Bull****

take everything

We all have times when the scales fall from our eyes and see the world as it truly is.

When we used to fully subscribe to some view only to now look back and cringe at it.

I feel as I get older, it's hard not to do this more and more.

When you take away the various incentives that humans have to delude themselves (like sex, money, power) you tend to see the world more as it is and not how you're expected to see it.

Now if you go too far down this road you end up going mad so some self-delusion is necessary. Maybe I'll leave that until I'm eighty.

But anyway, what stuff have you cast off as you move through life. What stuff do you look back on and say "well that thinking was horse**** and I lapped it up at the time..." and cringe badly at.

Omackeral

you are very smart op

Campogna

i'm sure everyone has gone through a nice, benign communism phase. i cringe when i think of some of the convictions i had and i'm not even 20 yet!

kunst nugget

I don't cringe when I think about viewpoints I might have held when I was younger that have changed as I've got older because what difference does it make? I'll occasionally beat myself up about ****ty or embarrassing things I might have done when I was intoxicated when younger but changing viewpoints means I've kept educating myself on a topic and generally I'll try to be open enough that I can have my viewpoint changed by whatever new insight comes along.

riffmongous

Caring what other people think about the clothes you wear, in the sense of just wearing what you like and makes you feel good, and being confident and comfortable enough with yourself to let that be the main thing, if people don't like it -> fück em

Ubbquittious

Ecclesiastes 1:13-14

And I gave my heart to seek and search out by wisdom concerning all things that are done under heaven: this sore travail hath God given to the sons of man to be exercised therewith.

I have seen all the works that are done under the sun; and, behold, all is vanity and vexation of spirit.

Your Face

Ah, ones first exposure to Nietzsche.

endacl

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Outlaw Pete

Happened me a few years ago too, OP. Just seen the light. I was in this restaurant with my wife and I just looked around at everything and suddenly felt so disillusioned by it all and said to her "Is this what it's all about? Eating, drinking, fcuing, sucking? Snorting? Then what? You're 50. You got a bag for a belly. You got tits. You need a bra. They got hair on them. You got a liver, that got spots on it, and you're eating this fcukin shit, looking like these rich fcuking mummies in here" along also with a few other things about her that she didn't really appreciate and she gets up and storms off. Women, eh.

Ipso

To polish of an old chestnut.
“When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be 21, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years.”

Einstrahlung50

riffmongous wrote: »

Caring what other people think about the clothes you wear, in the sense of just wearing what you like and makes you feel good, and being confident and comfortable enough with yourself to let that be the main thing, if people don't like it -> fück em

Most people probably never really cared about your clothes, you should be saying fukc me because you were your own worst enemy. You imagined people gave you more than a second's thought.

badabing106

Just the delusion of your whole entire life, nobody seems to get it. They are too consumed by other stuff

Your (someone will correct that spelling) , your christened a "catholic", your nationality is "Irish", you are "European". All bull****, not real

All these things are ideas and are not real. The only difference between you and a person in Iraq, is a couple of transitory ideas and the weather

Fr_Dougal

It should be played in Kildare.

Liamalone

It came just at the right time for them poor wee sparrows.

Poor Uncle Tom

...bang of pretentiousness off this thread...

super_furry

OP is Rowdy Roddy Piper and I claim my five pounds.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iJC4R1uXDaE

Potential-Monke

I've given up trying to please everyone, and instead try to please only myself, a select few friends and my family. And by please I mean not annoy. I'm pretty sure i'm in a mid-life crisis, but I not longer have the need to talk to people about the mundane things like who Mike rode at the weekend, the couple who are not monogamous, what x did to y, etc, etc. I'll chat all day with people who have shared interests, and have basically given up on involving myself in anything outside of this, because it's the same, boring conversations day in and day out.

But, when i'm passionate about something, I can talk all day and be the most sociable person you meet.

So, to answer your question OP, being social is something I look back on and wish I didn't spend so much time and effort doing, as it led nowhere really. Now I'm more focused on what makes me happy, and that's what I should have done from be beginning.

Chancer3001

Everyone was looking

Everyone will be looking

Everyone will make fun of me


Always always nonsense

SEPT 23 1989

Democracy

We have no power

Plopsu

Outlaw Pete wrote: »

Happened me a few years ago too, OP. Just seen the light. I was in this restaurant with my wife and I just looked around at everything and suddenly felt so disillusioned by it all and said to her "Is this what it's all about? Eating, drinking, fcuing, sucking? Snorting? Then what? You're 50. You got a bag for a belly. You got tits. You need a bra. They got hair on them. You got a liver, that got spots on it, and you're eating this fcukin shit, looking like these rich fcuking mummies in here" along also with a few other things about her that she didn't really appreciate and she gets up and storms off. Women, eh.

Of course she stormed off. "Eating, drinking, fcuing, sucking? Snorting?" and not a mention of licking. That's going to pss any woman off.