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[gemma0928]

Sometime I practice seeing things from new perspective. I imagine seeing and doing everything for the first time. Do I sound crazy?

[Lostsoul]

not really!!

I can do worst in some days!! ehhe

[Myth buster_21]

 It doesn't sounds crazy to me .  I think it's an exciting way to be able to spice up an otherwise boring and mundane task. I would like to hear detailed stories on how you do it. 

[iAMHE]

Yes, you are crazy.

All person are crazy but the level is not all the same. There are those whose level is higher, just ok and below ok.

Those who do not know they are crazy are those whose level is the highest.

--- i learned that from the novel Veronica Decides to Die

[alucard]

Sometime I practice seeing things from new perspective. I imagine seeing and doing everything for the first time. Do I sound crazy?

that doesn't sound crazy to me. for what it's worth, change is a fearsome occurrence, because you can never have a firm grasp on what would happen, and novel perspectives are more than challenging, since you have to oppose your habits on seeing things as you are always seeing it, that is change. and seeing things and doing it all for the first time, it's either getting virginal, or you may exhibit anterograde amnesia...

[Angel Assassin]

Sometime I practice seeing things from new perspective. I imagine seeing and doing everything for the first time. Do I sound crazy?

You do not sound crazy, but it depends on what you really do. If what you do provides more options for you, and its pro-life, that's not crazy in the sense that it is accepted.

[Christopher]

Sometime I practice seeing things from new perspective. I imagine seeing and doing everything for the first time. Do I sound crazy?

You do not sound crazy, but it depends on what you really do. If what you do provides more options for you, and its pro-life, that's not crazy in the sense that it is accepted.

Ribozyme! That's an inspiring insight!  Like you, I believe that if one's actions are "pro-life," then that action should be pursued and committed.

Seeing things from a different perspective is a good thing because it broadens your mind.  One would become more understanding of many different situations.  You are leaving the world of ignorance and entering one of enlightenment.

[alucard]

i don't like painting myself into a corner, i don't want to color myself with biased reasoning and bigotry. i'm neither pro-choice nor pro-life. it's insulting and unproductive back yourself into a wall and limit your choices to just pro-life or pro-choice, it's mind numbing why the human race would limit themselves to such narrow views of the world...

[Angel Assassin]

i don't like painting myself into a corner, i don't want to color myself with biased reasoning and bigotry.

I appreciate the post alucard and I want to point out that aren't you talking of biased reasoning and bigotry, an example of this can be:

i'm neither pro-choice nor pro-life. it's insulting and unproductive back yourself into a wall and limit your choices to just pro-life or pro-choice, it's mind numbing why the human race would limit themselves to such narrow views of the world...

?

If this isn't biased then what specifically is insulting and unproductive about being pro-life or pro-choice? We can always say something without backing it up with reason. In that case we are saying it not because we have reasons but because all we have are emotions. It doesn't mean that if we have all the emotions we have all the reasons. So can you justify why a view such as being pro-life a narrow view?

[alucard]

oh, same old story here, i'm just voicing an opinion and someone would jump on it with bared teeth and some guns blazing. sigh, talk about an unintelligible conversation. it's obvious how people would prefer to intrude upon somebody else's ideas. they may want to have a platform of conversation, or they'd just simply disagree on the opinion that they deem threatening to their values and morality. but sometimes i can't help but wonder why they'd go around beating the bush on some blatant straighforward opinion that are even self explanatory and they'd still want to justify themselves on it, like they can't express their own opinion on the matters they think offends them.

it's not really a perfect world where everyone can just accept another person's point of view, it happens that there would be dissent and opposition to the ideas on certain subjects that we manage to impart to other people. i wouldn't want to explain and justify every opinion that i'd write about, i don't want to, i'm too lazy. maybe if i could find the time to untangle the mess that is my life then i can rationalize and justify my actions to every tom, dick and harry out there that wants it. right now, i guess i'll just have some fun wallowing in sin and every other BS i  can muster 

[Christopher]

There has to be analysis on the things we do or say.  In fact, each time we respond to these posts, we are analyzing.

"Cogito, er sum," according to Descartes.  I think, therefore I am.

As long as we're thinking beings, we will always be analyzing.  When the mind reacts, moves, creates, there is a certain kind of action.

And since man is privy to biases, all actions will always be full of biases.  To not have biases means to be a robot.  But then again, even robots are biased nowadays.

[hyperonin]

Sometime I practice seeing things from new perspective. I imagine seeing and doing everything for the first time. Do I sound crazy?

hi, this is just my opinion regarding this topic.

if you see things from a different perspective, it can only mean that current system you are working with does not totally boost your real performance. you wanted/dreamed of revolutionizing the existing system which not only benefit yourself but your team as well.

that's cool! 

[alucard]

that's a cool one, yeah, robots are biased nowadays, i know some robot who thinks she's the president of a backwater country. her primary programming is to serve the nation to the robot's maximum capacity, turns out that her manufacturers made some miscalculations on her hardware and internal programming. i think they cut short on her size and done some minor cosmetic errors on the facial arrangement of her head. there's a misplaced mole that i think were meant for the grey matter, instead it protruded on the face and became a mole. i think they meant it as a greed curbing hardware but got misplaced. some protruding teeth, i guess they ran out of human teeth and decided to get some from a dead horse wishing no one would notice. and the voice control box was a disaster. they meant to put a nice female lilting voice module but somehow it won't fit the dental fixtures they procured from a dead horse, so they just decided to put a female horse voice module and crossed their fingers for the outcome. that's one shabby manufacturing process, they even skimped on the thigh length figuring no one may notice if the robot is either sitting or standing, ingenious if i may say so, it's like hitting two birds with one stone, besides, when they were designing that robot, "mighty kid" shoes were all the rage so they must've tried to fit that cutesy shoe design to fit their robot.

with all the shoddy designs and half hazard approach on manufacturing, they produced a female type president who has thick hides and can withstand a barrage of controversies without ever losing her momentum in actualizing her secondary programming, which is to gather as much philippine currency as she can digest 'em at the expense of her primary programming which she seemed to have bypassed by some fluke of mathematical reprogramming by getting in school with another bigshot robot in north america reprogrammed to make oral sex with interns and busty ladies that are his subbordinates. i think they used economy as a platform to rewrite their programming and make a secondary one that bypasses the primary ones.

but i'm should be talking about biases right? well, that robot is biased towards her sordid drones and lackeys and she's always taking the side of her robotic husband when it comes to money grabbing and screwing this country to hell and back, i think they want to crush this country dry and have their revenge to their manufacturers for making her wear mighty kid shoes 

[hyperonin]

that's a cool one, yeah, robots are biased nowadays, i know some robot who thinks she's the president of a backwater country. her primary programming is to serve the nation to the robot's maximum capacity, turns out that her manufacturers made some miscalculations on her hardware and internal programming. i think they cut short on her size and done some minor cosmetic errors on the facial arrangement of her head. there's a misplaced mole that i think were meant for the grey matter, instead it protruded on the face and became a mole. i think they meant it as a greed curbing hardware but got misplaced. some protruding teeth, i guess they ran out of human teeth and decided to get some from a dead horse wishing no one would notice. and the voice control box was a disaster. they meant to put a nice female lilting voice module but somehow it won't fit the dental fixtures they procured from a dead horse, so they just decided to put a female horse voice module and crossed their fingers for the outcome. that's one shabby manufacturing process, they even skimped on the thigh length figuring no one may notice if the robot is either sitting or standing, ingenious if i may say so, it's like hitting two birds with one stone, besides, when they were designing that robot, "mighty kid" shoes were all the rage so they must've tried to fit that cutesy shoe design to fit their robot.

with all the shoddy designs and half hazard approach on manufacturing, they produced a female type president who has thick hides and can withstand a barrage of controversies without ever losing her momentum in actualizing her secondary programming, which is to gather as much philippine currency as she can digest 'em at the expense of her primary programming which she seemed to have bypassed by some fluke of mathematical reprogramming by getting in school with another bigshot robot in north america reprogrammed to make oral sex with interns and busty ladies that are his subbordinates. i think they used economy as a platform to rewrite their programming and make a secondary one that bypasses the primary ones.

but i'm should be talking about biases right? well, that robot is biased towards her sordid drones and lackeys and she's always taking the side of her robotic husband when it comes to money grabbing and screwing this country to hell and back, i think they want to crush this country dry and have their revenge to their manufacturers for making her wear mighty kid shoes 

nice..

im not sure if this is still connected with the topic but i really like your analysis. 

[alucard]

well the madman cometh...

it takes one bad day...  ha ha ha ha ha

[Angel Assassin]

Some people in some situations value opinions, the reason why they ask for further elaboration or substantiation. If they don't value in those contexts, what the hec - they may not even continue reading. We live now in the "information age" so that we do not only inform others about our opinions, our opinions also commit us to a responsibility over them.

If somebody considers someone's opinion, he cannot be necessarily intruding. What honestly could be in his mind might be the evaluation of that opinion within conventions that can account for the validity, reliability and usefulness of the opinion. He can rearrange the opinion in his mind and provide feedback for example - is this what you are talking about? yes? But why this is contradicting this, is this not? What's the reason for this? and so on. This means that the person considers the opinion in a critical manner and this doesn't mean that the opinion itself has inferiority. So asking questions and requesting for elaborations and justifications don't always mean that the requesting party feels offended - but he tries to challenge the opinion if it stands on a fair and sound footing.

Not all opinions can be said to be self-explanatory, for one thing - some opinions have their basis on pure emotions and instead of reason at least. To be able to understand, one has to ask for the reason behind the opinion. Those who simply disagree most likely put forward an opinion and just that - they don't mind to support their opinions - they simply disagree and that's all. Most of these cases can be traced to purely emotional reactions. Since the emotion they have - feel intense, they feel already justified about the opinion they have given without backing it up with reason.

The world has some imperfection and I can see the truth in this statement - the reason why we need to ask and not just accept things blindly. In opposing however we have to be backed up with reason because we have responsibility - we do not want to lead blindly and lead others to their doom.

We do not ask others to justify every opinion. We ask others to justify only those we find to form part of the important issues. So I think that reacting to a question as if every opinion has to be justified will be an overreaction.

If we see our life as messy, it will not always mean that we cannot give a sound opinion on other issues because we have this ability we call creativity - but I do accept that a messy life can affect one's state and reasoning.

[alucard]

well, ribo, i didn't understand what the heck it is you're trying to say. call me an idiot, and my I.Q. is really subpar as compared to a doorknob, i'm thinking maybe i was born blonde, so i really don't get you. excuse my inability to understand technical writing. honestly dude, you sound like a machine, i feel like i'm reading some technical book when i'm reading what you're writing, i don't mean to be offensive, but that's just the way i feel about it. i can't relate much to what you're talking about. i'd like to go out with you sometime and listen to you talk, i'm wondering if you talk the way you write, cause i honestly do talk the way i write, and some of the closest people i know can attest to that. anyway, i talk asswipe language, just as i write in an asswipe manner, i'd rather be talking to you about somethings like what we're talking most of the time in person rather than just engage in pissing contests with anyone including you, it takes out the fun in writing around here, well, but i have to talk about flowers anyway, well, there's cannabis flowers which aren't really allowed to bloom and i pissed on some cannabis leaves so the damned pharmacist would taste it when they smoke it  that's what they get for planting those herbs on our backyard, i'm thinking of putting some other nasty stuff on it for those idiots that smoke it  ...

well some people i know are pushing daisies right now, at least i'm still talking about flowers,  if you're taking everything personally, i'd suggest that we just meet up in person and talk about it for all it's worth, it's not really fun just wringing my hands in thin air for lack of something to grasp onto. so i'm talking baloney, but what is it that people argue with all the BS i'm writing about? well, it's like talking to a smart telecom agent:
me:hello, i'm having connection problems with my stupid lousy freaking smart bro connection
agent: come again?
me: i said i don't have an internet connection right now and your stupid freaking service is lousy
agent: sir, if you'd be more civil about your language i'd be more than happy to assist you in any manner
me: what the #u(k! i'm just trying to tell you that i have no internet from your stupid lousy service
agent: will you state your name and your account number please
me: jesus g0dd^mned freaking h. christ, can i just talk to someone with brains in there?
agent: sir, we don't have an account by that name, i'm sorry we can't help you right now...
me: mo!her#u(king son0fa$itch, can i talk to your superiors?
agent: i'm sorry sir, but i have other calls waiting. if you can just leave your name and contact number we'd be happy to call you back as soon as we can
me: (sigh) wa wa wait, ok ok, i've calmed down (hits cellphone hard repeatedly on the sofa arms) hello you s0n0fa$it(h you still m0t#er#u(king there?...

well, another day another piss ass freaking lousy no good worthless time wasted on nothing intelligible. just like talking about flowers, seriously i'd rather be sending out burial wreaths, now that's a lot of flowers in there, but is it me or it's just that those flowers really stink?

[Christopher]

I love Ribo's writing!

I love Alucard's writin!

Woo hoo!!!

Two contrasting tones and approaches!

Both really great!

I enjoy reading both of your posts!!!

[Angel Assassin]

Alucard,

Well then, at least I have to thank you because I do not aim to be understood immediately by the conscious part, thus keeping it from interfering with how I talk with that part who really understands. It became really a good feedback that I speak in a manner difficult to understand - like a machine. So let me add again this day to that nothing-intelligible-day. Sometimes my style reflects an avoidance of head on collision by setting a context that will change the force's direction - but the context has to be subtle so that the force still feels I am meeting it directly. Sometimes in order to understand, one has to drop a stone on a still water and see what happens and then contemplate later - and then recheck to see if the consequences do happen again.

Communication doesn't have to be conscious always nor it always means speaking on the same particular frame right away. In my point of view, being born is a form of communication and you were not born laughing. When you came out (and sometimes the doctor patted one's bum), you did not laugh as hard as you could or else you could have chocked yourself with blood and air to death. Most probably a child cries. He smiles and laughs later. It can be also true that communication means an ability to be flexible and patient enough to understand another person whether he is speaking foreign or speaking deep, because messages, aside from the contents, have contexts. It's the context I'm aiming more at and it would be hard to feel that immediately. You may not see it, but I have done my job successfully. Little change would mean a lot in time....and as you may think of that you will have many learnings....and learnings don't have to be conscious always...

The conscious part can take about nine chunks of information at a time at best. That part outside our awareness takes information in mysterious ways and in bulk. There will come a time that you will be able to integrate all these things....like a child who is learning to ride a bike the first time, and his conscious part becomes so overwhelmed, but in time he manages to ride the bike smoothly.

And that conscious part may say, "Ribo, what are you talking about - are you even making sense?! or "I'm not overwhelmed, I don't simply understand what your saying!" or "What?! I am learning from this? I don't need it and I don't even ask for it!" Well the world isn't all about clear distinctions and clear understanding - it's also about ambiguity and complexity. In this world we cannot NOT learn - we may learn new things, learn to stay with our habits and feel safe in them or both, or even learn without being conscious of it. We learn each day - we are learning machines. What needs to be done is to direct the learning towards what we really want. However it would also be helpful to wonder around for some time but not always.

Those we have conscious experience and can have immediate evaluation of become a tip of an iceberg, those we haven't are all underwater, so huge and complicated. It doesn't mean however that if it's underwater it cannot be recognized because the tip is a part of its manifestation. The conscious part becomes a tip of an iceberg and its reactions like -

[/quote]i didn't understand what the heck it is you're trying to say.

becomes a part of its evaluation. Well the tip do not have to be aware of its part underneath.

This may be a big what to you and to other people and you may be wondering if I do really have some sense. And yes, this type is hopeless because whatever we believe we are right, at least at the moment we think of it so. Resources come depending on what point of view we take. Not all communications happens in the way that event with the smart bro agent. It can also fruitful if we only know were to look or what to filter on. Sometimes we are so into our world that we tend to delete in our field of experience what we can learn from others. And sometimes we ended with the belief that there's nothing worthwhile to learn (which in itself is a learning process too but unrecognized).

I don't see it so much in the way of being personal on the matter or not, I see it in the way of expressing ideas here. Like you, I am also expressing my ideas. We are not in a contest here unless you think we are. It will not take out the fun of writing here unless you think it will.

well, another day another piss ass freaking lousy no good worthless time wasted on nothing intelligible.

How do you do that? What do you have think, feel etc etc in order to experience this?

[Angel Assassin]

[corrections to last post]

....reactions like -

i didn't understand what the heck it is you're trying to say.

becomes a part of its evaluation. Well the tip do not have to be aware of its part underneath.

This may be a big what to you and to other people and you may be wondering if I do really have some sense. And yes, this type is hopeless because whatever we believe we are right, at least at the moment we think of it so. Resources come depending on what point of view we take. Not all communications happens in the way that event with the smart bro agent. It can also fruitful if we only know were to look or what to filter on. Sometimes we are so into our world that we tend to delete in our field of experience what we can learn from others. And sometimes we ended with the belief that there's nothing worthwhile to learn (which in itself is a learning process too but unrecognized).

I don't see it so much in the way of being personal on the matter or not, I see it in the way of expressing ideas here. Like you, I am also expressing my ideas. We are not in a contest here unless you think we are. It will not take out the fun of writing here unless you think it will.

well, another day another piss ass freaking lousy no good worthless time wasted on nothing intelligible.

How do you do that? What do you have think, feel etc etc in order to experience this?

[alucard]

[corrections to last post]

....reactions like -

i didn't understand what the heck it is you're trying to say.

becomes a part of its evaluation. Well the tip do not have to be aware of its part underneath.

This may be a big what to you and to other people and you may be wondering if I do really have some sense. And yes, this type is hopeless because whatever we believe we are right, at least at the moment we think of it so. Resources come depending on what point of view we take. Not all communications happens in the way that event with the smart bro agent. It can also fruitful if we only know were to look or what to filter on. Sometimes we are so into our world that we tend to delete in our field of experience what we can learn from others. And sometimes we ended with the belief that there's nothing worthwhile to learn (which in itself is a learning process too but unrecognized).

I don't see it so much in the way of being personal on the matter or not, I see it in the way of expressing ideas here. Like you, I am also expressing my ideas. We are not in a contest here unless you think we are. It will not take out the fun of writing here unless you think it will.

well, another day another piss ass freaking lousy no good worthless time wasted on nothing intelligible.

How do you do that? What do you have think, feel etc etc in order to experience this?

you got that down pat, i really didn't understand what ever it is you're trying to say  i'm really just a typical simpleton, and you're getting too, uhm, i don't even think you're getting technical, it's like getting more mechanical. just going through the motions of talking and speaking isn't communicating at all, and i thought i was worse. well anyway, i've managed to ruin everything that i am during my tenure here in the forums. i've laughed, a lot, a real lot,  , i cried    but betchie didn't think so,  i got upset    and i got piss assed dramatic  then i got reall cheesy  now i've confessed to everything that is vile and cruel    and maybe you read on who i really am, so today might be the last day of my life, so i'm just gonna say i don't have the power of subliminal communication, i'm too stupid to know anything about it. no matter how hard i tried studying about the star wars force, i just can't make other people do what i want, that's one thing why i don't wave my hands while talking anymore, i mean i was waving my hands in a jedi fashion while saying "i have to kill myself", and the people i was telling that to thought i'm a freaking retard fresh off of the asylum, so i quit doing those subliminal stuff. sometimes i write subliminally to, i'd go like: "if i were you i'd take out a loaded gun and shoot myself with it because your mother thinks you're the greatest mistake she ever did during her whole lifetime and she thinks she deserves more to life than cleaning up after your mess." but those subliminal plugs don't really work much cause i haven't heard anyone shooting their brains off because of what i wrote, damn, i can't even imitate hannibal lecter and the multiple migs skit, cause i don't have that much of a clout. how i wish i have your prowess, i mean, i envy you ribo, for being a visionary, when i myself is just a retard writing in here and people think i make sense when i can't even make heads or tails of what i'm writing. most of the time, i get lost in my own ego that i hate myself so much because i can't stand someone with so much of that self deluding poison that i'm imbibed with so much. see?  does that even make sense? i don't think so, and i don't think anyone would understand that either. so to your queries, i never wanted to think i am right, i'm just writing in these forums and sometimes i just voice out my selfish views and i do know that the world won't understand, you see, no one even wants to talk to me because i'm selfish, well i'd rather be alone all the time instead of being popular and be slaving to anyone who knocks on my door and would even have the wish to hump the wife, that is really freaking sick i tell you, and if i was a woman, i wouldn't even consider saying the name rommel santiago because its so disgusting and cheap and worthless and rubbish and mindless and stinking like a baked two day turd left out in the sun for too long. but i digress... anyway...

well, another day another piss ass freaking lousy no good worthless time wasted on nothing intelligible.

How do you do that? What do you have think, feel etc etc in order to experience this?

do i look like i have the brainpower to think to you?  i was supposed to just say "i do that by reading the littlest of your post and it's another piss ass freaking lousy no good worthless time wasted on nothing intelligible" but i won't say it, no sirree, i won't because you're writing what you write and i don't have any right to intrude upon your ideas and opinions. and i'm an all too nobody to say such things anyway, i'm just a loser trying to sound cool in this here forums...

[Angel Assassin]

does that even make sense? i don't think so, and i don't think anyone would understand that either. so to your queries, i never wanted to think i am right, i'm just writing in these forums and sometimes i just voice out my selfish views and i do know that the world won't understand, you see, no one even wants to talk to me because i'm selfish, well i'd rather be alone all the time instead of being popular and be slaving to anyone who knocks on my door and would even have the wish to hump the wife, that is really freaking sick i tell you, and if i was a woman, i wouldn't even consider saying the name rommel santiago because its so disgusting and cheap and worthless and rubbish and mindless and stinking like a baked two day turd left out in the sun for too long. but i digress... anyway...

Nor I think you are right or you are wrong. If there will be right or wrong, not us, but our behavior according to certain context. You are not your behavior alucard in a way because your behavior can change, but not you - you are neutral. Your sense of identity will be there and your sense of values will be there too - and I would like to tell you that there can be many ways and means (and so behaviors) for the fulfillment of our values. There can be a variety of how we behave that can fulfill our identity. We can never be confined to a single behavior all our life because behavior can change and alternatives can be generated. We emerge in the world not only to learn a single trick but to learn endlessly until nature commands our return to what we cannot know anymore. Learning expands the model of our world and we get not only from our experiences, but also from other people. You are not selfish - but you could or can act in a selfish way. You are not stupid - but you could or can act in a stupid way. Do you think I cannot do selfishness and stupidity? I have the same capability as yours, but I choose not to. I can feel sad and gloomy all day if I would choose to. I can just say I don't understand your posts if I choose to. In all these things I try to regain the other side of the coin - there can be two sides: the cause or the effect. I can choose to feel to be the effect of this world. I can start to blame everyone else and to present all the reasons of this blame - I can make a list and it can never end. To be an effect of this world will be easy for me because I can just think of people who have hurt me all my life and my misfortunes - and I can hope that they can match the stars in the heaven. Instead, I have chosen the other flip side of the coin - the cause. No one can hurt you unless you allow yourself to be hurt and you choose to be hurt and to feel that hurt, and you choose to be hurt all your life. As I have said before in other threads, your writings appear creative to me, and there were some that were so creative that sometimes I need to ask you for some explanation, because I find them radically different. I appreciate artists and artists see the world in a very different way. So if they think in a different way then if you would only become critical to them, you would discover something new. So I could ask if this or that, for example, is biased then how about this, is this not biased? When I say this I do not mean inferiority, but I mean challenge to trigger reason. And so considering the context around an artist...and I could remember Van Gogh...considering all the misfortunes that happens in one's life, stacking them on upon each other, all these things cannot put one down unless he allows them to. It is him that allows it, not the world - because he always has the power to move on and accept the real challenge of living a better life. Trying something new isn't craziness as long as it creates more option towards a better living. Every mistake along the way as one tries something new can be a learning process on what to avoid. Every success can be a learning process on what to follow and pursue.

do i look like i have the brainpower to think to you?  i was supposed to just say "i do that by reading the littlest of your post and it's another piss ass freaking lousy no good worthless time wasted on nothing intelligible" but i won't say it, no sirree, i won't because you're writing what you write and i don't have any right to intrude upon your ideas and opinions. and i'm an all too nobody to say such things anyway, i'm just a loser trying to sound cool in this here forums...

What would happen if you did understand? What would happen if you did get what I was trying to say? Understanding, it seems to me, is a word, and if one would notice, it is the connection the word implies that can be important. What can be this connection? The process. Understanding can be seen as a process. Since understanding is a process it cannot be attained by just entering the first part of the process and then retreating. Understanding cannot be attained as a process by saying I don't understand and that's all. Understanding is a process, not a judgment, nor a label, nor a name. So when one recognize he doesn't understand, one question can be - what's the next step to understand? I am not forcing you nor I am giving an advice here. I am just presenting options. I am not that good a writer as everyone and you can check here...but I hope that may be someday...just someday, you may or somebody else may...understand what I'm talking about.

[Jun @ the gym]

You're not crazy...perhaps just a littlte unwell...hehehe
But there's a couple of people out there who's gone crazy on your post hahaha

[Christopher]

"I know right now, you can't tell..." Rob Thomas!

We all have our dualities! Sometimes we're sane, and sometimes, we crazy!  That's just a fact of life.  Accept it, and keep moving towards sanity!  But then again, we need to go crazy sometimes.  It's a cycle!  We're not perfect.  We're no angels!

[Kara]

I am sometimes crazy! I make things complicated. Life is boring without complications or if everything is perfect! I make spice out of life!