You have the right to drink yourself into a stupor, but it may cost you plenty. You have the right to stare at Afghanistan war TV with a vacant look on your face. You have the right to eat shitty food and get morbidly obese. You have the right to attend protests, as long as you don't have a message to convey...Once a clear message has been formulated, you have the right to an ass-beating by gorillas in police uniforms. You have the right to be silent, as long as you can keep your mouth shut while being waterboarded.
You have the right to mortgage yourself into a smoking hole in the ground. You do, after all, deserve that Lexus, that big fucking house, that new computer, that Caribbean cruise. And "deserving" is the same as having a right to it. This is America™. You can have anything you like, if you watch enough television.
You have the right to sing the blues. You have the right to tell jokes on stage, as long as they are haha jokes instead of HAW HAW jokes, which are unpatriotic and illegal. You have the right to slip down the shower drain. You deserve the love They have for sale, on easy credit terms. You have the right to vote for Blue or Red, and you have the right to endlessly argue which is better, with the other sodomy victims on the internet supermarket.
You have the right to a credit card. You have the right to electronic gizmos. Having a cell phone is a human right, just like having food and air and water and a Smartbook. Unless you live in small, unfurnished countries like Mali or Wales.
You have the right to sacrifice your children to The Machine™, after it dresses them in the ritual camouflage clothing. You have the right to give your money to banks, and pay them for taking it. You have the right to a dead-end job in a cubicle, or at least a comfy spot under a bridge. You have the right to the enormous complacency that brought you to this point. You have the right to bitch about the results of your own complacency, as if it were someone else's fault.
Welcome to the life you have, the life you have a right to, the life you deserve.
Or Kill Me.
You have the right to sit there and take the shit they shovel on you, simply because they can. You have the right to shovel your own shit onto others. You have the right not to be responsible for your behavior. You have the right to blame others for your misfortune. You do not have the right to be poor. If you are found to be poor, we have the right to say you brought it on yourself. You have the right to free speech up until the point you try to exercise that right. You have the right to belive in fariy tales like American Exceptionalism. You have the right to eat yourself to death.
It's not even because the world is asleep anymore, Rog. The people are fucking pissed. I know everyone hates the teabag movement because the good guys were misguided, the bad guys were greedy and opportunistic and basically killed the impetus of a lot of decent, pissed off people that could have been harnessed for good.
OWS fuckers have been raging on for months. They've got a lot of fluff in there but a lot of right ideas. They're standing out in the cold, screaming their heads off and their president is literally making a huge show of pretending he doesn't hear them.
We are literally under dictatorship now...except the dictator is the whole fucking machine--a massive group of empty suits who have diluted any sense of responsibility beyond reduction. The teabaggers are right about smaller government. The OWS guys are right about government controlling the corporation. The problem is that the corporation and government are in their own privae idaho together no different than the early settlers were irrespective of the tribal people. This is their land now. This is their home. What do the care what all the natives do or want?
It's infuriating. What's the solution? I'm frightened for my child that it's going to include a lot of poverty, a lot of blood and a lot of suffering for long after I'm worm food.
What's the solution, Rog?
Quote from: navkat on January 12, 2012, 05:09:44 PM
It's not even because the world is asleep anymore, Rog. The people are fucking pissed. I know everyone hates the teabag movement because the good guys were misguided, the bad guys were greedy and opportunistic and basically killed the impetus of a lot of decent, pissed off people that could have been harnessed for good.
OWS fuckers have been raging on for months. They've got a lot of fluff in there but a lot of right ideas. They're standing out in the cold, screaming their heads off and their president is literally making a huge show of pretending he doesn't hear them.
We are literally under dictatorship now...except the dictator is the whole fucking machine--a massive group of empty suits who have diluted any sense of responsibility beyond reduction. The teabaggers are right about smaller government. The OWS guys are right about government controlling the corporation. The problem is that the corporation and government are in their own privae idaho together no different than the early settlers were irrespective of the tribal people. This is their land now. This is their home. What do the care what all the natives do or want?
It's infuriating. What's the solution? I'm frightened for my child that it's going to include a lot of poverty, a lot of blood and a lot of suffering for long after I'm worm food.
What's the solution, Rog?
You are operating off of bad signal, Navkat. First, there is not necessarily a solution. Second, this is nothing new. It happens every fucking century, like clockwork. Third, the teabaggers were created by the Koch brothers, not coopted by them. Fourth, the president doesn't hear the OWS people.
I used to think there was a solution, that if we could find enough like-minded people and wake some other people up, we might at least slow down the relentless tide of fascism and yahoos that's rolling over us. Then I figured out that not only aren't there like-minded people, but there isn't even a "we". There's a gigantic clash of egos, but that's not a "we".
I am told we should tell people that The Machine™ can be stopped if only people
care enough, that we should charge the ramparts armed only with the righteousness of our cause.
And who knows? Maybe we should tell people that.
I care. I'm teaching my boy to care too. What's the plan? Get kicked out of Zucotti park a few more times? I'm actually a little dismayed by the fact that there are people in this country who are actually bitching about the occupiers starting a free library in the park. The Authority wants to arrest people for that.
Think about a second.
They are deliberately operating in rebellion of what we want. Deliberately. This isn't a matter of people not caring. This is a coup de t'at that happened gradually. The corporate/government complex doesn't even know they aren't entitled: they're entitled.
Quote from: navkat on January 12, 2012, 05:34:12 PM
I care. I'm teaching my boy to care too. What's the plan? Get kicked out of Zucotti park a few more times? I'm actually a little dismayed by the fact that there are people in this country who are actually bitching about the occupiers starting a free library in the park. The Authority wants to arrest people for that.
Think about a second.
They are deliberately operating in rebellion of what we want. Deliberately. This isn't a matter of people not caring. This is a coup de t'at that happened gradually. The corporate/government complex doesn't even know they aren't entitled: they're entitled.
What I'm trying to say is that I spent 9 years screaming, and I wasn't the only one doing it, and the end result of those 9 years of us screaming is a dozen or so people pissing on each other, ridiculing anyone who tries to suggest the pissing is counterproductive, and people posting in threads about Cracked.com articles.
So the answer is, I don't know what the answer is. I thought I did, but I was wrong. I tried, and I failed.
You should probably find someone who has answers. I don't.
Can things still be changed? I still think it is possible, just not on the global level I used to dream about. I've decided my effort for change will be on those things that I can actually, you know, change....
It's become the little things for me Roger. Walking the neighborhood getting signatures regarding the warehouse parties that occur in our area regularly that result in drunken idiots peeing on my front porch.
Getting a group of people together to help clean up the local park after the city installed new playground equipment.
Helping to campaign on local issues that I concern myself with.
I've stopped deluding myself that we can, as humans, work together on a global level. I think if we try to make the changes we want to see locally and actually get them or at least some of them accomplished, then we can think about something on a larger scale. I'm not holding my breath or anything, but it's a pretty thought.
I lost the enjoyment of the ride. I needed to accomplish something because the thrill of the ride just didn't do much anymore. I have to think there are thousands like me, they're just sick and tired of the bullshit but they have no clue how to actually do anything about it. I know there are things that we can never hope to change, well I know now. However, that doesn't mean there aren't changes that can be made yanno?
We're already doing it. There's no solution except to keep screaming and hope the future generations continue to stay pissed off enough to either erode the system or crash the gates.
But don't fault people for entertaining themselves with the occaisional drivel. Everyone needs a smoke break from time to time. We're here to make sure that break doesn't last 20 minutes and to make each other get back to work.
Quote from: navkat on January 12, 2012, 05:58:00 PM
We're already doing it. There's no solution except to keep screaming and hope the future generations continue to stay pissed off enough to either erode the system or crash the gates.
But don't fault people for entertaining themselves with the occaisional drivel. Everyone needs a smoke break from time to time. We're here to make sure that break doesn't last 20 minutes and to make each other get back to work.
It ain't the drivel. I am all about a bit of fluff here and there.
It's that we've fucking moved BACKWARDS. I am finding it really hard to process the reaction from the board at large when I tried to get RWHN's attention. And for all the bitching back and forth he and I have done, he's the only one that attempted to answer constructively. The rest was a constant series of potshots which I earned for trying. Don't take my word for it, go look for yourself. I may be a slow learner, but eventually even I can figure these things out. Nobody
wants things to get better, they just want their turn to deliver a zinger.
And if WE can't get along, then it's fucking hopeless. Same thing happened to the Church of the Subgenius.
In fact, I'm starting to buy into RHWN's philosophy. Here for the mirth, HAW HAW HAW. There's no prophet in trying anything else (UCWUTIDIDTHAR?), and as for the country or the world at large, I just thank God my oldest kid joined the military...Because, as the late, great Hellpope Huey once said, "The difference between heaven and hell is what side of the pitchfork you're on."
I'm out of the business of trying to make things better. I have proven incompetent at it, and it's well past time that I got out of the way and allowed someone else a shot at it.
Quote from: Khara on January 12, 2012, 05:56:00 PM
Can things still be changed? I still think it is possible, just not on the global level I used to dream about. I've decided my effort for change will be on those things that I can actually, you know, change....
It's become the little things for me Roger. Walking the neighborhood getting signatures regarding the warehouse parties that occur in our area regularly that result in drunken idiots peeing on my front porch.
Getting a group of people together to help clean up the local park after the city installed new playground equipment.
Helping to campaign on local issues that I concern myself with.
I've stopped deluding myself that we can, as humans, work together on a global level. I think if we try to make the changes we want to see locally and actually get them or at least some of them accomplished, then we can think about something on a larger scale. I'm not holding my breath or anything, but it's a pretty thought.
I lost the enjoyment of the ride. I needed to accomplish something because the thrill of the ride just didn't do much anymore. I have to think there are thousands like me, they're just sick and tired of the bullshit but they have no clue how to actually do anything about it. I know there are things that we can never hope to change, well I know now. However, that doesn't mean there aren't changes that can be made yanno?
Just the other day, I was saying the same thing.
But right now, I'm feeling that it's a losing battle. Entropy takes no prisoners.
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on January 12, 2012, 06:08:42 PM
Quote from: Khara on January 12, 2012, 05:56:00 PM
Can things still be changed? I still think it is possible, just not on the global level I used to dream about. I've decided my effort for change will be on those things that I can actually, you know, change....
It's become the little things for me Roger. Walking the neighborhood getting signatures regarding the warehouse parties that occur in our area regularly that result in drunken idiots peeing on my front porch.
Getting a group of people together to help clean up the local park after the city installed new playground equipment.
Helping to campaign on local issues that I concern myself with.
I've stopped deluding myself that we can, as humans, work together on a global level. I think if we try to make the changes we want to see locally and actually get them or at least some of them accomplished, then we can think about something on a larger scale. I'm not holding my breath or anything, but it's a pretty thought.
I lost the enjoyment of the ride. I needed to accomplish something because the thrill of the ride just didn't do much anymore. I have to think there are thousands like me, they're just sick and tired of the bullshit but they have no clue how to actually do anything about it. I know there are things that we can never hope to change, well I know now. However, that doesn't mean there aren't changes that can be made yanno?
Just the other day, I was saying the same thing.
But right now, I'm feeling that it's a losing battle. Entropy takes no prisoners.
I decided that I could live with me a lot better if I knew I had at least tried. And what I am doing may not be right for everyone, but this is a war and we all need to choose a battle we believe in and fight in it, get support for it, but by god do something.
While it may be a losing battle, at least we gave it a good fight. What's the alternative? Sit on our asses and just watch it all go by? I admit that was my outlook for a while now. I'm just going to watch it burn. I had to force myself to get involved. It's helped me.
Quote from: Khara on January 12, 2012, 06:18:35 PM
I decided that I could live with me a lot better if I knew I had at least tried.
I did try. I'm done. See above posts for further clarification.
It's all about cheap laughs from here on out.
Nuff said.
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on January 12, 2012, 06:19:45 PM
Quote from: Khara on January 12, 2012, 06:18:35 PM
I decided that I could live with me a lot better if I knew I had at least tried.
I did try. I'm done. See above posts for further clarification.
It's all about cheap laughs from here on out.
Nuff said.
Hey, even Holy Men have their days.
Look at me, I posted and I swore I was thru.
You have not been screaming to an empty room. Some of us have heard you. We may not
say anything, but it doesn't mean you didn't inspire us to
do something.
I thought the lulz were part of the revolution...that's my philosophy, anyway: never get soo full of your own shit, you can't laugh at the stupidity. Life is an absurd comedy.
I feel like triggering laughter is a powerful tool in getting people to keep on. Poking, laughing, whistling in the dark. We can't howl all the time.
Yeah, I'm fucking pissed! I'm pissed and all I have is a marshmallow gun. So that's what I use. That's the weapon in my arsenal. You have a knife and a very bright flashlight. Cram has an endless series of costumes and jarring noisemakers. Cain has a Library of Congress in his head. So on and so forth.
Keep shining that light. We'll do what we can to help you keep fresh batteries in it but you gotta have patience. We're a rag-tag bunch of clowns and none of us has it figured out.
Quote from: navkat on January 12, 2012, 06:45:31 PM
I thought the lulz were part of the revolution...that's my philosophy, anyway: never get soo full of your own shit, you can't laugh at the stupidity. Life is an absurd comedy.
I feel like triggering laughter is a powerful tool in getting people to keep on. Poking, laughing, whistling in the dark. We can't howl all the time.
Yeah, I'm fucking pissed! I'm pissed and all I have is a marshmallow gun. So that's what I use. That's the weapon in my arsenal. You have a knife and a very bright flashlight. Cram has an endless series of costumes and jarring noisemakers. Cain has a Library of Congress in his head. So on and so forth.
Keep shining that light. We'll do what we can to help you keep fresh batteries in it but you gotta have patience. We're a rag-tag bunch of clowns and none of us has it figured out.
What you haven't figured out is that all that horrible shit you're seeing is what The People WANT.
If they didn't fucking want it, they wouldn't PAY for it. That is the cold fucking reality of America - fuck, the WORLD - in the 21st Century.
And who am I to get between primates and their fake bananas? Ho ho! This is not my first rodeo. Let someone else get themselves shredded. I've had my fucking turn in the barrel.
People said I was paranoid. 'They' said I was unnaturally pessimistic for someone so young. 'They' said I was wrong.
Now I hear about my bad attitude all the time. And how I've given up before I even tried anything.
Everyone has an opinion and everything thinks the information they're basing their opinions on is 100% accurate.
I know people who believe Glenn Beck wrote the Bible, or should have.
But only parts of the picture are being passed out piecemeal. The whole overwhelming puzzle has been dissected and fractured and glued together backwards so many times that there isn't a clear picture, even if you look through a kaleidoscope. Not one that gives answers. Not one that explains anything.
I don't see a difference from a parent who says they need your birthday money to pay bills and then buys booze with it and a bank that promises to give you lots of interest on your money if you give it to them - for a fee that costs more than the interest would be. Or a power company that shuts off your power because they had the wrong date (Oops, this is due on the 31st, not the 13th!) and won't turn it back on until you pay the $60 reconnect fee, oops and sorry.
Maybe I did give up. But I've been speaking my mind about a fucked up system since I was 8 and no one was interested then. Not enough are interested now.
Not the right 'enough', anyway. And this is America. Here, the majority rules. Whether majority is measured in numbers of people or highest cash value. And by God, that's what we asked for.
ETA: And I am paranoid. But I'm not a pessimist and I wasn't wrong.
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on January 12, 2012, 07:28:20 PM
Quote from: navkat on January 12, 2012, 06:45:31 PM
I thought the lulz were part of the revolution...that's my philosophy, anyway: never get soo full of your own shit, you can't laugh at the stupidity. Life is an absurd comedy.
I feel like triggering laughter is a powerful tool in getting people to keep on. Poking, laughing, whistling in the dark. We can't howl all the time.
Yeah, I'm fucking pissed! I'm pissed and all I have is a marshmallow gun. So that's what I use. That's the weapon in my arsenal. You have a knife and a very bright flashlight. Cram has an endless series of costumes and jarring noisemakers. Cain has a Library of Congress in his head. So on and so forth.
Keep shining that light. We'll do what we can to help you keep fresh batteries in it but you gotta have patience. We're a rag-tag bunch of clowns and none of us has it figured out.
What you haven't figured out is that all that horrible shit you're seeing is what The People WANT.
If they didn't fucking want it, they wouldn't PAY for it. That is the cold fucking reality of America - fuck, the WORLD - in the 21st Century.
And who am I to get between primates and their fake bananas? Ho ho! This is not my first rodeo. Let someone else get themselves shredded. I've had my fucking turn in the barrel.
Nothing is wrong. Or, to be more precise, nothing is any more or less wrong than it's ever been. Buncha big monkeys, scrambling for the top of the tree, shitting on all the little monkeys below. Nothing changes. Nothing has changed. Doesn't look like anything will change. Ever.
I used to think it could be changed, hell I used to think I wanted it to change but, since I worked out that staying the fuck away from the tree is the secret to not getting shit on, to not getting involved in the whole stupid - raining shit - clusterfuck that passes for civilisation in this neck of the woods, I've never enjoyed my life quite as much. Laughing at all the retards trying to dodge the falling excrement is a small part of that. The more of them that are rapidly turning brown, whining like fuck about it but making absolutely no effort to step a couple of feet to the side the louder I appear to be laughing.
So that's what's changed with me. I don't give a fuck about humanity anymore. I don't give a fuck if they somehow attain perfect freedom or sink to the bottom of the mire with their lungs full of sewage. When I first joined this board I cared. I wanted it all changed. Fixed. A planet full of bipeds but I could throw my life away pissing in the wind and my life is way to short and way too valuable to be pissed away like that. Fuck humanity, fuck the machine, fuck society and the loaded-dice games they try to get you to buy into. Before I die I'm pretty sure there'll be more wars, more politics, more brazen stupidity and more monkeys throwing shit at each other but it's old news. Seen it a hundred times. It's boring. I'm having too much fun to subject myself to boredom.
Sure, I depend on it all to a greater or lesser degree. You have to play the game but you don't have to follow the rules. It's much more fun if you don't but, personally speaking, I couldn't give a shit if anyone learns that or not because, once you do work it out, the ones who haven't become more or less irrelevant. They get on with their retarded shit and, occasionally, I'll tune in and laugh a bit.
Quote from: P3nT4gR4m on January 12, 2012, 08:51:45 PM
So that's what's changed with me. I don't give a fuck about humanity anymore. I don't give a fuck if they somehow attain perfect freedom or sink to the bottom of the mire with their lungs full of sewage. When I first joined this board I cared. I wanted it all changed. Fixed. A planet full of bipeds but I could throw my life away pissing in the wind and my life is way to short and way too valuable to be pissed away like that. Fuck humanity, fuck the machine, fuck society and the loaded-dice games they try to get you to buy into.
Right with you on that one, at least at the moment.
:cry:
Damn that pedestal......
Quote from: Khara on January 12, 2012, 08:56:33 PM
:cry:
Damn that pedestal......
I'm nobody's plaster saint.
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on January 12, 2012, 08:53:53 PM
Quote from: P3nT4gR4m on January 12, 2012, 08:51:45 PM
So that's what's changed with me. I don't give a fuck about humanity anymore. I don't give a fuck if they somehow attain perfect freedom or sink to the bottom of the mire with their lungs full of sewage. When I first joined this board I cared. I wanted it all changed. Fixed. A planet full of bipeds but I could throw my life away pissing in the wind and my life is way to short and way too valuable to be pissed away like that. Fuck humanity, fuck the machine, fuck society and the loaded-dice games they try to get you to buy into.
Right with you on that one, at least at the moment.
Did you find a point, during the transition, where it really got to you? Reason I ask is cos I went through a lot of despair and shit until the penny dropped that my head was wrong. I was, in my own way, getting sucked into it all. Now that I'm over that I really can't imagine going back. Whole notion doesn't even make sense anymore.
Quote from: P3nT4gR4m on January 12, 2012, 09:04:34 PM
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on January 12, 2012, 08:53:53 PM
Quote from: P3nT4gR4m on January 12, 2012, 08:51:45 PM
So that's what's changed with me. I don't give a fuck about humanity anymore. I don't give a fuck if they somehow attain perfect freedom or sink to the bottom of the mire with their lungs full of sewage. When I first joined this board I cared. I wanted it all changed. Fixed. A planet full of bipeds but I could throw my life away pissing in the wind and my life is way to short and way too valuable to be pissed away like that. Fuck humanity, fuck the machine, fuck society and the loaded-dice games they try to get you to buy into.
Right with you on that one, at least at the moment.
Did you find a point, during the transition, where it really got to you? Reason I ask is cos I went through a lot of despair and shit until the penny dropped that my head was wrong. I was, in my own way, getting sucked into it all. Now that I'm over that I really can't imagine going back. Whole notion doesn't even make sense anymore.
All this morning, to be honest. And it started over something really fucking silly.
I had posted yesterday about something that was pretty important to me. Ratatosk jumped on and attacked me to repay some butthurt from years ago, then the thread got turned into an excuse for the more manic members to run off in all directions to prove their zaniness, then I was told I wasn't a people, which apparently was the height of hilarity.
And it hit me, about 8:30 AM, how is THIS any different than the way all the other assholes in the world treat each other? Obviously, it isn't...And if Discordianism is really just the final excuse for assholes, then there isn't any fucking hope at all.
By 10:30, I was over the butthurt, and was just incredibly depressed. By noon, I just gave up. Fuck the monkeys. Let them march in lockstep until they drown in their own shit. That's their problem.
I feel much better now.
This is partially my fault. I didn't realize that thread was of that brand of importance to you and I made light of it. I thought you were on one of your loveable warpaths.
I feel like a dick now.
Quote from: navkat on January 12, 2012, 09:46:32 PM
This is partially my fault. I didn't realize that thread was of that brand of importance to you and I made light of it. I thought you were on one of your loveable warpaths.
I feel like a dick now.
Don't get wrapped around the axle about it.
Nobody took me seriously. Even when I first explained that I was in fact serious, and then expressed butthurt at the end. Hell, the last bit wasn't even
acknowledged. The butthurt is gone, as I mentioned earlier, and I'm not going to turn this into a 3 month bitchfest...Hell, I don't plan to mention it at all after today.
But I can't get away from the fact that nobody other than Nigel - not even Freeky - said anything about the mockery and derision that started at response one and continued for the rest of the thread,
with the exception of RWHN. Interestingly enough, he and I seem to have settled our differences. So, yeah, this isn't going to be any sort of neverending volcano of spite.
But I know where I stand, now.
ETA: Right in the bus station.
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on January 12, 2012, 08:58:30 PM
Quote from: Khara on January 12, 2012, 08:56:33 PM
:cry:
Damn that pedestal......
I'm nobody's plaster saint.
I never meant to insinuate that, sorry.
As for taking this thread seriously, I did take this seriously, I'm sorry my posts didn't make that clear.
It's why I'm better at lurking as opposed to participation and why I'll go back to doing just that.
Quote from: Khara on January 12, 2012, 10:03:32 PM
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on January 12, 2012, 08:58:30 PM
Quote from: Khara on January 12, 2012, 08:56:33 PM
:cry:
Damn that pedestal......
I'm nobody's plaster saint.
I never meant to insinuate that, sorry.
As for taking this thread seriously, I did take this seriously, I'm sorry my posts didn't make that clear.
It's why I'm better at lurking as opposed to participation and why I'll go back to doing just that.
Not this thread, Khara. Another thread (uncomfortable topics: uncomfortable topics, here in apple talk).
This thread is nothing but a venting of the spleen, written when I was still steaming mad.
My plaster saint comment was in reference to the pedastle. I'm not a saint on a pedastle, just as I am not a performing monkey. Not slamming you, just saying.
I don't know what to say. :( I'm sorry.
Uncomfortable Topics, it looked like another venting spleen about everyone rehashing, and Rat's reply, Ii was hoping it was not meant as mean spirited as it sounded.
Fuck. I'm sorry. :sad:
Quote from: The Freeky of SCIENCE! on January 12, 2012, 10:08:28 PM
I don't know what to say. :( I'm sorry.
Uncomfortable Topics, it looked like another venting spleen about everyone rehashing, and Rat's reply, Ii was hoping it was not meant as mean spirited as it sounded.
Fuck. I'm sorry. :sad:
Of course it was as mean-spirited as it sounded. It was rat.
But I'm kinda thinking we should all just let this drop, okay?
I try not to be a bag of assholes to others but I make mistakes. I'm sorry I failed to recognize a moment when you needed to be backed up. You've jumped in and taken the heat off (or just made me laugh) like a shitton of times since I blew in here in like '06 or '07 or whatever. Hell, sometimes, I feel like you're the only one who understands where the fuck I'm coming from so this really sucks that I failed.
I don't know what to say. I do give a shit. I don't know if that makes it any better but I hope you don give up on me.
Quote from: navkat on January 12, 2012, 10:15:49 PM
I try not to be a bag of assholes to others but I make mistakes. I'm sorry I failed to recognize a moment when you needed to be backed up. You've jumped in and taken the heat off (or just made me laugh) like a shitton of times since I blew in here in like '06 or '07 or whatever. Hell, sometimes, I feel like you're the only one who understands where the fuck I'm coming from so this really sucks that I failed.
I don't know what to say. I do give a shit. I don't know if that makes it any better but I hope you don give up on me.
Yes, this.
You're always such a forceful personality, it's hard to imagine that you would ever want or need backup.
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on January 12, 2012, 10:04:47 PM
Quote from: Khara on January 12, 2012, 10:03:32 PM
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on January 12, 2012, 08:58:30 PM
Quote from: Khara on January 12, 2012, 08:56:33 PM
:cry:
Damn that pedestal......
I'm nobody's plaster saint.
I never meant to insinuate that, sorry.
As for taking this thread seriously, I did take this seriously, I'm sorry my posts didn't make that clear.
It's why I'm better at lurking as opposed to participation and why I'll go back to doing just that.
Not this thread, Khara. Another thread (uncomfortable topics: uncomfortable topics, here in apple talk).
This thread is nothing but a venting of the spleen, written when I was still steaming mad.
My plaster saint comment was in reference to the pedastle. I'm not a saint on a pedastle, just as I am not a performing monkey. Not slamming you, just saying.
I didn't mean the pedestal post that way... I meant it more as navkat's comment in that I admire you, so when you get discouraged it upsets me as well. Eh nevermind. I'm sorry.
We're all primates. The difference around here is we, for the most part, aspire to overcome the shortcomings of being a primate, whilst simultaneously embracing the good bits. Aint infallible. I'm probably as bad, if not worse, than most but that still puts me head and shoulders above the mainstream. This board is for monkeys like me. Sometimes we slide into monkey behaviour. It's progammed into us. Maybe when one of my discordian brethern does it, it bugs me cos this is where I come to get away from that bullshit and so what do I do?
I hoot and screech and fling monkey dung at the ones who are behaving like monkeys. And, just at the point where I realise that I'm behaving exactly like the ones who's behaviour has pissed me off so much, I crack a smile.
... and then the quantums in my heroin make me enlightened and immune to aids and all sorts of magical shit 8)
I misread you myself rog- i was glad to see that post directed at rwhn and i liked his post in return. And it really is stupid that we keep having the same rehashes over and over. But it seemed that the op was making a point in humorous fashion and honestly your holy guardian angel comment got me to chuckling in the conference room while i was getting some coffee. But you seem to want to let it drop. I figured that i would just throw that out there.
I deserve that. Especially since weve established elsewhere that im primarily composed of poo and beetles. :)
Quote from: Billy the Twid on January 12, 2012, 11:54:53 PM
I deserve that. Especially since weve established elsewhere that im primarily composed of poo and beetles. :)
And I am full of sawdust.
We make a fine pair. A stuffed Cornishman and a regular Irishman.
Quote from: The Freeky of SCIENCE! on January 12, 2012, 10:25:20 PM
Quote from: navkat on January 12, 2012, 10:15:49 PM
I try not to be a bag of assholes to others but I make mistakes. I'm sorry I failed to recognize a moment when you needed to be backed up. You've jumped in and taken the heat off (or just made me laugh) like a shitton of times since I blew in here in like '06 or '07 or whatever. Hell, sometimes, I feel like you're the only one who understands where the fuck I'm coming from so this really sucks that I failed.
I don't know what to say. I do give a shit. I don't know if that makes it any better but I hope you don give up on me.
Yes, this.
You're always such a forceful personality, it's hard to imagine that you would ever want or need backup.
Everyone wants and needs backup. It may also be useful to remember that people with forceful personalities are usually passionate people, and passionate people are, believe it or not, usually sensitive people.
Rog- they could make a childrens christmas special out of us. A very strange possibly inappropriate christmas special.
Quote from: Billy the Twid on January 12, 2012, 11:57:30 PM
Rog- they could make a childrens christmas special out of us. A very strange possibly inappropriate christmas special.
I need to write this.
Or maybe an Easter special. Like Jesus Christ Superstar, only all sleazy and sordid.
Hell yeah. Ill see if i can provide womps for it too.
Butthurt now officially over (except with respect to rat, which seems more of a vendetta).
I will leave this thread with one piece of Holy WisdomTM:
"It is better to light a flamethrower, than to sit and curse the dark."
- Terry Pratchett