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Random Thoughts-What's flying around in your head?
Topic Started: Oct 16 2011, 09:31 AM (4,643 Views)
Temporal
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Hopefully, this goes better than the WBO version. What's going on? How's your day? Have you been hit by a random wave of inspiration? Are you disappointed in how a story came out? Watching anime? Listening to music? *cough*Natsuko Aso*cough* Pissed off about misspellings? (I normally am.) Say it out loud for the world the hear! Or at least PenPad Forums. Let 'em fly!
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Yeah. Time flies fast, very fast. But those memories will live on forever. It'll live in our hearts forever. Besides, age is just a number. Growing up is just a very sharp turn. The road gets smoother afterwards.
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I just went back through the whole first tournament. My position has not changed. Control_ very well could have won. That's somewhat creepy. And frankly, the most visited matches were all between the major WBO writing heavy-hitters. If Sparta had entered, that final (if he made it, to avoid pissing someone off) would have been the equivalent of Mayweather-Paquiao. THAT would have been epic. And still would have ended 9-10. Who knows who would have won. And I've noticed...the Staff forums have been nigh abandoned, hah. Nobody's posted in AGES.

Hell, Hope vs. Tenshou Yoku and Me vs. Tenshou drew just as many views as the final!
Edited by Temporal, Jun 3 2012, 11:52 AM.
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Nerdy side has been unleashed:

School is a flawed idea. Why? First, School promoted Competition between students, something which is proven bad (hello, competition has led to the destruction of many things, WWI and WWII). Secondly, Schools expose young people to negative and positive things. Still, how does all that perverted junk sound even tough he/she get's super good education? Lastly, schools have low levels of quality values. Students grow best in homeschool, where almost every single variable is played as their parents want. Obviously Homeschool is now better, right?
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Probably. I mean, I homeschooled for the past three years (sixth, seventh, eighth), only entering back into "real" schooling for high school. I feel as though I know more than I could have traditionally, and I learned how to budget time for myself, not through the prompting of teachers or parents. The only problem is that your social skills become very much diminished, even if you do meet with others. However, that's remediable by joining extra-curriculars later.
Edited by Odin, Jun 5 2012, 06:37 AM.
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haahhaha, burst my bubble again Odin... -__-... jk, I really agree on your stance, I SUCK at social life, pretty much a loner. BUT when academics are in play, I'm like, weeeehhehehheheeeeeweee...
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Bah. Of course, you need social prowess to an extent, but some people overplay it. All those "cool" kids won't amount to much. I don't listen to rap, but this one rapper Hopsin said it best. "You think all that's gonna happen to you?/How?/You don't commit to labor/You pick something up, try it out, and put it down two minutes later" (By the way, a very angry and profane song, but utterly true. My favorite line: "Why's it got to be black people who can't evolve?")

On that note, I'm kinda worried. I may be actually resenting black people and black culture as a whole. I look at my family, who either grew up "hood", act "hood", or want to, and I think "Geez, this is stupid." I think that any time I see a black person running around. It seems like I only see the BAD in the community. Every once in a while I see something good, and I think "Almost no black people are like that. That's a shame". At one point or another, after I saw another robbery, I wished I wasn't black. Right when my life gets back the way I want it to be, I run into racial issues.

On a less depressing note: Bey-Heart and I had a REALLY weird text discussion about Haruhi Suzumiya, hah.
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Man, I haven't watched that anime in forever...I really miss it. Hopefully they make a season 3.

It's funny. In my town, there's a lot of reverse-racism. Because my town is pretty much 100% whites, we pretty much call ourselves "white trash" and any black person is treated with a lot of respect. It's almost like whites are the pariah, and yet they're less than 50 black families in our town...

I just got back from surgery, where the doctor quartered my nose mercilessly. Now it stings like a b**ch, and my mom gave me tylenol so I'll be out cold in a few minutes, haha. Tylenol, behind benadril (Did I spell that right?), just makes me so tired.
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Phaw, I need to move to your town, man. I just need to get away from Chicago. A 10-year old little girl was shot on my block while playing in a fire hydrant (A black pastime, apparently. No offense, but I've never seen this in a white neighborhood.) with her friends. Poor girl just celebrated passing making Honor Roll at her school.
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A 10-year old little girl was shot on my block while playing in a fire hydrant (A black pastime, apparently. No offense, but I've never seen this in a white neighborhood.) with her friends.
Actually, it's a hispanic pastime, too. Back when I lived in a more, how should I say this, minority-oriented neighborhood, we'd have a bunch of block parties and the kids would run around the fire hydrant. Now, I never actually got to do it myself, instead I just watched from my apartment window :c But, I think you're right on that one; you probably wouldn't see it in a white neighborhood.
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Hrm... That's a good point. I never saw that in a Hispanic neighborhood, so I'll take your word for it. That said, there aren't many Hispanics on the South Side of Chicago.
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I just learned that my summer reading choices have been invalid. So, I now have two weeks before school starts to read 700 + pages. I also have band seven of those days.
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EDIT: Here's the funny part. They were both legitimate picks two and a half months ago.
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Go for it! I have my SR project to do, as well. Bring on the Stephen Hawking! The Universe in a Nutshell, to be exact. I've got to summarize every chapter, write a review, create my own thesis, and write a letter for Hawking questioning the book. In a week.
Hrm... School starts soon for me. I wonder what will change this year. I must admit, I am much different today than I was late May. Much of that, I admit, is thanks to you guys. Interacting with all of you told me that I couldn't just hang on to simple mistakes from a while ago. Being a junior now, I've finally understood that, yes, I CAN move on. And it only took a year, hah. If you guys saw me in person last year, you'd notice that I only smiled when being sardonic about something. That, or I was laughing, which was, and can still be, pretty rare.

Sometimes nobody hates me more than me. Other times, I'm the cockiest bastard in the world. But you know, I wouldn't change who I am if given the chance. You guys never apologized for existing, so why the hell should I, right? That's a main reason I don't want the site to die. I can say these things here. With my dad, I just get a demoralizing (and utterly crushing) "GAAAAAAAY!" from him. That...annoys me. To NO end. Actually, when I wrote Midwinter's Day, I thought a lot about myself. I felt (and sometimes still do) feel like I'm being suffocated. I'm always told why I'm NOT liked, and why people DON'T love me like one might someone else. And I'm pitied for it. I can't STAND pity. So I feel like I'm alone somehow. My dad doesn't give a damn, and my brothers are distant at times. I feel like I can't move forward sometimes, and it just sucks. I wrote some characters so they'd be somewhere I WANT to be. I wanted to be able to say "I'm good." And yes, guys. I'm good. I'm fine. I'm okay. I'm where I want to be. I just had to practically strip who I am and who I was.

Actually, I met this student-teacher who wanted to be a therapist at a math camp at the U of Chicago. He was REALLY cool. He never laughed or pitied me when I told him my issue. Apparently, my being so aggressive when I rant is because I needed something to hang on to while I dragged more and more people into my life. I, apparently, wanted to force bonds between people because I was lonely. Makes sense. So here I am, saying I'm fine.

When I said it before, well... I wasn't. My brother acted immature for a good...20 minutes, and I blew and fished for anything I could use to hurt him. I legitimately nearly went toe-to-toe with my older brother for being immature because I'm always told to be the mature one by two parents who barely notice I exist until they need something or I screw up. I'm the middle child. I'm not the one supposed to be trying to protect my younger AND older brothers. Not my job. That's likely when I figured I had work to do. My brother packed his crap and nearly LEFT because of me. HUGE wake-up call. Ever had family threaten to leave because of you? Feels like crap. I never thought that me being unstable ever affected anyone else, but it did. So now I've got no choice but to fix it, right? Well, I'm coming close to fixing it. I'm not going to fool myself, I've got work to do. But I can do it. I got dealt the hand I got dealt. I can bluff my way through life, or I can fix it. I'm going to fix it. That said, I don't need anyone to "fix" me; I'm not broken. I'm fine for now, and I think that's good enough.

Sentimental rant-OVER.
Edited by Temporal, Aug 15 2012, 12:50 AM.
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Wow, I feel bad about how you feel about yourself. I do, all the time, even tell my mom that if I wasn't born, she would have less trouble. Yet, I'm comforted. I'm probably even geekier than you Temporal, even my best friends who's another nerd in our school ridicules me because of the stuff I do. So, to encourage me to even have more friends, in my own geeky way, I decided to set up my life as having social links. (lol Persona! xD) It's just a creative way for me to not be rude to people, since I like being alone and I think that my friends often slow me down.
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Hah, Persona. You can relate Persona to anything if you tried, actually.
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Happy Birthday Temporal, didn't know where to put this ...
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lol, I should read around this board more XD
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Happy belated birthday, Temp!

It's storming like crazy here, hah. So much for relaxation.
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I feel you Temp, I feel you...

Stupid brothers whine all the time.
Classmates hate me... And yet ask me almost everything regarding HW.
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Izuma, I honestly don't think you "feel" for him; not with what you described. All brothers will whine; my brother and I constantly bicker back and forth about the most idiotic things. But, I rely on him nonetheless. It's why I'm trying to get him to go into business with me in the (way distant) future.
Your classmates hate you? Did you ever stop to think you might exude an odious, immodest aura? In most of your writings that aren't stories, you've had a vainglorious air about you. If people "hate" you, then try to figure out why. If you don't want to be hated, change how you act. Don't use your supposedly-155 I.Q. to show people up; try to be genuinely nice.
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Hm. Odin once again proves that he's got to be one of he deepest and most mature members here.

Also: It's not that they're annoying. It's more my fault. I'm way too irate. I think the constant whining I do here is a product of that.

And I don't think you want to know what being hated truly looks like. We're talking being shoved around, ignored, punched and kicked, insulted on a regular basis... I've seen homework stolen and ripped up before. And how do you explain what happened to a teacher? It's too humiliating to do. What, do you say "I got my arse handed to me on a silver platter and my homework stolen today... Can you make a big fuss about it so it gets worse while solving this specific issue without addressing the cause like teachers like you seem to like doing?" How do you explain to your parents? How do you say ANYTHING when everything that happens to you is humiliating? Normally, those truly hated kids don't. And then it becomes too much for them to handle. It's so sad, but that's life. It happens. You should try to help them out, but you then expose yourself to the exact same treatment. Self-preservation is a human instinct. People don't call themselves "Numero Uno" in arrogance. Human instinct is "My safety comes first". Not saying that everyone is selfish, but anyone who says they've never had a selfish thought EVER, is either younger than two, or a liar. Being disliked is one thing. Hate is a totally new ballgame. I've seen hate. I never want to see anything like that again. And I feel like a total arse for waiting months before helping the kid in question. Hate kills kids. Hate makes kids kill themselves. Hate makes people wonder why they exist. Hate makes you wonder why nobody is helping, but you don't help yourself. Eventually, you resent the kid who's being hated like that because it's weighing on your conscience that you don't help. Hate makes good people distant. In other words, there is nothing on this world more destructive than pure hate.
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I almost agree with that, Temp. I do think that there are a few things that are just as powerful as hate, and some coupled together are truly terrifying.

Positive forces:
1.) Understanding. Knowing the problem, the others around you, and what you can do to fix it. Don't blow anything off as unimportant; it might not be now, but it probably will be at a later date.
2.) Love. Now, I may sound like a naïf, but love can solve most anything, especially when coupled with understanding, and a healthy dose of empathy. But, it's also why this world is in such a hole. People need to learn to love everyone, no matter what the others think. That's one of America's founding principals, but it's been severely minimized.

Negative forces:
1.) Apathy. "I don't care; it doesn't affect me; it's not my problem. I don't know that kid." I hate people who rationalize like that. At band camp last year, a kid with a broken leg had his hat stolen three times and put in a tree. Everyone just ignored it or laughed, so I went and got it; each time. More than half the band disliked me for the next three months because of it; but some people agreed with my decision. There's a saying, specifically about bullying, that sits for everything, "If you don't help the person being bullied, even if you don't help the bully, you're still an accomplice. Even if you do nothing." That's one of my rules to live by. Always, always help someone out, even if it's unpopular. You never know when you'll need their help.
2.) Ignorance. Not understanding what happens around you can lead to something horrible happening. For example, a lady was doing her makeup in her car, sitting at a red light. Here, we're allowed to turn right on red, as long as it isn't a red arrow. I don't think this lady understood that. Then, the light turned to a red arrow; a little old lady was crossing the street. The lady doing her makeup looked up, saw the arrow, and must have thought, "Go." So, she did. She almost hit the lady who was crossing. How badly do you think the makeup lady would have felt if she hit the lady crossing? "Ignorance is bliss"? Wrong. Ignorance can cause great pain.
3.) Hate. This is the big one. You can just read what Temp wrote above.

Hate + Ignorance = Horrible things. Most of the Nazis (and this is just an example) didn't actually know much, if anything about the Jews. They just listened to Hitler spout horrible things about Jews, and uninformedly hated the Jews. Look where that got us.

Now, I'm also a pacifist; an anti-war supporter; and a tree-hugger, to boot. I think people should try to talk things out, rather than duke things out.
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Exactly. I don't like how some people use popularity as an excuse. Of course, I've been guilty of the same, but it's not like I abandon the poor kid. I help them, just not immediately. I just don't have the nerve.

As for positive things as powerful as hate, yes. I agree, especially for love. But the two are not mutually exclusive. It's not too far-fetched to love someone you hate. Or to hate someone you love.

And one more thing coupled with hate can be terrifyingly powerful: Humiliation. If you're too afraid to tell others what's going on in fear of what will happen next or how humiliating it is, it's not gonna stop. But if you DO tell, it could get worse if the adult misunderstands even a little. Pride is one tough bastard.
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I think that was the story of a VN, actually. A guy has a girlfriend, but meets another girl. He can either mess around with her, or stay true to his girlfriend. If he picks mess around, he can either quit messing around, or keep at it. If he keeps at it, his GF finds out, and he has the choice of stopping with the other girl, or dumping his current girlfriend. If you pick dump, it'll just spiral out of control until you get to the bad ending, where the ex murders the guy and the other girl in a psychotic rage; then she kills herself. I don't remember the name, just the synopsis. I haven't actually played it, either.
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School Days. Has some CREEPY endings. There are 21 in the extended game, and only 3 don't involve someone dying, if I recall. The worst one was the first girl cutting open the other girl to check if she was pregnant, then leaving her with an open stomach to die. There are quite a few disturbing ends in that one. That said...the original girlfriend goes psycho and kills the other girl by shoving her in front of a train and then following her in one ending, so... They both can end up crazy.
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Wasn't there an anime about that, too? Where one of the girls goes crazy and stabs the guy in the chest a dozen times?
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The anime is based on one of the endings, yes. One of the cleaner endings, to be honest. You can make the protag a major doucebag, honestly.
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I just went back through the whole first tournament. My position has not changed. Control_ very well could have won. That's somewhat creepy. And frankly, the most visited matches were all between the major WBO writing heavy-hitters. If Sparta had entered, that final (if he made it, to avoid pissing someone off) would have been the equivalent of Mayweather-Paquiao. THAT would have been epic. And still would have ended 9-10. Who knows who would have won. And I've noticed...the Staff forums have been nigh abandoned, hah. Nobody's posted in AGES.

Hell, Hope vs. Tenshou Yoku and Me vs. Tenshou drew just as many views as the final!
I know I'm a bit late on this, but whatever happened to the tag team tournament? And did I enter the single writing competition? I have a feel that I did, but i'm not sure, and my WBO page is just not loading.

On another completely different topic my life has officially become a manga, being the luckiest kid in the world! (I say kid lightly because i'm pretty mature, and almost 14, so maybe luckiest teen.) Basically what happened was, I was at an art museum sketching some stuff and listening to music, mostly made by me (not bigheaded), when Someone behind me says 'You're really good at drawing, that's manga right?' I turn around and there's the cutest girl I have ever seen standing behind me, who A) looks like a girl out of an anime and B) doesn't look like she cares about my crappy dress sense (white and blue jumper with too long sleeves and jeans along with gelled hair no glasses) so being the completely cool guy I am I blush with my already red cheeks and look anywhere but at her mumbling 'yeah, thanks.' Anyway turns out she was easier to talk to than I thought we ended up getting a drink from a little cafe and we're going to see a movie at the cinema that isn't a chick flick, I'm in heaven XD
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I'd like to hear some of your music. Could you email it to me?
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ok, I'll have to sort out my better stuff because not much of it is any good, but when I get time sure.
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