Brothers and Sisters, do you feel a little off? That you don't FIT with all the people around you? Like you're out of step with everyone else, and it's just a matter of time before the Big Drill Sergeant in the sky comes down on you like a ton of bricks?
There's a reason for that, you know. You're Tomorrow People, living in the world of Today. That's right...At some point, you stopped living in today, and moved over the tracks to Tomorrow. I can't tell you WHEN that happened, hell, YOU probably don't know. But I can tell you WHY it happened.
It happened because you started - even if you've just begun - to view the world the way it IS, rather than how you'd LIKE IT TO BE. That is the very essence of Tomorrow. You live in the future, while most people live in the present, and some even stubbornly cling to the past.
And one one thing worth mentioning: This future is a fragile thing. Feeble. It teeters on some very shaky concepts, and on no actual reality whatsoever. One one side, there's ecological disaster looming that will KILL US ALL, and on the other side, there's 3D printers making new organs for you. The future balances precariously on the knife edge between those two possibilities.
Now, a lot of people are going to see those things and PANIC. They will then hide in Today or Yesterday, either screeching DOOM (Today) or denying that anything is wrong (Yesterday). One one hand, governments spying on us (Yesterday), and on the other hand, people panicking about that (Today). But neither path is for you or I, my friends. Their rules simply don't apply to us, because we're too damn slippery to be grabbed, because the ability to see and accept the world as it really is - even partially - grants you the ability to be as nebulous as the WalMart security guard's authority.
Indeed, my observation of the behavior of many of those around me is that they treat the ability to make actual rational decisions based on fact as some sort of magic. But it isn't magic, is it? No, it is the ability to SUCK UP SOME BUTTHURT and STOP LYING TO YOURSELF. It is the ability to drop a cherished worldview when it is proven non-viable.
This doesn't make us SMARTER or BETTER than people who can't see past their own biases...And thinking it does means you've just thrown on another uniform. Well done. What it DOES do is make us more EFFECTIVE, when we choose to be.
That is what makes us Tomorrow People. It's really that simple.
Or Kill Me
I love you, you awful awful yellow man.
Quote from: Heavy Metal Jacket Wearing Bear With Mind Lasers on August 13, 2013, 04:43:28 PM
I love you, you awful awful yellow man.
I'm not really yellow. That's just bright light + shitty webcam.
I like this, a lot. I can't really comment anything more insightful right now because my brain's a mush.
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on August 13, 2013, 05:03:18 PM
Quote from: Heavy Metal Jacket Wearing Bear With Mind Lasers on August 13, 2013, 04:43:28 PM
I love you, you awful awful yellow man.
I'm not really yellow. That's just bright light + shitty webcam.
uhhuh... (http://i.imgur.com/SuzmuqP.jpg)
Quote from: Triple Zero on August 13, 2013, 05:08:03 PM
I like this, a lot. I can't really comment anything more insightful right now because my brain's a mush.
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on August 13, 2013, 05:03:18 PM
Quote from: Heavy Metal Jacket Wearing Bear With Mind Lasers on August 13, 2013, 04:43:28 PM
I love you, you awful awful yellow man.
I'm not really yellow. That's just bright light + shitty webcam.
uhhuh... (http://i.imgur.com/SuzmuqP.jpg)
Bearman, are you going to accept evidence from a Belgian? They're almost
French, FFS.
I love the Yellow Desert Man too.
You know, 3 years ago, I'd be in a rage at this point over an essentially stillborn sermon.
I think modern medicine1 has indeed helped me.
1 By which I mean, "stunned me into apathy via little pills".
I love you today, because of the sermon, Roger.
It was simply beautiful.
Why you always make sense!
Well, I guess someone has to.
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on August 13, 2013, 05:09:06 PM
Quote from: Triple Zero on August 13, 2013, 05:08:03 PM
I like this, a lot. I can't really comment anything more insightful right now because my brain's a mush.
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on August 13, 2013, 05:03:18 PM
Quote from: Heavy Metal Jacket Wearing Bear With Mind Lasers on August 13, 2013, 04:43:28 PM
I love you, you awful awful yellow man.
I'm not really yellow. That's just bright light + shitty webcam.
uhhuh... (http://i.imgur.com/SuzmuqP.jpg)
Bearman, are you going to accept evidence from a Belgian? They're almost French, FFS.
I dunno you're from Canadia.
I'll believe who ever makes me laugh til I fart blood.
QuoteNo, it is the ability to SUCK UP SOME BUTTHURT and STOP LYING TO YOURSELF. It is the ability to drop a cherished worldview when it is proven non-viable.
These words need to be tattooed on EVERYBODY'S CHEST.
Quote from: TALK TO ME ABOUT YOUR GENITALS on August 13, 2013, 05:49:28 PM
QuoteNo, it is the ability to SUCK UP SOME BUTTHURT and STOP LYING TO YOURSELF. It is the ability to drop a cherished worldview when it is proven non-viable.
These words need to be tattooed on EVERYBODY'S CHEST.
Many people wouldn't read them. Even if you tattooed them upside down so they
could read them.
Funny thing is, it takes almost a conscious effort to be a Yesterday Person, no effort at all to be a Today Person, and a REAL effort to be a Tomorrow Person. The future by definition challenges your assumptions, and it's really easy to cling to what's comfortable.
Not much new in this sermon, it's mostly background. More later.
QuoteThis doesn't make us SMARTER or BETTER than people who can't see past their own biases...And thinking it does means you've just thrown on another uniform. Well done. What it DOES do is make us more EFFECTIVE, when we choose to be.
Love it.
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on August 13, 2013, 05:54:16 PM
Quote from: TALK TO ME ABOUT YOUR GENITALS on August 13, 2013, 05:49:28 PM
QuoteNo, it is the ability to SUCK UP SOME BUTTHURT and STOP LYING TO YOURSELF. It is the ability to drop a cherished worldview when it is proven non-viable.
These words need to be tattooed on EVERYBODY'S CHEST.
Many people wouldn't read them. Even if you tattooed them upside down so they could read them.
Funny thing is, it takes almost a conscious effort to be a Yesterday Person, no effort at all to be a Today Person, and a REAL effort to be a Tomorrow Person. The future by definition challenges your assumptions, and it's really easy to cling to what's comfortable.
Not much new in this sermon, it's mostly background. More later.
BUT ROGER, EVERYTHING WAS BETTER IN THE PAST, WHEN THINGS WERE PERFECT AND NOBODY EVER WORRIED ABOUT ANYTHING.
Quote from: TALK TO ME ABOUT YOUR GENITALS on August 13, 2013, 06:10:18 PM
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on August 13, 2013, 05:54:16 PM
Quote from: TALK TO ME ABOUT YOUR GENITALS on August 13, 2013, 05:49:28 PM
QuoteNo, it is the ability to SUCK UP SOME BUTTHURT and STOP LYING TO YOURSELF. It is the ability to drop a cherished worldview when it is proven non-viable.
These words need to be tattooed on EVERYBODY'S CHEST.
Many people wouldn't read them. Even if you tattooed them upside down so they could read them.
Funny thing is, it takes almost a conscious effort to be a Yesterday Person, no effort at all to be a Today Person, and a REAL effort to be a Tomorrow Person. The future by definition challenges your assumptions, and it's really easy to cling to what's comfortable.
Not much new in this sermon, it's mostly background. More later.
BUT ROGER, EVERYTHING WAS BETTER IN THE PAST, WHEN THINGS WERE PERFECT AND NOBODY EVER WORRIED ABOUT ANYTHING.
DYING OF ABCESSED TOOTH. BRB, LOL.
It'll be interesting to see what this builds up to.
I finally reached this thread. Worth it.
Big Words:
(http://i.imgur.com/JQpIyMw.jpg)
:lulz: Mind if I share that around?
Quote from: Surprise Happy Endings Whether You Want Them Or Not on August 13, 2013, 05:49:28 PM
QuoteNo, it is the ability to SUCK UP SOME BUTTHURT and STOP LYING TO YOURSELF. It is the ability to drop a cherished worldview when it is proven non-viable.
These words need to be tattooed on EVERYBODY'S CHEST.
Fuck yeah.
I'M GONNA SUCK UP THAT BUTTHURT LIKE AN ASS-BLOOD MILKSHAKE!
Wait a minute....
Quote from: tarod on September 01, 2013, 06:57:21 PM
:lulz: Mind if I share that around?
My stuff is always free to share, bend, fold, staple and mutilate unless otherwise noted (all I ask is that I get
no attribution). You might want to wait until Roger shows up to chime in, but as long as you keep the attribution in there it's usually cool.
I'd be sharing it as is. Just on facebook though I may see if my wife can/will make a poster out of it for the house.
Quote from: tarod on September 01, 2013, 09:45:18 PM
I'd be sharing it as is. Just on facebook though I may see if my wife can/will make a poster out of it for the house.
let me know what size paper you're using and I'll send you a file that's the right size.
Quote from: Queen Gogira Pennyworth, BSW on September 01, 2013, 09:10:03 PM
Quote from: tarod on September 01, 2013, 06:57:21 PM
:lulz: Mind if I share that around?
My stuff is always free to share, bend, fold, staple and mutilate unless otherwise noted (all I ask is that I get no attribution). You might want to wait until Roger shows up to chime in, but as long as you keep the attribution in there it's usually cool.
I'm good as long as attribution is left in.
Typo. There's a paragraph that starts "one one".
CURSES! I need a photoshop that does spellcheck, this is getting ridiculous.
I somehow missed this sermon before, and it is excellent.
Learning to see one's worldview as a possible impediment, rather than as something to be jealously guarded and defended against change, is a pretty tough thing to stay on top of.
Quote from: Cainad on September 02, 2013, 04:58:14 PM
I somehow missed this sermon before, and it is excellent.
Learning to see one's worldview as a possible impediment, rather than as something to be jealously guarded and defended against change, is a pretty tough thing to stay on top of.
There's a part II.