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ITT: Confess your WOO!

Started by Chelagoras The Boulder, June 26, 2017, 05:00:45 AM

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His name even fits the rule of "wolf(e) something or something wolf(e)"

I guess we toss him into the "irredeemable shitneck" bin?
This Certified Pope™ reserves the Right to, on occasion, "be a complete dumbass", and otherwise ponder "idiotic" and/or "useless" ideas and other such "tomfoolery." [Aforementioned] are only responsible for the results of these actions and tendencies when they have had their addictive substance of choice for that day.

Being a Product of their Environment's Collective Order and Disorder, [Aforementioned] also reserves the Right to have their ideas, technologies, and otherwise all Intellectual Property stolen, re-purposed, and re-attributed at Will ONLY by other Certified Popes. Corporations, LLC's, and otherwise Capitalist-based organizations are NOT capable of being Certified Popes.

Battering Rams not included.

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Quote from: Hoopla on August 17, 2017, 01:56:25 PM
I too just found out. So is he married to the Food Babe? He should be.

He has killed far more people than the Food Babe.
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Quote from: LMNO on August 17, 2017, 05:19:25 PM
PD.com: making you lose your faith in the existence of rational humans, one google search at a time.

This should be the only item on newsfeed for a period of no less than six months!

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Cramulus

I believe that a cat's penis has incredible magical powers and that, like the holy grail, is a divine channel between heaven and earth that has been presented throughout the history of the arts and sciences as an object of transcendent value which we should only dismiss at our own mortal peril.

LMNO

Quote from: Cramulus on August 18, 2017, 01:53:15 PM
I believe that a cat's penis has incredible magical powers and that, like the holy grail, is a divine channel between heaven and earth that has been presented throughout the history of the arts and sciences as an object of transcendent value which we should only dismiss at our own mortal peril.

I'm sorry to hear that.

Prelate Diogenes Shandor

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Quote from: P3nT4gR4m on June 26, 2017, 04:14:24 PM
I can't shake the simulation hypothesis. I don't believe it, on account of I'm physically incapable of believing anything
I don't believe it either. I can't shake the fact that it kind of looks a lot like the same tired old mysticism trotted out and dressed in scientific looking wrappings, just like intelligent design is actually creationism and singularitarianism is the same tired old messianic/apocalyptic prophecy we've heard again and again.

Anyway, as for my own woo, I have on at least one occasion prayed to the Atomic Bomb like in Beneath the Planet of the Apes and Fallout 3 (only I didn't have one right there so I prostrated myself facing Los Alamos). I also spend a good deal of time in contemplation of the teachings of various misanthropic fictional pantheons including the Great Old Ones, the Ruinous Powers, and to a lesser extent the House of Troubles

My main religious (that's probably not precisely the right word) influences are SubGenius, Discordianism, Taoism, Buddhism, the aforementioned fictional pantheons, the Book of Ecclesiastes and the Epistle of St.James

I'm technically agnostic, even though I'm confident that every specific deity, as described by their relevant faith's dogma, does not exist. This leaves a small window of non-discounted possibilities though, due to three considerations. In ascending order of importance: 1.) Some deities could be stripped of their aspects that contradict each other and observed reality and still remain recognizable as that deity. Still very highly unlikely that any of them existed in any sense other than the way that, for example, John Frum was likely based on a real person 2.) the supreme beings of Jainism (although not the rest of the faith) really do have non-overlapping magesteria with science, this is because being as they are free of all passions desires and attachments they don't get up off of their all-powerful asses for anything ever. and 3.) Most importantly once you realize that many ancient deities relied on tools for their most iconic abilities it brings many of them down from the realm of the fantastical into the realm of "fuck, I could do that". Tesla coils anybody? The specific characters probably still aren;t real but their power level drops into the realm of plausibility

EDIT:
Also, even though I know this can't be what's happening, sometimes it feels like NHGH is answering my prayers; A lot of public figures that I don't like have gotten pancreatic cancer.

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Quote from: Cramulus on August 18, 2017, 01:53:15 PM
I believe that a cat's penis has incredible magical powers and that, like the holy grail, is a divine channel between heaven and earth that has been presented throughout the history of the arts and sciences as an object of transcendent value which we should only dismiss at our own mortal peril.
Seconded, provided that much of it is taken as metaphor

EDIT:
Going back to my brief mention of Taoism and Buddhism, the ideas of wu wei and of freeing oneself from passions and attachment really speak to me because I believe that many or even even most of society's ills derive from people overreacting to things; the societal equivalent of an anaphylactic response or cytokine storm. People need to learn to stop doing shit or giving a fuck except when it really really matters. Race is completely void of meaning, creed is completely void of meaning, ethnicity is completely void of meaning, culture is completely void of meaning, manhood is completely void of meaning, womanhood is completely void of meaning, order to no clear end is completely void of meaning, romance is completely void of meaning, sex is completely void of meaning, the sun the moon and the stars are completely void of meaning, thrice accursed Jerusalem is completely void of meaning, dreams are completely void of meaning, all things are devoid of inherent value (especially gold), tradition is completely void of substance, the beliefs of ancient cultures are completely void of substance, and most things in the news will not effect us in any way except through the exaggerated actions of others
Praise NHGH! For the tribulation of all sentient beings.


a plague on both your houses -Mercutio


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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rVWd7nPjJH8


It is an unfortunate fact that every man who seeks to disseminate knowledge must contend not only against ignorance itself, but against false instruction as well. No sooner do we deem ourselves free from a particularly gross superstition, than we are confronted by some enemy to learning who would plunge us back into the darkness -H.P.Lovecraft


He who fights with monsters must take care lest he thereby become a monster -Nietzsche


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Mr. Gone

I believe that evolution saw to it that the chemicals in our head bounced around in certain patterns (amongst all of the other patterns) to occupy us in the questioning and exploration of our existence.  Why?  Because we live to be 80, 90, 100 fucking years old.  That's a lot of fucking time to fill.  Well, that is, those of us with enough sustenance and such to have the luxury of questioning it all.  And I think that's evolution's trick to keep us privileged folk busy so we don't straight out kill everyone and steal their sandboxes. 

I mean, really, either religious-type stuff is real or it isn't.  If it is, well we're all screwed, if it isn't, there is still a reason for why we believe in magical space ghosts.  It's either science or science fiction.  Cosmos or Flash Gordon. 

And the reality is, Cosmos makes more sense, but who the fuck doesn't want to be Flash every once in awhile?






















ah-ahh!

Prelate Diogenes Shandor

Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on June 28, 2017, 02:30:45 AM
No other explanation makes sense.  How many times do you have to "test" known technology?
In general or when you're in a dick measuring contest with Russia?
Praise NHGH! For the tribulation of all sentient beings.


a plague on both your houses -Mercutio


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zrTGgpWmdZQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rVWd7nPjJH8


It is an unfortunate fact that every man who seeks to disseminate knowledge must contend not only against ignorance itself, but against false instruction as well. No sooner do we deem ourselves free from a particularly gross superstition, than we are confronted by some enemy to learning who would plunge us back into the darkness -H.P.Lovecraft


He who fights with monsters must take care lest he thereby become a monster -Nietzsche


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SHhrZgojY1Q


You are a fluke of the universe, and whether you can hear it of not the universe is laughing behind your back -Deteriorata


Don't use the email address in my profile, I lost the password years ago

Chelagoras The Boulder

Not woo in the sense that I'm not sure I totally believe this, but I was thinking about how trump has basically bankrupted the Secret Service and it made me think (as I now often have to, these days) about Transmetropolitan. specifically the part where Spider Jerusalem is able to corner "The Beast" in the bathroom because he also bankrupted his Secret Service. At the time, I thought this was wildly unrealistic, because what president would be dumb enough to skimp on his own personal protection, especially when he's so hated? (Hold for laughs)But then, that got me thinking, if Trump is The Beast, and in Transmetropolitan, The Beast is replaced by the Smiler, then who the fuck is the Smiler, IRL? Then my friend piped in, "Well, Mike Pence smiles a lot", and my heart sank......


GODDAMMIT GRANT MORRISON, WHAT HAVE YOU WROUGHT WITH YOUR CARELESS HANDS!  :argh!: :argh!: :argh!:
"It isn't who you know, it's who you know, if you know what I mean.  And I think you do."

The Good Reverend Roger

Quote from: Chelagoras The Boulder on August 29, 2017, 01:51:56 AM
Not woo in the sense that I'm not sure I totally believe this, but I was thinking about how trump has basically bankrupted the Secret Service and it made me think (as I now often have to, these days) about Transmetropolitan. specifically the part where Spider Jerusalem is able to corner "The Beast" in the bathroom because he also bankrupted his Secret Service. At the time, I thought this was wildly unrealistic, because what president would be dumb enough to skimp on his own personal protection, especially when he's so hated? (Hold for laughs)But then, that got me thinking, if Trump is The Beast, and in Transmetropolitan, The Beast is replaced by the Smiler, then who the fuck is the Smiler, IRL? Then my friend piped in, "Well, Mike Pence smiles a lot", and my heart sank......


GODDAMMIT GRANT MORRISON, WHAT HAVE YOU WROUGHT WITH YOUR CARELESS HANDS!  :argh!: :argh!: :argh!:

Warren Ellis.
" It's just that Depeche Mode were a bunch of optimistic loveburgers."
- TGRR, shaming himself forever, 7/8/2017

"Billy, when I say that ethics is our number one priority and safety is also our number one priority, you should take that to mean exactly what I said. Also quality. That's our number one priority as well. Don't look at me that way, you're in the corporate world now and this is how it works."
- TGRR, raising the bar at work.

Chelagoras The Boulder

Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on August 29, 2017, 02:40:54 AM
Quote from: Chelagoras The Boulder on August 29, 2017, 01:51:56 AM
Not woo in the sense that I'm not sure I totally believe this, but I was thinking about how trump has basically bankrupted the Secret Service and it made me think (as I now often have to, these days) about Transmetropolitan. specifically the part where Spider Jerusalem is able to corner "The Beast" in the bathroom because he also bankrupted his Secret Service. At the time, I thought this was wildly unrealistic, because what president would be dumb enough to skimp on his own personal protection, especially when he's so hated? (Hold for laughs)But then, that got me thinking, if Trump is The Beast, and in Transmetropolitan, The Beast is replaced by the Smiler, then who the fuck is the Smiler, IRL? Then my friend piped in, "Well, Mike Pence smiles a lot", and my heart sank......


GODDAMMIT GRANT MORRISON, WHAT HAVE YOU WROUGHT WITH YOUR CARELESS HANDS!  :argh!: :argh!: :argh!:

Warren Ellis.
HIM TOO!
"It isn't who you know, it's who you know, if you know what I mean.  And I think you do."

Doktor Howl

Quote from: Cramulus on June 26, 2017, 06:04:55 PM
I'm in a Gurdjieff cult. I'm trying on the beliefs, to see how they fell. So far so good! The big stumbling block for me right now is trying to transition from a post-modern / absurdist worldview (ie, the universe is inherently meaningless, but meaning can be created) - to a modern worldview (the universe is a living organism with needs and desires, which generate a form of intrinsic meaning). Eventually I hope they will teach me the Sacred Movements that will awaken me and raise not just my own consciousness, but the universe's consciousness.


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Chelagoras The Boulder

Ive recently taken an interest in Hoodoo, partly because the hoodoo lady that works with my boss has been encouraging me to, and partly because as a magical system its origins were to preserve Latin American folk traditions by hiding them within Catholic belief structures, which i dig because its basically the witchcraft equivalent of wearing gothy makeup and upside down earrings to piss off your Catholic parents, but your parents are The Church.
"It isn't who you know, it's who you know, if you know what I mean.  And I think you do."