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Poid
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Re: You are special. [Re: Icelander]
#14597932 - 06/11/11 09:02 PM (12 years, 7 months ago) |
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I thought he was exceptionally brilliant.
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Icelander
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Re: You are special. [Re: Epigallo]
#14597935 - 06/11/11 09:02 PM (12 years, 7 months ago) |
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Icelander said: No not looking at it that way. That's why the term needs to be defined imo.
Unique in a fascinating or meaningful way.
Hard to say about every person but generally I would say everyone seems special.
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Re: You are special. [Re: Icelander]
#14597992 - 06/11/11 09:16 PM (12 years, 7 months ago) |
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Icelander said: Please tell me why he was an idiot?
Because he came off as an insensitive fascist in that little joke. And I never liked George Carlin anyway. He was an overrated circuit-2 type comedian.
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Re: You are special. [Re: Icelander]
#14597995 - 06/11/11 09:17 PM (12 years, 7 months ago) |
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Icelander said: Hard to say about every person but generally I would say everyone seems special.
Like...as in the olympics?
Or are you actually being nice...
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Re: You are special. [Re: Cups]
#14598000 - 06/11/11 09:17 PM (12 years, 7 months ago) |
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-------------------- Well I try my best to be just like I am, but everybody wants you to be just like them. -- Bob Dylan  fireworks_god said:It's one thing to simply enjoy a style of life that one enjoys, but it's another thing altogether to refer to another person's choice as "wrong" or to rationalize their behavior as being pathological or resulting from some sort of inadequacy or failing so as to create a sense of superiority or separation as yet another projection of a personal fear or control issue.
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Re: You are special. [Re: Rhizoid]
#14598006 - 06/11/11 09:19 PM (12 years, 7 months ago) |
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Rhizoid said: Because he came off as an insensitive fascist in that little joke. And I never liked George Carlin anyway. He was an overrated circuit-2 type comedian.
Good in very small doses. Watched a 30 minute special on netflix and that was the end of that fantasy.
I'm all about giving the man the finger, but he was kinda pathetic about it IMO.
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Re: You are special. [Re: Poid]
#14598010 - 06/11/11 09:19 PM (12 years, 7 months ago) |
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Poid said:

fo sho
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Re: You are special. [Re: Rhizoid]
#14598027 - 06/11/11 09:23 PM (12 years, 7 months ago) |
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Icelander said: Please tell me why he was an idiot?
Because he came off as an insensitive fascist in that little joke. And I never liked George Carlin anyway. He was an overrated circuit-2 type comedian.
Maybe that's how he came off to you but not to me. 
I think he was deadly honest and a threat to bs in govt., culture and religion. Frankly I admired him tremendously. As a comedian he was decent.
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Re: You are special. [Re: Icelander]
#14598044 - 06/11/11 09:29 PM (12 years, 7 months ago) |
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maybe I missed the best of it...the special I saw was shot maybe a year before he died and it just seemed sooooooooooooooo tired.
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Re: You are special. [Re: Cups]
#14598052 - 06/11/11 09:31 PM (12 years, 7 months ago) |
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Dude was a funny, straight-up mother fucker IMO.
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Icelander said: Please tell me why he was an idiot?
Because he came off as an insensitive fascist in that little joke.
Insensitivity = idiocy?
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Re: You are special. [Re: Poid]
#14598087 - 06/11/11 09:39 PM (12 years, 7 months ago) |
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Poid said: Dude was a funny, straight-up mother fucker IMO.
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Icelander said: Please tell me why he was an idiot?
Because he came off as an insensitive fascist in that little joke.
Insensitivity = idiocy?
All right, I'll take that back. He obviously wasn't an idiot or he wouldn't have been successful. And there is of course a point in not fooling kids into believing that they are "winners" when they are not. I just didn't see that as central to the topic at hand. Maybe because I come from a culture where conformance is everything and being a winner is heavily frowned upon.
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Re: You are special. [Re: Rhizoid]
#14599177 - 06/12/11 01:52 AM (12 years, 7 months ago) |
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Special Fox.

Edit: I have no idea what I might have ment by posting a picture of a fox. I was extremely drunk at the time... sorry for the clutter.
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Re: You are special. [Re: Rhizoid]
#14601327 - 06/12/11 02:42 PM (12 years, 7 months ago) |
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pouihi said: As stated by Tyler Durden:
"You are not special. You are not a beautiful or unique snowflake. You're the same decaying organic matter as everything else."
And that is fucking brilliant. Neither Burgess or Orwell were able to capture the essence of fascist ideology in so few words.

To me this sentence simply refutes the egocentric nature of men, that has to think that lives for some reason like serving a higher purpose. In what way is this fascist?
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