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Self-righteous people with so-called “ideals” make me sick. There are very few things in this world more irritating than people who have “views” on things, and then let their personal feelings get in the way of their lives.

For example, there will be people who would turn down perfectly suitable paid work, on principle, because they don’t like the way the company handles some aspect of whatever it is that this person has nothing to do with.

Or there will be vegetarians who don’t go out for meals with their meat-eating friends.

Or Christians will bottle out if it looks like something they’re doing is going to insult their religion. People have different views, get the fuck over it.

Honestly, this false attitude it bullshit - people who won’t work for a company because they support the arms trade, or because of their “unethical” (which is not a fact, it would be an opinion, since not everyone will agree on a universal definition of “ethical”) treatment of animals, are only lying to themselves. They know they want the money, and if they don’t want the money, it’s because they already have enough money to support themselves, or are making more at present - nothing to do with the morality of the situation. Just because you wouldn’t do any of those things yourself is not a good enough reason to deny money from the company. How they make that money really has nothing to do with you - it won’t affect the money in any way, it won’t make it dirty, or worth any less. Money has no context at all, it’s just a measure of potential (be they potential possessions or potential services, etc.), and all the stuff you can get with money from one source will be the same as the stuff you get with money from an arms company, for instance.

People do it because they think it makes them superior. Nobody thinks you’re superior, nobody respects you for your decision, the only thing you’re improving is your own sense of self-worth, because, let’s face it, if you don’t do the job, someone else will. You don’t have the power to make a difference by refusing, so why do it? You won’t change anything.

TERMINATION

It can piss someone off to no end when people do not know when they have crossed the line, and a joke should be over. Timely termination of casual banter is an aspect of diplomatic relations and should be considered at all times. Failure to do so could result in connections being severed or communications breaking down. And tension. Don’t fuck around with me.

Liberals make me want to punch things. They act all self righteous because they’re pro- everything and don’t want to restrict anything. This kind of world-view is narrow and uneducated. What these unwise people don’t realise is that people need rules and regulations and control imposed on them in order to function well.

Now, this doesn’t apply to everyone - most people don’t take their freedoms for granted and abuse the gracious rights awarded to them by our laws. But then you’ll get the odd nutcase who’ll ruin it for the rest of us, give free thinkers or free speakers a bad name. These are the people we ideally need to restrain, but - of course - we can’t single out individuals (even though everyone is individual, and the same permission mask should not necessarily be applied to everyone) because that would be discrimination.

Why Do It?

You had a rare opportunity, but you ruined it. I don’t know, even now, whether you did it on purpose (although I know that you did my half on purpose, I don’t see this as sufficient punishment, however) or whether you just couldn’t help yourself (in which case, you need someone to see to your inability to control your tongue in polite company). You had managed to rally support, and when one is in a position of little influence, this is a chance not to be wasted. But you did. And I can tell you that you have only yourself to blame. While things afterwards seem trivial and forgotten about, as is the way with the male mind, I at least have not forgotten. I never will.

REGRET

I’ve long advocated that feeling regret is just evidence of bad planning, which can include both planning incorrectly or failing to plan for something that happens. And then it happens, you didn’t want it to, so you feel bad.

Well, even if you are a poor planner, you shouldn’t regret the things which might not have gone so well. Remorse only lowers your morale and depresses your mood - both of these things will only hamper you in the long run.

Learn from your mistakes, certainly, but then move on. Do not dwell on the failure or it will haunt you forever, and regretting your mistake will turn out to be more destructive than the mistake itself was in the first place. Stay strong, move on.

Boring Cryptic Preamble

A lot of people keep asking me ‘why’. Well, there’s not a great deal I’m going to say to you when you ask me, so just stop. Seriously, guys, haven’t you learnt yet? The answer is always one of the following three: because I said so, because it is or because I know something that you don’t, and I’m not going to tell you it, I just want you to trust that it’s a good reason.

Except This, You Arrogant Piece of Shit

Fucking hell, you’re annoying. I really don’t care for repeated, fabricated bullshit from an unoriginal mind and an unoriginal mouth. And your request was denied because I really want to put a bullet in you. Listen, I know you think that everyone around hasn’t heard your tired clichés before, but we all have and we’re all fucking sick of them. Especially when you start quoting from that database* that an increasing number of us have come to know and love. And yet, I can take your advice, and not argue with you, since you don’t get any credit. It’s not your idea, you see, and I love that. You’re an irritant, and you must be expelled. Some people might sympathise with you, and others still might be impressed by your false world view and your hollow, acquired opinions, if they’re unworldly enough to have not experienced the first-hand of such things. But those people become more limited as you age, and you will find yourself alone one day, sitting alone and cursing the sky for all that caused you to be. And I will know, in my heart, that your fate has caught up with you, and your progression ceases there. Good night, boy, and may your suffering increase forever.

*For those of you who may already know which quote database (think carefully, kids) I am referring to, the following may help you identify exactly which quotation sparked this: #27025.

It is the claim of renowned atheist Richard Dawkins that Darwin himself discovered the most satisfying answer to that great question: “why are we here?”

Darwin’s theory tells us about the origin of species and the concept of natural selection. But this does not apply to human beings anymore, since our ability to survive (or lack thereof) is compensated for by the shared knowledge of everyone else, and their ability to survive. It is no longer the case that an individual will develop certain skills that will make him live longer, or better, and so produce a larger proportion of offspring, spreading the beneficial gene throughout the population as those without it compete with those with the advantage.

Darwin tells us that we are here naturally. But now, we have taken nature into our own hands, and we can twist it as we like. We’ve wiped out species before, and we can keep some from dying off. We are playing god with the inhabitants of this world, which are subject to the laws of nature, which, in turn, are subject to the will of humanity. So, if everything originally came about because it was naturally inclined to (no matter how unlikely), it means that nothing has purpose, not even us.

But, as I have said before, Darwin’s theory does not apply to us any longer. We have made the critical evolutionary step to break out of nature’s chains. We may not have evolved a purpose, but we have evolved the next best thing: the ability to create purpose.

Purpose is a human concept. We invented it, and then asked if we ourselves had one. Nothing natural has purpose. One can argue that the plant life exists in order to maintain oxygen levels in the air so animals can live, but that claim is false because animals are here and breathe because they can be. So they filled the void. It is a way for life to begin and survive and to be sustained, so animal life came about naturally.

Purpose is not only something which applies to us, however. We invented the idea of purpose, and we also create purpose, both for ourselves, in setting goals and targets, and for others, and for nature and everything in the subtree below its governing rules. We are here, not to fulfil a purpose of a higher power’s, but to be and create purpose for everything else around us.

GRATITUDE

You might think this one is obvious, in which case, you are wrong.

This isn’t just a good-relations word. The good relations that will follow from showing proper gratitude for a service or gift (while still being honest - there’s a knack to this) are important for maintaining or forming bonds with people, but that’s not the whole.

Being grateful even when there is nobody to show your gratitude to is not only good practice, but it keeps the balance. It lets the universe know that whatever force has driven your fortune is recognised and appreciated. Get on the universe’s good side, trust me - you’re here all your life.

At first, I just thought it was a comical, abstract, nonsensical statement when I thought to myself “it rains more on the path from campus to Lakeside than it does anywhere else in the university.” But, now that I consider it more carefully, I’m starting to believe it.

For one, it does indeed seem to rain more on the path. It’s open and exposed on all sides. For another, it is always windy on the path. What’s more, the wind always blows into your face. I can’t feel my chin and nose half the time after traversing that perilous track.

Finally, the sun always shines much more brightly on sunny days when you’re walking the Lakeside path. It’s like it attracts weather. Anyone else agree?

It’s always refreshing to be given an insight into the minds of “average” people. Refreshing, but somewhat disturbing. And then there are those times when we absolutely despair. This time, I think it was just amusing, since nobody was getting too worked up about anything, but the games you people play with your relationships do make me laugh.

I’m trying to avoid slipping into the old habit of name replacement, just to make talking directly about an occurrence that little bit easier; it’s no easy task, so please appreciate it. What I observed was someone sending an SMS message to her boyfriend and waiting for a response. Nothing special so far, I’ll grant you. But the minutes began to roll by. Eventually we passed that invisible barrier that divides a reasonable wait from an unreasonable one. The boyfriend was now in trouble. Never mind a rational explanation, he was deliberately waiting to antagonise you and create tension, because that’s what you do to someone you care about, isn’t it? The reply was “well worth the wait,” when it came, however, and we can only assume (since full evidence isn’t available) that this means something concrete was arranged for later on in the evening.

Well, currently they are in different places. One reasons that the young lady is out with her friends while our young man remains by himself, anxious to see her. But there is another invisible time barrier that they pass: he decides that it is too late, despite his lady cutting short her otherwise longer social gathering to make time for him. He suggests an alternative in the first available free time slot he’s got, the following afternoon.

“I don’t want to see him in the afternoon, the afternoon is gay,” and “I’m going to make him wait for a reply,” to end up with a reply that went “I’d rather not tomorrow, text me when you’re free again.”

And we’ve transcended from being so desperate to want to see him that a twenty or thirty minute delay between text responses is agony, to avoiding seeing him the following day and leaving a very open-ended offer that might not even be taken up. This is why your games amuse the Chronicler. If two people want to see each other, then just fucking go and see each other. Quit with all the stupid one-upmanship - two people have coinciding free time, so use it! This is not difficult, people.

UNIVERSALNESS

Now, this one needs a little bit of context behind it, before all your attentive readers will notice that I’ve tagged this one as a bad one (or that they alternate between good and bad) while it seems like a very good idea to the rational and logical minds of the wise.

The problem here come from a person who is trying to get along, or be liked, by everyone. If I was friends with everyone I knew, I would be friends with a lot of people I hate. There is no way any single person can be universally liked, since there are always going to be people who disagree, people who differ, people who just aren’t compatible enough to get along, and people who just hate you with a passion for no apparent reason (this parethetic excerpt from the page is here for a reason). So, for your own good, just pick some friends and stick with them. Otherwise you’re going to piss off a whole lot of people.