Comments | adamch: Taking things too seriously

adamch

Taking things too seriously

Jul 08, 2003 08:04

I've often been accused of "taking things too seriously." The people who make the accusation tend not to be able to define exactly what they mean, but examples of things I "take too seriously" tend to include political philosophy, programming languages, all things academic, etc.. There might be some truth to some of these allegations, but I think ( Read more... )

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apm July 8 2003, 10:05:47 UTC

The opposite problem exists as well. My girlfriend has put forth a tremendous amount of energy into fostering a career as a writer. She has also lately found a great deal of opportunity in the world of theatre. Despite an admirable amount of talent and work ethic, she finds all too often that this is not considered a Job, and therefore she is not taking her life Seriously. If she were working for Wal*Mart, she would be taking her life a lot more Seriously than what she is doing now -- building a network that will allow for her to work in theatre, or sending away writing to magazines for consideration. But clearly, there's a lot of serious work going on that is being ignored because no one is paying her for it. From this standpoint, I see your point 100 ( ... )

soundofwater July 8 2003, 13:31:35 UTC

I'm too nihilistic to take things seriously.

Yay beer.

anonymous July 11 2003, 22:57:11 UTC

I agree with you on this. I find a lot of my friends say I take "the anarchy thing way to seriously".

-kunphuzil

Anarchism anonymous July 12 2003, 18:13:42 UTC

Maybe because you do?

You are too young to vote. Why do you care about Government? You make no money, if you commit a crime you are sent to Juvenille (not even jail). If anything, the Government favours kids.

And you want to abolish it :P.

If they would only let the underaged drink...

Hm.. adamch July 12 2003, 19:23:44 UTC

I don't know who posted this, but I have a feeling he's named Kenny.

Re: Hm.. adamch July 12 2003, 20:18:22 UTC

No. I'm sorry, you must have me confused with someone else. I stumbled upon your site through www.hprog.org, which lead me here.

i was in #hcoop myunit September 20 2004, 19:13:25 UTC

the portuguese one.
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i'm portuguese

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