Messages

Canada is VERY different from America.  Anyone who says otherwise is a retard.

The reason ECH can't see this is that he is laboring under the impression that Maine is part of America.  Which it isn't.

So fuck off.  All of you.

Damn, I missed that memo.  Does that mean I can stop handing over my money to the IRS?

Apparently according to a video I watched recently...
Yes. Yes you can.
SRSLY.
No, SRSLY.

Dear god, it wasn't the one I suggested, was it? Oh, I'm so embarrassed...

At what point do the conspiracy theories become more complicated than the society these conspiracies are supposed to control?

Srsly, all of New England is more like other countries than the rest of the USA.

In terms of, like, murder rate per capita.

Well, you can't have everything, can you...

As a matter of fact, I knew this one guy who could. Nobody liked him.

We're still just monkeys.



Unusually large brains, but still monkeys.


It's easy to be a monkey.


It's hard to be human.

"How should I know how to be a human? I'm not Doctor-bloody-Bronowski!"

Cainad,
Read The Ascent of Man

NO PRAISE UNTIL 50 POSTS, PEOPLE.

Come on! If we can't abide by our own rules, how will we ever make it out there in the Real World?

Someone who posts this sparingly might warrant an exception.

Srsly, all of New England is more like other countries than the rest of the USA.

In terms of, like, murder rate per capita.

I like it..

If I find Jesus, does that mean the game is over, or is it my turn to hide?

Better than Shakespeare

I tried to do an audio version of this...an hour and a half later, I'm still not convinced my voice isn't too nasally (blocked nose).

But anyway, here it is.

http://www.mediafire.com/?bexcyjswzll

Not bad. It's a little bit nasally, but not so much that it distracts from what you're saying.

I like this.  In fact, it kind of reminds me of how Blackwater operates.  Blackwater doesn't actually have a standing army, it has a bunch of guys on its records, who it contracts out to for individual jobs.  Instead of these guys being a "paramilitary force", they are almost ephemeral, appearing and disappearing as needed.  It makes them cheap, flexible, deniable and exceptionally dangerous.

Another example of everything having a use when the right (wrong) minds get a hold of it.

We should start our own ephemeral paramilitary force, except the purpose will be to hijack sound systems in public areas that play too much shitty music. We'll be heroes.

Watership Down?

Bunny wabbits FTW!

Do not deny the power of a warm solution of salt and sodium bicarbonate snorted directly up both nostrils (yes, baking soda; didn't know about THAT secret ingredient did you now?). Use a squirt bottle if possible, it's much more efficient.

And Charles Darwin made baby Jesus cry by suggesting that biodiversity exists because of competition, and not because of God's wuv.

Kansas has laws against making baby Jesus cry, I think.

Which is better, the new world order, or total human extinction?
I'm ready to flip a coin.

No such dichotomy. Occasionally we change the wallpaper, but it's still the same shitty house...

I was going to post an 'oh noes, dichotomy!' statement, but this is much bettar. Couldn't we just move?

Finally, you're not meant to pass judgement unless you absolutely have to.  Don't ask me why, but many academics are more content with describing a situation than deciding if it is good or not (much of the regional trade blocs thinking is indicative of this).  Moral judgement means hiring a philosopher, or adding another 5,000 words to your paper, neither of which are especially fun prospects.

I think this is an interesting point. Academia first requires a mind open enough to learn, observe, and analyze, but once the academic reaches a certain point it becomes necessary to 'weed out' excessive detail. Nobody likes a paper that makes obscene generalizations, so the only options seem to be either expanding your paper to accommodate what you want to add, or to narrow the focus of the paper so much that moral judgment becomes irrelevant.

This is where the aphorism "The more you know, the more you realize how much you don't" comes into play; the deeper one studies a particular subject or phenomenon, the more one realizes how subtle its implications are. An academic, quite often, simply cannot convince themselves that they know enough to pass judgment, much less one that has to hold up to criticism.

Cainad,
Is not sure where he was going with this.

I wonder, how will they portray the long descriptions of the creatures that Lovecraft describes as recorded in pictograms? They can't make a movie that has thirty minutes of archaeological analysis of some doodles on a wall...

...Or CAN they?!