I don’t believe anymore that the answer lies in more or better tech
It seems he's having a hard time looking at the bright side. There is one.-Renegade (August 03, 2014, 08:45 PM)
Some real gems in there! :) :Thmbsup:-Renegade (August 03, 2014, 08:45 PM)
You actually know who Kim Kardashian is. In an ideal world, you’d be as unaware of her existence as you are of the names of the Chinese kids who made the futurephone or featherweight laptop you’re almost certainly reading this on. In an ideal world, Kim Kardashian would have spent her life getting sport-fucked anonymously by hip-hop stars in some Bel Air mansion, ran a salon, and either died of a coke overdose or Botox poisoning. There is no reason that her face and her life and her tits and her deathless thoughts needed to be foisted upon the world outside of the 90210 ZIP code. Except that somebody figured out that you could make money off showing people the car accident in slow motion, that people would watch that. Sure they will. People love to watch stupid people do stupid things. It makes them feel less stupid.
I think the cause of the malaise is much simpler. Think back to when you were a kid skipping down the street. You were happy for no particular reason. In fact it was your default state of mind. Adults smiled to see you skipping along so care free.
Then one day as you skipped along you encountered a tall man in a gray suit with gray felt hat. He gave you such a disgusted look. You slow down in reaction. Then the gray man says "You are tool old to be skipping" all mean and nasty.
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The only way to turn back the clock on the downfall [...] is to go back in time and skip down the street no matter what anyone thinks or says about it!-MilesAhead (August 04, 2014, 08:20 AM)
I'm a bit vague about who Kim Kardashian is. I mean, I've heard/seen the name, but have no real idea who/what she is known for-IainB (August 04, 2014, 10:33 AM)
I think the cause of the malaise is much simpler. Think back to when you were a kid skipping down the street. You were happy for no particular reason. In fact it was your default state of mind. Adults smiled to see you skipping along so care free.
Then one day as you skipped along you encountered a tall man in a gray suit with gray felt hat. He gave you such a disgusted look. You slow down in reaction. Then the gray man says "You are tool old to be skipping" all mean and nasty.
From that day on your life sucked. You worried about things that never bothered you before. Well I'm here to tell you that was no accident. The gray man is no ordinary person. He's a time traveler and his mission is to conduct hostile psychological operations against the middle class people of The United States.
Being from the future he could see that it was only necessary to spoil the childhoods of the middle class kids to generate the impetus for all the wars, famines, depressions, inflationary periods etc that sapped the resources of the middle class.
The only way to turn back the clock on the downfall of the middle class is to go back in time and skip down the street no matter what anyone thinks or says about it!-MilesAhead (August 04, 2014, 08:20 AM)
...She is one of those people who is described as being famous for being famous ... Because they have exactly zero actual accomplishments. Kind of like Paris Hilton...Ah! Thanks. That also answers another Q I had - I never could figure out what P Hilton had done to warrant media attention.-Stoic Joker (August 04, 2014, 11:12 AM)
Then one day as you skipped along you encountered a tall man in a gray suit with gray felt hat. He gave you such a disgusted look. You slow down in reaction. Then the gray man says "You are tool old to be skipping" all mean and nasty.-MilesAhead (August 04, 2014, 08:20 AM)
Then one day as you skipped along you encountered a tall man in a gray suit with gray felt hat. He gave you such a disgusted look. You slow down in reaction. Then the gray man says "You are tool old to be skipping" all mean and nasty.-MilesAhead (August 04, 2014, 08:20 AM)
Yeah, well...I remember that tall man in a gray suit with a gray felt hat. I slowed my skipping enough to give him a hard kick in the shins and resumed my skipping.
All these year later I'm still skipping and he hasn't been foolhardy enough to show his face around me again. :)-Innuendo (August 04, 2014, 07:58 PM)
I think the cause of the malaise is much simpler. Think back to when you were a kid skipping down the street. You were happy for no particular reason. In fact it was your default state of mind. Adults smiled to see you skipping along so care free.
Then one day as you skipped along you encountered a tall man in a gray suit with gray felt hat. He gave you such a disgusted look. You slow down in reaction. Then the gray man says "You are tool old to be skipping" all mean and nasty.
From that day on your life sucked. You worried about things that never bothered you before. Well I'm here to tell you that was no accident. The gray man is no ordinary person. He's a time traveler and his mission is to conduct hostile psychological operations against the middle class people of The United States.
Being from the future he could see that it was only necessary to spoil the childhoods of the middle class kids to generate the impetus for all the wars, famines, depressions, inflationary periods etc that sapped the resources of the middle class.
The only way to turn back the clock on the downfall of the middle class is to go back in time and skip down the street no matter what anyone thinks or says about it!-MilesAhead (August 04, 2014, 08:20 AM)
He's a time traveler and his mission is to conduct hostile psychological operations against the middle class people of The United States.
Not sure whether to post or not, but...-Renegade (August 05, 2014, 01:40 PM)
Not sure whether to post or not, but...-Renegade (August 05, 2014, 01:40 PM)
I'm glad you did.-MilesAhead (August 05, 2014, 02:01 PM)
As adults, we're prepared to deal with these things much better (and continue skipping). We can reject that tall man. As kids, it's not so easy - he frames your reality in ways that you cannot understand or reject.-Renegade (August 05, 2014, 01:40 PM)
...It's a powerful image, the tall grey man...Yes, perhaps it could be a powerful image - if you allowed it that - but it is still just a simple metaphor (a figure of speech in which a word or phrase is applied to something to which it is not literally applicable - a thing regarded as symbolic of something else), and thus it would seem irrational to enlarge the import of an imagined and intangible thing so far as to use it as a putative explanation for something somehow shaping mankind's perceptions throughout the course of our modern history.-tomos (August 05, 2014, 02:49 PM)
The liberation of Palestine, from an Arab viewpoint, is a national (qawmi) duty and it attempts to repel the Zionist and imperialist aggression against the Arab homeland, and aims at the elimination of Zionism in Palestine. Absolute responsibility for this falls upon the Arab nation- peoples and governments-with the Arab people of Palestine in the vanguard. Accordingly, the Arab nation must mobilize all its military, human, moral, and spiritual capabilities to participate actively with the Palestinian people in the liberation of Palestine. It must, particularly, in the phase of the armed Palestinian revolution, offer and furnish the Palestinian people with all possible help, and material and human support, and make available to them the means and opportunities that will enable them to continue to carry out their leading role in the armed revolution, until they liberate their homeland.
“...they accord to Palestine and to other Arab countries the right to solve the problem of the Jewish elements in Palestine and other Arab countries, in accordance with the interest of the Arabs and, by the same method, that the question is now being settled in the Axis countries.”A Mufti is an expert in the Islamic Shari'ah (law) who gives legal judgments called fatwas.
Government exhibit 003-0085 - copy incl. translation here (https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B9rIby-RfgLNcUI0b3pQX3hPX1U/edit?usp=sharing).
3:04-CR-240-G
U.S. v. HLF, et al.
Covering memo and notes written in Arabic script ref. ISE-SW 1B10/0000413 to 427.
Main document ref. Bate #ISE-SW/1B10/0000427.
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At the same time, Obama said the U.S. has been "very clear that Israel has the right to defend itself" against an onslaught of rockets being launched indiscriminately by Hamas militants into Israel.He later added:
"More broadly, the situation in Gaza reminds us, again, that the status quo is unsustainable," Obama said. "The only path to true security is a just and lasting peace between Israelis and Palestinians."
"Father forgive them, for they know not what they do."
Spoken by Jesus Christ, on the cross. It was the first of seven short sentences that are recorded as His last words. He spoke for forgiveness as He was looking down at the Roman soldiers throwing dice for His seamless garment, passing time as they waited for Him to die.
...It's a powerful image, the tall grey man...Yes, perhaps it could be a powerful image - if you allowed it that - but it is still just a simple metaphor (a figure of speech in which a word or phrase is applied to something to which it is not literally applicable - a thing regarded as symbolic of something else), and thus it would seem irrational to enlarge the import of an imagined and intangible thing so far as to use it as a putative explanation for something somehow shaping mankind's perceptions throughout the course of our modern history.-tomos (August 05, 2014, 02:49 PM)-IainB (August 06, 2014, 03:40 AM)
And, maybe most poisonous, maybe most soul-crushing: somebody said something I don’t like that makes me feel frightened and threatened! It’s time to put on my superhero costume and forward unto battle!
Except it doesn’t matter. Because you’re not really changing anybody’s mind. How often does that little skirmish end with anybody changing their mind at all, even a little bit?
- See more at: http://zenarchery.com/2014/08/everyone-i-know-is-brokenhearted/#sthash.y4fzgYlF.dpuf
From what he says, the author seems to have an external locus of control (http://wilderdom.com/psychology/loc/LocusOfControlWhatIs.html), which is generally considered to be an unhealthy psychological state as it can erode the individual's ability to accept responsibility for and take control of their own lives.-IainB (August 06, 2014, 03:40 AM)
Not sure if media like the Telegraph should talk about that without any irony.-Tuxman (August 13, 2014, 10:38 AM)
Not sure if media like the Telegraph should talk about that without any irony.-Tuxman (August 13, 2014, 10:38 AM)
Not sure if media like the Telegraph should talk about that without any irony.If it bleeds, it leads.-Tuxman (August 13, 2014, 10:38 AM)
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...Up to that point, I had been smiling a lot at the rant, but I draw the line at cynical attempts to gain access to my agreement by invoking such things.
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