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Originally posted by {b.s.e.} that's as deep as this post.

http://en.thinkexist.com/quotation/...grow/13470.html

*Shawked*

I never knew Arbiter was so mean

grow down.

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Originally posted by Arbiter Why do people tell others to "grow up?" To me, it's nothing but bad advice. I can say pretty confidently that all of you have either been children, or still are. Sometimes, I think people forget how great it was to be a child as they grow older. As a young child, every day is an adventure, there are new places and activities to explore, new ways to test your limits, and new things to think, do, and imagine. Children don't spend their time worrying about how mature they appear, or where they're going to be in ten years, or the finer points of business etiquette, they spend their time laughing, playing, exploring, and enjoying life. It seems to me like maturity is a contrived virtue. A virtue invented by rigid, sterile "grown-ups" who forgot how to enjoy their time on this planet years ago. They spend their time in grave concern over their responsibilities, passing meaningless judgments on those who live their lives free and unfettered by the stagnant shackles of maturity and propriety. Many of us, myself included, are at a point in our lives where there is increasing social pressure to conform with this culture of "grown-up-ness," and if you find yourself in that position now or in the future, I hope you will give some consideration to my words. There are times where you will need to pretend to be "grown up" in order to be successful, but there are no times when you will need to be "grown up." It will take a little extra effort, and perhaps be slightly dishonest, but I believe it is a small sacrifice for the ability to retain the virtue of immaturity. It would be a waste of your life to heed the words of those who would tell you to "grow up." I advise you: do not grow up. Instead, enjoy life fully.

I agree 10000000000%!

I moved out when I was 17, and I had to grow up very quickly. But I realized that being silly and laughing and just playing around is the best thing any one can do. I will never stop wanting to play in the snow, or jumping out from behind something, and scaring the crap out of people.

Enjoy life, and take the fricken pickle out of your asses! Life is short, take the time to smile and appreciate the small things that are offered!

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Originally posted by Theresa I agree 10000000000%!

Theresa also realized the pleasure of not talking to me on IM apparently!

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Originally posted by Theresa I will never stop wanting to play in the snow, or jumping out from behind something, and scaring the crap out of people.

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Originally posted by Halcyon+On+On

Yea, that's right...


I will be the eighty year old granny waiting for her grandkids behind the door. I'll jump out and scare the bejeezus out of them, and then cackle myself so hard, that I will wet my depends.


Yup, that'll be me!

I don't know what's scarier - the idea of an old lady messing herself because of excessive laughing or the idea that Theresa will one day have children, and subsequently, grandchildren.

I keed, I keed.

Ive been told to grow up after I drew a penor on a girls face. um, make that 3 girls faces. & a chick pissing on orbax's face. & a dirty sanchez on another girls face.

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Originally posted by Halcyon+On+On I don't know what's scarier - the idea of an old lady messing herself because of excessive laughing or the idea that Theresa will one day have children, and subsequently, grandchildren. I keed, I keed.

We all know my kids will grow up to be nice little dysfunctional brats, like all the rest of them.

Yes, maturity is a brilliantly stupid concept much along the same lines as innocence.

Arbiter, you don't happen to be an OP in #techno on DALnet do you?

it really depends on what you are telling the person to grow up about.

i'm as silly/goofy and childlike as they come. i love cracking jokes and making fun of myself. but there's a time and a place for everything. you just have to know when to turn it off.

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Originally posted by Arbiter I advise you: do not grow up. Instead, enjoy life fully.

believe it or not you can be mature and enjoy life.

At a certain age you have to think about the consequences of your actions and behavior and accept responsibility. Just imagine if your parents decided they were going to start acting like children? If they did what ever made them happy, quit their job, partied, took drugs, and stop paying bills where would they be?

And see, many of you have demonstrated your maturity in this. "Oh yes, Arbiter - I wholeheartedley agree with you! But there is a time and place for that sort of thing my good boy, and maturity is fun!" Don't kid yourself - 'growing up' just means more responsibility and less play. People who say 'grow up' are obviously demonstrating their social inhibitions - they are, in perhaps a roundabout way, telling you that you embaress them because the way you are acting has probably caught them off-guard and exceeded their expectations for social inhibition within another. People who expect things in life limit themselves to earthly credences and boring, predictable lives devoid of indulgence. People seem to be afraid to sin; to tell people whom they hate just how they feel, to tell people whom they love just how they feel, to spend money because it will affect their credit rating, to not do what they want to with the gift of live that's been given to them:

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Carolyn Burnham: Uh, who's car is that out front? Lester Burnham: Mine. 1970 Pontiac Firebird. The car I've always wanted and now I have it. I rule!

To, essentially, create their very own hells here on Earth, just for the sake of living in heaven after they have left it.

To be a child is not just to be young - it is a hedonism in its purest form. It is happiness devoid of inhibition and lies and deceit and everything else that makes 'adults' think they are so goddamn special.

Not to say that children are innocent, or even pure - I know plenty of evil, cruel children and, as with anything, the lack of inhibition has a contemptably dark and evil side to it. Hell, even the pursuit of remaining a child has its drawbacks:



It's as somebody already stated - you must find the great balance in your life. This does not mean whatever is balanced between immaturity and adulthood within a single vessel - this means, just as Arbiter stated, only being an adult when you really have to.

But whatever makes you happy, I suppose. The world needs tools who are so pent up by their own societal expectations that they do your every whim just to have a sniff at money. See this thread.

i think telling someone they need to grow up because they constantly drink and drive or they still get in bar fights every other weekend at the age of 30 (and they are married with kids) is pretty much justified. that kind of immturity really annoys me.


but having a carefree attitude and having fun in life certainly doesn't qualify as being "immature". everyone is different though and everyone has different standards. you really can't judge...well you CAN, but it won't really make a difference.

Grow up, Jamie.

grow up rob

'grow up' is code for stop being an asshole

i stopped growing in highschool

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Originally posted by igottaknow 'grow up' is code for stop being an asshole

Or it's code for 'I have nothing intelligent to respond with to refute your argument so I'm going to resort to this.'

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Originally posted by UWM Grow up, Jamie

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Originally posted by igottaknow 'grow up' is code for stop being an asshole

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Originally posted by UWM Or it's code for 'I have nothing intelligent to respond with to refute your argument so I'm going to resort to this.'

u walked into that one u nut!

Damn, owned.






Grow up.

Re: Grow Up

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Originally posted by Arbiter Why do people tell others to "grow up?" To me, it's nothing but bad advice. I can say pretty confidently that all of you have either been children, or still are. Sometimes, I think people forget how great it was to be a child as they grow older. As a young child, every day is an adventure, there are new places and activities to explore, new ways to test your limits, and new things to think, do, and imagine. Children don't spend their time worrying about how mature they appear, or where they're going to be in ten years, or the finer points of business etiquette, they spend their time laughing, playing, exploring, and enjoying life. It seems to me like maturity is a contrived virtue. A virtue invented by rigid, sterile "grown-ups" who forgot how to enjoy their time on this planet years ago. They spend their time in grave concern over their responsibilities, passing meaningless judgments on those who live their lives free and unfettered by the stagnant shackles of maturity and propriety. Many of us, myself included, are at a point in our lives where there is increasing social pressure to conform with this culture of "grown-up-ness," and if you find yourself in that position now or in the future, I hope you will give some consideration to my words. There are times where you will need to pretend to be "grown up" in order to be successful, but there are no times when you will need to be "grown up." It will take a little extra effort, and perhaps be slightly dishonest, but I believe it is a small sacrifice for the ability to retain the virtue of immaturity. It would be a waste of your life to heed the words of those who would tell you to "grow up." I advise you: do not grow up. Instead, enjoy life fully.

you are so right bein mature is overrated

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