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How much do you love to express yourself?


  • YungFreck
    Oct 3 12:16 PM
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    I myself could not live without being free to expressing my thoughts.

  • Matt Holck
    October 3 ↑
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    banned

  • DeeCrepit
    October 3 ↑
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    Sigh. It depends on which thoughts.

  • Cynewulf
    October 3 ↑
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    What are you thinking now?

  • DeeCrepit
    October 3 ↑
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    -- That I have more productive things to do...
    Boring stuff but needed.

  • Judith Chandler
    October 3 ↑
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    well, self expression isn't always what it's cracked up to be. I love to write but, when it comes to speaking, I sometimes open my mouth and give out a monologue, only to find that my foot is in there too. Lately, I'm a bit too given to telling people what I think of them. It's wierd, not really a rage or rant but a bit too self expressive. And it doesn't seem to work.

    This seems to be developing into one of those....

  • Cynewulf
    October 4 ↑
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    I usually only tell people what I think of them when I am very drunk. It usually ends in a fight.

  • patrick20traveler
    October 4 ↑
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    Expressing my thoughts is the most important thing in the world to me. Even if I lived in a totalitarian society in which people were shot for expressing their thoughts I would willingly go to my death, rather than keep my mouth shut. My thoughts must be expressed so that this world can be virtuous. My thoughts are sacred. My blessed thoughts!

  • Cynewulf
    October 4 ↑
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    Expression

    I would certainly express something if I lived in a society or country that had a government which installed a government in another country which then imposed totalitarian laws on that said country's own people for the first country's own economic gain.

    Now, there's a fucking sacred/blessed thought!

  • Inspired By Till
    October 24 ↑
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    For the most part, I express myself through my writings and that's it

  • hendiadys
    October 24 ↑
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    What is "self-expression" intended to mean? Is it confined to getting your emotions down on paper? You can have "feelings" about anything, and that can cover satire (btw, has anyone seen any good free verse satire lately, or ever?). Are you expressing yourself when, for example, you write about an old and battered billycan? When you write about a cat drowning herself when trying to catch a goldfish?

    • Matt Holck
      October 24 ↑
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      I took a satire class
      Candide by Voltaire
      A Modest Proposal by Jonathan Swift
      Animal Farm by George Orwell
      Cat's Cradle by Vonnegut

      seems satire makes fun of society in a fictional world

  • DeeCrepit
    October 24 ↑
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    Superficially, yes.

    Feelings? That limits the available breadth and depth of available thought. Such wealth of content would land with a resounding thud!

    Most of the time I consider my own self-expression to be of no consequence here, or worse. "Slings and arrows of outrageous fortune" survived-- Things of prime importance for me have survived longer than most people have lived, are thus outdated and deemed of no consequence today. Dating back not quite to the last intraglacial period, how can it be pertinent to current concerns? Hyperbole notwithstanding, experience teaches thus: boh-ring!
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