virus: In praise of the Almighty Hermit!

From: Kalkor (kalkor@kalkor.com)
Date: Sat Sep 21 2002 - 19:05:17 MDT


[Kalkor] Hoped the topic would get your attention, Joe. I will not assume
that you took it tongue-in-cheek as I intended, and I only mention this to
point out the fact so we can move on.

[Joe to Hermit]You are one sick, twisted, demented and sadistic fuckwad.

[Kalkor] I have personal experience to the contrary of only one of those
epithets. He may or may not be sick, twisted, demented, or a fuckwad... but
certainly he's not sadistic, at least in my experience. All the dictionaries
I glanced in defined Sadism as "The deriving of sexual gratification or the
tendency to derive sexual gratification from inflicting pain or emotional
abuse on others."

Hermit demonstrated great kindness toward me at a time when I needed it very
badly. I was drowning, basically. I can't think of another way to describe
it. I was panicked, flailing madly and bleating like a drowning kid. Hermit
arrived in a boat of rationality, slapped me to get my attention, then held
my head above water while saying loudly and distinctly to me 'you CAN swim,
you know'. Oh yeah, I forgot. I can ;-}

Since then I have been developing and refining, with much success, methods
for myself to identify and examine memes that I host. I have been paying
close attention to my actions as well, questioning their authority and
whether they come from my rational brain or the diseased rantings of someone
long dead. And I'm only getting warmed up. I am doing the butterfly stroke
now but pretty soon I'll be planing.

;-}

Thank you, Hermit. And thank you, fellow Virians for providing excellent
company in this ocean.

Kalkor



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