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OfflineEpigallo
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You are special.
    #14592844 - 06/10/11 09:19 PM (12 years, 7 months ago)

Prove me wrong.


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Re: You are special. [Re: Epigallo]
    #14592880 - 06/10/11 09:26 PM (12 years, 7 months ago)

No YOU are special  :eskimokiss:


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Re: You are special. [Re: Epigallo]
    #14592908 - 06/10/11 09:31 PM (12 years, 7 months ago)

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bradley said:
Prove me wrong.




I'd rather not but I probably will.


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Re: You are special. [Re: Epigallo] * 1
    #14592929 - 06/10/11 09:34 PM (12 years, 7 months ago)

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bradley said:
Prove me wrong.





Define your terms.


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Re: You are special. [Re: Epigallo]
    #14593100 - 06/10/11 10:02 PM (12 years, 7 months ago)

"Special" is relative. :imspecial:


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Re: You are special. [Re: Poid]
    #14593728 - 06/11/11 12:18 AM (12 years, 7 months ago)

1 fish out of 6billion fish in a vast stream of consciousness . not special


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Re: You are special. [Re: Withinity]
    #14593827 - 06/11/11 12:51 AM (12 years, 7 months ago)

World population
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The world population is the total number of living humans on the planet Earth, currently estimated to be 6.92 billion by the United States Census Bureau.




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Re: You are special. [Re: Epigallo]
    #14596258 - 06/11/11 02:07 PM (12 years, 7 months ago)

The Interesting number paradox implies that everyone is indeed special. At least everyone who is a member of a countable set.


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Re: You are special. [Re: Rhizoid]
    #14596323 - 06/11/11 02:19 PM (12 years, 7 months ago)

There is something unique about everything.  The word special is loaded however and the OP won't define his terms.


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Re: You are special. [Re: Icelander]
    #14596986 - 06/11/11 05:08 PM (12 years, 7 months ago)

I am energy...is that special?


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Re: You are special. [Re: Fink Ployd]
    #14597256 - 06/11/11 06:22 PM (12 years, 7 months ago)

No not looking at it that way.  That's why the term needs to be defined imo.


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Re: You are special. [Re: Icelander]
    #14597345 - 06/11/11 06:44 PM (12 years, 7 months ago)



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Re: You are special. [Re: andrewss]
    #14597508 - 06/11/11 07:22 PM (12 years, 7 months ago)

That is one ugly Chihuahua.


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Re: You are special. [Re: Epigallo]
    #14597611 - 06/11/11 07:47 PM (12 years, 7 months ago)

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."


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Re: You are special. [Re: Epigallo]
    #14597667 - 06/11/11 08:00 PM (12 years, 7 months ago)

JUST A LIL BIT SPECIAL :zombie5:


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Re: You are special. [Re: pouihi]
    #14597736 - 06/11/11 08:14 PM (12 years, 7 months ago)

Quote:

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.


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Re: You are special. [Re: Rhizoid]
    #14597755 - 06/11/11 08:20 PM (12 years, 7 months ago)

George Carlin can explain at 2:00.





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Re: You are special. [Re: Icelander]
    #14597826 - 06/11/11 08:38 PM (12 years, 7 months ago)

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No not looking at it that way.  That's why the term needs to be defined imo.




Unique in a fascinating or meaningful way.


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Re: You are special. [Re: Intronaut]
    #14597870 - 06/11/11 08:46 PM (12 years, 7 months ago)

George Carlin was an idiot. But he was a special idiot.


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Re: You are special. [Re: Rhizoid]
    #14597926 - 06/11/11 09:01 PM (12 years, 7 months ago)

Please tell me why he was an idiot?


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Re: You are special. [Re: Icelander]
    #14597932 - 06/11/11 09:02 PM (12 years, 7 months ago)

I thought he was exceptionally brilliant. :shrug:


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Re: You are special. [Re: Epigallo]
    #14597935 - 06/11/11 09:02 PM (12 years, 7 months ago)

Quote:

bradley said:
Quote:

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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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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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)

:imspecial:


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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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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.

:oldman:


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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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:imspecial:




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. :shrug:

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)

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)

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)

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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Rhizoid said:
Quote:

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.




:confused2:

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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