Tolstoy's "My Confession": Where do you fit in?

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Which of Tolstoy's categories best fits you?

One: Ignorance, willful or otherwise
2
10%
Two: Epicureanism, chasing pleasure till the end
7
35%
Three: Suicide (No need to answer if you've already done this)
0
No votes
Four: Just hanging around to see what happens next
10
50%
Five: Bacon, cheese, etc., (but that's really a "Two", eh?)
1
5%
 
Total votes: 20

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Re: Tolstoy's "My Confession": Where do you fit in?

Post by Robert_S » Mon Jan 07, 2013 4:01 am

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Tero wrote:I wanted to make Voltaire my coffee name, but gave up the first try. The Starbucks girl could not spell it.
For some reason, when people ask my name and I don't want to give it I always say, "Sheila."

:pardon:
OK, I'll try Sheila next time. Or Shel?
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Re: Tolstoy's "My Confession": Where do you fit in?

Post by hadespussercats » Mon Jan 07, 2013 4:21 am

Robert_S wrote:
hadespussercats wrote:
Tero wrote:
hadespussercats wrote:
Tero wrote:I wanted to make Voltaire my coffee name, but gave up the first try. The Starbucks girl could not spell it.
For some reason, when people ask my name and I don't want to give it I always say, "Sheila."

:pardon:
OK, I'll try Sheila next time. Or Shel?
Shel Silverstein!
A girl named Shel? :o
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Post by redunderthebed » Mon Jan 07, 2013 6:51 am

I now want to read this book it intrigues me greatly. :ask:
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Post by FBM » Mon Jan 07, 2013 6:56 am

hadespussercats wrote:
Tero wrote:
hadespussercats wrote:
Tero wrote:I wanted to make Voltaire my coffee name, but gave up the first try. The Starbucks girl could not spell it.
For some reason, when people ask my name and I don't want to give it I always say, "Sheila."

:pardon:
OK, I'll try Sheila next time. Or Shel?
Shel Silverstein!
Tell them your name is Sara Cynthia Sylvia Stout. ;)
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Post by redunderthebed » Mon Jan 07, 2013 8:14 am

I managed to get it off book depository (best.online.bookstore.evar) for $7. :ab:
Trolldor wrote:Ahh cardinal Pell. He's like a monkey after a lobotomy and three lines of cocaine.
The Pope was today knocked down at the start of Christmas mass by a woman who hopped over the barriers. The woman was said to be, "Mentally unstable."

Which is probably why she went unnoticed among a crowd of Christians.
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Post by Svartalf » Mon Jan 07, 2013 8:41 am

hadespussercats wrote:
Tero wrote:I wanted to make Voltaire my coffee name, but gave up the first try. The Starbucks girl could not spell it.
For some reason, when people ask my name and I don't want to give it I always say, "Sheila."

:pardon:
Good things you're not aussi, I hear 'sheila' is a common noun there.
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Post by JimC » Mon Jan 07, 2013 8:50 am

Svartalf wrote:
hadespussercats wrote:
Tero wrote:I wanted to make Voltaire my coffee name, but gave up the first try. The Starbucks girl could not spell it.
For some reason, when people ask my name and I don't want to give it I always say, "Sheila."

:pardon:
Good things you're not aussi, I hear 'sheila' is a common noun there.
:tup:

Common as muck, Bruce...

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Post by Svartalf » Mon Jan 07, 2013 9:05 am

Bruce? Ya got so many Scots?
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Post by redunderthebed » Mon Jan 07, 2013 11:44 am

Svartalf wrote:Bruce? Ya got so many Scots?
Everywhere mate i iz of scottish descent from ayrshire way...
Trolldor wrote:Ahh cardinal Pell. He's like a monkey after a lobotomy and three lines of cocaine.
The Pope was today knocked down at the start of Christmas mass by a woman who hopped over the barriers. The woman was said to be, "Mentally unstable."

Which is probably why she went unnoticed among a crowd of Christians.
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Post by hadespussercats » Mon Jan 07, 2013 2:56 pm

FBM wrote:
hadespussercats wrote:
Tero wrote:
hadespussercats wrote:
Tero wrote:I wanted to make Voltaire my coffee name, but gave up the first try. The Starbucks girl could not spell it.
For some reason, when people ask my name and I don't want to give it I always say, "Sheila."

:pardon:
OK, I'll try Sheila next time. Or Shel?
Shel Silverstein!
Tell them your name is Sara Cynthia Sylvia Stout. ;)
Too true. :nono:

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(please note: that was seven years ago! :oops: )
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Re: Tolstoy's "My Confession": Where do you fit in?

Post by Azathoth » Mon Jan 07, 2013 3:14 pm

I see Tolstoy went for a one then. I will stick to two. Life is too short not to enjoy it.
Outside the ordered universe is that amorphous blight of nethermost confusion which blasphemes and bubbles at the center of all infinity—the boundless daemon sultan Azathoth, whose name no lips dare speak aloud, and who gnaws hungrily in inconceivable, unlighted chambers beyond time and space amidst the muffled, maddening beating of vile drums and the thin monotonous whine of accursed flutes.

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Re: Tolstoy's "My Confession": Where do you fit in?

Post by Jason » Mon Jan 07, 2013 7:21 pm

"The girl who called herself Sheila"

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Re: Tolstoy's "My Confession": Where do you fit in?

Post by redunderthebed » Tue Jan 29, 2013 6:22 am

I read my confession it was an excellent book and interestingly the article had mashed together two seperate parts of the book that have nothing to do with each other. Not to mention like as someone who said before that it was crap he too agreed in the end that the 4 things people are crap.
Trolldor wrote:Ahh cardinal Pell. He's like a monkey after a lobotomy and three lines of cocaine.
The Pope was today knocked down at the start of Christmas mass by a woman who hopped over the barriers. The woman was said to be, "Mentally unstable."

Which is probably why she went unnoticed among a crowd of Christians.
Cormac wrote: One thing of which I am certain. The world is a better place with you in it. Stick around please. The universe will eventually get around to offing all of us. No need to help it in its efforts...

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