Duffdog said:
Except that "complete uncaring indifference" does not exist in the real world. It only exists in theoretical discussions which don't involve real people. In the real world, people have emotions.
i've had to walk around with holes in my shoes and eat rooman noodels for a year, have everyone call me an idiot, have my family disown me, not date for years on end, let alone have sex, i've walked around fat and out of shape, i've walked around to the point where i can fit a size 31 jeans comfortably. I've developed a pretty
i am probably the poster child of not giving 2 ****s what anyone thinks, my wife being the only exception and even that has limits, she still gets on me because i refuse to speak to either of my parents, and i've told her to **** off more than once over the issue. Some call it arrogance, it probably is. I'm going to do what i want to do and i'm going to tell you exactly how i feel about whatever it is we are talking about. It's who i can freely tell you i used to be a crackhead, i don't give a ****, and i laugh at people who think they are "getting to me' by telling me something i tell myself everyday.
I refuse to let anyone, my wife and child excluding, dictate how sad or happy I feel.
people who give a damn what other people think about them, are not focusing on living life to the fullest. You cannot achieve geratness in anything while at the same time, appease everyone around you by living a status quo life. it's impossible.
Anyone who knows me and reads my posts knowws that i have a hard on for presidential history. IMHO you can always find some type of microcosm of life when looking at past presidents.
I bring that up to say, you think John Adams gave 1 single fvck what anyone thought when he signed the Alien Act (the right to remove whoever the fvck he wanted, for whatever the fvck reason he wanted to) and sedition act (the right to arrest any member of the press for possibly flaming the talk of war with France, a war that john adams correctly knew we could not win). He knew not only that it would not be popular, because arresting newspaper journalist flies in the face of the Constitution and deporting immigrants with no due process flys in the face of "give us your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free". But he also knew that we couldn't beat a Neoplean lead France in a war, while the general public thinking that because they beat the British in the american revolution they could beat anyone.
He did what he had to do, knowing good and well at the time he just signed his ticket out of office after 1 term. That, right there, is the sole reason he did not get elected to a 2nd term. He knew this was most likely the case before he signed the act, and did it anyway, because he knew that the country could not survive a war with France. Knowing that he would go down in history as the president that suspended constitutional rights and be looked down upon, and did what he had to do, so that we have the right to sit here and debate it some 200 years later.
So no "duffdog", not only is "complete uncaring indifference" exist, it's virtually mandatory to achieve anything worth a **** in life. The avg person has very little foresight, beyond anything hat can help themselves in the very near future. When you look beyond that, with anything, rather it's your career, your health, your sex life, you are going to be going against the matrix.
