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Grow Up (pg. 4)
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| Lephaid |
| Yes, maturity is a brilliantly stupid concept much along the same lines as innocence. |
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| rooibos |
| Arbiter, you don't happen to be an OP in #techno on DALnet do you? :stongue: |
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| Slylee |
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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| igottaknow |
| quote: | 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? |
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| Halcyon+On+On |
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. :clown:
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. |
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| Slylee |
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. |
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| igottaknow |
| 'grow up' is code for stop being an :eek: |
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| {b.s.e.} |
| i stopped growing in highschool :( |
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| UWM |
| quote: | Originally posted by igottaknow
'grow up' is code for stop being an :eek: |
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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| Slylee |
| quote: | Originally posted by UWM
Grow up, Jamie
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| quote: | Originally posted by igottaknow
'grow up' is code for stop being an
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| quote: | 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.' |
:stongue: u walked into that one u nut! |
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