fuck_your_nikes . and all other 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 of them produced by slaves! 070920 ... relax dont do it when you wanna... yeah, fuck'em slaves! 070921 ... f why do some people have about 40 pairs of them? isn't one or two pairs enough, and why do people want to spend so much money for them when they probably only cost 5% of what you pay ? Why do people want to be a walking advertising campain and not even be paid for it ? i know it is difficult because if you simply want a bag or an item but can't find one without a logo or mark on it, you are just as unlucky as everyone else, because the choice is pretty limiting, you live in a programmed corporate capitalist fucked up world so you had better get used to it or move to the hills. 070921 ... voice in my head moveing to the hills is a form of escapism. 070921 ... f YES "IT'S A fucking FORM OR ESCAPISM" i'm psychotic not because of a little haunting voice in my head but because i was born on this fucked up planet, that seems to me pretty close to what people describe as hell. i'm a disturbed individual, do you think your comment "it's a form of escapism" is going to effect me. your're a programmed fucking robot that doesn't care that you are being controlled by fucking dictators and money grabbers, go back to the fucking stock exchange and decide who should die and who should not. If you decide to jump out the window then don't worry, there is a net to catch you. 070921 ... voice in my head get a job! 070921 ... f i think i would prefer to starve and die than play a part in this world. i'm a dark bitter twisted selfish lazy bitch that lives off my papas hand outs, yes of course i am, he made the mistake of making me live and be alive, it is his fault so he can pay to keep me alive if that is what he wants. i don't care about myself so why should i get a job, people just use you and treat you like shit most of the time in any job. instead i will spend my time sleeping, because my dreams are better than my fucking life. 070921 ... the smallest bug oh mr.f's disillusions! you're such a pure human being, like the saint jesus himself, you are pained by the trouble's of mankind. you love us, stupid corporate whores, blue collar schmucks. so great is your pain (and your love), that you rather not live among us, for our dirt must stain you. won't you show us the way oh righteous one! please show me how to escape this horrible "hell" as you so rithtfully put it! i beg of you mercy. and salvation! but if you can't save me, then i must ask of you. leave me alone and rid me of you poison because you are nothing more than that! poison and vile and anger and weak words! yes you have something to say and something to rebel against, you have got enemies and if you had soul and the courage of men, you would even have a battle to fight. the battle against yourself! but you are a coward and mask your fear behind angry words and running shoes. 070921 ... somebody say what you will, little bug, i am on the side of "f", more or less... you find his approach contemptible? realize, then, that contempt was built into him by something. perhaps you do not like how he handles it (i too find it trying), but surely you are not foolish enough to think he enjoys the claustrophobic feelings generated by "the system". he hates it, and doesn't know where to turn. i have a job, am "educated", am reasonably attractive, and so forth, but i too dread my relations with the human world. i try to stay positive about stuff but it is a real challenge for me. i have been psychologically evaluated repeatedly and am not bipolar, schizophrenic, etc. the sense of foreboding that plagues me is wholly related to the apathy and complacence i see in those i am surrounded by. sartre nailed it - "hell is other people" i am trying to be the change i want to see but sometimes (aka usually) that's of little consolation, and it is an uphill battle fought without any visible allies. i respect your indignation with f's tone, little bug, but ultimately i cannot pretend to feel that differently from him. 070922 ... buzz said the bug hey. well you see i was trying to point out that most of us are disillusioned about the social conditions of the world. it's really bad when you think about it. the thing is that, and if you truly ever read sartre, you'd know that although existence's meaning may be shaped and reshaped according to one's experiences, the real challenge is found within the individual, the challenge for meaning that is. therefore i feel that mr. f's cynical approach to things is not only cowardly, it is also doomed. why bother living. i really think that if you sincerely do not want to continue living, for one reason or another, you should die. not to sound cruel but to be merciful. no one should be forced to live a life they loath. perhaps the grass is greener on the other side. that being said, i doubt, and i could be wrong, that mr f has got the most miserable of all human conditions, that he or she is so helpless that their only solution is to wither away and die like a piece of rotting meat. you know something, most of us have stories of pain and alienation and discontent, that's right DISCONTENT towards the current social condition. i think that most of us have thought about it more than once and the result is always bleak. dog eat dog kind of world right? ok, so you can live as alternatively as you can, DON'T BUY FUCKING NIKE SHOES MR f. make your own or get them custom-made, i don't know...but don't give up on life. but if you do give up on life, and that is cool because you are free to live (or die) as long as you don't harm other people, please don't tell me about it. that's all. i doubt many are interested in hearing a coward tell the world how he gave up on life and him/herself. i know i'm not. i rather have mr f tell me how he/she is trying to overcome the same 'hell' we're all faced with. 070922 ... REAListic optimIST the air shocks make this particular activity rather squishy. score one for technology. and in the world that may be somewhat tangent to other blatherskites, my unwanted analysis is that f allows the bleak aspects of reality to overwhelm his/her sense of what is possible. the way i worded this coincides with bug's point about responsibility for one's own mindset and actions, but does not take into account the subjective experience of feeling like Sysiphus and the natural tendancy for such hopelessness to give way to defeat. perhaps rather than to call someone a coward it might be more constructive to offer a possible solution or a personal anecdote empathizing with such feelings, but illustrating how it was possible for you to overcome them? for some, religion is the haven of solace, feeling a part of something bigger than life gives purpose and peace and somewhat banishes hopelessness. for others, a hobby or even an obsession carries their thought and attentions from such bleakness to creation, communication, and interaction, which are some of humanity's most powerful traits imho. still others work to be a part of something secular that makes even a small positive difference in the world, taking part in the project we all shoulder of healing the world. (especially in light of the recent passing of yom kippur, not that i'm jewish...) having said that, i do own a pair of nike's, but i did wait until they recently turned their business practices around before i bought them. they are simply the best basketball shoes i could find. 070922 what's it to you? who go blather from