I dare you to respond to this

No.... just no.... don't make jokes about that kind of thing.

 

Do not get me wrong; I have those that I care about. But I do not believe that all life is worth mourning. A life that I never got to know is the same as a life in a book that I will never get to meet. I only value each person according to the pleasure they bring me, with very few exceptions wherein I get attached.

It is those who convince themselves that they care about everyone that I find hard to take seriously. If they gathered the scope of the things they would have to care about in order to claim to care for all of humanity, they would be forced to go mad with rage or grow cold towards man himself. There is no room for idealism and sob stories while time is turning.

I am particularly cruel in the case of nations. I choose not to care about those on 9/11 because the compassion that you so value has been used as a political weapon. People easily overlook compassion towards others in search of revenge. They would have been better off not to show compassion toward either side and instead seek to resolve whatever caused the problem in the first place. For my part, I choose not to care about things that have happened and only to worry about present threats. I choose this in the hope that it will lead me to the path which causes the least harm to all involved. I choose it to make decisions without an emotionally clouded mind in order to avoid errors in judgment.

 

I got it. It just wasn't that funny.

 

Ah, I have not heard of them. Those were great tragedies, to be sure, but it is estimated that the Library of Alexandria housed at least 700,000 manuscripts at its prime. There is no comparison, though any loss of knowledge is a grave loss indeed.

I do not think it is the end and be all of my existence. I find death meaningless. There is quite a difference between caring about death and not caring about death.

That is correct, actually. I choose not to get attached to people so that I can be independent of them; so that I have nothing to lose. I enjoy people like I enjoy the warmth of a candle or a fire. I feel cold without it there, but I do not feel that I have lost something. One must own in order to lose, after all, and life is fleeting like a flame. I purge what will not help me survive. Would you really call me depressed, or even unhealthy? Who is to say which of us is right?

I sound like my old self again. I keep forgetting that I love now. Heh, heh...

 

>Half of the people in this thread have 0 tact
>The other half don't understand that being offended by something means you have a personal flaw to work out

 

lol I'll admit, Terra wasn't my fav charactor in BBS.

 

Why? He's an idiot!

Its sad to also hear that people don't know what the American army is doing to innocent civilians in the middle east. Or they don't know that 9/11 was just an excuse to go to war when really we just wanted to get our greed hands on oil.

 

Momma u kno' I'll claim victory over all these sissies u know honeybooboochile'

God, her and her daughter just horrify me.

 

That sounds rather incompetent without sources or reasoning. Everyone says this, but a lot more went into it than simple resources. Imperialism is never just about the resources. Just as there are people below who honestly believe that slaughtering thousands of people is a good idea, there are people above who think the same. There is an option such that they are genuinely unintelligent or wish to tax more people and control more land. Gang turf wars go to great lengths, as most should know.

Video only slightly related.

[video=youtube;YIdcDL64KCE]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YIdcDL64KCE[/video]

 

I hate his pants

 

Hence, it also looks as if he were wearing a "man" skirt xD

 

If you do not value what happens in death, how can you value what is in life? Do not fear it or be sad by it because you will have life you have no regrets for

You might not have anything to lose, but what do you have to gain by it? Loneliness? Emotionless? I know for sure the drift of not caring about your life, or others, of dying, of seeing what the world can truly be like but now looking back they were some of the darkest times for me. I know I'm stronger for knowing what that was like and it makes me treasure my attachments with friends and acquaintances alike even more than most people, I'm sure.
The term purge says a lot about how you think of people, something like a plant that you can plant in or pluck away whenever you want or need it and not that you care about it. It is cold, and in your mind a calculated decision. But remember we are not simple candles that turn on and off, we are multilayered fires with each new bit of kindling is a new bit of our lives being experienced.

You sound like someone thinking about love but not feeling it. I hope you know what path you walk down, my friend. There are bumps in the road. And you're not always walking alone.

 

What

What

His pants are the best part of him

HEY.

WAR-SKIRTS ARE FOR MEN ONLY.

 

What happens in death? I assume that when we refer to death here, we mean an end to existence. I have no fear of death, nor any wish for death. I have said that I do not believe I can die. I will hold to that until it happens, and if it does, then it does not matter either way.

I defer about enjoying the world. For instance, I may eat food or drink water, or indeed, enjoy a dream and not grow attached to it. Attachment is a special kind of emotion. I choose to detach myself from my experiences. I have fun, I enjoy, I get excited, I get sad... But in the end, none of this is attached to me. It is all as a dream to me. I may wake up or change my attachments on a dime. I remain separate from the world I inhabit. The exceptions to this are very few and far between, and they exist by my choice.

Right now, I am not feeling it. I am detaching myself from it. I have tried to describe this to Sforzato. It is as if I have two sides or perhaps two layers to my mind. One part, the part speaking now, remains detached from everything. It analyzes, it disintegrates loyalties, it purges emotion for the sake of finding absolute fact. This side contains my raw desires as well, such as my desire for knowledge and my desire for freedom. The other part contains my other emotions. It is vulnerable. It feels, it enjoys. It holds convictions and makes mistakes. It values art. It loves.

The first part is my primary function. It calculates when it is worth the risk to let my emotions run free, and it is what I revert to when I am challenged. Which is closer to the core of my personality is hard to say, but I do not feel depressed or unhappy with them. What caused me to develop this divide, this survival mechanism, if you want to call it such, is unclear. To the best of my knowledge, I chose to become objective by choice. This description is subject to change and interpretation with time, and if we speak on it more I may change my analysis, but the basis traits and the resulting outcomes are the same.

Originally, I would think about losing a thing and analyze what I could do if it were lost beforehand. I would do this for possessions, for friends and family, for pieces of my body, and even for my memory and life. I did this so often and so thoroughly that it became ingrained in my nature, and I found that I was no longer concerned with what my emotional reaction would be to something, but instead with what I should do in reaction to it. I wished to be unharmed by any occurrence, and it has aided me well in that regard. I would not give it up so easily for the dependent mind that you seem to prefer to my own.

I can just as easily turn around and let myself love as I can speak coldly to you right now. These two events are detached from other, and both of them are done by choice. As I am right now, I do not understand what the fascination is with feeling your way through every experience rather than thinking through it. There are times when one wants to love, and there are times when one does not. I opt not to get attached to most people that I know. I get over their loss before it happens. For those that I grow attached to, I will have extreme difficulty getting over their losses. It is a huge risk to take. Do you understand why I am so cautious?

 

Why does this thread persist?
I hate every one of you.

 

And people die when they are killed.

 

Captain Obvious is here to save the day?

 

Wow I just want to give you a big hug now o.0 Not that you would probably enjoy it, but still :)

Also I'm pretty sure this reminds me of a character from somewhere, possibly an anime. Can't think for the life of me which one though.

 

*cough*Izaya*cough*Durarara*cough*

 

Hands off, sweetheart, this one's mine.​