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Forum: The Haven Topic: Don't want anything out of the world. |
| IWishIWasCioran |
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Posted: 01 Nov 2011, 1:22 pm
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| The late French/Romanian essayist EM Cioran reportedly was told by his mother she would have aborted him had she known how miserable he was going to be in life. Young Cioran's "I'm simply an accident. Why take it all so seriously?" conclusion was the result. Yet he lived 84 (by his own description) ... |
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Forum: In-Depth Adult Life Discussion Topic: What did you want to be as a kid |
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Posted: 30 Oct 2011, 2:14 pm
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Replies: 434
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| Just that: a kid... had no desire to grow up, just wanted school to end which it did, finally. Beyond said, childhood imagination mine landed upon - a) a monster in the movies (i.e., an actor - think great thespians such as Jason from Friday the 13th, Michael Myers or any the old guard to include Fr... |
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Forum: The Haven Topic: scale of -10 to +10, how do you feel right now? |
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Posted: 30 Oct 2011, 10:31 am
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Replies: 35,875
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| Oh yes, almost forgot: my number score? I can't count backwards that far & low down... |
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Forum: The Haven Topic: scale of -10 to +10, how do you feel right now? |
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Posted: 30 Oct 2011, 10:30 am
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| How am I feeling? Moved, only not enough yet toward Cioran's so eloquently put "there are nights when the future cancels out, when only one of all its moments subsists, the one we shall choose in order to exist no longer." In response to ZaannV's post, I feel much like her - "Ready to die, my few fr... |
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Forum: The Haven Topic: No ambition |
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Posted: 29 Oct 2011, 10:59 am
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Replies: 28
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| I have no ambition - never have. Am in my 50's, and remember as early as 6th grade thinking 'only 6 more years of this and I am done.' A neighborhood paperboy's ambition age 13 caused my dad to say to me "look at him - he has drive". My reply to dad: wonderful for him. College? Gesundheit. I went fo... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Unusual ability to pronounce foreign languages? |
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Posted: 29 Mar 2010, 10:31 am
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Replies: 75
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| Then again, sometimes I speak with a native tongue that while understandable, I just can't stand... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Unusual ability to pronounce foreign languages? |
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Posted: 28 Mar 2010, 11:35 am
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Replies: 75
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| I speak in a foreign language, i.e., one that as creator only I often understand... |
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Forum: Random Discussion Topic: What does your avatar say about you? |
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Posted: 28 Mar 2010, 11:29 am
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Replies: 507
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| [quote="CockneyRebel "What does your avatar say about you?" 8)[/quote] - that though I am one with death am not so very mute even in, can hold my gaze sans blinking long as anyone & that I am not one to be trifled with (no, rather I do the trifling.) Also, that I 'm obviously via the photographi... |
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Forum: Random Discussion Topic: What song are you listening to now? |
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Posted: 28 Mar 2010, 11:23 am
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Replies: 32,875
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| [quote="phoenixjsu"]What song are you listening to now? - "I see London, I see France, I see someone's underpants", but I don't see (or hear) dead people... Music mine within easy reach we speak offers a choice: Frank Sinatra & Marilyn Manson... Duffy and Ferrante & Teicher... Pete... |
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Forum: Random Discussion Topic: The weirdest surnames you encountered |
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Posted: 28 Mar 2010, 11:12 am
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Replies: 94
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| [quote="Irulan"]What are the weirdest surnames of people you know or have heard about? My father met a man while stationed military :salut: in Thailand the 1960s whose name was (spelling may be incorrect, but the pronunciation stands) - Mr. "U Sh*t" (probably "Yu" case the first, letter 'i... |
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Forum: Social Skills and Making Friends Topic: has anybody managed to make friends? |
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Posted: 27 Mar 2010, 2:39 pm
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Replies: 32
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| Shalom redux, Salon "I don't even know how to respond to this anymore." - yes... "People with autism spectrum disorder are often compared with robots or cyborgs" - if imitation be the sincerest form of flattery, I am Laurence Olivier playing Cioran... "but" - [[ drumroll ]] cue Pee Wee Herman talkin... |
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Forum: Social Skills and Making Friends Topic: has anybody managed to make friends? |
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Posted: 26 Mar 2010, 4:26 pm
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Replies: 32
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| Shalom, Salon (coming) "Maybe you just haven't gotten to the point yet where you've achieved pretty much every dream you've ever had except for the unreachable ones?!?" - I always set my goals low so they would be reachable, hence I was never disappointed [ rimshot / CYMBAL CRASH! ] Flip yet also ap... |
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Forum: Social Skills and Making Friends Topic: has anybody managed to make friends? |
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Posted: 26 Mar 2010, 11:43 am
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| Again, no agreement in this corner...for 'this' individual (which distinguishes me from the others same by the very nature of my experiences, pursuits, likes, opines, etc.) there is 'nothing' to be 'cured' my case - you or others may feel in need a rescue as it were...if so, que sera sera. You claim... |
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Forum: Random Discussion Topic: Nothing is important |
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Posted: 25 Mar 2010, 9:24 pm
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Replies: 17
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| Wonderful titles, Cioran's works: "The Trouble With Being Born', "The Temptation To Exist", "Drawn & Quartered", "On The Heights of Despair" - not exactly or so much Paradise by dashboard light as... well, let EM tell it: "Paradise was unendurable, otherwise the first man would have adapted to i... |
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Forum: Social Skills and Making Friends Topic: has anybody managed to make friends? |
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Posted: 25 Mar 2010, 7:23 pm
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| All due respect, it is but a matter or perception: yours, mine, everyone other's... "So did I... until I got cured. Now I realise what I missed all these years and I feel like I've led the life of a robot instead of a human." - to say "cured" is to imply or suggest you/whomever was sick? afore...to ... |
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Forum: Random Discussion Topic: Nothing is important |
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Posted: 25 Mar 2010, 6:14 pm
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Replies: 17
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| Understood, and yet, to each their own. As to such a 'Final Exit' (if even there were any finality to it, unknown) I personally have never subscribed to the belief nee tenant some that suicide is a selfish act. Now, perhaps some agreement exists because (as some are want to say) extinguishing onesel... |
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