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ASK MAT (lite) PART II; Questions 26-33 (Playgirl, Depression, Misfit Unity, Cutters, My Worst Costume)
Posted on December 7, 2010 at 06:49 PM
26. @OtepBert
@RACCOON_SOCIETY Would you ever pose for playgirl? You're sexy & handsome.
Pay attention everyone. This is why I say drinking and tweeting is a dangerous combination. Have you any idea what I look like without layers of clothes? Let me put it this way, if John Mayer’s body is a wonderland, mine is a haunted house. –and not even the cool haunted house.. the splintery one that even the Puerto Rican public school family doesn’t go to anymore.
I have 6 black rogue hairs sticking out of each nipple like fucking flattened daddy longlegs spiders… -and then one weird patch of hair in the center of my concave chest the exact shape of Pangea.
The closest thing to being in Playgirl was when the Chicago Police Dept sketch artist asked me to pose with my shirt off for the ‘wanted’ poster of the Wicker Park Rapist.
(who, BTW, happened to be Puerto Rican. Full circle.)
27. @levelopourdeux
@RACCOON_SOCIETY So... awkward and very public. I've got depression issues and can't afford to get help. Self help books suck. Tips?
THANK YOU for bringing up 2 excellent topics.
A. As the Raccoon Society site re-launches, there will certainly be functionality to allow for anonymous posts again. This Twitter-based approach is just a temporary experiment- So, for now, you can all check out sites like http://www.twitzee.com that enable anonymous Twit messages.
B. Another feature of the new site will be a database of hotlines, online forums, and an international directory for professional counseling, wherever you live, regardless of economic means or insurance coverage. I searched the web and was shocked to discover just how difficult it is to find those resources. (esp. secular ones)
In the meantime, if you’re a student, you can approach your counselor. By law, if older than 14, (unless you’re a danger to yourself) there’s promised confidentiality. Or, on a county level, check out local JCC’s and YMCA’s. Also, i believe ANYONE of ANY AGE can walk into the Emergency Room of their hospital ask to see a social worker.
BTW, I think you’re right about most self-help books… One day I’d like to sit in on one of those cover shoots for the author’s portrait. “Ok Dr. I-Have-An-Awesome-Life, now try to look as spray-tanned and UN-depressed as possible!” click! “Greeeat. Thanks Crazy Eyes.”
The thing is, when it comes to serious depression, it does a lot more good to hear your own voice speaking about it with someone else. Books can be helpful, but eventually you need to get it out of your head.
In terms of “light” depression, welcome to the club. I happen to believe it should be cultivated, not erased... generally it makes girls more introverted and interesting, and can actually round off a great outfit. (Think more Margot Tennenbaum than Hot Topic though) Misery: Wear it well.
If you were MY younger sister, I’d take you to a thrift store and buy you 2 things- a vintage fur coat and a shitty portable record player. I’d make you read every single word JD Salinger ever published. I’d force you to collect Red House Painters and Labradford on vinyl, and insist that you start rolling your own cigarettes.
28. @xartemisxdeathx
@RACCOON_SOCIETY was wondering if it’s alright to for a girl to change for a boy, based on her looks and the boys life?
I don’t fully understand the context, but some “changes” are good. You should always strive to grow, to learn and to improve- and a boyfriend or girlfriend could be an agent of those constructive changes; eg: “Baby, are you sure the Slipknot hoody is the best gift for my grandmother this year?” -but never attempt to change who you are for anyone. Protect your essence, your identity, your heart and your gut, at all costs. In this world, ULTIMATELY, that’s ALL we have, and ALL we can trust. Don’t let it get cloudy, even if it means sacrificing something that’s comfortable for something that’s unknown and terrifying. Now go eat your vegetables.
29. @hannahbeliever
@RACCOON_SOCIETY what's the worst halloween costume you have ever seen or worn?
The worst I’ve ever SEEN is always a tie between ‘slutty fairy’, ‘slutty witch’, ‘slutty cowgirl’, ‘slutty cop’, ‘slutty devil’, and ‘slutty farmer’.
Public Service Announcement: Sluts, please try being more original next year.
Now, the worst I’ve ever WORN? Well…
30. @Courtney_KHK
@RACCOON_SOCIETY what advice would u give to someone trying to follow their dreams, when everyone doubts it's possible and however far fetched
If you are honest with yourself, and it’s a good dream (eg: NOT “I have a dream to assassinate to the president of Zaire!”) -If you can fully commit to the dream- If you are TRULY willing to sacrifice your comforts (sleep, food, tv, beer, boyfriend) and to stay focused, then fuck anyone who tells you that you can’t.
Once you succeed, you’ll join the club of other history-shaping visionaries who were once called madmen and dreamers: Henry Ford, Howard Hughes, Nicola Tesla, Da Vinci, etc…
The music world is full of countless examples as well:
-Billy Corgan shared a story with me about how, in 1995, his label assured him that his ambition to release a double album would be “career suicide”. (Mellon Collie went on to chart #1 in Billboard, earn 9 Grammy nominations and sell over 9x platinum).
-When Billie Holiday recorded Strange Fruit in 1939, Columbia said it was “too controversial” and refused to release it. (It went on to become Time Magazine's Song of the Century.)
Even The BEATLES were rejected by several record labels. (Decca turned them down in favor of ‘Brian Poole and the Tremeloes.’ MEGA WIN)
If we can deduce one thing… it's that, more often than not, ‘greatness’ means standing alone. Adversity is a key component to heroism, so thank your detractors for giving you something to rise above.
31. @shitdevinesays
@raccoon_society In a social setting is it more cool to say "Ralph is puking," or "Ralph is chundering"?
Neither- but it’s the ‘Ralph’ that’s hurting the cool factor in both those examples. In all of recorded history there have only been two Ralphs that actually kicked ass: Ralph Macchio and Ralph Steadman. TWO…. The rest all suck.
Similarly, want to know how many Ruth’s are cool? Zero.
If you name your kid Ralph or Ruth, you might as well just formally attach the preceding name, “Fuckin’” to their birth certificate… -because that’s how they will always be referred. As in: “Hey this party is pretty cool... oh wait. Nevermind… Fuckin’ Ruth just showed up.”
32. @Panicnfreakout
@Raccoon_Society how do i deal with my little sister's death? I was never supposed to be an only daughter...
My heart goes out to you and your family.
I doubt there’s much that I nor anyone else can say to ease your suffering- tho some of my friends who were in your position gave me some words to pass on:
“There is a bigger picture… that one day will become clear to you.” “Don’t be afraid of the pain or the anger.” “Remember its okay to express how you feel, crying does help.” “Try, to whatever extent possible, to be there for your parents and others who need you.”
There’s a book called Sibling Grief by P. Gill White you may want to read (http://www.amazon.com/Sibling-Grief-Healing-Sister-Brother/dp/0595385133) – (he refers to siblings as the “forgotten grievers”)
Additionally, sometimes the best way to honor someone’s memory is to dedicate a special personal achievement to them— a short film, a marathon, a story…
You’re a beautiful person for reaching out and sharing at a time of tragic loss.
33. @jordan_havok
@RACCOON_SOCIETY (My question :P) What would you say to a fan that is suicidal/prone to self abuse?
I’d much rather listen than talk… but short answer? TELL someone they trust… ASAP. PLEASE.
I can’t pretend that some short answer would somehow fix anyone who is in that dark horrible place- I’d just hope it helps in some small way to let him/her know that they aren’t alone— Maybe that’s the whole point of this site. That it truly is a Society- that we are the Island of Misfit Toys- and that we’re in this together.
Sometimes the most well-intentioned words just bounce off- esp when they come from people who have no clue what you’re going through- But on behalf of the entire music industry— who’s best songs have come from the seat you’re sitting in right now, I’d say: “Just please hold on.”
Realize it doesn’t last forever… the one truth about life is that EVERYTHING CHANGES.. good and bad.
We ‘cut’ because we feel angry and numb. Whatever is the specific cause of the problem, we bear the weight of it on our own, and we are convinced that there’s no answer. –but there always is.
I’d like to think that’s another reason for this site—that we aren’t sitting around whining about how hopeless we feel. -That we aren’t fantasizing about escape, about being magically rescued... I’d like to think that we’re helping eachother look for solutions.. to find perspective… and to find that first burst of bravery that’s within all of us… the courage to take the first step and communicate.
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Posted on December 5, 2010 at 01:26 PM
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@ Molly-Rose. @Hitch Fan. @ Raccoon Society,
Hey Hitch Fan & Raccoon Society, Hey Molly-Rose :)
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I perused a quote about reason and faith, here, so just wanted to leave a quick insight. Times still ticking. So, get ready, like the countdown goes, remember get your dose of Caffeine and ample supply ready, time is here and now, handy keys to the DeLorean, ready, count it down .... 4,3... is seven,2,1... twenty-one go!
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Bringing in “reason” as a debatable perspective is an arbitrary moot inception of hanging on over a cliff after getting caught in suspended animation. In earnest, I’d rather crony up with a like-minded anarchist that befuddles the imposition-ers of faith is somehow equatable to ever be torn asunder by absence of reason as a supposed and dull exploitive of why not to have faith or presumes faith constraints reason. How tired and bored is that perspective, faith is sans reason, etcetera, as how tired and uninspired the word medley of “how tired and uninspired” is in a sentence. Truly, think, open-mindedly, if you are going to stand to incept reason into the mixture.
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Faith is not constraint of reason. Human expectations are the constraint of reason. When you expect an outcome, expecting defies the natural progression of reason and the possibilities of reason, cause and natural common-sense by reason. Esp if an expectation is only geared or rendered for a specific outcome that is meant to propagate a furnished idea – that is what constraints reason and undermines reason. Faith itself is not a constraint in and of itself.
Faith scrutinizes reason in the same manner that reason scrutinizes faith. Even if you are construing my comments in a sense of Biblical faith, (my own affections on Faith is, faith is faith, regardless of own individual’s personal sentiments) it should be applied to bare it as a pertinent truth of your conscience, if it is in tune with your own accordance of Faith. The insight is similar of a notion and passage Mat Devine shared in a previous entry, from the Bible in 1 Thessalonians “"Test all things and cling to that which is good." 1 Thes. 5:2
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The insight is, by mere contemplative states of the least of reality that is truly, utterly, ever known or knowable is dependent upon the realization those that follow the limited intelligence of humanity are no different or variable than those who believe in an infinite power or being. Except, that, the latter ones are not contained w/ limits of other people’s interpretations as to what the individual(s) believe or have faith in believing. In other words, of course, there is an open defiance of censorship. As the effect of censorship in many formulations is non-productive or progressive, plus attempts to suppress individuality and environmental compatibility and functionality. Individuals have an innate right and will, to believe / have faith in what sets their own life in accord with how they truly feel and be able to live according to a sound in-tact own conscience. The utopic is it ought to be a morally/ethically approach that is not projecting undue negative renderances into another person’s life. Give and take , choose battles, our world is further everyday from a utopia considering the majority has shunned itself to ignoring the dystopic qualties that are here right now and that media at large has veiled in elaborate dunce cap shrouding that dystopic societies are in the future although the dystopic future written about as Fiction is actually happening now. If you need hot lead dead giveaway tell-tale, read the Hunger Games. Reality shows and a corresponding match like Survivor and the way our governments handle it citizens and slowly revolve into revolutions is starkly illuminating in contrast to what science and governments would sooner have you believing recently. Citric awakening happens, just like heads up 7-up, goes round by round like kisses on the forehead of what you’re willing to fight for and go to battle.
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Morning tune ready for the day: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vSkb0kDacjs
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Personally, I think, plus, prefer, to be limitless w/ willingly choosing to have faith in an infinite that harkens possibilities that exuberate all realities and endless potential for the greater good and bless those who are willing with talents that incorporate into their environments rather than something that devoids humanity of its own existence and destroying itself within by the contraptions of limiting itself like is so often seen and has already been duly established by the acts of science and people having a follow mentality to the state of science and scientists own propulsions of ideas and constructed basis’s that are feasibly assembled for mass production to the herd mentality that those of lower I.Q’s or sheer follow mentality will gobble up without having to test and proof it and prove that the theory itself or basis of scientific belief is sketchy. Esp taking into vantage perspective, equal opportunity intelligent licensures that can compute the information readily on-hand and disseminated to be shredded apart by the citizens sans academic luxury degrees handling inspecting statistics, quantities and exacts, in other words, the scientific misnomers blatantly compiled as derivations alleged to be fact sans exact intricate intra-acted ways of actually testing and provable.
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Thus this ///.... “"Faith is the surrender of the mind; it's the surrender of reason, it's the surrender of the only thing that makes us different from other mammals. It's our need to believe, and to surrender our skepticism and our reason, our yearning to discard that and put all our trust or faith in someone or something, that is the sinister thing to me." ~ Christopher Hitchen ...////
The quoted sentiment is also a mentality that ought be evenly distributed and thus applied to science in the same rigor of scrutiny; otherwise, science in a whole would be an easily reasonable standing on reason sham completely. People whom fully put their faith (be earnest and real, that that’s what is happening) into science, as a bunch of atheists often do blindly, are, again, as I wrote briefly to “Fellow Heathen” no different than the people they claim they are different from whom have faith including certain atheists that are attempting to devalue those individuals whom believe faith in God or deity/deities, et al. So, let’s prevent the ostracization by some ethos that eludes incorporating the fragility of the argument done towards only shunning the hypocrisy of its actions in statement, as is clear with the ///....“Of all the supposed virtues, faith must be the most overrated.”...//// bit of the quote. Anyone with a brain embedded permeating reason plus own foresight is able to tear it tinker tape red, pulling apart the fallibility of the application of exclusion. So, well, let’s say it for what it is, for those who may get a bit riled or bewildered by the notion that that Hitchens quote has to be able to stand soundly to its own accord and then some to win over anything in such a debatable topic of query. Which whoever posted it aka the person behind “Hitch Fan” left it to, what is surmised as an attempted permissive gainer for something it isn’t rather than be seen for what it is. It is what it is; so let it stand to be, and let it be what it is.
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So, what to do, what to do…carry a smile, just smile at all times, esp. smitten. :) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tKrbAUjBbvU&ob=av2e
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Charles Kingsley, said, ///....“And we shall be made truly wise if we be made content; content, too, not only with what we can understand, but content with what we do not understand—the habit of mind which theologians call—and rightly—faith in God.”...////
If you consider the application of – ///....“we shall be made truly wise if we be made content; content, too, not only with what we can understand, but content with what we do not understand”...//// – you would sooner or later come to deriving the conclusion, if you apply it to theologians that it would then need fairly be dispersed to be applied to scientists and science’s schematics, as well.
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Since, yes, a bunch did catch the flip-syde subtleties and am no longer so-so much M.I.A on-the-grid stats as prior (except at a backwards C//S, let those bones right ;) and sticking true and loyal to odes n’ codes Patrick Henry stylistic lovers “Give me Liberty or Give me death” stance of a prose writer and a bit of an unconventionalist, by art and its unconfined nature, I’d rather par up with movers and doers and standers, with the following quotes. As, this vantage scope of the playing field is where and why art comes into play and tests the grounds. Art endures. Art offers the companionship of the formidable connections of now, urgency and longevity. Legacy – such a regale atoning attenuation intonation inflection to the word while delivering an infliction to naysayers. Cruxly, appropos, regardless, if all there is, is this, every day, every time, I’d rather know within all is aligned in my soul anytime death knocks. Just, must gotta have something to share and faith upon for all those marvelous and wonder-filled death feats after-all. Nil sin Numine.
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Maybe humanities’ expectations need to be readjusted? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HO1OV5B_JDw
“Skepticism Is The Beginning Of Faith.” ~ Oscar Wilde
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///....“In faith there is enough light for those who want to believe and enough shadows to blind those who don't.”...//// ~ Blaise Pascal
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///....“I heard once of an American who so defined faith, "that faculty which enables us to believe things which we know to be untrue." For one, I follow that man. He meant that WE SHALL HAVE AN OPEN MIND, AND NOT LET A LITTLE BIT OF TRUTH CHECK THE RUSH OF THE BIG TRUTH, like a small rock does a railway truck. WE GET THE SMALL TRUTH first. Good! We keep him, and we value him, BUT ALL THE SAME WE MUST NOT LET HIM THINK HIMSELF ALL THE TRUTH IN THE UNIVERSE.”...//// ~ Bram Stoker, Dracula
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///....“We fall from womb to tomb, from one blackness and toward another, remembering little of the one and knowing nothing of the other...except through faith.”...////~ Stephen King
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///....“That in such righteousness /// To them by faith imputed they may find ///
Justification towards God, and peace /// Of conscience.”...//// ~ John Milton
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