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OccultHawk · 09-07-2019, 09:58 PM

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I came out of extreme poverty in the U.S. and no rich guy from India flew over and helped me or anyone I know. Anything good that has ever happened in my life only happened because I changed the way I did something

This is probably the most dick headed conceited **** I’ve ever read on this board.

Anteater · 09-07-2019, 10:04 PM

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Originally Posted by occulthawk

this is probably the most dick headed conceited **** i’ve ever read on this board.

f a c e b o o k

Disingenuous bull**** doesn't work on me. I've lived through all that already from plenty of other people. I don't need it.

When I've received help in my life, it's because I put myself into a position to be helped and at least try to help someone else. If you think that's conceited...whatever. We are the sum of the people we connect ourselves with. When I changed the way I did things to focus on that, I made better connections and brought them more value in some way. All because I wanted to help my family when they were too sick to do anything else.

You guys don't want to fight for anything in your own lives anymore, so you spit on my POV. "man, capitalism sure is ****ty. Look at all those poor kids in other countries". Great. Are you going to go do something about it? If I could give every single one of those kids a better opportunity here with my own power, I certainty would..but that's not a battle I want to fight when I have other people right here that I need to take care of.

**Frownland** · 09-07-2019, 10:27 PM

This is for you

~~jwb~~ · 09-07-2019, 10:30 PM

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Originally Posted by OccultHawk

Everyone who has a pot to piss in thinks they earned it.

And for the love of God. Please, PLEASE, really please stop mentioning Facebook. FFS stop.

And just to change the narrative, when **** went my way, and I was walking around big Asian cities with hundreds of dollars in my pocket and eating expensive ass meals and drinking 18 year old scotch I didn’t earn ****. It just ****ing rolls one way or the other. When **** is rolling your way instead of patting yourself on the back why not have some humility and think man I could be on the wrong side of all this? Ever since I went to India and Bangladesh and saw little kids starving and leprosy and all that I knew I had nothing to do with any part what I was doing except that I was cog in the oppression that was the poverty of all the dying in front of me. I’m sorry but it’s like that. And btw if you have money someone DID give it to you. No one earns ****.

I don't believe circumstance is irrelevant or that everything happens by choice

But you seem to be trading the inverse option, which is equally irrational: that it's all random circumstance and how you behave is irrelevant.

That's just transparently not true. You could have decided not to graduate high school or go to college, and if you did you never would've been a teacher.

Anteater · 09-07-2019, 10:30 PM

**Frownland** · 09-07-2019, 10:32 PM

Give Anteater's cookie back, Batlord!

Anteater · 09-07-2019, 10:35 PM

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Originally Posted by jwb

I don't believe circumstance is irrelevant or that everything happens by choice

But you seem to be trading the inverse option, which is equally irrational: that it's all random circumstance and how you behave is irrelevant.

That's just transparently not true. You could have decided not to graduate high school or go to college, and if you did you never would've been a teacher.

Church.

Murphy's Law is a very real thing. My dad didn't ask for a crippling heart condition in his mid 30's when he had two young kids and a wife too sick to work. And my little brother didn't ask for a brain aneurysm before he graduated university either.

What I've been talking about just points back to that 2% of life we actually can control. And how we choose to react to **** that happens to us. Big cookies.

~~jwb~~ · 09-07-2019, 11:23 PM

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Originally Posted by elphenor

doing something about it is kinda beyond the scope of the conversation

it's really not. This whole conversation started over a dispute over the extent to which you can change/improve your life

OH said plain and simple it's all just random circumstance, which is quite simply untrue.

~~jwb~~ · 09-07-2019, 11:48 PM

So you can't do anything that will possibly make your life better?

~~jwb~~ · 09-07-2019, 11:58 PM

What a nice non answer

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Frownland SOPHIE FOREVER Join Date: Aug 2011 Location: East of the Southern North American West Posts: 35,541	Give Anteater's cookie back, Batlord! __________________ Studies show that when a given norm is changed in the face of the unchanging, the remaining contradictions will parallel the truth. d e a f b o x

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~~jwb~~ Account Disabled Join Date: Jul 2019 Posts: 4,403	So you can't do anything that will possibly make your life better?

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~~jwb~~ Account Disabled Join Date: Jul 2019 Posts: 4,403	What a nice non answer