Better question would be, do I know any bad ones?

Can’t say that I have, though I’ve heard of that being done. I’ve eaten watermelon with salt, and many types of fruit with cheese,and so I imagine it to be somewhat similar.

If you read the FAQ, you will see that this blog is an experiment and human behavior. It’s really very simple, in that all the readers agree to the rules. I will tell you details about my life, some of which will be obscured so as to protect my location. This includes details on my website, publications, my reflections upon current events, recipes, historical events I witnessed, and so forth. I never give any photographic or auditory or video proof of anything pertaining to my specific reality. I will then put out surveys and other means of data collection, in which readers will participate. I will ask all sorts of questions, but the most important one is about what they believe.

To that end, the blog is something of a communal space. We have very strict rules of behavior, which I moderate. I endeavor to be kind and polite and compassionate so as to make this interaction as smooth as possible. I entertain my readers through some light humor and “SPOOPY“ references.

You may scroll through if you wish, hang about and participate, read the FAQ and sod off, or jump Feetfirst into the rabbit hole as your sister appears to have done.

I am a monster, in that I am a non-human species. My principal dietary requirement is human flash. I’m not Cruel or bizarre about it. In fact I’m rather scientific. Accept that as the foundation of our interaction and you will be quite at home here.

All that being said, I’m very happy to be of such service to your sister. I do hope that she enjoys her time here. I do endeavor to make it as friendly and easy an experience as possible.

You should, however, warn her off becoming too fixated. Not altogether healthy. Im charming, most of the time, but I do eat people. It’s always good to remain vigilant for one’s safety and peace of mind.

Welcome to both of you.

Let it give you some perspective. The people we encounter along our path are far more important than the ones who happened to push us out into the world. A lot of people say, “oh well, but if they didn’t do that I wouldn’t be here!“ But that’s all a lot of stufin nonsense. For them it was the luck of the draw. They put you out possibly with some thought, but without the ability to know how their way of life my conflict with yours, or who you might become. People you choose along the way come to you because of who you are.

You are not beholden to your past, to your blood, to any person or entity that offends you even if you come from it. Those things do not define you. You define you.

That thought, that your family won’t be at your wedding, shouldn’t dismay you. That should make you very happy. Who would want such people around them on the happiest day of their life? Now I know that it’s the general idea of lacking family that upsets you, but as I’ve said it’s the luck of the draw, while your friends, are intentional. I’d rather be alone in this world, than surrounded by terrible vicious bastards, personally. So realize your nature, humans are pack animals. You are social creature and what you crave is that sociability, that camaraderie. You can find that anywhere, and in larger supply, without strictures or conditions. You can make your own family that is supportive and true. So see this as the opportunity to know where you stand and set out on that quest to surround yourself with people who are authentic, compassionate, kind.

I used to comfort myself in dealing with these sorts of people by saying, “oh well they will have miserable lives.“ And now I realize how naïve that was, and frankly how silly. Yes they will have miserable lives, but because they are so stupid, they will never know that their lives are miserable. Because they are so self-centered, all the things that occur to them because of their transgressions, all their consequences, will be the faults of others and not their own. They will have tiny narrow existences, which they might conceive to be rather nice. However you and I will know that their lives are narrow, their perspective shallow, their experience one layer deep. So, now, I no longer say that to myself. Instead I say, “thank heaven they’re stupid enough not to feel their own misery.“ What a lovely condition that is, to never be mindful of your own faults.

That’s the trouble with you, you see. You remind them that there’s things outside of their experience that exist. They cannot tolerate that, and so they reject you. Their treatment of you is an extension of their unmitigated imbecility. How wondrous you are, that you manage to pull yourself out of such muck. How the devil did you even come to be? It’s somewhat magical.

So don’t see yourself as the cast off of a group of people to whom you are bow beholden. See yourself as the improbable, exceptional vanguard From humble beginnings. Because that is actually the truth and not the conditioning that they are attempting to use to control you.

You did your best for others, which is a credit to you, and their behavior is a discredit to them. That is all I see from the situation, all anyone of substance will see. You did your best, while they did their least.

Now bugger off, and stop speaking to them. You don’t need villains like that in your life. Look at it this way, if the universe saw fit to birth you from those villains, you’ve had more than your fair share. So look at it as an opportunity to work toward your statistically probable happiness.

No.

Very good. I look forward to it. Don’t let this one get mangled. Photograph it as soon as you’re finished, then it won’t matter

Thank you. I hope the same for you.

if you want. I don’t see why not. If you want to compete against one another, you ought to go in separately, because there’s only the one prize