Is it a plot to run everyone off the land? Nope. Done already. Is it a plot to make everyone stupid? Naw. The pain of "not getting it" makes everyone sharp as tacks. Is it a plot to confuse reality with illusion? I almost hope so. Look at the world...Look at CNN. That's reality. My headscape is way better than that, and I hope yours is, too.
Is it the approach of the NWO? Forget it...They took over in 1945 when our Nazis won the war against tyranny, and nobody's ever been free since. Well, almost nobody. Mohammed Ali was free, even in shackles. But he wasn't your normal mutant.
Is it the triumph of the Free Market™? No, no such animal, never was. It's about as "free" and has about as level a playing field as did games of faro, back in the old days. Yeah, it's a rigged game, but it's the only game in town, as Canada Bill Jones used to say.
Is it the bunker mentality of the United States, with schools beginning to look like fortresses and the entire population huddled behind their deadbolted doors and deadbolted hearts? Is is the all-emcompassing, pants-shitting FEAR that grips every Good American™ from cradle to grave? Is it the infinitely long line of marching morons, trudging to a Brave New World? Naw, just kidding. Nobody's afraid. Unless they wake up in the morning, in which case they go all to pieces.
Is it the Bridges of Portland, the Desolation of Tucson, or the Horrible Grind of Providence? Possibly. In any event, that's what fate has in store for all of you sinners. One day, you'll shiver so hard that you slip down the grate in the shower, and then here you are, staggering along under the FIST OF GOD...Which is to say, a sun so brutal that it's pixilated at the edges.
You don't deserve that, of course...You're all good folks. But in THIS universe, that's what's on your plate, deserved or not. Nobody ever promised that judgement day was fair. As above, so below, they say, and I think we can all agree that EARTHLY courts aren't known for fairness.
So, before that happens, may I humbly suggest that you find ways to enjoy your mortal existence? May I suggest that you be extra-nice to your spouse or significant other? May I suggest that you maybe SMILE a bit (as opposed to GRINNING), and just breathe?
Because there's sure as fuck no air in the afterlife.
I am uncertain as how to respond.
Quote from: Pippa Twiddleton on January 03, 2013, 07:14:02 PM
I am uncertain as how to respond.
The proper protocol is to stone me at this point, though that won't actually save you, any more than beating up the weather man will stop the rain.
Thats actually why theres largely female meteorologists in boston. We get too distracted by them to notice whether their predictions. We find out the hard way. Well we have kevin lemanowicz but then we have too much fun saying lemanowicz to notice what hes saying either. But id feel bad about stoning you roger and anyway i throw with the strength and accuracy of a 5 year old.
Quote from: Pippa Twiddleton on January 03, 2013, 07:20:42 PM
Thats actually why theres largely female meteorologists in boston. We get too distracted by them to notice whether their predictions. We find out the hard way. Well we have kevin lemanowicz but then we have too much fun saying lemanowicz to notice what hes saying either. But id feel bad about stoning you roger and anyway i throw with the strength and accuracy of a 5 year old.
A brief reading of the old testament will show you that this sympathy is misplaced.
Prophets should be stoned. Buncha smartasses, if you ask me.
Yeah but i also know what happens as a result of even making fun of a prophet.
Twid
not saying a damn thing about how much of your scalp is showing.
Quote from: Pippa Twiddleton on January 03, 2013, 08:58:18 PM
Yeah but i also know what happens as a result of even making fun of a prophet.
Twid
not saying a damn thing about how much of your scalp is showing.
Keep it up, jackass. This country is CRAWLING with bears.
Yeah i dont want to end up as an ingredient in the next post of cooking with lmno.
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on January 03, 2013, 06:55:33 PM
You don't deserve that, of course...You're all good folks. But in THIS universe, that's what's on your plate, deserved or not. Nobody ever promised that judgement day was fair. As above, so below, they say, and I think we can all agree that EARTHLY courts aren't known for fairness.
Great post, Roger.
I have always wondered why pagan folk think saying 'as above so below' makes here so much more awesome. Don't they realize they're pulling the Summerlands down? Piling so much karmic shit up on the other plane that it will materialize and manifest as a giant floating barge of feces . . . and then promptly squash us all?
This is what we have and there isn't any escaping. You can wish and dream but that doesn't help with getting through the now. What you can do is suck it up, wake up, go out there and do something about it.
Maybe.
Good stuff, Roger. Everyone's spending so much time being afraid of the wrong things, and they're falling ass over teakettle to be dicks to each other about it.
Quote from: Cardinal Pizza Deliverance. on January 04, 2013, 02:20:31 AM
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on January 03, 2013, 06:55:33 PM
You don't deserve that, of course...You're all good folks. But in THIS universe, that's what's on your plate, deserved or not. Nobody ever promised that judgement day was fair. As above, so below, they say, and I think we can all agree that EARTHLY courts aren't known for fairness.
Great post, Roger.
I have always wondered why pagan folk think saying 'as above so below' makes here so much more awesome. Don't they realize they're pulling the Summerlands down? Piling so much karmic shit up on the other plane that it will materialize and manifest as a giant floating barge of feces . . . and then promptly squash us all?
This is what we have and there isn't any escaping. You can wish and dream but that doesn't help with getting through the now. What you can do is suck it up, wake up, go out there and do something about it.
Maybe.
Right on.
"As above, so below..."
HAVE YOU TAKEN A GOOD HARD LOOK AT THE BELOW, BUCKO?! WHAT DOES THAT TELL YOU ABOUT THE ABOVE?
Quote from: Cardinal Pizza Deliverance. on January 04, 2013, 02:20:31 AM
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on January 03, 2013, 06:55:33 PM
You don't deserve that, of course...You're all good folks. But in THIS universe, that's what's on your plate, deserved or not. Nobody ever promised that judgement day was fair. As above, so below, they say, and I think we can all agree that EARTHLY courts aren't known for fairness.
Great post, Roger.
I have always wondered why pagan folk think saying 'as above so below' makes here so much more awesome. Don't they realize they're pulling the Summerlands down? Piling so much karmic shit up on the other plane that it will materialize and manifest as a giant floating barge of feces . . . and then promptly squash us all?
This is what we have and there isn't any escaping. You can wish and dream but that doesn't help with getting through the now. What you can do is suck it up, wake up, go out there and do something about it.
Maybe.
The Greek gods are worse than us. Mount Olympus is a veritable soap opera/reality show.
The Celtic/Norse gods KILL each other. Let that sink in. Immortals KILL each other.
The Egyptians? Let's put this corpse back together and sew a dildo on so I can fuck Osiris back to life.
JUST WHAT THE HELL ARE PAGANS DOING TO THEIR GODS?!?!?!
Addendum- Celts and Norsemen like Law and Order
Egyptians like snuff porn.
Let's not even get into the Sumerians (ok, let's. Enki is a serial murderer who drowns his victims because they're making TOO MUCH NOISE. HAY! LET'S SET OFF SOME MORE FIREWORKS!!!! HEY ENKI!!!!)
And last but not least, YHWH.
He doesn't like gay sex. Or lobster. Or bacon double cheeseburgers. Or skyscrapers.
HAY YAHWEH!!!!!
AMERICA LOVES YUO!!!!
Quote from: Pippa Twiddleton on January 04, 2013, 03:07:55 AM
And last but not least, YHWH.
He doesn't like gay sex. Or lobster. Or bacon double cheeseburgers. Or skyscrapers.
HAY YAHWEH!!!!!
AMERICA LOVES YUO!!!!
I refuse to believe in anything that doesn't support bacon double cheeseburgers.
You know, I think I stopped believing in God when I was told "God made man in His image." Because every adult I knew at the time was a piece of fucking shit. Clearly, this meant God was a piece of shit too. And I didn't need more of that in my life.
That's where my road to paganism began.
The future is a small, snowy village in Northern Belgium.
Everything closes at 6PM, and nothing is open on Sundays, not even the bar and the pizza place.
Quote from: Waffles, Viking Princess of Northern Belgium on January 04, 2013, 11:41:59 AM
The future is a small, snowy village in Northern Belgium.
Everything closes at 6PM, and nothing is open on Sundays, not even the bar and the pizza place.
The future seems picturesque and shitty, all at the same time.
Quote from: LMNO, PhD (life continues) on January 04, 2013, 12:48:56 PM
Quote from: Waffles, Viking Princess of Northern Belgium on January 04, 2013, 11:41:59 AM
The future is a small, snowy village in Northern Belgium.
Everything closes at 6PM, and nothing is open on Sundays, not even the bar and the pizza place.
The future seems picturesque and shitty, all at the same time.
But someone, somewhere in your vicinity, has an illicit moonshine apparatus in their basement.
http://www.npr.org/blogs/krulwich/2013/01/22/169976655/nature-has-a-formula-that-tells-us-when-its-time-to-die?live=1
I really like this one.
Quote from: Lenin McCarthy on January 04, 2013, 02:00:03 PM
Quote from: LMNO, PhD (life continues) on January 04, 2013, 12:48:56 PM
Quote from: Waffles, Viking Princess of Northern Belgium on January 04, 2013, 11:41:59 AM
The future is a small, snowy village in Northern Belgium.
Everything closes at 6PM, and nothing is open on Sundays, not even the bar and the pizza place.
The future seems picturesque and shitty, all at the same time.
But someone, somewhere in your vicinity, has an illicit moonshine apparatus in their basement.
It only makes turpentine. IT is run by a palsied old codgers who has no interest in making any sort of product that actually tastes good. He knows the bitterness of life, and only wants the taste of "Fuck you" in his bathtub basement schnapps. IT will take anyone from perfect health to cirhosis and frail lunacy in about 15 years. Doesn't bother our proprietor, he doesn't expect to live another 10, and is in fact held together by the lead deposits along his storied neurons.
This is the only man in town who knows how to LIVE, how to buck the banality and the pink.
Of course, he has no interest in telling anyone else this. HE knows they won't listen. They'd love him for it, sure, but in the end, it's an inconvenient message.
He'd rather be hated than disregarded.