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WCT: March 9-13, 2009
raoullefere:
Malli-Kite, if you, at whatever age you've attained, don't occasionally wish for an easier way out of something painful, then you must be a heroic stoic. Nobody likes to undergo personal growth except for flakes who only think they're doing so by moaning at crystals, doing mescaline**, swimming with dolphins, ad nauseam.*
Remember, ideally, talking to a shrink is like talking to yourself, only with (hopefully) better answers.
*Not that there's anything wrong with trying new stuff. Just don't actually expect it to make you a better person. You'll still be basically the same ass—just a more experienced ass.
**Unless you're doing it the right way. Carlos Castaneda was basically full of it, but even so, I wouldn't exactly call what he, er, his character went through in The Teachings of Don Juan a fun ride.
Doug S. Machina:
--- Quote from: Kugai on 09 Mar 2009, 22:29 ---Hanners has an interesting dream life. Now all Tai has to do is stick a Tape Recorder under her pillow with a subliminal message for a week and she's in.
Alright, there's the obligatory HanTai reference.
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Of course, Tai will take a wrong turn in the apartment block and put her subliminal indoctrination under Faye or Marten's pillow for wacky hijinks. Isn't that how this kind of love-potion story usually pans out?
--- Quote from: nimnix on 10 Mar 2009, 11:22 ---I suppose if you can't be sulky and immature with your therapist, who can you be that way with?
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I just like this quote.
"I'm paying you to listen my inner mopey teen...and he's written poetry!"
"You don't pay enough for poetry."
Kaitydid08:
That is a very funny quote. :-)
Shaztastic:
That quote definately deserves a t-shirt!
Mallli_kite:
--- Quote from: raoullefere on 10 Mar 2009, 13:12 ---Malli-Kite, if you, at whatever age you've attained, don't occasionally wish for an easier way out of something painful, then you must be a heroic stoic. Nobody likes to undergo personal growth except for flakes who only think they're doing so by moaning at crystals, doing mescaline**, swimming with dolphins, ad nauseam.*
Remember, ideally, talking to a shrink is like talking to yourself, only with (hopefully) better answers.
*Not that there's anything wrong with trying new stuff. Just don't actually expect it to make you a better person. You'll still be basically the same ass—just a more experienced ass.
**Unless you're doing it the right way. Carlos Castaneda was basically full of it, but even so, I wouldn't exactly call what he, er, his character went through in The Teachings of Don Juan a fun ride.
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Oh, I won't say that I wouldn't have liked an easier way a few hundred times, but early on I figured out it wasn't going to happen, and so turned my attention and energies toward getting through whatever was to be gotten through. At some point in my late twenties, it occurred to me that if I was going to screw up so much, I should at least pay attention so as not to repeat the same thing. I'm not particularly heroic, and compared to many my life has been full of advantages, but I've had my own personal load of shitty events to get over (the details are maudlin so I shan't detail). In some ways, I'm similar to Faye, and I guess that's why she gets to me so much.
But even now, it's hard to watch someone make mistakes you already made. Even in fictional characters, it's distressing.
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