The road to hell is perfectly straight. Hell is perfect order. It is what it is, and there is no hope of anything ever changing.
Humans occasionally try to create hell on Earth. The Inquisition. Benny "anything for a laugh" Mussolini making the trains run on time. The US and Canadian governments rounding up Native American children, dressing them just like us, and jamming them into school systems designed to teach them enough to ruin their culture, but not enough to compete. The horrible conformity of the 1950s. The stratification of economic classes that are going on today.
What is particularly amusing is that most Hell on Earth scenarios are ended by other Hell on Earth movements (see: World War II) who have different ideas of what that perfect order should be. Evil turns on itself, devours itself. It has no choice.
Something hilarious just occurred to me. At my job, there is NO order. All is chaos. Therefore, it must be Heaven, and ours the work of angels.
Or a really really contested part of hell.
Quote from: Cain on June 20, 2014, 05:05:58 PM
Or a really really contested part of hell.
Point. :lulz:
Heaven is in Tuscon?
Mind blown.
MIND BLOWN!
Fucking nail, rammed squarely on the flat-part!
QuoteEvil turns on itself, devours itself.
Problem is, it's like Ouroboris. There seems to be no end to the fucker :argh!:
Quote from: P3nT4gR4m on June 20, 2014, 07:52:40 PM
Fucking nail, rammed squarely on the flat-part!
QuoteEvil turns on itself, devours itself.
Problem is, it's like Ouroboris. There seems to be no end to the fucker :argh!:
Obviously. And you'd hate it if there was.
Tuscon is heaven and all the angels are full of holes, machine-gunned into them by rogue radio signal crying "What does the Fox say?" and "Wrecking Ball" because nobody listened to Ernie when they should have so the holies leaked out of the angels and pooled about on the earth and streets causing sliding hazards for traffic and forming reflective surfaces to blind planes flying overhead. Now heaven's aflame with wrecked jets and trucks blocking the streets and the soil is contaminated by spilt holy, baking and rotting beneath the desert sun.
And it is Good.
:lulz:
HEAVEN:
http://www.newslo.com/oklahoma-gop-call-plan-for-school-tornado-shelters-interfering-with-gods-will/
QuoteRepublican leaders, however, were quick to put a stop to the plan. "Just adding on a new tax burden on Oklahomans is not the answer. If God sends a tornado to demolish a school, I'm sure He has a good reason. It is not our place to ask questions, nor to try and protect those children He has chosen to kill."
Those children would have just turned out to be them child terrorists I keep hearin' about on the teevee.
Don't click the "Show Facts" button. It is a fun spoiler.
Perhaps we've had it wrong all along. Tucson is the afterlife, but it's not the one we thought it was.
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on June 20, 2014, 04:37:24 PM
The road to hell is perfectly straight. Hell is perfect order. It is what it is, and there is no hope of anything ever changing.
Humans occasionally try to create hell on Earth. The Inquisition. Benny "anything for a laugh" Mussolini making the trains run on time. The US and Canadian governments rounding up Native American children, dressing them just like us, and jamming them into school systems designed to teach them enough to ruin their culture, but not enough to compete. The horrible conformity of the 1950s. The stratification of economic classes that are going on today.
What is particularly amusing is that most Hell on Earth scenarios are ended by other Hell on Earth movements (see: World War II) who have different ideas of what that perfect order should be. Evil turns on itself, devours itself. It has no choice.
Something hilarious just occurred to me. At my job, there is NO order. All is chaos. Therefore, it must be Heaven, and ours the work of angels.
I'm not sure if that thought is terrifying or liberating.
Quote from: Pæs on June 20, 2014, 09:41:44 PM
Tuscon is heaven and all the angels are full of holes, machine-gunned into them by rogue radio signal crying "What does the Fox say?" and "Wrecking Ball" because nobody listened to Ernie when they should have so the holies leaked out of the angels and pooled about on the earth and streets causing sliding hazards for traffic and forming reflective surfaces to blind planes flying overhead. Now heaven's aflame with wrecked jets and trucks blocking the streets and the soil is contaminated by spilt holy, baking and rotting beneath the desert sun.
And it is Good.
:lulz:
Quote from: The Right Reverend Nigel on June 20, 2014, 10:38:24 PM
Perhaps we've had it wrong all along. Tucson is the afterlife, but it's not the one we thought it was.
It's not the afterlife you wanted, but it's the afterlife you need.
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on June 22, 2014, 05:58:44 AM
Quote from: The Right Reverend Nigel on June 20, 2014, 10:38:24 PM
Perhaps we've had it wrong all along. Tucson is the afterlife, but it's not the one we thought it was.
It's not the afterlife you wanted, but it's the afterlife you need.
It's the afterlife we
deserve.
Quote from: The Right Reverend Nigel on June 22, 2014, 07:10:34 PM
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on June 22, 2014, 05:58:44 AM
Quote from: The Right Reverend Nigel on June 20, 2014, 10:38:24 PM
Perhaps we've had it wrong all along. Tucson is the afterlife, but it's not the one we thought it was.
It's not the afterlife you wanted, but it's the afterlife you need.
It's the afterlife we deserve.
Let's not get all crazy, now.
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on June 23, 2014, 01:19:56 AM
Quote from: The Right Reverend Nigel on June 22, 2014, 07:10:34 PM
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on June 22, 2014, 05:58:44 AM
Quote from: The Right Reverend Nigel on June 20, 2014, 10:38:24 PM
Perhaps we've had it wrong all along. Tucson is the afterlife, but it's not the one we thought it was.
It's not the afterlife you wanted, but it's the afterlife you need.
It's the afterlife we deserve.
Let's not get all crazy, now.
:lol:
This feels like something that could be built upon.
Quote from: Q. G. Pennyworth on June 23, 2014, 03:44:06 PM
This feels like something that could be built upon.
Working on that.
I posted a fragment that could be useful on the bar thread, but it got buried at the bottom of the page.
I'll haul it out later.
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on June 23, 2014, 03:48:05 PM
Quote from: Q. G. Pennyworth on June 23, 2014, 03:44:06 PM
This feels like something that could be built upon.
Working on that.
I posted a fragment that could be useful on the bar thread, but it got buried at the bottom of the page.
I'll haul it out later.
Awesome. It's too nice a little concept to leave in the corner collecting dust.
Quote from: Q. G. Pennyworth on June 23, 2014, 03:51:46 PM
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on June 23, 2014, 03:48:05 PM
Quote from: Q. G. Pennyworth on June 23, 2014, 03:44:06 PM
This feels like something that could be built upon.
Working on that.
I posted a fragment that could be useful on the bar thread, but it got buried at the bottom of the page.
I'll haul it out later.
Awesome. It's too nice a little concept to leave in the corner collecting dust.
I am in LMNO's shoes. At the moment, I don't have much time.
There's a name for what we do. We call it Cyborg Pride.
After all, a cyborg is just a person who has been augmented with machinery. There is no rule that says that the machinery has to be actually implanted in the human. We have pocket computers that assist us in every facet of modern life...and just as a more classic cyborg might allow bits of him/herself to atrophy, our memories - according to a couple of recent studies - are retaining less information...Because we don't NEED the retention. Why memorize 800 phone numbers when you have speed dial (and when there are no land lines anywhere)?
Likewise, who needs to run 60 MPH when a car will do it easier? Who needs super strength when there are a plethora of mechanical methods of accomplishing things requiring extra strength?
Another generation, and we'll hardly be considered the same species as we are now. People will of course piss and moan, but the fact is, the things allowed to atrophy are not things that we need - or are even relevant - anymore.
This is the future. Gibson and Williams totally missed this shit. Their cyborgs were tragic figures. The real life cyborgs are another step up in the apotheosis of the species.
Cyborg Pride. Because when you're a cyborg, Hell is just another neighborhood.
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on June 23, 2014, 04:31:05 PM
There's a name for what we do. We call it Cyborg Pride.
After all, a cyborg is just a person who has been augmented with machinery. There is no rule that says that the machinery has to be actually implanted in the human. We have pocket computers that assist us in every facet of modern life...and just as a more classic cyborg might allow bits of him/herself to atrophy, our memories - according to a couple of recent studies - are retaining less information...Because we don't NEED the retention. Why memorize 800 phone numbers when you have speed dial (and when there are no land lines anywhere)?
Likewise, who needs to run 60 MPH when a car will do it easier? Who needs super strength when there are a plethora of mechanical methods of accomplishing things requiring extra strength?
Another generation, and we'll hardly be considered the same species as we are now. People will of course piss and moan, but the fact is, the things allowed to atrophy are not things that we need - or are even relevant - anymore.
This is the future. Gibson and Williams totally missed this shit. Their cyborgs were tragic figures. The real life cyborgs are another step up in the apotheosis of the species.
Cyborg Pride. Because when you're a cyborg, Hell is just another neighborhood.
Ooooh! I love that last line
Thing about Hell is...
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How long until people rely on machines to do their feeling for them?
Quote from: Luna on June 25, 2014, 07:57:58 PM
How long until people rely on machines to do their feeling for them?
You mean soap operas?
Quote from: Regret on June 25, 2014, 08:56:07 PM
Quote from: Luna on June 25, 2014, 07:57:58 PM
How long until people rely on machines to do their feeling for them?
You mean soap operas?
:lulz: