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CLINIC

PATIENT

DIAGNOSTIC

Patient refers to it as stargate-one-one

A Cajoler.3

Nagging.4

 

TOOLSET

INFORMAL FALLACY

 

—Getting sophisticated.

—So foolish.

—Very common.

Wicked, huh?

Moxie's

Disease

 

Intrusive Posturing — They're totally directed by the shadow play they see around them - They're not directed by inner illumination - A quick and easy way to get out of an emotional jam: Don't fit in. You have to be able to be a kid in the midst of assholes.

 

NOTES TO MYSELF

PSYCHOLOGICAL AGE

CLASS

[glib posturing] - They're wipeout specialists - Great people! - "What are you doing? Get a job!" - Tell the little part of you you're going to wipe out the people who are attacking you - Do it yourself; you can't depend on anything else - They're wicked, and it's worse! - They don't even know it - They want to live large - These people, inventing or misusing the past, care more about their own feelings than anything in reality - What's the meaning? - Keep all the people frightened and they'll do what you say - Brain fog: Being crabby and cranky.

The Age of Domination, ages 0-3

Rules

 

 
 
 
 
 

Exactly what someone said [or did]
... usually not very original.

The thoughts of a "bad child"
... to free your mind again.

ATTACKS

BRIDGE

SILENT BACKUP

"Do you want his home phone number?" [Donald Duck voice]

—So foolish.

—So cute! – It all comes back to you – When are you going to learn to talk right? – The front is like fancy, and the rest is a block of ice!

[Someone mimicking you blinking your eyes]

—So foolish.

—You don't have to overdo it ... Just so you saw it.

[Someone mimicking you scratching your chin]

—So foolish.

—Including your own ... They have a new edition of The Great Gatsby out.

"You're cured."

—Wicked, huh?

—Are you bad when you don't know things?

"Uggh!" [Catching a whiff of a surprising body odor]

—Very common.

—It's really shocking how many people are mean and sadistic. [See, "From Someone Who Smells."]

"Yuck!" [Catching a whiff of a psychological secret]

—Wicked, huh?

—That part of you is alive.

"They say she's lost her looks."

—So foolish.

—I wonder if they're that dumb.

"If you move to Seattle and I move to New York, we can get together if you don't find someone else."

—Wicked, huh?

—I know, I know! That's life!

"Looks like a snake." [Your rawhide bracelet]

—Very common.

—Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.

[Someone tailgating you at a high speed]

—So foolish.

—There are a million ways a baby can react when they don't get milk.

"How does a burrito sound to you?"

—Very common.

—Hey, we're not on a cruise ship.

"You smell go-ood!" [Two guys carrying on in front of their dates]

—Getting sophisticated.

—That's obvious.

"Don't smell it." [The seat cushion]

—So foolish.

—Who does?

"What is that smell?"

—Very common.

—One ugly thing after another.

"Run, Toto!" [Mickey Mouse voice]

—Getting sophisticated.

—It's just another friend.

"Those dogs are ready to go!"

—Wicked, huh?

—Sharp.

"He needs a leash and the other one doesn't?"

—Wicked, huh?

—Rufus, you old rascal! While you're at it, bring me a mint julep out on the veranda.

"So, are you almost ready to use the shovel?"

—So foolish.

—It's a match made in heaven.

"Ready to go?"

—Getting sophisticated.

—Better sooner than later.

"I'm prepared for anything, Richard."

—Wicked, huh?

—Ice and all.

"He's so ugly, bless his heart!"

—So foolish.

—Everything he sees now will be part of his mind.

"U.G.L.Y. — You Ain't Got No Alibi."

—So foolish.

—Even before that.

"Hey, Lindsy, why don't you come and sit on my lap?"

—Very common.

—I think you ought to get a helmet with horns.

["Why did you ask me to move?"] "I wanted to make a U-turn." [They honk, and even when you move to a nearby parking space away from the driveway you thought you were blocking, they honk again, because all they wanted to do was make a U-turn to grab the parking space – Essentially, no matter what you do, you're in their way]

—Very common.

—You have a friend?

"You've got ugly you'll never use."

—So foolish.

—If you had shit on your face, you'd be pretty.

"I'm looking for a guy with a job and no hang-ups."

—Very common.

—I still am very naive about certain things.

"As long as he doesn't get laid off – His job is at the pleasure of the Governor."

—So foolish.

—That might miss the larger reality.

"Check your skirt at the door."

—Getting sophisticated.

—Dress is optional.

"The sun's come out ... I wish I'd brought shorts ... although I bet you guys are glad I didn't bring shorts." [Also see Self-attack]

—So foolish.

—Let's not get diagnostic yet ... People don't like to be told how they feel.

"It's better to be dead than ugly."

—So foolish.

—You've been talking to a teenage girl.

"Are we that ugly? — He's hiding."

—Wicked, huh?

—That's not fair — I wouldn't worry about it.

"I look ugly."

—So foolish.

—LOUSY TIP!

"You're ugly."

—So foolish.

—From your lips to God's ear.

[Someone mocking or pointing at your spouse, who's overweight]

—So foolish.

—Everything reflects on you.

"I am just curious to know which nightclub she's from."

—So foolish.

[See Icarus and the Gutter Snipe]

"Le' poo poo on you Andee. Big globs of poo poo for you you. Mmmm. Poo poo. You like poo poo. Taxi1010!!! Poo poo! Woo hoo!"

—Getting sophisticated.

—Just get a scoop.

[Tongue stuck out]

—Getting sophisticated.

—I don't think you have to do that.

"I am what you name me."

—Getting sophisticated.

—Look at the little angel.

"What's your name?"

—Getting sophisticated.

—Which one?

"What's your first name?"

—Very common.

—Hydrogen.

"What's your last name?"

—So foolish.

—Hydrogen. You must be Helium.

"What's your middle name?"

—Very common.

—H.

"What's her name?" [Your daughter's]

—Wicked, huh?

—Same thing.

"What's your phone number?"

—Getting sophisticated.

—It's in the phone book.

"Well, what's your name?"

—Very common.

—That's in the phone book, too.

"You can go to any college you want, except Harvard – I'm not paying for Harvard."

—Very common.

—What's in it for me? – Does that make you happy?

"I like you best when you're asleep."

—Very common.

—I have to eat – I'm getting older.

"So what's your name?"

—Very common.

—I don't even think I had a name – I'll have to look at my birth certificate.

"Well, then, what's your name?"

—Getting sophisticated.

—Sorry — I left my identity at home.

"Inevitable drip."

—Wicked, huh?

—It was perfect timing, but backwards.

"Do I have a name, man?"

—Wicked, huh?

—Now what are you going to do?

"You don't know my name."

—Getting sophisticated.

—People don't want anyone to be what they really are.

"Well! She has a name! Maureen."

—Wicked, huh?

—You know, there's people who prey on people who don't.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 
 

REFLECTIONS

 
 
 
 
 

19-SEP-1999.

BEWARE: GOOD MANNERS
can turn HEALTHY, HONEST
CHILDREN into VICTIMS

Our minds are vast, and the unconscious parts of our bodies can learn and grow. Unfortunately, fragmented muscular tensions host thousands of unresolved insults which persist embedded in the flesh like ticks. As we move though life like trained dogs, we generally don't feel them, but woe to the person who scratches! Anger and confusion and eyes getting a bit blurry? A rose for the sleepy ------<----@

 
 
 

A person can learn precise ways of responding to insults much as children spend the better part of a year mastering the art of "Thank you," "You're welcome," "Excuse me," and "I'm sorry," though good manners lead to a kind of slavery: Staying subservient, remaining cool, or being good. But do mean people deserve our good manners? Let's try to be bad. What will happen? We can lose our job, become generally undesirable, unlikable, and desolate. Not wonderful. Is there another way? Perhaps we can raise just enough tension at the precise moment an insult begins to safely brush it aside. That is, we can defend ourselves. Polite people are afraid to defend themselves because they never learned how to raise tension without magnifying hostilities. There's a lot to be said for avoiding a fight. It reduces stress, conserves energy, and helps calm everybody down. However, it also leads to a nation of stooges who follow orders with no choice.

We have an incomplete education. Our parents, teachers, and older siblings were concerned first with our not being an embarrassment, and maybe not at all with our individuality, happiness, and self-understanding. They didn't want omnipotent one-year-old angels or rampaging two-year-old defenders of honesty, so they helped us bury ourselves alive. That's the horror of the situation.


19-SEP-1999.

On Beauty

In old Russia, a beautiful peasant girl picked
wild flowers by a country road.

She heard the hoofbeats of distant horses.

When the Czar's knights rode by,
they saw the ugliest crone they had ever seen,
hunched over a basket of flowers.

 
 
 

As hoofbeats faded,
her coarse beauty transmuted into glory once again.

 
 
 

19-DEC-2007.

 

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CODE WORDS: asleep, burrito, cured, Governor, hang-ups, Harvard, inevitable, laid, lap, looks, [mimicking], [mocking], name, nightclub, number, needs, poo poo, prepared, ready, run, Seattle, shorts, skirt, smell, [tailgating], taxi1010, [tongue], U.G.L.Y., ugly, U-turn, uggh, yuck

 

XI
Camelopardus
"Giraffe"

—Getting sophisticated.