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  1. awesam17 awesam17

    exam tomorrow. and then what? studying. then what? exam. Then what? Semester 2. Then Exams. Grade 12. Exams. Post secondary. Exams exams exams exams. FREAKING LIFE

    Friday, 23-Jan-15 02:33:01 UTC from web
    1. Matt Matt

      @awesam17 I don't see what the big deal with exams are. It's the same as a regular test.

      Friday, 23-Jan-15 02:33:27 UTC from web
      1. awesam17 awesam17

        @mrmattimation its not that exams are overated in my opinion, its that tests are underrated.

        Friday, 23-Jan-15 02:34:44 UTC from web
        1. awesam17 awesam17

          @awesam17 and then jobs. then working for money for a seemingly ignorant pathetic and fog-filled society. and then death.

          Friday, 23-Jan-15 02:36:36 UTC from web
          1. MetalTao MetalTao

            @awesam17 Fog Filled you say?

            Friday, 23-Jan-15 02:36:50 UTC from web
            1. awesam17 awesam17

              @metaltao we are thrown into the air with high hopes and dreams in today's western world. Achieve what you want! Be who you want to be! But some people can't. The world is not equal. A child in a wheelchair can never grow up to be a basketball player. A child whose family is dirt poor could never afford to send him to college. We are masked by the views people set up centuries ago during confederation. We can't see the truth, and so our flight paths are fogged and our desire takes us away to place where we feel shame. That's what I learned when I read the Great Gatsby.

              Friday, 23-Jan-15 02:40:27 UTC from web
              1. Someone Probably Someone Probably

                @awesam17 Congratulations, you learned the exact message it was trying to portray.

                Friday, 23-Jan-15 02:41:40 UTC from web
                1. awesam17 awesam17

                  @skyllie how were you trying to portray that?

                  Friday, 23-Jan-15 02:42:21 UTC from web
                  1. Someone Probably Someone Probably

                    @awesam17 I'm just saying that you understand the theme and message of the book.

                    Friday, 23-Jan-15 02:42:40 UTC from web
                  2. awesam17 awesam17

                    @awesam17 oh I thought you said "I" not "It was trying to portray." My bad. I feel im ok at understanding themes. My exam is on that book tomorrow so ive been endlessly studying, conforming to the social acceptance of the student persona like the great recycler that is society intends for me to do forever.

                    Friday, 23-Jan-15 02:45:42 UTC from web
                    1. Someone Probably Someone Probably

                      @awesam17 To be fair, the novel was meant as like a protest of the death of the American dream. Fitzgerald is saying that this is how the country has become, and he wanted to show the common world the horrors of it, in hopes that they would strive to fix it.

                      Friday, 23-Jan-15 02:46:59 UTC from web
                      1. MetalTao MetalTao

                        @skyllie Yes, it was less like a fate, and more like showing a the path one was following. Very nice.

                        Friday, 23-Jan-15 02:47:43 UTC from web
              2. MetalTao MetalTao

                @awesam17 Ahh, but Long-tse, (Or Jeng-Tse) Life changes, it rolls and it rocks. Sometimes it crashes into the rocks and the beach, mussing up all we make. But with out this same wave, we would use up all of the sand. A kid in the wheel chair can become a Basketball player, a dirt poor child can go to college. It is all about awareness and solutions to fix the hurdles that prevent people from achieving. And, sometimes sheer determination can cross all borders. No human is static., we change ideas and perspectives constantly, people will come out of it. But this is not an advance to suggest that one should let things be. They cannot change the tide immediately, but you can warn and redirect. We are blinded by ambitions, but we can over come that. Never take inaction towards passion.

                Friday, 23-Jan-15 02:46:05 UTC from web
                1. awesam17 awesam17

                  @metaltao Humanity is a race that I find truly despicable as a whole. Sure determination can overcome obstacles, but the level of work and courage that would go into getting that child out of his wheelchair would take a tremendous amount of work and courage, two things most of humanity doesn't have. The strong prey on the weak. the weak die out without a trace or a voice. Its literally how we evolved. We are no more than selfish, unaware, harmful animals when taken in as a whole.

                  Friday, 23-Jan-15 02:50:28 UTC from web
                  1. MetalTao MetalTao

                    @awesam17 May I propose a question? Is there an inherent condition of the human spirit that allows for such problems to be hard to accomplish? Or, was this all just a system that was put in place well beyond our life time that it will take time and knowledge to over come?
                    You say you can group all of humanity into one small, evil archetype. I will say that is absurd in my eyes. Humans are diverse, yet all have the idea that things should be good in the world, it is simply the idea of what is good that is different. And, I will tell you this, about the wheel chair, it is happening. We have not only have basketball with specialized wheelchairs that allow for a fast paced and rigorous game, but we are on a precipice of discovering increased neuronal growth through the use of electrotherapy to stimulate that, we have already given four paralyzed Veterans the ability to walk and move Consciously.
                    We have Good and bad qualities, Self righteousness, Curiosity, and empathy. It is a balance.

                    Friday, 23-Jan-15 03:05:54 UTC from web