@Galich
That's great, Galich! and I agree with you^^ though I prefer expressing myself with less words so postcards are my thing.

yes, the time spent on preparing and posting the letters makes them more personal, and the fact that they are there in front of you in a physical form, sometimes smelling nice, some other time colorfully decorated, is even more amazing^^ and of course there is always this inevitable moment of suspense and surprise. Every letter has its own history.

Exactly! A letter can tell you a lot about a person.. their handwriting, the way it looks, was adressed.. in a weird sense, it tells you more about a person than mere words.

Well, I do tend to send cards, but it's not very often :P I guess I just do when I feel like it, maybe when a nice card catches my eye.

Well, really unfortunate about the delay ;_;
There are upsides and downsides, I suppose it's a part of the charm.

Yea, so I think, but the distance between Czechia and USA from Poland.. are different.

Let's hope not, we're all missing her here. Come to us Anon!

Didn't see that, looks really cool actually >_> Might try it out, seems really neat.

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@Blackkitty Well.. actually, kind of, yes. I do like sending them an awful lot tbh. The adressing, standing in the queue, waiting for a reply... it's old school, but has a really nice charm. I firmly believe that nothing will replace looking at someone's hand writing.. it's really its own thing.

It's kind of amazing to think through how many lands such letters to go through.. how many lakes etc. They probably saw more of this brave world than me >_>

Well, I was the one making Faust references :P Who knows horns appear

Ukraine, huh? Was it a friend, or just a business letter?

On a side note, the cost of sending packages is really off. At least from Poland, the differences of price of sending a 3kg package to the Czech Republic and America is.. 1 euro. Talking about messed up proportions.

Noo, my booze ;_; To be fair, cannot drink at all, doesnt go well with meds ;_;

Looks like there's cupcakes for everyone~

On a side note, god damn it, I swear, I'm never gonna use the post ever. So far my streak has been a broken package of booze worth 100 euros (old news) and a postcard sent to America, which I got back after 2 weeks for "insufficent address" (just got it from my in-box). I swear, I'll never understand those ways of adressing letters to America, and that's coming from someone that sends letters to Luxembourg/Germany every week.

Sorry for the "ranty" nature of this post, but it's so annoying. You pay money to have something delivered and then that money is basically thrown into trash. Ugh. Oh well, Galich's luck in a nutshell.

666th post, so scary~

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@Blackkitty Well, looks like we'll have to find you the right costume while Anon's not around.

Yay! All that they'd go with me is a beer, and I don't even drink anymore ;_;

I dunno.. well, everyone is a philosopher.. at the end of the day every single person has similar problems, just packaged a bit differently. It;s just me being too chatty I guess :P

My German is too rusty, either Alvis or Anon could help here.

Go team maids!

Galich but I don't like the outfit of a maid... cries

CCL is only one in the world! HE is unique!

Well, I do feel bad about it.. a little..

I see :) I guess we all have challenges ahead of us just to remind us that we are alive! Of course you have support.. ^^

Whoops.. sorry Well, jus ttell us what kind of suit you'd like :P

If it makes you feel any better, I don't like it either >_> The cafe fights, but does not surrender!

Putting things into perspective, I'd say that it's both a blessing and a curse.

Well, CCL is another type of.. CCL. Still, they're unique.

So do I :P Well, we all have to deal with cards we are given at life, no way around that.

Glad to see support!

And yea, agreed! Maids of the world, unite!

Горничные всех стран, соединяйтесь!

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@Blackkitty Don't forget about yourself! I mean, we are three maids after all!

And CCL deserves a honorable mention. I mean, what would be this thread without him? She really did contribute a lot to this thread.

Well, I don't want to scare off the new posters. It's all collectivist ethos :P

Well, been thinking an awful lot about my recent.. revelations. Attitude towards it changes everyday, new challanges and trains of thought. Kind of stressful tbh, but I do have full support of everyone.

Galich

You trying to incriminate anyone else does make you look dubious, you know ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°).
On the top of that, why would the long time lurker Galich suddenly appear right at the same time, uh ? ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

Well now, I was summoned up by the great Blackkitty. Kind of like Bloody Mary/Hanako-san, popping here once her name is mentioned.

Speaking of which, Japanese urban legends! Anyone knows any interesting ones?

My favourite one has to be Kuchisake-onna, I know what I'll be doing next halloween.

OT: Well, you were lurking around as well. Plus, you've posted awfully conveniently just after a few replies..

In all seriousness tho., too bad we're losing the crew :(

@Galich

not a problem ^_^ I thought you might be getting busy preparing for the university or something. XD
What do you mean by "wind of change"?

Oh, thanks for asking :) I'm doing good, as usual. Actually watching Catherine Tate right now xD

@Blackkitty Well, there' a month left to that :P

I guess I've decided to lurk a bit more and post a bit less. Dunno how it's gonna pan out in the long run.

Glad to hear you're doing good!

@Utoptia Plot twist, it was your alt all time along ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

But yea, RIP all newcomers that didn't stick around. I don't know; I dont post at all, they leave. I post too much, no one posts. I feel confused.

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@Blackkitty Sorry, didn't want to make you worried :(

What can I say, dunno for Utoptia but the wind of change came..

Anyway, how are ya holding up?

@Blackkitty Who says Galich is missing? She's just lurking around..

@Load of Shit Hello and welcome to Dynasty Cafe! Always glad to have another member join us!

@Utoptia with more than 2 posts one under another, it seems like no one will have to step in.

@ZuljinRaynor Let's try to extinguish this conflict above by talking about monitors..

Well, despite me having 3 monitors plugged at the same time to my PC, never felt the need for more than 2.

Hmm.. all languages but German (sorry Anon and others!), history, economics and political science.

Seems like a typical response tbh.

When I was in high school, my classmates went into an argument, "If you were seeing a near-death murderer, would you save him?" some said Yes, while some gave a big No. I was in the "yes" group. The other side asked "What do you think/feel if he kills another person in the future?"

Any answers from you guys?

@oliver I cannot help but say that I really like those kind of questions. Cheers for asking an interesting question!

I'll just go out of my way and say out front that I'd save them.

The simplest reasoning is the fact that my natural instinct would tell me so.. letting someone die can be a very traumatic experience, and it takes nerves of steel to let someone die on your eyes.

Not gonna listen here any arguments for/against "it would maek you a murderer as well". Selfish reasons aside, I'm a firm believer that we as human beings are in no position to take someone's life, even if indirectly.

Guessing if they'd go for a kill anyone is a crapshot imho. It really could depand on that person's mental state (not using the word "morality" here on purpose).

A good allegory is directly murdering someone with bare hands.. might seem easy, but it takes a lot of dedication and energy, it's much harder than it seems. There's a reason why so many policemen/soldiers suffer from PTSD even tho. the people they killed/injured were doing immoral things.

Agreed with oliver on this point. I do not think that judging someone over their political views etc. when it comes to valuing their life is the way to go.

Sure, one can believe that an animal's life is more valuable, but people most often than not don't cause evil for the sake of causing evil: they do it due to not realising what they're actually doing.

It's very rare to see to see people cause evil for the sake of causing evil.

On a side note, didnt know I'd be triggering such a discussion here. Not saying it as a bad thing.

Well... watching the news every day... seeing people repeating the same mistakes over and over again... and all of that evil in the world, it is hard to prefer all that over my dog. Whenever I look at her she just makes me happy. Can't say that about mankind as a whole.

I can see your point fully and am fairly sure that you agree with me full time, just writing it since I genuinly know a few people that would disagree with me firmly on this.

I think that valuing an animal's life over human's is pure madness. Not saying this regarding to a specific person, but the valuation of lifes is a normal part of life and the society we live in.

A good example of it would be people paramedics.. when there's an accident and there are multiple victims, they prioritise people with bigger survival chance.. it makes makes sense actually, going for someone that has an actual chance of making it.

Imho "people making the same mistakes over and over again" is not a fair assessment, just because we have free will and don't share consciousness.

Can fully understand your frustration tho., but maybe I'm just too much of a humanist.

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I cannot help but mention one of my memories regarding Rosa Luxemburg (Polish spelling is evil)

I remember at one point me mentioning her name during a history class only to hear the teacher scream "SHE SHOULD HAVE BEEN SHOT DEAD THE MOMENT SHE CROSSED THE POLISH BORDERS!"

The again, being a left winger isn't really appreicated inside of eastern Europe (saying this as someone who really doesn't mind it), I'm guessing that people had more than enough of the horribly incompetent USSR and the communist governments.

Surprised to read read that quote from Pascal tho., especially from you out of all people. I'm guessing it might've suited my posts better? :P

Then again I'm one for team humanist, having hard time to get behind people that value human life more than animals' one.

Mandatory link that I keep forgetting to post at the right time every single week.

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Well, I;m off to the sleepy-land. Have a good night everyone! \o/

@ CCL

I'm not mad, no worries ^^
No need to slit your poor little belly... all of the chocolate cake would fall out ;)

That does not look like a very "meaningful" post Anon, especially with such an interesting question above :P

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@Utoptia probably the best timed page opener ever.

Hmm, philosophers.. actually, to spice things up I'll just write people that have greatly influenced my view on life: Mikhail Bakunin, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Albert Camus, Søren Kierkegaard, Friedrich Nietzsche

Kids, don't get fooled: Carl Jung was way cooler than that old fart Sigmund Freud

Honorary mentions go to the entire school of positivism.

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@Anon While I do think it's become a bit of a private chat, but I think Utoptia has a point here. After all, it's a thread where everyone is welcome to talk about anything.

Moreover, I do not believe that I'm the only person that is engaged in writing about less meaningful stuff. Do notice that all of those less than deeper posts were directed to someone and had a response from someone, so it wasn't just me flooding the thread.

Not gonna take this discussion any more since it's pointless.

OT Recurring dreams? Well, I often have dreams of falling down into the abyss while waving my hands around to catch onto something midfall. Other times I have a dream of falling on my back into mountains, slowly looking onto the sky.. sounds rather dark actually.

My friend keeps having a dream in which she keeps buying a house without.... any windows and she's afraid of telling that to any family members. I guess that it does say a lot about her family relations.

@Anon99 I suppose you do have a point. The main reason for it I can see is that most of "meaningful" conversations that I had recently with Internet people were off thread where I had the occasion to "steer" the topic into the direction I had on opinion on, and recently it's mostly been "shitposting". Kind of hard to start talking about something ordinary out of the blue, I just tend to go with the flow.

Apologies if I sound too harsh, I'm just completly worn-out mentally.

tl;dr mostly my fault that the cafe became a bit too elitist, apologies for that. Will try to come back to the old Gaich when a right topic comes out.

@Anon remember that small "experiment" of yours with writing a message in my style? I found it today on my hard drive and thought for good 5 minutes that it's one of my posts that I've never sent to Dynasty .____.

Yea, CCL can stay here I guess. I mean, we all need a scapegoat if something goes wrong. We'll just say at the police that they were the mastermind behind all our.. operations.

@Rina if it makes you feel any better, bought a game only to realize it runs at 13 frames per second (an okay-ish rate is around 60). I know it's the fault of GPU, got promised a new by my friend, but it's just annoying (waiting 3rd month ;_;)

Also, many thanks!

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