Does anyone else find "2006" weird?

Dino · #1 10-02-2005, 09:39 AM

I don't know why but I always get like this before the start of a new year. I find the idea of it being 2006 rather than 2005 very odd... I know that eventually it will be 2006 and will never be 2005 again but, gosh is it a weird thing.

The concept of the passage of time really irks my brain.

Anyone else find this?

Also, as a second topic, what are your thoughts for the next year as it slowly approaches? Things you're going to do better? Stuff you're going to do worse? I always like to think of the next year as another chance to get everything right, a fresh start. I think I'm probably going to try to be a more appealing person, and do less of the things that annoy me. Be more how I want me to be.

Hobo · #2 10-02-2005, 11:12 AM

Time is messed up. If it stopped or slowed or even sped up you'd never know. That scares me.

Leto · #3 10-02-2005, 11:39 AM

I find 2005 to be an even weirder year.

Well, next year I hope to do much better than I did this year in my mock/real exams. Failed just about every mock exam, and real ones yet to come. Scares! I also hope to learn drums.

Come to think of it, 2006 is a very odd year indeed... Then again, I still haven't come to grips that it isn't 1998. :/\

Shrink · #4 10-02-2005, 11:40 AM

I keep thinking it is 2006 at the moment. It feels weird to be in 2005 to me, for no apparent reason.
Now 2007, the prospect of that feels weird.

used:) · #5 10-02-2005, 12:18 PM

I can't wait for 2007, just the name of that year gives me a luke warm feeling inside. Yeah, for each year, I have a aparticular image in my head about it. Like 04 was Bush being totally supported, flag colors, and tanks and troops in Iraq, and 05 has been global warming, the beginning of the end of the gasoline era. 01 was joyous (except for 911). I saw it as a new era dawning, the beginning of the awr state of the American nation, and cool stuff. 02 was slightly happier. You?

TheRaisin · #6 10-02-2005, 12:30 PM

Every year seems pretty much the same as the last to me. The only change seems to be that everything slowly gets a little bit crappier as time goes on, but that's probably more of a mental thing for me than the actual state of things, seeing as how I haven't felt the effect of any natural disasters or federal changes or any such stuff.

I don't find the turning of the year odd. The only reason it really registers with me is that for about three months after the start of the new year, I keep writing the wrong date on all my papers.

I've made resolutions for myself before, but it never really seemed like I had any more incentive to pursue them just because it was a new year, so I no longer take part in that practice.

AquaticAmbi · #7 10-02-2005, 02:27 PM

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I don't find the turning of the year odd. The only reason it really registers with me is that for about three months after the start of the new year, I keep writing the wrong date on all my papers.

Sometimes I still write 2004 on my papers! It's crazy... I think I adjust to writing the correct year better when the new year is an even number.

2006 seems pretty scary to me personally as it will hold a great deal of changes--Turning 18 in February, graduation, college, etc.

What a strange thread.

Rich · #8 10-02-2005, 02:54 PM

Meh... I'm not particularly bothered about the change of year. I try not to worry about time passing as its a time consuming thing to think about.

MojoMan220 · #9 10-02-2005, 03:48 PM

Time is an invention of man, so there's really no reason to freak.

It's too soon for me to be thinking about my new years resolution. Chances are, my goals will probably alter dramatically in the next couple of months.

Dino · #10 10-02-2005, 04:01 PM

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Time is messed up. If it stopped or slowed or even sped up you'd never know. That scares me.

Yeah, since time is relative. It is somewhat odd.

I find the idea that we don't actually see what's really there in the world somewhat scary... makes me feel blind, and I wonder what it must look like when you can see everything. Stuff like this is weird.

I dunno why I made this thread I just suddenly got thinking about how it would be 2006 soon... and I thought about how I would feel if that was the year - I came to the conclusion that I would feel weird, like time is moving too fast.

MojoMan220 · #11 10-02-2005, 04:10 PM

What scares me, is that in a month, I will no longer be seventeen. It sucks that I'm never going to experience that age again. Sure, growing up is great, but I feel like I'm wasting time and missing out on so many great opportunities. Sadly, there's no going back ever again, what's done is done.

Dino · #12 10-02-2005, 04:22 PM

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What scares me, is that in a month, I will no longer be seventeen. It sucks that I'm never going to experience that age again. Sure, growing up is great, but I feel like I'm wasting time and missing out on so many great opportunities. Sadly, there's no going back ever again, what's done is done.

Yeah, I feel like that kinda. But I'm still young so I'm just going to enjoy myself as much as I can and try not to completely waste myself in the process.

To that end 2006 for me will probably be a really great year, because I'm just going to go nuts and really enjoy myself.

used:) · #13 10-02-2005, 04:25 PM

How emo the lot of you are. Yes, I too feel the speed of the years go by. But as l;ong as you enjoythe moment for what it is, then life won't be so short as it's put out to be

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Dino · #14 10-02-2005, 04:26 PM

Emo is great, stop mocking emo. Seriously, if I had a Jesus for every time I heard someone mocking emo I'd start a game reserve.

used:) · #15 10-02-2005, 04:27 PM

Well, I prefer an Emu.

***Nate*** · #16 10-02-2005, 10:29 PM

Yeah I always feel weird when the year changes over but it usually doesn't start until 10:30pm on December the 31st. Then it goes away until the beginning of March when university starts and I have to write it down at the top of my notes again.

Dino, your life must be really boring if you're thinking about this so early. It's just like the christmas trees in Macy's in September. I almost had a heart attack.

Shrink · #17 10-03-2005, 06:56 AM

What the **** is Emo?
From what I've gathered, over the months, is that it is the name of a famous person, and people are said to be like Emo when they act in a certain way. But what way?!

Godlesswanderer · #18 10-03-2005, 07:07 AM

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Emo

Although some of these definitions are quite harsh, they fit most emo's I know.

Hobo · #19 10-03-2005, 10:24 AM

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Emo is great, stop mocking emo. Seriously, if I had a Jesus for every time I heard someone mocking emo I'd start a game reserve.

Maybe they're hinting at something here Dino..

Dino · #20 10-03-2005, 12:04 PM

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Dino, your life must be really boring if you're thinking about this so early.

I don't follow your logic... It was just a random thought that popped into my head while I was browsing the net, I don't see how that indicates that my life is boring. =P

But usually the fact that I'm online means that I am bored... the two things tend to be synonymous, because I'm only ever on the net when there's nothing else for me to do.

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Maybe they're hinting at something here Dino..

Yeah, I put entire styles and cultures out of fashion just by participating in them.

I think people just find emo (emotional openness) to be a bit alien to their society-imposed macho standards. So they mock it, because that makes them feel like a big hard man - but they're probably crying inside.

Shrink · #21 10-03-2005, 12:28 PM

Oh please. If I ever knock this 'emo' lark, it would be because I'm not emotional.
In every instance of hearing the word, it has never been to mean emotional, or emotional openness.
Normally, it's meant as a label for a type of goth, who are less black-wearing.

I may be very emotional, or a right cold fish. Both are completely irrelevant to 'emo' which I've decided to refuse to accept as... as what? A culture, or a style? it certainly does not (as I've said, damn me), designate emotional openness.

metroixer · #22 10-03-2005, 01:05 PM

New year is gonna be wierd for me too. I'll be going to 8th grade and graduate. (Not really a challenge, everything seems long but just to easy...)

Dino · #23 10-03-2005, 01:52 PM

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Oh please. If I ever knock this 'emo' lark, it would be because I'm not emotional.
In every instance of hearing the word, it has never been to mean emotional, or emotional openness.
Normally, it's meant as a label for a type of goth, who are less black-wearing.

I may be very emotional, or a right cold fish. Both are completely irrelevant to 'emo' which I've decided to refuse to accept as... as what? A culture, or a style? it certainly does not (as I've said, damn me), designate emotional openness.

There's no point refusing to accept something as what it is. Emo, with the music and style or without it, is about emotional openness - it's essentially not a culture or a style, it's a state of mind, and a culture has grown up around it, spawned as a variant of US punk.

It doesn't require that you wear black, have your fringe over one eye and your labret piercing to one side of your lip. The only reason I like that stuff is because IMO it looks hot. Sure, that may be the "image" of that particular culture, but that doesn't change anything, emo itself is still just a state of mind.

I owe a lot to emo, it's the reason I came out as bi, and that was all the more acceptable to people since emo had gained popularity. I don't see why it's seen as being so bad when emotional openness is so much easier to live with than anything else.

Joe the Intern · #24 10-03-2005, 02:36 PM

Dino said:

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emo itself is still just a state of mind.

So essentially it's like Zen for retards. Am I close?

Shrink · #25 10-03-2005, 02:44 PM

The only problem I have with 'emo' is the use of the termnology. It doesn't sound good, and I like good sounding words.
If you're overtly emotional, then say you're emotional, or sensitive. Not an emo.

used:) · #26 10-03-2005, 03:04 PM

I can;t stand emo, I mean if they are going to be all sad with coomittments they have to get the f*ck over it and move on. Honestly, at every band competetion we go to, there's always at least one guard who starts crying after we perform.

Such bullshit.

Dino · #27 10-03-2005, 05:49 PM

Believe it or not you're all proving me correct by reacting in such a way. Everyone repels the alien concept of being emotionally open and expressive, many deny the reasons for this, some make up reasons, none of which would make it "okay" to be that hurtful toward somebody in the eyes of an intelligent person. Not only do they repel the concept, but they mock it as though it were somehow illegitimate and illegal, and infringed their rights by existing.

The "big hard man" image is popular for a good reason. It's like wearing a suit of metaphoric armour and standing on a vantage point - it's easier to fight off attackers and is less vulnerable to sharp pointy insults. But that doesn't make it right to impose that standard on others who wish to be emotionally expressive.

Stereotyping, mockery, slander, hate, misunderstanding, ignorance - the emo culture is at the recieving end of all those things for no good reason. It's probably one of the most heavily misunderstood cultures, and bares the hallmark of the same struggle race and later homosexuality endured.

There may have been people who bought into it, faked emotion for attention, overexaggerated their behaviour, claimed to be bisexual for effect, etc. But there are people in every culture who are merely there to fit in, and that's still no reason to be hateful or judgemental of everyone within that culture. I could be and have been classified as emo, but do you see me writing blatantly overdramatised "boo-hoo" poetry, sad stories and sappy shit all over the place? No - but do you see me holding back on the way I feel? Again, no. I'm not afraid to say that I cry when people die, or when girlfriends/boyfriends leave me, and I'm not afraid to say that I give huge hugs to my closest friends whenever I meet them, because to me that's perfectly acceptable and does not warrant constant character attacks from people who for some reason feel such a reaction is necessary, lest the fabric of the universe open up and they be sucked into the void. I like long walks in the park in sunny weather, I like listening to all the stories that elderly people tell, and I genuinely do not give a fuck if that doesn't meet your standards or impress you in some way, because I wasn't put on planet earth to be the way you want me to be or do things in a way that are acceptable to you, and niether was anyone else - and if anyone does, then you better start questioning their honesty.

Facsimile · #28 10-04-2005, 02:16 AM

Here's an idea! Make an emo thread so we can talk about time again!

Anyway, I often feel weird about new years, mainly if they're an odd number, like Ambi. 2006 seems good to me though. Strangely the two I was really attached to were '95 and '97.
Good times.

I wish time would stop though, I keep thinking I'm going to be old soon...
DAMN MY PESSIMISM!

Shrink · #29 10-04-2005, 07:53 AM

Actually, Dino, my problem is with the word, and fact people are using their emotional openness as something really good and to be proud of. Similar to those 'gay pride' shitty things. So you're gay? We're all over it, why don't you get over it?

I couldn't care less about emotional openness in itself, though it is better than the 'hard man image', which is again more bullshit for a bunch of reason.

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do you see me holding back on the way I feel? Again, no. I'm not afraid to say that I cry when people die, or when girlfriends/boyfriends leave me, and I'm not afraid to say that I give huge hugs to my closest friends whenever I meet them, because to me that's perfectly acceptable and does not warrant constant character attacks

Just fine.

xx_xx_0dd · #30 10-04-2005, 08:14 AM

WHAT! I thought this thread was supposed to be about time! Not this EMO crud!