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Topic: On feeling sorry for people
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NeuroCycle
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Message 199 of 300 (342634)
08-23-2006 1:11 AM
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Ok...
Now reading some of the things mentioned since I was away.... Left/Right: it has nothing to do with anything political PC: It has nothing to do with being "PC" or not. It all has to do with how one handles the situation, realitive to them.
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NeuroCycle
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Re: Listen up simpletons
No. I'm like other humans: selfish. This is, I think, the crux of the whole thing. The more people that admit they are selfish and atribute it do the reasons they do things, the better they become. Selfish choices are innevatable. Edited by NeuroCycle, : changed "poople" to "people"
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NeuroCycle
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Message 218 of 300 (342710)
08-23-2006 10:15 AM
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Reply to: Message 212 by ringo
08-23-2006 9:42 AM
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Since then, it's been nothing but whiny complaints from people who are afraid to talk to strangers. Not afraid, just uninterested. I just want to make it clear that just because some people can't/will not be openly helpful, doesn't mean they aren't.
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NeuroCycle
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Message 227 of 300 (342743)
08-23-2006 11:27 AM
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Reply to: Message 220 by ringo
08-23-2006 10:46 AM
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My turn: I just want to make it clear that nothing I have said in this thread was about being helpful - openly or otherwise. Understood.
And that's a pity. It is all relative - rather have a "thats cool." I have no pity for you for things that I enjoy and you don't.
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NeuroCycle
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Message 248 of 300 (342796)
08-23-2006 3:59 PM
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Reply to: Message 246 by ringo
08-23-2006 3:44 PM
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I should think it's bloody obvious: every path not taken is a missed oppurtunity. Take one path you will always miss another.
No regrets = no life If I can learn a leason from something then I don't regret it. I have very few regrets.... does that turn into: Few regrets = littl life ?
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NeuroCycle
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Message 252 of 300 (342806)
08-23-2006 4:35 PM
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Reply to: Message 251 by ringo
08-23-2006 4:31 PM
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Cute cliche worthless response
It could turn into: Young life. Or maybe you should set your sights higher. Explain how few regrets would lead to any of that? Edited by NeuroCycle, : No reason given.
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NeuroCycle
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Message 254 of 300 (342818)
08-23-2006 4:54 PM
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Reply to: Message 253 by ringo
08-23-2006 4:49 PM
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Yes, I meant that your cute cliche was a worthless response. You might as well have said, "A stitch in time saves nine." (I'm trying to be gentle here. Don't make me go upside your head again. ) Yes it is a cliche, but that doesn't dampen it's meaning or effect.
I meant that having few regrets might just mean you're very young and haven't had many oppurtunities to screw up yet. Yes I am young, I have screwed up many times in my life (important and unimportant things). All those screw ups have had a reason that I learned from and implied to my life
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NeuroCycle
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Message 256 of 300 (342826)
08-23-2006 5:23 PM
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Reply to: Message 255 by ringo
08-23-2006 5:03 PM
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So you'd repeat all same the screwups again? You claim to learn from your mistakes, yet you don't regret making them. To my mind, that's self-contradictory. I was rushed to leave work so my wording was a bit off. I do learn from my mistakes sometimes not the first time, like us all. Regret is pointless; things in the past, unchangeable. So rather then sitting regretting something I find out how/why it happend figure out how I can learn from it and stop it from happening again. Not saying I don't have regrets, I just don't have many. I will have more as I grow older.
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NeuroCycle
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Message 263 of 300 (342876)
08-23-2006 11:11 PM
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Reply to: Message 257 by ringo
08-23-2006 5:41 PM
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Before you can learn from your mistakes, you have to recognize that they were mistakes. You have to want to not repeat them. You have to regret making them. Very true and agree with it all. Question is: if you make that mistake/regret a positive life leason, does the regret then get dismissed? To me it does.
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NeuroCycle
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Message 265 of 300 (342885)
08-24-2006 12:37 AM
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Reply to: Message 264 by ringo
08-24-2006 12:10 AM
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No, I don't think so. You have to "keep" the regret so you remember why you screwed up. For example, if you hurt somebody in the past, you should keep the regret to prevent you from hurting somebody else in a similar way in the future. It's something you have to keep working at. Regret is a tool that should not be thrown away after one use. Regret and the positive aspect of what one would get out of it are intermixed, becoming something new for me. So calling it regret still is not how I see it. I will remember it, but remeber what I have learned - I look at the postive side. I don't throw it away, I morph it into a non-negative experience. Of course this doesn't always work. Lets say if I cheated on my girlfriend (didn't and will not) I can't see getting anyt positive lesson out of it. That would be a pure regret. Edited by NeuroCycle, : grammar
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NeuroCycle
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Message 273 of 300 (342952)
08-24-2006 11:07 AM
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Reply to: Message 261 by jar
08-23-2006 8:28 PM
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Re: Question for Jar
You just plain missed an golden opportunity. That's all, You blew a chance. Whether it is moral or not has nothing to do with it just as my not eating pudding is neither moral or immoral. My version and eating pudding can't be moral or immoral so that is a bad example.[AbE]nevermind the last bit there Edited by NeuroCycle, : No reason given.
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NeuroCycle
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Message 275 of 300 (342954)
08-24-2006 11:15 AM
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Reply to: Message 274 by jar
08-24-2006 11:09 AM
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Re: Question for Jar
I editted my post above before I saw your reply Edited by NeuroCycle, : expansion
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