My family, people in a position to know, consider me a nutcase. On the other hand, they all agree that my advice is pure gold. My family is old enough, I suppose, to know that things don’t make sense, and that the only member of the clan who has documentary evidence that he is crazy, backed by a substantial pension for it, is the one whose judgement can, on the record, be trusted.
So when I announced over a decade ago that I had received a death threat and was absolutely delirious with joy about it, no one turned a hair.
After my second nervous breakdown in 1985, there were YEARS of emptiness. Finally I was offending someone enough for a death threat.
I have gotten ALMOST as many death threats as I have rejection slips over the years.
So now SysOps informs me that we are getting serious hostile spam activity. I wrote her back, “We have faced worse.” Which, I hope, meant something to her.
The simple fact that I take commenters seriously, if you really have a high opinion of my background and brain, I SHOULD be appreciated.
SysOps is in an even higher category. Someone who has been through the fight with me as SysOps has, is, all her delightful femininity considered, NOT someone you would like to meet in a dark alley.
AFKAN, physical confrontation is not what it used to be. SysOps could pull something out of her fluffy feminine little dress or handbag that would make a large predator into a disgusting hash.
She knows HOW. I know she has been through the whole course. But I hope she appreciates my recognition of the fact. She knows very well that damned few people are in a position to really recognize that.
So SysOps says, holding back details, that we are getting serious efforts at spamming us out of existence.
GREAT!
I’ve been attacked before, but now I have SysOps and BoardAd. I used to deal with this sort of violence (semi-violence?) completely alone. Now I don’t even HAVE to know what is going on.
Can you IMAGINE, after a lifetime of being left alone in the field, how GOOD that feels?
I have no idea exactly what is going on. But what SysOps says gives me a second wind.
This is FUN!
It’s WORK for SysOps and BoardAd, but it’s FUN for me. This may show a lack of empathy, but by Thunder, it’s time I got a little fun out of it!
#1 by Sys Op on 12/07/2007 - 8:50 pm
Because of what you say… I do appreciate it. To be named like this alongside your older sister, your wife, your niece, your hill staffer — I am honored.
He is tops! He’s got a lot of life lessons to learn, but working here will move him ahead fast. Working with us will build a lot of patience — timing is everything.
#2 by Bob on 12/08/2007 - 8:45 am
Lordy, I do love SysOps!
#3 by AFKAN on 12/08/2007 - 4:51 pm
in reply to a point Bob made:
you wrote:
in reply:
I know this, all too well.
My concerns belong in a framework of needing to recover Masculinity.
I believe our sons are being gelded, while our daughters are being masculinized, and this subtle process is wreaking havoc among the rituals that comprise the foundation of normal relationships between the sexes, particularly during adolescence.
That is the context in which my comments concerning my nephews needs to be placed.
What makes Dave’s analysis of HOW to deal with the slow-moving street-level predator effective is the ability to project the SECOND part of his response – the certainty of physical retribution – as an absolute certainty.
The predators – at all levels of society – are always looking for prey, and always seek to neutralize, immobilize, capture and dominate their prey.
The power of Wordism to do just this continue to amaze me.
Thus, they NEED something that can give them access to the power of Will needed to move forward, in directions THEY choose, regardless of how rational and soothing the predator’s Wordist attack seems to be.
THAT is what I am working on.
How much of my life was wasted trying to be rational with the irrational…
My nephews, my Posterity, the part of my Family, my Race, and my Nation, I can help develop, should not accept the artificial limits, the de facto gelding, that was imposed on me, and all of my situation.
And they damn well WON’T!