Originally Posted by MicShazam

I almost went on a date with a crazy chick (well, "crazy" is more like it). She had to cancel because she got a worse diagnosis and had to stay at the mental hospital for treatment. True story.

I was fine with bi-polar. Then she got an outright schizo diagnosis and I was somewhat thankful that I didn't have to make up excuses to cancel.

Originally Posted by Lucem Ferre

I don't know, but I feel like this whole idea of soul mates is just an annoying concept the more I think about it.

So we're taught all of our lives that we need this one person in the whole world to feel complete as if love or relationships are a tangible material we can possess and not a fleeting moment in time that we experience. I feel like we naturally fall in and out of love with several different people in our lives based on the fact that we are continually growing and learning and changing as time goes on. This whole idea that there is a one that is more special or meaningful than the rest is just a dangerous thought. Because you'll find one, fall madly in love, and perhaps it stays that way for a long long time. To the point where you are so comfortable with each other that the idea of separating is scary. Eventually you may fall out of love and unfortunately do to these ideas we are conditioned to believe so many people try to force that feeling to come back even though it's passed because they convinced themselves they have some how obtained love rather than experienced it. And the closest thing you ever get to feeling that fleeting emotion again is through small bits of nostalgia that you force out based on the idea that you will never experience love again if you leave.

Originally Posted by Lucem Ferre

I don't know, but I feel like this whole idea of soul mates is just an annoying concept the more I think about it.

So we're taught all of our lives that we need this one person in the whole world to feel complete as if love or relationships are a tangible material we can possess and not a fleeting moment in time that we experience. I feel like we naturally fall in and out of love with several different people in our lives based on the fact that we are continually growing and learning and changing as time goes on. This whole idea that there is a one that is more special or meaningful than the rest is just a dangerous thought. Because you'll find one, fall madly in love, and perhaps it stays that way for a long long time. To the point where you are so comfortable with each other that the idea of separating is scary. Eventually you may fall out of love and unfortunately do to these ideas we are conditioned to believe so many people try to force that feeling to come back even though it's passed because they convinced themselves they have some how obtained love rather than experienced it. And the closest thing you ever get to feeling that fleeting emotion again is through small bits of nostalgia that you force out based on the idea that you will never experience love again if you leave.

Originally Posted by Oriphiel

Nah, Lucem. He should dwell on what he did, because he did a stupid thing, and rumination is typically how we humans learn from bad experiences. And being sad makes Post Punkers more creative anyway. They don't even know what to do with happiness.

Finding someone who will touch your genitals is easy. Finding someone who will do that who actually has a personality that you enjoy is mildly difficuly. But finding someone like that who also knows Fad Gadget's real name and is also willing to put up with Elph's pretentiousness? That's lottery lucky.

Follow your dick, Elph. And this time, wear a condom.

Originally Posted by Lucem Ferre

Dwelling on past mistakes is extremely unhealthy because it brings on a downward cycle of self loathing. It's vastly different than reflecting on them, learning from them and forgiving yourself.

You don't have to tell me the difference between a peepee toucher and a feely toucher. It's obviously not that hard when it's the first girl he met at the goth club. For all he knows girls like that are a dime a dozen and if you want to be honest I'm sure plenty of girls that are into that culture reflect the same elitist attitude as him. At this point, this is pure puppy love, perhaps just a false alarm chemical response to him not being laid in a while.

Originally Posted by Lucem Ferre

You have any input on how I'm wrong, my bitter yet wise old friend?

Originally Posted by OccultHawk

When you carry on it’s like the verbal equivalent of a 5 year old making his mother breakfast in bed except you’re an adult.

Originally Posted by J.R.R. Tolkien

There is only one bright spot and that is the growing habit of disgruntled men of dynamiting factories and power-stations; I hope that, encouraged now as ‘patriotism’, may remain a habit! But it won’t do any good, if it is not universal.