Tictactomm's reply history at Help.com

sorry to hear that Ben> Does that mean you’ll have an easy next few months?

I just read that the LHC is now shut down until next spring!

Hello Kitty Tours

Has your printer crisis been averted? omg! omg!

Don’t feel bad, just know there are a lot of great guys out there that you aren’t even looking at ;)

By the way, its gets a lot better in University when you meet guys who WANT to study literature as opposed to High School where they HAVE to…

On help.com came a young girl who cried,
That she wanted a “poet” by her side,
But when she said with some hype,
That those under 6′ weren’t her type,
Her shallow standards did her appeal decry.

I have a very dear friend that has moved from kicking my butt at Squash every second weekend a few years ago to kicking my butt at crib every second weekend while sitting in a wheelchair due to MS. Its agonizing to watch his decline but he has never flagged in his humor or openess to life. When I asked him about how hard it must be, he told me that when he first started to go downhill physically, it made him mad, frustrated, angry at the injustice of it. A heart to heart with his wife changed his outlook.

She told him that he wasn’t alone, that they were in it together, this was just another obstacle to overcome (the standard stuff, really). But then she said something that really shook him. She said that this was a challenge not just for him, but for her and the kids as well, and they would beat it. But they would have a much easier time with it if he didn’t make it harder on them by being angry, short tempered and pre-occupied with his own misery. The minute he heard that, he had a reason to fight his depression. His family needed him to, and that made all the difference.

I know Shie, that IF your body deteriorates (and don’t count old age, we all decline with old age) your mind and spirit will grow strong to offset that, for the sake of your family.

Making Palin a VP running mate was a surreal announcement. It was as though this fascinating and riveting election was soaked in Hunter S Thompson’s LSD/ether pouch during the RNC. Talk about gonzo, but now I’m more riveted.

Answer me this though. Why would McCain and his handlers choose Palin? Her gender is only one reason, and a small one at that. Is it to appease the Religious Right while still allowing McCain to stump closer to the center on social issues, to try and pull some votes away from Obama?

I love science too. Its ok to be enamoured by the world we live in.

Very moving, thanks for sharing. The last book I read about the visceral, front line impact of war which had an emotional impact on me was Dispatches by Michael Herr about the Vietnam War.

It was no where near as elegantly written though, but I don’t think it could have been, given the time and place…

I don’t have the energy to make more than one account.

Trust is a learned response, as is the lack of trust.

[quote Commander Ikari][quote Jason-God of Phallus][quote Bacon, God of Gods]well, i can see that nobody really cares, or else more than 2 people would be posting. oh well…[/quote]

Oh, I care deeply Bacon. I just don’t have the time to go on help.com that often. And I’m bored of hearing all the long term users making these posts. I’ve given up on trying to get them to stay. But I’ll keep in touch via myspace..[/quote]

lol, he’s already come back.[/quote]

Is Bacon playing the ole “look at me don’t look at me” game? Glad to see you’re back though, fella.

[quote JesusMurphy]^Okay, wtf happened there? My computer’s ******.
Oh maaaan, am I out of my depth here. But let’s see how this goes:
Contradiction and questioning are the seeds of consciousness. “Things do not connect. I want, but don’t have. I dream of having. I imgaine.” Hm that quote wasn’t strictly relevant but its been in my head all day.
And skepticism isn’t strictly natural like you said, but when you think about it, nature and the world’s kind of trained humans over the years not to trust things as they seem.
A cactus is prickly and looks inedible, but the juice inside will certainly save your *** in the desert. Some frogs in South America look small, vulnerable, and brightly-coloured so they’re easily spotted by predators, but if you eat one of them you’ll be poisoned to death within the hour. So maybe this God, He/She/It or whoever the crap is supposed to be in charge meant for us to evolve to be questioning and skeptical of how things appear, because it meant that as we grew smarter we’d start questioning the real big stuff (instead of yknow, cacti and frogs).
But does looking for the answers make us happy? Well for me I try not to think about how the universe and reality work on a daily basis because my head would just crack open from all the wondering. I’m probably just going to wait till I’m dead and see if I get any answers then, and if I don’t well I won’t really mind cause…I’ll be dead. I’m comforted by the thought of a higher being watching over me and rooting for me, but I also don’t like the thought of it being able to see me in the bathroom!
God, I hope that all made some kind of sense.[/quote]

In a twisted stream of conscienousness way, yeah it made sense! But the opposite of the theory could be twisted to support my theory. An hombre dying of thirst in the desert could crawl up to a cactus and think “Man, no way would that prickly sum-biach thing help me out”, but a contrarian might say “man oh man, don’t be a hater lil’ cactus, show me the money”. Actually, I have no idea what I’m now talking about.

Worst advice?

“In the long run it doesn’t really matter what you do.”