Hypothetically, someone wants to know if you're either gay, or an asshole.
Before I answer this I've got to ask: are we in high school? If so, where do all the cool kids hang-out during their free period? Is it still cool to listen to Metallica? The Cure?
Anyhow, here's my answer, provided that I must choose one or the other: I choose asshole.
It was not a difficult decision; not that anyone would ever have to make this decision in reality.
My resolution has nothing to do with the respective natures of the two -- meaning specifically that I have no qualms with homosexuals -- but more to do with the fact that one is an accidental attribution and the other is a concrete attribute. If you don't know what that means: one is someone's opinion of you and the other is something actually about you. I can't choose certain things about myself -- like my heterosexuality in this case -- so I will choose the other. Accidental attributes are meaningless, anyhow.
On a side note: "it takes one to know one." Given that old adage, I'm always surprised when certain people have to ask who the asshole is.
(Now onto an entirely unrelated topic)
On the topic of vendetta: revenge is for those deprived of reason, or as the Roman poet Juvenal wrote:
"Revenge is always the weak pleasure of a little and narrow mind."
In fact, it seems that the attribution of responsibility to others for one's condition creates the pleasurable feeling of revenge. In laymen terms, by placing blame on a concrete entity allows you to falsely pacify and disarm the conflict by lashing out against that entity -- when in truth, the whole situation arose out of mere folly. The manifestation of the ethereal problem into a physical one is likely due to a lack of coping and/or social skills.
This probably stems from the Christian root of our society; if it's bad, blame the devil or other cultures. Blame anyone else, because 'God' is on our side. Besides, nothing bad ever comes out of Christianity, right?
The Christians have removed a basic innocence from humanity, and thus we feel that every action which offends us deserves an equally offensive action -- it's a psychological presupposition that every action has a conscious origin. That assumption is, as even those of little mind know, brilliantly false.
"An eye for an eye..." that's from the 'good book.'
(I think the company is starting to rub-off, eh?)
If you feel like your problem cannot be resolved with words, then the problem is your own, and will always be yours alone -- long after you exact your petty revenge.
Maybe just pick up the goddamn phone and talk it out.
Would that we were all more progressive and much less regressive.
Before I answer this I've got to ask: are we in high school? If so, where do all the cool kids hang-out during their free period? Is it still cool to listen to Metallica? The Cure?
Anyhow, here's my answer, provided that I must choose one or the other: I choose asshole.
It was not a difficult decision; not that anyone would ever have to make this decision in reality.
My resolution has nothing to do with the respective natures of the two -- meaning specifically that I have no qualms with homosexuals -- but more to do with the fact that one is an accidental attribution and the other is a concrete attribute. If you don't know what that means: one is someone's opinion of you and the other is something actually about you. I can't choose certain things about myself -- like my heterosexuality in this case -- so I will choose the other. Accidental attributes are meaningless, anyhow.
On a side note: "it takes one to know one." Given that old adage, I'm always surprised when certain people have to ask who the asshole is.
(Now onto an entirely unrelated topic)
On the topic of vendetta: revenge is for those deprived of reason, or as the Roman poet Juvenal wrote:
"Revenge is always the weak pleasure of a little and narrow mind."
In fact, it seems that the attribution of responsibility to others for one's condition creates the pleasurable feeling of revenge. In laymen terms, by placing blame on a concrete entity allows you to falsely pacify and disarm the conflict by lashing out against that entity -- when in truth, the whole situation arose out of mere folly. The manifestation of the ethereal problem into a physical one is likely due to a lack of coping and/or social skills.
This probably stems from the Christian root of our society; if it's bad, blame the devil or other cultures. Blame anyone else, because 'God' is on our side. Besides, nothing bad ever comes out of Christianity, right?
The Christians have removed a basic innocence from humanity, and thus we feel that every action which offends us deserves an equally offensive action -- it's a psychological presupposition that every action has a conscious origin. That assumption is, as even those of little mind know, brilliantly false.
"An eye for an eye..." that's from the 'good book.'
(I think the company is starting to rub-off, eh?)
If you feel like your problem cannot be resolved with words, then the problem is your own, and will always be yours alone -- long after you exact your petty revenge.
Maybe just pick up the goddamn phone and talk it out.
Would that we were all more progressive and much less regressive.
petty revenge is a lot more amusing than listening to you rant about disliking my petty revenge.
anyway, i'm mostly joking. or at least, i was joking, until you started acting like a douchebag.
..and yes, that was also a joke.
ciao captain,
Laceyshit