've been angry, sad, confused and occasionally pessimistic more than I care to admit. As a result, I now believe my expectations are the real problem. I believe that everyone has this very same problem, and they ought to start acting accordingly.
Anonymous A (OP) double-posted this 15 years ago, 5 minutes later[^][v]#107,054
I believe I'm growing skeptical of cynicism.
I believe in the weighty issue of Weltschmerz. Weltschmerz is a German word which loosely means "world suffering deriving from the inevitability of reality to never match up with our expectations." I think sometimes people discover that life is never quite like the brochure. On the other hand, many recognize that life is a flowing river and happiness exists only when one embraces its ever-changing nature. It's almost comedic.
I believe that the very act of believing in something causes us to distance ourselves from that thing, thus a duality is created: oneself and the thing in which one believes. Now since we all know that in order to fully understand a thing one must be that thing -- walk a mile in its shoes so to speak -- it seems obvious that the state of believing in something inevitably causes us to not truly understand that thing in which we believe. This noncomprehension leads to all sorts of difficulties. "I believe in love" has a better than even chance of leading to divorce, while "I believe in God" seems to end in variations on the Spanish Inquisition. But -- and it's a big but -- if one were love, one couldn't help but be affectionate and caring towards oneself and others. If one were God, one would act toward all beings and all things as if they were one's own creations.
sexual aerosol !!mtq555+/1 joined in and replied with this 15 years ago, 7 minutes later, 12 minutes after the original post[^][v]#107,056
go fuck a shit up your ass
Anonymous C joined in and replied with this 15 years ago, 5 minutes later, 18 minutes after the original post[^][v]#107,057
no, a taste test.
stal !nator.ccGk joined in and replied with this 15 years ago, 5 seconds later, 18 minutes after the original post[^][v]#107,058
> go fuck a shit up your ass
waffielieblaffielienimjtaxman joined in and replied with this 15 years ago, 1 hour later, 1 hour after the original post[^][v]#107,083
I read "underrated stooge" and stopped reading. lol
Anonymous F joined in and replied with this 15 years ago, 10 hours later, 12 hours after the original post[^][v]#107,192
i believe that you have written two massive wallsoftext.
i believe that someone who fancies themself a writer should make use of the return key every once in a while.
i believe that i didnt read further than halfway into the first "paragraph".