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Aneristic Illusions / Re: So, RWHN, it appears your predictions of doom are contradicted

« on: May 15, 2013, 01:13:38 pm »

Marijuana is Shrapnel for kids.  Newer folk won't understand what I mean by that but you older folks do. 

Um.  I'm only stepping in because you used the term Shrapnel, and implying a negative through lack of qualifier.  That's not really how we were using it back in 2007-8.

Do not be disillusioned about Shrapnel. It isn't all bad. There is the Shrapnel of Art and Creativity. Walking by a park and seeing some folks drumming and creating music. (Drum Circles aren't just for hippies anymore.) The infective beat that is travelling across the air, that mandates that you move and groove. The lady down the road who is a brilliant artist, displaying her work at the local Sidewalk Art Exhibit. There is the Shrapnel of Happy Childlike Anarchy. Your little girl acting like a goon, and you can't help but to want to play along. Experiencing the joy in improvisational imagination and going with the flow. This is the sort of Shrapnel you WANT embedded in your flesh. For it too will inform your path. And besides, when you ARE strolling on your path, wouldn't it be more enjoyable if you were doing a little jig along the way, while whistling a fun little tune? Whistle while you walk…
 

Didn't like doing that, but you're twisting the meaning of something that was pretty important at the time.

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Apple Zone / Re: Spagbook

« on: May 14, 2013, 07:12:32 pm »

Lookin good, gurl.

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Apple Zone / Re: Angelina Jolie cuts her boobs off to save her life; douchebags unite to lament.

« on: May 14, 2013, 07:11:54 pm »

Image search "Jolie Gia"

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Apple Zone / Re: Angelina Jolie cuts her boobs off to save her life; douchebags unite to lament.

« on: May 14, 2013, 06:38:29 pm »

She's done some good stuff.  When I read that article this morning, I was impressed that someone in the "Hollywood System" would be rational enough to go for a preventative masectomy.  I also thought, "douchebags are gonna talk shit about her tits."

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High Weirdness / Re: unmeasurable particle created???

« on: May 14, 2013, 02:29:42 pm »

Ah.  I see.  It's an unmeasurable particle, because they're using that incredibly specific definition of "particle", which when used this way, is almost like a verb. 

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Aneristic Illusions / Re: Random News Stories

« on: May 14, 2013, 02:24:58 pm »

I'm not not a racist but...I don't judge people based on their race.

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Apple Zone / Re: Hey Cain!

« on: May 14, 2013, 02:18:29 pm »

This appears to be, while not relevant to anything I am doing with my life, at least interesting to my interests.

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Aneristic Illusions / Re: Political quotes of the moment

« on: May 13, 2013, 06:02:52 pm »

Heh.  It's amazing how much pundits "know" about the intentions of other countries without, you know, asking them.

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Apple Zone / Re: Techno Viking Lawsuit!

« on: May 13, 2013, 06:01:00 pm »

The pill, also being part of the holographic simulation, would behave only as the programmers intended.

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Apple Zone / Re: Techno Viking Lawsuit!

« on: May 13, 2013, 05:19:17 pm »

What if you couldn't objectively prove you exist, yet from a functional perspective, it really didn't matter?

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Apple Zone / Re: Techno Viking Lawsuit!

« on: May 13, 2013, 03:38:37 pm »

What if we're actually computer programs living in a hologram simulation of the universe that was so precise, it produced experiences exactly like we were human beings living in the actual universe?

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Apple Zone / Re: Things go boom

« on: May 13, 2013, 01:24:44 pm »

Welcome to just another day in my life.

At the moment, I'm leaning towards a "blowback" scenario here, like 9/11 was in part.  A bunch of wannabe Cold Warriors and classic Russophobes associated with the CIA wanted to continue running the "games"* they'd been playing in the late 90s.  Maybe with official sanction, maybe without.  Maybe covert orders to destabilize Russia are in effect, but this was an additional, off the books project.  They look at radicalizing Chechens in the US, but instead of them getting ethno-nationalistic, they get global jihadist.  By all accounts, Tamerlan was considered a try-hard by the groups he met in Dagestan.  Maybe he was spurned by them to some degree.  He decides to show them all by attacking the USA - a reflex reaction for global jihadist types.

But I may be wrong.

*Three Days of the Condor is, as always, essential viewing:

Turner: Do we have plans to invade the Middle East?
Higgins: Are you crazy?
Turner: Am I?
Higgins: Look, Turner…
Turner: Do we have plans?
Higgins: No. Absolutely not. We have games. That's all. We play games. What if? How many men? What would it take? Is there a cheaper way to destabilize a regime? That's what we're paid to do.
Turner: So Atwood just took the games too seriously. He was really going to do it, wasn't he?
Higgins: A renegade operation. Atwood knew 54/12 would never authorize it, not with the heat on the company.
Turner: What if there hadn't been any heat? Suppose I hadn't stumbled on their plan?
Higgins: Different ballgame. Fact is, there was nothing wrong with the plan. Oh, the plan was all right, the plan would've worked.

I'm also getting that feeling -- then again, my main source of actual information about the bombings is in this thread, so it may be your persuasive arguments.

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Apple Zone / Re: Things go boom

« on: May 12, 2013, 05:25:06 am »

This is creepy as fuck, which is probably why my brain insists on avoiding this thread. So I'm trying to read it as hard as possible, which is creeping me out. The fact that there's no direct narrative adds a shitload of credibility, to me at least.

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Apple Zone / Re: PICS VIII: 10% LARGER THAN PICS VII

« on: May 11, 2013, 05:18:16 am »

This is true: adorable tiny octopus is adorable.  And tiny.

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RPG Ghetto / Re: Hardcore Hackfest

« on: May 11, 2013, 04:07:15 am »

I literally have no idea what's going on here, but I would LOVE to hear the stories.