On Saturday, July 22, 2023 at 9:52:00 PM UTC-4, Ash Wurthing wrote:
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> The crux of the problem:
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jdcha...@gmail.com
> Jul 26, 2022, 1:05:36 PM
> "but when someone expresses this opinion repeatedly, so often, as he does, what is the point? what good does it do? Is it just venting? it seems to be railing against reality..."
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> The very same can be said about Jordy and Will and crew's repeated hellos, repeated criticisms against others here. So by their own words, those buttercups need to suck it up and shut the fuck up!
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> "the reality that Usenet is an open forum where anyone(within certain limits) can post about anything at any time, and there is nothing that can be done about it.. "
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> Jordy and crew don't unstand the whole concept of focused subjects that the Usenet hierarchy is organized into, based on the hope of self policing...
> Your crew ignorantly pissing in this place like it's no more than a kiddies' pool is dire and so much like the state of the World that you bemoan-- everyone doing what they damned well please without regard to the collective whole-- making a writers' forum (for poetry commentary) into nothing more than an electronic bulletin board of insignificant self absorbed bullshit
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> "why post this sentiment so often when this reality isn't likely to be changed? wouldn't it be easier and simpler to instead of complaining about it non stop just ignore the posts that are upsetting you?"
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> As Desmond Tutu says, "I will not and cannot shut up" and you all will have to put up, put me down or plug your ears by burying them in the sands...
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> "Poetry is an effort of a dissatisfied man to find satisfaction through words."
> "Wallace Stevens and the Limits of Reading and Writing" (2002) Bart Eeckhout pg 268
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> " Surely I write not for the hopeful young,
> Or those who deem their happiness of worth,
> Or such as pasture and grow fat among
> The shows of life and feel nor doubt nor dearth,
> Or pious spirits with a God above them
> To sanctify and glorify and love them,
> Or sages who foresee a heaven on earth."
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> "For none of these I write, and none of these
> Could read the writing if they deigned to try;
> So may they flourish in their due degrees,
> On our sweet earth and in their unplaced sky.
> If any cares for the weak words here written,
> It must be some one desolate, Fate-smitten,
> Whose faith and hopes are dead, and who would die."
> --"The City Of Dreadful Night" (Jan 1882) ~~James Thomson
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> "and if you want to vent, at least vent about things that1) you car do something or about, or 2) vent about the truly serious, dire, distressing problems and issues in the world? compared to the current world going to hell in a handbasket in *countless* respects, isn't what people post on Usenet rather insignificant and minor and trivial and unimportant?"
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> So rather than curse, I shall put it into verse, this terse way that we converse...
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> I rage against the machine
> I rage against them all
> Every machine, including me
> You see, humans are the machinery
> We build them all
> They operate at our beck and call
> So I rage against Humanity
> Creators of the condemnable machinery
> ~~AshWurthing
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> Damned critics, either I'm preachy or I'm an nihilist-- would they make up their damned minds?
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> "Lies feed hatred and hatred brings war
> And the war that must come is the apocalypse" ...
> - "Behold the Valiant Misanthropist" ~~ Puissance
Deflect much, Ash?
🙂