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elfs First, the lemming:
You are a - Geek Sheep! you're one l33t g33|< 5|-|33p! No one understands a word you're saying, but you don't care. Bespectacled geek by day, fearsome DND warrior by night! Geek power ;)
Which flock do you follow?
And, more serious stuff:
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miraclemax asked the question, "What do you do to cheer yourself up?"
I don't. I don't have to.
I think I can say without controversy that there exists an "average" human state, where people are neither cheered nor depressed. I think it's also not controversial that there are people who are mildly or severely depressed most of the time.
I seem to be mildly cheered most of the time. I've never learned "coping skills" for my depression; I've learned coping skills for dealing with a relentless optimism that presumes the car will never break down, that my keys will never get lost, that I need never make backups of my data, and so on. I'm trying to master the Heinlein "optimist by temperment, pessimist by policy" policy, but it's hard to think like a pessimist when the world is, like, so fucking cool most of the time.
You are a - Geek Sheep! you're one l33t g33|< 5|-|33p! No one understands a word you're saying, but you don't care. Bespectacled geek by day, fearsome DND warrior by night! Geek power ;)
Which flock do you follow?
And, more serious stuff:
miraclemax asked the question, "What do you do to cheer yourself up?"I don't. I don't have to.
I think I can say without controversy that there exists an "average" human state, where people are neither cheered nor depressed. I think it's also not controversial that there are people who are mildly or severely depressed most of the time.
I seem to be mildly cheered most of the time. I've never learned "coping skills" for my depression; I've learned coping skills for dealing with a relentless optimism that presumes the car will never break down, that my keys will never get lost, that I need never make backups of my data, and so on. I'm trying to master the Heinlein "optimist by temperment, pessimist by policy" policy, but it's hard to think like a pessimist when the world is, like, so fucking cool most of the time.
