Everyone out for themselves

[Propagandhim]

I don't really think there is such a thing as helping your fellow man with no strings attached.  Everyone wants to be smarter than the next guy, and all of peoples' actions and words are subtle (and not so subtle) examples of a regular person's need to feel better than everyone else.  I'm not saying people are inherently jerks, but there isn't a healthy person on the planet who doesn't want to feel smarter/stronger/better than another.  So...

Should a person with a really low self-esteem temporarily seclude himself from the world until he builds up his own sense of self-worth?  What about objective tests for self-worth (IQ tests/being objectively identified as ugly etc.)  Does one take these tests at face value or dismiss them as something that is trying to calculate the incalculable?   Can having low-self esteem ever be legitimately warranted, given the fact that these objective tests strive to give objective results?  Is there are point where you stop listening to people?

Excuse my rambling and the itsy bitsy bit of wine in me right now.   

[Greatness Gone]

Should a person with a really low self-esteem temporarily seclude himself from the world until he builds up his own sense of self-worth?

It worked for tvc, so sure, why not?

[TVC15]

What are you talking about, you fleshy whore?  I don't have a sense of self worth.  When I kill myself, it will be for something entirely trivial, like maybe I'll just get real bored.  Life is pretty cheap to me.

[demi]

What are you talking about, you fleshy whore?  I don't have a sense of self worth.  When I kill myself, it will be for something entirely trivial, like maybe I'll just get real bored.  Life is pretty cheap to me.

* this statement does not reflect demi's sudden and convienient overnight wealth

[Greatness Gone]

i'm convinced that you aren't this crazy irl. your joke character posts are admirable, tvc.

[MyNameIsMethodis]

Everyone out for themselves?

No shit sherlock.

The year is 2008.

[Propagandhim]

Everyone out for themselves?

No shit sherlock.

The year is 2008.

So, why should anyone ever listen to anyone else in regards to anything personal?

[TVC15]

i'm convinced that you aren't this crazy irl. your joke character posts are admirable, tvc.

I keep everything as repressed as possible in real life.  This is as close to unfiltered as I come, though there's still some filteration going on.

[Propagandhim]

i'm convinced that you aren't this crazy irl. your joke character posts are admirable, tvc.

I keep everything as repressed as possible in real life.  This is as close to unfiltered as I come, though there's still some filteration going on.

I remember you had a post that mentioned that you just found out what you wanted to do with your life.  Are you still pursuing that?

[MyNameIsMethodis]

Everyone out for themselves?

No shit sherlock.

The year is 2008.

So, why should anyone ever listen to anyone else in regards to anything personal?

Because you can gain from listening to others. Like being a friend can get you free stuff, networking, etc etc.

[TVC15]

i'm convinced that you aren't this crazy irl. your joke character posts are admirable, tvc.

I keep everything as repressed as possible in real life.  This is as close to unfiltered as I come, though there's still some filteration going on.

I remember you had a post that mentioned that you just found out what you wanted to do with your life.  Are you still pursuing that?

Well, circumstances dictate that what I want to do with my life takes a backseat to getting lots and lots of dental work done, so the answer is no.  Hopefully in the new year, but for now the large part of my finances are lining dentists' pockets.

I want to go back to school for either psychology or neuro-something-or-other or sociology.

[Propagandhim]

Oh, nice.  Neuroscience is amazing.  Good luck with that.  I feel your pain with the lining doctor's pockets without having insurance.

[TVC15]

I don't want to really commit to neurosciece since I'm almost 28 and I'm kinda old to be getting into that, though, so there's still ambivalence. 

My real dream is that I just kinda wish I were Camille Paglia <3 <3 <3

[Eric P]

My real dream is that I just kinda wish I were Camille Paglia <3 <3 <3

gross

i want to be dorothy parker

[TVC15]

Me, too.  I think I'd be good at being dead.

[Eric P]

Me, too.  I think I'd be good at being dead.

it's so easy and everyone can do it.

plus, have you ever heard of someone coming back to complain?

[Brehvolution]

I heard being dead was over rated.