To a woman who cited Catch-22 as her favorite book but said she had no time for people who suffer from apathy:
I agree with you until you get to the part about apathy; there we part company. Apathy gets a bad rap. How you could have read Catch 22 and not gotten hip to the fact that apathy is the only legitimate response to most human activities is beyond me. Everything is futile and the human race is an unremitting failure and what--we're supposed to care? How anyone can hold out any hope for the human species after the 20th Century is mind-boggling to me. Give up! Watch your fellow humans dehumanize one another with depressing regularity the way you would watch animals in the zoo, except animals in the zoo are so much better than people will ever be. The Buddha said, All life is suffering. He didn't follow that up by saying, form a nonprofit to save the rain forest. He said Give up on this world, it's a charnel house. Then he died, in a victory for vegans everywhere, after eating bad pork. I have no time for hatred, but apathy--apathy is the way out. Sit back and be surprised by nothing we humans are capable of. Sit back and let the horrors of the world slide right off your back. They will always be with us. There is no greater scam than this bogus concept of human progress. Or humanism, to use another term. By the way, you wouldn't want to go out with me, would you?
No response from woman
If you were in the army you wouldn't have any feet left. Or any left feet, for that matter.
Posted by: Jeffers | May 31, 2012 at 11:51 AM
And she did NOT get aroused by that text? O tampora o mores!
Posted by: Jan Martin Löhndorf | May 31, 2012 at 01:49 PM
Jeffers, your reference is too cryptic for this idiot. Why, because I'd have stepped on the bouncing betty of my own idiocy?
Jan Martin: She did not. Some people don't find the awful truth arousing. What terrible lives they must lead.
Posted by: UF Mike | May 31, 2012 at 03:27 PM
Yer busy shootin' yerseff in the foot, is all, so much so that you gots not feet left.
The Cryptic Unplugged.
Posted by: Jeffers | May 31, 2012 at 08:18 PM
also, you seem to be writing to the wrong people.
Posted by: jdb | June 01, 2012 at 03:03 AM
"Sit back and be surprised by nothing we humans are capable of. Sit back and let the horrors of the world slide right off your back. They will always be with us." Thanks for that, I needed that advice. I am still in a part way glum cloud from reading about cannibalism. More than the cannabalism which when you find out the culprit is bath salts and possible mental illness there lies a reason but its the journalism that shows the real lack of "progress". a pun joke is made at the end of the article about the puzzle the man's face will be to put back together. The disappointing callousness of those reporting and getting paid for this @%$#@. Another article starts with "In yet another recent act of cannibalism.." its like an SNL skit opening. juxtapose this against images of giant telescopes at MIT looking at black holes is where my crazy making disappointments are being made. letting it slide right off my back... like a smog song.
Posted by: karoline | June 01, 2012 at 11:08 AM
Like a Smog song, exactly. The song: "Vessel in Vain." Hi Karoline!
Posted by: UF Mike | June 01, 2012 at 11:12 AM
jdb, you are right. But I'm also writing to the right women, and the reaction is largely the same. The online dating world is brutal. Brutal I tells you!
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