finally
Miki Kocic
"content advisor"--and block the poker site. After confirming that I can't
access the site to redownload the software, I deleted it from my computer.
I was disappointed at how negative my mother was about my chances of
success. One would hope for a little bit of support and encouragement from
one's closest relatives, but over time she has proven to be the worst mother
in existence.
Now I face life without poker. Wish me a go of it.
Miki
kez
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hope it workes out for you dude
-- kez
monkfish
Good luck, grasshopper ;-)
monkfish
>
> Miki
Bother@forgedpostsanonymous.unorg Cymbal Man Freq.
The XXX Guitar Zan
be renegotiated.
Don't see "forever" see one day.
So if you have a stop date when the situation is reexaminded, this will
help you count the days to "achievement".
Then you renegoiate the self contract.
Maybe you would add other "practices" to your "program".
And one thing more. This issue is a biggy all the way.
And in my mind it is so big that it is no longer a not-thing but an
actual thing-thing.
Thus..you wouldn't have to walk around restraining an impulse, you could
walk around doing "non-gambling".
It can be a positive, instead of a game of self played "keep-a-way".
You can actively be doing non-gambling instead of not doing something;
gamblng.
I recommend doing the active thing, being engaged in ding "no gambling".
Then maybe thirty days, on a prearranged date. You are free to alter the
committment and Stick the merit badge on your shoulder for acchieving.
Buther Boy
wrote:
Hey Miki, i wish you the best of luck. i forgot about the ability to
block out sites, in the manner in which you just stated. i tested
that out, and had a site blocked for me as well. of course, i have
formatted and reinstalled a few times since then. will be gamble-free
for one year on jan 4, 2006.
i know you can do it, my friend.
:)
Buther Boy
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http://www.online-literature.com/dostoevsky/the_gambler/
regards,
monkfish
Miki Kocic
"Buther Boy" <m...@privacy.net> wrote in message
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> On Tue, 27 Dec 2005 16:33:52 -0500, "Miki Kocic" <em...@munged.com>
> wrote:
>
>>I got my brother to type in a parental controls password--in XP it's
>>called
>>"content advisor"--and block the poker site. After confirming that I
>>can't
>>access the site to redownload the software, I deleted it from my computer.
>>
>>I was disappointed at how negative my mother was about my chances of
>>success. One would hope for a little bit of support and encouragement
>>from
>>one's closest relatives, but over time she has proven to be the worst
>>mother
>>in existence.
>>
>>Now I face life without poker. Wish me a go of it.
>>
>>Miki
>>
>
> Hey Miki, i wish you the best of luck. i forgot about the ability to
> block out sites, in the manner in which you just stated. i tested
> that out, and had a site blocked for me as well. of course, i have
> formatted and reinstalled a few times since then. will be gamble-free
> for one year on jan 4, 2006.
>
> i know you can do it, my friend.
>
> :)
>
> Buther Boy
Thanks, BB. So far, it hasn't even been difficult. I saw some poker on TV
and thought "Blech!" What I described as the fundamental flaw in the game
itself has really soured it for me.
The casinos in my jurisdiction go completely nonsmoking on June 1st. After
that, I'd have to cross into the United States to gamble, and, from what
I've heard from *Americans* about crossing back into their own country from
Canada, the border is a major hassle, so I'm almost certainly not going to
do it. So five more months to hang on, and then I'm safe.
Miki
Miki Kocic
"monkfish" <fonk...@nospam.hotmail.com> wrote in message
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Thanks for the reference. But why do you keep calling me Grasshopper?
Miki
The XXX Guitar Zan
fingerboard..keyboard..and never seems to stop loading until it closes
off my terminal and shows me a webtv tutorial.
So I went back oline and came by here again and tried it again.
Same reult.
It seems to go there, but it simply loads and loads and I'm unable to
effect anything during ths time. Then it snaps off, my phone hangs up
and I'm presented with the same webtv tutorial.
Buther Boy
wrote:
miki,
depending on your viewpoint, any addiction is an addiction for life.
you are just in recovery when you are not engaging in the addiction.
but it is a lifelong struggle to not come unglued.
for my own struggle, i have thought about gambling when life has
gotten real difficult this last year. i thought how great it would be
to gamble. but, that would be a lie, and i promised my wife i
wouldn't do it anymore. promise someone miki, then stick to your
promise.
best wishes!
Buther Boy
monkfish,
i knew this guy was a gambler! When sitting in philosophy class, it
came up. he, like so many other people have and do, fought demons as
well.
i think there is some insanity when it comes to philosophy and
psychology. a certain amount of it comes with the territory. what do
you think, monk?
Miki Kocic
>
> depending on your viewpoint, any addiction is an addiction for life.
> you are just in recovery when you are not engaging in the addiction.
> but it is a lifelong struggle to not come unglued.
I told you about my alcoholic coworker? He was dry for 17 years. But I
befriended him and, not knowing of his condition, I offered to buy him a
drink. He accepted, and ended up fired and in jail. I met with him for
lunch many months later, after I had become an addict myself, and he said he
didn't blame me for anything, but I've never ceased to feel guilty about it
and think that, perhaps, what I'm going through is just karma.
So, yes, I know there is always a next time. That's what makes addiction so
depressing. Damo is right when he says that, since we are mortal,
everything we do needs a start and end date. Instead of swearing off
poker/gambling forever, perhaps I should just make a commitment not to do it
for a year, maybe even six months; and then, after the six months, make
another commitment for another six months. That might be more sensible than
aiming for eternity when eternity is clearly something I'm not going to
have.
> for my own struggle, i have thought about gambling when life has
> gotten real difficult this last year. i thought how great it would be
> to gamble. but, that would be a lie, and i promised my wife i
> wouldn't do it anymore. promise someone miki, then stick to your
> promise.
Well, I realize that, for me, poker and casino gambling had different
attractions. Poker was based on hope for a better life and eventual
success. That's gone, since I realize now that not only am I never going to
be championship material, but the game of hold 'em is itself badly designed.
Casino gambling, for me, is about talking to strangers, which is my
favourite activity. I go to casinos to socialize first and perhaps not lose
money second. The last time I went, I played for 12 hours, most of them at
a very fun, friendly, chatty table, lost about $300, including money spent
on drinks and tips and food, and was very satisfied at the end. I guess the
best place for me to go would be a conversational bar or club, but I find
that people in those places are very suspicious and think you're trying to
take them home. I also hate loud music, pretentious sexuality, and not
being able to smoke while I drink.
Best wishes to you too.
Miki
monkfish
In the TV show "Kung-Fu", in the flash-back sequences, Caine's sensei always
calls him "Grasshopper".
I've been in a kung-fu mood this Christmas, don't know why. Watched the
Kill Bill films back-to-back Xmas day, and then watched Jet Li's rather
excellent "The Legend of Fong Sai Yuk" last night. Then there was that
Bruce Lee video i gave you the link to the other day.
Bruce Lee was originally slated to play the role of Caine but his accent was
considered to strong for american audiences - who are stupid.
David Carradine was handed the role, instead - much to Bruce's dismay. He
knew that that tv series would earn for him the fame with american audiences
he craved so desperately.
In an ironic twist, in two movie sequels to the Kung Fu tv series, Kung Fu:
The Movie (1986) and - i shit you not - Kung Fu: The Next Generation (1987),
Bruce Lee's son, the late Brandon Lee, starred as David Carradine's son.
David Carradine would go on to play the titular role of the Kill Bill films.
From this point on, i'm afraid you'll have to indulge me. . .
At the end of the film "Fist of Fury", Bruce Lee's character, Chen Zhen,
must face death by firing squad. This scene was then taken as the
inspiration for Lee's final film, "Game of Death" in which international
martial arts superstar, Billy Lo (played in an imaginative piece of casting
by none other than Bruce Lee), must fake his own death in order to find the
people who are trying to kill him.
He thus arranges for an "accident" on the set of his latest film. In a
re-enactment of the famous firing sqaud scene at the climax of "Fist of
Fury", one of the prop guns is rigged to "malfunction" and seemingly kill
Billy (!), providing him with the cover he requires to descend into the
criminal underworld and kick serious ass.
However, before the filming of "Game of Death" was finished, Bruce Lee
suddenly died of a mysterious illness. "Game of Death" was completed using
footage from Bruce Lee's actual funeral to simulate Billy's funeral, the
rest of the gaps in the film being filled using either stock footage and/or
a piss-poor Bruce Lee "look-alike".
Fast forward sixteen years, and in 1994, Bruce Lee's son, Brandon Lee, is
killed whilst filming director Alex Proyas's cult hit, "The Crow".
How did he he die?
In the scene in which Brandon Lee's character, Eric Draven, is shot and
killed, execution-style, one of the prop guns malfunctions, killing the
marital arts movie star with a live round that had become lodged in the
gun's barrel. The film was completed using digitally enhanced out-takes (in
much the same way that Oliver Reed's role would be completed six years later
in Ridley Scott's "Gladiator").
Following Brandon Lee's death, Alex Proyas and his cameraman burned the film
they had taken of Brandon getting shot.
The Bride's yellow and black jump suit in Kill Bill vol. 1 - which features,
as already noted, David Carradine as Bill - is an homage to the yellow and
black jump suit Bruce Lee wears in . . . Game of Death.
Jules, Samuel L. Jackson's character in Tarantino's Pulp Fiction, reference
the Kung Fu tv series when he tells Vincent he intends to quite the gangster
life and "walk the earth", instead - which he describes as meeting people
and getting into adventures, "Like Caine from 'Kung Fu'".
Pulp Fiction, like The Crow, was made in 1994.
The large wooden flute David Carradine plays as Bill in Kill Bill vol. 2 is
actually the exact same flute he played in the Kung Fu tv series.
You do see where i'm going with this, don't you?
You know it makes sense.
Links:
Kung Fu:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0068823/
and:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kung_Fu_%28TV_series%29
Kill Bill:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0266697/
and:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0378194/
Jing Wu Men (aka Fist of Fury):
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0068767/
Game of Death:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0077594/
The Crow:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0109506/
Pulp Fiction:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0110912/
Take her easy, big kahuna
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> Miki
>
Miki Kocic
like us better than the real thing? Hehe...
Miki
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spunkfish
>
> i think there is some insanity when it comes to philosophy and
> psychology. a certain amount of it comes with the territory. what do
> you think, monk?
>
b-boy,
I think there is an effect in both directions. On the one hand, certain
people whom modern psychiatry would deem mentally ill have turned to art,
music, literature, philosophy, etc., etc.in an attempt to make constructive
use of their negative experiences.
On the other hand, however, anyone who is sits down and seriously starts to
question the received wisdom of his time and place is always going to risk
his peace of mind. This is why Nietzsche's attempt at the transvaluation of
all values drove him insane (the story of him contracting syphillis from a
prostitute is believed by some to have been a rumour started shortly after
his death by jealous rivals in an effort to discredit him).
The lesson of modern psychiatry of course demonstrates that the risk comes
not just from the individual's own questioning of the status quo, but the
ambivalent reaction of the rest of his culture. In order to enjoy peace of
mind, not only must the individual not question inherited beliefs, no one
else must, either. In communist Russia it was a common ploy to label
political dissidents as mentally ill as a pretext to detain them and drug
them against their will.
An element of this is present also in the mental health systems of countries
such as the UK and the US - as evidenced by the fact that psychiatrists are
often all too willing to diagnose as mentally ill individuals like Socrates,
like Picasso, like Cézanne without ever actually meeting them.
Make no mistake, if your views deviate sufficiently from received wisdom,
you will be regarded as mentally ill. According to the medical model of
mental illness, creativity is thus intrinsically pathological and something
to be eliminated from the culture to as great an extent as possible.
And this applies as much to saints and religious figures (creators of a new
philosophy of life, you could say) who are idolized and revered by some, yet
often reviled and persecuted by the Powers That Be.
This sort of love/hate reaction may have as great a part to play in the
madness-creativity link as anything else.
Things are not quite that simple, however.
While Kay Jamison argues in "Touched with Fire" that bi-polar patients are
especially artistic/creative, Louis Sass has argued in "Madness and
Modernism" and a number of journal articles that certain forms of modern
art - the works of individuals like Franz Kafka, Samuel Beckett, Antonin
Artaud, Robert Musil, et al. - have striking parallels with the
phenomenology of schizophrenic experience.
Links:
Nietzsche:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nietzsche
Madness and Modernism:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0674541375/104-2920566-5300724?v=glance&n=283155
Take her easy, big kahuna
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