Alright, I have two things on the agenda in my mind.

First, new thoughts about hypocrisy.....Alright, so I say I'm a pacifist right? But if some dude is wearing a sheet and burning a cross while insulting me old hetero lifemate, i'd turn the sheet red. i'm sure of it, dead friggin positive. if someone came after my nieces and nephews, my mother or sisters, my father or brothers, and i could stop it by hurting that other person, their down for the count. i know this. so am I a pacifist? or am I a hypocrite? or am I, as i've often stated, a realist.

So I do what I do too often, and look up the word in the dictionary. This is what I get: "1. The practice of professing beliefs, feelings, or virtues that one does not hold or possess; falseness. or 2. An act or instance of such falseness. "

So here I profess to be a pacifist. Which includes the beliefs that violence is wrong right? Now, how does one "hold or possess" a belief? I'm going to say that holding and possessing is NOT the same as action. Thus, we typically think hypocrites are people who act differently than they talk right? But in essence, does that necessarily have to be the case? Can one possess a belief and not act on it? Well, people sometimes act quite differently than they believe. A typical example is how people say things like "Oh, I shoudn't eat this triple chocolate cake" while they gorge themselves. The person in question definitly believes that eating in that manner will be unhealthy or bad for them, but they do it anyway right? So it seems to be that acting differntly than you believe is not hypocrisy. Hypocrisy is when one does not "hold or possess" the belief....as in, eating the chocolate cake...saying "oh i shouldn't" when one really believes they should. Now, notice how subjective this is.....what a piss and a half when hypocrite is such a good insult. Its subjective to the point of being almost unable to determine if another person is, in fact, a hypocrite. And, it blurs the distinction between a hypocrite and a liar. That is, the hypocrite is simply the liar who acts out the lie. Instead, the hypocrite must also be "professing" the belief. I am going to take this word to mean, more than a simple statement of what the beleif is, but a more persuasive statement and argument. To profess would mean to go beyond a simple statement.

THus, i can profess i'm a pacifist, and still be justified in saying that at certain situations, i would kick someones ass, provided i do, in fact, think that mya ction in kicking those peoples asses is wrong. Which I do.
So ha!
now, the other thing i have to mention, is i hate ties, their symbolic partial choking of the body, the fact that to wear one is to be wearing an instrument of tortue and restraint....god its a terrible society we live in where not only are people these corporate drones, but those corporate drones are wearing a symbol of their captivity and enslavement by the sytem they are feeding. i hate it when educators* are wearing this, when their purpose should be the freeing of anothers mind in order to allow that other to take in information. in short, i hate ties.

thats all for now folks

*-educators my also be read "babysitters"