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Post by lurker » Wed Sep 24, 2008 3:15 pm

Cat asparagus orange subfloor is? Do pullover accidentally breifcase inhumane. Couches liquid overly bright and their, vegetative unruly colossus.

Open-faced realty cormorant hazardous.

Mattress?
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Post by theCryptofishist » Wed Sep 24, 2008 6:28 pm

ygmir wrote:
the fire elf wrote:crosses aren't christian, they're roman.

when something starts being a thing, it goes on being it

that's how it works
The Romans took the cross as a symbol from earlier civilizations,
The Romans used the cross as a form of simultanious torture and exicution. They had some pretty wacky ideas on that line like sewing someone found guilty of patricide into a sack with a snake, a dog, a cock, and a monkey then throwing them in the Tiber. Which seems like a waste of snake, dog, chicken and monkey, but what do I know. At any rate, I don't think the cross was a symbol for the romans.
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Post by gyre » Wed Sep 24, 2008 6:41 pm

Cartman just referred to burning man as a hippie music festival.

"They're not people, they're hippies!!"

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Post by ygmir » Wed Sep 24, 2008 6:52 pm

gyre wrote:Cartman just referred to burning man as a hippie music festival.

"They're not people, they're hippies!!"
did I just miss a new southpark?
dang.........
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Post by gyre » Wed Sep 24, 2008 6:59 pm

ygmir wrote:
gyre wrote:Cartman just referred to burning man as a hippie music festival.

"They're not people, they're hippies!!"
did I just miss a new southpark?
dang.........
Die, Hippie, Die
I don't think it's new.
Maybe the one coming on next?

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Post by mayavin » Thu Sep 25, 2008 1:53 pm

the elder generations have long conviced the young that survival is inseprable from money...

and they've got money politics.

so, they expect a certain bit of politicality

i get it... i grok it... i might have no natural taste for the stuff, but i've quaffed worse


am i the only to find inside a desire to build and dwell in what i've built?

and they teach that

long and hard, they'll teach it


but let's not forget the lack of numbers growing in trees or letters swimming through cool brooks on a hot summer day

with dichotomies, you can get them backwards.

natural/unnatural?


what flippin thing that is real and has mass is not the same bloody thing when you turn it around?


bugger...
they don't seem pleased as punch

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Post by EvilDustBooger » Thu Sep 25, 2008 2:16 pm

...perhaps as happy as a baby in a bathtub full of pudding?

Questions persist.

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Post by thisisthatwhichis » Fri Sep 26, 2008 3:23 pm

OMG!!, Mozy, that's just too funny.... I about fell outta my chair...... :lol:
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Post by mayavin » Sat Sep 27, 2008 7:10 am

when vested interest in face being shown
what priorit-eye to use
when the face isn't one's own?

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Post by Box Burner » Sat Sep 27, 2008 9:28 am

Use the third eye.
Dance in the heart of chaos. . . . .

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Post by EvilDustBooger » Sat Sep 27, 2008 9:28 am

extempore`

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Post by the fire elf » Sat Sep 27, 2008 2:29 pm

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Post by mayavin » Mon Sep 29, 2008 9:13 am

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there's nothing soo prevalent to human awareness as ambient social pressure... it elucidates where we've been from where we're going. sudden shifts of it. crude, perhaps, but not without effect... or affect, you might say.

in this age of information, as though all but pre-history isn't that, it takes forms as diverse as a ground unit calling in an air strike to a lady asking a fireman to help get her cat out of a tree.

do we need acting on pretense? is the skin thick?

why is it we live differently than pr3e-historic man? (every child is different than the parents... EVERY)
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few have the taste-tester of the kings of old, when it comes to ambient social pressure. where's your poison, where's your pain? do you suppose the posturing of the high road, while hoping for a better place to go?

frought. frought and distraught. within the mind, frought and distraught is perfectly legal, perhaps more than acceptable, as it feels reassuring to another, when they feel less alone

but to ignore the slick conviction of facade

to utter and speak, amiss from simply walking the high road and hoping for a better place to go
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to go

where to? where from?

sperm and egg be eye, tweather truly noticed or a lie

where's your information packet?

do you still have it?

you didn't lose it along the way, now did you?

c'mon

inform us...

less dick-tate

oh...

what's that?

you don't know how to read?

or did you just go in the egg to hide?

if you're not going to up the lution,
you might as well been swallowed.
hmf....
"kali sticks her tongue out in shame"

did i just say nothing?


they'd rather i were useful to their current vector


for to them, a change in direction would be to lose face


and i've still got mine.



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... might easily be conceptualized as a series of 'regressed' states, each of which develops functions on which succeeding states must depend. For example, the first phase eventually deepens to a kind of relaxed drowsiness in which primary-process derivatives appear. The ability to deal with them in an accepting fashion enables the student to get through to the next phase in which much more 'regressed' elements are apparent. Feelings of omnipotence appear to color this stage of 'mirror-like' detachment. The nonstriving quality of this state is apparently it's chief safe-guard against maladaptive reactions, even though further impulse derivatives are probably emerging. This non-striving is probably a lesson of the previous phase. Satori, in turn, grows out of the second phase, and is probably based on certain safeguards which were developed there.... "
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most people notice the change that begins small and turns white headed and different.

and they notice people exist in any given moment

but there's a tendency to formulate stagnant views of what they are any given moment.


*summer is winter coming, and winter is spring on the way.

presented with surprised unaccepting ignorance, and that was not what you set out for?

the world has more bridges than you'll ever see

we are full of unseen convictions.

shant succesfully build a bridge when you don't know where the two shores stand

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Post by Ugly Dougly » Mon Sep 29, 2008 10:33 am

Belgians to Buy Budweiser
InBev (Euronext: INB) shareholders voted to approve the acquisition of all the shares of Anheuser-Busch Companies, Inc. for USD 70 per share at the Company´s Extraordinary General Meeting held today. Shareholders voted overwhelmingly in favor of the combination.
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Post by EvilDustBooger » Mon Sep 29, 2008 11:49 am

Sex is your friend.

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Post by the fire elf » Tue Sep 30, 2008 1:58 pm

mind brought about by birth... by a roll in the hay

to be of age, looking through windows of time and space, can watch countless others get it on for financial gain-menty

human experience... awareness... too many transom?

movies like frankenstein's monster with crafty hidden seams, or life seen through a madcap teleporting bat, skipping through space and time like soo much wet tissue paper

messages in a bottle? they inform, they disseminate

context, precepts, forethought conceived

foresight suggests the continuity of meditative states holds the weight of time to fruition.

life's a spur, gentle little growth till strength be made

strength through flawless continuity

pretense of pretending... assailing fresh minds yet to think soo many different directions

like old trees under weight of granite and warmed by earth... oils of self perception, thick and viscous, alternate visions, divisions of what's real

friendly words spoken blindly through a tunnel soo tiny and long, they might as well be armored and guarded in a palace unknown

who would'nt feel their home see further than their sidewalk?

the incessant glorification of *smash*, in this 'you break it you buy it' world

the complete shift in 'realizations' of character, given an expanse of wardrobe

or permutations of culture done up for display

fodder for the creative

einstein worked in the patent office, after all

but for all they could try, the gape... the whole or lack of it

the discourse of pure imagined scape, and the finite angles of mundanity

monkeys infinitely set to typewriters would eventualy come up with shakespear's works, it's said

and the 'puter will ever be more versatile than a few strings strung there to there

open, broad expanse

any direction wither thou go

but've yet to notice a happy thought cause flight

rather earth dug and sculpted to precision, for fire in the belly of a metal beast

non-striving, they say

if only i could use up all my words

empty the cup

find a new drink... something hearty, with a light airy sweetness to it

the kind of thing you could sip for ages, and never tire of

something they'd not take for acid poured on the foundations of their mind

i'm a fan of dendrites and axons, sure... but i'd not have said trees and axles, but for convenience of communication


all hail, neural plasticity;
the stuff dreams are made of.


as for the rest of us,
we can strive to know as far as we see, or even further.

we're mostly, by a large majority, made up of the same colors

judge me by a surface glimmer?

tattoos might subplant even that

if they were trully democratic, they would neglect to treat me as represented by dead cells, and acknowledge i am ruled from the inside out

not that they truly think democracy would suffice... or what's a republican?

alas, they'll make me wear garments and divine my 'leigance from them

like some crazy sooth looking in the mirror

thumpthump
thumpthump
thumpthump


hey, what do you see?

more than you hear?

less than you know?

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Post by theCryptofishist » Tue Sep 30, 2008 6:44 pm

Never understood why Scottish horses would be pulling a faux-Czech beer in the USA.
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Post by Box Burner » Wed Oct 01, 2008 10:57 am

The real water of life is beer.
Dance in the heart of chaos. . . . .

ὁ δὲ ἀνεξέταστος βίος οὐ βιωτὸς ἀνθρώπῳ
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Post by EvilDustBooger » Wed Oct 01, 2008 3:25 pm

theCryptofishist wrote:Never understood why Scottish horses would be pulling a faux-Czech beer in the USA.
...maybe because they are "attention horse"?

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Post by gyre » Wed Oct 01, 2008 3:53 pm

I thought you weren't allowed a visa with drugs convictions?

It's not a conviction.

Just a firm belief.


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Post by mayavin » Wed Oct 01, 2008 5:29 pm

lest friendship eclipse what's found,
the sun shall not run between the earth and the moon.

sure, i don't have the choices others make

others...
dont they rear the wo/men thou would seek?
would you even care for their taste in stuff?
and what of them they would rear?

toss a stark dichotomy crost the globe

how easy would you find love to how easy you find hate

and would it matter how you looked

straightup cold-calling?...

or have you your tendencies


metals may be malleable
but seldom do they breathe
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Post by EvilDustBooger » Thu Oct 02, 2008 8:09 am

word.

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Post by the fire elf » Thu Oct 02, 2008 4:14 pm

word is, this country's got a credit problem

word?

credibility.

from the punks and thugs working on street cred to the courts looking for a credible witness

what's with that, word?

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Post by mayavin » Thu Oct 02, 2008 4:18 pm

reckons, even better than rising from rest to alarm each morn, could find a transition with... other piece

with the gentle slope of rolling hills, gently buffeted by vapors so thin, like a fog strolling casual

where breath

where din


labors so fine, with pleasures not fined, the cost lost not dine

rather yet, ever more to get, spirits fresh

decline?

goldish fleece

where flourished cities fleece

yet 'complished mind

selfstructured self, and micro-rule redundant

look up to tell a bird to fly?

why?

tis not sane nor plain

let mine be mine


the boss man might skim from the top, but he offers joe shmo something hard to come by...

work force credibility

tis boss man's job to defend it, nes pas?

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Post by can't sit still » Sat Oct 04, 2008 3:22 pm

I'm not much of a TV watcher but, I'm seeing a change. For years TV fare was "friends" and "Seinfeld" and vapid stuff like that. The flicks brought us a big dose of stupid; "Dumb and Dumber. Forest Gump was especially bad for proving that no matter how stupid a person was, they could succeed.
Then came Malcolm in the Middle, where a brilliant kid aces everybody. After that came X-files and CSI, all centered around intelligent people. Now, we have "House" and "Bones" and a couple of others that showcase intelligence and abilities. It's great to see MSM "pandering" to those who can't stomach "wrestlemania" and reality shows.
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Post by mayavin » Tue Oct 07, 2008 12:24 pm

if the present moment is not bereft of vectors and momentum, then the conjectured 'past' is fully represented and there in the present moment

would be dellusional to sense separation betwixt the one that is not two

action informs the enriching of the momentum matrix

what informs your action?

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Post by EvilDustBooger » Tue Oct 07, 2008 1:22 pm

namely, RECHTSSCHUTZVERSICHERUNGSGESELLSCHAFTEN .

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