vanity Ruby That vain boy, catching his reflection in the storefront window as he walks past. Oh, he loves what he sees. So do I. Sleep with me; you can pretend I'm you. 991229 ... Q "Vanity, thy name is 'woman'." So spaketh Shakespeare, incorrectly in two respects. First, surely not woman alone. Second, among "woman," the fraction your advisor has known well enough to make a judgment about their vainness and who are vain enough that on occasion that is a problem interfering with their and others' enjoyment of life is happily very small, and certainly no larger than the fraction so vain among the similarly situated of the other gender. Perhaps what Shakespeare meant was that women, when they are vain, are vainer on the average than men in that state. Still, your advisor's experience, such as it is, also does not support that position. Maybe Shakespeare was not a sexist pig and just needed a good line to arouse the women in his audiences? So good that they'd be aroused with such vengeance that they'd arouse the men too? For this view tere is historical support. He was heard to say once "The one here who has the right to be, alas the duty to be, VAIN is me! Me, mich, moi, my lonesome, myself, I. Not the queen - ah ha, there's a woman for ya! Is she in love yet? - not you, or you, or you, nope, just ME! Vanity, thy name is Shakespeare, William J. T. Shakespeare the First. "Truth be damned. "I'm not a tax collector, jury foreperson, webdesigner, oceanographer, chemist, physicist, mathematician, statistician, queen's consort, philosopher, lawyer - damn, they make me mad, kill 'em all - or any other kind of seeker of money, stars, power, knowledhge, truth, or an Earth thermally stable for the next 700,000 years. I'm just a pitiful playwright. "I'm here to write a play to steam the world. Tick 'em off. Wake 'em up. Get 'em at one another. Hell, yes, excite 'em! Get 'em to piss and moan together. For those purposes, the line works, and so we're usin' it." Copr. 2000 000116 ... Shar no one likes it and no one needs it. 000226 ... amy i was maybe watching tv the other day, Law and Order, i think. the cops were at the crime scene. for some reason somebody bellowed, "vanity, thy name is woman!" and then the female cop sneered, "it's frailty, you misogynist!" ha, ha. see, the Hamlet quote is frailty. nobody know where this vanity thing comes from... if i had to pick, maybe i'd pick vanity, dye my hair flaming red, and make long speeches on the benefits of egoism. maybe not. 000227 ... BoofPixie i'm vain. vainer than any other girl who can wear the same clothes for so many days in a row. this makes the third day. and i still look in the mirror--five minutes a pop--and adjust. 000310 ... miniver Blather is vanity of the mind. In fact, communication, itself, is vanity, these days. "I need food." "I need shelter." "Let's make babies." Aha. Substantial communication...possibly. Don't argue, damnit. 000411 ... miniver Vanity seems to outweigh the tug. Or that may just be idle obsession. Idle obsessions continues to weigh the most of all, in my case. 000412 ... dallas she calls my name and I try not to look. I want to look more than anything else I have ever wanted. But I don't. And does she notice? 000413 ... merimill you're right, blather is vanity of the mind. 000413 ... Free Man is but a drop in a boundless ocean. 000413 ... amy we win. LET'S ROCK! (cold carpet gang) 000413 ... lisa_is_bionic I don’t want it, I just want your eyes fixated on me. 000526 ... amorfus "Vanity of vanities, all is vanity" 000526 ... grendel my pronounced self-loathing is, in its own strange way, a form of vanity 000527 ... MollyGoLightly Grendel gets a gold star for that one.. 000527 ... WoNDERGIRL all we are is all we are 000528 ... Brad make that 2 gold stars for grendel 000528 ... lookatme you indeed must harbour a streak of vanity to have find yourself in this tangle of other peoples vanitys 010308 ... cynical preening bird vanity is not such a bad thing the fact that we are social creatures breeds vanity as a means of interaction what sad solitary creatures we would be without vanity. i tell you that i hate myself, i am still telling you about me if i tell a lover that i will do anything to make her happy it is because her presence makes me happy and is, therefore, still about me. all is vanity. even the humble, heroic types, behind their eyes are secretly getting off on the adulation 010309 ... nocturnal is a ridiculous, shallow thing, but no one can truly say they have none. 010309 ... p2 the smurf with the mirror 021231 ... Rhin if you could increase your I.Q. by forty points by having an ugly scar stretching from your mouth to your eye, would you do so? (the book of questions) 021231 ... p2 scars are cool chicks dig scars plus with the extra 40 points i'll learn me some do-it-yourself plastic surgery 021231 ... x i think i'd skip the proposition altogether. i'm starting to think that intelligence is directly related to depression. 021231 ... p2 ignorance_is_bliss? 021231 ... sixfingers im vain.. i know i look good.. those words flow through my head.. I'd fuck me.. checking myself out in the mirror does being vain make me a shallow person? no.. it's a part that makes me who i am... checking my refelction , Damn i look good 030104 ... ShilohLives the reson for my curiosity about if I'll ever have kids when I grow up.. hahaha..I'm sooo dumb. 030623 ... Dafremen I'm dumber...more vain and better looking. 030623 ... god i'm dumber. 030624 ... endless desire mirros consume. why don't you just waste away looking at your own reflection? i swear to you that it's lying. it's always lying. 031127 ... ... me 040112 ... meowzer ha! darling, i assure you that i am much more vain than you are. 040112 ... Alfred Profit is not vain. It is the most eloquent and pragmatic impulse. It's imperative cannot be judged by all you tortured souls here. Fragile flowers and all of that. Posh! Profit IS. 040112 ... mt define profit. 040112 ... Alfred We all have a sense of what profit is. I'll indulge your request for definition and clarification of terms. Pronunciation: 'prafit Matching Terms:   Proficience, proficiency, Proficient, proficiently, Proficuous, profile, profile drawing, Profiling, Profilist, profit and loss, profit and loss account, profit margin, profit sharing, profit taker, profitability, profitable, profitableness, profitably, profit-and-loss statement, profiteer, Profiting, profitless, profitlessly, profit-maximising, profit-maximizing, profits     Definition:   [n]  the advantageous quality of being beneficial [n]  the excess of revenues over outlays in a given period of time (including depreciation and other non-cash expenses) [v]  make a profit; gain money or materially; "The company has not profited from the merger" [v]  derive benefit from     Synonyms:   benefit, earnings, gain, lucre, net, net income, net profit, profits, turn a profit     Antonyms:   break even, lose, turn a loss     See Also:   account, accumulation, acquire, advantage, bring in, capitalise, capitalize, cash in on, clean up, cleanup, clear, dividend, earn, earning per share, gain, get, gross profit, gross profit margin, income, killing, line one's pockets, make, make a scoop, margin, markup, net, part, percentage, portion, profitability, profitableness, profiteer, pull in, pyramid, realise, realize, sack, sack up, scoop, share, take advantage, take in, turn a nice dime, turn a nice dollar, turn a nice penny, vantage, windfall profit     Webster's 1913 Dictionary     Definition:   \Pro"fit\, n. [F., fr. L. profectus advance, progress, profit, fr. profectum. See {Proficient}.] 1. Acquisition beyond expenditure; excess of value received for producing, keeping, or selling, over cost; hence, pecuniary gain in any transaction or occupation; emolument; as, a profit on the sale of goods. Let no man anticipate uncertain profits. --Rambler. 2. Accession of good; valuable results; useful consequences; benefit; avail; gain; as, an office of profit, This I speak for your own profit. --1 Cor. vii. 35. If you dare do yourself a profit and a right. --Shak. Syn: Benefit; avail; service; improvement; advancement; gain; emolument. \Prof"it\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Profited}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Profiting}.] [F. profiter. See {Profit}, n.] To be of service to; to be good to; to help on; to benefit; to advantage; to avail; to aid; as, truth profits all men. The word preached did not profit them. --Heb. iv. 2. It is a great means of profiting yourself, to copy diligently excellent pieces and beautiful designs. --Dryden. \Prof"it\, v. i. 1. To gain advantage; to make improvement; to improve; to gain; to advance. I profit not by thy talk. --Shak. 2. To be of use or advantage; to do or bring good. Riches profit not in the day of wrath. --Prov. xi.   There's something in Corintians as well. Rummage through any concordance if you still need clarification, although I suspect you don't need clarification you have your mind made up already what profit means to you. The old lawyers adage never ask a question you don't know the answer to already seems to apply. Enjoy. 040112 ... misstree i know what profit means to me. i want to know what profit means to *you.* how can i know what you mean by a statement such as "Profit is not vain. It is the most eloquent and pragmatic impulse. It's imperative cannot be judged by all you tortured souls here. Fragile flowers and all of that. Posh! Profit IS." and expect me to correctly interpret what you are attempting to say, when i know that your concept of profit is very likely different than mine. i'm betting that your Colorized Concept of the word profit is a bit more in depth than the dictionary, and not entirely composed of pronunciation and synonyms and atonyms. paint me a picture of profit, and i will fit it into your statement so that i may understand your words. 040112 ... Alfred I'm busy bathing in tepid equatorial water right now. My Malay boy friday is buffing my shoes. He was demoted from a police constable for delving into some of my more risque affairs. Profit. Profit is good. Profit is amoral. Profit doesn't have a conscience. Profit seeks it's own reward. Profit is so perfectly implacable. Profit is the piston that drives me ever forward. Proftit is the beating black heart of Corporate raison'd'tre. Profit. 040112 ... misstree what form do you seek profit in? money? power? if so, what kind? experiences? wisdom? what exactly is it that you Value? 040112 ... Alfred I have answered your request for clarification. Feel free to extrapolate. Profit in it's absolute pristine form, sheared of the "distraction" of whim, intuition, bias, and political amelioatives is a vital imperative, a high calling in that it represents the rubric, the goal of business. The goal of every honest, hardworking, awakened citizen. It is men/women who exploit and excavate human dignity. This is it's true voice, this is what you've been trying to hear, this is the aim of all your probes for clarification. To entertain voluptuous vision (not dream, for dreams are for the inactive, the corpulent laggard rocked to sleep in his hammock) is to seek the Everest of profit. Every action engaged to attain it. All are united by it, in some way or another. The lazy hand shapes every link in the chain that eventually indentures the dreamer tobecome the slave to another. The business person clothes his/her mind in the armor of it's rubric, shods the feet with the implacable truth. Build, produce, expand. Choice. 040112 ... zeke Ayn Rand? Is that you? I thought you were dead. 040112 ... Alfred Very, very astute. If I were asleep in the narcotic of Platonic pap I'd say Ayn Rand is one of the apostle's in the church of commerce. 040112 ... zeke Ayn Rand was a 19th century thinker. 040112 ... sorry meritocracy is a rich man's myth. it presupposes acess to the foot of the ladder. most people do not even have maps with the city the ladder is in marked on them. there is (and never will be) anything remotly like a level playing field. 040112 ... Alfred Her philophy intersects axiomatically with the precepts of businessthink. 040112 ... zeke Who are the other Apostles? 040112 ... Alfred Competition is neccessary. 040112 ... zeke It leaves details to the little people. 040112 ... zeke No, competition is inevitable, not necessary. 040112 ... zeke What are the precepts of businessthink? 040112 ... zeke i leave you to yourself. enjoy the fruits of your labor. 040112 ... zeke btw, say hi to bruce wayne and dick grayson for