Response
Pepi Plowman
austin-ghetto-list@pairlist.net
Thu Sep 2 00:36:09 2004
Maybe someday, Cookie Monster!
pep
--- Igor Loving <lovingigor@hotmail.com> wrote:
> It doesn't matter just move to Mexico and live the
> good life.... OH oh
> cookies are ready in the kitchen I can smell
> them.. oK got to go eat hot
> cookies now... back soon.. cookies are more
> important than politics or the
> DNC or the RNC.. Long live cookies..
>
>
>
>
> >From: Pepi Plowman <pepstoil@yahoo.com>
> >Reply-To: austin-ghetto-list@pairlist.net
> >To: austin-ghetto-list@pairlist.net
> >CC: Ghetto 2
> <GHETTO2@LISTSERV.WHATHELPS.COM>
> >Subject: Re: Response
> >Date: Mon, 30 Aug 2004 20:28:46 -0700 (PDT)
> >
> >Yegads, this is getting way out of hand!
> >
> >I’m not sure if it’s simply testosterone, or the
> dog
> >days of August, but all this bickering and back
> and
> >forth heckling is for the birds! Like, if you
> want to
> >fight, fight, but not at everyone else’s
> expense!
> >
> >What’s truly amazing to me is that everyone
> finds
> >fault with everyone—-there doesn’t seem to be
> any
> >recognizable thread, other than that folks tend
> to get
> >on each other’s nerves—-the “he’s just an
> asshole”
> >syndrome. So what else is new?! Is it like,
> when in
> >doubt, diss? Can’t we aspire to greater heights
> as
> >humans in allowing each other our little
> >eccentricities? When it gets hot, go inside!
> Level
> >out the bumps and dents with some sane activity,
> and
> >the recognition that now is now, but not
> forever.
> >Otherwise the dishes would never get done!
> >
> >And cleaning out the pot isn’t such a bad thing
> to do,
> >both literally and figuratively, on occasion.
> Get it
> >out, let it hang—-better than rank hypocrisy.
> But
> >this constant altercation is wearing on the
> nerves.
> >
> >For starters, I’m not really interested in other
> >people’s fights, unless I consider them worthy
> of my
> >advocacy. Generally, those are people who can’t
> stand
> >up for themselves and could use my help. In
> your
> >cases, I feel you are adequately secure on your
> turf
> >(relative to many) as educated humans to enable
> you to
> >articulate with intelligence what you feel. Yet
> there
> >is so much willingness to offend and to be
> offended!
> >C’mon!
> >
> >Mike, you remind me of Don Quixote, fighting
> >windmills! You want to pick a fight whether
> there’s
> >one there or not! Is this a late midlife crisis,
> or
> >what? You send a blip out of the blue talking
> about
> >how you were insulted by an e-mail sent by Jim
> Strong,
> >but you don’t forward the e-mail. There’s no
> way to
> >know what Jim meant without seeing it, albeit he
> >rightly figured it was personal. You seek to
> elicit
> >sympathy and outrage for overt hostilities
> directed at
> >you (you poor thing), yet I’ve seen you give as
> good
> >as you get! And you’re not the only one engaged
> in
> >this strife! Others on the list routinely find
> fault
> >with each other as though it were their only
> chance to
> >tell it like it is, but come back just because
> they
> >like to see themselves talk. Is this all life
> is
> >about? Fighting??!!! Perhaps what we really seek
> is
> >reconciliation and the only way to do it is to
> pick a
> >fight.
> >
> >Or perhaps we could read with equanimity each
> others'
> >posts and stay the course whether we agreed with
> each
> >other or not. The amazing thing about the
> Ghetto list
> >is that people are COMMUNICATING
> >
> >In any case, all this talk about ethnicism and
> racism
> >is just that—talk. The truth is in the pudding,
> and
> >you’ll know that when you taste it. But you,
> Mike,
> >imagine it. You see a shadow behind every post.
> Many
> >of those shadows are just that--figments induced
> by an
> >imaginative perception. Perhaps we don’t
> control
> >every aspect of our reality, but our attitude
> pretty
> >much defines how we react to it. We’ve been
> dealing
> >with people through e-mails as entities out in
> the
> >ether, on a not-so-real band of reality. There
> is a
> >screen of insubstantiality in e-mails, unlike
> the
> >snail mail. It’s as though you’ve got the radio
> on
> >and there’s a persistent hum of people’s minds
> making
> >their gerbil rounds in their cages. Perhaps we
> all
> >need to come back into the world of human
> beings!
> >
> >And for your information, Mike, and perhaps to
> bring
> >you back up or down from whatever perch you’re
> >occupying, you are not a constant subject on the
> G2
> >list, other than as an occasional forward from
> “your”
> >list. Know this from a perennial lurker. You
> are
> >developing paranoid conceptualizations, as ever,
> as
> >you enumerate at length friends and
> acquaintances in
> >consideration of their possible view of you.
> Get
> >real! Unless they have a lot of time on their
> hands
> >(which some of them may, lucky them), they don’t
> have
> >time to think about you! Come home, E.T., come
> home!
> >
> >Pepi
> >
> >--- Wayne Johnson <cadaobh@shentel.net>
> wrote:
> >
> > > Let it be said once again, for all and any
> who might
> > > be interested, that I
> > > am a firm believer in the idea or concept
> of Jewish
> > > Sovereignty in their
> > > historic homeland. Just as in this
> country, there
> > > are those who hold
> > > extremely conservative and/or racist
> views. It goes
> > > without saying that
> > > there must be an incredible test of
> goodwill and
> > > patience for anyone living
> > > in Israel these days to *not* develop a
> simmering
> > > hatred for all things
> > > Arabic or Palestinian. How would I resist
> this? I
> > > do not know.
> > > Nevertheless, there are many who do and
> who try,
> > > within the legal means left
>
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