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 Topic: The Sin Of Greed

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     OP - December 21, 2013, 08:24 AM
    After a lot of thought, I decided to create this thread. My main concern was my actual identity being linked to this project, but I feel that I am anonymous enough on here to share.

    http://sinofgreed.wordpress.com/

    My apologizes to Ex-Hijabi for previously hijacking her thread.
    "Work without hope draws nectar in a sieve, and hope without an object cannot live." -Coleridge

    http://sinofgreed.wordpress.com/
  • The Sin Of Greed
     Reply #1 - December 21, 2013, 09:13 AM
    I thank you for that Smiley I didn't know you had a blog - I just want you to know that I have very high expectations because of your posts here now that I'm going to read it Tongue
    Danish Never-Moose adopted by the kind people on the CEMB-forum
    Ex-Muslim chat (Unaffliated with CEMB). Safari users: Use "#ex-muslims" as the channel name. CEMB chat thread.
  • The Sin Of Greed
     Reply #2 - December 21, 2013, 09:33 AM
    That is an amazing compliment. Thank you and I hope you find it interesting. Smiley
    "Work without hope draws nectar in a sieve, and hope without an object cannot live." -Coleridge

    http://sinofgreed.wordpress.com/
  • The Sin Of Greed
     Reply #3 - December 21, 2013, 01:24 PM
    Now I can talk about it!
    I love this blog, the style is intriguing, the content is honest, and I am always waiting for more.
    Don't let Hitler have the street.
  • The Sin Of Greed
     Reply #4 - December 21, 2013, 06:42 PM
    My biggest supporter. Thank you.
    "Work without hope draws nectar in a sieve, and hope without an object cannot live." -Coleridge

    http://sinofgreed.wordpress.com/
  • The Sin Of Greed
     Reply #5 - December 21, 2013, 11:26 PM
    Part 12

    http://sinofgreed.wordpress.com/2013/12/21/part-12/
    "Work without hope draws nectar in a sieve, and hope without an object cannot live." -Coleridge

    http://sinofgreed.wordpress.com/
  • The Sin Of Greed
     Reply #6 - December 22, 2013, 12:11 AM
    Oh, you always leave one hanging. I will never get used to it, I fear. Great technique.
    Don't let Hitler have the street.
  • The Sin Of Greed
     Reply #7 - December 22, 2013, 12:16 AM
    Must be my sadistic streak showing! Your support really has kept me going at it.
    "Work without hope draws nectar in a sieve, and hope without an object cannot live." -Coleridge

    http://sinofgreed.wordpress.com/
  • The Sin Of Greed
     Reply #8 - December 22, 2013, 12:22 AM
    I think it is probably sadism, and that adds to the emotional conveyance, I am sure, but you have been churning them out lately. You are going to feel great when it is done.
    I have been meaning to do what you are doing, but I never could get it all together to be properly chronological. I think DA has designs on that, sometimes he mentions it as some sort of project he wants to do with me. I have been giving him pieces, but I just cannot organize it.
    Don't let Hitler have the street.
  • The Sin Of Greed
     Reply #9 - December 22, 2013, 12:28 AM
    Organization is the hardest thing. I find myself jumping ahead in my thoughts when I am writing and have to fight the urge to include EVERYTHING. That is not possible so I just stick to the stuff that is important to me as a person and helped shape who I am.

    What works is just sitting down and getting into the moment, think of the time you are writing about and think of it as the present. I tried to do it in the past too, but I could not be as direct. It was still very hard for me so I resorted to ambiguous poetry. One thing that helps a lot is recognizing when something is wrong and is not the norm for everyone.

    You'll get it eventually. It's good that DA is helping you.
    "Work without hope draws nectar in a sieve, and hope without an object cannot live." -Coleridge

    http://sinofgreed.wordpress.com/
  • The Sin Of Greed
     Reply #10 - December 22, 2013, 12:29 AM
    You don't have to. You can just type and see what comes out. Nothing wrong with that.
    `But I don't want to go among mad people,' Alice remarked.
     `Oh, you can't help that,' said the Cat: `we're all mad here. I'm mad.  You're mad.'
     `How do you know I'm mad?' said Alice.
     `You must be,' said the Cat, `or you wouldn't have come here.'
  • The Sin Of Greed
     Reply #11 - December 22, 2013, 12:35 AM
    That is also true. That's how this started.
    "Work without hope draws nectar in a sieve, and hope without an object cannot live." -Coleridge

    http://sinofgreed.wordpress.com/
  • The Sin Of Greed
     Reply #12 - December 22, 2013, 01:28 AM
    Quote from: movingfeet on December 22, 2013, 12:28 AM
    Organization is the hardest thing. I find myself jumping ahead in my thoughts when I am writing and have to fight the urge to include EVERYTHING. That is not possible so I just stick to the stuff that is important to me as a person and helped shape who I am.

    What works is just sitting down and getting into the moment, think of the time you are writing about and think of it as the present. I tried to do it in the past too, but I could not be as direct. It was still very hard for me so I resorted to ambiguous poetry. One thing that helps a lot is recognizing when something is wrong and is not the norm for everyone.

    You'll get it eventually. It's good that DA is helping you.


    I have to fight including everything, too. I think the emotional soup bogs me down, and I get too upset to slog through it. That's probably why your style is so appealing to me, it sidesteps that emotional mire and gets the events out there. I might need more control.
    Don't let Hitler have the street.
  • The Sin Of Greed
     Reply #13 - December 22, 2013, 01:44 AM
    Some of the stuff that I write about now doesn't bother me as much as it used to when younger. I see it as a way to get back to my roots. Remember who I used to be, remember that core has never changed.
    "Work without hope draws nectar in a sieve, and hope without an object cannot live." -Coleridge

    http://sinofgreed.wordpress.com/
  • The Sin Of Greed
     Reply #14 - December 22, 2013, 01:57 AM
    I hope to see it that way someday. When I had my first pregnancy, my entire life replayed out for me night after night when I could not sleep. In chronological order, as if I were processing it in preparation for birth. I wish I had written it down.
    All subsequent pregnancies contained lengthy and intricate spy dreams, that played out over months.
    What was I thinking? Not recording all of that?
    Don't let Hitler have the street.
  • The Sin Of Greed
     Reply #15 - December 22, 2013, 02:02 AM
    Wow. You could have created an entire franchise on those.
    "Work without hope draws nectar in a sieve, and hope without an object cannot live." -Coleridge

    http://sinofgreed.wordpress.com/
  • The Sin Of Greed
     Reply #16 - December 22, 2013, 02:07 AM
     Afro
    `But I don't want to go among mad people,' Alice remarked.
     `Oh, you can't help that,' said the Cat: `we're all mad here. I'm mad.  You're mad.'
     `How do you know I'm mad?' said Alice.
     `You must be,' said the Cat, `or you wouldn't have come here.'
  • The Sin Of Greed
     Reply #17 - December 22, 2013, 02:19 AM
    Quote from: movingfeet on December 22, 2013, 02:02 AM
    Wow. You could have created an entire franchise on those.


    Those dreams really brought home just how bad I was at dialogue and choreography. Because they were perfect, and I cannot write like that at all.
    Don't let Hitler have the street.
  • The Sin Of Greed
     Reply #18 - December 22, 2013, 02:22 AM
    I don't think I am either. Did it a few times. We'll see how I work it out soon enough.

    A friend just called me disturbed after reading the blog. Tongue
    "Work without hope draws nectar in a sieve, and hope without an object cannot live." -Coleridge

    http://sinofgreed.wordpress.com/
  • The Sin Of Greed
     Reply #19 - December 22, 2013, 02:26 AM
    I think there is a great note of "disturbed" in all the posts but one. The other style belies it, it reads like emotional relief, really.
    Either your friend is disturbed by content, or by the contrast.
    The content is honest. The contrast makes your character whole.
    Don't let Hitler have the street.
  • The Sin Of Greed
     Reply #20 - December 22, 2013, 02:32 AM
    Out of curiosity, which one was is the undisturbed post?

    That's exactly how I see the intermissions. As relief for the reader from heavy content. I think after two more posts, it will be time for another. Issue is picking the right ones for it.

    Perhaps the friend is not used to honest reading. Either way, it amused me.
    "Work without hope draws nectar in a sieve, and hope without an object cannot live." -Coleridge

    http://sinofgreed.wordpress.com/
  • The Sin Of Greed
     Reply #21 - December 22, 2013, 02:34 AM
    I wouldn't say disturbed at all.
    `But I don't want to go among mad people,' Alice remarked.
     `Oh, you can't help that,' said the Cat: `we're all mad here. I'm mad.  You're mad.'
     `How do you know I'm mad?' said Alice.
     `You must be,' said the Cat, `or you wouldn't have come here.'
  • The Sin Of Greed
     Reply #22 - December 22, 2013, 02:43 AM
    I don't think of it that way either. How would you describe it?
    "Work without hope draws nectar in a sieve, and hope without an object cannot live." -Coleridge

    http://sinofgreed.wordpress.com/
  • The Sin Of Greed
     Reply #23 - December 22, 2013, 03:01 AM
    Insightful.
    `But I don't want to go among mad people,' Alice remarked.
     `Oh, you can't help that,' said the Cat: `we're all mad here. I'm mad.  You're mad.'
     `How do you know I'm mad?' said Alice.
     `You must be,' said the Cat, `or you wouldn't have come here.'
  • The Sin Of Greed
     Reply #24 - December 22, 2013, 03:45 AM
    Makes me happy to read.
    "Work without hope draws nectar in a sieve, and hope without an object cannot live." -Coleridge

    http://sinofgreed.wordpress.com/
  • The Sin Of Greed
     Reply #25 - December 22, 2013, 03:48 AM
    Happy that it gives me insight to a life and experience I would never have had otherwise, or you feel happy reading your own words?
    `But I don't want to go among mad people,' Alice remarked.
     `Oh, you can't help that,' said the Cat: `we're all mad here. I'm mad.  You're mad.'
     `How do you know I'm mad?' said Alice.
     `You must be,' said the Cat, `or you wouldn't have come here.'
  • The Sin Of Greed
     Reply #26 - December 22, 2013, 03:58 AM
    Quote from: movingfeet on December 22, 2013, 02:32 AM
    Out of curiosity, which one was is the undisturbed post?

    Perhaps the friend is not used to honest reading. Either way, it amused me.


    Love, Various Voices... is to me, undisturbed.
    The honest recounts of imperfect childhoods, have, in my opinion, always contained all this judgement or intentional emotional manipulation of the reader. Yours does not. It could be this absence of bias that disturbs one.
    Don't let Hitler have the street.
  • The Sin Of Greed
     Reply #27 - December 22, 2013, 04:21 AM
    I wanted to just state the facts and let others make their own decisions on the events and me without even having to know me. It's an interesting experiment. I think you touched on something interesting. Perhaps most people will feel the same?
    "Work without hope draws nectar in a sieve, and hope without an object cannot live." -Coleridge

    http://sinofgreed.wordpress.com/
  • The Sin Of Greed
     Reply #28 - December 22, 2013, 11:04 AM
    I just read your latest entry and I loved it. Especially the starting part with the different notebooks for each subject, the special colored covers, etc. I'm all too familiar with that  Wink

    I'll read more whenever I can. Good blog Smiley
    He's no friend to the friendless
    And he's the mother of grief
    There's only sorrow for tomorrow
    Surely life is too brief
  • The Sin Of Greed
     Reply #29 - December 22, 2013, 12:14 PM
    Glad you enjoyed that post! I really liked writing it.

    I know I said before that the stuff I am writing about does not affect me as much anymore, but that is not the case this time. Two of the events described I have only told one other person about.

    I remember three and I discussing this and we talking it as if it were reliving the event. I think now that it's more like recompiling and analyzing the events with a more mature and knowledgeable mind.

    http://sinofgreed.wordpress.com/2013/12/22/part-13/
    "Work without hope draws nectar in a sieve, and hope without an object cannot live." -Coleridge

    http://sinofgreed.wordpress.com/
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