A word, children

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  1. Kali The World's Best Communist

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    Sometimes the enemy of your enemy is not your friend. In fact, sometimes the enemy of your enemy is the Goddamned Devil himself.

    That possibility eluded me entirely.

    I was caught with blinders on, folks, and I played right into the palm of the greatest enemy of all. Why? I underestimated that enemy. I did not think that it possessed the intelligence or character necessary to make all of the other problems I faced into comparative non-issues. And frankly, I was right about that. What I didn't account for, what escaped my analysis completely, was the fact that the enemy I faced wasn't a person or organization, but a phenomena, a behavior.

    When I ran into that circumstance, I first tried to sabotage the whole affair. Defining that sickening, saturated behavior as unacceptable should have prevented it from infiltrating the kind of parties that could do damage under its influence. Well that simply didn't work. My own character, but more so, my late reaction and indifference mandated the failure of that approach. So I tried something more blunt. I doubted the effectiveness of going at it like that, but I met with what I thought was a positive reaction. Of course, at this time I still didn't recognize that what I was combating wasn't something I could reason with or directly harm. It's not that I didn't see the reality of the situation, it's quite simply that I couldn't. I still operated under my blind, realist paradigm. Actors made things happen. Actors were responsible for events. As long as I understood the actors, and the roles they played, I believed I could predict their future behaviors, and thus predict the outcome of most crises. I still live by that mantra, and I don't doubt its validity. But there is a blind spot, and that's what I encountered.

    And so now we're at the brink, and I understand the hopelessness of this situation. There is no recourse or salvation available.

    Is that my fault? I realize now that it is, at least in part. As much as I wanted to combat this menace, I was swept up in it just as much as the rest of us were, and in my attempts to wipe it out I think it only grew more severe.

    Moral of the story? Melodrama is only melodrama to people that think it is. Don't go believing that it's just something for the melodramatic, because underneath that veneer of ridiculousness lies a network of actors who believe totally in its power, and thus make its power real.
  2. esac1122 Team Fortress 2 Branch Head

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    Your life must be like an endless train wreck. However I feel as if your shit posting is relevant and I encourage this thread be not deleted for no reason which it will be.
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  4. Kali The World's Best Communist

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  5. esac1122 Team Fortress 2 Branch Head

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  6. Kali The World's Best Communist

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  7. The Shaw Rawnald Gregory Erickson the Second

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    And the point of this thread is...
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  8. Viking Socrates I am Mad Scientist

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    Our top scientist have narrowed it down to "communism sucks".
  9. Kali The World's Best Communist

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    No. That message is self-evident in any rational thought.
  10. Viking Socrates I am Mad Scientist

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    Then do tell, what is the meaning of this post? Or was the point that it had no meaning?
  11. Kali The World's Best Communist

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    Take what meaning from it you will. It's not something intended to provide some philosophical insight, though. It has a distinctly practical purpose.
  12. Yarpen Well-Known Member

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    Now I know all the secrets of life and the universe. Thanks Kali
  13. Viking Socrates I am Mad Scientist

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    Practical purpose for yourself, or for me. Because it damn well better benefit me.
  14. Kali The World's Best Communist

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    It's definitely not for you.
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    Don't worry Kali, no one will blame you
  16. Viking Socrates I am Mad Scientist

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    Since it has no benefit to me, tell me how this will benefit you.
  17. Chives Newest Member

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    Wtf?
    Where's @Link?
    Shouldn't he have been here by now?
  18. yuri2045 A Marines Biologist

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    Well, this is kinda hard to understand, but reading it some 2 or 3 times should make me understand it...or not
  19. Chives Newest Member

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    Silly foreigners.
  20. yuri2045 A Marines Biologist

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    At least I tried =(

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