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are you really a mayor?

yea i feel this way its hard to find people like me it just seems like no one cares

I feel like I dont fit in in the real world :( Thats why I stay in my room with my boyfriend and my dog and am on help.com everyday :D

Are you really who you say you are?

Well, I’m a jerk too sometimes. In real life I don’t always have time to reflect and compose my thoughts the way I do here, and I don’t get to choose which problems I have to deal with.

Mayor Cory Booker wrote:

Joy. wrote:
are you really a mayor?

http://www.corybooker.com/

was that a yes?

Oh Cory… I have discovered your post… and now Dougie is in the house!
Stand by for further communication…

End Transmission

It’s harder to be open with people in real life. I’m really open to you guys on the net, but I have huge walls up IRL… And a moat around the walls… Shark-infested moat.

I am just as nice in real life. But I know that there are many people who are not. And, in real life, I’m kinda shy…so it takes me awhile to get to know people.

Additionally, I think society today has changed to the point of people not interacting as much….people don’t take cookies to the new neighbor anymore….people don’t have neighborhood get togethers anymore…families are split apart…families live far apart from each other….etc.

Soooo, I know that Cory Booker IS a mayor, but are you and he the same? Or are you just using his name/pic for an avatar?

If you really ARE a mayor, I would imagine that you are surrounded by people who are cynical….

Weeeelll, I’m not shy after 10 minutes…

And funny people are great to get to know…I’m not good with jokes, but I love to hear them; and I love to laugh.

I’m surrounded by cynical people as well…the world is full of them :( They just need love and acceptance!!! LOL!! :)

The truth about those we meet during our day is that most are just swiming the stream just as we are. Struggling to make it to the same point we’re hoping to get to though most are focused on self and ingnore the rest some are more connected such as the ones on this site.

Here’s a verse that says a bit about it..

SWIM

you’re a stranger
lost in thought
i see you
through your window
we sit at the light
i wonder about you
and the others too
i smile and nod
you ignore it
we drive on
these flailing souls
trying hard to get somewhere fast
like salmon
rushing upstream in the river of their lives
we can’t hear
the million questions in the minds of each
we can’t see
the feelings stamped on their heart
we’ve no clue
what it’s like to be them
then i realize
we are them
they are us
synchronicity makes the connection
am i different
from the other fish in the river
i am created in the same fashion
i crave the same things
the needs
the wants are the same
smiles go unnoticed
gentleness is overlooked
manners dismissed
the race goes on
as all eyes turn away
focused on the stream..

I mostly stay inside, or at school.

Everybody read Illusions by Richard Bach.

Nope, was it good?

That wasn’t a question.
It was a statement ;)

As in… go, go read this book now! NOW!
hehehehe

Yes, it is one of the most brilliant and simple books ever written, and it made the author millions. Not that he cared about the millions.

There is parable that mirrors what you’ve just said.
And it talks about these creatures on the bottom of a riverbed.
They cling because they are afraid.

One day one of them lets go.

The current lifts him, and smashes him against the rocks and he gets tumbled about… but eventually he gets clear to the top…
And some other creatures downstream see him… and say… behold a creature likes us, yet he flies ;)

what is a mayor doing posting on help.com instead of doing real work?

I don’t think he’s a real mayor; I think a real mayor wouldn’t have time.

If I’m wrong, and you ARE a real mayor…then WELCOME…and I’m glad you chose this group of people on help to spend your precious free time with….:)

Myron wrote:
what is a mayor doing posting on help.com instead of doing real work?

Excuse me!!!!!!
I take my work here at help.com very seriously…

Just because they don’t pay me, doesn’t make it any less vital than anything else anyone does!

We are a rare form of species and in short supply…

Indeed we are Mez.
And permit me to use an economics paradigm here to support your case…
The law of supply and demand!

If we are in short supply… then the demand for us must be phenomenal ;)

Dougie the Pisces wrote:
Indeed we are Mez.And permit me to use an economics paradigm here to support your case…The law of supply and demand!If we are in short supply… then the demand for us must be phenomenal ;)

Then why am I still single….

Commander Ikari wrote:

Dougie the Pisces wrote:
Indeed we are Mez.And permit me to use an economics paradigm here to support your case…The law of supply and demand!If we are in short supply… then the demand for us must be phenomenal ;)

Then why am I still single….

I dunno. We are rare and not many of us so is has hard to find someone worthy?… I would go with that…

Dougie the Pisces wrote:
Indeed we are Mez.
And permit me to use an economics paradigm here to support your case…
The law of supply and demand!

If we are in short supply… then the demand for us must be phenomenal ;)

Maybe we are so rare, many people don’t know we exist…

Commander Ikari wrote:

Dougie the Pisces wrote:
Indeed we are Mez.And permit me to use an economics paradigm here to support your case…The law of supply and demand!If we are in short supply… then the demand for us must be phenomenal ;)

Then why am I still single….

Aren’t you a youngen Ikari?
No offence… just asking.

Absolutely….there’s nobody worthy of Ikari…..& that’s a “mommy’s” point of view…..:)

I was just going to say…
You don’t even need to be worrying about being single at your age ;)

Dougie the Pisces wrote:

Commander Ikari wrote:

Dougie the Pisces wrote:
Indeed we are Mez.And permit me to use an economics paradigm here to support your case…The law of supply and demand!If we are in short supply… then the demand for us must be phenomenal ;)

Then why am I still single….

Aren’t you a youngen Ikari?No offence… just asking.

Yes, I am, 14 years young….

Dougie the Pisces wrote:
I was just going to say…You don’t even need to be worrying about being single at your age ;)

I’m twenty-twelve, and I don’t give two hoots about not having a girlfriend.
The right one will come along, when the time is right ;)

There’s too much to do anyway…

20-12????

Commander Ikari wrote:
Yes, I am, 14 years young….

Me too… 15 in 2 days!

Yeah… do the maths… you’ll figure it out!
Btw… how old do you think I look in my avvie Jelly?

You are 32?

you look……32!!!!!!! :)

Ten points to Mez :D

how old do I look in my avatar????? LOL!!!!

Mez wrote:

Commander Ikari wrote:
Yes, I am, 14 years young….

Me too… 15 in 2 days!

I’m 15 in… 3 monthes, and 2 days!

I am exactly thrre months older than you!

Dougie the Pisces wrote:
Ten points to Mez :D

YAY! I am winning, right…?

Mez wrote:
I am exactly thrre months older than you!

Which means I’m going to look more youthful then you 20 years from now!

Commander Ikari wrote:

Mez wrote:
I am exactly thrre months older than you!

Which means I’m going to look more youthful then you 20 years from now!

Not necessarily. DNA can play a vital role but so can how you treat yourself…

Mez wrote:

Commander Ikari wrote:

Mez wrote:
I am exactly thrre months older than you!

Which means I’m going to look more youthful then you 20 years from now!

Not necessarily. DNA can play a vital role but so can how you treat yourself…

Well, When I hit 20 I’m going to be put in cryonic sleep for 14 years, just so I can look younger then you when your 35!

Haha, good for you! I can do it too then… Right?..

Mez wrote:
Haha, good for you! I can do it too then… Right?..

no, If you did it when you got to be twenty, I’d have three months to mess with your cryonic chamber, and cheat my way to victory!

Bah… nobody says I look 32….
I always get told I look 20-26…
Never 32… I don’t believe you Jelly ;)

I would wait until you fo in and then add one hundred years to your cryonic chamber and then I would put mine as ninty-nine and I would wake up first and then if the world is bad, I would go back to sleep reseting yours to another one hundred years and mine to ninty-nine once again… It is a cycle…

Mez wrote:
I would wait until you fo in and then add one hundred years to your cryonic chamber and then I would put mine as ninty-nine and I would wake up first and then if the world is bad, I would go back to sleep reseting yours to another one hundred years and mine to ninty-nine once again… It is a cycle…

so, eventually, our cyronics chambers would crap out, and we’d awake in the distant future?

Cool!

Haha! YAY! For us… We would be like two hundred years old… We would out live everyone! We could take over the world! A ha ha ha…

Dougie the Pisces wrote:
Bah… nobody says I look 32….
I always get told I look 20-26…
Never 32… I don’t believe you Jelly ;)

Ok….let me go to your profile so I can see your pic bigger…then I’ll tell you the absolute truth!!! :)

nice teeth, btw ;)

Mez wrote:
Haha! YAY! For us… We would be like two hundred years old… We would out live everyone! We could take over the world! A ha ha ha…

*in a somber voice*

If the world is left.

In the interim period, we could have all died out from some catastrophe.

Perhaps, but if we were deep within the earth’s crust in a super-room, we might survive!

JellyBelly wrote:

Dougie the Pisces wrote:
Bah… nobody says I look 32….I always get told I look 20-26…Never 32… I don’t believe you Jelly ;)

Ok….let me go to your profile so I can see your pic bigger…then I’ll tell you the absolute truth!!! :)

JellyBelly wrote:
nice teeth, btw ;)

Ok…in all sincerity, I say 28….not 26…maybe the lighting isn’t the best…you should fire your cameraman :)

Mez wrote:
Perhaps, but if we were deep within the earth’s crust in a super-room, we might survive!

Then, we’d pop out of the pods as the emergency back up power supply went out, only a few months after the tragedy… We’d be among the few survivors..

We could lead a massive war against the robots! We would win…I hope…

Mez wrote:
We could lead a massive war against the robots! We would win…I hope…

who said anything about robots?

I was imagining more a nuclear holocaust/asteroid strike scenario…

For some reason I think mine sounded like a movie… Nuclear would have an affect upon out pods, would they?… I will add you to friends list as well…

Mez wrote:
For some reason I think mine sounded like a movie… Nuclear would have an affect upon out pods, would they?… I will add you to friends list as well…

not if they were deep underground in a shelter…

And they kept updating it with state of the art protection and offensive turrents against intruders… We are so kids lol.

Mez wrote:
And they kept updating it with state of the art protection and offensive turrents against intruders… We are so kids lol.

hey, at this point in the story we are going to be 214! We are very mature!

And extremely wise… We can think of our own proverbs… What about when we sign up for things… We say that we are 214 but they won’t have it as clcikable… We will have to act young… I really wonder what it will be like in 200 years…

Mez wrote:
And extremely wise… We can think of our own proverbs… What about when we sign up for things… We say that we are 214 but they won’t have it as clcikable… We will have to act young… I really wonder what it will be like in 200 years…

It’d be a ruined advanced civilization, the earth lost, the off earth colonies mutinied and independent, despising the earth refugees…

Jelly…
Try this and look at my better picture…

http://help.com/user/231967-dougie-th…..
The photo i have now doesn’t do what I really look like justice.
I look bald but acutally have hair in the photo..

Commander Ikari wrote:
It’d be a ruined advanced civilization, the earth lost, the off earth colonies mutinied and independent, despising the earth refugees…

I don’t know. It would be in a state of financial crisis I believe and there would be niew species of organisms and they would have cures for diseases, but they have effects that affect your central immune system and people would die form a common cold…

Mez wrote:

Commander Ikari wrote:
It’d be a ruined advanced civilization, the earth lost, the off earth colonies mutinied and independent, despising the earth refugees…

I don’t know. It would be in a state of financial crisis I believe and there would be niew species of organisms and they would have cures for diseases, but they have effects that affect your central immune system and people would die form a common cold…

Nah, by the time we popped up, the few survivors will have blocked up streets that still have running water for themselves, blocking them off with ruined cars, killing the rabid wild dogs that run around when all the pets become feral, trying to get in, raising some old pets for food…

The government since having collapsed, the capitol building would be taken over by whoever survived, possibly secret service agents, who would be stronger then the politicians inside…

Ok, now you are starting to scare me. Haha. You are very creative, have you ever thought of writing as a hobby or even future career?

Nuclear reactors would not be upkeept, and would collapse by themselves, causing major fires and masses of radiation, docked warships and submarines would rust and water would pour into their nuclear reactors and ruin the water…

Mez wrote:
Ok, now you are starting to scare me. Haha. You are very creative, have you ever thought of writing as a hobby or even future career?

Nah, but I have fun doing this.

oil pumps would leak out, or would randomly get struck by lighting over time, making massive fires and craters, and the flaming oil would run off into the sea, especially if it was off coast oil drilling rigs..

Commander Ikari wrote:
Nuclear reactors would not be upkeept, and would collapse by themselves, causing major fires and masses of radiation, docked warships and submarines would rust and water would pour into their nuclear reactors and ruin the water…

OK I get the point! Haha.

Commander Ikari wrote:
Nah, but I have fun doing this.

Well, good on you then…

Commander Ikari wrote:
oil pumps would leak out, or would randomly get struck by lighting over time, making massive fires and craters, and the flaming oil would run off into the sea, especially if it was off coast oil drilling rigs..

Causing the earth’s landscape to change dramatically and causing parts of the world’s land to sink and break apart…

Eventually, all skyscrapers would collapse, knocking out all other ones in a domino effect, and kill all those who had taken refugee in them…

Mez wrote:

Commander Ikari wrote:
oil pumps would leak out, or would randomly get struck by lighting over time, making massive fires and craters, and the flaming oil would run off into the sea, especially if it was off coast oil drilling rigs..

Causing the earth’s landscape to change dramatically and causing parts of the world’s land to sink and break apart…

Nah, not that bad…

Domino effect? I don’t think they are close enough to do that… And there is not enough of them..

sewage systems would clog up from water running into them, and dirt and crap over many years, bursting and cracking open the street, and making a giant sewer

Mez wrote:
Domino effect? I don’t think they are close enough to do that… And there is not enough of them..

I mean in the cities they are in.

Empire states building falls, hit another tower, which falls, hit another tower, etc.

statues and memorials would be worn down over the years, their demise hastened by very acidic rain as all major factory building break apart and release masses of pollution…

Ok, is that all? Stupid question, there is always more…

satellites would still transmit signals, possibly making it for you to hear absolute radio silence on satellite radio, as all the stations buildings has since been destroyed.

Are we still sleeping whilst this is happening?

zoo animals would escape very soon after the calamity, causing carnage to the cities they run in. Some of the smaller herd animals would take hold in the environment.

Mez wrote:
Are we still sleeping whilst this is happening?

Yes.

Well we coult just keep sleeping and we don’t have to worry…

prisons would have mass jail breaks as guards flee and order breaks down, major cities are mobbed by rapists murders, etc.

successive hurricanes would leave the coastal south wiped clean.

Bodies would pile up, with no time or place to bury them. Early efforts at mass cremation fail when all authority is lost, disease explodes.

No, they would be burnt do to the eruption of volcanoes and acid rain would disinigrate them…

Mez wrote:
No, they would be burnt do to the eruption of volcanoes and acid rain would disinigrate them…

That was a short term result, not long term like some of the others,

Remember this is only 200 years, not 222,222,222,222 years…

Organized religion would dismantle, few pockets of human habitation would likely believe that this was the end of the world, and pray to a savior to come to their aid.

Mez wrote:
Remember this is only 200 years, not 222,222,222,222 years…

Hey, in the course of 200 years, this all could happen.

underground train systems would cave in, the chunnel would cave in, plant life would over take all cities, first growing wild in all parks, yards, expanding into cracks in concrete.

How would we get out from the underground shelter, by the time the back up power failed, there would be no light in there…

Perhaps the walls would be painted in glow in the dark paint….

I am getting too into this….

…..and they all lived happily ever after. :)

Michael Leibman wrote:
…..and they all lived happily ever after. :)

Except for us because we are still asleep…

…and then the alarm clock starts beeping…

No I mean in our cryonic chambers…

That’s what I meant too but if you must be misunderstandable I’ll just keep clicking those other pages I was clicking as you guys keep sleeping through the total destruction of the world.

have fun!

You too!

Ignoring what turn this conversation has taken, and answering the question, I am about as helpful in real life…I’m not that helpful here.

Dougie the Pisces wrote:
Jelly…
Try this and look at my better picture…

http://help.com/user/231967-dougie-th…..
The photo i have now doesn’t do what I really look like justice.
I look bald but acutally have hair in the photo..

I prefer the long hair and beard.
I have a thing for facial hair.

well i don’t know, but im just as good in real life as i am here, after all its my job as a community/youth worker ;)

and to be honest im just about as strange as they come without wearing one of those strapy jackets, you know why?. because i act myself… well except during job interviews :P

smoogie. wrote:

I prefer the long hair and beard.
I have a thing for facial hair.

It itches to the sh*thouse!

Dougie the Pisces wrote:

smoogie. wrote:

I prefer the long hair and beard.
I have a thing for facial hair.

It itches to the sh*thouse!

ha i know how you feel, i have my winter coat on lol

Its alright if your facial hair is made up sticky notes lol

Dougie the Pisces wrote:
Its alright if your facial hair is made up sticky notes lol

hehe, ive the real thing my friend lol. i can grow a decent beard when its not covered in sticky notes, haha.

Why So Steve? wrote:

Mayor Cory Booker wrote:
Hey, help.com, where are people like you in the real world?

In mental institutes as far as I can gather.

not me, not yet anyway, hope this helps :-)

Me neither.
That seems like a very cynical thing to say really.

And Cory… when my mind is a little fresher I shall have my actual rant on this matter ;)

Please do ;)

A spell in a mental institute would be bliss at the moment.

Dougie the Pisces wrote:

smoogie. wrote:

I prefer the long hair and beard.
I have a thing for facial hair.

It itches to the sh*thouse!

Let me scratch that for you. {=0)

Sometimes, I think we are all the bad guys.

depends what u consider to b “real”….

I am who I appear to be, but in life I wonder about other people so I keep my guard up. I have met a lot of really good people though. Its all a circle, to meet nice people you have to trust and they have to trust you, but some people break that trust and everybody puts their guard up again. On help.com most people have found this site when they are feeling lost or desperate so they have their guard down and people are genuinely here to help so they are trusting.

That made no sense but I know what I meant!!

I’m just as nice in real life! But, yea, I do act like a jerk sometimes. I guess we all have bad days occassionally.

Like others said, people often find it easier to open up on the web rather than person to person. Especially on this site, because its a “help” site. Also people can but on a nice front online and you don’t always notice their flat spots until you deal with them in real life.

yes um, if everyone in this world was caring and compassionate, I’d seriously have to consider offing myself

DaNi♠HaTes♠You wrote:
yes um, if everyone in this world was caring and compassionate, I’d seriously have to consider offing myself

No you wouldn’t, if everyone was, you’d be to.

Commander Ikari wrote:

DaNi♠HaTes♠You wrote:
yes um, if everyone in this world was caring and compassionate, I’d seriously have to consider offing myself

No you wouldn’t, if everyone was, you’d be to.

yeah yeah we’d adapt and all that crap
but i think it would be a real boring world if everyone was the same….i like diversity

I just realised that I didn’t answer your original question.
I am from Nottingham, now living in London.

I don’t know where you live? Where I live wonderful people everywhere :)

tjwoods wrote:
Well, I’m a jerk too sometimes. In real life I don’t always have time to reflect and compose my thoughts the way I do here, and I don’t get to choose which problems I have to deal with.

I agree. Im a most stubborn disagreeable person quite a lot of the time.. but on here.. I can be myself.. because people just walk all over me if I show that side.

I am a reaaaallly nice person :)

And I’m not a mental case deserving of a mental institution

But I do have my problems, and getting on help actually helps me deal with my own problems

well, i am me… what you see here on help.com is the real me in real life… funny, silly, goofy and sometimes sad… but its me.. the real me…

What you see of me here is what you get in real life.

Ahh…We DO have serious hangups…In the real world we are quiet and keep to ourselves, or else we put on our ‘you can’t hurt me’ attitudes…

I’m less bold and confident on the internet because I really don’t know who I might be talking to. They could be anyone, really, so I’m a bit more careful in general, but under the influence of extended conversation I can actually get more careless than usual and then I distance myself from it all.

Cell wrote:
Ahh…We DO have serious hangups…In the real world we are quiet and keep to ourselves, or else we put on our ‘you can’t hurt me’ attitudes…

not me, im loud, brash crude and well, just me.. if you dont like it then hey it cant be helped. im a nice guy i obey the law i work in a good line of work, if people dont like me being me then i say to them… fudge you.

Monkey’s in hats wrote:

Cell wrote:
Ahh…We DO have serious hangups…In the real world we are quiet and keep to ourselves, or else we put on our ‘you can’t hurt me’ attitudes…

not me, im loud, brash crude and well, just me.. if you dont like it then hey it cant be helped. im a nice guy i obey the law i work in a good line of work, if people dont like me being me then i say to them… fudge you.

LOL….yeah, the life of the party, right?

mmmmmm i want some fudge

Cell wrote:
Ahh…We DO have serious hangups…In the real world we are quiet and keep to ourselves, or else we put on our ‘you can’t hurt me’ attitudes…

you dont know me very well now do you… ~giggle~

well, i am very antisocial in the outside world.
i spend most of my time indoors