WE've all seen the tests-

[Ssom]

Originally posted by taranaki


I disagree.Dustin has chosen this forum,let it stay here.For the record,I admire your frankness,Dustin.It's not always easy to be completely open about yourself,particulary when your chosen path flies in the face of traditional peer pressure.

There's an alarming trend in contemporary teen peer pressure towards more violence,less tolerance and zero respect.Pardon me if I sound like a crusty old fart from the veterans' home,but the old values work,and it's only the smart guys who resist the urge of the dumb herd to break every protocol simply because it exists.
RESPECT IS
ABSTINENCE IS
TOLERANCE IS

therefore DUSTIN is

can I be too????


:finger:


and I guess I was right about the philophisising stuff too

[Deakins]

Originally posted by DaFoo
Uh, someone needs attention really bad. Really bad! He disguises it, but it's there. Oh yeah, one more thing....

Dustin is a virgin! HAHAHA! You're a virgin. Let us all make fun of him, for he is a virgin. He doesn't care, he said he didn't, so lets make fun of him. VIRGIN!!!!

If you’re not, I'm surprised...

[Steel]

Originally posted by Dustin_S
My former best friend of 16 years has made a (failed) attempt on my life.

I know firsthand how that is, man. Now i know I'm not the only one. It sucks.

[Dustin_S]

Dafoo, I'll ask you nicely. Please stop taking cheap shots at the myself and the people who choose to reply to me. There are plenty of threads here. I'm sure you can find one you like. So please stop.

[Twist]

Very nice original post there.

Mind if I play along?

[Dustin_S]

Go ahead Twist- I posted this with the Hope that other people would shed the inherent anonymity of the internet.

[Twist]

*cracks knuckles* Here we go!

I don't fit the molds. A little bit of me fits here a little bit fits there. Allow me to elaborate.

I'm studying to be an engineer. A mechanical one to be exact. I want to build Lancer Evolutions and other Japanese super cars. I'm very good in mathematics and physics.

However, I am an artist. I draw all the time. I am incredible visually oriented. (this will freak some of you out, but...) I have visions. Yup. Not of earthshattering things and not hallucinations. I see things. I draw them. For example, I see landscapes, or people laughing or hands holding. They are simply the things that wind up in my sketch pad. I have an overactive imagination. Practically everything summons for an incredibly elaborate mental image in my head. You say "long grass" and I see a field at night with farm houses around, the wooden fences, the old knotted tree with great limbs for climbing, all the constellations, and so forth. It's gotten to the point where I process emotions visually. When I feel sad, I play through sad images in my mind often having them happen to me. Same goes for happy things or any other kind of emotion.

I am a Christian. I love God and Jesus. This is the first way I define myself. (but i list it here third because I wanted to emphasize contrast first and nothing about being Christian conflicts with something else within me) Because of this love for God and humanity, I am a pacifist. A few of you may have read my views on this subject that I posted in Philosophizing a few months back.

C.S. Lewis said that there are 4 loves: Affection, Friendship, Erotic (simple love between a man and woman), and Love of God. I have felt all but erotic love. I have never had a girlfriend (and in my book) I am thusly a virgin. (That should really, read: b/c I don't have a wife, I'm a virgin).

I trust until somebody gives me reason not to trust (or at the very least I try to go by that).

I have hated, but I made a conscious effort and removed it. I don't think I've ever been hated, but I have indeed been disliked.

I am sarcastic. Yup.

I love to laugh and even more I like to make others laugh. To quote The Bare Naked Ladies (the band), I'm the kind of guy who laughs at a funeral. But almost at the drop of a hat I can be deathly serious. I prefer the goofy, laughing phase much more.

I read comic books, but I also read Fyodor Dostoyevsky, C.S. Lewis and Bernard Shaw (classics and theology).

I like just about every kind of music but rap and country. If somebody puts on rap, that's fine. If somebody puts on country, I'll leave.

In general likes: Green Tea, Chocolate, Ping-Pong Coca-Cola, Sprite, Cheese, Japanese Sports cars, German Sports cars, video games, Car models, Cartoons, etc...

One thing I don't really like is being in the lime light. I'd rather some one acknowledge what I did over me doing it. I enjoy showing people my sketchbook, but I am quick to criticize the little faults and even quicker to say it's not good at all.

[Oz]

Whoa...that was deep, mate. I will have a go at it when I have some more time. Can we PLEASE see some of your sketches? Scan 'em in and post 'em up!

[Ssom]

Originally posted by Twist
*cracks knuckles* Here we go!

I don't fit the molds. A little bit of me fits here a little bit fits there. Allow me to elaborate.

I'm studying to be an engineer. A mechanical one to be exact. I want to build Lancer Evolutions and other Japanese super cars. I'm very good in mathematics and physics.

However, I am an artist. I draw all the time. I am incredible visually oriented. (this will freak some of you out, but...) I have visions. Yup. Not of earthshattering things and not hallucinations. I see things. I draw them. For example, I see landscapes, or people laughing or hands holding. They are simply the things that wind up in my sketch pad. I have an overactive imagination. Practically everything summons for an incredibly elaborate mental image in my head. You say "long grass" and I see a field at night with farm houses around, the wooden fences, the old knotted tree with great limbs for climbing, all the constellations, and so forth. It's gotten to the point where I process emotions visually. When I feel sad, I play through sad images in my mind often having them happen to me. Same goes for happy things or any other kind of emotion.

I am a Christian. I love God and Jesus. This is the first way I define myself. (but i list it here third because I wanted to emphasize contrast first and nothing about being Christian conflicts with something else within me) Because of this love for God and humanity, I am a pacifist. A few of you may have read my views on this subject that I posted in Philosophizing a few months back.

C.S. Lewis said that there are 4 loves: Affection, Friendship, Erotic (simple love between a man and woman), and Love of God. I have felt all but erotic love. I have never had a girlfriend (and in my book) I am thusly a virgin. (That should really, read: b/c I don't have a wife, I'm a virgin).

I trust until somebody gives me reason not to trust (or at the very least I try to go by that).

I have hated, but I made a conscious effort and removed it. I don't think I've ever been hated, but I have indeed been disliked.

I am sarcastic. Yup.

I love to laugh and even more I like to make others laugh. To quote The Bare Naked Ladies (the band), I'm the kind of guy who laughs at a funeral. But almost at the drop of a hat I can be deathly serious. I prefer the goofy, laughing phase much more.

I read comic books, but I also read Fyodor Dostoyevsky, C.S. Lewis and Bernard Shaw (classics and theology).

I like just about every kind of music but rap and country. If somebody puts on rap, that's fine. If somebody puts on country, I'll leave.

In general likes: Green Tea, Chocolate, Ping-Pong Coca-Cola, Sprite, Cheese, Japanese Sports cars, German Sports cars, video games, Car models, Cartoons, etc...

One thing I don't really like is being in the lime light. I'd rather some one acknowledge what I did over me doing it. I enjoy showing people my sketchbook, but I am quick to criticize the little faults and even quicker to say it's not good at all.

Damn!!!! Another deep interesting post- I think this is the only thread I have read top to bottom

[Twist]

Originally posted by ozriceboy
Whoa...that was deep, mate. I will have a go at it when I have some more time. Can we PLEASE see some of your sketches? Scan 'em in and post 'em up!

Yeah sure. I'm working on a website right now for my art, but for now you'll have to be content with this. It's titled "Haunted" I don't know if she is haunted or she is haunting someone. But I felt I should give it a title, even though I very rarely give titles.

Also, many, many of my drawings are sad. The title for my old website was: Sorrow is my only Art. I didn't mean anything by it at the time (it simply sounded cool), but it's amazing how true it is.

Also, my "visions" often take on a life of their own. I picture them one way, but they will only come out another. I picture things one way and sometimes, they won't have it and will want to be something different. Sometimes different clothes, different hair, different emotions, different positions.

[Twist]

My website should be up in a week or two. I'll be sure create a thread and get all you wonderful people to check it out. In the mean time, if you guys clamor for more (doubtful), I'll put a few more up.

[Grendel]

Originally posted by Twist


Yeah sure. I'm working on a website right now for my art, but for now you'll have to be content with this. It's titled "Haunted" I don't know if she is haunted or she is haunting someone. But I felt I should give it a title, even though I very rarely give titles.

Also, many, many of my drawings are sad. The title for my old website was: Sorrow is my only Art. I didn't mean anything by it at the time (it simply sounded cool), but it's amazing how true it is.

Also, my "visions" often take on a life of their own. I picture them one way, but they will only come out another. I picture things one way and sometimes, they won't have it and will want to be something different. Sometimes different clothes, different hair, different emotions, different positions.

Good artwork man

-Grendel

[Grendel]

Originally posted by Twist


Yeah sure. I'm working on a website right now for my art, but for now you'll have to be content with this. It's titled "Haunted" I don't know if she is haunted or she is haunting someone. But I felt I should give it a title, even though I very rarely give titles.

Also, many, many of my drawings are sad. The title for my old website was: Sorrow is my only Art. I didn't mean anything by it at the time (it simply sounded cool), but it's amazing how true it is.

Also, my "visions" often take on a life of their own. I picture them one way, but they will only come out another. I picture things one way and sometimes, they won't have it and will want to be something different. Sometimes different clothes, different hair, different emotions, different positions.

Good artwork man

-Grendel

[JD@af]

Dustin has inspired me to share bit more about myself. I am still working on how to present everything

For right now, I am just lettting you all know that DaFoo's comments are going to be deleted. I think it is safe to say that no one reading this thread finds his mockery amusing, and they are a discredit to this otherwise very serious and revealing thread.

[DaFoo]

Here's another one for ya to erase.