I differentiate those who practice the philosophy from those who "just got the t-shirt" . The object of the point was to define fuel for the Atheist affirmation of their particular school of thought. It is up to me to support the point I wish to make by point out the cause and effect of a demographic that delineates its limits by participation in rote ritual as contrasted to active practitioners whose philosophy shows in their life. It is up to you to misconstrue in order to solicit attention for conditions that do not exist in order to promote kilt sales to fund your Wikkian religious rites, you tart! Everyone knows a lift of the kilt will tell you if its a true scotsman or woman. Oddly enough, they used to do the Pope the same way, but that is another story.
Hold on a minute... O.K. whoever's an Athiest, raise your hand. It's not been my experience that discrimination is any hindrance to Athiests, no more than it stops a nutballs like Westborough "Baptist" Church from protesting funerals of soldiers and gay men. In fact , I think the discrimination fuels them. I study religions. It entails meeting people and finding out about their faith or lack of. There are those whose " cup runneth over and over and over" at the top of the list of these, I assign 1st place to Atheists. Simply that.
Well, do they feel the breeze on their testes? I think the rest of it goes without saying for any religion, unreligion or non religion. None of it detracts or corrects my view that Athiests are the worst proselytizers of the lot. Point?
Nonsense, I've had commerce with people of quite a lot of religions, unreligions and nonreligions. An atheist, fearing no karmic afterlife repercussions, is MORE likely than one whose faith prohibits theft, murder, etc. Not exclusive, but more likely. Not than all other religions either. I'm not gonna say you're the guy who took the flamingo off my lawn, but I got my eye on you buddy.
" If you're going to do business with a religious s.o.b., get it in writing first!. Because with the good Lord telling him how to screw you over, you don't stand a chance. --Wm. S. Burroughs
LaVey considered himself an Atheist. The "Church" was a protest. The sex,drugs,stars,money,lions were his reward for living the "good" life. His philosophy was literally the opposite of the bible as preached by a fire and brimstone preacher. Anti-Christ if you will. An excerpt pulled randomly from a mass; " If a man smite thee on your left cheek, smash him on his right! Beat him, hip and thigh, that he may ruminate over what he has done."
You mean like the dinosaurs could've avoided it? I guess they didn't have enough money. No one promised everyone a guaranteed long life, but, survival of the fittest, was mentioned at some point. Just business as usual, another aeon in the life of a planet. If man doesn't survive, Jack Russell terriers will probably rise to the top of the food chain. Monkeys are much like Washington Politicians and have no survival skills without the herd, so I'm pretty sure Jack Russells are next in line.
It's all about who invested in beachfront property. No one cares about people or the planet, the planet will continue and we can fuck more people into existence. Have you seen how much beachfront property is worth? You'd do whatever you could to maintain your property and it's value. If the icecaps melted, all the poor people would have beachfront houses, how is that profitable?
The job description for Christian is to spread the word. Atheists have no such commission, strictly voluntary. Also, the definition of Christian is used pretty damn loosely around here. Most claiming Christianity aren't. They just claim it because they attend church or got dunked in a baptismal pool at some time or another. There is no Christianity in their life outside the church, but they tell themselves they are Christians and gain an unworthy sense of superiority by holding others up to their " standard", whatever that is. These people are the real reason Atheism is popular. Case in point, the story of the founder of the Satan Church, Anton LaVey, who confirmed his oft told story to me. He was an organ player for a travelling carnival, playing the strip shows and on Sunday there was a tent service he would play with many of the same people showing up. The two faces shown by these people disgusted Anton to the point of a formal protest. He founded Satan Church and wrote the Satanic Bible, not as a religion proper, but a protest against the duality he saw in "Christians". Like $cientology, he even boasted star power like Sammy Davis Jr.(that was a Baphomet medallion around his neck, not St.anything.) and Jane Mansfield (just lost her head over it, lol)
I reaffirm the original poster who said "Most atheists are worse than Christians about preaching their beliefs at any cost." This has been my experience. I would even put $cientologists and Subgeniuses ahead of Christians on that list, as well.
Probably don't have to worry much about your sanity til you get Beatles Revolution No.9 stuck there for very long. Odd thing about this that didn't make their study. Some music is pleasant to get stuck in your head. 1. Instrumental music.Voltaire said " Anything too stupid to be said, is sung" brother, he wasn't kidding. This is the offensive property of "loop music" phenomena. Having someones blathered obscure references, personal philosophies, obnoxious wordplay stuck in your head over and over is the qualitative equivalent of havings someones random.veiny, throbbing member stuck in whatever orifices of yours,come to mind . Instrumental music that appears crisply in your head, is music you enjoy enough to have recalled the nuances and maybe even recall in stereo. 2. Industrial music, which won't help everyone, but people who work industrial jobs, assembly lines, high intensity repetitive motion work seem to benefit from looped "beats" with obfuscated vocals, much like negro spirituals made tolerable,hard slave labor in the old south. Also a good pick for running sports, bicycling etc. It seems to work much the same way as instrumental due to the garbled, over effected vocals reduced to an arbitrary chant of vaguely familiar sounding phonemes. Not offensive to the afflicteds mind, due to the advantage of self gratifying imagination. Viagras disclamers apply to both these exceptions; If it lasts over 4 hours, seek medical help. Even " The Merry-go-round broke down" has it's limits.
I think they should KEEP them in D.C. outside their Constitutional rights. Yeah, keep them there for 30 days or however long residency is established then hold them to Federal law without constitutional rights. Make them go to work everyday and establish regular hours with vacation starting after you've been there 4 years if you last that long.Make them educate themselves on the issues and care about their constituency or face fines. Charge them for every word of law they write. Make it expensive too. Lock em up while they're elected letting only family visit.Scan all communication with lobbyists for bribery and make it a capital crime to both parties. Make the job less profitable , corruptible and attractive, see if it doesn't change the caliber of represenative we get. Bah! What sister-boy wants to let them telecommute? I say take away their soft toilet paper and make them wipe with dried corn cobs and the Montgomery Ward Catalog.
I get pictures of the Wal-Mart Razor electric scooters instead of the Sun City chapter of Hells Angels terrorizing malls with a fleet of Hoverounds , like I know you mean. I really had hoped to see some single wheel, gyroscopic space saver for crashing down sidewalks in Tokyo sprawl, like a big psycho-Seussmobile, but it would really have to be a flying car/boat to take advantage of the canals. Can you see the picture I'm painting?
I wonder how many more you can fit under semi-trucks than Smart Cars. There are certain realities of driving than need to be addressed before you put anything smaller than a motorcycle on the road. " Speeds of up to 6 mph", I might as well walk if it's that close, because if it's far it will take all night. I could ride on the head of an old woman faster. Why not crawl in a little electric kiddie car from Wal-Mart? Some of them have some cargo space.
Agreed, your equipment is going to be a LARGE factor in your ability to hear what you've been missing. Even good phones aren't always a cheap answer. Nice home unit and set of full range speakers light quite a lot of studio artistry up, previously unavailable to cheap iPod docks or most expensive ones, for that matter.
Secondly, there are just some badly ripped music out there that will gnaw on your cranium like a starved rat with progressive tail mange. Thou Shalt Not Rip to Small Audio Files! (carved in the side of a mountain for all the world to see for all time)
Third, are YOU capable of hearing in the higher ranges of human ability? Sadly, many in their 30s and up lose the tickle cones in the ear necessary for the high end sostenueto to reach your gray matter. That'll teach you to stand next to the speakers and bang your head, Beavis! Yes, what isn't lost naturally gets wrecked from excessive indulgence in Concerts, Industrial Equipment, Stadium Noise, Jet engines and all the other things in life that don't kill us, yet fail to make us stronger. Although there actually is some music to be listened to at massive volume in order to create the sparkly hearing anomolies that attract us to Hi-Fi studio artistry in the first place. I present Glenn Branca: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xdLhRB4dJJI So FWIW all is not completely lost, if you can develop the taste. Perhaps a little Boyd Rice/ NoN http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TrInnSXaQ0o I like to think of it as the future of classical music representing the late 20th century.
So all in all there are going to be a wide range of listeners of music getting varying degrees of art from it anyway. Common sense is to default to the highest denominator and go with quality while a majority wouldn't mind listening to Dark Side of the Moon from stereo bullhorns. You can still please all the people all the time. Or just deny the dissatisfied exist and ignore them, til they go away.
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I differentiate those who practice the philosophy from those who "just got the t-shirt" .
The object of the point was to define fuel for the Atheist affirmation of their particular school of thought.
It is up to me to support the point I wish to make by point out the cause and effect of a demographic that delineates its limits by participation in rote ritual as contrasted to active practitioners whose philosophy shows in their life. It is up to you to misconstrue in order to solicit attention for conditions that do not exist in order to promote kilt sales to fund your Wikkian religious rites, you tart! Everyone knows a lift of the kilt will tell you if its a true scotsman or woman.
Oddly enough, they used to do the Pope the same way, but that is another story.
Hold on a minute...
O.K. whoever's an Athiest, raise your hand.
It's not been my experience that discrimination is any hindrance to Athiests, no more than it stops a nutballs like Westborough "Baptist" Church from protesting funerals of soldiers and gay men. In fact , I think the discrimination fuels them.
I study religions. It entails meeting people and finding out about their faith or lack of. There are those whose " cup runneth over and over and over" at the top of the list of these, I assign 1st place to Atheists. Simply that.
Well, do they feel the breeze on their testes?
I think the rest of it goes without saying for any religion, unreligion or non religion.
None of it detracts or corrects my view that Athiests are the worst proselytizers of the lot.
Point?
Nonsense, I've had commerce with people of quite a lot of religions, unreligions and nonreligions.
An atheist, fearing no karmic afterlife repercussions, is MORE likely than one whose faith prohibits theft, murder, etc. Not exclusive, but more likely. Not than all other religions either. I'm not gonna say you're the guy who took the flamingo off my lawn, but I got my eye on you buddy.
I study religions.
" If you're going to do business with a religious s.o.b., get it in writing first!. Because with the good Lord telling him how to screw you over, you don't stand a chance. --Wm. S. Burroughs
It's been handy, when dealing with humans.
Hmmm, tracking the U.S.P.S, sounds like stalking a postie.
LaVey considered himself an Atheist. The "Church" was a protest. The sex,drugs,stars,money,lions were his reward for living the "good" life.
His philosophy was literally the opposite of the bible as preached by a fire and brimstone preacher. Anti-Christ if you will. An excerpt pulled randomly from a mass; " If a man smite thee on your left cheek, smash him on his right! Beat him, hip and thigh, that he may ruminate over what he has done."
You mean like the dinosaurs could've avoided it? I guess they didn't have enough money.
No one promised everyone a guaranteed long life, but, survival of the fittest, was mentioned at some point.
Just business as usual, another aeon in the life of a planet. If man doesn't survive, Jack Russell terriers will probably rise to the top of the food chain.
Monkeys are much like Washington Politicians and have no survival skills without the herd, so I'm pretty sure Jack Russells are next in line.
It's all about who invested in beachfront property. No one cares about people or the planet, the planet will continue and we can fuck more people into existence. Have you seen how much beachfront property is worth? You'd do whatever you could to maintain your property and it's value. If the icecaps melted, all the poor people would have beachfront houses, how is that profitable?
The job description for Christian is to spread the word.
Atheists have no such commission, strictly voluntary.
Also, the definition of Christian is used pretty damn loosely around here.
Most claiming Christianity aren't. They just claim it because they attend church or got dunked in a baptismal pool at some time or another.
There is no Christianity in their life outside the church, but they tell themselves they are Christians and gain an unworthy sense of superiority by holding others up to their " standard", whatever that is.
These people are the real reason Atheism is popular.
Case in point, the story of the founder of the Satan Church, Anton LaVey, who confirmed his oft told story to me.
He was an organ player for a travelling carnival, playing the strip shows and on Sunday there was a tent service he would play with many of the same people showing up. The two faces shown by these people disgusted Anton to the point of a formal protest. He founded Satan Church and wrote the Satanic Bible, not as a religion proper, but a protest against the duality he saw in "Christians". Like $cientology, he even boasted star power like Sammy Davis Jr.(that was a Baphomet medallion around his neck, not St.anything.) and Jane Mansfield (just lost her head over it, lol)
I reaffirm the original poster who said "Most atheists are worse than Christians about preaching their beliefs at any cost." This has been my experience. I would even put $cientologists and Subgeniuses ahead of Christians on that list, as well.
Prayer helps. Couldn't hurt.
Perhaps if the USPS were more God fearing...
Lord willing and the creek don't rise you'll get your shoes.
Probably don't have to worry much about your sanity til you get Beatles Revolution No.9 stuck there for very long. .veiny, throbbing member stuck in whatever orifices of yours ,come to mind . Instrumental music that appears crisply in your head, is music you enjoy enough to have recalled the nuances and maybe even recall in stereo. ,hard slave labor in the old south. Also a good pick for running sports, bicycling etc.
Odd thing about this that didn't make their study. Some music is pleasant to get stuck in your head.
1. Instrumental music.Voltaire said " Anything too stupid to be said, is sung" brother, he wasn't kidding. This is the offensive property of "loop music" phenomena.
Having someones blathered obscure references, personal philosophies, obnoxious wordplay stuck in your head over and over is the qualitative equivalent of havings someones random
2. Industrial music, which won't help everyone, but people who work industrial jobs, assembly lines, high intensity repetitive motion work seem to benefit from looped "beats" with obfuscated vocals, much like negro spirituals made tolerable
It seems to work much the same way as instrumental due to the garbled, over effected vocals reduced to an arbitrary chant of vaguely familiar sounding phonemes.
Not offensive to the afflicteds mind, due to the advantage of self gratifying imagination.
Viagras disclamers apply to both these exceptions; If it lasts over 4 hours, seek medical help. Even " The Merry-go-round broke down" has it's limits.
I was bein' punny.
I think they should KEEP them in D.C. outside their Constitutional rights. Yeah, keep them there for 30 days or however long residency is established then hold them to Federal law without constitutional rights. Make them go to work everyday and establish regular hours with vacation starting after you've been there 4 years if you last that long.Make them educate themselves on the issues and care about their constituency or face fines. Charge them for every word of law they write. Make it expensive too. Lock em up while they're elected letting only family visit.Scan all communication with lobbyists for bribery and make it a capital crime to both parties.
Make the job less profitable , corruptible and attractive, see if it doesn't change the caliber of represenative we get.
Bah! What sister-boy wants to let them telecommute? I say take away their soft toilet paper and make them wipe with dried corn cobs and the Montgomery Ward Catalog.
I get pictures of the Wal-Mart Razor electric scooters instead of the Sun City chapter of Hells Angels terrorizing malls with a fleet of Hoverounds , like I know you mean. I really had hoped to see some single wheel, gyroscopic space saver for crashing down sidewalks in Tokyo sprawl, like a big psycho-Seussmobile, but it would really have to be a flying car/boat to take advantage of the canals. Can you see the picture I'm painting?
They are in safety testing as we speak. There is a little trouble with the breaks, but the old gal is a trooper.
I wonder how many more you can fit under semi-trucks than Smart Cars.
There are certain realities of driving than need to be addressed before you put anything smaller than a motorcycle on the road.
" Speeds of up to 6 mph", I might as well walk if it's that close, because if it's far it will take all night.
I could ride on the head of an old woman faster. Why not crawl in a little electric kiddie car from Wal-Mart? Some of them have some cargo space.
Agreed, your equipment is going to be a LARGE factor in your ability to hear what you've been missing.
Even good phones aren't always a cheap answer. Nice home unit and set of full range speakers light quite a lot of studio artistry up, previously unavailable to cheap iPod docks or most expensive ones, for that matter.
Secondly, there are just some badly ripped music out there that will gnaw on your cranium like a starved rat with progressive tail mange. Thou Shalt Not Rip to Small Audio Files! (carved in the side of a mountain for all the world to see for all time)
Third, are YOU capable of hearing in the higher ranges of human ability? Sadly, many in their 30s and up lose the tickle cones in the ear necessary for the high end sostenueto to reach your gray matter. That'll teach you to stand next to the speakers and bang your head, Beavis! Yes, what isn't lost naturally gets wrecked from excessive indulgence in Concerts, Industrial Equipment, Stadium Noise, Jet engines and all the other things in life that don't kill us, yet fail to make us stronger. Although there actually is some music to be listened to at massive volume in order to create the sparkly hearing anomolies that attract us to Hi-Fi studio artistry in the first place. I present Glenn Branca: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xdLhRB4dJJI So FWIW all is not completely lost, if you can develop the taste.
Perhaps a little Boyd Rice/ NoN http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TrInnSXaQ0o
I like to think of it as the future of classical music representing the late 20th century.
So all in all there are going to be a wide range of listeners of music getting varying degrees of art from it anyway. Common sense is to default to the highest denominator and go with quality while a majority wouldn't mind listening to Dark Side of the Moon from stereo bullhorns. You can still please all the people all the time. Or just deny the dissatisfied exist and ignore them, til they go away.
http://www.parl.gc.ca/Content/SEN/Committee/371/ille/library/Spicer-e.htm
Here's one that gives it a little background. Look down around; 3.Ancient Near East A. The Sumerians
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WalMart owns Sams, Walmart owns Lowes.
Not pwn Walgreens.
On a related side note. Cannabis is credited for mankinds introspection which led to social codes.
Consuming cannabis and beer got us here.
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Starring samzenpus as the mongus.
Supply and demand is the institution.
The triangle is the modifier to competitive practice.
So go back , lock the bathroom door and practice.
I like that. It applies more to the luthiery division of my company.
I see you're not familiar with the curriculum of the Subgenius Foundation.
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