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This Is Mine

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This Is Mine
I Own It
I Own This Thing
I Hate Everything That I Don't Own
I Own This
I Own This Hole
It's Mine
Get Out Of My Hole
It's Mine
It's Mine
When You Touch My Things You Spoil Them
When Things Get Dirty I Spit Them Out
I Own This
I Own This
It's Mine
It's Mine

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jt On Apr 22, 2001

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Helpless Child

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2001-04-22 00:20:08

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by OcellatedGod

13y ago

"The first man who, having enclosed a piece of land, thought of saying, this is mine, and found people simple enough to believe him, was the true founder of civil society. How many crimes, wars, murders, miseries, and horrors might mankind have been spared, if someone had pulled up the stakes or filled in the ditch, and shouted to his fellow-men: `Beware of listening to this imposter; you are ruined if you forget that the fruits of the earth are everyone's and that the soil itself is no one's."' -Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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by DaFace

16y ago

We become attached to things to the extent that the things we own begin to own us. Our world becomes centred around the things we own, such that we worship them and hate the products we don't happen to favour. We become so focused on the things we own that we fail to see the hole we're digging ourselves into. See Playstation fans bashing Xbox fans, etc.

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