The Pain of Inaction (530 hits)
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Submitted by Serious Melvin (View user info) at 2005-09-27 00:38:45 EDT
Settle down, you're probably missing something.
It's just a product of circumstance and misunderstanding.
That's better. Everything is fine. Everything is moving along just fine...
Careful. Such disregard for your inner thoughts will be your downfall. Because in all your avoidence of the pain of confrontation, you will find yourself immersed in an illusion that no longer bears resemblence to the reality you once envisioned. You will experience a much worse kind of pain.
The pain of inaction is like the pain of suppressing vomit. A part of you knows that something is wrong, but you remain motionless in hopes that the symptoms will go away. Action is akin to the pain of throwing up: although more difficult in the immediate sense, you will most certainly feel better once the deed is finished.
God help us when we start defining "family" by blood, marriage, birth, or adoption. Family, in its truest form, is something deeper than that. Too often, free passes are given to those we call family (in the traditional sense of the word). We remain hopeful that our kin are not intentionally trying to screw us, that we're probably missing something.
Avoiding confrontation is tempting because it's easy. It lets us maintain that our inclinations are merely pessimistic, not in touch with reality. But eventually we will realize that no matter how much we would like our observations to fit with our idealized models of the world, they do not, and never will. The only way out is through confrontation.
Do not lightly ignore your screaming subconscience. How you respond to it will ultimately determine who you are.
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Submitted by Confuzitron (user info) at 2006-02-24 09:16:27 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
No Comment
Submitted by VelvetElvis (user info) at 2006-02-24 02:27:02 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
Inertia is perhaps the only sin.
Submitted by jgreening (user info) at 2006-02-24 01:44:57 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
As promised.
Submitted by Berty (user info) at 2005-09-30 09:30:25 EDT (#)
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Submitted by Serious_Melvin (user info) at 2005-09-27 12:12:55 (#)
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Berty, this post has nothing to do with malice and its justification. It has to do with confronting malice against you by pointing out contradictions and/or otherwise making noise when things don't seem right.
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Now, the thing is that there is more than one way to skin a cat. Charging into a confrontation, be it physical, verbal or otherwise, is not an effective way to deal with one's problems. Diplomacy, tact and level headedness are almost always an option to conflict. In my experience, the only people who have ever knowingly chosen conflict have been angry and immature. That is beside the point however. When it comes to conflict Orson Scott Card teaches us that there are three methods to proceed with:
1) Surrender
2) You strike once. Just once, with a blow so powerful as to destroy your adversaries ability to threaten you ever again. i.e. YOU KEEL DAT MUDDAFUKKA, KEEL HEEM DED!
Doesn't really work in civilised society.
3) You make friends with them, using diplomacy and brokering understanding.
Striving to confront is a lazy option for the weak minded.
Submitted by Serious_Melvin (user info) at 2005-09-27 12:12:55 EDT (#)
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Berty, this post has nothing to do with malice and its justification. It has to do with confronting malice against you by pointing out contradictions and/or otherwise making noise when things don't seem right.
Submitted by CHR15 (user info) at 2005-09-27 07:16:55 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
No Comment
Submitted by apollo88 (user info) at 2005-09-27 06:58:51 EDT (#)
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I really liked this.
Submitted by Berty (user info) at 2005-09-27 06:44:19 EDT (#)
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Even a stopped clock tells the right time twice a day.
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That's just cliched. Next!
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Sorry, I've got nothing but clichés and robbed material. I knobled that 'insightful comment' off of the BBC.
Does this mean I can't have a go with your fiance's sister?
Submitted by Adereterial (user info) at 2005-09-27 06:37:08 EDT (#)
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Submitted by Berty (user info) at 2005-09-27 06:21:06 (#)
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That's actually quite beautiful.
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Even a stopped clock tells the right time twice a day.
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That's just cliched. Next!
Submitted by Berty (user info) at 2005-09-27 06:21:06 EDT (#)
Ranking: -2
That's actually quite beautiful.
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Even a stopped clock tells the right time twice a day.
Submitted by Adereterial (user info) at 2005-09-27 06:09:44 EDT (#)
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I have always found beauty in passive tranquility. Life is about tranquility. Confrontation is a fleeting, burning, thing that holds no truth. Only brief bursts of movement, then they are gone.
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That's actually quite beautiful.
Submitted by Berty (user info) at 2005-09-27 05:57:35 EDT (#)
Ranking: -2
*looks out of window for a moment*
There is a brutal subtext to this post, and all the other many posts and statements like it, that excuses cruelty, malice and domination.
I have always found beauty in passive tranquility. Life is about tranquility. Confrontation is a fleeting, burning, thing that holds no truth. Only brief bursts of movement, then they are gone.
Confrontation is something best limited and avoided for it disturbs the harmony of ones life, I disagree with this post entirely.
Submitted by Saxon (user info) at 2005-09-27 01:01:10 EDT (#)
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I agree, i angrilly told our tea lady that when she gets to me there are no blueberry muffins left. She now hides one on her trolly and slips it too me when no one is watching.
Shes in her 60's i hope she doesnt have the hots for me.
Submitted by ParlorTrick (user info) at 2005-09-27 00:50:23 EDT (#)
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Shhhhh! Confrontation is sleeping right beside me...
Submitted by kaos-king (user info) at 2005-09-27 00:42:02 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
sure...