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Dan The Chainsawman

Joined: 05 May 2005
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Posted: Sat Oct 22, 2005 6:35 am Post subject: Friends...... pbbbbbbbbbtttt worthless buggers. |
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Sometimes friends are totally useless buggers. I am going to do the hermit thing for awhile. |
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Ya-ta Boy
Joined: 16 Jan 2003 Location: Established in 1994
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Posted: Sat Oct 22, 2005 6:54 am Post subject: |
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Friends can only love us as much as they can. It isn't always as much as we want. It isn't their fault.
On the other hand, friends can be treacherous bast...inados. |
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rapier
Joined: 16 Feb 2003
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Posted: Sat Oct 22, 2005 7:03 am Post subject: |
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Friends can problematical because they have different, hidden agandas and objectives to your own. Friends are two people that have something to benefit from eachother. A temporary alliance.
As for weyguks in Korea, they can be a treacherous gang of backstabbers. You only have to throw a couple of pretty K-gals into a group of weyguk guys to see them turn into a pack of dog-eat-dog sharks. Something about korea: expats look after their own interests as a priority, way more than in the west. |
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victim of love
Joined: 12 Sep 2005 Location: might as well be on mars because that's how far away i feel from you.
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Posted: Sat Oct 22, 2005 7:07 am Post subject: |
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I would kill for my friends.  |
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mithridates

Joined: 03 Mar 2003 Location: President's office, Korean Space Agency
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Posted: Sat Oct 22, 2005 7:29 am Post subject: |
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Weird discussion. I have a number of friends that are so close to me we treat each other as if we were one person. If I have money and they don't it's theirs, and if the opposite happens it's mine. We sometimes hang out for a whole day without saying anything except what comes to mind, and any conversation besides that is unneeded. In Korea I have a number of people that are close to that level, but not quite.
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Friends are two people that have something to benefit from each other. A temporary alliance. |
This is wrong when talking about the kind of friends I'm speaking of. |
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EFLtrainer

Joined: 04 May 2005
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Posted: Sat Oct 22, 2005 6:15 pm Post subject: |
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They are few and far between. M'thinks that the term is not done justice; slung about much too easily. A lot like, "I love you." While not a Christian any longer, I was when the following sappy, but accurate lyrics were produced. And if that ain't what you expect from a "friend", why are you calling them that?
Friends are Fiends Forever
Michael W. Smith
Packing up the dreams God planted
In the fertile soil of you
I can't believe the hopes He's granted
Means a chapter of your life is through
But we'll keep you close as always
It won't even seem you've gone
'Cause our hearts in big and small ways
Will keep the love that keeps us strong
And friends are friends forever
If the Lord's the Lord of them
And a friend will not say never
'Cause the welcome will not end
Though it's hard to let you go
In the Father's hands we know
That a lifetime's not too long
To live as friends
And with the faith and love God's given
Springing from the hope we know
We will pray the joy you live in
Is the strength that now you show
We'll keep you close as always
It won't even seem you've gone
'Cause our hearts in big and small ways
Will keep the love that keeps us strong
And friends are friends forever
If the Lord's the Lord of them
And a friend will not say never
'Cause the welcome will not end
Though it's hard to let you go
In the Father's hands we know
That a lifetime's not too long
To live as friends
And friends are friends forever
If the Lord's the Lord of them
And a friend will not say never
'Cause the welcome will not end
Though it's hard to let you go
In the Father's hands we know
That a lifetime's not too long
To live as friends
To live as friends
Though it's hard to let you go
In the Father's hands we know
That a lifetime's not too long
To live as friends
No a lifetime's not too long
To live as friends |
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the_beaver

Joined: 15 Jan 2003
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Posted: Sat Oct 22, 2005 8:16 pm Post subject: |
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By and large they're time-draining attention-whores with no sense of imposition.
But they're good for laughs and coffee. |
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chiaa
Joined: 23 Aug 2003
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Posted: Sat Oct 22, 2005 9:04 pm Post subject: |
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mithridates wrote: |
Weird discussion. I have a number of friends that are so close to me we treat each other as if we were one person. If I have money and they don't it's theirs, and if the opposite happens it's mine. We sometimes hang out for a whole day without saying anything except what comes to mind, and any conversation besides that is unneeded. In Korea I have a number of people that are close to that level, but not quite.
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Friends are two people that have something to benefit from each other. A temporary alliance. |
This is wrong when talking about the kind of friends I'm speaking of. |
No he is 100% correct. You may not be getting a benefit in money or in a physical object, but you are getting some kind of emotional benefit from being with them. |
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Red

Joined: 05 Jul 2004
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Posted: Sat Oct 22, 2005 9:07 pm Post subject: |
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I know that I dont need no damned friends! I'm a rock! I'm an island! I... I...
wish I had something to do today...  |
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mithridates

Joined: 03 Mar 2003 Location: President's office, Korean Space Agency
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Posted: Sat Oct 22, 2005 9:57 pm Post subject: |
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chiaa wrote: |
mithridates wrote: |
Weird discussion. I have a number of friends that are so close to me we treat each other as if we were one person. If I have money and they don't it's theirs, and if the opposite happens it's mine. We sometimes hang out for a whole day without saying anything except what comes to mind, and any conversation besides that is unneeded. In Korea I have a number of people that are close to that level, but not quite.
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Friends are two people that have something to benefit from each other. A temporary alliance. |
This is wrong when talking about the kind of friends I'm speaking of. |
No he is 100% correct. You may not be getting a benefit in money or in a physical object, but you are getting some kind of emotional benefit from being with them. |
What he's wrong about is the temporary aspect. I'm well aware of how selfishness works (see Anthony de Mello).
http://www.whatthebook.com/book/0385249373? |
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chiaa
Joined: 23 Aug 2003
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Posted: Sat Oct 22, 2005 11:12 pm Post subject: |
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mithridates wrote: |
chiaa wrote: |
mithridates wrote: |
Weird discussion. I have a number of friends that are so close to me we treat each other as if we were one person. If I have money and they don't it's theirs, and if the opposite happens it's mine. We sometimes hang out for a whole day without saying anything except what comes to mind, and any conversation besides that is unneeded. In Korea I have a number of people that are close to that level, but not quite.
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Friends are two people that have something to benefit from each other. A temporary alliance. |
This is wrong when talking about the kind of friends I'm speaking of. |
No he is 100% correct. You may not be getting a benefit in money or in a physical object, but you are getting some kind of emotional benefit from being with them. |
What he's wrong about is the temporary aspect. I'm well aware of how selfishness works (see Anthony de Mello).
http://www.whatthebook.com/book/0385249373? |
Fair enough.  |
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Tiberious aka Sparkles

Joined: 23 Jan 2003 Location: I'm one cool cat!
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Posted: Sun Oct 23, 2005 1:26 am Post subject: |
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Friends. How many of us have them? Friends. Ones we can depend on. Friends. How many of us have them? Friends. Before we go any further, lets be...Friends.
Whodini*_* |
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rapier
Joined: 16 Feb 2003
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Posted: Sun Oct 23, 2005 3:26 am Post subject: |
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In Melbourne I worked with a millionaire who had built his own business from scratch. A fair and good boss. Struck me as bizarre when one day he said
"Friends? ahh I learned my lesson a long time ago. There's no such thing. Its always for a reason. They always want something."
Over the years this has often proved true. |
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ilovebdt

Joined: 03 Jun 2005 Location: Nr Seoul
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Posted: Sun Oct 23, 2005 3:37 am Post subject: |
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What happened? |
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Rteacher

Joined: 23 May 2005 Location: Western MA, USA
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Posted: Sun Oct 23, 2005 4:48 am Post subject: |
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They don't call me "R" teacher for nothin' - Take the "r" out of "friends" and whadya get - a bunch of stinkin' FIENDS, that's what.
"Red" had the right idea, but he didn't complete the thought: "...I am a rock, I am an island, I am ... Dokdo!"
Don't be misled by bad psychic-networking singer's (Dionne Warwick) sentimental song ("That's What Friends Are For..." ) To keep the TV show "Friends" on the air the last couple years they had to pay all the actors a million bucks an episode each - and still it came to a disappointing end - like all material relationships...  |
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