The Maelstrom of Violence

[Kinser79]

(09-20-2017, 11:32 AM)pbrower2a Wrote: I confess. I am little more than my intellect.

I should hope so since you don't have much intellect from what I can tell.

Quote:I can think of few things woreth dying for and even fewer for which to kill.

If you have nothing worth dying for or killing for you also lack anything worth living for. That is a pitiable state.

Quote:But you know how it is. If you want to know who has uncertainty about his sexuality, then look for the fellow who brags about being a 'stud'.

Non sequiter.

Quote:If you want to know who has the least-valid achievements (especially including finding meaning in life) then look for the person who brags about having his $#!+ together. If you want to know who is mishandling his money, then look for the schmuck who wastes money on status symbols.  I prefer living like a food-processing worker and making a middle-class income to making a middle-class living and trying to live like an aristocrat. With the former one can amass some savings and do some really-great things; with the latter one achieves a debt-driven banality.

1. I made no claims as to having my shit together. I merely made a claim as to being able to see through your bullshit quickly. I've seen your type before. While they exist in all the states I've lived they were most numerous in Southern Commiefornia and in Florida. I think it is the lack of bitter winters that thin the herd.
2. I don't have an ostentatious lifestyle either unless you count my pimpmobile from the 1970s which I intentionally bought and tricked out for the express purpose of tricking it out. Car customization is a documented hobby for some people--I'm one.
3. What is and is not a waste of money is in the eye of the beholder. Generally speaking paying for the cable tee-vee is an expense I could live without, however, it is a requirement to keep my mother sedate. Were she not living with us we probably wouldn't have it since no one besides her is interested in a dead medium.

Quote:I have good cause to see my own failings. I have long despised myself for failing to live up to my potential. It turns out that people have mishandled me badly. Oh yes, I have a drug and alcohol problem -- that is, being so harshly judgmental about addiction.

Translation: I'm a loser because other people, it is never my fault.

That is such a poor excuse I wouldn't accept it from my 7 year old niece much less a grown ass man. Though it does make me wonder, what is it like to be so pathetic that a prepubescent child outstrips you in personal responsibility.

Quote:If I had known about Asperger's

You don't have Asperger's because that isn't a recognized condition. In short you don't have it because no one does. I also highly doubt you have any spectrum disorder at all.

Quote: when I was young I would have had a very different and much more-rewarding life. If I could get away with Asperger's (and the one good thing about America is that it does reasonably well for people with handicaps) I would probably have a good job, a wife (probably with Asperger's) and children. Adopted, of course. They probably wouldn't look much like us... but at least they would not have the Curse.  People like me are typical fathers of children who end up institutionalized for autism.

You aught to be glad America isn't Kinserland. Were it, you would have likely been sterilized. As for obtaining a wife, well you would need resources to get one of those, which means you'd have to take responsiblity for yourself and actually produce something of value. One universal fact about women is that in the main they look for resources out of a man. Why? Because they want those resources for their eggs which with luck one day become children and children require resources, a lot of them.

Quote:If it takes a welfare state to aid children out of poverty, then so be it.

Except in no welfrare state has welfare alleviated poverty. Rather it merely maintains the poor at a consistently miserable level. We now have three generations, maybe four, which have consistantly lived on welfare and guess what, they're still impoverished.

Quote: I see a cynical solution in poverty in people using welfare to get a sofa, a TV, beer, ice cream, and chips and getting grotesquely obese... and ending up with a coronary. If I must rely upon disability I will make sure to have a dog to walk, food good for me, and something other than the TV. Like Internet access and the desire to seek something really good.

It is really difficult to buy a sofa, tee-vee or beer with most forms of welfare. SNAP can be used on ice cream and chips because those are considered to be food by some. Even then, a large part of the problem with people using programs like SNAP for junk food is a utter lack in culinary training. When you don't know how to cook you have to eat shit from a box. As for me, the only shit in a box that I eat are the MREs in the Hurricane Kit. Though we also eat those when we have to turn them over, the self-life is only like 5 or 6 years.

With proper planning, visiting the local vegetable stands/farmers market and other such places one can eat healthful food on SNAP. Myself I prefer to not have to use that program, but I certainly won't turn down an opportunity to buy groceries on someone's card for cash. But then again, I view the welfare state as mostly there for me to scam as much as possible rather than any ridiculous notion that it is there to "help people". If the goal was to lift people out of poverty then the government would take expressly pro-business and pro-domestic production policies to ensure everyone who could work had at least a minimum level job.

Also I pity your dog. It can't be easy for him to be the brains of the operation.