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hollywood926 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-17-04 05:24 PM
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Should I get a lobotomy?
I'm miserable! And everyone around me at work is always happy and smiling, oblivious to the pain and suffering and injustice in the world. They are just happy that we are over in Iraq killing the Iraqi civilians who attacked us on 9/11.

I think perhaps if I stopped reading the newspaper and keeping myself informed I might be a happier person and live a longer, less productive life. But my thirst for knowledge is so strong that a lobotomy might be the only way I can stay away from reliable information and start listening to Sean Hannity, instead.

What should I do? I don't want to die of an ulcer or have a stroke. I'm only in my thirties!

Quandary.
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ArkDem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-17-04 05:25 PM
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1. yes
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one_true_leroy Donating Member (807 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-17-04 05:25 PM
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2. I'd rather have a bottle in front of me than a frontal lobotomy...
Tom Waits
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hang a left Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-17-04 05:26 PM
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3. I feel your pain.
Spend more time in the lounge. Laugh a little. I have been there....too too serious. Lounge is a good place to laugh.
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Kire Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-17-04 05:27 PM
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4. I've seen lobotomies performed...
...you would regret it.
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andyhappy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-17-04 05:27 PM
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5. after the election
my dad, in trying to comfort me, said, hey come on, our life isn't going to change much.

I guess that kind of attitude is why nazi germany was such a success. All this horror going on in our name and you can't even tell...
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Mike Niendorff Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-17-04 05:29 PM
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6. Don't do it! ...

There are too many Republicans out there already!

:evilgrin:


MDN

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Goathead Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-17-04 05:31 PM
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7. Try trepanation instead
Still a hole in the head but the effects are different.

http://www.trepan.com/_index.html
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eataTREE Donating Member (488 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-17-04 05:33 PM
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9. That's the most overdesigned website I've ever seen.
Clearly, the web designers went through the procedure before creating that website.
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sui generis Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-17-04 05:34 PM
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10. off all the disgusting things I can think of
scrambling one's brains is the worst.

In fact, fuck the anti-abortionists. I'd be right out there with pictures of freshly scrambled helpless brains, saying "this is murder!!!" and blowing up trepanation and lobotomy clinics.

Yeah secret service I did say that, and I'm not taking it back. /sarcasm
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jdots Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-17-04 05:33 PM
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8. YOU ARE DOOMED TO LIVE the educated life
there is no turning back.Thier ignorance is bliss but it's expensive for the world.It's wastefull but very trendy for them to be
blind,deaf and VERY DUMB !!!!
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ogradda Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-17-04 05:37 PM
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11. no!
sheesh. take a stress class or look online for options. and don't listen to hannity!
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delete_bush Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-17-04 05:55 PM
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12. research indicates that it take
a minimum of TWO lobotomies before someone such as yourself is comfortable listening to Hanninazi. Easier just to imagine he doesn't exist.
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donheld Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-17-04 06:06 PM
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13. you know what would be really bad
if you had a lobobtomy and nobody noticed :crazy:
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American Tragedy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-17-04 06:18 PM
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14. I understand. Sometimes being politically conscious is a nightmare
I know I could bear it easily if there were friends and people around me that felt similarly, but it seems that nobody else cares.

I feel totally alone. Outside of this site, most others have rejected any discussion of my concerns and basically told me to get over it. I've tried, I've tried hard, but the things that they want to focus upon just seem so shallow and irrelevant.

I don't think that I am capable of lapsing back into apathy and ignorance. Sometimes I wish I could. I would be a much happier person.
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hollywood926 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-17-04 08:41 PM
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15. Really? Because your user name has such an optimistic tone to it! n/t
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American Tragedy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-17-04 10:53 PM
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16. LOL! Hey, you said you were contemplating being lobotomized
You started this thread in a shroud of negativism.
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edbermac Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-17-04 11:03 PM
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17. No...the neocons have no brains at all, so why remove yours?
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RPM Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-17-04 11:18 PM
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18. no lobotomy
the drooling turns women off... Also makes using DU quite difficult.

Buck up - things will turn.
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