Can't get no. Satisfaction
First of all just wanna say how much this forum rules. It's good to see people out there who's lives revolve around something other than boozing and getting laid.
K, my point is we've all been moved by Chuck, but before we had we would have been living lives which would now seem frustratingly shallow in comparison. How have you all used your higher learning to find happiness and satisfaction in your lives? Did fc just open your mind a bit or have you made some drastic changes?
What DO your lives revolve around?
fight club didn't really change my life, per se. the movie 'american beauty', oddly enough, did more to change my life. chuck is just an author i enjoy mightily...i think he's the best author of the current generation. i appreciate him in terms of technique and character. i'd say he's influenced my writing style a little bit, but reading his books hasn't made me, like, decide to become a buddhist or anything.
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The only thing chuck has made me realize is that I am not alone. I mean in the way I view things. the noncomformist type of way. the whole "fuck the world, smoke a cigarrette, shit happens, live for the moment" feelings were always there. I just did not know how to express them in such a way as to connect with others.
The only thing that changed in my life, is now I am more relaxed in expressing my views or the way I feel. I litter, I smoke, and I don't recycle. Future generations will manage with the problems we created, just like we manage with the problems our forefathers created. Sorry, I guess I went a little off the topic.
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kitty made a damn good point, and its the same with me (american beauty and all)
but chuck has influenced my writing, and my... well, sarcasm as well to a point...
for the good, for the bad, chuck's given me keys to both
I'm waiting for you. With butterflies.
izzy, let's go smoke a butt.
[SIZE=1][QUOTE=ehquestionmark]Wow. This little thread got CRAZY. People telling me to abuse my girlfriend, people showing an alarming lack of respect for women as a whole, people questioning my masculinity in some kind of bizarre machoistic pissing-contest. Hell, I even got called stuffy. [/QUOTE]
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yea fight club changed me alot....it made me start thinking about the world and how it was telling me what i could and could not do and how i was listening, made me realize a whole bunch of other shit too but im kinda tired and u dont feel like reading anyways
all we are, is shadows on the wall
Actually, the Dune series changed my life more, I started reading those books when I was still a young "Christian Soldier," they made me think about everything a bit more. Fight Club is just another thing that reinforces it.
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chuck palahniuk and philip k. dick pulled me out of the success slump: pressure to get a high paying job, and expensive apartment, meet a nice girl, get married, and have kids, get fat, get old, and die young. all for the sake of themselves.
these pressures were eating me alive. Chuck taught me of the beauty and presens of my own body, and that living a physical as well as emotional life are the only way feel happy and fulfilled.
Philip taught me of the complexities of male emotions, that my own frailties were more universally owned my men. indeed, I am not alone.
I'm not sure if his books "changed" me as much as they made me develop and evolve in things i was always vaguely leaning at.
I guess you could say he wrote and expressed many things that i couldn't put a finger on.
"It is not reason, more or less furnished, but will that makes the world march"
I am alone.
holy shit. another sydney-ite. coolness. wait on, youre not Nachomonkey are you? btw, Rohan, myself, and godzirra are Syd. people too. you better be attending my new housewarming party.
life's pretty straight without vidalia :You_Rock_