Enlightenment?
Anyone find it? Perhaps with a vengeance?
Or have we given up? Declared it dead?
Or are we all too busy with the rat race?
-toa,
all your cheese are found by us
It's been lost in the scribblings of a dozen mad men pretending to be 20.
The you that walked through the door is not the you that is reading this now.
Quote from: the other anonymous on November 09, 2009, 01:16:51 AM
Enlightenment?
Anyone find it? Perhaps with a vengeance?
Or have we given up? Declared it dead?
Or are we all too busy with the rat race?
-toa,
all your cheese are found by us
What is this "enlightenment" you speak of?
(http://i13.photobucket.com/albums/a289/goblinhill/lightbulb_explode.jpg)
nah, ain't no enlightenment 'round here . . .
What ever happend to predictability?
The milk man, the paper boy, evening T.V
You miss your old familar friends, but
waiting just around the bend.
Everywhere you look (everywhere)
There's a heart (there's a heart)
A hand to hold on to.
Everywhere you look (everywhere)
There's a face of somebody who needs you.
When you're lost out there and your all alone
A light is waiting to carry you home
Everywhere you look.
It was homogenized, sold for a large amount to the masses before going out of fashion.
Don't worry though, these things are cyclical, it will be the in thing again one day.
I miss that show, sometimes, Cram...
Dave Coulier is NOT the Buddha.
...but if we meet him in the street, we'll kill him anyway.
-toa,
the other cameron sibling
I'm too busy having fun to bother with enlightenment.
Enlightenment can be fun.
Quote from: the other anonymous on November 09, 2009, 08:22:00 PM
Enlightenment can be fun.
That sounds like you're speaking from experience. Given that, I would have to assume that "enlightenment" involves stalking people and spagging up threads for the hell of it.
No thanks.
Any so-called "enlightenment" that seems fun cannot possibly be enlightenment.
True enlightenment makes you feel like you've just been ZALGO'd.
Quote from: LMNO on November 09, 2009, 08:26:43 PM
Any so-called "enlightenment" that seems fun cannot possibly be enlightenment.
True enlightenment makes you feel like you've just been ZALGO'd.
That kinda sounds fun.
I suppose the usual standards for fun would be slighly different for Rain Gods.
Quote from: LMNO on November 09, 2009, 08:28:39 PM
I suppose the usual standards for fun would be slighly different for Rain Gods.
Actually, I think that comes more from the "Dumbfuck" side of the family. :lulz:
the other day i was so enlightened that my pants fit better
I'll enlighten when I leave my body. Or lose my fatty parts. :x
On a serious note, delusion is the closest thing we can do to get to it. In a way, I think it may be a little like enlightenment to embrace the fact that we'll always be conflicted over something, and that pain will always be there to make the happy moments more special and worth remembering, and teach us self respect... or something like that. I wonder if one would care to substain themselves alive if their brain constantly pumped out oxytocin, serotonin, and dopamine. Maybe they would just be cool enough for others to do that?
Forever love, happiness, and orgasms. 8)
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on November 09, 2009, 08:18:29 PM
I'm too busy having fun to bother with enlightenment.
Oh, lighten up you :)
Quote from: Triple Zero on November 17, 2009, 04:17:09 PM
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on November 09, 2009, 08:18:29 PM
I'm too busy having fun to bother with enlightenment.
Oh, lighten up you :)
I've been laughing since the late 80s. I should probably stop and catch my breath sometime.
Enlightenment happens every day to most humans. My great grandfather once said "The day you stop learning is the day you die". He claimed to learn something every day, at least, untill he died at the age of 99. He had experienced his youth in a world where he was a blacksmith that shod ponies for hauling coal out of deep mines. He experienced blasting rock with loose powder and a ramrod. He experienced the War... then he experienced farming. He experienced the end of a way of life as automobiles replaced horses. He even experienced watching the sky at specific times so he could see Sputnik shoot past on its regular orbit. He experienced tuning in to the regular beeps of human technology that was circling the earth at speeds faster than Great Grandpa Clyde would ever subjectively experience...
We're all like him. We live in this world and it will be destroyed by a new world which will be strange and weird by comparison. However, the Enlightened will be too busy basking in the moment of learning something new, to perceive the Apocalypse that their peers are experiencing.
Maybe.
Would you hush? Keeping Up With the Kardashians is on!
Quote from: LMNO on November 17, 2009, 04:43:39 PM
Would you hush? Keeping Up With the Kardashians is on!
What? Is that a real show?
Yes. It's bigger than "Dancing With The Stars" in Salazore.
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on November 17, 2009, 04:53:58 PM
Quote from: LMNO on November 17, 2009, 04:43:39 PM
Would you hush? Keeping Up With the Kardashians is on!
What? Is that a real show?
http://www.eonline.com/on/shows/kardashians/index.jsp
Quote from: LMNO on November 17, 2009, 05:15:29 PM
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on November 17, 2009, 04:53:58 PM
Quote from: LMNO on November 17, 2009, 04:43:39 PM
Would you hush? Keeping Up With the Kardashians is on!
What? Is that a real show?
http://www.eonline.com/on/shows/kardashians/index.jsp
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:crankey:
Goddammit, I fucking hate humans. Someone invent the fucking holodeck, so the stupid bastards will all starve to death.
Time for another pill, old man. This is the future.
Quote from: LMNO on November 17, 2009, 05:20:26 PM
Time for another pill, old man. This is the future.
Yeah, well, I'm against it. :argh!:
TGRR,
Thinks Malthus was an optimist.
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on November 17, 2009, 05:21:54 PM
Quote from: LMNO on November 17, 2009, 05:20:26 PM
Time for another pill, old man. This is the future.
Yeah, well, I'm against it. :argh!:
TGRR,
Thinks Malthus was an optimist.
Malthus assumed nobody'd ever knowingly waste something, didn't he?
Quote from: yhnmzw on November 17, 2009, 10:00:45 PM
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on November 17, 2009, 05:21:54 PM
Quote from: LMNO on November 17, 2009, 05:20:26 PM
Time for another pill, old man. This is the future.
Yeah, well, I'm against it. :argh!:
TGRR,
Thinks Malthus was an optimist.
Malthus assumed nobody'd ever knowingly waste something, didn't he?
No, he assumed no new technological developments in agriculture would come along, and mathematically proved that the human race would go extinct by 1800AD.
extinct?
yup that is one twisted view.
Quote from: Regret on November 24, 2009, 06:49:34 PM
extinct?
yup that is one twisted view.
Yeah, that whole "not taking technological advances into account" bit him.
Also, don't populations tend to stabilize due to other factors as well? Wealth, education and access to contraception seem to be factors. There was a UN paper which suggested, on the basis of some pretty good evidence, that the world population would likely become stable at around 10 billion, IIRC.
both true, but irrelevant.
mass starvation can't lead to extinction.
the population will shrink,
there will be more food/human,
the population will stop shrinking.
Quote from: Regret on November 25, 2009, 01:45:01 PM
both true, but irrelevant.
mass starvation can't lead to extinction.
the population will shrink,
there will be more food/human,
the population will stop shrinking.
Outside the world of pure-math simulation, the chaos brought from the mass starvation of monkeys is more likely to generate mass methods of screwing up the chances of any future recovery. E.g. Did you ever read the incredibly complex and coordinated processes required to gradually bring up only part of the power grid following the 2003 blackout? Once the power grid goes down and you lose the ability to communicate and synchronise actions across distances, the ability to bring it back online - especially considering the disruption caused by prolonged blackout - rapidly becomes less likely.
But that's just one possibility - I don't think we're in any danger of running out of creative ways to make ourselves extinct. Any excuse.
that would be a stressful situation.
when monkey's get stressed they seek distraction.
if the power is out sex will have to take the place of television.