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Obo talking politics in an MMO is a terrible terrible idea.
No, we weren't talking politics in the game, but our corporation rather obviously and necessarily has a forum. The corporation is also in an alliance with Something Awful, and so we have access to the Goonswarm forum. Beyond that, EVE is a game with a ridiculous amount of downtime, and so conversation sort of just happens, and the libertarian bootstrapping rhetoric isn't even really politics. It's an ideology. It's the collective belief that everyone else is worthless, and everything that happens to them happened to them because they weren't working hard enough. So, the racism is very real, and the sexism is very real, and I don't talk politics. Nowhere but here, and I even very rarely talk politics in D&D anymore.
But I find the climate intolerable. It is intolerable company, and because they are always talking amongst themselves about it, I cannot really avoid it.
just so no one else thinks that they have to, don't worry
I'm on top of it
You know what?
Your sheep pen is set to be usable by anyone. :P
It's Elldren's pen.
Huh, thought it said you were the owner. Oh well sorry
I owned the construction site, but I didn't build the pen. The construction site was made usable, but Elldren loaded the last item into it -- AFAIK, this gives Elldren ultimate ownership privileges. Regardless, if the error is mine, it is; the rationale, though, would be that I mistakenly believed the pen to be Elldren's possession.
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ZimmydoomAccept no substitutesRegistered Userregular
edited September 2008
Might I humbly suggest to anyone still here, to go watch the video I just posted in the AmPol thread.
I think I'm going to start posting it whenever that thread starts to get down in the doldrums, from here on out.
Zimmydoom, Zimmydoom
Flew away in a balloon
Had sex with polar bears
While sitting in a reclining chair
Now there are Zim-Bear hybrids
Running around and clawing eyelids
Watch out, a Zim-Bear is about to have sex with yooooooou!
Mojo_JojoWe are only now beginning to understand the full power and ramifications of sexual intercourseRegistered Userregular
edited September 2008
Whoa, I almost tipped a shot of espresso into my cereal. It's going to be one of those mornings. Hopefully I'll keep catching myself before I do the stupid things.
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Homogeneous distribution of your varieties of amuse-gueule
I am journaling in the method recommended me to assuage my traumatic stressors. Presently, I am relating, rerelating, and rererelating my having sex that I did not want, but was situationally forced to have, though it was not rape, in Secaucus, NJ. I am at the point where I am describing the precursor to the sex -- which we had just before dawn -- and which was really more awful than the sex itself. That terrible, winding preamble where he pulls me a little closer, but I feign sleeping; or he is sleeping and I am cold, so I very gently try to pull some of the blanket from him; or when he takes my hand and is telling me how pretty I am, and I need to appear simultaneously awake but asleep, so that he becomes neither more forceful (to wake me) nor more forceful (to take advantage of me, who is already woken).
BobCescaIs a girlBirmingham, UKRegistered Userregular
edited September 2008
morning [chat].
Today is japan's birthday, and I haven't been able to go out and get him a card. He's currently out trying out the work run, but I can't get it now 'cos we're having some stuff we mis-ordered picked up and it could be any time between now and 6pm.
I am journaling in the method recommended me to assuage my traumatic stressors. Presently, I am relating, rerelating, and rererelating my having sex that I did not want, but was situationally forced to have, though it was not rape, in Secaucus, NJ. I am at the point where I am describing the precursor to the sex -- which we had just before dawn -- and which was really more awful than the sex itself. That terrible, winding preamble where he pulls me a little closer, but I feign sleeping; or he is sleeping and I am cold, so I very gently try to pull some of the blanket from him; or when he takes my hand and is telling me how pretty I am, and I need to appear simultaneously awake but asleep, so that he becomes neither more forceful (to wake me) nor more forceful (to take advantage of me, who is already woken).
Hmm.
My concern with methods like that is that retreading past events ultimately needs to give way to moving past them, and ruminating about them, while a necessary stage in recovery, can be the mental equivalent of picking at a scab.
Do you feel like you're making progress?
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every person who doesn't like an acquired taste always seems to think everyone who likes it is faking it. it should be an official fallacy.
Propel, propel, propel your craft,
Unforcefully down the liquid solution.
Ecstatically, ecstatically, ecstatically, ecstatically,
Existence is merely an illusion.
Propel, propel, propel your craft,
Unforcefully down the liquid solution.
Ecstatically, ecstatically, ecstatically, ecstatically,
Existence is merely an illusion.
Did you just watch the second episode of Fringe?
Feral on
every person who doesn't like an acquired taste always seems to think everyone who likes it is faking it. it should be an official fallacy.
The rote repetition gives me a certain power over them. I can access the rote repetitions instead of the actual event -- if someone asks me the pertinent question, and I want to answer truthfully, I can speak truthfully and easily without becoming a gibbering mess.
I still have panic attacks and bouts of hysteria, or the vomiting, but ... I think they're less frequent.
Gaining the use of these events as anecdotes is worthwhile enough, though. I harness a certain power from that. Being the keeper of tales -- of tall and terrible tales -- lends me a certain power. That power helps me keep the wolves at bay, I guess.
EDIT: I just finished this one, anyway. 3085 words to describe the sensation and thought process and minutiae.
Do you want to elaborate? Now that my skeletons are out of the closet and walking around, I'm not very tired, but I also have very little want to do much of anything. Give me something to read, until I'm tired enough to fall asleep in this stupid and cramped little chair.
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Hi I'm Vee!Formerly VH; She/Her; Is an E X P E R I E N C ERegistered Userregular
edited September 2008
Feral, I...well...you said some things earlier today...and I said some things because I disagreed with what you said...and even though we didn't really argue we were still saying things that didn't agree.
It...it was painful...let's not do that anymore okay? *huggles*
Feral, I...well...you said some things earlier today...and I said some things because I disagreed with what you said...and even though we didn't really argue we were still saying things that didn't agree.
It...it was painful...let's not do that anymore okay? *huggles*
I also feel like I have bad blood with you lately, Feral.
But I'm not about to huggle it away, if there's any there. But I'm not sure there's any there. Ah ah ah. I wrote a story about singing rocks, yesterday. And it rained tonight. I hope we don't have any bad blood.
Feral, I...well...you said some things earlier today...and I said some things because I disagreed with what you said...and even though we didn't really argue we were still saying things that didn't agree.
It...it was painful...let's not do that anymore okay? *huggles*
This is an internet forum. If we don't resort to crass name-calling, ad hominem's and libel that most wouldn't have the guts to actually say to somebody's face then what is the point?
Do you want to elaborate? Now that my skeletons are out of the closet and walking around, I'm not very tired, but I also have very little want to do much of anything. Give me something to read, until I'm tired enough to fall asleep in this stupid and cramped little chair.
About narrative or Carl Jung?
It's pretty well-known in therapy that building a narrative is necessary for fully integrating an event or series of events into one's psyche. A narrative isn't simply a news report or a historical account; it's a story, and like any work of fiction, it has meaning, and possibly - though not necessarily - a moral. By incorporating an event into a narrative, we then use it to gain some insight about ourselves or the world outside; the event ceases to be meaningless (and, by extension, random and arbitrary and without merit) and gains meaning.
As for Jung, he wrote Memories, Dreams, Reflections which is partially a memoir, and partially a philosophical text. He talks about his life but also talks about the implications of a memoir on personal development.
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every person who doesn't like an acquired taste always seems to think everyone who likes it is faking it. it should be an official fallacy.
It's entirely possible that I've been bitchier than usual recently. I've been kind of depressed, and it's easy for me to get snarky when I'm depressed.
Feral on
every person who doesn't like an acquired taste always seems to think everyone who likes it is faking it. it should be an official fallacy.
Narrative is huge in marriage counseling. For a couple to really get over an event, they need to have a common narrative. If somebody, for example, cheated, the causes and ramifications of that cheating need to be fully accepted by both parties for the relationship to completely heal.
Feral on
every person who doesn't like an acquired taste always seems to think everyone who likes it is faking it. it should be an official fallacy.
the "no true scotch man" fallacy.
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Hi I'm Vee!Formerly VH; She/Her; Is an E X P E R I E N C ERegistered Userregular
edited September 2008
Oh man, sorry I took so long to clarify, I had to restart my computer.
I was pretty much just being facetious. Normally, I agree with Feral on pretty much everything, and then earlier today there were like three things in a row that we disagreed on (little things, nothing huge), so I was just pretending that it made me sad. Like "oh noes, we disagreed on some things, that was painful, the disagreeing thing, let's not do that anymore".
And If we argue then apologise we have another player.
I am so smart.
so visiblehowl, I hate your avatar, what do you think you're doing by having a green monster, whats that trying to say, that all environmentally concious people are monsters.
HAVE AT YOU SIR!
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Hi I'm Vee!Formerly VH; She/Her; Is an E X P E R I E N C ERegistered Userregular
And If we argue then apologise we have another player.
I am so smart.
so visiblehowl, I hate your avatar, what do you think you're doing by having a green monster, whats that trying to say, that all environmentally concious people are monsters.
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But I find the climate intolerable. It is intolerable company, and because they are always talking amongst themselves about it, I cannot really avoid it.
I think I'm going to start posting it whenever that thread starts to get down in the doldrums, from here on out.
the "no true scotch man" fallacy.
Hey.
What is up?
the "no true scotch man" fallacy.
My knee's still fubar. Now for a meeting. /wave
Today is japan's birthday, and I haven't been able to go out and get him a card. He's currently out trying out the work run, but I can't get it now 'cos we're having some stuff we mis-ordered picked up and it could be any time between now and 6pm.
This sucks.
Hmm.
My concern with methods like that is that retreading past events ultimately needs to give way to moving past them, and ruminating about them, while a necessary stage in recovery, can be the mental equivalent of picking at a scab.
Do you feel like you're making progress?
the "no true scotch man" fallacy.
Unforcefully down the liquid solution.
Ecstatically, ecstatically, ecstatically, ecstatically,
Existence is merely an illusion.
Did you just watch the second episode of Fringe?
the "no true scotch man" fallacy.
I still have panic attacks and bouts of hysteria, or the vomiting, but ... I think they're less frequent.
Gaining the use of these events as anecdotes is worthwhile enough, though. I harness a certain power from that. Being the keeper of tales -- of tall and terrible tales -- lends me a certain power. That power helps me keep the wolves at bay, I guess.
EDIT: I just finished this one, anyway. 3085 words to describe the sensation and thought process and minutiae.
(Paging Dr. Jung.)
the "no true scotch man" fallacy.
It...it was painful...let's not do that anymore okay? *huggles*
But I'm not about to huggle it away, if there's any there. But I'm not sure there's any there. Ah ah ah. I wrote a story about singing rocks, yesterday. And it rained tonight. I hope we don't have any bad blood.
This chair is so damn tiny.
the "no true scotch man" fallacy.
This is an internet forum. If we don't resort to crass name-calling, ad hominem's and libel that most wouldn't have the guts to actually say to somebody's face then what is the point?
About narrative or Carl Jung?
It's pretty well-known in therapy that building a narrative is necessary for fully integrating an event or series of events into one's psyche. A narrative isn't simply a news report or a historical account; it's a story, and like any work of fiction, it has meaning, and possibly - though not necessarily - a moral. By incorporating an event into a narrative, we then use it to gain some insight about ourselves or the world outside; the event ceases to be meaningless (and, by extension, random and arbitrary and without merit) and gains meaning.
As for Jung, he wrote Memories, Dreams, Reflections which is partially a memoir, and partially a philosophical text. He talks about his life but also talks about the implications of a memoir on personal development.
the "no true scotch man" fallacy.
the "no true scotch man" fallacy.
I am writing a story, now
Alexander, your sig is awesome.
the "no true scotch man" fallacy.
the "no true scotch man" fallacy.
I was pretty much just being facetious. Normally, I agree with Feral on pretty much everything, and then earlier today there were like three things in a row that we disagreed on (little things, nothing huge), so I was just pretending that it made me sad. Like "oh noes, we disagreed on some things, that was painful, the disagreeing thing, let's not do that anymore".
Guess I didn't get it across very well.
Hurray!
I am so smart.
so visiblehowl, I hate your avatar, what do you think you're doing by having a green monster, whats that trying to say, that all environmentally concious people are monsters.
HAVE AT YOU SIR!
I agree, it's terrible.
I got home a little late from watching Fringe at my friends' apartment. I'm about to go to bed.
G'night.
the "no true scotch man" fallacy.
I made curry!
Later, [chat]