Open Thread - Friday, May 3, 2019

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People are always angry at anyone who chooses very individual standards for his life; because of the extraordinary treatment which that man grants to himself, they feel degraded, like ordinary beings.
- Friedrich Nietzsche -

It's your funkin' life. Live it your funkin' way.

I got my own world to live through, and I ain't gonna cut my hair.

Time to get after it.

Have a great weekend! The thread is OPEN.

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Raggedy Ann's picture

I ain’t gonna cut my hair either!

Livin’ life on the edge.

Have an edgy day and weekend, everyone! Pleasantry

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"The “jumpers” reminded us that one day we will all face only one choice and that is how we will die, not how we will live." Chris Hedges on 9/11

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@Raggedy Ann Funkin' eh.

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The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself. - Friedrich Nietzsche -

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"The “jumpers” reminded us that one day we will all face only one choice and that is how we will die, not how we will live." Chris Hedges on 9/11

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The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself. - Friedrich Nietzsche -

Makes life more challenging to be unique. Crowd comfort doesn't work for some. Self included.
Make the best of it.

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@QMS Funkin' eh.

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@QMS

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The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself. - Friedrich Nietzsche -

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I cut my hair in '72. I wore it in a pony tail to keep it out of the way and my thick mop took forever to dry...so off it went, and you would have thought I enlisted to go to Vietnam the way people reacted. It's whats in your head, not what's on it that counts. Be yourself...everyone else is taken.

[video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5tpJy-5ccaI]

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“Until justice rolls down like water and righteousness like a mighty stream.”

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@Lookout Funkin' eh.

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The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself. - Friedrich Nietzsche -

People are always angry at anyone who chooses very individual standards for his life...

I can't recall ever being angry at someone simply for having chosen "very individual standards: for his or her own life. I mean, Dahmer chose a very individual standard for his life and made me sick to my stomach, but because he was a creepy serial killing cannibal, not because he was a non-conformist.

If people choose great, very individual standards for their lives, like Michelangelo, I have no anger, only awe and admiration. Maybe that's because I accept that I am an ordinary human being and have little to no difficulty with that?

Sometimes, my loved ones tell me I'm extraordinary and I patiently explain to them why I am not. Sure, being as gifted as Shakespeare or Da Vinci or Beethoven or Hedy LaMarr would have been super cool, but I didn't get those genes. Oh, well.

I've been meaning to make an appointment for a haircut, but I don't mind if you don't cut yours. Why would any sane person mind another person's having long hair? Serial killing I mind; long hair doesn't even register on my personal interpersonal Richter scale.

TGIF. Enjoy it.

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@HenryAWallace Funkin' eh.

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The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself. - Friedrich Nietzsche -

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Modern education is little more than toeing the line for the capitalist pigs.

Guerrilla Liberalism won't liberate the US or the world from the iron fist of capital.

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@The Aspie Corner There is something about that song.

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The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself. - Friedrich Nietzsche -

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Is being alone. You'll notice I didn't say lonely. There's a difference.

Whenever I find myself in a group, very often I feel distinctly apart from everyone else. I don't watch TV so I can't talk about pop culture. I don't go girl shopping so I can't talk about clothes and makeup. I'm not married so I can't talk about marriage. I don't have children so I can't talk about children. I don't watch sports so I can't talk about sports. I don't gossip so I can't talk about other people. I don't go out drinking so I can't talk about pub crawls.

I will never be wealthy in the same way I'll never be popular, I'm not prepared to do what I'd have to do to be either.

[video:https://youtu.be/BFkYoT5Gezo]

Great topic. Happy Friday to all!

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There is always Music amongst the trees in the Garden, but our hearts must be very quiet to hear it. ~ Minnie Aumonier

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@Anja Geitz I often prefer to be alone. I have the personality that prefers a few close friendships over a network of people. Sue, my wife, and I were close. Everyone else is just acquaintances. Some people find me aloof or standoffish. Sometimes, I am just trying not to say what I am thinking.

Funkin' eh.

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@NCTim

Sometimes I'm trying hard not to say what I'm thinking too, which quite frequently runs along the lines of: "Is this the best we do in the way of conversation?"

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@Anja Geitz I might be thinking, this person is a funkin' idiot.

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The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself. - Friedrich Nietzsche -

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Tories lose 1,166 seats and Labour 84 with results in from 235 of 248 councils in huge backlash for parties
But Lib Dems gain 623 seats to surpass predictions they could get up to 500 in their best showing for years
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@gjohnsit Funkin' eh

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The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself. - Friedrich Nietzsche -