Chula Vista

Hawk's being a bit of a dick in this thread.

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“The fact that we live at the bottom of a deep gravity well,
on the surface of a gas covered planet going around a nuclear fireball 90 million miles away
and think this to be normal is obviously some indication of how skewed our perspective tends to be.”

FRED HALE SR.

I think hes actually nailing it.

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Chula Vista

But in a dickish way. There's two ways to state the obvious.

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“The fact that we live at the bottom of a deep gravity well,
on the surface of a gas covered planet going around a nuclear fireball 90 million miles away
and think this to be normal is obviously some indication of how skewed our perspective tends to be.”

The Batlord

I've been kind of staying away from this cause I didn't know what exactly to say, but yeah, he did. I maintain that someone who doesn't care coming down on someone else for not caring enough is silly, but he did get it right and I'm not gonna evade that.

I was drunk and ridiculous and getting emotional over a thing with which I would have just had a moderate interest in sober, and going on about it at length as I did on this thread was pretentious and stupid.

This is not an apology or anything. I'm not trying to present a picture of myself as some moral paragon and so my casual failings in that regard are irrelevant to me.

I guess I'm just trying to say that this thread was dumb and I feel like a dumbass for posting it. Even the title of the thread is cringeworthy. Why bring this up when the thread was already dead? Because I'm me, I suppose. And I just have to talk. And I'm drunk again.

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Chula Vista

And in other news, water is wet. Details at 11:00.

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“The fact that we live at the bottom of a deep gravity well,
on the surface of a gas covered planet going around a nuclear fireball 90 million miles away
and think this to be normal is obviously some indication of how skewed our perspective tends to be.”

The Batlord

How dare you pollute my thread more than I already have.

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FRED HALE SR.

I think its pretty impressive that you came back in and admitted that he was right in some regard. The thing for me is, he was right in the regard that there are neighbors and people literally hundreds of yards from you in the States in any given day that need assistance and help. I'm not comparing this to genocide as that would make me even more of a cynical ******* then I am, but I can see the point when so many people struggle in the States with no help. Run on sentence FTW. BTW this thread is no more cringeworthy then half of them. The sheer volume of pain and suffering that multiplies daily is the only real thing to feel cringe worthy over. And Don Cheadle was fantastic in the movie, it really spoke to me.

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" I slashed and burned thru my 15 minutes of fame."

OccultHawk

What happened in Rwanda should make us all disgusted to be human. It may seem like I was berating you, Bat, but I think we were saying the same thing. It's disappointment with humanity. In my case, the person I'm the most disappointed in is myself. I try to avoid saying too much personal stuff but I've done some third world travel and seen starving children first hand. After that I started donating to certain causes. Before that I did Food Not Bombs and a lot of things like that. I don't really have a point. I've been a maudlin drunk many many many times. I went through a period where I cried everyday because of some of the **** I saw. If the story about Rwanda broke your heart that just means you're human and frustrated with the state of humanity and you should be. If you give to unicef or the Red Cross or doctors without borders those people can use you your money and do things that really help. In my opinion, especially Doctors without Borders. They're awesome.

Key

I don't need Rwanda to make me disgusted to be a human, I do that on my own when I wake up in the morning.

OccultHawk

I hear you.