Greater Than, Less Than or Equals - The Running of the Bulls vs The Rambling Retard

Annually in Pamplona, Spain there is the hosting of the Festival of San Fermin, notorious for the "Running of the Bulls". 800 meters of a chaotic dash from corral to bullring down winding, narrow streets... a century old tradition dating to the sixteenth century. Each year hundreds of "contestants" or bumbling idiots suffering futility and/or self-indulgence try their luck with the ambition of boosting ones credentials or pride, or just to say they did it. Let's be honest here... there are activities that for obvious reasons are defined for those who are the thrillseekers. The Running of the Bulls is not one of them! Where is the thrill of knowing that at any second you have the opportunity to get a bull horn up your ass? Or have your chest trampled by a hoof or two? Sure, opinions may run fluently in this debate but reason is where the facts truly lie. So minus the phylosophy and the opinions reason tells us that the only motives behind this excuse for thrillseeking are self-indulgence, pride, credentials, tradition (which I respect) and stupidity. So when and where as an individual do you draw the line.

Bloggers are the online daily running of the bulls... most lacking the reason needed to blog beyond their useless, self-indulging opinions. Rambling Retards doing so only to establish credentials that run "superficially" (I think this is in proper context). What I mean by this is online I don't know Larry from Jack, we can all be who we are not on the almighty WWW. And those motives alone are superficial and left there for those who lack enough self confidence to tell the girl on the other end of their phone sex conversation their real name. Now granted... many use these forums as tools to express feelings and stories of everyday life, but when is enough... enough?

Gold comes in many forms like currency, jewelry and statues, but never have I seen it in the form of every word of one individual. And so the questions raise their awkward heads... Is the bull runner or rambling retard another bowel movement of pure, solid gold? Or just another gold plated piece of bronze cast from the same moulds as all those other shit shaped blogging rambling retards or bull runners... that the world continues to offer?

Does it take more or less reasoning to talk yourself out of running down a windy, narrow road with a bunch of irate, horn bearing bulls? Or does it take more or less reasoning to talk yourself out of becoming a Rambling Retard of a bunch of uselss opinions or stories whose only purpose is to serve an individuals self righteous, self empowering blog status? Or are the two comparable in self indulgance therefore requiring equal reasoning resulting in an equal status?

I wrote this for my friend Finnie, whose every blogged word has become gold (the gold plated bronze anyway). Keep up the good work! If you lose another 100 lbs. (typing at 40 wpm for the next 5 years 8 hours a day) you'll be down around 200 lbs. and close to in enough shape to run with the bulls. Which leads me to believe that in your case the self indulgance is equal... you don't have the reasoning to talk yourself out of either!