Preface: I was hesitant to post this so soon after Shanko's classic rant about the shidduch crisis, since it would push it further down the blog toward "older posts" oblivion, but I felt it had to be said anyway.
There are few things in life that are certain. Death. Taxes. Death taxes. Tax deathes. Shenkman getting rejected. The sun rising and setting. To this short list we may add: Humans' tendency to envy. What do Alex Rodriguez, Kobe Bryant, Barry Bonds, Bill Gates, and Tom Brady have in common? All were considered at some point in their lives the best at what they do, and all were reviled by much of America, ostensibly for being "arrogant" or "greedy" or "selfish" or some other pretext for hatred. But let's face it: People envied their success. The Old Testament anticipated this natural human condition when it warned "You shall not covet your wife's ass" (Genocide 69:42). But like so many other unrealistic Torah commandments, this one has been ignored from day one. I have especial knowledge of this since recently i fell victim to one man's ugly manifestation of envy. As part of the fastest-growing blog in America (source: dan rather), i expected to receive some comments aimed superficially at the blog's content but really with no deeper purpose than to deprecate a highly successful and informative blog. but like so many villains before him, joeyisanidiot (or "idiot" for short) will not prevail, for in times of adversity, another natural human tendency surfaces: unity. the girls over at yugst have offered their support and i say: we accept! for a three-stranded rope is not easily broken but a single rope tears essily (Days of our lives 14:35). tangent: i tried to comment but ya'll dont allow outsiders to comment. u should enable that if u wanna grow to ur full potential. people like inter[racial]action as opposed to just reading others' musings. anyway, for the time being we should stand together as one, and then the day the joeyisanidiot commented will be remembered not as a sorry blip on our road to stardom and self-fullfillment, but as the day that unity overcame envy.
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and for those of u saying that kobe bryant was reviled bc he committed adultery, not bc people were jealous of him, i invite u to step out of your victorian bubble and into reality. people commit adultery all the time and nobody cares. according to the law of averages, a good two or three people writing for this very blog will adulterate their marriages in the future. im going with shanko but we can make the bet official later this week if anyone else wants to participate, which i hope no one does bc its sick. kobe was envied, therefore hated, plain and simple. and now we can relate to that. fame comes with a price. thats why we should open our arms to supporters like yk, whoever that is kilstein.
ReplyDeleteCan we put up a poll for this? I would love to see who would win. I have my vote (but only if it is anonymous).
ReplyDeleteour bad... commment away
ReplyDeleteSo I was thinking about doing this earlier and sad to say it took seeing this post from Capital Punisher to give me the guts to do this (Yirmi I hope we don't get killed for this) but here it is - www.yugst.blogspot.com - I think that it should be visited atleast once in order to read their defense of our blog (and their now undying love for Capital Punisher, for whom they want to start a fan club for. Sorry Werd seems like you've been pushed aside)
ReplyDeleteim so happy that this boycott is over...it is over right???
ReplyDeleteyou seem a bit anxious there, its going to make people think you are desperate to get them to read your blog which is a turn off.
ReplyDeleteShow confidence in the material if you want peole to read it.
it best be over!!!!!
ReplyDeletei see you and i raise u: i just dont wanna be in this lil conflict anymore.
ReplyDeleteJoey,
ReplyDeleteYou are dead to me.
So Capital Punisher, there has been more controversy raised over this issue of the Free Market of Ideas, namely with my posting of a certain blog. I think that we need to call upon your powers as a lawyer to help us resolve these issues before they get out of hand.
ReplyDeletewe need taxes
ReplyDeleteYirmi, who do I speak to to get in on the fastest growing blog in our nation's history?
ReplyDeleteAnd where does money come in?
kilst--uh, yk,
ReplyDeletethe person to speak to is joseph frucht. hes usually pretty strict about letting in non-members, but may except former residents from the ban. just try to be yourself when u speak to him--confident, not desperate, smile a lot, prove your worth. as for money, its free to join, but we're probably not willing to split the ad revenue with you equally. ud get something if ur posts are good enough, but less than the rest of us.
yirms,
ReplyDeleteis there revenue?
who is werm?
Love,
Marni
I am
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ReplyDeleteMarni, werd is Droof Eld, avi feld's younger brother. there is no revenue yet, since no one has volunteered to sell ad space. if u can sell an ad ur in.
ReplyDeleteI am all for the addition of Kilstein as a staff writer. He may be one of the most humorous individuals in Upper Manhattan.
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