True Story of the Day

[Phil8659]

How horrible is it when you get your Frisco burger at Hardees and room temperature yellow mayonnaise is oozing through tears in the over-buttered toast where a big gloved thumbprint of some highschool dropout in a hurry to clock out has pressed through the bread? Pretty horrible?

You know when you have to open the sandwich and wipe all the mayonnaise off because the dude plopped a whole spoon of it on the thing.

You think that is bad, I was in anew !,000 man dorm cafeteria, and the menu was a specialty, Half a baked goose.

When we sliced it to eat, the thing was full of maggots.

True. However, nobody thinks that was the story of the day.

[SpheresOfBalance]

Monkey Village.

Hobart and I on a week end off, took a Thai tour bus, now if you survive one of those, then you can actually arrive at where you were going.

We were just on a photo shoot.
Now, we arrived at this place called Monkey Village. Monkey Village was just a place where monkey's actually lived in the tree tops. And they actually do fornicate just like we do today.

So, I suggested that Monkeys fornicating in the tree tops was not really worth the film, so I suggested that we head out to open country. We had plenty of time as a lot of people like porn, even when it is only monkeys.

Well, I spied a Wat in the distance, and this red robed Monk approaching us. Hobart did not want anything to do with the guy, but I was curious to know what he wanted and to talk to him. Turns out, he was a monk over a Wat that was a crematorium and all he wanted was to practice his English, as he learnt it on his own. I complemented him that it was very good.

Our photo adventure turned out well for me. But over time, even photo's I won awards on, I tossed out. Too much baggage. But I had a good time that day. Monks are considered to be the intelligentsia of their villages. I really enjoyed a man devoted to learning something and eager to practice it to see if he got it right.
This Monk was a true philosopher.
Now the moral of the story is, how do you practice philosophy and are not simply interested in fornicating with monkeys?

Monkeys can't fornicate you idiot, because they never marry. It's unbelievable how many people don't even know what the meaning of the words they use are.

[MagsJ]

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Don’t post porn in my threads ever again!

I may be easy-going, but I’m not a walk-over.. got it!?
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Go take the piss out of someone else, b*tch!

[promethean75]

You always tryna smoke up somebody's shit. Get the hell on, Felisha!

[promethean75]

You know what i liked about zee Nazis? Well, one of the things. Their ecofascism and sense of rooted daseiness in the black forest. All that pagan stuff they creamed over is responsible for this attitude toward nature, btw.

So i see a future - had zey won - in which they are at the top of the tech game (what with all the genuis Franzs in physics and mathematics) but never with neglecting nature, never with creating an energy source or waste material that damaged the environment. I'm tellin' you, mates, germans have a thing for mountains and clear glass lakes and all that nature shit. Whenever a german stands before some natural environment that's cool looking (it could even be a simple formation of rocks), he/she is immediately transfigured into an immortal nordic warrior and guardian of nature. They start seeing sprites and have the sudden urge to be around oak trees and/or start fashioning furniture out of oak... or they wanna put thick wool sweaters on and start farming something.

Anyway, their connection to nature is uncanny, but they are much more 'forward looking' than some kind of primitivist tree-huggers. They'd have space-stations and cities orbiting zee urth... which would be divided up between preserved parks the size of small countries, manufacturing zones, and volk living zones.

You gotta balance your tech advances with resource management. Those krauts woulda put capitalism under the yoke immediately. But because they lost, you guys are going to destroy each other shirley.

[Phil8659]

You know what i liked about zee Nazis? Well, one of the things. Their ecofascism and sense of rooted daseiness in the black forest. All that pagan stuff they creamed over is responsible for this attitude toward nature, btw.

So i see a future - had zey won - in which they are at the top of the tech game (what with all the genuis Franzs in physics and mathematics) but never with neglecting nature, never with creating an energy source or waste material that damaged the environment. I'm tellin' you, mates, germans have a thing for mountains and clear glass lakes and all that nature shit. Whenever a german stands before some natural environment that's cool looking (it could even be a simple formation of rocks), he/she is immediately transfigured into an immortal nordic warrior and guardian of nature. They start seeing sprites and have the sudden urge to be around oak trees and/or start fashioning furniture out of oak... or they wanna put thick wool sweaters on and start farming something.

Anyway, their connection to nature is uncanny, but they are much more 'forward looking' than some kind of primitivist tree-huggers. They'd have space-stations and cities orbiting zee urth... which would be divided up between preserved parks the size of small countries, manufacturing zones, and volk living zones.

You gotta balance your tech advances with resource management. Those krauts woulda put capitalism under the yoke immediately. But because they lost, you guys are going to destroy each other shirley.

Ya'll going to invite us 'all to your bund party?

I kinda like it when someone says the one good of the bad. I really do. I might give breathing just for that.
Nuthin like a meat and potatoes guy without no meet.

[promethean75]

I was at an actual Oktoberfest in 81-82 with the old man. He and his buddy went over there on an IBM assignment for four months, and i had to go with em. Watched Cannonball Run on the plane while crossing the Atlantic.

During the day when he was at work I was kept by a german woman home kid-sitter type deal. I used to walk the neighborhood streets collecting strange german soda bottle caps. Also received my first electrical shock in west germany. I was playing with some matchbox cars at the sitter-lady's house and got out from under her supervision. Well, i decided to stick a paper clip into the electrical outlet to see what would happen. A spark, a sharp bzzzzt, then i recoiled and shrieked. She came in quickly to investigate, so i said i was just playing with the cars. I dunno, fight scene sounds or car crash or something. The old man would have whooped my ass if she told em what i did.

[Phil8659]

Well, when I was young, preschool age. My mother had to work as well as my father. So, she sent me to school with my older brother and sister. However, I was not allowed in the school, I was too young; so I had to play in the playground, by myself, until my brother and sister's school was out.

I had sense enough not to get into trouble, but had plenty of time to investigate inertia on the merry-go-round. I barely remember the cold and rainy days, but I have noticed, when it comes to pain, i quickly forget it.

[promethean75]

Yup. That'll do it. That'll turn a kid into a pushy intellectual introvert who forms stronger bonds with computer hard drives than human beings and develops weird philosophical fetishes after a brief infatuation with Plato in young adulthood. If he holds your attention long enough to say anything, he'll pitch into something like a Roman emperor or Marine drill sergeant monologue about the importance and virtue of grammar and won't stop until you cut him off.

All this because of capitalism. Folks don't make enough to put young Phil somewhere during the day, so he sits alone at a playground as an amateur scientist examing the physics of motion. But his go-rounds are not merry because he's all alone, so he becomes that John Nash type kid that only knows how to spot mathematical and geometric patterns and algorithms and doesn't know how to interact with other kids. He's just undersocialized and over-intellectual. What social skills he does develop will be in the military... around the time he discovers Plato. Plato, being the haughty philosopher-king that he is, will impress him, and he will adopt a drill sergeant kind of approach to indulging everyone with the great work of Plato, beating them with a baton if they don't accede.

[promethean75]

Holy shit. What if the apple and the knowledge tree thing is a metaphor for the human brain coming under the influence of a drug that led to a major genetic change in brain structure. What if the frontal cortex is a mutation that our alien genetic engineer creators didn't intend to happen - we were supposed to remain conscienceless monkeys who labored and fucked all day but we ate or drank or smoked something and started a genetic line that had been modified by the effects of the drug. Now, the monkeys have gained self-awareness and a capacity for creating advanced technology because of this leap in intelligence.

How much more fuckin awesome would that be then the regular genesis story?

Our curse was the responsibility and sense of shame and regret that comes with the power of a creator. Once made conscious and under the influence of the illusion of freewill (from this new brain), we developed a sense of teleology and 'rightness', just like the aliens. That affairs have ends, and attaining those ends can be done wrong if not careful. Foresight, memory, self-awareness, all this part of the curse package. Our promethean burden for having found the fire.

[Phil8659]

Yes, I learnt long before I entered kindergarten, that trite rues you live by demonstrates how shallow you are. There is no compassion, common sense, or thought, the trite rule trumps life. You actually believe you are swimming in dew. And no matter how hard someone tries to get you to actually think, it is wasted time. The motor of your mouth just keeps churning our shit.
And I keep on, because I truly believe that there has to be people who do not live at the ass end of intelligence that is so common to mankind, someone who actually thinks and knows we have work to do.

[Walker]

Those who bathe in the Ganges for spiritual purposes are quite aware of the filth, and know there's less of that at the source until one encounters the ice, which the bodhisattva seeks for all, thus the literal and figurative bathing in the Ganges.

[Phil8659]

Those who bathe in the Ganges for spiritual purposes are quite aware of the filth, and know there's less of that at the source until one encounters the ice, which the bodhisattva seeks for all, thus the literal and figurative bathing in the Ganges.

LMAO.
Self flattering human garbage.

Have you ever walked in the rain, huge lightening bolts dancing all around you? The monsoon rains of Texas. That is bathing. That is a glorious bath. And it was just a walk to the post office, looking for mail that never came.

[Walker]

Oh yes, golf in a lightning storm, with metal clubs and one less tree over on number nine, until Prudence spoke up.

And we had such a good round going, could have won the tournament of golf, and life ... what could have been.

[Walker]

(continued)

Well, you of all people should understand ...

That same lightning scene from Caddyshack is so funny because it happens in real life to everyone who pursues the game, and learns what the pursuit can do to perception of reality and how that relates to the significance of one’s purpose, what the purpose actually is, and what one is actually doing.

Look deeply enough and you just might quit golf.

But, you need to know the game and be changed by the game, like the preacher in Caddyshack, to understand the physics of why you, and other folks, do what gets done.