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Post by Confessor on Jun 28, 2019 4:26:38 GMT -5
I love Battle Beyong the Stars. Great characters, cool spaceship design, and a classic story (essentially The Magnificent Seven in space).
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Post by Confessor on Jun 28, 2019 8:13:28 GMT -5
I'm not arguing with the sentiment, mrp, but this reminds me of one of those insufferable motivational graphics you see on Facebook, with some new age image of a man silhouetted on top of a mountain, with the sun rising in front of him. If you're never negative about anything, then you're basically just a grinning idiot. If you lose your job, or get diagnosed with some hellish disease, or your child is stillborn, or your entire family is wiped out in a car crash, it's a perfectly natural response to feel negativity about the situation. Even at a smaller, shallower level, being negative about every day things, like missing your bus, or how shitty your job is, or how little money you have, or even that the new Star Trek comic sucks, is a perfectly human response to unsatisfactory situations. Without negativity in your life, you cannot properly evaluate the positive experiences you live through and therefore you'll never get a true sense of satisfaction when life is on the upswing. In fact, these days there are actually quite a few mental health studies that suggest that negative thoughts are vital to our well-being and peace of mind. Emotions like anger, disappointment and sadness are perfectly natural reactions to life's ups and downs, and ignoring or suppressing those thoughts can induce a range of unwanted effects on our mental health. Also, from a biological standpoint, negative emotions or thoughts are likely to be important for our survival. And speaking personally, I've always found negativity, if properly channeled, to be a tremendous engine for change. To be negative sometimes is to be an intelligent human being. There's a difference between experiencing grief or loss or frustration and engaging in negativity. Negativity is a choice-looking to find flaws in things, looking for reasons not to like things, looking for things to complain about, looking for excuses not to do the right thing or the positive thing, looking for someone to blame when things don't go your way, experiencing a bad Star Trek comic and choosing to let that ruin your experience of Star Trek overall and invalidate the things you liked about Star Trek to begin with, etc. There's also a difference between venting and expressing sorrow, disappointment, etc. and whining and being negative. Emotions like anger, disappointment and sadness exist, no doubt but they are not negative things. What you choose to do because of those emotions can be though and that is where the choice comes in We all feel anger, but what you do with that anger is a choice and can be positive or negative. We all feel loss, what we choose to do when we feel loss is the difference. If I am having a bad day, I can choose to try to do something to make it better or I can choose to take it out on other people. I can look at what I maybe can do differently to make it better, or I can blame everyone else for my bad day. Choosing to do negative things is just that a choice. You cannot control what happens to you all of the time, but you have choices in how you react to it and what you do about it. I find people don't channel negativity to do positive things, they take the experiences which could lead to negativity and choose to do positive things instead while others wallow in the negativity and play the blame and whine woe is me game. Sometimes it takes time-loss of a loved one isn't something you bounce back from in a day for certain, and the loss will always be with you and affect you, but as time passes you will have to make choices and what choices you make in that situation is the kind of choices I am talking about. Yes,losing a job sucks, and it makes one angry and sad and can make you question your worth-but what then? What do you choose to do next? That defines negativity and positivity. Some people look for solutions while others look for excuses. Some people choose negativity instead of choosing to channel those experiences into something positive. For those that choose to try to do something positive, that's not channeling the negativity, that's choosing to do something positive about the situation and rejecting the negativity. And yes, there are those who have difficulty in making those choices or are incapable of it because of mental health issues. These are the people who need to get help and treatment, and sometimes (not always) getting that hep starts with a choice, and sometimes that choice is rendered moot because of institutional failure or other reasons, I get that, but mental health in many ways is just like physical health, when you are healthy you make choices about the health of your lifestyle, when you are ill your choices can be limited. -M Well, this isn't what you actually said in your original post, so you're moving the goalposts quite a bit here. We seem to be in agreement that negativity can be useful, if properly channeled, but that's not what your original post said, and that's why I called you out on it. Your original post posited that we should all abandon negativity and negative thoughts of any kind, which I refute because, if you do, you're just a "la-la, hippy-dippy" idiot walking around smiling inanely, with no grip on how difficult and downright awful life can actually be most of the time. Measured negativity makes you wise, keeps you sane, and, from a biological viewpoint, probably helps to keep you alive too. You also said "negativity is a choice-looking to find flaws in things, looking for reasons not to like things", and then followed that up in a later post with "negativity and positivity are a choice". No...no, negativity isn't necessarily a choice. If you're suffering from depression or you genuinely have nothing left to live for -- either through tragic circumstance or as a result of depression -- feelings of negativity are definitely not a choice. As I said earlier, negativity is a useful and very human emotion. Without it, you cannot properly evaluate the positive experiences in life and appreciate them when they arrive. Being negative about stuff -- even mundane, every day stuff -- is a very human trait, and one that we should celebrate as a normal reaction to undesirable events in life (no mater how trivial). It's unhealthy to castigate people for having entirely human feelings. Negativity is a great thing (...in measure). There! I said it!
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Post by Icctrombone on Jun 28, 2019 8:51:30 GMT -5
I had a friend who told me instead of saying " constructive Criticism , to say constructive critique. One destroys , the other corrects.
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Post by Confessor on Jun 28, 2019 9:29:05 GMT -5
I had a friend who told me instead of saying " constructive Criticism , to say constructive critique. One destroys , the other corrects. Hey, I have a constructive critique for you: lose the Captain Marvel avatar, buddy, and get yourself a nice green space-rabbit one. Here you go! You're welcome.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 28, 2019 9:36:47 GMT -5
When, oh when, is Pepsi going to release a Pepsi Zero? Come on, Pepsi!
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Post by Icctrombone on Jun 28, 2019 9:40:13 GMT -5
I had a friend who told me instead of saying " constructive Criticism , to say constructive critique. One destroys , the other corrects. Hey, I have a constructive critique for you: lose the Captain Marvel avatar, buddy, and get yourself a nice green space-rabbit one. Here you go! You're welcome.
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Post by The Captain on Jun 28, 2019 10:05:11 GMT -5
Hey, I have a constructive critique for you: lose the Captain Marvel avatar, buddy, and get yourself a nice green space-rabbit one. Here you go! You're welcome. Green rabbit, orange jackass. It's like Lucky Charms took over a petting zoo. (If this is too political, I apologize in advance and respectfully allow the moderators to do with my comment as they see fit.)
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Post by Icctrombone on Jun 28, 2019 14:48:49 GMT -5
Green rabbit, orange jackass. It's like Lucky Charms took over a petting zoo. (If this is too political, I apologize in advance and respectfully allow the moderators to do with my comment as they see fit.)
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Post by Deleted on Jun 28, 2019 14:49:02 GMT -5
I love Battle Beyong the Stars. Great characters, cool spaceship design, and a classic story (essentially The Magnificent Seven in space). Agree.
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Post by Nowhere Man on Jun 28, 2019 18:34:59 GMT -5
The H.G. Giger inspired Alien is still to this day the most creatively designed, horrifying and "believable" monster in the history of fiction.
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Jul 1, 2019 19:00:54 GMT -5
I really get tired of old people complaining about "them youngsters" not listening to good music. It's been almost 50 years since the Beatles last recorded. I'm sure you were listening to Al Jolson and Eddie Cantor in the laste 60s and the 70s.
See also comics, films, television. I've no doubt you sound nothing like your Dad and your Grandpa who embraced Boomer Culture.
There. I said it.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 1, 2019 19:39:38 GMT -5
When, oh when, is Pepsi going to release a Pepsi Zero? Come on, Pepsi! They've done it twice now in the US and neither time did it sell enough to continue. I haven't drank pop (soda) in 2 years now, but it was on the market when I was drinking it. -M
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Post by Deleted on Jul 2, 2019 9:17:08 GMT -5
When, oh when, is Pepsi going to release a Pepsi Zero? Come on, Pepsi! I haven't seen any Pepsi products here in London only Coke...
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Post by codystarbuck on Jul 2, 2019 16:39:56 GMT -5
Personally, I'd like to turn back the clock to before they were using high fructose corn syrup and all of that junk. I've been off sugared sodas since the early 90s; but, the sugared stuff tasted far better before they were dumping all that junk into it, on top of the actual sugar. On the other hand, diet sodas taste way better than they did, then. Tab or Diet Rite was like an epicac.
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Post by Confessor on Jul 2, 2019 17:18:48 GMT -5
When, oh when, is Pepsi going to release a Pepsi Zero? Come on, Pepsi! I haven't seen any Pepsi products here in London only Coke... We do have lots of Pepsi over here too. In particular, it's not uncommon when you order a Coke in a pub to be asked, "is Pepsi OK?" The word coke is a generic term for any cola in the UK, as well as meaning Coca-Cola, of course.
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