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Athriller

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  1. AOL releases search results

    i bet he did it so that when AOL released their search results list people would post about him on forums and he would laugh and become famous and end world suffering hope this helps
  2. What are you listening to right now?

    Clap Your Hands Say Yeah - Over and Over (lost and found).
  3. What are you listening to right now?

    The Smiths - Suffer Little Children. Just changed to The Stone Roses - Fool's Gold.
  4. Girls!

    ... So you lead her on, and then complain when she likes you?
  5. Family Adventure: Six Flags or Universal Studios

    LawnSite.com™ - Lawn Care & Landscaping Business Forum - Powered ...
  6. Family Adventure: Six Flags or Universal Studios

    Yeah, that's what I thought it was meant to be, but a lot of people have been saying otherwise. Can you confirm this?
  7. Write down an unwritten rule

    Do not stand next to me at the urinals. I need my freedom, as does every other man. Find a space in the urinals where you are not near any man. If there is no space, wait your turn, or piss your pants. JUst don't impede on the space. Take money out of your wallet before you buy the goods. Do not go up the till, put the items down, get them scanned, and then get the money out when asked. Be prepared, speed things up. No one wants to stand around for your slow arsed schennanigans.
  8. Ebooks on Ebay, free money or scam ?

    No such thing as a free lunch, innit dawg.
  9. Resident Evil: Umbrella Chronicles

    Blasphemy. Code Veronica is probably my favourite Resi game, followed by 4 or 2. I don't mind the camera change, I just hope they bring the game to more of a horror front. As much as I loved 4, I didn't feel it induced much fear in me. the only time I can remember being freaked out were when were you attacked by those guys with claws, and those extending spiked fellas. How technical of me.
  10. Difficult question...

    Hehe, I don't think there's tension. Well not from me anyway. But if you're going to keep it a secret, you're working out of selfish desires there mate .
  11. Difficult question...

    So you're saying they all great minds didn't want to be remembered, but the point of life is to be remembered by others. What? And I'm fairly sure they did want to be remembered, it's why they stuck their names on every masterpiece they made. Except for Socrates of course, but Plato did it for him after his death. Allow me to put this forward again: If that's the case, you discover the cure for cancer. It saves millions of lives. But when you die, someone else says they discovered it and they get all the credit. Is that ok? __________________
  12. Difficult question...

    Hitler is very much remembered. Has he made a lot of lives better? I still fail to see how you/I being remembered benefits anyone. So in other words, it's your achievements not you? If that's the case, you discover the cure for cancer. It saves millions of lives. But when you die, someone else says they discovered it and they get all the credit. Is that ok?
  13. Difficult question...

    I don't agree with that. A lot of it is selfish desires. You give money to charity to help people, but also to satisfy and feel better about yourself. To say, 'I'm a good man'. I think altruism is a romantic idea, but there is a great level of selfishness behind every action. How would you being remembered help others?
  14. Difficult question...

    But then was is the point? The world remembering you is purely for self satisfaction, there really is no other reason for it. You want to be remembered so you can say 'I made a difference', 'I am one of history's greatest men' , 'People will alays remember he who was I' etc. When there is no I to satisfy anymore, surely it has all gone to waste? Take for example, the quote by Aaron McGruder: If you simply twist it around, you can get: When I pass, there is no need to speak freely of my achievements. Learn from them, for I'll have no ego left to praise.
  15. Difficult question...

    Yeah, that's fair enough. Kinda glad that was said as well, since I think we need to be clear on whether we're talking about the same kind of 'meaning' - Invented meaning or 'true' meaning. But I also have to raise a point. When you're dead, you will no longer have an ego. So leaving your mark on Earth will go in vain, will it not? Not trying to tear you pieces here or anything, mind, just an interesting discussion and all that.
  16. Difficult question...

    Hmm, I still fail to see the purpose here. I can see and understand why people want to leave their mark, but I don't see how that's a purpose in anyway. Being remembered doesn't exactly achieve much.
  17. Difficult question...

    Another absurdist here. Absurdism is a philosophy stating that the efforts of humanity to find meaning in the universe will ultimately fail because no such meaning exists (at least in relation to humanity). I personally fail to see meaning in the existence of humanity or the universe. Some people seem to think this means I'm suicidal or depressed, a misandrist or whatever. Not at all, I love life, and iwll continue to live it for my enjoyment, regardless if their is a higher purpose or not.
  18. Your Top 3 Books

    Right right. These are my favourite 3 at the moment, with snippets gleefully stolen from Amazon. I'm sure most people will overlook this, but oh well. 3.) The Social Contract Theory - Jean-Jacques Rosseau. Rousseau made the following statement: "Man is born free; and everywhere he is in chains. One thinks himself the master of others, and still remains a greater slave than they." Censored in its own time, the Social Contract (1762) remains a key source of democratic belief and is one of the classics of political theory. It argues concisely but eloquently, that the basis of any legitimate society must be the agreement of its members. As humans we were `born free' and our subjection to government must be freely accepted. It's controversial, and I don't agree with everything he has to say, but it's a nice thought provoking read. 2.)The Plague - Albert Camus. The Plague is about love, exile, and suffering as illuminated by living around death. What is the meaning of life? For many, that question is an abstraction except in the context of being aware of losing some of the joys of life, or life itself. In The Plague, Camus creates a timeless tale of humans caught in the jaws of implacable death, in this case a huge outbreak of bubonic plague in Oran, Algeria on the north African coast. With the possibility of dying so close, each character comes to see his or her life differently. In a sense, we each get a glimpse of what we, too, may think about life in the last hours and days before our own deaths. The Plague will leave you with a sense of death as real rather than as an abstraction. Then by reflecting in the mirror of that death, you can see life more clearly. For example, what role would you take if bubonic plague were to be unleashed in your community? Would you flee? Would you help relieve the suffering? Would you become a profiteer? Would you help maintain order? Would you withdraw or seek out others? These are all important questions for helping you understand yourself that this powerful novel will raise for you. 1.)The Immoralist - Andre Gide. The Immoralist is straightforward in language and easy to read, but more complicated, more complex are its themes: Man's sense of morality towards society, family, himself. What happens when man's values conflict with those of society's? Whose interests should be served? Gide explores these themes through one man's odyssey of self-discovery. The protagonist is the learned and conflicted Michel who yearns for something more than the stable, predictable, familiar life he has always known, but no longer finds tolerable. It is after a life-threatening bout of tuberculosis that these feelings rise to the surface, intensify, and are more keenly felt. This hunger, still unidentified, takes him on a journey, both literal and figurative, where his search for self-awareness, or self-truth, carries him to distant and exotic locales. New experiences and mysterious encounters give way to a new aestheticism in which weakness, constraint, and life's banalities play no role. Heightened senses, unsuppressed impulses erode age-old human values that were once accepted blindly. A life less checked, though, can have consequences, as is the case for Michel, and for so many others like him. As Michel becomes stronger, his wife becomes weaker. Indeed, society becomes weaker. How can the newly strong fail to quash the weak in their path? The question one must ask, then, and Gide does, is whether a life without restraint has value. Is there something admirable in the old adage, "To thine own self be true"? One of the novel's most inspired moments is found in its ending. Without giving anything away, it is the last passage, after the reader has come full-circle, where Michel's journey seemingly ends. Will Michel embrace his new truth? The reader is left to wonder. The Immoralist is told in narrative, in Michel's own voice. It is self-confessional literature at its highest, and should be read by anyone who reads to think and be moved.
  19. Worst Game Series Ever

    I think we need to draw a line between 'Worst Game Series' and 'Series I don't really like'.
  20. Male or Female?

    err i think its a man
  21. Male or Female?

    I think it's a combination of male and female characteristics just stuck on base head.
  22. Venom from Spiderman 3 picture

    I don't know what it is about you Haver, but you make big bulges in my pants.
  23. Create a Phoenix Wright objection!

    http://objection.4camp.net/go.php?n=152193
  24. Batman: The Dark Knight discussion

    2 people who would be perfect would be Gary Oldman, or Johnny Depp. Since Oldman is already in the film, get the Depp in there.
  25. Cant stand me now ??

    I'll give you the sex pistols, but The Clash and The Libertines? I'm not so sure you've listened to them.
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