[seldom_seen]

The walls are closing in around us. We are offered all sorts of electronic and pharmaceutical anesthetics as well as low interest loans in the hopes that no one will notice.

Hubbertspeak is just sticking his head up above the crowd and saying 'Whoa somethings fkd up here?"

I read an article in the NYT on the way home about Citibank. It say they're laying off 10,000 people, but goes on to say that they're hiring 200 people a day in India and one of their biggest shareholders is a Saudi prince who is pushing for changes at the bank (i.e. fire the fckrs). Shit is way fckd up. There's big cracks starting to appear in the facade of the ponzi pyramid.

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'T')alk to a bunch of them. Tell them all about your life. Be completely honest. Show them pictures of how you live and tell them what you do every day. Then tell them how shitty you think your life is. Tell them how bored you are. Tell them how much you hate working. See what they say to that. See what they think of you.

[TheDude]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Baldwin', 'T')he whole island once was able to feed over 9 million before the potato famine.

[Zardoz]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('threadbear', 'H')ubbert7777 is sharing an apartment with 3 other people. He IS living like a recently immigrated Latino.

[threadbear]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Zardoz', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('threadbear', 'H')ubbert7777 is sharing an apartment with 3 other people. He IS living like a recently immigrated Latino.

[NEOPO]

This thread is a headache

HOPE

Rain

Change

Hopefully he has cable/dsl.
My work is done here!

[Zardoz]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('threadbear', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Zardoz', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('threadbear', 'H')ubbert7777 is sharing an apartment with 3 other people. He IS living like a recently immigrated Latino.

[MacG]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('threadbear', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('MacG', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('hubbertspeak7777777', 'I') just don't give a shit if this pathetic society ends. It's just such bullshit. Here is life in this society summed up: Grow up, go to school, work hard and get good grades, go to college and get good grades so you can get a job so you can do even more work and be a corporate slave, get a raise so you can buy even more useless junk, put up with people's bullshit, get married to a woman who will end up becoming a nasty hag with saggy tits who will bury you in credit card debt, go to church, pray to imaginary friends, pay taxes, vote for dishonest politians based on their insincere promises, get screwed over by the politicians you voted for, have kids that will grow up to hate you, retire, grow old and watch lame-ass sitcom reruns all day and then, you finally die. And it was all for nothing. All that suffering, stress, and hard work for nothing. And people say dying young is a bad thing? I hope I don't make it past 60!

I look forward to dying sometimes, not because I'm depressed, but because of boredom... life is mundane! I don't know if there's an afterlife or not, but sometimes I feel like finding out. Even if there's nothing but non-existance on the other side, it still has to be better than this dogshit we call "reality."

And religion doesn't really help either. Jesus, Allah, Buda, Zeus, Thor, and other deities have no evidence to support their existence, yet every other religious nut is convinced he has all the answers. Scientists have some of the answers, but even they don't really know the hell is going on or why we're here. No one knows. Why can't people just admit they don't know? Is that too much to ask? I guess it is, because humans are know-it-alls. Nobody really cares, as long as they have a mansion and an SUV so they can impress their yuppy neighbors.

Is anyone else slightly bothered by such bullshit? Does anyone else not care if our bullshit way of life ends soon?

[lateralus]

Everybody sing along, someone pipe the music:

All I want for Christmas is a little woe is me, woe is me. All I want for Christmas is a little woe is me, woe is me....

[Atlantean_Relic]

Sheesh, what with all the old people here and the "You ungrateful brats should be thankful for what we gave you spiels all of a sudden?" All you seem to be doing is replacing "When I was your age" part with is "Them Mexicans your age don't whine". And there in might be a problem them Mexicans, Indians, and Chinese don't whine. Then again they got no where to go but up, Americans have nowhere to go but down.

[lateralus]

I can't wait until I get old.

When I'm 40 I'll tell my niece stories about walking 5 miles in the snow to get a bottle of water to cook the KD. Then I'll tell her to stop whining about how fucked up the world is because the boomers wanted to rape el mundo so they could live the good life.

An older friend of mine who fought during the Rhodesian War told me: Keep your pecker hard and your powder dry and the world will still turn.

[Zardoz]

This is amazing. The kid wants to be taken care of by somebody else, and not have to support himself, and poster after poster thinks that's just fine.

Wow. This is quite the enlightening little thread, isn't it?

[lateralus]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Zardoz', 'T')his is amazing. The kid wants to be taken care of by somebody else, and not have to support himself, and poster after poster thinks that's just fine.

Wow. This is quite the enlightening little thread, isn't it?

[threadbear]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Zardoz', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('threadbear', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Zardoz', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('threadbear', 'H')ubbert7777 is sharing an apartment with 3 other people. He IS living like a recently immigrated Latino.

[jdmartin]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'I') would guess you're in your late forties, early fifties? If this is the case, go ahead and self flagellate. You were born into a time when the economy was actually expanding along with the middle class. I would say that you have noone to blame but yourself, as well...except for...

During your youth, though, you probably lived through the oil embargo years, double digit inflation, etc...They were short lived, and everything bounced back and seemed to actually improve. Same with the recession of the early nineties, a kind of bounce back, with the exception of the rust belt. And, of course, the dot com collapse was followed by a constructin boom.

There was a different sense of what was possible in the future, based on the past. We're all victims of our own past experiences. We draw conclusions, that are sometimes unnecessarily tough on ourselves, when we fail to take this into account. We can condemn others by projecting our own self admonishing conclusions onto them.

Kids today (and by kids, I mean anyone under 40) aren't as blessed as we were. On the other hand they don't harbour the same illusions we did about the ongoing nature of economic expansion. Give them a break, by giving yourself one.

[lateralus]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('threadbear', ' ')Kids today (and by kids, I mean anyone under 40) aren't as blessed as we were. On the other hand they don't harbour the same illusions we did about the ongoing nature of economic expansion. Give them a break, by giving yourself one.

[threadbear]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('jdmartin', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'I') would guess you're in your late forties, early fifties? If this is the case, go ahead and self flagellate. You were born into a time when the economy was actually expanding along with the middle class. I would say that you have noone to blame but yourself, as well...except for...

During your youth, though, you probably lived through the oil embargo years, double digit inflation, etc...They were short lived, and everything bounced back and seemed to actually improve. Same with the recession of the early nineties, a kind of bounce back, with the exception of the rust belt. And, of course, the dot com collapse was followed by a constructin boom.

There was a different sense of what was possible in the future, based on the past. We're all victims of our own past experiences. We draw conclusions, that are sometimes unnecessarily tough on ourselves, when we fail to take this into account. We can condemn others by projecting our own self admonishing conclusions onto them.

Kids today (and by kids, I mean anyone under 40) aren't as blessed as we were. On the other hand they don't harbour the same illusions we did about the ongoing nature of economic expansion. Give them a break, by giving yourself one.

[holmes]

Dieoff is the best option for all the ones hanging on the tit of welfare. Dont ya know its becuase so many people are in the shit-stem. Of course its all going to suck when you have a feeding frenzy and breeding rates of that of a rabbit or mouse. get with the program and deal with it. More and more people have to work more hours to pay the taxes and for those that are working less and less. Its freaking logical. Heck I am going to go become an illegal work 5 months a year and collect welfare and breed en mas with no worries. Who ya think is paying for the masses and the beurocrats and the elites foo foo lifstyle and their slaves? educated workers predominately. Yes it will get more sucky. Just wait when 50% of your check is taken it sure will. Youll be working MORE and getting paid less and getting more stolen from you! Its awesome right now if you think about. Give it 10 years. hahahahahahahahaha! shmucks got ponzied!

[threadbear]

JD Martin---Holmes agrees with you. I rest my case.

[holmes]

And i just have to laugh at these "poor and downtrodden" spoiled Fellow citizens who support more immigration and the one world love in policies. You know the guilt shaming ones? They are already poor or heading that way and they think the great social experiment is going to even us all out. LOL! Your going to be destitute and starving as all your love partners are robbing what little you have. remember we are that close to survival times. Buwahhhhhhahaha! They will be the ones that get wiped off the earth. Oh the humanity. Oil is god for sure. Its painfully obvious.

[holmes]

yes lets feel for all thsoe 3rd worlders. Soon it will be you. Coming to a town near you. Yes I totally agree with jdmartin. if we changed our paradigm 50 years ago Id be totally into the collectivist mindset. I love collectivism and utilitarianism. However I have lost faith in fellow humans. Any opportunity they will take what is yours. There are opportunities out there. I will never except supporting others I dont know or care about. and that could care less if i am dead. Hell with them all. die off now please. One less carcass on the heap. sorry but im preparing people for the new age thats coming. Feelings will be hurt. people will die. Unless you toughen up and get off dependency as much as possible your going to have a major hard time. This is true compassion. Just like with the immigration thing. The pro illegal folks love to see all the bodies dropping and murders and misery associated with it. If they truly cared they would stop it all and make them fix their own country. Just as an another example of the sheer weirdness and self suicide that resides in our borders. Love to live. Live to love please.