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Janis Joplin talks about rejection four days before she died in 1970 http://dangerousminds.net/comments/jani ... ed_in_1970" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
“In my insides, it really hurts if someone doesn’t like me. It’s silly.” Listen to Janis Joplin’s final interview—where she shows a more vulnerable side—with Howard Smith of The Village Voice on September 30, 1970. This was recorded just four days before Joplin died from a heroin overdose at the La…
Wow. Do you feel like that? I hope not. She let those who did not like her and how she was win...and get what she thought they wanted which was her gone. ...we forget what a different world it was for women coming out of the 60s. I also identify with that...coming out as TG or for Gays and lesbians same thing you face down those trying to keep you down..face down social norms. .society...the religious who see their self as holding the moral line AS THEY SEE IT and they believe their world would end if that line is breeched. So they are on that soapbox with that microphone in their hand and have their finger of oppression in the face of those they don't approve of...tough you are who you are..our book says people like you don't exist..and you don't according to our book here...you are just doing that...you are not really like that you are just choosing to do do that and can just stop. You can just go to our meetings and be what our book says is normal. Easy as flipping a light switch because people like you are just disgusting perverts and sinners...you are revolting against God's grand design...you are sinning...god made male and female and they are only attracted to each other and only fit in the roles god gave them. ...so..lot of haters out there if you challenge their concept of how things are. But they are not and those who don't fit are forced to hide...to suppress who they are inside to conform to a simplistic set of norms which state they do not exist. Joplin let them beat her and said fine...I'll eliminate myself then and do you a favor and clean it up for you I should not exist you say..I do so I'll take an overdose and take care of it for you...eliminate one of your problems out there...one down couple million to go. She was not willing to face society down, fight them and be an irritant working to force society to change it's arbitrary and unrealistic standards which are just flat out wrong. They've got it wrong through most of history. We are victims battered down...58 years for me to find my way clear of it. Then like Joplin we will still have to face down our accusers. Most people though do accept us but many not fully...I will have a very hard time finding a new woman. Even my wife only gave me partial acceptance...knew it was something I could not help...gave me some space but that was just tolerance for half of who I am as a whole. That hurt but she loved me in spite of it not ideal I accepted what I could get better than what anyone else would give far as I knew...now I will need someone who's fully accepting...understanding...attracted to all of who I am. I am not likely to find that but there are women out there.
You see there are religions made up by men all over the planet trying to explain what they never had the ability to understand...where did we come from..how...is there a reason or purpose for us? The cycle of life does not do it for them. They may very well be right in a sense there is an origin but If that was a thinking being...where the hell did it come from? No...some set of events just came together...there may or may not be a thinking presence...must there be? No. We will never know but all religions are made up by man. Hence there is no God laying down a will to follow...no such thing as sin therefore because there never was a being laing down rules to follow. Nope agnosticism...or cling to made up superstitions and ceremonies which are bogus. I choose to live by reason and confront reality logically as best I can using wits to survive and make the best of it. We can influence and minimize circumstances by anticipating by planning...preparing for and ride them out to optimize all outcomes or most in our favor by taking prudent actions. Responsible actions by thinking ahead and planning to weather whatever comes.
Ever see the Tempest (Shakespeare) with Helen Mirren? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eKrX3MzdFUI" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; Hum...we are the master of our fate we are the captain of our soul...the poem...Invictus (William Earnest Henley 1875).
If you surrender your freedom to become a slave to anyone or to any thing you are nolonger free but a slave dependent on the master who owns you...a made up false god...drugs...society...your own self erected limits...I can't. ...who we are - we cannot change our being but we are able to think and to act in our own best interest rationally logically we act in our own best interests..to be our best self...treating others well...living our lives to achieve our goals and to deal with all life brings our way. Who needs a fantasy made up being? Not me...I am free.
The consequences of my actions are my own fortunately as are my achievements most all of it has been very good...wonderful...I will in the end have lived and had a good life.
Stop following the herd, the herd collectively I'd a dumb animal following consensus off a cliff. I'm telling you....don't be a lemming church because it has always been...social norms it's just the way things are...many of the greatest followed their own drummer...so beat to your own drum.
“In my insides, it really hurts if someone doesn’t like me. It’s silly.” Listen to Janis Joplin’s final interview—where she shows a more vulnerable side—with Howard Smith of The Village Voice on September 30, 1970. This was recorded just four days before Joplin died from a heroin overdose at the La…
Wow. Do you feel like that? I hope not. She let those who did not like her and how she was win...and get what she thought they wanted which was her gone. ...we forget what a different world it was for women coming out of the 60s. I also identify with that...coming out as TG or for Gays and lesbians same thing you face down those trying to keep you down..face down social norms. .society...the religious who see their self as holding the moral line AS THEY SEE IT and they believe their world would end if that line is breeched. So they are on that soapbox with that microphone in their hand and have their finger of oppression in the face of those they don't approve of...tough you are who you are..our book says people like you don't exist..and you don't according to our book here...you are just doing that...you are not really like that you are just choosing to do do that and can just stop. You can just go to our meetings and be what our book says is normal. Easy as flipping a light switch because people like you are just disgusting perverts and sinners...you are revolting against God's grand design...you are sinning...god made male and female and they are only attracted to each other and only fit in the roles god gave them. ...so..lot of haters out there if you challenge their concept of how things are. But they are not and those who don't fit are forced to hide...to suppress who they are inside to conform to a simplistic set of norms which state they do not exist. Joplin let them beat her and said fine...I'll eliminate myself then and do you a favor and clean it up for you I should not exist you say..I do so I'll take an overdose and take care of it for you...eliminate one of your problems out there...one down couple million to go. She was not willing to face society down, fight them and be an irritant working to force society to change it's arbitrary and unrealistic standards which are just flat out wrong. They've got it wrong through most of history. We are victims battered down...58 years for me to find my way clear of it. Then like Joplin we will still have to face down our accusers. Most people though do accept us but many not fully...I will have a very hard time finding a new woman. Even my wife only gave me partial acceptance...knew it was something I could not help...gave me some space but that was just tolerance for half of who I am as a whole. That hurt but she loved me in spite of it not ideal I accepted what I could get better than what anyone else would give far as I knew...now I will need someone who's fully accepting...understanding...attracted to all of who I am. I am not likely to find that but there are women out there.
You see there are religions made up by men all over the planet trying to explain what they never had the ability to understand...where did we come from..how...is there a reason or purpose for us? The cycle of life does not do it for them. They may very well be right in a sense there is an origin but If that was a thinking being...where the hell did it come from? No...some set of events just came together...there may or may not be a thinking presence...must there be? No. We will never know but all religions are made up by man. Hence there is no God laying down a will to follow...no such thing as sin therefore because there never was a being laing down rules to follow. Nope agnosticism...or cling to made up superstitions and ceremonies which are bogus. I choose to live by reason and confront reality logically as best I can using wits to survive and make the best of it. We can influence and minimize circumstances by anticipating by planning...preparing for and ride them out to optimize all outcomes or most in our favor by taking prudent actions. Responsible actions by thinking ahead and planning to weather whatever comes.
Ever see the Tempest (Shakespeare) with Helen Mirren? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eKrX3MzdFUI" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; Hum...we are the master of our fate we are the captain of our soul...the poem...Invictus (William Earnest Henley 1875).
If you surrender your freedom to become a slave to anyone or to any thing you are nolonger free but a slave dependent on the master who owns you...a made up false god...drugs...society...your own self erected limits...I can't. ...who we are - we cannot change our being but we are able to think and to act in our own best interest rationally logically we act in our own best interests..to be our best self...treating others well...living our lives to achieve our goals and to deal with all life brings our way. Who needs a fantasy made up being? Not me...I am free.
The consequences of my actions are my own fortunately as are my achievements most all of it has been very good...wonderful...I will in the end have lived and had a good life.
Stop following the herd, the herd collectively I'd a dumb animal following consensus off a cliff. I'm telling you....don't be a lemming church because it has always been...social norms it's just the way things are...many of the greatest followed their own drummer...so beat to your own drum.