Keeping things simple isn't as simple as it seems. Well I'm sure it is if you are socialized to keep things simple. However if you are not socialized that way and the society around you says the way to measure success is to have stuff. Then by not having stuff aren't you making a statement against society.
Anyway I need to simplify things
I also notice that hate spreads much faster than love
Saturday, January 10, 2009
Friday, January 9, 2009
I sort of missed my point
So I’ve missed my point, which based on my past writing in other blogs is something I do rather a lot. Jumbled ideas.
So I had several things floating in my head yesterday. One I don’t like people, Two I was tired of hearing about everyone complain about how they weren’t keeping their resolutions, three I need to stop swearing in some settings, four we are indeed heading to hell in a hand basket which was more related to not liking people and five that when does being snarky just become being a disagreeable person.
I think I need to clarify the snarky to disagreeable thing. I guess when you are jobless and snarky no matter what age you are it’s not a good thing. So teens without the job or more to the point the real means to support yourself out of your parent’s home, it is disagreeable and at times rude. So Dane Cook can be snarky you pay him to be, you being snarky to your math teacher is a bad idea.
If you are an unemployed adult with the ability to work and don’t because you don’t want to work you loose the right to be snarky.
With that out of the way, the issue of people. I like people, well some people. As most of you I don’t know a significant amount of the population and can’t say if they are worthy of distain or not. If they are driving in front of me 20 miles an hour slower than the posted limit on dry roads then I don’t like you very much and I am most likely giving you the finger under the sight line of other motorists and muttering swear words under my breath. See they do have place in society. Then I remember that I should be calmer and I breathe and just pray for you to turn to go in a different direction than I am going.
However I am not liking people a lot recently. I know this is because of my job. I get to deal with people who should not be doing the things they are doing. Mostly they know better but they just don’t care. You know if you don’t want kids, don’t fuck. If you want to fuck and don’t want kids use birth control. If you get knocked up and don’t want the kids there are solutions to that. I’m not going to advocate any one over another. My choice is mine and yours is yours. You are free to do which ever you want. Then you can sleep until noon and as long as you can pay your rent or find someone willing to let you lay in their bed and not pay bills then so be it.
The last paragraph leads nicely to my next point when is snarky just disagreeable. I will concede that maybe some of the aforementioned people have some redeeming qualities and don’t need to be shoot on sight but mainly I’m not liking them. But does my saying they are lazy, bottom feeding scum make me a disagreeable person or can my flip comments be seen as snarky rants because I do try to help them even if my heart isn’t in it for them. I’m not a bleeding heart liberal but I’m not a board up my butt conservative either. Mostly these slack ass people do know better but only just. We would have called them JEEP’s in the military Just Educated Enough to Pass. That doesn’t make for very good citizens. It doesn’t make for a very good work force, it doesn’t make for a very good society and the list goes on and on. That’s why I’m not conservative you can’t expect to have a strong society if you don’t invest in the society and by that I mean the people. However, there comes a point where you do know right from wrong and need to be held accountable for your actions. Not everyone is as mentally ill as the APA or counseling association would like to think they are so the can send billable hours to insurance companies or Medicaid. Anyway there is a middle path in there.
That is only part of dislike of people, our own lack of care and greed. Greed is why we driving our selves to the brink of destruction. You don’t need to have 2000 percent profit on everything you sell. Some things sure why not if you can get it, fine but come on people not everything we do is worth 900.00 an hour.
Then the resolutions don’t make them if you don’t intend to keep them and if you don’t keep them I don’t want to hear about it. And I’m not trying to stop cussing as part of a resolution I’m just not trying to swear in certain settings. Which has made me question if I’m snarky or am I a disagreeable person? I think I’m snarky but the use of swears I think at times just makes me seem disagreeable and the use of absolute terms in things too because not all of any person is bad and not all of any person is redeeming.
I’m just me
Have a great day and play nice in the neighborhood,
Ciao,
invisible don aka King of Bastards
(bumper stickers available on request)
So I had several things floating in my head yesterday. One I don’t like people, Two I was tired of hearing about everyone complain about how they weren’t keeping their resolutions, three I need to stop swearing in some settings, four we are indeed heading to hell in a hand basket which was more related to not liking people and five that when does being snarky just become being a disagreeable person.
I think I need to clarify the snarky to disagreeable thing. I guess when you are jobless and snarky no matter what age you are it’s not a good thing. So teens without the job or more to the point the real means to support yourself out of your parent’s home, it is disagreeable and at times rude. So Dane Cook can be snarky you pay him to be, you being snarky to your math teacher is a bad idea.
If you are an unemployed adult with the ability to work and don’t because you don’t want to work you loose the right to be snarky.
With that out of the way, the issue of people. I like people, well some people. As most of you I don’t know a significant amount of the population and can’t say if they are worthy of distain or not. If they are driving in front of me 20 miles an hour slower than the posted limit on dry roads then I don’t like you very much and I am most likely giving you the finger under the sight line of other motorists and muttering swear words under my breath. See they do have place in society. Then I remember that I should be calmer and I breathe and just pray for you to turn to go in a different direction than I am going.
However I am not liking people a lot recently. I know this is because of my job. I get to deal with people who should not be doing the things they are doing. Mostly they know better but they just don’t care. You know if you don’t want kids, don’t fuck. If you want to fuck and don’t want kids use birth control. If you get knocked up and don’t want the kids there are solutions to that. I’m not going to advocate any one over another. My choice is mine and yours is yours. You are free to do which ever you want. Then you can sleep until noon and as long as you can pay your rent or find someone willing to let you lay in their bed and not pay bills then so be it.
The last paragraph leads nicely to my next point when is snarky just disagreeable. I will concede that maybe some of the aforementioned people have some redeeming qualities and don’t need to be shoot on sight but mainly I’m not liking them. But does my saying they are lazy, bottom feeding scum make me a disagreeable person or can my flip comments be seen as snarky rants because I do try to help them even if my heart isn’t in it for them. I’m not a bleeding heart liberal but I’m not a board up my butt conservative either. Mostly these slack ass people do know better but only just. We would have called them JEEP’s in the military Just Educated Enough to Pass. That doesn’t make for very good citizens. It doesn’t make for a very good work force, it doesn’t make for a very good society and the list goes on and on. That’s why I’m not conservative you can’t expect to have a strong society if you don’t invest in the society and by that I mean the people. However, there comes a point where you do know right from wrong and need to be held accountable for your actions. Not everyone is as mentally ill as the APA or counseling association would like to think they are so the can send billable hours to insurance companies or Medicaid. Anyway there is a middle path in there.
That is only part of dislike of people, our own lack of care and greed. Greed is why we driving our selves to the brink of destruction. You don’t need to have 2000 percent profit on everything you sell. Some things sure why not if you can get it, fine but come on people not everything we do is worth 900.00 an hour.
Then the resolutions don’t make them if you don’t intend to keep them and if you don’t keep them I don’t want to hear about it. And I’m not trying to stop cussing as part of a resolution I’m just not trying to swear in certain settings. Which has made me question if I’m snarky or am I a disagreeable person? I think I’m snarky but the use of swears I think at times just makes me seem disagreeable and the use of absolute terms in things too because not all of any person is bad and not all of any person is redeeming.
I’m just me
Have a great day and play nice in the neighborhood,
Ciao,
invisible don aka King of Bastards
(bumper stickers available on request)
Thursday, January 8, 2009
Resolution-less
Resolution-less
Really what is the point of making a resolution? Most of us are not resolute in anything we say we are going to do. We are a nation of slackers, malcontents and then scratch our heads or more correctly our bloating stomachs or widening sitting muscles and wonder why is it that the rest of the world is passing us by and leaving our high school shenanigans and policies behind.
So if you are reading this why not dash over to the dictionary. You know that dusty book of words under the leg of your table keeping it balanced. Yeah get about a half dozen of your cosmos or gamer guides and replace them for the dictionary and look up resolute. I’ll wait.
I’m trying not to swear as much, not that I don’t think “swears” have there place in our language I believe that they do, however like the green wax isn’t currently acceptable. Am I resolute in this no because I don’t believe that the stick wearing up tight people are correct about certain words self censoring to please others – which I hate myself for but it allows me to keep things I do like. Sell out …perhaps … pragmatic is more to the point. But really my point is that while many of you may be contemplating your failure to keep your resolutions made all of a week ago, most likely in the haste of a drunken stupor … don’t feel so badly you weren’t all that resolute about the change anyway because if you were, your starting point wouldn’t have been January 1 following a night of binge drinking it would have been the first time you told yourself that what you were doing was a problem
I’ve been resolute in one resolution thus far. Not to make resolutions any more. I’ve been resolute in that now for well over 10 years.
Really what is the point of making a resolution? Most of us are not resolute in anything we say we are going to do. We are a nation of slackers, malcontents and then scratch our heads or more correctly our bloating stomachs or widening sitting muscles and wonder why is it that the rest of the world is passing us by and leaving our high school shenanigans and policies behind.
So if you are reading this why not dash over to the dictionary. You know that dusty book of words under the leg of your table keeping it balanced. Yeah get about a half dozen of your cosmos or gamer guides and replace them for the dictionary and look up resolute. I’ll wait.
I’m trying not to swear as much, not that I don’t think “swears” have there place in our language I believe that they do, however like the green wax isn’t currently acceptable. Am I resolute in this no because I don’t believe that the stick wearing up tight people are correct about certain words self censoring to please others – which I hate myself for but it allows me to keep things I do like. Sell out …perhaps … pragmatic is more to the point. But really my point is that while many of you may be contemplating your failure to keep your resolutions made all of a week ago, most likely in the haste of a drunken stupor … don’t feel so badly you weren’t all that resolute about the change anyway because if you were, your starting point wouldn’t have been January 1 following a night of binge drinking it would have been the first time you told yourself that what you were doing was a problem
I’ve been resolute in one resolution thus far. Not to make resolutions any more. I’ve been resolute in that now for well over 10 years.
Tuesday, December 30, 2008
2008 nearly gone
Another calendar nearly gone... again. This year alone ... again.
I wasn't alone last year as the calendar flipped and I still very much wish I was with her again this year, I won't be no matter how hard I wish... even if I close my eyes and pray with every fiber of my being.
So I will be alone, it's just one more day alone
I wasn't alone last year as the calendar flipped and I still very much wish I was with her again this year, I won't be no matter how hard I wish... even if I close my eyes and pray with every fiber of my being.
So I will be alone, it's just one more day alone
Sunday, December 28, 2008
Whose in the room
Our lives are a series of rooms. Rooms we build and rooms we visit. The ones we visit are built by other people. The rooms we build have rules that we like the ones we visit have rules that other people like.
How do you act in the rooms of others?
Still self censoring which sucks but at least I'm leaving you all with a question. And at this point I'm thinking that the only one left with the question is me.
How do you act in the rooms of others?
Still self censoring which sucks but at least I'm leaving you all with a question. And at this point I'm thinking that the only one left with the question is me.
Monday, December 22, 2008
I just don't understand...
There is a lot in life that I don't understand. So much so that there isn't time or space to explain all of the things that I don't understand.
Recently the things I don't understand have expanded
However with that realization that there are things I don't understand I have decided that I don't really care. I am pulling back and becoming what I once was a long time ago.
I can't stop self censoring and it is driving me crazy. I'll write something and then I delete it.
I write it differently and delete it again.
what is the point in doing anything if I'm not saying what I want to say
Oh and by the way I really really am not good at HALO3
Recently the things I don't understand have expanded
However with that realization that there are things I don't understand I have decided that I don't really care. I am pulling back and becoming what I once was a long time ago.
I can't stop self censoring and it is driving me crazy. I'll write something and then I delete it.
I write it differently and delete it again.
what is the point in doing anything if I'm not saying what I want to say
Oh and by the way I really really am not good at HALO3
Sunday, December 21, 2008
'tis the season... for what I'm not really sure.
I look around me and I see my fellow humans. Mostly I just shake my head. I'm not any better than anyone else on the planet. My life is my own and worth the same 7.38 in compounds as anyone else. I'm accused of thinking I'm better than others but that is something else entirely.
The point is that in my own lifetime I've seen this society turn into a toxic waste dump. We are truly devoid of any culture, manners, respect, caring, or humanity.
We delude ourselves into thinking we are OK but we are not. We think we care because we buy gifts for people, we say nice things to those we know, we act polite when we are around those who might think ill of us if they saw us act a certain way.
I watched a mass of people go through a store that was going out of business. Sad really because it's a good store. I like it and would shop there more if I had more money. However these people took things off the shelf and if it wasn't what they wanted they just tossed it on the floor. All over the store there was really no order.
I had to leave because I could stomach the sheer disregard for order that was displayed there.
merry christmas indeed
The point is that in my own lifetime I've seen this society turn into a toxic waste dump. We are truly devoid of any culture, manners, respect, caring, or humanity.
We delude ourselves into thinking we are OK but we are not. We think we care because we buy gifts for people, we say nice things to those we know, we act polite when we are around those who might think ill of us if they saw us act a certain way.
I watched a mass of people go through a store that was going out of business. Sad really because it's a good store. I like it and would shop there more if I had more money. However these people took things off the shelf and if it wasn't what they wanted they just tossed it on the floor. All over the store there was really no order.
I had to leave because I could stomach the sheer disregard for order that was displayed there.
merry christmas indeed
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