Confessions thread

[Schwimmwagen]

I like to entertain lil' fantasies that I could meet all the people that catch my eye online and just have the Best Night Ever with 'em. Have fun, see a show, eat out - the whole Best Night Ever.~

come and watch poorly-translated chinese dramas with me

i can't say too much on the topic, but my particular perspective has always been "the sky's the limit, so start building a ladder"

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i don't know. i've always disliked that people make following your dreams out to be easy. that's the beef i have.

I think you're right, there's plenty of potential for an individual to achieve their dreams. It's just that there's not much focus on the practise of doing so.

Lots of people achieve great things, but hardly anyone ever gets to hear them admit how much of an arseache it was. Because when they've got to the top, well, they're more likely to be amazed at reaching their own dreams and choose to remind others of their possibility of doing the same someday "Keep working, don't give up" is the advice people mostly give.

It's true, it's just that the actual doing part is shrouded in obscurity.

 

[Luki]

Is it fair to assume luck plays a part in succeeding, sometimes?

 

[Ariosto]

@Schwim: that's what I've constated whenever I read a thesis. On the surface they seem very clean and straightforward (e.g. 'I could've pointed this out myself') but then you reach the bibliography section, as well as the page-long footnotes, and start to realise ALL the stuff the authors had to read to be absolutely certain of what they're pointing out.
In fields such as my own, accumulating all that knowledge is important to make the oportune connections and deepening your analysis (hooray for intertextuality), and it's well known that a literature class is painful for those who come in expecting an easy score or an easy career.

@Luki: I'm open to conceding it's a factor, but I wouldn't say it's the defining one unless I'm feeling particularly cynical on people's ability to control their lifes.

 

[Gator]

Is it fair to assume luck plays a part in succeeding, sometimes?

anybody who says it never does is fulla shit, but it usually takes more than luck to stay successful. 'course, sometimes it's just a matter of knowing the right people and letting them do all the work for you, selling your soul, and not giving a shit. buuuut ya know. hard work. yayyy work

 

[Pyper]

I am slowly starting to distance myself from my friends IRL. I don't feel all that bad about it because we are starting to all go on our own paths. What does suck though, is that I am eventually going to get to the point where I have no friends anymore.

 

[RedSavage]

I have furry smut as my phone background.
I've officially crossed the furfaggot threshold. There's no hope for me anymore. Go on without me. There's nothing you can do for me.

 

[PastryOfApathy]

I kinda wanna go to a furry convention. Mostly because it sounds funny.

 

[Zop]

I have furry smut as my phone background.
I've officially crossed the furfaggot threshold. There's no hope for me anymore. Go on without me. There's nothing you can do for me.

Am looking forward to a post about you losing your phone.

 

[RedSavage]

I kinda wanna go to a furry convention. Mostly because it sounds funny.

Dude, furry conventions are FUN AS HELL. Yeah there's some awkward mother fuckers there but it is literally the coolest to get trashed and walk around and goof off. For every awkward dude there's 5 awesome people. And even the awkwardness can be awesome in its own right in a "holy shit" kind of way.

Am looking forward to a post about you losing your phone.

PASSCODE BIATCH. And the lock screen image is different than the background. Hehhehehe

 

[UrsusArtist]

I confess that I am losing all feelings for my mother.

At least who she's turned into. She used to be my confidant, my kindred spirit, but after my father's death she always was searching for someone to tell her what to do (my father was African born, raised by his grandmother, EXTREMELY conservative, a dom in that relationship). She's always been so submissive, even when myself and my two older sisters encouraged her to do some soul searching and self-exploration. After my father died (when I was around 12), I thought I saw her progressing into her own free-thinking kind of woman. I even had an amazing (and awkward) conversation with her about gay intimacy, with her joking that we "had the same taste in men."

Flash forward to a couple years ago when I got an email from her saying that she had found something enriching in her life...and she said it was the Jahovah's Witnesses. My heart sank, and soon afterwards I received more emails quoting psalms and taking everything I said about my life and putting it through the JW filter. She even tried to expound the cult to my young nephew, which rightfully enraged my sister and has put a distance on their relationship. I decided to end conversation with her when she turned to the usual "love the sinner, not the sin" bullshit, but had a olive branch moment this past September when I wrote her to wish her a happy birthday. (Yes I know the JWs don't celebrate holidays) I never heard anything back from her. Until....

...today. I received a snail-mail letter from her with the hand written caption, "Hi Nate, I thought you might find this interesting. Love always, Mom." And it was another fucking psalm lauding the Witnesses and their "peacefulness" amongst a violent human race.

I look into the faces of my loving partners, my friends, and can't help but to think, "I don't need to ever hear from her again."

 

[Mikazuki Marazhu]

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Your mom is silly. I can't say negative things about religion, I don't know if the change is a good thing or bad

She should atleast tone it down because shes making it look like shes dragging ya'll to the same shit.

 

[UrsusArtist]

Your mom is silly. I can't say negative things about religion, I don't know if the change is a good thing or bad

She should atleast tone it down because she making it look like she dragging ya'll to the same shit.

Well a religion/cult that specifically states that who I am as a gay human being is wrong, I'd say that's a bad change. Especially since before she turned, she could laugh and be positive about my experiences as a gay man. I'm just lucky that I'm older and out of the house.

 

[RedSavage]

I don't get the inherent arrogance of religious texts. The idea of being able to comprehend the will and understanding of an awesome god-like entity and being able to write it in a comprehensible language comes off to me as...impossible.

If there is a god, we would be but specs, unable to understand it. Something akin to witnessing a Lovecraftian or eldritch horror. It's beyond our comprehension to put said words down on paper.

 

[Mikazuki Marazhu]

Well a religion/cult that specifically states that who I am as a gay human being is wrong, I'd say that's a bad change. Especially since before she turned, she could laugh and be positive about my experiences as a gay man. I'm just lucky that I'm older and out of the house.

I don't know how old is your mom but I'd say just let her do whatever rocks her boat. You did made it a across that everyone in your family dislikes this "new fad"

I don't get the inherent arrogance of religious texts. The idea of being able to comprehend the will and understanding of an awesome god-like entity and being able to write it in a comprehensible language comes off to me as...impossible.

If there is a god, we would be but specs unable to understand it. Something amino witnessing a Lovecraftian or eldritch horror. It's beyond our comprehension to put said words down on paper.

My anus clenched so tight while reading this post

 

[Kinharia]

One thing I always say to the Anti-Gay Christian crowd when they come to my door. "Did ye ever stop an' think. Mahbeh God put Gays on Earth tae test your Love for your neighbour? Also if God is Almighty and hates gays why doesn't he get rid of them? Surely allowing them to remain proves he loves them!"

 

[UrsusArtist]

I don't know how old is your mom but I'd say just let her do whatever rocks her boat. You did made it a across that everyone in your family dislikes this "new fad"

Oh I very much intend to let her do her thing, for sure. I just find it sad that she's effectively pushing her children away.

 

[Mikazuki Marazhu]

One thing I always say to the Anti-Gay Christian crowd when they come to my door. "Did ye ever stop an' think. Mahbeh God put Gays on Earth tae test your Love for your neighbour? Also if God is Almighty and hates gays why doesn't he get rid of them? Surely allowing them to remain proves he loves them!"

I heard one dude say.

Gay men are works of the devil.
If being gay is so wrong.. I don't want to be right.


See ya'll in hell

 

[PastryOfApathy]

Dude, furry conventions are FUN AS HELL. Yeah there's some awkward mother fuckers there but it is literally the coolest to get trashed and walk around and goof off. For every awkward dude there's 5 awesome people. And even the awkwardness can be awesome in its own right in a "holy shit" kind of way.

I don't think there's enough booze in the world to pull that off. I dunno maybe if I went with someone from FAF or something.

 

[Volkodav]

My dad told me he was listening to the radio and they were playing clips of insane things religious people said, and one of the things they said was that gays won't be on Earth long because they can't reproduce.

 

[UrsusArtist]

I heard one dude say.

Gay men are works of the devil.
If being gay is so wrong.. I don't want to be right.


See ya'll in hell

It's going to be a great party. I'll bring the lube!

 

[RedSavage]

My anus clenched so tight while reading this post

Haha, why's that?

I don't think there's enough booze in the world to pull that off. I dunno maybe if I went with someone from FAF or something.

I'll be heading to a few cons now that I have a livable wage and an actual ability to save up money for said cons. If I'm headed to one in you area I'll hit you up about it. Or if you'd be willing to road trip to one. I love road trips.

 

[Gator]

some folks just ain't strong enough to get through life without a crutch. sad but true. you can't reach 'em.

 

[Kleric]

I wouldn't neglect and despise the entire religion as a whole only because there's one of a few parts I don't agree with... That would be a composition / division logical fallacy; "Assuming that what is true about one part of something has to be applied to all of it." Yes, condemning homosexuality as wrong isn't a good thing, we can all agree on that. But there are still so many more things taught in that religion that are so much more compassionate... a few other wrong things, but still some good things to live by as well. I wouldn't be so apt to throw the entirety of it all under good or bad, they have both.

 

[PastryOfApathy]

I'll be heading to a few cons now that I have a livable wage and an actual ability to save up money for said cons. If I'm headed to one in you area I'll hit you up about it. Or if you'd be willing to road trip to one. I love road trips.

I'd be up for it assuming I actually land a job and/or there's actually something not terrible nearby

 

[Atemis]

[FONT=Corbel, Verdana, sans-serif]“Judge not, that you be not judged. For with the judgment you pronounce you will be judged, and with the measure you use it will be measured to you. Why do you see the speck that is in your brother's eye, but do not notice the log that is in your own eye? Or how can you say to your brother, ‘Let me take the speck out of your eye,’ when there is the log in your own eye? You hypocrite, first take the log out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to take the speck out of your brother's eye."[/FONT]
[FONT=Corbel, Verdana, sans-serif]~Matthew 7:1-5[/FONT]
[FONT=Corbel, Verdana, sans-serif]As Christians we are not supposed to pass judgement on others, especially since all men are guilty of sin. (not that homosexuality is a sin)
But I guess everyone just forgot that part :/[/FONT]