Depends on the context to which you are referring*. Yes good point Sardonicus. It was surprising for me to learn, as it happened yersterday when i read your post, that the only hypocrite worthy of mention was myself, always playing the role of the carefree yet "defeated" underdog, always feeling sorry for myself, always but always carelessly throwing my anxieties and inexperience in others faces. I unwarily and incautiously picked others, or situations that they found themselves in, to be hypocrites, the system to which they belonged as unworthy, and sought to exclude myself from this insanity and lack of cohesiveness. I thought this was a wise move, and that the benefits would be worth the initial outlay. Because ultimately i was jealous, though not outwardly, of others successes both in the material world and without. Of course this gets rather complicated here, but i had no way to accurately guage the success and of course the happiness of others. So it contented me to arbitrarily choose winners and losers, (read : one can easily spot the contradictions here), always on the defensive, and always on some tedious ad hoc scale, which of course is pure nonsense. Again i just didn't have the wisdom to relate, it was a rather careless form of hatred, but at the same time also a very convenient way for me to hide some rather childish emotions that i didn't even know were there, namely innocence, insecurity, happiness and of course greed. This was tragic, i was judging others even though i didn't even know them. Nor did i ever consciously seek this path. Tis only to hide frustrations and feelings that i felt inside, but wanted to hide. I sought happiness in the materialism of my rather obscure and unintended thoughts, never thinking once that feelings are what really mattered. This is one thing i could not understand, and not having the tools, to deal with the real world, is a rather poor excuse. Hence the role of the "outsider" which i gladly adopted. I was forever happy and upbeat. I always had a smile on my face.
* post from the Peter Singer smalltalk thread
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Posted by dragonfly @ 2006-11-21 16:31:07 EST
You can use me as an example in an argument about middle-class living any time.
Thank you foon for the thumbs up, but i'll pass on your offer to belittle what is so casually referred to as the :::trumpets please::: middleclass. To me that is just alot of happy successful people living in nice houses with a low crime rate. I am more or less a product of the middleclass environment than anything else, i saw the hypocrisy (read : I had made an humongous error in judgment), i tried to get away from it, i tried to be a part of it, i tried anything, even gasp religion, but it didn't work, nothing seemed to take hold.
Here's the strange part, I ended up... accomplishing nothing. Like really. With me it was definitely an infatuation with the material world, and at one time knowing how to dumpsterdive was all that one really needed to know, the only tools really necessary. That being said i am thoroughly confused as to why it would be next to impossible to live on the streets in Britian.
And dagda thanks for taking us back to the stoneage with that rather tasteless image, a relic of an era gone by. But to be honest, i got quite a laugh out of it. Thanks.
Sure it's in bad taste, but here the benefits do outweigh the costs, and it is comforting to know that dagda and others have finally realized that they were "doing battle" with careless, crass and ultimately hypocritical individuals. That is worth the price of admission alone.
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you seem to run on stress Dragonfly!
Posted by Bigjamesone @ 2006-11-23 03:14:44 EST
hi, hope you are well (from your other post) i rather assumed you were telling a joke but then thought you might be trying to say some thing without wanting sympathy... sympathy sucks, what probably is needed is empathy.....
anyhoo, do you have to be an underdog? i can't believe you want to be, or are a underdog, a human with the usual range of feelings, i do get! being passionate about a subject is not a crime, neither is writing about it passionately, a crime. taking offence to what others have said is easy to do. its worth noting that individual responses to things tell us a lot about ourselves....
i'm not sure if you gave us an update with the getting busted thing, are they taking you to court?
so are you OK?
any way of topic and off thread an' off me head:)
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Posted by Sardonicus @ 2006-11-23 03:19:53 EST
[[Depends on the context to which you are referring*. Yes good point Sardonicus. It was surprising for me to learn, as it happened yersterday when i read your post, that the only hypocrite worthy of mention was myself, always playing the role of the carefree yet "defeated" underdog]]
Huh? I think you totally misread me. S'OK. I'm used to it.
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Posted by dragonfly @ 2006-12-04 16:08:23 EST
Wrong answer, the answer is no.
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