The Cold Truth

[grangran]

you make no sense at all.

[Orophin]

Only if you can't read English...

[grangran]

case and point.

You say so much while saying so little, and it's all in obscure riddles.

we can't read your mind. us normal people generally like to have things explained.

[Orophin]

Which might explain why I dislike normal people... always needing explainations. Can't just figure things out for themselves...
Or, better yet, not bug me when they can't.
Why else would I have spent so much time online over the course of my life if not to avoid the people of the world?

[grangran]

and yet there will be those types that exist online.

and yet, normal or not, we still can't read your mind, so you can't expect anyone, normal or not, to be able to tell what you want them to know when you don't give out any details at all.

besides, that's not how the real world works. I feel sorry for you when you go out and actually see it.

[Orophin]

If I hadn't seen it, I wouldn't dislike it so much.

And of course, when I run across someone annoying online, I have a little button here that allows me to close the browser, so as not to catch whatever affliction affects them, be it stupitidy, a superiority complex, inflated sense of self-importence, incompatible outlooks, or basic dislikeability. I can then open a new browser window and do something else on this unlimited and vastly useful internet. Or, you know, something else. Video games work well, too, when it comes to avoiding people.

[grangran]

I know, isn't it lovely? The internet is just one big anonymous community. The only downside is that if you go to another place, sometimes you leave a reputation, which isn't always good.

Of course, arguing with someone is always fun, because just about every person I've run into online usually winds up saying things that either make them look stupid, or scome up with lame excuses as to why they are better than everyone else. Either way, it generates good laughs.

stupitidy, a superiority complex, inflated sense of self-importence, incompatible outlooks, or basic dislikeability... I've run into a few people who have all of the above.

Those are the ones who are fun to argue with, because usually it leads to me copying their remarks and sharing it with some buddies who could use a good laugh.

And of course, whether you like the real world or not, you, like the other 7 billion people in the world, are eventually going to have to face it in full, so generally, (though there are a plethora of things to dislike about it) learning to like certain parts of it is a good idea unless you want to be miserable, because people are the ones who are going to have to adapt into the world, not the world adapting to each and every person.

[Orophin]

Since when do people adapt? If we adapted, instead of changing things for our gain, we wouldn't be humans, now would we?
But I'm not out to change the world. Mankind made it the way it is, mankind can clean it up. So, I adapt. And adapting means suiting myself to my surroundings. So, I avoid the surroundings I dislike the most as much as I can, and I remain in places untouched by the annoyance of others as much as I can.

[grangran]

You misinterpretted my meaning.
when I said "the world", I meant society as a whole. Society (which I refer to as "the world") is not going to adapt to one person. each individual will have to adapt to society, or move, perhaps.

As for your avoidance tactic, it's rather clever until your parents kick you out of the house. (I'm no expert, but I get this lasting impression that you're not out on your own yet either; and moreover, few internet users are, so that's just part of my logic but that's off-topic and of little or no importance, so over.)

Society is like "anonymous".
it is legion. it does not forgive, it does not forget.

haha and incidentally, the internet is exactly like that.

[Orophin]

Well, see, that's the part of my life where I can shut myself off from my ridiculously complicated, annoying and downright crazy family as well. With that large portion of my inter-personal relationship out of the way (ie. I don't have to deal with it any more), I'm sure I'd be fine with any other contact that I needed to have with society as a whole.
Self sufficiency has always been a goal of mine. I try to acheive it in everything that I do. (Which has lead me to have an almost pathalogical urge to never ask for help, as my teachers have noticed). Leaving my family is one step towards the large-scale version of that. I don't want to have to bother anyone, and in return, I'd ask that the world just shut up and leave me alone.

(And what do you mean "lasting impression that I'm not out on my own yet"? You know full well I'm not.)

[grangran]

(because I don't know [and likely don't care] who you are, and didn't want to make an incorrect assumption, especially if it is not something I am able to see from writing, such as certain attitudes, but again, here we go off topic. over)

Self-sufficiency is easy to obtain though if done properly. You just need to know the easiest way to reach that point. (I already have before, so that's why I'm saying what I am. It's from experience)

[Orophin]

I'd say you know well enough who I am to know I still live at home.

And as for self-sufficiency, yeah, I've acheived several levels of it... but I want to go all the way. I want to be able to get my own water, not the citiy's, get my own power, not from the grid, own my own land, and a lot of it, and to have a decent job that, due to the lower-than-average spend-rate I would be able to employ, would increase my currency projections by quite a bit.

[grangran]

reality check?

good luck. you'll need it.

[Orophin]

Who needs luck when I can exploit the system? (Step 1 is already in operation. Learn about the system.)

Of course, I'm hoping for some large inheritance of some kind, but I don't expect it. The world isn't gonna do me any favours, so I'll just get it done myself. It's the best way to get anything done, I think.

[grangran]

I highly doubt you can exploit the system THAT easily.
the easiest way to become successful is to work hard. I thought that that was just bullcrap from my parents, but no, they actually proved to be right about it.

work hard, spend little. that's the way to go far.