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Alexcabbie

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Ixtow, my younger brother lives in Florida. He drives a truck for SunStates and does not have the money to enslave even half a block of ghetto even if he threw in with three or four other truckers. And he is very happy to live in Florida. A guy I was in the Boy Scouts with lives in Florida. They both keep telling me I oughtta come down there and live, too.

Hate to tell you this but you soundd like a grumpy old coot thumping his cane on the floor while he holds forth on nearly everything at the Senior Center. Really. And your sometimes suicidal talk has me a bit worried for you, my brother. I have read many lucid posts of yours but when you start up like this I begin to worry. I mean, I was NOT joking when I suggested you let someone hold your weapons while you got checked out. Not insulting you, just concerned......
 

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ixtow wrote:
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So, how is it the fault of "people like YOU", then?
Before I respond, I have to mention a few things.

It's difficult to respond without getting off-topic from the original post. As I've been recently reminded by the moderating staff, if the massage is not obviously and directly related it will be be deleted.

You can't argue with the stupid, they will drag you down to their level where they can only see their own position, and in their own small minds, declare victory. A true argument is not about proving your point, but testing it. None here have presented a compunction to do that.

I have an entire blog dedicated to the idiocy, arrogance, and selfishness of conventional stupidity, often called conventional wisdom. To recite that work here in one message would be nearly impossible.

Fault.... Again you put words in my mouth. A more deliberately fraudulent position would be hard to set up. you fail on your own, but I will debunk it anyway.

Capitalism requires competition. I'll be the first to name Capitalism as the greatest engine of progress yet discovered by man. But it is not all sunshine and roses. This is not a criticism of it, or a condemnation of those who participate, as is often the arrogant a stupid retort.

For you to gain, another must lose. Some have a conscience about it. I'm one of those people. Sometimes I just have to quit a perfectly good job because I just can't tolerate myself for it anymore. I can't look at myself in the mirror or sleep at night knowing the spiderweb of destruction that 'earning a living' causes. Many people just don't give a damn. They prey on those who can't, or won't, be predatory themselves. This is what capitalism is all about. It is brutal and inhumane. Cry me a river, whatever, that's not the damn point, and your juvenile insults on the matter prove what a human failure you are.

The point is that some people end up on the bottom no matter what, some, like me, by choice and application or morals and common-sense. Some are just the ultimate in unlucky. And sometimes, but rarely, lazy do-nothings get to be there too. It is most commonly a morel choice not to cut another man's throat, or starve his children. Like it or not, that's what happens when Capitalism is no longer used as an economic model, but as a weapon for the demented pleasures of seeing others suffer. To take not for yourself, not for gain or profit, but merely to ensure that another has to do without. There is a difference between Predatory Economics, and Capitalism. Pretending that there isn't is common among the arrogant and sheltered. This difference is what has casued the failing of our economy. But there are other casualties than a slightly thinner wallet for the Predators.

The foundation of any and all 'coping mechanisms' are denial and self-delusion. This is absolutely KEY to the 'work ethic' of the conservative/republican. To deny that someone else has to lose for you to gain, is a fundamental impossibility in both Capitalism and Predatory Economics. In order for competition to exist, there must be insufficient commodity to go around. To deliberately create these insufficiencies, or to forcibly create a false need for something in short supply, is where one can draw a line between the two concepts.

Some people won't lie to themselves about it. Some people aren't oblivious. And sometimes, these people have a conscience.

In another category, there are people who just always get the short end of the stick no matter what.

The burden and and stress of being one of those people is tremendous. It is horribly depressing, and for people who fit those two types mentioned above, there is often no form of medication that can blind them to it and restore them to the 'ignorance is bliss' circumstance of the average, 'normal,' human being.

I have never seen hard or smart work pay off for anyone, ever. Including myself. I also recognize that a alrge part of that is geograpic. Florida is a horrible place with a huge divide between the wealthy, bored people who haven't a thing better to do with themselves but antagonize those who are poor. There is no middle class here. the Punitive nature of accelerated cost of living combined with taxes escalates far more rapidly than the income scale. If you aren't already rich beyond comprehension, you will very soon be impoverished, it does not matter what you do or don't do. Predatory Economics, not Capitalism, is all there is here. If you haven't the funds to enslave a few square miles of ghetto, then you're living in it. Grate care and design has gone into creating this society in which there is no chance at all for anyone who isn't born wealthy, and keeping it that way.

It gets to some people. And frankly, they've more guts than anyone who mocks them. It is not easy to kill yourself. Facing it myself is what has made me into the gun-toting Libertarian I am today. I've mentioned it on the forum before. Being told that it is actually ILLEGAL to take my life into my own hands, if even to end it, is the ultimate socialism/big brother load of crap there is. NO ONE controls me down the the ultimate finite end. And the only reason I am still here today is in defiance of those who think they have a right to do so. I'm not sick, I don't need pills, and I'm not the slightest bit unstable. I just have a very unique perspective that most people pretend does not exist to keep their conscience clear.

I some ways, I'm glad you haven't a damn clue and can be so arrogant. That is just one more human being that doesn't know the true ugly depths that exist in this society. I wouldn't even wish it on LEO 229. But seeing someone so arrogant and frankly, truly evil, as to mock something taht is very real and horrible, which they have absolutely no understanding of, it's about the most immature and derogatory thing I've witnessed in my entire life.

My son is everything and more, to me. If a man raped and murdered my son, I would hate him just slightly less than I hate you. Because you would do no less for a dollar and act like it's perfectly justified, all in the name of capitalism, your god. How many will you do it to and pretend it isn't real...

You can't argue with the arrogant any more than you can argue with the stupid. they know they are wrong, but enjoy it and the anguish it spreads. They get off on hurting other people, and just LOVE when they can cloud the waters and hide behind Capitalism. And these same people usually go to church and call their behavior 'good work ethic.'

I'm sure none of this makes sense to a majority of people that would read it. And that's just fine with me. You're ignorance will not prevent me from understanding the things you deny are real. If you didn't, you might end up like one of the guys these articles are aboout. You haven't got the strength or the guts to admit reality, much less face down your own self-inflicted end. Live in your Partisan world of convenient idiocies. Some of us deal with weights that would shatter your infant-like psyche. Some make it, some don't.

I've been down that road. And not from bad luck, by deliberate choice. I've never met anyone with more willpower or self-control than myself. And just like gun controllers, you think it needs to be wrested away, medicated, or just plain destroyed, just because you cannot even begine to grasp it. You presume danger in ignorance. Anything to give you an excuse to slander and control... The very same mindset that this forum is about squelching...

I know what these people are (were...) dealing with. I am sad that I WASN'T there.

The difference between community, and communism, is one that cannot be seen by those who pretend that Predatory Economics is really just a 'more equal' form of Capitalism. Better yet, deny it altogether...

If you haven't even been tested, how dare you mock those who fail it. This is what I mean when I say "people like YOU."
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ixtow wrote:
Before I respond, I have to mention a few things.

1) I have an entire blog dedicated to the idiocy, arrogance, and selfishness of conventional stupidity, often called conventional wisdom. To recite that work here in one message would be nearly impossible.
2) Capitalism requires competition. I'll be the first to name Capitalism as the greatest engine of progress yet discovered by man. But it is not all sunshine and roses. This is not a criticism of it, or a condemnation of those who participate, as is often the arrogant a stupid retort.
3) For you to gain, another must lose. Some have a conscience about it. I'm one of those people. Sometimes I just have to quit a perfectly good job because I just can't tolerate myself for it anymore. I can't look at myself in the mirror or sleep at night knowing the spiderweb of destruction that 'earning a living' causes. Many people just don't give a damn. They prey on those who can't, or won't, be predatory themselves. This is what capitalism is all about. It is brutal and inhumane. Cry me a river, whatever, that's not the damn point, and your juvenile insults on the matter prove what a human failure you are.
4) The foundation of any and all 'coping mechanisms' are denial and self-delusion.
Rant #A) It gets to some people. And frankly, they've more guts than anyone who mocks them. It is not easy to kill yourself. Facing it myself is what has made me into the gun-toting *Libertarian I am today. I've mentioned it on the forum before. Being told that it is actually ILLEGAL to take my life into my own hands, if even to end it, is the ultimate socialism/big brother load of crap there is. NO ONE controls me down the the ultimate finite end. And the only reason I am still here today is in defiance of those who think they have a right to do so.
Rant #B) I'm not sick, I don't need pills, and I'm not the slightest bit unstable. I just have a very unique perspective that most people pretend does not exist to keep their conscience clear.
5) My son is everything and more, to me. If a man raped and murdered my son, I would hate him just slightly less than I hate you. Because you would do no less for a dollar and act like it's perfectly justified, all in the name of capitalism, your god. How many will you do it to and pretend it isn't real...
6) I'm sure none of this makes sense to a majority of people that would read it.
7) I've been down that road. And not from bad luck, by deliberate choice. I've never met anyone with more willpower or self-control than myself. And just like gun controllers, you think it needs to be wrested away, medicated, or just plain destroyed, just because you cannot even begine to grasp it. You presume danger in ignorance. Anything to give you an excuse to slander and control... The very same mindset that this forum is about squelching...
8) The difference between community, and communism, is one that cannot be seen by those who pretend that Predatory Economics is really just a 'more equal' form of Capitalism. Better yet, deny it altogether...
9) If you haven't even been tested, how dare you mock those who fail it. This is what I mean when I say "people like YOU."

1) Obviously focused on anger and hatred, and imposes this on others.

2) Later comments show obvious communist over tones.

3) Justifies #3 by using the formula from #4.

* Rantings of #A disprove #B *See #4.

5) wow .. really.. kids too? ~ How are they supported?

6) Agree very much,angry rambled rants areoften hard to understand.

7) Keptyourself poor so you can be angry about it, Justified by #B.

8) Refer back to #2 please.

9) Most of us here are tested daily... and have the willpower to pass, and keep passing, and keep pressing on through it all...

rebuke to 9) I live paycheck to paycheck, have earned what i have by crawling there... If you choose to be an epic-fail to "test yourself" so be it, but don't impose your delusionsandparanoia onto others who are simply trying to make it through this crazy world....

:?Sorry to be a jerk, but that rant was kinda disturbing (from an outside viewpoint). If you want to be seen as "normal", then be normal. If you act out of sorts, expect to be called on it.

Bat.

P.S. Yes i think it's too bad the guy killed himself. BUT, we have to realise that suicide is not as uncommon as we'd think, whole world considering. Us here getting all disturbed about it isn't gonna help anyone that's still alive and could actually use the help, like his family.
 

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I've been down that road. And not from bad luck, by deliberate choice. I've never met anyone with more willpower or self-control than myself. And just like gun controllers, you think it needs to be wrested away, medicated, or just plain destroyed, just because you cannot even begine to grasp it. You presume danger in ignorance.


You know, I've been back and forth and up and down for the last year or so. I dunno if it's female hormonal crap or what, but I've never been this "basketcase" before except for back in 1993 before I even went for help. The little episodes center around my menstrual cycle. I know exactly what you are writing about, and will say that anyone who has never felt real clinical depression, really has no idea what it is like and how awful it can feel. Add to that feelings of rejection and misanthropy, and you have one heck of a "weeping' dynamite stick.

If you ever meet me, you will find that you are not the only one with such great will power and self control. Make that 2 of us.

The real shame is my loss of creativity and my ability to write fiction, or to be able to do anything that is of a 2 dimensional nature anymore. But when "mania" fuels it, it is best to control that "beast", and just be a freakin zombie.The "beast" does however offer the ability to be a heck of a Sheepdog though. I only let a small bit of it come out.



I am not going to comment on statements about bullying forum members or whatever, except to say that your going on about it is the depression talking. Are you bipolar?
 

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Batousaii wrote:
ixtow wrote:
Before I respond, I have to mention a few things.

1) I have an entire blog dedicated to the idiocy, arrogance, and selfishness of conventional stupidity, often called conventional wisdom. To recite that work here in one message would be nearly impossible.
2) Capitalism requires competition. I'll be the first to name Capitalism as the greatest engine of progress yet discovered by man. But it is not all sunshine and roses. This is not a criticism of it, or a condemnation of those who participate, as is often the arrogant a stupid retort.
3) For you to gain, another must lose. Some have a conscience about it. I'm one of those people. Sometimes I just have to quit a perfectly good job because I just can't tolerate myself for it anymore. I can't look at myself in the mirror or sleep at night knowing the spiderweb of destruction that 'earning a living' causes. Many people just don't give a damn. They prey on those who can't, or won't, be predatory themselves. This is what capitalism is all about. It is brutal and inhumane. Cry me a river, whatever, that's not the damn point, and your juvenile insults on the matter prove what a human failure you are.
4) The foundation of any and all 'coping mechanisms' are denial and self-delusion.
Rant #A) It gets to some people. And frankly, they've more guts than anyone who mocks them. It is not easy to kill yourself. Facing it myself is what has made me into the gun-toting *Libertarian I am today. I've mentioned it on the forum before. Being told that it is actually ILLEGAL to take my life into my own hands, if even to end it, is the ultimate socialism/big brother load of crap there is. NO ONE controls me down the the ultimate finite end. And the only reason I am still here today is in defiance of those who think they have a right to do so.
Rant #B) I'm not sick, I don't need pills, and I'm not the slightest bit unstable. I just have a very unique perspective that most people pretend does not exist to keep their conscience clear.
5) My son is everything and more, to me. If a man raped and murdered my son, I would hate him just slightly less than I hate you. Because you would do no less for a dollar and act like it's perfectly justified, all in the name of capitalism, your god. How many will you do it to and pretend it isn't real...
6) I'm sure none of this makes sense to a majority of people that would read it.
7) I've been down that road. And not from bad luck, by deliberate choice. I've never met anyone with more willpower or self-control than myself. And just like gun controllers, you think it needs to be wrested away, medicated, or just plain destroyed, just because you cannot even begine to grasp it. You presume danger in ignorance. Anything to give you an excuse to slander and control... The very same mindset that this forum is about squelching...
8) The difference between community, and communism, is one that cannot be seen by those who pretend that Predatory Economics is really just a 'more equal' form of Capitalism. Better yet, deny it altogether...
9) If you haven't even been tested, how dare you mock those who fail it. This is what I mean when I say "people like YOU."

1) Obviously focused on anger and hatred, and imposes this on others.

2) Later comments show obvious communist over tones.

3) Justifies #3 by using the formula from #4.

* Rantings of #A disprove #B *See #4.

5) wow .. really.. kids too? ~ How are they supported?

6) Agree very much,angry rambled rants areoften hard to understand.

7) Keptyourself poor so you can be angry about it, Justified by #B.

8) Refer back to #2 please.

9) Most of us here are tested daily... and have the willpower to pass, and keep passing, and keep pressing on through it all...

rebuke to 9) I live paycheck to paycheck, have earned what i have by crawling there... If you choose to be an epic-fail to "test yourself" so be it, but don't impose your delusionsandparanoia onto others who are simply trying to make it through this crazy world....

:?Sorry to be a jerk, but that rant was kinda disturbing (from an outside viewpoint). If you want to be seen as "normal", then be normal. If you act out of sorts, expect to be called on it.

Bat.

P.S. Yes i think it's too bad the guy killed himself. BUT, we have to realise that suicide is not as uncommon as we'd think, whole world considering. Us here getting all disturbed about it isn't gonna help anyone that's still alive and could actually use the help, like his family.
Aw, that's cute. The usual unsupported presumptions asserted as fact without consideration.

I've heard it all before. Thanks for stopping by. I know it doesn't suit you, which is the same reason you won't think it through any further than what does.

a) I'm not angry about being poor. I don't live a lifestyle that subjects me to the self-inflicted extortions of 'conventional thiking,' I do just fine without your silly 'needs' that aren't. I'd even venture to suggest that I live a fundamentally better and healtheir life than most rich people do.

b) Focused on anger and hatred, yes; the passive aggression of others who think nothing of it. That's life. Nobody gives a damn. Get over it. I'm not one of them.

No, I used letters to enumerate my own points about this response, not yours. Yours would only make sense to someone who subscribed to the same propaganda that you do. I'm sure there are jsut as many of 'you' as there are flamming liberals who subscribe to an agenda as well...

The matter is circular, and that's the whole point. Those who deny the consequences of their actions are pretending that it isn't circular. You may point at that as some form of debunking, but I see you admitting to know the truth and then laughing at those who pay the price as you mock them for it.

There is nothing communist about it. Not even the least. While the half-truths of communist rants often include some of this; that's why it's a half truth. Your predisposition to deliberately 'not notice' that, shows your bias and interest in promoting an agenda, not arriving at a truth. You'll only find observed fact in my statements. your immediate desire to class them with the half truths of communists is an embarrassment to your own argument and position.

Nobody, except the Mint, can "make money." Nobody, ever, anywhere on earth, in all of recorded history, ever, not even once, period, has ever 'earned' it either. When you work for a paycheck, you shortchange yourself. You have to. Your employer wouldn't make any money if he paid you every penny you were worth. Without his workers, he produces nothing, and has no product or service to offer. He owes everything to them, every single penny. And if he paid it, he would still have nothing... Something has to give, and it's not him, that would defeat the whole point. It's just a damn fact of how it works. This is where profit comes from; the employees' lack of pay. We try to keep it to a minimum, and get paid as much as we can for what we do. But the bottom line is that if we were ever paid what we were worth, even once, the company would be gone the same day. Then what? Duh.

Some people get shortchanged more than you do. That's life. Some of them, all the time, no matter what they do. For these people, capitalism is a fate worse than death. I don't blame 'em. I still think about it every day. I know I'm never going to have a good life. It's my choice to be a decent human being that I can respect. I'm not mad about it. In fact, I'm proud of it. I'm the only person I know that isn't a liar or a con-artist in some degree. Once you forget community in the name of mocking it as communism, you cross the line of capitalism into predatory economics. "It's not your problem." Both can go too far, I don't give a flying rodent's posterior if you refuse to accept it or not.

Somebody has to pay the price for your gains. That's how it works. If there were no shortage to compete for, no one would! Capitalism would fail. By it's very definition, capitalism requires the impoverished in order to perpetuate itself. Communism spreads it around so everyone can be; capitalism focuses it into the cross-section of the population that values morality above money. More people are rich, but those who pay the price for it; REALLY pay the price.

In communism, everybody just barely gets by. It sucks for everyone. But when Capitalism forgets community, it isn't Capitalism anymore. Just like community that forgets the individual becomes Communism. When it gets this far out of hand, where pretending that it isn't so, to a point of mocking the suggestion (I care not what you say of me), it's just Predation, like any other animal. When you stoop that low, you aren't even a human being anymore. And, separate from the rest of this debate, I personally feel that people who stoop to the level of an animal have no more rights than an animal; nothing at all wrong with killing them.

The very device, definition, and function of capitalism run amok (predatory economics), causes just as much damage as community run amok (communism). the difference is that communism spreads the misery equally, and predatory economics focuses it in greater severity onto a smaller portion of the population.

Look at Japan. The ultimate gun-hater's paradise. But highest suicide rate on the planet. What else do they have the highest of? Unchecked and absolutely brutal business minded society. Nothing matters but how hard you drive yourself to sacrifice your sanity and humanity to the profit of your company.

Go ahead and find out what nobody wants to talk about. Cross-reference the extremes of capitalism to suicide rates. The more 'competitive' the demographic, the higher the suicide rate. There are anomalies in everything, but you've never seen a more perfect match in any statistical gathering in your entire life, I guarantee it.

Nobody, especially not the politically indoctrinated, ever wants to admit that capitalism has a down side. EVERYTHING has a down side. Capitalism focuses it like a laser on to a few who bear the burden of those consequences.

Playing the communist card just because this it a right-leaning forums shows you just want to hide in the security of numbers than expose a real argument. I'm happy to talk about the down sides to both, you are in denial that there is a down side to your chosen crusade...

Your attempt to use amateur/armchair psychology fails miserably and exposes a LOT of projection.

There is no room left for someone who doesn't choose a side. Both are dead wrong. And being one who refuses to be blind to lies and evil, I'm one of the people there simply isn't any room for.

I rather well like it that way. I could be homeless and smile about it. I'm not one of the blind idiots tossed into the colloseum all killing each other over lies they fall for, all for the entertainiment of the elites. Go ahead and bicker about left and right... I know you're an idiot for even considering either of those position to be valid. I'm not above it, I'm just outside of it. I've accepted that both sides will relentlessly attack me and mock me and insult me. Whatever. It only proves me right.

Doesn't it suck to know there is someone out that really does have it all figured out, and the most you can do is put your foot in your mouth? Aw, how arrogant of me. I'll take a nap under newspaper on a park bench and still be right. My station or social status changes nothing. Wouldn't it be nice if someone else would grow up, so I could have someone to talk to....

He who stoops lowest, has the greatest rewards. That is the absolute definition of 'how things are' today. No good deed goes unpunished, and anyone who hesitates and fails to assault every single human being he sees, will end up at the bottom. Profit in America today comes from only 4 things; Lying, Cheating, Stealing, and Killing. You won't see one single penny without it. It is an absolute with no exception or loophole. It has been engineered carefully, to ensure there is no other way to survive but to get your hands dirty.

Given the choice between being the absolute evil, or not survive; I choose not to survive. And making that choice, I ended up survivng.

Lets see you sort that one out, Dr.

Some people just can't take it. They don't pass the test. Maybe they take pill, or ride a crotch rocket 150mph into an embankment, or shoot themselves at a gun range.

And then, there's me. The one who didn't erase himself and dares expose what you pretend does not exist. I passed. And you don't even know what I'm talking about, so you'll write it off as crazy talk and insult it like everything else beyond your understanding. It's human nature. Just like Liberals who can't figure out that guns are just a tool....

Do you stop thinking where it is convenient for your agenda? I'd have to say that describes... And pretty much every other 'normal' person, too.

To be a Man, and adult, is to deny the compulsion of instinct. To use one's higher intellect to be a Person, not an Animal. The most basic instinct is self preservation. I'm the only person I know who has parted with it. I'm not special or some 'only one' saying you can't comprehend me and I'm some miraculous superior being. You just choose not to test it. The agenda and propaganda is more comfortable...

And mocking the dead is easier than understanding them. And it's better that way. Just like Liberals who don't trust others to own a gun show their own unstable nature and are the real ones who shouldn't have a gun. Simple Projection. Assuming that others are as untrustworthy as you are. You show in your cowardly mockery that you probably can't handle what you would find if you turned over that rock and looked under it. Would you pass the test? Do you even know how to read the language it's written in?

Whatever man. I have way more respect for someone who takes the test and fails, than someone who can't even read it. Mocking them just shows me what you're really made of. I'm embarrassed of my species and all it's wasted potential, for your behavior.
 

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Alexcabbie wrote:
I mean, I was NOT joking when I suggested you let someone hold your weapons while you got checked out. Not insulting you, just concerned......
I've done that. I'm an open-minded person who considers all possibilities.

the only conclusions any shrink has ever arrived at is 1) "by the book" lets just drug him 'till he thinks like us or 2) Oh Ehm Gee, he's right, I've been trained not to think about it, but he did. Holy crap that's gotta suck!

People absolutely HATE the perspective I have, because everyone else who reaches these conclusions offs themselves... How dare I not do the same!

Thinking about suicide does not require depression. For some, like me, it's just logical. I think about it every day and carry and own a lot of weapons. There's no 'risk' at all, to anyone, including myself.

But it'd be pretty unlikely to run across another person who's not addicted to self-preservation... So everyone who reads words like that immediately flips out, acts concerned, etc... It's really no big deal.

This is no less lucid than anything else I've said. It just involves a subject that I hope most people never understand. It'd be nice if they'd back off though.

It's no different from fighting gun-controllers... They just don't get it. The difference is, I hope you never do. I've yet to meet the person who survived it.

As cliche as it sounds.... People need lies, they can't handle the truth.
 

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XD40coyote wrote:
I've been down that road. And not from bad luck, by deliberate choice. I've never met anyone with more willpower or self-control than myself. And just like gun controllers, you think it needs to be wrested away, medicated, or just plain destroyed, just because you cannot even begine to grasp it. You presume danger in ignorance.


You know, I've been back and forth and up and down for the last year or so. I dunno if it's female hormonal crap or what, but I've never been this "basketcase" before except for back in 1993 before I even went for help. The little episodes center around my menstrual cycle. I know exactly what you are writing about, and will say that anyone who has never felt real clinical depression, really has no idea what it is like and how awful it can feel. Add to that feelings of rejection and misanthropy, and you have one heck of a "weeping' dynamite stick.

If you ever meet me, you will find that you are not the only one with such great will power and self control. Make that 2 of us.

The real shame is my loss of creativity and my ability to write fiction, or to be able to do anything that is of a 2 dimensional nature anymore. But when "mania" fuels it, it is best to control that "beast", and just be a freakin zombie.The "beast" does however offer the ability to be a heck of a Sheepdog though. I only let a small bit of it come out.



I am not going to comment on statements about bullying forum members or whatever, except to say that your going on about it is the depression talking. Are you bipolar?
I'm not bipolar. I don't come close to fitting any profile of a psychological defect. I really tried to fit myself in for a while, believing I had to have something wrong with me. Everyone says so.

But I eventually faced something that I considered too arrogant to consider. Maybe I really am right about everything? Maybe my depression is just the stress of denying myself?

I'm right as rain now! Lonely... But finally not beating myself up for not fitting a mold I see so much wrong with. Normal is disgusting, and I'm so glad I can't be it even when I try! Trying to be normal made me suicidal!

Trying to be 'normal' when I know how despicable it is, is what brought me down. I hated myself for it. Being just another degenerate saying 'not my problem.' I just could not do that.

It was nothing more than stress, severe stress. The dichotomy of being the very evil I detest, and having no choice but to be it if I wanted to live and have friends or a partner, etc. I've accepted that the 'normal' who dominate the world will always mock me and act like I'm a freak.

I'm still a bit of a shut-in. There's nothing to go outside for. Nobody out there will be my friend. They just get all scared and worried for me... sure... Just like liberals who over-react to someone with a gun. They don't understand it, so they fear it. It doesn't fit what they call normal, so they think it's a defect and want to 'fix' it...

I ain't broken. At least not since I stopped trying to cram 10lbs of brain and heart into a 1lb sack labeled normal.... I feel bad for those who actually manage to fit it in there....
 

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Ixtow, my younger brother lives in Florida. He drives a truck for SunStates and does not have the money to enslave even half a block of ghetto even if he threw in with three or four other truckers. And he is very happy to live in Florida. A guy I was in the Boy Scouts with lives in Florida. They both keep telling me I oughtta come down there and live, too.
I've lived here my whole life. It ain't what it used to be. I have nothing good to say about it, except for the pictures I can take of the countryside that is rapidly being destroyed. Cost of living has gone up nearly 3500% (that's not a typo), but pay hasn't budged but 15%. Only the independently wealthy really like it here. It's a playground of screwing with the poor, seeing how much they can make them squirm in agony...

Funny you should mention truck driving, as I've arrived at the conclusion that it's about the only job I could do here and not hate myself! It's the only common joe everyone job that pays enough that you can actually get by. My conscience can handle it because I know it's really nothing special, and if I didn't do it, someone else would. So, I'm really not hurting anything. There is really no other job you can say that about that pays enough to live on here. $60,000/yr doesn't even break the poverty line in most of the cities.
 

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ixtow ,

I understand the Math and mechanics of what your getting at, and I in fact would not blame the philosophical point as entirely wrong... However, your rants, not always clearly defined, as you seem so intent on defensively maneuvering that your point actually gets lost here. Had you been clearer on defining an objective view, rather than emotionally driving your point, you might have come across better, maybe even some would have agreed.

You must speak Japanese to for the Japanese to understand you, unless your lucky, they might speak some English... Most people wont relate to your tone, and will learn nothing from you until you learn to "speak their language" and get them to relate, a few exceptions here.

An example wouldbe acomparison ofone mother explaining to her son why he should be careful of "activity x" ... and the other mother who simply screams at the kid (maybe even using similar words). Point being, people will see and reflect on the volatile emotions rather than realise mechanics of your point... It was unfortunate that you came across with such an intensity that most, myself included, were more put off than "turned on" or potentially educated with any wisdom.

FYI ... I was one of those super impoverished kids who lived off rice and ramen, had no perks for being a "special class", and had to literally dig my way to my goals. My job currently has allot to do with providing safety for others, and helping people in my own way... does this make me bad for actually getting on top of my situation, and even to where i can buy my own house and working to start my own little business? I feel your argument has an amount of "judgemental" tones to it. So to that i react un-favorably. Most of my life has been spent protecting others and working my a$$ off to reach a goal or two, i don't appreciate being blanket labeled as crawling on top of others to get to where i am now. That's just completely irrational.

RE: propaganda, lol, well, you really have no clue who i am or what i believe. to think you could from a simple post is... well... irrational:banghead:You'd have to be able to converse in an articulate manner in an effort to learn someone, without emotional outbursts or radical gestures. I offer that chance, but presume it's a mute point.

RE: Japan: Konichiwa! well, you would have to have spent some time there before you assume to know much about them. Japanese are an incredibly cultured people with thousand years of rich tradition, and it would be for honors sake that most suicides happen. As Americans, from simple observation, we would see it as "they stressed out from demands" and committed suicide. To the Japanese, there is much more to it, not just as reflection of self, but as reflection of their family, their culture, the whole. As for being anti gun ??? Ask my Japanese wife about guns. She will be first to understand why Americans are fond of them... they are after all descendants of Samurai culture.

I will say, i think you have a very dark outlook on life, and that would be concerning. I understand clinical depression, and have basic understanding of those that might not have it, but otherwise mimic the behaviour. If you have managed to conquer this, then kudo's, but realise, that the ability to communicate effectively will ultimately be the factor in any attempt to educate people on this premise. If you spout darkness at someone, expect them to turn on a flashlight and shine it back at you (metaphor). Dont be so self confident that you disable your ability to learn and grow, if one cannot admit their mistakes, they will repeat those mistakes. If you cannot see past their own pre-idealised concepts of reality, then they will always filter through those concepts and blurr any other's attempt to educate them. At that point, they have done exactly as you mentioned previously, and used 'coping mechanisms' and denialtovalidate their ownself-delusions. If you are NOT one of these, then start a dialogue that illustrates this fact. I am a very open minded individual, and willing to be proven wrong in the name of higher learning. But, alas, my weakness, i eat the weak who simply show me their unwillingnesssurvive and lay down in front of the trainto get run over screaming how unfair it all is. If you put yourself there, don't expect any pity or understanding. All you have to do is get up to have some respect here.... Same thing with Suicie. I might feel bad it happened, but pitty?? He made a choice.

So to end, i will at least admireyour fighting spirit to provea point, a strong kame is always good, however, i pray you have the balance to propose your point in a manner that could stimulatebetter thought. I do love a good debate, and yes, i am prone to taking a jab at something i think is aberrant, or need to be considered for re-evaluation...

"Given the choice between being the absolute evil, or not survive; I choose not to survive. And making that choice, I ended up surviving." ~ No Mind No Sword ~

:cool:Bat

P.S. Not a doctor, just been all over this crazy ball and seen allot... i observe.


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ixtow ,

I understand the Math and mechanics of what your getting at, and I in fact would not blame the philosophical point as entirely wrong... However, your rants, not always clearly defined, as you seem so intent on defensively maneuvering that your point actually gets lost here. Had you been clearer on defining an objective view, rather than emotionally driving your point, you might have come across better, maybe even some would have agreed.

You must speak Japanese to for the Japanese to understand you, unless your lucky, they might speak some English... Most people wont relate to your tone, and will learn nothing from you until you learn to "speak their language" and get them to relate, a few exceptions here.

An example wouldbe acomparison ofone mother explaining to her son why he should be careful of "activity x" ... and the other mother who simply screams at the kid (maybe even using similar words). Point being, people will see and reflect on the volatile emotions rather than realise mechanics of your point... It was unfortunate that you came across with such an intensity that most, myself included, were more put off than "turned on" or potentially educated with any wisdom.

FYI ... I was one of those super impoverished kids who lived off rice and ramen, had no perks for being a "special class", and had to literally dig my way to my goals. My job currently has allot to do with providing safety for others, and helping people in my own way... does this make me bad for actually getting on top of my situation, and even to where i can buy my own house and working to start my own little business? I feel your argument has an amount of "judgemental" tones to it. So to that i react un-favorably. Most of my life has been spent protecting others and working my a$$ off to reach a goal or two, i don't appreciate being blanket labeled as crawling on top of others to get to where i am now. That's just completely irrational.

RE: propaganda, lol, well, you really have no clue who i am or what i believe. to think you could from a simple post is... well... irrational:banghead:You'd have to be able to converse in an articulate manner in an effort to learn someone, without emotional outbursts or radical gestures. I offer that chance, but presume it's a mute point.

RE: Japan: Konichiwa! well, you would have to have spent some time there before you assume to know much about them. Japanese are an incredibly cultured people with thousand years of rich tradition, and it would be for honors sake that most suicides happen. As Americans, from simple observation, we would see it as "they stressed out from demands" and committed suicide. To the Japanese, there is much more to it, not just as reflection of self, but as reflection of their family, their culture, the whole. As for being anti gun ??? Ask my Japanese wife about guns. She will be first to understand why Americans are fond of them... they are after all descendants of Samurai culture.

I will say, i think you have a very dark outlook on life, and that would be concerning. I understand clinical depression, and have basic understanding of those that might not have it, but otherwise mimic the behaviour. If you have managed to conquer this, then kudo's, but realise, that the ability to communicate effectively will ultimately be the factor in any attempt to educate people on this premise. If you spout darkness at someone, expect them to turn on a flashlight and shine it back at you (metaphor). Dont be so self confident that you disable your ability to learn and grow, if one cannot admit their mistakes, they will repeat those mistakes. If you cannot see past their own pre-idealised concepts of reality, then they will always filter through those concepts and blurr any other's attempt to educate them. At that point, they have done exactly as you mentioned previously, and used 'coping mechanisms' and denialtovalidate their ownself-delusions. If you are NOT one of these, then start a dialogue that illustrates this fact. I am a very open minded individual, and willing to be proven wrong in the name of higher learning. But, alas, my weakness, i eat the weak who simply show me their unwillingnesssurvive and lay down in front of the trainto get run over screaming how unfair it all is. If you put yourself there, don't expect any pity or understanding. All you have to do is get up to have some respect here.... Same thing with Suicie. I might feel bad it happened, but pitty?? He made a choice.

So to end, i will at least admireyour fighting spirit to provea point, a strong kame is always good, however, i pray you have the balance to propose your point in a manner that could stimulatebetter thought. I do love a good debate, and yes, i am prone to taking a jab at something i think is aberrant, or need to be considered for re-evaluation...

"Given the choice between being the absolute evil, or not survive; I choose not to survive. And making that choice, I ended up surviving." ~ No Mind No Sword ~

:cool:Bat

P.S. Not a doctor, just been all over this crazy ball and seen allot... i observe.
Not so much the perspective you believe. What you perceive as an emotional commitment in defense, is just my passion for the subject. I tend to over-explain because it is a subject that most people deliberately avoid and I fear not getting my point across for lack of pre-requisite thinking.

Certainly, it is an emotional and personal topic. But I am not vested in it's defense. If someone would show me wrong, I'd consider it just the same. Part of abandoning self-preservation, is the loss of ego or pride. Once you've crossed that line keeping up with the Jones', or any concept of giving a damn what anyone thinks of you, rather well goes out the window... Certainly there are other ways, but my path has been pretty absolute... Very little can insult me now.

Except, of course, telling me that a rapist with a badge is the messiah and I'm still scum for not having the badge and deserve to be locked up for pointing out the problem with that way of thinking....

Do you see a pattern in that yet?

I'll not respond to most of your assertions that I must be ignorant or else I'd agree with you... It's not so much a straman, as a strawhouseofcards....
 

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Citizen wrote:
In a societal sense, why would the location of a suicide make a difference?

Should we give special attention to bridges just because people jump off them?
San Francisco is giving special attention to their bridge. They're going to be installing a giant suicide net to prevent people from jumping in to the water.

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/10/11/MNSH13F0MH.DTL

http://www.ktvu.com/news/17621359/detail.html

http://articles.latimes.com/2008/oct/11/local/me-goldengate11
 

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An example wouldbe acomparison ofone mother explaining to her son why he should be careful of "activity x" ... and the other mother who simply screams at the kid (maybe even using similar words). Point being, people will see and reflect on the volatile emotions rather than realise mechanics of your point... It was unfortunate that you came across with such an intensity that most, myself included, were more put off than "turned on" or potentially educated with any wisdom.
I decided to respond to this separately.

You presume that I don't do things like that intentionally.

I'm not the slightest bit interested in educating someone who has already rejected education on their own time. I will be happy to hide a trail of breadcrumbs, but never, ever spoon-feed those who deliberately reject thought. I'd rather they continue on their path. And if I might, solidify their arrogance.

May times I'm asked to provide a citation to a statement I make. I never have and I never will. You don't need to cite things for a person who is in honest debate; they'll go look for it themselves. Asking for a citation is an admission of 'sticking to an agenda unless you shove something else in my face which I will still reject anyway."

My objective is only to piss someone off bad enough that they might just go try to prove me wrong, and then find out that I'm not. The manner of person I find here responds to nothing else. Hard-headed and arrogant. Typical hardcore conservatives who never, ever think a thought that wasn't delivered to them by an elephant....

I shape my 'rants' to suit the audience. I'm happy to be written off by those who can't see how carefully planned my 'rants' really are... I'm nothing like this in person. I'm much more than happy to laugh and walk away. I have no need to educate those who hate 'knowing stuff.'
 

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Citizen wrote:
In a societal sense, why would the location of a suicide make a difference?

Should we give special attention to bridges just because people jump off them?
San Francisco is giving special attention to their bridge. They're going to be installing a giant suicide net to prevent people from jumping in to the water.

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/10/11/MNSH13F0MH.DTL

http://www.ktvu.com/news/17621359/detail.html

http://articles.latimes.com/2008/oct/11/local/me-goldengate11
See! Damn commies won't even let you die! If you're dead you can't pay their taxes!!!!

For all the hate they have for the individual, there cannot be any other reason why they want to keep the suicidal alive.

@ Citizen: For the sane, the location wouldn't matter. But who says society is sane?

"The line between genius and insanity is usually drawn by those who comprehend neither" - Me
 

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I am defiantly not saying your ignorant, as you've obviously put allot of thought into this. Ignorance would be a simple lack of thought, usually leads to a-basic insults etc., and that you've not done. So - ignorance wasn't my intended message.

I will say, one thing, to acknowledge your criticism of basic social structure regarding the rich and the poor. My friend and I had a conversation at work that involved a very detailed dissection of the "money pool vs. number of people" in our culture. I wont go into all the details, but simply, we both agreed that things are in fact very unbalanced. Alas, it has been this way throughout history. When i was in Egypt, this balance was incredibly obvious, even to the point of looking at the pyramids and knowing a lil-about that history.

- a note for hope: We have the technology today, we can communicate instantly around the world to anyone, and share ideas etc. This is just the beginning. Our gun rights in America are slowly regaining strength, and even though the economy is difficult, some people, even the previously poor (like me) CAN break out of the box and grow wings...... it can be done, trust me.... it hurt ... many days i suffered, i still suffer each paycheck.... but i refuse to give up! --- dammit, never give up... just get an inch higher each paycheck, push it, hard.... reach till your fingers freekin bleed and grab it! --- when you recover, and have some strength, there will be that feeling of humble strength.... THATS where you really feel life.

So, sorry to be a jerk there earlier, like i said, i react poorly to those who seem to be willing to just give up, and then blame their environment and others around them (society).

You shall be who you make yourself to be, you life shall be as you make it.

personal opinion: Nothing wrong with being poor, or living simple, as long as it's not a "Blame society" trip.. live the simple life to LIVE, for the sake of life.... then that's healthy.

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Batousaii wrote:
I am defiantly not saying your ignorant, as you've obviously put allot of thought into this. Ignorance would be a simple lack of thought, usually leads to a-basic insults etc., and that you've not done. So - ignorance wasn't my intended message.

I will say, one thing, to acknowledge your criticism of basic social structure regarding the rich and the poor. My friend and I had a conversation at work that involved a very detailed dissection of the "money pool vs. number of people" in our culture. I wont go into all the details, but simply, we both agreed that things are in fact very unbalanced. Alas, it has been this way throughout history. When i was in Egypt, this balance was incredibly obvious, even to the point of looking at the pyramids and knowing a lil-about that history.

- a note for hope: We have the technology today, we can communicate instantly around the world to anyone, and share ideas etc. This is just the beginning. Our gun rights in America are slowly regaining strength, and even though the economy is difficult, some people, even the previously poor (like me) CAN break out of the box and grow wings...... it can be done, trust me.... it hurt ... many days i suffered, i still suffer each paycheck.... but i refuse to give up! --- dammit, never give up... just get an inch higher each paycheck, push it, hard.... reach till your fingers freekin bleed and grab it! --- when you recover, and have some strength, there will be that feeling of humble strength.... THATS where you really feel life.

So, sorry to be a jerk there earlier, like i said, i react poorly to those who seem to be willing to just give up, and then blame their environment and others around them (society).

You shall be who you make yourself to be, you life shall be as you make it.

personal opinion: Nothing wrong with being poor, or living simple, as long as it's not a "Blame society" trip.. live the simple life to LIVE, for the sake of life.... then that's healthy.

:cool:Bat

-- suguested reading: Neko no Myojutsu http://www.auburn.edu/~wilsoug/Neko_no_Myojutsu.html

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I don't blame society for my circumstance, I blame it for it's own. Humanity has so much potential, but it is squandered on a contest of who can push the other down further... I blame it for refusing to evolve and become something better for my son to live in. It angers me. Like a butterfly that refuses to emerge from it's cocoon because it can masturbate in privacy so long as it stays in there.... That is how I see the world. It would rather sit around and beat off than become something worthwhile. And when one of those jack-offs wants to kick his whipping boy... It really chaps my hide... (and now the arc of my messages, which I knew the path would lead to from the beginning, but I let others walk it and knew they would in advance, is sealed with the proof of the ironic plan held from the beginning in everything I wrote. Damn I'm good. I can only think of 2 potential readers who are going to see this and understand what it means, and then smile.)

Money has reached a black-hole type scenario. Sure, unbalance has always existed. But the wealthy have so much now, and the poor so little, that the gulf between can only grow. The wealthy have become a black hole of cash. They have so much of it, they suck it all in and nobody else has a dime. "Working for a living" is just a thin illusion; you are forced to give every penny right back to them, and at the end of every month, you worked for nothing. A slave. The Gov can print all the money it wants, and exponential inflation will never hurt the wealthy, it only guarantees enslavement of the next generation, an the next. It's hard to say someone DIDN'T plan it, it's just too damn perfect. The money itself is what make you a slave. It's not a crime or an outrage; how it got that way is. "The everyday working man" is just a slave that doesn't know it. He never really had any choice or freedom, it was all planned out for him the day he was born. But he's dumb enough to never realize it, and all the 'education' and 'conventional thinking' is a prison for his mind and keeps him that way... He thinks he's some awesome self-made man. But he's no different than cattle. He's just too damn arrogant and dumb to notice.

Wish I saw the side you see, but I keep looking.... No way to get ahead without bringing someone else down. I'm just not filthy enough to do that, and I never will. Call it anything you want, but "mature," "responsible," or "adult" is the opposite of just giving to what you you know is wrong for a dollar. The whole world can be based on it, and it is, but it's still wrong. Really, really immature, sick, backwards, counter-productive, and wrong. It is a engineered failure, both as an individual, and a society. They'd all rather flog themselves than grow up and be something great.

It's not easy to live with, which is why so many don't.

"My Circumstance" can be summed up in two rather well known sentences:

"Be the change you want to see in the world."

"The blade that grows tallest, gets cut first."

Match the names, will you?
 

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Sorry to hear you feel that way. I understand it sucks, i see my paycheck going to Mortgage, power co. , car insurance, and i have a little at the end of each month to get a couple things towards our own business... But that's a choice i make, i choose to keep going because i want my kids to have a little better than me when they get there. -- I have never stood on anyone's back to get there, nor haveI wronged anyone to get my job, my car, my house... these were earned on my own two feet.

The world has more beauty in it than most can see. Yes there are evil ones out there. Yes the Super-mega wealthy leach off society (but they ALWAYS have, all of history). And through it all, those with the will to survive through in an honorable fashion still exist. There is always going to be a balance to these things, but the balance is hidden in ones own heart more than the hearts of others. You cannot count on the world to lift you. You must lift yourself, an do so in a way that shows the virtue and values you want to express to the world. If the world does not have those that are strong enough to stand for, articulate, and make a change... then said change will never happen.

Look at what has been done on this simple forum alone - these guys make change, and started with a couple guys who didn't like what they were seeing, and wanted to make a positive change. - and now, it's a country wide movement that's getting media and government attention.....codes on state law have been modified in my state because of the pro-active efforts that sprouted form some people saying "This is wrong, lets change it" .....and that's just ONE example.

If you want change, make change, because change doesn't make itself.

- dont give up! -- "KEEP LOOKING !!!" ...when you see how you want it to be, start setting a positive example of that change.

-- sounds like you just want people (as society) to bemore fair and balanced.....We all do, Just some of us dont have sympathy for the quitters when we had to struggle too (reference to original post to bring this full circle)... Do i feel bad for the guy: YES ... and I going to be disturbed it happened: NO .. he made a choice. Life will be as we make it to be, both individually, and as a society.

:?sorry, i'm still being a jerk ....

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Sorry to hear you feel that way. I understand it sucks, i see my paycheck going to Mortgage, power co. , car insurance, and i have a little at the end of each month to get a couple things towards our own business... But that's a choice i make, i choose to keep going because i want my kids to have a little better than me when they get there. -- I have never stood on anyone's back to get there, nor haveI wronged anyone to get my job, my car, my house... these were earned on my own two feet.

The world has more beauty in it than most can see. Yes there are evil ones out there. Yes the Super-mega wealthy leach off society (but they ALWAYS have, all of history). And through it all, those with the will to survive through in an honorable fashion still exist. There is always going to be a balance to these things, but the balance is hidden in ones own heart more than the hearts of others. You cannot count on the world to lift you. You must lift yourself, an do so in a way that shows the virtue and values you want to express to the world. If the world does not have those that are strong enough to stand for, articulate, and make a change... then said change will never happen.

Look at what has been done on this simple forum alone - these guys make change, and started with a couple guys who didn't like what they were seeing, and wanted to make a positive change. - and now, it's a country wide movement that's getting media and government attention.....codes on state law have been modified in my state because of the pro-active efforts that sprouted form some people saying "This is wrong, lets change it" .....and that's just ONE example.

If you want change, make change, because change doesn't make itself.

- dont give up! -- "KEEP LOOKING !!!" ...when you see how you want it to be, start setting a positive example of that change.

-- sounds like you just want people (as society) to bemore fair and balanced.....We all do, Just some of us dont have sympathy for the quitters when we had to struggle too (reference to original post to bring this full circle)... Do i feel bad for the guy: YES ... and I going to be disturbed it happened: NO .. he made a choice. Life will be as we make it to be, both individually, and as a society.

:?sorry, i'm still being a jerk ....

Bat.
Ah, but no matter how much you save or give to your kids, the world you give them will still be something you have no control over, and perpetually getting worse.

Fair is merely a byproduct of choosing to be more than just an animal. It would be nice, sure. But it won't happen until 'conventional stupidity' stops being used as wisdom. And the odds of that?

I don't think you're being a jerk at all. I just think you're wrong. ;-) Life is not what we make it. I've had little choice in mine: "Be the Right Hand of Satan himself, or fail by the world's perception and ideas." Or, to word it another way "become part of the problem, or be destroyed" Is that really a choice? I say that I choose to be a decent human being, a.k.a. fail. But when those are the only 2 options, it's really not a choice. I don't respect those who sell their soul for a dollar, how could I respect myself? I can't. The last thing you can call it is mature or responsible. Predation like that defeats humanity in both the macrocosmic, and the pure ethos.

It brings two light the ultimate facade-destroying exclusive dichotomies of the partisan idiocy.

If you are a Democrat that believes in the will of the people and that ultimate authority lies there: disarmament guarantees your own failure. This proves that Democrats want to eliminate America. They are the ones who should hate gun-control with a passion, yet they promote it.

If you are a Republican that believes that Socialism is evil; then how can you justify a 'work ethic' which serves no purpose but to fuel it and keep it going? You prove that you want America to be destroyed because you, exclusively, fund the redistribution of your own efforts. Nobody else is paying taxes but you! It's your fault!

Mock me if you want... It's hard to live in a world filled with so many blind idiots making it worse for my son. Think he can figure it out? Part of me hopes he doesn't. He can be just another dumbass who doesn't get it....

Ignorance truly is bliss.
 

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I got that too:

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Batousaii

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sudden valley gunner wrote:
:banghead::banghead::banghead::banghead::banghead::banghead::banghead::banghead::banghead::banghead::banghead::banghead::banghead::banghead::banghead::banghead::banghead::banghead::banghead::banghead::banghead::banghead::banghead::banghead::banghead::banghead::banghead::banghead::banghead::banghead::banghead: Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh.
Who has the ability to start pasting silly pictures this is getting ridiculous.

LoL - Heya SVG .. Ya found me...

- I gotta get my periodic debate in ya know .... it's a weakness.... a guys gotta have a hobby right ??

- ok ok ... i'll chill :p

<mumbles about not bein able to sneek outa state for a good debate>

lol - Bat.
 
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