Will I lose my virginity by the age of 35?

**iLOVENZB** · 08-07-2011, 03:48 PM

You think Katy Perry is staying with him because of his accent?

**OlegL** · 08-07-2011, 05:46 PM

Originally Posted by Darth Rings

Originally Posted by kallieb

Suggesting we're unique is an illusion we rely upon to soothe our sense of self-importance. It's all that self-actualisation crap the self-help gurus spoon-feed to our psyche while they line their pockets with our money.

I will have to courteously disagree. People who think along with this logic often run into its limitations. The individual self exists. Psychologists have tried for long to "predict" somebody's behavior, and even among the most powerful correlations, it is proven that they are just that: correlations without actual strict rules. What a buddhist monk would kill for, is probably very different from what a KKK member would kill for, even though they could both enjoy jasmine tea. Sure, psychological proof exists that the human believes what is best for his ego, and multiple experiments prove synthetic happiness, but both of those concepts lend credibility that to defend the self against psychological disarray, the unique self has to exist in the first place.

The true illusion is believing that we could all be stereotyped. It's not idealistic to think this way, in ways it's even scientific if one can acknowledge that every single one of us can be a miniature experiment of evolution at work, with extremely unique traits. We still don't know how the brain wires itself up at the very start, but we do know a lot about the different "traits" we are born with, so it's safe to assume (for now!) that every single one of us could be different with the way the brain wires itself up, even at such a fundamental level.

What you see in others as part of yourself, is nothing more than your social skills working with and against our common evolutionary beliefs in order to further the species as a collective. What you see in others as part of yourself, is a subset of the definition of "I" that we all share: the same palette of emotions, the same reasons to survive, and the same consciousness that drives it all. But you will never see your "self" some place else.

It's hard to believe that you are actually sincere when you write these things because you wrote astonishingly weird and dumb things in not such a distant past.

**KFlint** · 08-07-2011, 05:58 PM

Originally Posted by iLOVENZB

You think Katy Perry is staying with him because of his accent?

Would it be that she's staying because he's the only who can tolerate the sight of her face in the morning

katy_perry_no_makeup.jpg

**Snee** · 08-07-2011, 06:01 PM

Surely he'll find a way to get bummed by a hobo or something before then.

**atis198383** · 08-07-2011, 06:47 PM

Originally Posted by KFlint

Originally Posted by iLOVENZB

You think Katy Perry is staying with him because of his accent?

Would it be that she's staying because he's the only who can tolerate the sight of her face in the morning

katy_perry_no_makeup.jpg

jujj.... I begin to fear

**bijoy** · 08-07-2011, 08:30 PM

Where is the main option: I'm a troll with infinite relicense.

**Artemis** · 08-07-2011, 08:35 PM

Originally Posted by bijoy

Where is the main option: I'm a troll with infinite relicense.

No, a real troll engenders an emotion (usually negative) rather than outright apathy, reading your posts is about as exciting as watching rail tracks rust.