OPEN BAR: It's actually about ethics in fictional bars

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

I'm, for once, not having that problem.  I'm at chapter 16/15000 words in the new book, and am taking a day off to decide where the story needs to go from here.

I am having absolutely the hardest time even getting started writing this fucking paper. I can't do it. I have to do it.

IT ISN'T EVEN A PAPER THAT MATTERS.

That's probably why I can't do it. It doesn't fucking matter.

Unsolicited advice:  Sit down and start typing.

Yep, that's what I need to do, alright. I need to churn out a bad first draft. Even a shitty outline of sorts.

[unsolicited advice]
Sometimes typing out huge amounts of profanity littered explanations about what you about to write about helps. [/unsolicited advice]

Oh, yeah. I often will just crank out some pile of angry bullshit just to get started. I'm just really fighting this one. I don't WANT to write about sustainability and food forests and why Portland needs to implement a permaculture food forest policy.

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

In some ways I think this would be easier if it was an assignment and not my own fucking stupid goddamn proposal.

[Don Coyote]

In some ways I think this would be easier if it was an assignment and not my own fucking stupid goddamn proposal.

I feel you. Writing poetry in the mode I want has become so teeth-pulling difficult outside of the classroom.

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

I'm at page 3 of pure bullshit.

[The Good Reverend Roger]

I'm at page 3 of pure bullshit.

I smell grant proposals coming on. 

[LMNO]

HEY NIGEL JUST FUCKING KEEP WRITING YOU BEAUTIFUL EXPLETIVE.

[LMNO]

Watching a dumb action movie, "Lucy".

I'm saddened that the endgame is utilitarianism, and compassion is treated like a weakness.

[The Wizard Joseph]

Watching a dumb action movie, "Lucy".

I'm saddened that the endgame is utilitarianism, and compassion is treated like a weakness.

Compassion is a weakness, the greatest weakness one can have.

Lucy, if it's the one with the Korean super drug, is not the best movie though. Limitless was cool because it was low-action but where it was there it was icily realistic. Lucy is transhumanist propaganda sweetened with high action and gorgeous talent.

[LMNO]

Fuck you compassion is a weakness.



That is all.

Love,
Someone who apparently scored a 31 on his EQ test.

[The Good Reverend Roger]

Fuck you compassion is a weakness.



That is all.

Love,
Someone who apparently scored a 31 on his EQ test.

Compassion is really the only saving grace humans HAVE.

Except for those flying squirrel suit things.  Those are TITS.

[The Wizard Joseph]

I did mean greatest in the sense of best and most desirable. It's a weakness, but NOT a flaw. Every design or form has weaknesses, things that can break it. Compassion is one of ours, but it's critical to the survival of our species and expression of our nature.




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[The Wizard Joseph]

Roger... LO has me in a grip. You killed off Michael and set off ancient curses and thankfully kept on through the brief creativity scare! And you're just getting going. 

[Bruno]

I did mean greatest in the sense of best and most desirable. It's a weakness, but NOT a flaw. Every design or form has weaknesses, things that can break it. Compassion is one of ours, but it's critical to the survival of our species and expression of our nature.




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So compassion is Humanity's crumple zone? I can live with that analogy.

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

I'm at page 3 of pure bullshit.

I smell grant proposals coming on.

HEY NIGEL JUST FUCKING KEEP WRITING YOU BEAUTIFUL EXPLETIVE.

  I made it to page 4 by the time Alty came home, and now I'm picking it up again. I want to have 6 serviceable pages plus a page of citations by this afternoon, and then tomorrow I can polish a final draft and submit it.

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

I did mean greatest in the sense of best and most desirable. It's a weakness, but NOT a flaw. Every design or form has weaknesses, things that can break it. Compassion is one of ours, but it's critical to the survival of our species and expression of our nature.




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So compassion is Humanity's crumple zone? I can live with that analogy.

I don't know if I'd put it that way, really. Compassion is kind of the thing that makes us work as a species; the ability to connect with and care for other people is inherently crucial to everything we consider uniquely human achievements. Only a social species can develop culture and technology, and the biological, developmental condition on which sociability is dependent is compassion.