Spill Your Guts: What You Really Think About MB members

Carpe Mortem · 11-26-2014, 06:24 PM

I'm with Mondo. I could totally kick his, JWB's, and my own ass, all at the same time in crutches.

GuD · 11-26-2014, 06:24 PM

I don't think anyone believes you think everyone is weak. I did say "kinda". But the impression you give off, at least imo, is that you're looking down on people who don't respond to things the way you do. And those people's responses are pretty much the majority.

Carpe Mortem · 11-26-2014, 06:25 PM

Also my stoicism stems from a good heart that believes mirth is king and laughter is the best medicine.

~~John Wilkes Booth~~ · 11-26-2014, 06:28 PM

i was responding to basically people saying i'm heartless. and yea i'm looking down on them in a way cause really i know a lot of people who wouldn't cry over a dead cat.

The Batlord · 11-26-2014, 06:32 PM

I get where JWB and DwnWthVwls are coming from. As a kid I was all hypersensitive and ****, but after life kicked me around enough, and I'd spent a large part of my life feeling like a miserable open wound, I guess the scar tissue built up and I just became numb to a lot of the **** that makes other people emotional. It's not like I don't feel emotions or empathy, but it takes more to get through my mental defense mechanisms. I still love my pets as much as I ever did, and I used to bawl my eyes out when they'd die, but not so much anymore.

And if the majority of people on here are the opposite of that, I think it's because a certain number of you are the touchy-feely, arty types (I say that with love) who don't have much separation between themselves and their emotions. It makes you more empathetic, but I don't imagine the constant turmoil is entirely healthy. I'm assuming that's what JWB's point was.

ladyislingering · 11-26-2014, 06:49 PM

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Originally Posted by Mondo Bungle

I have chosen Born With A Bleeding Heart as the title of my next solo record

Ass.

I was mostly serious, though, I think I cry more than most normal humans should.

Trollheart · 11-26-2014, 07:32 PM

Just to be clear, JWB, what I was saying (which you seem to have missed or ignored) is that the fact that you put money --- and let's be honest, we're not talking thousands here. I know you say cash is tight but seventy dollars? Anyway it's not the amount that's important --- before the possibility of easing the pet's life or maybe extending it is what makes you seem heartless to me. I do not equate heartlessness with strength; in fact, it can take a lot more courage and fortitude to be weak. Em, that makes no sense but I think you know what I'm trying to say? Kind of takes more of a man to walk away from a fight than get involved in one? Sort of thing.

When we were getting the renovations for my sister's extension done, we had to put the cats into the cattery for five months. Cost us just over 4000 Euro (yeah I said thousands!). If that had been you, you would have had the choice of paying to board them or have them put down, would you have chosen the latter? Given that we hadn't got four grand, we are paying it off at 100 a month, so it's not impossible.

On the flipside, when Spook was near her time our vet told us she could go on a ventilator that might extend her life a bit, but she was too sick to survive. It would be 200 a week. At that stage, we decided not to pay for that, not because of the money only, but because there was no guarantee. You can bet if he had said this will cure her 100 percent I would have found the money.

Like I say, you either love pets or you don't and to clarify, PET OWNERS/LOVERS can't and don't put a price on a pet's love. That you could reduce your situation to a thing like "man I wasted seventy bucks" is what boils my blood and makes me think you're a heartless person. And I'm sorry to say, the more I hear from you the less I think of you.

~~John Wilkes Booth~~ · 11-26-2014, 09:13 PM

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Originally Posted by Trollheart

Like I say, you either love pets or you don't and to clarify, PET OWNERS/LOVERS can't and don't put a price on a pet's love. That you could reduce your situation to a thing like "man I wasted seventy bucks" is what boils my blood and makes me think you're a heartless person. And I'm sorry to say, the more I hear from you the less I think of you.

i mean it is obvious to me that i wasted 70 bucks. i'm not going to dwell on it though.

ladyislingering · 11-26-2014, 09:44 PM

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Originally Posted by John Wilkes Booth

i mean it is obvious to me that i wasted 70 bucks. i'm not going to dwell on it though.

a humane euthanization (given it was necessary) is hardly a "waste".

a "waste" is allowing an animal to suffer until its body can no longer go on.

DwnWthVwls · 11-26-2014, 07:36 PM

It boils my blood that people think they are such good care takers that animals are better off with them. :O Let's face it we dominated multiple species for our pleasure, they aren't symbiotic relationships.

11-26-2014, 06:24 PM	#1 (permalink)
Carpe Mortem Crusher of tiny Nords Join Date: Mar 2014 Location: Ugly Bag of Mostly Water Posts: 1,363	I'm with Mondo. I could totally kick his, JWB's, and my own ass, all at the same time in crutches. __________________ [SIG][/SIG] Mirth is King Be Loving & Open With My Emotions

11-26-2014, 06:24 PM	#2 (permalink)
GuD Dude... What? Join Date: Oct 2013 Posts: 1,322	I don't think anyone believes you think everyone is weak. I did say "kinda". But the impression you give off, at least imo, is that you're looking down on people who don't respond to things the way you do. And those people's responses are pretty much the majority. __________________ I spit bullets in my feet Every time I speak So I write instead And still people want me dead ~msc

11-26-2014, 06:25 PM	#3 (permalink)
Carpe Mortem Crusher of tiny Nords Join Date: Mar 2014 Location: Ugly Bag of Mostly Water Posts: 1,363	Also my stoicism stems from a good heart that believes mirth is king and laughter is the best medicine. __________________ [SIG][/SIG] Mirth is King Be Loving & Open With My Emotions

11-26-2014, 07:32 PM	#7 (permalink)
Trollheart Born to be mild Join Date: Oct 2008 Location: 404 Not Found Posts: 26,996	Just to be clear, JWB, what I was saying (which you seem to have missed or ignored) is that the fact that you put money --- and let's be honest, we're not talking thousands here. I know you say cash is tight but seventy dollars? Anyway it's not the amount that's important --- before the possibility of easing the pet's life or maybe extending it is what makes you seem heartless to me. I do not equate heartlessness with strength; in fact, it can take a lot more courage and fortitude to be weak. Em, that makes no sense but I think you know what I'm trying to say? Kind of takes more of a man to walk away from a fight than get involved in one? Sort of thing. When we were getting the renovations for my sister's extension done, we had to put the cats into the cattery for five months. Cost us just over 4000 Euro (yeah I said thousands!). If that had been you, you would have had the choice of paying to board them or have them put down, would you have chosen the latter? Given that we hadn't got four grand, we are paying it off at 100 a month, so it's not impossible. On the flipside, when Spook was near her time our vet told us she could go on a ventilator that might extend her life a bit, but she was too sick to survive. It would be 200 a week. At that stage, we decided not to pay for that, not because of the money only, but because there was no guarantee. You can bet if he had said this will cure her 100 percent I would have found the money. Like I say, you either love pets or you don't and to clarify, PET OWNERS/LOVERS can't and don't put a price on a pet's love. That you could reduce your situation to a thing like "man I wasted seventy bucks" is what boils my blood and makes me think you're a heartless person. And I'm sorry to say, the more I hear from you the less I think of you. __________________ Trollheart: Signature-free since April 2018

11-26-2014, 06:28 PM	#4 (permalink)
~~John Wilkes Booth~~ Account Disabled Join Date: Jul 2013 Posts: 2,235	i was responding to basically people saying i'm heartless. and yea i'm looking down on them in a way cause really i know a lot of people who wouldn't cry over a dead cat.