help me with this, will you? (cd, concert, quote)

~~CAPTAIN CAVEMAN~~ · 05-30-2007, 09:38 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by _LesPaul43_

why dont you write about something cool like how..if you put water in a paper cup..and try and burn the bottom out of the cup..you cant do it.

WHAT?

Laces Out Dan! · 05-30-2007, 09:40 PM

I swear you try it..get like a styrophone(sp?) cup and fill er up...and try...no dice, positive.

PopIsDead · 05-30-2007, 09:59 PM

Does it depend on what you try to burn it with? Like a gas stove or a butane lighter or something?

Laces Out Dan! · 05-30-2007, 10:00 PM

we used just a normal zippo..but held it under there forever, im sure a torch could do it...but who knows.

PopIsDead · 05-30-2007, 10:01 PM

I think I'll experiment with how that works for different types of flames.

Laces Out Dan! · 05-30-2007, 11:05 PM

You make sure to post the results.

chumb · 05-31-2007, 09:15 AM

Nothing is eternal, and definitely not happiness, so if that's your definition of "true happiness" then sure, it doesn't exist. But really, that is a pretty lame definition. You could talk about relativity when it comes to happiness, and that generally the happiness of one person comes at the expense of another's... that the things which make one person happy usually conflict with the things that make another happy. You could talk about happiness in terms of a sort of spiritual contentment doesn't exist, that all it is is chemicals being released into the brain. You could talk about the fact that money may not be able to buy happiness, but it can buy cocaine which basically just floods your brain with endorphins, the happy chemical. I don't know. I'm not even completely clear on what exactly the point of your paper is. If you do want to back it up with some other philosophy though, most Eastern philosophies teach that Good cannot exist without Evil, Taoism for instance states that a wise man does not abstract good from reality because doing so also abstracts evil... therefore he is simply content with the nature of things. That might be sort of along the lines of what you're going for...?

Kevorkian Logic · 05-31-2007, 10:55 AM

Last night after I asked about going to a concert my dad sweetly went into this surprisingly relevant rant:

"You're such a ****ing disappointment, you realize that? You seem to care more about your damn happiness than anybody else, I'm so sick of your selfish behavior. If you really want to by happy, get a job and get responsibility. Stop whining that you just want to go out and how you don't want our money, if we stopped giving you money then you would be much more unhappy than you claim to be now. It's pathetic. You should be happy and if you're not you can ****ing quit school, get a job, and pay for all you're god damn stuff (he then picked up my defenseless Tom Waits cd and chucked it across the room and it sadly broke). Are you ****ing happy now? Look, now you have fewer possessions, are you ****ing happy now you whiny bitch? Happiness comes with responsibility, which you have shown you can't handle at all. You always **** it up. It's just pathetic (around this time I locked myself in my closet and read a book to block him out until my mom intervened or he got tired at yelling at a door)

So that was my dad's fun rant about what is happiness. I'm sure there is something useful in there.

chumb · 05-31-2007, 11:37 AM

lol

sleepy jack · 05-31-2007, 12:07 PM

angstangstangstangst

05-30-2007, 09:40 PM	#22 (permalink)
Laces Out Dan! I love Puck Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: British Columbia Posts: 4,614	I swear you try it..get like a styrophone(sp?) cup and fill er up...and try...no dice, positive. __________________ We are entirely smooth, We admit to the truth, We are the best at what we do.

05-30-2007, 09:59 PM	#23 (permalink)
PopIsDead Edgyswingsetacid Join Date: Mar 2005 Posts: 342	Does it depend on what you try to burn it with? Like a gas stove or a butane lighter or something? __________________ "No one likes a smart-ass but we all like stars."

05-30-2007, 10:00 PM	#24 (permalink)
Laces Out Dan! I love Puck Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: British Columbia Posts: 4,614	we used just a normal zippo..but held it under there forever, im sure a torch could do it...but who knows. __________________ We are entirely smooth, We admit to the truth, We are the best at what we do.

05-30-2007, 10:01 PM	#25 (permalink)
PopIsDead Edgyswingsetacid Join Date: Mar 2005 Posts: 342	I think I'll experiment with how that works for different types of flames. __________________ "No one likes a smart-ass but we all like stars."

05-30-2007, 11:05 PM	#26 (permalink)
Laces Out Dan! I love Puck Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: British Columbia Posts: 4,614	You make sure to post the results. __________________ We are entirely smooth, We admit to the truth, We are the best at what we do.

05-31-2007, 09:15 AM	#27 (permalink)
chumb awamba Join Date: May 2007 Posts: 133	Nothing is eternal, and definitely not happiness, so if that's your definition of "true happiness" then sure, it doesn't exist. But really, that is a pretty lame definition. You could talk about relativity when it comes to happiness, and that generally the happiness of one person comes at the expense of another's... that the things which make one person happy usually conflict with the things that make another happy. You could talk about happiness in terms of a sort of spiritual contentment doesn't exist, that all it is is chemicals being released into the brain. You could talk about the fact that money may not be able to buy happiness, but it can buy cocaine which basically just floods your brain with endorphins, the happy chemical. I don't know. I'm not even completely clear on what exactly the point of your paper is. If you do want to back it up with some other philosophy though, most Eastern philosophies teach that Good cannot exist without Evil, Taoism for instance states that a wise man does not abstract good from reality because doing so also abstracts evil... therefore he is simply content with the nature of things. That might be sort of along the lines of what you're going for...?

05-31-2007, 10:55 AM	#28 (permalink)
Kevorkian Logic Imperfectly Perfect Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: North Carolina Posts: 1,290	Last night after I asked about going to a concert my dad sweetly went into this surprisingly relevant rant: "You're such a **ing disappointment, you realize that? You seem to care more about your damn happiness than anybody else, I'm so sick of your selfish behavior. If you really want to by happy, get a job and get responsibility. Stop whining that you just want to go out and how you don't want our money, if we stopped giving you money then you would be much more unhappy than you claim to be now. It's pathetic. You should be happy and if you're not you can ing quit school, get a job, and pay for all you're god damn stuff (he then picked up my defenseless Tom Waits cd and chucked it across the room and it sadly broke). Are you ing happy now? Look, now you have fewer possessions, are you ing happy now you whiny bitch? Happiness comes with responsibility, which you have shown you can't handle at all. You always ** it up. It's just pathetic (around this time I locked myself in my closet and read a book to block him out until my mom intervened or he got tired at yelling at a door) So that was my dad's fun rant about what is happiness. I'm sure there is something useful in there. __________________ "it is only through a limitless accumulation of the imperfect that a certain type of perfection can be attained"

05-31-2007, 11:37 AM	#29 (permalink)
chumb awamba Join Date: May 2007 Posts: 133	lol