fun again

From: "Rev. Ivan Stang" <stang@subgenius.com>
Newsgroups: alt.slack
Date: Tue, Mar 26, 2002

In article <3CA03BEE.649F27D2@menander.org>, dyskolos
<dyskolos@menander.org> wrote:

> I find that if I just loosen up and be as mean as I really want to be,
> alt. slack and life itself become fun again.
>
> http://www.warprecords.com/
> helps too. I just like it.

I know exactly what you mean, although in my particular case I found
that I sometimes felt REALLY AWFUL about being mean, LATER. Not in
every case. I've only felt good about being mean in a few cases, come
to think of it. But I'm still, to this day, glad I was mean those few
particular times. And god DAMN, did it feel good at the time.

Then there were the other times when it was just that I was in a pissy
fucked up mood, and was being pissy and fucked up.

There's another trick which you may be interested in, which works
almost the opposite way. I used to do this with (who cares), a Dallas
former SubGenius who decided I was a Nazi. (He apparently discovers
this about EVERYBODY, sooner or later.)

Because we used the same local businesses, I would run into him
sometimes unexpectedly, and he would always act nervous and uptight at
first, compulsively talking in a very defensive way about all his
latest triumphs and achievements before I had said much of anything.
But he would always look sort of unhappy while blabbering at me.

So, as part of a continuing experiment, I would wait till he sort of
finished and then would tell him an ever-worsening tale of personal
woe, how I was so broke, unhappy, sick, the Church was ignored, all my
old friends never called anymore, etc. (none of which was especially
true) -- and as I would recite this litany, his face would get brighter
and brighter until he was practically bursting with joy.

It was the most pathetically transparent thing. Seriously, it was like
dealing with a really stupid and selfish 6 year old.

Somehow, I always felt GREAT after doing this. I had made the poor
hateful idiotic psycho feel GREAT, and it cost me nothing -- in fact, I
got a big kick out of very deliberately manipulating his feelings as if
he was a puppy dog. Making my enemy feel good for all the wrong reasons
made me feel real superior.

So I guess we're all just selfish assholes underneath.

--
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Resurrected
P.O. Box 181417, Cleveland, OH 44118 (fax 216-320-9528)
A subsidiary of:
The SubGenius Foundation, Inc. / P.O. Box 140306, Dallas, TX 75214
SubSITE: http://www.subgenius.com PRABOB
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From: Her Ladyship Lilith von Fraumench <lilith@ZubJenius.com>

In article <260320021105482714%stang@subgenius.com>, Rev. Ivan Stang
<stang@subgenius.com> wrote:

> So I guess we're all just selfish assholes underneath.

But scratch the surface of that selfish asshole and you'll find a
crying clown nursing back to health a cute widdle puppy dog with a
broken leg. Sadly, many of you really are that puppy dog.

I shot mine. That's how we do it back home. Too bad I missed anything
vital.

Her Ladyship Lilith
thinks Legume should render that clown

--
\m/ -=8=- http://lilith.foolspress.com/ -=8=- \m/
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From: dyskolos <dyskolos@menander.org>

Her Ladyship Lilith von Fraumench wrote:
> In article <3CA03BEE.649F27D2@menander.org>, dyskolos
> <dyskolos@menander.org> wrote:
>
> > http://www.warprecords.com/
> > helps too. I just like it.
>
> Wow, a web site as annoying as you. That really isn't saying much,
> actually, but hey.

I just find it really soothing to sit and listen to a bunch of
continuous meaningless racket while reading alt.slack. It just fits.
You know, stang's response to this thread was really heartwarming.
Don't tell him I said so but despite what he and everyone else says
he's a pretty sharp guy.

I'll probably have this all out of my system in a few more days and
then everyone can go back to posting the URLs of news articles.
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From: "Alliekatt" <alleykatzen@hotmail.com>

"dyskolos" <dyskolos@menander.org> wrote in message
news:3CA0D7D0.1A875F2D@menander.org...

> You know, stang's response to this thread was really heartwarming.
> Don't tell him I said so but despite what he and everyone else says
> he's a pretty sharp guy.

bmoomnl.
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From: Her Ladyship Lilith von Fraumench <lilith@ZubJenius.com>

In article <3CA0D7D0.1A875F2D@menander.org>, dyskolos
<dyskolos@menander.org> wrote:

> I just find it really soothing to sit and listen to a bunch of
> continuous meaningless racket while reading alt.slack. It just fits.

Well, you have a point there.

> You know, stang's response to this thread was really heartwarming.
> Don't tell him I said so but despite what he and everyone else says
> he's a pretty sharp guy.

It'll be our little secret. People might realize that you're a nice guy
when you don't have the roiling urge to kill, or at least insult.

> I'll probably have this all out of my system in a few more days and
> then everyone can go back to posting the URLs of news articles.

You're on the downside already, I can tell. That Huey mockery took a
lot out of you. Maybe you should take a nap, then you'll be ready to
hate again.

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