rahvin
keeper of the flame
well, we get the girl before you do, captive and helpless in our dungeons, and we're not limited to dull sexual positions.Dark_Jester said:@michele: but in the end, we win, and we get the girl too
Not-so-good-and-old "How do you feel" thread
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Sunjammer
Eternal Sorrow Inside
NF: Slightly exhausted (hmm, oxymoron? 
) and a bit upset.
1. I've been knee-deep in Photoshop, JavaScript, SQL and ASP/VBScript the last couple of weeks while beating my head silly trying to create the perfect framework for this site I'm working on. Finally getting it all to work the way *I* want it to...
2. Getting quite fed up with this so called friend of mine. Again, it's mostly a website issue. He's a photographer and since neither one of us is loaded with cash, we came to the agreement that I'd build his site and he'd assist me with taking photos when needed. Thing is, he wants to update the site more often than one changes socks and when I want a favor of him (photo job or not), he "can't squeeze it into his oh-so-busy schedule". The rascal recently got a photo job which gave him 5000+ kronor (roughly 500+ Euro), but could he spare a dime or so to pay me? Nope, he spends more than he can afford to. You get the idea. Now, am I the bad guy here, wanting some in return for what I've done, or am I right..?
Sorry, peeps. Had to get it off my chest...
) and a bit upset. 1. I've been knee-deep in Photoshop, JavaScript, SQL and ASP/VBScript the last couple of weeks while beating my head silly trying to create the perfect framework for this site I'm working on. Finally getting it all to work the way *I* want it to...
2. Getting quite fed up with this so called friend of mine. Again, it's mostly a website issue. He's a photographer and since neither one of us is loaded with cash, we came to the agreement that I'd build his site and he'd assist me with taking photos when needed. Thing is, he wants to update the site more often than one changes socks and when I want a favor of him (photo job or not), he "can't squeeze it into his oh-so-busy schedule". The rascal recently got a photo job which gave him 5000+ kronor (roughly 500+ Euro), but could he spare a dime or so to pay me? Nope, he spends more than he can afford to. You get the idea. Now, am I the bad guy here, wanting some in return for what I've done, or am I right..?
Sorry, peeps. Had to get it off my chest...
Rusty
A-HAHAHA!
NF: Restless. I've got a great urge to be working hard doing something, but I have no idea what. Whatever I turn to I become bored with after a few minutes, then it's back to the restlessness and frustration. Darn it all to heck.
EDITÖ At a quarter to midnight I finally found a release and started trying to learn something. Three+quarters of an hour later, Iäd like to state that the Finnish past tense sucks hairy arsegiblets. I will now go to bed feeling a hell of a lot more irritated and a hell of a lot less tired than if Iäd have gone an hour ago.
EDIT mk II: Forgetting to return to the English keyboard map often yields interesting results when posting messages hastily on UM.
EDIT mk III: Haluan nukkua.
EDITÖ At a quarter to midnight I finally found a release and started trying to learn something. Three+quarters of an hour later, Iäd like to state that the Finnish past tense sucks hairy arsegiblets. I will now go to bed feeling a hell of a lot more irritated and a hell of a lot less tired than if Iäd have gone an hour ago.
EDIT mk II: Forgetting to return to the English keyboard map often yields interesting results when posting messages hastily on UM.
EDIT mk III: Haluan nukkua.
Tebus
An abode of few.
NF: Very good for some reason. It's amazing how all problems can go away with a change in perspective.
NF: a bit Wish I knew why... It's probably stress that's beginning to crawl back since I go back to school again tomorrow, as well as the stress of writing job applications and of having to call people begging for work... Guess it's just one of those moments when I really doubt myself 
I worry too much.
And Tebus' sig is right
And I think I'll go and make myself a cup of coffee...
Wish I knew why... It's probably stress that's beginning to crawl back since I go back to school again tomorrow, as well as the stress of writing job applications and of having to call people begging for work... Guess it's just one of those moments when I really doubt myself I worry too much.
And Tebus' sig is right
And I think I'll go and make myself a cup of coffee...
Legende
Visionnaire
NL: No, you need Mentos. >:-[ ... fresh and full of life, duh!
NF: I'm feeling like everything I ate the past week comes back to life... steak back into cow, chicken to chicken and pasta to worm
NF: I'm feeling like everything I ate the past week comes back to life... steak back into cow, chicken to chicken and pasta to worm
Destroyer Of Orden
ArchType
NF:Tired but can't sleep... insomnia is not a cool thing to have, so i'll be here all night, until I pass out on the keyboard
Rusty
A-HAHAHA!
After trying to work on two different assignments today and getting stuck and frustrated with both, I read some Pratchett which calmed me down nicely. Now I'm plucking up the courage to attempt to crack the godsdammed Finnish past tense, which smells. I'm also cold and tired, but I'm always cold and tired so it's not really worth talking about.
Dark_Jester
Unrepentant sentient
I've just had an epiphany.
Each and every one of us spends our lives killing ourselves.
Why do we do this? We work these days, and everyone's encouraged to get that degree, attain that goal, reach for the highest star, and deal with all the stress that accompanies it. Many countries are now at the point where it has too many professionals to go around, and no labourers. Everyone has moved to the cities, and the gap between the 'has' and 'has not's' has greatly increased. We don't know what's in our food, or what it's doing to us, and city life kills us slowly with its toxins. We are detroying and using all our resources much faster than they are regenerated. We have reached the point where greed is now a commodity.
Why do I want to be a lawyer? I mean, why do I really want to be a lawyer? Thinking about it, I'm not quite sure. Is it the money? The power, the prestige? The shiny certificate that says 'congratulations, you are now in the great cog of society, and now it will grind you down until you die'? I could fool myself and say I want to help people, but do they need my help? Maybe we should start helping ourselves, and worry about the rest later. No other animal gathers like people do. There are packs, flocks, herds, but rarely unless migrating do these numbers increase above the hundreds. Most are families of 14 at most. Humans gather into herds of millions. Too many of us packed into a small space, packed in, stressed out, continually hating our fellow man. We rush rush rush, get to point A, go through point B to get to point C, don't forget to pick up D,E and F on the way so we can do G. Do we achieve this? We spend so much time worrying about doing these things that in the end, we're exhausted, and have nothing to show for it.
The rural life is increasingly appealing to me. A sedate life, where maybe I grow my own fruit and vegetables, maybe where I buy them from a local market, untainted by mass commercialism and filled with the poisons that are forced upon us. A simple job, that doesn't require too much time or thought, where I can think of things that appeal, relaxed in a clean environment where I can then rest in the grass and watch the world pass me by in its rush rush rush, while I watch the clouds by the lake. Away from the world, with people I love and care for, where I can watch the sunset on the porch, an arm around them, without having to worry about tomorrow, about what it will bring, about deadlines, without fear.
Who truly is more powerful? The chief-executive of a multi-billion dollar company in the strangehold of life as a chief-executive of a multi-billion dollar company, or the man who needs answer to none, entirely self-sufficient on land of his own, away from the problems of the city life?
This my friends, is my epiphany.
Each and every one of us spends our lives killing ourselves.
Why do we do this? We work these days, and everyone's encouraged to get that degree, attain that goal, reach for the highest star, and deal with all the stress that accompanies it. Many countries are now at the point where it has too many professionals to go around, and no labourers. Everyone has moved to the cities, and the gap between the 'has' and 'has not's' has greatly increased. We don't know what's in our food, or what it's doing to us, and city life kills us slowly with its toxins. We are detroying and using all our resources much faster than they are regenerated. We have reached the point where greed is now a commodity.
Why do I want to be a lawyer? I mean, why do I really want to be a lawyer? Thinking about it, I'm not quite sure. Is it the money? The power, the prestige? The shiny certificate that says 'congratulations, you are now in the great cog of society, and now it will grind you down until you die'? I could fool myself and say I want to help people, but do they need my help? Maybe we should start helping ourselves, and worry about the rest later. No other animal gathers like people do. There are packs, flocks, herds, but rarely unless migrating do these numbers increase above the hundreds. Most are families of 14 at most. Humans gather into herds of millions. Too many of us packed into a small space, packed in, stressed out, continually hating our fellow man. We rush rush rush, get to point A, go through point B to get to point C, don't forget to pick up D,E and F on the way so we can do G. Do we achieve this? We spend so much time worrying about doing these things that in the end, we're exhausted, and have nothing to show for it.
The rural life is increasingly appealing to me. A sedate life, where maybe I grow my own fruit and vegetables, maybe where I buy them from a local market, untainted by mass commercialism and filled with the poisons that are forced upon us. A simple job, that doesn't require too much time or thought, where I can think of things that appeal, relaxed in a clean environment where I can then rest in the grass and watch the world pass me by in its rush rush rush, while I watch the clouds by the lake. Away from the world, with people I love and care for, where I can watch the sunset on the porch, an arm around them, without having to worry about tomorrow, about what it will bring, about deadlines, without fear.
Who truly is more powerful? The chief-executive of a multi-billion dollar company in the strangehold of life as a chief-executive of a multi-billion dollar company, or the man who needs answer to none, entirely self-sufficient on land of his own, away from the problems of the city life?
This my friends, is my epiphany.
fireangel
Member
Congratulations Dark_Jester. Not to discourage you, but I had the same idea over a decade ago. Still, it are good thoughts, go on, you will find the right way between the extremes I am really glad someone more questions the "normal" career life and the sense of this too-fast-running and cruel economy. And very important, the "do they need my help"-point. It´s correct that it is partly arrogant to assume, the underpriviledged or poor people could not do anything without external help. And often poor countries are made so poor by their dictators who claim all the wealth (and 3rd world aid) for themselves.
On the other hand, yes, there are cases where it makes sense to change some of the global happenings and to try to make this world little bit better. Don´t try to change it all at once, this will lead eventually to extreme despair. Look for your area and your place. Every contribution for a better world is welcome, still.
I am really glad someone more questions the "normal" career life and the sense of this too-fast-running and cruel economy. And very important, the "do they need my help"-point. It´s correct that it is partly arrogant to assume, the underpriviledged or poor people could not do anything without external help. And often poor countries are made so poor by their dictators who claim all the wealth (and 3rd world aid) for themselves. On the other hand, yes, there are cases where it makes sense to change some of the global happenings and to try to make this world little bit better. Don´t try to change it all at once, this will lead eventually to extreme despair. Look for your area and your place. Every contribution for a better world is welcome, still.
MagSec4
.:..::.: :.::..:.
Dark_Jester: It is a fact that the world is F U C K E D beyond any repair. It is also the sad truth that we are powerless to overturn it.. at least as small groups with 'ideas', and definitely as individuals. You will NOT be free, independent, or exempt from not "answering to none". You, of all, should know that this is true. You will always have to be a part of society and be under the influential and controlling arm of it all.. even in your own land, even in the most remote of places. You will be heavily limited if you attempt to be 100% independent of it all. Any attempt at this would be reverting back to caveman ways, and though it might have its advantages, it is not exactly desirable.
In an act of submission and acceptance, each of us will go through with what society pressures us to do and implicitly guides us to do.. and so we go.. otherwise our survival in the very society is compromised...
this is what we want after all.. survival and accomodation, not having serious emotional or economic handicaps.. peace of mind..
In an act of submission and acceptance, each of us will go through with what society pressures us to do and implicitly guides us to do.. and so we go.. otherwise our survival in the very society is compromised...
this is what we want after all.. survival and accomodation, not having serious emotional or economic handicaps.. peace of mind..
fireangel
Member
NF: Just today/tonight I accidentally found out that at Feb 1st of this year, died a very good music journalist and moderator. Most of you won´t know him but maybe few, it is Rocco Clein of Viva Zwei. He didn´t become very old, and I think it is quite tragic that this happened.
I had not known him personally, but it touches me, though. Ages long I watched his shows and read his articles, and I never expected those things to happen
I could assume, that, beneath an unhealthly lifestyle, also the circumstances contributed to his death. That after they closed down the station Viva Zwei, he didn´t really have a job anymore (being very specialised and quite "overqualified" for the normal music TV) and no real future
Very sad
I had not known him personally, but it touches me, though. Ages long I watched his shows and read his articles, and I never expected those things to happen
I could assume, that, beneath an unhealthly lifestyle, also the circumstances contributed to his death. That after they closed down the station Viva Zwei, he didn´t really have a job anymore (being very specialised and quite "overqualified" for the normal music TV) and no real future
Very sad
DeepInMisery
Format C: for Cortex
NF: 
I just read in this thread that Salamurhaaja used to live an hours drive by car away from me.
I just read in this thread that Salamurhaaja used to live an hours drive by car away from me.
NF: confused and stupid. why? -because i chatted with Legende
His jokes confuse me, though they are quite funny when I get them.
His jokes confuse me, though they are quite funny when I get them.
Rusty
A-HAHAHA!
NF: Happy to have just about got one assignment out of the way, but not looking forward to the other assignment, group work, and revision I still have to do this week. Especially since I really can't be arsed with anything at all right now.
NF: ashamed that some things are still happening in the so-called civilized countries and by supposedly educated people..
DeepInMisery
Format C: for Cortex
NF: i got some new nifty computer equipment, really clean stuff.. so i'm happy for that. yes, i am a geek.
np: the crown
np: the crown
Child of Time
Voice of reason
rahvin
keeper of the flame
III. numbers I and II can't run properly on newer machines anyway.Child of Time said:And what civilization?
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