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Continue here please!


*offers chocolate chip icecream*

hmmmm... I love choc. chip ice cream!

As far as fast food... I don't eat much from burger places. They taste good once in awhile but not often. I do love Great Steak & Potato Co. If you don't have one of those around you I can't tell you how great their Chicken Teriyaki Subs taste! They also have the best fries!

Trust me Danny, when you get into full time work, you are going to miss school.

I myself is studying to become an engineer( constuction engineer actually) and I am now in my first your of just working( as you have to go to three years on school first, then you have to work for two years, and thenn two years more on shool, and then four years on work again, and at last three years of engineer education), so may years left on school for me.

* take some ice cream ( I got enough choclate in the holiday) and coffe*

I couldn't agree less

My last years of school were something I did not relish. I like to learn, but if I can't use what I learn on something practical, then to me it's no fun. Add to that the fact that I'm an autodidact, and school was just the wrong place for me. I thought about going to university to study IT, but then I heard it was -again- just gray theory, no practical bits. That's what universities are like here.

Instead, when I came out of school, I started my own business right away. Sure, the first years were hard. It took me 3 years to finally get to the point where I could pay my own bills, but if I had to do it again, I would. No regrets

Ah...Tellie! A fellow engineer! That´s nice....though my specialty is chemistry...I´ve been working for many years and I must say I agree with you...AND stargelman!

Of course I miss school sometimes....but as it is now my work at the NPP is extremely stimulating and developing for me...and also my company offers a great deal of education!
F.ex I´ll probably take some courses this year.....yay!

But mostly I´m happy to not go to school, see when I get home....my time is MINE I don´t have any homework and stuff......that´s great!

Talking about school aye? Well it's this half year left until I move on to Highschool where I think I'm gonna study Media and Communication, hopefully get some job too... Our applications need to be ready in a little more then a month, you need pretty high grades to get in but I hope I'll manage it because they need to make up so many classes on the school I want to get into...

Have a second and a third choice too, so if you dont get in on the fist you might get in on either one of those two, but really don't know the third actually. Was thinking Sports or Health,- and Social which is pretty much everything within things to do with Health If I would choose that, I might go for ambulance personnel... But still un-decided...

A very special thing is that they have changed the Highschool system totally here in Norway and we who will join after summer will be the first one to try out this.

I have to disagree. At least with work, I feel like there's a reason behind me being there. At school, I feel like I know everything already and nothing is challenging. (with the exception of calc, but I have no plans that involve higher maths) I only attend school because it's the law, my parents make me, and there's no way I could go to college (maybe I'll learn something there) without it.

. . . I like school . . . (And this comes from the dumb jock )

I just don't like waking up at 7:00 am... But all my grades are great (save spanish..) and if I get my recommendations, I think I have a good chance to get to one of the Military Academy's here. in the US

I do not like school. The teachers are almost always moody, except for a few, and all i learn is how to completely slam people in every way, that is wrong. I mean i know its not very nice, but im sorry mrs. chase "you look dead and have a blue dot on your forehead" that is the example of what i learn in school. Other then getting handed A's i really don't see the point except to kill the 18 years untill you're alowed to live your life. I really do not enjoy the different cliques in it, and even though im popular i still could care less.

Yes its wrong but you have to admit it is pretty fun I realised today that all of the math teachers (If not all the teachers in general) and crazy... so caught up into math that they think false enthusiasm(at least I hope its fake) came make us like those 50 step math problems..


Ah Cliques.... I am not in a popular clique, nor am I popular. I hang aorund all the weirdos, which is alot more fun anyways then all the jocks and preps.... It is completely random at times


so My school isn't bad I hang around people that have fun, and it gives me somthing to do all day and some exercise

http://www.thelivingend.com.au/

Brand New Doll-The Exponents, They are pop/dance I don't like pop one bit but I like the exponents (I know I just said that about punk and the living end, but I'm full of exceptions). Brand new doll is a kind of punkish song rather than a pop one, which alot of their songs are; the band seems to be a pleasant mixture of pop/dance/punk, they are Kiwi (New Zealand) and quite unmistakably mainstream but they are old now and have gone out of fad for mainstream I like them because they are sort of like an poppy metal band. They have mastered the climax/anti climaicallity of music (unlike modern pop) and if you like bands which use silience and don't confine yourself to one genre you'd probably like them.

Now I am listening to Angel's son-Sevendust. No review, they are already known.

Anyone want to draw something for me?

DoomedOne-
What do you want drawn? With a bit of effort, my skills at art aren't too bad.

School-
My midterms are coming up. Not a big deal, I know everything I need to know. Only thing I really need to improve on is the speed I write at, and since I get half a day for my midterms, that shouldn't be a problem. I pay enough attention in my classes to absorb the knowledge coming from the teachers mouth.

School isn't completely useless as far as I'm concerned. I eventually want to be able to move out of my parent's house, preferably as soon as economically possible. That means I'll need a job, in today's economy, a good one. Which means I need college. Which means I need to finish high school, and preferably pay enough attention in my classes to succeed in college.

I prefer to learn things that will be usefull in real life. So my math class is pretty useless and boring. Some math is needed in life, but what we're doing right now isn't particularly useful. Plus I get yelled at because I don't show work, because the answer is what's important, if you know that you know what you're doing. Some of my other classes are useless, some teach things that will come in handy.

Regarding how to pay for college and an apartment at the same time-
Well, I'm only a freshman, so I don't need to worry too far ahead. But I recently got an interesting proposition from a friend of mine who shares similar plans. (graduate high school, move out of parent's home, go to college) She said that after we've graduated, we can be roommates and share the rent, cutting the costs of living for both of us. (pretty sure she was just joking, we both have a ways to go before we could move out) I responeded by saying that neither my girlfriend or her boyfriend would probably like that plan much. ;) I'm lucky she has a sense of humor that is similarly twisted to mine, and she realized I was joking. Otherwise she probably would have pushed me into the traffic on the road. (it was rush hour) I'm bigger and quite possibly stronger than her, but she's a fighter, a tomboy, and a small tough person can usually manage to beat a bigger person who won't hit back.

Regarding the other downsides of high school-
I don't much mind stereotypes or social groups that exclude others. I have friends from pretty much ecery group in the school. I've got nerd friends (by nerd, I mean nerdier than me), I've got emo friends, I've got a friend who pretty much defines the term jock, I've got preppy friends, I've got Gothic friends, I've got punk friends, I've got preppy friends, I've got friends from all over. I don't fit well into any of the stereotypes, so other people usually define me either as Gothic or as a reject. (similar on a lot of points, the difference being that Gothic is more fixated on death while being a reject is more just that-don't fit, don't care, and the fashions are different, Gothic being mostly black and dark red, reject just being whatever, doesn't matter, but generally dark) If other people ask me what I am as far as groups like that go, I tell them I'm Gothic, because it's a term people can instantly identify, as opposed to needing to re-explain what a reject is and why I'm considered a reject. Bit less awkward that way. If people want to exclude me from a group, that's their choice, and it means I probably wouldn't want to hang out with them anyways. And that doesn't happen much, I'm mostly called a reject because I don't like hanging out with most people, but a lot of people like hanging out with me, and most people have more important things on their mind than messing with someone who doesn't care. (be it girls/boys, sports, money, school, friends, work, or messing with someone who's more fun to mess with) I don't care much about stereotypes, so it doesn't bother me. And I'm usually too busy thinking about stuff to notice, anyways.

Hehe, when it comes to groups in school i'm eithe in the wierdo-nerd group, or on my own being a loner
The actual group is a laugh because we just talk about the most random things

Natyrally, you are not going to miss everything from school, but when works start to take its toll, with overtime and night shifts you are going to remember that when you were going to school, all you had to do when you came home was to do your homework then you were free to go.

*serves some homemade apple pie and lemonade*

See, I'm lucky because my popular friends and I talk the same way. Random things and hockey. Oh, by the way, who do you all think is going to take the stanley cup? I think Edmonton has a good chance, they've been dominating lately and Todd Bertuzzi is one of the great players of the game. I forgave him for the Steeve Moore thing, cause' he was just getting back for another player. Plus, it was a freak accident and he cried for like, three days straight afterwards. Compared to somethings other people have done (one of my favourite players, Darcy Tucker, ripped off someones helmet in an on ice fight and hit him with it).

Personally I detest sterotypes and labels. It has burned me up since 8th grade. Honestly I could go on forever but I've quite exhausted any want to do that years ago.

In my book punk is pushing it and basicly anything else is unacceptable. But that's just me... but then again you don't have to take me to seriously, as I take annoyance to just about everything concerning human interaction.

I have a strange phobia of being around other human beings and being locked away in a room with a computer indefinently is a dream of mine. I loathe setting my foot out the door as I must every morning. *shudder*

It's not that I can't interact, it's that I greatly dislike doing so. This being said I still have a sizeable amount of friends (sizeable being....5 or 6). It's a wonder I even have a girlfriend (but as of 2 weeks ago I do). Of course with friends and partners that's a whole different story, I consider those I'm close to... to well.. not be people, but something better.

I interact when I have to, but other than that I avoid and ignore with extreme vigilance. You should just look at me dodging and weaving through the halls of the school. I HATE human touch (except with those I am involved with).

I hatye stereotypes as well, but differently than you do, Intestinal. I don't hate all of the people or what they stand for, I hate the division between them and how 'punks' feel like they don't relate or hang out with 'preps' and so forth.

I hang out with everybody ever since realizing that the only real difference beyond normal individuality is the way the different groups dress/present themselves.

Oh yes i love making fun of people. It's a passion of mine, and like i said im pretty popular, and we all get into a group and talk about other people, it's awesome

Talk about having nothing better to do. I do talk about people, I'll admit, but I usually try hard not to...

All in all I think you´re a pretty nice guy Danny! ......really!

Well it is school, so i do have absolutely nothing better to do

touché

I must say I rather enjoy reading all of your opinions on cliques.

it is in human nature to categorize. You will simply have to deal with the fact. even those of you who are so ardently 'against' cliques have stated what clique they would be in if they were. No one likes cliques they jsut happen. Common interest is the main motivator. You will be categorized for the rest of your life, you must simply learn to accept that and live on with your life. Just remember no matter what be yourself, don't stereotype yourself to fit in.

I guess I've always been categorized as "the guy in the corner." Not really falling in with the preps, goths, skaters, etc, but rather with 'the others'.

Oh well, in college it all seemed to shift into one massive clique composed of previously more specific cliques. I see goths and preps hanging out togther all the time now, that rarely happened as far as I can remember back in grade school.

And yes, up until college I really could see little point into waking up every morning just to drag myself someplace I really didn't want to go. I know I have soaked up something from all of those wasted years, but if you ask me specifically, there's no way I can give you an answer. It must have went into an ear as I slept through half the day.

And now, college classes start back up in a matter of days. To my suprise, I'm actually looking forward to going back. Although I will miss the freedom of going to bed whenever I'm tired rather than having to sleep at night so I'm awake in the morning.

But hey, at least they've got good coffee there.

I'm hoping to get into video game programming. I hear it's kind of hard to get in, but it does seem like a promising field. Not to mention the classes I've had to take so far are actually fun.

Mocking people is easy for me, sarcasm comes as a second nature, and my first thoughts tend to be sarcastic, followed by more serious ones. But I can't talk about people esily, not one of my talents. I can't gossip well, can't keep track of who likes who and who doesn't, and all that stuff. Not one of my strong point. My memory works one of two ways, depending on what I'm trying to remember. I can easily remember some things, but more mundane things like names, current events, and what I ate for dinner all escape me. Either way, my mind is like a bear trap. Rusty and illegal in 48 states.

Cliques happen, nothing will stop that. People have to categorize things, just basic human nature. Everything has to fit into neat little boxes, and when something doesn't, they either force it inside anyways or they make a new box for it. Don't have to like it, but accepting it makes everything so much easier. And, in the end, if you keep your mind open to the possibility that you might be categorizing things wrong, and if you accept that some people don't want to be categorized, then there isn't much harm in it.

I don't hate the cliques themselves, just the fact that many people are blinded by them, so to speak.

For example, find me a 'punk' that is pro-life. You probably won't because most 'punks' feel like they have to be liberal in every sense of the word. I honestly think that less than half of the people screaming "F*** Bush" at Bad Religion concerts know why they are doing so, other than the fact that everyone around them does. I could apply this to every clique out there. 'Emos' have to act sad all the time, 'gangstas' have to act tough all the time, 'preps' have to be in fashion. The stupidity is neverending.

Next point -

Cliques are formed because you want to be friends with someone similar to yourself, no? Why can't a prep be friends with a goth? Sure they look different, but their feelings towards other things besides fashion could be very similar. Ninety-nine percent of the time, those two people will never be friends because of the gap formed by being in those cliques. By conforming to a clique, you limit yourself horribly.

You guys go to crappy highschools.

My highschool has 140 students, and most of us are delinquents from the bigger highschools in the district. Actually, it's made up of:

Kids who don't give a crap

Kids who are lower income and have to support their family

Kids with certain social or family problems that make life hard enough with all the pressure

Kids who hate homework

Kids who use it for dual enrollment so they can take classes at college

We have no cliques or stereotypes, there isn't a big gap between teachers and students

I could sort of be considered all of the above except for having a low income and not caring. Likewise, we have different cliques, but they're not really cliques, and sometimes people misinterpret cliques. It seems to me at my old high school cliques were mostly about exclusion than inclusion. Here its just people have their friends but they'll hang out with whoever is around, and almost every human being at this school could have a conversation with another. No one feels pressure to conform either, like a lot of my friends smoke a lot of weed and are total burnouts, but I don't feel any pressure to smoke as much, and sometimes I want to get in my other friend's 15 second car and hit the freeway looking for some place to eat. After school sometimes I'll literally just hop in a random car with some homies from my school and head out to a club or something.

The best part is you always have a ride home, and when I drive my car will probably be unintentionally packed, too.

I want to go to your school.

Doomeds school is purty good sounding.

Lets put it this way.

I don't fit in with the "nerds" "geeks" "emos" etc. etc. I have been influenced by my sorroundings to make the choice that I refuse to be how they are.. Loners, outcasts (own doing), better then you attitudes. And the list goes on, thats not to say all of them are like that..

Hah, I almost died laughing last year at our school when the Nerd group of about 60+ kids started a "Civil War" as we labeled it. They broke into like 7 diff groups. Retarded if you ask me, and it was over something stupid.

We, as humans, are social creatures and as such, I will make sure that I am very socialable..(?) I love having friends, and I love a good time. The funny thing is, this atomatically vaults me up to the Prep, Jock, or even Gangsta clique... But in all reality, I am a 16 year old highschool kid, that wants to keep his girlfriend and graduate highschool with good enough grades to get me into a college that will help me be a better, smarter person.... and to learn how much beer I can chug

I´ll just say that you, Danny, Channler, Doomed, Kindred, Megil, Kell, etc, are really nice and smart guys that anyone would love to have as friends! And your parents must be very proud of you.....I would be if you were my sons...

So I was included in the etc right Minque?

but yeah like I said I have a decent school, have a fair amout of friend and am kept busy so i can't realy complane.

Well, as far as categorizing goes, I'm the quiet kid who doesn't socialize hardly at all with others, and none at all with the opposite gender. I generally try to find a seat in class where no one will talk to me, usually by other quiet kids.

Problem: There aren't any other kids quite as withdrawn as me.

Generally some jerk will sit beside me and end up mocking me, but they stop eventually when they realize that I completely ignore them.

In some classes I have become known as a "smart kid", which is almost just as annoying because than I constantly hear chatter where other people put themselves down when talking about me.

Life sucks . . .

I'm glad I don't have one.

Kindred you said that you either have to fit in a neat little box or create a new one. . Well I seem to have refused to do either.

I prefer suitcases.

I guess I could be categorized as a loner, but I have friends, just not in most of my classes. I'm in the only advanced classes my school offers, and those classes are generally the only place I can make friends in, because they seem to think like me. Very few act like me though: I'm clumsy and I tend to embarrass myself very thoroughly when the girl I fancy is in the same classroom as I am.

That's sad Gamer

I don't see myself as the very popular guy but I'm popular, but that doesn't mean anything to me anyway. I usually get along with everyone, both girls and boys and everyone likes me. Maybe I don't hang out with all those we could call loners or nerds but I don't have anything against them and don't mock them either. Of course some of my other friends does it but... I usually ignore that, I try to stay friends with everyone.

But here in Norway, at least on many schools here are quite different from USA, at least from what I'm hearing now. Because we really don't care much about being popular or not and almost everyone on my school has a lot of friends.

I'm looking forward to starting in Highschool soon, I have a quite many friends around on other schools and hope I can come to the same Highschool as them. And of course I get a big chance to get new friends when I move on to another Highschool too

Moving on to another topic, at least I'm doing that... because I might be visiting the USA sometime in the near future. We got a Christmas Letter from a friend of my father who works in NATO, and is currently living in a place near the NATO HQs or what I can call it in the USA. Don't remember which state or anything, but we were invited and still my father says is just a maybe, but I would really enjoy visiting the USA... Would be a great experiance I think, leaving Europe

Yes sweetie..you and Fuzzy, gamer, all of you!......

*chocolae chip cookies, pizza for everyone*

Observant, aren't you? Yes, we do. Or at least, I consider my high school crappy, others might not, if they went there. It really depends. The school itself isn't that bad, but the other stuff sucks.

Lucky. Or maybe not. My school was designed for a maximum capacity of 800 students. We have 1200+. And our cliques aren't so much all the preps, all the goths, all the jocks, all the emos, etc... It's split up further than that, it'll be a couple of smaller sets within those. And most people fit in with two or three groups of different stereotypes.

Again, lucky. Or maybe not. There are people who will not allow you to speak to them. If you do, they make your life a living hell. Didn't happen to me (I realized what would happen ahead of time and kept my mouth shut) but one of my friends found rumors flouting arounf that she was a whore because she talked to someone who was just "better than her."


You're funny. Nice and smart guy, maybe, it really depends on the situation or time. I've done many stupid things, I'm too sarcastic to be really nice a lot, but I tend to be fairly nice most of the time. And my parents... My dad mostly cares where I am so that he can go out with his friends and not lose the little one to my mother for negligence. Other than that, I can go anywhere, he doesn't care. Then my mother doesn't trust me out of her sight. Probably because a lot of my friends smoke. Or because I refuse to introduce her to my friends. Or because if I did introduce them, I would be grounded forever.


Ah. No, it's that other people tend to put you in the boxes, not that you go into them voluntarily.

Ah. You have class, gamer10.

Sorry to change the subject, but.....

minque turns 100 in March!

(I just looked at her profile, and it said her birathday was in 1906)

Yes.....I am a wise woman am I not?


Edit: do not believe all I´m saying!

Women are very conscious about their age. It's best to stay away from topics that deal with personal info about women. You'll only end up sleeping on the couch and finding yourself writing up a list of things you can do to make her happy again. Like going to the store and buying large amounts of Chocolate.

As for school, I never got to experience it to the fullest. I was forced to drop out of high school in my junior year and to go to work. My dad had left us and with my mother not being able to make much at the time I was forced to grab a job doing construction on the docks in downtown Wilmington. After spending several years of doing the dirty work I decided that the best thing I could do with my life at the time was to join the military. So I took my friends car and went to the nearest Recruiters office. The end.

This moment of Jonajosa's life was brought to you by: The little Coffee Shop, Waiting4Oblivion forums, The Elder Scrolls 4 Oblivion, and... well... me.

Channler, you probably wouldn't like my school as much if you learned basically all the teachers are pretty left-wing. One of out staff members who handled disciplinary problems, yard-duty, and all that stuff that makes him an antagonist (though he's still a cool guy) is republican, but that's it. They're extremely respectful of everybody, as well as the student body.

Most of the people here don't just hate Bush because its punk, but have reasonable opinions, and people who support the war or have other right-wing views feel comfortable arguing and don't feel like they're getting cornered. They probably feel more comfortable here than at the mainstream schools where teachers are obligated not to show their opinion. Hell, I'm pretty left of center myself, and even I constantly argue with my teachers about things (for isntance I think Hugo Chavez practices rulership by the majority to accomplish change, and though it seems like progressive, good change, he's still ignoring the political freedoms of the minority making him no better than the republicans in this country.)

Jonjosa, I would make the same decision in your shoes if I agreed with our current regime. Actually, you and I have a lot more in common than you'd think. I think the military is a great thing for people who don't know what to do to give their lives meaning. I just don't agree with how its being used.

*shivers at the preceeding posts*

I thought I had escaped the madness on this site! I'm hounded!, is there no end?!?!?


As I see let alone and be left alone. You avoid me, I avoid you. It all works out better that way. I detest (most) other people and I do all that is in my power to make sure I don't have to interact with them.


Look at this! Does this look like the face of someone who wants social interaction? If you are of the ages 14-18 then apparently it does! I can't stress how much I dislike people in general. With the petty clique wars (and they do happen) and the annoying little recruitment drives to bulster the ranks of their kind for the coming battles. Live and let live!

When I walk through a crowded hall, do you know what I see? I seething mass of corpses-to-be who writhe like maggots as they go about their disgusting business of clogging up the halls (and feasting on the remanents of their fallen comrades).

Like scavengers to a fresh slaughter they rush up to the tables to stake clame to their territory, woe be to those who get in the way. That would be me, by the way. The jump into the lines, once again fulfilling their maggot-like roles, and feast upon crudely prepared food in the most disgusting way imaginable and then leaving behind the remains and they slither off to the next destination to defile with no second thought about the poor janitor, who has seen so much abuse at the hands of these vile creatures that he no longer has a free will of his own, who has to mop up after their filth.

I go to a classroom, you know what I see? The horrific empty stares of countless brainwashed children put in rows, like some fell crop, as they pound off verse and line to some faceless entity that they know only by title. I sit there and try to pass the time as these strange soulless dolls complete their tasks as ordered by the Faceless. Eventually there is a sharp noise and there is a change in the doll-children, the instantly grow foul and demonic. They shreak in their evil tongue and wail with glee as they are let loose upon the world.

I go to an assembly, you know what I see? Darkness incarnate. Pleasure slaves dance before a cheering crowd of slovelnly beings, tripping over themselves and causing destruction to everything around. I'm constantly bumped into and crushed by the beings that I have been forced to exist next to. The beasts defile me with their disgustingly slimy and filthy appendages (if I dare call it even that). Eventually the carcasses of the pleasure slaves are dragged away ushering in a wave of testasterone and the stench of sweat. These two things are soon followed by an army of sorts. They are all dressed in uniform and ripple with muscle as they are given praise by the bench-beasts. A representation of the civilazation to be conquered is thrust into the middle of the arena and ritualisticly battered by the representation of ours. A booming voice declares the right to victory and the ritual is completed with a chant and the spilling of mascot blood. Then the beings are cut loose and the rush from the building, as if they were in danger, but the only danger is themselves as they trample eachother (and me) underfoot.

This is only a small sample of how I feel about people and school. *cringe*


The horror....

oki then

rather depressing way of looking at things. too each their own though .

Well, I seem to live in a place where nearly everyone is Republican, including my family.

Anyway, Report cards came home today. . .

Hey doomed, I hate to break it to you but if your between the age of 22 - 36 and are currently teaching highschool, there is a good chance that there pretty liberal.

I've had 1 teacher threaten to fail me because I refused to believe what she said about her political views (If I'm not mistaked thats a big No-No on the teachers side). The other... 6 teachers like to argue with me... hmm.

Also, on another note, most of my teachers are black females. And if I'm not mistaken they tend to lean towards more feministic (?) and liberal views.

Hah, I'm a Saint in first period, and a Devil in fourth

Anyways, you all are depressing me with your school stuff. This last week I've gone out of my way to try and talk (very nicely) to these 3 kids that never talk in my American History class.... I think they barked at me.. I mean, you've got to look at the box from the outside. Some people want to help and be friends, and you (rather some of you) chase them off, and thusly turning them against your self described clique.

But in lighter news.. I don't feel like crap today!! After about cutting off my finger in broomstick hockey, turning my muscles into jelly (weightlifting), and staying up for 48 hours straight... I've finally had 8 hours for some R&R.

Well I'm going to talk to one of my friends at subway now so I'll ttyl

I could go on, OH how I could go on. But I think it best you not see things from my point of view, lest your minds be tainted the horror that is my everyday.

Hmm well school is bad, but im not horrified by people in general, just kinda the way they can be. Like i can't stand swearing, i know people do, but i can't stand it, it sounds so tacky, (no offense to anyone) and most people at school do. So out of school i have this great group of friends. It's awesome, so i may hate school, but i do have a great circle of friends

People... are just icky. How can anyone stand being even near to a child of the maggot.

I feel blessed by the fact that I have never been to any form of concert, if that's how I feel about a congregation of those who are my fellow classmates and peers just imagine the horror that would be invoked by the sight of disgusting slimy shirtless bodies writhing in tune to the almost eldritch wailings of several guitars.

Wow. And I thought my point of view was depressing. You take the cake.

People are too funny to hate. I can rarely muster up anything more serious than minor dislike for them. I don't care enough to hate, or even enough to dislike a person seriously. And I don't even dislike most people. A lot of people are casual friends with me (mostly because of my wonderful sense of humor, it certainly isn't my looks), and these are the people who I like to hang around with, when I'm in school. There are some people who, while I personally don't like them, deserve respect. And then there's the long list of people I only have a minor dislike for. But they can't be that bad. After all, they give me something to smile about.

There aren't too many people in my school who are mindless idiots. Most of them have at least something worth daying, at some point or another. I can't speak for your school, I've never been there (to my knowledge). But at my school, while there are certainly the trendy people, the sheeps, the mindless drones, there are still people who aren't worthless, people who can hold an intelligent conversation, or think in a way I don't, draw conclusions and oppinions I wouldn't come to.

And even the drones are good for a grin once in a while. I'm usually too tired to actually laugh, but smiling doesn't take too much energy. Stupid people are rather funny to observe. I hope I'm not one of them.


Cursing? Eh, there's a time and a place for cursing, most people just use curses inappropriately. Cursing is supposed to show emotion, and in a lot of cases, it's better to keep it to yourself. My primary uses of cursing are: a, when I hurt myself, b, when it's necesary to make a joke funny. Yes, a lot of people use cuss words at the wrong time, or insensitively. Some people are particularly offended by certain words, and it's better to avoid cursing around people untill you know them well enough to avoid offending them. (for example, one of my friends doesn't care about any curse words you can throw at her, but she hates the F-word, for various reasons I won't go into) So, while cursing itself can be fine, you have to moderate yourself. Besides, if you use a word a lot, you make it lose it's power when if comes from you seriously.


The teachers at my school are a pretty decent mix. My math teacher's a Republican, a very serious one. I have her first block, so it's there that I have to say the pledge of allegiance. And, since I don't say that, I get in trouble if I don't stand up and mouth along and pretend to say the pledge. (she has given people detention for not standing up and saying the pledge) My Global Studies teacher is a liberal. Most of my teachers try to keep their preference unknown, because it shouldn't make much of a difference in school, so it isn't important. But their politics tend to sneak out a bit from time to time, and there's a decent hodge-podge of both in our school.

I have friends who are Republicans, I have friends who aren't. Most people in our area aren't Republican, but I see no reason to dislike a person based purely on their political oppinion. There's more to a person than that, so why should I (or anyone else) judge a person on that one trait alone? As far as I know, most people don't do that, and that's one case where I'm glad to be with the majority. (as far as I know, anyways, but I have a rather limited perspective, living in only one are, I can only judge that one area, and not knowing everyone particularly well, I have to guess on my impressions of them, which could be wrong)

Why wouldn't you say the Pledge of Allegiance? (simple question, possibly warrenting a very complex answer from you Kindred )

I understand that you (lets see if I ican get it right..) athiest.. or agnostic (?) but that really just requires you not to say the.. Under God.. part of the Pledge.

Personally I enjoy saying the PoA. Why? I couldn't tell you, other then it makes me feel like i've reaffirmed my position and my role I have in this nation. (the US one that is)

I just don't think its a battle that deserves that much effort.

Minque! How bout some cake?

EDIT: Oh, and IsChaos... Have you ever tried to be.. err.. open? Like not on the internet, but in real life (I KNOW IT EXISTS!!!). I think you will find that after you make significant human contact, you will forever enjoy it.

he could simply not be a citizen?

I don't say the pledge of allegiance.