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Gamera
| | #1 posted December 15, 2001 at 4:07am (EST) |
I always figured that confetti got a little carried away- she started telling tall tales, then they got out of control. I know i did that when I was her age, too. So she invented the "Aaron/confetti" tale to give her a way to deny all the tall-tale stuff. Right now we don't know what was exagerated and what wasn't, but it's my guess it all came out of her head, and that she's tired of making stuf up and wants to set it right from here on.
P.? how cloes does this sound to you? In know I would believe it all from myself and half my age (and forgive myself, too, and ask for forgiveness). |
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Gamera
| | #2 posted December 15, 2001 at 3:57am (EST) |
WOOOO HOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! |
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Gamera
| | #3 posted December 10, 2001 at 3:36am (EST) |
Well, you and I seem to disagree alot, so I'm not sure how helpful my reply will be to you- but for the sake of a data point for ya', here goes:
a)I agree very much with your view of development. b)shaking or accomodating a new idea or realization do not have to be your only options. That's what I would call black & white thinking. Another option (more greyscale thinking, or full-spectrum thinking) is to let the idea be. Just as there are no "true" or "perfect" realizations, an idea doesn't have to be a full realization or nothing. It can be a set of notions that you'll carry with you for a few years before some other input, added to the ones you had on this "trip," add up to a realization.
As for the realization itself... well, for me that's a good description of how I see life. Except for the part where it's a conspiracy or a "running joke." In my view of it, people will believe what they want to believe. Some people are horrified or terrified by the idea of there being no greater purpose to life- other people are liberated by it.
The thing that might be a comfort to you, or might lead to greater distress is that this very question- whether or not there is a purpose to life; whether or not your belief system is "right;" and whether or not "everyone else" is having a better time of it than you are, because of their belief system, is all as old as the very concept of belief systems.
That's why there's so much emphisis on the importance of faith, for those who have it. If peole "knew" or even *could* "know," then you wouldn't need faith. Even if someone is completly sure that they are correct, there is no way for them to show any one else. That's why people spend their whole lives preaching, being preached to, meditating, learning meditation, or partying and trying to spread the "gospel according to Alice."
I would suspect that Beckett wanted to suggest to anyone who was willing to listen, that as far as he could see, sitting around and waiting for a second coming was a wasted life. I doubt he expected that any of his work would "speak to" any devout Christians. And I don't know enough about his personality to know if he even enjoyed his own life or not. He may have been tormented by this feeling that he, himself, was waiting for some kind of personal deliverence that never came. Or maybe he thought it *was* funny that people thought that way,and viewed it as a comedy. I just don't know.
I don't mean this in any kind of bad way at all, but you're pretty young. You're hooking into a big huge question- and, like it or not - this question will probably be with you in one form or another, more and less intensely, (depending on what else is going on) through out your whole life. Might as well make peace with this "realization" as a question, rather than trying to turn it into an answer.
That will be 2cents, please. |
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Gamera
| | #4 posted December 9, 2001 at 7:52pm (EST) |
In another odd twist of fate, I (a rampant liberal) totally agree with you on this one, kaleb.  By thinking of myself as a liberal, I mean that I am committed to considering as many points of view and ways of understanding an issue as possible-- it does seem that many people who call themselves liberals give liberals a bad name by just trying to prescribe another narrow point of view which is "correct." blech. Many people who call themselves "feminists" have degraded that movement as well. |
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Gamera
| | #5 posted November 30, 2001 at 11:05pm (EST) |
You have, in fact, given me all the proof I need. Up until this point, I was wondering if "Aaron" was someone messing with Pheobe. But no longer:
I cannot imagine, even in my wildest nightmares, the mother of a fourteen year girl old allowing her to use a website on which people called her a "slut" and a "whore" and made sexual threats at her. (Nor can I imagine a mother becoming involved in the website's petty politics instead of instructing her daughter to shut off the computer and go outside and play, if it is upsetting her so much, though that would be secondary to concern about the daughter's well being).
You wrote a convincing 14 year old girl character. You should be proud of your character development and writing skills, and learn to use them in more constructive manner in the future- try play writing or short stories. You should also apologize profusely to people whom you have fooled.
I recommend, however, that your short stories and other fictions focus on young characters for a while until you have had some experiance with how adults think and act. |
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Gamera
| | #6 posted November 29, 2001 at 4:52am (EST) |
The problem with admitting that you are or have been lying is that people have no reason to believe anything you say, including your confession. Well, if you're confetti or Aaron or any of the other folks, I wish you well. |
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Gamera
| | #7 posted November 24, 2001 at 1:33am (EST) |
*big hugs* | Gamera
| | #8 posted November 24, 2001 at 1:33am (EST) |
Hey, sweetheart, I hope it goes well for you. Just don't think you have to cover for yourself if it doesn't go as straight forward as you hope, too. For what it's worth, I'll like you no matter how this plays out. Good luck. |
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Gamera
| | #9 posted November 20, 2001 at 12:52am (EST) |
Hey, I wonder if I could swing another free ticket to the West coast by then? (I'm 2 for 2, so far!  ). |
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Gamera
| | #10 posted November 12, 2001 at 3:58am (EST) |
awww, Biggles, I really appreciated that you backed me up in that survey- sorry if it got you into trouble. Every once in a while someone decides that someone else is a bad person. Some people get jumpy- they just take things in a bad way as a habit and imagine that people are saying things in the worst possible way. You can be a completely sweet and wonderful person (and you are!!!!) but because of how they are hurt and broken inside they will hear what you say in a bad way, ove and over agian, and use that as more "evidence" of how "bad" you are. There's nothing you can do about it. Just keep being the good, kind, wonderful person that you are and people like that will fall away from you in time. |
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