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I find myself agreeing with the "honesty" approach and coming from someone who's policy is to lie, even when the truth will get you in less trouble, as a matter of principle, this is significant.

Comedy: Excuses are often hilarious, reasons less so

Sepia - He's like goatse with a keyboard up his ass

THIS FREAD FUCKING PWNS!

I said "agreed", not "decided".

For the purposes of this thread, there is a big difference, as well you should know.

So your agreed definition of Magic is based on fantasy RPG, Harry Potter books and the 'pinealist' equivalent of pagans...

Ok then, Magic is 100% bullshit*


* as defined in this thread.

of course, the fact that 99% of the rest of the humans on earth subscribe to the same definition of magic as TGRR and LMNO are using ITT has no relevance, does it?

99% of Discordians think that Discordinaism is about OMGZ23PINEALFNORD!

LOL - Did someone on this board really just use the old 99% of humans argument?

Holy fuck 

Okay then, so I'll agree all magic is bullshit if we can agree that discordianism (especially the thinking for yourself part) is also bullshit and also that american idol is the pinnacle of the musical art

In my estimation 1 dead hippie is worth about 20 dead whales.

And I really fucking like whales. It's just I hate hippies more.

It usually is tl;dr, at least in this form and on a screen but I feel that these things I write here can't really be called anything but rants and I never really know what kind of response they will provoke, if any, for these are just chunks of life and words I need to get out. These are streams of consciousness not flicked upon but just words and thoughts cluttering my brain and writing this shit down is comparable to me to take a dump, they bring a sensation of physical catharsis, just like emptying your bowels do, I'm just glad someone finds something useful in here.

You shit diamonds, and are one of the few writers actually able to conjure up an emotional response in me, thank you for emptying your bowels here.

THIS!

Protip: Solar panels are free in this country. They leave them lying at the side of the road, powering speed cameras and shit. If harvesting please remember not to approach from the road or you'll get caught on camera then the price rises dramatically 

When I have nothing to say I don't say it. I sometimes wish everyone was like that. Inane chatter does my head in and makes me want to use a chainsaw in ways that directly contravene the safety instructions. 

Nah man, I was talking about windmills and solar panels and shit. Sure it costs moneys but offset that against the saving in utilities and it's worth it.

They gather round me like moths around a flame. Just like the moths they know if they get too close or if they stay too long they'll burn up but something deep inside compels them to stick around. For as long as they can handle the heat.

They call me crazy but it's not the kind of crazy where they elbow their friend and tell them not to look at the guy with his trousers round his ankles, pissing in the middle of a crowded street and screaming his head off. It's not that kind of crazy. Same ballpark, different rules.

This is the kind of crazy that they love to be around but they prefer to do it in groups. In case something bad happens. The kind of thing I have no fear of, for instance but it terrifies the living shit out of them. They don't want to be alone with me when I do the kind of insane shit that they need the safety of numbers to protect them from but they want to see it.

So I serve the function and attend the drinking session or the party or whatever the hell they figured would be more fun with the crazy guy there and I dunno if it's more fun cos I just do what I do and shit happens and we go for a swim and they suddenly find themselves out of their depth.

I do it cos I love to see the looks on their faces when they realise they can't reach the bottom anymore. 

Just out of interest how close together are these slits?

Concerning the above, there's nothing wrong or unlearnable about technology.  It just requires additional specialization in the given field, and it's not like we have a shortage of people.

But what's funny is, less and less people enter the trades each generation.

Who's gonna fix that power station when it goes off line?  Don't worry, the singularity will handle things.  Honest.

TGRR,
Knows that we'll all starve to death in the cold and dark, because we will no longer know how to change a switchgear.

It's an increasingly dangerous level of dependency. Gears and valves and flywheels are the base of a pyramid that ends in subroutines and dynamic classes. Eventually the pyramid will be too tall for the human race to manage.

... then lulz

Yeah I realise I'll never be bang on, on account of I don't get the math but I was kind of hoping this was what was going on. It's only been the last couple of years that I've begun to realise how abstract science is. I thought, probably like a lot of laypersons, that the map was the territory but I'm starting to get my head around the idea that science is full of situations where things are described as "behaving predictably as if..." rather than "it does this because..."

It's kinda ironic that it's taken me this long, considering my approach to self psychology. Shoulda been obvious

I'd call both groups pretty fucking normal.

Black sheep are still sheep.

I think thats an oversimplification in the context of this thread. And you fall under my abstract categories as Group B (does not believe "what is normal" exists).

Thus, from your worldview that thinks that "what is normal does not exist", the definition of "normal" for you changes to "ones own quirks" instead of "the desired behaviour/thoughts"

Maybe not expressing this the best way. I'll try from another angle - normal only exists if you care about normal. If being normal is not important to you then there ceases to be such a thing. "Normal" people may well disagree with you about this but fuck 'em, they're weird.