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At least now we are not the only ones stinking.

http://youtu.be/yL9Y24ciNWs

He won't be able to complain anymore.

It depends... if it is an international flights you could have problems even if you wrap it up in your luggage. Normally  you are only allowed to enter another country with two a maximum of two litres of alcohol (except for beer, i think you can carry a little more of it) per person.

'Goatse'; fairly well known but it had to be mentioned. That thing was the ultimate rick roll at the end of the 90's.

Because i really have to come to loathe translations and if it is possible I like to avoid them. "Original versions" usually do a better job conveying what the writer really wants to communicate
(I lived in Chile, and therefore there should be no problem for me to understand it without the help of translators or other evil semantics-and-aesthetics-destroying tools)

Why not? But please attach the original text to it.

As long as you pay for the expenses

ODE TO AN OOSIK


Strange things have been done in the Midnight Sun,
   and the story books are full---
But the strangest tale concerns the male,
   magnificent walrus bull!

I know it's rude, quite common and crude,
   Perhaps it is grossly unkind;
But with first glance at least, this bewhiskered beast,
   is as ugly in front as behind.

Look once again, take a second look -- then
   you'll see he's not ugly or vile --
There's a hint of a grin, in that blubbery chin --
   and the eyes have a shy secret smile.

How can this be, this clandestine glee
   that exudes from the walrus like music?
He knows, there inside, beneath blubber and hide
   lies a splendid contrivance -- the Oosik!

"Oosik" you say -- and quite well you may,
    I'll explain if you keep it between us;
In the simplest truth, though rather uncouth
   "Oosik" is, in fact, his penis!

Now the size alone of this walrus bone,
   would indeed arouse envious thinking --
It is also a fact, documented and backed,
   There is never a softening or shrinking!

This, then, is why the smile is so sly,
   the walrus is rightfully proud.
Though the climate is frigid, the walrus is rigid,
   Pray, why, is not man so endowed?

Added to this, is a smile you might miss ---
   Though the bull is entitled to bow --
The one to out-smile our bull by a mile
    is the satisfied walrus cow!

(Anonymous)

Hello. I have been lurking around the forums for a while and finally decided to join.

I've been thinking about the whole transhumanism concept in the last weeks and i wanted to get some discordian input about it (especially about the second definition presented below).
I'm actually trying to accumulate a lot of information on the topic to (maybe) write some pages about it and I'd like to focus on two different aspects of transhumanism from a philosophical point of view.

The whole thing in a nutshell: Transhumanism as a new step for humankind to get rid of the 'barriers' that prevent us from a higher form of life, leaving behind the parts of being human that screw us up every time. Transhumanism as a new sociological model, a sexual revolution (sex as art, fun and enlightenment more than just the old "let's have kids"-concept) and a new philosophy (anthropological, ethic, cognition, etc.)

I want to differentiate between two different 'methods of transhumanism';
1. Transhumanism as we (usually) know it. Enhancement of our bodies (and later even of our souls) through technology, abstraction of the flesh,  expansion of our abilities and the bypass of blockades in certain brain-areas.

2. Transhumanism through a 'return to our roots', a return to the origin of everything, the chaos. As a free 'society' (i guess we need a new definition for that, not even to be compared to anarchistic communities) liberated from the handcuffs that have been given to us through the current world order and the history of (modern) mankind. I think that feral children ought to be somewhat of a example for this but we want to go even further, expanding our cognition through psychedelic drugs, feeling the universe in our bodies and exploring space with our minds.

Do you have any good sources i could rely on to keep on reading about these interesting topics? Information or thoughts about posthumanism or your views of the future of mankind?