<p>^Yes, because it would take DAYS for help to arrive…</p>
<p>Days? I need chocolate every 9 minutes, let alone food of substantial nutritional value. If the bears were out in force just mauling people left and right, and the national guard had their hands full, I think it take like an hour tops before I start drawing straws among my friends.</p>
<p>First of all everyone knows you throw your least favorite friend to the bears and make a get away.</p>
<p>Second I’m saying it would be nice if your body was found because people cared not because the smell of your corpse is bothering the person down the hall.</p>
<p>But yes, you are more likely to get medical help if there is someone who lives near you and cares about your well being. You are also less likely to die from drinking too much. (It would be your own fault, but do you really want to drown in your own vomit because no one cared enough to turn you over?)</p>
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Well, I guess if your friends live near you and freak out if they go 10 minutes without being able to get a hold of you.</p>
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If I didn’t have any friends and drank that much alone, it would be pretty sad (no friends part aside).</p>
<p>You could drink with aquaintances.</p>
<p>“Second I’m saying it would be nice if your body was found because people cared not because the smell of your corpse is bothering the person down the hall.”</p>
<p>That actually happened to a girl living on campus at a school nearby. And she did have friends!</p>
<p>If you are content with dying alone, I suppose friends are unnecessary. </p>
<p>That being said, I can’t believe some of the posts here. Either you people are ■■■■■■■■ or you really are hopelessly delusional.</p>
<p>^Everyone dies alone. O.o</p>
<p>This thread has me laughing so hard.</p>
<p>Lol. I was waiting for that response. You’ll understand when you’re in your seventies (assuming you make it that far).</p>
<p>^Are you in your 70s? If so, why are you on this forum?</p>
<p>Again, saw that post coming from miles away.</p>
<p>No, Sithis, I’m not 70, but believe it or not, I actually knew some old coots in my neighborhood, who had no friends and had long outlived any family members that might have given a damn about them, and guess what? They were not happy people. They were mean, grumpy, miserable old f**** and that is how they died.</p>
<p>There is a difference between dying all by yourself in a hospital bed without anyone who cares and having friends come by to see you and care for you before you pass on. You cannot imagine the awful loneliness one feels to be that old and not have a single friend. </p>
<p>Look, man. If you want to delude yourself into thinking you don’t need friends, by all means. Knock yourself out. You are only hurting yourself.</p>
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Wow, we’re so prescient!</p>
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Anecdotal evidence…cute. Still, this psychology is a condition of many elderly people, and it has not been established that having many friends makes you better off. It’s really easy to be grumpy when your body is falling apart and you are becoming slowly more disconnected from all the world.</p>
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If your friends are still alive,able to and disposed to do so. Remember, we’re talking about making friends in college here. I don’t see that there is much difference between dying happy or sad in any case…usually you are highly medicated. Either way, not much difference in the end, you are dead in either case, and the world goes on.</p>
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And you can? More nonsense…</p>
<p>Coming from a person who has obviously never taken a psychology class, I find it difficult to take anything you say seriously. It hasn’t been established that having friends makes you better off? ORLY? Yeah, the fact that humans are fundamentally social beings, and have been for all of history has nothing to do with whether or not you need friends. </p>
<p>Dude, you are good for the lawls, and I appreciate it.</p>
<p>Were the old people you saw die the type of people that didn’t think they needed friends to be happy? Or were they people who had had friends but just happened to outlive all of them?</p>
<p>Surely you can see why these would be different situations.</p>
<p>Why would you NOT want to have friends? Even the most introverted of us like to be around friends at least some point in the week.</p>
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I have taken a psychology class. Still, you should address the arguments instead of guessing at my “qualifications” for discussing the subject at hand.</p>
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Do try to keep this in context.</p>
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This is correct. The idea that humans generally as a species engage in social interactions, develop relatively longer lasting relationships, use social mechanisms and social structures, etc. says nothing about the qualification “friend” or whether it is necessary to have such friends.</p>
<p>It is interesting that you can come up with no better arguments than generalizations about the human race and hypothetical scenarios that take place in the distant future as arguments in favor of the idea that friends are necessary in college. Others in this thread have demonstrated quite soundly the desirability of having friends in college (albiet not the necessity)–you however have failed profoundly in accomplishing anything at all</p>
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Thank you. You are good for being an exhibition of idiocy, and I appreciate it.</p>
<p>Apparently you’ve misunderstood me. I never said that friends are necessary IN COLLEGE in order to survive. But the OP seemed to imply that friends in general are unnecessary, based on his posts in this thread (in which he never once mentions any friends he DOES have, in or outside of college) and in another thread he has made. </p>
<p>Moving on. You say that, “The idea that humans generally as a species engage in social interactions, develop relatively longer lasting relationships, use social mechanisms and social structures, etc. says nothing about the qualification “friend” or whether it is necessary to have such friends.”</p>
<p>Well, now we’re arguing semantics. Are friends medically “necessary”? Will blood stop flowing to your brain if you do not have them? No. But that isn’t what we were discussing, either. </p>
<p>You don’t “need” friends just like you don’t “need” clean drinking water. But people that have them tend to live longer, happier lives, based on just about any study on the subject you care to look up.</p>
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<p>–by OP</p>
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Haven’t seen it.</p>
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Which I don’t really mind.</p>
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It was not? So you just arbitrarily changed the topic to what? “Do people in general need friends in order to achieve maximal happiness throughout their lives?”?</p>
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I can believe that; however, do these studies account for the fact that many people without friends might have some form of mental illness?</p>
<p>I think the OP’s posts prove my point. He says he “might” need some for “connections,” whatever the hell that means. And he says he doesn’t have “that kind of friends” but never says what kind of “friends” he does have. He never mentions friends outside of college. This makes it seem like he does not have any friends anywhere, and that he is deluding himself into believing he doesn’t need them. And be willfully obtuse all you want, you and I both realize we were not discussing the medical necessity of friends. </p>
<p>As for your last point, what are you trying to say? That those tests are unfairly biased because there are plenty of friendless people who don’t have mental disorders and do just fine? Show me a person who doesn’t have ANY friends anywhere and who also does not have a mental/emotional disorder of some sort.</p>