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but they go ahead and research it anyway!!

Its how we invented apple sauce.

This is relevant.

Yeah it seems I had the wrong idea about Eastern karma... that'll teach me to blabber half-cocked...

I don't even remember where I heard about the supposed Eastern idea of karma, but what I had heard (or possibly read) was that karma wasn't a cosmic power, but was a behaviour.  For instance, if someone steps on your foot on the subway, you can let it make you mad so that you are more likely to bump into someone afterwards and not care about it (bad karma) or you could realize that the person probably didn't intend to step on your foot and not let it put you in a bad mood and pass that vindictiveness on to others (good karma).  And, while I still like that idea better and think it is more applicable in day to day life it is not, apparently, the true eastern view, which seems to have a lot to do with reincarnation and mystical mumbo jumbo.

Now I agree with you on that.  Karma is more of a cause and effect, not a what goes around comes around to bite you in the ass.  Is that your thinking Hoops?

My thing with the goes around, comes around thing is it follows so close to the whole wiccan thing of the law of three, whatever you do comes back three fold on you...  If that is really karma then is sucks ass!

Yeah, it doesn't make sence.

There are people who are smelly dicks their whole life, and never get the punishment that these karma-like ideas supposedly dish.

If karma is at all, it is the traditional Eadtern idea: it only effects you in the after-life.

I always thought the traditional definition had to do with reincarnation - that your Karma is like your life "score". if you die with a high score, in the next life you'll ascend to the next level of being.

The Western interpretation can be boiled down to "what you reap is what you sow".

My old roommate believes in "Karma Hacking" - this idea that if he intentionally endures suffering, the universe will magically balance out and he'll have pleasure later in life. This has caused him to settle for lots of bad shit instead of fighting for better shit. It pisses me off to no end to watch him do this to himself.

I really snapped at him once because was going to move into a one-room apartment in Harlem where he had no friends "so that he can live somewhere nice later". He was kind of depressed and figured that moving into a miserable isolated situation would be better than "using up" his karma now by living somewhere nice instead. I got really angry with him, told him that his beliefs were bullshit, and he got mad at me.

THAT'S KARMA, BITCHES 

The above explains karma in full. Stop browsing wiki, damnit.

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Q <-- ART

That makes me mad.

It's beautiful.

[a way to portray it.]

You realize, I am just ribbing you.

The word "Art" can be taken many ways, and many claims for it being a "fraud" can be made.

For example, a painting of a sunset is not a real sunset.  It is a fraud.

duh, I know that! just like a dollar bill isn't really money, dude. but, automaton's reply to my post still doesn't make any sense, especially if cramulus has interpreted his meaning correctly.

because if we put it all together:
all art is fraud
fraud pisses people off
therefore all art pisses people off

that wasn't at all where I was going when I said I laugh when art makes people mad. however, it's even better than what I had in mind.

btw, F for Fake looks interesting. it's now in my queue.

Haha! Fraud doesn't piss people off if they are the ones being fooled!

Oh, and I agree with you, I think.

This art thingy has gotten out of hand.

Q <-- ART

Lemme break it down. The circle is a symbol of infinity and perfection. The dash protruding from it's side embodies finity, or a glitch in it's perfection: the chaos within order: the rebel in the flock, acting as a thorn in the toe of authority.

Boom. Art. It's not hard. All it takes is a mind for abstraction and a way to portray it.

Which I suppose is the part that makes it art.

That chimp in your avatar is drinking Ice Mexican beer, so show some goddam respect.

Neat. I got nothing against Los Mexicanos Frios. Especially if that beer is good.

I laugh when art makes people mad.

Yeah, fraud is hilarious.

Is fraud art?

Tricking people is always an art, but not always a science

Science is an art; conning is sometimes an art; so some art is a mix of science and conning.

It's science, trickery, or hoopla.

Hoopla?  Are you calling Hoopla a con man?  THAT'S A RACIST STATEMENT AGAINST CANADIANS!   

You mean Ice Mexicans?

Damn right I'm racist.
Gaddomn Canadians and their... their...

...Tim Hortons.  You're welcome.

Wow, you know, I never realized how hard it is to work up some guff against Canadians.
They never done nuttin' to nobody, to my knowledge.
Damn hippies.

Balls.  There's that time they shamelessly attacked us, back in 1812.  Portions of New Mexico are still devastated after the passage of their cannibal Inuit hordes all those years ago.

1812! Shit can't believe I missed that. For some reason I can't connect Canada with 1812.
There is like a metal block for me.

Deceptive ice-mexicans, looking all peaceful until they burndown the White House.

Canadians are very sly.  They will try to point out that Canada has only existed as a political entity since 1867.

But WE know the truth, don't we?

TIME TRAVELING CANADIANS 

... hmmmmmmm... There must be a connection...

Cultivating enemies is too much work. I use random targets instead.

I consider all humans to be my enemy.  It simplifies things.

Statement reaks of fallacy.
You are an interesting breed of misanthrop. 

We Holy Men^TM don't worry about logical fallacies.  It's just that you ridiculous monkeys can't think on the same level.

Fucking hominids.

Never said I mind logical fallacy, sir. Just love pointing it out.

Logic by itself is dull.

For instance, right now in my mind, water is liquified sky. I have lots of proofs.

Water is always the color of the sky. In the day it is blue. At night it is black. Dawn and Dusk it is Red and Orange. It's gotta be the same shit right?

Well, no. All those proofs are fallicious. Simultanity doesn't breed homogeny.

Monkey has a banana. Does TGRR have banana? NO! My banana. Get your own.

Damn right I'm racist.
Gaddomn Canadians and their... their...

...Tim Hortons.  You're welcome.

Wow, you know, I never realized how hard it is to work up some guff against Canadians.
They never done nuttin' to nobody, to my knowledge.
Damn hippies.

Balls.  There's that time they shamelessly attacked us, back in 1812.  Portions of New Mexico are still devastated after the passage of their cannibal Inuit hordes all those years ago.

1812! Shit can't believe I missed that. For some reason I can't connect Canada with 1812.
There is like a metal block for me.

Deceptive ice-mexicans, looking all peaceful until they burndown the White House.

Cultivating enemies is too much work. I use random targets instead.

I consider all humans to be my enemy.  It simplifies things.

Statement reaks of fallacy.
You are an interesting breed of misanthrop. 

I laugh when art makes people mad.

Yeah, fraud is hilarious.

Is fraud art?

Tricking people is always an art, but not always a science

Science is an art; conning is sometimes an art; so some art is a mix of science and conning.

It's science, trickery, or hoopla.

Hoopla?  Are you calling Hoopla a con man?  THAT'S A RACIST STATEMENT AGAINST CANADIANS!   

Damn right I'm racist.
Gaddomn Canadians and their... their...

Wow, you know, I never realized how hard it is to work up some guff against Canadians.
They never done nuttin' to nobody, to my knowledge.
Damn hippies.

I like.
It's like cyberpunk with a more exciting plot line.
To be continued?

I laugh when art makes people mad.

Yeah, fraud is hilarious.

Is fraud art?

Tricking people is always an art, but not always a science

Science is an art; conning is sometimes an art; so some art is a mix of science and conning.

It's science, trickery, or hoopla.

The poinsettas are the ones you've gotta keep an eye on.