<p>Cira, we go to the exact same sites! I read that story as well a while ago. It’s phenomenal.</p>
<p>Got any others up your sleeve, earil? I’m stalling before physics hw.</p>
<p>We’re not even the dramatic ones of our extended friend group. It’s ridiculous actually… In the big group, everyone else has been dating and hating and loving and annoying and crushing and inbreeding these complicated relationships since 6th grade… Their social dynamics are really complex.</p>
<p>If you want to find awesome websites, use Firefox and get StumbleUpon. Very simple to do and it’s tailored to your interests!</p>
<p>Wow. Then I guess it must have something to do with my attending a ginormous school where nobody /really/ knows a whole lot of other people…</p>
<p>I dunno… as a small-ish school person, I can’t say there’s really ever more than a your minor run-of-the-mill spats. No years-long grudges and inter-relationships, for the most part.</p>
<p>fft… my small school sucks (especially when sports-oriented) no opportunities… no one’s even heard of TASP</p>
<p>Our school’s latest claim to fame is our resident gay couple.</p>
<p>Yeah. I live in town where the only people that might attack you are cows and drunken SUNY students. This is a big deal here.</p>
<p>I mentioned a TED discussion the other day, it was during our debate on happiness. Did anyone watch it? I cannot say how much this has changed my perception of what happiness is.</p>
<p>Well, there’s always the gay scandals in the drama/music department. Like, who got kicked out by their parents, and who’s done what with what phallic object…</p>
<p>I think there’s one person who masterminds the drama and controls everything. It causes a lot of issues for them.</p>
<p>I did, Donny. I still think that losing all of your friends and family, cutting off all your relationships could cause permanent happiness damage. He didn’t have any data for that.</p>
<p>At the very end of the discussion, he conceded the point that there were some occurrences that completely skewed his results, such as your example.</p>
<p>I guess I’m the odd man out. Upon seeing it, I practically had an epiphany of a universal scale. It was awesome. (:</p>
<p>So, I feel like you all know each other. Did you attend TASS last year, or do you all live nearby each other? I live in the Midwest, and frankly I’m surprised that my letter arrived so promptly. I guess Ohio has one good thing going for it…</p>
<p>AAHHHHH! OHIO GOT LETTERS TOO?!!?</p>
<p>Okay, I’ll calm down now…
I think panicpower was the only one of “us” to have attended TASS last year…?</p>
<p>Earil, do you believe it impossible for, say, a hermit to be content in life?</p>
<p>I did really like his message in general. My mom has kind of forced a sense of happiness and productivity into my mind throughout my childhood… I think I am a happy person and a lot of people at my school think it’s very weird that I can make myself excited over trivial things- Chem labs, potassium iodate and acidified sodium phosphate turning blue together. I think he’s right about why we don’t accept synthetic happiness, because we’re such a consumerist and materialistic society.</p>
<p>Yeah, Tremulent, we’ve just been talking for the past month and a half on here. (:</p>
<p>It would take a lot, a really great deal of inner strength and resilience. I think people are genetically engineered to like other people in small amounts, and bucking the trend is hard. Maybe it’s possible… Probably more likely for people on the Autistic scale, even if only a little.</p>
<p>Hey tremulant1. We all just kind of constantly visit this thread. We live on opposite sides of the country.</p>
<p>So, how was the letter? Good, I hope.</p>
<p>Speaking as a Hermit, rather than a hermit, I can say I’m pretty okay, despite all the rejection and dejection and reflection and affection and all that. Well, the last one’s not so bad. Would this make me not a true hermit? Does it really matter? I’m not even sure if I have business coming back after today… hehe.</p>
<p>We aren’t genetically engineered to be like other people, we just do it as instinct. Better to be safe in numbers than purposely going against the grain. I plan on spending part of my life in hermitude, which isn’t a word, I know. Haven’t you ever wanted to leave it all to analyze your true self? The mask we put on for the outside world can become your permanent face if you never take a break from wearing it.</p>
<p>Sorry, cira! I accidentally messed up the meaning of your post, so mine doesn’t matter anymore. I would delete if I could. :P</p>
<p>Okay, bad terminology. We’re genetically selected to instinctively want to be around a small group of other people.</p>
<p>I think deep, reflective personal thought can be achieved in a variety of environments… It would be better for me to be able to find myself in a crowd than when I was alone. It’s harder, but I think it’s more realistic to try and constantly see who you are and be who you see you are in your everyday life.</p>
<p>Classik, you are fully welcome to stay if you want to. I’m staying after my rejection.</p>
<p>Donny, I think it makes sense… Maybe?</p>
<p>I think my 100th post may have been about the kumquat tree.</p>
<p>Well, cira, you’re a total main figure on the thread. It’s not like If I went, anyone would miss me or anything. /emo SARDONIC KIDDING?!?!!?</p>
<p>Haha, whatever. Essays and such are blocking me off through til monday at least despite whatever.</p>
<p>Well, I’m out, what with the homework and all. Bye, everybody!</p>
<p>so, has anyone from NY actually recieved news?</p>