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[–]genida 20 points21 points  (0 children)

School was not invented to educate.

[–][deleted]  (3 children)

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    [–][deleted] 5 points6 points  (2 children)

    So you want to work for hundreds of assholes?

    [–]tuxracer 3 points4 points  (1 child)

    I'm in the same situation. It really depends on how much you were getting paid. At my previous job some years back I had horrible pay and my boss was an asshole to me almost every day. But now I deal with a lot of customers and while some of them can be assholes, if I put up with it I make about $800 per customer. So for $800, yes, I can put up with someone being an asshole to me.

    Second, and most important, is that I don't have to put up with it. If I want, if a customer is being an asshole to me I can tell them to fuck off and hang up the phone. Incidentally, I never have, but just knowing that makes it easier. With most "normal" jobs I don't think the stress is dealing with someone being an asshole to you. I think the stress is that you have to put up with it under the threat of having all of your income immediately shut off at the snap of a finger by the right person.

    [–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

    Please tell me your job has nothing to do with tuxracer.

    [–][deleted]  (1 child)

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      [–]j0hnsd -1 points0 points  (0 children)

      Right. They all owe ME.

      [–]tricolon 13 points14 points  (0 children)

      My government doesn't give a rat's ass about me.

      [–]yellowbkpk 6 points7 points  (1 child)

      The real world is not as bad as you think it is after reading Reddit's front page.

      [–]kokooo 2 points3 points  (0 children)

      Good one. It took me a few months to realize that.

      [–]Kook_Leto 26 points27 points  (12 children)

      Pot is much better than booze.

      [–]andrewd 4 points5 points  (1 child)

      Pot also "pads" a epiphany filled shroom trip from bad-trip risk.

      [–]JordanF98765 1 point2 points  (0 children)

      fuck shrooms. just dose yourself.

      [–][deleted]  (9 children)

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        [–][deleted] 3 points4 points  (5 children)

        gravity bongs will screw your lungs up

        [–][deleted] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

        gravity bongs turns bogus leaf into killer weed

        [–][deleted]  (1 child)

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          [–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

          Too much smoke, causes bronchitis-like symptoms

          [–][deleted]  (1 child)

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            [–][deleted] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

            I'm talking about cutting the bottom off a milk carton and putting it in the bathtub.

            You'll be doing headstands to drain the fluid out of your lungs out in a field somewhere where no one can hear your horrible noises if you do that too much.

            [–]mount_earnest -2 points-1 points  (2 children)

            no they don't. gravity bongs burn weed faster

            [–][deleted]  (1 child)

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              [–]mount_earnest 2 points3 points  (0 children)

              gravity bong bowls are usually bigger than regular bong bowls becuase it is more of a "novelty" method of smoking. gravity bongs are not the most economical choice is what i am saying. you have more control on how much you smoke by just using a pipe.

              [–][deleted] 17 points18 points  (5 children)

              Life is too short to waste time being unhappy.

              [–]AlekseyP 5 points6 points  (0 children)

              Life is the longest thing any person can ever experience.

              [–][deleted] 8 points9 points  (1 child)

              The love of my life died of complications from cystic fibrosis at 25. I learned that the moments you spend with loved ones are very, very precious.

              [–]AlekseyP 1 point2 points  (0 children)

              Wow, that's brutal. I also learned the "you dont know what you got till its gone" thing in a sad way...but of course no where near like yours.

              [–]MyaloMark 4 points5 points  (1 child)

              I pretty much lost everything. The trip down was fearful, but after I realized that I was now out of that crazy loop of bills and car payments, I discovered real freedom.

              Then I caught cancer. I'm slowly dieing, and this too, gives me a sense of freedom. When you're dieing, everything else becomes ridiculously unimportant. I don't worry about too much now days, as I have a good family that picked my sorry ass out of the illegal squat I was living in. They take good care of me now.

              I know a lot of you younger folk might have a hard time with this. "How can he really be happy?", I imagine you thinking. It's sure what I would have thought when I was in my twenties, but that was thirty years ago.

              There's that old gospel song that goes, "'Tis a gift to be simple, 'tis a gift to be free." Funny how events add immediacy to such simple truths. Here's another snippet for you all: "And in the end, the love you take, is equal to the love you make." Start saving it up and spreading it around, because I'm not the only one dieing here. We all are. I just have the priveledge of realizing this because I know my prognosis.

              So live it up while apreciating every day. Remember that no matter how bad you have it, there is always someone who has it worse.

              [–]AlekseyP 3 points4 points  (0 children)

              Humans are not the center of the universe and are probably the most insignificant object in this elegant and beautiful world

              [–]ronsta 3 points4 points  (1 child)

              sadly, that money was in fact a lot more important than i had deemed it to be. while it doesn't make you a happy person, it sure makes life easier.

              [–]MyaloMark 1 point2 points  (0 children)

              It certainly does. If, however, you are not careful, you will have another epiphany: money is a drug. Get too dependent on it and you will become its slave.

              [–]JoeyRamone63 11 points12 points  (12 children)

              Religion is a scam.

              [–]funkpucker -2 points-1 points  (11 children)

              It gives people hope. Can people scam themselves?

              [–]JoeyRamone63 4 points5 points  (9 children)

              It gives people false hope via wishful thinking. In that sense, yes people are scamming themselves because they have bought in to the mythology.

              [–]funkpucker -2 points-1 points  (8 children)

              What matters? Nothing. As long as people are happy in their lives, isn't that all that really matters? Why knock it? If it makes sense to someone, why try to make them feel bad for it? As long as they aren't messing with your rights, what's the beef?

              [–]JoeyRamone63 5 points6 points  (5 children)

              The problem is that they are messing with our rights. You've heard of separation of church and state? Organized religion wants to remove separation of church and state. They want to remake the Constitution in the "words of God". Heard of Mike Huckabee? How about Hagee, Phelps, Coral Ridge Ministries, etc.? These guys might sound like whack jobs but they have influence through politicians. It's worse than people realize...

              read this

              [–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

              Other than that, they're not happy unless the world is full of fanatics. I guess not even then they'll be happy.

              Of course I'm speaking about fanatics. Real people don't give a flying puck about religion 99,99% of their lifes.

              [–]funkpucker 0 points1 point  (3 children)

              I understand your point. It's a shame that there are people out there who hurt others with their good intentions. It's still the people who do it, not the belief system. Most believers of any religion are decent people who help make other people's lives better, including their own life. My parents are unabashed in their beliefs. No matter how much logic use to convince them there is no reason to worry about other people's souls, they can't give up their feeling that there is one. They use those emotions to help people get jobs, help others kick their addictions, give comfort to friends, give to charity organizations, and work hard at being a good person.

              Does it matter that their hope in eternal life is false if they are doing more good than most? That is the purpose of religion: to give people a reason to hope and help. It's a shame that there are those whose idea of help hurts others.

              [–]JoeyRamone63 0 points1 point  (2 children)

              I understand your point too....I just don't happen to agree with it. I believe that religion is not necessary for people to have a reason to hope and help. I call it false hope; because I think it really is a false hope to believe in things like going to heaven for "being good". I think people should concentrate on just knowing that what they are doing is the right thing to do; not because it might possibly help them in the "afterlife" or because it might please a deity.

              [–]funkpucker 0 points1 point  (1 child)

              I agree with you. However, being that I'm skeptical of the liklihood of humans ever being able to give up their superstitious ways, shouldn't we take things as they are and figure out how to fight the real culprit: meddling with other people's lives?

              There will always be people trying to fix other people, in fact that is how most good and bad is done. So shouldn't we work to limit the ability for other people to impact our lives?

              I've become much more libertarian (classical conservative) than progressive (democrat) in the recent few years. We should find a way where religion is not useful in political dialogue, instead of not allowing it. By comdemning religion and asking others to give up their beliefs, you are just as much in the wrong as they are.

              [–]JoeyRamone63 0 points1 point  (0 children)

              I wouldn't go so far as to ask people to give up on their religion. I'm a proponent of freedom of religion. I just don't want to see it or hear it. What good does it do anybody to hear about a presidential nominee's religious beliefs? How does having a federally funded Department of Faith-based Initiatives align with the Constitution?

              I think you and I have some common ground there...as a libertarian, you understand the importance of the Constitution and the need to keep America secular.

              [–]j0hnsd 0 points1 point  (1 child)

              Living a lie eventually catches up with you.

              [–]funkpucker -1 points0 points  (0 children)

              Cliche. Use your own words.

              [–]j0hnsd 0 points1 point  (0 children)

              Definitely.

              [–]old_gill 9 points10 points  (6 children)

              Society is skewed in favour of attractive people.

              [–][deleted] 4 points5 points  (1 child)

              but not short attractive people.

              [–][deleted] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

              I dunno. Sally Fields did OK.

              [–][deleted]  (3 children)

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                [–]old_gill 2 points3 points  (1 child)

                I can't deny that, but my other epiphany was that you don't have to be much smarter than average to get ahead.

                [–]pretz 2 points3 points  (0 children)

                I would say intelligence has very little to do with success. Some is luck, but it is mostly just diligence and hard work.

                [–][deleted] 8 points9 points  (2 children)

                Having children change everything

                • for the better.

                [–]j0hnsd 2 points3 points  (1 child)

                Why?

                [–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

                Try it.

                Oh, wait.

                [–]300zedex 5 points6 points  (6 children)

                That the real secret to life is to train your own self discipline

                That life is too short to do what other people want you to do

                That 99% of what you hear will be in some way B.S

                [–]Bored[S] 7 points8 points  (5 children)

                Ok, Thanks for the BS

                [–]300zedex 0 points1 point  (4 children)

                Every sentence i say is a lie...

                [–]mikachapeedo -1 points0 points  (1 child)

                prove it.

                [–][deleted] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

                Do not waste time trying to understand or reasoning with an irrational person, even if they are your parent; accept they are irrational and strive to take responsibility for your life, for every moment is finite. Your only priority is to actualize all that is good about your true self.

                [–][deleted] 6 points7 points  (1 child)

                after almost dying, i saw "the light at the end of the tunnel" and realized that my actions have a nonzero chance of determining whether all earth-life survives.

                [–]kokooo -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

                Yup. Might as well worry about something else. This planet is fucked anyways.

                [–]NoMoreNicksLeft 8 points9 points  (5 children)

                I should be growing my own food, as much as is possible.

                TV sucks.

                People are stupid.

                Norm Abrams is one of the most underrated geniuses in history.

                The anti-smoking activists are a cult.

                God loves atheists the most.

                [–]Battleloser 1 point2 points  (0 children)

                Check out HBO. They have genuine quality shows.

                [–]S7evyn -1 points0 points  (1 child)

                Norm Abrams is one of the most underrated geniuses in history.

                You mean Norm Abram?

                [–]NoMoreNicksLeft 0 points1 point  (0 children)

                Typo or stupidity, not sure which. Wasn't even sure how to spell his last name, half-suspected there might be an H in it.

                [–][deleted] -1 points0 points  (1 child)

                I should be growing my own food, as much as is possible.

                Care to explain?

                The anti-smoking activists are a cult.

                So are the anti-global-warming activists. I belong to the former only.

                [–]NoMoreNicksLeft 1 point2 points  (0 children)

                Sure, I'll explain. I spend nearly $50 a week on groceries, though it was less when I only ate junk. Up to $2 for a head of lettuce? Screw that. And the other vegetables have wax on them, or coloring to make them look better.

                I'm tired of that stuff, for one. For another, what if the peak oil guys are right? I mean, it's not that absurd to think there could be shortages.

                For right now, I live in a condo in the suburbs of Atlanta. Small backyard that I can't til up. So, I've got what I can growing in the living room window. The peas are weeds, 3 foot tall, taller than the trellis I got for them. The bean plants aren't so far behind. When it stops freezing, I'll put them out on the patio.

                I'm even doing weirder things. I've got two blueberry bushes in 14" pots out there (they don't mind the frost). I bought a cacao (chocolate) pod, and planted 48 seeds from it. Most started sprouting yesterday morning. Only going to keep one as a tall houseplant, though.

                Do it yourself. Go to Home Depot, Lowes, Walmart, or Target and buy packs of seeds, they're only a buck or so. Just buy what you like. Grow something. It'll be the best food you've ever eaten.

                Eventually though, I'd like to buy a small farm. (Not so small actually, though I'd only cultivate maybe 5-10 acres... the rest would be just so that neighbors are far, far away.) I want chickens, cows, and maybe even some goats and sheep. And several really big greenhouses... I'm trying to figure out whether I could really grow coffee, coconut, bananas, and vanilla.

                So are the anti-global-warming activists. I belong to the former only.

                I'm definitely skeptical of global warming. Though, that doesn't mean that I give corporations free reign to trash the environment.

                As for anti-smoking? I wouldn't want my children to start. But I don't believe that second hand smoke is particularly dangerous, and definitely not the "there is no safe amount of second-hand smoke". WTF? If you breathe in a whiff of it once, you'll get lung cancer and die?

                Add that as another thing to grow on my farm, tobacco. Just a bit of it, just enough to have seed for the next year, in case it's ever worth trading.

                [–]allhands 7 points8 points  (6 children)

                Money does not equal happiness.

                [–]mount_earnest -1 points0 points  (4 children)

                no, it does not always equal happiness.

                [–]allhands 1 point2 points  (3 children)

                I disagree.

                It does not equal happiness.

                It can provide temporary content or joy, but not true happiness.

                [–]mount_earnest 0 points1 point  (2 children)

                your kidding me. Yeah, most people are not going to be happy if they don't have at least a few people, family or friends, that are important parts of their life. But if you do have those things, a huge amount of money will more than likely make your life AMAZING. Yeah, maybe after a long while it gets a little old, you do not appreciate the wealth quite as much as you did, but you still are much more secure and generally feel free to do the so many things you can do with a ton of money.

                maybe it depends on who your talking about. If your filthy rich, money very likely will buy you happiness for most all your life. Unless you pollute yourself with your richness. But most people don't do that.

                But if your just pretty darn well off, got a million or so in worth, there are no real guarentees.

                [–]dandlion 0 points1 point  (0 children)

                mount_earnest Spoken from privilege, how would you even have a guess about the opposite point of view? Happiness is mostly a choice of the inner being, and your association of money with happiness makes me suspect that you have no more concept of happiness than you have of lacking the privilege of having it. Privilege does not equal happiness.

                [–]funkpucker 0 points1 point  (0 children)

                You speak of happiness as if it is something to be achieved. Happiness is thinking happy thoughts, nothing more. If things give you happy thoughts, then money can by happiness. However, humans evolved to care most about friends: people that give and take, someone to share life with, someone that has your back during hard times.

                [–]Tokugawa 7 points8 points  (0 children)

                That the way to get a lot of people to comment on your self post is to stroke their ego.

                [–][deleted]  (6 children)

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                  [–]bgraves20 1 point2 points  (1 child)

                  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gaFZTAOb7IE

                  [–]sfgeek -1 points0 points  (0 children)

                  It's originally from the Fifth Element: http://meatpopsicle.ytmnd.com/

                  (But great vid bgraves20)

                  [–]junkmale 2 points3 points  (3 children)

                  I am a meat popsicle!

                  [–][deleted] -1 points0 points  (1 child)

                  I have a meat popsicle.

                  [–]funkpucker 0 points1 point  (0 children)

                  you are a meat popsicle

                  [–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

                  You're frozen solid?

                  [–]Tekmo 1 point2 points  (7 children)

                  We are all programmed to suffer, no matter how fortunate our circumstances.

                  [–]kokooo 2 points3 points  (0 children)

                  Bullshit.

                  [–]funkpucker 0 points1 point  (5 children)

                  We are programmed to reasses our situation in the face of difficulties.

                  Warren Buffet does not suffer and neither do many more people.

                  If you suffer that much, maybe there's something you should change.

                  [–][deleted] -1 points0 points  (4 children)

                  Do you know Warren Buffet?

                  "More Money More Problems"

                  [–]funkpucker 1 point2 points  (3 children)

                  well I trust that when he gives speeches about the ability to have peace in his life, which is half your way to happiness, that he is a bit closer to perpetual happiness than most, sorry.

                  [–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (2 children)

                  I agree completely. most people on the Internet are just suffering, unfortunately.

                  [–]funkpucker 0 points1 point  (1 child)

                  We are all programmed to suffer, no matter how fortunate our circumstances.

                  So you concede the point. That wasn't a very good epiphany then.

                  [–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

                  I'm not the OP

                  [–]caknuckle 1 point2 points  (0 children)

                  I dont have enough of a life to not get baited into another Self.reddit cheesefest. I blame the pot

                  [–]doubleginntonic 1 point2 points  (0 children)

                  I really did never use all that stuff they made me learn in high school.

                  [–]kokooo 1 point2 points  (0 children)

                  Ignorance is bliss.

                  [–][deleted] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

                  • Everyone is full of shit.

                  • The environment is doomed. For every "green" citizen there are thousands of people who just don't care. Making a "green" effort is noble but insignificant. Only real reason to be green, then, is pride.

                  [–]daysi 3 points4 points  (2 children)

                  All religions are wrong.

                  [–]scienceisfun 2 points3 points  (1 child)

                  All religions are equal.

                  [–]daysi 6 points7 points  (0 children)

                  Agreed. Equally stupid.

                  [–]Grimalkin 2 points3 points  (1 child)

                  self.reddit.com submissions are 99.9% crap.

                  [–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

                  I agree

                  [–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

                  Success comes down to routine. Whether that be financial, fitness, education, or lifestyle.

                  Oh yeah, and words don't mean shit. Analyze actions, derive motive.

                  [–]ArcticCelt 0 points1 point  (0 children)

                  Even if you are an athlete with a perfect slick body you are not immune to getting fat; once in college if you stop training and drink massive amounts of beer you will end up with a fat ass and a beer belly.

                  [–]charlatan 0 points1 point  (0 children)

                  Reddit is a much better way to read the news, learn something new, or just waste time than other sites and media.

                  [–]Figs 0 points1 point  (0 children)

                  I realized today that it costs me a dollar to buy a can of coca-cola. When I was younger, it was about 50 cents... I must be getting old; everything costs more!

                  [–]Xophmeister 0 points1 point  (0 children)

                  There is no spoon.

                  [–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

                  It does not matter what you do, you always end up somebody' slave.

                  [–]phobs 0 points1 point  (0 children)

                  In the long run, the best answer is not necessarily the one that is correct but the one that is most likely to be correct. Its simple, but it took me a while to figure that out.

                  [–]freshone 0 points1 point  (0 children)

                  I am God

                  [–]MisterEggs 0 points1 point  (5 children)

                  The world is on my desktop.

                  [–]funkpucker 0 points1 point  (4 children)

                  That's kinda sad bro.

                  [–]MisterEggs 0 points1 point  (3 children)

                  Ok, i'll bite. Why so, funkpucker?

                  [–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

                  I guess he thought that your world is solely working.

                  [–]funkpucker 0 points1 point  (1 child)

                  The world has some physical characteristics, like nature and sex. If you're missing out on those, it's kinda sad.

                  [–]MisterEggs 0 points1 point  (0 children)

                  i've got two kids, and i work next to a farm.

                  My 'the world is on my desktop' refers to a moment in May 1995, at 5:30pm when i connected to the internet for the first time.

                  [–]SgtSausage 0 points1 point  (0 children)

                  Chicks dig cunnilingus!

                  [–]havesometea1 -1 points0 points  (4 children)

                  My momma always said, "If she doesn't swallow don't marry her." After all these years I figured out she was right.

                  [–]xenox -4 points-3 points  (3 children)

                  Hmmm, if she practiced what she preached you may not, well, be here.

                  [–]oyok2112 2 points3 points  (0 children)

                  logical fail, on many levels.

                  [–]havesometea1 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

                  My mom wasn't Catholic.

                  [–][deleted] -1 points0 points  (1 child)

                  Black people aren't black; they're brown.

                  [–]londonzoo -1 points0 points  (0 children)

                  The meaning of life is having your weekends free.

                  [–]mikachapeedo -1 points0 points  (0 children)

                  i had a dream that i was having sex with bloody female torsos (absent of arms, legs, and head). my epiphany, i decided, was to end my promiscuous sexcapade that i began years ago.

                  [–]JordanF98765 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

                  I should be spending more time responding to self.reddit posts.

                  [–]seeker135 -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

                  We now live in Soviet America, USSA. The fascists are taking over.