To be or Not to Be THAT is the Question...
POSTED BY: RiveR6213
UPDATED: Sunday, April 9, 2006 14:26
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Originally posted by RiveR6213:
Six:
“Deep down inside, she knows she’s a Cylon, but her conscious mind won’t accept it”
Why do I get the feeling you are relating to this in some way?
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We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far.
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Originally posted by singate:Quote:
Originally posted by RiveR6213:
Six:
“Deep down inside, she knows she’s a Cylon, but her conscious mind won’t accept it”
Why do I get the feeling you are relating to this in some way?
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We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far.
Oh, last night I was watching some of the reruns of the new BSG, and there was this episode where this lady who flew one of those Raptor fighters, suspected that she was a Cylon and tried to kill herself. I related to her confusion as SIX was explaining to Baltar what she was going through. It's strange how I missed seening this scene the 1st time I watched it.
Deep down inside, I've always known i was somehow different, but i always found a way to fool myself into thinking and acting as though I was normal, but there was always that nagging feeling that someday I would be found out, or someday I would do something "terrible" and unforgivable.
Anyway, I felt very sorry for that girl on BSG.
River
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This thread is about the normal, rational people of life, and what they do to survive day to day life.
I find it interesting that you exclude all Christians from the "normal, rational people." Since Christians are in the majority, I find it funny that you wouldn't consider them "normal". And to consider them irrational? Well, we all have faith in something and categorzing a whole group like that is a little ridiculous. I'm not a zealot, nor are most, but your prejudice seems a little arrogant.
Now, as for what get's me moving - seeing GW keep on falling - it is a great rush! Other than that, I live a pretty exciting life. Although I probably don't go out as much as I used to (I'm 30 and engaged now), I still hang with my friends and they are a crazy bunch. Writers, artists, painters, teachers, musicians, pool sharks, globe trotters, etc. We live life up when we get together - soaking up the air and food and drink and everything else we can experience. It never gets dull - creativity, creative people - that's what I love.
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...there was this episode where this lady who flew one of those Raptor fighters, suspected that she was a Cylon and tried to kill herself. I related to her confusion as SIX was explaining to Baltar what she was going through.
Anyway, I felt very sorry for that girl on BSG.
River
I guess the two of you do have something in common as she only managed to blow out one of her cheeks. How is it a cylon would miss at such close range?
Hopefully you don't follow the same path as her. You know, running into a bunch of people who look like you, setting off a nuke, trying to kill an old man, then getting fragged by one of your former co-workers.
Not to mention being replaced by another version of yourself, winding up pregnant, and being held hostage for tactical information. That simply wouldn't do.
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Well I have just spent about an hour reading this thread and to be honest I would normally have just walked on by. Not to sure why I stopped to be honest and at the moment, I am thinking about reading it again.
It will probably take me an hour to reply as I do not provide input often. I like to read and ingest other peoples thoughts be they trivial or mountain mover's.
I can only say that I get up each day because I am a nosey sod, I just love to know what is going on. Not with people so much as machines, I like to know how and why things work.
I can relate to pain but I never let it beat me. So will not go into that here.
I don't generally like people to be honest, I tend to wait until I have gotten to know them although sometimes I don't even bother to do that. I tend to alienate people because I generally say what I think and be damned, I don't think I will be on this planet that long and I haven't the time to Pi$$ away worrying about what anyone thinks about me or my own. If I make a friend it is usually for life, I say usually as now and again people manage to sneak in under the radar.
But the reason for the quick responce, quick to read a long time to write (trust me), is I'm glad your still on this planet. It takes some doing for me to bother to respond to a thread, so I just want to say thank you River for starting the thread and to the many people that have bothered to respond.
Well I think I will read it again, I think it's worth the hour. Maybe post again enjoy what you have and remember it's not all about personal wealth but I can only presume it helps.
Why have they taken the sky from ME
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This thread is about the normal, rational people of life, and what they do to survive day to day life.
I find it interesting that you exclude all Christians from the "normal, rational people." Since Christians are in the majority, I find it funny that you wouldn't consider them "normal". And to consider them irrational? Well, we all have faith in something and categorzing a whole group like that is a little ridiculous. I'm not a zealot, nor are most, but your prejudice seems a little arrogant.
At this point I don't even know HOW to respond too that. Anyway. Arrogant? yes, I am very arrogant.
River
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Originally posted by jmb9039:Quote:
This thread is about the normal, rational people of life, and what they do to survive day to day life.
I find it interesting that you exclude all Christians from the "normal, rational people." Since Christians are in the majority, I find it funny that you wouldn't consider them "normal". And to consider them irrational? Well, we all have faith in something and categorzing a whole group like that is a little ridiculous. I'm not a zealot, nor are most, but your prejudice seems a little arrogant.
At this point I don't even know HOW to respond too that. Anyway. Arrogant? yes, I am very arrogant.
River
I'm tempted to respond to that, but I'm afraid it would just start the flame war that would drag the thread down into the troll pit, and I like it right where it is.
You know, River, your comment about always knowing you were different somehow makes a lot of sense to me, because I have often felt the same way, and I know others who do as well. I could say that considering what passes for normal, I'm gorram proud to be different, but that would probably make me arrogant too. Can we start an Arrogant Club, where we automatically reject all membership applications, and the only way to join is to ignore us and assume you're in anyway because you are arrogant enough to think the club wouldn't be complete without you? Seriously though, I think there's a lot of "different" people here. After all, we're dedicated to a show that the network, according to the wisdom of catering to an assumed majority, cancelled. If we were like "everyone else", I suppose we'd be watching reality tv and obsessing over the love lives and drug habits of whatever celebrity the tabloids are stalking this week. It's not easy to be different, but it can have its rewards, and it sure beats living a lie. It's said that life is a comedy for those who think, and a tragedy for those who feel. What if you both think and feel? Well, for people here, I guess that means life is Firefly. Being different ain't being bad. I think life showed you the bad, as bad as it gets, and you're still here.
I haven't seen any of the new BSG, and I don't even have cable right now, but I really should check it out. I've never heard a bad opinion of it, except for someone I know who was a huge fan of the original, and Dirk Bennedict in particular, and she just can't accept the gender switching of her favorite character. Dark Angel, I've only started watching the second season of.
Hope your day has been ok, despite the "only able to use one hand" thing. I'm off on vacation soon, off the rural land of spotty internet access, but I'll try to keep up as much as I can.
And I'm still happy you're here.
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Well I have just spent about an hour reading this thread and to be honest I would normally have just walked on by. Not to sure why I stopped to be honest and at the moment, I am thinking about reading it again.
It will probably take me an hour to reply as I do not provide input often. I like to read and ingest other peoples thoughts be they trivial or mountain mover's.
I can only say that I get up each day because I am a nosey sod, I just love to know what is going on. Not with people so much as machines, I like to know how and why things work.
I can relate to pain but I never let it beat me. So will not go into that here.
I don't generally like people to be honest, I tend to wait until I have gotten to know them although sometimes I don't even bother to do that. I tend to alienate people because I generally say what I think and be damned, I don't think I will be on this planet that long and I haven't the time to Pi$$ away worrying about what anyone thinks about me or my own. If I make a friend it is usually for life, I say usually as now and again people manage to sneak in under the radar.
But the reason for the quick responce, quick to read a long time to write (trust me), is I'm glad your still on this planet. It takes some doing for me to bother to respond to a thread, so I just want to say thank you River for starting the thread and to the many people that have bothered to respond.
Well I think I will read it again, I think it's worth the hour. Maybe post again enjoy what you have and remember it's not all about personal wealth but I can only presume it helps.
Why have they taken the sky from ME
Well,
Thank you for stopping by. We are going to paint the forum walls here in this thread: Institutional Green because crazy people always see institutional green in the end.
Its always interesting and sometimes distressing to watch someone try to figure out this thing called life/reality. I do understand that it's not all about personal wealth because if it were about that, I would be a very happy and well-balanced person, and I doubt that this thread would even have even been created.
Before my little mishap with the firearm, I used to get up every morning with the mindset that life is war. I would storm out of my home all caffeinated, with my cell-phone already attached to my head talking a mile a minute, and spoiling for a fight. I would get in my Jaguar and tear off into traffic looking every inch like the Road Warrior, and woe to anyone who crossed my path or got in my way.
I would arrive at work and become a cool, cold Vulcan, or a smug, female Darth Vader. It all depended on how I felt at that moment. Also, I made it my business to crush someone's ego before the day ended. In hindsight. I was a complete, thoughtless bitch. An Alliance, core-world bitch. I would then get home, and do some work on my computer network, while starting threads and arguing with people on this forum, as well as getting drunk on wine AND watching movies. Later I would go to bed angry and full of spite, and rage. I did this every day. I can't believe that person was me.
But those days are gone from me now. I wake up every morning afraid, and full of uncertainty. My whole shoulder and arm hurts like hell, even with the painkillers, and I have to remind myself that I did this to myself. Also, right now I’m actually afraid to go outside. Isn’t that funny? Ms Woman is afraid of the big bad world! I’m afraid of all of you…I think I’ve been afraid of people all my life, and didn’t really know it. You all scare me with your words, your thoughts, your compassion, your loves, your hates, your opinions, your silence, your judgments, your hopes, and your dreams.
From 19 years of age I was a supreme general fighting a war, and winning, but as time progressed, I started losing more, and more of myself in the war, until the day came where I no longer saw people, I saw only multiple targets. And the reasons for the war happening were long for
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Quote:Now you're like the rest of us.
Originally posted by RiveR6213:
Ms Woman is afraid of the big bad world. She’s a machine no more. She has no protection….
Congratulations.
*Pinnochio voice* You're a real girl.
Logan Chrisisall
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