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Gary Childress wrote: ↑Tue Apr 01, 2025 6:37 am Life is pointless, humiliating and boring. Then we die.

Is 'this' FOR EVERY one, FOR SOME, or just FOR "gary childress", in 'the moment' when you wrote 'this'?

Age wrote: ↑Tue Apr 01, 2025 7:02 am

Gary Childress wrote: ↑Tue Apr 01, 2025 6:37 am Life is pointless, humiliating and boring. Then we die.

Is 'this' FOR EVERY one, FOR SOME, or just FOR "gary childress", in 'the moment' when you wrote 'this'?

It's the way I perceive my life. If you perceive your life differently, then that's fine.

Gary Childress wrote: ↑Tue Apr 01, 2025 9:05 pm

Age wrote: ↑Tue Apr 01, 2025 7:02 am

Gary Childress wrote: ↑Tue Apr 01, 2025 6:37 am Life is pointless, humiliating and boring. Then we die.

Is 'this' FOR EVERY one, FOR SOME, or just FOR "gary childress", in 'the moment' when you wrote 'this'?

It's the way I perceive my life.

Okay great. So, instead of saying or writing, 'Life', (itself), is pointless, humiliating, and boring', which it OBVIOUSLY IS NOT True, why did you not just express the ACTUAL Truth, INSTEAD, by just saying and writing, 'My, (gary childress's) life is pointless, humiliating, and boring, to you'?

See when you SPEAK and WRITE ACTUAL IRREFUTABLE Truths like 'this', INSTEAD, then there is absolutely NO one who COULD refute you.

Gary Childress wrote: ↑Tue Apr 01, 2025 9:05 pm If you perceive your life differently, then that's fine.

And IS A COMPLETELY MOOT POINT, AS WELL.

Gary Childress wrote: ↑Wed Jan 15, 2025 9:36 am I think I'm going to put on a dunce cap and assign myself a corner. My corner will be this thread. I don't think I can competently participate anywhere else on the forum. Such is life.

Gazza, do yourself a favour and jump on an aeroplane to Angeles City (Philipines) - vibrant expat community - USA, UK, NZ, AUSTRALIANS - everyone are actually happy, now that they're not in the ridiculous Western rat race. The locals are all so happy too - BIG billiard scene so I've been learning to play USA version, getting the hang of it.

Honestly mate, I have not been this happy er..ever.

attofishpi wrote: ↑Sat Apr 12, 2025 5:16 am

Gary Childress wrote: ↑Wed Jan 15, 2025 9:36 am I think I'm going to put on a dunce cap and assign myself a corner. My corner will be this thread. I don't think I can competently participate anywhere else on the forum. Such is life.

Gazza, do yourself a favour and jump on an aeroplane to Angeles City (Philipines) - vibrant expat community - USA, UK, NZ, AUSTRALIANS - everyone are actually happy, now that they're not in the ridiculous Western rat race. The locals are all so happy too - BIG billiard scene so I've been learning to play USA version, getting the hang of it.

Honestly mate, I have not been this happy er..ever.

Thanks, Atto. I've never been outside the US except for one trip I took to the Bahamas. Not sure how well I would adjust to a new country at this point. It would be especially bad if they didn't offer affordable mental health care services. Otherwise, it sounds wonderful.

Life stinks. I'm tired of being a loser. I may as well pack it in and give up on finding a love interest who will love me back. Screw this world anyway. I'm sorry I was ever born.

Gary Childress wrote: ↑Wed May 07, 2025 2:24 am Life stinks. I'm tired of being a loser. I may as well pack it in and give up on finding a love interest who will love me back. Screw this world anyway. I'm sorry I was ever born.

Life stinks for a hundred different reasons but not ever for not finding a love interest. Why regret not having something which never existed in the first place except as an inevitable hangover! Love never made the world go round, except as dedication to one's own interests.

Gary Childress wrote: ↑Wed May 07, 2025 2:24 am Life stinks. I'm tired of being a loser. I may as well pack it in and give up on finding a love interest who will love me back. Screw this world anyway. I'm sorry I was ever born.

OMG. Stop your effing whining!

Dubious wrote: ↑Wed May 07, 2025 2:48 am

Gary Childress wrote: ↑Wed May 07, 2025 2:24 am Life stinks. I'm tired of being a loser. I may as well pack it in and give up on finding a love interest who will love me back. Screw this world anyway. I'm sorry I was ever born.

Life stinks for a hundred different reasons but not ever for not finding a love interest. Why regret not having something which never existed in the first place except as an inevitable hangover! Love never made the world go round, except as dedication to one's own interests.

Loneliness is just one more reason to regret having been born.

accelafine wrote: ↑Wed May 07, 2025 2:57 am

Gary Childress wrote: ↑Wed May 07, 2025 2:24 am Life stinks. I'm tired of being a loser. I may as well pack it in and give up on finding a love interest who will love me back. Screw this world anyway. I'm sorry I was ever born.

OMG. Stop your effing whining!

Stop responding to my posts, please.

Gary Childress wrote: ↑Wed May 07, 2025 2:58 am

accelafine wrote: ↑Wed May 07, 2025 2:57 am

Gary Childress wrote: ↑Wed May 07, 2025 2:24 am Life stinks. I'm tired of being a loser. I may as well pack it in and give up on finding a love interest who will love me back. Screw this world anyway. I'm sorry I was ever born.

OMG. Stop your effing whining!

Stop responding to my posts, please.

So not the response you were looking for? If you are that desperate for 'company' then invest in one of those sex dolls. They are fairly realistic these days and you would be much happier with one of those than an actual woman. A relationship is never going to work when one side is completely self-absorbed and indifferent to the other person's feelings. Hardly any relationships last anyway.

blocked.

Or you could always do what godelian did: go and live in SE Asia and buy some underage prostitutes to 'marry'.

Gary Childress wrote: ↑Wed May 07, 2025 2:57 am

Dubious wrote: ↑Wed May 07, 2025 2:48 am

Gary Childress wrote: ↑Wed May 07, 2025 2:24 am Life stinks. I'm tired of being a loser. I may as well pack it in and give up on finding a love interest who will love me back. Screw this world anyway. I'm sorry I was ever born.

Life stinks for a hundred different reasons but not ever for not finding a love interest. Why regret not having something which never existed in the first place except as an inevitable hangover! Love never made the world go round, except as dedication to one's own interests.

Loneliness is just one more reason to regret having been born.

That's all contingent on how much one depends on the company of others not to feel lonely. Those who claim independence from that necessity rarely feel lonely keeping their own company. In fact, it's not so unusual to feel the company of others as an inconvenient interruption. Most of the time it's people's effect on others that causes regret in having been born.

...or as Philip Larkin so succinctly put it:

Man hands on misery to man.
It deepens like a coastal shelf.
Get out as early as you can,
And don’t have any kids yourself.

Dubious wrote: ↑Wed May 07, 2025 5:46 am

Gary Childress wrote: ↑Wed May 07, 2025 2:57 am

Dubious wrote: ↑Wed May 07, 2025 2:48 am

Life stinks for a hundred different reasons but not ever for not finding a love interest. Why regret not having something which never existed in the first place except as an inevitable hangover! Love never made the world go round, except as dedication to one's own interests.

Loneliness is just one more reason to regret having been born.

That's all contingent on how much one depends on the company of others not to feel lonely. Those who claim independence from that necessity rarely feel lonely keeping their own company. In fact, it's not so unusual to feel the company of others as an inconvenient interruption. Most of the time it's people's effect on others that causes regret in having been born.

...or as Philip Larkin so succinctly put it:

Man hands on misery to man.
It deepens like a coastal shelf.
Get out as early as you can,
And don’t have any kids yourself.

It's not like we come here to talk to ourselves. We seek companionship in one form or another.