Have you?

 

Yes, and I'm in one now.

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Oprah

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A college educational background

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"Before you criticize a man, walk a mile in his shoes. That way, if he gets angry, he's a mile away and barefoot."

Live in a third world country for a while. It completely realigns your value system.

 

Germany, France, and Canada aren't third world countries.  Neither are Australia, New Zealand, or the Scandanavian countries.  They are nice places to live with populations that aren't forced to work nearly as hard as our own to earn the same modest standard of living.

 

I think I know what precisely what Caldrac's talking about.

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The "system" of life in general in America is overrated.

 

From the cradle to the grave, I feel like I have been brainwashed. The older I get, the more and more detached I feel from everyone else. Sleep, eat, work, sleep, eat, work, sleep, eat, work. I am twenty-six years old, and when I look around at the grand majority of the people that I have to work with on a daily basis, from young to old, I often ask myself "How and why did this all happen?" and "How can people continue to do this everyday?". It's so, so depressing man. I hate the fact that I have to have money in order to have a decent and sustainable environment to live in. I work 60 or more hours a week (off at 1 AM, approaching the 16 hour mark today), for what? To pay for water/cable/internet/electric and mortgage that I don't really get to enjoy as much as I probably should.

 

Am I the only one that feels this way? I can't be the only one. Don't you people get sick and tired of getting up everyday like a mindless drone, with an automatic routine that just gets more dull and dull by the day? My God, it's so tiresome and sickening to think about. The amount of things that we do in this world just to have "some" happiness. Don't get me wrong, I am not lazy, I like to work, but, why? It's just so aggravating sometimes man. I feel like whatever created us had better plans than for us to just look like a bunch of worker ants from afar. That's all we really are, well, the majority of us on this planet. I wish it would just stop, you know? No more systematical nonsense. No more economy, no more deadend jobs, more freedom, more happiness. More human progressiveness.

 

I don't know. I'll leave it at that. But, yeah, the system and way of life here is just so overrated....

 

 

Thank God for Football, and thank God for forums like this. I can't believe I have been posting on here since I was maybe fifteen or sixteen years old.... whoa....

 

Caldrac is NOT over rated.

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If something can corrupt you, you're corrupted already.
- Bob Marley


 

Germany, France, and Canada aren't third world countries.  Neither are Australia, New Zealand, or the Scandanavian countries.  They are nice places to live with populations that aren't forced to work nearly as hard as our own to earn the same modest standard of living.

 

I think I know what precisely what Caldrac's talking about.

 

Every country listed is sucking on the teat of America's defense largess.  If only we could also spend pennies on the dollar for the protection of shared economic sea lanes and interests around the world.  But how you begin to draw a parallel between the narrow relative effort to live in different first world countries as opposed to slaving just to exist in a third world country is beyond me.   

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Star Wars 

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Star Wars

The movies or the missile defense?

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What in the Wide Wide World of Sports is agoin' on here???

It's only over rated when you ain't getting any! :whistling:

don't remind me.. These is tough times

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don't remind me.. These is tough times

It's okay! During tough times you've just got to love yourself more! :thumbsup:

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What in the Wide Wide World of Sports is agoin' on here???

It's okay! During tough times you've just got to love yourself more! :thumbsup:

this is true that and drink lots of scotch and delete my iternet history.

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Your face.

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George Clooney


Cameron Diaz


Gwynneth Paltrow


Just about every movie that's won the best picture Oscar since Gladiator.


Starbucks


Toyota Prius


Sushi


Jay-Z AND Beyoncé


Beats headphones

 

The list is for overrated things, not things that plain suck. When was the last time you heard anyone say anything good about Gwyneth Paltrow?

 

My list:

• Vacations. You go somewhere, see the sights, sleep in a bed that's not as nice as back home, rinse repeat until you find yourself in a basket weaving museum wanting to go home.
  
• Democracy. I'll try and keep it within the CoC, but it just doesn't work. The people at the top are only interested in power for powers sake and the people at the bottom are too disengaged and too ignorant to make the right choices.
  
• Christmas. Lets all spend money we don't have on junk we don't need for people we don't like.
  
• Nirvana. If Kurt Cobain was still alive, nobody would give a flying monkey's left stone.
  

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Just to be different, Bortles.

Wooden shoes

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Money

 

• Christmas. Lets all spend money we don't have on junk we don't need for people we don't like.
  

 

 

Agree there. But I don't decorate much or buy gifts for anyone other than my kids. I am not a good consumer.

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Narrow criticisms of democracy.  

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Lebron James.


Yea I said it.

 

Cruising to his third NBA title. Yeah...overrated.

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[*]Christmas. Lets all spend money we don't have on junk we don't need for people we don't like.[/*]

[*]Nirvana. If Kurt Cobain was still alive, nobody would give a flying monkey's left stone.[/*]

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Christmas is a brilliant holiday, even for non-Christians. People ruin it with the excessive gift giving nonsense. They stress themselves out running all over the place to buy stuff.


I thought Nirvana was OK, but I never understood how Kurt Cobain was seen as this musical genius. Not saying I'm a musical expert, but didn't their songs have like 4 chords and Cobain could barely play a guitar?

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Going to the beach is overrated.  If I wanted to sit around do nothing in the sun, I can accomplish this at home without spending the money to do so.

 

Going out to the bars is overrated.  It seems like this has become the center of our culture..go out to a bar and have some drinks.  Usually nothing worthwhile happens.

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The list is for overrated things, not things that plain suck. When was the last time you heard anyone say anything good about Gwyneth Paltrow?

 

My list:

• Vacations. You go somewhere, see the sights, sleep in a bed that's not as nice as back home, rinse repeat until you find yourself in a basket weaving museum wanting to go home.
• Democracy. I'll try and keep it within the CoC, but it just doesn't work. The people at the top are only interested in power for powers sake and the people at the bottom are too disengaged and too ignorant to make the right choices.
• Christmas. Lets all spend money we don't have on junk we don't need for people we don't like.
• Nirvana. If Kurt Cobain was still alive, nobody would give a flying monkey's left stone.

 


Interesting list.


 

Money

 

 

Agree there. But I don't decorate much or buy gifts for anyone other than my kids. I am not a good consumer.

I didn't buy my son presents for his first 5-7 years. I'm not much of an Xmas person either.

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