The World of Layonara
The Layonara Community => Just for Fun => Topic started by: lonnarin on June 09, 2005, 06:22:00 PM
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mwahahah! My Psychology of Aging professor just read one of my posts over my shoulder in the research lab and laughed, saying I was way too young yet to be such a "curmudgeon". Truly one of my favorite terms, as Winoker states...
"A curmudgeon's reputation for malevolence is undeserved. They're neither warped nor evil at heart. They don't hate mankind, just mankind's absurdities. They're just as sensitive and soft-hearted as the next guy, but they hide their vulnerability beneath a crust of misanthropy. They ease the pain by turning hurt into humor. . . . . . They attack maudlinism because it devalues genuine sentiment. . . . . . Nature, having failed to equip them with a servicable denial mechanism, has endowed them with astute perception and sly wit.
Curmudgeons are mockers and debunkers whose bitterness is a symptom rather than a disease. They can't compromise their standards and can't manage the suspension of disbelief necessary for feigned cheerfulness. Their awareness is a curse.
Perhaps curmudgeons have gotten a bad rap in the same way that the messenger is blamed for the message: They have the temerity to comment on the human condition without apology. They not only refuse to applaud mediocrity, they howl it down with morose glee. Their versions of the truth unsettle us, and we hold it against them, even though they soften it with humor. "
- JON WINOKUR
truly one of my favorite words.
You really know your doing something right when a 74 year-old psychologist with a PHD call's you "old man". (I'm 24)
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You really know your doing something right when a 74 year-old psychologist with a PHD call's you "old man". (I'm 24)
Heh that means you're doing ok....the trick with life is to start off being old and get younger as the years pass. This means I'll be 3 in a couple of years :)
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I stopped maturing at 17, I'm old enough to know better, but young enough to do it anyway.
Vyris goes off to the bathroom to clean the gravel out of his road rash
//Kindof ironic to read this after I wipe out jumping my sons BMX bike off a ramp, my wife just shakes her head at me and hands me the iodine and bandages...
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Hehe, guess I'm lucky then, I stopped maturing mentally two years ago... I'm now still young enough to get away with it by acting like I don't know better, old enough to know better, dumb enough to do it anyway, and smart enough to know what's gonna happen and realize that I don't care. ;)
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...i have no ambition to get furth schooling... though the more i thank of it the more i belive i might injoy taking some class in pshycology.. Oh and your all nuts...