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11 Sep 2011, 7:39 pm

Most of my life is about knowledge and understanding which is somewhat a waste since I seem to want to understand more than live life. At least that is how it appears to me sometimes.


How well do you have to get to know someone before you will call them a friend?



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11 Sep 2011, 7:46 pm

A good three weeks.

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11 Sep 2011, 8:55 pm

1 - 2 months

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11 Sep 2011, 9:23 pm

It used to be 2 seconds. Now its like 2 years++.

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12 Sep 2011, 2:43 am

sluice wrote:
How well do you have to get to know someone before you will call them a friend?


It depends on the person and the intensity of interaction and communication. Compatibility is important as well.
It usually takes at least 6 months for me to know someone well enough and to trust them enough to call them a friend.

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12 Sep 2011, 2:51 pm

Same question.

Honestly, it takes a great amount of time as often I've inadvertently came across persons whom are either vain as the Greek Adonis or shallow as The Dead Sea.Still, I do my utmost best to acquaint myself with others but, I try not to rush about doing such things though..

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13 Sep 2011, 7:36 am

I imagine we will continue to be seen as odd and different and will have to work twice as hard to get the same opportunities. I wonder if it is education or civil rights that is needed for people to get that different isn't necessarily wrong.





Would you take a drug that made you happy and content at all times and removed that feeling of being stressed?



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13 Sep 2011, 7:49 am

Mostly I prefer to experience life as it is but sometimes I could use some "help" to be happy at least to give myself a break from all the stress and negative thoughts. However if the effect of the said drug was permanent I wouldn't take it.
Hmm... I must be crazy not to choose to be happy all the time... :?

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13 Sep 2011, 8:07 am

No. I guess I must be a "savage" in this regard:

"And if ever, by some unlucky chance, anything unpleasant should somehow happen, why, there's always soma to give you a holiday from the facts. And there's always soma to calm your anger, to reconcile you to your enemies, to make you patient and long-suffering. In the past you could only accomplish these things by making a great effort and after years of hard moral training. Now, you swallow two or three half-gramme tablets, and there you are. Anybody can be virtuous now. You can carry at least half your morality about in a bottle. Christianity without tears-that's what soma is." - Aldous Huxley Brave New World

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13 Sep 2011, 4:11 pm

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Would you take a drug that made you happy and content at all times and removed that feeling of being stressed?


No. I rather just deal with life than be a drugged zombie of a human.


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13 Sep 2011, 7:02 pm

That's the goal. Prepare yourself!


If someone, alien or otherwise, came along and threw you in a zoo and visitors came along to view you, how would you behave?



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13 Sep 2011, 7:12 pm

By throwing stuff at them.



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13 Sep 2011, 7:34 pm

I'll troll the aliens, making them believe I will do sth interesting anf then just sitting down. When they get tired of loking at me I would throw stuff at them and then act as if I were sleep.

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13 Sep 2011, 7:38 pm

I would correct their spelling and grammar in their own languages and mine.



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14 Sep 2011, 1:20 am

Hmm... I don't know. History, maybe?

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14 Sep 2011, 10:50 am

Same question.

Philosophy, as it sometimes can be a useful guide within our lives..

Do you consider yourself an independent thinker?