I wonder if any of you former Whit kids will pursue a career or avocation in linguistics? I'm not kidding. I think it would be a wonderful endeavor for anyone w/ this type of experience and who may be so inclined.
On 2005-05-01 15:09:00, Former Whitmore Resident wrote:
and i don't understand why it means you don't have a life when your just stating simple FACTS.
"Get a life" is just slang for "it's not important". That was an indefeatable, thought stopping, command phrase in Straight lingo. For example, when listing and explaining the rules, as we did at least once a day, maybe more, one might say something like this:
"No sending or receiving letters till 4th phase, and then the person has to be checked out by staff. M'khay, the reason why we don't send or receive letters till 4th phase is, like, it's just
not important to worry about anybody but myself while I'm on 1st - 3rd phase. ..... "
It means never mind the man jacking off and laughing manically behind the thinly veiled mockery of newage folklore. Go tend to something
important (you're allowed to think about)
It's amazing, isn't it? The sheer power of adept and determined emotional abuse? You can get damned near anybody to believe almost anything if you can just keep them beat down.
G'bye, I'm goin' back to the hobit holes and trees and tents and such.... back to civilization. :wave:
I cannot believe in the immortality of the soul.... No, all this talk of an existence for us, as individuals, beyond the grave is wrong. It is born of our tenacity of life -- our desire to go on living -- our dread of coming to an end.
--Thomas Edison, American inventor
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