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RE: What's everyone up to right now?
January 3, 2016 at 11:50 pm
Facebook is how I connect with family. But it gets weird at times. Twitter is how I connect with the soccer world that I hold dear. I've been part of weekly chats with tweetchat (?) that have had players, GMs and coaches from the high ranks join in. But Twitter is full of know-it-alls and popular types that know it. Selfies can be a good thing, but can be overdone.
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RE: What's everyone up to right now?
January 3, 2016 at 11:51 pm
Ain't so lame when it lets you reconnect with people you have been searching for the past 25 years.
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RE: What's everyone up to right now?
January 3, 2016 at 11:54 pm
Well, I learned the hard way.
There were people in school with whom I had been friends, and I did reconnect with them. Then I realized that so much time had passed, that I should not have contacted them whatsoever.
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RE: What's everyone up to right now?
January 4, 2016 at 12:05 am
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That's the beauty of social media. The pseudo-anonymity of an online avatar gives people the ability to do things they normally wouldn't do.
It has its other edge (trolls), but this phenomena has allowed me to connect with childhood next door neighbors and elementary school friends in a very tangential way that I love.
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RE: What's everyone up to right now?
January 4, 2016 at 12:26 am
2 more days until Always Sunny Season 11!!!!
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"There remain four irreducible objections to religious faith: that it wholly misrepresents the origins of man and the cosmos, that because of this original error it manages to combine the maximum servility with the maximum of solipsism, that it is both the result and the cause of dangerous sexual repression, and that it is ultimately grounded on wish-thinking." ~Christopher Hitchens, god is not Great
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RE: What's everyone up to right now?
January 4, 2016 at 12:30 am
(January 3, 2016 at 9:06 pm)Jörmungandr Wrote: (January 3, 2016 at 5:29 pm)pocaracas Wrote: Is that you, Apo?
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I've used this picture before, haven't I? I'm sure I have.
I know you're fond of changing your avatar frequently, but I implore you to leave this one. Beautiful!
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RE: What's everyone up to right now?
January 4, 2016 at 1:02 am
(January 3, 2016 at 11:54 pm)Kitan Wrote: Well, I learned the hard way.
There were people in school with whom I had been friends, and I did reconnect with them. Then I realized that so much time had passed, that I should not have contacted them whatsoever.
There's that. The funny thing is, by outward appearances, they haven't changed much, which is what I had hoped for.
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RE: What's everyone up to right now?
January 4, 2016 at 1:08 am
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(January 4, 2016 at 1:02 am)Cthulhu Dreaming Wrote: There's that. The funny thing is, by outward appearances, they haven't changed much, which is what I had hoped for.
Yeah, people do not change. Which is why arranged marriages are bad. What if you're stuck with an idiot?
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RE: What's everyone up to right now?
January 4, 2016 at 1:16 am
(January 4, 2016 at 1:08 am)Kitan Wrote: (January 4, 2016 at 1:02 am)Cthulhu Dreaming Wrote: There's that. The funny thing is, by outward appearances, they haven't changed much, which is what I had hoped for.
Yeah, people do not change. Which is why arranged marriages are bad. What if you're stuck with an idiot?
What if the idiot is convinced you're the idiot (and his/her parents agree)?
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RE: What's everyone up to right now?
January 4, 2016 at 1:17 am
(January 4, 2016 at 1:16 am)Crossless1 Wrote: What if the idiot is convinced you're the idiot (and his/her parents agree)?
By what logic are you making this statement?
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