tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-945783876327380823.post5934118753195002116..comments2024-03-28T03:19:00.918-04:00Comments on The Butler and Bagman Chronicles: House Odors and the End of the Human RaceBagman and Butlerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06760203276065466927noreply@blogger.comBlogger13125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-945783876327380823.post-67192219884122779222009-08-13T15:25:16.092-04:002009-08-13T15:25:16.092-04:00Tried to comment on this yesterday but Blogger for...Tried to comment on this yesterday but Blogger for some reasons wouldn't let me. Anyway, great essay! You're being way too hard on your writing abilities. A lot of food for thought. So true...but so human. Anyone examined close up, I suppose, would make no sense to a great majority of others. What makes people so endlessly fascinating...Cherylhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01679485132057382813noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-945783876327380823.post-49448361566678833962009-08-13T10:51:47.541-04:002009-08-13T10:51:47.541-04:00Great post. Very thought provoking. And the commen...Great post. Very thought provoking. And the comments are just as good.<br /><br />All true about becoming adjusted. But remember Wiley Coyote and the Roadrunner? Everyone has their Achilles' Heel (except me, of course). Different for each individual but fall into groups. The good ol' days. Were they?Si's bloghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10175544032803867701noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-945783876327380823.post-36536918480956610592009-08-13T10:13:52.010-04:002009-08-13T10:13:52.010-04:00Well, this proves to me that we need to send out s...Well, this proves to me that we need to send out scouts to find Bagman and Dorethea. <br /><br />Now I know who almost hit me in Cambridge. <br /><br />A 'thinking' post, to be sure but I have a hard day ahead of me and I came here for a little fun. And look what you give me!<br /><br />Seriously, you are so right. I seldom watch TV. Our TIVO picks up old shows like Beaver and Lucy - a good snort of the old days at bedtime before I read a book or turn off the lights. <br /><br />Sciencegirl, I am with you on Funniest Home Videos. I stopped wathcing that when it first came out because I knew people would harm animals in order to get their video on TV. <br /><br />I wonder what happended to commom sense? I read yesterday that some teen set himself on fire becasue he saw someone do it on You Tube. I think he had his girlfriend pour lighter fluid on him. Is there something in the food that makes people do such things or is there a virus going around called stupidity?<br /><br />Well, now. I am going to have to put a smile on my face and head out. Bagman? Dorethea? Where are you?<br /><br />Oh, and keep your camera handy. You never know when you will capture a 'happening' news photo.aurbiehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04234712574405718245noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-945783876327380823.post-39586711081481752562009-08-12T18:49:54.231-04:002009-08-12T18:49:54.231-04:00Great post -- regardless of which one of you guys ...Great post -- regardless of which one of you guys wrote it. I frequently have very similar thoughts and wonder how we could go forward and backward at the same time???? How much simpler life was then, but would I go back, I don't know, probably not. But I do miss the values that we seem to have lost somewhere along the way and wonder if we'll ever recover any of them??? Probably not. Thanks for the thoughts to ponder.<br /><br />SylviaSylvia Khttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05484577678585907669noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-945783876327380823.post-43774383927939025102009-08-12T15:04:19.169-04:002009-08-12T15:04:19.169-04:00Very thought provoking post. I've found mysel...Very thought provoking post. I've found myself thinking some of those same thoughts recently. As a society we have progressed and regressed at the same time.Chelehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00796793086168646910noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-945783876327380823.post-29528250265730805602009-08-12T10:49:58.991-04:002009-08-12T10:49:58.991-04:00well done, guys!
I must agree with Jo, while playi...well done, guys!<br />I must agree with Jo, while playing with my grandgirls...the world becomes a 'safe' place once again. Yesterday we leafed through a copy of Highlights and read Goofus & Gallant...truly the world would be a better place if we all read a bit of Goofus & Gallant daily, applying what we learn.<br />Remember When????<br />~AMAnonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10433907044785046226noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-945783876327380823.post-55069781834100293992009-08-12T10:38:31.047-04:002009-08-12T10:38:31.047-04:00Thought provoking post, Butler. Tell Mark he's...Thought provoking post, Butler. Tell Mark he's come a long way.Merihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07024443046207501650noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-945783876327380823.post-58159729957445679512009-08-12T06:33:00.950-04:002009-08-12T06:33:00.950-04:00Well said. been kinda thinking along those lines m...Well said. been kinda thinking along those lines myself this week BB.Michellehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00816138640432897870noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-945783876327380823.post-2819631909171543212009-08-12T06:29:02.132-04:002009-08-12T06:29:02.132-04:00I never liked the 'video' show as I did no...I never liked the 'video' show as I did not find that laughing at accidents was funny. I also avoid any 'jackass' or other movies because I really do not enjoy them. Many reality shows are painful reminders of the immaturity of junior high and I cannot watch those either. I felt the same way when I was introduced to porn at a younger age. Anything that demeans us as intelligent and sensitive human beings is not my type of entertainment. I really don't think I would EVER get used to it.Taborhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15257045780724471840noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-945783876327380823.post-52423771607255512052009-08-12T04:10:50.494-04:002009-08-12T04:10:50.494-04:00We do get jaded, we do try to wake up the inner ch...We do get jaded, we do try to wake up the inner child while bringing up our kids. I, however, sometimes feel guilty for introducing my kids to innocent fairy tales, arts and music, teaching the beauty of the world. Guilty, because it's not true. The world is violent and ugly. They need to know this and they need to be prepared for it. Will they adapt to that cruel truth or will they fall the victims? I cannot protect them from this cruelty, therefore, we have to let them see the world and humanity for what it is, so they know they need to strive to become better than that.Libertinehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10060928203262595846noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-945783876327380823.post-2796729161262817472009-08-12T03:21:17.640-04:002009-08-12T03:21:17.640-04:00It is amazing what we can get used to. The saddest...It is amazing what we can get used to. The saddest part about taking problems as normal are the children who haven't so much adapted to that, but who have simply never known life any other way.<br />I stopped watching 'funniest' Home Videos decades ago when I counted up the topics one show and realised that every single clip involved injury or embarrassment, whether a person's or an animal's. Rare was the entertainment that didn't involve somebody's hurt. So I decided, that while I may not have much control over tv programming, I'd do what I could and give them one less watcher.<br />Thank you, Mark, for your considered post.NanUhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11596765792663269178noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-945783876327380823.post-36975576135963722862009-08-12T03:06:43.682-04:002009-08-12T03:06:43.682-04:00Hello Mark
this is a very serious and thoughtful ...Hello Mark<br /><br />this is a very serious and thoughtful post that Butler has written. I think it says a lot about the word blase.<br /><br />They say that after a few years young children have witnessed thousands of murders - on the TV, and somehow become blase to violent death. We see poverty and mental illness and become blase to it. We see domestic violence and violence and aggression between ordinary people around us so often that we become blase to it....But do we really...I wonder. Somewhere in that huge repository of memories we build over a life time we have files of all these disturbing events. We might adapt externally but to find a simple peaceful existence we have to choose to make it...in spite of all the above...in the face of all the above...and it is harder than adapting...<br /><br />Happy daysDelwynhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16813713107604750354noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-945783876327380823.post-47718869911765968152009-08-12T02:57:21.945-04:002009-08-12T02:57:21.945-04:00I think we who are jaded and cynical rediscover ou...I think we who are jaded and cynical rediscover our innocence with our children or grandchildren. As we experience the world through their eyes, we re-engage with our own inner child, full of wonder and hope. And in that moment we are happy.J9https://www.blogger.com/profile/03910637383968387023noreply@blogger.com