IF YOU DON'T READ MY BLOG YOU'RE PART OF THE PROBLEM!!! SERIOUSLY!!!

I've noticed, over the years, that there are lot of emails out there where people get very bossy and demanding. Not only do they want you're undivided attention, they want the undivided attention of the entire universe. if you don't open the email you're part of the problem. if you don't read the email you're contributing to the collapse of socieity. if you don't agree with the email after reading it, it must be supposed that something is horribly wrong with you. and, finally, if you don't forward the email to everybody you've ever met or thought about meeting then you're complicit with the entire universe imploding in on itself and ceasing to exist.

I've included a few specimens to help clarify the issue. none of this stuff, to my knowledge, is copyrighted. I'm posting them here for the fair usage of ridiculing the self-importance of such emails.

for your reading enjoyment:

"Lastly, anyone who doubts that the issue is serious and just deletes this email without sending it on, is contributing to the passiveness that allows the problems to expand. So, extend yourself a bit and send this on and on and on! Let us hope that thousands, world wide, read this and think about it, and send it on - before it's too late."

" DO NOT DELETE WITHOUT READING ! "

"Read This - Important and if it gets your goat, kill the goat!"

"If this doesn't bother you then just delete the message. If, on theother hand, if it does raise the hair on the back of your neck, I hope youforward it to every legal resident in the country including every representative inWashington, D.C. - five times a week for as long as it takes to restoresome semblance of intelligence in our policies and enforcement thereof...."

"if you agree with this then pass it on"

"Now don't delete this message, because it comes from a veryspecial angel SOMEBODY NEEDS YOU TO SEND THIS TO THEM"

"Please don't delete this until you send it on. Everyone on the planet needs to read this."

"Think about this: If you don't want to forward this for fear of offending someone -- YOU'RE PART OF THE PROBLEM! It is Time for America to Speak up. If you agree -- pass this along, if you don't agree --- delete it!"

"AND NOW A LITTLE FOOTNOTE TO THIS STORY: We all send thousands of jokes through the e-mail without a second thought, but when it comes to sending messages about life choices, people hesitate. The crude, vulgar, and often obscene pass freely through cyber space, but public discussion about decency is too often suppressed in our schools and workplaces."


and, if you slackers didn't read this far... you guessed it...
YOU'RE PART OF THE PROBLEM! :P