@firefly,
So, firstly I'm drunk. Lucid, but drunk.
**** going to AA...
I've been thinking about this whole able 2 know thread thing a lot tonight. I think it's actually been better than that previous stint with a therapist. Or maybe it just feels that way because I don't have anybody to talk to about this stuff and it's been built up for quite awhile. It's like I've been constipated, and I finally got to drop a poop (can't wait for somebody to use that quote to compare what I've said to poop).
Also it's gotten me writing a bit again. That's something I don't do much anymore. I probably won't ever post anywhere else on this site except this thread, I have no need to. This thread has been about my life...
But I really don't give a **** if anyone reading this thinks I talk about myself too much or not. It feels really good to get this stuff out, just to organize it and try to form it all into words for my own selfish benefit and self exploration. This thread is about me trying to help myself. If someone else wants to read it or comment on it (even if they act like a stupid bitch), that's their choice.
If there's a way to delete my account I'll probably eventually do that if this interferes with my time too much (If I can't delete it, so be it. Hopefully someone in a similar situation will read it and know they aren't alone. In that case I'd just quit posting). It is somewhat frustrating trying to respond to multiple people because I want to make sure I actually think about what I'm trying to say, AND because this about my life I sometimes have charged reactions to what some people are saying about ME, AND I do have other commitments in my life. That's why I'm not big into inter-webbing outside of work. No longer have a facebook, never a twitter, myspace, or whatever else...
msolga,
"It's kinda fascinating, in a very weird sort of way. "
I'm glad I fascinate you.
Still don't give a **** what you have to say...
hawkeye,
"Because everyone wants one of them. Most of the good looking women have been ruined from birth by being spoiled ..."
It's become clear to me your thinking is an example of what's wrong with society. I don't like women either but look at what your saying, there's truth in what your saying! Women lust after money. That's part of what proves humanity is (in whole, including men) a bad thing. Humanity is fucked. Yet you seem to revel in these sick rules like they're acceptable instead of being repulsed by them. I don't like that hawkeye. I strongly agree that what you're saying is accurate, but it's not something that should be embraced. It should be exposed for how ugly it is. "Most of the good looking women have been ruined from birth by being spoiled", is that something that makes you pleased? "Get better (or get a lot of money)", is that something that makes you pleased?
And I'm not looking for "the best of the women" like they're a ******* horse to be bred for show or something. I know I'm sexist, but that sounds fucked up hawkeye.
I'm certainly no Alpha male. It shouldn't be a goddamn contest in that way anyway. That's part of what makes life meaningless. Humans are no more special than animals in that regard. I want the best woman for me personally. The one that best fits the things I've mentioned before that I look for, and especially the one who I feel the strongest friendship with. And I'm well aware that that's a ******* fairy tale because women only want the most well gamed Alpha male with the most money.
vikorr,
First of all, when do you think men peak in "creative intelligence"? If that's something I've passed I suppose it would give me further reason not to find meaning in my own life. There used to be all these things I wanted to do. Now it seems like either life has beaten me down so much that I don't care to be creative, or I've lost whatever creativity I once had. This has bothered me for awhile. Sometimes I fear I won't ever get my creativity back.
Second, "You've named any number of flaws in your last that would suggest a very flawed 'whole package'."
I know she wasn't perfect vikorr. I'm not stupid. But she was as close as I've encountered to whatever that 'perfect' is for me personally. Even if she wasn't the whole package, she made me happier than any other woman has. Therefore, when I gauge my happiness with other women, I gauge by my experience with her. Before it had been my finance.
"It's interesting to a degree to see how it functions, and it's sheer tenacity is both breath taking & repulsive at the same time..."
Hawkeye seems to agree with things I've been pointing out that support my views. Are you trying to tell me I'm so ******* crazy that it's a thing of beauty? I think that's really a stretch. Obviously there are other people out there who recognize these things I'm talking about in society. It's just that in hawkeye's case he's reacting to them in the wrong way.
"if you seek to understand you must be honest, if you are honest you must take responsibility for who you are....if you take responsibility for who you are, you must be honest with yourself, and if you want to be honest with yourself you must seek to understand yourself."
I am seeking to understand myself. I'm working on this vikorr, in MY own way. It's not the same way you would approach it. I think we are looking at the same thing from two different angles. That doesn't mean one is right and the other is wrong, it's just a different approach. I know I need to find out more about myself. I'm also interested in 'big' questions. I mean, aren't you? Don't you ever think endlessly about that stuff sometimes? You're smart. When I seek knowledge of myself, I try to also better understand my lot in life, the world around me, questions about life, death, what makes a person uniquely their own, all that ****.
" It's point isn't to excuse success, failure or otherwise - but as a way of understanding men/women in a way that results in you :
- accepting that certain types of attributes are attractive to the opposite sex (and helping you understand why)
- which hopefully then results in you not butting your head against the wall so hard for pointless reasons "
But it's true vikorr. You agree with me. Women say they want one thing and then when they get that thing, they get turned off. THAT is warped thinking. And this all happens subconsciously and is apparent as behavior displayed in (probably) most or all women. It's very nature is designed to frustrate, confused, and (some including me) would say torture those it encounters. And at the bottom of it all women truly WANT to be manipulated by men in order to be dominated by them. But they ALSO don't want to be aware any of this is happening. And the responsibility for either intuitively knowing all this or learning it from PAINFUL trial and error falls squarely on only one of the two partners in a male/female relationship.
Do you understand how complex that is???? You need a diagram on a blackboard to map the ******* thing out! In fact somebody should do that, shoot a video of it, burn it to DVD, mass produce it, and distribute it to every man born in all of ******* creation!
That would better mankind!
"The reason for this is that depressed or suicidal people don't commit suicide because they are depressed or suicidal - they commit it because their coping mechanisms become overloaded and then virtually fail...they no longer see a way to cope."
I read this the same as "People will kill themselves to end pain." Mental pain and emotional pain can be just as intense as physical pain, maybe more so.
I really, REALLY like what you said about making a list. I will try this. I will likely try it with nonsensical things at first like practicing to think about pink elephants for a portion of the day. Just to try it out you know, see if I can remember to do it.
I like that. Thank you for that vikorr.
"In terms of ALL the changes you need to make. Don't bother focusing on that. Focus on a few small changes at a time"
It's not really about changes so much as what weighs me down is feelings that things are too frayed in my life to be redeemed. Some things are permanently broken, can't be fixed. Personal things. I know I've talked about a lot of personal things here, but there are some things that I won't discuss that are just deeply personal things I expect from myself. Sometimes I feel like I've fucked up too much in my life and that there's no going back. Like I have to die or else live the rest of my life as a cartoon of my former self.
firefly,
"Mary--you saw what you wanted to see, and made it fit your fantasy of what you wanted to be going on between the two of you, and you chose to disregard all the evidence to the contrary. And that's why I'm not inclined to trust your version of events about the relationship and why it broke up. Truthfully, your interpretation of her behavior in the relationship doesn't make a lot of sense, and it doesn't ring true. She had no logical motivation to manipulate or deceive you"
I've already explained her motivations to deceive me. Condensed recap: To hurt Jack/because she couldn't ever be single/because she was attracted to me on at least enough of a physical level to want to **** me and she knew that wasn't going to happen unless she convinced me it was more than that.
" If you felt Mary was a slut, because of her past sexual behaviors, as you've clearly indicated, you had no basic respect for the woman, and you ought to think about that too. "
Not true firefly. I wasn't happy to hear about her past, but I allowed myself to look past it. And I also didn't get the full story of her past until after we had become involved. By that point do you understand the twofold emotions I was experiencing? Someone who had shown me through her behavior that she was a trusted friend and who had convinced me that she was in love with me through both her words and actions was telling me things I didn't want to be true about her life.
"Your complaints about both women you were involved with had to do with characteristics of their personality and character and values--which is why you've got to learn to be a better judge of people and take such characteristics into account in looking for a partner. If you don't like the types of women you get involved with, you've got to learn to make better choices."
This goes against what you said about how I should appreciate the good things in my past relationships during the times it was good for what they were, being able to focus and see the positive. Because if I never tried those relationships out I would've missed out on those times.
How could I ever possibly be able to accurately predict the crazy twists and turns of women? The complexities of women? That sounds to me like you want me to judge certain people based on small portions of limited information about them. Yet when I "generalize" that women are evil based on a WHOLE lot of readily available information, you call me out on that being inaccurate! You're contradicting yourself firefly!
" you assumed a passionate romance was mutual when it wasn't."
I didn't mean ANYTHING to her, I was just someone she was *******. I know this already!! Are you trying to pour salt in a wound that I'm already pouring salt in too?? I'm a living joke to women, I get it. Even the ones that **** me aren't attracted to me. I'm not an attractive man. If making feel even more like I should be dead was your goal, mission accomplished!