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since the protest/occupying in Hong Kong almost a month an half ago, my social network's news feed have been filled with talks about the police beating the people. From one of the comment, it posted an image saying "it is illogical to imagine using non-violence can accomplish goals." The first thing I thought is violence must not be used at anytime unless one's life is being threaten. Then I thought, how can be stop the government going against us without the use of violence? We are under its control and I think fleeing to other place is not a great idea. What do you guys think? By their post, 99% of them are about hating on police and how police are beating them.

ya there were news about the leader of the protest had contact with the US government. It feels like Ukraine, but with much less violence. people are being called traitor when pointing out how extreme they are on hating the police, which has shifted the focus onto hating each other.

Since i found this thread, might as well continue on here. Recant facebook posts has shown that the protesters are supporting the use of violence which is truly disturbing to me. Why would they initiate violence when they know it will has an opposite affect of what they want?

After closely looking at what my family talks on the group chat, it is 100% small talks. I tried to talk about ideas, how self-interest is good, as long as it is achieved in a moral way, then they jumped topic onto other crap...I'm really disappointed...actually, it did happen when I was with them in person...

A little bump? While I was typing the stuff above, I forgot so many things that I want to say. ( I bet even now I have forgotten some important stuff) Sometimes, I dont understand how people make friends...it seems like there is a purpose, to get a job, to know another person, to this, to that, etc. Thinking about making a friend just to achieve what you want makes it feel like Im an evil...but put it in a "free-market" way, it is like trading, if the person do not like you, he or she would not be talking to you (but not everyone does that)...

Glad Im not alone. Sometimes, I have this crazy thought that I'm mentally disabled and people talk to me only out of empathy. (so crazy) Right now, Since last semester, I have been going to a Christian fellowship on my campus every Friday, That was the time when I knew about FDR and right now, I'm struggling should I go and continue their belief or stop going...

Havent seen any therapist yet. The possibioity of anxiety is less? Since i was doing pretty well in one year where I lived at a dorm. I'm just less active than they do and not join them as much since I have different interest (exclude video games). Its when I got back home, then I stopped contacting anyone. Its wasting too much time taking the bus and only hang out with them for no purpose for a few hours...it feels like I'm the outlier of the community I'm in right now...rarely I see someone has similar interest as me. Pretty close to what I'm in... I always overthink what I'm going to say and when I said it, its the bottom half of what I have thought and they have no idea what I'm talking about... I thought social skills are learned from experience. Besides, my sister did pretty well...does this has to do with my father?(remember Stefan said in one video about the son mirroring the behavior of his father?) My father until now, I never seen him mentioning friends or hangout with his friends. Most of his friends I know are my mother's friends. "I'm sorry that you had a bad day." Its awkward for me to say it... I have no idea why...i can say it, but just didn't feel like saying this words...not that I'm coldhearted...when my grandfather passed away(father side). I was speechless and try not to say anything rude...

This has been annoying for years since I moved to the US. Through out middle school and high school, I made friends to hang out with and it was fun, but I rarely meet them outside of school because I found it too much of a hassle to go out (money problem or parent restrictions). It was a great time though. Now I'm in University, I did not even made a friend that can hang out with me during lunch time. Only in some class, I made no more than one friend to talk to during that time and never interact outside of class. You might say I'm racist, I always trying to find someone who also speaks my mother language...still, I find it too much of a hassle to talk to anyone... : ( I do hang out with people, but most of the time, my sister's friends (mostly female) of course it is pretty boring even though they became friends of mine. Every time I'm alone late at night not talking to my sister and have this thoughts, I get depress that I have no real friends or wining to myself that I have no love relationship with anyone... is this the consequences of being lazy?

Sorry for the late reply, been bust the last few days... So I should get on one subject, discuss about it until they understands the logic of it and then move onto the next one? ohhh

I can get upset pretty easily during night time...

A few days after I listen to FDR from YouTube, I try to tell my parents about it. At first, they silently agree of what I said. After almost half a year now, I try to explain how the world is horrible, for example, taxation is the initiation of force, minimum wage is thief, and stuff about religious. They now saying that I'm too extreme and should accept other opinion. I tried to tell them this is logic, not personal preferences, but they still wont understand...am I blasting them with too much information?

Thinking about it, they rarely discuss any of my hobbles unless I approach them and tell them what it is about. They always tells me that my hobbles should not interfere my education (University). Even now, which I recantly won a logo contest in a crowd source website, my dad always says the same, telling me to concentrate on the education. I knew winning this contest is a step towards my career, not any kind of hobbles. When I got interest in those hobbles during high school, they did ask me if I want to take any courses during the summer, but I told them I will learn it on my own. Have the fear of taking classes... About the video games, they never ask why I want to play. They view it as wasting time... In the first year of university, I was living in dorms which I had a great time even though I rarely interact with many people besides my roommates and a few people next door. Last semester, I return home and I stopped talking to almost everyone. I want to go out and hang out with people, but I will have to talk a 30min bus ride to get there (school) which is something I dont like. Not pressure, but guilt not to complete a degree.

During high school, I got interest in web design and around that time, I also started to learn photoshop. During senior year, the school finally have some digital media course, where I learnt the three most essential Adobe software and really like it (not so much for indesign though). Sometimes, I sketch UI concepts just to fullfill my imagnation, but it rarely look nice when I convert it into digital...

because a piece of paper can rise my value in the soceity... My father have. He told me that he had to work parttime jobs to pay for the fees since his father did not have the resource it. Yup, he is working in the same field. They are paying everything which Im glad.

Sorry I didnt reply. Combating the politics finals :/ Not sure, but I started drawing as soon as I learnt how to hold a pencil. During 3rd grade, I calibrated with my friends on stick man comics. I find creating different UI concepts fun and interesting. Right now, I seldom use apps that have horrible UI... Guess all of this are the reason that I chose to be a designer. Im not sure if they feel successful or not, but they always say "when we were young, our parents were not able to teach us what is right and what is wrong. We have to experience ourselves and endure the pain. From this, we know how a road should go." youtube videos are not podcasts right? I watch the videos and listen to them, but not every videos Wish I havent wasted all the years to play video games...My skills are not good enough yet. I have a dA account too, but my popularity I assume stays around the least on the community. Well, I have a whole summer to plan for any skill upgrades!

What my parents told me that I should take on the uninteresting challenge because someday, I might not be working on a job that I studied in college. They gave me examples of my cousin who now is working in the fire department and enjoying his high pay job sitting in a office. He was studying engineering in university (almost 20 years ago). From what I see was, he did not have a goal at that time and just so happen that he did very well in this mainstream major and just so happen the fire department recruit people base on the level of education. So what my parents think is in every field, employer will always look at the education first which makes the degree important. be a designer and have a job that I enjoy. Even the first job? Ya, but not every podcast. From what you said, it seems Im better off staying the university. Since I will not get in debt after getting a degree.

I think Im too relied on the public education. Before going to college, I was thinking about going computer science. I started to learn programming and wasnt able to understand it when I was reading books from the library during high school, then I thought I will magically understand when I take college classes. Of course, I got smacked in the face and failed a few classes. Then I decided to be a graphic designer since I have been interest in drawing. I have taught myself how to use those creative tools and finding quite a lot of people in the beginning design class have little to no knowledge on how to use them (but I know there are A LOT of people who know a lot more than I do). I am doing pretty well on those classes, but I dont think my skills are good enough to get into the industry yet...When I talking to my parents, they told me a lot of things and saying I should stay. They said Im avoiding the stuff when there are something blocking my way, like when I found out I dont like math, I "drop" my level to graphic design. Now, I dont like this politics class and Im "dropping" my level even further. It seems like they are right? I am trying to avoiding every difficult things? Im actually confuse and not sure what I should do...from the researches that I found, having a degree is a huge plus to get to my goal, but I have to take this classes that Im not interest in... Ya. but from what they told me, it doesnt seem they are thinking all about themselves. ...or is that an illusion?

I dont think my parents want the prestige since they let me choose what I want as long as I am not wasting my time and not getting anything. From what I learn, most of the skills can only be learn through experience. Not going to college can free up a lot of time for me to learn more about the skill, but from what I see, a degree is a must even though people with a piece of paper are not sure of getting a job...

Today, I just took a political quiz, there are three terms that I need to define and one of them is "Southern Pacific Railroad", what? how can this be a politcal term? Im failing this class...In last semester, I took the "part a" of this class and failed it too ( GE requirements to take this two semester long classes ) Right now, Im studying graphic design and Im doing pretty well, the professors like most of my work and Im passing those gd classes with high grades. I ask myself, do I really need to continue study in this horrible place where Im being forced to waste my time on classes that I have no interest in studying? I did some searches on being a graphic designer without a degree, most of them saying it is a plus to have one. Nowadays (2014), it feels like a person is hard to get a good living without a degree. My goal is to be a UI designer, web designer, and logo designer. Im really struggling...and one of important factor is my parents expect me to get a degree...since they think a degree is important for my future.

Sorry I have a limited English understanding skill so what you are saying is the practice is only for sad people who thought they did not treat the dead better, they are ashame of it, therefore they prefer not talking about it and stay alone. Happy people gather with other people and openly talk about it and stay positive. Its a Chinese culture. I think its just a way to control how other people feel. and the culture said "One must feel only sadness when your close one is deceased."

The reason is because they afraid we will bring misfortune to them. While being with them, we had a time where we openly discuss about what one should do when someone passed away, but they never mentioned this which means it is not important to them. And now they bring this up and make it a big deal.

You might want to know how I came up with this username. I watched a video which the person said everyone is about 0.055% in the part of human history. so I came up with "pt 0 five". Then, I rearrange them into alphabet orders and there is the username. I have been watching the videos posted on Youtube for a while and decided to join this community to learn even more. so here is my first problem. My grandfather just passed away, but I couldnt see him the last time since Im on the other side of the globe. In my country's tradition, they said my parents and I should not go anywhere where people having positive event such as birthday party. I think this is just bullshit, but I find that no one around me is realizing this while their brains are covered with "tradition"...I just lose all faith on my family...