Category: Writers Block
I'm gonna travel out-of-town via GRAYHOUND, and for those that may NOT be familiar with such, meaning those that AREN'T US RESIDENTS, GRAYHOUND is the name of our MAJOR BUS COMPANY, through which, US TRAVELING is available, and I DEFINITELY ENCOUNTER MY SHARE OF ABSOLUTE IGNORANCE, so what I did was write out what I expect to be carried out, and I will hand a copy of to ANY SIGHTED "TARGET" that will be involved; I'm ALSO posting a copy HERE, AS WELL, and AS USUAL, the VERY INTENT is to stir up feedback.
LATE TUESDAY AFTERNOON, DEC. 11, 2007. Ok—BEFORE we do ANYTHING, I want you to read this—IT’S EXTREMELY IMPORTANT that we’re ALL ON THE VERY SAME PAGE, of the VERY SAME INTERACTIVE LEVEL, at the VERY SAME TIME, according to how I EXPECT you to COMMUNICATE, with ME, AS YOU UNDERSTAND how I INTERACTIVELY-FUNCTION with YOU, NOT for ME to compromise to YOUR expectation of how YOU understand how one SHOULD function AS BLIND, JUST BECAUSE YOU, YOURSELF, might, should YOUR FUNCTIONING be ANY LESS than TOTALLY UNINHIBITTED.
FIRST OF ALL, LET’S GET ONE THING STRAIGHT: you are NOT MY EYES. You are NOT ANYTHING that YOU MIGHT THINK that I’M MISSING, that YOU EVER SO FOOLISHLY ASSUME that YOU were ASSIGNED TO COMPENSATE FOR, JUST BECAUSE YOU’RE SIGHTED and I’M BLIND. JUST BECAUSE I may take your arm and USE YOU AS MY GUIDE, DOES NOT QUALIFY YOU AS THE LEADER—THAT MEANS that if the VERY PACE of how WE WALK, which is what I’M responsible for setting, INSTEAD OF YOU, PAL, which is at the VERY LEVEL OF SURENESS that EQUALS, EXACTLY, THAT of ANY ABLE-BODIED 20-20-SIGHTED PERSON CHALLENGES YOU, in ANY WAY, SHAPE, OR FORM, my ONLY WORDS OF “CONSOLATION” are: “GRIN, BARE, AND GET OVER IT.” The ONLY EXCEPTION to THIS RULE is that if there’s ANYONE ELSE UP AHEAD, whose pace ISN’T AS UNINHIBITTED, and there’s ABSOLUTELY NO WAY to go AROUND them. Should you alert me to ANYTHING that YOU think that POSSIBLY COULDN’T, OR SHOULDN’T, according to YOU, be OBVIOUS to ME, JUST BECAUSE of YOUR RIDICULOUS EXPECTATION that it POSSIBLY COULDN’T, PERHAPS, because you MIGHT NOT EVER WANT ANY SUCH TO, be to YOU, if YOU were blind, MY BLATANT RESPONSE to YOU is gonna be either “THAT’S OBVIOUS,” “HOW OBVIOUS,” “QUITE OBVIOUSLY,” or JUST PLAIN “OBVIOUSLY,” instead of “THANK YOU,” like you’d expect of ANY HUMBLE, COMPLIANT, OBEDIENT, “HELP-NEEDY,” “BLIND-CONDITIONED,” GO-WITH-THE-PROGRAM, “BLIND-MAN-STAY-IN-BLIND-MAN’S-PLACE.”
ANOTHER ISSUE, in conformance with the IMMEDIATE ABOVE: NO “STEP-STOOL,” WHATSOEVER, MUCH to ANY FURTHER POSSIBLE “IRKING” of YOU, WILL BE ACCEPTED for getting on and/or off the bus, and should you STILL PERSISTENTLY INSIST that I use it, ANYWAY, JUST to show YOU who the REAL MASTER of THAT matter is, I will DELIBERATELY STEP OVER IT, TOTALLY AVOIDING IT, THUS, rendering you ABSOLUTELY POWERLESS to do ABSOLUTELY NOTHING, OTHER THAN PROBABLY/POSSIBLY SEETH in theVERY MUCK AND MYRE OF YOUR “MOCKED-BY-ME” ANGER AND/OR ANY OTHER MATTER OF TOTAL DISCOMFORT. AGAIN, I offer my words of “CONSOLATION”: “as long as the discomfort’s YOURS, AND YOURS, ONLY, I’M PERFECTLY COOL with THAT!”
QUICK REMINDER: I’M the “LEAD,” while YOU’RE the “GUIDE.” ONE VERY GOOD EXAMPLE IS: if YOU were a GUIDE DOG, and you were MINE, who’d be your MASTER/OWNER? Go figure … well, this is EXACTLY HOW THIS SITUATION’S RUNNING, whether YOU agree to it OR NOT—AFTER ALL, I, as the VERY ONE that’s FUNCTIONALLY-UNINHIBITTED, SINCE BIRTH, MIND YOU, KNOW, EXPERIENCIALLY, that you NEVER, EVER, EVER IN LIFE, “NEED” SIGHT, ESPECIALLY 20-20, in order to COMPLETELY FUNCTION WITH ALL FACULTIES, COMPLETELY INTACT, and YOU, EXPERIENCIALLY, DON’T.
JUST FOR THE RECORD, I'm leaving, as of MONDAY, CHRISTMAS EVE, '07, returning SUNDAY, JAN. 13, '08; I DEFINITELY LOOK FORWARD to the time, WHILE SPENT AWAY, to DRAG ON AND ON AND ON AND ON, for even LONGER THAN I'M EXTREMELY-BEYOND-ALL-LIMITS LONG-WINDED!
while I agree with many of those points, there is such a thing as showing some sort of appreciation for anyone who is prepared to help you.
Why should anybody help you with that kind of attitude? Why don't you ask yourself, "How could I do this if the guide wasn't here?" And if you say, "Well, i'm independent enough to get by by myself" then do it. You obviously hate being dependent on sighties, so do something about it. And for the love of the gods, sort our your grammar! How many comas can you get in a sentence! Your structure is appauling and very hard to read. Also, you mix up your points. i.e, THUS, rendering you ABSOLUTELY POWERLESS to do ABSOLUTELY NOTHING. So, you're rendering them unable to do nothing, thus, forcing them to do something. You're contradicting yourself!
Now, I know i'm just being nit-picky, but that's exactly what you're doing. Petty, isn't it?
Happy Christmas. May your journey be very, very, very long!
FM
you are a rude and inconsiderate jerk. i hope the people you give that too don't help you at all. merry christmas and try to get a heart and some respect for others while away.
WELL, QUITE OBVIOUSLY, the VERY POINT that just DOESN’T REGISTER, WHATSOEVER, is that the VERY ABSOLUTE OBJECTIVE of BLIND/SIGHTED INTERACTIVITY is NEITHER DEPENDENCE NOR INDEPENDENCE, but INTERDEPENDENCE. REALITY CHECK: ALTHOUGH we’re NEVER DEPENDENT ON, as we’re ALSO NEVER INDEPENDENT WITHOUT, we’re ALWAYS to be INTERDEPENDENT WITH each other, REGARDLESS of our VISUAL STATUS, and THAT was JUST AN “ENFORCER,” if you will, OF THAT FACT. With THAT as a given, EXPLAIN YOUR CONCLUSION of MY SUPPOSED “SELF-CONTRADICTION.”
I have an idea, why don't you just print out your profile from here and let them be more distracted by that...see that way they will be afraid to not help you, rather than to help you because that is part of their job. Besides, why not misrepresent anyone with any degree of visual impairment...keep up the good work, you are doing great!
By the way, it is g r e y not g r a y...
peace out, and Merry Christmas with your women in the bathroom
I would also like to suggest that his postings are what happens when you try to take philosophy and law classes by correspondence...
QUESTIONS: How is BLINDNESS an "IMPAIRMENT" of ANY kind, JUST BECAUSE there's either PARTIAL, or NO SIGHT, AT ALL, when BOTH EYE-ACUITY INTITIES have ABSOLUTELY NOTHING to do with determining the FUNCTIONING-AS-EITHER-A-WHOLE-OR-OTHERWISE PERSON'S LIFE? In THIS VERY SAME VAIN (OR VANE--HOWEVER it's spelled), how could the attitude of EQUAL-INTERACTIVE-INTERDEPENDENCE, as OBVIOUSLY PROJECTED in the above copy of the already-printed-out document, be a "MIS-REPRESENTATION, to BEGIN WITH, and EVEN IF SUCH be the case, HOW IS IT that ONE GROUP (PARTIALLY-AND/OR-TOTALLY-BLIND) is SUPPOSEDLY "MIS-REPRESENTED," instead of BOTH (PARTIALLY-AND/OR-TOTALLY-BLIND AND 20-20-SIGHTED)? In addition to responding HERE, message me at blatantlydefiant@pmpmail.com.
JUST FOR THE RECORD: ALL PRINT-OUT COPIES of my profile, AS YOU ALREADY DO KNOW, are EXCLUSIVELY DISTRIBUTED, although it DEFINITELY wouldn't be a BAD IDEA, AFTER ALL, to include it, IN ADDITION to the "IMPOSED-EQUAL-INTERACTIVE-INTERDEPENDENCE-ATTITUDE" note, when given to the appropriat recippient--I JUST MIGHT DO THAT!
ANOTHER FOR THE RECORD: instead of returning on Jan. 13, 2008, as PREVIOUSLY PLANNED, I'm returning on Jan. 4, because of a doctor's appointment, set for the 7th, to update my medical forms for camp, and being that there's a weekend session set for the DR.-MARTIN-LUTHER-KING (Jan. 18-21) weekend, and the NEXT DATE to schedule an appointment would've been the 28th, and that since my CURRENT CAMP MEDICAL EXPIRED, whereby, I wouldn't have been allowed to go to camp, without it being UPDATED, is what made this plan-change. THAT MEANS: unless I have access to ANY JAWS-INSTALLED COMPUTER, AND/OR ANY FORM of FIGURING OUT how to FULLY-FUNCTION on "THE ZONE," the VERY SAME WAY AS, although done DIFFERENTLY FROM, the COMPUTER, as done, USING THE PHONE KEYPAD, through NET-BY-PHONE AND/OR NET-EKO, I DEFINITELY GUARANTEE AN EARLY INVASION of the lives of those, who wish NOT to be bothered by me, by my "ZONE"-APPEARANCE, SIMPLY BECAUSE I CAN, and I'll DEFINITELY GET SUCCESSFULLY AWAY WITH SUCH AN INVASION.
GUESS WHA-A-A-AT! I'M BA-A-A-A-ACK! TOLD YA!!!!! Earlier than EXPECTED, BUT! I! AM! B! A! C! K! GET OUTA MY WAY!!!!!
who cares!Can't you go away again? For at least a year?
As to your asking me to clarify my conclusions, if you cannot see the contradiction, then no matter how much I clarify, you will never understand. However, here goes.
You write: THUS, rendering you ABSOLUTELY POWERLESS to do ABSOLUTELY NOTHING.
if you render someone powerless, you take away their choice, agreed? They're powerless, i.e, they have no say over what they do. Now, enter this logic into your sentence. You say, you render someone powerless to do absolutely nothing, meaning thatthey have to do something. If they're powerless to do nothing, it means that they have no choice but to do Something, because you've rendered them powerless, thus, have taken away their choice. If they are powerless to do nothing, then they are forced to do something.
Therefore, the you contradict yourself, as you implied that you wished them to do nothing.
As for private messaging you, no thanks. Was your journey long and drawn out? *looks hopeful*
FM
WELL, FOR YOUR MISGUIDED INFO, you would DEFINITELY NOTICE that THIS PAST MONDAY, DEC. 31 (ARM-TAPPING DAY), "NEW YEAR'S EVE," 2007 was the last time that I was on, so in answer to YOUR question, GO FIGURE; ALSO, what I mean by "RENDERING ONE POWERLESS," which is QUITE AMAZING that a COMPLETE SIMPLETON, such as YOURSELF, didn't get, is an ACTUAL DARE that I'm TAUNTING THEM WITH--TO BREAK THIS DOWN: picture that VERY SAME TIGER that was reported to have attacked THREE PEOPLE, killing ONE, injuring TWO OTHERS, as was reported over the CHRISTMAS/NEW YEAR'S HOLIDAY--only THIS TIME, HYPOTHETICALLY, of course, THE BEAST is on COMPLETE LOCKDOWN, WHILE ALREADY IN ITS CAGE, bound by CHAINS, ROPES, AND ANY/ALL OTHER SUCH-LIKE EXTREMELY HEAVY-DUTY LOCK-DOWN EQUIPMENT, TOTALLY UNABLE to move ANYWHERE, WHATSOEVER, except for its head, and it's located TOO FAR AWAY from ANYONE'S reach, which means that if ANYONE, EVER SO CHALLENGINGLY, wanted to make this thing ROAR, UNCONTROLLABLY, which is ALL that it can do, besides baring its fangs, EACH TIME THAT IT'S MOCKED, by someone, WITHIN THE SAFEST DISTANCE, EVER, dangling a leg, TWO LEGS, EVEN, OR EVEN GOING AS FAR AS TO CLIMB COMPLETELY INTO THE CAGE, sneak up behind the tiger, TEASINGLY TAUNT: "COME AND GET ME, YOU MONSTER!", as they'd turn SLOWLY AROUND, walking back to climb out, and with the tiger, NOT EVEN ABLE TO SWING ITS HEAD AROUND, but can ONLY MOVE IT, but SO MUCH, in a COMPLETE, SPASTIC FIT, UNLIKE what REALLY happened, UNFORTUNATELY, is the VERY EXACT EXAMPLE of MY "RENDERING WHATEVER OPPOSITION to MY "WHATEVER" as POWERLESS.
REVELATION: To the SIGHTED, AS A WHOLE, whether PARTIALLY, OR 20-20, the ONLY POWER OF DECISION THAT'S AVAILABLE to THEM, is to either decide to EQUALLY INTERACT WITH US, VOLUNTARILY, OR INVOLUNTARILY. No half-point; NARROW, AND JUSTIFIABLY SO, that it DEFINITELY MAY BE, it IS what it IS, which is EXACTLY THE WAY IT IS, and is EXACTLY the way it INDEFINITELY REMAINS, unless GOD SAYS OTHERWISE. OBVIOUSLY, not ALL sighted, 20-20 or otherwise, AS WELL AS not ALL blind, totally or otherwise are either in agreement or disagreement with this SOLID ABSOLUTE, BUT OH, WELL.
GUESS WHAT, GANG! I have ANOTHER CHALLENGE MESSAGE to print out and distribute amongst "THE SIGHTIES," if you will: THIS IS IN RESPONSE toANY "SYMPATHY-DRIVEN" INDIVIDUAL that, instead of "LOSING IT" with them, as I TOO OFTEN DO, as I attempt to "RE-DIRECT" THEIR understanding blindness, according to THEIR OWN INSECURITY, THEREOF, VERBALLY, I'll use "MY OTHER WEAPON: THE WRITTEN WORD." THIS, however, isn't the FIRST, NOR WILL IT BE THE LAST, time that I've used this HOPEFULLY-PROVOKATIVE METHOD.
OBVIOUSLY, you JUST MIGHT THINK that YOUR APPROACH is SUPPOSED to COMPENSATE for what’s SUPPOSEDLY MISSING, since I’M BLIND, and YOU’RE SIGHTED. Now, I want you to JUST STOP AND THINK: since BOTH BLINDNESS, AS WELL AS SIGHT, REGARDLESS IF 20-20 VISION, TOTAL BLINDNESS, OR OTHERWISE, ARE GIFTS FROM GOD, whether at BIRTH, or ANY “DURING-LIFE” EYE-STATUS UPGRADE IN EITHER DIRECTION, and BOTH SEPARATE INTITIES are on the VERY SAME LEVEL of enabling ONE to EQUALLY FUNCTION, INTERDEPENDENTLY WITH THE OTHER as a WHOLE PERSON, what’s to compensate for?
haven't you got the hint yet? Nobody cares! And, my dear, try putting a full stop in your writing occasionally. Didn't they teach you properly at school?
Don't YOU get it that I don't CARE if "NOBODY" cares, because EITHER AS USUAL, OR AS ALWAYS, "NOBODY," such as YOURSELF, as well as OTHERS OF YOUR VERY SAME ILK, RESPONDS, OTHERWISE, if you DIDN'T, you WOULDN'T, you ymbacile?
NOW, I'M gonna use a word that I'm not sure if whether or not it EXISTS, but JUST FOR THE SAKE OF TOPIC-WITHIN-A-TOPIC-CREATING, the word is "EQUALABILITY." The opposite would be "DISABILITY." Being that BOTH BLINDNESS AND SIGHT, REGARDLESS OF VARYING DEGREES, are eye statuses that are subject to being controlled to ACCURATELY MATCH one's FULL CAPACITY to function AS A WHOLE PERSON, it would DEFINITELY MAKE ABSOLUTE SENSE to ACCURATELY STATE that it's YOUR DECISION, of EITHER EYE STATUS, to be "EQUALABLED" or "DISABLED." When YOU take FULL RESPONSIBILITY to CONTROL, RATHER THAN BE CONTROLLED BY, YOUR EITHER/OR EYE STATUS, OBVIOUSLY, you're "EQUALABLED," OTHERWISE, you're "DISABLED," plain and simple.
Someone ACTUALLY sent this to me in an e-mail, and EVEN THOUGH it might be distasteful, GENERALLY SPEAKING, I found this to be funny, PERSONALLY:
There was a totally blind person, standing next to a totally sighted person on a bus, and the totally sighted person decided to make an ignorant statement; SURPRISINGLY, the totally blind person, who'd USUALLY give ANY IGNORANT a GOOD, OLD-FASHIONED, "VERBAL ASS-WHIPPIN'," very calmly said to the totally sighted person, looking DIRECTLY into their eyes: "You know, I wish you were good."
" I AM good," bragged the totally sighted person.
The totally blind person, EVEN MORE CALMER than the FIRST RESPONSE, said, EVER SO MEEKLY: "No, you're not--YOU'RE still alive."
We're all interdependent on each other, if we're sighted or not. Human beings are interdependent upon each other. Some of us have more, for awhile and hopefully give to those who temporarily have less.
As to your document, did you really pass it out to all of the sighted people who offered to help you on your bus trip? I doubt they took the time to read it while they were with you or when away from you. Most people just throw paper people pass out to them away.
WELL, I might've passed ONE out, if I'm not mistaken, Mommy--however, INTERDEPENDENCE isn't ON, but WITH--we, as human beings, INTERDEPEND WITH EACH OTHER, even though within this absolute, there ARE those that are DEPENDENT ON, and/or CO-DEPENDENT OF, one another, AS WELL.
hahaahhahahahahahahahhahahahha. damn dude. you smoked enough crack? how is one supposed to understand you? jesus christ you use like 20 words for 1. hahahhah damn. good luck with your dick.
To Sir DJ Austin Razor, the most NOTORIOUS DRUG-DEALER IN ALL THE UNIVERSE, ONLY YOU would know the answer to THAT!
That was tense reading. Loosen up there. I know you can't let people rule over you just because you are blind, but you could've been less snide and more promisingly gentle or kind. Yes, you want to tell them you want to be equals, but don't belittle them now.. Now, now, that's not quite right. I mean you still have to be courteous. They have the right not to help you, so I suggest more grace and less pride.
NOW that I have the opportunity, after what happened a week ago this past Wednesday, which I won't go into any details, my "BRAND-NEW ATTITUDE," if you wanna call it that, IS THIS: since I know that I would NEVER, EVER, EVER go out of my way to LOOK for the type of "sighted" attention, as above-described, MOCKINGLY, of course, and I'm approached with it, ANYWAY, although it's STILL my decision, as having the final say-so, EVEN IF I ACCEPTED IT, would make ABSOLUTELY NO MORE OF ANY DIFFERENCE than it would, had I REJECTED it, BECAUSE THEIR going out of THEIR way, which I NEVER ask them to do, to express pity IN VARIOUS, IF NOT ALL, depending on the individual, who's behaving this way, FORMS, ONLY REFLECTS THEM. MY DECISION, AND MINE, ALONE, is what ONLY REFLECTS ME, whether I ACCEPT OR NOT, so that if I DID, it's ME that's in the clear of EVER PURPOSELY DRAWING SUCH UNDESIRED ATTENTION--a friend of mine, by the name of Carl, ACTUALLY DOES look for this type of behavior, and as we ALL DO KNOW, you'd NEVER, EVER, EVER have to look TOO FAR for TOO LONG--like a totally rat-infested house, imagine how often you'd encounter AS MANY within a RELATIVELY IMMEDIATE PERIOD; this VERY SAME SCENARIO applies here, so you're ABSOLUTELY CORRECT, when you DID say that the HARSH, ABRUPT TONE IS UNNECESSARY, neither is getting into any PHILOSOPHICAL QUARRELS over the fact that we ARE equal, VERSUS the ABSOLUTE LIE, STRAIGHT FROM THE BOTTOMLESS PIT OF HELL, that we're NOT, because I'M not the one, like my friend, sing-songing: "Could you please help me? I'M BLIND!" What's JUST AS BAD, IF NOT WORSE, is that he'll ACTUALLY get on ANY TRAIN OR BUS, with his ALL-FAMOUS "PITY-CALL," which is what I'M calling it, from now on, which goes like: "SEATS (even though he's ONLY referring that HE'S the only one that wants A SEAT) FOR THE HANDICAPPED!" OBVIOUSLY, as though he were using a VOICE-COMMAND DEVICE, which would IMMEDIATELY, IF OPERATING ACCURATELY, ACT TIMINGLY AND ACCORDINGLY, not only is someone up out of THEIR seat, THEY'RE LEADING HIM, by BODILY WALKING HIM to his "BEGGED-FOR" seat, but that they'll ACTUALLY "SIT HIM DOWN," which HE says that he LOVES, and refers to it as "THE LAP-OF-LUXURY" treatment, and how I know that he does these things is that he'll either CALL ME, I'd call HIM, or I'd go to his house, and JUST OUT OF THE CLEAR BLUE, would EXTREMELY-PROUDLY TELL ME, and then QUITE AUDACIOUSLY ask why I wouldn't look for that kind of attention, as well, remarking that it would be "EASIER" for me, because I'M blind--COURSE, I just laugh when he says this, and I don't get upset with him, because this is DEFINITELY TRIVIAL--HOWEVER, I laid the VERY LAW DOWN TO HIM--if he's EVER, which we HAVE gone, AND STILL WILL GO, out with ME, I WON'T TOLLERATE THAT--ACTUALLY, there's REALLY ho productivity in laying down the law, so since I plan to go to his house TOMORROW, and I KNOW that this matter will come up, I'M gonna tell him that I won't stop HIM from doing it, BUT DON'T INVOLVE ME--I mean, I already TOLD him that, BEFORE, so I'm just REMINDING him.
QUESTION: would JESUS, which I hope that he WOULDN'T, aproove of "THE PITY-CALL," and if he ACTUALLY WOULD, WHY, when he's given US, that were BORN BLIND, the VERY FULL CAPACITY to function, JUST AS ANY ABLE-BODIED, 20-20-SIGHTED would?
"NO," NOT "HO," as I mistakingly wrote in the immediate-previous message.
Well, I agree we can do the same things, but you can't be harsh with them even if they treat you any different. I mean all you can really do is tell them over and over. Well, I mean I am harsh as well, but I am trying to not as well. Compromising I learnt in this circumstance won't work. I mean the other option is to get exceedingly upset, which often happens with me, because I am often frustrated and offended. It's like calling some African American the N word, but when that happens you still can't possiblly do anything. Well, I feel like giving them the slap and the death sentence, but alas, well... I think we have the same opinion and tend to deal with them the same way, but sometimes that's not the best.
What you OUGHTA do, whenever you get the chance, if you already HADN'T, is check out my LATEST TOPIC, posted last night.
Well, fine. I'll do that.