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Post by freespirit on Jul 31, 2007 16:53:10 GMT -5
It's true I am lonely and sad. Maybe because everyone I know just wants to talk about "American Idol" and "Lost"and HP. Well, I don't want to talk about horse-power-- maybe HBP, hit-by-pitch, which Craig Biggio has had happened to him many times. People are so flakey and trendy. I nod my head and ask polite questions about their stuff, but when I bring up a Myrna Loy movie they look at me like I said something about their mother. As a song that nobody cares about says, "I've got the right to sing the blues." This world stinks. um. well. Just reading this post, I'm wondering if the problem isn't that you hate HP but that you hate your life. You wrote, "eveyone I know wants to talk about American Idol." This is kinda tough-love advice--and I'm really sorry if it comes out all wrong, but here it is, barfed on the page: maybe you might consider getting out and meeting more people. This world has, oh, I dunno, several billion people on it. Surely you can find 2 or 3 or 10 that enjoy the same movies and books that you do. Maybe start a Myrna Loy fan club in your area? There are a ton of Shakespeare fans around. And book clubs that read un-trendy books. Or maybe there is something else you enjoy doing or talking about. I guess you could start an anti-HP club. ;D I'm sorry life stinks for you right now. I don't think it's supposed to be that way. Sending a hug your direction. peace, freespirit
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Post by To GIF on Jul 31, 2007 17:05:52 GMT -5
I'm curious. How old are you GIF? I'm surprised you'd say you wished you were dead some days. From your posts a person would get the feeling that you are one person who loves his life.
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i hate harry potter
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Post by i hate harry potter on Aug 1, 2007 11:21:03 GMT -5
My problem with the letters "HP" was not that I didn't get what they stood for. It's the destruction of the English language by our instistence that everything be turned into an abbrev.-- I mean an abbreviation-- or an acronym. It's total B S. And oh BTW-- would a person who is simply cranky and grumpy have such a self-deprecating sense of humor and ironic tone?
But I am grouchy, I admit it. If one were born the wrong person in the wrong time and in the wrong place that person might be a little bent out of shape. I don't like the way the world is going. If this is the future I read about as a kid, I want out.
Obviously, people don't get the point of my observations. If it were simply a diatribe against Harry Potter, the shallow comeback of "Gee, buddy, just relax and live and let live" would be appropriate.
The underlying theme of my original post was that of disenchantment with how trendy the world is, and yet the alternative (the "Truth" I grew up in) is that there were very few interests outside of reading the Bible, going to meeting and praying. All else was vanity. Or something like that. On the one hand, the world is forever getting worked up about the latest fad, marketed by your not-so-local giant multimedia conglomerate. On the other hand, the "Truth" I left was one where I was criticized by a worker for reading Dante's Inferno.
As a side note, other professing (or ex-professing) people's experiences are certainly valid. They happened. Why would I deny it? By the same token, why would some posters think my experiences somehow weren't "representative"? Pardon me, but where I grew up, professing kids did not go to movies, did not watch TV and therefore were less likely to be caught up in the latest trends, like "Beverly Hills Cop" or "Ghostbusters" or "Weird Science." Of course, there was always the more "worldly" professing family with the TV down in the basement and the VCR and we'd watch "Top Gun" while the workers were out.
So, before I lighten up, may I express my gloomy feeling about a world where culture doesn't matter, where people only read "serious" fiction in classrooms because they are forced to, and if you bring up the name Jane Austen or John Dryden in casual conversation people look at you like you're a freak.
In a recent office party, the group spent twenty minutes talking about the plot lines of "Grey's Anatomy" and I had no idea what they were talking about. It was merely apparent that I was the only person in the room who didn't watch that show. During a long discourse on "Pirates of the Caribbean: The $equel to Make More Trea$ure" I made the huge blunder of referring to the the classic Bob Hope comedy "The Princess and the Pirate" and a dead silence fell across the room. Of course, I'm no fun. I'm a grump, because I laugh at the lines of that nobody Bob Hope (who is dead so doesn't matter), and really couldn't care less about Johnny Depp. And everyone else is better socially adjusted because, twenty years from now, they will know never to bring up Johnny Depp in a conversation, and the "POTC" movies were never made, because now there are remakes from FoxNBCDisney Studios with that young kid who was on that reality show where people throw things at each other.
"Gee dude your way to crankey."
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Post by mrleo on Aug 1, 2007 12:04:03 GMT -5
Have you seen the movie "Idiocracy"?
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Post by no name on Aug 2, 2007 21:29:24 GMT -5
My problem with the letters "HP" was not that I didn't get what they stood for. It's the destruction of the English language by our instistence that everything be turned into an abbrev.-- I mean an abbreviation-- or an acronym. It's total B S. And oh BTW-- would a person who is simply cranky and grumpy have such a self-deprecating sense of humor and ironic tone? But I am grouchy, I admit it. If one were born the wrong person in the wrong time and in the wrong place that person might be a little bent out of shape. I don't like the way the world is going. If this is the future I read about as a kid, I want out. Obviously, people don't get the point of my observations. If it were simply a diatribe against Harry Potter, the shallow comeback of "Gee, buddy, just relax and live and let live" would be appropriate. The underlying theme of my original post was that of disenchantment with how trendy the world is, and yet the alternative (the "Truth" I grew up in) is that there were very few interests outside of reading the Bible, going to meeting and praying. All else was vanity. Or something like that. On the one hand, the world is forever getting worked up about the latest fad, marketed by your not-so-local giant multimedia conglomerate. On the other hand, the "Truth" I left was one where I was criticized by a worker for reading Dante's Inferno. As a side note, other professing (or ex-professing) people's experiences are certainly valid. They happened. Why would I deny it? By the same token, why would some posters think my experiences somehow weren't "representative"? Pardon me, but where I grew up, professing kids did not go to movies, did not watch TV and therefore were less likely to be caught up in the latest trends, like "Beverly Hills Cop" or "Ghostbusters" or "Weird Science." Of course, there was always the more "worldly" professing family with the TV down in the basement and the VCR and we'd watch "Top Gun" while the workers were out. So, before I lighten up, may I express my gloomy feeling about a world where culture doesn't matter, where people only read "serious" fiction in classrooms because they are forced to, and if you bring up the name Jane Austen or John Dryden in casual conversation people look at you like you're a freak. In a recent office party, the group spent twenty minutes talking about the plot lines of "Grey's Anatomy" and I had no idea what they were talking about. It was merely apparent that I was the only person in the room who didn't watch that show. During a long discourse on "Pirates of the Caribbean: The $equel to Make More Trea$ure" I made the huge blunder of referring to the the classic Bob Hope comedy "The Princess and the Pirate" and a dead silence fell across the room. Of course, I'm no fun. I'm a grump, because I laugh at the lines of that nobody Bob Hope (who is dead so doesn't matter), and really couldn't care less about Johnny Depp. And everyone else is better socially adjusted because, twenty years from now, they will know never to bring up Johnny Depp in a conversation, and the "POTC" movies were never made, because now there are remakes from FoxNBCDisney Studios with that young kid who was on that reality show where people throw things at each other. "Gee dude your way to crankey." Okay. So are you going to lighten up now?
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Post by Brick on Aug 3, 2007 6:17:20 GMT -5
Is it possible that the depressive state of mind is now becoming the norm? That depression is really just the normal response to today's culture/society? I'm beginning to feel a little left behind in this because I still see the glass as half full. And that's only because I drank the other half. hic
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Post by wanttobewithGod on Aug 3, 2007 6:20:18 GMT -5
I'm like that too, Brick...(half full, bubbly,hic, etc...lol)in my natural, normal state...but sometimes situations cause the depression, you know? Doesn't mean one is usually like that....or wants to be...as I'm sure you know. Just thought I would point that out. Mich BTW, OP, Jane Austen's 'Pride and Prejudice' is my favorite book of all time. Mich
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Post by Brick on Aug 3, 2007 6:56:22 GMT -5
I'm like that too, Brick...(half full, bubbly,hic, etc...lol)in my natural, normal state... Bubbly, eh? Your glass must have had champagne?
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Post by wanttobewithGod on Aug 3, 2007 6:57:42 GMT -5
I wish! I could use a glass! lol. 'night.
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Post by cornsilk on Aug 3, 2007 6:59:22 GMT -5
Dear dear I hate HP, Wow, again misinformation about what professing kids are "allowed" to do these days...... My 17 year old son likes Harry Potter, and is usually the first of his friends to finish the books. He also enjoys Lord Byron and writes poetry and takes the most amazing pictures. He watches television....but last night it was the food channel. The kid can bake bread better than I! At times he chooses to watch mundane, senseless shows on MTV, and he laughs at stuff in which I see no humor. He is in student senate in school and makes straight A's. He enjoys going camping, working hard, arguing with me, shopping and various other things that ALL kids like. He sure doesn't sit at home only reading his Bible and condemning others to hell.....in essence, the kid has a LIFE and is extremely happy and popular.... Frankly, we all have our own sense of what is entertaining.....I ENJOY Big Brother and Survivor......and yes, many people will consider me witless because of it......and those two programs are trendy indeed. Back in the day, Bob Hope was VERY popular and I found myself laughing at his movies. Yes, we move on, another generation finds itself looking for its own entertainment. It's not wrong, it's just different. Just as the big hair of the 80s has come and gone, so do those bygone days and our parent's idea of what is entertaining. I would ask you to consider your thoughts on this issue....does it really matter what others enjoy? Will you, yourself, condemn others to a mindless existance *hell* because they don't agree with you?
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Post by meuns on Aug 3, 2007 14:46:05 GMT -5
y'all we'uns have talked all this befoh
where you'un is liv'n
desides what you'alls do an do'n do
" a side note, other professing (or ex-professing) people's experiences are certainly valid. They happened. Why would I deny it? By the same token, why would some posters think my experiences somehow weren't "representative"? Pardon me, but where I grew up, professing kids did not go to movies, did not watch TV and therefore were less likely to be caught up in the latest trends, like "Beverly Hills Cop" or "Ghostbusters" or "Weird Science." Of course, there was always the more "worldly" professing family with the TV down in the basement and the VCR and we'd watch "Top Gun" while the workers were out."
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