EPTOn a side note I enjoyed your metaphors. "stuck to me tighter than a frog's butt in a watermelon seed fight." Can't say I've heard that one before.
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RushWifDietCoke
United States488 Posts
On a side note I enjoyed your metaphors. "stuck to me tighter than a frog's butt in a watermelon seed fight." Can't say I've heard that one before. | ||
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des
United States507 Posts
seems awfully self-centered | ||
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Flaccid
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On March 24 2011 01:57 buhhy wrote: Life is just a series of coincidences. Good book | ||
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Sotamursu
Finland612 Posts
On March 24 2011 00:51 EsX_Raptor wrote: What was she? Was she just another coincidence? Another event that was tossed up in the air like a pair of dice? A fleeting, passing chance? Yep. Hell fucking no; before meeting her, I couldn't give a damn about Germany, whilst I'm now finding myself being a wannabe and planning to live, die and be buried there. You met her and started learning german because of her. I don't see anything magical about this. If you had chosen to do otherwise, that would've just led you down another path of choices and you'd probably be saying the exact same thing. I don't know what drugs you did to come to the conclusion that a supreme being is controlling everything. I mean really, think about it. You're using a skill you developed for your advantage, because of an event that happened in your life. Yep that does it guys, there's a god guiding OP's life and he's the chosen one. | ||
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yesplz
United States295 Posts
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SubtleArt
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Sufficiency
Canada23833 Posts
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SubtleArt
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On March 24 2011 03:02 des wrote: the thing about the idea that some higher being is running everything to get x y and z out of you is that it is pretty focused on the idea that no one but yourself has agency and is just a puppet used by "god" to get you to do something seems awfully self-centered Yea that's what I've thought too. Like you forget to set up your alarm clock so you miss your flight, then it turns out the flight crashes, and you're like "this is not a coincidence, this was an act of god". Well honestly, why would god save you of all people and decide to kill 200 others no more or less innocent than u? Always bugged me when religious ppl think like that. | ||
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MoltkeWarding
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On March 24 2011 01:32 des wrote: obviously causality exists but it's absurd to think that someone is steering just because of that op meets girl, girl is german, op decides to learn german/about germany the only thing steering this is his boner! I think you are reaching at too conclusive a metaphor there. I have never heard of anyone taking up Goethe and Schiller because of excessive hormones, but if that is true, it just comes to show the miracles of human nature. Für mich hab' ich genug erworben Soviel auch Widerspruch sich regt; Sie haben meine Gedanken verdorben Und sagen, sie hätten mich widerlegt. | ||
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divito
Canada1213 Posts
A person's life has meaning, insofar as they define it. (Existentialism) As for being "amazed" or "excited" surrounding occurring events, I take a simple approach. Nothing is surprising, exciting and the like unless I wasn't aware of possibilities. Given that essentially anything is possible, there is nothing amazing that could occur, just probabilities. | ||
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des
United States507 Posts
On March 24 2011 05:33 MoltkeWarding wrote: I think you are reaching at too conclusive a metaphor there. I have never heard of anyone taking up Goethe and Schiller because of excessive hormones, but if that is true, it just comes to show the miracles of human nature. i'm not doin any metaphors i don't know what you're trying to tell me! | ||
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qdenser
Canada133 Posts
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EsX_Raptor
United States2802 Posts
On March 24 2011 05:33 MoltkeWarding wrote: Für mich hab' ich genug erworben Soviel auch Widerspruch sich regt; Sie haben meine Gedanken verdorben Und sagen, sie hätten mich widerlegt. Wer schrieb dies? | ||
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aqui
Germany1023 Posts
It's from Goethe. http://odysseetheater.org/goethe/texte/gedichte_zahme_xenien5.htm | ||
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