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Re: Unpopular Opinions

Postby Feelers Rebo » Wed Jan 02, 2013 6:52 pm

I propose that the idiom be revised and reiterated as the following:
"What doesn't kill you or result in severe psychological trauma which may lead to in suicide, inadvertent death following unusual behaviour or a state exceeding in negativity the personal consequences of death makes you stronger."

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Re: Unpopular Opinions

Postby mue 26 » Wed Jan 02, 2013 8:43 pm

Actually, I retract my statement about purple. It's too bourgeois.


Purple is cool, it's a very spiritual colour.

My unpopular opinion of the day (which somewhat ties into the prior topic): I don't like Bothaman's colour of text. It's hard to read, and this is only made more of a shame by the fact that Brothaman's posts are usually a pleasure to peruse :sad:

Maybe it's not such a good colour after all :-k
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Re: Unpopular Opinions

Postby beedle » Wed Jan 02, 2013 8:53 pm

mue 26 wrote:Purple is cool, it's a very spiritual colour.

you hippie POS

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Re: Unpopular Opinions

Postby mue 26 » Wed Jan 02, 2013 9:08 pm

I think you could use some homeopathy for the obvious anger issues you have. I'd recommend Nux Vomica 30c. Letting out your emotions is a good sign though, just let it all out, and always feel free to drop me a PM if you just want to be heard. I'm here for you, Beedle.
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Re: Unpopular Opinions

Postby KiBa » Thu Jan 03, 2013 1:57 am

Do you recommend anything for nervous system damage (specifically, the brain)?
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Re: Unpopular Opinions

Postby St. Elmo's Fire » Thu Jan 03, 2013 12:55 pm

Feelers Rebo wrote: I propose that the idiom be revised and reiterated as the following:
"What doesn't kill you or result in severe psychological trauma which may lead to in suicide, inadvertent death following unusual behaviour or a state exceeding in negativity the personal consequences of death makes you stronger."


Hence, why I said that I was sticking my neck out by being "way uncool" by "picking holes in cliches". ;-)
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Re: Unpopular Opinions

Postby mue 26 » Thu Jan 03, 2013 3:57 pm

KiBa wrote: Do you recommend anything for nervous system damage (specifically, the brain)?


Sorry Kiba, I'm not an actual homeopath (though do genuinely believe that it can work, on more than just a placebo level). Try and see if there are good homoeopaths in your city,
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Re: Unpopular Opinions

Postby KiBa » Fri Jan 04, 2013 3:52 am

^ Understood.

Now the moronic social engineers have started spinning their latest yarn around you British too. I hope you enjoy the artificial global panic. I get how it was funny to you when Americans were on the receiving end of blatant politically motivated lies (I live in a huge major American city, and I don't know a single "fat" person.), but I think by now the propaganda is rather transparent:


[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e-oBEKpYkpQ[/youtube]

The best part is how they position the "expert" in front of a command center (Ha!), with all these human computers ostensibly monitoring the "obesity crisis" like it's a war room. That kind of banal, simple-minded totalitarianism is so childish, so incredibly preposterous, I almost died laughing. You're left thinking to yourself, "Seriously, have they nothing better to do?" And you know the answer is no. The fact is, useless people have to create apocalyptic drama in order to feel important. We are one bored (and therefore boring) planet, if even one person finds themselves in a place where they care about the weight of strangers, never mind actually getting paid to care from the pool of tax money fat people have contributed to! Then the professional measurers have the gall to propose to cut benefits to those who pay their salaries in order to punish them for having been weighed by the measurers!
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Re: Unpopular Opinions

Postby south carmain » Fri Jan 04, 2013 5:41 am

what I cant believe is that some people get benefits for being too fat meanwhile its extremely hard for those mentally ill to get any financial help at all

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Re: Unpopular Opinions

Postby KiBa » Fri Jan 04, 2013 9:01 am

I don't believe in mental illness (unpopular opinion, btw), but agree that people shouldn't get special benefits for being fat. As I understood the video, they were going to cut regular benefits, like health and dental insurance, so that once again, the definition of equality becomes twisted to mean that the lives of the poor must be regimented, while the rich remain free to eat themselves to death if they desire. That is evil. The whole point of ideal of equality is that everyone ought to be free. I highly doubt the early socialists imagined a future where a tiny equal bit of artificial fiat currency would be rationed to each person like water in the desert in order to make poor people into healthy and productive slaves, so the well-off might enjoy constant leisure and the freedom to do as they will.
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Re: Unpopular Opinions

Postby mue 26 » Fri Jan 04, 2013 9:11 am

That's a metal idea (the cutting of benefits to fat people, though, not believing in mental illness is also pretty mental ironically, though I'm probably mental too, so who am to judge!). "Sorry fatty boom boom, no benefits for you!", that's terrible.
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Re: Unpopular Opinions

Postby KiBa » Fri Jan 04, 2013 9:27 am

I clarified for the sake of clarity.

But, yeah, there's obviously no such thing as mental illness. It's just a huge scam. No one is ever cured, no one can tell you the cause, it's an easy excuse, etc. And it's incredibly insulting to people with real measurable physical problems.

Acts of extreme evil, colossal selfishness, etc, are readily explainable without reference "disease." It's almost always just a lack of discipline and purpose.

In the extremely rare instances when a sane person really does spontaneously "go mad," with no normal explanation, it's almost always demonic possession.

Then there's the few people with actual physical structural problems in the brain who get next to nothing when it comes to funding and research because it's just plain too hard; it's much easier and cost-effective to pretend there are make-believe invisible "diseases" in order to "treat" (never cure) millions of people for their entire lives. Yes, it's quite a scheme indeed.

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Re: Unpopular Opinions

Postby Feelers Rebo » Fri Jan 04, 2013 9:34 am

KiBa wrote: I don't believe in mental illness (unpopular opinion, btw), but agree that people shouldn't get special benefits for being fat. As I understood the video, they were going to cut regular benefits, like health and dental insurance, so that once again, the definition of equality becomes twisted to mean that the lives of the poor must be regimented, while the rich remain free to eat themselves to death if they desire. That is evil. The whole point of ideal of equality is that everyone ought to be free. I highly doubt the early socialists imagined a future where a tiny equal bit of artificial fiat currency would be rationed to each person like water in the desert in order to make poor people into healthy and productive slaves, so the well-off might enjoy constant leisure and the freedom to do as they will.

This is absolutely true, but I'd like to (tangentially) take issue with your first statement, having lived from being a small child with somebody with severe bipolar disorder (with somewhat measurable physiological symptoms) and having seen them on the verge of suicide. I'm not totally clear on what you mean by you "don't believe in mental illness". EDIT: Now I am having read your latest post, and am more in agreement with you. The mindset you describe is also why I don't believe in euthanasia.

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Re: Unpopular Opinions

Postby south carmain » Fri Jan 04, 2013 10:51 am

KiBa wrote: But, yeah, there's obviously no such thing as mental illness. It's just a huge scam. No one is ever cured, no one can tell you the cause, it's an easy excuse, etc. And it's incredibly insulting to people with real measurable physical problems.

but that's simply not true, the cause is chemical imbalances in the brain causing it to not function like a normal person, it's as real as any physical condition and its because of people like you who think it's nothing more than a scam that the issue isn't being addressed properly

and people are cured my old flatmate had defeated extreme schizophrenia, real mental illness isn't like they show you on TV

the only thing we don't know about mental illnesses is what causes the chemical unbalance, but if you're going to say it's not real because of that then you might as well say cancer isn't real as well since we are unsure what triggers that, in fact lets stop funding for cancer research as well since it's just a make believe disease and put funding towards people with broken legs
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Re: Unpopular Opinions

Postby Feelers Rebo » Fri Jan 04, 2013 11:00 am

I do think that some of the treatments are questionable, although due to the very individual nature of each case, it's hard to judge. My bipolar relative has taken every drug they can throw at a patient, and apart from sleeping tablets and occasional antidepressants, they have only exacerbated the situation. I think a lot of the doctors just give out sedatives to keep the patient placate, because they prescribe so many of them. My relative once collapsed because she was so out of it on the fucking things. So to a degree, I do agree with where KiBa's coming from, although I don't completely take that position.
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