Haha yeap. I usually attribute their "need" for a peace sign while taking pictures to people who smokes because they simply needed something to hold in their hands.

Or maybe, they just want to be cute or something.

This post has been edited by Deadlocks: Dec 17 2009, 03:15 AM

Nope. Was gonna watch with a friend of mine who is also a fellow Lowyat-ian, but that fella went and watch it with his gf instead. Bugger.

LOL. That's good to hear.

The existential themes...well, they're quite typical in American movies.

It's usually around the "Carpe Diem" department.

It's the humor I'm after, LOL.

This post has been edited by Deadlocks: Dec 17 2009, 03:26 AM

They usually adopt an accent.

And the topic is conversation is almost anything BUT food.

And plus, they don't ask:

"Have you eaten?" as a greeting, like most Asians do.

This post has been edited by Deadlocks: Dec 17 2009, 08:25 AM

They are only as important to pass your BM in SPM.

How many existentialism philosophies have you found from the Chinese?

They do not excel in that area.

What's really simple is that, you don't realize the importance of understanding the meaning of existentialism.

Rather than trying to understand the meaning of "You cold, callous, insecure, ethically inferior race who knows only things that are superficial rather than the revelation that was brought upon the soul", you preferred to call it an insult, and call us betrayers, without investigating the reason which I have gave you.

That's because you can't see things beyond the apparent.

Superficial.

The "soul" that I mentioned once to you, is not everything that matters.

It's the ONLY thing that matters.

If you don't transcend "race", you won't understand the soul.

This post has been edited by Deadlocks: Dec 18 2009, 10:10 AM

Not exactly. I just understood it how important it is.

The dangers of existentialism? Or the dangers of obsession? There's a difference.

People think I am numb or weird because they have no choice. You can't really acknowledge or appreciate a person if you don't understand him, right?

So there are 2 choices:

Either convince them in accordance to their level of understanding.

Or ignore the obvious ignorance and stupidity and find people who can at least USE THEIR BRAINS.

And yes cyloh, there are people out there who uses their brains by the way, although it does not beat the hordes of dumb-asses out there (rhetorically speaking, btw).

And no, I don't live like that German-Swiss dude, but then again, it's impossible to judge a person's life correctly without sharing his 1st person experiences, and which case what you've read from Wikipedia is probably bull shite.

Read up.

Or be like cyloh, lol.

It's the culture. Not the individual.

This post has been edited by Deadlocks: Dec 18 2009, 11:02 AM

QFT. At least the bolded text will soften the blows, otherwise the Chinese-Eds will think their existence are insignificant.

This post has been edited by Deadlocks: Dec 18 2009, 11:11 AM

Not if you know your limits, and have a good back-up plan when danger lurks.

Oh really? You never met a person who commits rape all the time and justified it by saying it: "Aiyor, cannot tahan ma, how can not live without sex? Who ask the girls to reject me when I ask for sex? So no choice lor. Rape lar."

Is that not PLAIN stupid? And yes, that may be as intelligent as he can get, because it's so freaking subjective.

So go and rape people now, LOL.

But wait! What if that rapist is WILLING TO LEARN HOW WRONG HE ACTUALLY IS?

That's when he actually became smart.

That's why to those who ignore what an intellectual concept, it is highly probable that YOU CAN BE LABELED as stupid. Because it's almost unnatural to not do that, lol.

(Try to apply my explanation to you in a less extreme way, and you'll understand how I think people are stupid.)

Duh.

Too bad there are people who are simply just 1 millimeter above the regulated intelligence chart. And you call THAT an extremist, LOL.

For the labeling part, you can scroll up a lil' bit more to read my reasons, and for the record, you did label my life being like Nietzsche too.

The Chinese have one notable existentialism philosophy, Dickson. It's called Buddhism.

The difference is that the Westerners are implying their existentialism more than the Chinese, because existentialism can also be simply described as "live the way you want, the way you are, and nobody else can tell you what to do, even if you may be a jack-a.ss in understanding the consequences behind it".

Yeap, I said it. The Chinese culture conditioned people to be more evasive of the consequences. How? By ripping the your personal freedom of sky diving, live to tell and felt FREAKING GOOD about it, dammit lol.

Or a more related situation. The freedom to speak, and act your mind. It's like making people eunuchs by cutting of your freedom of expression.

That's because you never made enough friends with foreigners, or at least GET MORE ENGLISH-ED friends, and you'll understand the difference.

Nah, I'm joking. Just read up, and live the way you want.

Can't blame you personally. It's your freaking Chinese, oh waitaminute, OUR Chinese culture's being the b****.

I need to be seriously obsessed before I become a PRO like him , lol.

This post has been edited by Deadlocks: Dec 18 2009, 12:00 PM

There is one notable person who is completely well versed in Asian philosophy in the lowyat forums.

His name is: dreamer101.

There you go Dickson.

His Asian philosophy about time is impressive.

This post has been edited by Deadlocks: Dec 18 2009, 12:04 PM

Check out my post above you, and you know that I don't deny certain superiority of either sides.

Unfortunately, your overuse of ellipses gave an impression that although you may claim that you are English-Ed, you certainly don't think like one.

Because I personally think too much ellipses means too much indecisiveness in stating a point.

This post has been edited by Deadlocks: Dec 18 2009, 12:12 PM

DId you miss a comma here:

...does not exist, the higher up...

Err, nope. It's because you use so much ellipses I think. It's a personal experience thing, don't take it seriously.

Why can't you just use periods to end your sentences?

Consider the following differences:

"You are wrong."

"u r wrong......."

Which is of these statements have more conviction than the other?

This post has been edited by Deadlocks: Dec 18 2009, 12:23 PM

Nope, it's just my simple and general way of describing existentialism.

This is what you may have read from the Internet search of what existentialism is:

"A philosophy that emphasizes the uniqueness and isolation of the individual experience in a hostile or indifferent universe, regards human existence as unexplainable, and stresses freedom of choice and responsibility for the consequences of one's acts."

What really turned me on the the part where they actually cared about your "personal universe", i.e. as stated from the description: "uniqueness and isolation of the individual experience".

Sounded similar?

Exactly what SilverHawk has told you.

I think he has. I'm not sure if he actually has a tangible, academic qualification, but he sure sounded like one.

This post has been edited by Deadlocks: Dec 18 2009, 12:35 PM

Yes, but you may want to pardon my sudden brain-fart of stupidity, that you may wanna elaborate further.

I know, I'm not a smart person actually.

It's simple.

Chinese-Ed Chinese called us traitors for not being Chinese enough when you are obviously, biologically, born as a Chinese.

I told them it's not just "skin-colour" that they've abandoned.

It's the "lack of perception of the subconscious and the soul" that they abhor the most.

Simple English: "Individuality".

My amplifier: "Existentialism".

Hey, I got an L4d game coming up.

I'll reply later?

This post has been edited by Deadlocks: Dec 18 2009, 12:52 PM

Nope. My friend convinced me to not touch that thing.

Anyways, I'll promise I'll give you a reply later.

Otherwise you'll think what kind of one-sided supremacist this guy is.

This post has been edited by Deadlocks: Dec 18 2009, 12:55 PM

Nope, that just means that they're not stupid enough.

Lol.

Gone are the days when this thread is used to debate about the existentialist values of both English and Chinese-Eds.

This post has been edited by Deadlocks: Jan 29 2010, 04:50 AM

Maybe. But you haven't really heard of rich men complaining life is unfair due to their inferiority of intangibility that came from the side effects of having too much purchasing power, haven't you?

You THINK rich is GOOD because you LONG for it.

The feeling of longing is what makes you THINK like that, and rich people, like poor ones as well, also has the nature to LONG for things. In this case, for things their purchasing power has no influence at all.

A simple change-of-life-perspective easily puts things back to normal. Know that it's also the same hunger that came from Africa that stroked the rich man.

The reason why you can't see it yet? The pain is still there, that's why.

This post has been edited by Deadlocks: Jan 29 2010, 05:08 AM