tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10755833.post6663544834909724904..comments2024-01-17T15:05:50.120-06:00Comments on AngryBlackBitch: A pondering...Shark-Fuhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03323962708956637012noreply@blogger.comBlogger32125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10755833.post-32953341817778042012008-05-05T19:48:00.000-05:002008-05-05T19:48:00.000-05:00I'm writing from LA were everyone is into "The Sec...I'm writing from LA were everyone is into "The Secret" and the americanized version of Karma, which sounds really great when you are talking about parking spaces, but not so good when you apply to rape, genocide, natural disasters, etc. <BR/>Didn't you know, people without clean water are just not putting that positivity into the universe...sigh.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10755833.post-69928118278413576242008-05-04T22:15:00.000-05:002008-05-04T22:15:00.000-05:00If you'd'a throttled Miss Sunshine, and I was on t...If you'd'a throttled Miss Sunshine, and I was on the jury, I'd hang the damn thing if I coudn't get you acquitted. Good <I>Maude</I> does that happy crappy bullshit piss me off. I famously lost it on one of my mother's friends when she (1) chalked up the fact that my daughter's father fell down the meth hole to some "past life" shit he owed me for, and (2) my negativity about the matter (after she brought the subject up) was an affront to her spiritual beliefs and endangering her health (in my house. my house! y'know, the one <B>I pay for, whose door her ass can or cannot hit on the way out when she leaves</B> if she doesn't like it). <BR/><BR/>Ahem.<BR/><BR/>After my daughter got out of the NICU (both NICUs; she spent some time at Cardinal Glennon also!), I heard that a lot---how she "made it" because of prayers, or faith, or whatever. Frankly, it was pure grace. A gift. Those poor parents who buried their babies didn't bury them for a lack of prayers, lemme tellya. <BR/><BR/>Gaah. I start thinking eeevil thoughts around the "you picked your poison, now drink up" types. Something about needing a triple-shot of their own bad medicine.La Lubuhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17237426607765838365noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10755833.post-61890696256954734572008-05-02T16:31:00.000-05:002008-05-02T16:31:00.000-05:00Reading you is like listening to the rants in my o...Reading you is like listening to the rants in my own head.<BR/><BR/>I love it--you cut to the heart of something in a way that people cannot miss.Paigehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01552625379617724485noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10755833.post-77267300914575623682008-04-29T16:48:00.000-05:002008-04-29T16:48:00.000-05:00Kudos to your patience on this one. I'm sure the ...Kudos to your patience on this one. I'm sure the allergies in St. Louis are just as bad as they are in DC this time of year. For some people there's no escaping it, and it is certainly real.<BR/><BR/>I woulda made Mr. Sunshine snort a line of cherry blossom pollen to see if his opinions on allergies remained the same...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10755833.post-9144347616712583762008-04-29T15:10:00.000-05:002008-04-29T15:10:00.000-05:00I am copying and pasting this whole post into my b...I am copying and pasting this whole post into my blog. You rock on witcha bad self, ABB.Smarter Than the Average Cathttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08689395592472599170noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10755833.post-20669587335320688962008-04-29T14:02:00.000-05:002008-04-29T14:02:00.000-05:00EXCELLENT POINT.EXCELLENT POINT.Lethalhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09188159316677368502noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10755833.post-46093968672165807022008-04-29T08:25:00.000-05:002008-04-29T08:25:00.000-05:00i hate when people say that!what really really kil...i hate when people say that!<BR/>what really really kills me is when you hear on the news that they saved a little girl, rescued her from the kidnapper, and "god wanted her to live" what kind of shit is that? so all of the other little girls who were raped and killed, what of them? God didn't care about them? How's about God isnt a kidnapper, and didn't make the decision in the first place?<BR/><BR/>or like when they showed the follow up to that crazy story last year about the two girls who were mixed up in the car crash and one fam though their daughter was dead but she was really in intensive care being nursed by the dead girl's family. the one who lived goes on tv and says right in front of the other girls family "god chose me to live" "i feel honored that god chose me" you could see the pain on the other family's face. it was horrible of her to say she was somehow more valuable than the other girl.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10755833.post-54683577862315821682008-04-28T11:22:00.000-05:002008-04-28T11:22:00.000-05:00Oh argh! I've known people like that! Wretched!I h...Oh argh! I've known people like that! Wretched!<BR/><BR/>I have often wanted to respond to these people by smacking them upside the head and then saying, "apparently, you choose to get yourself hit today."<BR/><BR/>What with espousing nonviolence and all, I never actually do it, but the temptation... oh lord the temptation!Phoebe Fayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10425002459681921692noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10755833.post-20565987653638352352008-04-28T10:17:00.001-05:002008-04-28T10:17:00.001-05:00*Sneezecough* Help me recall - which of the new a...*Sneezecough* Help me recall - which of the new age Self-help books was this Sunshine Monger quoting (spewing) from? It was on Oprah... if you're poor it has nothing to do with your financial circumstances and everything to do with your attitude? If you're sick it's because you want to be? Too new-age-y for the Christian Presses, but close. Nuts - I'm going to have to google it and then block it from my memory again.<BR/><BR/>CERTAINLY attitude is everything; some people do malinger or whine when they're not really sick (sorry guys, but most of you are babies when you come down with so much as the sniffles...) money does not buy happiness, we carry the crosses we can bear, yadda yadda yadda but anybody tries to tell me someone has a disease because they aren't "good enough" or are paying for sins past is going to get a fist right to the nose and an innocent "Oh sorry, the Devil made me do it."Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10755833.post-22442637925225310982008-04-28T10:17:00.000-05:002008-04-28T10:17:00.000-05:00*Sneezecough* Help me recall - which of the new a...*Sneezecough* Help me recall - which of the new age Self-help books was this Sunshine Monger quoting (spewing) from? It was on Oprah... if you're poor it has nothing to do with your financial circumstances and everything to do with your attitude? If you're sick it's because you want to be? Too new-age-y for the Christian Presses, but close. Nuts - I'm going to have to google it and then block it from my memory again.<BR/><BR/>CERTAINLY attitude is everything; some people do malinger or whine when they're not really sick (sorry guys, but most of you are babies when you come down with so much as the sniffles...) money does not buy happiness, we carry the crosses we can bear, yadda yadda yadda but anybody tries to tell me someone has a disease because they aren't "good enough" or are paying for sins past is going to get a fist right to the nose and an innocent "Oh sorry, the Devil made me do it."Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10755833.post-87054447634430217642008-04-28T01:04:00.000-05:002008-04-28T01:04:00.000-05:00As someone who kinda believes in karma, it always ...As someone who kinda believes in karma, it always causes me dismay when people get it so wrong, and particularly when they use it to justify or minimize others' oppression and suffering, or their own acting like a jerk.<BR/><BR/>As far as any major religious tradition is concerned, karma is not a system of punishment and reward. Just cause and effect. It's not some mystical force that makes everything right and fair. Anyone who really understands Buddhism or Hinduism would tell you that.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10755833.post-32284120353588623372008-04-27T16:11:00.000-05:002008-04-27T16:11:00.000-05:00Angry Black Bitch, this was amazingly wonderful!I ...Angry Black Bitch, <BR/><BR/>this was amazingly wonderful!<BR/><BR/>I am so sick and fucking tired of being told that it is all in my head or that if I would just.<BR/><BR/>whether it be horrible pain from a debilitating disease, <BR/><BR/>or that i should just "cheer up"<BR/><BR/>or that privilege is made up and that if I could find a way to admit that I would be "free".<BR/><BR/>I don't comment here as much as I should, but when I do, it really brings me home.<BR/><BR/>Thank-you.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10755833.post-42874658700833640022008-04-27T15:44:00.000-05:002008-04-27T15:44:00.000-05:00Real bitch of blog. Thanks for keeping it real! ...Real bitch of blog. Thanks for keeping it real! <BR/><BR/>Peace!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10755833.post-13591983046569809772008-04-26T23:36:00.000-05:002008-04-26T23:36:00.000-05:00Right on. I agree on all points but one. I don't...Right on. I agree on all points but one. I don't believe in evil. Yeah, obviously there have been infinate instances of inexpressable horrors perpetrated.<BR/>But I prefer to (when pressed) call it sick. I just don't believe that people are inherantly good or EVIL. We're all just people who, based on our knowledge or lack thereof, make choices that affect the world. To my mind it's a healthy thing to try to relate to others with compassion and empathy, while it's SICK to judge people superficially, or condemn them without even attempting to understand what their experience has been, or is etc.,.. I guess you could argue that it's a semantical argument, but the word we use matter. They're powerful. And to use the word Evil, particularly, I feel only serves to empower a divisive, war-mongering, antiquated and outmoded belief system.Twuppethttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02620650886720418054noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10755833.post-40567196900615866252008-04-26T19:41:00.000-05:002008-04-26T19:41:00.000-05:00These "positive" people are probably also the ones...These "positive" people are probably also the ones who think they've earned every scrap of privilege they have on their lonesome. I'd like to swap immune systems with them. Let them feel what it's like when your body decides that peanut butter is a deadly toxin...<BR/><BR/>betmo said:<BR/>"i have two words- neti pot. for the sinuses. trust me- warm salt water washing through your sinuses brings almost instant relief."<BR/>I have a neti pot, but I've never been able to get the saline to washing through my sinuses. Any tips?jsb16https://www.blogger.com/profile/15026570673498674977noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10755833.post-81657501976109676272008-04-26T12:26:00.000-05:002008-04-26T12:26:00.000-05:00There's still a lot of the by-your-own-bootstrap T...There's still a lot of the by-your-own-bootstrap TRUEBELIEVERS that think all sorts of things, especially mental illnesses are choices . "Just get over it " Bad brain chemistry doesn't exist . <BR/><BR/>( I'm thinking depression, bipolar etc, as examples . I'm not referring to autism and your brother. I know that's a whole 'nother thing .)<BR/><BR/> The just don't realize that they were lucky , along with possibly being "good" somehow . They can't understand how everybody else might not be so lucky . Life can turn on so many (seemingly)little <BR/>things. <I>This</I> instead of <I>that</I> , and it's completely different thereafter . <BR/><BR/>Btw, allergies do suck . I'm stuffed up from now 'til hard frost . Blahhh!mikeinportchttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15715452117340910081noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10755833.post-14151777852541210902008-04-26T11:36:00.000-05:002008-04-26T11:36:00.000-05:00Honestly, my mind still reels when I think about t...Honestly, my mind still reels when I think about that "conversation." The one thing I wonder, though, is: if I had given into my urge to shove her disagreeable ass down the stairs, once she reached the bottom, would she still have been of the opinion that we bring these consequences into our own lives? Somehow, I doubt it.Jeffrey Rickerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04092417221754047322noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10755833.post-4119490822968258572008-04-26T10:06:00.000-05:002008-04-26T10:06:00.000-05:00I've been hearing that about allergies more and mo...I've been hearing that about allergies more and more. I blame acupuncture and chiropraction-whatthefuckever. People think you can cure your allergies by poking yourself with needles and popping your back, and they're going to conclude that it's all in your head. I mean, I blame that in part, along with larger trends you point to.Amanda Marcottehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05098500818240791320noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10755833.post-27108208854259067632008-04-25T23:37:00.000-05:002008-04-25T23:37:00.000-05:00Right said, well said. I like to think of karma ru...Right said, well said. I like to think of karma running over certain people's dogma, but that "previous life" crap rankles as much as any other superstition, or, excuse me, "religion." It just inspires people to do nothing but sit around being uninspired.macon dhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07795547197817128339noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10755833.post-57698771290358035402008-04-25T22:56:00.000-05:002008-04-25T22:56:00.000-05:00Yep. Some people don't believe shit stink even if...Yep. Some people don't believe shit stink even if they're up to their necks in it.<BR/><BR/>And another thing, while we're talking about belief: I've had it up to my braids with people jacking other folks' traditions without first learning about, honoring and experiencing said traditions they just jacked. <BR/><BR/>This one time, I was at a beach party at one of the Great Lakes. Some skinny, shirtless paleface (with a ponytail and faux Lakota tattoo) was running up and down the beach, scooping up sand and mud and sticks and shit and putting it in a pile. I watched first with curiosity and then alarm, as it was late afternoon on a Midwestern July day with about 200% humidity and dude looked he was about to spontaneously combust. I asked him what he was doing and he said, "I'm building a sweat lodge." I noted that he was already sweating profusely so I'm all like, "Why?" And he says, "So that we can have a sweat and commune with the ancestors." <BR/><BR/>Because, you know, his Luthern great grandmother is gonna show up at some duffus-ass sweat lodge.<BR/><BR/>That shit pisses me off.girl6https://www.blogger.com/profile/03281929585006049455noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10755833.post-53360108203559360092008-04-25T21:18:00.000-05:002008-04-25T21:18:00.000-05:00Long-time lurker here. Dear Bitch, how can I learn...Long-time lurker here. Dear Bitch, how can I learn to be more like you? You actually seem to think before you react. I react (usually with a truckload of anger) and think "oops" later, and then try to recover.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10755833.post-59326973534266358702008-04-25T19:53:00.000-05:002008-04-25T19:53:00.000-05:00Thanks for this lovely posting. Sort of reminded ...Thanks for this lovely posting. Sort of reminded me of my mother who when I would tell her about some or other plight would say I need to be positive, i.e. whatever negative happened to me is as a result of having been less than positive. I am responsible for the shit that happens to me in other words. Do you believe in that too? I don't. Shit happens period.arhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03621262581943982915noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10755833.post-31510147167055119072008-04-25T19:31:00.000-05:002008-04-25T19:31:00.000-05:00When did we choose the illnesses we have...oh yes,...When did we choose the illnesses we have...oh yes, the evil of our past lives? I once was told that if we 'do evil' in this life we have to keep coming back until we get it right. Didn't know that meant the illness comes with us??? Do u think Miss Sunshine was just batting mouth to stir u up by any chance..the mind game???Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10755833.post-43993473642650488432008-04-25T19:21:00.001-05:002008-04-25T19:21:00.001-05:00Amen to all of the above. We have to believe that ...Amen to all of the above. We have to believe that saner minds will prevail.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10755833.post-12866412770939291012008-04-25T19:21:00.000-05:002008-04-25T19:21:00.000-05:00This bitch would make the bull trample the person ...This bitch would make the bull trample the person standing around telling you to Think Positively on the way back to the pasture. <BR/><BR/>The fact that you wouldn't suggests that you're less a bitch than a motherfucking saint. (And I love that your mom called everyone she knew to tear that pastor down. Awesome.)bitchphdhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15118578280520171800noreply@blogger.com