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As spring slowly approaches and the land begins to reappear from under its extra thick winter blanket of snow, we will soon be blessed with the green grass of spring.
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The categories of "American," "Catholic," and "political philosopher" may sometimes overlap certainly they do in the person of Ernest Fortin. Usually, however, those categories do not overlap, and it is to the question of the third category and Ernest Fortin's work that I am to address myself this afternoon. Pursuing such a question as this is certainly appropriate, insofar as Fr. Fortin himself has said that a common feature of his writings is "the prominence (and in some sense the primacy) accorded to political philosophy."1
In order to pursue this question, it is first necessary to be a little more precise about what is meant by the term "political philosophy." I would like to speak this afternoon about three related, but distinguishable, definitions of political philosophy. The first is political philosophy in the grand sense, as the philosophical pursuit of the human things. This inquiry studies the complete panoply of human possibilities, the various ways of living, the sorts of perfections available to man, the fundamental problems faced by humanity. I like to define political philosophy in this grand sense as "architectonic anthropology." Ernest Fortin seems to me to be speaking about this kind of political philosophy when he says, "By situating itself within the context of human life as a whole, [political philosophy] discloses the full range of human possibilities and thus reveals human beings to themselves as no other science is capable of doing."2 This political philosophizing would correspond to the sort of questioning introduced into philosophy by Socrates' turning to the human things, to his calling philosophy down from the heavens and establishing it in cities, even bringing it into homes, and forcing it to ask questions about life and morality and the good and the bad things.3 Such an inquiry does not begin with cosmology or physics and then deduce what can be known about human nature. Its "method" if I may use a word that Fr. Fortin dislikes because it is so unerotic and therefore inappropriate for naming such an erotic quest its "method" is to begin with man as man, with the human as human. That is why I like to think of political philosophy in this sense as a sort of "architectonic anthropology."
And what does Ernest Fortin have to say to those who would pursue this inquiry? Well, as it turns out, a great deal. It is well-known that Fortin learned about this political philosophizing from Leo Strauss and that he practiced it with Strauss's students and especially with his friend Allan Bloom. Those of us who are Fortin's students have heard him discuss that 'full range of human possibilities' especially as they are disclosed in the Great Books and indeed are astonished at what the Great Books of political philosophy with a little mentoring by Fortin disclose to us about ourselves. But this afternoon I would especially like to focus not so much on how Fr. Fortin practices "architectonic anthropology," but more specifically on a certain critique of this kind of political philosophy that Fr. Fortin has recovered through his extensive studies of St. Augustine.
As interpreted by Fortin, Augustine was indeed impressed by political philosophy, which he encountered primarily through the writings of Cicero and other students of Plato. The African did not doubt but that the political philosophers of antiquity had analyzed the fundamental human problems, possibilities, and perfections, and that they had shown to humanity a true portrait of virtue and happiness. The inadequacy of political philosophy in Augustine's view had to do not so much with its goal but with its means. Political philosophy could not effect the goal of its inquiry. It could give human beings wandering in the desert a glimpse of the promised land from afar, but it could never find a trail or bridge that would permit them to cross over. I like the clarity with which Marc Guerra has summarized Fortin's understanding of the matter: "St. Augustine was thus led to conclude that the classical philosophers were to be commended for speaking of happiness in terms of the highest goals to which men can aspire, but were to be faulted for their inability 'to show the way to those goals.'"4
I suppose that the immediate objection to the Augustinian critique of political philosophy is, of course, that Augustine should propose some better means of achieving noble ends or else keep quiet. But Augustine did propose other means that at least he thought were better, namely biblical faith. But biblical faith is not something all that easy for classical political philosophy to warm up to, as Fortin never fails to point out. The accepting "trust me and follow" attitude of the Bible does not sit easily next to the probing "prove it to me" attitude of philosophy. But Fortin also never tires of pointing out that political philosophers, because they are unable to give a complete account of the universe, are likewise unable to establish that faith is false, and so they therefore cannot rule out faith as a competitor with political philosophy in the quest for self-knowledge. Augustine cannot present his solution in terms immediately acceptable to political philosophers, then, but perhaps this is only because the latter are proud and puffed up with human learning.
To political philosophy in this first sense, that of "architectonic anthropology," then, Fortin is a great admirer and practitioner, but he also reminds political philosophy of its possible limitation and thereby warns it against any haughty, imperial ambitions.
A second and probably much more common sense of the term "political philosophy" emphasizes not the noun but the adjective. That is to say, it pursues the study of the polis in the more limited sense of the offices and laws in regimes. It narrows the grand, first sense of the term to something like "the study of government." Of course, Ernest Fortin is never impressed with restricted and limited senses of anything, but Fortin does speak to and with people who think of politics and political philosophy in this more confined way. What does he say to them?
Well, mostly he invites them to think more broadly, more in terms of the first sense of political philosophy, and it seems to me that he does this particularly and most famously in his penetrating discussions of contemporary rights discourse. Fortin finds that such discourse limits the horizon of human possibilities and thus of human self-understanding. Rights language, in his view, originated with early modern political thought. Such thinkers as Machiavelli and especially Hobbes were political philosophers in the full sense of the term, but they did not accept the understanding of human virtue and well-being offered by the ancients, preferring lower, more mundane options for human satisfaction. They themselves admitted they were lowering the goals of political philosophy from the noble and the sublime, but they were doing so in the name of what is more achievable. They preferred to found the modern political world on rights to self-preservation and self-satisfaction rather than on duties to self-knowledge and self-perfection. The result is that, today, conversations about political life often gravitate to the restricted language of rights. Our laws and our government officials are much more precise about defining and protecting our rights than they are in promoting our duties. Most of our citizens wind up with an operational definition of justice as banal as "justice consists in doing whatsoever you will so long as you do not violate the rights of others to do whatsoever they will." This is the democratic notion of justice, and reading book 8 of the Republic explains well enough why Fr. Fortin finds it unworthy of human beings with noble aspirations.
Now, Ernest Fortin never preaches revolution. He is always quick to point out that one is almost always better off living in an imperfect but functioning regime than in the chaotic situation of revolution, and that the prudent political path is almost always to seek to maximize the advantages and minimize the disadvantages of the present regime rather than seek a change of regimes. And so Fortin seeks to criticize contemporary political arrangements from within, as a gentle sympathizer. Fortin is, however, particularly adamant that contemporary democratic rights discourse never be read back into the great traditional of political philosophy. Although his writings are never harsh, it is not hard to see that he reserves his most severe criticism for political thinkers who would attribute modern rights theories to pre-modern authors. Perhaps the most famous and erudite authors pursuing such a project have been the Frenchman Maritain, the Englishman Finnis, and the American Brian Tierney, and Fortin has criticized them all for joining what must remain divided. If Aristotle or Cicero or Thomas Aquinas are 're-interpreted' so that they, too, come to be viewed as rights thinkers, then there is no way back to a serious alternative view. The voice of classical philosophy will have been silenced and there will be no vantage point outside of rights theory from whence it might be critiqued. The impoverished political philosophers working within the narrow confines of the horizon provided by contemporary democracy and its constant talk of rights need genuine critics in order to ameliorate the disadvantages of democracy while augmenting its strong points. But running together natural or human rights with pre-modern natural law or natural right effectively precludes consideration of the great classical and medieval traditions of political philosophy.
A third sense of the term political philosophy understands the phrase almost as something of an oxymoron. That is to say, according to this third understanding of political philosophy, one must admit that political life and philosophical life are not easily reducible to a common goal. Citizens and scientists often have conflicting ends, and thus it behooves philosophers to attend to the requisite buffers between the two. Philosophers must understand that their preoccupations may damage political society and that the city may defend itself in ways that damage philosophers. As noted above, political philosophy as "architectonic anthropology" is not a set of dogmas deduced from antecedent investigations into physics or cosmology, but at the same time physicists and cosmologists from time to time raise questions about humanity's position within nature or the cosmos, within the whole, and their teachings on this matter, while perhaps not predominant, are still relevant to the city's understanding of itself. This means that the study of the non-human whole can lead speculative philosophers to undermine the poetry of cities. This happens because the speculative philosophers seem to have a strange penchant for attempting to explain humanity in the same terms as they explain the non-human whole.
Perhaps I can most quickly explain this sense of political philosophy by means of an analogy. A modern astrophysicist peers through a powerful telescope and encounters light that was emitted from distant galaxies millions of years ago. Consequently, the observer's gaze can have no bearing on the distant stars that he views, for the events that the astronomer sees happened millions of years ago. But Heisenberg explains to us that if a physicist attempts to see with a microscope a "particle" of light, a photon, by "sensing" the light with his eye, the very act of absorbing the photon with the eye will change its position. In other words, by the very act of looking the physicist will alter the subject that he seeks to study. Now, according to this third sense of political philosophy, philosophers who study society are like the physicist looking through the microscope rather than the astrophysicist looking through the telescope. In other words, scientists need to be more attentive to the way in which they themselves impact the political life that they seek to understand. Philosophers are not disengaged investigators looking at events that they cannot possibly alter. They aren't looking backward in time like the astrophysicist with the telescope. Rather, they are like the physicist studying the photon their very act of philosophizing has a profound impact on human life. They, as it were, change the subject they study by their very act of studying it.
This third sense of political philosophy is largely lost on philosophers today. It is generally accepted by the children of the Enlightenment that society has nothing to fear from scientists and that scientists should even be honored by society. Indeed, it is orthodox teaching today to insist that science and philosophy are mutually reinforcing, and the form that this reconciliation takes is the idea of technological progress. Yet, based on his reading of such books as Plato's Republic, Rousseau's First Discourse, and Augustine's critique of Orosius's notion of historical progress, Fortin insists that philosophers need to think more carefully about the impact that they have on the object that they study in other words, they need to be reminded about this third sense of political philosophy.
And how does Ernest Fortin attempt to remind philosophers of this? First, particularly in three essays composed relatively late in his career,5 Fortin attempts a radical articulation of the problem of the relationship between philosophy and politics as it applies in the modern context. Fortin's characteristic moderation prevents any suggestion of a wholesale rejection of the contemporary cooperation between the city and the scientists, but his studies enable him to point out the alternatives to the Enlightenment approach to the question about science and society. Once it is made clear that there have been alternatives to the orthodoxy of the present, it is possible to ask questions about the relative advantages and disadvantages of the present arrangement, and, once again, perhaps it is even possible to augment its advantages while ameliorating its disadvantages.
Most of all, though, Fr. Fortin addresses the problem of political philosophy in this third sense by setting before us time and again the example of Dante. Of course, understanding Dante has never been an easy task. It requires a great deal of linguistic and historical training to which few contemporary philosophers are willing to subject themselves. The obstacles are compounded because the standard interpretation of Dante today, particularly in America, is that Dante's work is simply versified Thomism, which is itself simply a reflection of that strange occult entity known as 'the medieval worldview.' In Fortin's interpretation, the standard interpretation is a shallow understanding of Dante's thought that is unable to transcend Dante's exoteric teaching. At Fortin's hands, Dante comes to sight as a political philosopher par excellence in all three of the senses of the term I have mentioned here. Fortin is particularly adroit in showing how Dante understands the third sort of political philosophy. I cannot even begin to explain Fortin's view of Dante's esotericism this afternoon, but I can refer those who are interested to the new translation of Fr. Fortin's book on Dante by Marc LePain.6
In closing, it is important to point out that Ernest Fortin has never been one to say "think this," but rather "think about this." It is not surprising, then, that he does not exactly bequeath to political philosophy a set of doctrines but a set of questions or problems which require investigation, along with a programme for pursuing those investigations through the careful reading of the Great Books in the history of political philosophy. It is not the case that Fortin does not hold doctrines, or that he is unable to make up his mind between the fundamental alternatives offered by the great political philosophers of the past. Rather, it is his conviction that it is more profitable to students to invite them to repeat the investigations of the Great Books themselves than it is simply to skip ahead to the conclusions.
1 Ernest L. Fortin, Collected Essays, ed. J. Brian Benestad (Lanham, Maryland: Rowman and Littlefield, 1996), 1:xiii-xiv. href="#footnote1return">(Return)
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3 Cicero, Tusculan Disputations 5.4.10-11: "Socrates autem primus philosophiam devocavit e caelo et in urbibus collocavit et in domus etiam introduxit et coegit de vita et moribus rebusque bonis et malis quaerere." href="#footnote3return">(Return)
4 Marc D. Guerra, "Living the Theologico-Political Problem: On Ernest Fortin's Essays," Political Science Reviewer 28 (1999): 230. Guerra is referring to Fortin's "Augustine and the Hermeneutics of Love," in Collected Essays 1:5. href="#footnote4return">(Return)
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At the last Winter Meetings, the Angel franchise took a major hit. They botched the Carl Crawford negotiations in humiliating manner, exposing their front office as being inept. That embarrassment ultimately set them up to make the payroll-crippling Vernon Wells trade. So excuse me if I enter this year this year's Winter Meetings with a fair amount of trepidation, new front office be damned.
Fear must not hold us back though. We are armed with a new GM that appears to know what he is doing and, well, these meetings are going to happen whether we want them to or not. Dipoto has already shown us what he can do via trade, now he is entering these next few days with the full intention of checking a few more items off of his shopping list. Will the Halos continue to make smaller more savvy moves? Or will they look to make a (wait for it) big splash?
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I thought about placing this in the name change thread but, I feared it wouldn't get the attention it deserves so I felt it warranted it's own thread.
The final home game of the season is next Thursday April 26th and will be nationally televised. The guys at BringBackthebuzz.com (who I'm not affliated with beyond supporting their goal) have organized a Charlotte Hornets rally at the game and it would be great to have as many rebrand supporters as we can to show up and support the cause.
The plan is to buy tickets in sections 228 or 229
If you feel strongly about sending a message to MJ and the NBA that we want our name back, please buy a ticket and join the movement.
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6, 8, 10 and 12...hope those get top spot..the rest...don't know
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2014 Sony World Photography Awards finalists revealed
2014 Sony World Photography Awards finalists revealed
The shortlist for the Sony World Photography Awards has been announced in the Professional, Open, and Youth categories. Photographers from 166 countries submitted nearly 140,000 images, the highest number of entries in the awards' seven year history.
All the shortlisted images will go on show at Somerset House, London, from May 1-18 as part of the 2014 Sony World Photography Awards Exhibition. The winners of the Open and Youth categories will be announced on March 18. Professional category winners and the L'Iris D'Or/Sony World Photography Awards Photographer of the Year title will be announced April 30.
See a small sample of the shortlisted images in our gallery above. To view the rest of the finalists, visit the World Photography Organisation website.
Above: Eagle hunter Ardak in western Mongolia by Simon Morris.
1 - hmm, don´t know. Nothing special.
2 - good, but not special
3 - I unterstand the idea, but this is really a plain snapshot
4 - interresting, but overprocessing at its best?
5 - huh? I miss the cat?
6 - wow, very good point of view, like it!
7 - ?
8 - wow², never seen this! Thanks!
9 - flat, don´t like it
10 - wow³, great shot!
11 - I see the pain, but not the vision
12 - nice
No doubt, the most pictures are better what I'm doing. But some picture truly not from "World Photography Awards finalists".
Picture 5 ... sorry, but mum make a snapshot of her p*ssed-off doughter, because she must sing in front of 10.000 people in the show "Sweet Pink Girls Superstars"?
Some very nice work loved image 6 but you should have a look at the One Eyeland Award Winners
wow theres actually a lot of great shots here! i think i usually tend to think "boring.. of COURSE they made it into the finals" for a lot of contesty type things, but a good amount of these really snagged me!
Some great shots in there, but also some some that are either weak or cliched, namely:
Numbers 3 and 7 are average shots that I would certainly not rank among the best shots of the year.
Numbers 8 and 10 are great shots, but are cliched. I have seen similar shots of the same subjects before as finalists in photo competitions. The buffalo race is a perenial favourite among action phogographers, and a photo of the Indian bridge won a competition a year or two ago.
The only explanation I can offer for no. 3 is that God exists, and he has a strange sense of humour that mere mortals cannot grasp. I don't normally vocalise while browsing the web, but that made me "WHAT?"
Some are quite over-processed and cheesy.........number 6 (skiers) is brilliant, totally different class
Divided people divided choices, like One the most 7 second and 10 at last
Several truly excellent pictures. In fact they all are good. 8, 10 &11 in particular.
By over processed you mean they don't look flat, boring and unprofessional?
Um. No. I meant they suck. Not all, but some.
Some of them do suck, but it isn't because of the amount of processing. It's the composition such as the lack of a clear subject or the lack of balance. Or simply the visible lack of the effort to get a better shot when there was one.
Please, bring back last year judges. Very poor selection. I'm not even talking about the 12 finalists. Some of these are good, others technically poor or very common. I've seen the final selection and many were extremely Photoshopped and others very "contemporary". 2014 is a year to forget in the Sony Awards.
Before bashing my comment, I really liked last year finalists. This year they are way worse. I've seen much better in other photos from the competition. Anyone can win. It's not a matter of better or worse photo but the personal taste of the jury. Entering a photo competition is like playing the roulette.
I ask because placing in quotes and in the context of your comment you seem to be using it pejoratively. Contemporary as in current? If you are making reference to style, contemporary does not constitute a style in photography or art, as it does when shopping for furniture. We might speak of contemporary in terms of concerns, ideas - work that might address a current art or photography dialog; but work ranging in aesthetic may be deemed contemporary. One could use the visual mechanics of Pictorialism, yet still be making contemporary art.
I meant, "crap as art". Most of contemporary is. Sorry if it hurts your feelings...
We all have differing sensibilities. Not sure how your perspective would hurt my feelings. But, in all honesty, your sentiment does seem a bit overstated as a blanket catagorization; and limiting.
Probably i'm a bit retro. Well contemporary "art" like an exhibition of anus portraits or bushed vaginas, or a series of a guy defecting in several positions is what makes me love contemporary...
I'm pretty certain that "anus portraits and brushed vaginas" make up less than .1% of contemporary art.
Resolution is too low.
If I can't fill my 24" screen, I can only imagine how microscopic the images look on a 30" screen.
I hate it when the photogs/etc go nuts about plagiarism and post exclusively scaled-down samples, where the only thing clearly visible is the name/copyright/watermark of the photog.
Seriously number 3 it is flat out of focus and what else can I say? congratulations.
Some good images, but #8 is my runaway favorite:
It might be helpful to know that not only was the contest separated into divisions: professional, open, and youth, but also genre/structural and conceptual/issue categories - this (as far as I see) is not explained in the text here, yet is clear on the WPO website. I've had my images shortlisted in similar contests before but always found the selections lacking in guiding criteria, scattershot. I now prefer to submit for exhibitions organised based upon concept; these have the advantage of curatorial continuity, and tend to feature work with a bit more depth and conceptual sophistication. That said, large competitions can still feature wonderful work, and are great motivation for many photographers.
And I failed to mention, congratulation to all those photographers chosen here - some handsome photos.
What is a great image? Certainly all of these could be.
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder as they say.
The ones you take yourself and love might be as good as any of these.
Not to pass judgment on any of the images in question but the importance or relevance of an image is a very individual judgment. What is a winner really?
I can't say I agree with a few of the choices (#3 for instance), but to each his/her own. 1, 8, and 9 are my favorites.
I like #3. The contrast between the miserable houses against a background of modern buildings surelly tells a story.
Maybe #3 was prized for simply showing a street scene without any effects or efforts to capture an "interesting" angle . This may be more difficult than it seems. Still, for me, it's not a very attractive capture.
Like others here, I initially found #3 boring, unimaginative and pointless.
However, the more I look at it, the more I like it. Just cover the upper half of the picture with your hand and look at the lower half until you get the feeling of the place. Then do the opposite, look at the upper half after you cover the lower half. Quite two different pictures, isn't it? But it is only one.
The new, tall, ugly and lifeless buildings look to me like an approaching tsunami that will soon cover the old world. Quite a story, I would say.
Having said that, my favorites are #7, 8 and 11, in this order.
I agree - the same thing happened to me - at first I said "what the fuzz - why is the image here". But like you I know see the contrast between the huge, high dollar towers and the street scene - really interesting - would love to see it printed wall sized.
But I can't understand the inclusion of #5. Even if the composition were better (which it isn't) the colors are pushed too far and the white balance makes this girls hair kinda green. Really not a good image.
God bless the panel of judges who have shown the breath of their vision of what makes a grate photographed.
God bless the eyes of the photographers and all the hard work that they have done to help us shear their moments.
The pictures can speak for them selves.
well done..
Does the Shanghai cityscape have anything going for it? I've seen better snapshots!
Yea I don't understand this inclusion at all. Under-whelmed.
Not impressed with #11 or #5 either, but #8 is brilliant.
While some of the photos are good, a number of them are now just becoming too cliché such as No. 10 - how many times have I now seen a shot similar to that? As for no. 3, how on earth did that get into the final selection?
that tells me sony knows nothing about photography ,very poor selection .
sony may have good engineers but lack of good artists...those photos they picked were hardly better than 500px popular photos
First--the selections are poor--no-3-is just a picure telling abt a city-not quite a story telling--so as the no 9-the polar Bear-- no 10--such pics are now common--yes this pics has lot of action--and probably coloured one will be more detail-/no-3 has nothing to do--
So now we can tell that the pics abt KUMBA MELA -no10 is great from detail and perspectives--/no 2 is not too bad--
But we have doubt the qualification of the respected Judges-very expert driver too makes accident when they go wrong way--over all these judges panes are not above criticism--out of 1,40,000-how they selected some very standardless pictures?We urge Sony to review their selections--if they do not do it--the standard of SONY WORLD PHOTOGRAPHY AWARD will lose its platform and attraction to the participants and photographic world.
I think the photographers of the world will shout now!
These images are generally creative, or tell a story. This is what I was missing in the dpreview awards which seemed more focused on (photoshop) technique. It just shows how different judging panels have different criteria. as do we all.
Personally I prefer photo's that, like great art, make you think. Technique is a poor second.
#10- have seen million times...it's not funny any more. Who are those "judges?"
nice to see a set of finalists that dont rely on death and misery
Very nice, but I fail to see what's so special about entries 2 & 3...
- I guess #2 i taken with a very very dirty sensor - perhaps an D600 instead?
- I guess that #3 got the price because it is just modern "street photograpy"?
Clear that any image nowdays can win a price...
What are you talking about? They're the best pictures. But of course you people on this board know better than the international jury of this award. Why don't you send in some of your HDRs, flower macros or pictures of your dog?
#2 is special because it proves that even with a Sony, you can get blown out skies. This is something nobody would have deemed possible before.
Two of my favourite, but I would have reproduced 3 slightly darker and with a bit more colour in the old town to give an even starker contrast between the lively old town and sterile high rise. The spots on the lens on 2 make the picture
I have seen very similar photos 1000 times....
LOL. These critics are in "review" mode, not "self-actualization" mode.
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What do you do when one of your good friends sleeps with your girl, if she confessed the whole thing? Curious to hear your responses
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What do you do when one of your good friends sleeps with your girl, if she confessed the whole thing? Curious to hear your responses
dump the chick, beat the stuff out of the so-called friend and be done with it.
Last edited by asok; Mar 28, 2009 at 12:50 PM.
Dump her. Ive been cheated on before...just make her know how bad she F'd up. I have no tolerance or sympathy for cheaters
Dump her quick and fast. Like pulling of a band aid.
It may hurt right now, but you will be better off in the long run.
heh... sounds fairly harsh but unanimous... definitely going to deal with him but.... how can I just cut the cord so quickly? If someone comes to you and confesses, shouldn't they be given another chance?
agree with the other comments.
abt giving another chance? no.
confession is good for the soul ie hers, not yours.
she was only easying her own guilt rather than thinking about ur feelings.
quickest way - sharp and short.
end it. get the shared goods divided out appropriately before it all goes south.
once a cheater always a cheater ask her how she would feel if you slept with her best friend or her sister,you would be a dog,so treat her like one and send her a$$ to the pound
I really dont know. You have to be in the situation to really know what you feel...
I guess that the first thought is to kill both...... then you have to calm down.... because you have to figure out how to kill them... (that was not serious)
It depends how nuch you love her also.... But, about the friend, no friend should do something like that. If that was to be my friend, i wouldnt call him that way.
If this has happened to you, ....sorry .
Well in all my lessons from the Maury Povich show and of course Judge Maybelline on Divorce Court, I would say move on without her. And the guy who slept with her is not your friend, a good friend wouldn't do that to you. Whether he is high or drunk it doesnt matter.
But remember my friend, Keep that hand strong!
J/K of course, trying to lighten the mood for ya.
heh ya... been 10 long months lol. Not that long when compared to marriages etc but still something to consider. Ya that guy obviously is no long my friend :P
Just hard to think of what to do next.....
As much as it hurts and seems like it'd be a good idea, lumping up either one of them isn't worth the troubles for you. Bettr to have that happen now than 10 years down the road when you're married with kids and a home.
Your friend, he's not your friend. You should cut him out of your life.
The girl, she'e committed the ultimate violation against you. As much as you may feel like you love her and want to try again, you will never have the level of trust for her you had before again. You will always wonder what she's doing and who she's with when she's not with you. That will cause stress and strain between you and her. She will likely do it again. The added pressure from you as you trust in her is broken, will push her away without neccessarily making her go. It will cause her to pull away and most likely do it again.
Best advice, cut her loose... your friend too.
this whole thread reminds me of the south park musical.
They've said it bro. Once a cheater always a cheater... she did it once, she could do it again. Leave her and find yourself a real trustworthy girl. For the guy, give him a nice knee and/or elbow to the face haha! Don't do that tho... just let him know he messed up
or how about this one..... If it is to offensive, then pleas admins or mods take it off, but i think we are all old enough for this crude pg-13 humor...
Last edited by asok; Mar 28, 2009 at 7:12 PM.
These guys have said it all. If it sounds unanimous, then it's because we're outside looking in. We are impartial, and thinking what is in your best interest. It's obvious that you have strong feelings for this girl since you're thinking about giving her another chance. Forget that, brother! Get rid of them both, and move on with your life. It will hurt for a while, but you will be alot better off. Plenty of nice girls out there, bro. Just go to Al Bundy's favorite bar ! Lots of nice girls there ! Take care and good luck!!!
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if you want to give her another chance, then by all means do so. however, your trust in her has been destroyed and it will slowly eat away at your relationship until there's nothing left but resentment. and it's the same if you want to keep your friend.
Rather than repeat the good advice above I will instead ask you a question. What would Boba Fett do?
Trust No One.
Well, not really, that's a little extreme.
Dump your friend, no excuse in the world is good enough ( like, "she came on to me, " we were drunk" , etc. )
Dump the girl, same reason. They could have stopped at any time, but thought they could get away with it. They will try it again.... human nature.
You will always be second guessing their actions, always be worried about who she's with. Don't put yourself through that. It keeps you awake at night, makes you crazy, and will turn you into a psycho-jealous-overprotective-never trusting boyfriend for some future girlfriend.
The part of you that cares for her wants you to give her a chance to redeem herself. You will try to talk yourself into it, and it will win over the "get rid of her" part of you.
Once that happens, history will repeat itself.
Don't have any phone contact or email contact with them. Don't do or say anything you will later regret, because they will twist your words and actions to make you look like the bad guy. Just cut them off....end of story, start fresh after you take a break from relationships, and DON'T jump into another one right away.
Best of luck, brother pizzaman.
As has been already stated, your "good friend" obviously isn't as good or as much of a friend as you might have previously thought. I suppose the exact circumstances factor in to all of this but when it comes right down to it, I would say since this is a girlfriend and not someone you have committed your life to yet, move on. You should consider forgiving her, but forgiving doesn't mean staying with her. I would say forgive her, but move on. With your so called friend, there really isn't anything to say because this person has proved that they are not your friend. Again, just move on. There are many fish in the sea.
I'm not saying it's right, but in a way your friend did you a big favor. If he hadn't done that, the relationship could have progressed and then it would have hurt even more when it did happen. This way, you know now, and can move on to a better woman, who won't disrespect you like that. Wipe your hands clean and move on, IMO.
Stay positive brother.
If I were you I'd cut both of them straight out of your life, no drama, no beatings nothing just complete separation. they don't deserve even another second of your time. Walk away and let them lounge in their seediness and guilt.
since there is no money changing hands I think boba would just walk away from both of them forever.
No money exchanged hands, but Boba does need to preserve his reputation as a mercyless B.A.M.F., so I imagine blaster and flame thrower would have come into play for him.
However in this and in all real cases violence is not the answer so just walk away. also I would ignore andy emails they send or pleas for forgiveness as they are 99.999999999999% likely to hurt you again.
Taking her back will only tell her that she got away with it and that she can do it again.
Relationships are built on trust, when the trust is gone you have no foundations to continue building upon.
I have always had a one strike policy when it comes to relationships. If you betray me once then you don't deserve my trust, nor my friendship.
My advice is to make this crystal clear when a relationship begins to blossom. I said to my wife when we started dating - "If you ever want to be with someone else then at least have the decency to tell me so that we can end the relationship first."
We had that conversation 15 years ago and we are still going strong, thanks to our mutual understanding.
Wow...this sucks man! I'm sorry to hear your troubles in your personal life. Being cheated on is one of the hardest things to get over. Fortunately, I haven't had it happen to myself (as far as I know), but it happened to my good Navy buddy. He actually walked in while they were "doing the deed" (I think we can leave it at that). Long story short, he picked up the guy, threw him through a closet door, and dumped the chick. I'm not saying that is the right reaction, but what would you do in a situation like that. I'm slightly ashamed to admit that I would do the same and maybe worse.
It seems that some amount of time has passed so you should just let thoughts of violence toward your ex-friend go (assuming you have thought about it because it is only natural). It really isn't worth it to call him out. On the other hand, if he were to say something to you or anyone else that is offensive or poking fun at the fact he got with your girl, you have your honor to protect. In a situation like that, it would be your call. I would personally make him wish he never did or said anything. Maybe not the right thing, but it is right for myself.
As far as the girl goes, I'm sorry to say that it is in your best interest to get rid of her. You need to get as far away as possible, emotionally and physically. That is truly the only way to heal. By all means, forgive her for "To err is human, to forgive, divine", but DO NOT stay with her. I'm sorry bro, but once a cheater ALWAYS a cheater!
Hope things lighten up! I'll be thinking of you because NO ONE should have to go through something like this.
Take Care,
Last edited by Kwally89; Mar 29, 2009 at 11:56 AM.
ouch... ya looks like every1 agrees... i think I'll have a serious talk with her and lay everything on the table.
As for the guy I already had a long talk with him 2... still really mad but I'm not gonna throw any punches, just not who I am. Ugh lol why can't it just be easy :P
no shortage of similar advice here. Prolly got enough, but I think it was a good insight posted earlier to say that her confession came as a release of her own guilt rather than her own good feelings toward you. Her guilt is a good sign she ain't all bad, but unless you're married for years with children, cheating like this so early in the relationship just means you're done. You don't deserve to be treated that way. Nobody does. You have every right to move on and forget about her. And you will be better off for it, believe me.
I wouldn't give them the benefit of a long talk. They really don't deserve it. I would just say " See Ya ".
Yeah man, I've made the mistake of keeping an old gf around after she's cheated...Worst mistake ever!!!
Bail bro, I'm sure she's not all that anyway. You can do better.
Once a cheater, always a cheater.
They're not lying.
I had an ex who cheated.. Left me for the guy she cheated with and came back crawling.. I took her back. Guess what? She cheated again.
Save yourself a world of hurt. It will sting now, but not near as bad as it will if you try to hang on and it happens again another year or two down the road.
Dump the cargo and let the imperials have her.
This is a tough one man but you have to cut all ties with both parties. If they can do it once they they can do it again or even worse. As for a violent confrontation with him I always looked at it this way, if you beat him then you have to do the same to her since they are equally responsible for betraying you. Since you can't hit a girl my advice would be to stay away from them for life. They will both get served justice later on in life, karma is funny like that, you always get whats coming to you. Just learn from this and move on. Sorry to hear such awfull news.
I gotta say, IMO it's not as cut and dry as all that. Fact is, the "friend" although a friend, is still a man. When it comes right down to it, it's the girl who has the say so when it comes to the "sheets". I say, cut ties with the girl, and keep the friend. Punish him for it, but don't necessarily put all of the blame on him. If he's really your friend, he feels horrible. Now that it's happened, he'll think twice before even thinking about doing that to you again if you handle it right. ( I'm not talking about bro's before "...." either). Although it sounds like it I'm sure.
What it comes down to is, boys will be boys. There is scientific fact to it. Some just don't have the moral/intestinal fortitude to handle a situation like this without caving in. Which is why we get such a bad rap. The girl on the other hand, should have nipped it in the bud before it went too far. It's testament that she's no good for you, and WILL do it again in the future.
I'm sorry this happened to you man
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Last edited by fettpride; Mar 30, 2009 at 8:30 PM.
dude, just disintagate em both...... W.W.F.D?
Man, I'm with FP on this...I would let your bro know he is at the low end of the totem pole, but still keep him a friend. As for the woman, cut ties and draw the lines...give her the boot and then in a couple weeks or months when she is missing you, just keep standing your ground. You will find someone who wont do that **** to you, thats assured.
This is a very hard situation to be in, its happened to me in the past also, in my opinion you should just leave the girl without giving her the benefit of any talking just try and move on and act as if you couldnt give a dam about her or what she done to you. As for the friend in my case i didnt speak to him for about 2 years and slowly we became friends again. It all depends on how you feel though, but definately dont give her another chance
Hope it all works out for the best brother.
Well its that cut and dry to me, if we were good friends for a long period of time then you can bet the farm that we're threw. I'm sorry but if this ever happened to me then scientifically or not then your a scum bag and I would'nt need people like that in my life. Lets just say you banged your friends girl, how the hell are you going to try to explain yourself and reason with him to stay cool. Think about it. All I know is if this happens to me then look for me on CNN, it won't be pretty.
If I knew only to break it off when went through this...
Leave her, end the situation, but next time you see them be extra nice to them!! They'll wonder what you are plotting, constantly look over their shoulder, and it'll make them very nervous.
In the long run(because you never made a fuss about it), you'll turn out to be the bigger man and may even end up being friends with them in the end.
It happened to me, that's what I did, and I still talk to the couple.
That was 8 years ago.
Man....I don't know about that one. You would seriously keep a friend who slept with your girlfriend?! You guys are crazy!! That guy is NOT your friend. Boys will be boys is bull and EVERYONE knows that. We aren't animals. We are humans, and that guy made a choice. It wasn't instinct; he MADE the choice. He is a low life who doesn't even deserve the time of day. I really am suprised anyone would even think that!
I don't want to push any buttons...I guess people just think VERY VERY differently...
Me man, me not bad, me not treat women bad, not like caveman. me like women, me treat with respect, me no not why women be mean.................................... seriously is this what its come to. The whole its in are nature to be a manwhore is old. Not all women are cheats and not all men only live to steal there friends girl. This is a case of two people who more or less are scum, scum, scum ,scum. Pizza man is better off without them.
Last edited by whistle8mp; Apr 2, 2009 at 12:36 AM.
IMO Sell her to Jabba, freeze your friend and hang him on your wall... and continue to stand there looking awesome!
Speaking only from personal experiance.... nothing good will come out of keeping her around.
I had a GF that cheated on me (obviously)... we tried again but the trust was gone. Later i found out that before she got together with me she cheated on her ex with me.
I still have contact with her though every now and then, around the holidays and such... she says she still thinks of me a lot and the "what ifs".. so i guess that is my revenge... keeping her guilt alive.
Right now i'm living in an apartment with a lovely girl and with a 5 month old son (who apparently loves Lightsabers as seen in my other thread) and i couldn't be happier.
Oh and by the way. Their feelings are their problems. Don't get suckered in to feeling sorry for them. Besides.. You have to tend to your own feelings of hate, abandonement, jealousy, resentment or whatever you might be feeling atm. so don't sell yourself cheap by feeling sorry for them. They don't deserve it. You deserve better.
And coincidently.. i happend to listen to Slipknots' "Duality" at the time.. A LOT.. for some reason it was the only song that i could "let it all out" with and i fellt that it expressed some of the emotion i had in me at the time..
Last edited by Boba Swede; Apr 3, 2009 at 1:08 AM.
what's with all the gals doing the stepping out these days? i mean i know men have always cheated, and that's dead wrong in my opinion, and likely woman have as well. but, it just seems like women are stepping out more now than ever. it's just the deterioration of our moral compass. no one, or very few, take the time to teach their kids right from wrong. then they get out in the "real world" and are taught all the self indulgant amoral bs that's being crammed down our throats. i mean, i'm no quaker in my beliefs but, what's wrong with opening doors for women, giving up your seat for a woman or the elderly, teaching kids right from one, being faithful to who you're with etc.
my best friend got home from a year in korea a few months back. he was welcomed with a 1 month old daughter. you do the math. needless to say, his nearly 10 year marriage came to an end. about a year and a 1/2 ago, my wife of 7 years and i split and divorced after she "couldn't handle being a cops wife". she had been out having inapproprite relationships with men. she claims no full on cheating but i can't say i believe her. we tried to work through things for 3 years, mostly because we had 2 children together. ultimatly after tons of pain and finally becoming numb i decided i was done. i've talked to friends from high school, i come from a small conservative christian farm community btw, and found out that many of their wives and girlfriends have played them as well.
i just don't get it. i've been with girls i flat out loathed and never cheated on them. where is peoples self control?
as for your friend, he's as guilty as her. f-him.


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