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Post by N. De Plume on Nov 4, 2011 11:50:28 GMT -5
The Black & White adds a bit of class to the image, I think.
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Post by lighthorseman on Nov 11, 2011 23:54:13 GMT -5
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Post by RavynousHunter on Nov 12, 2011 0:53:04 GMT -5
That kid as some serious issues, then. My wrists have only gotten stronger since I started wankin.
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Post by Thejebusfire on Nov 16, 2011 0:25:27 GMT -5
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Post by Twilight Zone on Nov 16, 2011 3:11:10 GMT -5
What civilization is, is 6 billion people trying to make themselves happy by standing on each other's shoulders and kicking each other's teeth in. It's not a pleasant situation.
And yet, you can stand back and look at this planet and see that we have the money, the power, the medical understanding, the scientific know-how, the love and the community to produce a kind of human paradise. But we are led by the least among us - the least intelligent, the least noble, the least visionary. We are led by the least among us and we do not fight back against the dehumanizing values that are handed down as control icons.
This is something, culture is not your friend. Culture is for other people's convenience and the convenience of various institutions, churches, companies, tax collection schemes, what have you. It is not your friend. It insults you. It disempowers you. It uses and abuses you. None of us are well treated by culture.
Yet we glorify the creative potential of the individual, the rights of the individual. We understand the felt-presence of experience is what is most important. But the culture is a perversion. It fetishizes objects, creates consumer mania, it preaches endless forms of false happiness, endless forms of false understanding in the form of squirrelly religions and silly cults. It invites people to diminish themselves and dehumanize themselves by behaving like machines - meme processors of memes passed down from Madison Avenue and Hollywood...
- Terrence McKennaP.S. "We have to create culture, don't watch TV, don't read magazines, don't even listen to NPR. Create your own roadshow. The nexus of space and time where you are now is the most immediate sector of your universe, and if you're worrying about Michael Jackson or Bill Clinton or somebody else, then you are disempowered, you're giving it all away to icons, icons which are maintained by an electronic media so that you want to dress like X or have lips like Y. This is shit-brained, this kind of thinking. That is all cultural diversion, and what is real is you and your friends and your associations, your highs, your orgasms, your hopes, your plans, your fears. And we are told 'no', we're unimportant, we're peripheral. 'Get a degree, get a job, get a this, get a that.' And then you're a player, you don't want to even play in that game. You want to reclaim your mind and get it out of the hands of the cultural engineers who want to turn you into a half-baked moron consuming all this trash that's being manufactured out of the bones of a dying world."
― Terence McKenna
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Post by discoberry on Nov 16, 2011 10:46:57 GMT -5
I like the pic and the sign, just would like to know its back story |
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Post by Thejebusfire on Nov 16, 2011 14:14:43 GMT -5
I know it's from one of the "Occupy" protest.
But that's all I know.
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Post by N. De Plume on Nov 16, 2011 14:20:06 GMT -5
Seems like a typical bit of veteran’s disillusionment to me.
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Post by Shane for Wax on Nov 18, 2011 23:36:28 GMT -5
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kinigget
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At some point, I WILL have an avatar I swear!
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Post by kinigget on Nov 19, 2011 3:04:55 GMT -5
This is the best thing I've seen all day. |
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Post by Armand Tanzarian on Nov 19, 2011 8:50:32 GMT -5
 So if you’re keeping score, here’s what the score is now: Eighty down in Zucotti Park; Wall Street executives arrested: Zero.” – David Letterman |
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Post by Runa on Nov 19, 2011 17:45:38 GMT -5
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Post by A Reasonable Rat on Nov 19, 2011 19:55:29 GMT -5
Heh, too bad it's fake. Fairly sure it said 'We Want Peace In Iraq'. |
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Post by Vene on Nov 19, 2011 20:00:15 GMT -5
Heh, too bad it's fake. Fairly sure it said 'We Want Peace In Iraq'. It is, the Rs are the same, so are the N's and the O is a modified Q. |
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Post by N. De Plume on Nov 21, 2011 8:39:27 GMT -5
Then you get to keep the TV on, because you can pay attention anyway. And you get a cookie. |
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