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A comment on The Age of Absurdity: Why Modern Life Makes It Hard to Be Happy (2010). Parent comment

Re:The Age of Absurdity: Why Modern Life Makes It Hard to Be... by ErikAugust on Tuesday August 16, 2016 @01:29PM (#12299017)
Oh, so perhaps you have been to Boulder, Colorado?

http://stayoutofmynamastespace.com/

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Re:The Age of Absurdity: Why Modern Life Makes It Hard to Be... by omginternets on Tuesday August 16, 2016 @01:42PM (#12299102)
Half of these are people missing sarcasm and attempts at humor.

The other half are downright terrifying...

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Re:The Age of Absurdity: Why Modern Life Makes It Hard to Be... by ErikAugust on Tuesday August 16, 2016 @05:48PM (#12300896)
"Stay out of my Namaste space" is totally frightening.
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Re:The Age of Absurdity: Why Modern Life Makes It Hard to Be... by omginternets on Tuesday August 16, 2016 @06:20PM (#12301070)
> There are two types of people, ones who like avocados, and ones that are wrong.

This isn't frightening. It's funny (because it's true).

> I would rather have the aspartame that causes cancer than the sugar that causes diabetes.

This, on the other hand, is frightening.

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Re:The Age of Absurdity: Why Modern Life Makes It Hard to Be... by ErikAugust on Wednesday August 17, 2016 @11:54AM (#12305612)
Yeah, exactly. Some are actually just funny. Some are crazy.
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Re:The Age of Absurdity: Why Modern Life Makes It Hard to Be... by omginternets on Wednesday August 17, 2016 @01:16PM (#12306374)
I think I misunderstood your previous post. We're on the same page ;)
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