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i haven't evolved as a person since high school; i'm literally a waste of space
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i read Atlas Shrugged when i was 17, it hosed me up for years
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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 basically started a little hallucinogenic cult of kids who bought into what I was saying and felt really dumb once I snapped out of it in 11th grade and realized that acid, shrooms, k and dmt weren't going to unlock some magical door in our consciousness
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May 18, 2016 00:39
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Apathy and "lol nothing matters" hosed up my personality for years.
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May 18, 2016 00:42
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Aesop Poprock posted:I basically started a little hallucinogenic cult of kids who bought into what I was saying and felt really dumb once I snapped out of it in 11th grade and realized that acid, shrooms, k and dmt weren't going to unlock some magical door in our consciousness The most impressionable demographic: teenagers on hallucinogens. At least you didn't take 'em all out to the desert on dune buggies to ride out the race war.
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May 18, 2016 00:42
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i read a bunch of fringe religious stuff (incl. modern prophet anton levay) and some buddhist books my dad kept but never really committed to any of it. so i guess it all contributed to my philosophy that i was very smart.
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May 18, 2016 00:43
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phasmid posted:The most impressionable demographic: teenagers on hallucinogens. At least you didn't take 'em all out to the desert on dune buggies to ride out the race war. No but I did spend all the money I made one summer delivering cookies with my grandpa on a 200 hit vial of acid which is almost as bad
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May 18, 2016 00:44
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Human, All Too Human: A Book For Free Spirits
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May 18, 2016 00:55
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addendum: i considered shoplifting a big thick book about christian gnostic texts from the library because i didn't want to spend my own 30 dollars. this is the part i feel bad about.
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May 18, 2016 00:57
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Existentialism.
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May 18, 2016 01:01
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When I was a freshman I read "The Naked Ape", and "Alas Babylon". I was an atheist right winger for awhile. Now I'm an atheist who wanted Bernie in the White House.
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May 18, 2016 01:11
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I thought that Bush did 9/11 for a few months when I was 14.
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May 18, 2016 01:19
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DoctorStrangelove posted:I thought that Bush did 9/11 for a few months when I was 14. Wow, I only dabbled in communism.
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May 18, 2016 01:21
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Does posting on a tribes forum count?
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May 18, 2016 01:23
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I used to care about things for real back as a teen and even get worked up about whatever. Now I so can't even begin to give fucks generally. Can't remember any specific philosophy I had I was always kinda life happens
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May 18, 2016 01:24
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i used to really despise pop music. now i just eat up whatever poo poo is on my proverbial or literal plate.
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May 18, 2016 01:25
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Nothing because I ain't flip flopper. I stick to my guns like a real American man.
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May 18, 2016 01:29
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I was never bright or deep enough to really think about philosophy, still true today 
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May 18, 2016 01:30
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dstyle posted:i read Atlas Shrugged when i was 17, it hosed me up for years See I looked at the cover and back blurb on books like this and though ughghgh no
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May 18, 2016 01:31
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Chinatown posted:caring about politics/voting
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May 18, 2016 01:32
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i never read atlas shrugged but did hear someone describe it and how important it was in painful detail on a roadtrip. i think that qualifies.
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May 18, 2016 01:32
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Am I really going to be the first one to admit to The Fountainhead turning me into an intolerable objectivist prick in high school.
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May 18, 2016 01:53
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Thinking that women should have equal rights
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Bench pressing would make your penis smaller
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May 18, 2016 02:40
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As a kid I was deeply interested in the occult, afterlife and spirit worlds after losing some family. My family went to a church with fairly liberal ideas and I kind of cherry picked a Christian mysticism mixed with ideas of fetishized tribalism I got from various medias. After deciding to read The Bible, twice, I quickly struggled with belief in Christianity and the supernatural. I read a lot of texts that championed atheism and found it difficult to dispute. Later at 15, I read some entry level "Eastern Spirituality" books, developed Hippie/Beatnick identity and read a bunch of pop-science books on Quentum physics. For a while I held a disgust for everything created after 1980, until I realized that electronic music, rap and other future stuff was actually more organic and fresh than people pretending to be Bob Dylan. After about 17 I stopped "identity building" in a sense where I could firmly be like "this IS me" without feeling a bit sheepish which might be why I'm a bit all over the place. I'm also like the OP where I was "into" drugs for like 9 years before I even tried them.
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May 18, 2016 02:52
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crowoutofcontext posted:
I would also say that around 16 or 17, I started to phase out of trying really radical shifts in identity and philosophy, in part because I was having a lot of my own new experiences and was less in need of adopting and accepting other people's experiences.
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May 18, 2016 03:13
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just remembered, when i was around 13/14, i was getting into Metallica and Iron Maiden and all the entry-level metal bands, and i developed incredible music elitism, to the point where if it was lighter than Van Halen, i wanted no part of it and would harshly dismiss anyone who had a different opinion than me. i lost a few friends that way. now it's just whatever, listen to whatever the gently caress you want, it's your discretion. i've also taken to listening to whatever i feel like. other people don't matter.
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May 18, 2016 03:38
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Thankfully, at the age and mindset when I would have been most susceptible to Objectivism, I was also pretty religious, and finding out about Ayn Rand's vitriol toward Christianity cured me of any desire to read any of her work.
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May 18, 2016 03:38
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I was a "christian" until I stopped being forced to go to church at like 14, and then I was like "what the gently caress was I thinking?" I was also a republican until...2009? 2012? In my defense, I was in the military, which was hard to do without being republican, but I was also a giant rear end in a top hat, so there's that.
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May 18, 2016 03:39
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DoctorStrangelove posted:I thought that Bush did 9/11 for a few months when I was 14. I thought 9/11 was an inside jawb when I was 14. I still believe it was.
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May 18, 2016 03:43
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Communism followed quickly by objectivism.
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May 18, 2016 03:44
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Oh after playing Deus Ex the whole way through I thought Bush did 9/11 on orders from the Illuminati for two months.
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May 18, 2016 03:51
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Crowsbeak posted:Oh after playing Deus Ex the whole way through I thought Bush did 9/11 on orders from the Illuminati for two months. Idiot! The Illuminati are nothing more than the pawns of MJ12!
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May 18, 2016 03:58
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Patriarchy, definitelyApplewhite posted:Communism followed quickly by objectivism.
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symbolic posted:just remembered, when i was around 13/14, i was getting into Metallica and Iron Maiden and all the entry-level metal bands, and i developed incredible music elitism, to the point where if it was lighter than Van Halen, i wanted no part of it and would harshly dismiss anyone who had a different opinion than me. i lost a few friends that way. Iron Maiden is pretty good, though.
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May 18, 2016 04:30
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symbolic posted:people don't matter. 
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May 18, 2016 04:33
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Tiberius Thyben posted:Iron Maiden is pretty good, though.
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May 18, 2016 04:37
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im permabanned poster niggerstomper58. i first started reading fyad when i was about 12. by 14 i got really obsessed with the concept of "irony" and tried to channel it constantly, until my thought process got really bizarre and i would repeat things like "friend of the family balls" and "i love making GBS threads inside friend of the family assholes" in my head for hours, and i would get really paranoid, start seeing things in the corners of my eyes etc, basically prodromal schizophrenia. im now on antipsychotics. i always wondered what the kind of "ironic" style of fyad humor was all about; i think it's the unconscious leaking in to the conscious, what jungian theory considered to be the cause of schizophrenic and schizotypal syptoms. i would advise all people who "get" fyad to be careful because that likely means you have a predisposition to a mental illness. peace.
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