Private Thoughts in public places - Page 25 - ZEFRANK.COM

l'azizza · 10-20-2006, 01:38 AM

I don't see how one can work at home and not have a cat, or four. Why can't ppl be more like cats?

LeahDear · 10-20-2006, 11:56 AM

either buy them or get lost... stop prancing around my shop like some pathetic bruce lee wannabe

lapietra · 10-27-2006, 02:26 PM

We used to make things here. Now, all the people who were good at thinking of things to make have left, sickened by the fact that those who didn't respect their heartfelt projects were allowed to dash through and destroy those things with impunity, over and over again. When they responded with anger, they were told that they should suck it up. When they tried to protect themselves, their methods were ridiculed or punished. When they tried to retaliate, they were called hypocrites. Eventually, they lost interest and moved on.

Now, this is no longer a place where one feels free to create. No one feels free to float a new idea because the only people left are the analysts, who will pick the ideas apart until there's nothing left, the wounded souls, whose minds are like a minefield of empty eggshells and who pretend to care deeply for people they've never met in order to seem...worthy? and the trolls, whose idea of beauty is any indication that their verbal stink bombs have rattled their victim. Which one am I?

Why am I still here? What am I hoping will change? He's left us to our own devices. Do I think I'm someone who could help fix things here - is that what I'm hoping? I'm not intelligent enough, educated enough, or creative enough to do anything more than tend to my own life and my loved ones - and I'm barely capable of that... why to I continue to visit this place that disappoints more often than it delights?

If this was a relationship, I'd be long gone. But where to?

dddrum · 10-27-2006, 03:16 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by lapietra

We used to make things here. Now, all the people who were good at thinking of things to make have left, sickened by the fact that those who didn't respect their heartfelt projects were allowed to dash through and destroy those things with impunity, over and over again. When they responded with anger, they were told that they should suck it up. When they tried to protect themselves, their methods were ridiculed or punished. When they tried to retaliate, they were called hypocrites. Eventually, they lost interest and moved on.

Now, this is no longer a place where one feels free to create. No one feels free to float a new idea because the only people left are the analysts, who will pick the ideas apart until there's nothing left, the wounded souls, whose minds are like a minefield of empty eggshells and who pretend to care deeply for people they've never met in order to seem...worthy? and the trolls, whose idea of beauty is any indication that their verbal stink bombs have rattled their victim. Which one am I?

Why am I still here? What am I hoping will change? He's left us to our own devices. Do I think I'm someone who could help fix things here - is that what I'm hoping? I'm not intelligent enough, educated enough, or creative enough to do anything more than tend to my own life and my loved ones - and I'm barely capable of that... why to I continue to visit this place that disappoints more often than it delights?

If this was a relationship, I'd be long gone. But where to?

Wow. That was like a truth grenade. I'm gonna be picking shrapnel out of my brain for quite a while.

The weird thing is, I just noticed a couple hours ago that there appears to be another Ze forum... completely detached from this one... connected to The Show. There are a bunch of members that I don't remember ever seeing here, and they have their own discussion threads and creative projects.

THEY EVEN HAVE THEIR OWN LIMERICKS.

Of course, this begs the question: who does Ze like better?

Who are The ChoZen Ones?

P.S.: I still want to make things, Lapietra! To you and anyone else of the same mind, I entreat* you: hop on over to the New Wive's Tales thread and together we will fashion the folkways of a newer and nexter™ generation. (Gen-Z!!!!!)

*This does not mean I'm paying for anything!

Brynn · 10-27-2006, 08:18 PM

If I contemplate that thing I despise for too long, I'm in danger of becoming it.

trisherina · 11-06-2006, 01:47 AM

Drink the Kool-Aid. Go on.

12"razormix · 11-06-2006, 09:07 AM

on a scale from 0 - 10, considering that at my last job i had adjusted to a healthy level of 0.5 - 1, this job has reached its new pinnacle of absurdity at 9.87

auntie aubrey · 11-06-2006, 02:30 PM

ironic, if i weren't sitting here at a manditory department of labor seminar about how to find a job, i wouldn't have just missed the phone call wherein i would have accepted a job offer.

Brynn · 11-07-2006, 01:38 PM

Thank you for not politically endorsing anyone on Sunday. That's one of the reasons why I keep showing up there and not at that other place.

dddrum · 11-17-2006, 03:27 PM

I'm running the page! HAHAHAHAAAAA you crazy clowns! I PWWWWWWN!!!!

dddrum · 11-17-2006, 03:34 PM

I ran the page at 1:33 pee yem. (wOOt)

Marcus Bales · 02-07-2007, 09:44 PM

Quit talking about strategic planning and umbrella organizations and funding directives! I wouldn't let one of you people run an ELEVATOR for me!

trisherina · 03-22-2007, 10:55 PM

I guess you really are that threatened, after all.

ch_burchill · 04-13-2007, 02:58 PM

.shmle.ap!saq

zero · 04-14-2007, 04:53 AM

i tra.vel. mobile internet.. fiddly ness. sta.ysa.fe.

10-20-2006, 11:56 AM	#362
LeahDear monkey Join Date: Mar 2006 Posts: 1,538	either buy them or get lost... stop prancing around my shop like some pathetic bruce lee wannabe __________________ I blame that Welsh tart!

10-27-2006, 02:26 PM	#363
lapietra half baked Join Date: Sep 2002 Location: just ducky Posts: 12,078	We used to make things here. Now, all the people who were good at thinking of things to make have left, sickened by the fact that those who didn't respect their heartfelt projects were allowed to dash through and destroy those things with impunity, over and over again. When they responded with anger, they were told that they should suck it up. When they tried to protect themselves, their methods were ridiculed or punished. When they tried to retaliate, they were called hypocrites. Eventually, they lost interest and moved on. Now, this is no longer a place where one feels free to create. No one feels free to float a new idea because the only people left are the analysts, who will pick the ideas apart until there's nothing left, the wounded souls, whose minds are like a minefield of empty eggshells and who pretend to care deeply for people they've never met in order to seem...worthy? and the trolls, whose idea of beauty is any indication that their verbal stink bombs have rattled their victim. Which one am I? Why am I still here? What am I hoping will change? He's left us to our own devices. Do I think I'm someone who could help fix things here - is that what I'm hoping? I'm not intelligent enough, educated enough, or creative enough to do anything more than tend to my own life and my loved ones - and I'm barely capable of that... why to I continue to visit this place that disappoints more often than it delights? If this was a relationship, I'd be long gone. But where to? __________________ “As long as the world is turning and spinning, we're gonna be dizzy and we're gonna make mistakes.” ~ Mel Brooks Last edited by lapietra : 10-27-2006 at 02:30 PM.

10-27-2006, 08:18 PM	#365
Brynn constantly amazed Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: in the labyrinth of shared happiness Posts: 6,206	If I contemplate that thing I despise for too long, I'm in danger of becoming it. __________________ 1. While sitting at your desk, lift your right foot off the floor and make clockwise circles. 2. Now, while doing this, draw the number "6" in the air with your right hand. 3. Your foot will change direction.

11-06-2006, 02:30 PM	#368
auntie aubrey excursions Join Date: May 2006 Location: beyond the call of duty Posts: 2,443	ironic, if i weren't sitting here at a manditory department of labor seminar about how to find a job, i wouldn't have just missed the phone call wherein i would have accepted a job offer. __________________ that dog won't hunt, monsignor

11-07-2006, 01:38 PM	#369
Brynn constantly amazed Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: in the labyrinth of shared happiness Posts: 6,206	Thank you for not politically endorsing anyone on Sunday. That's one of the reasons why I keep showing up there and not at that other place. __________________ 1. While sitting at your desk, lift your right foot off the floor and make clockwise circles. 2. Now, while doing this, draw the number "6" in the air with your right hand. 3. Your foot will change direction.

10-20-2006, 01:38 AM	#361
l'azizza 98.4% monkey Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: bummed out city Posts: 634	I don't see how one can work at home and not have a cat, or four. Why can't ppl be more like cats?

11-06-2006, 01:47 AM	#366
trisherina meretricious dilettante Join Date: Jan 2003 Posts: 11,068	Drink the Kool-Aid. Go on.

11-06-2006, 09:07 AM	#367
12"razormix ° ★ ° Join Date: May 2004 Location: ªs°k° Posts: 6,458	on a scale from 0 - 10, considering that at my last job i had adjusted to a healthy level of 0.5 - 1, this job has reached its new pinnacle of absurdity at 9.87

11-17-2006, 03:27 PM	#370
dddrum Amateur Human Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: The Hills north of Mouseland, sunny FLA. Posts: 1,264	I'm running the page! HAHAHAHAAAAA you crazy clowns! I PWWWWWWN!!!! __________________ ...or words to that effect.

11-17-2006, 03:34 PM	#371
dddrum Amateur Human Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: The Hills north of Mouseland, sunny FLA. Posts: 1,264	I ran the page at 1:33 pee yem. (wOOt) __________________ ...or words to that effect.

02-07-2007, 09:44 PM	#372
Marcus Bales ________________ Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: In a coign of the cliff between lowland and highland, at the sea-down's edge between windward and lee, walled round with rocks as an inland island, the ghost of a garden fronts the sea. Posts: 8,967	Quit talking about strategic planning and umbrella organizations and funding directives! I wouldn't let one of you people run an ELEVATOR for me! __________________ My strength is as the strength of eight -- My heart is nearly pure.

03-22-2007, 10:55 PM	#373
trisherina meretricious dilettante Join Date: Jan 2003 Posts: 11,068	I guess you really are that threatened, after all.

04-13-2007, 02:58 PM	#374
ch_burchill monkey Join Date: May 2004 Location: Glasgow Posts: 260	.shmle.ap!saq Last edited by ch_burchill : 04-14-2007 at 08:28 AM.

04-14-2007, 04:53 AM	#375
zero ª ★ ª Join Date: May 2004 Location: lª m°°n Posts: 13,853	i tra.vel. mobile internet.. fiddly ness. sta.ysa.fe.

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