new blog post - the venn diagram of where you're from and who you are
 

http://finitelifethenovel.wordpress....-calling-from/


@dead man @El Pancake @Certain @Diode @evil big baby @Zen @Witty Wonka @Split @Figurative @sraL @YDK @The Mind Assassin @Bags @Pinot Grij @Soulstice @NYCSPITZ @Orc @Vulgar @Sharp Nine

I liked the part about boxing people up and compartmentalizing yourself. Finding out which parts of yourself came from where, it kind of all falls under the theme that no one is original. I wish you'd expounded more on this process of sorting out your identity. People can put YOU in a box- oh yeah, that's the short kid that likes golf. Boom, identity masked. But they can also subsort. "Oh yeah, that's the short kid that likes golf... one of the most sarcastic people I know". That sort of compartmentalization always leads to a discussion of why, when, and how... like a quick character analysis of your friends. It's this projected image of ourselves we always seem to have on our minds, when we reflect on our own personality and identity. And we can never fully keep track of the soup of traits and characteristics our friends are tasting.

Thanks, @Split, that's an interesting offshoot for sure. Do you find yourself asking those kinds of questions about others in your personal life? Or do you tend to settle on the simplifications?

Cool.

lmao i figured this was gonna be a link to some survey or something so we could all do our own and some diagram would put it together

wrong.

When people change, I like to know why. Some change their whole personality in a month, some grow but stay the same person (best kind of growth), and some never change at all- for better or for worse.

I think people adapt to fully realize who they want to be, and I have nothing but respect for these people- unless they lose confidence and retract into who they were before. Those are the worst people.

But I can't judge too harshly as long as you're doing you.

Lol interactive blogging, coming soon.


@Split I see that, at least in terms of people who are close to me. I honestly could give two shits about jyoti pate from high school - it's always so much easier to typecast her as that weird goth kid who spoke elvish and loved simple plan. But that was my appeal, I suppose, to not take the complexities of others for granted based off of cosmetic definitions we assign, since we tend to buck those definitions ourselves (even when they're accurate).

i do not think I am going to read this, because the responses reek of intellectual elitist hipsterism.

carry on my wayward son...there will be peace when you are done.

I think you'll be pleasantly surprised if you do choose to read it. asks more questions than it attempts to answer, something you can surely appreciate.

maybe you hurt my ego by not choosing to @me? Did we consider that. Of course not dad. stop arguing with mom! leave her alone! I hate when yall fight! and that is why I turned to drugs in the first place. I am Walden.

But what if I wanna fit?

if you wanna fit, PUT SPIT


@zygote

Lord Zygote... where hast thou goneth?

I miss him. there was a robotic charm to his punctuality

I read this, oats.

I appreciate the time, truly. feel free to share thoughts/feedback if you would like.

You were a bit more streamlined and focused in this, and you brought things to a strong close. Thoughtful and well-done.

also read
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I agree with Certain. Nothing negative to say. I thought motherfuckin was out of place and jarred me a bit. Aside from that I liked it.

GOOD ON YOU OATSY

Appreciate it. Funny you mention that, I waffled a bit on saying it like that, chose to do so for the humor. I've heard mixed reviews on it, good to hear.

I like cheese.

I liked your original post and dislike this form of cowardice. Say what you think.

Open Mic posts are little more than that, anyway. We're not changing the world. We're thinking about it and hoping to expand our own horizons through those thoughts.

Say what you think lol I think all manner of things, and not saying them has nothing to do with cowardice. Criticism is good, but I didn't care for how it came off, mostly because I tried to be somewhat interesting as opposed to diplomatic or something like that.

K?

Sorry. Saying k was mean. I'm gonna edit it out. K?

Diplomacy is irrelevant here. We're all assholes.

Also, I mostly dislike cheese.

Yeah, I'm not that big a fan of cheese, either.

I disagree yet again. Our personas and personalities here influence all who come in contact with them and I'd prefer to promote good over interesting. Real over entertaining.

But entertaining often gets the best of me when I'm making sentences for people to look at.

Describe.

I'm confused. @dull boy I would genuinely appreciate any insight and feedback you have, regardless of how diplomatic it comes across as. I love cheese tbh.

Cheese is mere subterfuge at this point. He plays chess whilst you play checkers.

It's nothing. I said something that had little to do with your piece directly and was more about how we write to masturbate and I called your writing masturbation, which was overly harsh, and by saying that I don't mean you're too pussy to handle it, but that it was just more crass than I wanted to project. I'm laying in bed thinking about how nearly all new literature or anything we see really was generally made with a purpose of consumption. We have thoughts and ideas, which are best at inception, and only muddled by our attempts to feed them to others. I think maybe our packaging of ideas and thoughts take away from personal revelations that could build ourselves into better ideas of ourselves for those we directly impact. Our maybe that's just me and I'm projecting. I hate how the internet used to be a world that existed at a desk in a corner that only existed when you were at that desk, and now it's constantly in my pocket. Leave me alone, I need to sleep.

All of that is poorly constructed for public consumption. Half thoughts you'll only half get if you're in my brain. I mean, if someone has an eye on public review then the idea becomes one influenced by pride and all sorts of other nonsense. Whereas personal thought not concerned with anything is better and that giving our ideas to everyone only waters them down. There's too much of that these days. Too much in the sense that the balance is out of wack and I'm afraid of it's impact. I guess everything changes, tho, and this is the new normal and one day it will be old and some young kid from now will be talking then about how they're afraid of this or that and how it will impact yadayada.

Seriously. Stop. I need to sleep.

I'm gonna write a post about this. No joke. Not because it's ironic to do so, but those are thoughts I've grappled with before, since my ultimate ambition is to write fiction for a living. Hard to avoid that mental teeter totter of whether or not your writing loses value when you push for it to be read (inorganically, like posting links on a message board).

I appreciate and respect your thoughts. I don't want people to read my shit and say yay you're awesome good job. I want discussion sparked, thoughts provoked, etc. Crass or not (I tend to think not), your input is excellent.

fucking gone @ everybody ignoring v. This nigga is seriously stupid. "HES PLAYING CHESS AND U R PLAYING CHESCKERKS" stfu dude. Smart people are conversing,a nd you're just not that smart, v. dumb ass nigga.

http://www.iflscience.com/space/our-...s-map-and-name

The internet won't leave me alone.

I'm gonna write a story about it, so everyone can be like, 'yeah!' And they'll laugh 'cause it'll be funny, 'cause I'll talk to the internet like it's my wife in bed and she likes kicks me and shit or nags me about things wives nag Joe Blow guy I want to relate to me about. They'll be like, 'this guy has insight and I find his personality appealing' and then I'll become part of him and influence the people he influences sorta and it'll be all fucking life altering in some butterfly effect kinda deal. Shit yeah. Changing people. It's my life source. Be more like me 'cause I'm better than you, but only because I'm smarter and shit or something. Fuck.

dull boy, you sound a bit like Kurt Cobain. No one makes you share your music with the world. It's a choice. The hope is that the consumers, who must consume in order to be consumers, will relate and find meaning in your words. That's what oats attempted to do here, to put his own identity questions on the table for a further discussion or even internalized thought for those who read them. In doing so, he's opening up and getting that masturbatorial release but also allow others to see what they're missing.

Masturbating is healthy.

Yeah.

I'm not saying it to say he shouldn't do it, or that's not what my initial thought was before I started getting all entertainery. I was more talking about, and what I'm usually talking about, is whether or not it's good for us as a culture/society/species to more often than not have our thoughts being produced (by ourselves) into something for others to hear and understand. I know that's just basic communication, but sometimes I wonder about our language and how we need to learn telepathy or something, but not so much in that we can hear our each other's thoughts, because that's still language, but feel each other's feels... lol

I really just don't enjoy how we are. I think it's counter productive. Or maybe it isn't, and I'm just in the future. Or maybe I'm part of the productivity, naturally.

Mental illness be running rampant.

But is the exercise to convey our thoughts to the consumers or to enable the consumers to create their own thoughts?

I'm falling asleep. Maybe tomorrow.