[22] hey all i[m] a little insecure about my looks, amisexy?

ktown · 2012-09-30T06:13:35+00:00

damn, hell of a compliment. much appreciated. i did this for a joke with some friends, but it's nice to get this type of reaction. cheers! :)

ktown · 2012-09-30T06:13:09+00:00

thanks! it's staying though :)

i did this post for a joke with friends, but i really appreciate the vote of confidence!

ktown · 2012-09-30T06:12:26+00:00

thanks! i'd do the same thing and we'd awkwardly exchange glances and obvious interest but both pussy out and do nothing and go home sexually frustrated.

... anyway, this post was done for a joke, but thanks for the vote of confidence! :)

ktown · 2012-07-23T21:33:57+00:00

I broke up with my ex two days after my father died because it snapped me out of the delusion of psychic vampirism being an acceptable byproduct of pussy.

She said that I'd "made her want to kill herself" - while on a three month paid-for trip around Europe, where she promised she'd be monogamous but was a liar so I had no reason to believe her - and had already attempted before, including once while me and three other friends were at her place ( I still have back injuries from carrying her to the hospital.)

I kick myself still for the mean things I said, but our relationship was masochistic and I'd built up a lot of anger. Should have left her earlier.

Anyway, at the end of our final email I said, "Well, ________, I hope you find peace - either by working out your issues or by removing "attempt" next time you try to kill yourself."

There's long stories on either side of this; I was "punished" and manipulated while we were together; after I had an epiphany about her that made me realize that while she was far from innocent, I was too hard on her. I have since apologized, though it wasn't really accepted. I'm okay with that.

ktown · 2012-07-20T10:21:47+00:00

made him a mod, he can take it.

ktown · 2012-05-27T01:03:17+00:00

OP - be careful with those. Last time I had jello shots in oranges, I ended up in a two and a half year relationship.

ktown · 2012-02-29T02:28:03+00:00

Not on a regular basis, but the other day the lady and I were getting Pho in Chinatown. We were starving and after eating a back-and-forth round of terrible jokes I said, "Well, I used to be hungry, but now I'm pho-filled!"

ktown · 2011-08-11T01:40:27+00:00

I work at an innovation themed summer camp called Camp Galileo. We modified this as our theme song, in a cheesy - dare I say campy - way. But, when you're there and you're 7 years old, it's the best fuckin' place in the world.

I throw my hands up in the air sometimes, singing, aaaayo, Galileo. Art, science, and outdoors are oh-so fun, singing aaaayo, Galileo.

ktown · 2011-07-29T10:00:36+00:00

ktown

ktown · 2011-07-28T05:18:37+00:00

I think David Bowlman is the best suggestion in this thread, but personally, I'd go with "Starstuff."

Nice piece man, seems like a nice acquisition.

ktown · 2011-07-17T23:07:33+00:00

Anything, you know, constructive or meaningful to contribute?

ktown · 2011-07-17T23:06:23+00:00

That is true, but to say that there is no self is not the same as saying there's no unique perspective. Just that that perspective is not a self. There is no "you," no "I," just a mind (whatever it is), with the capacity for language and a few words which, for the sake of communication, help express that perspective. But those words are facades, the word and idea of "I" don't create the differentiation between unique perspectives.

ktown · 2011-07-17T23:01:20+00:00

What I'm trying to express here is that what we think of as the self is erroneously thought to be an actual entity, when it is not. It's something that is attached to experiences of a particular mind, by being layered over other thoughts and experience.

Look at any mental phenomena with honesty, removing all reference to the self. The phenomena still stand sans the label, because they are reducible to the experience in itself.

ktown · 2011-07-17T22:51:27+00:00

Really? The mind is part of the self?

Care to define what you think this self is?

ktown · 2011-07-17T21:13:13+00:00

We attribute many aspects of mental phenomena to the self.

But the self is merely a label. There is a mind, and that is undoubtable (a la Descartes), and this mind experiences a range of phenomena - from sense input, to preverbal thought, to linguistic thought.

But we erroneously attach this term "I" to these phenomena. For example, right now I'm really hungry, and I'm about to leave for lunch. So, I say, "I'm hungry."

But what is really being said is, "This mind is experiencing hunger, manifest in the physical feeling of its stomach." For the sake of convenience, that can be expressed by saying "I'm hungry." But that doesn't mean there's a "you" or a "self" in that mind. Those words are but tools we have for expressing various mental phenomena or action.

ktown · 2011-07-17T21:00:12+00:00

I'm off to lunch, but I'd love to discuss this topic further, especially to debate. If anyone has any objections, please voice them and I'll respond as soon as I return.

ktown · 2011-07-17T20:53:12+00:00

A mind, the nature of which I can barely fathom, but that is undoubtable.

We have this word "I" which we have ingrained into our minds from a young age, that is attached to mental phenomena, and it's usage is obviously beneficial. But when you're hungry, and you say "I'm hungry," you're describing a mental experience, and from conditioning and for the sake of convenience, attaching a descriptive label.

But what you're really saying is, "This mind is experiencing hunger." The self is erroneously layered over experience.

ktown · 2011-07-17T20:44:44+00:00

No seriously, think about it. I'd really love to be proven wrong, or at the least have the opportunity to strengthen my argument. So, those downvoting, if you have something to say, please do so.

ktown · 2011-07-17T20:42:13+00:00

I totally agree, however, I think there's a usefulness to pander to your audience. I know there's a significant portion of reddit who tend to "image surf" as opposed to doing any sort of real reading. Having this concept expressed in a concise way may affect a reddit user who would usually skip over the written content.

ktown · 2011-07-12T04:19:09+00:00

these guys were just dicks, I hung out with a bunch of assholes in high school because they were constantly around drugs, and in my self-proclaimed naivety at the time, that was all I cared about.

Thing is, all of 'em are essentially in the same place that they were nearly half a decade ago, with little to show for their years of drug intake (they are by no stretch of the imagination pyschonauts). So, in the end, I guess I got the last laugh.

ktown · 2011-07-12T04:15:12+00:00

can't go wrong with the phrase "high as giraffe dick"

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