AnArch(y)Angel
2023-06-14 01:38:44 UTC
Of past misnomers and other explanations
I. In the past and especially the somewhat remote past, I have sometimes and without ill intent misused certain words, both here within this newsgroup and elsewhere on the internet. I can not recall what all of those misapplied words might have been, but when I infrequently (and sometimes more often) laze about daydreaming, certain of those words do sometimes come back to me. Off the top of my head, here is a short list of but certain of such possible misnomers: straddle, vegan, existentialist, blood libel, fair use.
II. Just for the record, although I have in the past expressed within this newsgroup having a slight interest in occasionally doing physical exercise, specifically weight training using relatively light dumbbell weights, I have never at all claimed to be an actual bodybuilder, or to have any interest in being or in wanting to be any kind of actual athlete. If anyone claims that I have in fact made such a claim, those parties are either mistaken or lying or grossly confused. When I mentioned that I had read within Arnold Schwarzeneggar’s book “The Encyclopedia of Modern Bodybuilding” the concept of doing certain grouped together exercise sets which in that particular book were called “supersets”, I did not say that to mean that I was making the claim of being or wanting to be a bodybuilder. I only mentioned that particular book, with its somewhat gaudy title, because I did not want to be falsely accused of plagiarizing the concept of supersets from that particular work of non-fiction, an accusation which certain parties might periodically throughout my adult life have possibly made about me. But I assert that the claim that I am in fact a plagiarist is false, just as false as the claim that I am in any way affiliated with any cause or institution that is athletic in nature would be.
III. I believe it to be normal enough to remotely mimic certain personalities and behavior styles, especially those that one sees on television and also especially during ones younger and more formative years of life. I furthermore suggest that perhaps not all information that is meaningful or useful necessarily has to be accredited or to have as its source a book or any other kind of literature, possibly including the Bible.
IV. I am not a homosexual and have never truly used any illicit drugs. I also am not and never have been a smoker or any other kind of tobacco user, nor have I imbibed any alcohol at all for the past fifteen years or so, never having even once drunk enough of such a substance to actually become inebbriated. Period. I am in fact even inclined to for the most part avoid using caffeine products, as well as aspirin and certain other over the counter medications.
V. I assert that I do not either own or carry a firearm and never have during my life on this planet. I have also never brandished a firearm, nor have I ever aimed or shot such a weapon at any human being or group of such, including during the relatively short interim that I worked as a security officer when I was a very young adult.
VI. Two of my main pet peeves might be hatred and the telling of lies. With regard to the latter of such, I believe that even if not telling lies were not stated as a divine mandate within the Ten Commandments of the Law that I might still find lies to be unpleasant to behold. There is simply something ugly about the inordinate telling of lies to me.
I. In the past and especially the somewhat remote past, I have sometimes and without ill intent misused certain words, both here within this newsgroup and elsewhere on the internet. I can not recall what all of those misapplied words might have been, but when I infrequently (and sometimes more often) laze about daydreaming, certain of those words do sometimes come back to me. Off the top of my head, here is a short list of but certain of such possible misnomers: straddle, vegan, existentialist, blood libel, fair use.
II. Just for the record, although I have in the past expressed within this newsgroup having a slight interest in occasionally doing physical exercise, specifically weight training using relatively light dumbbell weights, I have never at all claimed to be an actual bodybuilder, or to have any interest in being or in wanting to be any kind of actual athlete. If anyone claims that I have in fact made such a claim, those parties are either mistaken or lying or grossly confused. When I mentioned that I had read within Arnold Schwarzeneggar’s book “The Encyclopedia of Modern Bodybuilding” the concept of doing certain grouped together exercise sets which in that particular book were called “supersets”, I did not say that to mean that I was making the claim of being or wanting to be a bodybuilder. I only mentioned that particular book, with its somewhat gaudy title, because I did not want to be falsely accused of plagiarizing the concept of supersets from that particular work of non-fiction, an accusation which certain parties might periodically throughout my adult life have possibly made about me. But I assert that the claim that I am in fact a plagiarist is false, just as false as the claim that I am in any way affiliated with any cause or institution that is athletic in nature would be.
III. I believe it to be normal enough to remotely mimic certain personalities and behavior styles, especially those that one sees on television and also especially during ones younger and more formative years of life. I furthermore suggest that perhaps not all information that is meaningful or useful necessarily has to be accredited or to have as its source a book or any other kind of literature, possibly including the Bible.
IV. I am not a homosexual and have never truly used any illicit drugs. I also am not and never have been a smoker or any other kind of tobacco user, nor have I imbibed any alcohol at all for the past fifteen years or so, never having even once drunk enough of such a substance to actually become inebbriated. Period. I am in fact even inclined to for the most part avoid using caffeine products, as well as aspirin and certain other over the counter medications.
V. I assert that I do not either own or carry a firearm and never have during my life on this planet. I have also never brandished a firearm, nor have I ever aimed or shot such a weapon at any human being or group of such, including during the relatively short interim that I worked as a security officer when I was a very young adult.
VI. Two of my main pet peeves might be hatred and the telling of lies. With regard to the latter of such, I believe that even if not telling lies were not stated as a divine mandate within the Ten Commandments of the Law that I might still find lies to be unpleasant to behold. There is simply something ugly about the inordinate telling of lies to me.