blathercriticisms miniver This is the fruit. Blathercondemnation, blatherdisrespect, blathersneer, blatheradmonition, blatherdepreciation, blatherdisparagement, blatherblame, blathermeanness, blatherslapintheface, blatherpokeintheeyeball, blatherhardkicktotheshin. Harder to do, though. I don't know if I can do it (I'm Canadian). Self-criticisms don't count, either. Too easy. Too vain. They belong in blathervanity you sulky little twits. Oh, yes. 000903 ... miniver I have my own skeptical little ideas/judgements/arrogant conclusions about most of you 'regular' blathers. That's what I'm getting at, here, I guess. So, I'm considering just laying them out, here. But, this is a somewhat unnatural act, and I'm considering that too. It could be I want to experiment in honesty. It could be I want to experiment in honesty for less-than-honest reasons...and that might taint the experiment. It could be I'm experimenting in something else altogether, and I really need to consider the micro- and macro-universal ramifications. I can't believe that all of your little blatherminds are chocked full blathercompliments and lace, though. 000904 ... splinken sounds like a fun game. heh heh. here we go... 000904 ... klairchen I'm up to it if you are! Oh, yes! 000904 ... miniver Umm. "You're it!" Aha. I don't have to go first, do I? Erf... 000904 ... miniver Okay, I'm really going to do it, guys. Think what you will of me. Shun me. Or be oblivious; don't care; or just ignore my little blatherreality. No particular order, of course...and gimme some time, I'm seriously putting consideration into these (you can tell). The experiment begins. 000904 ... miniver klarchen/klairchen: Needy. Seeking comfort/praise/acknowledgement with every post, particularly from the male population of blather. Reminds me of those "Oh, I'm so fat!" girls back in junior high -- the ones who say it just to have people tell them they're not. Also, the cutesy-stuff seems forced, much of the time. 000904 ... miniver Schlieffen: I'm leaning toward compensatory-narcissistic. "Overtly narcissistic behaviors [that] derive from an underlying sense of insecurity and weakness rather than from genuine feelings of self-confidence and high self-esteem . . . has a tendency to exaggerate and boast . . . covers up a sense of inadequacy and deficiency with pseudo-arrogance and pseudo-grandiosity" (Millon) Irritatingly boastful, anyway (however it is to be explained). I've been reading up on personality types lately. He's not so bad lately, though. 000904 ... miniver Typhoid: Has anyone read Sartre's Nausea? It comments on the so-called "active" man. The man who decides he's going to make his life all about 'adventures', and 'consuming experiences'. In Nausea, the character Roquentin finds that 'there are no adventures'. "He bases this on the logic that adventures are stories, and 'one does not live a story.' It is an established act which acquires the defining meaning of adventure in terms of its conclusion; hence one is forced to live one's experiences only through the relating of an event, rather than through the very act of living it. Roquentin faces the disillusionment of the present: if one can only tell of life after having lived it, then one is forced to do one or the other: 'one can either live or tell; not both at once.'" (Hawa) Typhoids trying to be both, and I think he wants us to acknowledge the adventurousness that he proposes to have in his blathes. Somewhat pitiably understandable (from way up here on my strange and excessive pedestal, at least). The literate creativity does make the process much more subtle, though. Extra points for that, I suppose. 000904 ... miniver More arrogant assumptions of miniver coming soon on such blathers as: Molly/splinken, Amy, Q . . . Maybe more, if I find anything/anyone particularly irritating. Hohum. Hum. Hmm... 000904 ... klairchen Let he who is without sin cast the first stone. And that's all I have or will ever say about this previous post. Tsk, tsk. Oh yes, and sigh. 000904 ... ducky Oh yes, and hmnf. 000904 ... silentbob wow no one said anything about me 000904 ... ? Miniver, for the time it took you to type all of those posts, you could have done something useful, like water plants or organize a cutlery drawer. 000904 ... miniver Splinken: She's pretty straightforward. Well, there could have been something out of that whole "chatroom" thing. But, I think we each realized what the other was up to, maybe. Nothing consistently or definably irritable really showed up, there. Naturally, I remain suspicious until satisfactory blathercriticisms can be found. Amy: I wouldn't have had anything, really. Except for the love_and_power and respect_and_expression incident. Then I was, like, 'Whoa! Time to recalculate.' As we know, I have no problems with conflict, itself. But, I do seem to have issues with really blatant, and what seems to me unnecessary (whether or not I am cognizant of all the details), rudeness. I'm going to hold off on my final conclusion/assumption, though (well, none of these conclusions are really final)...so far it's just this one isolated incident. But, I am sensing a bit of a control-seeking tendancy. Q: Obviously likes to hear himself speak -- or, eh...watch himself type. Melodramatic. Sentimental. Romantically obsessive and/or clingy. Of course, as it goes with personality traits, these aren't necessarily bad things. But they seem a little too forced, as well -- saccharine, even. Mostly, I just don't appreciate emotional excess. Oh, and I forgot to mention upcoming Birdmad and Brad blathercriticisms. I've had opinions on those two for a while, now. 000904 ... the ghost of blather past Two men enter, one man leaves! His name was Robert Paulson. I wouldn't do that if I were you, there are a shortage of perfect breasts in the world. T'would be a pity to damage yours. I am Jack's cold sweat. 000905 ... Joana. It's wrong to judge someone without having met him or her fully... and I must say that it's nearly impossible to really get into the soul of someone through some silly blathes. So everything that miniver presumes of people is senseless and rather futile... and destructive criticism does not really get us anywhere. Anything can be said about me and whatever I display through here that it will never be the accurate analysis of my being... no one knows my past, present or future except maybe for Q [who, by the way, I must write soon ;-)]. Anyway, I'm back, since I abandoned this site about two weeks ago... it's nice to see how polemic this place still insists on being... it puts the neurons numbed by overload of emotions back into action ;-) 000905 ... fortwoitis there is suppose an entry from Joana here, but maybe it just hasn't shown up yet. Testy little machines these com-puters. 000905 ... fortwoitis there it is! 000905 ... miniver Your moralistic platitudes are an interestingly ridiculous phenomenon in their own right, Joanna (and, in fact, readily, I would include such behavior among my blathercriticisms -- or is that what I just did?), but thankfully, we do not live in a self-help-book reality, and they remain platitudes. If you’re defining “judgements” as forming any sort of opinion (whether good or bad) about anything – which certainly seems to be your definition --, then not only is it NOT “wrong to judge someone without having met him or her fully”, but it’s also exactly the way our minds work. If we had to compile all possible relevant information regarding anything or anyone about whom we wanted to make a judgement (syn. “FORM ANY OPINION”), no opinions would ever be formed. Now, if you’re defining “judgements” as forming some sort Christianized determination of which human beings shall be sent to heaven and which condemned to hell (or that sort of condemnation); although, I would disagree that you, as with any one individual, are to say what is absolutely right/wrong – I would venture to say that such flippant condemnation might be a little prejudiced and indeed not very fair at all. That being said, my blathercriticisms are not condemning anyone to anything. I like all the crazy blatherkids I am criticizing. But that hasn’t stopped me from forming my not-so-complimentary opinions about them. Nothing is going to stop me from forming my opinions – the ‘complimentary’ ones and the ‘not so complimentary’ ones...about everyone and everything and everything else. And neither am I going to try to repress and ignore them, nor pretend that they don’t exist. That’s what this little experiment was about in the first place, and, as with most of my little personality experiments, I’m glad for any/all results. But, I tell ya; be aware. “Blathercriticisms” are just what the name says they are. Read it. Read it again. The dictionary’s first definition of judgement is: “the formation of an opinion after consideration or deliberation.” And, with this in mind, I proudly acknowledge that I have formed such judgements – even, aha! without knowing those people whom I would judge. “It's nearly impossible to really get into the soul of someone through some silly blathes”. I’m not trying to get into anyone’s soul. (In fact, I add the notion of ethereal “souls” to your growing reportoire of platitudes...but that is quite another debate). I’m not aiming to condemn anyone’s “being” (as you put it). These aren’t yourentirebeingcriticisms, or lifecriticisms, or soulcriticisms. They’re blathercriticisms. Of course, one could argue the existence of a blathersoul, I suppose. Aha. This is still criticism, though, you are correct. I'm not so convinced it's as destructive as it first appears, however...which were the hypothesis here being tested, even as I type. I think that’s all, anyway. Hah. I love this stuff. 000905 ... the ghost of blather future all hail miniver! 000905 ... miniver Birdmad: Similar to Typhoid in the need to convince us of his adventurousness. I am of the opinion that Birdmad's stories consist of much more fabrication, however. Or, if not outright fabrication, just really cloying exaggeration and indirectly (perhaps inadvertently) self-serving idealization. Also, VERY obviously needing to belong -- moreso than Klairchen, even, I think. I'd say a Dependant pathological inclination: "has difficulty making everyday decisions without an excessive amount of advice and reassurance from others . . . goes to excessive lengths to obtain nurturance and support from others". 000905 ... silentbob fortwoitis: see blatherheadache Miniver: while i think it is quasi appropriate to have the antithisis (sp?) of blather_compliments, as long as there IS a blather_compliments you can't have just one thing, i wonder if you arent taking this just a bit too far. while criticism is important in everyday life, you can't always be recieving good news, etc...i think what this is, is just outright blatherbashing. you're just maliciously hurting people. and here is my blathercriticism for you: having never met you in real life i say you are the kind of person who needs to put down other people to make himself feel better about himself. there. it may not be true, thats just how it seems to me. so how do you feel? 000905 ... middle finger mad i'll_pick_my_own_scabs_thank_you_very_much 000905 ... miniver Brad: Actually, I guess the only thing I really had in mind was the whole music-snob thing. Offensive self-satisfied superiority. But, he's actually pretty openly recognized and admitted to that quality. So, I dunno, that stops me from really have too much of a problem, there. 000906 ... jennifer ummm? 000906 ... miniver I think that's it. Those are the people that sorta stood out in my mind, mmhmm -- for many reasons. (Oh, my!) 000906 ... miniver Yeah, bob. I've been thinking about the 'meanness' aspect, too. I'm wondering if I'm not doing this just to be mean, for some reason. That's sorta what I meant when I was considering whether this so-called "honesty experiment" was for "less than honest reasons". I am sure there exists a much more appropriate, thought-out, considerate, and less contrived way of performing this experiment. But, nah, it didn't really make me feel good -- not the whole 'putting-down' part. But, the pushing forward and experimenting part, definitely -- even if just a mechanistic, self-deluded, self-righteous contrivance. Nope. No, I don't think I'm really particularly malicious. I'd probably be prepared to experiment in maliciousness, though, if that says anything... 000907 ... The Schleiffen Man maliciousness, criticism The Jedi crave not these things 000907 ... Q okay, i won't bring up the Nazi doctors who were really into experimenting with people 000907 ... Brad I actually think that was rather fun. I must say I was surprised my transgressions were so minor! 000907 ... The Schleiffen Man I'm not surprised at all that I was seen that way. But I'm sure she'd change her mind if she really knew me *wink to splinken* 000908 ... miniver I sorta ran out of energy by the time I got to you, Brad, I think. I feel bad about that. I could rant alot more about the self-aggrandizing obtuseness of your musical elitism. I could argue about the subjectivity -- or maybe relativity, if I had even more energy -- of the proposition of definable musical (or just generally 'artistic') 'genious'. Or, without even getting into those particular abstractions, I could just argue about the obvious and sensible value of