Permuted Press

  • May 20, 2013, 09:48:18 AM
  • Welcome, Guest
Please login or register.

Login with username, password and session length
Advanced search  

News:

THE FORUM HAS BEEN UPGRADED! Please report any problems or concerns in the Forum Support area.

Pages: [1]   Go Down

Author Topic: I am so exhausted...  (Read 511 times)

0 Members and 1 Guest are viewing this topic.

Licorice Lain

  • Zen Master
  • *
  • Divinity: 11
  • Offline Offline
  • Posts: 2188
    • View Profile
    • Literary Amalgamut
I am so exhausted...
« on: January 16, 2010, 01:10:30 PM »

Ok, so there is this bitching going between rad fems and extreme trans activists and a particular argument started today which sent me over the edge.

The link is to my new blog post which directed at these people. You can read it if you wish, but it really only applies to them. It is a call to wake up, if you will.

http://amalgamatedliterature.wordpress.com/
Logged
Heterodoxic PITA

JW Schnarr

  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Divinity: 11
  • Offline Offline
  • Posts: 1358
  • Is it bad? Ohhh I can't look. Tell me if it's bad.
    • View Profile
    • The home of Calgary horror writer jwschnarr
Re: I am so exhausted...
« Reply #1 on: January 16, 2010, 01:45:18 PM »

I'm so glad I'm a straight male...there are just too many gender definitions for me to keep track of.  :D
Logged


Licorice Lain

  • Zen Master
  • *
  • Divinity: 11
  • Offline Offline
  • Posts: 2188
    • View Profile
    • Literary Amalgamut
Re: I am so exhausted...
« Reply #2 on: January 16, 2010, 01:47:25 PM »

I'm so glad I'm a straight male...there are just too many gender definitions for me to keep track of.  :D


You don't know how right you are. :)

These rads and extremists wear me out. Where do they find the energy to live in their narrow worlds?

Damn tunnel vision...
Logged
Heterodoxic PITA

frank

  • Carry on.
  • Zen Master
  • *
  • Divinity: 31
  • Offline Offline
  • Posts: 3119
  • The future is whatever you submit to.
    • View Profile
Re: I am so exhausted...
« Reply #3 on: January 16, 2010, 02:33:40 PM »

If I may, L.

It's obviously frustrating, but the sad fact of the matter is that there are two ways to survive the awareness being different from the norm, and dis-valued because of it.  A person of difference can cling to those differences and insist that the difference, itself, is where their value resides.  Or that person can cling to their broad humanity and insist that their value resides in what is common to all human beings.  One way builds a barrier, the other way tears it down.

Guess which is harder.  Guess which holds out hope for a better future for all people.  Hint:  They're both the same.

I'm afraid, L, that attacking wall builders only validates their fear, and makes your own voice less powerful for healing and reconciliation.

I do understand you anger.  Very much that might be better is at stake, but you might reflect before unloading, and stand for the better way, instead.

 :)
Logged
I live therefore I think -- Jose Ortega y Gasset

Licorice Lain

  • Zen Master
  • *
  • Divinity: 11
  • Offline Offline
  • Posts: 2188
    • View Profile
    • Literary Amalgamut
Re: I am so exhausted...
« Reply #4 on: January 16, 2010, 03:38:29 PM »

Very wise, Frank.

I am considering deleting the post.

Whatever I do, I am not concerning myself with anything these people have to say anymore. They want to live in a world of tunnel vision, I won't bother them.
Logged
Heterodoxic PITA

frank

  • Carry on.
  • Zen Master
  • *
  • Divinity: 31
  • Offline Offline
  • Posts: 3119
  • The future is whatever you submit to.
    • View Profile
Re: I am so exhausted...
« Reply #5 on: January 17, 2010, 05:31:02 AM »

It may not be sufficient for wisdom, but getting clear of error is a necessary step.

As the Buddha went away from the world before returning.

Or as Jesus fasted for forty days in the wilderness before beginning his ministry.

You have recognized an error, but you will not be clear of its power over you until you are at peace with it.

So, yes.  Let them have their thing.  Tend to your own healing and growth.  You will be rewarded. 
Logged
I live therefore I think -- Jose Ortega y Gasset

Licorice Lain

  • Zen Master
  • *
  • Divinity: 11
  • Offline Offline
  • Posts: 2188
    • View Profile
    • Literary Amalgamut
Re: I am so exhausted...
« Reply #6 on: January 17, 2010, 05:40:35 AM »

I removed the post and will continue to keep the blog subjective and calm as I had been before.
Logged
Heterodoxic PITA

frank

  • Carry on.
  • Zen Master
  • *
  • Divinity: 31
  • Offline Offline
  • Posts: 3119
  • The future is whatever you submit to.
    • View Profile
Re: I am so exhausted...
« Reply #7 on: January 17, 2010, 06:24:02 AM »

 :thumbsup:

Now don't be surprised if more comments pop up in this thread.

A lot more could be said, especially about defending the right to be comfortable in your own skin, which is not about making or seeing anyone else as inherently inferior.  (That practice being the primary source of such discomforts, in the first place).

As you know.
Logged
I live therefore I think -- Jose Ortega y Gasset

Licorice Lain

  • Zen Master
  • *
  • Divinity: 11
  • Offline Offline
  • Posts: 2188
    • View Profile
    • Literary Amalgamut
Re: I am so exhausted...
« Reply #8 on: January 18, 2010, 08:45:40 AM »

:thumbsup:

Now don't be surprised if more comments pop up in this thread.

It will be difficult, but I shall try.  :)


My next two blog posts will be about things much different.
Logged
Heterodoxic PITA
Pages: [1]   Go Up