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and to read this inbox which I once used as an essay senior year.
also I'm cracking up at loaded05 and geah posting within minutes of each other, where is the stacyadams login?
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From: Don_Jawnson
Date: Apr 07th 2002
Dignity's an odd thing. When it is lost, people tend to find blades or .45's or they attach vaccum cleaner hoses to the exhuast and run it to the front seat, lost in a carbon monoxide euphoria (do they dream after they pass out? Dream, then die. Hm.). The japanese would get hardcore and disembowel themselves, and that was seen as an honorable thing to do. Which, it may be. It's certainly a debatable subject, unlike 'who's faster--superman or the flash?' The flash is, of course, that's his whole gig. He could circle the earth seven times in one second, for crying out loud! And sup--
anyway.
Having dignity is the next best thing to ice cream on a hot day. Most people find dignity on pay day, it hits them when theyre stuck in traffic and they realize that they wont have to resort to prostitution for another week.
Tangent number one:
Prostitutes have dignity too, dont get me wrong. Why give it away for free? I'm sure some would tell you that the ones who arent getting paid are the ones lacking dignity. They're both getting used, but after they shower off, one of them can dip to Wendy's and biggie size their fries. In america, the service industry employs more than any other industry, and anyone that works for free is a sucker.
anyway.
i am not convinced that dignity actually exists. its just a mental construct, given power by Webster's and all the people that believe in it. It's a concept, but that's about it. oh wait, this is my 'god does not exist' argument. oops.
dignity does exist and you are only aware of it when it is threatened. dignity is an elderly person making it to the bathroom before they defecate themselves. it's a battered wife leaving her abusive husband, and smiling thru a bloody lip. dignity is seven letters long and spelled backwards is ytingid.
after 9/11, dignity is more important than ever, and.......i can't believe i just typed that. it must be some sort of virus, after 9/11, everyone feels the need to mention that we are lving in a world post 9/11, and that suddenly EVERY LAST THING is the most important thing in the world because it's post 9/11. is that dignity, or overcompensating? post 9/11, that question is more important than ever.
did you know that the seahorse is the only species where the male gives birth? what does this have to do with dignity? uh...
the grocery store is full of people with dignity. the lady from down the block wearing curlers, sweats and house shoes, and the well dressed woman in a business suit that sniggers at her. which one has dignity? the one that wont leave the house w/o makeup, or the one that has enough self confidence to rock any old thing because there are more important things in life?
dignity, much like reality, is user defined. we all have our own ideas about it, and if we had to, we could defend them to our death. dignity is what you make it.
and that is fine with me.
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