Fight fire with gas!

[Schiz]

Dear Electric Surge,

Never upset me. EVER.

Yours truly,
~~Schizzy Corrolla
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Schiz is...Dani &
~~Dark Schiz / ~~Leecher / --Dark Doom / --Schizophrenic / --Reboot / Muse

[Addiction]

Dr Bluez:

Do butterflies remember life as a caterpillar?
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They laugh at me because I am different. I laugh at them because they are all the same.

[Quip]

[DeFrag]

Okay, I have a question for our brilliant Dr Bluez or anyone else for that matter.

Karma. Is it real or just a thing we create ourselves by believing in it too hard?

Let me explain

First, I will never protest to being the "Perfect" person, but I do my best to help others and do the right thing. Problem is, whenever I do that, or whenever something in my life starts to head off in a positive direction something negative happens. My most recent example is I just got a new job, but my first full day on the job begins with my car breaking, later on becoming completely undrivable. This event has further consequences by draining my already dead accounts so I cannot get a place of my own to live and must continue to feel like a mooch living with friends in my new home.

This is not the first time this has happened either. Almost every time something positive happens in my life something bad happens. I could go into a lot more detail, but it's kind of pointless, they're over and done with and I am looking forward to a brighter tomorrow which no matter what happens I know will come.

Is this karma or just my horrible luck.
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o_O Things are about to get interesting!

[Quip]

Hey, Trista.

I'd forgotten about this post, but the reasons are two-fold.

One, I didn't have time to respond when I first saw it, and of course the 'new post' was gone by the time I came back.

And two, I'm going to require some imagery to make sense of my response. So, maybe when I can get some computer time, I'll see about just making the whole response a comic.

Thanks for your question and your patience!

-Professor Quip, PhD
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Adding insult to injury!

"[Quip], as always, you find a way to save the day AND get an evil laugh in at the same time!" -Feedback

[DngrWoman98]

Dear Professor Quip:
If there is one thing that has been pondering me for a long time is this little question.
What are grownup feelings? Please do NOT answer the question with:
Go To Bed, Danger Woman! Why?
Because it is what other grownups said to me, as a way of avoiding to answer this question, and I do not like that answer!
You see, the trouble is that I DO NOT have grownup feelings and if I really did, I would have been able to be like the non-disableds or the other superheroes and be a real grownup.
Anyway, thank you for taking the time out of your busy schedule to read this and I look forward to your response.

Yours In The Fight For Justice,
DANGER WOMAN

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[Quip]

Danger Woman,

Although I'm not psychic, I'll do my best to decipher their meaning.

From my understanding, the difference between the feelings children have compared to feelings 'grown-ups' [generally] have are two-fold:

1. The first is empathy. Because we live in the land of liberty, children are no longer required to follow in the footsteps of their parents and are instead encouraged to decide their own future careers. Up until their late teens, they generally experience very little pressure to make said decision as well as little to no pressure to reimburse the seemingly free education they're receiving. During this time, a child's social education is presented by his classmates, and because a child's peers know little more about acceptable social practices than any other child, you're more likely to see tribalistic, 'survival of the fittest' as opposed to helping hands. It isn't until they're introduced to more adult social settings that they realize the importance of empathy, and helping their fellow man. Although many children profess an interest in the roles of law-enforcement and superheroism, they also profess interest in other glorified position such as acting, ballet, and space exploration. This leads me not to conclude that the children want to make the world a better place, but instead wish to be in a position of power and fame. Not all children outgrow this fantasy by adulthood.

2. The second is reproductive, which is still a taboo subject for many Americans, despite the incredible amounts of innuendo one can simply find on public television.

I may be wrong, and remember I'm not psychic, but I get the impression that the people who tell you to adopt 'grown-up feelings' are not the same people you're asking for their meaning. What's most likely happening is that the 'grown-ups' who tell you to have 'grown-up feelings' are referring to category one, while the 'grown-ups' you're asking believe you're referring to category two, which they don't wish to discuss. Alternatively, not everyone is as familiar with the nuances of empathic behavior, and may therefore be illequipped to explain what they themselves mean by 'grown-up feelings'. They'd rather avoid the subject than appear unintelligent; either scenario handily explains why you're sent to bed without an answer.

Hope that helps!

-Professor Quip, PhD
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Adding insult to injury!

"[Quip], as always, you find a way to save the day AND get an evil laugh in at the same time!" -Feedback

[electric_surge]

oh my word, i was wondering what your response to this one would be. that was a awesome response!
you should become a proffesional shrink and help people out .

[Lechara]

ES is right, that's an extremely intelligent and well thought out answer.

DangerWoman, might I suggest one other scenario? If you are being sent to bed without an answer, it might be that you are asking this question not only of the wrong people as Quip suggests, but also at the wrong time. For example: last night my daughter was asking all sorts of questions about the Hubble space telescope based on a book she read over the weekend. It's not that her questions weren't good, it was that if we stopped to talk about them she would have never gotten to sleep and she would have been exhausted and unprepared for school this morning. As her parent I could see her overall schedule and what she needed to be focusing on at that moment better than she could. So, my answer to her was "get to bed."

One of the hardest parts of grown up feelings is putting your desires aside for another time. Perhaps, right at bedtime is not your best time to ask deep questions like yours. Maybe you could find some time in the afternoon or early evening when there isn't a pressing matter that you should be focusing on and you can have a more grown up quiet conversation with someone equipped to answer you.

Assuming Quip's amazing answer didn't do it, that is.
Lechara
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Also stealing the color coding from Schiz
~Lyn/~Lechara/~Void

[Addiction]

Why do they put Braille on the drive through bank machines?
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They laugh at me because I am different. I laugh at them because they are all the same.

[Quip]

[Tribunal]

I personally would've said 'mass production of those things, showing the height of laziness in modern society' myself, but well played!

[Quip]

[Tribunal]

That would be acceptable.

[Dragonryder]

[Console]

Dear Professor Quip,


Why are the Jonas Brothers so popular with preteen girls? Neither one of them can sing well, and their music in general sucks. I want to tear my ears out every time I hear them on the Disney Channel (not that I watch Disney Channel). What is the deal, dude!?

And how do purity rings work?


Thank you,


- Mr. Zachary E. Sherry

[Quip]

[DeFrag]

Hi, Professor Quip!

Maybe you can answer this one without too much difficulty: What's the simplest way to get friends and family to listen to you when you tell them you're staying sober and that's that? A few won't leave me alone about it!

-Defrag
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o_O Things are about to get interesting!

[Quip]

[DeFrag]

[Console]

Dear Prof.,


Is there a purpose to life, or does it depend on the induvidual?



-Console

[Quip]

[Freakopedia]

Dear Dr. Bluez,
Here's my question. Based upon the mass amount of information we're getting now about the data manipulation of the Global Warming reports, are we truly in this Global warm or Global Climate Change (as they now call it)? With much of the world having record cold fronts are we truly in the midst of man made Global Climate Change or just a part of the nature change in planet temperature that just happens on it's own with or with us even being here?

Hurdy gur,
Freakopedia
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I'm not sayin', I'm just sayin'

[Quip]

[Quip]

[Console]

Why IS a raven like a writing desk?

[Quip]

[Hellion]

Dear Professor Quip,

Could God (or your all-powerful being of choice/Cthulhu) create a fried calamari so big he couldn't eat it?

-Hellion
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[Quip]