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Rational Irationalizations.... with 6ixStringJack
Saturday, July 27, 2013 6:38 AM
6IXSTRINGJACK
Saturday, July 27, 2013 12:59 PM
FREMDFIRMA
Quote:"There can't possibly be any meaning in this world. But isn't that wonderful in its own right? Because if there isn't any, we can find our own." -2LT Filicia Heidemann, Sound of the Sky
Saturday, July 27, 2013 9:25 PM
KWICKO
"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." -- William Casey, Reagan's presidential campaign manager & CIA Director (from first staff meeting in 1981)
Saturday, July 27, 2013 9:36 PM
MAGONSDAUGHTER
Sunday, July 28, 2013 2:01 AM
Thursday, August 1, 2013 8:35 AM
Saturday, August 3, 2013 5:28 AM
Quote:Originally posted by FREMDFIRMA: You're still an asshole, Jack. -F
Saturday, August 3, 2013 6:07 AM
BYTEMITE
Saturday, August 3, 2013 6:39 AM
1KIKI
Goodbye, kind world (George Monbiot) - In common with all those generations which have contemplated catastrophe, we appear to be incapable of understanding what confronts us.
Saturday, August 3, 2013 6:42 AM
Saturday, August 3, 2013 6:48 AM
Saturday, August 3, 2013 6:55 AM
Saturday, August 3, 2013 7:54 AM
Saturday, August 3, 2013 8:12 AM
Saturday, August 3, 2013 8:27 AM
Quote:The funny thing is that some of you probably still think I have even a shred of respect more for myself than any of you do at this point. Mayhap I would if I believed truly that in the end any single one of us could be any inch more than skin-sacks for jelly.
Quote:If You, Byte, consider yourself one of the Good Guys, which I totally don't believe you do... please fight the good fight...
Saturday, August 3, 2013 8:46 AM
Quote:Originally posted by BYTEMITE: Quote:The funny thing is that some of you probably still think I have even a shred of respect more for myself than any of you do at this point. Mayhap I would if I believed truly that in the end any single one of us could be any inch more than skin-sacks for jelly. Fair enough. I have however read Lovecraft. I'm actually not that big on his cthulu mythos, but some of his shorts like Dexter Ward are where I think his real creativity shine. I remember reading that Lovecraft himself felt like his cthulu stuff was mass produced. However, it's important to be familiar with it in order to appreciate references in other works. And Huxley is an interesting case of both being a warning call and a promoter for the agendas he wrote about. Orwell was a straight up anti-establishment though.
Saturday, August 3, 2013 9:07 AM
Quote:would you appreciate my views anymore? I know you somewhat Byte, and you're one of the few here I would honestly ask that question to.
Quote:When I read any of their works for the first or thirty-first time, I sit there a while in awe, and wonder just how they could write something so long ago that still rings so true in a world where most people would "rather watch the movie"
Quote:Every day, the more evil I peruse, the closer I come to Jesus.
Quote:Both parties will comply....
Saturday, August 3, 2013 12:32 PM
Saturday, August 3, 2013 12:47 PM
Saturday, August 3, 2013 4:17 PM
Saturday, August 3, 2013 4:27 PM
Saturday, August 3, 2013 5:45 PM
Quote:Some Buddhistic scholars of the sword imagine that there is a state of fluid perfection, called "enlightenment," in which one can act at each and every moment without reflection or doubt, the spontaneous act being the only one suitable to that particular moment. The enlightened one, then, could cut down an individual without murderous intention, in their intuitive all-encompassing understanding that the interpenetrating web of universe is best served that this individual die. The slaughtered one's life is culminated and in fact "demands" death at this moment to be properly fulfilled.
Saturday, August 3, 2013 7:02 PM
Tuesday, August 13, 2013 6:54 AM
Tuesday, August 13, 2013 7:20 AM
Quote:Originally posted by FREMDFIRMA: Yanno, dunno WHY I am about to bother.... not really Quote:Some Buddhistic scholars of the sword imagine that there is a state of fluid perfection, called "enlightenment," in which one can act at each and every moment without reflection or doubt, the spontaneous act being the only one suitable to that particular moment. The enlightened one, then, could cut down an individual without murderous intention, in their intuitive all-encompassing understanding that the interpenetrating web of universe is best served that this individual die. The slaughtered one's life is culminated and in fact "demands" death at this moment to be properly fulfilled. Bushido has this too, best described as The-thing-to-do-at-that-moment, that there is a certain "thing" appropriate to the moment at hand and you should be doing it, no matter how futile or minor it seems, to do it is to be in harmony with the universe and all that merry rot. And it seems the thing-to-do at this moment is offer advice. Not happy, polite, friendly advice, but dopeslap upside the head cause you're being an idiot advice, and three guesses who the lucky recipient is... You know what most of your problem is there, Jack ? Is that it turned out the cost of obtaining the things you THOUGHT you wanted, turned out to be the things you really did - remember always, the first person society teaches children to lie to, is themselves. You got your "stuff" - you happy now ? satisfied ? complete ? hmmm ? Or are you pissed off and defensive about the fact that it DOES NOT MAKE YOU HAPPY ? Thought it would, didja then ? Chump. Hell I should know, back in the days of yore before my break with the establishment for a short time I had what I THOUGHT I wanted, no real limits on my behavior, cash by the fistfull, and free reign to do whatever to whoever without much in the way of consequence, and you know what ? I was more miserable "at the top" than any moment before or since in my whole damn life, and in quagmire deep denial about it always lookin for something or someone else to blame, a veritable ocean of rage just looking for an outlet, one found later in supposed noble cause although that was originally just a front. So yeah, I know what's eatin you better than YOU do, having wound that whole cycle before, and you really need to think about that shit, when you're capable of thinking, instead of reacting. That lack of empathy, intolerance, racism and sexism, you're playing THEIR game, singing THEIR tune, to protect "stuff" which doesn't even make you happy, so what the fuck, man ? The other maybe 15-20% of it is a different FORM of intolerance, and if you can't develop empathy than for heavens sake develop a little arrogance, a certain KIND of arrogance mind you, not the smug entitled bastard shit which'll just wend you deeper into the trap, but look within and find if not empathy, then PITY, for the ignorant and malicious, and cast it about with a generous hand, as this is more, not less, offensive than downright hate, and is subverting, rather than playing, the game you have been trapped into. And get a pet for crying out loud, will you - rescue an animal from the shelter, find a being to actually CARE about beyond youself, it'll do you good. This concludes a moment in time where I am obligated to do something stupid and futile since the universe demands it. Oh, and just apropros of nothing - maybe you lose a little focus on your junk, eh ? http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0418.html -Frem
Tuesday, August 13, 2013 12:51 PM
Friday, August 16, 2013 8:43 AM
Sunday, August 18, 2013 5:28 AM
Friday, August 23, 2013 8:04 AM
Friday, August 23, 2013 8:28 AM
Friday, August 23, 2013 8:33 AM
Quote:Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK: EDITED TO ADD: I know that Helter Skelter and Son of Sam was some serious shit back in your day "folks"..... Your day is done.... Let it go. I'm just turning an old 34 in less than 24 hours and even thinking of having sex with any of you for less than a billion dollars is gross to me. This is a new day. My only question to you, PARENTS OF TODAY, is why this problem isn't getting better and it's only getting worse? There were honestly days when the dorks who shoot up high schools today lived to serve the Varsity letters on some Senior douche's HS Jacket. Seriously parents of 15 year olds today. Nickelodeon looks like the most explicit MTV videos of 1987 and all of your Disney girls are growing up to be mega-sluts that would make Britney blush in front of her two (destined) gay boys. Don't ask me how I know. Just stare and drool in wonder 15 years from now when both of Britney's sons are gay. Nevermind... your daughters will probably be trying to talk out of your grandson's love of the Beiber lineage.... and nevermind that Britney breastfeeds her sons until they're 3 years old. What a shitty present... "No more tits for you until you can make enough money to pay a hot chick like your mom." The only two people I "feel for" more than me is her two kids Man, Woman, Alien... nothing they could do, short of some "ED WOOD" movie plot could move this further.... ]
Monday, September 9, 2013 10:51 PM
Wednesday, September 11, 2013 1:16 PM
Friday, September 13, 2013 8:46 AM
Friday, September 13, 2013 7:02 PM
Quote:Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK: Why is beer so GD expensive in Indiana?!!!!!
Quote:Jacob Riis wrote in 1902 of saloon keepers who mocked the law by setting out "brick sandwiches," two pieces of bread with a brick in between, thus fulfilling the legal requirement of serving food.
Quote:Because the efficiency of a nuclear ramjet increases with temperature, "the hotter, the better" became Merkle's motto for the reactor, code-named "Tory." But at Tory's operating temperature of 2,500 degrees Fahrenheit, even high-temperature alloys would become white-hot and lose structural strength. So Merkle asked a Colorado-based porcelain company named Coors to manufacture ceramic fuel elements that could stand the heat and provide even temperature distribution in the reactor. The company is well known today for a much different product: while making ceramic-lined vats for breweries around the country, Adolph Coors realized that he might be in the wrong business. Although the Coors Porcelain Company continued to make porcelain -- including all of the nearly 500,000 pencil-shaped fuel elements used in the Tory reactor -- the brewery Adolph Coors opened near his ceramics factory soon became the tail that wagged the dog.
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