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Date: December 20th, 2015 10:13 PM Author: vivacious travel guidebook stage (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3075784&forum_id=2#29423717) |
Date: December 20th, 2015 10:15 PM Author: Exciting voyeur toss up between realizing that being technically smart is not equal to career progression in corporate america and most american women are TTT slime pits
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Date: December 20th, 2015 10:20 PM Author: mind-boggling principal's office toilet seat (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3075784&forum_id=2#29423750) |
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Date: December 20th, 2015 10:48 PM Author: stimulating maniacal temple 180 (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3075784&forum_id=2#29423943) |
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Date: December 21st, 2015 2:51 PM Author: internet-worthy nowag The first one hit me hard.
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Date: December 21st, 2015 9:09 PM Author: Magical stirring idiot (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3075784&forum_id=2#29429586) |
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Date: December 20th, 2015 10:16 PM Author: Garnet senate elastic band that i'm a weird monkey (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3075784&forum_id=2#29423724) |
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Date: December 20th, 2015 10:20 PM Author: vivacious travel guidebook stage Are you that one in a bazillion monkey who randomly type on a keyboard but happens to write coherent sentences? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3075784&forum_id=2#29423753) |
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Date: December 21st, 2015 1:30 AM Author: aphrodisiac international law enforcement agency It was the best of times, it was the BLURST of times. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3075784&forum_id=2#29425067) |
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Date: December 21st, 2015 1:43 PM Author: vivacious travel guidebook stage (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3075784&forum_id=2#29426817) |
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Date: December 20th, 2015 10:23 PM Author: Infuriating hairraiser hominid that one hit me hard too. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3075784&forum_id=2#29423769) |
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Date: December 27th, 2015 8:58 AM Author: french indian lodge police squad (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3075784&forum_id=2#29461011) |
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Date: December 20th, 2015 10:20 PM Author: mind-boggling principal's office toilet seat How untrustworthy and irrational women are. They are almost all driven by their emotions to an extent that was hard for me to appreciate.
The fact that the materialist view of nature is almost certainly correct and we live in a godless and meaningless universe. |
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Date: December 20th, 2015 10:22 PM Author: adventurous headpube "The fact that the materialist view of nature is almost certainly correct and we live in a godless and meaningless universe."
I used to think this but, in truth, a materialist view of nature makes very little sense. So I'm a bit happier knowing that. |
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Date: December 20th, 2015 10:23 PM Author: mind-boggling principal's office toilet seat Why do you think that? Reading the latest research on things like free will does not fill me with hope. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3075784&forum_id=2#29423768) |
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Date: December 20th, 2015 10:26 PM Author: adventurous headpube the nature of free will is hardly sound science, and there are many different takes on the deterministic mind (compatiblism, incompatiblism)
if the sun was just a little closer to the earth, there would be no life. if the big bang were just a bit hotter, there would be no life. there's too much coincidence in a purely materialist worldview that doesn't account for the order and complexity of the universe.
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Date: December 20th, 2015 10:29 PM Author: Flesh Passionate Double Fault apparently you never heard of the anthropic principle. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3075784&forum_id=2#29423814) |
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Date: December 20th, 2015 10:32 PM Author: adventurous headpube I'm aware of it, but it certainly isn't immune to criticism (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3075784&forum_id=2#29423834) |
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Date: December 21st, 2015 1:50 PM Author: Cracking angry cumskin stage the anthropic principle presupposes a higher-than-likely probability of all these anti-life factors being minimized sufficiently, or it presupposes a multiverse (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3075784&forum_id=2#29426850) |
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Date: December 20th, 2015 10:39 PM Author: mind-boggling principal's office toilet seat You will not find a credible neuroscientist who has a non-materialist understanding of the brain. There is no special stuff in our brain and we share 50 percent of the genes of a banana. It is hard to take serious the idea that we are special and apart from the rest of nature.
The fine-tuning of the universe is indeed interesting, but some version of the multiverse theory is likely correct. |
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Date: December 20th, 2015 10:42 PM Author: frozen plaza sound barrier You are seriously completely brainwashed. The reason "science" is clinging so bitterly to materialism is because it gives academics power in society. There is AMPLE proof for non materialist views. In many ways the materialist view has been exposed as completely fucking fraudulent for decades now.
http://www.amazon.com/Irreducible-Mind-Toward-Psychology-Century/dp/1442202068 |
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Date: December 20th, 2015 10:47 PM Author: adventurous headpube There's a lot of truth to this. It's worth having a look at the non-materialist arguments out there, healthy for the mind and soul too. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3075784&forum_id=2#29423926) |
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Date: December 20th, 2015 10:53 PM Author: mind-boggling principal's office toilet seat I agree that it is always worthwhile to read these sorts of things. One of my favorite books as a kid was Travels by Michael Crichton. He was an arch-rationalist and it dealt seriously with mysticism. Nonzero by Robert Wright is another example. That book talks about the potential purpose of evolution and looks at global history in an intersti group way. Nothing is more interesting than evidence or anecdotes at least that suggest a higher purpose to human existence. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3075784&forum_id=2#29423974) |
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Date: December 20th, 2015 10:49 PM Author: mind-boggling principal's office toilet seat Here is Sam Harris refuting the NDE portion of that book. I have actively looked for evidence contradicting a materialist view and was once a devout Catholic. But I have to believe whatever the strongest evidence shows.
http://www.samharris.org/blog/item/science-on-the-brink-of-death |
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Date: December 20th, 2015 10:51 PM Author: adventurous headpube I was once a devout atheist and now am swaying Catholic. I actually find that even early Catholic philosophers make more sense than modern evolutionary scientists. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3075784&forum_id=2#29423956) |
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Date: December 20th, 2015 11:01 PM Author: mind-boggling principal's office toilet seat I read a while back that Peter Thiel is a Christian, which I thought was interesting. I am extremely open minded, but the balance of evidence is not in Christianity's favor.
http://americamagazine.org/content/all-things/faith-technology-qa-peter-thiel
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Date: December 20th, 2015 10:52 PM Author: frozen plaza sound barrier yeah bro sam harris has no agenda. jfc.
read the intro from kelly's latest book. within 15 years these materialist faggots will be looked at as flat earthers. tbf they should already be considered as such.
http://www.amazon.com/Beyond-Physicalism-Reconciliation-Science-Spirituality/dp/1442232382 |
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Date: December 20th, 2015 10:56 PM Author: mind-boggling principal's office toilet seat Okay, will read. I know he has an agenda, that doesn't mean the evidence from experiments conducted by scientists is invalid. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3075784&forum_id=2#29424000) |
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Date: December 20th, 2015 10:58 PM Author: frozen plaza sound barrier let me guess: you bought the BS being peddled on wikipedia about NDEs just being neurons firing or some bullshit like that? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3075784&forum_id=2#29424015) |
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Date: December 20th, 2015 11:04 PM Author: mind-boggling principal's office toilet seat Well, to be fair, neurons firing accounts for brain activity. There are no NDE on record of someone whose brain wasn't working. Sam Harris does a good job of demolishing NDE here.
http://www.samharris.org/blog/item/science-on-the-brink-of-death |
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Date: December 20th, 2015 11:09 PM Author: frozen plaza sound barrier there are hundreds of such accounts including eben alexander who wrote a recent and highly publicized book on the topic. he was a fucking brain surgeon/atheist who completely bought the materialist worldview, went through an NDE in which his entire brain was shut down yet he vividly experienced other realms and then writes a book recounting his experience and of course, people like sam harris call him a fraud. protip: SAM HARRIS IS FULL OF SHIT.kill yourself for acting like youre some sort of enlightened rational mind when youre either a brainwashed moron who cannot think for himself or an intellectually bankrupt fraud like the materialists you're sucking off ITT (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3075784&forum_id=2#29424093) |
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Date: December 20th, 2015 11:16 PM Author: mind-boggling principal's office toilet seat Well hey, you seem pretty open minded. Maybe I am wrong. You don't seem motivated to believe in an afterlife and that NDE are 100 percent truthful.
http://www.esquire.com/entertainment/interviews/a23248/the-prophet/ |
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Date: December 20th, 2015 11:28 PM Author: frozen plaza sound barrier jfc your pathetic linking to shitlib hitpieces is making me lean very strongly toward your being an intellectually bankrupt asshole who hides his disdain for opposing viewpoints beneath a veneer of politeness.
well i'm not going to be polite and i have no more use for your close-minded idiocy. i'll just tell you these 2 things in the event you are actually sincere about learning about the truth:
(1) 4 months ago i was mostly (not firmly but mostly) in the same camp as you are. today, after reading, thinking and practicing meditation and other practices i am 100% certain that materialism is utter and total bunk and it has nothing to do with any fucking agenda driven sam harris blog posts or esquire magazine articles.
(2) i'm not christian and didnt grow up as one but in the last few months i have develped respect for all religious tradiitons. i read the book of matthew for the first time yesterday and it was only after i literally adopted the maxim espoused by jesus that i described in the post linked below that i was able to arrive at my new point of view in (1) above. http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3075018&forum_id=2#29417892 - see also matthew chapter 13, verses 13 and 14.
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Date: December 20th, 2015 11:42 PM Author: mind-boggling principal's office toilet seat I went to a Jesuit school and encountered a lot of intellectually-rigorous priests. I talked to them and read broadly, hoping to convince myself that Catholicism was correct. Unfortunately, I think the materialist view is more likely to be correct. Maybe one day I will change my mind, but I doubt it. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3075784&forum_id=2#29424298) |
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Date: December 21st, 2015 12:52 AM Author: Bossy Forum Faggotry you have a rare mix of pedantry and oblivious lack of full perspective that you normally only see in college kids. well done. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3075784&forum_id=2#29424874) |
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Date: December 21st, 2015 1:04 AM Author: mind-boggling principal's office toilet seat Why don't I have a full perspective? I haven't read everything there is to read about theology and science. Who has? But I am not just reading a bunch of new Atheist books and jerking off to r/atheism
Look, I want to believe in God, but don't think there is one. I am open to contrary evidence and viewpoints and used to actively seek out books that would convince me of the truth of religion when I was younger. But I don't think it is true. You must not believe there is such a thing as an intellectually honest atheist. |
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Date: December 21st, 2015 1:25 AM Author: stimulating maniacal temple i believe this quotemo is talking to the other quotemo and i believe he or she or zhe is correct. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3075784&forum_id=2#29425040) |
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Date: December 21st, 2015 1:27 AM Author: mind-boggling principal's office toilet seat Ah, you are right. Thanks (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3075784&forum_id=2#29425042) |
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Date: December 20th, 2015 10:35 PM Author: frozen plaza sound barrier Lmfao at "the latest research on free will"
Protip: stop reading "research" - 90% of it is agenda driven lies |
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Date: December 20th, 2015 10:45 PM Author: mind-boggling principal's office toilet seat Daniel Wegner (Harvard professor) has done some pretty compelling research on free will. Do you believe that there is some special part in your brain giving you free will?
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/12/31/science/essay-more-than-good-intentions-holding-fast-to-faith-in-free-will.html |
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Date: December 20th, 2015 10:56 PM Author: frozen plaza sound barrier i just skimmed that and it is interesting. if nothign else it radically underines a materialist conception of the brain.
fwiw there is plenty of solid research being done in this field but there is unfortunately mountains of scurrilous lies being pushed by agneda driven charlatans. |
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Date: May 26th, 2017 11:18 PM Author: razzle high-end meetinghouse rationalizing womens' behavior as emotionally driven is a cop out. the truth is women are just incredibly selfish & don't give a shit about anyone or anything else, and will do astounding amounts of mental gymnastics to justify it (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3075784&forum_id=2#33405976) |
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Date: December 20th, 2015 10:23 PM Author: Infuriating hairraiser hominid that im not the most important being in the universe, im just another thing in it.
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Date: December 20th, 2015 10:24 PM Author: Vermilion Big Immigrant Corner (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3075784&forum_id=2#29423777) |
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Date: December 20th, 2015 10:34 PM Author: frozen plaza sound barrier What sort of faggot thinks he's important in the universe? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3075784&forum_id=2#29423844) |
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Date: December 20th, 2015 10:36 PM Author: Infuriating hairraiser hominid when you were born you faggot you thought you were all-important, and life slowly disabused you of that notion until you thought of yourself as nothing.
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Date: December 20th, 2015 10:46 PM Author: Black Spectacular Degenerate Death Wish loved the Truman Show growing up. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3075784&forum_id=2#29423921) |
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Date: December 20th, 2015 10:48 PM Author: Infuriating hairraiser hominid me too. it was a bit like the matrix, in a sense. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3075784&forum_id=2#29423938) |
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Date: December 20th, 2015 10:49 PM Author: navy narrow-minded chad mother *megaphone* You are the all-singing, all-dancing crap of the world. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3075784&forum_id=2#29423950) |
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Date: December 20th, 2015 11:06 PM Author: Chartreuse Overrated Fat Ankles We have a winner (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3075784&forum_id=2#29424068) |
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Date: December 20th, 2015 10:29 PM Author: navy narrow-minded chad mother That my interests and passions don't add up to shit. I was born into the slave classes and a life of labor. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3075784&forum_id=2#29423816) |
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Date: December 20th, 2015 10:37 PM Author: Aromatic dopamine state (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3075784&forum_id=2#29423864) |
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Date: December 21st, 2015 12:53 PM Author: mind-boggling principal's office toilet seat (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3075784&forum_id=2#29426532) |
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Date: December 21st, 2015 2:46 PM Author: Slimy Brunch Gunner brutal (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3075784&forum_id=2#29427210) |
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Date: December 21st, 2015 3:52 PM Author: excitant nibblets (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3075784&forum_id=2#29427631) |
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Date: December 21st, 2015 9:10 PM Author: Magical stirring idiot (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3075784&forum_id=2#29429591) |
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Date: April 7th, 2017 2:26 PM Author: Beady-eyed lake skinny woman (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3075784&forum_id=2#33018530) |
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Date: December 20th, 2015 10:31 PM Author: contagious set mediation I was pretty old before I accepted the fact that some people are just assholes. I always had a strong conciliatory approach to conflict and assumed other people did as well. I underestimated the number of people who just like drama. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3075784&forum_id=2#29423824) |
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Date: December 21st, 2015 1:42 AM Author: appetizing theater stage pozpig (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3075784&forum_id=2#29425125) |
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Date: December 21st, 2015 9:51 PM Author: Comical Feces (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3075784&forum_id=2#29429881) |
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Date: December 20th, 2015 10:34 PM Author: talking space that i have peaked and the next 40-50 years is playing out the string unless i cut the string first (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3075784&forum_id=2#29423845) |
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Date: December 21st, 2015 4:04 PM Author: Galvanic Splenetic Theater Idea He Suggested (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3075784&forum_id=2#29427692) |
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Date: January 16th, 2016 4:11 AM Author: underhanded carnelian cuckoldry This is one is harsh as fukk (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3075784&forum_id=2#29608822) |
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Date: December 20th, 2015 10:44 PM Author: Aromatic dopamine state That I am a completely fungible cog in the work force and even in my social life. Nobody can be trusted, ultimately, except for blood relatives. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3075784&forum_id=2#29423904) |
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Date: December 20th, 2015 10:46 PM Author: navy narrow-minded chad mother (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3075784&forum_id=2#29423922) |
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Date: December 20th, 2015 10:45 PM Author: jet tattoo university genetic determinism and its sway on your life decisions (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3075784&forum_id=2#29423912) |
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Date: December 20th, 2015 10:48 PM Author: Black Spectacular Degenerate Death Wish (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3075784&forum_id=2#29423936) |
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Date: December 20th, 2015 11:07 PM Author: mind-boggling principal's office toilet seat (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3075784&forum_id=2#29424077) |
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Date: December 21st, 2015 1:18 PM Author: Vibrant Half-breed (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3075784&forum_id=2#29426675) |
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Date: December 21st, 2015 1:51 PM Author: Talented keepsake machete (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3075784&forum_id=2#29426852) |
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Date: August 20th, 2017 2:14 PM Author: Black Spectacular Degenerate Death Wish (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3075784&forum_id=2#34031565) |
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Date: December 20th, 2015 10:48 PM Author: Chestnut Gaming Laptop Stead that I will die (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3075784&forum_id=2#29423941) |
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Date: December 20th, 2015 10:51 PM Author: rusted clown That blacks actually do suck as a race and that all of my sjw teaching in school was one big fucking Jew smokeshow. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3075784&forum_id=2#29423963) |
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Date: December 20th, 2015 11:11 PM Author: frozen plaza sound barrier tbf blacks are good people. its just that liberals hve destroyed them by making them the centerpiece of their plantation. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3075784&forum_id=2#29424103) |
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Date: December 20th, 2015 10:51 PM Author: floppy judgmental church useless brakes that I have full blown autism (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3075784&forum_id=2#29423965) |
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Date: December 20th, 2015 10:52 PM Author: Infuriating hairraiser hominid that sux. do you get laid often? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3075784&forum_id=2#29423969) |
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Date: December 20th, 2015 10:53 PM Author: floppy judgmental church useless brakes often enough. I have been physically faithful to a woman for a while now which is cool in certain ways (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3075784&forum_id=2#29423978) |
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Date: December 20th, 2015 10:55 PM Author: Infuriating hairraiser hominid fuck mdma.. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3075784&forum_id=2#29423994) |
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Date: December 20th, 2015 11:07 PM Author: floppy judgmental church useless brakes I am 100% substance free (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3075784&forum_id=2#29424075) |
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Date: December 20th, 2015 11:20 PM Author: Infuriating hairraiser hominid (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3075784&forum_id=2#29424164) |
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Date: December 20th, 2015 11:28 PM Author: floppy judgmental church useless brakes sounds like a series of excuses to me no offense. take control of your life (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3075784&forum_id=2#29424213) |
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Date: December 26th, 2015 9:17 PM Author: swashbuckling becky chapel "excuses" lmao wtf. he meant that he too would have been a lame autistic sobermo if not for his 180 high school friends introducing him to new experiences. don't worry though brother there's still hope for you (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3075784&forum_id=2#29459070) |
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Date: December 20th, 2015 11:26 PM Author: vivacious travel guidebook stage LJL at ur life!!!! (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3075784&forum_id=2#29424197) |
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Date: December 20th, 2015 11:31 PM Author: Fragrant Haunting Site 1. there is no such thing as a pure meritocracy 2. VAST majority of your friends are not your true friends but merely glorified drinking buddies 3. life and the universe have no inherent meaning |
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Date: December 21st, 2015 12:59 AM Author: Bossy Forum Faggotry everything i do and work for will quickly be forgotten, probably within my lifetime. even if you have a family or do something out of the ordinary with your career or other pursuits, the legacy won't last long. just a tiny, tiny, sliver of a fraction of people who have ever lived are remembered or discussed. our lives mostly don't amount to shit in the end and we little if any enduring contributions in the world. you just live, then die, and nobody fucking cares for more than a little while. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3075784&forum_id=2#29424903) |
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Date: December 21st, 2015 1:08 AM Author: mind-boggling principal's office toilet seat (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3075784&forum_id=2#29424955) |
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Date: December 21st, 2015 1:10 AM Author: mind-boggling principal's office toilet seat There is a great scene in About Schmidt where the main character talks about being forgotten. Most people have no conception of how even the most famous and accomplished people will be forgotten. How many people can name all the presidents even? Or read the books of most Nobel Prize winning authors? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3075784&forum_id=2#29424972) |
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Date: December 21st, 2015 3:57 AM Author: cruel-hearted resort water buffalo (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3075784&forum_id=2#29425399) |
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Date: December 21st, 2015 12:54 PM Author: Primrose Dragon This is why you have to gas as many Jews as possible. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3075784&forum_id=2#29426533) |
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Date: December 26th, 2015 8:42 PM Author: Fishy well-lubricated property (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3075784&forum_id=2#29458937) |
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Date: April 7th, 2017 2:23 PM Author: Ultramarine station black woman (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3075784&forum_id=2#33018486) |
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Date: December 21st, 2015 1:01 AM Author: milky lascivious really tough guy market 1. That liberals are not necessarily as pure and "honest" as I thought; the are similarly as motivated by selfish desires. The are not more "just" than the right.
2. Probably something about the internal focus/lack of external awareness by women, probably just another way of saying they are narcissists in a way I didn't fully appreciate
3. Very practical but that elite UG students are not nearly as "godlike" in their pursuits as I thought--I really thought the all had special gifts and were truly better people, but I've come to realize that's flawed for so many reasons |
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Date: December 21st, 2015 1:04 AM Author: Bossy Forum Faggotry lol, yeah man, #1 seems to have hit you SO HARD (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3075784&forum_id=2#29424933) |
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Date: December 21st, 2015 1:12 AM Author: milky lascivious really tough guy market how can u possibly say that
I was a true hard lib for many many many years, it started in HS, I saw bullies beat up on weaker kids and it fundamentally made me believe in some pretty hardcore ideas of justice and protection of individual rights and shit
but the vehicle through which that takes place, the left, the dems, whatever, I increasingly find is not an honest broker |
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Date: December 21st, 2015 8:55 PM Author: amethyst kitty cat garrison cr (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3075784&forum_id=2#29429488) |
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Date: December 21st, 2015 1:12 AM Author: tantric razzmatazz liquid oxygen son of senegal I'm 5'8", not 5'9.5" as I originally thought. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3075784&forum_id=2#29424990) |
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Date: December 21st, 2015 1:45 PM Author: vivacious travel guidebook stage Ouch (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3075784&forum_id=2#29426829) |
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Date: December 21st, 2015 1:27 AM Author: stimulating maniacal temple 1. women get wet watching monkeys on the discovery channel 2. spiders are sentient and they are coming for us 3. everything will fade and crumble, not just me but all my friends, my progeny, and my works |
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Date: December 21st, 2015 1:30 AM Author: mind-boggling principal's office toilet seat (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3075784&forum_id=2#29425069) |
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Date: December 21st, 2015 2:25 AM Author: Infuriating hairraiser hominid first one. omfg. they get wet watching anything sexual, and dont get wet watching a hunky guy with a six pack on the beach. but they will lie about it and say the opposite. thats so fucking weird. they will literally get wet watching any hard dick belonging to a primate, and also any lesbian activity, and gay too. but, not leo in titanic. dont worry, they dont get wet at that, but they say they do!!! (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3075784&forum_id=2#29425292) |
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Date: October 26th, 2017 10:31 PM Author: Wonderful Magenta Prole Bawdyhouse (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3075784&forum_id=2#34538142) |
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Date: December 21st, 2015 3:51 PM Author: Sooty electric menage link to #1? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3075784&forum_id=2#29427620) |
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Date: December 21st, 2015 3:54 PM Author: stimulating maniacal temple http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/25/magazine/25desire-t.html?_r=0 (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3075784&forum_id=2#29427641) |
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Date: December 21st, 2015 4:45 PM Author: puce location messiness Highly relevant to No. 3
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G0Cp7DrvNLQ |
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Date: December 21st, 2015 1:44 AM Author: titillating jet-lagged step-uncle's house twinkling uncleanness (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3075784&forum_id=2#29425136) |
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Date: December 21st, 2015 1:50 AM Author: Disturbing motley base sweet tailpipe No shit, the realization that Santa didn't exist. I was maybe in second grade and realized at that very moment, according to my mother, that God was just another Santa. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3075784&forum_id=2#29425167) |
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Date: December 21st, 2015 2:29 AM Author: Infuriating hairraiser hominid i realized santa was my parents like before i started grade school, probably around 3. i remember taht moment in fact. i was sitting around doing not much in particular, then drifted to thinking about santa. and then i realized that it was MY PARENTS. how the fuck does one realize that anyways? why couldnt my 3 year old self trust that they let in some santa in the house. it wasnt the fact that someone would just come by and give free shit. OH I GOT IT! i think i just realized that nobody was going to open the door for him at night and so he couldnt come in, then that line of reasoning just broke it all apart for me. then i realized, oh wait, its my MOTHERFUCKING parents. they were LYING to me. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3075784&forum_id=2#29425307) |
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Date: December 21st, 2015 3:18 AM Author: Disturbing motley base sweet tailpipe Bur bro, Santa comes down the chimney (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3075784&forum_id=2#29425358) |
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Date: December 21st, 2015 3:35 AM Author: Infuriating hairraiser hominid they forgot to mention that, the morons.
then i probably would have laid it down to rest. |
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Date: December 21st, 2015 12:51 PM Author: Disturbing motley base sweet tailpipe When I was about 6, my parents took me to midnight mass and my dad slipped out and made footprints leading to and from the fireplace. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3075784&forum_id=2#29426515) |
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Date: December 21st, 2015 12:16 PM Author: exhilarant dull digit ratio lodge when i was 3 or 4 santa gave me a mug with my dad's company logo on it in my stocking. i went out in the yard and did some hard thinking. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3075784&forum_id=2#29426379) |
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Date: December 21st, 2015 12:51 PM Author: Disturbing motley base sweet tailpipe Lol who gives a 3 or 4 year old a mug? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3075784&forum_id=2#29426518) |
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Date: December 21st, 2015 12:51 PM Author: Disturbing motley base sweet tailpipe Lol who gives a 3 or 4 year old a mug? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3075784&forum_id=2#29426519) |
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Date: December 21st, 2015 1:36 PM Author: emerald bbw Lol. Sorry but that's very odd that he gave you a mug. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3075784&forum_id=2#29426773) |
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Date: December 21st, 2015 3:07 PM Author: Aromatic dopamine state CR. I would have been pondering the quality of my alleged "upbringing" moreso than the existence of Santa. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3075784&forum_id=2#29427349) |
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Date: December 21st, 2015 1:43 PM Author: vivacious travel guidebook stage lol (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3075784&forum_id=2#29426815) |
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Date: December 21st, 2015 3:07 PM Author: aqua disrespectful center wtf (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3075784&forum_id=2#29427352) |
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Date: December 21st, 2015 3:22 PM Author: Flesh Passionate Double Fault (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3075784&forum_id=2#29427449) |
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Date: December 21st, 2015 4:36 PM Author: Ebony Native Old Irish Cottage lmao. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3075784&forum_id=2#29427921) |
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Date: December 21st, 2015 6:18 PM Author: trip sapphire heaven lmfao (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3075784&forum_id=2#29428417) |
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Date: December 21st, 2015 8:53 PM Author: odious casino reading party (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3075784&forum_id=2#29429471) |
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Date: December 21st, 2015 9:11 PM Author: Magical stirring idiot (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3075784&forum_id=2#29429594) |
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Date: December 21st, 2015 9:17 PM Author: Infuriating hairraiser hominid (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3075784&forum_id=2#29429637) |
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Date: December 26th, 2015 8:44 PM Author: Fishy well-lubricated property (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3075784&forum_id=2#29458946) |
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Date: December 26th, 2015 8:49 PM Author: fighting arousing doctorate business firm (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3075784&forum_id=2#29458970) |
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Date: February 19th, 2017 1:02 AM Author: apoplectic supple sex offender (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3075784&forum_id=2#32653282) |
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Date: February 19th, 2017 1:15 AM Author: emerald bbw this is probably my favorite post on xo (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3075784&forum_id=2#32653323) |
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Date: February 19th, 2017 1:16 AM Author: Peach institution (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3075784&forum_id=2#32653326) |
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Date: April 7th, 2017 2:26 PM Author: curious rigor sandwich (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3075784&forum_id=2#33018524) |
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Date: February 19th, 2017 1:00 AM Author: blue racy love of her life damn, i have no memories before 5, let alone deep philosophical musings like this. sometimes i wonder if something traumatic happened to me as a kid and my brain won't let me remember as a defense mechanism. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3075784&forum_id=2#32653276) |
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Date: December 21st, 2015 4:24 PM Author: Ebony Native Old Irish Cottage Santa really seems to fuck up american kids.
I grew up (at least before I came mainland) to believe in the Three Kings which made way more sense since it was, least, biblical.
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Date: December 21st, 2015 2:29 AM Author: honey-headed pungent fortuitous meteor kitchen That women only like you for what you can do for them and I will never find love or happiness in my lifetime (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3075784&forum_id=2#29425305) |
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Date: December 21st, 2015 3:51 AM Author: appetizing theater stage pozpig our personalities are basically set when we're seven years old (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3075784&forum_id=2#29425380) |
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Date: December 21st, 2015 12:54 PM Author: mind-boggling principal's office toilet seat (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3075784&forum_id=2#29426539) |
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Date: December 21st, 2015 1:41 PM Author: sinister cocky jap (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3075784&forum_id=2#29426809) |
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Date: December 27th, 2015 5:38 AM Author: jet tattoo university (guy who measures in dog years) (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3075784&forum_id=2#29460905) |
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Date: December 21st, 2015 12:38 PM Author: 180 drab locale The realization that my most ambitious hopes and dreams were not going to happen, and the biggest reason is my own lack of drive and other personality flaws rather than simply an innate lack of ability. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3075784&forum_id=2#29426479) |
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Date: December 21st, 2015 2:57 PM Author: walnut hairless cruise ship circlehead yeah this
also, that its extremely hard to keep almost anything you care about from turning to shit
when you try really hard at something, all you've done is created unsustainable expectations of future performance from others that you'll fail to acheive |
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Date: December 21st, 2015 4:09 PM Author: Galvanic Splenetic Theater Idea He Suggested Most ambitious?
I'd be happy with a lot less than that. |
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Date: December 21st, 2015 12:40 PM Author: Cracking angry cumskin stage That Millennials will be chairing the non-profits I care about in 20 years (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3075784&forum_id=2#29426488) |
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Date: December 21st, 2015 12:56 PM Author: Erotic trailer park karate That I was average; and success is illusory. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3075784&forum_id=2#29426550) |
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Date: December 21st, 2015 1:16 PM Author: Buck-toothed windowlicker Realizing that this country isn't quite as special as I had once thought: That the American dream has faded for all but a very few. As a kid, I'd read history books and wonder how Rome fell, how China lost influence, and even more recently how the UK lost a large part of its influence, all while being confident that we were somehow different. We once were, but it's breaking down and I think went past the point of no return (although when is debatable: 1960s? early 2000s? 2010ish?). (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3075784&forum_id=2#29426657) |
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Date: December 21st, 2015 1:20 PM Author: adventurous headpube 80s-90s (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3075784&forum_id=2#29426688) |
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Date: December 21st, 2015 1:25 PM Author: appetizing theater stage pozpig just after Top Gun was released (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3075784&forum_id=2#29426707) |
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Date: December 21st, 2015 1:34 PM Author: vivacious travel guidebook stage Even as late as 2007, living in America was more favorable than many other first world nations. Now? LJL (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3075784&forum_id=2#29426761) |
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Date: December 21st, 2015 1:37 PM Author: emerald bbw Pretty much everything related to meaninglessness ITT. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3075784&forum_id=2#29426780) |
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Date: December 21st, 2015 1:41 PM Author: sinister cocky jap You can live your whole life not knowing who you really are. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3075784&forum_id=2#29426801) |
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Date: December 21st, 2015 1:56 PM Author: dashing nudist boiling water famous landscape painting The realization that my life won't look anything like the life I imagined I would be leading at this time when I graduated law school.
We live lives thinking (and hoping) that certain things will come at a certain time and in a certain fashion. For example:
- We'll graduate, and we'll move up the corporate ladder (maybe with some stumbles, but still a gradual climb) as long as we work hard and churn out above average work. We'll save enough to be comfortable and to make splurges here and there, but we'll never have massive life events happen that affect our earnings one way or another.
- We'll eventually meet someone, date them for a year and a half, and realize that this person would make a good life partner ("you'll do"). We will marry this person at some country club or 5-star hotel where the beef dish will taste just like every other beef dish ever served at a wedding between two upper middle class professionals.
- We will have children, and will own a home in a suburb wealthy enough to have a top public school, but will still debate whether to send our kids to private school. We will get a Baby Bjorn, and likely opt against a minivan, then opt for it when being practical starts trumping being cool.
- We will go to the restaurants that the New York Times and Conde Nast calls "the best restaurants of the year" and remark on how inventive the cuisine is.
- We will experience an expected amount of tumult - job losses, health scares, the odd tragedy here and there - but nothing will floor us and we'll be on our feet in no time.
I thought all of the above would be me. I've experienced most of what's described above, but my life looks absolutely nothing like I pictured it to look. And the next 10 years will probably look absolutely nothing like how I pictured they would look in, say, 2010.
Despite the fact that I have a job I love, a great group of friends, and an SO that I'm pretty damn sure is the one, I'm still a bit destroyed by the fact that shit doesn't look the way it's supposed to. |
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Date: December 21st, 2015 2:39 PM Author: Erotic trailer park karate Damn brother, you're spot on. 16 year old me would be so proud of 35 year old me, except he won't know that I'm not happy, in fact I'm the opposite. Always searching... (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3075784&forum_id=2#29427153) |
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Date: December 21st, 2015 2:43 PM Author: dashing nudist boiling water famous landscape painting I'm the opposite...sort of.
16 year old me - shit, even 25 year old me - would be damn embarrassed of 35 year old me.
25 year old me would give 35 year old me this pep talk being like "you're a fucking failure, how the hell did you let yourself go, all your friends think you're a sideshow joke."
I'm probably happier (or at least in a much better mental place) now than I have been in a long time, and perhaps ever. But I still have this nagging 25-year-old me on my shoulder. |
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Date: December 21st, 2015 2:44 PM Author: Erotic trailer park karate Do you agree with those assessments? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3075784&forum_id=2#29427187) |
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Date: December 21st, 2015 2:49 PM Author: dashing nudist boiling water famous landscape painting I do. Completely.
Without revealing too much, I probably reached the apex of success in 2011/2012. I probably was the most fucked up mentally then and completely incapable of really connecting with other human beings on a deep and intimate level, but I had hit certain benchmarks and was on the way to exceeding further benchmarks when a major health scare struck.
2013-mid 2015 was devoted to clearing the rubble and rebuilding my life, brick by brick. Much of my angst now stems from the setback and how those years were a lot, lot friendlier to most people I know who didn't have to deal with shit like that. I don't assign blame anywhere, but I always think "what if this didn't happen to me".
The other side of me is like "I could be dead now if other crap didn't break my way, so spend more time smelling the roses."
And yes, I do have a number of friends who think I'm the sideshow joke, like Taco in The League. |
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Date: December 21st, 2015 2:54 PM Author: Erotic trailer park karate I'm struggling similarly, but different. I was already doing well and had an equity event in my late 20s. While it didn't change my life, definitely set me up and now playing with the 1%'ers. Contemporaneously, my relationship with my SO deteriorated to the point I don't recognize her (and myself) anymore. Long story short, we're not together anymore and I wonder what would have happened if I didn't chase as much. Gave up the best years of my life... (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3075784&forum_id=2#29427284) |
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Date: December 21st, 2015 3:05 PM Author: dashing nudist boiling water famous landscape painting Looks like we had opposite paths. What happened to you and your SO? Like you say you didn't recognize yourself, but how did she change?
I was playing with the 1%ers like 8-9 years ago when I was still pretty young (especially mentally) to have all of that fucking money.
At the same time, those were some of the worst years of my life.
I then found a way out to a career I loved which gave me heaps of freedom and money - not 1% money, but 5% money with the option to work from anywhere in the world with a working phone and internet. I got to pursue some personal (non-professional) goals and got close to meeting some of them.
Then I got sick and everything fucked itself up. Burned through most of the money in the rebuild (not going to explain further).
I always thought to myself "ehhhhh I can always marry rich" but the person I'll probably end up marrying (if shit goes the way it's been going) is another entrepreneur whose life (and earning power) has taken a few turns. Our lives will be more like the "fun adventure where we ride and die for each other" rather than "$2M Tudor in Bronxville and let's meet at the club for lunch after we drop the kids off at horseback riding lessons." And I don't know if I'm cool with that.
I guess we can always wonder what happened if we didn't do X as much, or if Y didn't happen to us. Pretty pointless exercise, really. But it doesn't make it any easier to deal with the day-to-day. |
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Date: December 21st, 2015 3:14 PM Author: Erotic trailer park karate I'm grateful that I was able to chase down a path (the grind, $, etc), then recognize it isn't for me. I always tell myself people like us in a lot of ways are lucky because we have options, many people don't. Yeah, the wondering, what ifs, it's bullshit and will make us miserable. That's the one area I've been better again, not second guessing and trying to be more grateful.
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Date: December 21st, 2015 3:16 PM Author: dashing nudist boiling water famous landscape painting But is it for you? You still say that you're searching. For what?
Are you working now? Did you do anything with the knowledge that the strive-for-$ path isn't for you?
I agree that we're both lucky we came to these realizations while single. Think of how many breadwinners hate their jobs but have a dependent spouse and kids in private school, so they're stuck being wage slaves. They now exist to serve as a bank for their spouse and children. |
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Date: December 21st, 2015 3:30 PM Author: Erotic trailer park karate Think ultimately, I just want to feel fulfilled and not constantly seeking validation through spending a shit ton of money, climbing corporate ladders etc, banging chicks. I don't seek prestige anymore but I know the attention thing from the opposite sex is a big issue for me. Not sure why as I can hold my on and as far as I remember, only one bad experience with women.
I'm still pushing hard now but know how I want to get out of it and have a timeline for it. Before, I thought success = money = happiness. I don't think that at all anymore. I think money gives you flexibility and options and success is relative which is iterative and infinite for strivers.
The working man is a sucker indeed. |
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Date: December 21st, 2015 3:53 PM Author: dashing nudist boiling water famous landscape painting Validation from the opposite sex is huge. I think that's a reason why so many people, especially single doods, keep striving. Money does equal success with women, and the more money you have, the greater your dating options are.
For girls, the more money you have access to (not necessarily earn yourself), the easier it is to make yourself look a certain way which increases your social status. If a girl rolls with a higher status group of girls, she attracts higher status (and higher dollar) doods.
I used to think success = money = happiness. Then, I thought success = [some equation balancing out money, time, freedom and fulfillment of other non-monetary goals] = happiness.
Now, I think that success = having a life that looks the same as the lives of people who were similarly situated to you when you were 25. |
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Date: December 21st, 2015 2:44 PM Author: Pearl Ungodly Lay this is spot on- leaves you gutted once you realize how empty and hollow a realistic and attainable good life is (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3075784&forum_id=2#29427190) |
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Date: December 21st, 2015 3:19 PM Author: dashing nudist boiling water famous landscape painting In what ways is a good life empty and hollow?
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Date: December 21st, 2015 4:57 PM Author: Henna Offensive Crackhouse THIS IS NOT MY BEAUTIFUL WIFE!! (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3075784&forum_id=2#29428020) |
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Date: December 27th, 2015 8:35 AM Author: doobsian piazza mexican lol at this disgusting pathetic striverism (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3075784&forum_id=2#29460994) |
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Date: December 21st, 2015 2:32 PM Author: Rough-skinned Godawful Halford The vast majority of people have almost zero capacity to actually love. Most relationships are a combination of self-interest, convenience, and complacency. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3075784&forum_id=2#29427109) |
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Date: December 21st, 2015 2:41 PM Author: navy narrow-minded chad mother also maintaining appearances (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3075784&forum_id=2#29427167) |
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Date: December 21st, 2015 2:43 PM Author: flushed geriatric field rigpig this + complacency/intertia are huge (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3075784&forum_id=2#29427177) |
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Date: December 21st, 2015 3:59 PM Author: Sooty electric menage what if none of the categories you used actually exists in reality? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3075784&forum_id=2#29427667) |
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Date: December 21st, 2015 4:05 PM Author: Rough-skinned Godawful Halford What do you mean (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3075784&forum_id=2#29427700) |
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Date: December 21st, 2015 5:00 PM Author: Sooty electric menage That people are driven by instinct, like the rest of the mammals. Your categories may be just reactive labels for the pre-programmed actions they can not otherwise explain. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3075784&forum_id=2#29428032) |
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Date: December 21st, 2015 5:13 PM Author: Rough-skinned Godawful Halford That could be right, idk. Either way, that people can't live up to our higher idea of love was a disappointment. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3075784&forum_id=2#29428082) |
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Date: December 21st, 2015 5:24 PM Author: dashing nudist boiling water famous landscape painting "Most relationships are a combination of self-interest, convenience, and complacency."
I'll cosign this. That's why it's so refreshing to meet someone who actually evaluates you as another human being.
I think this is the difference between platonic friendships and relationships. Some of us enter into and maintain friendships for self-interest, convenience, and complacency, but much more so for relationships. |
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Date: December 21st, 2015 2:42 PM Author: flushed geriatric field rigpig politics is fundamentally very tribal, people can rarely see things outside of their fundamental self interest, and it's rare to be able to find people with whom you can talk about it dispassionatly.
we have a tremendous amount of control over the course of our lives based on what we eat, how hard we work, etc. but we're fundamentally all VERY limited due to our genetics/personality and, more importantly, major events (such as disease, accident, and injury) which are 100% outside of our control/ |
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Date: December 21st, 2015 2:45 PM Author: appetizing theater stage pozpig we're also limited by our social surroundings. it is very difficult to bootstrap your way out of bad attitudes and habits (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3075784&forum_id=2#29427201) |
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Date: December 21st, 2015 2:54 PM Author: flushed geriatric field rigpig that too. i have tended to be good at figuring out the "rules of the game" for school, work, etc. and overperforming (even if it means becoming a small fish in a big pond by getting jobs/internships that i was not as well qualified for as others, at least on paper) so i've been blind to how hard it can be for most people to bootstrap their way out of problems. then i realized that i just happen to have a personality that makes it easier for me to do that. it gave me more empathy and made me much more willing to support a much broader and stronger social safety net than i did before, even though i tend to have libertarian leanings. the modern economy places a high premium on a fairly narrow band of skills which many people flat out don't have and can't learn. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3075784&forum_id=2#29427288) |
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Date: December 21st, 2015 2:59 PM Author: Erotic trailer park karate 180 (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3075784&forum_id=2#29427307) |
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Date: December 21st, 2015 3:00 PM Author: Multi-colored Bat Shit Crazy Hairy Legs (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3075784&forum_id=2#29427309) |
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Date: December 21st, 2015 8:05 PM Author: vivacious travel guidebook stage (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3075784&forum_id=2#29429154) |
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Date: December 21st, 2015 2:49 PM Author: laughsome coral giraffe I only recently figured out that the word "politics" doesn't actually have two separate meanings. I always thought the shared usage between "office politics" and "national politics" was just a similarity, but no, the word refers to LITERALLY the same fucking thing in both cases.
my life was forever changed when I realized that. |
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Date: December 21st, 2015 3:00 PM Author: appetizing theater stage pozpig (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3075784&forum_id=2#29427311) |
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Date: December 21st, 2015 3:01 PM Author: Multi-colored Bat Shit Crazy Hairy Legs "we have a tremendous amount of control over the course of our lives based on what we eat, how hard we work, etc. but we're fundamentally all VERY limited due to our genetics/personality and, more importantly, major events (such as disease, accident, and injury) which are 100% outside of our control/"
the book "man's search for meaning" outlines the credited attitude to take towards this sort of thing. |
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Date: December 21st, 2015 3:02 PM Author: flushed geriatric field rigpig yes that was a good book. i only read it after reading a lot of other self help/phil stuff though, so i didn't get as much out of it as i would have had i read it sooner. but still a cr book. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3075784&forum_id=2#29427319) |
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Date: December 21st, 2015 3:05 PM Author: White Mad-dog Skullcap School My two biggest realizations were that a) my growth spurt was up and that even though I was taller than everyone then, I'd end up a short like most of the rest of my family and b) height plays a HUGE role in pretty much every human interaction and people are really biased against short men. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3075784&forum_id=2#29427335) |
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Date: December 21st, 2015 3:19 PM Author: glittery transparent milk factory reset button Three big ones:
1) Will never make as much as my father, nor will I live the lifestyle they lived.
2) There is no such thing as job security, any high paying job can end at any time.
3) Women think much differently than men do, i.e. beta kills.
Edit: 4th - traditional WASP values, which include practicing Christianity, are superior to all others. |
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Date: December 21st, 2015 3:20 PM Author: Fragrant Haunting Site do you not believe in upward career trajectory?
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Date: December 21st, 2015 3:22 PM Author: glittery transparent milk factory reset button Sure, I believe in upward career trajectory, but as a product of hustle and learning an industry - any one job can end at a moment's notice but the successful always find a way to land on their feet. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3075784&forum_id=2#29427454) |
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Date: December 21st, 2015 3:24 PM Author: Fragrant Haunting Site in what ways are wasp values superior? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3075784&forum_id=2#29427462) |
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Date: December 21st, 2015 3:48 PM Author: dashing nudist boiling water famous landscape painting As someone who grew up half WASP and has a fucked-up approach toward expressing emotions (particularly vulnerability and anger) other than muted enthusiasm and polite disdain, I can say with certainty that WASP values are by no means superior.
WASPs also have a really shitty way of dealing with conflict, i.e. adopt a façade of "howzit, ol' sport" toward the object of your conflict, while you gradually and gradually start hating them more and more. Drink until you develop an ulcer. Then take your anger out on their kid, or some innocent third party related to the object of your anger. Low-level violence may or may not be used. Friendships and other relationships get destroyed. The underlying root of the problem never goes away. |
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Date: December 21st, 2015 3:56 PM Author: adventurous headpube Calvinism has been a disaster for the white race (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3075784&forum_id=2#29427650) |
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Date: December 21st, 2015 4:01 PM Author: dashing nudist boiling water famous landscape painting Not a philosophy/religion master man.
Explain (so I can learn something). |
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Date: December 21st, 2015 4:08 PM Author: adventurous headpube Protestants = Useful Goyim. This says it all:
One school of thought attributes Calvinism with setting the stage for the later development of capitalism in northern Europe. In this view, elements of Calvinism represented a revolt against the medieval condemnation of usury and, implicitly, of profit in general.[citation needed] Such a connection was advanced in influential works by R. H. Tawney (1880–1962) and by Max Weber (1864–1920).
Calvin expressed himself on usury in a 1545 letter to a friend, Claude de Sachin, in which he criticized the use of certain passages of scripture invoked by people opposed to the charging of interest. He reinterpreted some of these passages, and suggested that others of them had been rendered irrelevant by changed conditions. He also dismissed the argument (based upon the writings of Aristotle) that it is wrong to charge interest for money because money itself is barren. He said that the walls and the roof of a house are barren, too, but it is permissible to charge someone for allowing him to use them. In the same way, money can be made fruitful.
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Date: December 21st, 2015 4:21 PM Author: dashing nudist boiling water famous landscape painting How do these two paragraphs lead to your "useful goyim" conclusion as well as your conclusion that Calvinism (godly capitalism?) was a disaster for whites? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3075784&forum_id=2#29427807) |
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Date: December 21st, 2015 3:22 PM Author: dashing nudist boiling water famous landscape painting Why won't you live the lifestyle your parents lived? No inheritance?
And in what ways do women think much differently than men do?
100% agreed with 2. |
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Date: December 21st, 2015 3:26 PM Author: glittery transparent milk factory reset button 1. Father's peak income was amazing, close to 7 figures but he retired early. My siblings and I will share what's left.
2. Red pill thinking, while most if it garbage, has a kernel of truth. A women isn't your buddy, she's your girlfriend or wife, which is different than a friend.
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Date: December 21st, 2015 3:29 PM Author: dashing nudist boiling water famous landscape painting What makes being a GF/wife different from being a friend? I know there are GF/wife duties that go above and beyond friend duties, but there's always a current of friendship in every great relationship.
The most successful and happy couples I know view each other as friends and equals, even if men and women have different thought processes and the couple in question divide household duties along traditional gender roles (man provides financially, woman raises kids etc).
The shitty couples are the ones who got married for more utilitarian reasons (i.e., "she's nurturing and would make a great mom") as opposed to sharing a genuine connection, mutual respect and friendship bond.
How many siblings do you have? How much is left of your dad's earnings? |
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Date: December 21st, 2015 3:32 PM Author: glittery transparent milk factory reset button At 38, having lived a pretty full life, I disagree with your post. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3075784&forum_id=2#29427505) |
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Date: December 21st, 2015 3:35 PM Author: dashing nudist boiling water famous landscape painting I've lived a pretty full life and am younger than you, but not by much.
In what ways do you disagree?
I also think it comes down to what you want out of a relationship. |
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Date: December 21st, 2015 3:40 PM Author: Erotic trailer park karate I get very envious when I see/hear people talking about how their SO are true partners. They push and pull you through the ups and the downs. I hope I will find that someday, preferably one who enjoys anal. That is all. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3075784&forum_id=2#29427555) |
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Date: December 21st, 2015 4:56 PM Author: mind-boggling principal's office toilet seat (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3075784&forum_id=2#29428015) |
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Date: December 27th, 2015 8:41 AM Author: french indian lodge police squad (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3075784&forum_id=2#29461002) |
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Date: December 21st, 2015 3:33 PM Author: Erotic trailer park karate (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3075784&forum_id=2#29427512) |
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Date: December 21st, 2015 7:06 PM Author: Slap-happy friendly grandma To be fair,
When you're picking out a male friend, on a deep subconscious level are you really seeking a replacement pseudo-father?
If the answer is "no," then your friendships with your male friends are, and will always be, fundamentally different from your relationships with the women you are romantically involved with. Because at the end of the day, that's one key aspect that women are looking for in a mate, irrespective of any other factors. Period full stop. |
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Date: December 21st, 2015 7:16 PM Author: dashing nudist boiling water famous landscape painting I can get behind all of this, but just because platonic friendships with same-gender friends are "fundamentally different" from relationships doesn't mean that there isn't a strong undercurrent of friendship involved in a successful relationship. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3075784&forum_id=2#29428781) |
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Date: December 21st, 2015 4:18 PM Author: diverse striped hyena The hardest pill for me to swallow was the realization that, apart from any that I may create, there may actually be no higher purpose to my existence. This was acutely difficult for me, I believe, due to an unusually religious upbringing by a non-working, socially reclusive mother; in tandem with my not having any male role model around on a consistent basis, my being raised largely by a woman, herself entirely dependent on outside income (she never once worked a single day outside the home); but worse, I believe, she implanted in me her fantastical, paternalistic worldview, making me attend her church every week through my senior in high school. This, at least according to my best friend during those years, a capable student of people and their ways, who was himself always a very high-achieving individual (would later bank a million by a combination of successful entrepreneurship and marrying wisely) and had also, while we were still in high school, represented the US abroad where he won a gold medal in the junior Olympics (real talk), the overbearingly religious upbringing I received by a female lacking any clear perspective on the practical side of things or on earning a living through her own efforts, caused me some terrific damage, my most successful friend often said. |
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Date: December 21st, 2015 4:33 PM Author: emerald bbw :( (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3075784&forum_id=2#29427895) |
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Date: December 21st, 2015 4:38 PM Author: appetizing theater stage pozpig 180 was also raised by a passive, fearful, incurious woman without a strong male role model in the picture (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3075784&forum_id=2#29427933) |
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Date: December 27th, 2015 8:31 AM Author: french indian lodge police squad ugh me too I'm all sorts of fucked up |
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Date: December 21st, 2015 4:53 PM Author: Pearl Ungodly Lay sounds almost as painful as reading two paragraphs of run on sentences (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3075784&forum_id=2#29428003) |
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Date: December 21st, 2015 4:55 PM Author: mind-boggling principal's office toilet seat (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3075784&forum_id=2#29428014) |
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Date: December 21st, 2015 4:20 PM Author: Galvanic Splenetic Theater Idea He Suggested I peaked at 28. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3075784&forum_id=2#29427800) |
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Date: December 21st, 2015 4:32 PM Author: Ebony Native Old Irish Cottage this probably plays to lifestyle/decline of west;
watching my dad tell me after receiving his quarterly statement that his 401k, which he allocated according to what "the guy at the company" told him, made him lose his retirement to Global Crossing/Enron/Tyco in short order after working 20+ years. Then, he got injured on the job when a faulty lift gate on a trailer fell on his hand. He was told by someone to get a lawyer for your WC claim. He did that. Was brought in by his boss (a guy who LITERALLY was taught how to drive a truck by my dad and later HIT THE FUCKING LOTTERY and bought the company) who said "why would you do this to me? get a lawyer and betray me?" and was fired. When I told him to sue for wrongful termination, he didn't because "it's his business, I will find new work" which he did. Anyways. I saw this just man. This good man, completely screwed over, and I realized that 1) I will have to take care of my parents in their old age because they will have nothing and 2) honesty/loyalty/hard work better be their own reward, because bad shit happens to good people. |
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Date: December 21st, 2015 4:53 PM Author: mind-boggling principal's office toilet seat (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3075784&forum_id=2#29428006) |
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Date: December 21st, 2015 5:00 PM Author: Federal Razzle-dazzle Psychic Theatre jeez, that hits hard. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3075784&forum_id=2#29428034) |
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Date: December 21st, 2015 5:03 PM Author: Ebony Native Old Irish Cottage there is a bit of a happy ending to this, tbf, but it tore me up at the time to watch him go through it and how, the entire time, he never complained. I was so angry FOR him, but he is just that dood--"no complaining, act like a man and fix it". (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3075784&forum_id=2#29428044) |
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Date: December 21st, 2015 6:19 PM Author: trip sapphire heaven is he sad that u r a lawyer (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3075784&forum_id=2#29428422) |
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Date: December 21st, 2015 10:59 PM Author: Ebony Native Old Irish Cottage i'm no longer a lawyer (shit, I never really practiced at all in the traditional sense). He just wants me to be an honest dood who takes care of his family and puts in an honest living. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3075784&forum_id=2#29430355) |
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Date: December 21st, 2015 5:22 PM Author: dashing nudist boiling water famous landscape painting "honesty/loyalty/hard work better be their own reward, because bad shit happens to good people."
This x 10000
Another realization that fucked me up. The person I know who was lifepwned the most is a nice, hardworking, intelligent girl who just got divorcepwned and then layoffpwned and now has nothing. Parents were poor and then died, she's a total bootstrapper, but now has less than $100 to her name after getting layoffpwned 6 months ago in MFH. She had a $200k/year job, but little savings.
It also chaps my ass when dumb assholes somehow find their way into a successful and lucky situation. |
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Date: December 21st, 2015 4:58 PM Author: appetizing theater stage pozpig those women smiling at me find me pitiable not attractive (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3075784&forum_id=2#29428023) |
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Date: December 21st, 2015 5:14 PM Author: mind-boggling principal's office toilet seat Nothing is worse than when it becomes clear that a girl you are extremely attracted to thinks of you as an asexual friend (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3075784&forum_id=2#29428083) |
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Date: December 21st, 2015 5:20 PM Author: Buck-toothed windowlicker Painful lesson to those of us who were taught that women like nice guys. Spend months or even years working on something, falling in love, and then some aggressive dude comes in and fucks her. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3075784&forum_id=2#29428103) |
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Date: December 21st, 2015 5:22 PM Author: mind-boggling principal's office toilet seat I vividly remember the first time this happened to me. I was gutted. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3075784&forum_id=2#29428111) |
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Date: December 21st, 2015 5:19 PM Author: greedy provocative pit dingle berry Partisan nature of the scotus (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3075784&forum_id=2#29428099) |
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Date: December 21st, 2015 5:21 PM Author: mind-boggling principal's office toilet seat That should have been pretty obvious after Bush v Gore (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3075784&forum_id=2#29428107) |
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Date: December 21st, 2015 5:43 PM Author: Buck-toothed windowlicker Poasted above, but thinking about this more:
1. Realizing that I'm getting old. I think this really hit in my early 30s. Everything that used to seem so distant started to get real: Thinking about my own health and realizing that I have to be [pro]active or I'll balloon like the rest of my blood relatives, starting to get sore from stupid shit like moving or pulling weird muscles in my back or hips from normal activities, my parents aging physically but also starting to act old, my last grandparent dying and realizing that my parents are next in line, approaching the end of the sensible childbearing years (my wife is a few years older), and, not flame, the poasts on XO about how we'll see our fathers 25 more times ever.
2. Coming to realize that my dad--who's had a lot of professional success--isn't a perfect man. He's human and has/had a complex relationship with his own parents, and his relationship with my mom isn't as perfect as I had always thought. I guess he feels like he can talk to me about this now, but not sure that I prefer it this way. |
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Date: December 21st, 2015 5:49 PM Author: Erotic trailer park karate Life is tough brother and while I can't presume to know the situation, I know that your father probably wrestled with whether or not to bring you under the tent. That he did shows a lot of what he thinks about you as a man. He's being vulnerable which isn't a side that's easy for a father to show his son. Embrace it and be proud of it. Your children will see it one day. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3075784&forum_id=2#29428270) |
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Date: December 21st, 2015 6:01 PM Author: dashing nudist boiling water famous landscape painting This.
My dad still won't do that with me. He won't admit fallibility, or even discuss with me what makes him a man. He won't talk about his life before he met my mom, he won't talk to me about what made him fall in love with my mom (all he says is "she's frugal, cooks well enough, and knows how and when to shut up.").
Parents admitting to their children that they are human is a very credited life experience, and shows how much your parents value you not just as their progeny, but as a real part of the family. |
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Date: December 21st, 2015 6:06 PM Author: flushed geriatric field rigpig "Parents admitting to their children that they are human is a very credited life experience, and shows how much your parents value you not just as their progeny, but as a real part of the family. "
i think that this is a very important part of growing up. my father died when i was quite young and i still have this child's image of him as a perfect, all-knowing being, even though he was a pretty regular guy, probably had his faults, etc. it certainly made me more motivated to achieve in school, work, etc. since i was comparing myself to an unrealistic standard.
i wonder to what extent people like bill clinton (whose dad also died young) were similarly motivated to achieve because they never got to know their main male role model as a fallible human being. |
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Date: December 21st, 2015 6:10 PM Author: dashing nudist boiling water famous landscape painting And that's the flipside. If you always see your father as this unassailable hero, you'll be motivated to achieve to be more like him.
I remember all the shit I wanted to do when I was a kid just because my dad did the same shit.
The hardest part of my situation is that my dad still views himself as the infallible (at least with respect to me) paterfamilias, but I can point out a thousand ways in which he's a normal, flawed man. |
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Date: December 21st, 2015 6:14 PM Author: Buck-toothed windowlicker ty, really. It's a pretty recent development. He and I spent some time 1-on-1 recently and he really opened up. It's more of an adult talk than we've had before, but the subject of it made me sad for him as he's not as happy as I thought and hasn't been for a long time. In sum: My mom is a 180 mom to her kids, but sounds like that's been at the expense of their marriage at times and it's been going on for so long that it's likely broken on a romantic level. Wish that I saw both of them more, but the industrial revolution, etc. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3075784&forum_id=2#29428399) |
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Date: December 21st, 2015 7:13 PM Author: Slap-happy friendly grandma To be fair,
Watching my parents slowly start to become the children in our relationship.
Realizing that we truly all live and die alone, and any feeling to the contrary is nothing more than an illusory facade that we create to numb the existential loneliness that might otherwise paralyze us. If we're lucky, we might be permitted to enjoy living under that delusion until we pass away from this universe forever. If we're unlucky, we will have it ripped away by the very people we believed we were "closest" to.
Coming to terms with the fact that Freaks and Geeks will probably never be rebooted.
Prolapse really does occur. |
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Date: December 21st, 2015 9:08 PM Author: Pearl Ungodly Lay "Watching my parents slowly start to become the children in our relationship."
was just about to post this...sums up a lot of this thread |
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Date: December 21st, 2015 8:57 PM Author: heady foreskin library the fact that, no matter how much i work out or take care of myself, i will always max out at about a 7 (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3075784&forum_id=2#29429504) |
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Date: December 21st, 2015 9:19 PM Author: cobalt impressive selfie That most people are weak and just can't handle reality. I guess I grew up with so much shit flung at me I just got used to it, and now I can't stand people making "painful" discoveries about life as adults. It's really discouraging/depressing that so many people who look normal and happy sit around as sad sacks of shit on the inside. I used to believe and people and think they were strong. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3075784&forum_id=2#29429656) |
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Date: December 21st, 2015 9:22 PM Author: Thriller Marketing Idea when u stop dreaming, u die and there is no resurrection (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3075784&forum_id=2#29429681) |
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Date: December 21st, 2015 9:23 PM Author: Olive Shrine Realizing that all my negative interactions in my life are NOT ALL my fault made a hard POSITIVE impact on my life. I used to feel like every negative relationship I had with anyone was the result of some sort of inadequacy on my part - didnt realize until adulthood that OTHER people are sometimes actually dysfunctional. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3075784&forum_id=2#29429692) |
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Date: December 27th, 2015 8:50 AM Author: french indian lodge police squad This is actually pretty significant and something I've only just started to realize in the past year or two. Pretty damn hard to make the realization when you're depressed and have low self worth. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3075784&forum_id=2#29461006) |
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Date: December 21st, 2015 9:37 PM Author: histrionic laser beams abode 1. That my level of happiness is immutable. 2. That I am a terrible person and emotionally vacant; incapable of having a meaningful relationship with anyone. This too is immutable. 3. I am a truly excellent lawyer. 4. 3 will not change 1 or 2 and is, in fact, a symptom of whatever caused 1 and 2. |
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Date: December 22nd, 2015 5:27 PM Author: dashing nudist boiling water famous landscape painting Why is your happiness immutable? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3075784&forum_id=2#29434683) |
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Date: December 27th, 2015 8:53 AM Author: Pearl Ungodly Lay Hie me (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3075784&forum_id=2#29461008) |
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Date: March 2nd, 2016 9:46 PM Author: Black Spectacular Degenerate Death Wish (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3075784&forum_id=2#29965443) |
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Date: December 21st, 2015 10:12 PM Author: Comical Feces It took until adulthood to realize the essential meaninglessness of life? For all my intellectual and social deficits, I had this down by the time I was 12.
Tbf, it was only after working for a few years I accepted that my autismal and attentional difficulties rule out conventional success, which is hard to swallow if you are a complete failure in every other aspect of life. Not sure where I go from here |
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Date: December 22nd, 2015 11:39 AM Author: concupiscible bearded rehab potus there are no women on the internet, especially not on post-Rina autoadmit; only doobs (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3075784&forum_id=2#29432614) |
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Date: December 22nd, 2015 5:30 PM Author: sick bistre national philosopher-king Had a long term GF who was back and forth for a good year. I have a big cock. All her friends/sisters begged her to get over me let me go but she just couldn't, she was hooked on the sex. She'd break up and see a new guy for a few weeks but always come running back.
One of these time the new guy had a bigger cock and she was gone, never heard from her again. I had access to her gchat the entire time. |
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Date: February 18th, 2017 11:57 PM Author: Black Spectacular Degenerate Death Wish (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3075784&forum_id=2#32653053) |
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Date: December 22nd, 2015 5:42 PM Author: soul-stirring cuck People do what they want
People have their lives organized in the way that works for them, for good or ill
A lot of times people get pissed off over things they do not care about and demand things they do not want... Watch for these behaviors in yourself and beware of them in others. |
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Date: December 22nd, 2015 5:50 PM Author: dashing nudist boiling water famous landscape painting "A lot of times people get pissed off over things they do not care about and demand things they do not want"
What the hell? |
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Date: December 22nd, 2015 5:52 PM Author: soul-stirring cuck It's scary but true (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3075784&forum_id=2#29434868) |
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Date: December 27th, 2015 8:55 AM Author: jet tattoo university teeth are just TTT
fucking bullshit nice genome faggots |
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Date: January 16th, 2016 4:00 AM Author: vivacious travel guidebook stage (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3075784&forum_id=2#29608798) |
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Date: March 2nd, 2016 10:17 PM Author: mentally impaired know-it-all address alpha didn't exist for billions of years... will live for maybe 80 years... will not exist for billions of more years
ITS ALL FUCKING BULLSHIT |
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Date: March 2nd, 2016 10:24 PM Author: Vigorous locus macaca you don't exist now. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3075784&forum_id=2#29965781) |
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Date: March 2nd, 2016 10:22 PM Author: Infuriating hairraiser hominid just had a new one. that everything about me is ME. my teeth, my anus, my dick. but who made Me? i am not just my mind, or how i feel. i am all my parts, all my connections. sure, my mind is what i feel, through my nervous system. but i am my parts. but wtf am i? a chair, a computer...that shit was made for a purpose. what is my purpose?
also, i remember like half a year ago someone gave me a bible as a gift. the next day i threw it in the trash. thats what i think about the bible answering me my question. |
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Date: March 2nd, 2016 10:28 PM Author: yapping point ceo That my own father was actively and intentionally harming me and that he is profoundly and irredeemably mentally ill and vicious. Once I accepted this and that there is nothing I can do about it, I felt a burden lift from me and I've been able to be more present in life, connect with other people better and have a positive outlook. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3075784&forum_id=2#29965808) |
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Date: October 30th, 2016 11:21 AM Author: Black Spectacular Degenerate Death Wish That I wasnt going to LS (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3075784&forum_id=2#31758417) |
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Date: October 30th, 2016 12:15 PM Author: carmine kitty hell That UFOs are real and consequently, our petty achievements and squabblings are even more pointless given the literal zoo animal reality of our lives. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3075784&forum_id=2#31758700) |
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Date: February 18th, 2017 11:58 PM Author: Black Spectacular Degenerate Death Wish (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3075784&forum_id=2#32653055) |
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Date: February 18th, 2017 11:59 PM Author: bateful church building That there was never going to be a satisfactory answer to existential and epistemological questions no matter how hard I searched (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3075784&forum_id=2#32653059) |
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Date: February 19th, 2017 12:05 AM Author: Smoky jew that just as we were born alone, we will die alone as well. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3075784&forum_id=2#32653073) |
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Date: February 19th, 2017 12:45 AM Author: arrogant stubborn roommate That I, like you and everyone else, will probably be dead and forgotten in a generation.
No lie, when I was 18, I thought I was meant for greatness- that I'd have to never worry about prole shit like money, that I would be so fucking successful and better thatn 99.99 pct of the population.
I thought I was really smart.
Turns out I'm just a Salieri than a Mozart.
And afterwards, I realized that I don't have "it"- whatever it is taht makes people that may not be "smarter" than me succeed, I don't have it.
Somehow, these people could go on like they were the best in the room at whatever they're doing, but I knew that they weren't yet they were able to convince themselves that they were- and that led to their success. I however engaged in this impostor syndrome- where I somehow felt that not being the top 0.1 pct in whatever I do didn't matter. I think this contributed me to flaming out of my UG |
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Date: February 19th, 2017 1:58 AM Author: charismatic copper parlour "No lie, when I was 18, I thought I was meant for greatness-"
yeah no shit man, this describes at least 75% of the male population under the age of 25 or 30, this is a running theme in world literature in everything from stendhal to mishima to fucking neal stephenson |
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Date: February 19th, 2017 12:50 AM Author: Black Spectacular Degenerate Death Wish Lots of poasters outting themselves as aspie ITT (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3075784&forum_id=2#32653237) |
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Date: February 19th, 2017 12:51 AM Author: arrogant stubborn roommate i really like it here (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3075784&forum_id=2#32653242) |
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Date: February 19th, 2017 12:56 AM Author: bateful church building Also: that even the people who seem the smartest and most knowledgable, whom I admire the most, etc., may actually have no fucking idea what they're doing it and may be winging it just like I am. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3075784&forum_id=2#32653264) |
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Date: February 19th, 2017 12:57 AM Author: blathering at-the-ready round eye Sometimes you gotta be fucking ruthless in business
Time waits for no man
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Date: February 19th, 2017 12:58 AM Author: Frisky Hospital Candlestick Maker P=NP (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3075784&forum_id=2#32653271) |
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Date: May 26th, 2017 11:16 PM Author: Black Spectacular Degenerate Death Wish (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3075784&forum_id=2#33405969) |
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Date: June 1st, 2017 2:04 AM Author: marvelous adulterous sneaky criminal box office (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3075784&forum_id=2#33443928) |
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Date: October 26th, 2017 10:28 PM Author: pearly abnormal hall (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3075784&forum_id=2#34538120) |