Posted by SLS on January 12, 2014, at 11:52:11
In reply to Re: Nice things to say about other people., posted by Willful on January 12, 2014, at 11:05:08
Hi Willful.
You make a lot of sense (as usual).
I wouldn't mind too much if this part of the thread were moved to Social, but I doubt I would be interested in continuing it there unilaterally. I like that my posts along this thread are visible in Administration. I don't see much negativism elsewhere, although I have my moments of irritability on Medication.
It is funny that this whole thing started because Alexandra_K had wanted me to change the subject line that was written by HomelyCygnet. This is the first thing that came to mind: "Nice things to say about other people." I hadn't thought to make a series out of it, but the vitriol was turning my stomach. I thought that if one person could inject negativism into an otherwise neutral environment, perhaps another person could offset it with an injection of positivism. The negativism was fabricated. The positive was already extant in the valuable qualities possessed by each poster of Psycho-Babble. My part was easy.
Are you a writer?
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> Posting nice things about people == is only absurd in an already absurd situation of despair and impotence, of an unbearably barren landscape in which no hope of meaning or the completion of an action other than talking to oneself or flagellating oneself or others is possible.
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> The admin board of this place has turned into such a landscape where sadism and impotent pleas are all met with absence, emptiness, the silence or the eerie and garbled pronouncements of God, I mean Bob.
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> In the hope of somehow freeing us, you might move the discussion-- even if it consists of memoriams, faint traces of the inhabitants of a babble that no longer exists, of a plentitude that is no longer-- somewhere where you are not addressing Bob, who has clearly abandoned us-- or that you discuss your despair on the psychology board. Bob is not going to answer; tomethaeus, Dinah, twinleaf, tender, and all the other voices that answered and provoked them and us, are not going to return-- there is nothing to return to.
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> This was a grand endeavor-- in its way. And perhaps other such endeavors may spring up-- but babble simply can't brought to life, no matter how much anyone might wish to.
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> When Lou becomes the spirit of the time, the locus dei, the central Voice, the light is extinguished. I could honor your attempt to revive it-- and HC's attempt to whip us into his/her own ferment-- but it is all sadly absurd right now, right here.
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Some see things as they are and ask why.
I dream of things that never were and ask why not.- George Bernard Shaw
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