None so deaf as those that will not hear.
None so blind as those that will not see.
May 242014
May 232014
As far as you can avoid it, do not give grief to anyone. Never inflict your rage on another. If you hope for eternal rest, feel the pain yourself; but don’t hurt others.
May 222014
One person can make a difference, and everyone should try.
May 212014
Geek Social Fallacy #1: Ostracizers Are Evil
One of the most common fallacies, and one of the most deeply held. Many geeks have had horrible, humiliating, and formative experiences with ostracism, and the notion of being on the other side of the transaction is repugnant to them. Therefor, I will not participate in — or tolerate — the exclusion of anyone from anything, be it a party, a comic book store, or a web forum, and no matter how obnoxious, offensive, or aromatic that person may be.
Geek Social Fallacy #2: Friends Accept Me As I Am
Since a friend accepts me as I am, anyone who criticizes me is not my friend. Thus, I can’t take criticism from friends — criticism is experienced as a treacherous betrayal of the friendship, no matter how inappropriate my criticized behavior may be.
Geek Social Fallacy #3: Friendship Before All
The belief that any failure by a friend to put the interests of the friendship above all else means that they aren’t really a friend at all.
Geek Social Fallacy #4: Friendship Is Transitive
“Wouldn’t it be great to get all my groups of friends into one place for one big happy party?!”
Geek Social Fallacy #5: Friends Do Everything Together
Every friend in a circle should be included in every activity to the full extent possible.
– Michael Suileabhain-Wilson, from his web site, Plausibly Deniable
Read the entire 2003 essay at http://plausiblydeniable.com/opinion/gsf.html
and his reaction to his “15 minutes of internet fame”, here: http://plausiblydeniable.com/opinion/fifteen.html
May 202014
If a woman is not submissive to a man it is not because she lacks the ability to submit; rather he did not create for her a place in her heart and mind where she could fall to her knees.
– Author Unknown
May 192014
It is only by way of pain one arrives at pleasure.
May 182014
The sorrow which has no vent in tears may make other organs weep.
– Henry Maudsley, The Pathology of Mind