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Feb 24, 2010 08:46

when we live in a world where a philosophical stance on life and destructive mantra can be summed up in three letters, which some people post via twitter or as a status update, daily ( Read more... )

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mireille21 February 23 2010, 23:08:59 UTC
Can you send me your email address? Ta.

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turner23 February 23 2010, 23:19:54 UTC
"my lj username"@gmail.com

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turner23 February 24 2010, 09:12:50 UTC
female-male-lemur.

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I never understood... anonymous February 23 2010, 23:49:53 UTC

...what "fml" meant actually.

But hey, I'm totes down with the self-pity.

Nice post. I'll try to restrain my own whinging today. ;)

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Re: I never understood... anonymous February 23 2010, 23:50:53 UTC

...Sorry, that was me, Girl Clumsy. I've got to work out how to use this openID business.

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turner23 February 24 2010, 09:13:23 UTC
*hugz* i love you, man...

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definatalie February 24 2010, 00:56:11 UTC
The antidote to that TLA is another - FWP (first world problems).

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turner23 February 24 2010, 09:42:46 UTC
i dunno if it's so much an antidote as a cricket bat to the face, with a follow mug of shut the fuck up.... right up there with white person privilege. i mean, the people who are living with 2nd, 3rd and 4th world problems could still, if they felt like it, choose to say, "mercenaries gunned down my mother, leaving me to have to enter into a life of child prostitution... fml."

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ok, changing that to "and i'm not even mad" feels fucking creepy and i would not suggest it.

but, yeah, whinging and saying "fwp" still frames it as a problem... legitimate or otherwise. it tells them to build a bridge and get over it, negative re-enforcement, not positive life affirmation.

i sound like a freakin' hippy, espousing this stuff...

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turner23 February 24 2010, 09:45:18 UTC
yeah, this too shall pass suggests that you have to be passive and let the universe flow over you...

and i'm not even mad sounds like you've already let the universe flow over you and you've reached your happy space, already...

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