Would slipping an armed mousetrap into the pocket of a pair of pants you don't usually wear while hammered and forgetting about it count?
It's not laughter if you're just going through the muscle movements you remember from the times you actually gave a fuck.
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Show posts MenuQuote from: Rip City Hustle on December 23, 2009, 09:19:13 PM
Meh. I still think it basically boils down to a lack of mental and emotional self-mastery, which sort of seems like it oughtta be something that's taught tonew recruitseveryone, ever and/or screened for in the case of people with "tells" for being predisposed to PTSD.
I also think that this applies, in a larger context, to society at large. I know it sounds like oversimplifying but really, people just need to learn to deal with their bullshit sans melodrama.
Quote from: LMNO on December 23, 2009, 08:48:11 PM
It's a book that uses ambiguous pronouns in vague ways in order to describe the complicated relationships people have with each other.
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on October 12, 2009, 07:40:17 PMThen I get too excited, and hobble around hooting unintelligible things from between my toothless gums.
Quote from: LMNO on December 22, 2009, 07:32:25 PM
publish the Chao te Ching
Quote from: Rev. What's-His-Name? on December 23, 2009, 01:51:24 PMNot true. One of the programs I run, the one that trains the teenagers to be good listeners, has a section on identifying and referring kids with intent to commit suicide. What we found in our research while putting together the curriculum is that 4 out of 5 teens who attempt suicide give very clear warnings. I don't know what the figures are for adults but my guess is they would be very similar. It is actually a rare thing when someone who commits suicide didn't give warnings ahead of time. The problem is, those warning signs go unrecognized. Most people who are suicidal don't really want to die. They want to get rid of emotional pain. And that's why they give warning signs. They want someone to help them, but they don't know how to get it otherwise. Most of these signs show up in the week or two preceding their attempt.It's true; when I attempted suicide, it was because I was too broken and afraid to continue living through what I was living through (kicked out of home, daily panic attacks, living with constant transphobia in a closed-minded town, just had a nervous breakdown and lost my job in the process and was now facing eviction and homelessness just as the weather was starting to get cold), not because I actually wanted to die. I had been giving really subtle tells for a long time but never actually out and said it, until the night of when I wrote my suicide letter (asking people not to hate me, telling them that I still loved them and that I was sorry, etc.).
Quote from: Rev. What's-His-Name? on December 23, 2009, 02:55:14 PMYes. Absolutely. It's fucking ridiculous. People are so actively engaged in trying to pretend that suffering isn't there that they refuse to look at it when it comes up. I've been doing a lot of counseling for youth with issues surrounding depression, self-harm, and suicide lately, and it's fucking opened my eyes, and it's taught me a fucking lot about myself. I had one girl whose parents told her they didn't care if she tried it. And so in addition to all of the internal trauma and pain these people are going through, they're also treated like they're invisible- and that is something that has a fucking profound effect on one's mental/emotional stability, I don't care who you are. I have a friend who is literally the most intelligent and educated person I know, and is the embodiment of logic and reason, and when my roommate recently started pretending he didn't exist because he started dating my roommate's ex, he got fucked up over it. Imagine what that does to someone who doesn't understand theirself, doesn't understand others, doesn't understand society, and is desperate for someone- anyone- to help them.
I was there too. And my Mom and Dad didn't necessarily see the signs either. But, I don't blame them. I mean, there is really a pathetic amount of education and awareness raising when it comes to suicide prevention. Nobody wants to talk about it. It's just one of those things our society doesn't want to address in any kind of meaningful way.
Quote from: Hoopla on December 22, 2009, 06:11:53 PMWith just a little bit of cognitive tinkering, you'd be surprised at how easy it is to equivocate the two.
What do you mean "have" to tazer ten year olds? They want to!
Quote from: P3nT4gR4m on December 22, 2009, 06:29:32 PMBest ever.
I'ma get shitfaced drunk and kick the living crap out of an motherfucken eagle
Quote from: Cain on December 16, 2009, 08:33:17 AMBoth the Dadaists and Situationists [...] have lots of uses.
Quote from: Cramulus on December 15, 2009, 10:31:04 PMB) Discordian Conspiracy Theory - this is the plan where we hint at the giant spooky discordian society which battles against the illuminati [in all of our souls]. Is there a piece of media we can generate, a rumor we can start, or some other way to put out more feelers to the paranoid lunatics out there? In terms of fliers, this is territory Vex and others have actually explored. Anybody feel like rounding up that media and seeing what we've got / what we're missing? (All the PDFs from vex's ftp is now housed on scridb with the tag "vexftp".)
Quote from: Doctor Rat Bastard on December 15, 2009, 09:56:23 PMOne act of poetic terrorism that we've often played with in Columbus is soap bubbles. It's amazing wwhat happens to people in traffic when simple soap bubbles start appearing in the intersection at a red light. We've seen dull looking nearly comatose drivers perk up, laugh and clap... we've seen other drivers freak out and wind up their windows or cuss at us for blowing bubbles... we get a reaction, but I have no idea if that action is long lasting or merely for a second.
Quote from: Hoopla on December 15, 2009, 10:02:08 PMPersonally I can't stand the Toronto art scene, and avoid it at all costs. However, that's not to say your approach wouldn't work... but you would only get people who pay attention to art. Just like flyers only get the attention of those who pay attention to flyers, which is also only a segment of the population.
All ideas should be considered viable until proven otherwise. If each of us actually took our ideas and ran with them we could inundate the population from all sides.
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on December 15, 2009, 09:25:08 PMJust read the rest of that. A summarization: "You're all doing it wrong. Do it my way. My "art" is superior to your "art"."
Quote from: FP on December 15, 2009, 09:50:00 PMAre rants and raves and flyers, not also a creation of art? Or are you saying that some forms of art are more successful than others? I agree that works of "great art" are more likely to bend minds, but how to create an environment more conducive to and supportive of this, other than having a healthy eco-system of smaller art statements of all different types and genres?
Quote from: Cain on December 13, 2009, 04:12:38 PMEnemies. We need individualized enemies to rail against. Polarization is a wonderful tactic, and if we start hating on someone, other people who hate on them will take notice. Also, their allies will take notice and hate on us, further spreading our ideas.
Quote from: Sepia on October 12, 2007, 04:54:50 PM
Thanks to all kind words and also to Kaienne for making me laugh.
I'm still confused here so I'll wait untill I'm off medication by posting but damn I'm giggling.
But Kaienne, the point of my post was to whine and hope I get run over by a truck/step out infront of one because I can't live my own life and I do not wish to face reality?
All critique is indeed very welcome and yours is no exception.