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Driven by the fear of being a deadbeat

ParentDish

Sep 11th 2007 4:30PM Sounds to me, too, that you're doing an excellent job. But it's sometimes hard, yeah, to shrug off the societal dreck that might insist you're a loser simply for not having been able to remain with your kid's mother and thereby provide Aden no more than a single household in which to grow-up, and you there in it, day in day out.

But, fuck it, that situation would've made life hellish for you and her mom and thus much worse for Aden as well. And so I suggest that generally, empirically, you've made the wiser and more considerate choice regarding parenting.

And no one knows how my own daughter might've turned out if I'd stayed with her mom and we'd all had one house together ... but considering the sort of person that she, my spawn Angelica, has become ... I'm almost led to believe that our separated situation was (and continues to be) a distinctly *positive* influence, regardless of any possible alternatives regarding her madre and myself.

And you pay child support, yo, as do I; which renders us thoroughly decent vis-a-vis simple monetary obligations. And divorced or separated people who're not interested in their kids, for whatever reason, they're not BAD people, per se; they (as deleterious as it may be to the unfortunate child involved) are just people who're not interested dealing with a kid. And neither you nor I are that sort of person, anyway.
Aden's lucky she's got a father like you --- a considerate, smart, interesting and interested man who's there when he can be, rather than some uncultured troglodytic asshole who relentlessly lives with her because he happens to be married to her mother. My parents didn't get divorced until I was 33, and I'm retroactively jealous of Aden for having a childhood with such a good father.
Luck of the draw, man.
Luck of the motherfucking draw.

Get a First Life

Second Life Insider

Jan 23rd 2007 1:12PM F2 default applause until my hands bleed pixels.

Yay for teh Aimee!

SL Fashion, Personal Modifications, and Of Course, Drama.

Second Life Insider

Sep 11th 2006 6:49PM Well, this is certainly a fine mess. Can it be reduced further, to the point of absurdity ... or is it already there?

What creates the pixels that originally made up the textures or clothing or skins that were ripped? I'm a technical ignoramus ~ following my ignorance of most EVERYTHING, technical or not, to be sure ~ but (or maybe therefore) I wonder about this. Who originally generated those pixels? Is it the Lindens? Is it the people who built the processors in your PC or Mac or whatever? And good golly, have you TAKEN those pixels, have you ultimately ganked a bunch of ONES and ZEROES (for whom we must thank our distant Arabic predecessors) and twisted them to your own dark purposes? How DARE you?

And for that matter ~ Gwyneth ~ if I COULD buy the Mona Lisa, it would belong to ME. The physical Mona Lisa would be ~ mua ha ha ha ha! ~ mine, all mine. And if you think ~ or some group of ppl thinks ~ that I then don't have the "right" to add a mustache to the fucking thing, and even *sell it to someone else after I've added that improvement to it*, then which of us is confusing the "material support" with the "artistic work?" (Suggestion: It ain't me, sister.)

If you mod the "material support," that doesn't change the original "artistic work" at all. Or, if it does, then they're one and the same thing. And you've BOUGHT ~ and therefore OWN and can decide the disposition of ~ BOTH of them.

Or, what? Is there some kind of fuzzy logic that I'm too stupid to understand at play here?

Especially when you're not RE-SELLING something ~ a shirt, a car, a skin, in RL or SL ~ and therefore not profiting from another's initial labor (to which you've added your own), why shouldn't you be able to "mod" that something any way you desire for your own personal use? Or, c'mon, never EVER add a stitch to your favorite skirt, never EVER write your name (or apply an Ex Libris sticker) on your copy of GRAVITY'S RAINBOW, and don't even think of desecrating the design sensibility of umpteen automotive engineers by putting an "F THE PRESIDENT" sticker on your car's bumper! Draw little red horns on all your Hello Kitty paraphernalia? FUHGEDDABOUTIT!

And, and, and ~ bah. Something like this has me agreeing with the likes of Prok? Oy. Dark days, indeed.

Now I'mma go have a li'l conniption on everyone's behalf.

Laters,