Total Madness

[Bebek Sincap Ratatosk]

The only appropriate response to the mechanics of this planet is total madness.

Well, madness isn't all that bad... depends on what kind of mad and how you use it. Madness is a more elegant weapon for a more civilized time.

Every conclusion we ever make about anything is based on an observation of an unbelievably tiny portion of the universe. We can't even pay attention to everything happening in our house at once, let alone our street, city, state, country, planet, solar system, galaxy; we've managed to discern through archaic tools the existence of an entire spectrum of light and sound we are physically incapable of witnessing ourselves, every opinion, every fact, every single thing we base our purpose and entire life on is inherently a woefully under-informed position, there is no truth, anywhere, I can't believe so many people claim to know the ups and downs and moral code of all of reality, I am not proud to be an American or a relatively-hairless ape, this charade has gone too far, the only thing to be done in the face of all this absurdity is to go totally nuts - quoting Mark Hammill's Joker, "It gets easier once you give in... it really does."

Ah, the black hole at the end of the tunnel, eh? Well, chin up me boyo! In the face of the absurdity of reality, you have many choices. The trick is to realize that YOU have the choices and YOU can pick your own trip. If you want the trip to be a dark madness distraught over the banality of modern existence and the imprecise nature of our perception, then thats cool, it can be an interesting trip, particularly if you work it all out in music or art. However, you have other options. You can choose to enjoy your life, your existence, your crazy trip to the very wild circus that is our time on this planet.

Recognizing that, if we are honest with ourselves, there appears little certainty and lots of doubt in what we 'know' doesn't have to be a bad thing. Hell, it can be like breaking the chains and breaking open the head all at once! I think the darker trip generally focuses on the poor folks walking around THINKING that they KNOW (and blogging about it!), but you can apply it personally and realize that (to steal a line from Bob) Reality is what you can get away with. If you were once a slave to a 'TRUTH', you get the option to break your chains! You can believe 5 impossible things every day if you want.  Or you can believe the Christians for a month, then the Buddhists, then the Scientific Materialists, then the Absurdists, then the Universalists, then maybe the Thelemics and the Satanists for a laugh...

Recognizing the limits of certainty can be scary, but it can also be incredibly freeing.  

The idea that the meat industry can amount to a daily holocaust, enabled by this worldwide apathy, boggles my mind. So many things about this state boggle my mind. This backwards ban against public masturbation / fucking is a crime against humanity and all of evolution. When I get in these moods I feel like if I were in public I'd just start jacking off. Consider it a case of civil disobedience. I've been hearing about various trickster gods out of the corner of my ear ever since I was a little boy and now a bad case of apparent manic-depression has led me to relate more to The Mask (the Jim Carrey film) than I ever thought possible.

I know all of you have already encountered these ideas but they're just now really sinking into my brain and the stain they leave is going to be very ugly looking to some people
Hi my name is Jack and I'm a psychoholic.

"Or kill me."

I think other people already smacked you with a tuna on this paragraph, so I'll let it be.

Everything is True in Some Sense, False in Some Sense and Meaningless in Some Sense.

[LMNO]

Be warned:  Ratatosk is a shill for the Maybe Logic Academy. 

[Doktor Howl]

Be warned:  Ratatosk is a shill for the Maybe Logic Academy. 

Nothing wrong with the MLA, except that it's a very narrow slice of possibilities.

[LMNO]

I know.  I'm a proponent of fuzzy logic, myself.  I just like poking Rat with sticks.

[Nephew Twiddleton]

Btw I meant shaman in the jim morrison (minus being a drunk asshole), "5th circuit technician," entertaining people and maybe getting them interested in certain things. I'm a performer in a music group and I like to think of it in that way. So no, I don't carry around a wood staff that I've "sigilized the fuck out of", etc.

The horned and hooved part implied some sort of Cernunnos or Pan worship along with it.

[Nephew Twiddleton]

So what if I like to ball?

And exactly what meme do you diagnosis me with Dok?

[Doktor Howl]

Btw I meant shaman in the jim morrison (minus being a drunk asshole), "5th circuit technician," entertaining people and maybe getting them interested in certain things. I'm a performer in a music group and I like to think of it in that way. So no, I don't carry around a wood staff that I've "sigilized the fuck out of", etc.

Jim Morrison wasn't a 5th circuit technician, he was a drug-addled singer.

[Doktor Howl]

So what if I like to ball?

And exactly what meme do you diagnosis me with Dok?

Shamanism.  It's pseudo-hippyism mixed with the notion that the 8 circuit model is more than a model.  Very common among RAW readers. 

[Nephew Twiddleton]

Is that not the equivalent of pan worship?

heh heh, i kid... somewhat

Oh, ball as in fuck? Ah.

Not knocking Pan worship at all. Just saying that combined with the shaman referrence raises an eyebrow or two for a new poster.

[Nephew Twiddleton]

So what if I like to ball?

And exactly what meme do you diagnosis me with Dok?

Shamanism.  It's pseudo-hippyism mixed with the notion that the 8 circuit model is more than a model.  Very common among RAW readers. 

Use of the word ball backs this up, since it's used repeatedly in Illuminatus!

[Doktor Howl]

So what if I like to ball?

And exactly what meme do you diagnosis me with Dok?

Shamanism.  It's pseudo-hippyism mixed with the notion that the 8 circuit model is more than a model.  Very common among RAW readers. 

Use of the word ball backs this up, since it's used repeatedly in Illuminatus!

Also, Carlos Castenada crap.  It's basically a way of taking a muddied up view of the world, and making it muddier by putting someone else's definitions on it.

[Triple Zero]

Also, there is not a single slaughterhouse in America that skins animals alive.  Have you ever been in a slaughterhouse, and seen it in operation, or are you relying on PITA's "informative" website?

Jesus H Christ, who the fuck would try to section a live fucking cow, let alone skin one?  The animal's struggles would destroy the hide, as well as knock the slaughterhouse worker through the fucking wall.

they sort of do with baby chickens, don't they?

on the ingredients lists here (for cheap chicken nuggets things etc) they call it "chicken separator flesh", which means it was produced by a kind of machine that smashes them in a very particular way to separate the meat from the skin and bones.

I'm not sure if they kill them first, but why would they? The smashing does that quite effectively.

[Pope Pixie Pickle]

I am in two minds as to rip his second paragraph a new one about the mental health stuff. There is no pun intended but first I need the posters definition of psychosis.

[Triple Zero]

I know.  I'm a proponent of fuzzy logic, myself.  I just like poking Rat with sticks.

FUZZY LOGIC

(sorry having a background in Machine Learning, the term "fuzzy logic" bring me similar rage as "quantum" does to some. it is a complete and utter useless type of "machine reasoning" currently only used in laundry machines and because the japanese liked the word "fuzzy" to do with semi-intelligent machines) (and yes I know you meant something else by "fuzzy logic", but that's where the term comes from)

[Triple Zero]

Btw I meant shaman in the jim morrison (minus being a drunk asshole), "5th circuit technician," entertaining people and maybe getting them interested in certain things. I'm a performer in a music group and I like to think of it in that way. So no, I don't carry around a wood staff that I've "sigilized the fuck out of", etc.

But you would, if you could charge your wood in public, right?