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perisie xx
429 Posts
to YOU who has been the strongest influence to your life? the most significant book in your life? the most powerful movie, or prose? bill hicks documentary a lot of things are emotionally powerful for me. this is one of the greatest. "I left in love, in laughter, and in truth, and wherever truth, love and laughter abide, I am there in spirit." - Bill Hicks | ||
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Famehunter
Canada586 Posts
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Zeller
United States1109 Posts
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fight_or_flight
United States3988 Posts
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Proposal
United States1310 Posts
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perisie xx
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LucidProphecy
United States6 Posts
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Funchucks
Canada2113 Posts
- Bill Hicks Lesson learned: don't tempt the gods. | ||
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perisie xx
429 Posts
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SweeTLemonS[TPR]
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perisie xx
429 Posts
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perisie xx
429 Posts
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HotZhot
Colombia677 Posts
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perisie xx
429 Posts
maybe if you let your post be available for more than 5 minutes it might get some responses all u show to me now is that you had shit to say but dont want to show it anymore without immediate attention. | ||
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berated-
United States1134 Posts
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SweeTLemonS[TPR]
11739 Posts
On March 21 2008 12:11 perisie xx wrote: SweeTLemonS[TPR] maybe if you let your post be available for more than 5 minutes it might get some responses all u show to me now is that you had shit to say but dont want to show it anymore without immediate attention. I'm not trying to show you anything. The edit was in there before I took the post down. There were too many people not taking the thread seriously, so I took out my comments. If the thread takes a more serious tone, I'll put them back it. | ||
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OctoPuSs
Canada5279 Posts
On March 21 2008 12:12 berated- wrote: The strong person I know and the biggest influence in my life is undoubtedly my mom. Might sound cliche, but I don't care. Any woman who can raise three kids, work 3 jobs at one point and beat cancer during that time gets my vote. She's taught me that everything won't be handed to you and you have to work for what you want. Definitely thoughts I live by. This man's mother would be my choice. Nice story man. | ||
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dancefayedance!~
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jtan
Sweden5891 Posts
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perisie xx
429 Posts
if you have something to say then you should say it regardless of who is listening and who is reacting. you´re dealing with the real worldl here, no silly random MMO ideals. you´re dealing with real life. if people are not taking a thread seriously then whos responsibility is it to maintain a standard? who, on earth, is going to be a strength in this world of ours, if not YOU? | ||
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SweeTLemonS[TPR]
11739 Posts
Well, the biggest influence on my life would be someone no one actually knows. His name was Dave, and I worked with him at Jiffy Lube a few years ago (he since went back to school and got a better job). He was a HUGE influence on my life because he really opened my mind to a lot of things I would never think about. We would debate politics a lot, and I would lose every battle (basically, I thought I won some), and it opened my eyes to a new way of thinking. That's not to say I agree with everything he said, but he certainly pulled me out of my rigidity. Recently there have been a lot of major influences that have really changed the way I view life, in general. The pick-up community has changed the way I view all social interactions. It changed my views about myself, too, and that's what's most important. I've been thinking about it a lot today, and yesterday for two reasons: 1) that guys and dolls video, and 2) my dad's friend offed himself today and he was kinda depressed, I have no idea what over, but that's not the point. I've been thinking that if more people were opened to the world I've been opened to, and have now embraced, their social and love lives could be so much greater than they are now. I'm not saying that I'm some sort of great pick-up artist/player/whatever you want to call it, what I'm saying is that it opened my eyes to the point that I realize that having a healthy social life is entirely within my grasp. It's up to ME, not other people. People are not the mean, hate-filled things that I used to think they were. The looks I get were not negative, and if they were, it was because of ME, not them. There are too many people in the community to name them all (that have influenced me), but if I had to point to one single source, it would be David DeAngelo's deep inner game (seriously, it's more about psychology than it is pick-up, and it's absolutely fascinating). Those are probably the biggest influences I've had in my life up to this point, aside from the obvious one of my parents. That's what I initially wrote. I could go on and on, that's really a rough summary of things. | ||
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Reflex
Canada703 Posts
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micronesia
United States24800 Posts
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perisie xx
429 Posts
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Funchucks
Canada2113 Posts
Bill Hicks was a smartass. He mixed unfiltered snark with fuzzy-headed mystical optimism. This odd combination let him be viciously and relentlessly sarcastic without being utterly depressing, but it is still just a form of pandering to prejudice. For the sake of concision, values are normally expressed in absolute terms, which should not be taken at face value. There is a tension between values which leads to superior judgement as their holder struggles to balance them. The superficial contradiction between formulaic absolute expressions of values does not have any bearing on the validity or practical applicability of those values. These contradictions should not be eliminated from our value systems, or the virtuous tension between values that guides us in making special consideration for complex circumstances would be lost. The contradictions give us flexibility within strong practical guidelines. He made a career of being peevishly obtuse about the difference between forms of language used to express values, and the way language is used to make factual statements. In the end, what he did was not much different from making puns: droll language misprocessing. ...which is why most people didn't like him, and his fans are mostly either social misfits who are constantly angry at the world's supposed hypocrisy, or superficial purveyors of snark like him. An unfair attack on people's values can be an effective way of opening up their minds for something new, but after this guy tore a bleeding hole in his audience, all he had ready to pour in was hippy-dippy bullshit about how all we have to do is live and let live, and everything will turn out fine because the cosmos is a magical fantasyland of love and happiness, and the only thing wrong with it is human stupidity. If you think he was funny, then go ahead and laugh. But if you think he was profound in a way that should guide your life, think harder. | ||
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.kaz
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Pressure
7326 Posts
On March 21 2008 12:37 micronesia wrote: SEIJURO HIKO | ||
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BaDayOri
Korea (South)469 Posts
On March 21 2008 11:54 LucidProphecy wrote: victor martinez so beastly | ||
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HaXxorIzed
Australia8434 Posts
Sure, there are his snappy quotes and rather intelligent observations on the world in referral to Gibran. Those are nice, and I'm sure many loved to prescribe to the all-encapsulating nature of them and his writings on the "unity of being". However, I was always fascinated by the growth of the movement and thoughts around him as much as his works himself. For someone who has always existed wondering if a fusion of mysticism and materialism and/or black and white is that tangible, his work was always very interesting. He wrote The New Frontier generations before Kennedy's 1961 address after all and the whole body of his works had much more power than showmanship, after all. As for Milan Kundera, he was the first writer I really intellectualized over who seeks to write each characters and even his entire body of as a fragment of his own personality and essentially as key characteristic segments of a greater thematic body of work. Hence, his material and in particular his views on intimacy has always had an aura I've found fascinating and something resonant with my everyday life. | ||
Last Romantic
United States20667 Posts
More seriously, I'd go with... well, let's go with literary influences. 1) Soren Kierkegaard. Especially The Sickness Unto Death. God that's such a good book. 2) Alexandre Dumas. OK, so his books are typical teenage male testosterone-filled fare, but that doesn't stop Le Comte de Monte-Cristo from being so damn amazing. 3) Gabriel Garcia Marquez. Love in the Time of Cholera operates on an incredible number of levels. | ||
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noobienoob
United States1173 Posts
vegeta! what does the scouter say about his power level? | ||
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Night[Mare
Mexico4793 Posts
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BluzMan
Russian Federation4235 Posts
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PhilGood2DaY
Germany7424 Posts
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Terranlisk
Singapore1404 Posts
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niteReloaded
Croatia5282 Posts
I had noone to look up to. shit. | ||
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Titusmaster6
United States5937 Posts
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distant_voice
Germany2521 Posts
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PGS.Marine
Poland303 Posts
On March 21 2008 15:50 Last Romantic wrote: + Show Spoiler + Is this the part where I chime in with Reach and YellOw? More seriously, I'd go with... well, let's go with literary influences. 1) Soren Kierkegaard. Especially The Sickness Unto Death. God that's such a good book. 2) Alexandre Dumas. OK, so his books are typical teenage male testosterone-filled fare, but that doesn't stop Le Comte de Monte-Cristo from being so damn amazing. 3) Gabriel Garcia Marquez. Love in the Time of Cholera operates on an incredible number of levels. Have you tried Albert Camus or Milan Kundera? I think you will like both | ||
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YPang
United States4024 Posts
On March 21 2008 23:05 distant_voice wrote: Snorlax ROFL | ||
Xeofreestyler
Belgium6786 Posts
Fuck yes. He manhandled a freakin giant. A GIANT. | ||
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baal
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wurm
Philippines2296 Posts
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Murlox
France1699 Posts
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Rev0lution
United States1805 Posts
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StarN
United States2587 Posts
Obi-Wan: Darth. If you strike me down, I shall become more powerful than you could possibly imagine. | ||
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mnm
United States4493 Posts
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pokerface
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tKd_
United States2916 Posts
On March 21 2008 21:31 MyHeroNoob wrote: Derren Brown ur a god | ||
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iNcontroL
USA29055 Posts
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MeriaDoKk
Chile1726 Posts
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perisie xx
429 Posts
On March 21 2008 12:46 Funchucks wrote: If you think he was funny, then go ahead and laugh. But if you think he was profound in a way that should guide your life, think harder. i think i just find him a good speaker; brutal, simplistic and honest, with brutal, honest and fun things to say. the sheer power with which he performs is enough | ||
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xM(Z
Romania5299 Posts
so let me get the logic: * someone influenced the way you think --> now you feel better about yourself --> all of a sudden your life has meaning --> but nothing happens. * you read a book --> you 'feel' the story --> get a little high on your new found wisdom --> but nothing happens. i don't get it. whats the point?. why the praises?. wheres the influence?. wasn't it supposed to be something practical?. ohh, it changed you inside. who cares?, why would they?, how would they know that you've changed?. (no comment about worshippers) "most powerful person i know" = none. | ||
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HotZhot
Colombia677 Posts
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DustFerret
United States60 Posts
Richard Dawkins, my favorite evolutionary biologist. Franklin D. Roosevelt, as a socialist he has to be my favorite U.S president. It's good to see what strains of socialism in economic policy can do for a country. | ||
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SonuvBob
Aiur21552 Posts
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Monsen
Germany2548 Posts
You win. | ||
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Freakz19
United States54 Posts
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BloodyC0bbler
Canada7876 Posts
All of them have understood where they stand in life, and what they have to do, and its really helped me develop my own life. | ||
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D10
Brazil3409 Posts
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zizou21
United States3683 Posts
![[image loading]](http://www.martinfrost.ws/htmlfiles/aristotle3.jpg) the most 'powerful' human being of all time IMO | ||
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oneofthem
Cayman Islands24199 Posts
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Rev0lution
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