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Tuesday, February 22, 2011

Guest Post: Stepping Up



When I left home it was raining. I remember thinking I picked the worse day to leave. I didn’t really know where to go. Eventually I found an old abandoned car dealership with some homeless kids in it. I conversed with them for a while and they ended up letting me stay.
A Christian construction guy ended up giving me a job as a laborer, because he felt bad for me. I started making a little money which I spent on booze. When I first got the job I was excited. After a while I got bored and every time the boss left I would smoke weed in the back. I’m not really the hard labor type. I’m too lazy. Eventually I just never showed back up to work.
Opportunity always knocks. One of the kids started using hard drugs that I was living with. He would spend all day trying to make enough to supply his habit. I asked how much a zone (ounce) would cost me. He didn’t know because he bought it in small units to do himself. I asked him if I could go with him next time he was buying. He was excited thinking he would be mooching of my package.
I showed up and asked the guy what the pack would cost. He gave me a price that was a little over what I had left from working. I either had to go back to work, beg for money, or rob someone. I didn’t want to go back to that job, because it would be embarrassing to go back hat in hand. I have a lot of pride. Equally humiliating was doing what these low lives would do, beg for money.
I never did a robbery before this. I asked my new friends if they wanted in on it. They refused. They thought I was crazy. I obviously needed new friends. No wonder they were homeless. They had no initiative. I knew I was by myself. I wondered what to rob. People? Stores? A bank? I stupidly decided to rob the convenient store across from the abandoned dealership where we slept.
The next night I got my knife and put on my normal clothes I wear underneath some sweat pants and a hoodie. I made a mask out of a shirt by tying the two shirt sleeves together behind my head and my eyes were looking out the collar. I did this on the side of the store. My heart was racing. I knew I need confidence though. I was a little buzzed and I thought it would help, but it didn't. I walked around the corner of the wall and shut my eyes as I walked through the front. I knew all eyes were already on me because I had my shirt mask on. Once I crossed the door I opened my eyes and saw the clerk already running for the phone. I knew I had to be quick. I jumped over the counter and grabbed him by the hair yanking his head up and putting the knife to his throat. I told him to empty the drawer into a plastic bag. He told me to let go of his hair and he would comply. I knew he was lying. He was the hero type. I sidestepped him and yanked his hair so his head went into the counter. I started seeing red like before when I would get in fights. I kept slamming it. Fortunately I came out of it and he was only a little messy. He complied none the less.
The money from the robbery was shit. It was enough to get the zone, but it was way smaller than I thought you would get. The television is a lie. Regardless I returned to the dealer and got the zone.

154 comments:

  1. WORST.

    Not "worse".

    For fuck's sake.

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  2. The first part of the story was believable.

    This one was just shit. I now know for a fact that this narrative is made up.

    I am laughing for all the people that will fall for this.

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  3. Doesn't matter if it's real or not; either way it's pathetic.

    What a badass, robbing to support a drug habit. How unique, totally not banal.

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  4. i am driving my girlfriend to suicide lol. the silly bitch doesn't know i can't stand her. she failed at eating rat poison last year so yesterday i put rat poison in a tiffany gift box and u should of seen her face when she opened it lol. i just looked at her and said if ur going to do something u should do it properly then there was full on tears and snot streaming down her whore face so i was all like sorry babe it was just a joke and i was stroking her and she was like i know lol.

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  5. Scott your a sick fuck, just leave her that should do it.

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  6. Omg, ur so silly, Scott!
    I didn't mean for you to find that empty Tiffany box! ( I bought that watch with our hard-earned $ for the milkman a long time ago! Wasn't that nice of us?) I love you Scott!

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  7. how unhealthy is it to drink someone else's blood?
    mmmmmm

    serious question.

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  8. The robbers, murderers and vampires are out tonight.

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  9. Regular HIV screenings might be a good thing. I don't think there are any other health risks involved.

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  10. PS---hep B screenings too. :)

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  11. i get these vampiric urges on occasion. I could drink a whole glass of blood right now...hmmm

    I think i'm really low in iron - fuck, it's not so romantic after all...

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  12. Bella, I want to fuck your blood.

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  13. would you drink menstrual blood Anon?

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  14. @notme

    Can you describe the complete process of you running back of forth from the toilet. Spewing menstrual blood, while groaning in pain?

    I need some incentive tonight ;)

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  15. haha, really?

    well, you've basically summed it up. Feeling like there's a fucking alien foetus in my belly is also a part of it. Like it hates me and just wants to get the hell out and destroy the earth cos it's such a badass asshole.

    oh yeah, and i never wear white...

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  16. i noticed something today. I have a habit of getting hung up on small, irrelevant things, like obsessively and i won't rest til it's done. Well, i found myself doing that today and caught myself just as the adrenalin was taking hold. So i stopped myself and forced myself to ignore it. After a few seconds, I felt this internal shivering sensation go all the down from my neck through my torso.

    I realised that was probably the adrenalin. It was absolutely incredible to notice it.

    anyone experience this?

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  17. i mean i felt the adrenalin pass through my body. kind of like when a hormone is becoming deactivated and ends up in the liver.

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  18. The truth of it all is it all a great mystery.

    Good evening not me.

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  19. Quiet out there in SW.

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  20. Must have all drank the Cool Aid.

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  21. i've just seen a picture that is in no way humorous nor self-satirical.~

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  22. couldn't resist this one. it's staying.

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  23. Not me,
    A song for you. Look it up.

    Into Dust by Mazzy Star

    Fits the mood of this ghost town . . .

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  24. That's hilarious. I don't even know why it is, but it is.

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  25. The deer, not Mazzy Star.

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  26. Hi NotMe :)

    Yes, you can drink blood without getting sick, but you may experience some mild stomach issues if you take it straight. You don't want it to clot, so it must be fresh or mixed with something like vinegar. Animal blood is used in food in many cultures. If the blood is not consumed immediately after harvesting, remember to refrigerate. This stuff will go bad very very quickly. "Go bad" in this case means "will have dangerous things growing in it, even if it is non-infected blood."

    Personally, I'd say don't drink human blood or wild animal blood due to the possibility of infection. Of course, you've got to do what you've got to do. Good luck with not dying.

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  27. Lyrics to Mazzy Star - Into Dust

    Still falling
    Breathless and on again
    Inside today
    Inside me today
    Around broken in two
    Til your eyes share into dust
    Like two strangers turning into dust
    Til my hand shook with the weight of fear
    I could possibly be fading
    Or have something more to gain
    I could feel myself growing colder
    I could feel myself under your fate
    Under your fate
    It was you, breathless and torn
    I could feel my eyes turning into dust
    Into strangers, turning into dust

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  28. Soulful, oh deary deary, like the worst thing you could have sent me to. My ex gave me that cd and i played it over and over when we broke up. :(((


    haha thanks Pythias. That's what i like in an expert: these are the facts, you may die, but go ahead and get your kicks. perfect. :D

    interesting...i've always loved the taste of my own blood when i get a cut...and i've licked the blood off someone before, but only a little. I need a pint of it. ;)

    Anon, why's my deer funny??? :P

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  29. I don't know. I think it's the Bambi-on-Sociopathworld effect. I like the irony :D.

    If the blood isn't practical, what about a bloody-rare steak and a chocolate bar? It's pretty reliable standard.

    Or you could start a vampire cult. A friend of mine did. It worked well for her.

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  30. I think someone I know, like that, stole my bass guitar. Any ideas how to deal with this?

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  31. It's an emotional song. Dreary and etherial. We all bleed dear (deer). And its all gratitude for the experience.

    Notme I will find you another song.

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  32. haha, yeah, i saw that too - it couldn't be more incongruous and yet more appropriate either.

    i hate rare meat. I'm craving the blood of a lover. I couldn't stomach pigs blood or anything like that. No, i need a specific target. I can't drink my own cos that's pointless...I need more than what i have. Good, strong, iron-filled blood.

    I don't even know what vampire cults do. If it's fakery it's no good. If it's real, i'll check it out. :D

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  33. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2VljGLcxA1U

    Mating Game by Bittersweet

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  34. i like that one. Thanks Soulful. :)

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  35. How do you guys deal with blood lust?

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  36. I keep someone calmer around me. A person with more of a conscience, but amoral all the same.

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  37. There was a little fakery. The girl basically had herself and a few friends convinced that they were actually vampires and needed the blood for survival.

    It wasn't quite a cult, just slightly delusional. For the most part, it was just mutual fetish with a little drama for flair.

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  38. 'For the most part, it was just mutual fetish with a little drama for flair.'

    yeah, i don't do drama. Ahem. I mean, real life isn't 'drama' per se, so that doesn't count. ;)

    but yeah, i shall see...thanks for the tips.

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  39. Gag, a vampire stole your bass guitar? lol, thanks for that image.
    Do you have their number? ;)

    *serious face* um, buy another one? I know, life sucks. don't trust vampires.

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  40. No a junkie (friend?), but he's also one of our supplier.

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  41. Maybe he's a vampire junkie. You never know.

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  42. oh, supplier of naughty things...
    hmm, why let him into your home for christ sake?

    a vampire junkie sounds a little too close to the edge. can you imagine one sucking on your neck?

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  43. Vampires and junkies. Vampire junkies. Vampire cowboy junkies.

    Life gets more mysterious all the time.

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  44. Never know who to trust. Hope to have a chance to check out his place. Long shot though..

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  45. Vampire cowboy-brained lying junkies.

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  46. ^that wasn't me.

    A song for Gagreflex's lost guitar.

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  47. PS: You have to steal her back now.

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  48. That reminds me of an idea I have and can't get out of my head. What if you drug a person first and then drink his blood? You would get stoned too, right? Grrr, that's something I will try when the time is right.

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  49. that sounds nice.
    I've seen Eden. It was a place outside Damascus. If you imagine the garden of Eden, you'll know what i mean if you ever see it.

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  50. My lover and I use bloodletting rituals to summon Baphomet. We pierce each other with shark teeth, collect our blood, set it alight, and sacrifice ourselves to him as smoke.

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  51. I wear my menstrual blood as lipstick.

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  52. My true self scares me, 98% of the time I cover myself with my false self. When I am showering,going to sleep or walking alone I imagine having conversations with people, this keeps my false self up. Underneath the false self is creepy and almost horrifying, my true self can change completely within less than a minute, everything can change from my goals in life to the way I think I look. Sometimes my personality is like a whiteboard completely free of any labels, just pure blank logic. Other times I can be an emotional "feeling" type person I use this to convince myself that I am not psychopathic.

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  53. My true self can feel less real than my true self.

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  54. I wonder how many psychopaths are aware of their ever changing "true self" and how many are just a walking talking "false self"

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  55. i've briefly described my own idenitity issues on my blog. it's brief but maybe you relate in certain ways, maybe not. check it out if you like.

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  56. I wear my menstrual blood as lipstick.

    Me too! I mix menstrual blood, beeswax, cocoa butter, and olive oil together to form a lipstick I call The Curse. I find it a bit metallic, but it's the perfect shade for my skin tone, and a known aphrodisiac too.

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  58. I drank the blood of an blind, deaf, limbless, retarted orphan last night. That's how little conscience I have. Then I went to his orphanage and blew it up. After that, a SWAT team try'd to take me down, but I killed them all with a rubber band and a paper clip. Don't fuck with Badass.

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  59. nice try gf of scott but i stole it from my friend before v-day and hocked the necklace dumbass. besides i've made sure the slut knows not even the milkman would fuck her lol. my granddads parkinsons meds in her food is def driving her over the edge lol but i'm so so so sick of her waking me up and bitching about seizures that yeah i might dump the whore soon.

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  60. I get weak when I see my own blood, I hate pain in any form.

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  61. Scott Peterson got Internet access.

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  62. I r innnocent, INNOCENT!

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  63. I'm so sorry, Baby, that the milkman and I had and affair . The twins aren't yours. I meant to tell you, but I felt real bad about your shooting blanks. I couldn't tell you at the time. I am over the milkman. I have gone on to the gardener. He has nice pecks. You're so sweet not to mind, that I fixed you a gallon of my blood. It's in the freezer next to our murdered kitty. You don't mind preparing your own TV dinners, do you? (kiss kiss) Love you, Baby.

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  64. I cut my finger a while back while cutting cheese, when i saw the blood pouring out i just about fainted, i went white and felt dizzy, i suppose it reminded me that I'm not invincible. When i see the blood of others it doesn't bother me, it makes me chuckle, if anything.

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  65. Some one is trolling. If not
    Adam your a bitch. It seems to me that life would be no fun if there wasn't a chance of losing it. I mean if I couldn't die that would take the rush out of everything. That alown would make me want to die.

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  66. Psychopath Ariel Sharon -


    "I personally don't want to be any better than Khomeini or Brezhnev or Ghadafi or Assad or Mrs. Thatcher, or even Harry Truman who killed half a million Japanese with two fine bombs. I only want to be smarter than they are, quicker and more efficient, not better or more beautiful than they are. Tell me, do the baddies of this world have a bad time? If anyone tries to touch them, the evil men cut his hands and legs off. They hunt and catch whatever they feel like eating. They don't suffer from indigestion and are not punished by Heaven. I want Israel to join that club. Maybe the world will then at last begin to fear me instead of feeling sorry for me. Maybe they will start to tremble, to fear my madness instead of admiring my nobility. Thank God for that. Let them tremble, let them call us a mad state. Let them understand that we are a wild country, dangerous to our surroundings, not normal, that we might go crazy if one of our children is murdered - just one! That we might go wild and burn all the oil fields in the Middle East! If anything would happen to your child, God forbid, you would talk like I do. Let them be aware in Washington, Moscow, Damascus and China that if one of our ambassadors is shot, or even a consul or the most junior embassy official, we might start World War Three just like that!"

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  67. “Everything is always shallow and listless. Magnanimous Kirillov could not endure his idea and—shot himself; but I do see that he was magnanimous because he was not in his right mind. I can never lose my mind, nor can I ever believe an idea to the same degree as he did. I cannot even entertain an idea to the same degree. I could never, never shoot myself!

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  68. He can't be a psychopath because he was a world leader.

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  69. Anon 10:41. Why not? How do you figgure?

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  70. Anon, your an idiot. Of course he's a psychopath, or a malignant narcissist.

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  71. Becuz he didn't kill any1 psychopaths are serial killerz

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  72. Sheeple. Lol. You know nothing.

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  73. Every president of the united states has been a psychopath, think of the ruthless competition you had to beat to get that position.

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  74. I wouldn't call that accurite either. Just because your not a sociopath doesn't mean you are not extreamly effective at minipulation or you can't handle strong compitition. Thou I do believe the current president may be a highly funtional sociopath.

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  76. No, just because someone achieves a spot in the oval office doesn't mean they are a sociopath.

    Just because you dislike someone does not mean they are a sociopath.

    We barely know about Obama's personal life, and most of his viewpoints are shaped by his advisors. We have no idea how he lives his life. How can we just roll up our sleeves and label him.

    That is the problem with most people. When someone becomes successful, or changes their life, they are labeled a sociopath by lazy and weak people.

    Wake up weakling, the high functioning sociopath is only blocks away from you, affecting you in many ways.

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  77. Lol. Look at you. Deffenfing your president. Though you are right we don't know enough about him too call him one for sure there are deffinatly some things that suggest the possibility. Besides who said I didn't like him? I didn't. I don't really care either way. I'll deside that if and when he's given the oppertunity to prove himself.

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  78. Shut up Jason you naive aspie half retarded bastard, he controls the worlds super powerful nation, of course he's a narcissist or a psychopath, anyone who is drawn to power should be evaluated.

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  79. Yeah I am retarded?

    This is a democracy, not a monarchy you idiot. His control is near non-existent.

    Ever heard of the branches of government?

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  80. He's the one in the spotlight isn't he?

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  81. Now that I will agree with Jason. To me it seems the preident has about as much say as the royal family in englad. Okay a little more but really he's just a figure head that gets blamed for all of the goverments failiers. At the end of the day he's just the most powerfull buricrate.

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  82. Just part of the illiousion.

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  83. What illusion?

    The illusion is that idiots like you believe that all people occupying high-profile government positions are sociopaths.

    The real sociopaths could be the one with the low profile federal job pulling all the strings.

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  84. That's right. It's all illusions. The world is run by banks and co-operations, and we're all slaves to the monitary system. It doesn't matter who you vote for. Our sole perpouse in life is to make money for the rich. You all need to watch the Zietgiest films.

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  85. Jason is a new world order shill.

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  86. Shut you God daym communist son bitch.

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  87. Great and playful quote by Ariel Sharon. Power has its own laws. The natural laws of power are used by all brain types.
    Yet everyone loves a label, it places a layer of control on the unfathomable and the mystery.

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  88. Lol. Jason you are one hell of a target and I'm not even trying. How nieve do you have to be to believe that the common man is let in on what's acctually going on. Besides you prove my point by speaking of the guy behind the seens pulling the strings. That sir is an illusion.

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  89. Haha, you can't even spell naive correctly, and you call me a target?

    I guess I will allow you to delude yourself into believing you are superior.

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  90. And we are all working slaves to the almighty dollar. No wonder the boredom. Let write a song.

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  91. "I guess I will allow you to delude yourself into believing you are superior."

    This coming from somebody who called themselves worthless just yesterday. You go on about people's spelling because you cant think of anything better to use against them. I've seen you do it before and it's pathetic.

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  92. Every word that came from sharons mouth was sadistic, he fapped to the thought of war.

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  93. Lets write a song about sharon.

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  94. Misanthrope beat me too it. Good job one of my innumerable spelling errors. My dyslexia only makes me a target if I let it.

    P.S. I can't spell... lol

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  95. I don't know if there is a lot of idiots on here or a lot of trolls

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  96. Its hard to tell sometimes because of the variation of ideas that pass through here.

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  97. It's a shame that he's to weak to fight back. And this isn't even the real world. I bet when I make a spelling mistake he'll be all over me. Lol.

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  98. Jason corrects his spelling of ditructive as distructive and then goes on to criticize someone else's spelling. Jason, honey, it's destructive. Don't correct, let it go because you make many of those, if you don't correct we'll assume you just were typing too fast, honey.

    The greatest spellers (NOT) of English: Americans who were actually born in the US to American parents.

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  99. Lol. I am here drinking soda, watching youtube videos, chatting, and playing games.

    Some of you guys take arguments here a bit to seriously.

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  100. Besides Misanthrope got his account hijacked ages ago.I can't even have an appropriate argument with him anymore.

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  101. awww...
    look at him...
    He's all tame now.

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  102. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Qz5yhNAZps

    I'm really bored.

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  103. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DbYtqAWDF2U

    This guy is famous!? WTF
    I thought this shit was a SNL skit.

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  104. I am half convinced to start making my own blog temporarily till M.E. returns as this has turned into boredom.
    What kind of posts do people want to hear about?

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  105. Your love affair with Not Able.

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  106. Stories and shit. But anything would be better than what's happening over here.

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  107. Ukan why not start a permanent blog.

    I would love to see some content from you.

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  108. OH PLEASE, you all correct peoples spelling when your trying to get to them.

    Spelling Nazi's everyone of you.

    And calling names that another one of like NERD and PUSSY.

    HA HA HA HA

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  109. I'm somewhat nervous that I will be on worlds dumbest criminal. This comment section gave me a hidden little spot to say what I want. If it became big it could have some bad consequences. Maybe I need a disclaimer.

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  111. I want to start a blog, but I don't know what to make it about.

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  112. How about you create a new blog, with a new email address. I will communicate to you through email and you can post it. I have no experience at making blogs anyway. You can be my official spokesperson. You can send me readers stuff and we can sift through the bullshit and post up the real shit. Run a little comment section unbridled like this.

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  114. Ukan, just start your own blog. I've changed my mind.

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  115. i'm too nice for my own good.

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  116. Ukan what are you DOING?! you can't call it that!! dammit Ukan.

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  117. NotMe: haha thanks Pythias. That's what i like in an expert: these are the facts, you may die, but go ahead and get your kicks. perfect. :D

    You are quite welcome 

    Wet: How do you guys deal with blood lust?
    Ukan: I keep someone calmer around me.

    Me too, really. The key to impulse control is creating distractions and roadblocks for yourself. (Don’t make me pull out the marshmallow link again :-P) Having another person around is a useful impediment to doing something impulsive that may get one into trouble.

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  118. yes Pythias - case in point right above you ^^^

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  119. Names changed three times anyway. I think I'll change it randomly to fuck with people and purposely lose readers.

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  121. YouTube this - child of rage

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  122. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ME2wmFunCjU

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  123. UKan posted sumthing.

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  124. Soulful you say A.S. was being playful? As in black humour like folksy box ticking psychopath hunters? Has anyone ever wondered how much we are willing to excuse/accomodate if there's humour, entertainment included in the package? Says something about easy subjectivity even when we pretend to be rational. All part of being susceptible stimuli addicted beings,..hardly the rebellious robot. Like the choreographed mispelling 'lures' of the anon.

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  125. Hitler with a vaginaFebruary 23, 2011 at 7:52 PM

    That kid is fucking evil, no way is that monster cured, she just knows now that acting out will lead to no benefit.

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  126. UKan, you can do what the fake serial killer blog did and label it as a work of fiction for "crime prose", through work of stories, insights and lessons. Also, a title that isn't a dead give away what the content is.

    Throw in a few obviously fake posts of shit that never happened to keep it "fiction".

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  127. Notable. Did you see that youtube video?

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  128. lol, i deleted my comments Ukan cos i don't wanna be seen as some accessory.

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  129. I'd rather not. I decided to write something instead. Now I'm off to watch the tele and grab some hot cocoa. Swiss Miss, you're my favorite whore. ;)

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  130. UKan write your inner monologues

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  131. My requests? blogs from, Soulful Path, Sea Witch and Medusa

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  132. GagReflex said...
    Q: Soulful you say A(iel) S(haron) was being playful?
    A: Yes, it was off the cuff and rambunctious.

    Q: Has anyone ever wondered how much we are willing to excuse/accomodate if there's humour, entertainment included in the package?
    A: Think of a Roman Coliseum. This is an ancient issue. At least now 40% of us are not slaves.

    Q: Says something about easy subjectivity even when we pretend to be rational. All part of being susceptible stimuli addicted?
    A: Three blind men touch an elephant. One says its a rope, another a fan and the third a tree truck. Addicts all of them.

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  133. At least the rest of the 60% sweat/bled with a hopeful smile ;P

    Persuasion ~ next topic

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  134. 'Q: Soulful you say A(iel) S(haron) was being playful?
    A: Yes, it was off the cuff and rambunctious'

    glad you find it funny.~ i can't see the humour in it.

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  135. Notme, You have to understand Jews, their centuries of strife and also the incredible contributions they have made to society and the sciences. Every "light" has its strong arm shadow when you are surrounded by enemies.

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  136. No one, at least not me, are denying the complexity of thought and intellectual energy that many jews and other middle eastern cultures have contributed to modern society. But then again it is a fickle world, so when things fail, the blame vultures are unleashed hungering for fresh scapegoats. Think the moguls of Wall Street and Corporate America.

    Public remarks like these not only entertain the "open minded" but triggers off all round bigotry polarising even the 'fence sitters'. Not in the best interest of what was that word,?.. image management if there were actually any long term goals.

    You could say it's the short attention span side effect of sensation addiction (as opposed to real, boring insight) that doesn't guarantee (cognitive?) empathy with the nationalistic fervor of the underdog state under seige to last beyond the next headlines no matter how well justified.

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  137. I'm not talking about all Jews SPath, I'm talking about nationalists. Why are they so hell-bent on asserting their ethnic difference when Jews and Arabs originate from the same blood? Arabs are semites too you know.

    Religion is a curse on these people's lives. The idea of Jews as the chosen people and the rest as just beneath them, is quite frankly deluded.

    The other side is just as ridiculous. Malignant narcissism. That's what it is. Arrogance born of insecurity.

    The ones that really thrive are the ones who get away from this mentality, remove themselves from the collective insanity and assimilate themselves into a wider cosmopolitan frame of mind.
    Tribes that stick together can as easily destroy themselves and each other as they can support each other.

    Louis Theroux

    I'm aware that many Jews don't agree with Israel's actions, but i thought this doc was an interesting look at Israeli nationalism.
    I don't really care about the politics much anymore. But as a study in human insecurity, it's worth a look.

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  138. Notme,

    Did you follow the 'child of rage' videos? There was a bit about the kibbutz as an effective socialization learning environment or maybe I'm confused with stuff from the Zeitgiest movies? Anyhow, the thing I remember was the part about how people who lack/lost any empathy could be taught remorse and a whole bunch of other 'normal' values in an environment where things were consistently presented as black or white scenarios..

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  139. Gag Reflex
    yes i saw it. So what's that got to do with Israel?

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  140. Are they the socialized children of rage?

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  141. It's called the Mossad.

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  142. oh i see. I'd say you can apply that, yes.
    It's heartbreaking. But, there you go. Cruelty breeds cruelty in many cases.

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  143. Agreed. Am listening to Erich Fromm now thanks to Soulful. Talk about putting things in perspective..and he's a Jew.

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  144. I might check him out. Thanks.

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  145. I liked that you controlled yourself. It's a low paying occupation with plenty of risk. gl

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