Comments on: The Blog of the Ancient Mariner http://neoneocon.com/2008/01/17/the-blog-of-the-ancient-mariner/ Wed, 23 May 2012 06:51:03 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.3 By: Brian H http://neoneocon.com/2008/01/17/the-blog-of-the-ancient-mariner/#comment-152201 Brian H Fri, 26 Mar 2010 20:02:52 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/2008/01/17/the-blog-of-the-ancient-mariner/#comment-152201 Agh. Just re-read the entire series, and many of the comments. 2 years since the last entry, with eight more to come? Lady, I'm 2 years older than you; will either/both of us survive long enough for the rest of the series to come out? ;( Agh. Just re-read the entire series, and many of the comments. 2 years since the last entry, with eight more to come? Lady, I’m 2 years older than you; will either/both of us survive long enough for the rest of the series to come out?

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]]> By: Jusuchin (Military Otaku) http://neoneocon.com/2008/01/17/the-blog-of-the-ancient-mariner/#comment-148934 Jusuchin (Military Otaku) Mon, 08 Mar 2010 21:06:30 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/2008/01/17/the-blog-of-the-ancient-mariner/#comment-148934 Ma'am, Seems like I was just a little right of center when I was growing up in comparison to you. I stumbled upon your blog on Instapundit today, and while I've been a confirmed conservative most of my teenage life, it brings a sort of, how should I put it, relief when people would finally stop hiding behind their own views, and sees things as they are. No rose tinted glasses, nothing. There is room for analysis, yes. You've proven that. There is always interpretation in events, and one person's view of 'right' is often different from another, but there is a social standard. But it seems the United States I grew up looking forward to (I was naturalized in 2005) was more in line with John Wayne and not...well..I'm unsure how to categorize America as others in the opposite end sees it. Maybe choose a Vietnam film. I look forward to keeping you in my sights ma'am, you've made a follower by your self-analysis. Now if only my term papers were that well written. Ma’am,

Seems like I was just a little right of center when I was growing up in comparison to you. I stumbled upon your blog on Instapundit today, and while I’ve been a confirmed conservative most of my teenage life, it brings a sort of, how should I put it, relief when people would finally stop hiding behind their own views, and sees things as they are. No rose tinted glasses, nothing.

There is room for analysis, yes. You’ve proven that. There is always interpretation in events, and one person’s view of ‘right’ is often different from another, but there is a social standard. But it seems the United States I grew up looking forward to (I was naturalized in 2005) was more in line with John Wayne and not…well..I’m unsure how to categorize America as others in the opposite end sees it. Maybe choose a Vietnam film.

I look forward to keeping you in my sights ma’am, you’ve made a follower by your self-analysis.

Now if only my term papers were that well written.

]]> By: Oh, bother http://neoneocon.com/2008/01/17/the-blog-of-the-ancient-mariner/#comment-135402 Oh, bother Sun, 29 Nov 2009 21:52:49 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/2008/01/17/the-blog-of-the-ancient-mariner/#comment-135402 My poor head, Oh, bother cried This meter's killing me With dactyls or a trochee writ This earworm banish'd be! (My apologies to anyone whose doggerel I've just kicked.) Now, having banished the earworm: I, too, would love to see a book, but note it is difficult to publish a book and maintain a pseudonym; and since our opponents specialize in character assassination, I hope our hostess gives the matter long and hard thought. My immediate family are on the far left, academics in fact. One sister is polite enough to avoid the subject but the other is not. For many leftists everything, including family must be sacrificed on the alter of political correctness. My poor head, Oh, bother cried
This meter’s killing me
With dactyls or a trochee writ
This earworm banish’d be!

(My apologies to anyone whose doggerel I’ve just kicked.) Now, having banished the earworm: I, too, would love to see a book, but note it is difficult to publish a book and maintain a pseudonym; and since our opponents specialize in character assassination, I hope our hostess gives the matter long and hard thought.

My immediate family are on the far left, academics in fact. One sister is polite enough to avoid the subject but the other is not. For many leftists everything, including family must be sacrificed on the alter of political correctness.

]]> By: EMB http://neoneocon.com/2008/01/17/the-blog-of-the-ancient-mariner/#comment-116847 EMB Fri, 17 Jul 2009 18:28:58 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/2008/01/17/the-blog-of-the-ancient-mariner/#comment-116847 Thanks for sharing your story! You've got me hooked, I want to know how it ends. Are you going to finish it? Thanks for sharing your story! You’ve got me hooked, I want to know how it ends. Are you going to finish it?

]]> By: John http://neoneocon.com/2008/01/17/the-blog-of-the-ancient-mariner/#comment-63338 John Tue, 08 Apr 2008 18:18:03 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/2008/01/17/the-blog-of-the-ancient-mariner/#comment-63338 Thanks for your willingness to explain your thought processes and change in such detail. I'll admit that I grew up in a fairly conservative family( though my dad admitted to voting for McGovern simply because he disliked Nixon so much). So my current conservative values were not as difficult for me to arrive at as yours were. It is interesting to see at how someone arrives at these life changing decisions by someone with all the qualifications to do just that writing about their own experience. Have a blessed day. :) Thanks for your willingness to explain your thought processes and change in such detail. I’ll admit that I grew up in a fairly conservative family( though my dad admitted to voting for McGovern simply because he disliked Nixon so much). So my current conservative values were not as difficult for me to arrive at as yours were.
It is interesting to see at how someone arrives at these life changing decisions by someone with all the qualifications to do just that writing about their own experience.
Have a blessed day. :)

]]> By: Artfldgr http://neoneocon.com/2008/01/17/the-blog-of-the-ancient-mariner/#comment-62724 Artfldgr Tue, 01 Apr 2008 13:16:31 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/2008/01/17/the-blog-of-the-ancient-mariner/#comment-62724 this just in today. Writing for Friends and Family: The Interpersonal Nature of Blogs http://www.physorg.com/printnews.php?newsid=126195991 this just in today.

Writing for Friends and Family: The Interpersonal Nature of Blogs
http://www.physorg.com/printnews.php?newsid=126195991

]]> By: Artfldgr http://neoneocon.com/2008/01/17/the-blog-of-the-ancient-mariner/#comment-62672 Artfldgr Mon, 31 Mar 2008 23:47:32 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/2008/01/17/the-blog-of-the-ancient-mariner/#comment-62672 your family and friends are right not to read you if they live in la la illusion land. sometimes we dont really want to konw the person we know, but are very comfortable with what we think we know. you feel bad because you feel that your losing something that has been promised to you, but is a lie. that sharing everything with others will cause the bonds to be stronger, that such openess will cause you to finally not feel alone. but mind is individual, so the promise of their knowing more will not result in them becoming closer to you. each choice you make divides the masses... everyone is lonelier in a world where everyone pretends to think the same, and cant tolerate other thoughts. it makes us intolerably alone because we cant connect. the more that is known about you, the fewer freinds you have, but the more solid those freindships are (if your healthy of course). there is an old proverb that says it: dont ask the quesion if you are not willing to hear the answer. they are not willing to hear answers to questions they dont even want to ask themselves. they certainly dont want you to make them think. thinking means they will unravel threads, and then they have to wake up and act. though in this you are in better company than they, for they refuse to examine you because that forces them to examine themselves too. "The unexamined life is not worth living" - Socrates. our nihilistic perverse hedonistic society refuses to examine itself in the light of truth, and so sees whatever it wants to see in the dark. [you would too if you had beer glasses like they do from drinking ambrosia too much] your family and friends are right not to read you if they live in la la illusion land. sometimes we dont really want to konw the person we know, but are very comfortable with what we think we know.

you feel bad because you feel that your losing something that has been promised to you, but is a lie. that sharing everything with others will cause the bonds to be stronger, that such openess will cause you to finally not feel alone. but mind is individual, so the promise of their knowing more will not result in them becoming closer to you.

each choice you make divides the masses… everyone is lonelier in a world where everyone pretends to think the same, and cant tolerate other thoughts. it makes us intolerably alone because we cant connect.

the more that is known about you, the fewer freinds you have, but the more solid those freindships are (if your healthy of course).

there is an old proverb that says it:

dont ask the quesion if you are not willing to hear the answer.

they are not willing to hear answers to questions they dont even want to ask themselves. they certainly dont want you to make them think. thinking means they will unravel threads, and then they have to wake up and act.

though in this you are in better company than they, for they refuse to examine you because that forces them to examine themselves too.

“The unexamined life is not worth living” – Socrates.

our nihilistic perverse hedonistic society refuses to examine itself in the light of truth, and so sees whatever it wants to see in the dark.

[you would too if you had beer glasses like they do from drinking ambrosia too much]

]]> By: Sam http://neoneocon.com/2008/01/17/the-blog-of-the-ancient-mariner/#comment-54094 Sam Mon, 21 Jan 2008 11:39:48 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/2008/01/17/the-blog-of-the-ancient-mariner/#comment-54094 I was born in '58, it was my older siblings and their friends who went to Vietnam. I grew up fearing I would die in the jungle just as you grew up fearing you'd die under a mushroom cloud. Like Jimmy J, I believed the US was right in going to all those places, and nothing ever changed that. During my teens as I began to become politically aware, I was also hearing the stories of returning veterans. I was reading the history of WWI and WWII from the German perspective. I was reading things about the Civil War that I hadn't been taught in school, and that challenged the conventional wisdom of US History class. The result was a belief that both the government and the press were quite willing to use propaganda tactics and outright lies, and would casually throw our lives away to serve their own agendas. I'm sad to say that nothing has changed that belief from that day to this. Please understand, I'm ex-military (in spite of the above), I realize that when the arguments have come down to force there is no other option than to spend lives. It's not that they'd spend me that hurts and offends. It's that they'd *discard* me. And you. And anyone else. I consider myself a Libertarian, for what good it does. I truly believe that there hasn't been an honestly tallied, nor honestly reported, election since the Johnson administration. I hate to say it, but it would not surprise me to find that there had been none since the ANDREW Johnson administration. The opportunists who build their lives around the ability to bend human nature to serve their own ends hear nothing but the call of their own ambitions. I was born in ’58, it was my older siblings and their friends who went to Vietnam. I grew up fearing I would die in the jungle just as you grew up fearing you’d die under a mushroom cloud.
Like Jimmy J, I believed the US was right in going to all those places, and nothing ever changed that. During my teens as I began to become politically aware, I was also hearing the stories of returning veterans. I was reading the history of WWI and WWII from the German perspective. I was reading things about the Civil War that I hadn’t been taught in school, and that challenged the conventional wisdom of US History class.
The result was a belief that both the government and the press were quite willing to use propaganda tactics and outright lies, and would casually throw our lives away to serve their own agendas. I’m sad to say that nothing has changed that belief from that day to this.
Please understand, I’m ex-military (in spite of the above), I realize that when the arguments have come down to force there is no other option than to spend lives. It’s not that they’d spend me that hurts and offends. It’s that they’d *discard* me. And you. And anyone else.
I consider myself a Libertarian, for what good it does. I truly believe that there hasn’t been an honestly tallied, nor honestly reported, election since the Johnson administration. I hate to say it, but it would not surprise me to find that there had been none since the ANDREW Johnson administration. The opportunists who build their lives around the ability to bend human nature to serve their own ends hear nothing but the call of their own ambitions.

]]> By: Vince P http://neoneocon.com/2008/01/17/the-blog-of-the-ancient-mariner/#comment-54008 Vince P Sun, 20 Jan 2008 18:36:09 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/2008/01/17/the-blog-of-the-ancient-mariner/#comment-54008 I was born in 74, and so most of my childhood was in the 80s.. I think I attribute my conservatism to the patriotism instilled by Ronald Reagan. I thought the world of Reagan , even though I was in grade school. I remember staying home from school in 89 so i can listen to his farewell speech. Plus I had an inante revulsion of hippies and the long haired non-shampoo'ed people... who suddenly resurfaced in the early 1990s and who were also a gang of whiners and complainers... so I couldnt stand the hippies and the Gen X'ers.. so when I got into High School, i think that's where my ideology was established. I was born in 74, and so most of my childhood was in the 80s.. I think I attribute my conservatism to the patriotism instilled by Ronald Reagan. I thought the world of Reagan , even though I was in grade school. I remember staying home from school in 89 so i can listen to his farewell speech.

Plus I had an inante revulsion of hippies and the long haired non-shampoo’ed people… who suddenly resurfaced in the early 1990s and who were also a gang of whiners and complainers… so I couldnt stand the hippies and the Gen X’ers.. so when I got into High School, i think that’s where my ideology was established.

]]> By: OBloodyhell http://neoneocon.com/2008/01/17/the-blog-of-the-ancient-mariner/#comment-53988 OBloodyhell Sun, 20 Jan 2008 16:18:21 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/2008/01/17/the-blog-of-the-ancient-mariner/#comment-53988 S'funny. I grew up in the 60s and 70s, surrounded by the liberalism and awash in it. I didn't conciously pick up on it, but I think the key thing for me was what Watergate taught. It said, very clearly, that government could not be trusted. Somehow, the obviousness of this was lost on the liberals around me, who, despite the lesson, still thought that "more government" was still the answer. In 1975-76, my senior year, I took a humanities course in HS, we spent the first half of the year in what were essentially BS sessions talking about different topics. One thing I indirectly noticed was that I was on one side, usually with one or two others (never the same ones, mind you) and everyone else was on the other, of most of the issues. I wasn't so much a conservative, as a libertarian, but there was a measure of overlap that usually had me opposing the trailing end of the baby boom liberals. I've always found myself more in tune with Gen-X, though by some claims I'm a boomer. I think it's unfortunate that the Gen-Xers are going to have so much time cleaning up the crap (like "PC"-ness) that the boomers are leaving behind that they aren't going to have a lot of time to fix much that they could fix. S’funny. I grew up in the 60s and 70s, surrounded by the liberalism and awash in it.

I didn’t conciously pick up on it, but I think the key thing for me was what Watergate taught. It said, very clearly, that government could not be trusted.

Somehow, the obviousness of this was lost on the liberals around me, who, despite the lesson, still thought that “more government” was still the answer.

In 1975-76, my senior year, I took a humanities course in HS, we spent the first half of the year in what were essentially BS sessions talking about different topics. One thing I indirectly noticed was that I was on one side, usually with one or two others (never the same ones, mind you) and everyone else was on the other, of most of the issues. I wasn’t so much a conservative, as a libertarian, but there was a measure of overlap that usually had me opposing the trailing end of the baby boom liberals.

I’ve always found myself more in tune with Gen-X, though by some claims I’m a boomer. I think it’s unfortunate that the Gen-Xers are going to have so much time cleaning up the crap (like “PC”-ness) that the boomers are leaving behind that they aren’t going to have a lot of time to fix much that they could fix.

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