The Difference

how many times have u stubbed ur toe on a bed/table and wished/did hit the table back ?

how many times has ur computer frozen up while you were doing something awesome and u wanted to really cuss the darn thing out ?

happens to almost all of us. it is one of our basic instincts.... to attach a default personality to everything. with personality comes assumptions about the object's nature. its clash with our own personality creates one of the many primal emotions - love, hate, anger or fear.

death is always called He. Nature is always called She.

Humans are generally social animals. Communication is THE most important difference between us and the lower mammals. emotions go hand in hand with every kind of communication. people hardly talk with objects they donot attach even a bit of any emotion to.

And here the problem starts. we are so used to attaching emotions with people, that this instinct is carried over to inanimate objects, like a hung up computer, a brick which fell on your computer, an atm machine which gave u extra money (which they dont :|).

this is called animism. to animate inanimate objects, thus giving them a personality, either positive or negative, after which we can relate to the object on an emotional level. this is also the reason why people find some topics confusing and others straightforward.

by experience, you would all know that emotions complicate matters. a maths question would be a lot easier if you didn't think the quadratic equation was out to get you.

the other side of the coin is... the ability to inanimate everything you observe. to see an object without any complications. people like einstein and newton can be a good example. they contributed immensely to man's technological advancement. but they were humans... just like us. they extended this ability to humans as well... as we animate lifeless objects, they view humans as objects. hence their social life was in disarray. they could not bond with people. they could not form anything apart from the very basic emotions which, needless to say, were not enough in normal society. people like them have always been and always will be, outcasts.

the world is simple to them, not because they are super intelligent..... but because they are emotionally stupid...

what is it ? a blessing or a curse ?

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"...Mathematical truth is immutable,it lies outside physical reality. When we show, for example, that two nth powers never add to an nth power for n > 3 we have discovered a Truth. This is our belief, this is our core motivating forcé. Yet our attempts to describe this belief to our nonmathematical friends are akin to describing the Almighty to an atheist ..."

(Joel Spencer in his "Uncle Paul" speech)

WW2 from the eyes of a Travian player

Germany Attacked Poland.

England broke their NAP with Germany 'cuz Poland was their ally.

England and its allies defend from German attacks, but suffer heavy losses as Germany has level 10 rams.

France got Chiefed.

Japan decided to scout America.

America got pissed off, and sent a couple 10k TTs at them, with 1k catapults for sh!ts & giggles.

America cut Japan to 90 pop.

Germany sends a Chieftain at Russia, gets loyalty down to 1.

Russia builds up troops with their lvl 20 resources and lvl 20 barracks before the Chieftain can hit again. Walls go back up to lvl 20. German Chiefs all destroyed.

Germany just keeps sending troops although it's clear they cannot take Russia.

Eventually troops run out since Russia can produce them faster.

Russia, Britain and the USA simultaneously hit Germany with their own Chieftains.

Hitler deleted his account...


- credit - Sgt. Bigtower

Legend :- (for the no00bs)

NAP = Non-Agression packs
Rams = siege units for breaking down walls
Chiefed = get attacked by the Chieftein
TT = a cavalary unit
Catapult = siege weapon
Loyalty = a counter than keeps decreasing when the village is attacked by chiefteins. at loyalty=0, village surrenders.

a monologue

why is there so much friction between us ?

u'd know... u r the asshole

-.-"
its been so long... u still haven't realized how i cope with extremes of emotions.

u r still an asshole

i have security issues... thats all.... when i feel that something that i love is being taken away from me, i fight tooth n nail for it. if i cant fight, i try to break all emotions attached with it to minimize the mental pain it causes. there are only a handful of things i want in this world, u being the most important. u hate possessiveness... i know how important it is to belong to something. it is essential.

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i am not good at many things yaar. i donot like people (you were right ;) ) because i cannot understand them. and because i donot like them, i donot put in the effort to understand them. my EQ is probbly negative. but what i do know is... there is one person i like being with, if not physically then mentally.... all i will ever need from this world is that ONE person... there is nothing else on earth which i cannot get myself. i have already told this many times... u think i am a child... i am.. but i also know that everything i say.... i mean all of them. i want to get better, just for the appreciation u wud give me. maybe i AM obsessed. maybe all u'll feel after reading this is anger... maybe i deserve it... all i can say is... wtever u want now... if i can i'll fulfill it...

imaginary

I linger in the doorway
Of alarm clocks screaming
Monsters calling my name
Let me stay
Where the wind will whisper to me
Where the raindrops
As there falling
Tell a story

In my field of paper flowers
And candy clouds of lullaby
I lie inside myself for hours
And watch my purple sky fly over me

Don't say I'm not in touch
With this rampant chaos
Your reality
I know well what lies beyond my sleeping refuge
The nightmare i built my own world to escape

Swallowed up in the sound of my screaming
Cannot stop fir the fear of silent nights
Oh how i long for the deep sleep dreaming
The goddess of imaginary light