Learn From It: Lying Pieces of Filth

It starts with a choice. It starts with choosing to be entertained at the expense of being informed. It starts with appealing to the basest nature, because you're too lazy to create something, too frightened to act individually outside a crowd of the like-minded, too insecure to hold and defend an opinion that is your own.

It ends with lies.

Stolen identities; misrepresentation of others; shouting untruths long enough and loud enough to drown out other voices; hypocrisy; fraud; editorial abuse.

It all becomes a jumble, it seems. Honesty and truth—and, dare I offer, fact—are jokes, laughable anachronisms or elitist liberal heart-bleeding.

Gordon, one of the Dog's Knot Boys, won't address me directly, in email or otherwise, but he happily emails my boyfriend just to claim what a scum I am for 'stirring the pot' and making trouble for him. You'd think that lying was enough for Gordon, but no, he guns for hypocrisy and props to him for making that work. Where I was attempting to get this 'nunya' commenter to email me so that I was sure he wasn't just some random fuck posing as someone else—y'know, like Geoff and Gordon would do, where I was doing nothing but asking someone to own up to his own statements. Gordon tries like the dickens to make it appear like I was "bitchslapping" this person. Uhh, no Gordon.

On another website, when I stated to someone that since they weren't gay or weren't male (or either) they really didn't have solid ground on which to stand in judgment of my relationship, I get this:

Go ahead and call your lifetime fundamental relationship with another man anything you like. Martha wasn't JUDGING YOU, nor am I. She was merely INFORMING you that a "sexual" intimacy between two men (or two women) is immoral, and that it ISN'T really marriage. If the shoe fits…. That's not a personal judgment of you, merely an observation about a specific behavior. There IS a difference, whether you see it or not.

(The reason I put "sexual" in quote marks is that sex isn't just use (or abuse) of one's sexual organs. Sex, properly speaking, involves a man and a woman conjoining their respective and complementary sexual organs. But between two men…or two women…well, what can I say? Something just isn't quite…right. Something seems to be…missing. I expect you'll disagree vehemently. That's your right. Scream all you like. But it doesn't change anything.)

Whew! I'm glad I wasn't being judged or anything, Green Flash. Perhaps instead I should thank you (and Martha! Hi Martha!) for conveying a Sublime Truth to me that I failed to divine.

What comes of a world where self-responsibility is considered weakness and toeing the christian-company-line is 'strength'? What comes of a place where informing someone of fraud is called 'whining'?

I'm sure that Sam will end up getting email from Gordon, because he'll never contact me directly....no audience, no reason to speak, right? I'm sure that he'll photoshop some pictures again, call me any number of names. Hell, you might even end up seeing some of the obtuse apers of the Dog's Knot Mob clogging up the comments sections here, but hell, it was only a matter of time anyway.

Am I goading them? Yeah. Does it matter? No, because people like that find a way to stage a nutty in the presence or absence of reason.

Absence of Reason. Yeah, that has a ring to it.

These people are so close to the dangerous cliff, playing tug of war with the rest of us.

I swear to god[dess] I'm ready to just let go of the rope just to see if they scream as they fall.

Comments

How pathetic your life must be that you need Dogsnot as the center of it.

Posted by: Geoffrey | November 25, 2004 02:38 AM

I can always tell when your site traffic is down, your fat ass writes a long, boring, whine in an attempt to drum up hits.

How pathetic your life must be that you make dogsnot the center of it.

Seek help.

Posted by: Geoffrey | November 25, 2004 06:13 AM

Someday I'd like to come to your wedding Jeff- I'll bet you and Sam will look really handsome. One warning, I tend to cry at weddings so you better have a lot of tissues handy.

Posted by: homer | November 25, 2004 07:11 AM

"Quit your whining", Geoffrey. Oooh, and "Jesus, grow a spine, boy."

Posted by: GodOfBiscuits | November 25, 2004 07:12 AM

Hey sweetie, can you hear that sound? It's a porcine chorus. You're not just listening to the pig sing, you're listening to the whole damn choir.

For your sake, Sam's, and all the folks you love, put on the iPod and start listening to something you'd actually enjoy.

Posted by: Lee(Skittles) | November 25, 2004 07:53 AM

Interestingly, 'Geoffrey' comes to us from Pakistan, if the IP number is to be believed. This means that either it's not Geoffrey (and likely one of the idiot groupies) or Geoffrey is going to some effort to appear not himself.

Posted by: GodOfBiscuits | November 25, 2004 08:05 AM

yes, where center == "here's an example of small-minded gits misrepresenting others for petty sport."

Posted by: GodOfBiscuits | November 25, 2004 09:02 AM

Mission Accomplished: In two early morning hours, you just managed to triple the traffic and comments you've seen in a week.

You pull this desperate stunt about every two weeks, I can tell by the trackbacks we recieve.

Why is it you insist on not letting it go? Thanks thoguh, for proving again, my point about how you like to stir the pot.

At any rate, it's Thanksgiving and I have better shit to do than entertain one of Dog Snot's stalkers.

Regardless of this juvenile post and ensuing exchange, I still wish you and your family a Happy Thanksgiving.

Posted by: Gordon the Magnificent | November 25, 2004 09:07 AM

Geoff's in Pakistan, Gordon is in San Francisco and gives a fake email address.

All this while claiming to know not only my web traffic but my motives.

Curses to me, you've found me out. I linked to entry of yours almost 2 days after the fact, an entry where YOU lifted text from here. Such detective work.

No email from Gordon, just hypocrisy in 'not letting things go' two days after he misrepresents ME on his blog.

Oh, and Gordon? I can show you the traffic logs of your visits here almost daily.

This is all so perfectly illustrative that maybe folks out there should start accusing me of faking your posts.

Thanks for the corroboration! Right on cue, boys.

Posted by: GodOfBiscuits | November 25, 2004 09:39 AM

Like I said, have a happy thanksgiving.

Posted by: Gordon the Magnificent | November 25, 2004 09:58 AM

OMG you too! As long as we're all polite to each other's faces, all the bad stuff we do behind their backs is A-OK!

Posted by: GodOfBiscuits | November 25, 2004 10:58 AM

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Posted by: nunya | November 26, 2004 02:28 AM

Like the saying by pro-choice folks goes, "if you can't trust me with a choice, how can you trust me with a child?", this nunya guy seems to trust me that I won't alter any of the comments he makes on here disparaging other people yet is unable to trust me enough to privately email me.

So, I'm going to delete his comments, as I said I would.

Nunya is no different to Geoff and Gordon. No respect for identity, for truth or for self-responsibility.

The difference between you three and me, is that I not only stand behind what I write, I have a basic human respect for other people, even when you have none for anyone.

Posted by: GodOfBiscuits | November 26, 2004 02:46 AM

HAHAHAHAHAHA!

how pathetic your life must be that dogsnot is the center of it.

Posted by: Geoffrey | November 26, 2004 03:29 AM

That's why you keep coming over here and trying to convince people, huh, Geoff?

Keep repeating the same baseless stupidity over and over. It works for right-wing radio, see if it works here.

Posted by: GodOfBiscuits | November 26, 2004 03:31 AM

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Posted by: nunya | November 26, 2004 04:01 AM

Nunya just bitchslapped Gob!

Sweet!

Posted by: Gordon the Magnificent | November 26, 2004 05:09 AM