# In this life **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [December 14, 2003, 1:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-this-life/218939 "2003-12-14T13:00:47Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Hyperbolic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/c57346/32.png) [@Hyperbolic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hyperbolic)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2003, 1:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-this-life/218939/21 "2003-12-15T01:52:39Z")
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**Author:** ![Ilsa\_Lund](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/a6a055/32.png) [@Ilsa\_Lund](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ilsa_Lund)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2003, 1:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-this-life/218939/22 "2003-12-15T01:55:46Z")
Wait, wait, let me try. Although the machinations of this brutal world that ending up stepping on the toes of those that we think we love make us despair in the deadness that infiltrates our world, we will slip endlessly, despairingly and desperately towards the existential hell that permeates our existence. It is in this darkness where are demons become real that we cease to succeed in the things that we never succeeded in anway due to the fact that we suck our own feet in an attempt to right the way we have gone head over heels in the endless circling madness that eats the soul. How’s that? ---
**Author:** ![Cerri](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/3bc359/32.png) [@Cerri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cerri)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2003, 2:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-this-life/218939/23 "2003-12-15T02:15:12Z")
As my dear old dad used to say, “What do you want? Life sucks. Suck it up and get used to it, Sunshine, cause you got plenty of years left to put up with this crap.” ---
**Author:** ![Kurdt\_Kobain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/258eb7/32.png) [@Kurdt\_Kobain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kurdt_Kobain)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2003, 3:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-this-life/218939/24 "2003-12-15T03:02:26Z")
I’m 29, and I’m not angsting, THIS IS REALLY HAPPENING, REALLY HAPPENING! ---
**Author:** ![Ilsa\_Lund](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/a6a055/32.png) [@Ilsa\_Lund](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ilsa_Lund)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2003, 3:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-this-life/218939/25 "2003-12-15T03:06:51Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Kurdt Kobain \* > \*\*I’m 29, and I’m not angsting, THIS IS REALLY HAPPENING, REALLY HAPPENING! \*\* NO IT REALLY REALLY ISN’T! ---
**Author:** ![Hot\_Buttered\_Toast](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b38774/32.png) [@Hot\_Buttered\_Toast](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hot_Buttered_Toast)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2003, 3:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-this-life/218939/26 "2003-12-15T03:06:59Z")
Exactly _what_ is “hand kick batter”? Okay, let me summarize this, and most bad Gothic insights while I’m at it. I rock because I can produce scintillating insights, just like a lot of people, on how everyone besides me is fake. You are nothing. I know a lot of synonyms and adjectives, that I will use copiously. I write this because I believe I am the only one suffering for all our sakes, with this kind of insight that I just can’t keep to myself. So compliment me on it, you bitter evil seething shadow of nothingness. Did I miss anything out? Also, I skimmed through the whole OP, I can’t take that much angst. ---
**Author:** ![Ilsa\_Lund](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/a6a055/32.png) [@Ilsa\_Lund](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ilsa_Lund)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2003, 3:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-this-life/218939/27 "2003-12-15T03:08:27Z")
> [@](#): > > I am error, I am fate unto the common man, I am you, and who are you? You’re nothing, like me. Nullshit. My new word. ---
**Author:** ![CarnalK](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnalk/32/486_2.png) [@CarnalK](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CarnalK)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2003, 3:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-this-life/218939/28 "2003-12-15T03:12:24Z")
Then I think the heroin might be causing you to regress. 😉 > [@](#): > > I’m crying now, and it’s for all of our sakes. I don’t know why. Please stop. It’s creepy when dudes cry, especially when it’s for my sakes. ---
**Author:** ![Kurdt\_Kobain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/258eb7/32.png) [@Kurdt\_Kobain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kurdt_Kobain)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2003, 3:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-this-life/218939/29 "2003-12-15T03:13:25Z")
hand kick batter is batter prodocued by many kicks and punches to the said batter. ilsa lund, piss off. let me rant in peace with none of your sheninagans, ok? ---
**Author:** ![Kurdt\_Kobain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/258eb7/32.png) [@Kurdt\_Kobain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kurdt_Kobain)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2003, 3:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-this-life/218939/30 "2003-12-15T03:15:12Z")
I don’t do drugs, stop pulling shit out of nowhere, you have no basis in that attack. ---
**Author:** ![Ilsa\_Lund](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/a6a055/32.png) [@Ilsa\_Lund](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ilsa_Lund)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2003, 3:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-this-life/218939/31 "2003-12-15T03:15:57Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Hot Buttered Toast \* > \*\*Exactly _what_ is “hand kick batter”? > > Okay, let me summarize this, and most bad Gothic insights while I’m at it. > > I rock because I can produce scintillating insights, just like a lot of people, on how everyone besides me is fake. You are nothing. I know a lot of synonyms and adjectives, that I will use copiously. I write this because I believe I am the only one suffering for all our sakes, with this kind of insight that I just can’t keep to myself. So compliment me on it, you bitter evil seething shadow of nothingness. > > Did I miss anything out? Also, I skimmed through the whole OP, I can’t take that much angst. \*\* You, in short, rule. ---
**Author:** ![Hot\_Buttered\_Toast](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b38774/32.png) [@Hot\_Buttered\_Toast](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hot_Buttered_Toast)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2003, 3:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-this-life/218939/32 "2003-12-15T03:16:58Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Kurdt Kobain \* > \*\*I’m 29, and I’m not angsting, THIS IS REALLY HAPPENING, REALLY HAPPENING! \*\* …you’re twenty-_nine?_ My classmates have outgrown the whole “angst” thing, and they’re _thirteen_. On preview: Oh, so that’s what it means. You might want to add some footnotes to your next…work. And if you want to rant in peace, why are you posting on a message board? Go get a blog or something. ---
**Author:** ![Ilsa\_Lund](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/a6a055/32.png) [@Ilsa\_Lund](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ilsa_Lund)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2003, 3:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-this-life/218939/33 "2003-12-15T03:17:12Z")
> [@](#): > > hand kick batter is batter prodocued by many kicks and punches to the said batter. > > ilsa lund, piss off. let me rant in peace with none of your sheninagans, ok? Why? This _is_ the Pit. ---
**Author:** ![CarnalK](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnalk/32/486_2.png) [@CarnalK](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CarnalK)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2003, 3:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-this-life/218939/34 "2003-12-15T03:19:27Z")
> [@](#): > > _KK-:_ … you have no basis in that attack. Well 3 things: you named yourself after Kurt Cobain, I read your post, and I put a smiley. Happy Trails and thanks for taking care of all my worrying for me! ---
**Author:** ![Ryle\_Dup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Ryle\_Dup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ryle_Dup)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2003, 3:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-this-life/218939/35 "2003-12-15T03:23:25Z")
I swear I hope he’s 29. Self-righteous gothic people with wonderful insights on life are so boooooring. ---
**Author:** ![Hot\_Buttered\_Toast](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b38774/32.png) [@Hot\_Buttered\_Toast](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hot_Buttered_Toast)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2003, 3:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-this-life/218939/36 "2003-12-15T03:27:35Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Kurdt Kobain \* > **I cannot write with such mongrels of the human function, such commoners and laborers, they are below us. They may be the infrastructure, but they still shame us.** Yes, **Kurdt** , everyone except you is a proletariat. Fight the system, **Kurdt**! ---
**Author:** ![Doomtrain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/0ea827/32.png) [@Doomtrain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doomtrain)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2003, 3:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-this-life/218939/37 "2003-12-15T03:32:09Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Mangetout \* > \*\*It may be what you are, but it is also what we _were_ - I spouted many such angsty ramblings myself - trust me; by the time you hit thirty, you’ll cringe every time you think about what you said here. \*\* Yea, I have some of my angsty ramblings saved (because I never throw anything I’ve written away). My god, they’re just terrible. I wince every time I read them. Lemme try some: Who am I? I am no one. A cog in the ever-turning machine, just another part on the assembly line of life being screwed by other, more complete drones. Robots. They automatically weld me and I cry out, the burning, glaven, but then I’m on to the next station. And it’s all an illusion. You think you know me, but you don’t know shit about me. I am colors, I am nothing. I live in a world you can’t concieve of, because you are one of the soulless robot drones wielding the blowtorch of Real Life, waiting to singe my newly formed soul. The agony! My mom, all she does is go to work, then make me clean out the basement. Fuck her. Despite all my rage I am still just a rat in a cage, but it’s my cage, dammit, and I’ll decorate how I like. The mold on the old pizza boxes is my friend. Howazzat? ---
**Author:** ![Larry\_Borgia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/larry_borgia/32/156_2.png) [@Larry\_Borgia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Borgia)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2003, 3:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-this-life/218939/38 "2003-12-15T03:40:11Z")
**Kurdt** , Have you considered that you may be suffering from clinical depression? I strongly urge you to talk to a doctor, therapist, counselor, or someone you trust. At any rate, posting to the pit is not the best way to seek help. I’m saying this because I’ve been there myself. i know the whole “black pit of despair” thing first hand, and I know how real and overwhelming it can be. Therapy helped me gain some perspective and to realize that I had a very distorted picture of the world. Meds help take the edge off the mood swings. The key thing is to remember that what your feeling _isn’t real_. Don’t get me wrong, I know the feelings themselves are all too real, but they are a distorted response to reality. I remember when the slightest thing–a bit of criticism, a snub from a girl–would absolutely incapacitate me. It took a lot of work to get my thoughts and emotions sorted out, but it was definitely worth it. Even now I’m still moody and hyper-sensitive at times, but the important thing is now I can deal with it instead of letting it overwhelm me. It doesn’t have to overwhelm you either. Also I recommend the book _Darkness Visible_ by William Styron, which is a very well written and non-self-pitying account of what its like to have depression. Good luck! ---
**Author:** ![Excalibre](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/898d66/32.png) [@Excalibre](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Excalibre)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2003, 5:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-this-life/218939/39 "2003-12-15T05:20:04Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Kurdt Kobain \* > **hand kick batter is batter prodocued by many kicks and punches to the said batter.** “Hand kick batter” sounds like it might be more like something produced when you look at dirty pictures and touch your special no-no place. ---
**Author:** ![DreadCthulhu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/db5fbb/32.png) [@DreadCthulhu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DreadCthulhu)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2003, 5:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-this-life/218939/40 "2003-12-15T05:30:26Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Kurdt Kobain \* > \*\*I’m 29, and I’m not angsting, THIS IS REALLY HAPPENING, REALLY HAPPENING! \*\* Oops, sorry I called you a kid. :smack: Anyways, if life really does suck that much for you I could give you some tips on how to correctly kill yourself (I have seen plenty of people screw this up - believe me, Nothing makes you look more like a failure than trying to commit suicide and failing. Except failing more than once, of course) if you want them. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-this-life/218939.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-this-life/218939.md?page=3)