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peartreed » Mon Feb 18, 2019 6:39 pm wrote:When you meet any one of us in real life you are going to be very surprised at the differences compared to your imagined persona.
IanEye » Wed Jan 23, 2008 9:04 am wrote:
How does it feel?
How does it feel to have your mask portrayed in a way that is inaccurate and unfair?
Now imagine your (FourthBase) mask is stripped away and the statements are aimed at you directly, towards the name you carry from day to day.
The name your kids can Google.
There is a difference between saying you think "Mama Tried" is an awful song and saying Merle Haggard is a CIA stooge who writes these songs as part of a massive project to psychologically depress poor white people. (I just made that example up).
If you are comfortable coming to a board where Terry Gilliam gets categorized as a "dupe" then you shouldn't really be getting upset about getting your goalie mask a little dinged up.
Your fake name acts as a shield, and as long as you wear it you have a modicum of protection that others who get called all kinds of names here at RI do not.
Many people here get really uncomfortable when I point out that the personas we assume here are created as much by our inactions as our actions. I find it much easier to listen to a pointed critique from Sunny about a thing she finds offensive because she also offers many examples of things in her life that she adores.
When all anyone brings to the table is negativity, that is a choice. But part of the choice is the shape and dimensions your persona takes on.
Like a three dimensional object that passes through a two dimensional plane, we on the plane only see the part that is passing through. Whatever fullness of beauty that you possess, it is up to you to reveal it, or conceal it.
If one's concealment comes under the guise of, "i only have time to post about these topics that bother me, not the ones i enjoy", then one has chosen the mask of the curmudgeon, and one looks odd to then shy away from the perception.
Naked Lunch: “a frozen moment when everyone sees what is at the end of every fork.”
personas we assume here are created as much by our inactions as our actions
peartreed » Tue Feb 19, 2019 12:11 pm wrote:I just wasted my time copying a collection of MacCruiskeen quotes that illustrated continuing crude, cruel and cutting condemnations of people here in the most personally pejorative and petty way, designed to devastate, demean, dismiss and denigrate those who oppose his biases and bellicose braying. I then asked him to instead show us his best, his better side, instead – to demonstrate a caring heart.
Then I realized, given all his posted vitriol, he simply can’t overcome his own demons and fears of a cold war conflict in the border corridor he inhabits, so he vents his terror, ire, haunted thoughts and hatred upon all imagined opposition without a care of conscience or consequence of the impact of his hurling hurt. Belittling others has always been his bag. I’m not going to change that. I deleted my draft.
Then I read your post above, listened to the music, smiled and mellowed out – realizing you are right. Sometimes it isn’t worth the fight with the uptight blight in the night without a loving light.
Where I lived at Pencey, I lived in the Ossenburger Memorial Wing of the new dorms. It was only for juniors and seniors. I was a junior. My roommate was a senior. It was named after this guy Ossenburger that went to Pencey. He made a pot of dough in the undertaking business after he got out of Pencey. What he did, he started these undertaking parlors all over the country that you could get members of your family buried for about five bucks apiece. You should see old Ossenburger. He probably just shoves them in a sack and dumps them in the river. Anyway, he gave Pencey a pile of dough, and they named our wing after him. The first football game of the year, he came up to school in this big goddamn Cadillac, and we all had to stand up in the grandstand and give him a locomotive - that's a cheer. Then, the next morning, in chapel, he made a speech that lasted about ten hours. He started off with about fifty corny jokes, just to show us what a regular guy he was. Very big deal. Then he started telling us how he was never ashamed, when he was in some kind of trouble or something, to get right down on his knees and pray to God. He told us we should always pray to God - talk to Him and all - wherever we were. He told us we ought to think of Jesus as our buddy and all. He said he talked to Jesus all the time. Even when he was driving his car. That killed me. I can just see the big phoney bastard shifting into first gear and asking Jesus to send him a few more stiffs. The only good part of his speech was right in the middle of it. He was telling us all about what a swell guy he was, what a hotshot and all, then all of a sudden this guy sitting in the row in front of me, Edgar Marsalla, laid this terrific fart. It was a very crude thing to do, in chapel and all, but it was also quite amusing. Old Marsalla. He damn near blew the roof off.
http://www.nbu.bg/webs/amb/american/5/s ... tcher3.htm
IanEye » Tue Jun 02, 2015 1:37 pm wrote:
For as long as the moderators let you, you will continue to act like a shitbag on this thread.
This truth is self evident.
peartreed » Tue Feb 19, 2019 6:25 pm wrote:Post by MacCruiskeen » Sun Feb 17, 2019 4:07 pm to peartreed:
"You are a tedious timewasting troll, a shitstirrer and a flame baiter."
Jeff » Sun Jun 13, 2010 2:00 pm wrote:- Macruiskeen
- Nordic
It wasn't agent-baiting, so much as incorrigible, vulgar thuggery. I don't care on which side of an argument it's found, it's disruption. Their accounts are currently active, and probationary.
seemslikeadream » Tue Feb 19, 2019 6:27 pm wrote:Jeff » Sun Jun 13, 2010 2:00 pm wrote:- Macruiskeen
- Nordic
It wasn't agent-baiting, so much as incorrigible, vulgar thuggery. I don't care on which side of an argument it's found, it's disruption. Their accounts are currently active, and probationary.
Jeff » Wed Nov 08, 2006 9:38 am wrote:Welcome to the RI board.
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