tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22957834.post9151724178883956253..comments2023-11-27T02:17:22.859-06:00Comments on The LawDog Files: Well, that's just splendiferousLawDoghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05232684877582591461noreply@blogger.comBlogger78125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22957834.post-78845622917297318262017-03-06T17:50:33.420-06:002017-03-06T17:50:33.420-06:00I have had occasions that my monster came out.
I h...I have had occasions that my monster came out.<br />I have learned to keep him under control.<br />Bu there have been a couple of time he almost got out again.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22957834.post-62044812363553184022017-03-06T05:05:41.816-06:002017-03-06T05:05:41.816-06:00Ah nutbunnies. I burned my musings on monsters on ...Ah nutbunnies. I burned my musings on monsters on the previous post before I read this one... Eh, I'll go and double-post.Robin Bobcatnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22957834.post-2092843752048752552014-11-19T11:07:43.786-06:002014-11-19T11:07:43.786-06:00I had a good, long look at my monster a while back...I had a good, long look at my monster a while back when some kid stole my cellphone and bashed me about the temples when I tried to get it back. There were times when I wished I had stabbed him in the back after he pocketed that cellphone, which is considered murder by local state laws. Now, I give great thought to the idea of how I will fight back in situations and try to impose some serious boundaries. I've also taken some martial arts courses to better confront that monster.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05902361159486268101noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22957834.post-87764105303230329412014-03-12T23:03:35.518-05:002014-03-12T23:03:35.518-05:00Once upon a time, someone asked the Darlin' Da...Once upon a time, someone asked the Darlin' Daughter the following question: I'm 6-foot-2, have two black belts and I'm a CCW permit holder. So why are you scarier than I am?" The 5-foot-nothing Daughter replied "Cause I'm a mom." He said "why should that make you scarier than me?" She said "F**k with my kids and find out."Retired Spookhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07162727356116384883noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22957834.post-4271821716908829852014-03-12T22:42:46.236-05:002014-03-12T22:42:46.236-05:00Once upon a time, out in the Dark-and-Scary, I cou...Once upon a time, out in the Dark-and-Scary, I could let my Monster out, to run free. Since then, keeping it leashed is one of my Prime Directives. But the monster is always there, and if I let it loose, even for a moment, it's not gonna be pretty. But I have dear friends who don't believe in the monster, and when their's lets loose, I don't want to be there.Retired Spookhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07162727356116384883noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22957834.post-12112933667930040512013-04-24T17:45:08.276-05:002013-04-24T17:45:08.276-05:00Well-said, sir.
Each of us has our own monster — ...Well-said, sir.<br /><br />Each of us has our own monster — keeping it controlled is the mark of a man, or woman.Curmudgeonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17769318126224937140noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22957834.post-62353860507732673192013-02-09T00:16:09.926-06:002013-02-09T00:16:09.926-06:00http://forums.mymotherlode.com/showthread.php?p=67...http://forums.mymotherlode.com/showthread.php?p=67754&posted=1#post67754<br /><br />I posted your comment...with references..<br />this is a good response.<br /><br />leapermanAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22957834.post-18984246012356745172013-01-11T22:06:37.432-06:002013-01-11T22:06:37.432-06:00Oops,
SASS#28319Oops,<br />SASS#28319Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22957834.post-7512713936306429892013-01-11T22:05:39.930-06:002013-01-11T22:05:39.930-06:00Mine must be buried really deep. He growled once,...Mine must be buried really deep. He growled once, but never came out. I was at the BassPro in Grapevine, TX a couple of days after it opened. There was a kid at the gun counter. I asked him if they sold black powder. He went blank for a moment and finally said, "All our powder is over there, but I don't know what color it is."<br /><br />Monster growled. Kind of a stupid thing to get him riled up though. <br /><br />Anyway, I told monster to shut up, and I walked away.<br /><br />Pulp, SASS#28310<br />aka TerryAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22957834.post-3270856210969635272012-12-27T12:53:56.787-06:002012-12-27T12:53:56.787-06:00Oh yes indeed women have monsters.
Mine has come ...Oh yes indeed women have monsters.<br /><br />Mine has come out three times, twice in reaction to the same person, a friend's boy friend, who I truly believe to have been a psychopath. Once at a flat-warming party (mine) when he convinced another friend that it would be great crack to dump me in a water-filled bath tub, and I fought back hard enough that I nearly bit off someone else's finger (which convinced that friend that I didn't think it was all great fun), and once a week later at the pub after evensong when he made some crack about how I was over-reacting to a dislocated sacro-iliac joint (the result of the bath tub incident), and I found myself about six inches from his throat with my claws. I think I was also baring my teeth, and there may have been some growling. <br /><br />Other choir members were suitably impressed, and Ronan, the SOB, also got the message. <br /><br />I've also caught myself baring my teeth, growling, and with raised hackles, while crossing TCD's front square when Bernadette Devlin was addressing some rally. <br /><br />That woman, as was Ronan, is/was truly evil, and I think of my monster more as a protective animal, and if it is rousing, there is something I need to be paying attention to.<br /><br />I can scream and throw things with the best, but that doesn't feel anywhere near as primal, is much more related to depression, and doesn't scare people including me anywhere near as much.Library-Gryffonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06446982343602702829noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22957834.post-75732309728048007272012-12-16T15:00:57.389-06:002012-12-16T15:00:57.389-06:00Goodness, I certainly hope nothing bad happens to ...Goodness, I certainly hope nothing bad happens to you as the result of the idiot child. <br /><br />Any woman that thinks she does not have a monster, is deluding herself. I know I have a monster. Fortunately, it has little occasion to come out, which is a very good thing because where it to come out, I'm not sure that I could control it completely or that I would want to. <br /><br />For the Christian looking to control the beast, prayer. You MUST put yourself in the Lord's hands. Find a minister at a local church and speak with him or her. The head minister at my church, before I moved, was ALWAYS happy to talk with anyone about whatever. <br /><br />You can not control the beast by yourself. Really you can't.AuntieAnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22957834.post-41798394691034851212012-12-15T20:19:17.826-06:002012-12-15T20:19:17.826-06:00Staring down the Lioness (my name for the monster)...Staring down the Lioness (my name for the monster) is as important to the path of the shaman as that of the warrior. I no longer use a leash for her; she walks a step behind and a step beside, ready to come forward if the guiding intellegence calls for her. Because I know what she can do, I'm not afraid of her. And woe betide the one who threatens one of my Household!Kestrelnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22957834.post-55297309672769703752012-12-14T22:22:30.331-06:002012-12-14T22:22:30.331-06:00My monster reared his head today.
He felt pain and...My monster reared his head today.<br />He felt pain and anger. He roared in frustration that there was no action he could take. <br /><br />In thinking about our monsters Earl Harbinger from Larry Corriea's MHI comes to mind. He lives with a foul beast in his blood yet he controls it and harnesses it for good. I believe the character is a great example of learning to control the monster within.Tekehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17347409124682537594noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22957834.post-206456498764558892012-12-13T03:43:45.937-06:002012-12-13T03:43:45.937-06:00My monster had control in my early life. Luckily ...My monster had control in my early life. Luckily we moved just before Jr. High. It gave me a new set of kids/enemies who didn't know the buttons to push. I was able to not only chain it but nail it to the wall with spikes. That kept me out of juvie and/or jail.<br /><br />I must say that I kept it too controlled for a while. I think that I have a better solution now. I've partnered with it. I figured out what it wanted: survival. I convinced it that I want survival too. It trusts me. When it comes out, it isn't Mr. Hyde. It's a teammate with a different skill set that then takes point. I still call the big picture shots but let the monster handle the details. And if a life or death situation occurs (I drive in and around L.A., it gets frequent practice) it takes over long enough to save my life and those in the vehicle with me and then backs down.<br /><br />The monster has learned that I am the best suited for survival in most modern day situations and is quite happy to leave me to it. I suspect it gets bored. However, it is always there and I am confident that *we* can handle most situations.<br /><br />For the Anonymous who is trying to control his monster:<br /><br />First thing: When she's asleep (just to keep from freaking her out), stare at her and *know* that you can't live without her. Practice that and just that until you are sure that your monster will never allow harm to come to her.<br /><br />Then it is time to get subtle. Reacting violently when you are not in physical danger puts your life at risk. It will put you in jail and you will die in jail. You have to practice *knowing* that. <br /><br />Your monster somehow learned that frustrations are a threat to your life. You have to retrain it to recognize actual threats.Jeff Millerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16199827049934363961noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22957834.post-36642134340126286762012-12-10T20:59:37.629-06:002012-12-10T20:59:37.629-06:00Civilized behavior is a very thin veneer over the ...Civilized behavior is a very thin veneer over the wild animal that ALL humans are. The 'monster', as you have called it, isn't. It is what is required for our existence to continue, as we have to kill something to eat to live (or so it's been for the last 65,000 years or so, since we've left the neanderthal behind... yeah we COULD eat lettuce, but we'd have to kill that anyway), we have 'tribes' that we are members of, (and if someone went crazy they were cast out of the tribe into the wilderness (to be killed by the wild things there)) who will protect us from them (members of a different tribe. Every border on the planet from prehistory till now and beyond has us/them issues. Yeah it seems I'm meandering, but that 'kill the bastard lizard brained response' isn't a monster, it's who we are as a species.<br />Sorry for multiple nestings, but this minirant should be a full blown website.<br />Anyway, Yeah, since we've tried,in the last couple of centuries, to breed the monster out of our constitution (pun intended) it does seem that the killer instinct is a monster. Just you get between and mother and her children and try to cause them some harm... Go ahead. Let me know how ya make out there sport.<br /><br />Rich in NCOpinionated Grump (Rich in NC)https://www.blogger.com/profile/05260811958299261825noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22957834.post-38164538573499316162012-12-09T22:46:58.056-06:002012-12-09T22:46:58.056-06:00I've said for a long time, the only thing I...I've said for a long time, the only thing I'm afraid of is me. I guess I should update that to my Monster.<br /><br />My own monster was out early, certainly by the time I was ten. Luckily, I think faster than I move and couldn't punch for crap back then. By the time I could punch (age sixteen or so and after some martial arts training, helped some)I carried a knife. Because my fists could fly before I could think. However, if I had a knife my Monster would use it, and in the time the hand took to get there I could intercept control. Now it's reflex to stop that initial Monster reaction. Still happens all the time, but I block it before it gets momentum. The monster moves first, lizard brain KILL, before monkey brain knows it. But, in that moment of going for the weapon, higher brain can take back control.<br /><br />Except when that's not a good idea. I have it on good authority by multiple witnesses i have crossed a room faster than they could follow me. I don't know. One moment I was sitting down, blink, fifteen feet behind the chair I was in and accelerating up the stairs after the guy. If someone ahead of me hadn't stopped and blocked me (allowing monkey brain to catch up)...well, i'm pretty sure it would have been ugly. Still can't remember what it was that tripped that switch either.<br /><br />As for advice on control: practice. My first real accomplishment was in controlling that first reaction that lead to things getting punched really fast (I wasn't a thrower). The first step in that was making myself lock up, just fraction of a second, before reacting. Yes, that did slow reactions in some stressful situations (that I usually caused) but also kept some very inappropriate reactions from happening. In that moment of lockup others have seen It coming, sometimes, and that has been enough to change their mind. Once that first step is blocked by habit I use a lot of visualization (call it meditating or self hypnosis if you like) that set my internal conditions for not blocking that reaction. For instance, no amount of talking can set me off. You wave a knife at me, however, and I've seen myself snatch it from their hands (afterwards, at the time *I* was not at the wheel).<br /><br />I suggest defining an object and target that the Monster gets to have (saves on random objects). For instance: big hammer and junk computer. Sometimes it goes for that because you won't stop it completely. I punched furniture, especially a heavy wooden dresser that could take it. (side note, martial arts training probably saved me multiple broken hands because I could punch correctly) Then you practice stopping it quickly. Pulling the choke chain, so to speak. It can be ridden, that's important to know.<br />markulenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22957834.post-86039534573001481882012-12-08T17:05:32.070-06:002012-12-08T17:05:32.070-06:00Ouch. Hoping your critter didn't "share&q...Ouch. Hoping your critter didn't "share" anything extra with you.<br /><br />It took me a good long while to learn how to master my own monster. She's a doozy, that one...Mother of Chaoshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12176092618150502244noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22957834.post-74788948290181043082012-12-07T12:36:08.844-06:002012-12-07T12:36:08.844-06:00I vaguely remember an officer who had one of the c...I vaguely remember an officer who had one of the collapse-able batons with rubber around the tip (in theory would prevent impact cuts) would stick it into a suspects pocket, give it a twist, and then pull the pocket inside our. <br />I hope the testing comes up negative for the possible nasty's. toadoldhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12821769510849208141noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22957834.post-60828750903269955302012-12-07T11:39:14.553-06:002012-12-07T11:39:14.553-06:00Gah. "Going berserk is the easy way to get th...Gah. "Going berserk is the <i>easy</i> way to get there."Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22957834.post-33963828786364249872012-12-07T11:38:18.511-06:002012-12-07T11:38:18.511-06:00It has a purpose. Some people can't access it....It has a purpose. Some people can't access it. We call them sheep.<br /><br />@Jim March: They're the same state, just accessed differently. Going berserk is the way to get there.<br /><br />Been a long time since I've gone berserk. Neighborhood bully backed off right quick when I threw something at him he didn't think I could even lift. I try very hard to avoid fights.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22957834.post-83819501872756777512012-12-06T20:51:37.570-06:002012-12-06T20:51:37.570-06:00to Breda! So much for equal rights!to Breda! So much for equal rights!John Bhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04875185117306503147noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22957834.post-29588151690376260662012-12-06T20:48:52.560-06:002012-12-06T20:48:52.560-06:00My monster is a very evil, comical, laughing monst...My monster is a very evil, comical, laughing monster. I don't let him out often. The last time involved some burly mechanics and policemen holding me down, until the intended -wife beating- prey was hustled off into protective custody. I also have a sub monster that comes out when I drink too much! Everyone mistakes that for my main monster and thinks that I'm easy. My best friend tells folks how I held a conversation and sparred with a guy about 120 degrees away. Apparently I wasn't even looking. I wish I had been there to see it. Blackout Sucks!John Bhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04875185117306503147noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22957834.post-4194830360969344482012-12-06T07:36:34.674-06:002012-12-06T07:36:34.674-06:00To: myself and V/R JWest concerning controling mon...To: myself and V/R JWest concerning controling monster as a Christian,<br /><br />Prayer is the only thing that really works. Reading books and going to counseling will only go so far. I am 6'5" and am now over 350 lbs. When my "monster" gets loose, it is like the Hulk going off. Fortunately, it has been afairly long time since he has done more than growl. Mostly, when unleashed, it has been on the side of doing good - as in protecting those smaller than myself. My family knows that my life is for them and that I would gladly lay it down for them - as Christ intends for each of us to do. Hang in there, pray and give the Holy Spirit time to work. God bless each of you.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22957834.post-8168846771279857902012-12-05T14:54:53.766-06:002012-12-05T14:54:53.766-06:00Hello again.
Coming back to make an apology. I m...Hello again.<br /><br />Coming back to make an apology. I made a stupid mistake: misunderstanding based on definitions. I was always a fairy tale kind of girl, so "monster" means something inherently evil to me. Precisely because of those OT and NT examples given, I can't accept what you called a "monster" as inherently evil.<br /><br />And once I see the definition difference, I don't see anything to disagree with.<br /><br />Sorry for my sloppy thinking, and speaking before properly thinking,<br />DMAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22957834.post-11480713508516461372012-12-05T14:46:21.405-06:002012-12-05T14:46:21.405-06:00This, (as JayG said) is why I never went into law ...This, (as JayG said) is why I never went into law enforcement.<br /><br />Frankly, my monster scares me, so I keep him locked up in a bank vault. He doesn't have a throttle -- it's just a toggle switch. <br /><br />As I found when I was working as a rentacop for beer money, and found myself in a scuffle where my choices were, A) continue ineffectively engaging WAY outside my weight class with woefully inadequate "restrain and contain" scuffle skills, or B) sprout hair, fangs, and howl at the moon.<br /><br />I decided that I wasn't willing to get all hairy and kill or cripple over something that started as a petty (<i>stupidly</i> petty) theft, and only escalated to felony status because Sumdood suddenly decided he didn't want a free car ride and a couple of weekends picking up trash in an orange jumpsuit.<br /><br />I don't even bear him ill-will. He was <i>resisting</i> not really <i>fighting</i> (even when he popped me a few times). he ended up leaving with his expensive leather jacket all scuffed up and a couple of bucks of merch, I ended up with one half of a brand new $90 pair of sneakers and an indelible memory of a Cadillac hubcap going right past my nose at 50 mph.<br /><br />The monster has come out a few times, in life or death situations. The problem is that he, like Weber's treecats, has only two categories of enemies -- the dead, and those we haven't gotten around to yet. So, a life in a profession where there exists a middle category, "<i>people we <b>will</b> forcibly take, but want as undented as possible</i>" is a poor risk for society.Geodkythttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17340718574781403778noreply@blogger.com