Comments on: Getting Revenge On Yourself http://www.misanthropytoday.com/getting-revenge-on-yourself/ Hating Everyone Since 2005 .............(This Could Take Awhile) Wed, 01 Feb 2012 01:10:07 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Cindy http://www.misanthropytoday.com/getting-revenge-on-yourself/#comment-6200 Cindy Fri, 18 Jun 2010 06:17:30 +0000 http://www.misanthropytoday.com/?p=1418#comment-6200 I like Voodoo dolls. They do absolutely nothing, and I know this. They hurt no one. But boy does it feel satisfying to mutilate a miniature version of your would-be quarry. ;) I like Voodoo dolls. They do absolutely nothing, and I know this. They hurt no one. But boy does it feel satisfying to mutilate a miniature version of your would-be quarry. ;)

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]]> By: andyfox1979 http://www.misanthropytoday.com/getting-revenge-on-yourself/#comment-5543 andyfox1979 Mon, 18 Jan 2010 15:21:52 +0000 http://www.misanthropytoday.com/?p=1418#comment-5543 yeah life sucks in that way flyn yeah life sucks in that way flyn

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]]> By: flynvfae http://www.misanthropytoday.com/getting-revenge-on-yourself/#comment-5346 flynvfae Sun, 06 Dec 2009 04:27:31 +0000 http://www.misanthropytoday.com/?p=1418#comment-5346 i got bad grades because i was mad at my parents for scaring the shit out of me for getting bad grades... its a fun circle haha i got bad grades because i was mad at my parents for scaring the shit out of me for getting bad grades… its a fun circle haha

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]]> By: crackpipe http://www.misanthropytoday.com/getting-revenge-on-yourself/#comment-4727 crackpipe Wed, 05 Aug 2009 19:45:10 +0000 http://www.misanthropytoday.com/?p=1418#comment-4727 Maybe so. Children who are beaten are more likely to beat their wives, etc but, as you point out, it's also that people with insight and stable mental patterns appear to take negative actions. A difference is they do it short-term. If that's correct, then perhaps we can say that notions of entitled anger (hurt pride?), self-pity, fear, and so on - well, we want any of these to be short-term and inconsequential experiences when they pop-up in our lives. Or find ways to benignly and honestly sublimate, a la Ninja Pirate's entertainingly self-indulgent rants. Extrapolating this concept to more profound examples, what about a person who rots in jail for years on charges from which DNA evidence suddenly exonerates him/her? How does such a person finally leave their reactionary anger behind and move on with the proactive version of their life? That is, in these extreme cases, how do they avoid emotional reactions which usurp years or even the remainder of their lives? When I studied in Germany on foreign exchange, I met a very old German who had been alive when Berlin fell in 1945. In 1945, his life and nation were in ruins in most any dimension; physically, philosophically, spiritually, and so on. I asked him what the first meaningful interaction with others - connecting with other people emotionally or philosophically - might have entailed. He said it amounted to searching for potatoes and shelter. Obvious. Yet he gave the remainder of his life over to fighting Nazism as a professor. That is to say, he had some insight, but he nevertheless sublimated by telling his story to others in a classroom for 60 years, essentially forfeiting the rest of his life to a reaction. Is it possible he may have been more competent and happier if he had instead become a dentist, supposing that's what he wanted underneath the understandable and justifiable outrage he felt about the destruction of his country by the Nazis? If so, and if it's correct that people who find ways to eventually be happy make great contributions to a society, could he have contributed more as a happy dentist than as a reactionary professor "fighting" defunct Nazism? On one view, the answer might be "yes". On this view, the angry woman who suffers a break-up earlier in the day gets me laid for a night but is a greater contributor to overall society once she regains her happiness a couple weeks later. Apparently, it's a conundrum to find a mental process which defuses reactionary impulses. Most appear to simply drift into reactionary detours equivalent in size to perceived injustices. Maybe so. Children who are beaten are more likely to beat their wives, etc but, as you point out, it’s also that people with insight and stable mental patterns appear to take negative actions. A difference is they do it short-term. If that’s correct, then perhaps we can say that notions of entitled anger (hurt pride?), self-pity, fear, and so on – well, we want any of these to be short-term and inconsequential experiences when they pop-up in our lives. Or find ways to benignly and honestly sublimate, a la Ninja Pirate’s entertainingly self-indulgent rants.

Extrapolating this concept to more profound examples, what about a person who rots in jail for years on charges from which DNA evidence suddenly exonerates him/her? How does such a person finally leave their reactionary anger behind and move on with the proactive version of their life? That is, in these extreme cases, how do they avoid emotional reactions which usurp years or even the remainder of their lives? When I studied in Germany on foreign exchange, I met a very old German who had been alive when Berlin fell in 1945. In 1945, his life and nation were in ruins in most any dimension; physically, philosophically, spiritually, and so on. I asked him what the first meaningful interaction with others – connecting with other people emotionally or philosophically – might have entailed. He said it amounted to searching for potatoes and shelter. Obvious. Yet he gave the remainder of his life over to fighting Nazism as a professor. That is to say, he had some insight, but he nevertheless sublimated by telling his story to others in a classroom for 60 years, essentially forfeiting the rest of his life to a reaction. Is it possible he may have been more competent and happier if he had instead become a dentist, supposing that’s what he wanted underneath the understandable and justifiable outrage he felt about the destruction of his country by the Nazis? If so, and if it’s correct that people who find ways to eventually be happy make great contributions to a society, could he have contributed more as a happy dentist than as a reactionary professor “fighting” defunct Nazism? On one view, the answer might be “yes”. On this view, the angry woman who suffers a break-up earlier in the day gets me laid for a night but is a greater contributor to overall society once she regains her happiness a couple weeks later. Apparently, it’s a conundrum to find a mental process which defuses reactionary impulses. Most appear to simply drift into reactionary detours equivalent in size to perceived injustices.

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]]> By: andyfox1979 http://www.misanthropytoday.com/getting-revenge-on-yourself/#comment-3772 andyfox1979 Fri, 15 May 2009 02:17:25 +0000 http://www.misanthropytoday.com/?p=1418#comment-3772 thanks crackpipe. The terrible thing about it, like most things in life is that it's just another piece of proof that you cannot do anything to change anything. If revenge is off the table that means you have to just sit on your hands and wait it out. thanks crackpipe. The terrible thing about it, like most things in life is that it’s just another piece of proof that you cannot do anything to change anything. If revenge is off the table that means you have to just sit on your hands and wait it out.

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