The Highway to Hell

[doppelgaenger]

What? I don't get it. Sounds like everybody else expected you to ride this one out and bury the hooker.
I think what you did was pretty good and you've certainly earned my respect. You were thinking of yourself, BUT you actually were honest - in that indirect, polite, bullshitty way. Hear me out.
You were honest about yourself this time - you said (indirectly), "Hey, this is me. I can be a shitty, shallow asshole and I don't like what I see and I don't feel like leading you on for my selfish and hedonistic gains. I'm ditching you because I lack the proper judgment; I make foolish decisions and offer broken promises."

It has to be the first time I've ever read a post about you, where you actually chose to NOT lead yourself or a girl on, unfortunately not out of your budding good nature, but out of your own misconception.
It feels good, though... doesn't it? To be honest with yourself and with others. Reflect on that for a few moments - this is what has been missing from your pan-fried babybatter quests.
Forget for just 2 ****ing seconds about your dignity in this place and what everybody else thinks - forget about all the other posts and reflect on that little nugget of truth. Everybody else has lost themselves in the complexities of their own morality.

The dark irony of this is that the girl probably had a deep inner beauty extending beyond your short-sighted perception and you barely took 5 minutes to wait it out and see. Sure, she may have had crooked teeth and wore coke-bottle glasses, but these are all things which can be corrected. But it's too late to turn back, now, that is unless she was stupid enough to actually believe you.

That might be a little salt on your wounds. It might be a little harsh. But I'm not here to suck your dick. I'm not your friend and I don't care about your feelings. Take a step outside the box for a few moments and see the satirical comedy your life is becoming - slapstick entertainment, really. Almost tongue in cheek, but caught between the molars.

[Gribble]

All of this comes down to self perception. If you see yourself as someone worthy of peeple's deepest inner most hatred and loathing then that's the price you will ultimately pay in the end. One of the greatest rewards in life is to look in the mirror and see a decent person worthy of respect looking back at you, you readily sacrifice this for things which are worth much less. This is your punishment and I don't envy you.

I look in the mirror and I see a guy like any other. Only, he's not afraid to admit what he is.

[Charlie Boy II]

Mish apart from posting sanctimonious rubbish on an internet forum, could you please explain what entitles you to constantly take the moral high ground?

[misombra]

i feel a little bad for this girl but i feel more bad for the girls you act like you're in love with for a month and then ignore them.

[Gigabitch]

Mish apart from posting sanctimonious rubbish on an internet forum, could you please explain what entitles you to constantly take the moral high ground?

Because he's not a hypocrite. He lives by this moral code. I do the same thing.

And Gribble, if the road to hell is paved with good intentions, you're in no danger of going there.

[Charlie Boy II]

None of the stuff Grib does is that bad. He was a bit of a cunt to that old man, but otherwise all fair in love and war. The dating game's pretty brutal for everyone.

[misombra]

dating sucks.

[misombra]

could've made friends with this girl and maybe she could've introduced you to her more attractive friends.

[IndiReloaded]

I still wonder if he's just writing a book.

If you think you are pulling a Howard Roarke, you're not. HR wouldn't have cared enough to post something like that here. He didn't go out of his way to be an asshole. Understand?

To me, that's the difference b/t someone truly self-realized and what you are describing. I know people who, I think, you would say you admire but that many others might call 'asshole'. But the difference is these people are literally, doing their own thing and expect (no, wrong word)--they assume--others are equally self-sufficient. The difference is in intent.

You aren't describing that man, Grib. You are really being an asshole more along the lines of a Flashman. I'm not sure I believe you tho, so carry on.

[Gribble]

I'm not going out of my way for anything. I came up with a fictitious, albeit valid, excuse to disengage myself from the aforementioned encounter. There are billions of women in this world. I see no reason to waste my time with one I find unappealing in every regard. I didn't go out of my way with that old man, either. He's the one who encroached upon my time and for that he was reprimanded.

Because he's not a hypocrite. He lives by this moral code. I do the same thing.

And Gribble, if the road to hell is paved with good intentions, you're in no danger of going there.

I live by my own moral code. Live and let die. I'm not the good guy in this epic. I'm not the bad one, either. I'm the guy who sells water by the drop to dying men in the Sahara.

[bluesummer]

You really try to push this image of yourself lately Grib. What are you selling exactly?

I know a few people like you. They're very nice people that purposely do not so nice things and then try to define themselves by those actions. I'm not sure what they get from it, but you know that's not them deep down. We've seen better sides of you, so I'm not biting. I think this is something else.

[lovesjoyajm]

You really try to push this image of yourself lately Grib. What are you selling exactly?

I know a few people like you. They're very nice people that purposely do not so nice things and then try to define themselves by those actions. I'm not sure what they get from it, but you know that's not them deep down. We've seen better sides of you, so I'm not biting. I think this is something else.

Hm, I hadn't thought of this, but I worked with a guy a few years ago like this. He would tell all these awful stories about mean things he had done (to girls, especially) and generally give off this asshole persona. In groups he would really push that and make sure everyone knew he didn't go in for this relationship stuff, but I got to know him very well and it turned out that was mostly bullshit. However, then when he would treat people (me) badly, he always had that to fall back on - "I told you from the beginning I was a jerk, it's your fault for getting close to me anyway" and "sorry we don't live by the same moral code".

[IndiReloaded]

^ Its just laziness of a sort. Anyway, what I don't get is the posting of this stuff here. So, you can occasionally be an asshole. Even enjoy it a bit. You, me and a whole lot of people bored to death by other people. Shrug.

[Mish]

Mish apart from posting sanctimonious rubbish on an internet forum, could you please explain what entitles you to constantly take the moral high ground?

CB apart from posting self righteous ego trip rubbish on an internet forum, could you please explain what entitles you to constantly attack and insult other members here?