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Author Topic: Amusing comic on being sick in america, being poor, being a failure, etc.  (Read 5097 times)

Cthulhu

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There was a prank played once where they gave paint to a chimpanzee and then showed the prints to art critics under a fake name.  They raved, the prank was revealed, suddenly they knew all along.

I guess the comic wasn't so bad, it was an earnest expression of that period in the artist's life.  I think we've all had one of those moments.  Mine was a slow one over a long period of time where I grappled with the knowledge that everything I hated about other people was just projected self-loathing.  I never hated bros or jocks or anything, just other nerds, because part of me desperately didn't want to be one.
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One thing that did resonate with me is that, when you truly see your whole life as a continuum of decisions, or non-decisions....that's a very hard reality to face up to if you're not proud of it.

But the outright nihilism is something that I gave up long ago. Really, if you're not going to off yourself, there's only one place you can go. And that's up.
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I never hated bros or jocks or anything, just other nerds, because part of me desperately didn't want to be one.
Hate to tell you bro... you're on a forum full of nerds. They're everywhere. And (scare chord!) you're one of them!
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For, in order that men should resist injustice, something more is necessary than that they should think injustice unpleasant. They must think injustice absurd; above all, they must think it startling. They must retain the violence of a virgin astonishment. When the pessimist looks at any infamy, it is to him, after all, only a repetition of the infamy of existence. But the optimist sees injustice as something discordant and unexpected, and it stings him into action.

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I never hated bros or jocks or anything, just other nerds, because part of me desperately didn't want to be one.
Hate to tell you bro... you're on a forum full of nerds. They're everywhere. And (scare chord!) you're one of them!

Did anyone else get a Peter Chimera vibe?
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I never hated bros or jocks or anything, just other nerds, because part of me desperately didn't want to be one.
Hate to tell you bro... you're on a forum full of nerds. They're everywhere. And (scare chord!) you're one of them!

I know, I came to grips with it a while ago. 
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