| getting schooled |
| [6470] by "0magus" (adsl-63-196-7-196.dsl.snfc21.pac)
on Mon 08 Oct 2001 17:36:02
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is high school a compleat waste of my time or am i just doing something wrong? |
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| Brief Emotional Outburst |
| [6353] by "RobPfeifer" (208.234.35.212.in-addr.arpa.ip-p)
on Wed 03 Oct 2001 21:48:11
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The regime of the Taliban disgusts me. It is as if I see a putrefying blemish on the face of our beautiful world. A world which holds so many pleasures but in their region contains only darkness.
Have they no notion of good or evil? I think not. Only of religious and irreligious. For no independent moral values could ever condone the manner in which people are treated under this regime, especially their women.
No, the only justification that _can_ be attempted is that of religion. And I think that they have not a religion, but an insanity. What else can take people in a world so filled with beauty and sources of pleasure and compel them to turn it into a hell on Earth?
And what justification is this for their religion? No more than any other religion: Its own internal, non-concrete justifications. People believe because they have been brought up to believe, or never learned how to truly question. A regime so cruel and limiting does not foster the kind of mind that is capable of questioning or truly examining it: The very ways of thinking are shaped such that the incompleteness of its own justifications cannot be grasped.
A religion whose only justification for existence is that it says it is right and should be. But more than that: A religion which sets out to destroy most ruthlessley the only pleasures we can know we can ever know.
What, I wonder, is promised for women in the afterlife? Freedom? Or more of the same?
Anything which might bring down this regime, I cannot but help support.
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| random thought |
| [6231] by "andrea" (rm1-774.dialup.tiscalinet.it)
on Sun 30 Sep 2001 14:30:00
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Is there some strip I could/should "remasterize" bringing it from 2 colors / mouse drawn to 16 colors / hand drawn?
curious,
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| (R)evolve |
| [6220] by "FrereKhan" (aceproxy.acenet.net.au)
on Sat 29 Sep 2001 22:36:21
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Ah, new beginnings. Cycles. Start, middle, finish. The cycle is an illusion: pick any point on the revolution, this point is a beginning, AND a middle, AND an end. Perhaps a mobius strip is a better model: you can cut a mobius strip in two lengthways. Instead of the two pieces of paper you expect, you are left with a longer, more incomprehensibe loop.
My starting point, my home position, my circle of warmth and comfort was left behind a long, long while ago.
Change, growth, uncertainty over comfort, any day of the week? Yes or no? Subject yourself to unknown bruisings for the sake of dynamism? Yes or no? Should change itself be an ideal in our lives? Or should we merely seek the benefits that change brings, without resorting to dislocating struggle?
Or neither? What else is there?
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| vibrating slowly |
| [6188] by "0magus" (adsl-63-196-7-185.dsl.snfc21.pac)
on Sat 29 Sep 2001 01:29:58
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i think were in a slump.
a new topic, please?
how about..... drug use?
i find this tends to branch into many interesting conversations! try it at a party! or on the bus! just watch out for zelots!
my (Omagus) views on drug use: ITS OK!
i back this up with experence. though we can talk about sex and violence in america in a reasonably personal way, we tend to shy away from discussing our personal drug uses. i feel sorta wierd writing this, as if perhaps it will demean me in your eyes or something. but to not mention it would be to keep something hidden, and in an online forum i dont think i really have to worry so much.
anyway, i have done pot [marijuana] like 5 times, and have been seriously drunk once. yes, alchohol is a drug. furthermore, i have some nasty alergys which necessitate my taking various chemicals in order to not explode. they dont give me a rush or anything but i doubt they are good for me. i dont think of myself as a hardcore user at all, and i am very much into "responcible" drug use. i do beleave that one can use drugs responcibly. though it is rationalizing it, i think having a hobby of drug use is like having any other hobby: you can do it and have it be a part of you, or you can do it and have it define you. some people make model airplains, or watch anime, or go mountinclimbing. if they do these things once a week or so, then thats ok. if they do it more often, then they are "really into" something, but its still ok. but, say they do a hobby in all their spair time (cough cough, EQ). where is the line between pastime and addiction? i see drugs as just another hobby. something to do with your friends, which you can do every once in a while and not have it bump other, more important, things out of the way.
i also believe in irresponcible drug use. some people let it consume their whole lives, and thats no good. but is that any different then somebody who spends all their time doing some other thing?
sure, its not healthy. but what is? were all dieing, it just depends on how you want to spend the time until you die. i could spend my days with shitty american telivision, a job i hate and life that did nothing, not even for me. but whats the point? not all lives must be grand, but they all should be satisfying. right? so i may be carving some time out of my life... sitting in a dark room, eating healthy foot and exersyzing regularly will let you live a long time, but what kind of life is it? this isnt a fucking footrace, and i am shooting for quality, not quantity.
which leads to another question: is using drugs a quality time? sure, people say "you dont remember what you did, how could that be fun?", but how many afternoons have you spent sitting on your ass watching TV that you really remember? at least i went and did something.
i dunno, i just find it frustrating that, in the supposed "land of the free", i cant decide what chemicals i want to put into my body. sure, im venting, but it feels good. your thoughts? |
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| HAPP Y HAPPY TRIBUTES TO BEING HAPPY |
| [6087] by "Nosferatu Dallion" (pppa40-resalehampton1-4r7155.dia)
on Tue 25 Sep 2001 23:48:23
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Notice that some very fat people are always so happy and cheerful they may be pretending that way to make people forget how heavy they are or to make people forgive them for being this way.You wonder what charades go on in everyones head.Ah stock in images...Oil paint,chalk on the sidewalk by little kids in the sun,vector graphics,polygons 1.2.3.,spirit photography by wraith or stream of consciousness.Too much stock put in the images of people.I now see the best images are formless. |
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| loophole, how are you? |
| [6021] by "0magus" (adsl-63-206-120-231.dsl.snfc21.p)
on Sat 22 Sep 2001 22:44:58
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i am wondering, what music lays about your heads? might i injoy it also?
have you ever head of underworld? i understand they are bigger in europe than the US, but thats not saying much. they play electronica, but not like Aphex Twin. they sing songs to the city. really. they make DVD's that are hours of art. they offer some interesting tangents. are you up for that?
http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/Gallery/5525/lhay.html is a place to start. underworld has never released their lyrics, so this is just guesswork. i disagree with the transcripter in some places. transmit, satilight.
http://www.dirty.org has a section called words. they like underworld. they write odes to the city. perhaps you would like that?
i would reccomend you investigate. |
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| Question to all especially Omagus |
| [5955] by "Nosferatu Dallion" (pppa52-resalehampton1-4r7155.dia)
on Thu 20 Sep 2001 21:44:01
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The photography subject and that of graphics and images has became quite popular here as of late.What do you think of spirit photography for what photo experts we have here.While some is obviously faked some is quite convincing especially to the fact that I myself have captured some strange images on film that should not have been there. |
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| Robot Mines |
| [5915] by "InductrialSomplex" (proxy2a.lmco.com)
on Thu 20 Sep 2001 10:44:58
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Small pressure sensitive robot drones crawling underneath the central Asian landscape.
You mark the mines for safety, because you are a UN Inspector for Infinte Peace.
The mine digs under ground to a new location every 12 hours.
When no pressure is detected for 24 hours, it surfaces to recharge it's solar cells. No one around to see.
Attempts to build robo mine factories, to construct more robo mines, to build more robo mine factories.
You step on the robo mine.
Mission Success. |
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| Re: cross-board reply! |
| [5903] by "Tobot" (user-1120236.dsl.mindspring.com)
on Wed 19 Sep 2001 20:39:55
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"Hey Tom7 (I know you're there somewhere ;) when you have a really long convoluted thread (like some present on N=9 at the moment) it gets really hard to tell if a new post has been added. Any ideas to fix? Tell me on N=9 maybe."
I don't have any ideas apart from the "last 25" link at the top, which allows you to view posts in the order in which they were posted. If you've got an idea which fits into the current layout and would help, let me know... |
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