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eldritchseer all the loose ends from Cocytus Since: Mar, 2019
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#461051: Oct 29th 2015 at 7:48:32 PM

i was expecting triumph of the will

ChrissieMcNapkins bruhonetta from the traphouse Since: Nov, 2012 Relationship Status: Hoping Senpai notices me
bruhonetta
#461052: Oct 29th 2015 at 7:53:28 PM

that's the nazi movie right

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eldritchseer all the loose ends from Cocytus Since: Mar, 2019
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#461053: Oct 29th 2015 at 7:57:30 PM

no it's a beloved children's film that was produced by the joint efforts of the pope, gandhi, nelson mandela, voltaire, jean-jaques rosseau, and the dalai lama

see, look

ramuf Electric Heart from the Shining Throne Since: Jan, 2013
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#461054: Oct 29th 2015 at 7:59:05 PM

Rousseau was a big huge dummy though.

eldritchseer all the loose ends from Cocytus Since: Mar, 2019
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#461055: Oct 29th 2015 at 8:00:48 PM

i know he was a dickhead but democracy

ramuf Electric Heart from the Shining Throne Since: Jan, 2013
Electric Heart
#461056: Oct 29th 2015 at 8:01:32 PM

Rousseau wasn't much of a dickhead.

He was just painfully optimistic and naive.

eldritchseer all the loose ends from Cocytus Since: Mar, 2019
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#461057: Oct 29th 2015 at 8:04:36 PM

Probably not. But this is a man who sent all five of his children away to orphanages, and also wrote a book, Emilie: or, on Education, about the proper way to educate a child. This is a man who, when a friend he greatly respected purchased for him a ticket to an opera, snuck away during the commotion in the lobby of the amphitheater, ran back to the box office and refunded the ticket. He took the money and ran. Of the incident, he wrote, “There are moments when a man is seized by a sort of madness and should not be judged by his actions.” He loved providing these little justifications.

His first prank, executed when he was a tween, involved taking a piss in a neighbor’s kettle. Looking back on the incident as an adult, Rousseau wrote, “This memory still makes me laugh.” Did poor Madam Clot, whom Rousseau called “the grumpiest old woman I ever knew in my life,” consume Jean-Jacques’s piss? It’s unclear. But Rousseau clearly felt no remorse, no regret.

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#461058: Oct 29th 2015 at 8:06:08 PM

"We must distinguish between ‘sentimental’ and ‘sensitive’. A sentimentalist may be a perfect brute in his free time. A sensitive person is never a cruel person. Sentimental Rousseau, who could weep over a progressive idea, distributed his many natural children through various poorhouses and workhouses and never gave a hoot for them. A sentimental old maid may pamper her parrot and poison her niece. The sentimental politician may remember Mother’s Day and ruthlessly destroy a rival. Stalin loved babies. Lenin sobbed at the opera, especially at the Traviata.”

— Vladimir Nabokov, Lectures on Russian Literature

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ramuf Electric Heart from the Shining Throne Since: Jan, 2013
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#461059: Oct 29th 2015 at 8:06:42 PM

Thing is.

Everyone ever is a total douchebag like that at some point or another.

It is not especially unique.

eldritchseer all the loose ends from Cocytus Since: Mar, 2019
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#461060: Oct 29th 2015 at 8:07:57 PM

Other times he did feel regret. For instance, the time he stole a ribbon belonging to Madam de Vercillis — a woman who took Rousseau under her wing, and with whom he was living — after she died. When caught with the ribbon, he blamed the theft on a poor young girl, Maurienne, the house cook. She was fired. Many years later, he wrote, “At times I am so troubled by this cruel memory, and so distressed, that I lie sleepless in my bed, imagining the poor girl advancing towards me to reproach me for my crime as though I had committed it only yesterday.” A few paragraphs later, he determined that, in spite of the terrible consequences for Maurienne, perhaps his actions weren’t so bad because the event eventually made him a better person.

Rousseau did not become a better person.

He hid in dark alleyways and revealed his ass to women walking by. “What they saw was not the obscene thing, I never even thought of that, it was the ridiculous thing,” he wrote. The “obscene thing” was his penis, the “ridiculous thing,” his bare-ass. As a child, Rousseau was sometimes spanked by his 30-year-old caretaker, Mademoiselle de Lambercier. It gave him great delight. It sexually aroused him; throughout his life, he tried with all his might to relive the experience, hence the mooning. He loved to be spanked. He craved a powerful, punishing mother. (Rousseau’s own mother died weeks after his birth.) He would later have sex with a woman he obsessed over for many years: Rousseau called this lover “maman,” and he was “her little one.”

And then there was the time Rousseau abandoned a friend in the middle of the street after the friend had a seizure. “He was abandoned by the one friend on whom he ought to have been able to count,” wrote Rousseau. Did the friend die? Rousseau didn’t stick around to find out.

eldritchseer all the loose ends from Cocytus Since: Mar, 2019
all the loose ends
#461061: Oct 29th 2015 at 8:14:07 PM

i mean i don't know about you but i don't go around leaving my friends to die of seizures and showing women my bare ass

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#461062: Oct 29th 2015 at 8:15:26 PM

Must've had to use a fine-tipped pen on that dick. OHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

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ChrissieMcNapkins bruhonetta from the traphouse Since: Nov, 2012 Relationship Status: Hoping Senpai notices me
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#461063: Oct 29th 2015 at 8:29:37 PM

that is a weird man

I live in a constant state of fear and misery.
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#461064: Oct 29th 2015 at 8:36:41 PM

drawing on dicks with pens sounds painful

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ChrissieMcNapkins bruhonetta from the traphouse Since: Nov, 2012 Relationship Status: Hoping Senpai notices me
bruhonetta
#461065: Oct 29th 2015 at 9:15:10 PM

unless you stab it

i assume it's like writing on your arm

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Rivux same old me from [a jump to the sky turns to a rider kick] Since: Aug, 2010
same old me
#461066: Oct 29th 2015 at 9:40:22 PM

hey man

pens are still sharp

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ChrissieMcNapkins bruhonetta from the traphouse Since: Nov, 2012 Relationship Status: Hoping Senpai notices me
bruhonetta
#461067: Oct 29th 2015 at 9:47:54 PM

yeah they are but i assume you're gonna take special precaution if you decide to write on your dick

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thespacephantom Jamais vu from the smallest church in Saint-Saëns Since: Oct, 2009
Jamais vu
#461069: Oct 29th 2015 at 10:55:12 PM

that's actually really really cool

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WonderSquid Since: May, 2012
#461070: Oct 29th 2015 at 10:59:02 PM

who here knows how to use photoshop?

thespacephantom Jamais vu from the smallest church in Saint-Saëns Since: Oct, 2009
Jamais vu
#461072: Oct 29th 2015 at 10:59:29 PM

i know how to use things similar to photoshop

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ChrissieMcNapkins bruhonetta from the traphouse Since: Nov, 2012 Relationship Status: Hoping Senpai notices me
bruhonetta
#461073: Oct 29th 2015 at 11:01:05 PM

i have it open right now

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WonderSquid Since: May, 2012
#461074: Oct 29th 2015 at 11:02:29 PM

oh hey sweet

I need you to take this image but cover up that hideous blemish on it with this vastly superior one.

You can leave the arms I guess but the head and torso need to go.

edited 29th Oct '15 11:02:41 PM by WonderSquid

thespacephantom Jamais vu from the smallest church in Saint-Saëns Since: Oct, 2009
Jamais vu
#461075: Oct 29th 2015 at 11:04:19 PM

chris you've got this

aaaa my photoshop-fu isn't good enough

edited 29th Oct '15 11:04:36 PM by thespacephantom

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