Serious said:

Or John McEnroe in tennis for example who never practiced much and ate ice cream as his diet .

I don't believe that!

NDRU said:

Serious said:

Or John McEnroe in tennis for example who never practiced much and ate ice cream as his diet .

I don't believe that!

I ain't buying that either... John's mood would've been better had he did eat some ice cream and smoke weed often, that's for damn sure.

You can do the right thing your entire life and still get fucked. I learned that when I got laid off in 2011 after 18 years of busting my ass for that company. My father always said, unless you're born with a silver spoon in your mouth, life will suck - just deal with it.

uPtoWnNY said:

You can do the right thing your entire life and still get fucked. I learned that when I got laid off in 2011 after 18 years of busting my ass for that company. My father always said, unless you're born with a silver spoon in your mouth, life will suck - just deal with it.

It's like no matter how hard you try to be a good person, motherfuckers will always fuck it up. That's why I deal with life one day at a time. It'll be all over one day so just chill until then. That's been my mindset since like 1999.

I think that fairness depends on the perspective. While I may not think something is fair, it may need to happen for a bigger purpose or it maybe it happens for no reason at all. Regardless, it IS and we can choose how we handle it and it is our actions which define us and not this external thing that "isn't fair."

JoeTyler said:

Genetics could've meant health issues from what Jedi mentioned... you hate to hear about how something like cancer or diabetes is in your family and chances are you may get it or even get a blood clot. You hate hearing that shit but I always look at it like "shit happens". But it's still sad.

Was life ever meant to be fair? Life is what you make it imho.... .

imago said:

All living things experience dukka. It's everywhere. (mods, do not fucking move this thread because this has been posted). Dukka translates to a pervasive dissatisfactory essence to all things. Sometimes, it's manifested as pleasure--but this is still dukka, because all pleasurable things pass, and you just end up missing them.

Anyways, this colors my every thought. In all things is this impermenance. My happiest relatives growing up were my first cousins once removed....this was 30 years ago. Where are they now? One just recently passed away after a long bought with a degenerative condition, the other had a stroke and is no longer very 'in touch'. One has all manner of health problems, and all are very unhappy. If you took a snapshot from 30 years, ago, it would have been very difficult to imagine this.

Those you love the most will be taken from you. You must be taken as well. I mean, can you imagine just how painful it is for every human being? And there is no end or stop to it. It just continues and continues endlessly.

But, for some reason, I don't think this is unfair. To say that it's unfair seems to put a moral imperative on life itself. Like there's some creator out there who allows it to happen. And that would be even more cruel to me. To me, life is just filled with dukka, but there's no fairness or unfairness to it---it just is....never ending, ceaseless..... I think it makes us more compassionate if we allow it to.

I consider myself to be VERY LUCKY. Life has dealt me all manner of painful experiences. The last few years has seen me vascilate between extreme lows, and numbed mid-tones....and yes, wonderful moments too.

Oh why am I typing this for all you fucks.

Fuck yall.

PurpleJedi said:

Have you accepted that fact?

How do you feel about it?

What do you do about it?

From Psychology Today;

Once you can accept that life sometimes is unfair, then you can pursue positive purpose. You can work constructively against injustices you find, transforming your anger into passion. Or you can pursue fulfillment in spite of the unfairness that exists.

What do my fellow Orgers have to say about this?

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I am at peace with the fact that life can sometimes seem unfair. I honestly try to laugh as often as possible (especially at myself) and to not take things that truly aren't that serious - too seriously.

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Tittypants said:

Was life ever meant to be fair? Life is what you make it imho.... .

Tittypants said:

Was life ever meant to be fair? Life is what you make it imho.... .

Life is what you make it and you're a ho?

Good for you for taking control of your destiny!

JoeTyler said:

Serious said:

Well but life is that way that we humans have the power so life is not fair. Not to mention that not all bad things are man made.

When you are talented in something you achieve much with very little effort. When you are not you hardly achieve anything with loads of effort.

in the end, you'll believe exactly what you want to believe

...and do you think that's fair?

XxAxX said:

you know i've always wondered why our declaration of independence would begin:

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.

when it's dead clear that we are not all created equal, nor in many cases do we have the same 'inalienable rights'. we just... don't.

there are only a few things we all really have in common on this weird journey: we all get a day older each day, and life is a struggle for limited resources which inevitably prefaces death and we all suffer before we die. get over it!!!!

Sounded good at the time I suppose.

uPtoWnNY said:

You can do the right thing your entire life and still get fucked. I learned that when I got laid off in 2011 after 18 years of busting my ass for that company. My father always said, unless you're born with a silver spoon in your mouth, life will suck - just deal with it.

Man that BLOWS!

...lemme guess, they blamed it on "the weak economy" and replaced you with someone earning half as much?

PunkMistress said:

Tittypants said:

Was life ever meant to be fair? Life is what you make it imho.... .

Life is what you make it and you're a ho?

Good for you for taking control of your destiny!

Shaolin325 said:

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I am at peace with the fact that life can sometimes seem unfair. I honestly try to laugh as often as possible (especially at myself) and to not take things that truly aren't that serious - too seriously.

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PunkMistress said:

Tittypants said:

Was life ever meant to be fair? Life is what you make it imho.... .

Life is what you make it and you're a ho?

Good for you for taking control of your destiny!

"imho"=In my honest opinion

I hate to dissapoint you, but I'm not a ho

Tittypants said:

PunkMistress said:

Life is what you make it and you're a ho?

Good for you for taking control of your destiny!

"imho"=In my honest opinion

I hate to dissapoint you, but I'm not a ho

And I hate to disappoint you, but

1. It was a joke

2. It's more commonly known as "In my humble opinion."

PunkMistress said:

Tittypants said:

"imho"=In my honest opinion

I hate to dissapoint you, but I'm not a ho

And I hate to disappoint you, but

1. It was a joke

2. It's more commonly known as "In my humble opinion."

I know but it was funny as hell though

I was meaning "honest"...I'm not that humble

Tittypants said:

PunkMistress said:

And I hate to disappoint you, but

1. It was a joke

2. It's more commonly known as "In my humble opinion."

I know but it was funny as hell though

I was meaning "honest"...I'm not that humble

Fair enough.

PurpleJedi said:

JoeTyler said:

in the end, you'll believe exactly what you want to believe

...and do you think that's fair?

of course everyone should have the right to stick to his/her opinions that's fair in my book...

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No, it isn't fair.

But it could always be worse. And it will get better, too!

By the way - don't confuse LIFE and PEOPLE.

LIFE isn't fair. There's no explaining why, for instance, a child gets cancer.

But PEOPLE should be fair. There's no excuse for unfairness among humans.

imago said:

But, you should look on the bright side---you've found ME!

Have I moved up on the Poo List?

Yeah, ME!

PurpleJedi said:

uPtoWnNY said:

You can do the right thing your entire life and still get fucked. I learned that when I got laid off in 2011 after 18 years of busting my ass for that company. My father always said, unless you're born with a silver spoon in your mouth, life will suck - just deal with it.

Man that BLOWS!

...lemme guess, they blamed it on "the weak economy" and replaced you with someone earning half as much?

The licensed apparel business isn't what it use to be, so the genius at the top decided to cut the art staff(the folks who do the actual work) in half. But no cuts were made in the sales dept., and all those cats do is take half days off to play golf and fuck their mistresses. If sales worked as hard as we did, maybe business would be better. Fuck 'em all.

MacDaddy said:

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MacDaddy said:

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Yeah...it's amazing how often people screw themselves over - and then whine about the unfairness of it all.

Once I REALLY understood that life was unfair, to be honest, I quit going to church and reading my bible. If I were to just be honest. Seems there's no rhyme or reason or fairness to any of this mess and I have a hard time with that.