tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3580115438716980446.post1106413617462528545..comments2024-03-22T03:17:47.335-04:00Comments on Armchair Linebacker - a New Writing blog: Forgive All This Gibberish, But I Fear That It Is NecessaryRaven Mackhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00777849609532782535noreply@blogger.comBlogger13125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3580115438716980446.post-70217715608030667122011-05-05T13:53:49.863-04:002011-05-05T13:53:49.863-04:00Wow, Jens, that means a lot. Trust me, I'm goi...Wow, Jens, that means a lot. Trust me, I'm going to keep writing. I just wanted to make sure I was still coming at things from my own unique perspective rather than from where other people think I should be coming from.Neilhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16300561079216508635noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3580115438716980446.post-91423811787927402252011-05-05T13:50:26.224-04:002011-05-05T13:50:26.224-04:00Actually, Mike, I thought it was perfect. So did T...Actually, Mike, I thought it was perfect. So did Ty when I told him about it.Neilhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16300561079216508635noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3580115438716980446.post-49754224243367876042011-05-05T05:21:02.197-04:002011-05-05T05:21:02.197-04:00Hey, I'm from Germany and for reasons i can...Hey, I'm from Germany and for reasons i can't comprehend i'm a lions fan, i read your stuff for years now and have never commented on anything anywhere anytime. But now i have to, even if i don't know why, and even if none of my words really matter or say anything for that matter...but if i write i could at least say something with a bit of content: your words matter even to some german guy who loves the lions; and even if none of this matters to you, which would probably be a good thing, i thank you for your work, especially because it truly is YOUR workJensnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3580115438716980446.post-41964022044971222722011-05-05T02:51:03.580-04:002011-05-05T02:51:03.580-04:00Lol yeah, I guess it was kind of a bad example, bu...Lol yeah, I guess it was kind of a bad example, but was the best I could think of while typing it up so late. The main idea is that for many things you two run on opposite ends of the spectrum, with Ty being more analytical and you being more emotional. He breaks down the statistics of what happened, and you pour out how we as Lions fans really feel.<br /><br />He gives the voice to the part of me that wants to pick apart every part of Detroit football, while you give voice to the part of me that gets so feverish every time I see anything that has to do with the Lions; the part of me that sat and watched every single one of the 16 losses of 2008.<br /><br />For any fan both these voices are necessary for any semblance of sanity, but it seems like for fans of teams like the Lions, the need for *both* becomes more necessary.Mikehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07816161893794147338noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3580115438716980446.post-30795937375085909792011-05-04T15:38:35.495-04:002011-05-04T15:38:35.495-04:00Thanks, Mike.
And:
"The id comprises the di...Thanks, Mike.<br /><br />And:<br /><br />"The id comprises the disorganised part of the personality structure that contains the basic drives. The id acts according to the "pleasure principle", seeking to avoid pain or displeasure aroused by increases in instinctual tension.[2]<br /><br />The id is unconscious by definition:<br /><br /> 'It is the dark, inaccessible part of our personality, what little we know of it we have learned from our study of the dream-work and of the construction of neurotic symptoms, and most of that is of a negative character and can be described only as a contrast to the ego. We approach the id with analogies: we call it a chaos, a cauldron full of seething excitations... It is filled with energy reaching it from the instincts, but it has no organisation, produces no collective will, but only a striving to bring about the satisfaction of the instinctual needs subject to the observance of the pleasure principle'.[3]<br /><br />In the id,<br /><br /> 'contrary impulses exist side by side, without cancelling each other out....There is nothing in the id that could be compared with negation...nothing in the id which corresponds to the idea of time'.[4]<br /><br />Developmentally, the id is anterior to the ego; i.e. the psychic apparatus begins, at birth, as an undifferentiated id, part of which then develops into a structured ego. Thus, the id:<br /><br /> ". . contains everything that is inherited, that is present at birth, is laid down in the constitution -- above all, therefore, the instincts, which originate from the somatic organisation, and which find a first psychical expression here (in the id) in forms unknown to us." [5]<br /><br />The mind of a newborn child is regarded as completely "id-ridden", in the sense that it is a mass of instinctive drives and impulses, and needs immediate satisfaction, a view which equates a newborn child with an id-ridden individual—often humorously—with this analogy: an alimentary tract with no sense of responsibility at either end[citation needed].<br /><br />The id is responsible for our basic drives, 'knows no judgements of value: no good and evil, no morality...Instinctual cathexes seeking discharge - that, in our view, is all there is in the id'.[6] It is regarded as 'the great reservoir of libido',[7] the instinctive drive to create - the life instincts that are crucial to pleasurable survival. Alongside the life instincts came the death instincts — the death drive which Freud articulated relatively late in his career in 'the hypothesis of a death instinct, the task of which is to lead organic life back into the inanimate state'.[8] For Freud, 'the death instinct would thus seem to express itself - though probably only in part - as an instinct of destruction directed against the external world and other organisms'[9]: through aggression. Freud considered that 'the id, the whole person...originally includes all the instinctual impulses...the destructive instinct as well'[10] as Eros or the life instincts."<br /><br />And yeah.Neilhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16300561079216508635noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3580115438716980446.post-36190385145819730292011-05-04T10:44:30.754-04:002011-05-04T10:44:30.754-04:00ARE YOU THE SAME BIG AL WHO HOSTS SPORTS RADIO SHO...ARE YOU THE SAME BIG AL WHO HOSTS SPORTS RADIO SHOW IN RICHMOND BECAUSE I LOVED YOU BACK IN THE DAY BIG AL! BUT I THOUGHT YOU WERE A REDSKINS FAN?!?!Raven Mackhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00777849609532782535noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3580115438716980446.post-79751578579833457172011-05-04T02:33:22.941-04:002011-05-04T02:33:22.941-04:00Armchair Linebacker and TLIW are the only Lions bl...Armchair Linebacker and TLIW are the only Lions blogs I read since they seem to be the id and superego of my fandom.<br /><br />Love your blog. Don't change, and don't stop.Mikehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07816161893794147338noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3580115438716980446.post-71443509266901088502011-05-03T21:41:05.858-04:002011-05-03T21:41:05.858-04:00Thanks, Al. Yours is a voice of reason in this ins...Thanks, Al. Yours is a voice of reason in this insane world known as Lions fandom.Neilhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16300561079216508635noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3580115438716980446.post-42478060028211944242011-05-03T21:30:12.485-04:002011-05-03T21:30:12.485-04:00I can totally relate. Being a Lions fan is one lon...I can totally relate. Being a Lions fan is one long existential crisis. <br /><br />Hell, I can bury, then fawn all over the Lions, all in the same blog post. They've made us all bi-polar. <br /> <br />Screw 'em all! Just write how you feel, when you feel it.Big Alhttp://waynefontes.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3580115438716980446.post-61013662406551242592011-05-03T20:56:52.126-04:002011-05-03T20:56:52.126-04:00Yeah, pretty much. Normally, I'm pretty good a...Yeah, pretty much. Normally, I'm pretty good at fending that shit off, but lately I have felt like I have needed to do that whole EVERYBODY LISTEN TO ME MY WAY IS THE WAY OF TRUTH and that is always a fool's endeavor. It just becomes a huge circular cesspool of inanity. Basically, I just don't want my posts to turn into WELL HERE'S MY ARGUMENT NOW LET'S HEAR YOURS which never turns out well.<br /><br />But yeah, I need to just start writing what I think and feel without feeling like I'm arguing with potential opposing viewpoints which may or may not only exist in my head. It is . . . tiresome.Neilhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16300561079216508635noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3580115438716980446.post-39621935231374669932011-05-03T20:38:36.591-04:002011-05-03T20:38:36.591-04:00Isn't it the case though, where you know what ...Isn't it the case though, where you know what you think, but get fucked up about worrying about what people think about what you think?UpHerenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3580115438716980446.post-34902781097194653642011-05-03T20:25:39.116-04:002011-05-03T20:25:39.116-04:00Thanks. I can get too self-analytical and wrapped ...Thanks. I can get too self-analytical and wrapped up in the fucked up corridors of my own mystifying brain and I think I just need to yell at myself every once in a while, no matter how embarrassing and stupid it gets.Neilhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16300561079216508635noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3580115438716980446.post-6701109867582307152011-05-03T20:17:38.859-04:002011-05-03T20:17:38.859-04:00You are still the king. Do not question it. The li...You are still the king. Do not question it. The light in the darkness, the voice of this dark underbelly of the NFL. No normal human beings could lead Lions fans out from hell. You pay a horrible price, we know his. Some are born to greatness....UpHerenoreply@blogger.com