from green to black

for the love of the classics

this guy is a goddammed sithlord
getting exposed to reddit after an enlightening and captivating article
about a man's extraordinary relationship with his dog
with a lot of other enlightening perspectives on relations, sexuality
and reasoning, i really enjoyed my readings.

i was amazed to find common sense and good reasoning among
the spam and trolling (even if i only have an inkling what this means)

here is an excerpt from a post about objecting to another's marriage.

machiavelli really isnt my thing so i'd just stick to isolation and
avoidance. but this post, its entertaining, so read it anyways...

If you really want to break up a romantic couple, your model is Iago.
He never says a bad thing about Desdemona; never accuses her
of anything. He says "Hmm, that's odd..." When Othello says "What?",
he says "Oh, nothing." Then Othello squeezes it out of him, and he
says "It's just that it seemed strange the way Cassio snuck away
when he saw you coming. I'm sure it's nothing."

Then Othello has this seed of an idea planted in his head, but
nobody he can talk to about it: Iago just said it was probably
nothing, and nobody else saw it.

If you want to wreck a relationship, you ask questions: "Do you
really think you're going to be able to maintain the religious attitude
to the degree she's going to require? I've known you for years;
you just don't have a pushy personality. You wouldn't be a pushy
atheist, and while people's involvement in their religion waxes and
wanes, I just don't think you have it in you to be a pushy Christian,
either. What's going to happen when your real personality, the
more easygoing and less judgmental one, reasserts itself? Is she
going to hate the real you?"

If this is met with hostility, you say "Hey, I'm just asking: are you
sure that you're going to keep up this level of energy for religion
for the rest of your life? You never had that much emotional energy
before. If you normalise back to the person you've been for the last
20 years, what's she going to think of that?"

The other thing you can do is the "it's nothing" thing, by just sighing
or something when her name comes up, and then when he asks say
"It's nothing", and then saying "I'm just not sure I could stand a woman
who tried to break me away from the things I used to do and the people
I was with. I don't think I could stand being told who I'm allowed to be
friends with.

If you're good with her telling you what to do, and you're sure you'll
never get tired of it, that's your business. I just know that it would drive
me crazy, and eventually I'd stop putting up with it, and things would
go bad. But I'm sure you'll figure some way around it."

Don't tell him facts. Raise doubts by asking him questions.
Then remove yourself from the people who can discuss those questions
by saying "I'm sure you'll figure something out" and the like.


taken from here by this guy yorlic.

and his reply to being deliciously evil?
-> just being well versed in the classics.

what a man!

i am so the hell going to read shakespeare now. lol.

posted by green unseen @ 1:04 PM