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God loves those who don't suffer through life. What a joke Christianity is. Nothing more than a tool of the ruling class. There's no justice in this world. Nothing will ever happen to the grifters and warmongers who f*** up the world for everyone else. It's a proven fact. Even Hitler spared himself from a humiliating trial. A bullet to his own head, and he's out of the game in a heartbeat, never to account for the millions of people who had a bullet in their heads after living in fear when the SS got hold of them.

Religion is a joke.
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Well, there's a second thing that happens if a man's circumstances turn him into a megalomaniac... and this happens to a lot of psychos. You first pass through the decades of being 'angry at god', but then it suddenly dawns on you: what if there is a god only i was wrong about what it was. From where does this thought come. It comes by the megalomaniac projecting his own perfection and infalliblity onto the idea of god. He reasons, "I'm nearly perfect, and if there were a god, it would certainly have to endorse me or be an imbecile."

When and if you get to this stage, you break free from the agonizing panic and uncertainty all that other religious chatter creates in your mind. The psycho re-warriorizes Yaweh, so to speak, and in doing so no longer suffers indecision and dread.

If there was a god, how could it not be me, aksed Fritz. That's the stuff right there. When your own awesome sauce prevents you from accepting that there is no intelligent design and that you, this magnificent creature, are just some random meaningless event.

But then, if the psycho is wrong and that other god exists, the psycho is gonna indict em anyway (because look at what he's been through), so it doesn't matter that he's wrong. Either this god comes to his side, or it's dismissed altogether.
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Ode on a Grecian Urn
By TDS

“Misery is truth, truth misery”—that is all

Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.
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Walker wrote: Wed Jun 24, 2026 4:56 pm Ode on a Grecian Urn
By TDS

“Misery is truth, truth misery”—that is all

Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.
Wow, quoting from Ode on a Grecian Urn. You must be brilliant. I guess you're right. It's OK that Trump started a war through International terrorism. I'm just "ungrateful" for what I have. If I express gratitude then I'll be happier, to hell with those who are victims of Trump's bombing campaign. Those of us who have moral and ethical reservations about unprovoked war have "TDS". We're obvoiusly "deranged"? Why can't we get with the program and kill Iranians?
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"But it sounds like a dungeon to me. Worse than my dungeon" (from another thread)

Naw because here's what always happened when they tried to pull some Dr. Phil shit: i would turn the punishment into a rebellion party and end up enjoying wherever they put me... which essentially backfired their plans. I give you exhibit A. I had so much fun in this place that i almost didn't wanna leave when the judge sent me back to the old man.

https://youtu.be/_ThUHSO8ywk?is=i1aIDRteUzX9elEl

That's my room @ 3:17. Second floor third from right. Wtf dude, i just found this video. I am awash with nostalgia right now. Bro, i used to stand in that window at night and blink my green light on and off, and way across the grass over in Cherry building, my girlfriend would blink her light on and off. It was so romantic, man.

Ashby was the last phase of three, the third building, the least restrictive. No bars or screens on the windows, and you could get a yard pass without staff accompaniment. You start out in Williams building. The ol' thirty day evaluation to see if you're a psycho or just a misunderstood unambitious emo. If the former, you stay there, if the latter you graduate to Cherry building. Well, toward the end of the second year i was there, i was moved to Ashby building while my girlfriend stayed in Cherry... which meant we couldn't secretly rub hands during movie time in the Cherry building dayroom. The breakup was dreadful. Like on some Auschwitz level shit... being ripped apart and ushered into different gas cha... er, i mean shower rooms... and i never got to hang out with her again after that. But every other night or so, one of us would blink our light to say hi.

Now this one here.... this one was where the real pros were housed. We never went in there, but we'd pass it all the time on the way to McBride building for rec and canteen. You'd see the foggy silhouette of some guy in a gray gown at the window running his fingers up and down the glass or bobbing back 'n forth. Spooky shit for a fourteen year old, Gary.

https://youtu.be/AC2uOhRsUIg?is=t8rWEPfF5VrTu-7V

Goddamn can you believe that, though? Drone footage of my old stomping grounds! That was MY ROOM, Gary. Look at what they did to it. They trashed it. Holy shit should i do a vlog and climb up in that bitch? I could do it at night. Bro, there's no windows. I drove through a few years ago, and unless they've torn it down, it's gotta be sitting there just like that.

If i could get into Cherry building i could get you some footage of the ceiling i fell through trying to escape like bro from The Breakfast Club.
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Gary Childress wrote: Thu Jun 25, 2026 12:05 am
Walker wrote: Wed Jun 24, 2026 4:56 pm Ode on a Grecian Urn
By TDS

“Misery is truth, truth misery”—that is all

Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.
Wow, quoting from Ode on a Grecian Urn. You must be brilliant. I guess you're right. It's OK that Trump started a war through International terrorism. I'm just "ungrateful" for what I have. If I express gratitude then I'll be happier, to hell with those who are victims of Trump's bombing campaign. Those of us who have moral and ethical reservations about unprovoked war have "TDS". We're obvoiusly "deranged"? Why can't we get with the program and kill Iranians?
Uh, Gary ... Ode On a Grecian Urn is about beauty and truth, not misery.
Too bad you didn't catch that.
TDS inspired the misery adaptation.

Taking it higher doesn’t necessarily apply to dudgeon.
You know. High dudgeon.

Please Gary, no questions, rhetorical or otherwise.
The meaning is well within your range of comprehension.
You just need to apply yourself.
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Walker wrote: Thu Jun 25, 2026 2:12 am
Gary Childress wrote: Thu Jun 25, 2026 12:05 am
Walker wrote: Wed Jun 24, 2026 4:56 pm Ode on a Grecian Urn
By TDS

“Misery is truth, truth misery”—that is all

Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.
Wow, quoting from Ode on a Grecian Urn. You must be brilliant. I guess you're right. It's OK that Trump started a war through International terrorism. I'm just "ungrateful" for what I have. If I express gratitude then I'll be happier, to hell with those who are victims of Trump's bombing campaign. Those of us who have moral and ethical reservations about unprovoked war have "TDS". We're obvoiusly "deranged"? Why can't we get with the program and kill Iranians?
Uh, Gary ... Ode On a Grecian Urn is about beauty and truth, not misery.
Too bad you didn't catch that.
TDS inspired the misery adaptation.

Taking it higher doesn’t necessarily apply to dudgeon.
You know. High dudgeon.

Please Gary, no questions, rhetorical or otherwise.
The meaning is well within your range of comprehension.
You just need to apply yourself.
If you don't understand my response and why I made it, then I'm sorry. Maybe you need to become less simplistic in thought.
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How about this?

Miseryyyyy!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fRE2gLXnpEM

1 minute of fun.
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Walker wrote: Thu Jun 25, 2026 2:43 am How about this?

Miseryyyyy!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fRE2gLXnpEM

1 minute of fun.
Optimism alone solves everything. No need to lift a finger to right what is wrong. Just look on the bright side of what is wrong and it won't be wrong anymore. Sheer genius. :roll:
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Life is hopeless, then some asshole becomes President and completely fucks the world up even worse.
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Gary Childress wrote: Tue Jun 30, 2026 3:53 am Life is hopeless, then some asshole becomes President and completely fucks the world up even worse.
Envy the dead, not the living, for the dead know nothing.

God is dead, and you killed him. Now what you gonna do? Give everything back to God, surrender now. Relinquish all your heavy burdens and be carried effortlessly by the light fantastic.

The imagery of God hangs the earth "upon nothing" underscores his omnipotence and the miraculous nature of creation. The Earth hangs without any physical support, so you didn’t have to carry the weight upon your own shoulders. God has got this, not you.

See the dilemma…?

Rest in peace, the peace of God.
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Fairy wrote: Tue Jun 30, 2026 11:44 am
Gary Childress wrote: Tue Jun 30, 2026 3:53 am Life is hopeless, then some asshole becomes President and completely fucks the world up even worse.
Envy the dead, not the living, for the dead know nothing.

God is dead, and you killed him. Now what you gonna do? Give everything back to God, surrender now. Relinquish all your heavy burdens and be carried effortlessly by the light fantastic.

The imagery of God hangs the earth "upon nothing" underscores his omnipotence and the miraculous nature of creation. The Earth hangs without any physical support, so you didn’t have to carry the weight upon your own shoulders. God has got this, not you.

See the dilemma…?

Rest in peace, the peace of God.
Yes, yes. I shall ride the wind upon the wings of angels.
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Apparently, science is "fake news"; we've descended into a dark age. Round up the witches, the warlocks, and the magic stones. Who's to say that those things don't exist? I give up. There are insane people in this world, and I'm the one with a diagnosis.
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Great Surrenders today are too superficial to give us any poetic justice or create genuine martyrs. Even the heaviest christian parables no longer hold currency today. Today, if you don't strip all your clothes off and kneel in the middle of a road at night in a thunderstorm and raise your arms toward the thundering black clouds above crying and wailing and begging to be struck by lightning, then you ain't doing a Great Surrender. Thus, like Rimbaud, i wish to be stricken with all things torturous and insufferable. I want to live during a great famine, to be diseased, starving, forced to labor mindlessly and without any human contact unless to be abused, betrayed and forsaken. These things do i wish so that i might become a true poet.
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Gary Childress wrote: Tue Jun 30, 2026 12:53 pm
Fairy wrote: Tue Jun 30, 2026 11:44 am
Gary Childress wrote: Tue Jun 30, 2026 3:53 am Life is hopeless, then some asshole becomes President and completely fucks the world up even worse.
Envy the dead, not the living, for the dead know nothing.

God is dead, and you killed him. Now what you gonna do? Give everything back to God, surrender now. Relinquish all your heavy burdens and be carried effortlessly by the light fantastic.

The imagery of God hangs the earth "upon nothing" underscores his omnipotence and the miraculous nature of creation. The Earth hangs without any physical support, so you didn’t have to carry the weight upon your own shoulders. God has got this, not you.

See the dilemma…?

Rest in peace, the peace of God.
Yes, yes. I shall ride the wind upon the wings of angels.
That’s the spirit.

There’s no more panic, no more anxiousness.
Just being in this moment.
Not a minute ago. Not a minute ahead.
God has said: Be still and know that I am God.

Nothing is everything. Creation happened from the void.
Silence is eloquent.
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