Uniqueness... do you have it?

- i try not to step on cracks whenever i can help it
- i can make a water drop sound with my mouth
- i beat box while on the toilet to hide the sounds
- i like to move it, move it
- if a woman kisses me on the lips i become Prince.......the musician
 
- i try not to step on cracks whenever i can help it
- i can make a water drop sound with my mouth
- i like to move it, move it
- if a woman kisses me on the lips i become Prince.......the musician


Poor woman. :o
 
hence...why i said "practically", hehe...foreal though, he gets lots of tail.
 
when I tiny candies (like M&M's or whatever) I eat them in two's and both same color.

Also, when I eat potato chips, I eat the broken ones first then start with the small ones and finish up with the largest full potato chips.
 
I can walk on my hands? Err. I tend to have catchphrases that other people pick up on if they talk to me for long enough... for example, I started saying "I approve" whenever I like something and now every person I know well says it too haha.

I write comedy stories for my friends for their birthdays
 
Isn't it quite sad that we all have to visualise ourselves as 'different' when we are all really the same.


There is this person called Derren Brown in the UK who took 8 incredibly different 'unique' people and said he was going to write a detailed script about their lives.

when he gave it to them, they all said it was amazing, as if he had lived with them and that he had said stuff that they had never told anyone or it was impossible for him to find out.

It turns out the five page long passage was exactly the same for everyone. They all looked very stupid :o

A world of six billion and you think you share a unique cocktail of viewpoints, there are hundreds and thousands of people exactly like you, let alone the hundreds of millions that are similar in some shape or form.

Why do we continue to isolate ourselves, why does being an indvidual hold a paramount speciality over everything else?

Oooo, Derren Brown is amazing. I'd be interested in reading that 'script', is it available anywhere online?

I love this trick he does with the girl who believes in voodoo by making her think he is using voodoo on her, but it is just her belief creating the effects. Just goes to show, aye?
 
I:

Have a depressing and unnatural fear of my own mortality
Have a related unnatural fear of flying
Like Bone Thugs-N-Harmony, Linkin Park, and Sade
Am 25 years old and have never had a real girlfriend throughout my time living in 2 different states (California, Tennessee)
Believe in God, but not fate, nor do I fully know that I believe in Heaven and Hell
I like comic books, play video games, play Magic: The Gathering, and Warhammer, all while listening to gangsta rap music of the mid 90's

Yea just some things off the top of my head.
 
Isn't it quite sad that we all have to visualise ourselves as 'different' when we are all really the same.


There is this person called Derren Brown in the UK who took 8 incredibly different 'unique' people and said he was going to write a detailed script about their lives.

when he gave it to them, they all said it was amazing, as if he had lived with them and that he had said stuff that they had never told anyone or it was impossible for him to find out.

It turns out the five page long passage was exactly the same for everyone. They all looked very stupid :o

A world of six billion and you think you share a unique cocktail of viewpoints, there are hundreds and thousands of people exactly like you, let alone the hundreds of millions that are similar in some shape or form.

Why do we continue to isolate ourselves, why does being an indvidual hold a paramount speciality over everything else?

What kind of mentality is man supposed to have if not and individualistic one? Are we to become part of a colony, living only to serve the greater good?

People know reality, if you have any common sense you know that your uniquity may be shared by thousands/millions of other people in the world... but it's all about self worth. There's nothing wrong with that imo.
 
Oooo, Derren Brown is amazing. I'd be interested in reading that 'script', is it available anywhere online?

I love this trick he does with the girl who believes in voodoo by making her think he is using voodoo on her, but it is just her belief creating the effects. Just goes to show, aye?
I doubt it, derren isn't particularly revealing about his methods

he'd probably want to use it again say if he went to try this stuff out in the states...
 
What kind of mentality is man supposed to have if not and individualistic one? Are we to become part of a colony, living only to serve the greater good?

People know reality, if you have any common sense you know that your uniquity may be shared by thousands/millions of other people in the world... but it's all about self worth. There's nothing wrong with that imo.
Well the thing is that we are all already part of colony's. No man/woman is an island or could survive in today's world without the need of anyone else. We've shared out too much vital information and relinquished a ability to survive isolated now. Most of us couldn't even kill the food we eat, it's that bad.

The funny thing is that the greatest amount of self worth can be shown in being needed/respected by others. Most people than assume the only way to be respected is then be able to perform tasks which others cant and then become an invaluable member of society.

It's like the inventor always gets the credit for the 'idea' behind a creation but what good is an idea without the manufacturing team, the testing trials, those who have supported money to the scheme, advertising, marketing, cost efficiency people, the delivery people getting it into people's homes etc...?

They are all overlooked by society and that's the problem, no one gives praise to the lil guy anymore. It's all good and dandy saying soldiers are great for giving up their lives for a cause but what about the guys who sludge around in our crap everyday making sure our sewage system runs, aren't they just as important?

the idea of uniqueness is just a sympton of the way society members perceive one another incorrectly and take for granted all aspects of their lives.

meh
 
I doubt it, derren isn't particularly revealing about his methods

he'd probably want to use it again say if he went to try this stuff out in the states...

He has some clips of him doing street work in the states in his show trick or treat. It's funny cause no one has any idea who he is, and I think they are a bit put off by his self-deprecating style. He acts like he has no confidence in his tricks, so it has more effect when they do work.

Your other comments sound like you have become disillusioned with the world :( I believe everyone is unique. On the surface we can seem incredibly similar yes, but deep down there is something unique that makes you who you are, maybe something like a soul. Soul isn't quite what I want to say but I don't know any other name for it.
 
Well the thing is that we are all already part of colony's. No man/woman is an island or could survive in today's world without the need of anyone else. We've shared out too much vital information and relinquished a ability to survive isolated now. Most of us couldn't even kill the food we eat, it's that bad.

The funny thing is that the greatest amount of self worth can be shown in being needed/respected by others. Most people than assume the only way to be respected is then be able to perform tasks which others cant and then become an invaluable member of society.

It's like the inventor always gets the credit for the 'idea' behind a creation but what good is an idea without the manufacturing team, the testing trials, those who have supported money to the scheme, advertising, marketing, cost efficiency people, the delivery people getting it into people's homes etc...?

They are all overlooked by society and that's the problem, no one gives praise to the lil guy anymore. It's all good and dandy saying soldiers are great for giving up their lives for a cause but what about the guys who sludge around in our crap everyday making sure our sewage system runs, aren't they just as important?

the idea of uniqueness is just a sympton of the way society members perceive one another incorrectly and take for granted all aspects of their lives.

meh

I see your point, the fact that we as a society operate as part of colony in essence... but I guarantee you that each individual in that "colony" do not see themselves as part of one.

It's the human mentality, it is ingrained into each and every one of us. How can you ask for people to not ask for individualism when it is what makes humans... human. Those sewage workers think of themselves as individuals. I seriously doubt if you approached one of them that they would say, "I'm just a worker bee who is easily replaced by any other human being in this world". They would most likely tell you how hard they work and how they are just trying to make a living to provide for their family. THEIR family... not yours, not someone else's and not another drone bee's family... but their own.

The day that people suddenly realize the fact that they aren't unique individuals and accept the colony mentality is the day that we cease a very unique trait among living things... individuality. That's what I think makes us human.
 
He has some clips of him doing street work in the states in his show trick or treat. It's funny cause no one has any idea who he is, and I think they are a bit put off by his self-deprecating style. He acts like he has no confidence in his tricks, so it has more effect when they do work.

Your other comments sound like you have become disillusioned with the world I believe everyone is unique. On the surface we can seem incredibly similar yes, but deep down there is something unique that makes you who you are, maybe something like a soul. Soul isn't quite what I want to say but I don't know any other name for it.
It's funny you say disillusioned because i think deep down we are all searching for the same things.

We all participate in activities in order to transcend a state of emotional or physical being.

A simple thing may be like we're hungry. A bodily function sets off an emotional one, causing us to increase the drive we have in order to get food. Once we have the food, the body then sends messages to the brain to relieve the distress.

most of the time we are too busy living life to understand what the distress is so we try to cover it up with other stuff or block it out or ignore it or the fact we are too busy trying to get something else makes us neglect it.

We have gotten so lost in the persuit of that emotional response that most don't even know it exists. Even now when we persue it, we don't get it directly but we get a means to achieve it, money. Money makes the world twice as difficult as it should be, we now relate all our goals by regards to how much financially it costs to obtain.

Look back to my original idea. The simple obtaining food to eat and reach and emotional state has now become.

you need a stove to make it on
you need a house with a stove in it
you need a gas/electric supply to power your stove
you need money to pay rent/mortgage for your house
you need a job for money
you need a green card for a job
you need qualifications for a job
you need to go to school to get qualifications
you need to get money for school
you need to be supported financially to make it through school
etc...
etc...

and on top of this, the opportunities are not abundant to get the job you want and it brings in the idea of competition since everyone else wants the same thing and that multiplies your need by like a billion

So we as a society have created all these intermittent obstacles we need to motivate ourselves to get through to get something like food.

Sometimes people often wonder why people in the third world maybe happier with their simpler lives, most of the time they simply don't have to jump through a million hoops to gain that emotional state we all wish. At most youre requirements are daylight and opportunity with a killing implement and fire wood.

i guess what really makes us individuals is how we order these hoops and how many of them we have infront of us which can be based on multiple internal and external factors. But deep down I think we all strive for some similar things.
 
No matter what group of people I'm with, I still don't feel that I fit in. Even if we have common interests.

That's probably not a skill, but me being a freak.

Hmmm. I must think long on this.
 
- I do a lot of impersonations, although I don't do them but for certain people.
- I like John Mayer a little too much, and I've listened to him while pumping iron and playing sports.
- Yeah, I like Cyclops, what of it?
- I have a secret desire to live to see the Apocalypse, just to see if I could survive it.
- ...and it better have zombies
- I :heart: zombie movies.
- My memory is frighteningly good.
- It's not good enough to be mediocre for me
- I enjoy structure and rules, I hate uncertainty
- I'm not sure if those last three things are remotely unique.
 
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- I don't like tea or coffee

- I have to turn labels so they are facing me. When I worked at Burger King, everyone knew when I had worked drive-thru because all of the ketchup packets were turned with the names facing up.

- I hate beer (I like Bacardi).

- I have never worn braces (no I don't have naturally perfect teeth, I just never had any inclination to wear braces).
 

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