http://intellectualbarbarian.tribe.net/thread/76b80786-6fe4-4cc5-a329-abe4bfc4e5d5?format=rss Tribe.net. Local Connections http://intellectualbarbarian.tribe.net/thread/76b80786-6fe4-4cc5-a329-abe4bfc4e5d5#a3206880-89d5-4be6-8543-77bb439ca6eb The best revenge leaves a weakened villain sobbing at my feet while I laugh, loud and long, with unreserved venom. Hero? Knight? Goddess? All fables. I'm talking about apes and what we're all about. Some lack the stomach. Some lack the subtlety. Most lack the drive. Have faith in the apathy of humankind, and all will seem golden. For a while. Thu, 01 Oct 2009 03:29:14 GMT http://intellectualbarbarian.tribe.net/thread/76b80786-6fe4-4cc5-a329-abe4bfc4e5d5#a3206880-89d5-4be6-8543-77bb439ca6eb Lokifreign 2009-10-01T03:29:14Z http://intellectualbarbarian.tribe.net/thread/76b80786-6fe4-4cc5-a329-abe4bfc4e5d5#3dd4c461-72bc-4672-87b8-33fdc1daf966 The best revenge is living well; ever after. the avengers http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GNn6HJw9PFY .27 sec. Sun, 27 Sep 2009 16:43:21 GMT http://intellectualbarbarian.tribe.net/thread/76b80786-6fe4-4cc5-a329-abe4bfc4e5d5#3dd4c461-72bc-4672-87b8-33fdc1daf966 ~glen~ 2009-09-27T16:43:21Z http://intellectualbarbarian.tribe.net/thread/76b80786-6fe4-4cc5-a329-abe4bfc4e5d5#e3fcb327-4058-4678-b7e8-776f2f912cc5 The best revenge is living well. Fri, 21 Aug 2009 23:24:01 GMT http://intellectualbarbarian.tribe.net/thread/76b80786-6fe4-4cc5-a329-abe4bfc4e5d5#e3fcb327-4058-4678-b7e8-776f2f912cc5 Solari 2009-08-21T23:24:01Z http://intellectualbarbarian.tribe.net/thread/76b80786-6fe4-4cc5-a329-abe4bfc4e5d5#0b081785-6809-46fb-a285-58867a652c2e Yours truly likes good salad , but is not into revenge (at least not revenge of a physical sort) . Thu, 23 Jul 2009 02:39:03 GMT http://intellectualbarbarian.tribe.net/thread/76b80786-6fe4-4cc5-a329-abe4bfc4e5d5#0b081785-6809-46fb-a285-58867a652c2e Jason Leary 2009-07-23T02:39:03Z http://intellectualbarbarian.tribe.net/thread/76b80786-6fe4-4cc5-a329-abe4bfc4e5d5#b8a8fb01-aee4-4cf9-8c45-be6fac0291bd grilled and sliced atop a nice salad? Wed, 22 Jul 2009 22:42:04 GMT http://intellectualbarbarian.tribe.net/thread/76b80786-6fe4-4cc5-a329-abe4bfc4e5d5#b8a8fb01-aee4-4cf9-8c45-be6fac0291bd ZaeM the Great and Powerful 2009-07-22T22:42:04Z http://intellectualbarbarian.tribe.net/thread/76b80786-6fe4-4cc5-a329-abe4bfc4e5d5#cb538052-5199-482b-91e7-a6e4ee06bad6 pressed? blanched?, poached? Cured? Sun Dried? or maybe just " Blackened "? Wed, 22 Jul 2009 22:35:05 GMT http://intellectualbarbarian.tribe.net/thread/76b80786-6fe4-4cc5-a329-abe4bfc4e5d5#cb538052-5199-482b-91e7-a6e4ee06bad6 Mr. Pure , rated G, 2009-07-22T22:35:05Z http://intellectualbarbarian.tribe.net/thread/76b80786-6fe4-4cc5-a329-abe4bfc4e5d5#1ff6a628-9405-4a22-84e4-1e4e86e55fc9 She called you from beyond the veil ? I remember sometime in 1980 (when I was still something of a youngster) seeing a book in a bookstore titled , 'Phone Calls From The Dead.' I wouldn't mind taking her ghost out on a date ---provided a friend could drive us (I don't drive cars) . Next time you hear from her , tell her that I'm trying to show people via means of the literature she writes , possibilities for experience that are very profound ...genuinely profound . Trying to turn them on to something far more profound than putrid trash like the so-called prophecies of Nostradamus , or trash like the so-called Celestine Prophecy et al . I truly would like to take her ghost on a date or drink some wine with her by the pond . Not mustard wine , I don't know if she would like that sort of wine . Play it safe and try white Zinfadel . Reportedly , she was of a lesbian orientation , but I would explain to her I'm aesexual / NOT into sex , so it shouldn't matter . Wed, 22 Jul 2009 02:48:40 GMT http://intellectualbarbarian.tribe.net/thread/76b80786-6fe4-4cc5-a329-abe4bfc4e5d5#1ff6a628-9405-4a22-84e4-1e4e86e55fc9 Jason Leary 2009-07-22T02:48:40Z http://intellectualbarbarian.tribe.net/thread/76b80786-6fe4-4cc5-a329-abe4bfc4e5d5#9c881838-e583-4dd9-971a-0acb9b22bcf5 Revenge is far too broad to be pigeonholed into one cooking instruction. Sometimes it's best hot, sometimes better served cold, however some prefer it julianed or broiled. Tue, 21 Jul 2009 23:29:41 GMT http://intellectualbarbarian.tribe.net/thread/76b80786-6fe4-4cc5-a329-abe4bfc4e5d5#9c881838-e583-4dd9-971a-0acb9b22bcf5 The Intellectual 2009-07-21T23:29:41Z http://intellectualbarbarian.tribe.net/thread/76b80786-6fe4-4cc5-a329-abe4bfc4e5d5#96b29044-f57a-427d-9872-4f1f7c4a18ee Elizabeth Bishop called me and asked me to tell you that she says to stop dragging her into everything. I don't give a rat's ass whether you do but, she's all lit up about it. Tue, 21 Jul 2009 23:26:58 GMT http://intellectualbarbarian.tribe.net/thread/76b80786-6fe4-4cc5-a329-abe4bfc4e5d5#96b29044-f57a-427d-9872-4f1f7c4a18ee ALLAH God of all 2009-07-21T23:26:58Z http://intellectualbarbarian.tribe.net/thread/76b80786-6fe4-4cc5-a329-abe4bfc4e5d5#7679436f-281c-4e59-b2c1-6204d8939402 What makes ya think that, Enrika ? ? ? ? Mon, 20 Jul 2009 22:28:42 GMT http://intellectualbarbarian.tribe.net/thread/76b80786-6fe4-4cc5-a329-abe4bfc4e5d5#7679436f-281c-4e59-b2c1-6204d8939402 Jason Leary 2009-07-20T22:28:42Z http://intellectualbarbarian.tribe.net/thread/76b80786-6fe4-4cc5-a329-abe4bfc4e5d5#8c8c03df-2b3e-495d-902f-269be85740be *laughing* I'm reasonably certain that's NOT what he meant to ask you. :) Mon, 20 Jul 2009 21:13:31 GMT http://intellectualbarbarian.tribe.net/thread/76b80786-6fe4-4cc5-a329-abe4bfc4e5d5#8c8c03df-2b3e-495d-902f-269be85740be Enrika 2009-07-20T21:13:31Z http://intellectualbarbarian.tribe.net/thread/76b80786-6fe4-4cc5-a329-abe4bfc4e5d5#794be3a0-21eb-4418-8b3a-0a35b4588575 ZAE M POSTED :ugh. can't we even joke around for a minute Jason? RESPONSE : Yep. No problem ZAE M POSTED If that thread was so important to you; couldn't you have posted your lamentations over there? RESPONSE : Maybe I should have; come to think of it . ZAE M POSTED :what is it with you that you have to tie every post you make in every thread into the most recent screed of psuedo~philosophy you've churned out? RESPONSE : Don't you mean to ask me , 'what is it with you that you have to tie every post you make in every thread into the most recent screed of *philosophy* you've churned out? ' Mon, 20 Jul 2009 16:08:38 GMT http://intellectualbarbarian.tribe.net/thread/76b80786-6fe4-4cc5-a329-abe4bfc4e5d5#794be3a0-21eb-4418-8b3a-0a35b4588575 Jason Leary 2009-07-20T16:08:38Z http://intellectualbarbarian.tribe.net/thread/76b80786-6fe4-4cc5-a329-abe4bfc4e5d5#c882bba3-5023-4749-9d8e-bdf9438e3bdc ugh. can't we even joke around for a minute Jason? If that thread was so important to you; couldn't you have posted your lamentations over there? what is it with you that you have to tie every post you make in every thread into the most recent screed of psuedo~philosophy you've churned out? anybody want revenge on Jason? Mon, 20 Jul 2009 05:45:30 GMT http://intellectualbarbarian.tribe.net/thread/76b80786-6fe4-4cc5-a329-abe4bfc4e5d5#c882bba3-5023-4749-9d8e-bdf9438e3bdc ZaeM the Great and Powerful 2009-07-20T05:45:30Z http://intellectualbarbarian.tribe.net/thread/76b80786-6fe4-4cc5-a329-abe4bfc4e5d5#d5955869-e170-4b39-a280-e65ec86ea75b Enrika Posted :I was rounding. A hundred is near enough to 90 for my point. Response: I see . "What does the part about it being "written a hundred years ago" have to do with the lack of enthusiasm and responses towards the text ?" Enrika Posted :It was prose from another time. Response: Yeah, well it is: that does that mean that the literary "wine" has aged so much its turned to vinegar ? Enrika Posted :An intimate little slice of a brief moment of someone's life who isn't even around to comment on it anymore, and you didn't add any comment of your own other than to say it was "fascinating." I'm not saying that we don't discuss the poetry of dead people, but you certainly didn't present it as something on which you were attempting to elicit comment. Reponse: Well you have something of a valid notion there . Maybe I should have asked readers to comment . Enrika Posted : You didn't even put "Discuss" at the end. If it had been topical, it might not have elicited comment either. But I think it would have been far more likely. Response : Maybe so . Enrika Posted :You post a bit of old prose without comment, someone else asks several questions. You can hardly be surprised when the other person's post elicits more comments than yours. Response: Well I wish that I had asked people to comment. Perhaps I should try an experiement visit other message boards that have other posts that (unlike the narrative from Elizabeth Bishop) are of an earthy nature and entreat comments and see if the one about Ms Bishop gets any comments. Comments other than , "what's that crazy sh--t about" ? or people calling it "pretentious" because it is it isn't sexy, or otherwise earthy and/or kitch laden to entertainement.... or filled with self-help movement platitudes to set their fingers to typing some yuckity-yuck . Sat, 18 Jul 2009 21:14:49 GMT http://intellectualbarbarian.tribe.net/thread/76b80786-6fe4-4cc5-a329-abe4bfc4e5d5#d5955869-e170-4b39-a280-e65ec86ea75b Jason Leary 2009-07-18T21:14:49Z http://intellectualbarbarian.tribe.net/thread/76b80786-6fe4-4cc5-a329-abe4bfc4e5d5#6e033d15-b358-418b-8bef-584426df039f I was rounding. A hundred is near enough to 90 for my point. "What does the part about it being "written a hundred years ago" have to do with the lack of enthusiasm and responses towards the text ?" It was prose from another time. An intimate little slice of a brief moment of someone's life who isn't even around to comment on it anymore, and you didn't add any comment of your own other than to say it was "fascinating." I'm not saying that we don't discuss the poetry of dead people, but you certainly didn't present it as something on which you were attempting to elicit comment. You didn't even put "Discuss" at the end. If it had been topical, it might not have elicited comment either. But I think it would have been far more likely. You post a bit of old prose without comment, someone else asks several questions. You can hardly be surprised when the other person's post elicits more comments than yours. Sat, 18 Jul 2009 20:27:23 GMT http://intellectualbarbarian.tribe.net/thread/76b80786-6fe4-4cc5-a329-abe4bfc4e5d5#6e033d15-b358-418b-8bef-584426df039f Enrika 2009-07-18T20:27:23Z http://intellectualbarbarian.tribe.net/thread/76b80786-6fe4-4cc5-a329-abe4bfc4e5d5#df79447c-f2a7-4b56-b1ad-e3c79bea8391 Hi Enrika , Long time no see . Well at least somebody could have typed : 'that's a damn interesting experience' or something like that, in regard to the story reported by Elizabeth Bishop ? And let me , now, ask you a question ,Enrika ...What does the part about it being "written a hundred years ago" have to do with the lack of enthusiasm and responses towards the text ? (And actually it wasn't exactly written a hundred years ago ...she had the account of the experience published a number of decades after the event . And the experience ...presuming she didn't make it up...and I give her the benefit of the doubt ....did not take place a hundred years ago either . 1918 ---is long , long time ago ...but it is not a hundred years ago yet . 1918 won't be a hundred years ago until 2018 A.D . As an aside , my maternal Grandmother (who was from West Virginia) God rest her soul -- she left in 1994 , the spring of that year---was born in 1918 ) . Anyways I'm glad you asked , Enrika (earnestly I am glad) . Sat, 18 Jul 2009 16:43:58 GMT http://intellectualbarbarian.tribe.net/thread/76b80786-6fe4-4cc5-a329-abe4bfc4e5d5#df79447c-f2a7-4b56-b1ad-e3c79bea8391 Jason Leary 2009-07-18T16:43:58Z http://intellectualbarbarian.tribe.net/thread/76b80786-6fe4-4cc5-a329-abe4bfc4e5d5#9dd47b4b-610a-4861-b9c0-79d68aeb0ed9 What exactly are we supposed to say about Elizabeth Bishop's waiting room experience? The poster of this thread asked several questions in the original post. The Elizabeth Bishop post was a bit of poetic prose, not requesting additional comment. That a thread asking questions posed by the thread's author would have more responses than a thread with quoted prose written a hundred years ago requesting no additional comment should not be surprising. Sat, 18 Jul 2009 07:31:32 GMT http://intellectualbarbarian.tribe.net/thread/76b80786-6fe4-4cc5-a329-abe4bfc4e5d5#9dd47b4b-610a-4861-b9c0-79d68aeb0ed9 Enrika 2009-07-18T07:31:32Z http://intellectualbarbarian.tribe.net/thread/76b80786-6fe4-4cc5-a329-abe4bfc4e5d5#8689fe75-49b1-4f07-8165-ad88aa55f753 The fact that this present topic thread about revenge gets so many responses ...and the far more fascinating narrative about the anomalous experience of Elizabeth Bishop, in the waiting room of the dentist, gets zero responses thus far ---is yet one more sign of the times . One more sign of the rinky-dink , culturally entropic zeitgeist . The post thread about Elizabeth Bishop : in the waiting room of the dentist in Worcester, Massachusetts digs deep into the significance of consciousness and identity .The present post on revenge digs into .....revenge . Yet one more sign of what an earthy , kitch soaked , prosaic world it is anymore. What a mundane , earthy world it is anymore ! Sat, 18 Jul 2009 03:36:17 GMT http://intellectualbarbarian.tribe.net/thread/76b80786-6fe4-4cc5-a329-abe4bfc4e5d5#8689fe75-49b1-4f07-8165-ad88aa55f753 Jason Leary 2009-07-18T03:36:17Z http://intellectualbarbarian.tribe.net/thread/76b80786-6fe4-4cc5-a329-abe4bfc4e5d5#b4362ba8-55fe-4647-bbb6-c1a0926ab611 The fact that this present topic thread about revenge gets so many responses ...and the far more fascinating , narrative about the anomalous experience of Elizabeth Bishop : in the waiting room of the dentist gets zero responses thus far ---is yet one more sign of the times . One more sign of the rinky-dink , culturally entropic zeitgeist . The post thread about Elizabeth Bishop : in the waiting room of the dentist in Worcester, Massachusetts .The present post on revenge digs into .....revenge . Yet one more sign of what an earthy , kitch soaked , prosaic world it is anymore. What a mundane , earthy world it is anymore ! Sat, 18 Jul 2009 03:32:21 GMT http://intellectualbarbarian.tribe.net/thread/76b80786-6fe4-4cc5-a329-abe4bfc4e5d5#b4362ba8-55fe-4647-bbb6-c1a0926ab611 Jason Leary 2009-07-18T03:32:21Z http://intellectualbarbarian.tribe.net/thread/76b80786-6fe4-4cc5-a329-abe4bfc4e5d5#9e2ec502-0c93-435e-a248-c71a00d4164a Perhaps karma itself sent me to seek revenge... Sat, 18 Jul 2009 00:47:34 GMT http://intellectualbarbarian.tribe.net/thread/76b80786-6fe4-4cc5-a329-abe4bfc4e5d5#9e2ec502-0c93-435e-a248-c71a00d4164a Mushroom Girl 2009-07-18T00:47:34Z http://intellectualbarbarian.tribe.net/thread/76b80786-6fe4-4cc5-a329-abe4bfc4e5d5#acfedd29-3b91-4461-9801-c390eb08ef87 Ice fucking cold. You go an off some one within some reasonable time of them pissing you off and you are numero uno on the pig's suspect list. Wait at least 15 years. Then, if you still burn go kill the bastard. I prefer the knife and axe It is sooooo personal and nothing says "REMEMBER ME???" like a knife jammed in the intestines. Thu, 16 Jul 2009 21:00:44 GMT http://intellectualbarbarian.tribe.net/thread/76b80786-6fe4-4cc5-a329-abe4bfc4e5d5#acfedd29-3b91-4461-9801-c390eb08ef87 ALLAH God of all 2009-07-16T21:00:44Z http://intellectualbarbarian.tribe.net/thread/76b80786-6fe4-4cc5-a329-abe4bfc4e5d5#3ec39989-ad4b-41da-b293-35ff629d72c7 it's really just business . Sun, 05 Jul 2009 00:23:00 GMT http://intellectualbarbarian.tribe.net/thread/76b80786-6fe4-4cc5-a329-abe4bfc4e5d5#3ec39989-ad4b-41da-b293-35ff629d72c7 Mr. Pure , rated G, 2009-07-05T00:23:00Z http://intellectualbarbarian.tribe.net/thread/76b80786-6fe4-4cc5-a329-abe4bfc4e5d5#879039c6-4d96-43aa-a6f4-ce50ae8024d6 once again; that doesn't sound very satisfying. If not satisfaction, why revenge at all? you have to see their faces. Sat, 04 Jul 2009 21:34:20 GMT http://intellectualbarbarian.tribe.net/thread/76b80786-6fe4-4cc5-a329-abe4bfc4e5d5#879039c6-4d96-43aa-a6f4-ce50ae8024d6 ZaeM the Great and Powerful 2009-07-04T21:34:20Z http://intellectualbarbarian.tribe.net/thread/76b80786-6fe4-4cc5-a329-abe4bfc4e5d5#418b776c-912d-4692-bb7a-85a28b82da7d no, no let the deserving accrue an exstensive list of possible enemies, for a few years, and then when you strike, they will not know who to lay blame upon. such is the lot of the wrath of Mr. pure. Sat, 04 Jul 2009 20:56:26 GMT http://intellectualbarbarian.tribe.net/thread/76b80786-6fe4-4cc5-a329-abe4bfc4e5d5#418b776c-912d-4692-bb7a-85a28b82da7d Mr. Pure , rated G, 2009-07-04T20:56:26Z http://intellectualbarbarian.tribe.net/thread/76b80786-6fe4-4cc5-a329-abe4bfc4e5d5#490a1e8b-fdcf-46b0-aa72-a0db5ce44860 that doesn't sound very savory. I say revenge while its hot. Sat, 04 Jul 2009 12:24:35 GMT http://intellectualbarbarian.tribe.net/thread/76b80786-6fe4-4cc5-a329-abe4bfc4e5d5#490a1e8b-fdcf-46b0-aa72-a0db5ce44860 ZaeM the Great and Powerful 2009-07-04T12:24:35Z http://intellectualbarbarian.tribe.net/thread/76b80786-6fe4-4cc5-a329-abe4bfc4e5d5#3e0b67a9-c62c-433f-ba77-ac112f4c0931 I see the point behind waiting to take one's revenge until one doesn't want to anymore. Fri, 03 Jul 2009 23:11:53 GMT http://intellectualbarbarian.tribe.net/thread/76b80786-6fe4-4cc5-a329-abe4bfc4e5d5#3e0b67a9-c62c-433f-ba77-ac112f4c0931 Lokifreign 2009-07-03T23:11:53Z http://intellectualbarbarian.tribe.net/thread/76b80786-6fe4-4cc5-a329-abe4bfc4e5d5#5dc878d3-7276-43e2-9ce9-97536bfb406d should revenge be served hot or cold, or tepid? or maybe with a small rasher of baby greens with cherry tomatos and a lite champagne vinnagrette? why "measure " revenge? Karma does as karma does? Fri, 03 Jul 2009 01:59:33 GMT http://intellectualbarbarian.tribe.net/thread/76b80786-6fe4-4cc5-a329-abe4bfc4e5d5#5dc878d3-7276-43e2-9ce9-97536bfb406d Mr. Pure , rated G, 2009-07-03T01:59:33Z