So, How do you deal with the horrible futility/banality of life....

cue · 27-07-2006 01:55AM

Got to agree with the surfing suggestion. Works for me. Course you could just take a giant leap into the possibility that you might actually be completely wrong about absolutely everything.

Spastafarian · 27-07-2006 08:57AM

Yep.
If you were this guy, you'd be happy.

Naked Lepper · 27-07-2006 09:26AM

toomevara wrote:

What gets you up in the morning,

Bills
Rent
Direct Debit Repayments
Beer money

and thats it.

TomCo · 27-07-2006 09:46AM

toomevara wrote:

What gets you up in the morning,

The alarm clock followed by people shouting at me, then I get pissed off, get up and shout back

"Jesus Christ! I'll go into bathroom in a second!"

Terry · 27-07-2006 09:52AM

CiaranC wrote:

Your drug experience has led you to hopeless addiction, and mine has led to sharing a joint with a few friends after a meal and a few glasses of wine the odd weekend.

Anyone with any cop on will take one look at the ridiculous positions you take in the argument and understand how you got yourself into the mess you are in.

But you carry on on your high horse, and I'll carry on laughing at you.

wow. you are one angry young man.
maybe you should take a good look at this thread and put some of the relaxation methods mentioned to good use. that hash doesn't seem to be working for you.

toomevara · 27-07-2006 11:07AM

julep wrote:

wow. you are one angry young man.
maybe you should take a good look at this thread and put some of the relaxation methods mentioned to good use. that hash doesn't seem to be working for you.

yes, quite alot of naked, unwarranted hostility there...anger and management come to mind, though in fairness it does seem to be the prime motive force for the lives of lots of folks I know....Therefore is doing other folks down a legitimate strategy for negotiating the awfulness of existence??

TomCo · 27-07-2006 11:09AM

I suggest Punitive Surgery.

toomevara · 27-07-2006 11:17AM

cue wrote:

Got to agree with the surfing suggestion. Works for me. Course you could just take a giant leap into the possibility that you might actually be completely wrong about absolutely everything.

Now looky-here cue, this just aint very helpful at-all-at-all, I realised a couple of years ago that, to quote the horrible cliche "everything I know is wrong", now I dont mean that I was labouring under the illusion that the proper Paris is in Texas or something, but that the major normative yardsticks by which I'd been living my life were all a nonsense, pure fiddle faddle, and the older I get the more I realise that *cue menacing music*, things are NOT as they appear....

I KNOW i'm completely, utterly egregiously wrong about absolutlely everything, but where in the name of sweet baby Jesus does that leave me? Nowhere, thats where.... still floundering around in an increasingly thick gloopy existential soup I'd hazard.....If I may quote the great film philosopher Han Solo "I've got a bad feeling about this"....

Nehpets · 27-07-2006 11:21AM

where can people go surfing?

toomevara · 27-07-2006 11:25AM

Spastafarian wrote:

Yep.
If you were this guy, you'd be happy.

Now you see spastafarian, maybe I would, but you know what rots my poo about the surfing fraternity? Its the whole, "wow man, its a zen experience, blew my mind, Big Lebowski dream sequence-ness" nonsense that accompanies it.

I just cant get with that at all, and then theres the movie Point Break, I mean you cannot deny that surfing was responsible for that, and as a result I can never forgive surfing...now spastafarian I know you're not one of them pedantic paeons of whom I speak, but i should also tell you that I'm a fanatical swimmer and surfers routinely try to perform the intricate 'stave toomevara's skull in with board' manoeuvre in my fave-rave swimming spots....

Terry · 27-07-2006 11:29AM

Nehpets wrote:

where can people go surfing?

in the sea, i would imagine.

toomevara · 27-07-2006 11:33AM

Nehpets wrote:

where can people go surfing?

Or i spose you could surf the waves of pure consciousness in your mind by getting yourself a psychic surf board...I know there's a web site somewhere.....

Nehpets · 27-07-2006 11:36AM

toomevara wrote:

Or i spose you could surf the waves of pure consciousness in your mind by getting yourself a psychic surf board...I know there's a web site somewhere.....

sounds good

CiaranC · 27-07-2006 11:38AM

julep wrote:

wow. you are one angry young man.
maybe you should take a good look at this thread and put some of the relaxation methods mentioned to good use. that hash doesn't seem to be working for you.

Angry? Perhaps those benzodiazepines are playing havoc with your perceptions. I can assure you the only emotion I encounter when I read your posts is amusment.

Apologies if I came off as angry, perhaps your ignorance made me irritable.

I dont smoke hash, and if I did I wouldnt be smoking it on a Thursday morning, because I am not a drug addict. Plenty of people can use drugs recreationally just fine. Pop down to your local pub on a Friday night and see

Terry · 27-07-2006 11:49AM

CiaranC wrote:

Your drug experience has led you to hopeless addiction, and mine has led to sharing a joint with a few friends after a meal and a few glasses of wine the odd weekend.

CiaranC wrote:

I dont smoke hash, and if I did I wouldnt be smoking it on a Thursday morning, because I am not a drug addict.

CiaranC wrote:

Perhaps those benzodiazepines are playing havoc with your perceptions.

someones perceptions are a bit mixed up alright.

adonis · 27-07-2006 11:51AM

CiaranC wrote:

Angry? Perhaps those benzodiazepines are playing havoc with your perceptions. I can assure you the only emotion I encounter when I read your posts is amusment.

Apologies if I came off as angry, perhaps your ignorance made me irritable.

I dont smoke hash, and if I did I wouldnt be smoking it on a Thursday morning, because I am not a drug addict. Plenty of people can use drugs recreationally just fine. Pop down to your local pub on a Friday night and see

Hey fun guys, get a room!

CiaranC · 27-07-2006 11:55AM

Hey fun guys, get a room!

Apologies, way OT for the thread.

Julep, I suggest in future if you are going to engage in debate, you make at least some effort to inform yourself on the topic in hand. Cannabis comes in many forms, of which hash is just one.

Start a new thread if you'd like to continue your schooling.

Terry · 27-07-2006 12:00PM

CiaranC wrote:

Apologies, way OT for the thread.

Julep, I suggest in future if you are going to engage in debate, you make at least some effort to inform yourself on the topic in hand. Cannabis comes in many forms, of which hash is just one.

Start a new thread if you'd like to continue your schooling.

it may come in many forms, but i was using "hash" as a general term. i didn't really see the need to start listing all the different types of cannabis and hash only has four letters, so it's easier to type that.

i'm well informed on hte various forms of hash (again, general term) and i smoked it for many years, so i do actually know something about it.

cue · 27-07-2006 07:24PM

toomevara wrote:

the major normative yardsticks by which I'd been living my life were all a nonsense, pure fiddle faddle, and the older I get the more I realise that *cue menacing music*, things are NOT as they appear....

I KNOW i'm completely, utterly egregiously wrong about absolutlely everything,

So things might actually be as they appear? Sometimes the problem is my own perception of things

cue · 27-07-2006 07:33PM

toomevara wrote:

you know what rots my poo about the surfing fraternity? Its the whole, "wow man, its a zen experience, blew my mind, Big Lebowski dream sequence-ness" nonsense that accompanies it.

You're right. I dunno how I got roped into it. I shouldn't have bothered

WhiteWashMan · 27-07-2006 07:59PM

god.
more bloody adolecent crap.

blah blah blah life is futile, i only feel alive when the blood is flowing from my wrists blah blah blah.

melodramatic crap from boring people.

DonkeyStyle \o/ · 27-07-2006 10:25PM

WhiteWashMan wrote:

god.
more bloody adolecent crap.

blah blah blah life is futile, i only feel alive when the blood is flowing from my wrists blah blah blah.

melodramatic crap from boring people.

I like the cut of your jib... do you host group sessions?

omahaid · 27-07-2006 10:33PM

Drink! Although i think my wife is about to leave me. Is it worth it?? Can't be worse i suppose, might be able to stay at work longer and get a promotion?

Terry · 27-07-2006 10:54PM

WhiteWashMan wrote:

god.
more bloody adolecent crap.

blah blah blah life is futile, i only feel alive when the blood is flowing from my wrists blah blah blah.

melodramatic crap from boring people.

if you don't like it, you don't have to read it.

oh, wait.
/points and laughs at WWM.

omahaid · 27-07-2006 10:57PM

julep wrote:

if you don't like it, you don't have to read it.

oh, wait.
/points and laughs at WWM.

I disagree

scojones · 27-07-2006 11:21PM

People moaning about living. FFS. Try living in the likes of The Congo, or Israel && the middle east. Poor you, you have to get up and go to work. Shock! Horror! At least you don't have to worry if the person driving the car coming towards you is a suicide bomber. Get over yourself.

omahaid · 27-07-2006 11:48PM

Yeah, fair point, no suicde bomber coming towards me. I suppose that makes my life easy then,yeah?

toomevara · 27-07-2006 11:56PM

sjones wrote:

People moaning about living. FFS. Try living in the likes of The Congo, or Israel && the middle east. Poor you, you have to get up and go to work. Shock! Horror! At least you don't have to worry if the person driving the car coming towards you is a suicide bomber. Get over yourself.

Oh wow!!!!..amazing, how could I have been so blind? You've put it all in the frame for me,'cos you see,all this was meant to be a serious meditation on the essence of life...so basically all I need is a suicide bomber hooning down the road at me to put it all in perspective, or is it the threat of a suicide bomber?...dang....I dont know and hey it's all relative...now where's that one way ticket to Baghdad;)

toomevara · 27-07-2006 11:57PM

WhiteWashMan wrote:

god.
more bloody adolecent crap.

blah blah blah life is futile, i only feel alive when the blood is flowing from my wrists blah blah blah.

melodramatic crap from boring people.

oooooooooohhhhhhhhhhhhh... Get her!

So, How do you deal with the horrible futility/banality of life....

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