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I have a core group of three guys I've known since we were 13 y.o. Our friendships have waxed and waned, but I feel like they're really solidifying now that we're in our "autumn years" and have gotten most of our oneupmanship out of the way. There were some points I thought our friendship had...

Government Issue - Jaded Eyes

Queen of Versailles A documentary about timeshare mogul David Siegel and his wife Jackie. Siegel trains his sales staff to manipulate people into buying something they don't really want and probably can't pay for, then convinces investors that "it's all good." Surprise, surprise: His empire...

As an English major, I could relate, but this will likely always be my favorite Onion headline.

I get hung up on the whole "wisdom to know the difference" thing.

I always thought the OT was essentially a lengthy, detailed operating manual for owners of mercy seats, but yeah, now that you mention it, there was an awful lot of "so-and-so slew so-and-so." I don't know what I think of it as literature, but I did enjoy a class I took a while back on The Bible...

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You ain't fixin' t' kill nobody er nuthin' now, iz ya?

I thought Vault of Evil looked pretty cool. They like to kvetch about the state of the publishing industry a lot. It's mainly about horror, but there's also a section on science fiction and fantasy.

I could be wrong, but I thought people with autism had trouble connecting the dots. I didn't think he was doing it on purpose. So, y'know, the irony is that the detective in a mystery novel has autism. He doesn't add things up, but he pushes other people to reveal themselves because he keeps...

I have occasionally been deliriously happy, usually for all the wrong reasons. I assume that's why it doesn't last.

I love the Necros. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ikdrdVsU_Js

Apartment complex. 24-hour doorman. Groceries delivered. Weird neighbors with small dogs, etc. If I had to go out at all, it would be just long enough to duck into my favorite watering hole, where I'd sit and read novels by the most obscure authors possible. Still working out the whole "how I'm...

Officially, you can't get those anymore, but I know a guy.

You mean you don't get dizzy with excitement every time you see a chi-square or a Cronbach's alpha? :rolleyes:

Yeah. You could replace "music" with "design" (for architecture schools) as a plausible explanation for the rapid spread of ugly buildings pumping out bad music. Record labels used to nurture their artists, too. It used to be, if a record tanked, the label would say, "They're in a growth...

I totally forgot to mention the full-on mania at the end, as evidenced by the hysterical laughter, tearing around the neighborhood, and reckless spending. But if none of that is in the book (which I've never read either), then, yeah, cripes, that totally messes with my head :confused: and throws...

Silver Linings Playbook A guy gets his life together without becoming really boring.

Supporting evidence Aural and visual hallucinations Insomnia An unpredictable temper Aversive childhood memories Delusional thinking He had just about all symptoms except hypersexuality.

Directed more toward the old duffers among us, but open to anyone. For me, it was the first time I heard Melissa Etheridge.

Is there a particular time of day when it would not be okay to leave kids home by themselves?

Yeah, they had me snowed, too, come to think of it. Flimflammed, benighted, conned, duped, rooked, snookered... Good film. A reasonable facsimile of what can happen when a preteen is left to fend for himself, made palatable for the masses.

Fooled, bamboozled, hoodwinked, deceived...

Jeez, I totally had my parents snowed.

How old should your kids be before you leave them home without a babysitter when you go out?

Tommy

What kinds of things would make you take action regardless of likely criticism? I am thinking about getting involved in the gun control movement, even though I have friends and family who might very well shun or even disown me. I would hope they would respect me for having the courage of my own...

Ah, now I get you. Yes, there are some people whose opinions of me matter and some whose opinions don't. I think their opinions might actually matter if their assessments were accurate, and what they had to say could actually benefit me. I have spent inordinate amounts of time worrying about...

To be honest, yeah, I still do care. Gotta cut that shit out, I know. I suppose part of the problem is that I think people's assessments of me are set in stone, when in reality most people probably don't even remember what they said about me the next day. Another problem is that I think...

This photo essay was informative, too.

Welcome to the group, Snakes. Hopefully, I can be of some assistance. I think I can relate to a lot of what you wrote.

If you're at all like me, maybe you just sometimes feel like you don't belong anywhere -- or maybe I'm totally off base, I don't know. When I first joined up, I was like, "Shit, yeah, baby, I'm home now!" As it always does, that euphoric feeling has worn off and reality has set in. It may...

I gave myself a 4. I interpret that to mean I can follow the threads about 40% of the time. Not unlike in real life, and probably a generous estimate in both cases.

IIRC, Susan Cain said the U.S. used to be way more introverted. I wonder if that's not still really true, and external circumstances have forced us to run on a kind of manic extraversion for the past 100 years or so, to the point where we no longer know who we really are. I know, that's some...

Yup. Shifty-eyed, too, most likely.

Great. Now they're saying Lanza was "quiet, shy, and nervous around people."

A temporary reprieve from thoughts and feelings that one believes are intolerable.

In my mind, I seriously live on Titan, in a vast underground structure built by an unknown alien race eons ago. But that's another story for another time. It has taken me decades to figure out who my friends are and where I belong. There are days I'm still not sure about it, but I feel like...

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I kind of do, yeah. Not as bad as I used to get them, but they've been coming back lately. I think there are core beliefs that prompt them. I'm trying to write down as many of these core beliefs as I can think of when they occur to me. Here's what I jotted down just a little while ago: I feel...

A possible reason people try to control others: http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/intimacy-and-desire/201105/people-who-cant-control-themselves-control-the-people-around-them The only thing I might add to this is the following: People who can't control themselves leave that task to...

And the more you can accept people as separate individuals, the less narcissistic you'll be. Something along those lines.

¡De nada! :smoker:

Hey! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F7aLXehSXAo

I see your point, but I would take it a step further. When your parents and your teachers tell you you're great at everything, and you've never actually put any effort into anything and possibly fallen flat on your face, you have no idea what you're actually good at. Or you know what you're...

Your ratio of "likes" to friends on Facebook is about 10 to 1.

Just me ranting, basically. Have at it, folks. I mean, y'know, if you want. Narcissism: you feel it is neither safe (because you will be ridiculed, shamed, humiliated, mocked, physically injured, sexually abused, etc.) nor worthwhile (because you will be ignored) to direct your instinctual...

Being ridiculed or ignored. And spiders. Spiders ridiculing or ignoring me would be the absolute worst thing possible.

In some cases, that seems like a generous interpretation to me. I just looked at some of the TAT sketches in Google images. There's two where people have their arms or hands over their faces, clutching the wall for support, while someone is either dead or unconscious in bed. Doesn't seem that...

Hoo boy. All I can say on that one is, if they tell you there are no wrong answers, then you know you're done for. :p