Dupin

I feel the same way about all writing. It's no fun when it's forced, and I hate feeling like the things I write will be judged and analyzed. Writers force themselves to write. The whole notion of 'writing when inspired' is the naive dream of a novice. Writing pages and pages of crap is essential. I don't disagree at all. It's pretty close to impossible to live off writing on inspiration, unless you're already rich. But that doesn't mean I have to enjoy it.

If anyone here hasn't read "English As She Is Taught" by Mark Twain, go do it. It's pretty short, I promise. The basic idea is that during Twain's time as a teacher he noticed that teachers are forced by the curriculums to cram facts into the minds of students, and it's not an effective method of teaching. Peregrine, in my experience most classes have encouraged analytic thinking and creativity. Math is the huge exception here, if only because the teacher I had last year wasn't very good and the teacher I have this year in the non-honors class is dumb. Damn straight. The same is applied to films too. I often think if an author heard some things teachers say they would say "wait what? I just thought that would be funny." Like the people who say that Horton Hears a Who is an argument against abortion? Exactly. People take a book with a moral, (This one being that everyone is a person and deserves to be treated like, more or less) and twists it around. Or the guy who read Catcher in the Rye and was convinced the book was screaming "KILL JOHN LENIN!" Go read "Never Bet the Devil Your Head" by Poe. This one is also short, but I won't promise. One of my favorite lines was something about how "All good literary critics know every tale has a moral, whether the author intends it or not".

When I was busy and my ex called, I would know she didn't have anything important to say because I saw her every day at school, so I wouldn't always pick up. She would redial about 10 times, then call my landline until someone else in the family got annoyed and picked it up. Needless to say, that was a huge turn-off.

More money more problems. I thought somebody had said in this thread that it's been proven that above a certain financial status, people aren't actually happier. And as I posted before, the poorer people I've met actually seem happier than the upper-middle class people I know.

I like everyone in OT. I'm feeling pretty promiscuous today. But seriously, nobody posts here who is really dislikable. Undo annoys me sometimes with his/her seemingly pointless threads, but they tend to end up being good discussions, and do add something to the forum, plus he might be trolling.

If you do the bowling alley, you could learn French. All of those jobs sound pretty good though, compared to having no job.

Psychopaths/sociopaths/serial killers are incredibly rare anyway Most of my close friends are sociopaths. My parents are psychopaths. I know because I read a description of psychopathy on the internet and that qualifies me to make a weighty and illogical decision about something many psychologists claim isn't even a real disorder.

It's 7 AM and I got up two hours ago. This is probably the first time in a while that I've been up this early and not felt tired, excluding the times I just didn't sleep at all. I have to go back to school today after being out for two days. I missed two tests and an essay due-date, so I've got a fun day ahead.

Thanks. I feel the same way about all writing. It's no fun when it's forced, and I hate feeling like the things I write will be judged and analyzed.

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Lol. You don't think you should have answered that question before you started calling him your "soon-to-be boyfriend"? That sounds like a painfully awkward thing to ask, too.

That would be me :P Or at least, those are what I asked for. I doubt my family knows much about Camus, but we do have plenty of Dostoevsky.

Meh. I'm not sure it's really worth the $10. I'm beginning to get bored of it, mostly because all the mining and building and getting lost just gets repetitive eventually. Also, the fact that it's in Alpha annoys me, as my stuff keeps getting deleted. It duplicated my gem pickaxe though :thumbsup: My last project will probably be an underwater glass cavern filled with lava :twisted: If I can manage to actually collect lava without deciding to get killed while exploring dungeons. By the way, does anyone know of a multiplayer server I could join, just to test it out? I'm curious to see what it's like to build with other people.

Today (or at least the day before this current night - it's 5 AM) I had a birthday. Got some new books: -The Stranger - Camus -The Brothers Karamazov - Dostoevsky -Dracula - Bram Stoker -2nd Chance - Patterson I'll probably go buy the two books I wanted that I didn't get [stephen King's The Gunslinger (Dark Tower I) and Red Dragon by Thomas Harris] sometime this week. Unfortunately, I've still got about ten half-finished books on my bedside table, plus books for school, so I don't know if I'll be starting the new ones any time soon.

Oh man. I'm not sure how we all overlooked this. But...did they really have morals? It seemed to me like it was more of an elitist story about personal gain and familial monarchy. And Scar was clearly evidence that some animals definitely do not have morals.

Oh, you. Take that back to the philosophy thread.

What if we look at morality as more than a human construct? What does any of the concepts being "human constructs" have to do with it anyway? You've used that in two or three different threads, and each time just to disregard the idea without really explaining why. He means that morality is a product of our imagination, and therefore doesn't apply to nature because it really doesn't apply to us.

Hold down left mouse to mine, right mouse to craft. First, mine some trees and some dirt. Hit I to open the inventory, and put the logs in the "crafting" space, then click the result box a bunch of times to turn it into refined wood. Now craft yourself a shelter by placing blocks on top of each other. When it's night-time, go inside the shelter and stay there. To start making things, first make a toolbench. You do this by putting one piece of refined wood in each of the four spaces on your crafting thing. Right click to place one. Place the toolbench in your shelter. Now right click the toolbench and you'll see a larger crafting space. Put some (not all) refined wood in two squares, one on top of the other, to make sticks. Now make a wooden pickaxe by making a T with wood across the top and sticks as the handle. From here, you're ready to start on your own. Things are made by putting items in the shape of the object you're making. If you need recipes, check the minecraft wiki. The first thing I would do is mine some stone for a better pickaxe, then mine some coal for some torches. Before you start building a mine or exploring natural mines, I would reccommend having a stone pickaxe, a stone shovel, a stone sword, torches, and ladders. If you're still confused, there are tons of good vids on youtube. Seananners is doing a Minecraft series right now, actually. [hide] [/hide]

Enough to actually set all of those mirrors tens of light years away and in the right spot. I think that's too much effort for too little of a reward :P The trippy part would be that in ~20 years, when we look at that spot we'll see the mirror being set up. They'd also probably be too small to see. Yea but... couldn't you just film yourself putting up the mirrors and look at it 20 years later? Same result. But... that's not mind-boggling at all!

DO IT. You have my sword. It might be hard to break in, seeing as mental asylums are big targets for urban explorers, so there will probably good locks and doors.

you get a crumbled banana muffin *inserts Camus's The Stranger*

I found diamonds in the cave in my base, plus a ton of redstone, lava, water, and obsidian. Then I started building a glass dome for the courtyard around my house. I decided I would go to a different island for sand so I wouldn't have to rip up my beaches, and I ended up getting lost. I logged off at night, completely lost, with tons of sand in my inventory and a 3 by 3 house around me. I have plans to make a huge underwater glass room, as soon as I figure out how to get back to my spawn without losing all the sand I collected.

No, no you'd see what you looked like 20 years ago. After all, 20 years ago you hadn't been standing there yet. You mean you would see whatever was standing twenty years ago where you are standing now. It's an interesting concept, if not entirely possible if you consider error and the atmosphere and dust clouds and all that space junk I know nothing about. Maybe, if perfected, scientists could use it to see dinosaurs? It would be an intersting tie between astrophysics and archeaology. Oh, I just got an idea: If you put an infinite number of mirrors in a way that you would see one in the previous one in the previous one etc., you would eventually be seeing the past.

You are now aware that everything you post on the internet can be read by anyone who has the time, and most of it is either embarassingly unintelligent or just plain embarassing.