anti-nostalgia
Correspondent:: "nu-monet v7.0"
Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2005 06:50:03 -0700
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As I get older, more and more, I'm looking
back at the past and thinking to myself how
very much past events sucked, then catching
myself with the realization that they weren't
*that* bad.
At the time, and for some years after, I looked
at what happened stoically, remembering the
boredom, the meanness, the pettiness of people,
and the cheapness of things; but I also thought
of the good things.
Things, such as how I tried to force myself to
look at the bright side. And how to get anything
good in my life I had to use my time, effort,
energy and money, because no one else would. And
how, when I did, I enjoyed myself, because I was
the one in charge, and I didn't screw things up
like everybody else would. When I did something,
I did it right.
How I was the bright light, trying to cheer
others up, unsuccessfully using my charm to get
into what would have been fun, romantic, lasting
and loving relationships with any number of
pretty young ladies. In retrospect, I can't
think of a single one who didn't turn into some
whithered, hideous, shrewlike hag, but I didn't
know that at the time, and I really could have
maybe made a difference in one of their lives.
But again to anti-nostalgia, as I look back, the
thought comes out again and again of how much of
an utter waste they all were. Hollow phantoms of
what people were and are supposed to be. Cruel
vampire ghosts who lived off the life force of
others.
But I'm still young enough to catch myself and say
that things weren't entirely rotten in my youth.
At least there was me.
And I was damn good.
--
"YOU BELONG TO US NOW!"
"GET DOWN WITH MY SICKNESS!!"
--Kino Beman, brand name
Correspondent:: HellPope Huey
Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2005 16:45:19 GMT
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In article <41EE658B.27D3@succeeds.com>,
"nu-monet v7.0" wrote:
> As I get older, more and more, I'm looking
> back at the past and thinking to myself how
> very much past events sucked, then catching
> myself with the realization that they weren't
> *that* bad.
..........
> But I'm still young enough to catch myself and say
> that things weren't entirely rotten in my youth.
> > At least there was me.
> > And I was damn good.
I'm really sorry to hear that you have developed pancreatic cancer. The
place will be much duller without you.
--
HellPope Huey
On Star Trek, you can get lost,
but someone always comes to GET you.
"If we can stand up
while all else falls down
we'll last through the winter
we'll last through the storms"
- Peter Gabriel, "Ovo"
"There's a lot of kids and a lot of junkies
out there right now who are countin' on me."
- "Death To Smoochy"
Correspondent:: "nu-monet v7.0"
Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2005 11:47:53 -0700
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HellPope Huey wrote:
>
> In article <41EE658B.27D3@succeeds.com>,
> "nu-monet v7.0" wrote:
>
> > As I get older, more and more, I'm looking
> > back at the past and thinking to myself how
> > very much past events sucked, then catching
> > myself with the realization that they weren't
> > *that* bad.
> ..........
> > But I'm still young enough to catch myself and say
> > that things weren't entirely rotten in my youth.
> > > At least there was me.
> > > And I was damn good.
>
> I'm really sorry to hear that you have developed
> pancreatic cancer. The place will be much duller
> without you.
My life expectancy is July 5th, 2005, so as long as
I freebase Laetril until then I'm gravy. Then it's
back to the ol' sludge vat and #8 takes over.
--
"We've pretty much just been patrolling
and flying helicopters all over the place,
and when we see something bad, we blow it up."
-- Maj. David Holahan, US Marines
Correspondent:: "paco"
Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2005 18:06:05 -0500
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"nu-monet v7.0" wrote in message
news:41EE658B.27D3@succeeds.com...
> As I get older, more and more, I'm looking
> back at the past and thinking to myself how
> very much past events sucked, then catching
> myself with the realization that they weren't
> *that* bad.
>
Your just looking back through rose coloured glasses. Snap out of it.
Correspondent:: rich.weisgerber@gmail.com
Date: 19 Jan 2005 21:32:41 -0800
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The Past Is SO FUCKING BAD,
IT SUCKS THE FUTURE RIGHT
OUT OF THE PRESENT!
so there . . .
Correspondent:: HellPope Huey
Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2005 16:34:08 GMT
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In article <1106199161.038739.289250@z14g2000cwz.googlegroups.com>,
rich.weisgerber@gmail.com wrote:
> The Past Is SO FUCKING BAD,
> IT SUCKS THE FUTURE RIGHT
> OUT OF THE PRESENT!
> > so there . . .
I can personally find no flaw in your contention, you FUCKER.
--
HellPope Huey
How I got in my pajamas, I'll never know
"One of the saddest lessons of history is this:
If we've been bamboozled long enough,
we tend to reject any evidence of the bamboozle.
We're no longer interested in finding out the truth.
The bamboozle has captured us.
It's simply too painful to acknowledge,
even to ourselves, that we've been taken.
Once you give a charlatan power over you,
you almost never get it back.
So the old bamboozles tend to persist
as the new ones rise."
- Carl Sagan, "The Demon Haunted World"
"I think my spleen and appendix just switched places."
- Teen Titans"