cats are vermin. they berely taste better than chicken.. and get into more places. farmers know/knew not to put their beds where animals like them liked to rest, the energies they like are said to be long-term-bad for people, never mind the schiz connection; anyway they make my eyes tear, my nose snivel, they pollute my atmosphere. i dont go to cat people parties, i have very few of them as friends.
on my first work-day in ca, on walking into my office, there was a self-identified zen master computer networking consultant who was serious when he declared how essential he was going to be, how we were going nowhere without his ability to plug-in power-cords. something i said made him leave inside about an elapsed minute. somehow he started running away when i came out into the hall after him with the power-cords he'd so suddenly dropped.
that man became the first person to knowingly put me on his shit-list. over the years since i've found myself on a few more shit-lists. of them all, Bob Denny of 'WebSite Pro' fame was the only one to actually make a skull and bones page with my name on it.. after i had predicted that ms was going to beat him at his game.. easter '96, i think.. but there were a few more who decided never to talk to me again.
< right here i'd like to insert a topological transform of a donut into an ax-head and then into a coffeemug. these shapes are identical after all.. and the ax-head makes the fire-wood .. and structures needed for both of them :) >
at first i was scared by these reactions and clueless about them. "new yorkers would have know to take this".. i thought. but that wasn't it at all. I had simply blundered into someone's fears without giving those fears the 'proper respect' as accorded them by their posessor. a lot of times people tell you stories about things to convey a sense of something which they can not or will not describe more directly. stories of their value-systems, stories of how they bend and twist to hold on to a perspective which they are convinced of as being 'them' or worse, morally superior, even that of the divine.
the worse they are cathected, the swifter they crack under internal polarization between their perceptual system (the ego) and our common existance here. I used to have childhood wounds which would make me cringe, withdraw, separate etc when I so triggered people. (I'll write a story about the sister i never had later today to give some background.) ..but had learned enough to know that someone else's explosions were about them, not me, basically.
anyway, even though i have a short fuse in places, i've learned to be patient (studying the clockwork of astrology, how it thinks of time, helped loads), never to issue ultimatums - and to measure twice. so when today someone blows up at me for what i'm doing i can usually just be with it.