Allamorph

[FONT=Arial]Why is everything that happens in Utah SOMEHOW MY FAULT???[/FONT]

[quote name='Ace][FONT="Comic Sans MS"']You act as if I'm a normal person.[/FONT][/quote] [FONT=Arial]I would so have a witty put-down here except I am too busy laughing myself purple. Also in the new rules I would like to institute a policy that all trolls must be licensed and sanctioned by me personally after a thorough, comprehensive test of their abilities. All those who fail the test are to be packed inside of [COLOR="DarkRed"]deadSeraphim[/COLOR]'s locker.[/FONT]

[quote name='taperson, 11:29 PM][SIZE="1"][COLOR="RoyalBlue"]Also, I feel super awkward that I don't ever follow the conversation in this thread & just post my own whatevers. & now I'm over it.[/COLOR'][/SIZE][/quote] [quote name='taperson, 12:10 AM][SIZE="1"][COLOR="RoyalBlue"]You should doodle me. [U]Duh![/U][/COLOR'][/SIZE][/quote] [FONT=Arial]Well, that didn't last long. :p[/FONT]

[quote name='Lunox][font=trebuchet ms'] Because I had to write about Seamus Heaney, and that was the topic that came to me most quickly when I had a thesis due three weeks ago. And college English is a *****.[/font][/quote] [FONT=Arial]I am tempted to call bull on that one, but . . . well . . . . > >;; Besides, it wasn't until college that I got to use quotes from "Tainted Love" as support for a point. [I]And was encouraged for it.[/I] [quote name='ChibiHorsewoman][color=#9933ff][font=monotype corsiva]You skipped five.[/FONT'][/COLOR][/quote] I've always skipped five. It's how I play hopscotch. Why hopscotch and not hopirish? Incidentally, air conditioners right behind computer desks make for cold hands. 60 degree days make for cold toilet seats. Cold hands plus cold toilet seats make for very awkward bathroom excursions.[/FONT]

[FONT=Arial]I have a large black man-purse called a satchel, and in it I carry my class books and notebooks in the big pouch, music materials in the next one, an observation journal in the third (for just taking out and writing down what I see; used it on teachers early this semester), three pens (red, black, and blue), my calculator, and at present this little annoying Class Participation System pad (erroneously called a "clicker" because people like saying "clicker", despite the fact that nothing on the infernal thing even comes close to making a clicking sound) used for my annoying Chemistry class this past year. Sometimes I stick water bottles on the side. And there's almost always some random papers hidden in various pockets somewhere. I stick them there because they're not important then but I think they might be soon, and then I forget they're in the pouch. Or pocket. Wherever I stuck them. Oh look, I fished out Calculus notes and an ad-postcard for Playboy. I must not have been near a trash can. [I]*shreds*[/I][/FONT]

[quote name='Nomurah!][SIZE="1"][COLOR="HotPink"]I suddenly feel like the majority of OB might be broke. [/COLOR'][/SIZE][/quote] [FONT=Arial]The majority of OB are either in college or regularly blow their money on alcohol, pot, or anime. Or both. Take your pick.[/FONT]

[quote name='chibi-master']Because it's bad, right?[/quote] [FONT=Arial]As I read your posts, the only things that come to mind to explain your behavior are either 1) you are trying to feel some sort of empowerment, 2) you live in a very forward and possibly promiscuous family, or 3) you enjoy taking advantage of the internet's anonymity to say things you would fain say around tangible people. I hope it is one of those three, because option 4 is so terribly demeaning that should I present it I would spawn yet another contest over truth versus "let's not potentially hurt anyone's feelings".[/FONT]

[FONT=Arial]Phil Keaggy's [B]Acoustic Sketches[/B] album. Classical guitar for a rainy day and dorm cleanout. :)[/FONT]

[FONT=Arial]Dolla dolla bills, yo. And several items of plastic, but no credit cards. Hopefully I shan't need to change that fact.[/FONT]

[quote name='Rachmaninoff']I think the phrase you're looking for is nuke it, not whack it.[/quote] [FONT=Arial]Pop it, toss it, chuck it, whack it, throw it, place it, put it, throw it, hurl it, on and on and on.[/FONT]

[FONT=Arial]And I just realised. All your threads in the Anthology.... [INDENT].....they're not fiction.[/INDENT][/FONT]

[quote name='Nerdsy][color=deeppink']I instantly become very cold to anyone I don't know extremely well touching me.[/color][/quote] [FONT=Arial]See, that's not even it for me. I don't get irritated by contact; heck, I poke and harass other people now and again. It's something in the way I hold myself, apparently. I'm almost able to push people to six feet without even moving. Even the spontaneously huggy girls seem to need to ask me beforehand, and if not I just get this peculiar look sent my direction.[/FONT]

[quote name='chibi-master']And judging by your melancholy attitude, I'd say you need one.[/quote] [FONT=Arial]Ask any of my friends and they will tell you that I am a very happy, ridiculous, silly person who exudes an aura of DON'T TOUCH ME. I don't know why.[/FONT]

[quote name='chibi-master']Would a snuggle help?:confused:[/quote] [FONT=Arial]Judging from your actions to date, I'd say you're desperate for physical contact of any kind with a male. And I can only think . . . why on earth is it that important? H'ogawsh, Fantastic Max. Did you have to remind me? I remember having the McDonald's toy.[/FONT]

[FONT=Arial]But do you remember the Chuck Norris and Mr. T cartoons? Or Fraggle Rock and Eureka's Castle, for that matter? [quote name='Cat']Very cute kitty cat Allamorph. Is she a Maine Coon? I noticed the M on the forehead.[/quote] I never thought about that shape being there..... As far as I know she's mixed, but she's predominately Maine Coon. Such a tiny thing, though, which is why I wonder. But she's got the double-layer coat and the trilled miaow of the Maine Coons. Her sister got all the smarts, I think. That girl had some smart boys, too; one of them was the one that'd talk to me in actual sentences and taught himself to play fetch.[/FONT]

[quote name='Nomad][SIZE="1"][FONT="Verdana"]Anyway, I'm listening to a movie. But it counts because it's musically inclined. It's [B]Repo! The Genetic Opera[/B].[/FONT'][/SIZE][/quote] [FONT=Arial]I have a feeling I'll be watching this one myself soon. I point to [COLOR="DarkRed"]Raiha[/COLOR] for getting "Zydrate Anatomy" stuck in my head for a week. Incidentally, Verdana is the default font, [COLOR="DarkRed"]Nomad[/COLOR], so . . . maybe you just wanted to be specific? :p Currently:[/FONT] [CENTER][YOUTUBE="Salva Nos (Noir )"]TMpwM8L1EtY[/YOUTUBE][/CENTER]

[quote name='Gavin][SIZE="1"']Because somewhere out there buddy there's someone stupid enough that they need to be warned about that sort of thing.[/SIZE][/quote] [FONT=Arial]And those people deserve every ounce of stupidity they reap. And they shouldn't be allowed to get lawyers. Completely different: [CENTER][IMG]http://i195.photobucket.com/albums/z158/Allamorph/Pets/IMG_0167_2.jpg[/IMG][/CENTER] Finally found a good shot of her. (She's terrible with cameras, at least when I'm in visual range.) Her tiny feet make me smile. Also notice how the dog took four fleece blankets and piled them in the corner for his bed, and then sleeps three feet away from the pile.[/FONT]

[FONT=Arial]Why do food packages say that food may be hot after you cook them in the [I]freaking microwave????[/I] Golly Martin.[/FONT]

Yes they are. The difference is that they are not open to italics our end reasoning. No matter who a person is or with what they are afflicted, be it circumstance or mental, every human makes decisions based on what makes sense to them at the time. Logic is always involved. It may be twisted, warped logic that a normal sane person would recognise immediately as wrong, but to the person who is making the decision the logic is clear as day. I am imposing nothing on anyone. Rather, I am looking to understand italics their end reasoning without subjugating it to my own. But I'm not trained in this sort of thing. I only know people by instinct. So I brought this up to someone whose field is psychology. Taken from a conversation with Indi Feelings are logical to a certain extent. There is a path to find. Saying they're not... is a cop out. People want to sugar coat it, but bottom line is at that moment, they made that choice. All you can do, then, is suspend your own sense of logic and reasoning until after you understand the other person's. It's like operating with Down's Syndrome; all the processes are still there and still capable, but things get mixed up on the way out. So here, it is the processor which is mixed up, and we must search for how the logical lines were fouled instead of blindly assuming that there are no lines at all.   I imply nothing. I am directly stating it. But the concept as you are seeing it is correct. What you are assuming is that I'm fine with that.   I begin to feel that words like "oversimplify" and "problem" are being tossed around altogether too freely. With the former, how one can break an issue down past its base components is a concept I can't quite fathom. So instead of repeating that I am "oversimplifying", please tell me what that means. In the latter, I confess that I have no idea what problem you mean. It's vague, and unless I understand your intent with that I risk going off in the complete wrong direction in attempting to answer it. Also I did not say suicide is cowardly. It is Cowardice. There is a stark difference. (Although I suspect you may view that statement as "splitting hairs".)   Yes you can. The circumstances make each case individual, meaning there can be no general solution as a whole but instead case-sensitive counseling. However, individual cases and circumstances do not automatically negate the same core motive.   That depends on the outside factors and how predominately they played on the person's mind, whether they catalysed the desire to escape or suspended otherwise rational thought through herd mentality. For the second one I'm reminded of the Heaven's Gate incident in California . . . led by a guy named Applewhite, I think? (I'm trying not to confuse it with the similar episode of CSI, is the problem. =P) The only reason the deaths of the cult's followers are classified as suicides is because they did, in fact, take their own lives. After all, we're still in the process of recognising psychology as a legitimate murder weapon, and since Applewhite himself committed suicide the only purpose served by classifying the others' deaths as murder is for bookkeeping and (one would hope) easier peace for the families since no one living could be held accountable. Sticky situation. Although one wonders if the incident would have still occurred if the participants had not at some level still desired to escape this life and move on to . . . whatever they thought awaited them. The former also involves psychology, and for that one I'm reminded of the girl who killed herself after online harassment. (I thought we had a thread on that, but if we did it's farther back than the eighth page or I never posted in it.) Unfortunately, while outside influence was a large factor there, the girl's desire to escape from her situation cannot be removed lest one completely misunderstand the seriousness of her situation.   Right. Although I hesitate to use the term "disorder" because doing so risks reducing perception of them to a clinical perspective. You can't be detached about things like this. (Which is partly why I'm being so adamant about my point.)   I would disagree. And I'd have to pull Vicky as the best example I can think of at the moment, for not only does she hold Christianity in a fair degree of contempt, but she is also lesbian, both of which fly directly in the face of my core values. And yet I count her as one of my most valued friends from hereâ??so much so that when she mentioned not long ago that she might drop off the face of the Boards I immediately set about convincing her to abandon the idea for, I admit, purely selfish reasons. I just didn't want her to leave. There is no probably about it. I can't accept many of the life decisions she's made. But that doesn't mean I have to be thinking about them every time I talk to her or think of her.   . Exactly. Here you and I agree completely. And I think that's where my initial statement has thrown you off, for even though the same core concept exists in all cases, each case must be dealt with on an individual level. The only reason I make the unifying thought, then, is to better understand why suicide happens, why it requires intervention, and how to go about approaching each case. And with that in mind, one of your last statements falls directly into place.   Not quite true. It expresses my thoughts exactly. and that preciseness is where the snags begin. So far, I have caught all my repliers by my word choice. It was not my statement that caused the reaction; it was the word I used. 'Cowardice' is an ugly word. It makes people uncomfortable. And it should, because the qualities of character that it embodies are not desirable by any stretch of the imagination. And therein lies the issue I have been driving at with this sequence of posts. I refuse to accept being comfortable with suicide. I refuse to accept that any of us have the right to sit around discussing suicide without fully comprehending its seriousness. I am met too often in my day to day life with people who are content to hold discourse on topics like these as if they were discussing Thomas Aquinas or Ludwig Wittgenstein. It is easy to say "suicide is terrible". You can forget you said it after twenty minutes. John was the first to breach this mental barrier. He wanted to know what is so inherently wrong about suicide that we must work to prevent it whenever we can? I believe we can agree on the point that we must work to prevent suicide, but who in here truly understand why we believe so? But often, as well, that kind of prodding yields no response. So I took it one step further. And I got instant reactions. And to be honest, those reactions came in exactly the manner I thought they would come. Because while we all want to agree that "suicide is bad", no oneâ??no oneâ??wants to risk appearing insensitive by stating an ugly truth. This mindset is so prevalent and so ingrained that even when one person is willing to take that step, they are instantly decried as judgmental and often close-minded. In this case, the distinction most people will miss when presented with the word Cowardice is one of state of being. A Deserter is one who deserts. A Murderer is one who murders. But a Suicidal (and what a clever little label that is) is one who is likely to attempt suicide. In other words, one who has not yet committed suicide. I cannot be brave by simply considering a brave action. Neither can I be a coward by considering a cowardly action. In order to be one or the other, I have to actually take action. Since a person can no longer be suicidal after they are dead, only those suicidal people who have already attempted suicide and failed fall under my statement. And then again, even though Cowardice does define part of one's character, that definition is not permanent. So saying someone is cowardly and saying someone was cowardly are again two different statements. So while a lot of you will remain hung up on an ugly term and whether or not we have the right to "label", I instead desire to use such knowledge to help the people in question. I wish to focus on how to dissuade someone from becoming a coward because I do not want them remembered as one. And that traces back to the initial post, and why I feel assisting suicide is worse than suicide itself. Why would anyone in their right mind encourage another to be a coward? Such people are vile. Addendum: Beware of confusing 'judgment' with 'bigotry'. A person who makes no judgments has no thoughts. Those who use such judgments to make themselves appear better or others worse are bigots, and only those.

[FONT=Arial][URL="http://www.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,1894225,00.html?cnn=yes"][COLOR="Blue"]Time Magazine[/COLOR][/URL] A recent study and paper done by geoscientists at Princeton and Lausanne, Switzerland, suggests that the mass extinction of over half the planet's creatures might not have actually been caused by the asteroid that punched a hole in the Yucatan Peninsula millennia ago. [INDENT][I]The asteroid impact and dinosaur extinction, say the authors, may not have been simultaneous, instead occurring 300,000 years apart.[/I][/INDENT] Give or take. This paper might very well raise some hackles in the community of established scientific doctrine. Although, you know, that [I]is[/I] how we've made progress in the past. Wasn't Copernicus excommunicated, or threatened with it, for saying the earth was not the center of the universe? [INDENT][I]...Keller and Addate worried that we were misreading both the geologic and fossil records.[/I][/INDENT] We need more questioning people around.[/FONT]

Why bother posting? Same logic.

Right. And for that reason I said nothing about "ultimate forms" of anything. I will not call it more or less than any other act; it is cowardice, and there are no degreesâ??because to imply degrees is to begin to despise, and while I cannot excuse cowardice, I will not look down on it. Again right. And I spoke with this knowledge present in mind. Heck, I'd be surprised if I applied the same rationale as the rest of you. The reasonings and cause/effects and decisions that lead to suicide are all individual, all specific to the person. The only part I'm generalising is the attempt to escape. Yeah, and I tend to hold those as separate cases. A person who proclaims that they will kill themselves may very well be simply seeking attention, and in that case the motivations (and often the circumstances) are totally different. On the other hand, suicide to me is a serious enough issue that I believe all cases should be treated as genuine issues regardless of whether the person is attempting to manipulate or not. If you feel I am looking down on the person, please do not misunderstand me, for I mean no such thing. I'm certain you are familiar with the expression "hate the sin, love the sinner". It is the act I find inexcusable, not the person. So long as the person lives I believe they can and should be helped (i.e., drawn back, not urged onward). Once the deed is done, the person is gone, so nothing is left but the act, and the surviving relatives who'll need comfort at that point. I am. But we're defining the idea differently; I am not speaking of a person who is suicidal, but of suicide itself. The act, not the person. I don't "want" to call those people cowards. I don't want to call anyone anything. (It's why I hate racists.) I can only return you to my initial statement: I cannot fathom the hopelessness and despair that would drive a person to suicide. I cannot. So I am left with only my own understanding. Which is, and despite all my efforts will remain, limited.

[quote name='John']What is it about suicide that you guys think is inherently immoral?[/quote] [FONT=Arial]It is the easy way out. As I've mentioned elsewhere, I can't imagine the hopelessness and despair that would drive a person to suicide. But I cannot excuse, I [I]cannot condone[/I] the cowardice that makes the final decision. And it is cowardice. It is the single fastest way to make everything stop. Once you are dead you no longer have to worry about debts or pain or sorrow anything that exists in the physical world. You no longer have to struggle, you no longer have to fight. You are running away. Thus to assist suicide is to approve cowardice. And this I also cannot excuse.[/FONT]

[quote name='luluseason']once a day?[/quote] [FONT=Arial]Once per sneezing fit. Although I tend to sneeze a lot when the sun is bright. Sunlight burns my sinuses. :( MUST DO LAUNDRY MUST EAT CHIPS[/FONT]

[FONT=Arial]I only sneeze once per. But then I sneeze very violently and scare people. I just got a chain letter in my email account. It was about breast cancer, and I was about to delete it when I noticed it was from [COLOR="DarkRed"]Andrew[/COLOR]. What the heck, man. :p[/FONT]