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14 Dec 2011, 7:53 pm

Henry Miller, Tropic of Cancer wrote:

If there were a man who dared to say all that he thought of this world there would not be left him a square foot of ground to stand on. When a man appears the world bears down on him and breaks his back. There are always too many rotten pillars left standing, too much festering humanity for man to bloom. The superstructure is a lie and the foundation is a huge quaking fear. If at intervals of centuries there does appear a man with a desperate, hungry look in his eye, a man who would turn the world upside down in order to create a new race, the love that he brings to the world is turned to bile and he becomes a scourge. If now and then we encounter pages that explode, pages that wound and sear, that wring groans and tears and curses, know that they come from a man with his back up, a man whose only defenses left are his words and his words are always stronger than the lying, crushing weight of the world, stronger than all the racks and wheels which the cowardly invent to crush out the miracle of personality. If any man ever dared to translate all that is in his heart, to put down what is really his experience, what is truly his truth, I think then the world would go to smash, that it would be blown to smithereens and no god, no accident, no will could ever again assemble the pieces, the atoms the indestructible elements that have gone to make up the world.”

Do any of you dare to say all that you think of this world? Please proceed.

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14 Dec 2011, 8:40 pm

It is where I and my family live. I intend to keep my portion of it neat.

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14 Dec 2011, 8:56 pm

Life sucks and then you die so why not enjoy what you can, that is at least how I feel about it right now.............but the enjoying it part is rather difficult.

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14 Dec 2011, 9:02 pm

Sweetleaf wrote:

Life sucks and then you die so why not enjoy what you can, that is at least how I feel about it right now.............but the enjoying it part is rather difficult.

Think positive or you are in for a world of pain.

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14 Dec 2011, 9:10 pm

Sweetleaf wrote:

Life sucks and then you die so why not enjoy what you can, that is at least how I feel about it right now.............but the enjoying it part is rather difficult.

Haha, reminds me of a Nas song.

"Life's a b**** and then you die, that's why we get high, because ya never know when you're gonna go..."

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14 Dec 2011, 9:22 pm

Hey, Skrillex, what is it I think of the world again?

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ylVRGttEW4[/youtube]

Oh yeah, that's right.

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14 Dec 2011, 9:27 pm

It can be pretty absurd.

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14 Dec 2011, 9:44 pm

MarsCoban wrote:

Sweetleaf wrote:

Life sucks and then you die so why not enjoy what you can, that is at least how I feel about it right now.............but the enjoying it part is rather difficult.

Haha, reminds me of a Nas song.

"Life's a b**** and then you die, that's why we get high, because ya never know when you're gonna go..."

yes that is sort of where I was going with that.

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14 Dec 2011, 9:50 pm

I assume that was a paragraph that re iterated that love makes the world go round?

I think that people should read more and learn the basic concept of economics.

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14 Dec 2011, 10:14 pm

WhiteWidow wrote:

I assume that was a paragraph that re iterated that love makes the world go round?

I think that people should read more and learn the basic concept of economics.

Angular momentum, not love, makes the world go around.

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14 Dec 2011, 10:16 pm

ruveyn wrote:

Sweetleaf wrote:

Life sucks and then you die so why not enjoy what you can, that is at least how I feel about it right now.............but the enjoying it part is rather difficult.

Think positive or you are in for a world of pain.

ruveyn

The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts: therefore, guard accordingly, and take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature. ~ Marcus Aurelius

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14 Dec 2011, 10:26 pm

"The world breaks everyone and afterward many are strong at the broken places. But those that will not break it kills. It kills the very good and the very gentle and the very brave impartially. If you are none of these you can be sure it will kill you too but there will be no special hurry" (Ernest Hemingway).

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14 Dec 2011, 11:01 pm

WhiteWidow wrote:

I assume that was a paragraph that re iterated that love makes the world go round?

I think that people should read more and learn the basic concept of economics.

Nobody understands economics. A lot of people think they do but they don't really. They just understand whichever dogma suits their fancy.

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14 Dec 2011, 11:23 pm

ruveyn wrote:

Sweetleaf wrote:

Life sucks and then you die so why not enjoy what you can, that is at least how I feel about it right now.............but the enjoying it part is rather difficult.

Think positive or you are in for a world of pain.

ruveyn

The more you're told your unhappiness is unacceptable, the bigger it grows. Sometimes it's better to just forget about it completely. Don't try to think positive, just stop thinking period and soak in the view.

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14 Dec 2011, 11:46 pm

I think the voice miller was using was one of a depressed and angry person.

(I think my dad called miller "adolescent" . . . . . i admit i could be confused. I never read any henry miller.)

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14 Dec 2011, 11:48 pm

dmm1010 wrote:

Mmmm, "A Farewell To Arms"....music.

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