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[The Machine's Correctional System™]

Also it seems more and more like they are building schools (especially in inner-city areas) to be like prisons.  Large windowless concrete structures patrolled by police are no place to learn.  And the kicker is that having police there actually does little to increase "security" however it does mean that what might get you detention or even nothing in a rich white school will probably end up on inner-city kids' criminal record.

A struggling child without a strong advocate in the schools is a victim waiting to happen, and in our society these child victims all too often become fodder for The Machine's Correctional System™.

Fixed.

[Attnho]

Attnho

BAM, there it is.

Susan.

I strenuously object. Susan is already an established and well-respected member here at PD, and her notable absence should not cause us to rush to replace her.

HOWEVER. I suggest Jem. Predictably.

Don't know why he's changing.

I thought I said why in the OP but I must not have been clear.  I chose this name to stir up shit.  I no longer want to stir up shit.  Since a name is just a name and I don't want to stir up shit I am going to change my name.  I thought you guys might get a kick out of choosing my new name since I don't really care what it is

Attnho

seconded

Fourthed

If I try to make a poll out of all the suggestions you made I probably won't finish until next week.  This one seems to be popular.  Any objections to Attnho? 

[OR]

Keep 'em coming guys.  I'll set up the poll:
A) 46 hrs from now OR
B) When you guys feel like you have enough options to vote on

I must think of the op, but you seem like a...

Dirigible Fucker
Or
Pottertang
Or
Dinocrack
Or
Granny Stain
Or
Borscht-Schtuper
Or
Percivile

to me.

http://www.principiadiscordia.com/forum/index.php/topic,32350.0.html

My current name (admittedly picked to stir up a response) seems to upset some people.  Honestly its just a name and I feel like I've changed my mind on the whole wanting to stir up a response thing.  A name is a name, not a definition so who cares right? 

So I'm changing my name.  Heres the twist:  I'm not going to choose a new one.  What I am going to do is take all of the posts on this thread over the next 48 hours and create a poll.  Then you guys can decide.  Knock yourselves out 

I recommend changing user name.
it's kinda....sophomoric?

also, i want a monopoly on the initial 'I' in the username.

It kinda makes people remember why they were so hostile to him when he first appeared.  It invokes those memories, getting them angry all over again, and then that gets them all primed to be unreceptive and hostile to anything he has to say.

Not me.  If he mans up and acts like a biped, the name is gonna remind me that he did that.

I am attempting to do just that.  I also am toying with other names.  Does anyone object to "F. Alse Prophet" ?  Speak now or forever hold you peace!

Also: I know this is off topic but does anyone have anything to say about the OP that hasn't been said yet?

Good call sir!  The reason I started thinking about this in the first place was because the phrase sounded so "deep" (Sorry, without protective quotes that word's meaning in context pisses me off with all its pretension).  I was kind of hoping that the other posters might wait until after I had explained myself before they started making fun of me, but hindsight being 20/20 I realize that was stupid given my reputation around here.

What reputation?  You came in babbling about how insane you are.  That puts you in the same boat as about a thousand other noobs.

Exactly.  My reputation of being a passenger on the S.S. Arrogant Noob Trying to Stir Up Shit/Have People Tell Him How Great He Is.  I'm actually looking for a lifeboat as we speak.

Then, um, stop being a jackass (re, the "insane" shit).  It's really all it takes.

I stopped days ago.  I realize that rebelling for the sake of rebellion is just another type of conformity.  Do I need to change my name to stop being a jackass or can I just change the way I post?

Good call sir!  The reason I started thinking about this in the first place was because the phrase sounded so "deep" (Sorry, without protective quotes that word's meaning in context pisses me off with all its pretension).  I was kind of hoping that the other posters might wait until after I had explained myself before they started making fun of me, but hindsight being 20/20 I realize that was stupid given my reputation around here.

What reputation?  You came in babbling about how insane you are.  That puts you in the same boat as about a thousand other noobs.

Exactly.  My reputation of being a passenger on the S.S. Arrogant Noob Trying to Stir Up Shit/Have People Tell Him How Great He Is.  I'm actually looking for a lifeboat as we speak.

I think you need to wear a hockey helmet when you're outdoors.

Noted, hopefully I can make it to the store without being hit by stray pucks.  It's a constant worry here in SoCal 

All the retards are doing it.

Sometimes always would imply a greater than zero value.  Never would imply a zero value.

Your head is full of hippie bullshit.  You should either get rid of it, or contain it so we don't have to look at it.

All the retards in SoCal are all bout sk8brd helmets because all the kewl kidz sk8 (or at least they used to, not sure if they still do). 
As for the hippie bullshit... yes.  Sorry I'm going through a hippie phase.  I'm not going to contain it, and I'm going to force you to look at it either.  If you don't like hippie bullshit kindly explain why and I will take your opinion into consideration.

Because it's mushy-headed nonsense.  It is in fact possible to actually think, without indulging in pseudo-intellectual crap.

Noted.  I actually respect your opinions a lot (after all I found this site through a collection of your work).  However until I come to that conclusion (the mushy-headed nonsense part) on my own changing the way I think to the way you think would just be conforming.  You don't have to indulge in my "pseudo-intellectual crap".  In fact I'd prefer you didn't because then you would no longer be making fun of it, and I'd miss out on some good laughs at my own expense.

Not here, but Squidday lays down the FIRE. And you know what? She changed my mind. At first I disagreed, then I got to the end and was like GET THE FUCK OUT OF MY WAY CHAIR and I threw my chair. Then I picked it up and posted this.

Squiddy sez:

How many people ITT are actually gonna vote anyway? "Oh I don't vote, my vote doesn't matter, blah blah fuck the system and the man". Whatever. Till Santorum or Romney wins, then maybe Ministry will make a good album or something. Right? I don't care where the fuck I have to vote as long as I make sure that those two RETARDED TURD FACTORIES are NOT in the white house. I'll fart the shit out of a church and flop a filthed tampon in the holy water vessel and then drop my vote for ANYONE but those anus slimers. If fucking Barney the dinosaur was running against them he'd have my vote. FUCK! I can write it in! Anyone but those jizz guzzling "religious" money grubbing, businessmen. Fuck those guys and fuck the retarded religious america that thinks these shit popsicles want anything more than to keep sucking taxes out of me and you and their sorry uneducated asses. These skid marked tattered old man panties prey on ignorance and fear. The dumber the people are, the more likely they are to ruin what tiny shred of... fuck it. I'm sure I'm just yelling at a deaf wall. If you don't want to vote, at least write in something stupid on your fucking ballot. Vote for the flying spaghetti monster even. Then vote no for all the judges terms to be renewed. If you don't want to "make it count", then MAKE IT COUNT... in a totally twisted sick badwrong way. It's what Eris would want. You wanna piss her off? Remember the last time...?

RAH SQUID!

That said, I tell people I don't vote, but not because I don't think my vote counts. I do it because I have a right to not vote if I don't want to, and I enjoy their panties getting all bunched up as they try to explain to me that not voting is anti-democratic and shouldn't be allowed.

As a newly registered voter I most definitely plan on going to my polling place and casting my ballot.  However I have a few ideas about what I'm going to do while I'm there rather than vote

I think you need to wear a hockey helmet when you're outdoors.

Noted, hopefully I can make it to the store without being hit by stray pucks.  It's a constant worry here in SoCal 

All the retards are doing it.

Sometimes always would imply a greater than zero value.  Never would imply a zero value.

Your head is full of hippie bullshit.  You should either get rid of it, or contain it so we don't have to look at it.

All the retards in SoCal are all bout sk8brd helmets because all the kewl kidz sk8 (or at least they used to, not sure if they still do). 
As for the hippie bullshit... yes.  Sorry I'm going through a hippie phase.  I'm not going to contain it, and I'm going to force you to look at it either.  If you don't like hippie bullshit kindly explain why and I will take your opinion into consideration.

It strikes me, initially, as someone trying to sound wise.

I'll wait on the explanation before I make a more indepth judgement, but that is how I see it right now.

Good call sir!  The reason I started thinking about this in the first place was because the phrase sounded so "deep" (Sorry, without protective quotes that word's meaning in context pisses me off with all its pretension).  I was kind of hoping that the other posters might wait until after I had explained myself before they started making fun of me, but hindsight being 20/20 I realize that was stupid given my reputation around here.

Anyways I'll go ahead and release my pretentious, hippie bullshit, philosophical garbage etc., etc. (yes I used two et ceteras because I couldn't think of a fourth thing to list  ) ideas into the wild where the good Doktor will surely slaughter them for both my amusement and I can only assume his own:

[PRETENTIOUS HIPPIE BULLSHIT]
I really like this phrase because it has two words that in my mind denote certainty (Always and Never) and forces them to clash.  This may or may not be interesting to you, but I have an irony/paradox fetish so it sure made my dick hard.  Defining "Always" as sometimes being "Never" is both ironic and paradoxical in the sense that the two ideas are opposites (irony) and the definition is itself a paradox.  This little bit of rhetoric is probably why the statement comes off as trying to be wise (a.k.a. sounding smart to retards, while sounding retarded to smart people).

What really interested me was how I could apply it to self-limiting beliefs (I've been working to de-brainwash myself).  Iptuous kind of just touched on this as I was typing.  Basically: if you believe that something is ALWAYS true then you also believe that the opposite is NEVER true.  This may or may not be a good thing.  I guess it just made me realize that if I ever accept an ALWAYS (and an ALWAYS provides such comforting certainty) I have also accepted a NEVER.  Therefore some of the things I may take for granted as being "good" or "true" may just simply be one possible "goodness" or "truth".  I guess the statement: "Sometimes always is never" just reminds me to question everything and try to consider other perspectives and never accept anything as absolute truth.
[/PRETENTIOUS HIPPIE BULLSHIT]

I'm not trying to sound wise because I'm sure you all have reached similar conclusions, or if you haven't then you've probably already been down a similar thought process.  I am no guru and you all (or at least most of you) have much more life experience than I.

That said, let the mockery begin!   

[by the very act of not wanting to be one.]

I'm reading through the whole thread you linked me and it does a good job of rejecting the idea that we are just a collectiOn of memes. If you think we are more than just memes, I would liketo know what about us is more than a competing collection of ideas. I don't have any stake in the answer, it's just that I've hear you saying 'we are more than this...' enough to wonder "why?"

I'm me.  I am not a collection of viral ideas, of absorbed commercials and opinions. 

Why?  Because I am the sexiest Goddamn primate for miles in any direction.  I can wreck a car, fix that car, fuck up a county fair, and give women a fake orgasm from across the room.  I am the unverified alternative, the equally valid theory, the piss in your wheaties.

I don't have to explain why I'm not just a meat robot, because anyone who needs that explained is spending time pretending to be a meat robot.  A soul?  The only soul I'm sure of walks around in the form of George Clinton.  Like I said, I have no answers, but I am not a meat robot by the very act of not wanting to be one.

Put that in your pipe and smoke it, Dingo.  It's not like you have any choice.

I think you need to wear a hockey helmet when you're outdoors.

Noted, hopefully I can make it to the store without being hit by stray pucks.  It's a constant worry here in SoCal 

The other day I was doodling when a certain phrase started echoing around in my head.  It had a nice ring to it so I started thinking about it.  In spite of the risk of being relabeled as a pinealist I thought I would share this phrase with you and get your thoughts on it.

The phrase is: "Sometimes always is never".  I thought it was really beautiful and captured a lot of philosophies that I've been mulling over lately but I've been known to be wrong before.  I'll post my thoughts later as I'm in a bit of a rush now and I kind of want to hear YOUR ideas before they've been tainted by mine anyways.

Dear Nigelco,

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Love,
Me