Lives: get em while they're hot!

[Art]

Howdy JC, good points you made.

I suggest these kids (for that matter, everyone) not only step away from their keyboard every onec in a while to enjoy real life, like you say, but get out of their asphalt and concrete jungle completely, occasionaly. It's nice to spend a couple weeks with no radio, tv, phone, pc ... no city noises like sirens, traffic, and thumping rap, which some call music. See what the sky really looks like during the daytime without the grey smog cloud, and at night absent the city lights washing out the stars and their natural light. Places like this in the US are getting fewer and farther between as each year goes by. Of course what's normal to me in this regard, I'm sure is way too extreme for most of you and out of the question. 

Now on a more serious note, rofl hehe jajaja wtf!
BTW JC, how are you and the Mrs. doing ?   ... umm

[banes]

The free will aspect usually presents itself in the manner of "yeah, I know it's fucked up to engage in this, but it's fun!"  "Plenty of time for regrets later, when I have...wisdom". 

true, i know what its like to step in it willingly, but thats not always the case, i know i didnt get my heart broken a few times just because i was asking for it, theres just some things you gotta learn the hard way, but i do agree i have stepped into alot of bad shit and i could blame nobody but myself

i actually am still an asshole in person, although people understand that im not being serious in person(well some, thats the point), im still acting like an asshole though which turns off the people it ought to, i usually use it as a filter, weeding out the uptite, and leaving only the secure and good humored ones, people like master

[10zx]

I wish I had the time to spend 20+ hours a day on here..

I could be as good as naymlis in Q2

[[BTF]Gator]

i'm around for a good 12 to 16 hours a day.  And that hasnt contributed to me having any skill...., so the theory fails in scientific experimentation.

[10zx]

i'm around for a good 12 to 16 hours a day.

[Bleach]

Art, just wanted to say i dont live in a concrete jungle... hell even the road by this place is dirt  if one walks out my back door you would think you are alone in the world

[Art]

Art, just wanted to say i dont live in a concrete jungle... hell even the road by this place is dirt

[Slikkster]

Living IN the conrete jungle is kind of a bummer.  What I miss most about my rural-by-comparison upbringing is the things I used to take for granted, like the stream/creek across the road in front of my house, where I could fish or swim,  or ice skate in the winter; the hills and woods just 150 feet away, and yet still close enough to drive into a small city (30K).  It's only 90 miles from where I live now, but for all intents and purposes, it might as well be an eternity, given the differences in geography.

Another piece of wisdom learned, lol.  One needs to appreciate what they have.  Problem is that you need a point of contrast to do that, most of the time.

To Banes:  Couldn't agree with you more about the broken heart thing.  Unfortunately, there's absolutely no way to avoid that, and still "live", as it were.  That is, unless you exist as the person in the Simon and Garfunkel (who?) song:  "I am a rock". 

A winter

[banes]

too bad a life where you would avoid all pain would be an unsatisfying life, as they no pain no gain, but i guess it makes sense seeing as life is a struggle, and without it there would be no life

im very jealous bleach, i unforunately do live in the concrete jungle la is a horrible place to live, i really hate it here, im planning on moving to the south in a few years, possibly atlanta, memphis or lousville, but that'll still be a concret jungle anyway, just with alot of wilderness surrounding it (nothing beats going to a mall surrounded by a forest, cant find that in l.a.) however i plan to some time in the future become a park ranger, and just live in harmony with nature for a while, maybe retire that way

[themuffinman]

hmm

[LaMont=GSN=]

you have to waste your youth to get the wisdom that comes with wrinkles

you cant walk before you crawl

Unfortunately very true.

[QuakeDuke]

as long as shakespeare could use galamphantly, i can use assumptuous

Hey! I know shakespeare... He's that weird guy talking to the squirl, eh, sqwerel, squirr, oh heck the rat with the bushy tail on that ING commercial on the telly!!!

QD

[QuakeDuke]

you cant walk before you crawl

Whoa! u sure about that? I have one kid and three grandkids that never crawled - it darn near seems like they was walking almost as soon as they popped out...

Really though... I know what you mean...

QD

[QuakeDuke]

Then the question becomes, "if one acts like a jerk online and differently day to day, are they still a jerk?" 

I once preached on "personality is what you have when you're around people -- character is what you have when you're by yourself."
(subtitled "You are who you are when there's no one around to impress"

QD

[Art]

"You are who you are when there's no one around to impress"
QD

I like that !