sprockets & widgets

[Rev. St. Syn, KSC (Ret.)]

Turd, Awesome.

/Swiped for the front page...

[agent compassion]

Fuck this shit.

[Irreverend Hugh, KSC]

Fuck this shit.

What shit and why?

[The Doctor]

Yeah, why?

[LHX]

To LHX:

Cross reference this rant with the Quantum Inseparability Principle, and see what happens.

i keep getting 'syntax error'

[LMNO]

Employ percussive maintanence.  Repeat.

[Horab Fibslager]

anothe r sermon worthy of it's place it teh book of ripoff. keep it up turd.

[LHX]

To LHX:

Cross reference this rant with the Quantum Inseparability Principle, and see what happens.

yeah

i seem to occasionally forget about those types of things


this forum is like heaven


discordians never lose
they just look bad sometimes

[Verthaine]

Way to go!

Nice piece of work.

Sometimes though, I think that what the Machine has done is actually funny. We only have ourselves to blame.

And we are the only ones who can fix it.

[LHX]

Way to go!

Nice piece of work.

Sometimes though, I think that what the Machine has done is actually funny. We only have ourselves to blame.

And we are the only ones who can fix it.

also the only ones who can pretend to be able to fix it

while we get run over

[nurbldoff]

Right on!

Or perhaps you just watched "The Cube" one time too many.

[Eldora, Oracle of Alchemy]

Right on!

Or perhaps you just watched "The Cube" one time too many.

OMG, I thought I was the only person to see that.  That was one of the weirdest movies I have ever seen, and I watch a lot of hte SciFi channel, including, but not limited to SciFi originals, which is some of hte worst Science Fiction on TV.  I even watched about 3 or 4 times trying to figure it out, really weird.

[East Coast Hustle]

putting a stop to another inane threadjack before it gets any momentum...

can you feel it coming? do you smell a change upon the wind?

NO.

you DON'T.

you CAN'T.

you've deluded yourself with dreams of a grand re-awakening, a massive paradigm shift of the collective social conscience. You've convinced yourself that someone (maybe even you) will come along and cast down the Powers That Be(tm) that are in control of the MACHINE(tm).

You're WRONG.

there are no Powers That Be(tm). The MACHINE(tm) deposed them long ago, or perhaps they just became obsolete, victims of their own efficiency. You see, long ago the MACHINE(tm) became far too large to be overseen by a conspiracy, or even by a network of several different conspiracies. The MACHINE(tm) is no longer under the control of mankind, rather it has become an entity unto itself. A blind, uncaring juggernaut of assimilation and mediocrity. The MACHINE(tm) feeds off of the static nature of humanity. Any real agents of change are percieved as dangerous mutations, to be neutralized and disposed of as quickly as possible. Yes, that includes you. And yes, that also includes me. Why do you think I constantly exhort YOU to become an agent of change? I've got my own schemes and machinations to that end, but I want to see the manner in which the MACHINE(tm) deals with you before I finalize MY game plan. You see, to be effective as a catalyst, one has to confront the problem of scale. You CAN NOT bring the MACHINE(tm) down. You can't even slow it down. What you can do is very slowly and unobtrusively begin to rearrange the basic components. We will refer to these as "widgets" and "sprockets". If widget A and sprocket B combine to exert societal influence C on the stinking morass known collectively as "humanity", then it stands to reason that the MACHINE(tm) can be reprogrammed at a very basic level and in very small increments. You waste your time dreaming of how to effect such a change on a global, national, or regional scale (the impossibility of which, I might add, keeps you in your perpetual state of blissful apathy), dreaming of assembling a group of like-minded fellows who will march with you to the very gates of the ivory tower whereupon those who have misled and exploited you will be cast down upon the parapets.

well guess what?

YOU ARE the one who has misled and exploited you. You have overlooked the most obvious solution, the most effective solution, the only possible solution.


kill yourself, fuck the body.









Just kidding.

maybe.

but seriously, this is what I have come to believe is the true spirit of the oft-misused phrase "we must stick apart": we cannot effect a large scale change, and if we make a serious attempt we WILL be neutralized. Instead, each and every one of us should make a conscious effort to effect a small reprogramming of the MACHINE(tm) in a manner that affects us and our immediate surroundings. keep the mutation small, and give it a chance to become effectively contagious. If we all effect a change on our own paradigm (this DOES require some effort, being a bliss-ninny doesn't count), there WILL be an eventual overlap, at which point the large scale change which we have hoped to effect all along will be impossible to stop.

(insert witty closing tagline here)

[LMNO]

Indeed.  I was contemplating the "stick apart" meme, and decided that what it meant was very similar to terrorist cells.  if each cell has a common goal, yet is oblivious to the other's means & methods, then the "strategic movements" become impossible to decipher.

[East Coast Hustle]

yeah, that's sort of what I had in mind, only even more decentralized...I think most of us have proven that we're not all that good at working together as a group without infighting and egotism coming into play, but we're all on the same page enough that if we just worry about effecting a change in our own sphere of influence, there will be an inevitable overlap of achievements and changes which will merge into a perhaps somewhat cohesive thing once it gathers enough mass to be more or less unstoppable.