Sounds like it’s better then running to the bottle as a habit.
I think I love you. 
Stranger
I don’t get people who don’t like the same things I do, it sounds arrogant maybe if that’s the right word but I’m thinking about it like this; I watch a movie and love it and somebody else hates it… did we see the same movie?
People with no religion whatsoever, I’m not talking about being part of any specific religion but people who do not even believe in some type of new age, cosmic forces, afterlife type of thing but only believe in evolution and that when your dead your dead. Maybe it’s because of how I was raised but I still don’t get it.
I don’t get kids who wear tight jeans, maybe because I wore mine sagging all of my life.
People who get upset over other people’s personal choices that don’t effect them, I might not understand something but things that don’t have a direct effect on me don’t make me angry.
People that smoke in new cars, because afterwards they smell like crap.
People that meet me and don’t like me, Hasn’t happened that often but when it does I think “what the heck, I’m a nice handsome guy what’s not to like?”
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People that don’t like other people but when asked why all they can say is; “I don’t know it’s just something about them that I don’t like”**, If your not going to like someone atleast have a reason.
I don’t get how one of my uncles seems not to have a regular job but can still afford a car and an apartment, He always seems to be “chillin’” and I have no idea what he does and when I ask him he says that he gets “paid”.
I don’t get people who do heavy drugs, join gangs, rob people, hurt people or kill people
I** don’t get grown men that are so sick they would kill a 5 year old girl**, they have to have a mental problem. I’d just like to know how they get to the point that they are so desperate to have sexual relations with a young girl that they would kill them or even why they would want sexual relations with a 5 year old in the first place.
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Why a female employee at my school can walk part way into the boys changing room**,and make a comment to the effect of “I have seen it all before” and nobody cares but if a male did this with females he would have been all over the news and fired.
**Why anyone would want to go on a show like “Fear Factor”, ** don’t get it at
all.
The “Insert” function on the computer keyboard**, the most useless and annoying key.
Protesting at gay funerals by Christians, showing the love of Jesus by making a tough time even tougher. I wouldn’t want Gays protesting at my funeral because I’m Christian.
Why my family member who is a philosophy major in College has to take advanced science and math to get a philosophy degree. Math helps you how in Philosphy?
My family member who is spending 4 years of his life to get a bachelors degree in philosophy, I don’t see many job openings for philosophers and I don’t think Socrates made that much money.
What does “acting black enough” mean?, If you didn’t know I’m 50/50 black and white and was told by a black girl that I cared more about my white side because I didn’t act black enough, whatever you say.
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Why this board seems to be the most active but is not listed in the top ten on big-boards.com**, check out Big-boards.com.
Vegetarians, gotta have meat.
I don’t get why I in around 6th grade was in a “contest” to make someone cry by teasing them, that is so NOT me now so I don’t know how I ever thought it was right or fun.
**Adults that wouldn’t want to be a kid again, ** I think it would be cool to automatically reincarnate after you turn 30 and become a kid again. Yes I have seen “Logan’s Run”.
Why people think teenagers are trouble when most are good, teens=trouble? It doesn’t add up most of the time.
People that do not have and do not want a social life, I still think it’s important to have a few friends you can chill with on during the week and especially on weekends.
That’s it, Thanks.
I don’t get people who dispise socialism/marxism/leftism.
Surely it’s human nature to look after the common good. If I were filthy rich I’d be pleased as punch if the govornment wanted to use my excess wealth to improve the lives of all those sprogs born into poverty.
I started this thread because I was stuck on the freeway, listening to the radio, and looking at the cars around me. I saw a car with three identical bumper stickers, and remembered the car I saw the day before with nine bumper stickers. I wondered why I don’t have even one bumper sticker on my car. Then I wondered about the woman on the radio – what compelled her to reveal a twenty-five year old secret to an anonymous, uncaring audience. Thus, the thread was born.
I’ve been impressed in this thread: we’re more alike than we are different, and with relatively few exceptions, we’re respectful of those differences. There’s a lot of stuff other people don’t get that I do: I think math is satisfying (and, START, it can teach a philosopher about logic); I think Coldplay is rock; if I see a new flavor of chewing gum, I’ll try it; there’s nothing more guaranteed to brighten my day than flowers; I can’t wait for the next Harry Potter to come out; my shoe collection is only eclipsed by my wine collection; and just today I got tickets to Kenny Chesney when he comes to LA.
I didn’t get a “holier than thou” vibe from this thread. It made me smile, and that I get.
Well, that’s our genetic/social programming. Those of us with no one special are programmed to long for A Woman or A Man - meaning a shining icon of pure, simple sexual essence.
It might also be because individuals are getting to be few and far between.
99.99999999999% of Japanese cartoons.
God yes.
I want a phone. A commuication device. Bullet prof it as much as possible. No. not a camera. No not a stero. Not a game boy (or whatever) A PHONE.
YOU TALK ON THEM. YEP. CALL PEOPLE. A PHONE.
Expensive Weddings - My niece is getting married next year and she wants the whole nine yards with all the toys. My niece’s mother (my sister) is probably the most frugal person I have ever met in my life. This is going to be interesting.
Fanatics - People that are fanatical about anything.
Materialistic people.
See, that’s the thing. I want a man, yes, but the word seems to be used to mean way more than just the person’s gender identification; there are a billion things that are supposed to go along with it that nobody, but nobody can live up to.
Another reason I don’t get this is that what I look for in a boyfriend has nothing to do with his gender. I don’t want X, Y, and Z things in a boyfriend because those things are or aren’t manly. Some of them are traditionally considered manly, some are considered effeminate (I suppose), and others are not related to gender. For me, their gender typing is irrelevant. I want those qualities because I think they’re attractive and conducive to a good relationship.
Finding hope in the possibility of an afterlife: I’ve never really got this. If I could be absolutely certain that death was the end, that would make me very happy. Surely the notion that there exists a world with no relation to ours or its laws, into which we pass involuntarily when we die, is at least as scary as the thought of death being the end.
Belief in free will: It seems to me to be pretty cut and dried - the outcome of a situation can be either caused by something, or random. I’ve never understood where free will is supposed to fit into this; it never made sense to me.
Add me to the list of those that find religion confusing. I’ve never had any trouble understand the existence of the crappier side of religion, but there are smart, pleasant, religious people around, and they seem to understand their religion in a way that I’ve never really grasped. I’ve tried many a time to figure this out, but I always come away empty-handed.
Also, economics, but I’ve never really tried to understand it, so it’s not so surprising.
~ Isaac
Natural childbirth. I just don’t get being willing to go through (what I’ve heard is) that much pain when there’s an alternative.
Religion - There’s no proof, no evidence, why do people believe in it? There’s NO logical reason. NONE. I just don’t get it. I mean…some big, invisible, man in the sky created the world and has a strict set of rules I must obey to somehow live after I die? Nope, uh-uh, don’t buy it. Sorry.
I want to add that **I don’t get why looking at photos of dead people and watching people die is considered cool ** by people who are obsessed with websites like Rotten and Ogrish.com
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The Darwin Awards, death is supposed to be funny?
Well, it gives people something to hang their hat on. Some people just can’t buy the argument that we all exist for just a short while, then we are gone, and it really has no meaning.
What? You must be joking? I don’t know about YOU but MY life has meaning.
:: yawn ::
Has anyone here ever received an online degree? Do you know anyone that has? Any comments, complaints, or suggestions?
In the course of trying to give my life meaning, I have posted in the wrong thread.
I get Texas. I don’t get Texas A&M.
I get fundamentalism. I don’t get Pentecostalism. (And a good friend of mine is a Pentecostalist.)
I get the military. I don’t get the mindfuck aspect of training.
I get role play. I don’t get rough sex, Dom/sub, Master/slave, or edge play.
I get neglect. I don’t get abuse.
I get friendly competition. I don’t get cutthroat competition.
I get vegetarianism. I don’t get veganism.
I get New Yorkers. I don’t get provincial New Yorkers.
I don’t get Camille Paglia, dark comedy, cilantro, or the near-universal popularity of gangsta rap, “reality” TV, or The da Vinci Code (which is basically an airport paperback with an unusually well-developed backstory).
You don’t have to believe in it, just don’t get to the hospital late!
Then they can believe in it for you and pleading for pain relief won’t help! OUCH.
Death? Not funny.
Stupid people doing stupid things? Very funny.