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- From: ogorman@unix1.tcd.ie (Lucifuge)
- Newsgroups: alt.angst
- Subject: Re: Why I'm such a shit
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- Date: 21 Dec 92 12:04:19 GMT
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- In <DUKE.92Dec18182926@portal.paperboy.osf.org> duke@portal.paperboy.osf.org (Duke Robillard) writes:
-
- >This is all very logical, and doesn't require any leap of faith, or
- >any belief in something that we don't understand currently. This
- >makes it incredibly attractive, intellectually. Unfortunately, it's
- >also incredible depressing.
-
- Not to mention profoundly boring.
-
- >This is the source of angst, in the sense meant by the people who
- >created the term--the existentialists and nihilists of the last half
- >of the 19th and first half of the 20th century. This is the feeling
- >that all of Godot's characters have. This is what causes the Sickness
- >Unto Death.
-
- Yes yes, but if you're really 'sick unto death', why don't you go party
- in a.s.h. (briefly of course). The intellectually based angst you
- describe strikes me as basically false self-serving and fundamentally
- gutless. A way to feel moral superiority to the world - j.a.d.w. (just
- another dicksize war.
-
- >So, a couple of years ago, I find alt.angst. At the time, it was
- >filled with people sharing the same kind of opinions, reaching the
- >same kind of conclusions, whistling in the Dark of Despair, and making
- >snide remarks about the hopelessness of existence.
-
- Really?
-
- >But for the last year or so, alt.angst has been gradually filling up
- >with people who are not concerned with these issues. They are
- >concerned with failing relationships, unhappy childhoods, and the lack
- >of sex. This bummed me out. In some sense, sine is the epitome of
- >this anti-angst alt.angst. Hence I lash out, attacking her when she
- >hasn't really done anything to me. Then I feel bad about it. Pass
- >the Strychnine
-
- As long as I've been here (clue, longer than a year) alt.angst has had
- the potential to be renamed alt.i.can.not.get.laid - our memories
- apparently do not agree. Go figure.
-
- Anyway since you've mentioned Xibo, didn't he lose the angst when he
- gained a female/male/dog/sheep/SO/whatever? Think about that.
-
- Again the little reference to suicide...so what stops you?
-
- >The angst-meme. This I can believe. One of the characteristics of
- >the angst-ridden is a tendency to explain to the non-angst-ridden how
- >the universe is cruel and uncaring.
-
- And then get laughed at by those same people for whom the universe is
- substantially less than uncaring and meaningless. Think about that too.
-
- And remember: the point is there isn't a point.
-
- Ollie/Lucifuge...
-
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