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#4186
#4187
Quote from: Kaou Suu on July 27, 2007, 07:57:34 PM
It's Amurrikan,Ñ¢ that's what. I find them fucking sexy, actually. An ex of mine rocked kilts all the time. What sucks is that it's really not well accepted in places, such as...fine dining.

That's ok, I'm sure McDonald's doesn't mind.

In fact, anything that makes it easier for pubic hair to make it into the food is probably encouraged.
#4188
I always wondered what Slash would look like if he quit playing guitar and started smoking crack full-time.
#4189
Literate Chaotic / Re: The Good Book
July 26, 2007, 07:48:37 PM
if you're lucky, a Warp Bubble.

if you're not lucky, core breach.
#4190
Literate Chaotic / Re: The Good Book
July 26, 2007, 06:32:33 PM
The obvious resolution to this is to dress up like the cutest woodland animal you can and go knock on her door and bat your eyelashes at her like a cartoon character when she opens the door; but refuse to use her fictional pronouns.  She will have no choice but to give up the pronoun requirement, unless she wants to deny her true furry nature.
#4192
this thread
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#4195
Literate Chaotic / Re: The Good Book
July 25, 2007, 05:57:09 AM
i still think you're a dick, for what it's worth.
#4196
the 2nd one was a joke anyway
#4197
of course, 'good' is relative. and bigotry, like any philosophy, is self-reinforcing that way. to a bigot, a KKK rally is a better place to be than the Million Man March.  it takes a certain disconnection from reality and the flow of human events to see it that way, but that's what bigotry thrives on. it's as persistent as cancer, and it can jump from host to host like a virus.

people who become bigots as the result of psychological trauma are damaged goods anyway.

fuck those people and everybody like them.
#4198
a phoenix is a mythological bird.

i know and have known people whose bigotry is so deeply ingrained in their personalities that they cease to be much more than machines that say stupid bigoted shit all the time.

it may be true that bigotry doesn't always endure, but often for it to crack and fade away, the bigot has to be confronted with a situation where things more important than his bigotry (like survival) depend on giving up the bigotry.  for most bigots, those moments never come.

more generally relating to the OP:

psychological trauma can't be expected to forge a personality any more reliably than any other factor.  there are so many variables involved in what makes up a person's identity.  if i were to make a blind generalization though, it would be along the lines that honesty in raising children plays a large part in it.  it's one thing to protect your child from psychological abuse, while teaching them that it exists; it's another thing to blind them to it completely and give them no weapons to defend themselves with against it when it comes.

there have been a few such traumatic events in my life. i think i'm lucky because the worst one fractured the entire bullshit-bubble i was initially raised in, and taught me to look out for more of the same.
#4199
Quote from: Ratatosk on July 23, 2007, 11:58:21 PM
Quote from: triple zero on July 23, 2007, 11:47:54 PM
you sure they didn't intend it?

wasn't there instructions to copy it?

Once PD version 1 appeared... but that was not much more that a collection of preexisting material with a few additions.  Most of their material came as part of playing, not publishing ;-)

Foolish padwan! You should know that Discordians are immune to actual history and real facts.
#4200
The Multitasking Mind is only the illusion that you must somehow apply some universal set of standards to all of your mental states, or that you owe it to yourself (or somebody else) to generally return to a familiar, 'baseline' mental state that somehow supersedes the rest.

In fact, while immersed in a particular mood completely, there is nothing objective that says you must ever 'come out' of that mood at all.  That it is only one facet of a multifaceted mind is irrelevant, at least for the duration of your stay in that particular segment of your consciousness.  When you are occupied doing something you are nothing but whatever it is you're doing; that you must stop or return to some 'normal' mode of thought is only a nagging thought that you obey out of habit.


*edit: just for clarity's sake, translate all that into e-prime in your head.