Pages: 1 2  Next -- Posted by fenrir at 11:23 pm on Dec. 6, 2008 While sitting here unable to sleep or constantly dealing with my stomach problems or neurological issues, I've decided to simply ask who you've always wanted to be when you grew up? I've doubted my own intelligence or ability to articulate even the most menial of theorems or ideas until recent, but it seems that I've changed almost overnight to want to become more... enjoyable of life. Alan Shore (as played by James Spader; The Practice 2003-2004 and Boston Legal 2004-NOW) He's brilliant, articulate, manipulative, deceptively kind, reserved, zealous, and everything I've come to admire when it comes to intelligence.  I know and quite readily accept that my girlfriend, who undoubtedly read this post grow tired of me saying that I idolize him, but I haven't a clue what it is in particular why I want to be him.  I could become another version of one of my favorite antiheroes, El ingenioso hidalgo Don Quijote de la Mancha, as well? Where's the nearest windmill? -- Posted by blackbandaid at 11:29 pm on Dec. 6, 2008 Has anyone read Swallows and Amazons? It was my favourite book for so long when I was a kid. I always just wanted to be part of that family. So bad. -- Posted by the real anti christ at 3:34 am on Dec. 7, 2008 Well I have never solidly wanted to be anyone particular. A serial killer? No a James Bondesque spy... Idk. -- Posted by medjai at 6:07 am on Dec. 7, 2008 I wanted to command the forest, to be untouchable, and change the world. I never outgrew any of these things. -- Posted by barnabas at 6:25 am on Dec. 7, 2008 I wanted to be a famous harp player. Then my mom said we couldn't afford harp lessons, and handed me a violin instead. :( -- Posted by medjai at 6:34 am on Dec. 7, 2008 Ya but violin > harp so you made out on that deal -- Posted by barnabas at 6:35 am on Dec. 7, 2008 Quote: from medjai at 8:34 am on Dec. 7, 2008 Ya but violin > harp so you made out on that deal Yea but i sucked at the violin. hardcore. so then she convinced me that meant i would have been a terrible harp player anyways...and handed me a trumpet, which i begrudgingly played for 6 years. :( -- Posted by sophos at 8:27 am on Dec. 7, 2008 Quote: from fenrir at 3:23 pm on Dec. 7, 2008 ...simply ask who you've always wanted to be when you grew up? And you came up with a fictitious character? Sad is the day when man loses his sense of self-identity. -- Posted by exceedinglyrare at 9:23 am on Dec. 7, 2008 I've always wanted to be a mother...my entire life, that's what I wanted. It's just always felt like a calling to me, more than almost anything else (save for writing, but that's more like breathing to me--comes naturally and I have to do it in order to survive). It's kind of weird, how a lot of more "intellectual" people tend to look down on me for wanting this, but *shrug* That's their problem, not mine. -- Posted by fenrir at 10:19 am on Dec. 7, 2008 Quote: from sophos at 10:27 am on Dec. 7, 2008 Quote: from fenrir at 3:23 pm on Dec. 7, 2008 ...simply ask who you've always wanted to be when you grew up? And you came up with a fictitious character? Sad is the day when man loses his sense of self-identity. Sad when you are too quick to win an insult without realizing that the attributes I've listed do, in fact, exist apart from the fictitious world.. Granted, you never struck me as bright to begin with, sophos, but are you so much a troll as to not understand when its more tacky to pull a quip even when it isn't called for or warranted? Also, do you read, or is your limited understanding of the world around you restricted to whenever you read your own ignorant attacks against people who are less stupid than yourself? -- Posted by fenrir at 10:24 am on Dec. 7, 2008 Quote: from barnabas at 8:35 am on Dec. 7, 2008 Quote: from medjai at 8:34 am on Dec. 7, 2008 Ya but violin > harp so you made out on that deal     Yea but i sucked at the violin. hardcore. so then she convinced me that meant i would have been a terrible harp player anyways...and handed me a trumpet, which i begrudgingly played for 6 years. :( I hated how I had been forced to play the cornet for 6+ years, myself.  Admittedly, I was a far better percussionist than I ever was as a horn player, but we all learn from our mistakes.  On a minor note, I've always seen you more as a flute player, personally. -- Posted by sophos at 12:06 pm on Dec. 8, 2008 Quote: from fenrir at 2:19 am on Dec. 8, 2008 Sad when you are too quick to win an insult without realizing that the attributes I've listed do, in fact, exist apart from the fictitious world.. Granted, you never struck me as bright to begin with, sophos, but are you so much a troll as to not understand when its more tacky to pull a quip even when it isn't called for or warranted? Also, do you read, or is your limited understanding of the world around you restricted to whenever you read your own ignorant attacks against people who are less stupid than yourself? Why the hissy fit? Perhaps you are slowly realising that your obsession with the Alan Shore character stems from some repressed homosexual tendency. And perhaps you believe that by becoming a manipulative womaniser, you can hide this truth. Nonetheless, your idolisation of a shallow television character, to the point of aspiration, pitifully illustrates your simian intelligence. -- Posted by fenrir at 12:13 pm on Dec. 8, 2008 Quote: from sophos at 2:06 pm on Dec. 8, 2008 Quote: from fenrir at 2:19 am on Dec. 8, 2008 Sad when you are too quick to win an insult without realizing that the attributes I've listed do, in fact, exist apart from the fictitious world.. Granted, you never struck me as bright to begin with, sophos, but are you so much a troll as to not understand when its more tacky to pull a quip even when it isn't called for or warranted?   Also, do you read, or is your limited understanding of the world around you restricted to whenever you read your own ignorant attacks against people who are less stupid than yourself? Why the hissy fit? Perhaps you are slowly realising that your obsession with the Alan Shore character stems from some repressed homosexual tendency. And perhaps you believe that by becoming a manipulative womaniser, you can hide this truth. Nonetheless, your idolisation of a shallow television character, to the point of aspiration, pitifully illustrates your simian intelligence. Me calling you an ignorant troll is comparable to a hissy fit?  I've been calling you that ever since our first attempt at a failed conversation, perhaps its taken you this long to realize I wasn't joking?  As for any number of characteristics you care to share over my idol, I hadn't slept with my best friend's mother at 16.  Nor am I a 40-year-old high priced litigator or anti-Trust lawyer?  I've never smoked cigars and haven't much care for scotch.. on second note, not as often as he'd care to. Could I call you the scarecrow, and how long must you be waiting for that brain to finally come about? -- Posted by sophos at 2:14 pm on Dec. 8, 2008 Quote: from fenrir at 4:13 am on Dec. 9, 2008 Me calling you an ignorant troll is comparable to a hissy fit? I've been calling you that ever since our first attempt at a failed conversation, perhaps its taken you this long to realize I wasn't joking? As for any number of characteristics you care to share over my idol, I hadn't slept with my best friend's mother at 16. Nor am I a 40-year-old high priced litigator or anti-Trust lawyer? I've never smoked cigars and haven't much care for scotch.. on second note, not as often as he'd care to. While imitation may be a form of flattery, it says very little about the imitator. Snap out of your school girl's fantasy and get a life! Of your own. -- Posted by fenrir at 2:34 pm on Dec. 8, 2008 Quote: from sophos at 4:14 pm on Dec. 8, 2008 Quote: from fenrir at 4:13 am on Dec. 9, 2008 Me calling you an ignorant troll is comparable to a hissy fit? I've been calling you that ever since our first attempt at a failed conversation, perhaps its taken you this long to realize I wasn't joking? As for any number of characteristics you care to share over my idol, I hadn't slept with my best friend's mother at 16. Nor am I a 40-year-old high priced litigator or anti-Trust lawyer? I've never smoked cigars and haven't much care for scotch.. on second note, not as often as he'd care to. While imitation may be a form of flattery, it says very little about the imitator. Snap out of your school girl's fantasy and get a life! Of your own. Is this before or after you still have yet to disclose when that brain of yours will finally arrive?  Were you apparently too ignorant to notice the other reference to another childhood hero of mine in the OP, or must I consider that life of yours to not include thoroughly reading any information provided? -- Posted by sophos at 8:48 pm on Dec. 8, 2008 Quote: from fenrir at 6:34 am on Dec. 9, 2008 ...Were you apparently too ignorant to notice the other reference to another childhood hero of mine in the OP... Much like you, Don Quixote was a mental case with delusions of grandeur, and an imaginary girlfriend. But you can still take a lesson from the buffoon: "My judgement is now clear and unfettered, and that dark cloud of ignorance has disappeared, which the continual reading of those detestable books of knight-errantry had cast over my understanding."   -- Don Quixote -- Posted by fenrir at 6:07 am on Dec. 9, 2008 Quote: from sophos at 10:48 pm on Dec. 8, 2008 Quote: from fenrir at 6:34 am on Dec. 9, 2008 ...Were you apparently too ignorant to notice the other reference to another childhood hero of mine in the OP... Much like you, Don Quixote was a mental case with delusions of grandeur, and an imaginary girlfriend. But you can still take a lesson from the buffoon: "My judgement is now clear and unfettered, and that dark cloud of ignorance has disappeared, which the continual reading of those detestable books of knight-errantry had cast over my understanding." -- Don Quixote Yes, but it was as much his freedom and choice to believe in the best of humanity and that he was actually making a difference with his own sense of chivalry.  If anything, he was a conflicted, elderly man who sought the best humanity had to offer, yet died depressed and alone after being grounded in reality by those who "knew better than he."  (Note: Don Quixote was a true example of what it is to be a flawed antihero, and his noble goals and ambitions were far more to live for than a number of tangible limitations you could cite.) Without Moridin, you cease to be anything worth noting even as a footnote, yet you feel that your wit is unsurpassed?  And you call me delusional. -- Posted by sophos at 8:56 am on Dec. 9, 2008 Quote: from fenrir at 10:07 pm on Dec. 9, 2008 Yes, but it was as much his freedom and choice to believe in the best of humanity and that he was actually making a difference with his own sense of chivalry. If anything, he was a conflicted, elderly man who sought the best humanity had to offer, yet died depressed and alone after being grounded in reality by those who "knew better than he." (Note: Don Quixote was a true example of what it is to be a flawed antihero, and his noble goals and ambitions were far more to live for than a number of tangible limitations you could cite.) Without Moridin, you cease to be anything worth noting even as a footnote, yet you feel that your wit is unsurpassed? And you call me delusional. So far, your role models include a manipulative womaniser, and a deluded buffoon. Clearly why you're so screwed-up. Mori-who? -- Posted by fenrir at 9:39 am on Dec. 9, 2008 Quote: from sophos at 10:56 am on Dec. 9, 2008 Quote: from fenrir at 10:07 pm on Dec. 9, 2008 Yes, but it was as much his freedom and choice to believe in the best of humanity and that he was actually making a difference with his own sense of chivalry.  If anything, he was a conflicted, elderly man who sought the best humanity had to offer, yet died depressed and alone after being grounded in reality by those who "knew better than he."  (Note: Don Quixote was a true example of what it is to be a flawed antihero, and his noble goals and ambitions were far more to live for than a number of tangible limitations you could cite.)   Without Moridin, you cease to be anything worth noting even as a footnote, yet you feel that your wit is unsurpassed?  And you call me delusional. So far, your role models include a manipulative womaniser, and a deluded buffoon. Clearly why you're so screwed-up. Mori-who? Someone who is far too many more ways to count smarter, wiser, and more learned than yourself.  If I were to try and count your influences or role-models throughout one's journey, your stubbornness and ignorance would prevent even the slightest of wind to escape.  Although he'd been someone I'd even shown contempt toward, he enabled me to look beyond the supposed walls of my previous limited understanding.  He's also more of a satirical writer than your constant bouts of idiocy and unfounded arrogance. As for my delusions, I have led a quite eventful life full of sacrifice, determination, sorrow, regret, pain, and more importantly, hope.  I'd rather cling to any notion of peace and contentment than settle for the limitations others place upon oneself.  No, if anything, I'd call myself more conflicted and desperate to carve into the world my own understanding of what is worth everything and nothing.  Following my close bout with death, I have learned not to be pushed around too easily by children; therefore, your words will continue to be as they first began: Meaningless and folly. -- Posted by exceedinglyrare at 9:48 am on Dec. 9, 2008 fenrir, dear, might I point out that sophos is an obvious troll and that by feeding him, you're only prolonging his mediocre existence on this site? -- Posted by fenrir at 10:02 am on Dec. 9, 2008 Quote: from exceedinglyrare at 11:48 am on Dec. 9, 2008 fenrir, dear, might I point out that sophos is an obvious troll and that by feeding him, you're only prolonging his mediocre existence on this site? There is a time and place for everything, yet sophos clearly is no exception.  Courteous disagreement fuels wisdom, not strife.  As for his purpose, clearly I am no judge apart from my own limited understanding. -- Posted by exceedinglyrare at 10:12 am on Dec. 9, 2008 Quote: from fenrir at 1:02 pm on Dec. 9, 2008 Quote: from exceedinglyrare at 11:48 am on Dec. 9, 2008 fenrir, dear, might I point out that sophos is an obvious troll and that by feeding him, you're only prolonging his mediocre existence on this site? There is a time and place for everything, yet sophos clearly is no exception. Courteous disagreement fuels wisdom, not strife. As for his purpose, clearly I am no judge apart from my own limited understanding. *facepalms* His purpose becomes pretty clear if you read his other responses to other topics. -- Posted by fenrir at 10:16 am on Dec. 9, 2008 Quote: from exceedinglyrare at 12:12 pm on Dec. 9, 2008 Quote: from fenrir at 1:02 pm on Dec. 9, 2008 Quote: from exceedinglyrare at 11:48 am on Dec. 9, 2008 fenrir, dear, might I point out that sophos is an obvious troll and that by feeding him, you're only prolonging his mediocre existence on this site? There is a time and place for everything, yet sophos clearly is no exception. Courteous disagreement fuels wisdom, not strife. As for his purpose, clearly I am no judge apart from my own limited understanding.   *facepalms*   His purpose becomes pretty clear if you read his other responses to other topics. Which he clearly hasn't any power beyond what we're willing to relinquish ourselves. If he ceases to have any control over what I converse within my own topic, his supposed power is meaningless, as well. However, it has been clear that his constant rebuttals have been nothing more than an attempt to create strife, not progression of ideas. Could you accept that I've been selfishly using his ignorance in order to further my own sense of understanding toward what I want in life? -- Posted by exceedinglyrare at 10:29 am on Dec. 9, 2008 I could accept that and do find it amusing. I just wish he was a more entertaining troll in the meantime. -- Posted by fenrir at 10:41 am on Dec. 9, 2008 Quote: from exceedinglyrare at 12:29 pm on Dec. 9, 2008 I could accept that and do find it amusing. I just wish he was a more entertaining troll in the meantime. It is quite depressing that he causes me to miss our most hated and despised troll within my stay here on livewire, Moridin.  He was far more entertaining than his mere lackeys now.  What good are fleas without their host to feed from? -- Posted by sophos at 10:07 pm on Dec. 9, 2008 Quote: from fenrir at 1:39 am on Dec. 10, 2008 Someone who is far too many more ways to count smarter, wiser, and more learned than yourself. If I were to try and count your influences or role-models throughout one's journey, your stubbornness and ignorance would prevent even the slightest of wind to escape. Although he'd been someone I'd even shown contempt toward, he enabled me to look beyond the supposed walls of my previous limited understanding. He's also more of a satirical writer than your constant bouts of idiocy and unfounded arrogance. As for my delusions, I have led a quite eventful life full of sacrifice, determination, sorrow, regret, pain, and more importantly, hope. I'd rather cling to any notion of peace and contentment than settle for the limitations others place upon oneself. No, if anything, I'd call myself more conflicted and desperate to carve into the world my own understanding of what is worth everything and nothing. Following my close bout with death, I have learned not to be pushed around too easily by children; therefore, your words will continue to be as they first began: Meaningless and folly. "...life full of sacrifice, determination, sorrow, regret, pain ...  close bout with death..." With such role models, and now this Moridin character, it's no wonder. Unless you aspire for higher and more positive ambitions, your life will remain meaningless and folly. -- Posted by fenrir at 10:11 pm on Dec. 9, 2008 Fleas are useless and meaningless without any purpose to speak of, sophos, much like yourself.  By the way, you've officially bored me.  Bye. -- Posted by omnifariam at 11:27 pm on Dec. 9, 2008 I think sophos may have been a little over the top with his criticisms, and perhaps even insults; but doesn't the crux of what he's said ring a little true? It is important to have good, solid role models. Before we know it, we would have followed in their footsteps. Just my two cents. -- Posted by sophos at 1:36 am on Dec. 10, 2008 Quote: from fenrir at 2:11 pm on Dec. 10, 2008 Fleas are useless and meaningless without any purpose to speak of, sophos, much like yourself. By the way, you've officially bored me. Bye. Without purpose, just about everything would be useless; not just fleas. Similarly, mimicry, without a sense of self, is not unlike parasitism. -- Posted by sophos at 5:42 am on Dec. 11, 2008 Quote: from fenrir at 2:11 pm on Dec.10, 2008 By the way, you've officially bored me. Bye. Apparently you're are so bored that you need to continue your attacks privately, and then hide like a coward behind the block-sender option. PM: from fenrir at 9:10 pm on Dec. 10, 2008 Simply saying what you've done or accomplished even with humility is unbecoming? Calling strangers what you've called me isn't? As for what you are or can't accomplish, you are a troll.. nothing more, nor less. Wondered if you were one even in PM, which you've proven me right. Do me a favor and not reply to this. You're only demonstrating how insecure you really are. Stop your schoolgirl antics, and learn to face the world like a real man. Do yourself a favour, and grow up. Pages: 1 2  Next