Joanne98 primitive vicariously goes snow-shoeing

[franksolich]

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=103x505381

Oh my.

The Joanne98 primitive, or more accurately, the Joanne98 primitive copying-and-pasting a story she stole from some obscure place:

Joanne98  (1000+ posts)      Sat Dec-26-09 08:26 AM
#07 TOP PRIMITIVE OF 2009
Original message
 
My stepmother, the conservative  
 
This afternoon, I'm going snowshoeing through the woods with my girlfriend. This morning she's at work, caring for a quadriplegic man, helping him to enjoy the holiday. My daughter's at her mom's, and the rest of my family's on the other coast. My brother's in the hospital, having been admitted to the psych ward recently after experiencing a lost month culminating in a week he spent in the bed of his pickup truck, semi-conscious, suffering from pancreatic failure.

Me, I'm enjoying a quiet morning, a nice cuppa joe at my side and a snuggly cat in my lap. I'm in a pensive mood, and wish to share some of my thoughts with y'all here at kos. Follow me beyond the fold if you'd like to be part of my audience today. Oh, and Merry Christmas.

Ran3dy's diary :: :: My stepmother and I do not get along. We haven't gotten along for some decades now, ever since I decided to open my big mouth about the conditions of my home life--shedding light on the abuse, the violence, the alcoholism, the molestation my father and she had loosed on us children over the years. As coincidence would have it, I was coming of age at about the same time as she and my father were finding God. God had forgiven them for their sins, so their sins ceased to exist. God instructed my stepmom to no longer love me, because I was sent by the devil to challenge her faith. I am, in a word, totally evil, with not a single saving grace in her eyes. And worse that I'm a life-long liberal atheist who does not buy into her argument that America needs to become a Christian theocracy in order to save itself. Long story, with many sordid details you probably don't want any part of, but I needed to set the stage.

So you can imagine my surprise last week when I got an email from her advising me that my brother had been found. The first email was succinct and fairly straightforward, and I acknowledged it by thanking her for keeping me in the loop and leaving it at that. Unfortunately, she couldn't leave good enough alone, though, and felt compelled to send a follow up, telling me that my brother's two adult daughters were complete losers and how she was walking away from them. OK, to be expected from her; she has always tended to see the world in black and white. But then, in the very next paragraph, she shares some news about her biological daughter's children: two straight-A students, the oldest of which just got a full ride to Pepperdine on a baseball scholarship. About him, she says:

he will play baseball for the "Waves". Even gets to go to Japan and play. He is a very smart (4.3 GPA) will be a business major, is a wonderful young man, totally as good as gold. He is a left hand pitcher who throws accurately at 94 MPH at 17 years old.

Now, I wasn't in a very generous mood, so I send back a somewhat snippy reply, questioning her diplomacy of her combination of subject matter. To which she tells me:

RAN3DY, YOU ARE A FOOL A STUPID NASTY UGLY FOOL.

I was wrong and stupid to even try and understand or reach out to you. YOU NEED MENTAL HEALTH HELP TOO.

So it's on. Again. The flamewar between us continues for a week, encompassing 20 emails, going over the same ground as many times before: I'm delusional and making stuff up; she's only letting in what her filters allow her to see; blah, blah, blah. Turns out that my blood siblings, the four of us from my father's first marriage (but now she takes the opportunity to share that three of us probably weren't even HIS...you know my mother was that type, after all....) ruined her life when all she ever tried to do was spread love. Amazing stuff, really. I don't take any of it personally.....I learned many years ago to do that brush off thing that Obama made famous during the campaign.

And then in her final email, she wrote this wonderful passage:

Things were different then, people did not think about things, they just lived from day to day. A good day was not to many problems, a bad day was loosing a job or the president being killed. Things were easier, not so much drama, not so much looking at how hard stuff is. The Andy Griffin Show was fairly real, the way things really were, and frankly, I wish were still that way. Nice people did not talk about bad stuff. Bad stuff was ignored or you pretended it wasn't in front of you. Nothing was in your face, not sex, not booze, not drugs, not affairs, not being poor, nothing, you just worked from day to day and kept going.

And that got me to thinking. The world she describes is once of ignorance, of bliss. Don't think about bad things...not that they didn't exist, just that people didn't TALK about them. Don't talk about real life in which bad things happen to real people, sometimes even good people. No,

Bad stuff was ignored or you pretended it wasn't in front of you

So, they lived a lie. One that allowed them to look the other way, accept no accountability or responsibility for one's plights or those of others. Just keep your nose to the grindstone and soldier through.

And the Andy Griffith show was filmed, after all, in black and white.

So who did deal with the bad stuff? Umm...must've been Them. Or Him. It sure wasn't John or Jane Doe. The population was just living one day at a time, ignoring hard things. They listened to the news and obeyed the newscasters. Let someone else deal with it. It's not their problem.

And then it occurred to me that there's no surprise then, that she's a conservative Christian. Let go, let God. Trust someone else to deal with the bad stuff....just go about your daily life and don't think about it. Conservatives want us to go shopping, be good little consumers, and don't think about it. Trust what the almighty They says and pay no attention to the man behind the curtain. Listen to what They says and under absolutely no circumstances should the population ever stoop to think for ourselves. If we think, our ignorant bliss will be shattered. Andy Griffith will be canceled and Gays will want marriage.

Continued>>>

http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2009/12/25/818986/-My...

Ken Burch  (1000+ posts)        Sat Dec-26-09 08:32 AM
Response to Original message
 
1. Oh Dear God....  

For your own sanity, do not respond to this woman's emails. Block them with your spam filter if you need to. She's going to keep lashing out at you and trying to break you down if you remain in any contact.

It's possible she even sees her treatment of you as a necessary step towards "SAVING" you.

It's not.

She isn't acting according to the tenets of any religion. She's psychologically abusing you and trying to drag you back into her power, because she can't forgive you for escaping from her in the past.

Don't let her.

And, if she attempts to visit you in person, get a restraining order.

This person should not be in your life any longer.

She needs therapy and you need protection from her madness and her abuse.

This is a time to be strong and set boundaries. Hell, set a Berlin Wall with her.

I'm so sorry this gorgon is doing this to you. You do NOT deserve it.

Demeter  (1000+ posts)        Sat Dec-26-09 08:38 AM
Response to Reply #1
 
2. Second That  

We sane people cannot let the mentally and morally ill have any power over us or the public discourse, either.

Begone, Cheney and Palin!

Thus sayeth the demented primitive.

Tansy_Gold  (1000+ posts)        Sat Dec-26-09 09:11 AM
Response to Reply #1
 
5. Unless Joanne98 and Ran3dy are the same person, this isn't about Joanne98, is it?

Will withhold further comment for clarification.

Joanne98  (1000+ posts)      Sat Dec-26-09 03:51 PM
#07 TOP PRIMITIVE OF 2009
Response to Reply #1
 
11. It's not me! But my parents were conservatives too and I can relate.
 
My mother was a drunk, witch, and a pathological liar. It's why my GOP radar is so accurate!

winyanstaz  (1000+ posts)      Sat Dec-26-09 05:06 PM
Response to Reply #11
 
14. Dont you mean bitch..not witch?

A real witch's life's motto is "Harm none."

Please don't allow hollywood and the Christians tell you that Witches are bad and worship the Christian anti-God Satan. That is simply not true and never has been.
Satanist call themselves witches because they believe what they are doing is what a Witch would do because their own Christian teachers told them that. That is a lie. Harm none does not leave any room for evil and that rule includes harming the self.
Satan is no where to be found in the Witches concepts of God/Goddess/the Divine. He belongs to Christians and the Bent Christians/Satanist..that believe in him.

thanks for at least thinking about this.

franksolich thought about it, and doesn't think much of it.

Sorry.

[Carl]

When the insane and demented argue about different classifications of being insane and demented..

[GOBUCKS]

DUmmy JoAnne98 in the top ten is a surprise. She contributes zero to the entertainment value of the DUmp, since her activity is 99.987% copy-and-paste.

And the one time she posts a sentence she herself wrote, she gets called out for being a witchophobe.

[crockspot]

DUmmy JoAnne98 in the top ten is a surprise. She contributes zero to the entertainment value of the DUmp, since her activity is 99.987% copy-and-paste.

And the one time she posts a sentence she herself wrote, she gets called out for being a witchophobe.

But she can always be counted on to say in one breath that no government or leader should be trusted, and in the next breath, fellate Hugo Chavez to climax.

[NHSparky]

The Andy Griffin Show was fairly real, the way things really were, and frankly, I wish were still that way. Nice people did not talk about bad stuff.

What network was that show on?  I seem to recall watching the Andy GRIFFITH show.

[AllosaursRus]

I learned many years ago to do that brush off thing that Obama made famous during the campaign.

Living proof, these people are lock in step sheep!

Ya know what, idiot, it did used to be like Mayberry. We used to come together as a community. We helped each other. If one was down on his/her luck, we helped. That was until you hippy, drug guzzling, politically correct, morons, invaded America! Now most are afraid to get involved for fear of retribution. That is what liberalism has done to us!

If it were up to me, I'd ship ya all off to Mars! Maybe then we could live in my America again!

[Chris_]

Joanne98  (1000+ posts)      Sat Dec-26-09 03:51 PM
#07 TOP PRIMITIVE OF 2009
Response to Reply #1
 
11. It's not me! But my parents were conservatives too and I can relate.
 
My mother was a drunk, witch, and a pathological liar. It's why my GOP radar is so accurate!

So she's claiming her mother was a conservative AND a member of DU?

[franksolich]

So she's claiming her mother was a conservative AND a member of DU?

Actually, I suspect the Joanne98 primitive's taken her own characteristics and attributing them to her mother of blessed memory.

[The Village Idiot]

So she's claiming her mother was a conservative AND a member of DU?

haha

[PatriotGame]

God instructed my stepmom to no longer love me, because I was sent by the devil to challenge her faith. I am, in a word, totally evil, with not a single saving grace in her eyes. And worse that I'm a life-long liberal atheist who does not buy into her argument that America needs to become a Christian theocracy in order to save itself.

God cannot lie as he is pure.
Oh, one other item - There is NO gummint (Tax Payer) provided health care in hell. No need for it, eternity burning there and all.

[PatriotGame]

he will play baseball for the "Waves". Even gets to go to Japan and play. He is a very smart (4.3 GPA)

Wait a fracking minute here - the world I live in straight A's are a 4.0.
How the hell do you get a 4.3 GPA?

Smells like bullshit to me.

[NHSparky]

Wait a fracking minute here - the world I live in straight A's are a 4.0.
How the hell do you get a 4.3 GPA?

Smells like bullshit to me.

Honors/AP courses...at least in high school...5 point A in those.  Even when I went to HS, our valedictorian had like a 4.8 GPA.

[AllosaursRus]

It's why my GOP radar is so accurate!

Nothing like patting oneself on the back during a bouncy! Oh, and hey Johana, your idea of accurate and ours are likely 2 completely different definitions! Just like what you believe marriage , Hugo Chavez, Obuana, and Dimwits in general, are.