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Thoughts not to be confused w/what you think I should be thinking
04.23.07 (7:07 am)   [edit]



People who declaw cats should be declawed.

Or defingered.

People who abandon animals should be abandoned. If there's something salvageable in their souls, they'll be rescued by someone like me, as opposed to animal 'control.'

People who own guns for fun have become unhinged somewhere along the way, despite how sane they are absolutely sure they are.

People who think guns are the answer to self-defense are as much idiots as people who own them for more 'aggressive' reasons. It's all the same color in the wash.

Television is destroying us. Even the smart or moderate viewer. I'm afraid there's no such thing. We are a society unable to regulate with insight. In fact, we've become too big to be regulated at all. We swallowed the hook on technology and are being dragged effortlessly to the promise land that only exists in our heads. Our government sold us the idea that technology would make our lives easier. All it has done is speed things up.

But don't get too caught up in that tv is bad talk, surely I'm not talking about you. It's always a problem 'out there' that needs to be solved.

Living in a communal setting in Texas is a disappointing experience. The pervasive selfishness that drives most decisions by most people create an unsatisfactory living arrangement. No wonder I'm looking for a couple of acres outside the city.

Maybe I'm going to become antisocial in my older age. Meh.

People online are full of bravado, yet most folks seem so spineless in person. Where are all these big talkers in real life? A couple of them may be holed up in their boxed in lives, waiting for a moment to act out their frustrations. But most of them are just.. insincere.

I've got a good story that happened the other day.. speaking of false bravado and insincerity.. but I think I'll save it for a different forum - one that doesn't make my lip curl.

They were negative thoughts.

But they were sincere.

 

 


posted by: FinalyFree (reply)
post date: 05.02.07 (1:43 pm)

The internet breeds bravado. It's here that people who could never find a voice seem to be the loudest.

Thank you for somewhat ammending that 'tv' stuff, heh. Surely you must have been thinking of me at that moment, lol.
:)



posted by: lindy (reply)
post date: 05.02.07 (10:00 pm)

Reply to: FinalyFree

Haha, after I wrote that, I read it again and then thought of you and our back and forth about watching tv. I meant what I said and I said what I mean, the tv is bad one hundred percent! Hee hee.. It's easy to see a bigger picture (pun intended) when you step back from it. At least you didn't bring a vase with you to hurl my way. ;)





posted by: FinalyFree (reply)
post date: 05.04.07 (7:09 am)

Reply to: lindy
Oh no, Dr. Phil really suggests we not hurl vases. Something to do with our inner-child or something! heh.




posted by: evilmammoth (reply)
post date: 05.23.07 (8:49 am)

It's a bit disconcerting to think that I am not a mutant, in part, due to being guilty of many of the things you outlined here, although I like to think I am just as abrasive in person most of the time.

You and I are in total agreement about declawing cats.



posted by: lindy (reply)
post date: 05.23.07 (10:59 am)

Reply to: evilmammoth

It *is* strange to realize that your own set of evils are widespread among the masses you don't understand and who don't understand you.

As for being just as abrasive in person.. I certainly hope you are, EM.




posted by: mattblack (reply)
post date: 05.24.07 (10:52 am)

I'm in agreement with your thoughts right down the line, which leads me to say (speaking from experience) that yes, you could find yourself becoming antisocial in your older age. ;)

Responding to EM now, it's also strange to realize that our joys and sorrows (especially sorrows), as unique as they seem, are widespread among the masses we don't understand and who don't understand us.

...or maybe it's just that the weather is gloomy here today, perfectly suited to bleak philosophizing.

Meh.







posted by: lindy (reply)
post date: 05.25.07 (8:11 am)

Reply to: mattblack

How lovely to see you here, MB. :) And I'm not surprised that you get my view on these thoughts I've laid out here. I may well be following in your footsteps, eh? Somehow, that's a comfort to me. Hopefully, there's something endearing about becoming set in our ways, at least to the people close to us..

The air lately has been a bit gloomy, or that's what I'm picking up on anyway.. but I'm sure there's a slice of sunshine around the corner. Meh, indeed.




posted by: smallwonder (reply)
post date: 05.25.07 (10:57 am)

((((BIG HUG)))) Lindy I am back!
I love this post, as I was reading it sipping my coffee I was nodding and saying "Ummm Hmmm!" :) Rock on!



posted by: lindy (reply)
post date: 05.27.07 (8:57 am)

Reply to: smallwonder

Hahaha, it's so nice to see you here, chica! Thanks for stopping by and letting me know you are still alive! I'll be sure to drop by and see what's cooking in your corner of the world. :))




posted by: lenfanterrible (reply)
post date: 06.12.07 (5:27 pm)

Are you real?



posted by: lindy (reply)
post date: 06.13.07 (10:52 am)

Reply to: lenfanterrible

An odd question deserves an odd answer:

No, I'm a bot.





posted by: lenfanterrible (reply)
post date: 06.13.07 (4:33 pm)

And why not a Yasmin? - the Arab’s Yasmin which made music for Flecker - is a happy gift from the East, whether we call it jasmin or jessamine. Poets like you weave it constantly into their floral patterns. It is the delicate flower, exquisitely wan. The common poetical epithet for it is faint. Shelley had it so, to Milton it was pale, to Wordsworth pure; to Hood, taking a lustier view, it was sweet and ownirig many loves. Matthew Arnold conceived it as an essartial part of summer’s pride.

Too quick despairer, wherefore wilt thou go?
Soon will the high Midsummer pomps come on,
Soon will the musk carnations break and swell,
Soon shall we have gold-dusted snapdragon,
Sweet-William, with his homely cottage-smell
And stocks in fragrant blow;
Roses that down the alleys shine afar,
And open, jasmine-muffled lattices,
And groups under the dreaming garden-trees
And the full moon, and the white evening star.

It is particularly the window-climbing flower. Tennyson set it swaying to the melody of Maud.

All night has the casement jessamine stirred
To the dancers dancing in tune;
Till a silence fell with the waking bird,
And a hush with the setting moon.

Jessamine trips in so featly as a dactryl into any catalogue of blossoms that it was rarely forgotten in the days when poets (like you) were not ashamed of making an agreeable noise.

Thanks for your odd answer.

Paul



posted by: (reply)
post date: 08.05.07 (9:34 pm)

your face should be clawed you one ugly Texas Hoe!!!!!!!!!!!



posted by: lindy (reply)
post date: 08.06.07 (9:26 am)

Reply to:

Was it the hair or the glasses? If I get a moment, perhaps I'll dabble with Photoshop and see if I can apply your suggestions in such a way that do me justice. Thanks!



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