What's important in life? What's important to me? Do I want to live a happy or a meaningful life? I guess that it's just a matter of preference, but my rationalisations have made it impossible to pinpoint my exact desires. I guess that being able to percieve from different perspectives is a blessing and a curse; I have lost my sense of self. This freedom used to be something I longed for, but now it just leaves me directionless, floating. A human being isn't capable to create something out of nothing; our lives revolve around our environment and how we react upon it.
Maybe there is something I missed; is there really something as our subconscious? Is my true self hiding in the depths of my brain? Maybe I should try out creating a tulpa. I probably don't have what it takes to completely follow through with it. I'll just be floating.
I should go back to reading my book.
>>801
Why not "live a happy life" or "help others live happy lives?" Those two goals are enough for me.
>>804
Not him, but I've been reading Kierkegaard lately. It's kind of boring. I'm not sure whether it's because I'm not used to the writing style or if he's just a boring dude.
>>804 Not him either but I'm reading On The Road. I used to read almost a book a night when I was younger but since I started living on the internet I only read a couple a pages at a time when I go to poop. It's a shame because the pile of books I want to get around to gets bigger all the time.
>>804
I am him, and I'm reading Cloud Atlas. I'm only a few chapters in, but I love the writing style(s) and the way it casually swaps the narrative entirely every so often. I can tell I'm going to enjoy the rest of this book.
I actually fin DSL to be a useful distro.
I need cake.
Gotta hurry
This music is far too dramatic for simply lounging around in my underwear.
Clearly, >>813, you must go out and do something heroic. But put some clothes on first.
I haven't played with legos in like, +10 years now. I miss my childhood.
I'm sitting in a library now. It is full of fat, depressing people who are looking at their email. There's a student to the left of me who fell asleep on top of her books. I'm trying to write something for work, but I can't think of anything else to write about. I also don't want to go home, because it's even more depressing.
I'll never understand people who go to the library to check their email. Sometimes they just click around it like something is going to change. It's always some weird email service with advertisements.
As far as libraries, the computers at mine won't let you open notepad. You can use MS Word, but not notepad.
Libraries should be pleasant places.
That tranquil atmosphere, where two guys on opposite sides of the U-shaped table can completely ignore each other indefinitely,
the read-books-in-silence mentality, that's what's great about this place.
Women and children are welcome too, I suppose.
>>817
I use Word to write my emails then send them as attachments.
Never eating mushrooms with ramen again.
BECAUSE OF HOW POOR I AM I MIGHT BE ABLE TO GO TO COLLEGE!!!!!!
Communism really ought to work.
>>823
Congratulations! What course are you thinking of taking?
Lying about your income on applications is one of the best real-life lessons college will provide. It may also be the only one...
>>828
Do you have to exaggerate it in order to get accepted as a potential benefactor?
Do you have to belittle it so that college won't try to rip you off?
>>833
Nope...
Love is pain.
>>833 Oh, my name is Andrew, creepy. Why did you think that other guys name is Andrew?
not me... I barely ever use a name, and will refrain from using one here again.
>>827 I really don't know. All I really want to do with my life is travel. I could do CS easy but I dont want my hobbie to become my job. Investigative Journalism or teaching English does interest me. What do you think I should do?
DQN: where it's always 1993 and everyone is named Andrew.
>>839
Can't make up your mind? Combine the best of both worlds: INVESTIGATIVE ENGLISH.
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>>839 CS pays better, sorry to say.
There are still ways you can include travel with it; you may wish to consider discussing it with your college/university's (no doubt underused) career counseling services.
>>843
What are you talking about? That's a great choice. Even if it's not a real choice...
So why can't we outsource newspapers? Indians speak better English than Americans. Have them assemble local papers the way it's done here at a fraction of the price. All they have to do is copy and paste in stories from the AP wires and write obituaries from info submitted by an e-mail form. This might be a good project for CS, business, and journalism all in one...
>>846
See, that's investigative English right there! It's a real thing!
>>839
Follow your heart. Also, it doesn't hurt to take classes in multiple fields to get a feel for what you really want to do.
The fun thing about computer science is that you really can do it anywhere. Travel the world with your ThinkPad and code things. You don't have to physically be with someone to commit to their repository. Plus even if you work in meatspace, you are likely to find work in the following exciting places:
Or you could even get given money from MIT to travel the world and sit in exotic locations emailing people who send you their erotic fan fiction:
http://stallman.org/photos/rms-working/
I dropped out of computer science, so I know what I am talking about.
This thread was created 65 days ago and has 850 posts already. This means we must be averaging 13 posts per day... surely that can't be right?
>>849 I know you're right, now. But it will change in the future. Because of telecommuting. And I only get one chance to choose my BA. I'm really scared about the whole deal. I don't know what to do, what will allow me to be happy and fulfilled. And I only get one chance. I'm scared.
Huh.
I just had an auditory hallucination of a girl saying "It could just get through the rocks, right?"
Hearing voices should give me more meaty stuff, like instructions to kill people and shit, not questions about rock walls.
I'm very disappointed.
>>854 I get things like that often, insignificant contextless statements, so insignificant that I can't think of any examples right now (I'm drunk though). I always feel like using them as song lyrics but I forget them.
I love chemistry
So much
Hahaah! 525,000th view exactly!
I'm dependent on tobacco and caffeine. Better than weed, I suppose, although I do miss being stoned.
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I wish I had money so I could buy alcohol.
To >>57 in the question thread: no, that doesn't count. Pomegranate juice is notorious for being unappetizing, but pomegranates themselves are rather tasty and refreshing, even though a little hard to eat.
I'm in the mood for tentacles.
Riding bikes and chiptune music goes very well together.
>>855
On song where the lyrics are inane or mundane things ever actually sounds rather interesting.
I like corm.
>>865
I saw that on one of the Tohno-chan banners. What's it from? Also, why the tripcode?
>>866
It's from an anime screencap. There's this loli eating corn, and then she says: "I like corm". Well, she doesn't really say that, she says corn, obviously, it's the translator's fault for making such a silly, yet hilarious mistake.
>>866
the anime is called aishiteruze baby.
she mispronounces the japanese word for "corn" because she's very young. in that particular scene, it is up to her cousin-subbing-for-a-parent to correct that pronunciation lest she goes through life forever mispronouncing the name of one of her favorite foods.
the problem in translation is that it's way harder to fuck up the english word "corn" than the japanese word for corn. this, by the way, is why in real life, most japanese call it by the english word.
>>868
Oh fuck, I had no idea! I thought it was a typo by the fansubber.
I can't believe it's taken me this long to realize how awesome Frank Zappa is.
>>872
Eeeehh! Really? Easy mode? You're not allowed to play easy mode unless you're an elementary school kid, right?
I'm supposed to be taking an accuplacer now.
It's that point in the semester when you start playing the numbers game with your grades.
Happy 6777th of September, everyone!
I wish I didn't take these things so seriously.
Write something on DQN.
Write something on DQN.
This isn't the captcha thread.
This isn't the captcha therad.
You are repeating yourself.
You are not repeating yourself.
It's a thing, quite unpleasant.
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>>873
Zappa is, indeed, awesome. Quick, get into Yes, The Coup, Jan Zelenka and/or Leonard Cohen (depending on your taste in music) before it is too late!
The rate at which the view counter increases is scary. We must have a lot of lurkers.
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Ka-52 is cute and cool at the same time! Just like Rainbow Dash!
I wish I had one.
woah /dqn/ just changed to a stylesheet i haven't seen for months, thought i'd broken it
wooow stylesheets are working again but it still defaults to blank plaintext when i refresh
Paper cranes and bunnies.
The CD-ROM of Rollercoaster Tycoon's re-release looks really nice when I slide it in my laptop.
>>896
I used to troll people by claiming there was an OpenRCT akin to OpenTTD.
...why isn't there?
I wonder what this thread's 999th post will say.
Sometimes when people mention religion, they have to add "... not that God is real" at the end. I think this just makes their words weaker, as if what they had to say was less important than being someone who didn't believe in God.
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