http://gapingvoid.com/2004/11/20/the-devil-gets-his-due-eventually/ "cartoons drawn on the back of business cards" Fri, 20 Nov 2009 20:55:13 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc hourly 1 http://gapingvoid.com/2004/11/20/the-devil-gets-his-due-eventually/comment-page-1/#comment-2628 Sean Winstead Tue, 23 Nov 2004 00:32:35 +0000 http://gapingvoid.com/?p=1027#comment-2628 "Anyone can be an idealist. Anyone can be a cynic. The hard part lies somewhere in the middle i.e. being human." You hit the nail on the head! “Anyone can be an idealist. Anyone can be a cynic. The hard part lies somewhere in the middle i.e. being human.”
You hit the nail on the head!

]]> http://gapingvoid.com/2004/11/20/the-devil-gets-his-due-eventually/comment-page-1/#comment-2627 AcouSvnt Sat, 20 Nov 2004 23:26:25 +0000 http://gapingvoid.com/?p=1027#comment-2627 I think "sticking to one's guns" is more about not being able to tolerate what the alternative entails (as opposed to never actually being offended by it in the first place, but temporarily acting like you're going against something in order to gain cred). It's always a weighing of values in one way or another; what can you stand versus what can't you stand. Everybody has his own hierarchy. A lot of people, for example, think Phil Collins "sold out". Did he? I think “sticking to one’s guns” is more about not being able to tolerate what the alternative entails (as opposed to never actually being offended by it in the first place, but temporarily acting like you’re going against something in order to gain cred). It’s always a weighing of values in one way or another; what can you stand versus what can’t you stand. Everybody has his own hierarchy.
A lot of people, for example, think Phil Collins “sold out”. Did he?

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