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If You Could Choose Your Own Desires
#21
RE: If You Could Choose Your Own Desires
(November 12, 2016 at 9:59 am)Rhythm Wrote: I'd choose to prefer productive things over any other thing at all times.  I'd be fucking -rich- by now if I was -always- working.

But then you wouldn't have had hours of fun playing tetris, drinking, smoking, chatting and so on.


Are you ready for the fire? We are firemen. WE ARE FIREMEN! The heat doesn’t bother us. We live in the heat. We train in the heat. It tells us that we’re ready, we’re at home, we’re where we’re supposed to be. Flames don’t intimidate us. What do we do? We control the flame. We control them. We move the flames where we want to. And then we extinguish them.

Impersonation is treason.





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#22
RE: If You Could Choose Your Own Desires
I know, I know, almost makes one wonder what the point of working is if not to provide the basis of a life that one can enjoy?  

Work to live, don't live to work; seems to be the heuristic I'm using to approach the balance setting on those competing activities. I'll feel differently in a decade or so, when the operational costs of my life due to legal settlements are reduced by half and some long term investments come in...I suppose. I'll wonder how I managed to work so fucking hard, making ends meet and whatnot, lol. Probabl;y won;t know what to do with all that extra money.

Hookers and blow at my place, circa 2026, yall.
I am the Infantry. I am my country’s strength in war, her deterrent in peace. I am the heart of the fight… wherever, whenever. I carry America’s faith and honor against her enemies. I am the Queen of Battle. I am what my country expects me to be, the best trained Soldier in the world. In the race for victory, I am swift, determined, and courageous, armed with a fierce will to win. Never will I fail my country’s trust. Always I fight on…through the foe, to the objective, to triumph overall. If necessary, I will fight to my death. By my steadfast courage, I have won more than 200 years of freedom. I yield not to weakness, to hunger, to cowardice, to fatigue, to superior odds, For I am mentally tough, physically strong, and morally straight. I forsake not, my country, my mission, my comrades, my sacred duty. I am relentless. I am always there, now and forever. I AM THE INFANTRY! FOLLOW ME!
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#23
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(November 12, 2016 at 10:34 am)Excited Penguin Wrote: But in all seriousness, I find there's a particular mindset I can develop where I'm the best possible version of me and I just keep being that for the sake of it - well, at least in theory. I don't know why I can't get myself there but I do know it's within my powers. It's like anything else you do in life except this is supposed to be constant and universal. You push past the difficulty and you keep going... Forever.

I'd like to get the motivation to get in that place, mentally. The rest will follow.

(November 12, 2016 at 10:35 am)Rhythm Wrote: IKR?!?  That's pretty much a service I provide myself at present...but it would be nice if it wasn't even required, lol.

(November 12, 2016 at 10:37 am)Excited Penguin Wrote: That's the beautiful thing about it. Once you master yourself to that unbelievable degree you can, in fact, do anything. So long as it's possible , anyway. But the point is I think most of us don't even use half of our potential.

No idea but I was reminded of this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rGCzepV_pdI
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#24
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I guess I would most hope to want to want the things I thought I would want when I chose to want them. Otherwise I'll just go back to wanting to see Trump and Pence thrown into jail and the presidency bestowed on Sanders by popular decree. *crosses fingers hoping not to wake up this time*
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#25
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I really don't 'want' this too much, but the incremental improvement in life quality if I actually enjoyed, liked, and relished mashed and baked potatoes might be enough to consider it.


yeah, I am VERY aware just how fucking rare and unusual it is for someone to detest loathe and despise mashed potatoes, and it seems to garner even more reaction than being a homo when some people find out. I've taken quite a bit of flack my whole life for this.

And baked potatoes are even worse.


No kidding, I'd rather rim a hot guy who had eaten them than eat them myself, passage through the male human digestive tract actually improves them.


And note, the rest of you enjoying the hell out of potatoes is just as difficult for me. I want to gag when I see someone else eat them. Jesus Fucking Christ! The taste !! The texture !!! THEY ARE GHASTLY!!

WHAT THE FUCK IS WRONG WITH YOU FUCKING POTATO LOVERS ?

I do enjoy potato chips (mmmm Pringles!) and thin cut French fries (WTF is up with the big ones ? ICK!!!!)

And over the years, well done hash browns have become tolerable, although greasy ones have triggered gall bladder trouble before I went on omeprazole.
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#26
RE: If You Could Choose Your Own Desires
(November 12, 2016 at 12:22 pm)vorlon13 Wrote: WHAT THE FUCK IS WRONG WITH YOU FUCKING POTATO LOVERS ?
-For interested lurkers, lol-

 

You're the weird one, Vor, if you ever had any doubt about that.  At least you come to your senses if enough grease is applied to the taters. Everything is better well greased, amiright? Wink
I am the Infantry. I am my country’s strength in war, her deterrent in peace. I am the heart of the fight… wherever, whenever. I carry America’s faith and honor against her enemies. I am the Queen of Battle. I am what my country expects me to be, the best trained Soldier in the world. In the race for victory, I am swift, determined, and courageous, armed with a fierce will to win. Never will I fail my country’s trust. Always I fight on…through the foe, to the objective, to triumph overall. If necessary, I will fight to my death. By my steadfast courage, I have won more than 200 years of freedom. I yield not to weakness, to hunger, to cowardice, to fatigue, to superior odds, For I am mentally tough, physically strong, and morally straight. I forsake not, my country, my mission, my comrades, my sacred duty. I am relentless. I am always there, now and forever. I AM THE INFANTRY! FOLLOW ME!
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#27
RE: If You Could Choose Your Own Desires
and as the family genealogy has been developed and I have been incrementally been made aware I am less and less German and Austrian and French, and more and more Irish, this tater thing does seem pretty weird, even to me.

And I can eat uncooked raw potato slices, BTW, they are quite tasty that way.


And yes, that has raised some eyebrows over the years, too.


I think I understand the Narn spoo thing now . . . .
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#28
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and yes, everything is better when it ships free greased.
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#29
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(November 12, 2016 at 12:22 pm)vorlon13 Wrote: No kidding, I'd rather rim a hot guy who had eaten them than eat them myself, passage through the male human digestive tract actually improves them.

Speaking of rimming versus eating potatoes:

I fucking love potatoes and they taste far better than ass but... I'd still rather rim an attractive woman than eat a potato any day Razz
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#30
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Dat emoticon, lol.  Instant topshelf addition to my collection.
I am the Infantry. I am my country’s strength in war, her deterrent in peace. I am the heart of the fight… wherever, whenever. I carry America’s faith and honor against her enemies. I am the Queen of Battle. I am what my country expects me to be, the best trained Soldier in the world. In the race for victory, I am swift, determined, and courageous, armed with a fierce will to win. Never will I fail my country’s trust. Always I fight on…through the foe, to the objective, to triumph overall. If necessary, I will fight to my death. By my steadfast courage, I have won more than 200 years of freedom. I yield not to weakness, to hunger, to cowardice, to fatigue, to superior odds, For I am mentally tough, physically strong, and morally straight. I forsake not, my country, my mission, my comrades, my sacred duty. I am relentless. I am always there, now and forever. I AM THE INFANTRY! FOLLOW ME!
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