Posted by Hunter [12.211.202.152 - 12-211-202-152.client.attbi.com] on 02 June 2003 at 09.07.15 ZuluTime:

In Reply to: Here's a question..Would a no text response merely contain the subject line from the message it was responding to? (This message has text..to avoid any confusion) posted by Seraphina22 on 01 June 2003 at 16.39.44 ZuluTime:

I was going to try to go through and counter all of this crap...but lack of time, lack of desire, loss of patience, etc. etc. are all factors in my decision to just say this instead:

Certainly no lack of excuses. Why don't you just say it -- you have no logical response. Because you're an emotional creature. So on with the weepfest!

You are perhaps the most bitter, cynical, downright HATEFUL person I've ever had the misfortune of coming into contact with.

Why thank you.

Why?

That's "Why, thank you," not "Why? Thank you."

We all know you're smart.

Good for you. I don't know that I'm smart. I just know I'm not you.

We all know where you stand.

Do we? Who's we? Who knows where I stand? I'm not even standing right now; I'm sitting....

We all know that there are very few people out there who can measure up to you in terms of their knowledge of life and its meaning and purpose, or lack thereof.

Again, who the FUCK is WE?

Nobody questions that. Why do you feel the need to be such a bitch all of the time?

I'm a bitch? Really? Since when? Is that supposed to be an insult? And how does one determine 'feeling the need'? That sounds like the job of a qualified psychologist. Is that what you do online when you spend all day in chat, at your 'job'? Is that what you are -- an internet therapist?

You see: I don't 'feel' a need to be a 'bitch'. I don't 'feel' a need to be 'anything'. You're percieving 'bitchiness' [and let's get the definition here to be 100% clear]

bitch n.
     A female canine animal, especially a dog.
     Offensive:
     A woman considered to be spiteful or overbearing.
     A lewd woman.
     A man considered to be weak or contemptible.
     Slang: A complaint.
     Slang: Something very unpleasant or difficult.
     v. Slang: bitched, bitch·ing, bitch·es
     v. intr.
     To complain; grumble.
     v. tr.
     To botch; bungle. Often used with up.

Alright; I'm not a canine, so there goes definition 1.

Spiteful? Overbearing?
     Well, the nature of the definition requires an outside perception, but spite requires a urge to hurt, humiliate, or an otherwise 'malicious feeling'. I can safely say that I felt nothing while replying to you, so spiteful doesn't quite come into play.
     Overbearing? Domineering in manner; arrogant? Inflated self worth or importance? Sorry; again, this definition fails out in application, because the words just don't fit.

A lewd woman.
     Lewd is 'preoccupied with sex; lustful' or 'obscene and indecent'. Both having to do with sex. Where was the sex?
     And there's an obsolete definition here. Wicked? Perhaps, but again, an outside perception.

The next one is right out because of my lack of a Y chromosome.

I'm not a complaint. If I'm unpleasant or difficult, well, then, that's just your perception, and you'll have to deal with once again not living in reality.
     Oddly, I don't grumble, or complain. Nor do I fuck things up.

So that narrows that down. I suppose I could be a 'bitch', as you put it, but only if you use "I think you are", or, in the instance of using "We", actually have a fucking list of people and verifiable quotes in which they say they considered me a 'bitch'.

Seriously.

I am being serious.

There are much more effective ways of getting a point across than by verbally attacking your opponent and showing such a lack of compassion and blatant disregard for their feelings.

I'll just assume that you used that word thinking of a definition in which it didn't mean 'spoken word'. and move on.
     And compassion? Sorry, I don't feel pity. I don't wish to relieve your suffering. I. Don't. Care.
     Not caring allows me to get my point across far more effectively. Because my thought process doesn't get mired down by weepy, whiney bullshit.

Compassion isn't a religious concept, either.

No, it's a state of understanding and feeling, sharing, or having felt another's pain. Sympathy. I think what you're groping for is empathy, because it's retarded of you to assume that I'm feeling your pain. It's also kinda stupid to assume I care about your pain. If you want me to care, you'll have to pay me to cry on my fucking couch.

It's a human one.

That's a huge fucking assumption. So other animals can't even begin to feel for eachother?

     Clearly, you know more about alot of things than I do. I have no problem in admitting that. Science..Religions..Vocabulary...the anatomy of a knee...clearly you've mastered all of these categories.

You read quite a bit into this in your attempt at an appeal to flattery. Or at least that's what it looks like from here. What, are you working through the list in reverse? First pity, now flattery? At least, if I'm reading these right. They're definitely very slightly similar....

Good for you, Hunter.

Yeah. Good for me. I can get someone like you to try to kiss my ass in order to get me to buy something. Fuck, take a sales class, will you?

But all of that knowledge will only get you so far if you don't have the emotional understanding to go with it.

Really? Funny, from what I've seen, emotion only gets you so far, and it's knowledge, without the emotion, that gets you the rest of the way. Or perhaps I'm basing my idea of success on actual success, and not having Billy fuckin' Graham fawning over how fucking wonderful I am.

Nobody wants to hang around a bitter, cynical, resentful bitch.

Really? So, do you know this from experience, or is this your desperately emotional response to me not caring? Because it would seem that I don't care how many people want to hang around me -- in fact, I often prefer to be physically ALONE. The only person I can stand to be around anywhere near constantly is Gremlin. Everyone else I know would likely wear thin after a while. The rest of the people I know, I get around physical social interaction by talking to them online, where things are much easier, because you don't have to wait to get a point across. You just do it. And from the looks of it, I've got no shortage of people who like talking to me here. So, so much for 'not wanting to hang around', eh?

There..I said it. Bitch. (So much for abandoning the name calling game.)

Yeah. You said it before, too. "Nobody questions that. Why do you feel the need to be such a bitch all of the time?" A little of that dishonesty showing through, perhaps? You abandoned 'not namecalling' a long time ago....

Now I'm sure that in your world, your knowledge and witty sarcasm will take you where you want to go.

Yeah. My world. REALITY.

But where I come from, empathy, compassion, common consideracy, basic decency, and love for your fellow man will get you alot farther.

But I don't live in Tupelo, Mississippi. I live in Reality.

You stay in your world, I'll stay in mine. We'll all be much better off that way.

So kill yourself and get the fuck out of my world....