I blame DeathsTreaty...

Don't we all?

Hear hear!!!

I take responsibility for my situation and anyone else's. Is all part of being 'the man'

The voices in my head say ... I'm the one to blame.

The voices in Romeo's head tell me its not my fault. Romeo did it.

But sadly yep I made lots of wrong decisions and they have made me who I am, so in the long run they where good.

Ok so when we were growing up, we "absorbed" everything from our family, teachers, mentors, friends, enemies, television, radio, etc etc etc... and those things shaped our personality, values, morals, etc... Which are a key factor in why we make the decisions that we do. This suggests a never ending cycle of blame being passed backward to the beginning of time lol.

Hmmmm but then you see two people brought up the same, going through the same sort of things and both end up totally different, one can let circumstances destroy their life, the other can use them to build a life, so who can we blame.
Lots of us have heaps of things dumped on us that are not our fault and half the mongrels who do it should be shot, however its what we do with the things that happen to us, and the choices we make after things happen that change us. Ultimately I guess it's just realising that people cannot take away your happiness no matter what they do and taking responsibility for how you handle what what has happened or decisions you make, and dont ever ever ever let go of yourright to be happy as you are the only one in control of your happiness.
( Well thats only my opinion of course

In order of importance, I blame the following for my situation:

1. The cosmic order
2. The nature of flux restrictions of megastrand molecules through miasmic content
3. The media
4. The government
5. Mrs. Simploriga, my grade three nuclear medicine teacher
6. Your toupee
7. My left foot, which also has overpowered and taken the soul of my right foot
8. Too high levels of peer pressure in my brain fluids
9. Myself
10. Robotomy
11. Rock music in my formative years, and the damaging impression it left on my soul
12. My inability to enjoy street drugs
13. The president of the United States of America
14. The food chain, and the restaurant and grocery store chains that give no kind of damn about healthy living
15. My lack of sex, or else my overdriven sex drive
16. My lack of height
17. My inability to discern what I can say to whom (I talk to women as if they were men, and I talk to my cell mate as if he were my parish prayer-house captain).
18. My abnormally speedy flight of thught.
19. The low amount of pocket money my parents would give me in grade 9.
20. St. Habakukk, the patron saint of masturbation.

I also hate that popcorn does not go well with porn when you watch skin flicks. It really should, you know, given their names. There was one guy who tried, you know, the guy with the popcorn box with the hole drilled in the bottom, and his experiment proved to be a huge failure.

Sorry, Josie, to disagree with you, but I am with the guy you responded to.

Because, basically, everything has a cause (but not a reason) and nothing that does not have cause happens.

So... the difference in reactions in two given humans to the same influence in their lives is a function of how they'd been programmed by life's influences to that point, which also includes, very sadly, their genetical disposition such as temperament, morals, and values are concerned.

I go farther even, and this will be really unpopular what I am going to say, but I believe very strongly that choices are a mere illusion. Nobody makes any choices, and those which we are forced to make, can be made no other way than by choosing what we choose. I could describe the proof, but space does not permit that here.

It is a very scary thing that our lives as we have seen it develeop, and also the world around us, is completely different in the causation process from what we have been accustomed to see them as. Unfortunate are those who see that there is zero degrees of freedom, because that view gives us a sense of helplessness, a sense of bewildermentm, a sense of a breakdown of trust in the cosmic order, but alas, just there it is, once you beleive it, you can't get away from that world view, since it is so powerfully true.

You could be right, as I guess in a family where everyone is brought up the same, children have certain personalities which are inherited, everyone says they picked up the wrong baby when they got me as I am nothing like everyone else. So technically we can blame, or just be happy and not worry.

Good advice Josie!! However, if you had my weltanschauung internalized, you would see that that's exactly that we can't do, that's exactly our inability: "We can blame, or we can just be happy and not worry". You see, we don't have that choice. We can't "or". We do the one or the other other, but there is no way we can decide for ourselves which it is, that we choose. Because there is basically no choosing, no power of choice, no abitlity to choose, nothing we can do about it, whether we go the way "blame" or the way "be happy and not worry".

Everything is wux's fault.

You know, Jenniebean... I am always the first to admit to a fault or a wrongdoing if and when I had committed one.

I can't not do the opposite to disagree with you.

I agree, you are absolutely right.

There is no denying it, so I shan't even try. I wouldn't try even if there was a way of shaking the rap somehow, coz I believe in Truth, and secondarily, in trying to achieve justice.

So I take the blame, I agree I am to fault, and there is that.

I am not even bitter or sarcastic when I say this. This is just what and how it is.

My advice to future generations? Stay away from philosophy like from the plague. Play with fire, run with scissors, chew on razor blades, but don't you effing think about the meaning of life, kids. (Kids -- not you, other forum users, but your children and grandchildren and great grand children and their children's children's children.)

I'm taking a philosophy class now, really screwing with my head!!

I loved philosophy in college.

Scorpio and Leigh, that's the problem with philosophy. It sucks you in. You say, "i'll just insert my little finger... in it, just a little... the last digit, no deeper..." and bang, you are hooked on it.

Philosophy is the most beautiful of human endeavours, and the most useless. Yet there is no way of saying it's a waste of time, unless you never have gone near it.

Some philosopher said that it's not answers we should seek to philosophy, but a cure.

One more thing: philosopy is not related to IQ. They teach it in college, but a grave digger is as good as any. A kite-flyer or a gofor too. All the qualifications you need to be a philosopher is an interest in it. And once anyone tastes it, becomes interested in it.

You don't need a teacher, you just have to think for yourself. At any age. I knew people who were spanked at age 8 coz they said things in Sunday School that were philosophical. These people are humanists now, or atheists in the least.

A philosopher way bigger than I (I am crying guys, please forgive me) said it this way.

"We stared at the starry sky above us, as we lay on our backs on the raft.

"They is made," said Jim.

"They jist happened," said I."

One was a slave, the other, still a boy. Neither had a day of education in their lives. Yet we, college-educated cabbages, still argue about the same thing, the exact same thing.