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#71
04-17-2007, 02:37 AM
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[ QUOTE ] [ QUOTE ] There is a significant prejudice in our society against introversion, but that [censored] just don't faze me. [/ QUOTE ] You consider yourself introverted? This is surprising to me. [/ QUOTE ] the amount of comfort an introvert can have typing a response out on an internet message board, compared to real life interaction, is frightening. [/ QUOTE ] I've met Anacardo a few times in real life and I'm still surprised. I was under the impression that he was the type of person who started getting uncomfortable when he wasn't talking, in the kind of way that extreme extroverts do. I certainly wouldn't say he has any problems interacting. I've seen him go out and chat up complete strangers a few times, he's pretty good at it. 
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#72
04-17-2007, 04:10 AM
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[ QUOTE ] How do you feel? [/ QUOTE ] Sleepy. A little sex-starved. [/ QUOTE ] Cool. Actually, the answer I was looking for was "Tell my mother I feel fine", but the longer I work nights the weirder I get.
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#73
04-18-2007, 07:52 AM
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Re: Ask Anacardo anything
From the ladies thread, Cardo said:
[ QUOTE ] I'm exactly what you're talking about. That's well known. And I don't like it. I've gone from grief to depression to toying-with-madness to, now, a fairly steady state of resentment, jealousy, bitterness, frustration and anger. I can think back on times when I felt far worse, but was still on some level secure in my own.. virtue, I guess, and proud of myself for it. I used to think of myself as things like: patient, kind, generous-spirited, always ready to help somebody out of a jam or do a good turn. Now I feel like those qualities erode more every day. Every pretty, flirty girl who turns out to have a steady boyfriend; every story of somebody else's idiot lover forgiven, everything that reminds me of my own loneliness, all just makes me madder and madder and madder. I really don't know how to deal with it. I just try to be mindful of it, and treat it like a concussion, or some other sort of head trauma; remember you're impaired, take it easy, and don't do anything stupid. But it doesn't go away, and every day it grows is probably driving solutions further and further away. What can you do? [/ QUOTE ] Cardo, What are you grateful for?
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#74
04-18-2007, 08:25 AM
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[ QUOTE ] Name one person from history you would like to trade places with. You get to live his or her life and he or she gets to live yours. If you could change a few things about his or her life and experiences which would you change and why? If he or she could change your life and experiences up to this point what do you think they would change? [/ QUOTE ] Jesus Christ, Stu, way to throw me a nice hard slider. The immediate flip answer would be, respectively, 'Abraham Lincoln' and 'not go to the theatre,' but as much as I admire our sixteenth President, I do not envy him his life. I need to think about this, and come up with some awful example of a mistaken life. [/ QUOTE ] I knew this answer as soon as I read the question...
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#77
04-18-2007, 04:00 PM
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From the ladies thread, Cardo said: [ QUOTE ] I'm exactly what you're talking about. That's well known. And I don't like it. I've gone from grief to depression to toying-with-madness to, now, a fairly steady state of resentment, jealousy, bitterness, frustration and anger. I can think back on times when I felt far worse, but was still on some level secure in my own.. virtue, I guess, and proud of myself for it. I used to think of myself as things like: patient, kind, generous-spirited, always ready to help somebody out of a jam or do a good turn. Now I feel like those qualities erode more every day. Every pretty, flirty girl who turns out to have a steady boyfriend; every story of somebody else's idiot lover forgiven, everything that reminds me of my own loneliness, all just makes me madder and madder and madder. I really don't know how to deal with it. I just try to be mindful of it, and treat it like a concussion, or some other sort of head trauma; remember you're impaired, take it easy, and don't do anything stupid. But it doesn't go away, and every day it grows is probably driving solutions further and further away. What can you do? [/ QUOTE ] Cardo, What are you grateful for? [/ QUOTE ] Very little, actually, until I hear about how much worse someone else has it, which is of course quite often. Then I just feel ashamed of myself on top of everything else.
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#78
04-18-2007, 04:18 PM
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Cardo, If England and France recognized the Confederacy at the start of the war, do you think the union still would have won? [/ QUOTE ] 'Recognized' the Confederacy is shorthand for 'recognize as a legitimate belligerent power,' in which the European powers would first make a token attempt to 'arbitrate' between the 'two' nations (the very premise of which the North would never accept), then lift the cotton blockade by force with their own navies and Marines. If this got started there is no way the Union could have held together.
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