<p>i think college life can be enjoyable if u forget about reality and start imagining urself to be alexander the great. how do u do this? by thinking urself superior to others. for this, i actually don’t need much of an effort: i truly believe i am superior to everyone, but few, in intelligence, virtue and artistic greatness. also, thinking urself to be superior is not enough. u must think that most people around u are bunch of dunderheads, unworthy of ur attention.</p>
<p>second point: always imagine that u are wearing a toga and a sandal. always believe that u are in the sun from which u receive the life-giving vitamin D. why is this important? because the ancients all lived in the sunny climates. that’s why they achieved so much. they also thought the barbarians were idiots.</p>
<p>third point: always pretend that all the women around u lust for u and all the men around u envy ur greatness.</p>
<p>vivez la vie avec la passion!!! inspired by the painting “yo picasso” by pablo picasso.</p>
<p>And if you wish to take your Alexander the great fantasy a notch too far, you could always go to a Greek party, drink like you were Apollo himself and die by alcohol poisoning.
Some believe Alexanders death was caused by heavy drinking.</p>
<p>alexander’s death wasn’t caused solely by drinking. in fact, he drank only to keep his company in felicity and to engage in active social life. in the outside he may have been humble, but in the inside he believed himself to be a god. he possessed a horrendous amount of self-control, courage, relentlessness. so, only through mental discipline he conquered the known world. he wasn’t much of a looker: he was short and probably effeminate in facial quality due to being momma’s boy and being possibly gay. one funny occasion that plutarch (or arrian, i don’t know) accounts is when alexander runs up to a throne in babylon (or susa) and sits on it with his legs dangling like a kid. apparently darius III was a tall man and many sources indicate that he was handsome. so, anyway, alexander wore his body and that’s how he met his premature death in babylon. besides his irrational drives wearing his body down, he was wounded in the lungs in one of the forts of southern india where he unwittingly jumped into an enemy fortress fighting a host of infantry and archers single-handedly.</p>
<p>my point for this thread is this: never think urself incapable. alexander had always believed even before he dashed the hosts of darius to pieces that he ALREADY ruled asia. arrogance these days have such a negative connotations. society wants u to bend to their strict rules. technology, science is all vain for they teach a man to be humble, to acquiesce, to yield his ambition and potential to be great. small wonder that today, people still look up to the classics for the fuel of mankind’s potential has gone low.</p>
<p>i am 19 years, but i feel i’m 70. i’ve seen so much, i’ve read, learned so much and i have thought and reflected so much that i’ve already made a sizable amount of theories concerning philosophy, history. despite this, i feel i have millions of miles to traverse to understand the past, to understand god… there is so much to be learned, so much to be had…my only fuel is ambition</p>
<p>Hahaha…believe it or not this thread actually has some merit. </p>
<p>The truth is a lot of kids go through life thinking they’re crap, having a low opinion of themselves, and thinking everyone only hangs out with them because they’re pitying them, etc.</p>
<p>It’s really a ****ty way to live your life.</p>
<p>Everyone needs a little bit of confidence. If imagining you’re Alexander the Great can push self-hating and paranoid thoughts out of your head, so be it. You’ll probably be happier for it, and so will the people around you. You just have to carefully balance the charade of “everyone loves me!” with making sure not to take yourself/your arrogance too seriously.</p>
<p>I like playfully arrogant people WAY more than I like constantly self-pitying people.</p>
<p>by your screename, you sound like a 14 year old nerdy kid who plays videogames all day (sauron… voldemort) and is weirdly obessed with ‘evil.’ you’re probably pretty fugly and have no life… at least you can’t get any, thus, you need your extreme fantasies.</p>
<p>i’ve spent quite a bit of time reading about reality-unconforming philosophies, for example that of Ralph Waldo Emerson, who states that one’s beliefs make up his/her true reality. and that the world outside of oneself does not matter (because who knows if it’s true or not?)</p>
<p>unfortunately, reality does matter. people interact. thinking that women are gonna fall for you won’t necessarily get you women. feeling that you are the creme de la creme won’t actually make you the smartest awesomest person ever. </p>
<p>so you might, just MIGHT want to consider taking actions in contrast to your current life in lala land</p>
<p>First point: Go to the university gym and you’ll understand how superior you are
Second: Wear toga and your ass will be kicked by the first punk
Third: Stop mastrubating</p>
<p>Sauronvoldemort is a peculiar character. He asks questions about UC transfers yet he supposedly goes to Mount San Jacinto college. Most of his other posts are about Yu-gi-oh and attracting girls :P</p>
<p>oui. tu as absolument raison! je suis un bel homme et beaucoup de femmes sont attirees a moi.</p>
<p>the ultimate fantasy is meant to help ur stressful college life!! all those duelist challenging u every day! all those geeks that crowd around u to get ur autograph! all those invitations to dinner parties and duels! and of course women that try to seduce u!!! all these can be very stressful, at least for me. so i develop escapist fantasies. i am champion of Magic! i have the most deadly INVINCIBLE deck! i’m bound to be be challenged! </p>
<p>how to rid urself of lackeys, idiots and geeks that crowd around u: start talking about history:
THE HISTORY OF THE DECLINE AND FALL OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE by Edward Gibbon, published in the course of 1780s. Gibbon, most worthy scholar, served in Parilament for 7 years, spent 13 years of his life researching on Roman history.</p>
<p>Magic fanatic: sauron, ur my hero! give me advises on how to build the most affordable elvish deck!</p>
<p>sauron: first, let me give a history lesson. ever since caesar augustus, the praetorian guards, created and developped into most imposing force in the suburbs of rome, began to shap roman history. in their mean, and dispiccable manner, they save rome. emperors after the follies of commodus, julian and carracalla had been chosen by these legionaries int heir endless and hopeless drive for loot, booty, etc. but these personage that these soliders endowed with the pruple were of military nature and thus unbending in their strict vigilant standards. and so we get emperors like aurelian, probus, valerian, severus, severus alexander. now in 258 AD in the Dacian frontier not 100 miles north of Danube…</p>
