SBOTD - Good Boy! aka. Things You Don't Need to Hear

[LMNO]

These days, I think My Chemical Romance is the proper touchstone.


sings:  "I'm alienated!"

10,000 fans reply:  "ME TOO!"

[AFK]

I'd throw in later day Green Day into that pot too.  Especially if it had a good boil going. 

[Mourning Star]

angst tastes like ...  filthy workout clothes.

I'll pass.

[B_M_W]

angst tastes like ...  filthy workout clothes.

I'll pass.

Heh. Angst...they took the German word for fear and turned it into the the English word for teenage apathy.

[Mourning Star]

less apathy and more just feeling "upset and oppressed without justifiable reason"

but hey, the english language is unique, in that, we take something from each and every language...and then we rape it until it's an empty shell of a linguistic component, and leave it to wander the side of the highway in ripped undergarments with the rest of our victims..

[P3nT4gR4m]

less apathy and more just feeling "upset and oppressed without justifiable reason"

but hey, the english language is unique, in that, we take something from each and every language...and then we rape it until it's an empty shell of a linguistic component, and leave it to wander the side of the highway in ripped undergarments with the rest of our victims..

That so applies to our religion too. Expect to be plagiarised and distorted beyond all recognition in 3 .. 2 .. 1

[B_M_W]

less apathy and more just feeling "upset and oppressed without justifiable reason"

but hey, the english language is unique, in that, we take something from each and every language...and then we rape it until it's an empty shell of a linguistic component, and leave it to wander the side of the highway in ripped undergarments with the rest of our victims..

In that case, there is no angst ANYWERE. Same thing that happened to paranoia.

[Mourning Star]

less apathy and more just feeling "upset and oppressed without justifiable reason"

but hey, the english language is unique, in that, we take something from each and every language...and then we rape it until it's an empty shell of a linguistic component, and leave it to wander the side of the highway in ripped undergarments with the rest of our victims..

In that case, there is no angst ANYWERE. Same thing that happened to paranoia.

I don't know what you mean, I'm so paranoid that I'm thinking that you must be one of "them" and trying to convince me that there is no such thing as paranoia...or them...

[B_M_W]

Since paranoia is an unreasonable fear that people are out to get you, and since people are really out to get you, then paranoia by definition cannot exist.

Since angst is "feeling upset and oppressed without justifiable reason", and there is justifiable reason for feeling upset and oppressed, then angst by definition cannot exist.

I still think this teenage "angst" is some form of ideocentric apathy, though.

[AFK]

Or it is simply a tool of rebellion and separation. 

Teenagers don't really know enough about the world they are about to be thrust into.  While some think it's going to be rosy and fun, because they are no longer at home mostly, others think it is going to eat them alive.  But, they don't have enough input or background to make a rational conclusion, thus, in some cases, the angst.  Of course it continues into college for some.  This is where the depressing/goth poetry comes from (HIMEOBS members will know what I'm talking about). 

And, it ties into what LHX was talking about in Or Kill Me, attention.

"Oh, look how miserable I am."

The reason people are so surprised when someone commits suicide is because often, not always, those people internalize their "angst" only to make the very final attention-getting statement.  Meanwhile, many who moan and groan about how much better it would be if they were just dead, probably would never really ever get up the gumption to do it, nor have any real motivations to do so. 

[ñͤͣ̄ͦ̌̑͗͊͛͂͗ ̸̨̨̣̺̼̣̜͙͈͕̮̊̈́̈͂͛̽͊ͭ̓͆ͅé ̰̓̓́ͯ́́͞]

Since paranoia is an unreasonable fear that people are out to get you, and since people are really out to get you, then paranoia by definition cannot exist.

Since angst is "feeling upset and oppressed without justifiable reason", and there is justifiable reason for feeling upset and oppressed, then angst by definition cannot exist.

What?

I still think this teenage "angst" is some form of ideocentric apathy, though.

Sharp insight right here.

[Triple Zero]

Since paranoia is an unreasonable fear that people are out to get you, and since people are really out to get you, then paranoia by definition cannot exist.

Since angst is "feeling upset and oppressed without justifiable reason", and there is justifiable reason for feeling upset and oppressed, then angst by definition cannot exist.

What?

i dunno i kinda makes sense ..

people who think they "got angst"

.. nah it doesn't. wait. draw your own conclusions.

[B_M_W]

They ARE out to get you; people ARE being opressed and SHOULD be upset.

Therefore, paranoia and angst cannot exist, using the definitions of the words.

Is this really that hard of logic?

[AFK]

Wait, so if people really are out to get you than wouldn't the paranoia be justified in the first place?  

[B_M_W]

Wait, so if people really are out to get you than wouldn't the paranoia be justified in the first place? 

Paranoia is an suspicion of others that is not based on fact. If it was based on fact, than it wouldn't be paranoia, it would be something else.