Facebook FB 11/28/2013 CWC Thanksgiving Message

An Ounce of Vagina said:
Alec Benson Leary said:
Yeah, he's a complete asshole. He's not actually thankful for his mother or for anything else; if he were, he would show it to her instead of just brushing her off as worthless to him.
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I think in Chris' mind Barb is obligated to care for him. It is simply her function. Just like it is the function of world's women to care for him and give him china. To Chris, being thankful for Barb would be as odd as you being thankful to the oxygen in the air for keeping you alive.
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He's not thankful for her, but at the same time, he's scared
Shitless of losing her.

If you can't give thanks for something you know you need and won't have for long, you truly are an asshole.
 
Radi Ashun said:
I can't say that he needs to snap out of it as depression is not something that one can get over that easily and can drag on for months even, but dude does need to get over this and move on. I've had a lot of hurtful things happen to me in my past but I eventually have to force myself to move on.
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This. And he needs to realize this, and likely that he needs help to do so.

If he could only read his own words and see how they look to everyone else...
 
hellbound said:
He has one thing right: having based his entire post-high school life on high school being a utopia, having that illusion removed makes the intervening years absurd.
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They would have been absurd anyway.

Da Pickle Monsta said:
It sounds like Kim is basically trolling Chris, what with her quoting his own words back to him. Hysterical, but I doubt Chris will pick up on the irony.
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Anna will, though.

Still, I enjoy the idea of Chris trying to explain non-linear thought to someone and them retorting with one of his tard lines.
 
Chris said:
I am unable to reciprocate the love, because my heart continues to ache from my lost High School memories
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So the world stops for Chris and his problems.
 
Thetan said:
This went out to 60 or so people. I'm posting in an attempt to shed some light on the speculations regarding how Chris spent his holiday.

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I thought thanksgiving is all about being thankful for the things that happened to you for that year. While my friends on Skype had fun on that day, here he is. At least show some decency because despite of the nightmares he had, he's still alive. He should be more thankful to that.

Also, I find it odd that he didn't thank the SSDI for keeping them both afloat.
 
One chapter for every semester of high school. It's a good thing he can't specifically remember worth a damn anything that happened, otherwise his posts would get even more annoying, what with him having the ability to blame everything on the most miniscule of things.

Still wondering what kind of TV dinners they had.

Oh god, you know Anna's gonna chime in with the most annoying thing to goddamn date sometime soon.
 
The most interesting part about that post is how he states that his current/later chapters now make no sense at all. What is he starting to question now that he didn't before? His view on women? That even more of his friendships may have been out of pity? Or is he just still all around dumbfounded?
 
BatmanVSTonyDanza said:
The most interesting part about that post is how he states that his current/later chapters now make no sense at all. What is he starting to question now that he didn't before? His view on women? That even more of his friendships may have been out of pity? Or is he just still all around dumbfounded?
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He took it in a more literal sense. He thinks he had such great genuine friends and memories in high school, when in reality he didn't. Because of this he based many of his great strengths and his actual identity based on high school. When he finds out this is all why, he doesn't know where to go from there at all.

But what he doesn't realize is that the pages were never torn out. To everyone else who reads the book of Cwc, This was just one long, dramatic foreshadowing of what would eventually happen to be. Most of us knew that these girls were friends with him out of some sort of pity whether it was negotiated by Bob or not.

It's sad because even if they were friends out of him out of pity they still gave some very good memories in high school.
 
BatmanVSTonyDanza said:
The most interesting part about that post is how he states that his current/later chapters now make no sense at all. What is he starting to question now that he didn't before? His view on women? That even more of his friendships may have been out of pity? Or is he just still all around dumbfounded?
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My guess is he means that he thought the high school reunion was going to go ahead and that he'd get to see all his high school gal pals again who would have been eager to hear all about what their best friend Chris had been up to.

Now he knows that people only befriended him out of pity and nobody has any interest in rekindling contact with him he has absolutely nothing to look forward to. He was leaning on his high school days pretty hard prior to this so to have that pulled out from under him must leave him feeling utterly directionless.
 
Did anyone else notice that Chris didn't mention being thankful for the longtime friends (Anna and Kim) he does have? He only mentioned the people and stuff that are immediately visible around him.
 
Chris idealized his high school years because it gave him structure and a (false) sense of himself. He had no real plans for himself after graduation, because he's unwilling to set goals for himself. That requires effort and time he'd much rather spend doing things he enjoys. It's a shame that his parents didn't raise him to become an adult in the emotional and psychological sense. It's pretty clear that he was raised to be their special little boy, and he thought that his 'gal pals' at MHS viewed him as special, too.

Now that he's learned the cold, hard truth, he can't cope because he doesn't have the mechanisms to cope effectively with this kind of situation.

It's telling that Chris is thankful for having 'distractions' in his life - I'm assuming he means vidya, MLP, Skylanders, and what-not, but I don't speak fluent CWCian - yet is unwilling to realize that his entire adult life has been wasted on those distractions. This is why his pleas for pity are so pointless. He has no interest or intention on changing anything about his life. It's easier to blame everyone else rather than consider that he's the one with faults and failings he needs to address.
 
BatmanVSTonyDanza said:
The most interesting part about that post is how he states that his current/later chapters now make no sense at all. What is he starting to question now that he didn't before? His view on women? That even more of his friendships may have been out of pity? Or is he just still all around dumbfounded?
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I think it's as simple as we know Chris is: He always assumed he could have had his pick of the girls he considered his gal pals. He went forward in life thinking that they stuck to him because he was handsome (hey, his mom said so!) and strong and talented and that it was a missed opportunity on his part. Now that he has found out they weren't attracted to him it means that maybe, just maybe, he can't attract a woman in the way he's always thought he eventually would.
 
Eight is an odd number. (Well, actually it's an even number, but I mean it's a strange number for Chris to have chosen to represent high school.) Do we know whether Manchester's school years were split into semesters? I didn't think the "A day"/"B day" model that Chris has referenced in the past would work together with the semester model, but maybe it was some sort of hybrid scheduling model or something?? I just can't figure out why else Chris would choose the number 8.

Though it's stupid either way because normally people would consider all of high school (or more) to be a single proverbial "chapter of [their] life."
 
Himawari said:
Eight is an odd number. (Well, actually it's an even number, but I mean it's a strange number for Chris to have chosen to represent high school.) Do we know whether Manchester's school years were split into semesters? I didn't think the "A day"/"B day" model that Chris has referenced in the past would work together with the semester model, but maybe it was some sort of hybrid scheduling model or something?? I just can't figure out why else Chris would choose the number 8.

Though it's stupid either way because normally people would consider all of high school (or more) to be a single proverbial "chapter of [their] life."
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I don't think Chris transitioned well out of Highschool. From recent Facebook posts, I'm sort of piecing together what happened with really subtle hints he's made.

- He did not do well in elementary school.
- I have never heard anything about middle school so I'm assuming it was extremely uneventful and Chris just blended in.
- In highschool, Bob asked the school to arrange Chris hookups with whatever groups would tolerate him. There was probably some glee cub or just really nice girls that'd support him.
- Leaving highschool, he immediately fell out of touch with these people and Bob wanted him to get a job at Wendy's.
- Wendy's fired him for ineffectiveness / scaring children.
- Chris enlisted in the community college to study digital artistry, probably on suggestion of Bob after he started drawing Sonichu.
- Chris had run-ins with Mary Lee Walsh and met the trolls.
- A shitload of fuck

So the only really bright spot here is what Bob had arranged during Highschool. Chris doesn't really exhibit any signs of intelligence, but he does remember things to a pretty significant level of detail (even if he remembers incorrectly / how he wants to), so he probably catalogs the fun he had back then in his mind over and over again. He's been dwelling on this for a decade now.

A while ago everyone was very excited about Chris trying to arrange a meet-up with his highschool friends because they knew it was going to be a disaster, but it looks like that's fizzled out. I doubt he'll even bother now, seeing that he is oddly cognizant about his gal-pals being temporary friends. He'll have to shift his focus on to something else. Just some heavy speculation, but it looks like he doesn't love and respect Barb as much as before. There's going to be some drama about that.
 
There's some good insights here.

I side with the folks who say that Chris probably feels pretty directionless right now. His fantasies about his past in Sweet Valley High were probably the only thing seeing him through the more lonely times in his life (other than his ego and entitlement). High school was, for good or for ill - mehh, let's stick with 'ill' - a high point in Chris's life, a peak he could aspire to no matter how bad things got. If he could just get in contact with his dedicated gal pals ...

Well, now all that is gone. We have witnessed a very rare thing here, people. We have seen Christian Weston Chandler stripped of one of his comforting delusions. Without knowing who to flee to for coddling, Chris may not know where to go.
 
So what we have is the closest he's come to emotional rock bottom? This could be the true test of cwc. Either he is going to continue whining and doing nothing and making things worse or he can finally gain that valuable self introspect that can make him try to dig himself out from the hoard.
 
It's fascinating how much Chris' life follows a traditional story arc. The Hero is now at the point where an element of his history is revealed to be fallacy, forcing him to have to reassess his goals and his beliefs. He is most likely to REFUSE THE CALL TO ACTION and shrink further away from the world.
 
Another problem that it's taken far too long for somebody to strip him of his comfort blanket. It's almost impressive how this Gal-pals sudden message has done what various other sources have been trying for years, force him into the real world. But tbh, it's come too late, I can't see him moving on with his life now.
 
He Sets Me On Fire said:
There's some good insights here.

I side with the folks who say that Chris probably feels pretty directionless right now. His fantasies about his past in Sweet Valley High were probably the only thing seeing him through the more lonely times in his life (other than his ego and entitlement). High school was, for good or for ill - mehh, let's stick with 'ill' - a high point in Chris's life, a peak he could aspire to no matter how bad things got. If he could just get in contact with his dedicated gal pals ...

Well, now all that is gone. We have witnessed a very rare thing here, people. We have seen Christian Weston Chandler stripped of one of his comforting delusions. Without knowing who to flee to for coddling, Chris may not know where to go.
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Definitely. Chris' sudden obsession with making the highschool reunion happen and beginning to organize it on face book reeked of desperation. It was something to aim for, it was hope. Hope that he could meet up with Tiffany and return the favor. They'd dance at the reunion, she'd be boyfriend free, they would go out on three dates, then....zing! Maybe during the reunion, he'd also be able to reconnect with all of his good friends! They would start driving down all the way to visit him in person, freeing him from Barb.

But now, he knows that he didn't have any true friends in highschool, they were "negotiated". Tiffany doesn't want anything to do with him. Sarah was too honest. There's nothing for him now, even if the reunion happens, none of it will save him from Barb. There's no hope anymore. He doesn't know what else he can do to change his situation, he has no direction at the moment.
 
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