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Iron Crowned
May 6, 2003

by Hand Knit

Son of Rodney posted:

I'm gonna die one day anyway so trying really hard at anything that isn't fun the entire time is pointless

joke's on me at 30 I'm a mediocre engineer and only feel real joy when having sex or taking drugs

so nihilism/hedonism I guess?

Are you my twin?

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Take the plunge! Okay!
Feb 24, 2007



Socialism. I'm so sorry.

hemanoncrack
Jan 23, 2003

I AM WET
I was a big fan of solipsism in my college years. Not sure if I was because I liked annoying people with it, or because I was really selfish and wanted the entire universe to exist to serve me.

glowing-fish
Feb 18, 2013

Keep grinding,
I hope you level up! :)

hemanoncrack posted:

I was a big fan of solipsism in my college years. Not sure if I was because I liked annoying people with it, or because I was really selfish and wanted the entire universe to exist to serve me.

Solipsism like you thought you were really alone in the universe, or solipsism like you just thought you were the most important thing in the universe?

bradzilla
Oct 15, 2004

Drugs are bad

The Cubelodyte
Sep 1, 2006

Practicing Hypnolaw since 1990
Grimey Drawer
I joined the Republican party

Roylicious
Feb 21, 2012

Braver than the cops
ain't afraid of no chaps
If they steppin up on me
I just start bustin some caps
Read the Satanic Bible and was all into that for a few months.

dad gay. so what
Feb 18, 2003

by FactsAreUseless
math

Nathilus
Apr 4, 2002

I alone can see through the media bias.

I'm also stupid on a scale that can only be measured in Reddits.
Being a debate nerd in high school is really bad for you. I was super into Kant specifically. Such a loving windbag. I read like a dozen books about just his categorical imperative, something that is almost completely meaningless in concrete terms.

Prettz
Sep 3, 2002

i never adopted any bad philosophies, even as a young teen. i was enamored with the military for a while, but it was only really about the technology and stuff.

Kuato
Feb 25, 2005

"I CAN'T BELIEVE I ATE THE WHOLE THING"
Buglord
I was a Trotskyist but I've since come around to the idea that Stalinism is where it's at. Man I used to be stupid.

NmareBfly
Jul 16, 2004

I posted my food for USPOL Thanksgiving!


I still consider myself a Discordian but I have the decency to be embarrassed about it.

A ILL BREAKFAST
Jun 9, 2007

*unsheathes katana*

Nathilus posted:

Being a debate nerd in high school is really bad for you. I was super into Kant specifically. Such a loving windbag. I read like a dozen books about just his categorical imperative, something that is almost completely meaningless in concrete terms.

i was also "into debating" :cripes: in high school and can specifically remember giving my friend poo poo for not shutting up about Kant with the joke "more like immanuel kant get laid"

glowing-fish
Feb 18, 2013

Keep grinding,
I hope you level up! :)

Nathilus posted:

Being a debate nerd in high school is really bad for you. I was super into Kant specifically. Such a loving windbag. I read like a dozen books about just his categorical imperative, something that is almost completely meaningless in concrete terms.

Kant, at least, is not exactly a shiny, edgy philosophy. Like there are no Kant quotes that you can put in a Doors song.

Segata Sanshiro
Sep 10, 2011

we can live for nothing
baby i don't care

lose me like the ocean
feel the motion

:coolfish:

laveyan satanism lol

FlimFlam Imam
Mar 1, 2007

Standing on a hill in my mountain of dreams
Theory of time travel according to Dragonlance Time of the Twins.

Iron Prince
Aug 28, 2005
Buglord

Booblord Zagats posted:

I enlisted in the Marines at 18

this but the navy

Oh Hell No
Oct 10, 2007

I've got the world on a string.


i was libertarian for about a week in high school until i met another libertarian and realize how dumb it was

phasmid
Jan 16, 2015

Booty Shaker
SILENT MAJORITY
I used to try to use remote viewing a la "Suspect Zero" because I read a bunch of books on psychic projection. Supposedly the CIA in the 70s did this too, which makes me even more ashamed. Ah well, at least I never paid money to a lady in a gypsy costume so that's something.

A ILL BREAKFAST posted:

i was also "into debating" :cripes: in high school and can specifically remember giving my friend poo poo for not shutting up about Kant with the joke "more like immanuel kant get laid"

Man, could never get into debate. I was too aggressive and used personal attacks and apparently that's "not how you debate". I guess I never did learn :(


e. for movie title. Ben Kingsley, not Mass Effect.

phasmid fucked around with this message at 20:40 on May 17, 2016

PantsandCola
Aug 17, 2013

you did good... you did good

Oh Hell No posted:

i was libertarian for about a week in high school until i met another libertarian and realize how dumb it was

same.

Nckdictator
Sep 8, 2006
Just..someone
Irony.

Brutal Garcon
Nov 2, 2014



Fojar38 posted:

we need a global world state under a single government in order to facilitate the scientific advancement of our species

Yeah, but what about the OP's question?

glowing-fish
Feb 18, 2013

Keep grinding,
I hope you level up! :)

Irony is something that also pretty much post-dates my teenage years. Most of my beliefs as a teen were about things I like really being able to change/save the world.

Irony really took off after the widespread adoption of the internet, because people had way more access to bad pop culture of the past to mock. Also, good pop culture became more available, and was therefore less valuable.

I mean, when we had one store in the city that we could go to and get a Public Enemy cassette, we were still pretty proud of having that access. It is once you can do that easily that you then make a point of listening to Def Leppard.

Windows 98
Nov 13, 2005

HTTP 400: Bad post
I was pretty into Adult Swim and Weed. Now I'm just into weed.

Tiberius Thyben
Feb 7, 2013

Gone Phishing


I used to be a social democrat. Then I realized it was just liberalism with a smilie face painted on it.

guidoanselmi
Feb 6, 2008

I thought my ideas were so clear. I wanted to make an honest post. No lies whatsoever.

that the singularity was going to happen and be a good thing

Split Pea Superman
Dec 16, 2010

by FactsAreUseless
Fun Shoe
Anime is good

Nierbo
Dec 5, 2010

sup brah?
I thought listening to heavy metal made me so cool and edgy. I was such a dork

Mukulu
Jul 14, 2006

Stop. Drop. Shut 'em down open up shop.
ath3ism

Tolkien minority
Feb 14, 2012


drugs and alcohol are great coping mechanisms

Aesop Poprock
Oct 21, 2008


Grimey Drawer
Weird acid new-age poo poo inspired by electric kool-aid acid test when I was 15 where I got all Dennis leary/merry pranksterish and decided hallucinogens and magical thinking were going to open new insights on life and perception

I dressed like a loving retard but at least the drugs were fun and seemed meaningful at the time. Otherwise I probably would've just started drinking and doing heroin or something while being a punk

Nathilus
Apr 4, 2002

I alone can see through the media bias.

I'm also stupid on a scale that can only be measured in Reddits.

glowing-fish posted:

Kant, at least, is not exactly a shiny, edgy philosophy. Like there are no Kant quotes that you can put in a Doors song.

True, I can think of much edgier germans for instance. He just pisses me off become he put decades of really deep, careful thought into an utterly vapid line of what is basically pure rhetoric. And I at some point was retarded enough to be interested.

Professor Shark
May 22, 2012

I thought I was a :canada:-Progressive Conservative because I thought I believed in responsibility with birthcontrol, firearms, and finances but then I talked to actual PC's and quickly realized they were all loving lunatics and thank Christ I got better because for all the talk of leeches and welfare abusers, those people sure like to dictate where the government should spend their money (on them or on their bosses so they can make more money)

Hogge Wild
Aug 21, 2012

by FactsAreUseless
Pillbug

Chinatown posted:

caring about politics/voting


lol. i was pretty stupid

as a teen i wanted to vote

now i don't vote

i still care about politics, but just kinda like i care about the weather

The_Book_Of_Harry
Apr 30, 2013

A timeline of flawed ideologies

Age 5: baptized into Pentecostal faith
Age 16: volunteered for GWB because of my respect for Cheney
Age 17: agnosticism
Age 19: libertarianism
Age 21: 'tune out. Turn on. Drop out. Beatniks 4eva
Age 23: heroin is the only thing that matters
Age 32: TRUMP *click*

glowing-fish
Feb 18, 2013

Keep grinding,
I hope you level up! :)

Aesop Poprock posted:

Weird acid new-age poo poo inspired by electric kool-aid acid test when I was 15 where I got all Dennis leary/merry pranksterish and decided hallucinogens and magical thinking were going to open new insights on life and perception

I dressed like a loving retard but at least the drugs were fun and seemed meaningful at the time. Otherwise I probably would've just started drinking and doing heroin or something while being a punk

So you were an edgy, electric hippy? My contrived hippitude took the role of a mellow, back-to-the-earth hippie, for the most part.

Ben Smash
Aug 22, 2005

LARDROOM
Grimey Drawer
That Something Awful was funny.

The_Book_Of_Harry
Apr 30, 2013

glowing-fish posted:

So you were an edgy, electric hippy? My contrived hippitude took the role of a mellow, back-to-the-earth hippie, for the most part.

I firmly believe (having read Electric FailAIDS) that Wolfe never actually took any drugs.

yoloer420
May 19, 2006
Communism. Then I got a job.

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glowing-fish
Feb 18, 2013

Keep grinding,
I hope you level up! :)

yoloer420 posted:

Communism. Then I got a job.

I am glad that you've come to accept the importance of personal responsibility and individual initiative, forums member yoloer420

glowing-fish fucked around with this message at 22:56 on May 17, 2016

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