Missing the Bus. (My film gets accepted at Cannes)
April 23rd 2009 02:17
Well, the angst is over.
After all the frustrations of the past few years, I finally got a film accepted into the Cannes film festival.
I've kept it under wraps because it's been a tenuous situation.
You just never know with the film industry. So many false promises.
I've always believed in Missed the Bus. I'd like to say it was shot on a shoestring budget but it wasn't. It was shot on a budget of worn-out shoes without laces.
It's amazing what you can do with a great script and a few cheap cameras.
Public transport is the inspiration behind this film. I was sitting at the bustop one day wondering whent the next bus was due. I'd been waiting for a while and just as the bus turned the corner up the road and was approaching the bustop, this bag lady collapsed on the footpath right next to the bus shelter. It was like. Fuck this is typical. Just when I really need to catch the bus, God makes something happen to further fuck my life up. I remember cursing God.
But it's hard being brought up as a Catholic. You just can't help yourself. You always choose the thing that causes you the most suffering out of some misguided conception that doing good things to other people will bring some reward.
So I thought, fuck the bus. I'll help this woman out and see my life drain further down the gurgler. If I'm going to hell, I may as well help someone get to heaven. I mean that's how fucked up your mind can become.
Anyway, I'm trying to slap some consciousness into this bag lady. I'm not Ambo trained. I don't even know what CPR is, let alone how to do it. I'm just slapping her face and going, Wake up you bitch. Come on. I've missed my bus and you think you've got problems?
I saw a vision of my dead mother. She was going. You think you have problems? Then I saw two monkeys. One saw. One did. And I'm not even on drugs.
Anyway, I'm leaning over her on the footpath, and I'm thinking. She's actually quite attractive if you disregard the clothes and the smell.
And the peak hour traffic just kept whizzing by. Quizzical looks from passerby's. Men going home to their own bag lady's in their bags of fruit. Would they get their end in like a banana placed in Vanilla ice-cream? Or would they be subjected to an interrogation from their wives. Why are you 1.5 seconds late? Was it the traffic. No. It was a bag lady. And I saw visions of couples arguing over the minutiae of life and forgetting they drive cars but still missed the bus.
Anyway, I made a quick apology to God. I said. Sorry I called you a cunt. I guess I never see the hand of Providence in anything.
I think my life went dowhill a long time ago. I mean what sort of bloke lifts up the dress of an unconscious bagwoman to see how much pubic hair she has before deciding if he wants to sleep with her? Life is so full of inconsistencies and unanswered questions that aren't even asked in the first place. Why would a bag woman wear clean designer briefs? Was she hoping to meet me? This is what happens to your mind in a crisis. It thinks all types of thoughts. I liked her pudenda.
Thankfully I had a book with me. I read a few lines from Toss-Toy-Eskies Crime and Punishment. It calmed me down, and my raging fat disappeared.
There was just something about her that cried out, I'm damaged goods. I saw my father in a vision doing something to fruit.
I checked out her breasts.
It was obvious now. I had missed the bus for a reason.
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it's been a long time coming. The best thing is, they fund your trip over there. I just hope I can afford a cafe latte
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On my last trip to Cannes, I'm glad the SAFC funded it, including accommodation and meals. As for being invited by an overseas film company, I think I'll get a better deal.
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I'd really prefer if you didn't mention the word cunt on my site.
Please leave it to the experts.
Oh, btw. Why post as anonymous? Do you fear me? Are you a coward? Did something happen in your childhood to you? Cos that's the impression I'm getting. Signed Max Cady.
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Hardly man.
What can a man who is a woman do?
It was well documented that I was living with Teresa. If people on Orble don't like it because they never get their end in? And call that duping? Well so be it.
I mean we have Mau Medelin or whatever he is choosing to call himself now, who suddenly appears with 10 karma points. Gee, I wonder who that is?
What an absolute mystery.
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Things like this should happen more often in an environment of brilliant writers.
BTW
There is a saying that you can always recognize a tiger by its paw print.
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Yes it's interesting. It's not like I made a secret of the fact I was Mrs Smith. But deceptive people will always think others are deceptive.
The most interesting comment of recent times was the one about bullying people off the site.
It should be quite obvious to anyone who can read, who the offenders are.
Anyway, I feel sorry for people with little or no self-knowledge.
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Cannes? Ha!
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David this. Janet that. Orble this. Orble that. David claimed this on Orble. I must make a point about it.
I just wish I knew what the point was. I mean this doesn't even make sense:
I was commenting Janet? What does that mean Morgan?
And I was claiming not to have female personas? What does that mean? Claim, counter claim?
They both sound like terribly serious accusations in this awfully serious enviornment. Should I hire a lawyer to defend myself? For this terribly important courtcase: The People (Morgan and her fan base) vs David.
Perhaps you could enlighten us a bit? If it was a proper sentence I might be able to make some sense out of it.
Did you write it in a hurry dear? Couldn't wait to get all those rash thoughts down? Those double negatives. I'm surprised the thought of giving 10 Karma points away didn't prevent such haste. I seem to remember you stating you wouldn't give your precious Karma points away.
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"You're not really a true writer are you, Agent Starling?"
"All those fumblings and bumblings in the back seats of cars ... And that text accent. The one you've tried so hard to shed? Pure South bogan."
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At least you got the point of the post.
That might be the first time you've made me laugh.
I don't think many people realise I don't take being an internet hero seriously.
The net is an ego feeding frenzy. I'm meant to take that seriously?
Anyway, I've been to Cannes. And Sundance. And the BAFTAs. And bloody Hollywood. The film industry is an ego feeding frenzy. The film industry fund writers to go. And if you want to lick every arse in that industry? You can go every year if you like. If you don't? You can write your own stuff that never gets made. "You're under contract to Capital Pictures Fink. And Capital Pictures is not going to make any film you write. Anyway, theres a war on." - Colonel Jack Lipnick. "Okay so I'm not really a Colonel. Wardrobe made this up for me."
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I'm a bit over the whole crucify me for other people's sins shit on this site.
So people don't like me. Well they don't have to read what I write then. But oh no. They have to get rid of me cos I disagree with them?
So they follow me round slinging shit left, right and centre and expect me to cave in. I'm not Damo. His approach is different to mine. He makes them angry by ignoring them. I rarely comment on their posts because the shit they dribble doesn't interest me. If I wanted to talk about what's on television, I'd watch television, I guess.
Even the Jews hatched a plan to say the Resurrection was a lie. Yet they knew Christ rose fom the dead, and the dead even appeared to them.
So they hate God and hate religion and anyone associated with organised religion? While they get into organised groups and say the last thing they want is organisation?
I really don't know why people just don't be true to themselves and others on the net. There's nothing wrong with being a headcase. It's a worse crime to pretend you're a nice person in my book.
I like nice people. I just can't stand people who pretend they're nice when they're not. And I can't stand the fact that people are so stupid they believe them. So shoot me for being perceptive?
They go on and on and on about me deceiving people. Laughable. Everyone knows it's me. I never disguised the fact. I told them I was living with Teresa. THeir reaction? Teresa's blog is your blog. I mean where do these people get off? Teresa sits here pissing herself laughing at how stupid these people are.
I guess they don't like the fact that she sees through them? She's far from mean. I'll play the mean guy in this relationship.
Ffs man. It's the net. If people approached my writing from the angle that I'm not just taking the piss out of others, I'm taking the piss out of myself, perhaps they'd chill out a bit.
The venom! I mean, suck it out baby, suck it out.
I thought blogging was meant to be fun. It is most times. But I can't teach people how to read subtext. Ffs most of them can't write. What chance have they got of even knowing what subtext and humour is?
Btw. On an aside. Teresa said your blog was the best blog on Orble. She thinks it's classy. She loves the pictures. But she is a sick bitch. Which explains why I'm still here, I guess.
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I haven't laughed so hard about what is written on Orble in ages.
Subtext included:
"Oh my Dawkins! Fellas we found him... Quick lets all pounce and...and ...and... Quick let's all just pounce and write extremely badly constructed sentences at him... That will learn him.
We sacrifice one pawn to get him... and that fool does not know that he was used up and spat out...hahahaha! So who else can we sacrifice?"
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I can only wish you all the best at Cannes. Unfortunately I won't be there. I'm under contract to Capital Pictures. Plus Ruby caught me out again. "There I was big noting myself." Signed Charlie Meadows aka Mad Man Munt (Barton Fink)
But congratulations on getting a film into Cannes. It's a huge, momentous effort. It's my favourite film festival. Always has been.
It is a real buzz. I'm sure you'll enjoy yourself. Keep the diary of posts going about the experience. It would be nice to read something from someone who's actually got some experience in the film industry.
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Drinks are still on at Y&J. 7pm. Teresa and I will be there with bells on.
It might put an end to the rumours on Orble. How sad will that be? What will Morgan write about? Will she admit she was wrong?
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This is Orble. It's always been like this.
Perhaps you could write a mature post to take our mind off this?
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I didn't want to bring up the subject of Damo's writing. But now that you've mentioned it? I hope when we meet tonight he doesn't leave words out.
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thank you most kindly for the praise.
I'll call a spade a spade, but generally I try to stay out of the sand pit.
Have a drink for me at Y&Js.
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What rumors?
I would love to make a serious comment but am laughing too hard at Ruby making comments about comments about poorly constructed sentences. I could make fun of her lines of logic and taste in urine art but we would be here all day. Some of us have to work so those that do not work can have the whole day free to blog on with sarcastic remarks and inverted logic. It is a good feeling to know that my taxes are subsidizing their lifestyle.
I guess what some people do not get is that they are just disposable pawns for someone else. They throw themselves at someone with ever increasing vitriol like a mindless attack monkey then they are the ones who get chopped off. Meanwhile the one that they are doing it all for has a jolly good laugh at how incredibly stupid her friends are. With friends like that who needs enemies.
Anyway it will be good to catch up outside the Noddy Land of Orble.
I told my kids I was going to meet some from Orble and straight away they asked, "What if it a trick Dad? What if you go their and their a gang of angry blogger who are their to beat you up."
At least my kids still have sense of humour. Which is more than I can say for most of this Noddy Land.
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Oh the great minds thing?
Perhaps let me qualify that one a little bit.
I know many women don't like to hear other women's praises sung, but I'm not a woman. I'll speak as a man. And if I offend some women and please others? So be it. I'd rather speak my mind.
In my opinion, and it is only my opinion. A woman on Orble would have to do a great deal for me to hold her in the same esteem I hold Dusk Devi and Miss Lust Bunny in as women with minds.
And I'm sure certain women will get upset, but these two women never felt the need to impress anyone with their knowledge or intellects. It just flowed as a natural consequence of who they were as women. And they impressed me as women with great minds and noble spirits.
And I'm not saying it comes from age. As in, it's not a slur on the youth of today. I'm sure they were both great minds and noble spirits when they were younger. But then again, maybe they did stuggle during their younger years. And maybe that's something the younger women on Orble should take into account.
You would never find Dusk or Miss Lust Bunny engaging in vitriolic attacks for no reason. It just wasn't in their nature. They were happy with who they were.
Which is probably the bottom line in all this. They were happy with who they were.
And all I see on Orble now is women who are unhappy with who they are and feel the need to take out their frustration on others. And being the type of guy I am, I like accommodating them.
I know what Dusk does for a living. I know what Miss Lust Bunny does for a living. They are both very successful women in their own rights. They never came on Orble to take out their angst on others. They came on Orble to interact with people with brains.
And we interacted. (Yes they even thought I had a brain). Orble has always been a shitfight, but at the end of the day, neither Dusk nor Miss Lust Bunny got involved. That's what a call a great mind and a noble spirit.
I'm not of that ilk. I know that. But I'm sick of people not giving others credit for being better than them. The majority of women (girls) on Orble at the moment? They wouldn't hold a candle to those two women.
Both of them could write off the top of their heads better posts than academics who agonise over writing a thesis.
I know I can write. I don't need people to tell me that. I put the hard yards in. But Dusk taught me things about writing than I never learnt at writing college.
Why are people so jealous of other people's talents? Why not just say, Goodness I admire the talents God gave you that he didn't give me, but I'm happy with the ones he gave me, just the same?
I can only put it down to a hatred of God. And a hatred of love itself. Or a misunderstanding of what love is. It's about receiving as much as it is about giving. People who hate? Their main problem is not the inability to give love. It's their inability to receive it.
And that's all I'm writing on the matter.
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heres a list of whats playing in Cannes this year!
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I intend to do a few posts on the event when I get back along with photo's!
Plz send me a private message on what you are doing at Capital pictures?? (what country is that based in)
I myself have some exciting things in developement (features) and would love to hear more about what you do!
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David, sounds like those two women really knew their place!
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That is the whole point isn't it?
You would rather fight over meaningless issues rather than wake up an realize that no one gives a stuff. Both are correct.
Now go away little girl. You are only impressing yourself with kind of ignorance.
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"commenting Janet"
well by Janet i mean Janet Collins who writes the Social Critic blog on Orble
and by commenting i mean leaving an added statement in the comments section of a post, in particular i was referring to her post Airline Charges Larger Passengers
however, i suspect you know that and are asking dumb questions to appear like some kind of absurd court jester
all you are doing is upsetting Damo, he does not give a stuff about meaningless sentence structure criticisms
as for the Karma points, i think youve earnt them, even i can recognise the massive amount of effort you put in to seeking attention on a blogging network you claim to be supierior to
remember what Jon told you, David?
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yet here you are with yet another female persona, desperately trying to generate interest in your writing by playing some game of "whose identity is it?" . . . we all know, it is David, the masochist, the prick come back for a little more teasing
funny how you mention law suits, i have never threatened Orble or any of its users with a law suit, that was you and Damo stamping your feet about getting solicitors to fight your battles for you
to me David, you seem like a naked little man with an erection, too afraid of guilt to masturbate, approaching women in the park asking to be finished off and feeling offended when they recoil in disgust
here on Orble you have found a couple of women that dont mind giving you a lash every once in awhile and you find it gratifying, addictive even, and i look at you pleading with me to smack you and i do it out of compassion
so i come here to smack the masochist, the man who has permanently confused sex and violence, the man who so desperately wants to cum but is too ashamed of his own nature to enjoy anything
so cheers to you David, you big alcoholic you
may your pent up sexual hostility finally reach a peak and your boner go down so you stop pestering everyone to abuse you
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I've achieved everything I wanted to achieve on Orble. I've finally got you to write your real thoughts down.
It's nice to see the real Morgan. Thanks for this:
here on Orble you have found a couple of women that dont mind giving you a lash every once in awhile and you find it gratifying, addictive even, and i look at you pleading with me to smack you and i do it out of compassion
so i come here to smack the masochist, the man who has permanently confused sex and violence, the man who so desperately wants to cum but is too ashamed of his own nature to enjoy anything
so cheers to you David, you big alcoholic you
may your pent up sexual hostility finally reach a peak and your boner go down so you stop pestering everyone to abuse you
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And they have their little snipes and jibes.
But amongst the pesky little snipes and jibes, you get purlers like Morgan the asexual claiming she's come onto Orble to smack the masochist.
That is just far too funny. That would be the funniest thing written for a long while.
The avenging asexual?
How does an asexual smack a masochist? Lightly, with a feather duster? While he is fully-clothed? So she isn't scandalised by his 'boner'?
Assumptions and presumptions, wild, imaginary (and slanderous, libellous) accusations,... And yet, so little knowledge of anything.
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If something was written as dialogue then it remains dialogue. Read my original comment and then read it properly. You really do need to work on those comprehension, don't you?
He shoots, he scores and the crowd goes wild.
Damo Has left building.
The IQ has just dropped by a massive Morgan and a another attack monkey.
Destroy me at your leisure.
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cant leave you hanging there buddy
this is the first post ive commented of yours in over nine months, its obvious you are acting out due to lack of attention
a straight female friend of mine has a theory: if you are the subject of unwanted male attention by someone you find repulsive, sometimes it is better to just fuck them once so they can get over their obsession with you and move on with their lives
now i hope you feel gratified and get over taunting me
print it out and stick it on the wall and read over it next time you feel the compulsion to talk about me or to me
ps: yeah youve really got some hard evidence on debunking my asexuality now, i hope you dont forward my comment to Asexuals Anonymous, i might have my membership withdrawn
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I'm not surprised that a friend of yours would have such a stupid, self-defeating theory. I'm surprised she's straight, though. Are you sure she's not bi-curious? It's very trendy now. Almost as trendy as being a minority member of a minority group. I'm bi-curious myself. I've always wondered what it would be like to watch two women together while one pretended to be a man.
its obvious you are acting out due to lack of attention
Do you put any thought into your comments before you write them? Or do you just accuse others of your own faults over-and-over? Cos that's the impression I'm getting here.
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hahahahaha. Keep talking Damo. Please, keep talking. Hasn't your glass house shattered by now, pot?
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for someone that spends so much time talking about sex, you know so little about sexuality
i give my comments to you about as much thought as they deserve
are you over this yet? can you put your pants back on and just walk away with a sense of validation? cos frankly my hand is getting tired . . .
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This is an example: Hi Janet, I agree with you. You make some really good points. I wish others would follow these rules. Because I do. (Pfft, what a load of hypocrisy).
This was a post about film.
But as usual, Morgan and Ruby and Ed have to turn it into something else.
Not that I give a shit. I'm not into blog etiquitte. But slander is another matter.
Morgan talks about slander? Then accuses me on this very post of the following:
That is a disgusting comment. To suggest that my character is like that?
And yet in the same breath, you agree with blogging etiquitte?
Let me ask you this Morgan. What did you hope to achieve by posting that comment about me?
What possessed you to make a comment that slanderous and libellous? Because quite frankly that's the type of comment it is.
Whether I'll do anything about it? Not sure yet. I'm tempted. At this stage I'm sort of glad that people can actually get to see what you're really like.
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The more you write, the better it gets.
id imagine pretending to be a man is something youve become quite an expert in
for someone that spends so much time talking about sex, you know so little about sexuality
i give my comments to you about as much thought as they deserve
are you over this yet? can you put your pants back on and just walk away with a sense of validation? cos frankly my hand is getting tired . . .
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but i did enjoy you pretending to be disgusted, excellent role play, and its nice to know you are resorting to legal action again, poor persecuted* David
my comments here are a response to you baiting me for months, you asked for it, here it is, and there will be no more, so enjoy the ones youve got
ta-ta
*typo ammended for the anal
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And you still haven't answered my question, Ruby. Can't you think of a shattering reply?
Morgan, your comments to David reveal how totally inept you are in tapping into anything other than the most superficial.
Alt-ed shows once again how devoid he is of intelligence.
(David, you're nice. You're very nice.
TERESA xx)
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What question?
p.s. If you are really Teresa (and an actual woman), can I just politely point out to you that this post is about sexually assaulting an unconscious woman? Funny how that little fact didn't seem to bother anyone. Still think David is very nice?
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ta-ta.
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You had no problem with ed's post about cocksucking. Bit of a double standard happening there.
And yes Teresa does think I'm nice. But you'd have to get out and meet people to find stuff like that out.
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Anyway. After all that is anyone dead?
I am checking my body for bullet wounds and stab marks but there don't seem to be any.
Maybe the mind powers will get me.
Nup. Still here.
We could carry on all day in this big love in but there must be a point to it.
So what is the point that Ruby, Morgan and her pet attack monkey want to make?
That they have more sarcasm than they know what to do with?
That they want to chase people off?
That they want to pounce upon something they they think is a big scandal?
That they can nitpick?
That they are petty?
Like jeez. Don't they have a life?
Here is a wonderful suggestion:
Why not pretend that we are dead and we will get along just fine.
That is not hard to do is it?
Also: What kind of dorkinite (oops Dawkinite) tries trip people up on typos but does not know the difference between direct writing and dialogue? A pretty shallow one. But hey this a blog site after. It is all about false bravado and shallowness.
Anyway I think this storm in teacup has amused me long enough. Ignore then and for some reason they do not go away.
The principle and practice of Dawkinism is based entirely upon the desire to crush the opponents by all means possible. Thanks Richard Dawkins. This is what you have given to the world. Unadulterated hate mongering.
That is why these three are here, because Dawkins told them so.
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Dawkinism is based entirely upon the desire to crush the opponents by all means possible
I think they've run out of angles.
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Damo, you are doing such a good job of ignoring us. Please continue ignoring us. It is so amusing to see the way you ignore us. I'm sure you will continue ignoring us in all your future posts on Eugenics and Hitler and Dawkins and anything else that gets your knickers in a twist. I especially liked the way you ignored Morgan by writing a post with her name in the title and then encouraging your fans to ridicule her sexuality. Now that's what I call ignoring someone!
p.s I am also amused by your attempts to brush aside your own failings by writing them up as "dialogue". Nice try but no cigar. I believe that you meant to write so badly on purpose about as much as I believe that David isn't struggling with his faith and sexuality.
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That is how I see it.
I read Dawkins years ago and he always had this nasty sort streak in his character where all evidence pointed to his questionable conclusions.
This bunch of Dawkinites are just living out his dreams of aggressively stomping on his personal enemies. He really is a spiteful little man brandishing tired prejudices and conspiracy theories as hard science. However when you press many of his disciples they have scant knowledge of science. When they start quoting their enemies they usually go directly to Dawkins and mindless believe what he tells them.
When he tells them to forward no respect they take it literally.
When calls religion the 'root of all evil' they take the argument to is only logical conclusion. They must be fighting evil and so do not need to be nice in the process.
When he calls even mild and benevolent form of religion dangerous they never see the straw man in the argument.
You have to really pity these poor people because they have been duped by a clever marketing plan that targets their hatreds and insecurities. Then it focuses then on consuming his product in the form of books, tee shirts, cups and videos. It is a multimillion dollar industry based upon marketing hate.
The only problem is that Dawkins gets rich as these poor dolts do his all dirty work. Throwing themselves at even the slightest indication of decent. If anything Dawkins form of rationalism is becoming a cult of hate.
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How you managed to get all that when not a single one of us had hitherto mentioned God or religion is quite astounding. Unless Dawkins also has a problem with people who claim to be intellectual but write so poorly they become caricatures of themselves?
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Smith here is a classic example of baiting.
The argument is based upon a false assumption.
The antagonist falsely assumes that the opponent will respond to insults.
Cheap tactic used when they are desperately hoping that people are as shallow as they are.
Why go for sexuality as the taunt when they have no way of knowing your personal details?
They do so because they hope to create a smear. Just like the recent Alt_ed post. His tactic was two fold: one was to create an environment where bashing David was socially acceptable(to dehumanize the target of hate); the second was to taunt the enemy.
This is one of the stages that many Hate Groups go through. They have deep seated insecurities and so they need to find someone to stomp on. That way they feel as if they are better than the target of their hate.
It goes without saying that Hate is one of those emotions that feeds it self in a negative loop. The more people hate the more they feel insecure and the more they need to lash out. Also they have to contend with the guilt associated with their own actions. So in order to justify their actions they demonize and desensitize them selves to the point where they lay claim to being the victim. Note how quickly they claim that they are being persecuted when it is they who are on your blog attack you relentlessly.
When they finally wake up that this line of taunting is not working then they try the next superficial tactic.
The problem is they have no real power and can't do much more than act out in an infantile manner with degrading images and posts that vilify innocent people.
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The question was: What is poor taste?
That was something you accused me of back on Janet's airline post. Not surprisingly, I guess, I can no longer find it after the deletions and modifications.
Hooray for free speech!
David struggling with his sexuality? That's a joke, and I should know. I think this is called projection, Ruby.
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I don't struggle with my faith. I know what I believe.
And I certainly don't struggle with writing.
I realise it must be hard for someone on Orble who has never had anything published or produced in the real world. It must eat them out.
I do struggle a bit with women who can't write, and don't know what they believe from one moment to the next.
But that's female nature. It's often a menstrual thing. The more I read of rants like yours on Orble the more I think that the feminist movement is moving backwards. Not that it ever moved forward to anything other than pant-wearing.
Basically feminists should just accept that God is male. Who else would give women periods? A female God?
Or perhaps that's why you became an atheist and a secularist, and a humanist, and a Jehovah, or a secular humanist or whatever you became over the past few years, depending on how you felt at the time, and which emotion urged you on to feel your belief, and whatever else takes your fancy in the next month or two. You're unsure about what you believe. You just stand on the shifting sands of hatred. I think that might actually be your faith. Hatred of humans. Why don't you just start a new religion? Most wackos have.
I mean what is the main problem in your life? Is it that you don't love yourself? Or did something happen to you in childhood to make you this disagreeable with everyone? We're all curious.
If you were God Ruby, how would you run the world? Make everyone chase everyone around who disagrees with them. Lambast them all. Teach them idiocy? Tell them it's a virtue?
Do you actually know what you believe? it's not the impression I'm getting.
I get the impression of someone searching for something to believe in, who can't accept any faith that doesn't base itself on hatred.
Just start your own religion and be done with it, will you? Then we can all find out what you do actually believe. Write the manifesto instead of cutting & pasting will you?
Be your own God Ruby. It becomes you.
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That's a good summary of Morgan, Ruby and Ed's tactics.
Morgan's given up now. She's revealed too much of her character to continue any further. How will people believe her nicities and give her karma points if she goes all nasty? She'll probably regret a few things she wrote on here. That's why I cut and pasted them into my comments. So she couldn't delete her comments and claim eyelid-batting innocence.
Ruby's still going. I honestly thought she had some intelligence. But she's proving me wrong. And doing an excellent job of it.
I don't even respond to Ed. If Morgan wants to have a stoush with me, I'd prefer she did it herself, not got Ed to do her dirty work for her, and then disassociate herself with him to keep her pristine image intact.
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Placing an ad in the local school paper doesn't count as being published and produced in the real world.
You man-hater.
Take that!
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Morgan and Ed have gone off to discuss tactics. They really wanted to nail you on this but at the same time want to claim innocence on their own deceit.ie: magic disappearing comments; a new blogger that writes exactly like ed and in the same aggressive style and their double team act of "Good Cop Bad Cop." I expect that they will pour out another bunch of emotional posts based entirely upon special pleading and semantics. Morgan thinks semantics is valid line of argument.
Ruby you have to accept comes across like a person constantly wanting to have the last word. She argues from two directions only: agumentum ad hominem and argumentum ad verbosity. If a cheap shot does not work then the constant nagging must. That is why she loves to boast about her meager achievements in life as an excuse to hammer others. The primary skill she does lack is the ability to make a valid point and move on. Instead she is hoping by constant repetition (just like a nagging cult member) people will give in and accept her
brainwashingview. It is a technique, childish as it may be, used by several cults. It works sometimes but if it fails they then seek to destroy the outsider and the unbeliever.In this case we are the dangerous unbelievers because we do not subscribe to the dogmas of Dawkinism. We are 'enemies of reason' and 'the root of all evil' as Dawkins keeps telling them. They take this message and decide that we must be destroyed.
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Yeah, it's amazing the arguments they come up with for getting rid of me. If they used those same arguments on themselves, they'd have to leave.
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If I responded to every bait I would go insane.
Ignore the noise and write what I like.
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Not Botox short.
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Less risk of heart troubles I think.
I really am going to stop there, okay and take a long break from this *wonderland* I think its having a negative affect on me, exactly as you predicted my dear holmes.
I will be around when needed.
Say hello to Teresa for me (I love that name, it was my grandmothers name I think I mentioned it to her), I only found that out five years ago and I am nearly a hundred now, its strange isn*t it how some family hold things back from their children for ... what, exactly?
All I can see throughout history is the damage doing so causes, time and time again. Why can*t people jsut put their cards out ont he table. Agreed.
Of course this has nothing to do with your bag lady, except that if I keep orbling I may end up like her and give it all away to the scientologists or something?
Actually that*s not a bad idea, then I*d be free to pursue my happiness, like a real bag lady, my kids could come and bail me out.
Lilla ..
PS I cannot stop thinking about those keys in the microwave and that it actually happens like that. I accidentally ended up at a party like that once, boy oh boy did I heave for hours when I realised what was going on.
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I'm glad you like my name. It ends in 'a' like yours.
There used to be a bag lady - well known around St Kilda and Prahran in Melbourne.
When I was pregnant with my first child I was happier than i'd ever been in my life and strangers were always stopping to talk to me. I was waiting for a bus one evening. This bag lady came by and she stopped and began to talk. At first it sounded like gibberish but her speech suddenly become lucid. She told me her age - which I forget but I do remember it was much younger than I would have thought. She told me that she had children and a husband somewhere. They had been wealthy. Her husband had kicked her out. I tried to ask her questions but she returned to her gibberish. I was curious and I was sympathetic. It had only been a relatively short time before that I had seriously pondered the chances of ending up like that myself.
I left Melbourne a couple of years later and spent 8 years away. When I came back i saw that bag lady, still around, looking exactly the same as she had all those years before.
Teresa