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[chem6ayall]

Lately I've been grapling with the notion that maybe I'm a jerk. Like, really, I might have actually screwed up a thing or two the last nineteen or so years. Up until now I've pulled this really clever line, especially on Christians, where I'm like, "Yeah, you know, it was a crappy time in my life, but I just don't see how I could have had it any

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[karendela_cruz]

Nicholson Baker and Friedrich Nietzche say that reaching into the past and constructing a narrative is something all human beings do because of their innate desire for meaning. Then there's the community that comes with letting themselves be understood by other people (in the communication of said narrative).

Life is so rich and frenzied that even our memories are just cositas we chose to sustain. That is to say, our memories are just narratives. Everything else we don't remember are things we couldn't handle, so we decided to kill them or be dead to them.

Its like when we tell our testimonies. We don't really know what the heck happened, so we put it in these 4 bullet points and tell jokes and cry about the poignant parts. It's not necessarily bad. Language itself is revisionist history; we rely on the dead metaphors of past artistic, creating subjects to speak to each other. I tell you 'moon' and you nod. You tell me 'it was crappy' and I nod.

[sofckthsystmad]

dude my textbooks are more fun to read

and

poo tastes good

war stories

[chem6ayall]

Me gusta lo que dices, ahora siento que todo el mundo se trate de recordar unas cosas, como Socrates dice, supongo que no he acendido a Kierkegaard. Los ultimos par de dias han sido como recuerdos constantes: "si soy Dios, esto no fue mi diseno." Pero que si es el diseno, veo un imagen humoso en dias buenos, y me quedo siego en dias malos. Por lo tanto que nuestras vidas son guerras (y se parece a veces que todo es guerra), pienso esto: "And of course, a true war story is never about war. It's about sunlight. It's about the special way that dawn spreads, out on a river when you know you must cross the river and march into the mountains and do things you are afraid to do. It's about love and memory. It's about sorrow. It's about sisters who never write back and people who never listen." (Tim O'Brien)

[blank86]

it sounds like you're referring to anecdotes... while alex is talking about meaningful, life-altering experiences

screwed

[anonymous]

Well, damned if I ain't loved!