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Kaiwzoj's Blog Excerpt from Plato’s PHAEDO...
Posted by Kaiwzoj on 2010-02-26 22:31:56.

"The danger of becoming misologists or haters of argument," said he, "as people become misanthropists or haters of man; for no worse evil can happen to a man than to hate argument. Misology and misanthropy arise from similar causes. For misanthropy arises from trusting someone implicitly without sufficient knowledge. You think the man is perfectly true and sound and trustworthy, and afterwards you find him base and false. Then you have the same experience with another person. By the time this... No comments

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Kaiwzoj's Blog Just Don't Fit In
Posted by Kaiwzoj on 2010-02-26 22:19:46.

I try to bring a modicum of humor and intelligent discussion to the chat room Lobby, but the medium itself isn't conducive to an intellectual atmosphere. I'm not just talking about all the sex jokes and gossip, but more that the chat window is so small that there's hardly any way to follow a legitimate discussion. Everyone else types in caveman-length grunts, and I in paragraphs; by the time I'm done typing a post, all reference to what I'm talking about has passed by several screens of unrelated... No comments

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Kaiwzoj's Blog Missed the Boat
Posted by Kaiwzoj on 2010-02-26 02:18:50.

A dozen years ago, back when I might've been worth dating, I was too scared to ask women out. Now it's too late; my sanity is fracturing, and nothing seems to help. The realization that life has passed me by, that I frittered away my time hoping for fairytale romance, that the gray mist that was my twenties was the time I should've been starting a family of my own... it fills me with uncontrollable rage. I was the nice guy who opened doors for old ladies, who frowned at crass jokes about female... No comments

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Kaiwzoj's Blog Strike Two
Posted by Kaiwzoj on 2010-02-26 01:12:48.

It appears that I've got a knack for offending people. Apparently, while it's fine for people to use foul language and ridicule other users' genitalia, it's horrifyingly impolite for me to mention the old 'blacksploitation' film entitled "Boss N*gger" (even partially censored, as I have it here). I'm no bigot, though one might indeed call me a racist, in as much as I find the wide variety of human diversity more interesting that one bland, gray "race". I know it sounds silly, but I can't quite... No comments

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Kaiwzoj's Blog An Unfortunate Experience
Posted by Kaiwzoj on 2010-02-25 17:51:30.

Here's a message that I posted to the forum a couple of days ago, which I've since decided to move to a blog post... As stated in my profile, my goal in coming here was to find honest, kind, non-judgmental people. Unfortunately, today, while learning to use the chat room on this site, I encountered just the opposite. Despite my attempts to be polite and light-hearted, within the span of just half an hour, I was blocked, accused of being a "troll", and treated with scorn for not comprehending.... No comments

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Free2bme78's Blog C&P
Posted by Free2bme78 on 2010-02-20 09:59:06.

I've finally finished "Crime and Punishment" and...find myself, with this book, extremelely impressed by Dostoyevsky's writing abilities. (I read in "Notes" in college and yet didn't feel quite as moved.) I know that must sound pretty grossly naive, simple and pretentious all at once--this is of course FIDOR DOSTOYEVSKY we're discussing--but I'm not the type of person to be so easily convinced by the assignment of defintive iconic literary brilliance by the amorphous 'everyone.' I needed to read... One comment

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Free2bme78's Blog Musings cont'd
Posted by Free2bme78 on 2010-02-05 17:08:53.

Finished Miller's ToC. Mixed feelings. I don't think I'll be reading the next 'installment.' An interesting read but a sort of deliberately crass for crass sake kind of read. Next on the list I think...Crime and Punishment. No comments

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Free2bme78's Blog Random Musings on Miller
Posted by Free2bme78 on 2010-02-01 18:26:28.

So I've been reading Tropic of Cancer on and off for a couple of days now (not for the reasons you might think...esp those of you who've seen that "Seinfeld" episode) and don't know quite where it's going. I suppose like The Stranger it's one of those reads best digested within the confines of academia...to properly evaluate and appreciate the similes, analogies, imagery blah blah blah-de-blah. But I dunno...so far, there has been the visceral stream of consciousness convulotion, religious and ethnic... No comments

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Free2bme78's Blog ShyFrustrations.com
Posted by Free2bme78 on 2010-01-29 21:58:55.

So it's been a week or two now....and I don't know how to take the silence from the general membership here with anything but dismay--sprinkled perhaps with a very mild humiliation. What else is the knowledge (by way of the handy 'who's viewed my profile' option) of who has deemed you worthy of only a cursory profile glance and nothing more--not even a benign, very non-committal hello?! Ouch. But this is essentially the experience I signed up for, is it not? You don't exactly subscribe to a site... One comment