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thats IT

that is the fallacy of the argument

fuck

i cant believe i never saw it before



the grafting technique would make people STUPID
not EVIL


unless you consider evil to be directly related to stupidity



fuck
i cant believe i didnt see that before

LHX - dumb

Not sure how color relates to either one.

TGRR,
Has seen stupidity in EVERY race.

Evil too. History of all races=story of evil.

What you need to do -- what will give you faith in humanity -- is realising that 90% of all "humans" aren't human at all. They're just animals.

Or, as they say, Cabbages.

This is true. For example, on another thread we had let the secret out of the bag that Ann Coulter is in fact a hastily shaved howler monkey.

Humanoid animals/cabbages=cancer.

A mass extinction event would be great. We are not efficient enough at killing each other. Too slow.

it would also put an end to property

This is why I think e-prime is not going to be the dominant way of communicating as long as society functions the way that it does now. You and I are only useful to the overall machine as consumers, you can not have consumerism without property. Therefore e-prime, and other endeavours at telling the truth cannot be tolerated.

Think about the sheer absurdity of modern monetary systems. At best we're now exchanging pieces of paper, all pretending that they are worth something. Strange.

I don't know enough about maybe-logic, I'm going to read up on this.

Shrugging indeed is the only true universal language. That and scratching your butt.

Maybe. (Ha ha)
But the advantage of e-prime is that it exposes the collection of compromises that is the human language. Language is a human construct and therefore imperfect.

Because at one point we were smaller than the things trying to eat us, we had to develop a complex system of symbols so we could cooperate to survive. We would point to a rock and go "rock," "tiger," "fire." Yada yada. But as humanity becomes more interested in complex ideas and constructs, the language system starts to crack at the sides--it becomes unable to adequately describe things like "nothing," or "empathy."

Using e-prime just points out that the language we are using may not necessarily be 100 % accurate, therefore our assumptions about the world and our reality, based as they are in part in language, may also not be 100% accurate either.

IMO anyway.

I hear lesbians don't like dick much. (obvious joke, so true, but it's earli in the morning and I have not had coffee yet so what the hell, it's amusing to me)

Methinks Asimov does deserve to get get some slack. Certainly I would not put him in the same category as Dick or Lem, but I found the Foundtation Series to be a really enjoyable read. The man invented a science which predicts the future...

I have been reading I, Robot, which for some reason I had never read, but had always been meaning to.  Anyway, it's highly enjoyable.

Ahhh, good ol'Asimov. Have you given the Foundation series a try? It's a pretty big time commitment to read the whole set of books but IMO highly worth it.

I'm reading Diary by Chuck Palahniuk right now. I heart Chuck, he doesn't dissapoint. Not the most challenging read, but enjoyable. My favourite thing about Palahniuk are stories I read about him and his friends attending open houses just to raid people's medicine cabinets and get high. Must be a discordian at heart.

TGRR,
Has seen stupidity in EVERY race.

This is because all races are equally stupid sadly, a condition that affects the majority of the species. Only one solution is feasible.
Annihilation, abolition of society, glorious anarchy and freedom, horrible, horrible freedom.

I didn't like it as much as Jitterbug Perfume or Skinny Legs and All.
Those were my two all time favorites.

I haven't read either of them, although I have Jitterbug Perfume.  Maybe I'll give it a go and come back to Roadside.

There have been one or two books I didnt like the first time around but did like the second time, so maybe it needs to sit for a while.

Have you read Cowgirls, Bella?

Hey Baron, how did all this work out for you? I have attempted to read both Another Roadside Attraction and Jitterbug Perfume and have never managed to get through them. I wanted to like Robbins but somehow couldn't get into him...wondering if there is something I missed.

Alexandr I Solzhenitsyn - The Gulag Archipelago

Have you read One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich? It's fantastic. I would highly recommend it.

While on the topic of Russian lit gems, I recently finished Heart of a Dog by Bulgakov, it was by far one of the most entertaining reads I've come across. It's very short so it's an excellent book to take with you on a trip.