chex mix is yummy!

No.

Yes.

WERE YOU AT A PARTY EATING CHEX MIX WHILE NOT AT A PARTY IS A SIGN

so.... am i missing something? does anyone else get confused that antigone just umm... goes into random places and writes yes and no? is there any pattern or reference that i'm just not getting?

am i missing something? i interpreted it that Antigone had an opinion about Chex Mix at 3:14 p.m. on Saturday, April 1, and sometime between then and 5:18 a.m. on Sunday, he had an experience with Chex Mix, possibly at a party, that caused him to change his mind, which he registered forthwith.

maybe.

maybe it happened that way? or maybe i'm missing something?

although it may be the case, for i am not one to say that it certainly not the case, i believe that antigone just enters conversations and puts yes and no in no particular order, that i can decifer. i wouldn't be so quick to assume this, but i've noticed it in other conversations as well... or in this case he could have... umm... had a bad experience... with chex mix...yeah... maybe it was burnt or maybe someone forgot to put peanuts in it or something like that...

Nah, he's just trying to qualify for asshole of the world and thinks this is the way to win himself the title.

i wonder why he calls himself antigone... the asshole... if he wants the title i feel that i should not be the one to stop him.

No no no....you've got it all wrong. He's not *really* an asshole. He's much appreciated around these parts.

oh dear... it'll be hard to get this all straight. .. he's an appreciated asshole.

Yes.

Order.

No.

we love Antigone. even if he is a Boring play.

Gaaack. Augh. Not. A. Boring. Play. Philistine. Certainly not my FAVORITE. But not BORING. I think it's one of Nussbaum's favorites, integral to the flesh of the fragility of goodness.

"the fragility of goodness" I've been thinking about that a lot lately. I read an interview with David Bazan of Pedro the Lion in which he said that he had struggled for years to "be good" and he had always failed. He then described the freedom that came with realizing that he wasn't a good person and he never would be. Now I've never read "Antigone," so I don't know how this issue is dealt with in that play, and seeing how it was written pre-Christianity, I imagine that the Greeks' conception of goodness would be different than our own. But if you believe that people are inherently good, and that one can do bad things and still be a good person, goodness is quite robust. People make mistakes. I know I insult people unknowingly all the time. I certainly don't mean to and I don't plan to....so while insulting people is bad, I don't think that *I'm bad* because I do it. I also think there are very few people who truly enjoy doing wrong and aren't just kidding themselves. I do know people who say that they don't care that they do wrong but clearly are fooling themselves, because they have a very low self-opinion and are unhappy people. So doing wrong doesn't sit right with them, and how could that tension exist if not for the goodness inside them?

jar head, if you are really interested i suggest you read eevry thread available....then you might be able to understand why antigone is antigone and why antigone posts what he posts.....or at least know for sure you don't know why he does what he does and be entirely happy with that knowledge in your ignorance. I am not sure if you have rcvd the cynics welcome to sorabji......so eat a dick!

I,m having tube steak tonight for dinner,Antigone,s....don,t you dare tell him.

patrick... i think i got it already... in fact... i think i received it from you. it's bell_jar. though you knew that. make cracks at me personally, please, but leave the name alone. if it'll be a problem i'll change it, but we owe sylvia the respect... i am certain.

No one who chooses to off herself, leaving 3 little kids behind, deserves respect, and I'm guessing Patrick would agree. Right, old boy?

So let's see you do one thing as graceful as Sylvia Plath... So let's see you do one thing as graceful as Sylvia Plath... So let's see you do one thing as senselessly cruel as Sylvia Plath.

i am so old, no really, my spirit is a writhered rung-out dishrag to dry in a crackling, dusty desert. i really don't care what the lady did in her personal life, her poems could easily appeal to me right now and i have liked them in the past.... Although Spider, i generally would agree with you. I didn't agree with Miller's promiscuity, or neglect for his kids at certain times....but damned if i don't think he is one of the greatest writers of the 20th century.... by the way, I have been meaning to dive into Ionesco...an influence from a Miller essay...any thoughts or opinions on him....... also...if you have not seen the Hal Hartly film Henry Fool......i suggest you get it....it's a great little flic.....

It is funny that you wrote only a few hours ago that people are good and only do bad things. i completely agree with this. however, i find it hard for you to say that a person should be wholly disrespected for one aspect of their being. all people are good good people do bad things suicide is a bad thing (or so they say) therefore, people who commit suicide are still good. do you think that good people don't deserve respect?

in liou of my previous handle....I am officially waffling on this topic..... my fucking god the irony of this conversation. yes, good people can do bad. it happens all the time. We are only human and subject to whims of the day, despite negative repercussions. furthermore i only reserve brutal judgement for those who beat helpless furry animals. poop

I didn't say she was a bad person. I said she didn't deserve respect. From me. What God thinks of her is another matter and out of my hands. I also have a great aversion to her poetry, with the exception of the six-line "The Hanging Man" and the last three lines of "Lady Lazarus." Oddly enough, I do like Yeats, even though he too rolled in the angst more than a bit.

are you the yeats fan i once played scrabble with?

i think that was shannon.

How do you play Scrabble online? I haven't played Scrabble since I was a kid. I don't remember why, but I always quit the game in a big huff.

i've been hearin about this scrabble i wanna play dammit

Yet another wonderful Sorabji thread. From chex mix to a little gratuitous Antigone worship, to David Bazan, to gratuitous little Antigone worship, to Sylvia Plath, to "are you the yeats fan i once played scrabble with?" It's only wonderful because of the tubesteak comment, though.

and i worship you, antigone.

all people are not good. Where did this idea come from? All people are not bad either. they're just people. The idea of good and bad is totally subjective, anyway, so what are we talking about? I still love Auden. Rhiannon, did you see his poem about Yeats? sniffle.

and I wooship yoo too droopy!

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0521277027/o/qid=954858395/sr=8-1/ref=aps_sr_b_1_1/103-1766296-2154243 Rhi: Nussbaum is a bit more Aristotelian than I am prepared to get, but this book is a good read.