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Published: 2009-11-12 07:02:33 +0000 UTC; Views: 3089; Favourites: 22; Downloads: 71
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The beginnings of my friendship with *mynameismo was a trial by fire, for both her and I. Its like I told her -- she's like a Credit Card Company when it comes to earning her trust: you have to pay back the balance with 10x the interest!
She really has an affinity for my ChickZillas folder seeing as she does have a bit of a hot temper, but she can laugh at it -- she's not insecure about it.
So as a show of my own integrity and lack of insecurity, I was locked into a promise. She wanted to take this shot and the target she chose, was me. Well, thats definitely a first and most people would have not agreed to this. But when I say I'm not insecure and I can laugh at myself, apparently I don't have to put my money where my mouth is -- I have to put my image where my intent is. lol
She's also been very tolerant of my long winded nature, seeing as people with little patience have little patience for my lack of ability to summarize, my passion to resolve any misunderstandings with extreme persistence and how when I am bluntly honest -- its not always what people want to hear.
So, I've gotta show that I can be a good sport about it too.
So Morgan, this is my promise kept. A show of appreciation for our friendship -- and something for you to laugh at. So think of this next time you tell me I need to STFU and you won't be so angry with me. Hahaha.
You better appreciate this -- or I'll have Fella rape your dog and send you to the Amish! Just think of it Morgan -- no phones, no lights, no cars and -- NO COMPUTERS!
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Well good thing I'm not that tiny then, cuz i get the feeling you'd do that just for fun, not to shut me up.
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u yush. EXACTLY!!!
id do that to my brother to!
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just to me and ur brother or any guy?
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you realize that when you say not telling you are actually telling, right?
fact -- you already said me and ur brother
fact -- when i asked if it would be all guys, you didn't say yes but you didn't say no either
so: seeing as u already singled him and i out as a preference, it means that what guys you would do this to would be on a case-by-case basis, directly depending on ur mood. so for now, its two people. which may or may not change. lol
see? observation is not a difficult skill. just gotta be willing to see the obvious
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You type really fast!
I'm pretty good with probability, I just never really stop to think about these things.
I just said you to be funny and my younger brother because, well, he's my brother. I would not do it to anyone else because then everyone would think I'm crazy!
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you type fast also. lol ... you must piss people off with instant messaging as much as i do. :rofl ... "slow down dave!" haha ... yes, my name is dave. lol ... observation doesn't require thinking. it wouldn't be called observation if it did 
not that i'd know. i don't have any siblings. hehe
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i do enjoy tormenting him. even tho my new years resolution (my parents made me) was not to! oh well...
u dont realize how lucky u r not to have siblings
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It made *mynameismo 's day too
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glad you like it. get on chat. i have something for you
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glad you like it. i'm sure *mynameismo will like it the most. Hahahaha.
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The shit we guys do to keep the ladies happy, eh?
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XDDDD yep!
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Ah, but do you appreciate us for it! Hrrrmmmmmmmmm!!!!!!!!!!!
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but of course. XD
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we hope so
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i just checked your gallery to see your photography but, uhh ... you have none.
glad you like my crazy stuff. haha.
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Haha, yeah, I don't do photography. >>
Thanks for the massive 
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Why not and you're welcome
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Just not interested to be honest. :\ I have a short attention span so I have no idea what makes a good photo and what doesn't.
I'd rather photoshop stuff and manipulate images, bending them to my every command and will.
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Are you not interested because you feel you have a short attention span and so you assume you have no idea what makes a good photo and what doesn't? Or is your lack of interest genuine?
Most people lack interest in things because they feel inadequate to do them, not because they honestly and truly lack interest. So you might want to be sure of your reasons
No one is born knowing everything and most of the most skilled people on the planet have a shorter attention span than a goldfish. So I would advise not underestimating yourself
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haha Good advice, but I honestly am not interested, not just because I have a short attention span.
~shrugs~ I'm a more hands on person. Odds are if I took a picture of something I would find 100+ things that I don't like about it and run through photoshop or some such to make it better (or better in my own opinion) because I'm anal re tented, so every tiny detail bothers me. lolz
It's a control thing I guess. I'd end up creating situations so I'd have something to photograph, and I can't very well ask the sun to rise in technicolor, now can I?
Don't get me wrong, I'm not underestimating myself. In fact, I could probably do pretty good at photographing if I really wanted to. I just don't want to. lolz << I'm also a bit lazy.
O-o Who says I don't know everything?
(haha j/k...maybe )
Oh look I talk too much. lolz
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Looks like you've told me every possible reason for actually doing photography and every reason why you would enjoy it.
You're more hands on. You are anal retentive. You like making things perfect. Both serious photography and photomanipulaion are about that and you would be doing both in that situation
Its not as if manipping your own photography is cheating or anything. lol
I'm not trying to disrespect you or anything -- but you just gave me a list of reasons as to why you would enjoy it and be good at it, under the heading of "why i wouldn't enjoy it or be good at it" lol
gotta love the irony!
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-.-; Actually, its every possible reason to not do it and I wouldn't enjoy it, I'd eventually come to resent it. Being anal about something to me is the worse thing for photography because I can't change how something looks or is, and it has nothing to do with perspective.
To me, photography isn't hands on, its passive observant. And I hate just being the watcher behind a lens. So boring...No offense, but I'd get bored. I want to be in there, smudging stuff or adding color...You know? Actually HANDS on touching?
Mind you though, I'm not vain, or shallow, or even ignorant. Quite the opposite actually. I'm quite open minded. :\ I'm just, really really picky.
Anyhow, anything worth photographing to me doesn't exist except in our own imagination or its unreachable. I don't really find anything in reality to be all that exciting, there's nothing new/left to photograph that hasn't been done yet. So why should I go photograph what 1000+ other people have? >>
Haha I'm the voice of opposition, and you've challenged my logic. >> But my logic works, and has no holes. Nice try though.
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The first step to failure is to assume you're infallible. To think you're logic has no holes, assumes infallibility. To not be open to other points of view just because you feel yours is the best and only one possible -- is the core of closed mindedness. Though you present your excuses eloquently, all you've played is a game of duck and cover
You choose to see reality in opposition and your reasons for doing so are your own. However, you can never see whats in front of you that holds any value if all you can see in everything, is something to oppose.
What you resist, persists. So the more you focus on opposition, the more you will attract to you the things which are unpleasant to you, because thats all you're focusing on. Just as if you add more shit to a pile of shit, the pile of shit is just going to get bigger.
You can claim you are adding some sort of brand new never before seen form of shit for reasonings of higher purpose to serve the greater good and claim that somehow, some way -- that adding this new form of shit to the pile some how is not actually adding any shit to the pile -- but rather -- your opposition to the shit currently on the pile, driven by your pickyness, to somehow, someway -- avoid redundancy and focus on efficiency.
However, the inescapable logic is: its all a load of crap no mater how you shovel it
Now of course -- you are within your full rights to make all of the excuses you want to not see the beauty you are choosing to be blind to, to see the world as more of just the same old same old and to think that your creativity could not possibly ever be good enough to turn something into something else never before seen -- and you are only right in and of the fact that it is the true reality of your situation -- but only because you are choosing that reality.
That is not to say that your reality is the one and only nor is your choice the one and only choice.
They say that its survival of the fittest, but those dinos were pretty fit and now they're gone. So, its actually survivable of the most adaptable. Which leads to an old saying: brittle thinkers make for fragile survivors.
So you can claim open mindedness all you like and perhaps in actuality you are open minded, as I don't claim to know you. But -- I can see what you're showing me and its about as open as a locked door and i can easily snap your brittle thinking
The only goal and motivation I can see so far is you thinking you must be right no matter what and you must win every debate at all costs. But, you may not realize that there is no debate and that its not about being right or wrong -- its about opening up to new knowledge. Points of view that challenge you that you can learn from. So you can practically apply yourself to make yourself a better person.
Also note that the illusion of being right given to someone who doesn't know any better, doesn't make you right.
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Dude -.-; It's just photography, and regardless of what you may think, I still find it boring. lolz
It means exactly what it means, I find this world boring, and things alien or mythical/fantasy to me have more appeal. What's your problem with that? "Beauty is in the eye of the beholder"
I don't claim to be adding anything, I think you misunderstand me. "its all a load of crap no mater how you shovel it" is exactly why I don't do it and it bores me, because its all been done already.
So, lets make things clear.
I just don't like photography. There's no hidden philosophical meaning, there's no lines in between to read. Its just really that simple. I don't like it. How does that even matter? Do you try to change your friends too? Or are you unable to handle coming into contact with imperfect beings who don't think like you?
Also, I don't think I'm right all the time, nor do I expect to be. I don't think I'm infallible, nor is my view of the world close minded. What I find to have value you can't capture on film, no matter how hard you try. You can photograph the pyramids all day long, but you'll NEVER capture the reasons behind their existence, nor the feelings and struggle of the builders. Nor could you ever capture the bond and love between a mother and child no matter how many photos you take. These things cannot be seen, and these things I value.
So pardon me if my interests are different then yours, or if my thinking is so different. Quite frankly, I like it, and I like that my friends are like that as well. I like that they oppose and challenge, that they push back when shoved, that they don't try to change people just because they don't agree with them. They're all different, all imperfect. Some act like outright assholes sometimes, and some break down, its not always a happy, peachy world. But that's what separates them from the pile of shit.
It doesn't make me close minded, nor ignorant, nor a person beneath you "So you can practically apply yourself to make yourself a better person". So because I don't agree with you it makes me a bad person? I am open to knew knowledge, but I still don't care about photography.
It just means I'm different. Nor was I debating you. You asked why I don't do photography, I said because I wouldn't like it, you stated my reasons for not liking it are reasons that I would enjoy it, and I replied that you were wrong.
Sorry you don't agree.
But then again, seeing the world through rose tinted glasses must be really nice, eh?
There's nothing wrong with opposition, and yes, I do enjoy opposing people, opinions, standards, rules, laws, philosophy and what not. Have a problem with that too? Are you serious? You're blaming all the bad stuff on in your life because you have a different point of view? Now who's running away and making excuses...
I'm mature enough to understand that anything unpleasant that happens to me isn't because I think different then the masses, nor is it because I refuse to be a part of the 98%. Shit happens, accept it, deal with it, move on. It has nothing to do with your way of thinking.
"They told me to go with the flow, but I didn't like where the river takes me. I am the fish that swims against the current."
Deal with it.
On a lighter note, why do I have to explain myself to you?
So I don't like something, who cares...
>:\ You don't see me bitching about your long windedness, do you?
I'm also a bit offended about the "So you can practically apply yourself to make yourself a better person." part, which nearly had me typing a big FU for that.
And yes, I am rude, and I enjoy that as well.
~sigh~ << I don't think I've ever written a rant so long that concerned something I had no interest in. Fun though, but still long.
I'm doing it right! LOL
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Defensive much? lol
Though you have made things clear and I thank you for that. I was simply telling you how your explanation sounded and that you thinking you logic has no holes in it, is not a very open minded statement. I'm allowed to think that, am I not?
Interesting how you interpreted my perceptions as some attempt to change you, rather than me just expressing myself. So hrmm... if you express your views on photography, or of the world -- or your views on my opinions, its self expression. But if I do it, you take it as some lame attack for the purpose of trying to change you? lol
Notice I never accused you of anything, I simply gave you my views of what you said. I never claimed you had any agenda towards me. I just said it seems like you feel you always have to be right. Cuz well, thats the way you came off. Should I pretend otherwise? lol
So, calm down. I'm not your enemy. I take no offense to your words. I'd advise not taking any to mine.
I did not take your opinions as attacks on me. Why take mine that way?
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Btw lolz >> You're fun to argue with. We should do this again. Pick a topic.
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its only fun if you don't take it defensively 
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Says the guy who had to me all because I said I didn't like photography.
Take that!
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*sings*
"You're so vein, i'll bet you think this song is about you"
Longwindedness is a default of my personality and I even know the root cause of it, if you're curious to know. But I assure you -- the root cause has nothing to do with you or anything you've said. Been this way all my life. Only recently do I know you exist and I wasn't born yesterday!
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Oi, I didn't even know you had a root cause or whatever. What in the world gave you the idea I even cared? You amuse me, but by no means do I give a flying hoot about your "root causes" or what not. I don't even know you man. << All I did was say I didn't like photography and YOU gave me a life story sized rant which equals longwindedness?
"has nothing to do with you or anything you've said"
I take people as they are. So, no, I didn't think you were referring to me in any way. What made you think I did? lolz I'm amused you thought that, and confused. O.o
You have to learn to not read in between the lines with me, because really, there's nothing there. I mean exactly what I say. If there was some "hidden" message, I'd come right out and say it.
Don't judge me. If you don't want people to be offended with what you say, then don't insult them?
Judging someone has nothing to do with debating or arguing a point. Its entirely unnecessary. :\
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Your defensiveness amuses me. Lets quote you directly:
"Says the guy who had to me all because I said I didn't like photography."
Now, I'm no English Professor -- but I am pretty sure that when you list the reason for my long windedness as "all because I said I didn't like photography" that what you said, means exactly what you said.
Nice try with the back peddling but EPIC FAIL
Judging me and assuming things about me while I am not doing it to you, then projecting it onto me acting as if you're not doing it, well -- its classic. Mundanely common and over used. But still, a classic
You won't get a rise out of me. The more you try, the more ... expressive ... you'll get. So, do try again
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O.o Actually, I didn't try to do any of those things. lolz Where do you come up with stuff like this?
Are you that incapable of having a normal conversation with someone without over analyzing everything? :\ What a bore...If all you do is analyze what I say then its like I'm talking to a parrot that just repeats everything back to me.
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For a self proclaimed bitch, passive / dismissive doesn't work well for you
The reverse psychology you used only works when you're paying attention to what the other person is saying, silly
But hey its like you said: deal with it and get over it. I am who I am and lets face it -- if you don't like talking to me, surely i'm not going to attempt to force you into it. You can even have the last word, if you want. Self proclaimed bitches LOVE getting the last word. And I must be a nice guy and let you have it, if you want it
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-.- You're a nutcase.
Stop being a hypocrite.
The very things you say I am doing are the exact things you're doing.
You see things that aren't even there. Chill out maybe?
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And yet .... I've not once resorted to any name calling in my responses to you ... while you've flooded me with expletives... and I'm the one who needs to chill?
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Because I oppose everything, that's why.
:\ It wasn't an attack, but it sounded like you were judging me just because I didn't agree with you.
I wasn't being defensive, I was annoyed. And when I'm annoyed I rant. To quote "I simply gave you my views of what you said."
I'm a bitch, and I'm not always very nice, get over it. >> Its in my nature to oppose everything, because to me, that's hella more fun then being complacent.
If I believed in God, then I would definitely say "God put me here to piss the world off". Because, quite frankly, I've pissed a lot of people off.
And I enjoy every minute of it.
-.-; And I spend way too much time on dA.
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I am very difficult to piss off, because I am patient. This means, it is also very easy for me to piss others off -- especially those who are impatient and easily annoyed. So, I'd advise you prepare to deal with it. I've already annoyed you without even trying to. What you have misinterpreted about me and gotten annoyed by, are simply defaults in my personality. All I can be, is me. So I really don't think you'll enjoy debating with me as much as you think.
- I stick to the facts as best I can
- When something is just my opinion and not a fact, I say so
- Both facts and opinions will annoy you, especially the way i express them
- I have a good memory with attention to detail. I'll not devolve myself or limit my abilities simply because the insecure egos of some interperate what I can do naturally and effortlessly, as "over thinking" and "psychoanalyzing"
Seeing as I am long winded by nature, don't take that as if you're somehow getting any special attention from me. Well okay, I suppose you could if you wanted to, but it would only be a sweet lie you'd be comforting yourself with
Negativity only hurts those feeling the emotion. Being a bitch is a feeling of negativity so I really hope you're as masochistic as you are sadistic -- as you will not get a rise out of me and failing to do so, will only piss you off more and more.
My father has the same sort of personality and I must admit -- it is entertaining to watch him. The more I remain calm, the more mad he gets. The more I laugh, his anger worsens. The more I smile, the more frustraightened he gets as my smile only serves to mock him, from his perspective. The more I present facts -- the more he tries to twist them and distract me from them -- by trying to attack me, as opposed to attacking the topic. I just dismiss this, bounce back to the topic and boy -- is he fuming like a steam engine!
I know how to deal with people who enjoy intimidating others. Its simple. Don't give them what they want then watch the fireworks!
Feel free to underestimate me though, if you wish. Gives those fireworks more of a pretty sparkle near the end of the show
I am a positive person with a positive outlook on life. Deal with it, if you can!
I am, your polar opposite
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O.o Yeah, but I don't care about any of that.
Not your root causes, or what makes you tick.
It amuses me that you think I do.
You could disappear tomorrow and I won't even notice your absence.
I won't even remember our conversation tomorrow. lolz Short term memory loss is double edged razor sometimes.
I'm guessing you're going to psychoanalyze this and try to find some "deeper" meaning. lolz Good luck. :] You can do that til you're blue in the face.
Fact is, you'll only be making stuff up.
And when I said to choose a topic, I didn't mean your life story. -.-; You can keep those details to yourself.
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Hahahaah. All the assumptions you make about me are pretty amusing. Just because I have an opinion, you're under the impression that I assume you care what it is, simply because I've chosen to express it. Hahahaha.
Theres no way I can analyze you to find any deeper meaning anymore than its possible to sail an air craft carrier in a kiddie pool
I'd never bother telling you my life's story. You wouldn't get it even if you cared to -- which -- you don't
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