2018 New Year's Resolutions

[Olivia Wilde Homo]

2013: http://www.thebore.com/forum/index.php?topic=39368.0
2014: http://www.thebore.com/forum/index.php?topic=41347.0
2015: http://www.thebore.com/forum/index.php?topic=42707.0
2017: http://www.thebore.com/forum/index.php?topic=44708.0

I'll fill mine in later

[HardcoreRetro]

I'm guessing it'll be 8K.

[Tasty]

I'm planning on breaking these down into weekly goals later on, but here are the broad strokes.

- Become a certified life guard. Basically getting my red speedo license.
- Blog once a month. I did this for about five years before becoming sporadic like most bloggers.
- I say it every year, but make more short films.
- Drink less.
- Sleep more.
- Look as good as I can this summer, and then keep it going.
- End the year with no cavities. After completely ignoring dental hygiene in high school, it's taken me almost a decade to fix those very costly mistakes. I only have two cavities left though, so this should be an easy one to cross off.
- Have a good savings account so if I need to move ASAP for whatever reason I won't need to beg friends for money.

[Raist]

Lolz.

[Valkyrie]

- Go back to school
- Visit family in France
- Make more birthday calls
- Play/stream more games
- Get inked at least once
- Get back into web development
- Love and accept myself more
- Or get a cat I can love instead

[nudemacusers]

Performing an overdue wardrobe cull and refresh. Look out for hot deals on fine garments 👀 💵

[VomKriege]

- Get out more and meet new people.
- Get a modicum of savings going.
- Have a slightly healthier lifestyle.
- Finish more books and see more films. Have a huge backlog.
- Pursue some social hobby.
- Volunteering for a charitable organization or joining an union or party.
- Get at least another employer and / or some feedback on candidacies abroad.

[VomKriege]

Also, obviously :
- To fuck, hopefully to love.

[tiesto]

-Go to Japan
-Go back to the gym, eat and drink a bit less
-Finally play through one Kingdom Hearts, Pokemon, and Yakuza game

uhh, that's it I guess?

[Rich!]

im gonna get some abs

it's just flat right now

[toku]

• love myself
• make an album
• get another release out but this time get it really noticed
• score more things
• make $100,000 dollars
• starting taking photos again
• dress more like a weird metal gear solid character
• travel more
• love myself

[Human Snorenado]

Get in good enough shape that superficial women will want to sleep with me.

[Cerveza mas fina]

Get in good enough shape that superficial women will want to sleep with me.

Lol you have too much personality for this

[Cerveza mas fina]

-get a job outside of sales, closer to home (right now commute is 50km each way)
-do some things around the house
-go on a cool holiday with the fam
-see some old friends
-go for my annual game of football at the Emirates
-finish Zelda BOTW
-lose 2/3 kilo
-eat and be healthier

[Let's Cyber]

-Drink more soda.
-Get Fat
-Do less exercise. I did way too much cycling in 2017.
-Make less money.
-Start smoking.
-Stop applying myself.
-Get more superficial, toxic people into my life. 

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[Human Snorenado]

Get in good enough shape that superficial women will want to sleep with me.

Lol you have too much personality for this

 

[El Babua]

1. Get more skills working at job, hopefully a promotion on top of that

2. Get back into gym more regularly

3. Save up for home/rental property

[Great Rumbler]

-play some vidya games
-watch some animu
-make enough money to survive

[Rich!]

-play some vidya games
-watch some animu
-make enough money to survive

That's not even a new year resolution for me........it's a new year guarantee.

[Bebpo]

-Get a personal trainer and hit the gym regularly to lose some pounds/tone out a bit.
-Write and design, 2018 year of creative time again
-Play The Witcher 2 & 3

[eleuin]

• Don't fail anymore classes
• Start a proper skincare routine
• Run more
• Save money
• Find a new shrink when this first one doesn't work out

[Phoenix Dark]

-eat more ass
-eat less junkfood
-lift more weights
-avoid demons
-learn Spanish

[Bebpo]

-learn Spanish

If you figure out how you're gonna do this (self-study, online classes, local classes, etc...) let me know and if it's something other than local in-person classes, I'm down to do this with you! I really need to learn Spanish.

[Atramental]

• make somewhere between $100K to $500K with crypto
• draw/make art incessantly
• start working part-time at my current job instead of full-time/all-the-time (and then eventually phase out/gtfo to a better job)
• travel to Colorado, Oregon, Washington state, and maybe California. Probably won't get to all of them this year but I'll at least get to 1 or 2.
• lose the additional weight I gained these last two months

[Tasty]

if u learn a language, dont just learn the language, learn the culture, because it's connected

if you're gonna learn spanish, i'm assuming you'll want mexican culture, not spanish culture, then learn that

watch mexican tv, movies, listen to the music, etc

[Phoenix Dark]

if u learn a language, dont just learn the language, learn the culture, because it's connected

if you're gonna learn spanish, i'm assuming you'll want mexican culture, not spanish culture, then learn that

watch mexican tv, movies, listen to the music, etc

Trust me, I'll be doing this too whether I want to or not.

[Rufus]

 

[Madrun Badrun]

1) Publish
2) Become a necromancer
3) Reserect my sex life

[etiolate]

Somewhere out there is the person responsible for putting "place on an ungreased cooking sheet" in all the baking and cooking instructions.

I will find this person and make them pay for their lies.

[chronovore]

Be better at accepting myself.

[CatsCatsCats]

Mine is to make my commute more useful or interesting. Maybe do pimsleur Japanese or something

[Cerveza mas fina]

-eat more ass
-eat less junkfood
-lift more weights
-avoid demons
-learn Spanish

Persona 6 synopsis

[Madrun Badrun]

dont get s drucn frabox six

[Trent Dole]

alright let's fuckin do this

-get to la in late June for the migu expo
-lay off the fast food, will make us less of a chunk and also save $ which we need for this year cause lots of potential travelling
-get back on practicing and theory and production
-try to find some goddamn work in our trained field, enough just retailing, we can do multiple things for a bit cause that's usually how it works
-complete a few projects, we got a couple things in mind/vaguely sketched out
-related to #2 do more healthy type stuff in general

[chronovore]

How the fuck is it January 2nd already?   

[hungrynoob]

My only resolution is to truly learn about myself and not hide behind the stupid masks i use as crutches to make daily life more tolerable.

[Atramental]

How the fuck is it January 2nd already?   

Oh my god. You almost gave me a heart attack. 

Still the 1st here.

Have to go back to work tomorrow. 

[chronovore]

How the fuck is it January 2nd already?   

Oh my god. You almost gave me a heart attack. 

Still the 1st here.

Have to go back to work tomorrow. 

Sorry.

[Olivia Wilde Homo]

- I want to go back to taking lifting seriously.  Not just do it to do it or to keep the weight off, I mean hitting the weights hard.  I was really into it 10-15 years ago and no reason I can't go back now.
- Hunker down and invest more, a lot more.  I have eight different types of investments and want to keep pushing further.  A lot of it is just due to wanting more and more of a Plan B in life.
- Play more Nintendo Switch

[TVC15]

I will get Samoa Joe to pile drive fuck me and break my neck this year.

[I'm a Puppy!]

Get in good enough shape that superficial women will want to sleep with me.

Lol you have too much personality for this

I was just about to post this.  It's like you and I are soul mates. 

[I'm a Puppy!]

-learn Spanish

If you figure out how you're gonna do this (self-study, online classes, local classes, etc...) let me know and if it's something other than local in-person classes, I'm down to do this with you! I really need to learn Spanish.

There's a great podcast on spotify that my wife uses something like coffee break spanish or whatever. It's an Irish couple and they walk you through some conversational spanish stuff. My wife used it for a while before the holiday season and it worked pretty well.

[I'm a Puppy!]

For me:

 - I'd say figure out what I want to do with my job. But I have a feeling that it will work itself out one way or another
- Pay down debt
- Have at least 25-30 minutes of material concert ready by year's end. I already have about 5 to 6 minutes. So this might be too low a bar, but the pieces I want to play will be difficult. So...
- Travel less for work
- Build more muscle
- Cut out toxic social media (already shut down my twitter account)
- Finish the second draft of my book

Edit: Oh and I forgot, I want to do a study or really early Christianity. And I mean a real study. Not the namby pamby stuff I did as a religious scholar, where I was just given the answers. I want to find out how it all evolved pre-nicean and where Paul's anti-sex route really came from.

[VomKriege]

Oh and I forgot, I want to do a study or really early Christianity. And I mean a real study. Not the namby pamby stuff I did as a religious scholar, where I was just given the answers. I want to find out how it all evolved pre-nicean and where Paul's anti-sex route really came from.

For having some passing familiarity with the subject, the corpus of historical documents to draw from is not excessively wide so you're probably bound to fall back on a lot of the same sources as religious scholars, at least as far as texts (and thus prominent figures) are concerned. A bit like how we rely on a dozen Roman historians (if that) for vast swathes or our knowledge... Still actually much more solid than early Christianity. I do believe the main other domain to draw from is archeology informing us of what life would have been like as a whole for societies at the time around the Med basin, which in turn will frame some speculative context for how the texts were written.

There was an excellent documentary series about the Second Testament in France. I doubt it was translated, but the list of academics participating (including people from the US, Israël, Germany, Italy and Jerusalem monks) could be useful if you need a bibliography.

[I'm a Puppy!]

Thanks for the guidance and I'll definitely check it out. I also got some books on the gnostic texts around the time and some greek orthodox stuff. I wrote my thesis on the idea of religious evolution (the idea that religion evolves on what society needs it to be at the time, not a popular topic at a religious school, let me tell you). So I really want to get into what was going around in the philosophy at the time and attitudes as well.

[Corporal]

I'm gonna try to find a new job. While I do have some luxurious schedules and OK wage right now, my current one is making me complacent and is, by all means, a dead end.

[Brehvolution]

Hopefully all 3840 x 2160 

[Samson Manhug]

- Do more drugs
- Get more tattoos
- Travel out of the country
- Get published in The New York Times
- Treat myself like somebody I care about

[VomKriege]

Thanks for the guidance and I'll definitely check it out. I also got some books on the gnostic texts around the time and some greek orthodox stuff. I wrote my thesis on the idea of religious evolution (the idea that religion evolves on what society needs it to be at the time, not a popular topic at a religious school, let me tell you). So I really want to get into what was going around in the philosophy at the time and attitudes as well.

I fetched a list of names you can check out for academic research in the area, from the first documentary series I mentioned. I'm not translating their affiliation (probably not current, the series is 20 years old at that point), let me know if you have issues. It's mostly European centered but you have some Americans there and several anglophones.

• Christian-Bernard Amphoux du CNRS
• Marie-Émile Boismard et Étienne Nodet de l'École biblique de Jérusalem
• Pierre Grelot et Charles Perrot de l'Institut catholique
• Daniel Schwartz et Guy Stroumsa de l'université hébraïque de Jérusalem
• Étienne Trocmé de l'université de Strasbourg
• Enrico Norelli de l'université de Genève
• Martin Hengel de l'université de Tübingen
• Pierre Geoltrain de l'École pratique des hautes études de Paris
• Émile Puech de l'École biblique de Jérusalem
• Joe Zias archéologue
• Alan Culpepper de l'université Mercer d'Atlanta
• Joseph A. Fitzmyer de l'université catholique de Washington
• Jean-Pierre Lémonon de l'université catholique de Lyon
• Gerd Theissen de l'université de Heidelberg
• Hyam Maccoby du Leo Beck College de Londres
• Daniel Marguerat de l'université de Lausanne
• Sean Freyne du Trinity College de Dublin
• Malcolm Lowe du centre chrétien d'études juives de Jérusalem
• Jean-Marie Sevrin de l'université catholique de Louvain
• Frans Neirynck de l'université de Louvain
• Moshé Bar-Ascher de l'université de Jérusalem
• Ennio Floris de l'université de Genève
• Christian Grappe de l'université des sciences humaines de Strasbourg
• Éric Junod de l'Université de Lausanne.
• Paula Fredriksen, de l'Université de Boston

I also mentioned on the same matter Thomas Römer who holds the chair for Bible study at the Collége de France (his cursus there is avaliable for free in audio form, but in French obviously. He's a lively mind, has clear delivery and always does a good job summing things up for us miscreants. He wrote several books of mild vulgarization though I'm not sure he's been translated in English a whole lot.

[I'm a Puppy!]

Holy crap! That's ultra useful! Thank you! Thank you!....but....knowing this much....about such an esoteric subject and not being a religious scholar...

[CatsCatsCats]

- Do more drugs
- Get more tattoos
- Travel out of the country
- Get published in The New York Times
- Treat myself like somebody I care about

What drugs you doin bby 

I’m 3/3 for doing pimsleur tapes on my work commute so far

[Samson Manhug]

[nachobro]

Mine is to make my commute more useful or interesting. Maybe do pimsleur Japanese or something

Me too, probably by drinking and driving

[VomKriege]

Holy crap! That's ultra useful! Thank you! Thank you!....but....knowing this much....about such an esoteric subject and not being a religious scholar...
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Heh really I just have superficial knowledge. I'm an hopeless materialist but it's an essential pillar to understanding any facet of European history anyway. Scientific study of the Bible is great because it combines critical reading, linguistics, archeology... into a relatable, familiar topic. It's perfect textbook example in understanding how history as a science work.