"Prepare for rejection...you'll get no direction from me..."
Yes, as Bad Religion, may we forget everything they put out after Generator, put it...if you agree with a concept put forth in a song and the ideas presented, make up your own mind, decide you agree with the ideology, don't just do it because it is found in the lyrics of a song by a band you worship. Come on...avoid things that pollute your body because you care about yourself, not because you care about being a devoted follower of a defunct band. This is the difference between human and sheep.
On another note:
The ink in tattooing is obviously nontoxic. Nobody is getting inked with some sort of lead based printing ink. Come on...use some common sense here. Where it comes from, I don't know, but I certainly know there'd be a lot of us with symptoms of it's "toxicity" by now.
On a final note:
I find that many straight edgers have a bad tendency to use it as their own cross..."look at me, I deprive myself, so that makes up for the fact I'm a socially inept, preachy, self-righteous asshole." Do it for you, not to look cool, or prove how "alternative" you are. If that's what you're looking for, move to Seattle, wear plaid flannel and Doc Martins, and buy Pearl Jam bootlegs. That realm of poseurdom is dead.
The Trash Heap has spoken!
Yes, as Bad Religion, may we forget everything they put out after Generator, put it...if you agree with a concept put forth in a song and the ideas presented, make up your own mind, decide you agree with the ideology, don't just do it because it is found in the lyrics of a song by a band you worship. Come on...avoid things that pollute your body because you care about yourself, not because you care about being a devoted follower of a defunct band. This is the difference between human and sheep.
On another note:
The ink in tattooing is obviously nontoxic. Nobody is getting inked with some sort of lead based printing ink. Come on...use some common sense here. Where it comes from, I don't know, but I certainly know there'd be a lot of us with symptoms of it's "toxicity" by now.
On a final note:
I find that many straight edgers have a bad tendency to use it as their own cross..."look at me, I deprive myself, so that makes up for the fact I'm a socially inept, preachy, self-righteous asshole." Do it for you, not to look cool, or prove how "alternative" you are. If that's what you're looking for, move to Seattle, wear plaid flannel and Doc Martins, and buy Pearl Jam bootlegs. That realm of poseurdom is dead.
The Trash Heap has spoken!
-
Re: Ideology? Bandwagoning? Metooism?
Mon, August 16, 2004 - 3:35 PMDamn good points you make. I dated an edger for close to two years, and some of the people I met being involved with him ran the gamut from the batshit crazy to the incredibly intellectually sound. The intellectually sound ones seemed to have a much firmer grasp on the choice they made and how to respond to other people's questioning of their lifestyle, usually with humor and with an attempt to achieve mutual respect. The batshit crazy ones responded similarly to the mouth breather who responded to my admittedly testy remarks on that other thread about tattooing, sometimes with more eloquence, most times not.
I guess I'll leave this tribe, since I don't really care for the ideology myself, and I'm feeling there won't be many who respect my own ideologies thusly. -
-
Re: Ideology? Bandwagoning? Metooism?
Wed, August 18, 2004 - 5:36 AMokay, this i can deal with.
if you are respectful, then i will be (although i don't think i was necessarily disrespectful). i live for myself. i don't try to convert. i just thought you were trashing everyone that was edge and everything about it.
i honestly have almost no friends that are edge. most of my friends drink, smoke, and more. if i preach at all (and i would have to hear some serious arguments to say that i did before i would believe it), it would be by example not by words. i almost never talk about edge unless its brought up by someone else.
-
