http://www.democraticunderground.com/11513485Damn, it's so hard to find good material on Skins's island the past several days. The primitives are obsessed, really obsessed, with Massa Barry tinkering with social security, as if it's the only thing that matters.
Even my good pal MannyGoldstein's gone over the edge.
"THE WORLD'S COMING TO AN END! THE WORLD'S ENDING! DISASTER! CATASTROPHE! DEVASTATION! RUIN! COLLAPSE! THE END OF HUMANITY! THE END OF IT ALL! THE
GOTTERDAMERUNG! THE WORST DISASTER IN ALL OF HUMAN HISTORY! THE WRECK OF THE GRAVY TRAIN! THE EXTINCTION OF MANKIND! DOOM! DEATH! DESTRUCTION! CALUMNY! CATACLYSM! SCOURGE! OUR CALVARY! OUR
VIA DOLOROSA! THE END OF CIVILIZATION AS WE KNOW IT! THE END OF HUMANITY AS WE KNOW IT! THE END OF THE WORLD AS WE KNOW IT!"
Geezuz fudging chris, the primitives are berserk.
But among all that noise and clamour, hysteria and paranoia, I did find this uplifting campfire:
Locut0s (1,482 posts) Mon Apr 8, 2013, 02:38 AM
Short of suicide which I'm not going to do I don't know what else to do.
My life is a ****ing mess. I'm on the verge of passing this semester at university and i don't think I'm able too. I could become a janitor or something and frankly I wouldn't mind that but I'd be letting everyone else and I suppose myself down. Anyway I don't have the energy to say more.
applegrove (57,812 posts) Mon Apr 8, 2013, 03:04 AM
1. Take the long view. Everybody has some very tough times in their lives. Think of your grandparents. Those tough times pass and you live the rest of your life so gratefull. People are happier as they age. You realize the thing you hated about yourself when you were young has a flip side. And this flip side is what gives you character when you are older. You have so many options. You could take a year off school. Or you could work as a janitor for a few years and save up for a trip around the world. Going back to school at any age is cool these days, in fact it is expected that people will have many careers. You have so many lives to live. And so much happiness to enjoy simply because you have been through tough times. Like they say "if you are going through hell - keep going!"