EPTYour 20 seconds of courage? - Page 5
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Black[CAT]
Malaysia2589 Posts
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AlphaWhale
Australia328 Posts
On August 11 2012 21:02 Dosey wrote: Sounds more like cowardice than courage to me. You didn't know the answers and couldn't stand being made to look like an idiot publicly so you purposely made fool answers to get a cheap laugh out of everyone. Definitely not courage -_- Over just submitting to preset consequences? Given the fact it was impossible for me to have studied for the test (which ultimately played no part in anything, ever). To call it courage is self indulgent but I don't see the cowardice in pointing out the absurdity of a meaningless task. Think what you want. xoxo I should've just posted about kissing girls... | ||
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D10
Brazil3409 Posts
“But there was no need to be ashamed of tears, for tears bore witness that a man had the greatest of courage, the courage to suffer.” ― Viktor E. Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning | ||
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infinity21
Canada6683 Posts
for bungee jumping | ||
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reincremate
China2210 Posts
On August 11 2012 14:09 Jackal__ wrote: getting on your knee and asking the question to the love of your life? This doesn't really sound like something that should require courage but rather confidence that there will be a mutual agreement based on years of mutual understanding and love. | ||
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D10
Brazil3409 Posts
On August 11 2012 22:52 reincremate wrote: This doesn't really sound like something that should require courage but rather confidence that there will be a mutual agreement based on years of mutual understanding and love. DUDE! You have no idea | ||
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bagtab
Sweden14 Posts
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Roachu
Sweden692 Posts
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Kich
United States339 Posts
On August 11 2012 20:35 divito wrote: You wanted to do it, makes you feel good, etc... thus selfish. I had this conversation with someone that I went to college with, he thought that no action could ever not be selfish because you don't do anything that doesn't benefit you. The problem with this line of thought is it's attempting to diminish the actual act, but it doesn't. While subconsciously holding the door for someone may make me feel good, it's still something that I don't have to do to make someone else's day better. When virtually all things you do are selfish, the word Selfish no longer has real meaning because it's a default quality of all things and is simultaneously unquantifiable. So we then have to redefine the word Selfish in regards to actions, which to most people who haven't taken "that course in your freshman year of college that told you that and it stuck with you because you didn't really think about it" is the following: An action that benefits explicitly yourself, no one else, and generally at the cost of others. Every action I do requires muscles but you don't see me telling people that shaking their hand is a "work out". You have to acknowledge that yeah, I guess objectively at some level everything you do is selfish because you wouldn't do anything that doesn't make you feel good or benefit you on some level (be it emotional or worldly), but you also have to recognize then that if selfishness is a default quality of all actions then an action can be simultaneously altruistic and selfish. And even then, it's not selfish because "feeling good" isn't inherently selfish, and doing things that make you feel good isn't selfish. It's entirely possible to do something that is completely selfless and still feel good about it. Which essentially nukes that line of thinking. | ||
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D10
Brazil3409 Posts
On August 11 2012 23:13 Kich wrote: I had this conversation with someone that I went to college with, he thought that no action could ever not be selfish because you don't do anything that doesn't benefit you. The problem with this line of thought is it's attempting to diminish the actual act, but it doesn't. While subconsciously holding the door for someone may make me feel good, it's still something that I don't have to do to make someone else's day better. When virtually all things you do are selfish, the word Selfish no longer has real meaning because it's a default quality of all things and is simultaneously unquantifiable. So we then have to redefine the word Selfish in regards to actions, which to most people who haven't taken "that course in your freshman year of college that told you that and it stuck with you because you didn't really think about it" is the following: An action that benefits explicitly yourself, no one else, and generally at the benefit of others. Every action I do requires muscles but you don't see me telling people that shaking their hand is a "work out". You have to acknowledge that yeah, I guess objectively at some level everything you do is selfish because you wouldn't do anything that doesn't make you feel good or benefit you on some level (be it emotional or worldly), but you also have to recognize then that if selfishness is a default quality of all actions then an action can be simultaneously altruistic and selfish. It's entirely possible to do something that is completely selfless and still feel good about it. Which essentially nukes that line of thinking. ![[image loading]](http://i.imgur.com/59KTQ.gif) User was warned for this post | ||
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Sekken
Afghanistan248 Posts
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Sekken
Afghanistan248 Posts
That needs to be a meme... "You're having a baby?" "You just got gold league?" "You can do 6 pull ups?" | ||
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Chilling5pr33
Germany518 Posts
Well anyway i dont think courage is always good and will always improve your life often it will have the same amount of harm to you and to others so try to focus in wich situations you want to have courage not that you always be in the mood to not think instead just do! | ||
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GhostOwl
766 Posts
On August 11 2012 14:16 TommyP wrote: Yeah. One time my friends and I were driving around town (the worst side of town) when we were a couple years younger. I had a squirt gun in the back of my car. My friend grabbed it and unloaded a whole clip of water into an african american male of probably 25 years of age in a completely ghetto car just chilling on the side of the road with his window down at 3 am in the morning. Im 99% sure he was a crack dealer because what else are you doing then and there? So he started his car and started following us and then eventually my dumbass friend said turn in here and of course it was a dead end. So we were trapped and he came driving down the dead end and tried to block us in but i pulled the greatest juke maneuver ive ever seen and we escaped without getting hit or shot. I am a wussy too, I dont ever do anything dangerous so this is why it surprised me that I didnt just park the car or stop thinking. Awesome...can you go into more detail into the juke manuveur? Was it something you did with the car? | ||
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Dosey
United States4505 Posts
On August 11 2012 23:40 GhostOwl wrote: Awesome...can you go into more detail into the juke manuveur? Was it something you did with the car? He pressed R1. | ||
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nebffa
Australia776 Posts
LMFAO bolded part so good. I had a moment of 20 seconds of courage a few weeks ago: I'm going to see The Dark Knight Rises on my own cause none of my friends are free and I don't want to get ruined by spoilers. It's in the daytime and I go to a restaurant beforehand cause I don't want to see what is going to be the freaking BEST MOVIE EVER for me by being hungry (the Pancake Parlour... pancakes so delicious) and the waitress serving me has a great smile and was easy to talk to. I joke with her the few times she comes over, and I start to think... hang on, she actually is good looking with a great smile and is easy to talk to... should I ask her out? I think about it a little as I'm eating my pancakes and then I have to go because the movie starts in 5 minutes... ok... what am I going to do? Do I have the courage? What do I say? ... ok instead of getting all messed up I'm just going to go up and pay and not force anything... just talk a little and if it's right it's right... so I go up and as I pay we talk a little and I think... yep just go for it, and I say "I wouldn't normally ask this, but.. are you single?" She isn't  but she says she's flattered with that great smile. So I walk away but I feel great cause that's the first time I've asked a girl out from a store/restaurant  | ||
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Kich
United States339 Posts
On August 12 2012 00:19 nebffa wrote: LMFAO bolded part so good. I had a moment of 20 seconds of courage a few weeks ago: I'm going to see The Dark Knight Rises on my own cause none of my friends are free and I don't want to get ruined by spoilers. It's in the daytime and I go to a restaurant beforehand cause I don't want to see what is going to be the freaking BEST MOVIE EVER for me by being hungry (the Pancake Parlour... pancakes so delicious) and the waitress serving me has a great smile and was easy to talk to. I joke with her the few times she comes over, and I start to think... hang on, she actually is good looking with a great smile and is easy to talk to... should I ask her out? I think about it a little as I'm eating my pancakes and then I have to go because the movie starts in 5 minutes... ok... what am I going to do? Do I have the courage? What do I say? ... ok instead of getting all messed up I'm just going to go up and pay and not force anything... just talk a little and if it's right it's right... so I go up and as I pay we talk a little and I think... yep just go for it, and I say "I wouldn't normally ask this, but.. are you single?" She isn't but she says she's flattered with that great smile. So I walk away but I feel great cause that's the first time I've asked a girl out from a store/restaurant Trust me, that gets a lot easier over time, but they maintain not being single unfortunately. Cute waitresses have like a 0.5% chance of singularity. | ||
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nebffa
Australia776 Posts
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StorkHwaiting
United States3465 Posts
I was out with friends eating chicken wings at hooters while waiting for our dates to show up to watch a movie. This was sometime during 10th grade. A guy who also went to our school, but we didn't like, came in with two of his buddies and sat at a table halfway across the room from us. For the next 20 min, my friends and them went back and forth insulting each other. Once we got outside, the trash talking got more heated and there was noise about a fist fight. But then the girls came so we told them to fuck off and went to the movies. After we got back out the movies, the guy and his friends were still hanging around (this was like an open air mall/theater complex) and talking trash. I had about enough by this point, so we sent the girls home and went after them. They ran away though. Later, when the majority of my friends went home (there were about nine of us in total) it was only me and 1 other guy left. Those three guys started to talk a lot of shit thinking they had more numbers etc and began to flick me off from inside FAO Schwartz (there was a big glass wall/door to the entrance of the candy shop). I was in a bad mood because they'd been going on with this all night, so I got up and went into the toy store. First rack I passed had baseball bats for sale. I picked one up, stormed into the candy shop where they were, and in front of a bunch of little kids and their mothers, I beat the three of them down with the baseball bat. Then security came so I tried to run, but they had all the entrances blocked off. I knew it would be really bad if I got caught, so I had my 20 seconds of courage. Or more like five. I threw the bat at one of the guards, and tried to barrel through the other guard out the entrance. My body struck the glass door so hard the whole entrance shook with a bong sound. I realized the guards had straight up locked the doors. That was when they tasered me. When I came to, I was handcuffed in an office somewhere, and they were writing up a trespassing warrant. So, yeah, I couldn't take my girl to that mall for 3 years. Which is OK because we broke up a few weeks later coz she was a stupid ass devout Christian who went to bible study every sunday and was super stiff and miserable all the time trying to lecture me on how to behave and focus on my studies. She later married a Spanish baseball player who's super religious and freaky too. She is in great shape because she's a personal trainer, but even from facebook pictures I can still see the flames of fanaticism burning in her eyes. She would have been a horrible mother to my as-yet nonexistent children. Courage is invaluable. | ||
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Xitac
Germany25 Posts
how fucking broken and retarded his race is and i just quit without gg u may ask "xitac why would u not tell these braindead imbeciles how fucking stupid their race is?" well because they are too fucking retarded to see how stupid protoss is and they wouldnt get it anyways | ||
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