throwaway8882

Re:Wake up. You're all slaves. on Friday September 28, 2012 @08:59PM (#4588486)

"It's just a stage of adjustment" - hehe, am I the only one who sees the humor here?

"since much of life boils down to work, eat, reproduce, and die" - Remember, it's a choice :)

Re:Wake up. You're all slaves. on Thursday September 27, 2012 @01:06AM (#4579445)

Agreed that it's all arbitrary/relative. But still interesting to think about.

Re:Wake up. You're all slaves. on Thursday September 27, 2012 @01:05AM (#4579442)

Agreed. But why not think about it? It's real.

Re:Wake up. You're all slaves. on Thursday September 27, 2012 @01:04AM (#4579440)

Great movie!

Re:Wake up. You're all slaves. on Wednesday September 26, 2012 @10:01PM (#4578973)

Perhaps, but applying a label to it does not make it any less accurate :)

Re:Wake up. You're all slaves. on Wednesday September 26, 2012 @10:00PM (#4578970)

I'm not depressed, although I do admit the post came out that way. It was actually meant to be somewhat humorous about the absurdity of the human condition.. but perhaps a bit too dark for you guys :p

Are you really living out your dreams though? Or are you settling for the dreams that are allowed within the confines of the system?

Re:Wake up. You're all slaves. on Wednesday September 26, 2012 @09:50PM (#4578941)

What if I don't want to live in this rat race anymore?

Pretty much everyone reading this will be dead in 80 years - surely you must have thought to yourself "there must be more to life than this..."?

Wake up. You're all slaves.

Posted by throwaway8882 on Wednesday September 26, 2012 @09:39PM
from the self-post dept.

Think about your life. When you were a kid you had such big dreams. You could do anything if you wanted to. Then you started school and learned all this new information and the world was so new and big and full of so many possibilities. Then, little by little, your dreams died one by one didn't they? You started realizing everything you were taught was not entirely true. Not everyone could be...

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