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If you could have One wish..
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If I were to have one wish, it would be to not have any inner conflicts of any type. Imagine waking up every single day, without any stress or conflict. But, I guess without adversity, we don't grow.
Then, I should be a million feet tall by now, just sayin.
Adversity is pointless...and we'd grow regardless. It's just something that happens as cells build up.
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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!
 (July 10, 2017 at 10:33 pm)Khemikal Wrote: Adversity is pointless...and we'd grow regardless. It's just something that happens as cells build up. Wouldn't life get tedious and unrewarding if everything was so simple it was just handed to us? Struggle defines us. That's why an eternal paradise is such an unattractive prospect. Even if you want to narrow the scope of adversity like that, I don't think it would do a person any good. Minimize it, sure, but don't eliminate it altogether. Oh, I've got a good one: I wish Bertie Bott's Every Flavor Beans existed (and that I had won a free lifetime supply.)
Religions were invented to impress and dupe illiterate, superstitious stone-age peasants. So in this modern, enlightened age of information, what's your excuse? Or are you saying with all your advantages, you were still tricked as easily as those early humans?
--- There is no better way to convey the least amount of information in the greatest amount of words than to try explaining your religious views.  (July 9, 2017 at 11:42 pm)Fireball Wrote: If I had only one wish, I'd ask for whatever the fuck it is with the human brain that turns off the reasoning skills and makes it act like an unrepentant willful idiot gets fixed. Everything else would just follow. This. So much this. I wish that people who don't use common sense be forced to do the shit jobs no one wants to do. In addition - those people should be forced to attend common sense classes until they learn how to use it. This thinking for other fucking people is overrated. Disclaimer: I am only responsible for what I say, not what you choose to understand.
 (July 10, 2017 at 10:55 pm)Astonished Wrote:(July 10, 2017 at 10:33 pm)Khemikal Wrote: Adversity is pointless...and we'd grow regardless. It's just something that happens as cells build up. Even the bogie flavoured ones?  I agree with you somewhat on adversity, though it would be nice to go through weeks or even months without some utter prick trying to make our lives more difficult by being a dick. Playing Cluedo with my mum while I was at Uni: "You did WHAT? With WHO? WHERE???" RE: If you could have One wish..
July 10, 2017 at 11:19 pm
(This post was last modified: July 10, 2017 at 11:21 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
(July 10, 2017 at 10:55 pm)Astonished Wrote:I wouldn't know, none of us would...we don't live such a life - that's why we're forced to imagine one in a fairy otherworld. I mean, poersonally, imma take people at their word for that...and we very much seem to want things handed to us, if at all possible. Speaking of, can I borrow five bucks?(July 10, 2017 at 10:33 pm)Khemikal Wrote: Adversity is pointless...and we'd grow regardless. It's just something that happens as cells build up. Quote:Struggle defines us.Ish. It may be that getting kicked in the dick by some random asshole defined the rest of one John Q Randos life - but if he hadn;t been kicked in the dick, something else likely would have. Quote:That's why an eternal paradise is such an unattractive prospect. Even if you want to narrow the scope of adversity like that, I don't think it would do a person any good. Minimize it, sure, but don't eliminate it altogether.It's the eternity part that makes paradise unattractive, not the paradise part. I take little trips to paradise on a near constant basis.
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!
(July 10, 2017 at 10:59 pm)The Valkyrie Wrote:(July 10, 2017 at 10:55 pm)Astonished Wrote: Wouldn't life get tedious and unrewarding if everything was so simple it was just handed to us? Struggle defines us. That's why an eternal paradise is such an unattractive prospect. Even if you want to narrow the scope of adversity like that, I don't think it would do a person any good. Minimize it, sure, but don't eliminate it altogether. Well considering you're not actually eating one, sure, why not? I've never tasted one before but I know what regular snot tastes like so I imagine it's salty. Or does it being dried out make it taste awful like a raisin compared to a grape? But who wouldn't be curious to know what certain things taste like without the dread of ingesting some kind of bacteria or other nauseating substance? I'm the kind of person who'll try just about anything at least once.
Religions were invented to impress and dupe illiterate, superstitious stone-age peasants. So in this modern, enlightened age of information, what's your excuse? Or are you saying with all your advantages, you were still tricked as easily as those early humans?
--- There is no better way to convey the least amount of information in the greatest amount of words than to try explaining your religious views.  (July 10, 2017 at 10:59 pm)The Valkyrie Wrote:(July 10, 2017 at 10:55 pm)Astonished Wrote: Wouldn't life get tedious and unrewarding if everything was so simple it was just handed to us? Struggle defines us. That's why an eternal paradise is such an unattractive prospect. Even if you want to narrow the scope of adversity like that, I don't think it would do a person any good. Minimize it, sure, but don't eliminate it altogether.  The challenge should lie in the betterment of humanity and our environment, be it medical knowledge or physical understanding of the universe, without having to put up with some petty, selfish sonofa/bitch with a personal agenda derailing it.
If you get to thinking you’re a person of some influence, try ordering somebody else’s dog around.
(July 10, 2017 at 11:27 pm)Fireball Wrote:(July 10, 2017 at 10:59 pm)The Valkyrie Wrote: Even the bogie flavoured ones? Exactly. If there are no problems to solve, what is the point of existence, paradise or not? No sense of achievement or accomplishment, nothing uncertain to give you the thrill of a mystery, not like some dipshit who assumes you have to get castrated to experience life-affirmation. But little things, not so much that they put incredible stress or undue suffering. Just the kind of thing no god concept even pretends to care to prevent.
Religions were invented to impress and dupe illiterate, superstitious stone-age peasants. So in this modern, enlightened age of information, what's your excuse? Or are you saying with all your advantages, you were still tricked as easily as those early humans?
--- There is no better way to convey the least amount of information in the greatest amount of words than to try explaining your religious views. 
I dearly wish, with all of what passes for my heart, that servers in restaurants would fucking listen to me.
It isn't constant by any means, but it happens often enough to get on my tits something fierce. We go in, get seated, look over the menu, and after I've told the waiter what I want, he suggests something else. Look, pal, if I had wanted the edamame appetizer, I would have ordered the edamame appetizer. I've read the goddamed menu, I know what you have, and I've ordered what I want. I don't give two steaming shits that the chef over-ordered crab for this week, or that your manager told you to 'push' the artichokes in aioli. Stop fucking assuming that you know better than I do what I want to eat. May the Great Fairy wot sits in the sky grant this wish. Sooner have this than a lottery jackpot. Boru
‘I can’t be having with this.’ - Esmeralda Weatherwax
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