Quote of the day

[Gary Childress]

When I don't want to die, I try to figure my own way out. Hello, NASA? Any word on that oxygen shipment yet?

[Gary Childress]

Q. Who's burried in Neil Armstrong's tomb?

A. Neil Armstrong.

Q. And where is Neil Armstrong burried?

A. On Earth.

Q. Can you prove this?

A. ......

Hello, NASA, come in. Where is that Oxygen?

If you don't send me Oxygen at this very moment I'm going to take off my space suit and find out if there is oxygen on Earth. It better be there when I do that. Damn contractors. Can't figure out how to tie their own shoelaces anymore.

[iambiguous]

Alice Walker from The Color Purple

I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don't notice it.

Of course, I'm color blind, right God?

Time moves slowly, but passes quickly.

Or, as often as not, the other way around.

All my life I had to fight. I had to fight my daddy. I had to fight my brothers. I had to fight my cousins and my uncles. A girl child ain't safe in a family of men. But I never thought I'd have to fight in my own house. She let out her breath. I loves Harpo, she say. God knows I do. But I'll kill him dead before I let him beat me.

Beating and that other thing.

Here's the thing, say Shug. The thing I believe. God is inside you and inside everybody else. You come into the world with God. But only them that search for it inside find it. And sometimes it just manifest itself even if you not looking, or don't know what you looking for. Trouble do it for most folks, I think. Sorrow, lord. Feeling like shit. It? I ask. Yeah, It. God ain't a he or a she, but a It. But what do it look like? I ask. Don't look like nothing, she say. It ain't a picture show. It ain't something you can look at apart from anything else, including yourself. I believe God is everything, say Shug. Everything that is or ever was or ever will be. And when you cam feel that, and be happy to feel that, you've found it.

Well, let's add this to the list: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_r ... traditions

People think pleasing God is all God care about. But any fool living in the world can see it always trying to please us back.

Just not all the time:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lists_of_earthquakes
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_l ... _eruptions
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_t ... l_cyclones
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_tsunamis
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_landslides
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_fires
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_epidemics
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_deadliest_floods
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_t ... ore_deaths
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lists_of_diseases
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_extinction_events

Oh, Celie, unbelief is a terrible thing.

Next up: fractured and fragmented belief.

[iambiguous]

Nihilism...

“In the end there's nothing left except a pair of shoes and a bundle of old clothes.” Roald Dahl

Your own end might be different.

“Why do I know I exist if I also know I will not? Why was I given access to logical space and the mathematical structure of the world? Just to lose them when my body is destroyed? Why do I wake up in the night with the thought that I will die, why do I sit up, drenched in sweat, and scream and slap myself and try to suppress the thought that I will disappear for all eternity, that I will never be again, to the end of time? Why will the world end with me? We age: we stand quietly in line with those condemned to death. We are executed one after the other in a sinister extermination camp. We are first stripped of our beauty, youth, and hope. We are next wrapped in the penitential robe of illness, weariness, and decay. Our grandparents die, our parents are executed in front of us, and suddenly time gets short, you suddenly see your reflection in the axeblade.

"And only then do you realize you are living in a slaughterhouse, that generations are butchered and swallowed by the earth, that billions are pushed down the throat of hell, that no one, absolutely no one escapes. That not one person that you see coming out of the factory gates in a Mélies film is still alive. That absolutely everyone in an eighty-year-old sepia photograph is dead. That we all come into this world from a frightening abyss without our memories, that we suffer unimaginably on a speck of dust, and that we then perish, all in a nanosecond, as though we had never lived, as though we had never been.” Mircea Cărtărescu

Your own slaughterhouse might be different.

"We have laboured long to build a heaven, only to find it populated with horrors.” Alan Moore

And they were watchmen!

“Silence is the pesticide of language. Let the soil of your mind decompose. Enough flowers.” Jacob H. Kyle

Well, maybe a few more here. Or a few less weeds.

“Don’t tell me about voters. Those people are like ants. All they ever do is live for their work and pay tax for us politicians to buy new shoes that we wear to trample on them.” Niq Mhlongo

Okay, but only until the workers of the world unite.

“All great conversions are born from the sudden revelation of life's meaninglessness. Nothing could be more moving or more impressive than this sudden apprehension of the void of existence.” Emil M. Cioran

I'm doing my best to remind you.

[Gary Childress]

Nihilism...

“In the end there's nothing left except a pair of shoes and a bundle of old clothes.” Roald Dahl

Your own end might be different.

“Why do I know I exist if I also know I will not? Why was I given access to logical space and the mathematical structure of the world? Just to lose them when my body is destroyed? Why do I wake up in the night with the thought that I will die, why do I sit up, drenched in sweat, and scream and slap myself and try to suppress the thought that I will disappear for all eternity, that I will never be again, to the end of time? Why will the world end with me? We age: we stand quietly in line with those condemned to death. We are executed one after the other in a sinister extermination camp. We are first stripped of our beauty, youth, and hope. We are next wrapped in the penitential robe of illness, weariness, and decay. Our grandparents die, our parents are executed in front of us, and suddenly time gets short, you suddenly see your reflection in the axeblade.

"And only then do you realize you are living in a slaughterhouse, that generations are butchered and swallowed by the earth, that billions are pushed down the throat of hell, that no one, absolutely no one escapes. That not one person that you see coming out of the factory gates in a Mélies film is still alive. That absolutely everyone in an eighty-year-old sepia photograph is dead. That we all come into this world from a frightening abyss without our memories, that we suffer unimaginably on a speck of dust, and that we then perish, all in a nanosecond, as though we had never lived, as though we had never been.” Mircea Cărtărescu

Your own slaughterhouse might be different.

"We have laboured long to build a heaven, only to find it populated with horrors.” Alan Moore

And they were watchmen!

“Silence is the pesticide of language. Let the soil of your mind decompose. Enough flowers.” Jacob H. Kyle

Well, maybe a few more here. Or a few less weeds.

“Don’t tell me about voters. Those people are like ants. All they ever do is live for their work and pay tax for us politicians to buy new shoes that we wear to trample on them.” Niq Mhlongo

Okay, but only until the workers of the world unite.

“All great conversions are born from the sudden revelation of life's meaninglessness. Nothing could be more moving or more impressive than this sudden apprehension of the void of existence.” Emil M. Cioran

I'm doing my best to remind you.

Who are all these people who write about "the end". Do we even know what the "end means"? Do we know when this happened? Do we know that the WWW is necessary for anything?

[Gary Childress]

Has truth become a "brand"?

[Gary Childress]

Is there a reason to preserve EVERYTHING written on the world wide web? Friggen erase it when it's no longer worth crap. Or erase it when it becomes crap. It's taking up bandwidth. Of course, no one knows what time any of this was said so how do we erase the old and keep only the current?

[Gary Childress]

The World Wide Web run by and for businesses that want us to buy things depending on what we THINK we need.

[Impenitent]

“America has suffered because of slavery, but we’ve overcome that. We are the greatest nation on earth because we faced our demons in the mirror and made a decision...Black families survived slavery. We survived poll taxes and literacy tests. We survived discrimination being woven into the laws of our country...What was hard to survive was Johnson’s Great Society where they decided to … take the black father out of the household to get a check in the mail. And you can now measure that in unemployment, in crime, in devastation...”

“If you want to restore hope, you’ve got to restore the family.” - Senator Tim Scott

-Imp

[promethean75]

This one goes out to Tim from the black baby boomers of America.

[iambiguous]

Stupidity...

“Stupid questions make more sense than stupid answers.” Dr. Lucas D. Shallua

For example?

“'Stupid' is not being smart enough to recognize that it’s not smart enough.” Craig D. Lounsbrough

Or just smart enough to post here?

“'Stupid' is assuming intelligence only because it doesn’t understand what it’s assuming in order to realize that it’s not what it’s assuming.” Craig D. Lounsbrough

Let's name names.

“The less a person knows, the more certain he is that he is right, and no weapons yet invented are of any use in a struggle with stupidity.” Elizabeth von Arnimp.

Cue entertainment mode. Here I mean.

“The problem with catering to the lowest common denominator, is that when society goes and lowers the bar, some idiot turns it into a limbo contest.” Kyu Wolf

Next up: https://youtu.be/sP2tUW0HDHA?si=vpeN3THp4U1tGVCP

“I'm not afraid of you," he said irritably.
"Then you're as stupid as you look.” Leigh Bardugo

If only virtually here.

[iambiguous]

Stieg Larsson...

It proved once again the theory that no security system is a match for a stupid employee.

Or, here, one with a "condition".

Much stronger boys in her class soon learned that it could be quite unpleasant to fight with that skinny girl. Unlike other girls in the class, she never backed down, and she would not for a second hesitate to use her fists or any weapon at hand to protect herself. She went around with the attitude that she would rather be beaten to death than take any shit.

Got one of them here, don't we? Though clearly with a "condition".

Those pointless equations, to which no solution exists, are called absurdities.

Birth + School + Work + Death being one of them.

What an excellent tool the internet is for freaks.

Alas, for pinheads too.

'I am a rapist and a sadistic pig,' if you get that tattoo removed I will carve it into your forehead, do you understand?

He did indeed.

Isn't it fascinating that Nazis always manage to adopt the word freedom?

So, don't forget to vote.

[iambiguous]

John Lennon...

Everything will be okay in the end. If it's not okay, it's not the end.

Not counting the real world, of course.

For those of you in the cheap seats I'd like ya to clap your hands to this one; the rest of you can just rattle your jewelry!

The class struggle! Remember that?!!

War is over...If you want it.

Tell that to the military industrial complex. And their cronies in Washington.

I'm not afraid of death because I don't believe in it. It's just getting out of one car, and into another.

Let's run that by him now.

Nothing is real.

You know, eventually.

God is a concept by which we measure our pain.

Of course, there's not much that doesn't exist conceptually.

[iambiguous]

Friedrich Nietzsche from Thus Spoke Zarathustra

And if a friend does you wrong, then say: "I forgive you what you have done to me; that you have done it to yourself, however--how could I forgive that!"

That ever happen to you?

...there they laugh: they do not understand me; I am not the mouth for these ears.

Here for example: https://knowthyself.forumotion.net/f6-agora

Oh great star! What would your happiness be if you did not have us to shine for?

Here for example: https://knowthyself.forumotion.net/f6-agora

Our faith in others betrays that we would rather have faith in ourselves. Our longing for a friend is our betrayer. And often with our love we want merely to overcome envy. And often we attack and make ourselves enemies, to conceal that we are vulnerable.

Either that or you are a retard. Not sure? Here, find out: https://www.ilovephilosophy.com/viewtop ... 2&t=198600

Ten truths must you find during the day; otherwise will you seek truth during the night, and your soul will have been hungry.

No soul? That's your problem.

In truth, man is a polluted river. One must be a sea to receive a polluted river without becoming defiled. I bring you the Superman! He is that sea; in him your great contempt can be submerged.

Any Supermen here? No, really.

[iambiguous]

Viet Thanh Nguyen from The Sympathizer

We would all be in Hell if convicted of our thoughts.

Or, for some, Hell being the least of it..

The hardest thing to do in talking to a woman was taking the first step, but the most important thing to do was not to think.

How's that working out for you? Here in particular.

Ever since the first caveman discovered fire and decided that the ones still living in darkness were benighted, it's been civilization against barbarism . . . with every age having its own barbarians.

Or, at the very least, pinheads.

But while science fiction imagined time travelers as moving forward or backward in time, this timepiece demonstrated a different chronology. The open secret of the clock, naked for all to see, was that we were only going in circles.

That or this: ∞

These questions required either Camus or cognac, and as Camus was not available I ordered cognac.

Discuss.

The tendency to separate war stories from immigrant stories means that most Americans don’t understand how many of the immigrants and refugees in the United States have fled from wars—many of which this country has had a hand in.

Pick three:
1] Vietnam
2] Afghanistan
3] Iraq