Comments on: VA: Sometimes Mediocrity and Lies Go Hand in Hand http://www.violentacrestalk.com/va-sometimes-mediocrity-and-lies-go-hand-in-hand/ violentacres.com feedback site Wed, 17 Mar 2010 05:30:29 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5 By: kibrika http://www.violentacrestalk.com/va-sometimes-mediocrity-and-lies-go-hand-in-hand/#comment-3372 kibrika Fri, 13 Apr 2007 18:36:47 +0000 http://www.violentacrestalk.com/2007/04/va-sometimes-mediocrity-and-lies-go-hand-in-hand/#comment-3372 I got the idea somwhere, that nothing in the movies (or in blog stories in your case) can be crazier than the real life can be. So even the craziest things I admit to be possible. Also, it doesnt matter wether some person in a story is real or not, as long as the persons story teaches people good things (take Christ for example). I don't know why people pay so much attention to weather something is belevable or not. I got the idea somwhere, that nothing in the movies (or in blog stories in your case) can be crazier than the real life can be. So even the craziest things I admit to be possible.
Also, it doesnt matter wether some person in a story is real or not, as long as the persons story teaches people good things (take Christ for example). I don’t know why people pay so much attention to weather something is belevable or not.

]]> By: coolfrequency http://www.violentacrestalk.com/va-sometimes-mediocrity-and-lies-go-hand-in-hand/#comment-3323 coolfrequency Thu, 12 Apr 2007 18:31:13 +0000 http://www.violentacrestalk.com/2007/04/va-sometimes-mediocrity-and-lies-go-hand-in-hand/#comment-3323 I am fascinated. I love your blog, I am a devoted fan and a regular reader, I look forward to your entries and I am almost never disappointed. I love your serious narratives, I love your lighthearted, more trivial seeming short stories. And it's true that you conceal a lot of the more personal details of your life from us, but one thing I've found in keeping my own livejournal is that the stories which make me panic to tell because I am so afraid that others will judge me if I reveal the plain, ungarnished, ugly truth...these are the stories that make my readers love me the most. I stay up nights worried that I have just made every single person hate me with these entries, but when I return, the comments are such an outpouring of support and appreciation and understanding. I think you'll find the same thing as you start revealing more of your personal self - the more we get to know you, the more we love you. Of course there will be the attention-seeking haters who come to attack and condemn, and they tend to be louder than anyone else, but always, the vast majority appreciates you for the courage it takes to reveal those more personal, painful truths. I am fascinated. I love your blog, I am a devoted fan and a regular reader, I look forward to your entries and I am almost never disappointed. I love your serious narratives, I love your lighthearted, more trivial seeming short stories. And it’s true that you conceal a lot of the more personal details of your life from us, but one thing I’ve found in keeping my own livejournal is that the stories which make me panic to tell because I am so afraid that others will judge me if I reveal the plain, ungarnished, ugly truth…these are the stories that make my readers love me the most. I stay up nights worried that I have just made every single person hate me with these entries, but when I return, the comments are such an outpouring of support and appreciation and understanding. I think you’ll find the same thing as you start revealing more of your personal self - the more we get to know you, the more we love you. Of course there will be the attention-seeking haters who come to attack and condemn, and they tend to be louder than anyone else, but always, the vast majority appreciates you for the courage it takes to reveal those more personal, painful truths.

]]> By: SunSpotBaby http://www.violentacrestalk.com/va-sometimes-mediocrity-and-lies-go-hand-in-hand/#comment-3319 SunSpotBaby Thu, 12 Apr 2007 16:04:25 +0000 http://www.violentacrestalk.com/2007/04/va-sometimes-mediocrity-and-lies-go-hand-in-hand/#comment-3319 I just always assumed that V changed the facts and details in her stories, based on her blog being anonymous. The point of her stories don't depend on these details being accurate. I just always assumed that V changed the facts and details in her stories, based on her blog being anonymous. The point of her stories don’t depend on these details being accurate.

]]> By: Rage_On http://www.violentacrestalk.com/va-sometimes-mediocrity-and-lies-go-hand-in-hand/#comment-3288 Rage_On Wed, 11 Apr 2007 11:41:12 +0000 http://www.violentacrestalk.com/2007/04/va-sometimes-mediocrity-and-lies-go-hand-in-hand/#comment-3288 @3 I agree with you. I enjoyed the post. The part I enjoyed the most was the second paragraph. About those moments in life when we change, you can almost put a date on it, a day that you remember clearly your outlook changing or accepting how you feel on a subject. I remember mind clearly. I was the first week of October in 2004. My grandfather had been suffering for about 3 months with cancer. A man that went from building walls of the church school stone by stone, trucking around a car load of grand-kids, donating his free time to charity, always putting his family first, and his garden. He had a glorious garden. A regular Amazon in the backyard. A testament to God's natural beauty. Now he was a man reduced to having his grandson and other family members picking him up so he could go to the bathroom. Didn't even have the strength to change the channel on the remote so he could watch Walker Texas Ranger. Me having to lie to my grandmother that "yea he looks a lot better today Memaw." When I knew damn well he looked worst then the day before. Watching someone loose their husband of 50 years was heart breaking. So after three months of pain and being reduced to an infant like state my grandfather pasted away in what seem to between a state of insane and sanity. I remember the phone that night..... After he died and the family was gathered around the bedside and the priest we talking to the family members trying to comfort them the best he could at the time. I on the other hand stood there and looked around in almost a complete state of confusion at what just happened. Like that's it? He did all those great things in his life for random people and the people he loved to die like this? I somewhat chuckled to myself like "Wow God....you're an ass." So you reward the people that due everything you preach to be rewarded with this type of painful death? Go to church everyday, due good to others, and live by His word. Wow talk about getting the short end of that deal here on Earth. I know many of you are thinking "He'll be in heaven for living his life the way he did." I don't disagree with you, but the fact God lets a man die with no decency what so ever, reduced to wetting his bed, reduced to pain and suffering to me is a slap in the face. So on that October day in 2004 I realized that busting your ass for God is a waste of my time. I went from being a devout Catholic going to church every week, church functions, and all the rest of the hoopla that goes with it to sleeping in on Sundays, skipping church events and other related functions. Do you know the kicker???.....My life did change at all. I didn't feel empty inside from my absence from the church. I don't feel lost, confused, or any other loss of my inner self. Bad things didn't start happing to me. My life didn't go to shit. Nothing happened besides getting more sleep on Sunday. I still treat others with respect, due whatever for my community, family and friends. I don't lie, cheat or steal. I follow the Ten Commandments not because they are from God, but because they are my Moral Commandments. I'm not saying I don't believe in God, but I've come to realize that we are more on our own then I've been lead to believe. Also God can be a real asshole and you should rely on friends and family, not God. Have a Great Hump Day! @3
I agree with you. I enjoyed the post.
The part I enjoyed the most was the second paragraph. About those moments in life when we change, you can almost put a date on it, a day that you remember clearly your outlook changing or accepting how you feel on a subject. I remember mind clearly. I was the first week of October in 2004. My grandfather had been suffering for about 3 months with cancer. A man that went from building walls of the church school stone by stone, trucking around a car load of grand-kids, donating his free time to charity, always putting his family first, and his garden. He had a glorious garden. A regular Amazon in the backyard. A testament to God’s natural beauty. Now he was a man reduced to having his grandson and other family members picking him up so he could go to the bathroom. Didn’t even have the strength to change the channel on the remote so he could watch Walker Texas Ranger. Me having to lie to my grandmother that “yea he looks a lot better today Memaw.” When I knew damn well he looked worst then the day before. Watching someone loose their husband of 50 years was heart breaking.
So after three months of pain and being reduced to an infant like state my grandfather pasted away in what seem to between a state of insane and sanity. I remember the phone that night…..
After he died and the family was gathered around the bedside and the priest we talking to the family members trying to comfort them the best he could at the time. I on the other hand stood there and looked around in almost a complete state of confusion at what just happened. Like that’s it? He did all those great things in his life for random people and the people he loved to die like this? I somewhat chuckled to myself like “Wow God….you’re an ass.” So you reward the people that due everything you preach to be rewarded with this type of painful death? Go to church everyday, due good to others, and live by His word. Wow talk about getting the short end of that deal here on Earth.
I know many of you are thinking “He’ll be in heaven for living his life the way he did.” I don’t disagree with you, but the fact God lets a man die with no decency what so ever, reduced to wetting his bed, reduced to pain and suffering to me is a slap in the face.
So on that October day in 2004 I realized that busting your ass for God is a waste of my time. I went from being a devout Catholic going to church every week, church functions, and all the rest of the hoopla that goes with it to sleeping in on Sundays, skipping church events and other related functions. Do you know the kicker???…..My life did change at all. I didn’t feel empty inside from my absence from the church. I don’t feel lost, confused, or any other loss of my inner self.
Bad things didn’t start happing to me. My life didn’t go to shit. Nothing happened besides getting more sleep on Sunday.
I still treat others with respect, due whatever for my community, family and friends. I don’t lie, cheat or steal. I follow the Ten Commandments not because they are from God, but because they are my Moral Commandments. I’m not saying I don’t believe in God, but I’ve come to realize that we are more on our own then I’ve been lead to believe. Also God can be a real asshole and you should rely on friends and family, not God.
Have a Great Hump Day!

]]> By: pabloescobar http://www.violentacrestalk.com/va-sometimes-mediocrity-and-lies-go-hand-in-hand/#comment-3267 pabloescobar Wed, 11 Apr 2007 04:10:51 +0000 http://www.violentacrestalk.com/2007/04/va-sometimes-mediocrity-and-lies-go-hand-in-hand/#comment-3267 I had a link to Tim O'briens story embedded that evidently was not picked up. http://us.history.wisc.edu/hist102/pdocs/obrien_story.pdf Don't worry, it is not on my site and I am not self promoting. It really is just an incredibly written short that applies to V's post. I had a link to Tim O’briens story embedded that evidently was not picked up.

http://us.history.wisc.edu/hist102/pdocs/obrien_story.pdf

Don’t worry, it is not on my site and I am not self promoting. It really is just an incredibly written short that applies to V’s post.

]]> By: richbh http://www.violentacrestalk.com/va-sometimes-mediocrity-and-lies-go-hand-in-hand/#comment-3254 richbh Tue, 10 Apr 2007 23:37:14 +0000 http://www.violentacrestalk.com/2007/04/va-sometimes-mediocrity-and-lies-go-hand-in-hand/#comment-3254 So many things to say - so many ways to say them - so many people to protect - so many ways to honor those you love - so many ways to preserve privacy. Vi - I don't give a rotten rat fart whether you're a liar or not. The reason I read your blog is because it's entertaining. Lie away - bare your soul's truth - doesn't matter to me. I'm convinced that all blogs are 10% truth and 90% hype. "When did we all lose faith in our individual ability to learn anyway?" Being brought up in - and wholly rejecting with great bitterness and hatred - a Baptist millieu (sp?) I can honestly say that I have never lost my ability to learn. I honestly think that no authentic individual ever loses that. But perhaps our contemporary "Western" culture has sold its collective soul to technology and lost humanity in the process. Who knows? "I’m afraid I don’t really know many normal people and because of this some of my mundane moments may seem a bit too outrageous to believe." That's just pure bullshit. There really are no "normal" people outside the world of advertising. There are no "normal" families or "normal" upbringings. Nothing is normal. Which is part of what makes your blog so entertaining. Take a pill. Get drunk. Get off this introspective trip and get back to entertaining. So many things to say - so many ways to say them - so many people to protect - so many ways to honor those you love - so many ways to preserve privacy.

Vi - I don’t give a rotten rat fart whether you’re a liar or not. The reason I read your blog is because it’s entertaining. Lie away - bare your soul’s truth - doesn’t matter to me. I’m convinced that all blogs are 10% truth and 90% hype.

“When did we all lose faith in our individual ability to learn anyway?” Being brought up in - and wholly rejecting with great bitterness and hatred - a Baptist millieu (sp?) I can honestly say that I have never lost my ability to learn. I honestly think that no authentic individual ever loses that. But perhaps our contemporary “Western” culture has sold its collective soul to technology and lost humanity in the process. Who knows?

“I’m afraid I don’t really know many normal people and because of this some of my mundane moments may seem a bit too outrageous to believe.” That’s just pure bullshit. There really are no “normal” people outside the world of advertising. There are no “normal” families or “normal” upbringings. Nothing is normal.

Which is part of what makes your blog so entertaining.

Take a pill. Get drunk. Get off this introspective trip and get back to entertaining.

]]> By: itistoday http://www.violentacrestalk.com/va-sometimes-mediocrity-and-lies-go-hand-in-hand/#comment-3252 itistoday Tue, 10 Apr 2007 23:18:50 +0000 http://www.violentacrestalk.com/2007/04/va-sometimes-mediocrity-and-lies-go-hand-in-hand/#comment-3252 Uh huh... V wants people to believe her stories, so she tells us fantasies. You're right V, you should be ashamed. Uh huh… V wants people to believe her stories, so she tells us fantasies. You’re right V, you should be ashamed.

]]> By: dresstosurvive http://www.violentacrestalk.com/va-sometimes-mediocrity-and-lies-go-hand-in-hand/#comment-3250 dresstosurvive Tue, 10 Apr 2007 22:38:40 +0000 http://www.violentacrestalk.com/2007/04/va-sometimes-mediocrity-and-lies-go-hand-in-hand/#comment-3250 Does this mean that inlovewithv might get a chance to marry her if V gets enough coffee and crosses enough streets? Le sigh. I'm genuinely curious who V is, but I guess I'll just amuse myself from a distance. Anyways, the readership needs to stop concerning itself with "lies" as such. For the most part, V is something like a preacher. Each post tends to end with a moral or agenda. If you don't like parables, don't attend church. Does this mean that inlovewithv might get a chance to marry her if V gets enough coffee and crosses enough streets?

Le sigh. I’m genuinely curious who V is, but I guess I’ll just amuse myself from a distance.

Anyways, the readership needs to stop concerning itself with “lies” as such. For the most part, V is something like a preacher. Each post tends to end with a moral or agenda. If you don’t like parables, don’t attend church.

]]> By: dannette http://www.violentacrestalk.com/va-sometimes-mediocrity-and-lies-go-hand-in-hand/#comment-3249 dannette Tue, 10 Apr 2007 22:36:12 +0000 http://www.violentacrestalk.com/2007/04/va-sometimes-mediocrity-and-lies-go-hand-in-hand/#comment-3249 Hey V, I already assume most of the things you said in this post. Screw people who expect every little thing to be correct or YOU'RE A LIAR!!!!111!!ZOMG. Tell your stories. Those are what I'm here for. And no, I don't want to hear about how the otherwise really sweet guy had a habit of biting his toenails while you were trying to eat at Wendy's. Well, ok, that could be an interesting story too, but it's separate from how he was always there for his girlfriend till she totally fucked him over, and then he got the perfect revenge... Okay maybe that doesn't sound like a story you'd tell, but you know what I mean. And the financial advice is cool too. Taken with a grain of salt and in context of other such advice from experts whose credentials I can see, of course. Hey V, I already assume most of the things you said in this post. Screw people who expect every little thing to be correct or YOU’RE A LIAR!!!!111!!ZOMG. Tell your stories. Those are what I’m here for. And no, I don’t want to hear about how the otherwise really sweet guy had a habit of biting his toenails while you were trying to eat at Wendy’s. Well, ok, that could be an interesting story too, but it’s separate from how he was always there for his girlfriend till she totally fucked him over, and then he got the perfect revenge…

Okay maybe that doesn’t sound like a story you’d tell, but you know what I mean.

And the financial advice is cool too. Taken with a grain of salt and in context of other such advice from experts whose credentials I can see, of course.

]]> By: Myroid http://www.violentacrestalk.com/va-sometimes-mediocrity-and-lies-go-hand-in-hand/#comment-3245 Myroid Tue, 10 Apr 2007 21:36:18 +0000 http://www.violentacrestalk.com/2007/04/va-sometimes-mediocrity-and-lies-go-hand-in-hand/#comment-3245 For a minute there I thought I was watching one of those scenes from a sitcom where the character pours their heart out to cheesy music. For a minute there I thought I was watching one of those scenes from a sitcom where the character pours their heart out to cheesy music.

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