Requiescat In Pacem
If you seek pablum, palaver, prunes, potato pancakes, proselytization, proles, patsies, placebos, plum pudding, porridge, platitudes, and pomposity - well, you got it. A pathetic pile-up of the spiritually challenged.[Spiritually challenged? And you would be spiritually...normal, unchallenged, unbound??? Just exactly how wonderful are you, because from your writing you appear small, angry and ultra cranky. I understand ultra cranky, having been there, but then I don't consider myself the be all end all of spirituality.]
So be it.
But, why would you seek it?
It's like watching a bunch of pre-schoolers with Super-Electro-Cyber Rocket Launchers zapping their teeth out, one after the other, and saying, "Good, Greg. I like the way you did that. Do it again. For me?" [Nasty and disdainful. You have used the preschooler analogy before though, gsm, don't wear it out. We'll start to think maybe you are the preschooler if you can't come up with numerous and creative insulting analogies.]
The last time I was on this thread, I realized it was a sort of possessive matriarchy that nurtured the severely malnutritious.[There is nothing per se morally or socially wrong with a matriarchy, even though both Penni and I would probably disagree that this is one. Being polite to others, and respecting the poems posted here is hardly being dictatorial. Nurturance is not a violent act gsm, at least not for most people.]
This time, though the conclusion is not much different, I want to add a new bit of insight. You say, "As for disdain--well-you said it. And Alexa called you on it."
1. "Disdain" is not per se a moral, or even social, no-no. (Ask jpmac, who dipped his pinky-toe into the pond.)[Sorry, pejorative connotations abound for this word. Read your dictionary. Perhaps if you were a nobleman in the court of Louis Seize and wished to find the proper mode to assume amongst the peasants, disdain would be appropriate...there are no peasnats here, except perhaps in your poor eyes.]
2. Alexa's "call" falls of its own weight. Read it. Go ahead. It is an almost violent clamor against anything that ripples the surface of the pond. (And water left too still too long eutrophies.)[Ripples are fine. John Galt rippled here, Terrence ripples here, you are rude. And I wouldn't have responded so quickly to Penni about you except that you have been REALLY rude before. What has rudeness ever had to do with intellectual stimulation? Nothing and nothing. Shocking people is a substitute for real wit and intelligence. You can see it in the art world. Those who cannot paint-shock, and those who cannot write-are rude.]
3. Your "cybersis" relationship is of two entirely opposed sensitivities. Chew on that one. (When I was fourteen, I was me, but I was younger. When I was forty, I was me, but I was younger...etc., on the one hand, and When I was fourteen I was not me...etc., on the other hand. One is organic, the other is mechanical. There are galexies separating them, one celestial, the other ground-bound.)[Penni is a wonderful person, gsm, and you don't need to try to belittle me to say that. It is very petty of you, and lessens the compliment to her- surely you realize that?]
I don't know this Rambi, maybe I'll look for it.
With the greatest of respect (anyone who would yawn at Lunch deserves disdain), I have benefitted from our passing. Thnx, geo |
