'Don't you have fun flirting?|||I don't associate lol with someone actually laughing and thus prefer roflcopter to underline this absurdity.|||How about none? The only thing that can improve yourself is yourself and not some classification.|||I thought the same about a girl a year ago. She even admitted, that we would match and had some feelings for me - but not the right ones. I activly tried to find something negative about her (I even...|||Made my day. :)|||I don't know, if I would be labeled a Buddhist and I don't care. For me, faith is not something to be learned - it's something to be experienced.  If you are searching for inner peace, you might...|||I don't see the OP as a guide on how to get da ladies or an advise to be someone else. I think it's more about giving ideas to help differing ones self from manifested thoughts or even habits. It's...|||For me, the fear to hurt him implies that you think that he can't handle the truth. Be honest and give him real [!] reasons.  I got something, what was supposed to be a rejection last year. I...|||You don't need to answer, but these questions came to my mind:  Do you feel like fear sometimes blocks your curiosity? If you trust your sister to be safe: Why don't you trust yourself?|||Reading Bagos post: It would have helped me, if I had someone to ask more thoughtful questions without putting pressure on me. So my thoughts ran in circles less. Writing things down helped a lot.|||I am/was in a quite similiar situation. As I didn't want to hurt or expose her, I still didn't tell anyone why I'm convinced that her current relationship won't last longer than three years in total....|||Thanks for the hint, but I don't even have a twitter or facebook account and the financial part was more of a joke. ;)    I haven't even considered to take Should a cloud replace a compass?...|||I think, if you care about someone, you somewhat distrust in their ability to care about themselfes. This verdict may be right in some situations but it most definitly is not right all the time.|||Yea, I had the album on repeat yesterday through Elephants at the Door | Bad Panda Records . I even consider buying the vinyl. So thanks for threatening my financial situation. :D     To share...|||Some posts here read like excuses. :)   I don't use it, because I don't want to. I don't need friends who are incapable of staying in touch with me without using facebook. There still are phone...|||I wish you'd have spread the song over more posts, so I could thank you multiple times for sharing it here. :)|||I assume nothing, because I honestly don't care. If it were important, they'd try again.|||I can relate - my enlightenment was even later than yours. ;)    A main problem for me was, that my parents let me be a leech on their wallet. If they themselfes were more authoritarian, I most...|||It's not all good. Sometimes I feel bad for extrating joy out of the incapability of those who need to yell. ;)|||I probably would be in a happy relationship, but she already choose to be in an unhappy one. ^^|||My latest instant favorite is Waking Life. It's not a classical movie though.   And speaking of Lars von Trier: Dogville|||I usually am quite amused when being yelled at, because the other person is to weak to control himself / is unable to express authority without yelling.|||I think the problem is flunkyism. The people empathize because they are too lazy/frightened to have an own opinion.   And Hitlers problem was being an anti-alcoholic. ^_^|||I'm learning to not wear it, because I consider it a bad habit. Of course there are situations, where I don't show myself but this is only necessary if the fear of others is involved (regarding the...|||I wore this mask a long time, too. Like you, I tried avoiding beeing hurt. Thus I was afraid of beeing hurt. But if you don't let others hurt you, there is no need to be afraid and you can take off...|||For me the reason to wear a mask is fear.  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e8H-hKorYyw   The only thing we have to fear is fear itself. - Franklin D. Roosevelt|||Never heard of him. ;)|||I'd like to point out, that there is a difference between alone and lonely. You can be alone without being lonely.   I think feeling lonely is kind of the fear, that nobody cares about you. But if...|||Reminds me of this one: 34362   I think everyone dies alone. Even Romeo and Juliett. That's nothing to be afraid of.|||I had this problem myself. It was mostly the fear to get dislikes from others which also lead to not being confident in my opinions / my skills. It helped to find out what makes me special to get rid...|||Some time ago xkcd published the idea of pointing cameras at the sky with a high distance between them and percieving the image of one camera with one eye and the image of the other camera with the...|||Durchaus, aber letztlich ist es ja ein öffentliches Thema in einem englischen Forum. Wäre ja irgendwie unhöflich einen Großteil der anderen Beuscher dadurch auszuschließen, dass sie nicht verstehen,...|||I'd most definitly stand out. ;)|||Maybe Primus - Extinction Burst? Doesn't fit 100 %, but it comes pretty close. ^_^|||I haven't read a lot of Kant myself, but I think his works could help you.|||I had this problem myself a long time. You might have the subconscious imprint, that your parents would abandon you, if you told them what moves you and if you can't trust your parents, it's hard to...|||http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FBLbrJxGtro&feature=list_related&playnext=1&list=AL94UKMTqg-9AY77MyztMzdgz6MbnN0Kz1|||I think it's the fear of loosing your partner. Find out, what the cause of this fear is and work on it.|||Be glad that you have a cloud to fly through the world. With it you can bring color to the seemingly grey world. This isn't easy all the time, but I think it's worth it.  ...|||I think it's futile to try to fully understand reality. It's like trying to look through murky water - you won't be able to see everything of the ground. But you can get a stick and check the depth...|||Stop being awesome. This includes not becoming corrupted and not deceasing.|||I'm only 24, but I'd like to share what I think is part of the core of becoming mature:     Don't be nice, because you think you should be. That's dishonest. Be true to yourself and don't be...|||He indeed gave meaning to his life by comforting her and she is thankful for it.  I think it'd be greedy, if she wouldn't accept his death.|||Primus - Sgt. Baker|||I don't think that life doesn't need a meaning. That'd be resigning to the fear of being incapable to live a meaningful life. But it's not needed to know the meaning beforehand. Why'd you bother to...|||It seemed like you tried to explain yourself with the help of the stereotypes. Just wanted to go against this, because there are people who think idealizations are truth. ;)|||As every try to describe reality (what ever that is), the typing of personalities is just an idealisation. Other idealisations are for example science, religion or even our perception of said...|||So you are searching for to conclusion of your live? Thats like reading a book from the back. ;)    The whole of life is just like watching a film. Only it's as though you always get in ten...|||I embrace it. It helps me defining myself.   Of course it can also be a bit disappointing, if I can't find any meaning. This can be compensated by not activly searching.|||Primus - Here Come The Bastards'