What a hoot. I don't know if I should take the shameless pleasure of reading about ME so much... It'll only egg me on :) But diggin' in, lets see what's on your mind.
... At least you wrote with feeling -- I'll take this over that other drivel any day (only hopefully shorter). I don't know where you've determined the social and political agenda you write about, or as a concrete example, the me having used the word "dendrochronological" -- perhaps you're confusing me/blending me with someone else? But responding to the spirit of the 'complaint' if not the accuracy: The two non-participants in the Escher painting suit our relationship well: I weep on the front steps, while you smugly survey those on the staircase. You are right that I am a sore loser... You could have saved yourself the pages and just written the conclusion. I'm impressed by your observance. I'm learning to deal with the fact that I appear to be dying. Its tough, but I'm thankful to have a practice (finally) that is working some. You, however, are a bench warmer. Busy describing what each of the players is doing right and wrong -- wishing you were a coach -- feeling too past your prime to show up at tryouts. Football stadiums are filled with loud 'experts' who have never played football. Rod (entirely evil) Scholl -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Alex Bunard Sent: Thursday, April 14, 2005 11:48 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [Zen] My complaint about Rod Scholl Rod Scholl's intimations are completely disgusting -- so much so, that if there are any children or sensitive people reading this letter, I suggest that they stop now and not read what I am about to describe. But first, I'm going to jump ahead a bit and talk in general terms about how a day of reckoning is coming, and Rod will be called to account. Then, I'll back up and fill in some of the details. Okay, so to start with the general stuff, Rod wants to make conditions far worse than could ever have been the case without his spineless efforts. Why he wants that, I don't know, but that's what he wants. If anything, he thinks that doing the fashionable thing is more important than life or liberty. However, a careful appraisal of his catch-phrases raises some thought-provoking issues. Rod likes effusions that conceal information and, occasionally, blatantly lie. Could there be a conflict of interest there? If you were to ask me, I'd say that he keeps saying that classism is the key to world peace. Isn't that claim getting a little shopworn? I mean, he is our worst nightmare. What's my problem, then? Allow me to present it in the form of a question: Whatever happened to community standards? To answer that question, we need first to consider Rod's thought process, which generally takes the following form: (1) We should avoid personal responsibility, so (2) he is a bearer and agent of the Creator's purpose. Therefore, (3) his refrains are a breath of fresh air amid our modern culture's toxic cloud of chaos and thus, (4) everyone and everything discriminates against him -- including the writing on the bathroom stalls. As you can see, Rod's reasoning makes no sense, which leads me to believe that his campaigns often lash audiences of the most useless mob bosses you'll ever see into wild storms of applause. I know you're wondering why I just wrote that. I'll explain shortly, but first, I should state that Rod is an inspiration to barbaric, gloomy card sharks everywhere. They panegyrize his crusade to dilute the nation's sense of common purpose and shared sacrifice and, more importantly, they don't realize that if it weren't for prolix ivory-tower academics, Rod would have no friends. Isn't it historically demonstrated that like much conventional wisdom, Rod's announcements contain too much convention and not enough wisdom? I ask, because if he can one day agitate for indoctrination programs in local schools, then the long descent into night is sure to follow. (Yes, Rod makes decisions based on random things glamorized by the press and the resulting rantings of craven enemies of the people, but that's a different story.) As you can see, I, hardheaded cynic that I am, have to wonder where he got the idea that it is my view that society is screaming for his deeds. This sits hard with me, because it is simply not true, and I've never written anything to imply that it is. Believe it or not, I really want to believe that he is a decent, honest person. Unfortunately, as is often the case, what I want to believe proves to be fantasy. The truth is that we've all heard Rod yammer and whine about how he's being scapegoated again, the poor dear. Judging by the generally randy nature of his apologists, I can see that he wonders why everyone hates him. Apparently, he never stopped to think that maybe it's because given a choice of having him remake the world to suit his own power-hungry needs or having my bicuspids extracted sans Novocaine, I would embrace the pliers, purchase some Polident Partials, and call it a day. When you reflect upon this, you'll realize that Rod intends to create a new social class. Headlong, voluble moochers, disgraceful busybodies, and inhumane utopians will be given aristocratic status. The rest of us will be forced into serving as their flunkies. Even if one isn't completely conversant with current events, the evidence overwhelmingly indicates that it's easy for us to shake our heads at his foolishness and cowardice. It's easy for us to exclaim that we should place a high value on honor and self-respect. It's easy for us to say, "I have sincerely had enough of Rod's airy-fairy talk of 'maybe this or maybe that'." The point is that it's easy for us to say these things because Rod's subliminal psywar campaigns will have consequences -- very serious consequences. And we ought to begin doing something about that. There are some insane common blood-stained criminals who are execrable. There are also some who are gruesome. Which category does Rod fall into? If the question overwhelms you, I suggest you check "both". He likes to cite poll results that "prove" that this is the best of all possible worlds and that he is the best of all possible people. Really? Have you ever been contacted by one of his pollsters? Chances are good that you never have been contacted and never will be. Otherwise, the polls would show that Rod extricates himself from difficulty by intrigue, by chicanery, by dissimulation, by trimming, by an untruth, by an injustice. As I make no claim to be an authority on the subject, I defer to the judgments of an Oxford University professor, who has observed that Rod wants me to stop trying to establish clear, justifiable definitions of revisionism and pharisaism, so that you can defend a decision to take action when his lieutenants redefine humanity as alienated machines/beasts and then convince everyone that they were never human to begin with. Instead, he'd rather I have to fight with one hand tied behind my back. Sorry, but I don't accept defeat that easily. None but the fastidious can deny that it may seem difficult at first to appeal not to the contented and satisfied, but embrace those tormented by suffering, those without peace, the unhappy and the discontented. It is. But he somehow manages to maintain a straight face when saying that the best way to make a point is with foaming-at-the-mouth rhetoric and letters filled primarily with exclamation points. I am greatly grieved by this occurrence of falsehood and fantastic storytelling which is the resultant of layers of social dishevelment and disillusionment amongst the fine citizens of a once organized, motivated, and cognitively enlightened civilization. The purpose of this letter is far greater than to prove to you how hopeless and superficial Rod has become. The purpose of this letter is to get you to start thinking for yourself, to start thinking about how his particular brand of foul isolationism will represent a threat to all the people in the area, indeed, possibly the world, by next weekend. Now that that's cleared up, I'll continue with what I was saying before, that he constantly insists that cannibalism, wife-swapping, and the murder of infants and the elderly are acceptable behavior. But he contradicts himself when he says that his way of life is correct and everyone else's isn't. Of course, Rod throws the word "dendrochronological" around as if it had the same meaning to everyone. I always catch hell whenever I say something like that, so let me assure you that he never tires of trying to extinguish fires with gasoline. Rod presumably hopes that the magic formula will work some day. In the meantime, he seems to have resolved to learn nothing from experience, which tells us that in order to convince us that he holds a universal license that allows him to borrow money and spend it on programs that gum up what were once great ideas, Rod often turns to the old propagandist trick of comparing results brought about by entirely dissimilar causes. Now, I don't mean for that to sound pessimistic, although what I wrote just a moment ago is not the paranoid rambling of a self-indulgent wacko. It's a fact. Some people don't seem to mind that Rod likes to waffle on all the issues. What a combative world we live in! He maintains that either children should get into cars with strangers who wave lots of yummy candy at them or that mediocrity and normalcy are ideal virtues. Rod denies any other possibility. It strikes me as amusing that he complains about people who do nothing but complain. Well, news flash! Rod does nothing but complain. A day without Rod would be like a day without huffy militarism. To cap that off, we must protect innocent, little children from immoral ignoramuses like Rod. As mentioned above, however, that is not enough. It is necessary to do more. It is necessary to resolve our disputes without violence. We must exemplify the principles of honor, duty, loyalty, and courage. Only then can a society free of his unsympathetic notions blossom forth from the roots of the past. And only then will people come to understand that if we don't push a consistent vision that responds to most people's growing fears about the worst sorts of insincere saboteurs I've ever seen right now, then Rod's perceptions will soon start to metastasize until they destroy the values, methods, and goals of traditional humanistic study. Rod can go on saying that all it takes to solve our social woes are shotgun marriages, heavy-handed divorce laws, and a return to some mythical 1950s Shangri-la, but the rest of us have serious problems to deal with that preclude our indulging in such impolitic dreams just now. Lest I seem like a hypocrite, I should tell you that if we contradict him, we are labelled jejune desperados. If we capitulate, however, we forfeit our freedoms. Even though he insists that he has been robbed of all he does not possess, I unmistakably claim that anyone with eyes and a brain can tell that this is not the first time I've wanted to improve the physical and spiritual quality of life for the population at present and for those yet to come. But it is the first time I realized that if you don't think that this view dangerously underestimates the crazy quality of fogyism, then you've missed the whole point of this letter. Rod's credos are designed to scapegoat easy, unpopular targets, thereby diverting responsibility from more culpable parties. And they're working; they're having the desired effect. In these days of political correctness and the changing of how history is taught in schools to fulfill a particular agenda, Rod will do everything in his power to doctor evidence and classification systems and make cacodemonic generalizations to support rotten, preconceived views. No wonder corruption is endemic to our society; Rod is entirely evil. We all are, to some extent, but he sets the curve. Every so often, you'll see Rod lament, flog himself, cry mea culpa for seeking to exert more and more control over other individuals, and vow never again to be so unpleasant. Sadly, he always reverts to his old behavior immediately afterwards, making me think that there is a proper place in life for hatred. Hatred of that which is wrong is a powerful and valuable tool. But when Rod perverts hatred in order to incite racial hatred, it becomes clear that I decidedly dislike him. Likes or dislikes, however, are irrelevant to observed facts, such as that the last time I told Rod's lackeys that I want to establish democracy and equality, they declared in response, "But Rod is a paragon of morality and wisdom." Of course, they didn't use exactly those words, but that's exactly what they meant. Rod's witticisms have paid off: already, Rod has had some success in his efforts to cure the evil of discrimination with more discrimination. He condones the disruptive accusations that will boss others around. So, sorry for being so long-winded in this letter, but Rod Scholl is a sore loser. No karma was generated from the following complaint generator, used to generate the above complaint: http://www.pakin.org/complaint/ __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com Noble Eightfold Path: Right View, Right Intention, Right Speech, Right Action, Right Effort, Right Mindfulness, Right Concentration, Right Livelihood Yahoo! Groups Links ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Would you Help a Child in need? It is easier than you think. 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