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 Post subject: Posted: Thu Aug 25, 2005 7:25 am 
austin20011 wrote: Personally, I prefer the west coast and that's it. So many forward thinking people gravitate there. It's impossible to understand it unless you're there. I want to move back, but everytime I mention it, my daughter goes into a rage.. I've tried to convince her to move back there with me, but she won't do it because she's too scared to relocate to an unfamiliar place. So I'm stuck between my love for my daughter and my love for where I really belong. Talk about drama. I'm from L.A. and my Government teacher told my class last year that we would have to watch out when we entered the "real world" and got out of the west coast. Because people would be very conservative and closed-minded and that they would find our way of thinking to be stupid and illogical. We said that they should all come to L.A. (or any other big metropolitan area) and broaden their minds a bit. I've never been to Texas or anywhere in the South, but I've always wanted to. _________________ - Jessica ------------------------------------------------------- "So many bands are like painters standing in front of their paintings going, 'Look at me, I did this.' It's like, 'Get out the way, I can't see it.'" - Dougie Payne, bassist of Travis ================================ http://www.xanga.com/madsenfan35 |
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Post subject: Posted: Thu Aug 25, 2005 7:34 am
I've been to the west coast a few times, although I was in uniform transferring an inmate. It wasnt that open minded. Actually, everyone I saw was a bunch of stoners. If thats what you like to call open minded and intellectually advanced, ok. Although the Hooters was something only dreams are made of. _________________ I shot the Sheriff And the deputy I'm one up on Marley |
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Post subject: Posted: Thu Aug 25, 2005 8:34 am
i...um...like texas a lot and cant see how you could think these things, especially coming from austin. texas breeds some of the best music, pilotdrift for instance, and the mars volta. i think living in texas has helped me, alot. i can't think of a better place to grow up then in a small suburb in the greatest country in the world, Texas. Althouh, i can't wait to get out of here. your opinion of texas actually seemed like it was an outsiders point of view. With stereotypas and such. I would really like to see the last picture show though, thanks for the recomendations. GODBLESS -Nicholas _________________ chinese food makes me sick |
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Joined: 21 Jan 2004 | Posts: 2901 | Location: Texas
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Post subject: Posted: Thu Aug 25, 2005 9:19 am
looking at this again, i dont think it's as bad as we put it sometimes.. im thankful for at least living in a big city where everything i possibly need is there for me if i have the means to get it. people are friendlier down here then say..the north. and i think that's a diversity issue. in the north there are more whites, so theyre not used to being open minded with other races--not to stereotype, im not saying ALL people of course, but in general, this is what ive seen AND what ive encountered in dealing with people in pa, nj, etc. so...theres pros and cons as with anything. i just prefer california (especially san francisco) because it's amazing and im truly jealous of people who get to wake up to it every morning. it's so beautiful. i dont like to look out my window and see chemical plants and beside them palm trees to try to make our city look nicer? haha that'll work....well, at least theyre planting trees and maybe we wont die 10 years earlier after all 
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Joined: 05 Mar 2004 | Posts: 1588 | Location: texas
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Post subject: Posted: Thu Aug 25, 2005 11:44 am
Yo, Austin. Take a trip out to the sticks man. I love it out here. Only thing I really have to worry about is rattlesnakes. Sure, all them tall buildings in Austin are pretty at night, and yeah, 6th street is pretty cool (I've played my fair share of gigs there), but nothing beats it out here. _________________ I shot the Sheriff And the deputy I'm one up on Marley |
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Joined: 02 Aug 2005 | Posts: 819 | Location: Huntsville, Tx
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Post subject: Posted: Thu Aug 25, 2005 1:09 pm
haha i love it when new boardies write essay introductions. I always really enjoyed the Bush jabs.  _________________ 
"theres so much beauty it could make you cry" -Modest Mouse |
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Joined: 10 Mar 2005 | Posts: 2042 | Location: Chicago, IL
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Post subject: Posted: Thu Aug 25, 2005 1:58 pm
looneycustom wrote: austin20011 wrote: Like all of your brethren, you have an amazing ability to constanly miss the point.. if I say I "hate" hatefulness, i.e., Bush- Adolph Hitler, what I'm saying is that I hate hate. Simple, easy to understand. Hate has that uncanny ability to impede on people and invoke their own hatefullness and resentment of hateful ideallessness. Unfortunately for you, advanced thinking is much like Redeo Drive in Hollywood... if you have to ask, then you can't afford it, but not in the world of finance, but in the world of ideals. Bro, there aint no need to start thowing insults. Now, all I said was that there aint nobody holding you down, here in Texas, or anywhere else, but yourself. I've seen it happen hundreds of times, working SEG at the Wynn unit. Guys go in knowing that they have two choices. They can stay the person that got them there, or they can better themselves and do something to better society. I hate conspiricies. I'm guessing you don't have children. |
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Post subject: Re: You Simply Have To Read This Posted: Thu Aug 25, 2005 1:59 pm
austin20011 wrote: Nonetheless, if Eisley were from, say... Ohio.. I wouldn't have as much of an affinity for them. Don't diss the big O! _________________ Take it easy; love nothing. |
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Joined: 13 Jun 2005 | Posts: 80 | Location: Cincinnati
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Post subject: Posted: Thu Aug 25, 2005 2:06 pm
jack_stripes wrote: i...um...like texas a lot and cant see how you could think these things, especially coming from austin. texas breeds some of the best music, pilotdrift for instance, and the mars volta.
i think living in texas has helped me, alot. i can't think of a better place to grow up then in a small suburb in the greatest country in the world, Texas. Althouh, i can't wait to get out of here. your opinion of texas actually seemed like it was an outsiders point of view. With stereotypas and such. I would really like to see the last picture show though, thanks for the recomendations. GODBLESS You're right, you know. I've always been an outsider here. But Austin does seem to create alot of music... but can you tell me the last important band from here? I can't seem to think of any at the moment.. oh, I'm sure you'll enlighten me, but the the very fact I can't think of any is a problem in and of itself. -Nicholas |
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Post subject: Posted: Thu Aug 25, 2005 2:27 pm
Actually, Austin is a cool place to live. You can find anything you want here, and the hype about Austin is accurate depending on where you go. People that really love Austin for its free-spiriting nature are really only talking about South Austin, Red River and East Austin just past the highway. On the other hand they are tearing down Southpark Meadows to make room for another momument to consumerism (you might know it as a shopping mall). Also, I think that some people were grossly generalizing when they made comments about Texans not from Austin. Truthfully, people all over, even rednecks, are fun to hang out with if you understand how to relate to them. It may be a gift that I have to be able to relate to so many different kinds of people, but there it is. JD P.S. About the thread title...I don't feel like I had to read any of this. It made no difference in my life at all. _________________ "Well, hopefully that's our job, to strap rockets onto everything." - Adam Savage, Mythbusters |
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Post subject: Posted: Thu Aug 25, 2005 2:41 pm
My post didn't make any difference to you? It's not anyone's fault that you are soul-dead except you're own. Everyone except you has responded positively. Maybe you are part of the problem, because I live in South Austin, almost in the very block you're referring to... but I have reached a point in my life that now I just don't want to hear from anyone unless they have something to say that will truly benefit me. Take you for example... what do you actually contribute to the world? Call it guarded, call it what you will, but I never meet anyone anymore who can tell me anything I don't already know. It is a strange place to be. I say this not out of arrogance, but out of of a longing for something more. I'm really in pain and I am suffering, and I feel a pain I have never even heard about, and I want out of here, but my daughter won't let me go. This is all killing me. |
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Post subject: Posted: Thu Aug 25, 2005 2:50 pm
I kind of want to visit Texas. I live outside of Chicago, and no matter what anyone thinks, it's pretty boring too. Especially if you don't have money or a car...(sigh) |
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Post subject: Posted: Thu Aug 25, 2005 2:56 pm
austin20011 wrote: My post didn't make any difference to you? It's not anyone's fault that you are soul-dead except you're own. Everyone except you has responded positively. Maybe you are part of the problem, because I live in South Austin, almost in the very block you're referring to... but I have reached a point in my life that now I just don't want to hear from anyone unless they have something to say that will truly benefit me. Take you for example... what do you actually contribute to the world? Call it guarded, call it what you will, but I never meet anyone anymore who can tell me anything I don't already know. It is a strange place to be. I say this not out of arrogance, but out of of a longing for something more. I'm really in pain and I am suffering, and I feel a pain I have never even heard about, and I want out of here, but my daughter won't let me go. This is all killing me. maybe it was a little rude but id think he doesnt mean anything too bad about it.. JD is actually pretty nice and has great insight on things. i would have to agree that your post doesnt really relate to your subject TITLE, but...i dont mind. maybe if you had made us aware that your post was more like "i need advice/help on something..." then yeah. and about your daughter..you should probably just talk to her. i know all of us (as kids) had to go through changes, and major ones, that's normal. you never know if her moving might mean good things too. she doesnt know what awaits her in cali. besides, tell her when she grows up she'll definitely hate the pollution, traffic and other not so pretty stuff about texas 
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Post subject: Posted: Thu Aug 25, 2005 3:07 pm
I didn't intend to get off topic.. it just happened in respnse to what people here been saying on this thread. My god, I wish no one anyone harm, but people seem to harm themselves. |
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Post subject: Posted: Thu Aug 25, 2005 3:09 pm
it's all good, yo. |
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