THE ROBERT W. WHITAKER ARCHIVE

Please trust me that I am staying on seminar substance in yanking Pain's chain because there are some important issues here for we BUGS participants.

The first issue couldn't be more important: Who among us is genuinely in the business of making sense? Now I am not one to focus that issue on others. I am too self-infatuated for that.

We respect to myself, the question of whether I am personally in the business of fundamentally making sense is a matter that occupies a great deal of my attention. This is not new to me. The subject has kept me occupied for years.

I long ago decided the issue is not resolvable. This is the Anglo-Saxon Moot, something in permanent controversy.

Because I have dealt with these types of issues (permanent controversies) for such a lengthy period of time I have mastered a coping strategy that has two basic parts to it: The first part is easy. I use a simple rule based approach. I take things ONE STEP AT A TIME. The second part of my coping strategy is proprietary. I am not going to share it.

The reason for that is that I have the real and actual answer to successfully coping with permanent controversy. Therefore, I possess skill in addressing the Anglo-Saxon Moot. That gives me power. And because it gives me power, it is Pain's fate to be dominated by me.

Now Pain is a very different person from myself. The issue of whether he personally is in the business of making fundamental sense occupies him very little. Unlike myself, he is absent flaws in this thinking and is always right, while I am in the plight of not being able to overcome my defects.

That is why I want Pain on my team. He knows that life is always going to give him the opportunity to tell his side of story and that evidence he presents (intentionally or unintentionally) is always going to be fairly evaluated. This is a premise of many participants in seminaries (not seminars) and is not unusual given that Pain is participating in a seminary (not a seminar)

But alas, again, I am different. And yes, Pain, I do hang with the niggers. In fact, I often find myself down at the projects alongside the moochers. Around them I can relax.

Here's why: Their lives are so miserable, challenging, harsh, and humiliating, not one second goes by where they are able to avoid being confronted with the issue of whether they personally are in the business of fundamentally making sense. That puts them on all fours with the reality of the earth they tread upon and accordingly they absorb power from it. I hang with them, relax, and freely partake of the power percolating from the ground beneath them. And even though I am white, the niggers like me a lot. That's because I am TUNED the same way they are.

I want Pain on my team. But Pain needs to understand that procedure is procedure and I am bound to take great care in my due diligence. That means, sorry Pain, I am going to have to run a criminal background check on you if you want to be on my team.

I just got to, that's all.

Bob,

It's not that big of a problem, but if you notice, you've lost control of your site. You have someone talking like a Dungeons and Dragons master, who, from what he says, literally believes he is about to become Dictator for Life -- <i>just by typing in comments on your blog.</i> He has been trying to start empty disputes with people here, and when they don't bite, he stomps around.

You could improve readership here with a little bit of discipline, but I think your "excessive affective concern," as lovable as that can make you, has caused you to overlook faults in others that can easily be dealt with.

Yes, Uncle Bob, you are lovable, but your attention is too much on your own conduct. So now someone (me) is telling you that sometimes you need to bitch &ndash; is that a first?

Remember, Christ whipped the moneychangers in the temple. He told the Pharisees their father was the Devil. Sometimes, when necessary, you have to call a spade a spade.

Before an army can fight with discipline, sometimes its soldiers need to be given an extra duty assignment. But when you have a private running around firing his weapon into the barracks ceiling, don't get upset when another private tries to stop him.

If you want a better audience here, do something for discipline. Maybe most times bitching is bad, but sometimes you have to do what you have to do.

&ndash; PFC Pain