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I Would Do Anything For Love... But I Won't Do That.
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I Would Do Anything For Love... But I Won't Do That. I can't tell you how much I wish I could upload that M&M commercial with the red M&M singing that song! Probably the funniest commercial ever!  When Meatloaf originally wrote this song, everyone speculated as to what the hell he was talking about. What did he mean, he won't do that? He won't do what? Looking into the lyrics, we find out that what he was talking about was cheating on his lady. Here are the end lyrics of what I'm talking about: "Anything For Love (But I Won't Do That)" by Meatloaf. "And I would do anything for love, oh I would do anything for love I would do anything for love, but I won't do that, no I won't do that. [Girl:] Will you raise me up, will you help me down? Will you get me right out of this Godforsaken town? Will you make it all a little less cold? [Boy:] I can do that! I can do that! [Girl:] Will you hold me sacred? Will you hold me tight? Can you colorize my life, I'm so sick of black and white? Can you make it all a little less old? [Boy:] I can do that! Oh oh, now I can do that! [Girl:] Will you make me some magic, with your own two hands? Can you build an emerald city with these grains of sand? Can you give me something I can take home? [Boy:] I can do that! Oh oh now, I can do that! [Girl:] Will you cater to every fantasy I got? Will ya hose me down with holy water, if I get too hot? Will you take me places I've never known? [Boy:] I can do that! Oh oh now, I can do that! [Girl:] After a while you'll forget everything It was a brief interlude and a midsummer night's fling And you'll see that it's time to move on [Boy:] I won't do that! No I won't do that! [Girl:] I know the territory, I've been around It'll all turn to dust and we'll all fall down And sooner or later, you'll be screwing around [Boy:] I won't do that! No I won't do that! Anything for love, oh I would do anything for love I would do anything for love, but I won't do that, no I won't do that." . I bring this up not to criticize anyone here for cheating on their significant other, if that's what they're doing. Many S.O.'s are perfectly happy with sharing their spouse or boyfriend/girlfriend with other people, and all power to them. Hell, one of my ex-girlfriend's fantasy was to take me to a sex party, put me in a public room, and to use her own words, "Keep feeding you women until you collapse from exhaustion, or they do." Sadly, that was a fantasy that never saw the light before we broke up... that would have been... interesting.  Neither am I criticizing anyone who is sleeping around without their S.O.'s knowledge. While I don't condone it, you're a big boy/girl and it's your life, and I hope you realize that karma is a pretty serious bitch to piss off. I bring it up because I've never cheated on anyone I've dated before. Well, I suppose that's not TECHNICALLY true, as I was seeing other people sexually during my separation, which eventually became my divorce... so if you want to split hairs, I guess I have cheated before. That, however, was a one-time revenge deal that has never been repeated no matter how upset I was at something a girlfriend did. It was stupid of me, and looking back on it, it was something that didn't hurt my ex-wife nearly so much as it hurt me. Especially since she was pretty much sleeping with any guy who would have her... I doubt she even cared. But in my years on this Earth, I've been exposed to so many lives and lifestyles, genuine pain and overblown fakes, heroes and zeroes, people with damn good reasons for what they do and people with no good reason at all, that my black-and-white image of the world growing up has long since become a pretty medium shade of gray. And to say, "THIS IS WRONG! PERIOD!" without taking into account extenuating circumstances is... well... wrong. I'm not going to go into specific examples, because I don't want to bore you or cause an argument here. Hell, I'm not even sure why I'm writing all this, except that maybe I'm trying to figure out the answers myself, and often I come to some epiphanies when I write. I guess this isn't one of those times. But I will say this much. I think we human beings are far too quick to judge others by words and actions. I mean, if somebody were to shout out some sort of racist slur for all the world to hear, everyone would point at them and scream, "RACIST!"... and never stop to find out that guy has Tourette syndrome. People are quick to scream at a soldier who shot a in a battlefield, and never bother to ask about the grenade the was trying to kill the soldier with. People will point and laugh at the guy who gets splashed by the puddle a thoughtless driver drove through, and never know that it was their laughter that was the final straw to cause him to feel that no one in the world loved him, and he commits suicide. The overly-sensitive woman who gets a guy fired because he compliments her outfit or her eyes or her hair. The school principal who suspends a for playing war with his friends on the playground. The "good church-going citizens" who protest the funerals of soldiers and attack gay people and intimidate women buying "day-after" pills. The people who are quick to form a mob and destroy entire city blocks every time a court decision doesn't go the way they want it to, whether the person involved was guilty or not. We're all so quick to judge. We're all so determined to "set the world RIGHT" when what we really mean is "make everyone think the same thing I think." We're all so damned thoughtless about what anyone else thinks... just me me me. And people snort in derision when I say we live in an entitlement-minded society. I'm a student of critical thinking and rhetoric. In fact, it's my specialization in my English Literature major. It's in my nature to be open-minded about all things until I've had a chance to find out the facts for myself, and even then to keep an open mind to the possibility that I might be wrong. I've been criticized for being too laid back about things. Most of those people don't know me very well, and usually label me with that because I didn't immediately agree with something they said. I certainly have my opinions about things, and often very strong opinions, but I believe in taking the Devil's Advocate just so all viewpoints and options can be explored before passing judgement. This is the essence of communication. Communication is the key to a successful relationship. Successful relationships lead to true love. So I say... open your mind and stop being so insistent that you're right about your opinions. Be flexible in what you believe, and be ready to accept new information even if it conflicts with what you believe or know. Mankind used to think flight was impossible, that the Earth was flat, and the farthest you could communicate was the distance of a man shouting. You don't know everything. Stop pretending that you do, and just be yourself. Stop trying to change other people, and just accept them as they are... they're not going to change for you, anyway. I am who I am, and you are who you are. I'm not going to try and change who you are. I would do anything for love. But I won't do that. .  Your Friendly Neighborhood King of the Jungle, The Lion. READ THIS! ------>>>lionthatroared I DARE you to read my blog and attempt to be unchanged by sheer, utter AWESOMENESS!!! It's like Kung-Fu Panda fighting Super Models with heavy metal music pumping in the background... hyped up on Rockstar energy drinks! And... whipped cream with chocolate sprinkles! And... laser-guided sex toys are probably involved! And... and... oh, I know... I'm pretty sure Chuck Norris roundhouse-kicked it at some point! |
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I am a big fan of M and M's. Don't eat the red ones until last! Green are my favourite. Good for you speaking your mind and getting noticed on here. I been following your blog for a while and truly hope you find what your seeking on here. Your change in your profile is outstanding. Good luck and enjoy life to the fullest! Don't stop being you! hugs V Become a blog watcher sweet_vm
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I'm kinda with you on that. Kinda. I think your examples are a little bit all over the place because there is a *world* of difference between what the Westboro Baptist Church does and the impulse people have to laugh when someone gets hit with puddle water by a passing car. The first is engaging in something just under the legal limit of hate speech, the other is engaging in what is pretty much a universal human behavior. If you look at physical humor (Buster Keaton, Lucille Ball, South Park, Kramer from Seinfeld) it all stems from bad things happening to people (either served or underserved). Also, and this is a big one, there is no such thing as, "well, you did X and that was the final thing that made Jack decide to kill himself". Suicide simple doesn't work that way. And don't get me started on "The overly-sensitive woman who gets a guy fired because he compliments her outfit or her eyes or her hair" because, having worked in and around HR for a lotta years and I could go on for a while why that is wrong, wrong, wrong. All I'll say is google the cinematic concept of "The Male Gaze". But I won't and let me get to the topic of your post.... First, I always thought it was pretty clear that the male protagonist was talking about never cheating on her. As a woman, it's hard to think of anything else that it could be that would be so potentially soul crushing that a man would need to reassure a woman he would never do that to her (I guess that could go in either gender direction). I think that prejudice is wrong, but that doesn't mean that a person has to like or approve of the behavior of another. We all have a moral code that is shaped by our personal worldview. All of us consider some things right, some things wrong and others ambiguous or we are indifferent. It is a thin line between being oppressive and intolerant, which is what Westboro does, and expressing one's moral POV about a particular behavior (which is *usually* what I see here when it comes to cheating). Both are absolutely legal under the US Constitution and I'm going to assume most other countries have something similar. I'm a Comm scholar so I understand holding back and gathering evidence and making a deliberate position all the while understanding that there may be multiple ways of looking at a given situation. But things like Comm theory and Rhetoric, are cool and dispassionate while human interaction and the fallout from it is dynamic and messy. As much as we may recognize the shades of grey, we all have out (nearly) black and (nearly) white areas too. If we feel those areas are being intruded u[one, we will tend to lash out. You see this with the odious Westboro (although I think it's more about money for them) as well as the single woman who get's message after message from married men even when her profile says, "no married men". I think at times it can be tough to call when to say something and when to keep one's opinions to themselves. (and as a note, I find that the only time I get tweaked about the opinion of others is when I'm secretly afraid they may be right. That leaves me with little sympathy for people who complain about feeling judged.) Nice post!
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