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26 | 30.59% |
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3 | 3.53% |
| Is it a pure desire to be good? |
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34 | 40.00% |
| Is it fear of laws/jail? |
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3 | 3.53% |
| to get laid? |
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17 | 20.00% |
| fear of karma? |
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2 | 2.35% |
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dudeness posted:Holding my breath right now to lower my carbon footprint. I stopped breathing years ago to reduce my environmental impact. You selfish bastard.
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Oct 15, 2019 05:42
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My Shoes posted:IDK how hucksters factor in? But I like you. I'm just keenly aware of how loving superficial my poo poo sounds, that's all, and it makes me a little self conscious. But eh it works for me. E: I think I've just become comfortable with an utter lack of answers beyond feeling that there's some guiding thing out there
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Oct 15, 2019 05:42
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Honky Dong Country posted:I'm just keenly aware of how loving superficial my poo poo sounds, that's all, and it makes me a little self conscious. But eh it works for me. Nah. Don't be. People need to be reminded of this stuff.  It's good you're sayin it!
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Oct 15, 2019 05:44
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My Shoes posted:Like.. ok gimme an example. Like alright so you round up your family in the sedan for a day at the beach. You get there and have a boombox and a bag of kittens in the trunk, and you throw the kittens in the ocean as the burned cd of cat noises transitions to gurgling and crying. You all drive home in silence but then you reveal to your family that it was actually a bag of old fur coats and you were showing them FUR IS MURDER, join the movement blah blah. So then you say haha ha, just kidding again, and present them with giftboxes of NEW fur coats and lecture them on how our native settlers and nomadic tribes wore furs and how its actually a good thing.
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Oct 15, 2019 05:46
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ClamdestineBoyster posted:Like alright so you round up your family in the sedan for a day at the beach. You get there and have a boombox and a bag of kittens in the trunk, and you throw the kittens in the ocean as the burned cd of cat noises transitions to gurgling and crying. You all drive home in silence but then you reveal to your family that it was actually a bag of old fur coats and you were showing them FUR IS MURDER, join the movement blah blah. So then you say haha ha, just kidding again, and present them with giftboxes of NEW fur coats and lecture them on how our native settlers and nomadic tribes wore furs and how its actually a good thing. Jesus, what a mind gently caress. You may be a little evil. :P Creative though! OK, so then there is this old lady on the beach who loves cats and runs into the ocean to save them and gets ripped apart and killed by a bull shark right as she realizes the bag is not real kittens. So now you are responsible for someone else's death. Now what? My Shoes fucked around with this message at 05:50 on Oct 15, 2019 |
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Oct 15, 2019 05:48
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It bears mentioning that ClamdestineBoyster has a really great gimmick going of posting extremely insane stuff and it's spot on enough that you wonder if somebody's gone off their meds. Seriously I mean it when I say really great, it's fukn hilarious in most cases
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Oct 15, 2019 05:50
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Honky Dong Country posted:It bears mentioning that ClamdestineBoyster has a really great gimmick going of posting extremely insane stuff and it's spot on enough that you wonder if somebody's gone off their meds. Oh yeh - I  ClamdestineBoyster and he knows it. (or he should!)
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Oct 15, 2019 05:51
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loving hell I'm posting earnest af itt
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Oct 15, 2019 05:51
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im gay
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Oct 15, 2019 05:52
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not a checkbox poll voted 1 thats me being a good person. being honest. bitcvh!!!
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Oct 15, 2019 05:52
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Honky Dong Country posted:loving hell I'm posting earnest af itt That's ok- throw some random comedy in here sometime to even it out. :P Honky Dong Country posted:im gay Like this! I've enjoyed your posts so far btw! (USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST)
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Oct 15, 2019 05:53
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Chinatown posted:not a checkbox poll voted 1 I'm gonna box your balls so hard that we're gonna make a fortune selling it as a fetish vid binch
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Oct 15, 2019 05:53
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Chinatown gets hella mentions in the Who's your favorite goon thread. Like more than anyone almost.
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Oct 15, 2019 05:56
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If you had a fur coat you could just walk out into the woods and live there forever.
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Oct 15, 2019 05:57
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My Shoes posted:Chinatown gets hella mentions in the Who's your favorite goon thread. Like more than anyone almost. circlejerks are bad
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Oct 15, 2019 05:58
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Burt Sexual posted:I do it because I could be in a bad place at anytime. I tip 50% regularly, I rate threads higher than a necessity, I cum the last. Correct, the Rawlsian take. Conceptions of goodness are for children.
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Oct 15, 2019 05:58
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Honky Dong Country posted:circlejerks are bad Ha! Yeh saw that post. :P
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Oct 15, 2019 06:01
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Imagine that someone being an rear end in a top hat could just be someone having the worst day of their life. The fundamental attribution error is real
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Oct 15, 2019 06:12
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DeadFatDuckFat posted:Imagine that someone being an rear end in a top hat could just be someone having the worst day of their life. The fundamental attribution error is real Gonna need you to explain this to me like I'm a moron, because I am.
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Oct 15, 2019 06:14
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We are all pieces of poo poo in this great big clogged toilet of a world and you know it 
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Oct 15, 2019 06:15
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My Shoes posted:Do any of you goons believe in reincarnation? or heaven and hell? I believe it reincarnation!!! We die, rot, and fertilize new growth!!! It's really beautiful. But it is really hard to find ways to be interred without being embalmed. It's kind of hosed up. To answer OP's question I think being good is good!
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Oct 15, 2019 06:15
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DeadFatDuckFat posted:Imagine that someone being an rear end in a top hat could just be someone having the worst day of their life. The fundamental attribution error is real True. I should've thought of that. i went straight to unexamined insecurities and being angry at themselves/the world or being a narcissist and went right past someone just having a bad day which is probably what is going on a lot. I was hearing zebras instead of horses. My Shoes fucked around with this message at 06:24 on Oct 15, 2019 |
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Oct 15, 2019 06:15
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Reincarnation is old news y'all should believe in impermanence.
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Oct 15, 2019 06:21
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Honky Dong Country posted:Gonna need you to explain this to me like I'm a moron, because I am. Fundamental attribution error is the tendency to attribute someone's actions being due to something internal (personality or whatever) rather than external. Classic example is when someone cuts you off in traffic. People generally think "What an rear end in a top hat" or something similar, rather than thinking that maybe the guy is in a hurry for good reason (medical emergency, bee in the car etc..). Of course, it may be true that they are an rear end in a top hat, but assuming that really doesn't help anyone. Give people the benefit of the doubt whenever you can. You'll feel better.
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Oct 15, 2019 06:22
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Colonel Cancer posted:Reincarnation is old news y'all should believe in impermanence. Honky Dong Country posted:Por qu no los dos? Applies here too :P the both/and dialectic thing My Shoes fucked around with this message at 06:31 on Oct 15, 2019 |
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Oct 15, 2019 06:23
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DeadFatDuckFat posted:Fundamental attribution error is the tendency to attribute someone's actions being due to something internal (personality or whatever) rather than external. Classic example is when someone cuts you off in traffic. People generally think "What an rear end in a top hat" or something similar, rather than thinking that maybe the guy is in a hurry for good reason (medical emergency, bee in the car etc..). Of course, it may be true that they are an rear end in a top hat, but assuming that really doesn't help anyone. Give people the benefit of the doubt whenever you can. You'll feel better. Dude this owns hard, thank you. If I'm taking the long view I generally agree but I'll be honest and say that in most cases I go "What an rear end in a top hat" because it's gratifying on the short term. Gonna think about that for a bit.
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Oct 15, 2019 06:25
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Good poo poo ITT so far. I love you goons. 
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Oct 15, 2019 06:27
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Seriously that thing I just learned is gonna be hilariously frustrating for my friends because the next time they get cut off I'm gonna go "hey man, relax, he's prolly just gotta poop really bad" and they're gonna give me a mixture of  and 
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Oct 15, 2019 06:30
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I actually have almost gotten into an accident with another car because of a wasp. I guess it had snuck in when I was parked and I only saw after I started driving and it started flying around. I guess wasps really like fried chicken.
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Oct 15, 2019 06:36
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DeadFatDuckFat posted:I actually have almost gotten into an accident with another car because of a wasp. I guess it had snuck in when I was parked and I only saw after I started driving and it started flying around. I guess wasps really like fried chicken. I'm used to living in the country so I just ignore all the rear end in a top hat stinging insects including regular wasps and hornets because really they don't give a gently caress about you except ground wasps who will try to murder you for passing within ten yards of their hole with a weed eater and basically what I'm saying is gently caress those guys That's my stinging insects story
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Oct 15, 2019 06:40
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Having empathy might be a good start.
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Oct 15, 2019 07:59
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I dunno if it's karma or whatever, but I try to be a decent person. I'd rather that people are happy to see me than to spend my day wading through a hate swamp. It pays off in little ways too. I interact with retail people and clerks like actual humans, and sometimes I get a free coffee or a little upgrade or a discount or something.
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Oct 15, 2019 08:14
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oops
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Oct 15, 2019 08:28
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itry posted:Having empathy might be a good start. how to have empathy
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Oct 15, 2019 08:30
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I don't hurt anyone but don't go out of my way to be nice because I'm firmly in the "lol nothing matters" nihilism club.
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Oct 15, 2019 12:20
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I try to be a good person because at the beginning of time there was only darkness, only a nihilist void devoid of any meaning. I, in my life, take part in the battle against that dark. I do it, for example, by kindly helping my fellows instead of being mean. doverhog fucked around with this message at 12:37 on Oct 15, 2019 |
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Oct 15, 2019 12:27
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You know what makes me a good person? I always tell your mom not right now, I gotta wipe first. She dont care, she eat that rear end anyway
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Oct 15, 2019 12:38
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For the person with afterlife questions, Ive always liked this quote from World Without Endquote:When I'm brave and strong, and care for children and the sick and the poor, I become a better person. And when I'm cruel, cowardly, or tell lies, or get drunk, I turn into someone less worthy, and I can't respect myself. That's the divine retribution I believe in.
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Oct 15, 2019 12:46
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None of the answers in the poll really fit for me, so heres a shitload of words. I was an absolute piece of poo poo between about early puberty and my early twenties. I did horrible things that I still think about at least once a week. I cheated on the first girl that ever loved me with a much worse girl strictly out of convenience, I've stolen from who knows how many people up to and including my own mother, I got some people involved in law-breaking that they wouldnt have otherwise been involved in. One of those dudes ended up killing himself, he wasnt in trouble with the law or anything, but I cant imagine that I helped. I was absolutely terrible and ultimately hurt a bunch of people who called me a friend. I have no excuses or defenses for any of these actions, they were all bad. What helps me try to be a good person is that I dont want more of those memories. I just get sick thinking about who I used to be, and the last thing I want is a new one where Im thinking all those terrible choices from a decade ago and then oh yeah, that time last year where I absolutely ruined someone who cared about me. I go out of my way to take care of my people these days, because it feels pretty good to have a brain full of being helpful and generous. Im fairly free with my money, I do everything I can to get a friend a job if one is needed, I treat my girlfriend as best I can and definitely dont cheat on her, and I generally try to opt for the choice a total piece of poo poo wouldnt make. I learned some lessons, I try to build on them as time goes on, but I definitely learned where some lines are that I never want to cross again. I know Im going to get it in the rear end with heated barbed pokers if karma or hell turn out to be real, I will deserve that, but that doesnt color my decisions. I just want to minimize the number of choices that will haunt me later. I guess if your question is what can change the nature of a man, my answer is time, memory, or guilt.
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Oct 15, 2019 13:24
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I'm know little of theism and even less of Buddhism specifically but I guess it is sorta like karma? I often try to do the right thing with the thought of how acts of kindness have benefited me in the past. Perhaps I'm overly sentimental (I am  ) but I really enjoy hearing good news or seeing someone win every now and again so I try to make that happen whenever I can.
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