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i dont think there is excess in deconstructing

the more you dismantle, the better you understand the components

the better you understand the components, the better you can build

I disagree.  The more you dismantle, the more people go into the "tragically hip nihilism" where they start spouting complete and utter bullshit about textual narratives and end up finding no reasons to bother to rebuild.  Or anything else you may value.  It becomes another reason to do nothing, taken to its logical conclusion.

So, really, we're all sheep to some degree.  Some like to hang out in the grass fields.  Others like to be "edgy" and hang out by the cliff overlooking the chasm.  But, if we are ever alone, we're more susceptible to the wolves.

wolves? who are the wolves, if not more sheep?

if there are actual wolves, they are just made out of several sheep.

like a sheep mecha robot wolf.

i know, it's pretty fucking ridiculous, but the poor sheep can't help it!

that is why it is up to us to pull out the bottom sheep, become the bottom sheep, step out of line, and the whole thing comes clattering down in a woolly flurry of lulz.

City kids.  Sheep can be pretty fucking mean when they get spooked.  They'll trample anything to get out alive including each other, there is no mutual consensus.  And the rest of the time they sit around eating grass and doing nothing unless threatened by several sheepdogs.

Republic or Empire?  Because all the comparisons I see are to the Empire, but I'm with Rog on the Republic being more likely.

fear of the unknown has no foundation

it is a flaw

it doesnt make sense


calling back to 'the lie' issue -
that seems to be the main beef i have with most evolution theories - they dont address a flaw such as this


it seems like a box that was opened and a something was unleashed (those parables make more and more sense)

and in the terror - man was driven to technological heights that would otherwise have been impossible



fear of the unknown and striving to achieve illusionary feats

a ill wind

something is rotten

Except it DOES have a foundation. Because for early humans what was unknown was also often dangerous, and not in a psychological "tearing down walls" way, but in a physical "killed and eated" way. What was unknown, what might be hiding behind that bush, waiting in that tree, could be the death of you. And for life to survive and evolve, it has to be programed to avoid death. Otherwise there wouldn't been any living things. Get it?

However, for a large part we have outgrown this fear.

Of course, the unknown always holds the promise of something better too.  From the mysterious new world to nanotech, the unknown is an opportunity, nothing more or less.

One of the things I actually do believe, even though there is no evidence for it, is that there is probably no life after death.  In that sense, it doesn't worry me.  I have nothing to fear from what comes after, only the lack of continued living and existing in this world.  Obviously there are things I want to do and I can only do those by existing, but I can think of a few cases where its worth dying for. 

Bumped, for sadism.

Camus = teh win.  Much better than Satre, the jumped up little prick.

I say its theft, but I admit I'm a thief.  That said, if I really like a band I'll try and see them on tour or buy their merchandise instead of buying their albums, because in reality they are only getting a small cut of the profits, unless they somehow become really big and can demand alot on their contract.

I'm pretty certain the intellectual copyright laws on the songs are actually owned by the companies who produce and market the album.  The contract means the writers get a cut, but the corp takes the vast share of the earnings.  And since the corp didn't write it....that feels wrong.  Profits are fine, but that aspect of the current system needs to be changed.

If the artist wants to distribute it for free, then they should.  If they don't, then they shouldn't.  But of course, when you consider the say the big record companies have in this, some bands may not be able to make some of "their" stuff free, even if they want, because they don't fully own it.

It is often in the record companies interest to allow limited free downloads, however little they actually do it.  Thats what happened in America with anime, the Japanese companies allowed it to be copied and shared freely, then came along later with charged items.  They built a huge fanbase that way, much more quickly than most expected.

Word on the street is the HIMEOBS is taking its Christmas holidays in January, but will be back and operational by the end of the month.

Just ordered Camus' The Rebel and The Stranger and Jared Diamond's Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Survive and his masterpiece, Guns Germs and Steel.

I less than three Amazon, to the depths of my soul.

Being and Nothingness by Satre.

Damn this is a tough read. I'm not really up on Husserl or Heidegger, who he references constantly and the obtuseness of the translation makes Satre sound more German than French (and I find German philosophers incredibly hard and boring to read).

Still, if I can ever make sense of it, it could be promising.  I'm quite interested in the idea of how bad faith relates to acting and freedom.

This is true.  The only way any of us will get that cushy a gig is if we somehow land a column in a newspaper.

Alright, I will.  Why?

Yeah.  You wont believe how much I laughed when I first saw that.  I thought it was a parody, but since it was on an actual music channel, it must be the real thing.