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So it's around two a.m. and i'm lying in bed sound asleep when i'm awakened by a couple of high, squeaky
voices yelling "DEATH TO THE OPPRESSORS! DEATH TO THE OPPRESSORS!" and i look up and
there are two cats staring at me and they're breathing Purina Supreme Supper in my face when one of the
cats unsheathes a claw and draws blood drive at the local Red Cross about eight months ago and i've never
done this before and the place is packed and i mention to the woman beside me that i haven't eaten lunch and
she regales me with her horror stories of her previous blood donations and before i can move to another seat
the women sitting on the other side of me goes into even worse details about her experiences and i was
inexplicably in there again last week thinking about those slasher movies where an amputee gets a new limb
from a body part donor who happened to be a mass murderer and the former amputee goes on to commit the
same type of crimes and now there are these people going around with my blood in them and you know how
the will to live is very important to one's recovery but these recipients of my blood are going to be overcome
with these existentialist feelings and have a relapse and die before they know what happened is i was reading
my cultural anthropology textbook which covers a lot of psychological stuff forcing me to engage in self
analysis since my character is so weak and i'm so easily influenced by my surroundings and i came to this
revelation that my existentialist leanings are not founded on my discovery of punk rock music as i had
previously believed but in fact come from life as a military brat and that my life view of we're all going to
die anyway so what's the point is derived from the military life's we're going to move (die) in a couple years
anyway so why get involved with anything (existence)? which also explains my inability to remain in long
term relationships with women (as most strongly evidenced by my BDS) or that may be the male inability to
make a commitment or maybe a queasy amalgamation of both or what is this week's q anyway which
interestingly enough comes out of my cultural anthropology textbook and is a statement from noted cultural
anthropologist (according to my professor anyway, i'd never heard of the guy) Francis Hsu: "All human
beings have a compelling need to be in the company of other human beings, not only to avoid temporary
loneliness but because they seek human relationships which embody the surety of those they once shared with
their parents or guardians."
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