--- In [email protected], "curtisdeltablues" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I only am responding to this part but there were many > great lines. In particular I could use the address of > chicks who are retired at 33 in Spain and who made a > living making men happy. I have a theory that I want > to test.
LOL. I'm sure that the theory is valid, even if my friends wouldn't be the ones to test it on. All are happily married; two were even while they worked at Yab Yum. Go figure. The non-weirdness of the Dutch about sex is downright weird. :-) > I went through a few thought processes on the gun part. > At first I thought that it seems a little harsh because > I know some people who are into shooting as a sport and > it is more like the zen of archery. The little target > shooting I did a while back was very interesting > physically. I had to learn how to totally relax and > squeeze the trigger with no anticipatory flinch as a > loud explosion happened in my hand. (don't even go there > Turq, I know how you think!) I am hurt. The thought never crossed my mind. > The guys who were good at it were really cool cookies, > very disciplined and self-contained, like being in CC > but with hollow points if you know what I mean. I do. Shooting well is somewhat of an art form, not something that everyone can do well. The more you deal with guns, especially handguns, the more you understand that. Most people could probably not hit a human being ten feet away with a handgun, much less the bullseye of a target less than a centimeter wide. > So on on one level this is a sport like archery and it > requires an amazing amount of practice to get really > good at it. It is kind of addictive to beat your own > previous scores. Yup. I was never any damned good at it, which is one reason -- besides returning to sanity -- that I lost my interest in guns before I turned 20. > Some collector types get a rush from adding an exotic > new version of gun and I'm not sure it is any different > from my unquenchable desire to own more guitars. This is certainly true as well. I know a few collector types who collect them the way that some people collect stamps. These guys don't even have any ammo in the house, just the guns. Compare and contrast to the guys who have 20 guns and 20,000 rounds of ammunition for them at all times, and "need" all of them to feel "safe." The latter are more than a little scary. > When I first started studying Brazilian Jiu-jitsu I > noticed that I felt calmer around guys in business > situations who would try to use anger to get their > way. They wouldn't get my inner primal monkey riled > up. It made me calmer and more relaxed. Same with me when studying karate. > But on the other hand, after I dislocated my shoulder > (actually it was a hefty Japanese judoki who did it for > me) I noticed that over time I stopped thinking about > people attacking me. I hadn't realized how often the > defensive thought process would come up in public places. Same with me, after I stopped studying karate. There is something very, very true about the spiritual buzzphrase, "What you focus on you become." > (I spend a lot of time in public restrooms doing research > on my upcoming book on George Michael) I stopped assessing > guys while shaking their hands which had become automatic > from years of grabbing a new guy in class and evaluating > how much trouble it was going to be. It mostly faded away. > I definitely did feel less anxiety caused by my sport being > a version of controlled ass-kicking. Yup. Martial arts are best when left in the dojo once one leaves it. If you carry the mindset with you when you leave, you're basically looking for trouble. > I also know guys who are practically begging for the social > order to break down. Armed to the teeth, they point to Bosnia > where ordinary people where plunged into Mad Max's reality > overnight. Africa has plenty of examples. So could it happen > here? Couple dirty bombs, a little social chaos from some > anthrax Christmas cards, and I guess it might happen. Overnight. Yeah, these are the scary dudes. Sadly, having encountered a few of these "survivalist" types over the years, a lot of them picked this mindset up after having been sent somewhere to fight One Of America's Wars. They were plucked out of their gawdawful-boring lives and thrown into a jungle or a desert and forced to fight for their lives 24/7 and it was EXCITING for them, man. And part of them longs for that excitement again, now that they're back and stuck in their gawdawful- boring lives again. > But if I have to load up my closet with ammo and > powdered milk like they do, I am probably not gunna > run my dog in this race. I don't even live near the racetrack any more. :-) > My closet is already too full of tin foil undergarments > to help block the CIA mind control rays that emanate > from the Pentagon. Y'know, we could probably make a fortune *selling* tin foil undergarments to hard-core TM fanatics. They'd go for the CIA thang in an instant, and believing that there was someone *else* they could blame for not having had any nookie for decades would be just right up their alley. If we threw in lines like, "The metal shielding helps to conserve all that precious ojas and channel it up the shushumna instead of all over your expensive silk sheets," and "Available in Large, Whopper, and the new, padded OhMyGod Is That A Shivalingam In Your Trousers Or Are You Glad To See Me sizes," we'd make a fortune, and could afford to become Rajas. We could even offer a model in gold, *for* Rajas. :-)
