I'm gonna live FOREVER!And I'm gonna live even longer.
Man, I am en route to be the God of Grumpitude!
Also, favorite new word; Humbleocity!
And another '!' for good measure...
A year and a half ago, I could have eviscerated him with my thoughts. Now I can barely hurt his feelings. Things used to be so much simpler.
Anya ,'Dirty Girls'
Natter 43: I Love My Dead Gay Whale Crosspost.
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Pete, Husband of Jilli - Mar 21, 2006 6:52:38 pm PST #5455 of 10001
"I've got a gun! I've got a mother-flippin' gun!" - Moss, The IT Crowd
Allyson - Mar 21, 2006 7:09:34 pm PST #5456 of 10001
Wait, is this real-world child support, where the money goes to buy food for the kids, or MRA fantasyland child support where the women just buy Ferraris and cocaine? -Jessica
I don't want vengeance against anyone. I am content in the "living well" thang.
Shit. I'm single, live in LA (in a great part of LA to boot), have pretty hair, am surrounded by interesting people, have a book deal, AND have the best nephew EVAR!
Life, while annoying, is mostly good.
A lot of the people who have caused me injury and aggravation have either been punished by the criminal justice system or karma.
I'm reserving all vengeance on behalf of my nephew, should he ever need it. Auntie Allyson knows a lot of people. My wrath shall be swift and merciless should anyone cause him pain.
Right?
ETA: He is 2 years old, today!
§ ita § - Mar 21, 2006 7:12:18 pm PST #5457 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I don't really want to hurt the people they are *now*
Yeah. I hear you. There were points at which seeing the people in question suffer would have cheered me. Points much closer to the pain. Mostly, though, I'd have preferred the suffering to happen in a time/fashion that'd have stopped them from doing the full extent of the things that caused me the pain in the first place.
Don't get me wrong--I'm not an overly forgiving person. There are grudges I expect to hold until I die, people I have no intention of caring a bout, or even speaking less than tersely to ever again.
But that's not much of a punishment.
Lee - Mar 21, 2006 7:13:12 pm PST #5458 of 10001
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.
What ita said.
billytea - Mar 21, 2006 7:16:57 pm PST #5459 of 10001
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.
ETA: He is 2 years old, today!
How lovely! Turn two, the rest are food!
§ ita § - Mar 21, 2006 8:21:09 pm PST #5460 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
How do you pronounce schadenfreude again?
JohnSweden - Mar 21, 2006 8:25:37 pm PST #5461 of 10001
I can't even.
I don't really want to hurt the people they are *now*
I learned this lesson with the help of the wisdom of Billy Connolly. He has a song called "Tha Janny" about a janitor that tormented him when he was at school, and how his small self vowed eternal hatred and revenge. He encounters him later in life.
"If ah'd laid a haund upon hem, ma mates woulda murdured me ... a perr wee sowwel is tha janny."
A poor little soul is the janny.
Consuela - Mar 21, 2006 8:46:44 pm PST #5462 of 10001
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
The problem with vengeance is that it's a poor substitute for vindication.
I'd love vengeance or vindication for my evil ex-boss, who lied to me, about me, and treated me like shit on a job that started so promisingly and that I'd moved across the country to take. I fantasized for several years about making him pay, but nothing ever seemed like it would work, and it wouldn't ever get what I wanted, which was for him to admit that he was wrong and had mistreated me.
Because no matter what happened, he was never going to admit that I was right. So.
Sean K - Mar 21, 2006 9:38:03 pm PST #5463 of 10001
You can't leave me to my own devices; my devices are Nap and Eat. -Zenkitty
How do you pronounce schadenfreude again?
SHA-den-FROY-duh.
Cashmere - Mar 21, 2006 10:17:33 pm PST #5464 of 10001
Now tagless for your comfort.
Happiest of birthdays to Allyson's cutiehead nephew!
From tommyrot's link:
Edgell believes a fear of moral decline and resulting social disorder is behind the findings. “Americans believe they share more than rules and procedures with their fellow citizens—they share an understanding of right and wrong,” she said. “Our findings seem to rest on a view of atheists as self-interested individuals who are not concerned with the common good.”
Where do the Atheist-leaning agnostics fall under this study, I wonder? Are there torches and pitchforks for us as well?