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Embracing the Violet

DeVoid

18:34 / 18.07.03

OK, I already know I am a sick fuck, I don't need to be told again, and I ain't repenting to anyone for my sick pleasures.

So, here is the thing...

I find myself grinning when I witness another's misfortune, especially the violent kind. At first I tried to repress it, thinking I just couldn't let it exist...but hell, I am going to embrace my Inner-Alex.

I know I am not the only sick fuck here, so make me grin Barbeloids

. Give me your bone-crunching good times, not just that BDSM shit, but good old-fashioned violence. Violence for no reason. Violence on the putrid wormlings that annoyed your god-like sensibilities. Violence on the neighbours cat, the neighbour...I don't care.

I just want to love all of me. Even the nasty, evil bits. Huggles to the nasty bits!

This way, I can love everyone else's nasty bits too.

Got Milk?

Char Aina

18:45 / 18.07.03

i do find myself (like many nice, well manered, left leaners i know) thinking of Ultraviolent actions, mostly aimed at those i can ethically hate.

like the man that walked down the street past Foyle's bookstore in london today punching everyone he could, including the pregnant woman my friend sat with while the ambulance came, and while she wondered if her baby had just been killed.

i would not be entirely ashamed to admit that losing half of a glass bottle in either of his knees would not be unimaginable for me.

i would probaly pussy out of the act itself, but i might pay a man, and i would certainly watch if i knew it to be happening.

DeVoid

17:39 / 21.07.03

It is inevitable. You just can't deny the rage and violence.

I wonder though....Do you think the pregnant woman has some rage to embrace? I think she may need a violet hug too.

The rage of a mother. That's fierce. Give her the bottle, she'll know what to do.

Matthew Fluxington

18:11 / 21.07.03

Wow. "Jack Claw," huh?

Don't we have enough Jacks on this board what with Jack Fear, Jack Denfeld, and Jack The Bodiless?

Can't you be "Rob Claw" instead?

Consider this my way of "embracing the violet."

MJ-12

18:21 / 21.07.03

Y'know, if you're you're looking for violence and horror, I would think turning on the news would provide you with enough to put you into a state of unrestrained masturbatory glee.

Char Aina

18:32 / 21.07.03

isn't personal horror so much more gratifying, though? schadenfreude is so improved when you can see the whites of the weeping eyes.

Kit-Cat Club

20:20 / 21.07.03

Personally I favour a delicate mauve. Or possibly puce.

videodrome

21:01 / 21.07.03

Why don't we all go straight to Bumfights and be done with it? Harrass the mentally ill! Kill the poor! Eat the rich!

Yay!!

DeVoid

21:01 / 22.07.03

This is more of an exercise in acceptance than masturbastion. In understanding that violence (or anger, rage, jealousy, disease, and so on...) is something that does not go away, I have choosen to indulge in just accepting that producing something of great compassion or love, seemingly produces the equal opposite reaction....great loathing or malicious behaviours.

Illuminate the parts of ourselves we do not really like (or others may not like) because for fuck's sake - it ain't going away!

Purity is for suckers.

As for my name Flux, that is precisely why I choose "Jack" - ambiguity, but with a hint. But, nice try at violating me...that was definately a mauve.

Ganesh

21:17 / 22.07.03

"Disease" doesn't go away?

As for anger, I (in keeping with the majority) sublimate the vast bulk of it into other, more 'acceptable' behaviours. Passive-aggression is the new purple.

DeVoid

12:27 / 23.07.03

Ganesh, I was refering to disease in general...not in a specific manner.

You know, once the human race gets a handle on one disease, there is always a deadlier virus mutating in the sidelines.

Passive Aggression? That, (unfortunately) is not how the rest of the world operates. Passive-aggression is how us civilized North Americans and Europeans handle their emotional difficulties. That is not to say it can't be a VERY brutal affair either.

Just a tad uptight, s'all.

Ganesh

14:29 / 23.07.03

Oh, I was referring to passive-aggression in general... not in a geographically-specific manner.

I agree there's nothing 'civilised' about passive-aggression; it's considered a psychogically unhealthy (if rather fashionable) way of dealing with one's anger. The (supposedly) 'healthy' option is sublimation - into competitive sport, physical exercise, 'tribal' hobbies, blah blah Freudcakes.

Sublimation would probably be a nice, delicate pink, possibly tending toward fuchsia.

Lurid Archive

21:37 / 23.07.03

More Mediterranean (Latin, if you prefer) ways of dealing with anger involve acknowledging the anger more explicitly and making it known. Shouting, lots of hand motions and rather colourful language feature prominently. Ultimately though, that becomes a form of sublimation due to it being so stylised. Sometimes it can be refreshing to have an honest bit of sneaky, two faced passive agression.

Still, thats a whole lot better than violence. Just cause something *is*, doesn't mean you have to accept it.

The Return Of Rothkoid

23:56 / 23.07.03

masturbastion
As in the last masturbastion of empire?

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