things you didn't need to know

love

call8me8jim — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 09:14:22 GMT

" as a flower blown out by the wind goes to rest and cannot be defined so the wise man freed from individuality goes to rest and cannot be defined. gone beyond all images- gone beyond the power of words " --- "All that we are is the result of what we have thought. If a man speaks or acts with an evil thought, pain follows him. If a man speaks or acts with a pure thought, happiness follows him, like a shadow that never leaves him. " - Lord Buddha " No birth, no death, no caste have I; Father, mother, have I none. I am He, I am He, Blessed spirit, I am He!" By Kabir The bhakti path winds in a delicate way. On this path there is no asking and no not asking. The ego simply disappears the moment you touch him. The joy of looking for him is so immense that you just dive in, and coast around like a fish in the water. If anyone needs a head, the lover leaps up to offer his. Beautiful Hands This is the kind of Friend You are- Without making me realize My soul’s anguished history, You slip into my house at night, And while I am sleeping, You silently carry off All my suffering and sordid past In Your beautiful Hands. "There goes a river dragging an ocean behind it." Jalalud'din Rumi i was dead i came alive i was tears i became laughter all because of love when it arrived my temporal life from then on changed to eternal love said to me you are not crazy enough you don't fit this house i went and became crazy crazy enough to be in chains love said you are not intoxicated enough you don't fit the group i went and got drunk drunk enough to overflow with light-headedness love said you are still too clever filled with imagination and skepticism i went and became gullible and in fright pulled away from it all love said you are a candle attracting everyone gathering every one around you i am no more a candle spreading light i gather no more crowds and like smoke i am all scattered now love said you are a teacher you are a head and for everyone you are a leader i am no more not a teacher not a leader just a servant to your wishes love said you already have your own wings i will not give you more feathers and then my heart pulled itself apart and filled to the brim with a new light overflowed with fresh life now even the heavens are thankful that because of love i have become the giver of light --=Jalalud'din Rumi A stone I died and rose again a plant; A plant I died and rose an animal; I died an animal and was born a man. Why should I fear? What have I lost by death? --------

lov lif liv til deth die til ded be til don, kill

call8me8jim — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 11:48:34 GMT

ARTIST: Blue Öyster Cult TITLE: Veteran of the Psychic Wars Lyrics and Chords [Capo 3] You see me now, a veteran Of a thousand psychic wars I've been living on the edge so long Where the winds of limbo roar And I'm young enough to look at And far too old to see All the scars are on the inside I'm not sure that there's anything left of me / Em Em7 / A Em / : / A Em / / C Em - - / A - B - / {Refrain} Don't let these shakes go on It's time we had a break from it It's time we had some leave We've been living in the flames We've been eating out our brains Oh, please don't let these shakes go on / Am Em / Am EmAm Am Em Am EmAm / Am7 Am - / / EmAm Am / / EmAm EmAm Em - / You ask me why I'm weary Why I can't speak to you You blame me for my silence Say it's time I changed and grew But the war's still going on, dear And there's no end that I know And I can't say if we're ever I can't say if we're ever gonna be free {Refrain} You see me now a veteran Of a thousand psychic wars My energy is spent at last And my armor is destroyed I have used up all my weapons And I'm helpless and bereaved Wounds are all I'm made of Did I hear you say that this is victory {As Refrain} Don't let these shakes go on It's time we had a break from it Send me to the rear Where the tides of madness swell And been sliding into hell Oh, please don't let shakes go on Don't let these shakes go on Don't let these shakes go on

things the waiter said with a grin

call8me8jim — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 13:59:36 GMT

bobine дроссель estrangulación en sangre

have a punny good day

call8me8jim — Sat, 13 Jun 2009 08:33:08 GMT

today i made a Cephalopod pun. ... life is good.

notice

call8me8jim — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 09:06:41 GMT

god is a pervert, a pervert wit a twisted sence of humor. thats why he's alllllways watching, over us.

for the cronic lone disenters in the group.

call8me8jim — Sun, 31 May 2009 02:58:16 GMT

Confronting the Petty Tyrant by Mariana Caplan E VERYBODY WHO LIVES IN COMMUNITY - WHETHER A COHOUSING group or an ashram - has met a petty tyrant. In The Fire from Within (Pocket Books, 1991) Carlos Castaneda defines the petty tyrant as: "a tormentor, someone who either holds the power of life and death over warriors, or simply annoys them to distraction." Whenever the petty tyrant walks into the room your inner artillery is instantly alert and ready for combat. Everything she says - or doesn't say - gets to you. The petty tyrant is that person in community whom you either go to great lengths to avoid - at times missing meals or staying away from certain events in order to avoid encounter with her, or whom you have decided to confront head-on, making it your personal mission to change her for the benefit of all. While we rarely directly address the issue of petty tyrants in community, we tend to gossip about them endlessly. We give ourselves full liberty to complain about how so-and-so did this, or how irresponsibly so-and-so handled that. Yet, we are rarely willing to recognize that the petty tyrant exists as a part of every community, and to discover what it means to be consciously in relationship with him. Petty tyrants come in many forms. Castaneda divides the tyrant into three subclasses. The first, "petty tyrants," or pinches tiranos, are fearsome, terror-inspiring individuals, often physically or emotionally abusive, who wreak havoc on our lives simply by existing. The second class of tyrants, pinches tiranitos, or "little petty tyrants," persecute and inflict misery on the lives of others, but generally don't cause irreparable damage. They may storm out of the room now and then, or deliberately create problems, but they don't threaten the overall safety of the community. The third class Castaneda calls repinches tiranitos - "small-fry petty tyrants," or pinches tiranitos chiquititos - "teensy-weensy petty tyrants." A number of this type of petty tyrant generally exists in any community. Whereas the presence of "small-fry petty tyrants" is disturbing, even highly irritating sometimes, they cause problems only by disturbing our peace of mind, or interrupting the flow of communion between community members. It is the latter two types (not the seriously abusive ones) that we will deal with here. Whereas commonly one or two people in a community serve as petty tyrants for the majority of members, individual community members often have different petty tyrants. The man who grates on your nerves like no other may also be your best friend's husband - whom she loves despite his eccentricities. And your personal petty tyrant may change from time to time. The woman who tormented you to no end when you first joined your community may have later become your close friend. Reactions to the petty tyrant vary. Some people treat him as sub-human, no longer able to find characteristics resembling a human being's. Others befriend him, either for their own self-interests (to fend off his wrath), or out of compassion. I tried making friends with the petty tyrant in my community for a long time. I was warned about X when I first arrived, but had decided that I would stand by him; I would be immune to his tirades; I would be the martyr who single-handedly confronted the force of evil in the community. I was fooling myself. I did befriend him, for a time, but I was not being kind out of the fullness of my heart, or from a place of compassion for the pain that gave rise to his antics. Instead, I was doing backbends around him - walking on eggshells in order to appease him and stay out of his way. Terrified of his rage, I codependently catered to his needs to avoid his fury. Although my actions appeared righteous, they were no better than those who engaged him and fought him tooth and nail - it was just the other side of the coin. One day it became clear that I had been supporting him as an act of self-defense - not because I was compassionate. Recognizing this, I had no choice but to stop relating to him codependently, and to instead take full responsibility for my relationship with him. Our relationship changed dramatically - and not necessarily for the better in terms of my personal comfort. The petty tyrant stopped being kind to me; I became yet another community member whom he perceived was trying to persecute him; I became the target of the very wrath I had tried so hard to evade. On the flip side, I now have a working, adult relationship with him. Our relationship is not "working" in the conventional sense of the word, and everything is not always nice between us, but I am working. I am working to not let him drain me, to not obsess on my difficulties with him, to treat him kindly but not falsely, and to stay out of his way when I'm feeling sensitive and vulnerable. Furthermore, from time to time we share good moments together. And if I succeed in my work with him, it is I who will benefit the most. We have two choices in terms of how we handle our petty tyrant: either we work with her, or we don't work with her. If we work with her, we grow, and the whole community benefits from our work. If we don't work with her, at best, we stagnate; at worst, we spiral downward in our dynamic with her until the situation becomes so unbearable that either we, or the petty tyrant, gets ejected from the situation, or the relationship shuts down entirely. When we don't remain conscious in our relationship with our petty tyrant, instead of relating to her we "react." The type of reaction we have largely depends upon our personality and tendencies. If we are anger-based, we fight with her. If we are fear-based, we try to avoid her. If we tend to feel victimized by life, we blame our personal problems on her. But we have another option. We can respond to our petty tyrant consciously and deliberately. We can respond on the personal level, the political or community level, and the spiritual level. Working with the petty tyrant on any one level will affect all three, even if we are unaware of it. On the personal level, we work with the petty tyrant for the sake of our own sanity. If we refuse to work with him, we suffer. If we work with him, we've got a chance. The personal level means working with our own emotional patterns, noticing patterns in the people whom we attract, and realizing that something in us makes us react so strongly to the petty tyrant, no matter how tyrannical. On the community level, the level of politics, working with the petty tyrant means confronting the forces of aggression. Unconscious aggression (as compared to simple anger) generates the competitive, me-centered, "dog-eats-dog" attitude that's so common in our culture. Many of us gravitate to community as an alternative to the pervasive aggression in mainstream life. Yet we often perpetuate the same forms of aggression on a subtler level when we live in community. If we really support nonviolence, we can take a radical stand for it by eliminating the aggression in our own lives - and there is no better opportunity for this than in the presence of a petty tyrant. A common response to the petty tyrant is to fight back (consciously or unconsciously) with aggression - even indirect, passive aggression. If we believe we're trying to live in harmony, as long as we remain in conflict with the petty tyrant we're kidding ourselves. Generally speaking, we see ourselves as non-aggressors--except for when we think aggression is justified. However, if we want to be truly nonviolent we must practice non-aggression always - not just when it suits us! To react with hostility to the petty tyrant is to perpetuate the cycle of animosity and dominance in the world, whereas to choose to work consciously with the petty tyrant is an opportunity, in our own small way, to help reduce the amount of aggression rampant in the world. On the spiritual level, the petty tyrant affords us the opportunity to confront the workings of our own minds, and the possibility to transcend our own pettiness. Castaneda goes so far as to say that if we are trying to grow spiritually, and we don't have a petty tyrant, we should seek one out! The petty tyrant provides an opportunity like none other - he allows us to face and come to terms with ourselves. Working with the petty tyrant on a spiritual level does not mean that our reactivity and difficulties with him ever go away. Instead, it means that we learn to be steady in the face of our own reactivity; we learn to live in a way that we are not dominated by or at the effect of harsh external forces. My friend J. is one of the most reliable, dependable, trustworthy and caring people you could ever meet. He is a pillar of our community, and loved by all. How he got to be that way was by marrying the community petty tyrant, by staying with her, and by loving her through it all. J. has used the petty tyrant aspect of his wife to strengthen himself, and at the same time unceasingly loved her for who she is. He has earned the integrity that characterizes his life. Now that I have, hopefully, convinced you how necessary it is to work with the petty tyrant, let me suggest some ways to work with her. Unfortunately, there are no easy answers, just experiments you can try, wisdom you can access, and advice you can attempt to follow. However, it is mostly a process of trial and error. Every situation will have a different optimal response. Sometimes you will hit the mark, sometimes you'll miss. Keep Your Problems to Yourself A great deal of violence and aggression happens under the guise of honesty and truthfulness. New Age philosophy encourages us to express our feelings, to communicate honestly, to say what is on our minds. Sometimes that works just fine ... and sometimes it doesn't! I used to be a real martyr when it came to truth telling. My northern California education taught me to "own" my feelings and express them. I thought it my moral obligation to tell all petty tyrants in my life exactly how I felt about everything they did. It not only got me into trouble, but caused them unnecessary hurt as well. Consider the distinction between catharsis and cathexis. Catharsis is when you let it all out. You scream at somebody, or pound pillows, or call a meeting to express how angry you are with somebody. Sometimes this is necessary (the talking, not the yelling). Sometimes the tension between two individuals is too great and needs to be worked out externally. However, another option is cathexis - the process of containing emotional tension within yourself. Cathexis is not repression; you don't deny the existence of difficult emotions and feelings. You simply let them be there and allow yourself to feel them. Initially, the feelings may become magnified; but if you let them be, neither acting them out nor trying to change them, they will eventually lose their charge. Cathexis is a powerful and practical tool that I didn't even know about until I joined a community and needed a more responsible way to deal with my feelings. Do Something Radical in the Face of Your Pain Try this experiment: In the face of the intensity of your reactions, say something genuinely kind to your petty tyrant. The only trick to this is that your words must be sincere and come from the heart, not from a place of antagonism. This will not be easy, because it directly confronts your own pride. As I was complaining to a friend about my latest peeve with my petty tyrant, he suggested I try this exercise. Believe me, it took all my courage and will to say something nice to my petty assailant, but it broke the tension between us. She was in so much shock by my kindness that she couldn't even think of an angry retort. Keep a Sense of Humor As difficult as it may be, try to make a joke - both for your own sake and that of your petty tyrant. If he starts berating you about leaving your shoes in the middle of the floor, say, "But didn't you see the leaks in the ceiling? My shoes were the only things I had to catch the water with!" Then move your shoes. He may be further annoyed that you made a joke, but at least it will help you lighten up in the face of his attack (and it might even lighten him up, too). "Be That Which Nothing Can Take Root In" A poisonous plant cannot grow if there is no soil in which to grow roots. Similarly, the success of the petty tyrant's antics depends on your willingness to allow those antics to take "root" in yourself. "Being that which nothing can take root in" involves not only stopping the game of revolving aggression, but never agreeing to play in the first place. Whether consciously or unconsciously, the petty tyrant wants to get a rise out of you, wants to get to you, wants your energy, attention, and life blood - even if her words and actions are essentially saying, "Stay away from me." If no one supports her tirade, the tyrant can not sustain her game. If the petty tyrant goes around throwing things, or doesn't show up to help with the dishes, or interrupts meetings with inappropriate comments, and you don't react to her, but instead proceed with whatever needs to be done, you have disrupted her game. Realize That Your Petty Tyrant Contains Both Darkness and Light Anybody who has ever fallen in love probably knows the initial rush of feeling that you have found your own personal God, only to later recognize that he or she is just a human being complete with positive and negative qualities. If you have ever liked your petty tyrant, even for an instant, strive to remember that this same person who makes your cells contract with distaste is also the person whom you once found kind and attractive. He hasn't changed. You may have learned a little bit more about him, but he is essentially the same person. Take note of the times when you feel love or appreciation for your petty tyrant. Acknowledging these times can be difficult. It is easier to think of your petty tyrant as evil, thus hardening yourself to him. Yet when you acknowledge that within your petty tyrant there also exist qualities of caring, kindness, and love, then you can allow yourself to open to his humanness. Don't open to it naively, believing that he will never hurt you again, but open to the fact of his pain and suffering. When you feel empathetic space within yourself, be spacious with your petty tyrant. Say hello, offer to help with a project he's working on, or deliberately choose to sit next to him. When you aren't feeling spacious, do your best to acknowledge his good qualities, and stay patient until your mood changes. ... And Whose Petty Tyrant Are You? A friend of mine says: "If you're in a community and you don't think it has a petty tyrant, you're probably it!" We tend to forget that most of us - at some point - are somebody else's petty tyrant. We can often see in someone's face, or hear in his response to us, the times when we are grinding on his nerves. When we see that we are causing this reaction in somebody else, we tend to feel hurt. "He doesn't understand me." "He doesn't know why I did what I did, or why I acted the way I acted." "He doesn't know the amount of stress I'm under." On the other hand, when the petty tyrant is getting on our nerves, we think that we understand him entirely. We think we've got his number. We believe we know what's going on. We don't consider that he feels as misunderstood by us as we do when someone else has a similar reaction to us. Constructive Feedback Can Be Helpful There is a time and a place for giving constructive feedback to your petty tyrant. The time, however, is not in the midst of a heated argument, but when the intensity of your own reactivity and emotions have passed, and your perspective is more objective. Similarly, the "place" is not at the scene of the petty tyrant's most recent tirade, but instead in a quiet setting, when support is nearby. Constructive feedback is valuable because the petty tyrant is only acting out because he is in pain. Feedback and encouragement to change, when provided in a helpful way, can assist the petty tyrant in changing those behaviors that ultimately serve only to alienate him further from community. Strive to Be Compassionate This leads us to the subject of compassion, which is easy to talk about, but hard to enact. We become compassionate when we realize that the petty tyrant is acting in the way that she acts because she is in pain. Period. Her harsh words and actions are stemming directly from her own suffering, and whether it comes out in the form of anger, self-pity, or trouble-making, its source is personal pain. When somebody behaves aggressively and hurtfully towards us, that person suffers the greatest pain. That is why she behaves as she does. Again, this is not an excuse to pity someone, nor to assert ourselves as less wounded or "more together" than her. Pity and compassion are very different things. Pity comes from a place of self-importance and superiority; compassion comes from the humility of having seen objectively and clearly the shared human predicament we're all in together. LASTLY, always keep in mind that your petty tyrant is your opportunity. While you can't change this person, you can certainly use his or her looming presence as grist for the mill - for learning to empower yourself and live a life of greater richness. Mariana Caplan is an author, lecturer, and counselor. She has written When Sons and Daughters Choose Alternative Lifestyles (Hohm Press, 1996) and the forthcoming Untouched: The Need for Genuine Affection in an Impersonal World (Hohm Press, 1998). She lives in community in Arizona.

family values

call8me8jim — Fri, 15 May 2009 23:18:18 GMT

never know your place

blahhhh - gh

call8me8jim — Fri, 15 May 2009 23:14:57 GMT

when darkness drown your bleeding heart and tyrants tear your world apart and none of it is making sense it's all mistakes or accidents we're all just players in a game the strings are never pulled the same and I have to make a change right now but nothing changes anyhow or any ways to change today seems fucking pointless anyway and sympathy it runs so deep and I can't even fall asleep I'd be abysmal to presume solutions to stave off our doom yes, I mean our sudden soon to end through all these fading times we spend and when I think away on things I pissed I'd ask to be writ off your list no social skills no special price I can only try to empathize good memories held in my hand through finger cracks they fall like sand if only there were some to keep I'd have to trade them all for sleep and losing sleep adds so much time the days can drag my bleeding mind into a state of jagged shock that twists and winds but never stops and dreams are memories as well and some of them read just like hell if your could be my only friend I'd cherish all the time we spend and though we're so infrequent now our hearts dance somewhere anyhow so many make our lives seem cheap and in the end we all must sleep and endless flaming turning fire the setting sun that rises higher the beautiful bright blinding light that never quite turns into night our hearts can fly up freely there our minds can breathe such precious air to all my fine fair weather friends good tidings are all I can send I forgive you though you never knew just what it was you put me through and to all my enemies the same your obsessions kept me in this game and according to this life I've led I should have lost more than my head and on the edge that tilts so steep I dream awake only of sleep

a quote

call8me8jim — Wed, 06 May 2009 12:08:05 GMT

"remember will robinson, new freinds may be silver, but your old freind was titanium steel aloy , with real crome plate. fare-well! " -Robot B9, from lost in space-

we the the few , indivisible, with ...

call8me8jim — Mon, 04 May 2009 10:01:33 GMT

"If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich." John Fitzgerald Kennedy 35th U.S. President (1917 – 1963)

present, defenition: the past and the future coming together to make somthing not quite as good as either

call8me8jim — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 02:19:41 GMT

In discussion of counterfactual history, a divergence point (DP), also referred to as a departure point or point of divergence (POD) is a historical event, with two possible postulated outcomes. Typically these represent the actual course of historical events (Napoleon lost the Battle of Waterloo) and another, such as Napoleon won the Battle of Waterloo. In alternate history fiction, the POD is used as the starting point for the extrapolation, as it is indeed in much of the science fiction genre. In Philip K. Dick's The Man in the High Castle, the point of divergence is Franklin D. Roosevelt's fictional assassination in 1933 (q.v. Giuseppe Zangara). In Eric Flint's alternate history (a time travel variation) he postulates an Assiti Shard event which juxtaposes parts of our planet including the town of Grantville, West Virginia in both space and time—a twist on scientist's referring to a space-time continuum in relativisic (Einsteinian) physics. Similar implausible point of divergences are often referred to as being done by alien space bats. One multiverse theory posits that PODs are occurring all the time, with an infinite variety of possible outcomes that each creates a universe, this having been used as a premise to the 1990s U.S. television series Sliders. Speculative fiction is full of universes based loosely on the concept of multiple universes, including many fantasy milieus. Point of Divergence is also the title of an amateur press association for alternate history fiction and the discussion of topics related to it, which published its 51st issue in May 2008. ------------------- Please participate in a vote to determine the future copyright terms of Wikimedia projects (vote ends May 3, 2009). Vote now! [Hide] [Help us with translations!] Alien space bats From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation, search Alien space bats (ASBs) is a neologism for plot devices used in alternate history to create a point of divergence that would otherwise be implausible. Contents[hide] 1 Definition 2 History 3 Alien space bats in popular culture 4 See also 5 References 6 External links 6.1 Interactive sites 6.2 Non-interactive sites [edit] Definition Alien space bats originally was used as a sarcastic attack on poor alternate histories due to lack of plausibility. These attacks are usually phrased in terms of the need for alien space bats or by saying the alternate history has gone into "ASB territory". This original definition was used by one critic to criticize Harry Harrison's Stars and Stripes trilogy.[1] The term eventually evolved into a deus ex machina to create an impossible point of divergences.[2] Examples include changes to the physical laws of nature, introducing magic into the world, time travel, and advanced aliens interfering in human affairs. An example of aliens interfering in human affairs to change the direction of history is Harry Turtledove's Worldwar series.[3] [edit] History The term "alien space bats" was first coined, then popularized in the usenet group soc.history.what-if. Alison Brooks is credited as the creator of the term, using it to debunk the possibility of a successful Operation Sealion by saying the only way it could be successful was if alien space bats helped the Nazis.[4][5] Brooks regretted the use of the ASBs as a supernatural agency, preferring to restrict them to rhetoric.[2] S. M. Stirling credited Brooks with creating the term in the acknowledgments section of Dies the Fire[6] and also used the plot device to send Nantucket back in time in Island in the Sea of Time and change the laws of nature in Dies the Fire.[7][8] One character throughout Dies the Fire and its sequels believes the change to the laws of nature was done by an advanced alien race because the changes were finely tailored and refers to this race as alien space bats.[9][10] In a review of Dies the Fire, Dale Cozort addressed the implausibility of the novel by saying "Just say to yourself, 'The elder gods or alien space bats took our toys away and that’s all there is to it.'"[11] Paul Di Filippo uses the term often when reviewing the series.[8][12] The term also appeared in John Birmingham's 2008 novel Without Warning. [13] [edit] Alien space bats in popular culture In Ken MacLeod's Learning the World alien space bats actually appear as characters in the novel as an in-joke.[14][15] The gaming magazine Pyramid published an article describing how someone could play as an alien space bat in a role-playing game.[5] [edit] See also Assiti Shards effect Jonbar Hinge [edit] References ^ Bryn Monnery. "Robert Conroy’s “1862: A Novel”: a Critical Analysis". http://www.geocities.com/littlegreenmen.geo/RC1862.htm. Retrieved on 2008-10-08. ^ a b Stas Bekman. "What are the Alien Space Bats? (soc.history.what-if)". stason.org. http://stason.org/TULARC/history/what-if/8-What-are-the-Alien-Space-Bats-soc-history-what-if.html. Retrieved on 2008-10-08. ^ "Frequently Asked Questions". Changing the Times. http://www.changingthetimes.net/admin/FAQ.htm. Retrieved on 2008-10-08. ^ Alison Brooks (1999-04-15). "Alien Space Bats: A History". soc.history.what-if. http://groups.google.com/group/soc.history.what-if/browse_thread/thread/a1ed1ccfe92a3bdf/65e12e60759b121b?lnk=gst&q=Alison+Brooks%2C+alien+space+bats#65e12e60759b121b. Retrieved on 2008-10-09. ^ a b Matt Riggsby (November 18, 2005). "Alien Space Bats for GURPS Fourth Edition". Pyramid. http://www.sjgames.com/pyramid/sample.html?id=5675. Retrieved on 19 December 2008. ^ Stirling, S.M. (2004). Dies the Fire. New York: Roc. pp. 496. ISBN 0451459792. ^ Christopher Nuttall. "Alison Brooks". Changing the Times. http://www.changingthetimes.net/samples/brooks/alison_brooks.htm. Retrieved on 2008-10-08. ^ a b Paul Di Filippo. "Off the Shelf: Dies the Fire". Book Review. SciFi.com. http://www.scifi.com/sfw/issue382/books.html. Retrieved on 2008-10-08. ^ "S.M. Stirling: Turning Points". Interview. Locus Online. January 2006. http://www.locusmag.com/2006/Issues/01Stirling.html. Retrieved on 2008-10-08. ^ S. M. Stirling. "The Protector's War Chapter 2". Sample Chapter. smstriling.com. http://hem.bredband.net/b104699/books/protwar/protwar_2.html. Retrieved on 2008-10-08. ^ Dale Cozort (2004). "Review: Dies The Fire - By Steve Stirling". Dale Cozort's Alternate History Newsletter. http://members.aol.com/althist1/June04/diesthefire.htm. Retrieved on 2008-10-08. ^ Filippo, Paul Di (September 05, 2005). "The Protector's War". Book review. Sci Fi Weekly. http://www.scifi.com/sfw/books/sfw866.html. Retrieved on 28 November 2008. ^ Birmingham, John (2009). Without Warning. New York: Del Rey Books. p. 33, 261. ISBN 978-0-345-50289-6. ^ Harrison, Niall; Dan Hartland (2005-12-15). "Two Views: Learning the World by Ken Macleod". Book Review. Strange Horizons. http://www.strangehorizons.com/reviews/2005/12/two_views_cit-comments.shtml. Retrieved on 2008-10-08. ^ "Ken MacLeod: Politics & SF". Interview. Locus Online. September 2006. http://www.locusmag.com/2006/Issues/09MacLeod.html. Retrieved on 2008-10-08. [edit] External links [edit] Interactive sites Alien Space Bats and Other Magic on the Alternate History Discussion Board. Alien Space Bats on Alternative History Wikia Alien Space Bats on the Alternate History FAQ page of the Alternate History Wiki Alien Space Bats Yahoo Group Alien Space Bats and Such on The Ark: Counter-Factual.Net Discussion Forums Alien Space Bats on TV Tropes [edit] Non-interactive sites Alien Space Bats on Alternate History Books The Original Alien Space Bats - Irony and Steal - a fictional story featuring alien space bats by Alison Brooks Retrieved from "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alien_space_bats" Categories: Alternate history | Plot devices | The Emberverse series | Nantucket series | Alternate history fandom | Science fiction terminology Views Article Discussion Edit this page History Personal tools Log in / create account Navigation Main page Contents Featured content Current events Random article Search Interaction About Wikipedia Community portal Recent changes Contact Wikipedia Donate to Wikipedia Help Toolbox What links here Related changes Upload file Special pages Printable version Permanent link Cite this page This page was last modified on 13 April 2009, at 18:39 (UTC). All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License. (See Copyrights for details.) Wikipedia® is a registered trademark of the Wikimedia Foundation, Inc., a U.S. registered 501(c)(3) tax-deductible nonprofit charity. Privacy policy About Wikipedia Disclaimers ----------------------------- The book generated an unusual amount of fan involvement. When first contemplating a sequel, Flint decided to throw open the universe—perhaps instigated by reception of fan-fiction on 1632 Tech Manual—and invited other authors to help shape the series milieu and fictional canon and began putting together the anthology Ring of Fire . ------------------------- Shared universe From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation, search A shared universe is a literary technique in which several different authors create works of fiction that share aspects such as settings or characters and that are intended to be read as taking place in a single universe. This can be contrasted with collaborative writing, in which multiple authors work on a single story. Shared universes are more common within fantasy and science fiction than in other genres. Examples include the Star Trek, DC Universe, Marvel Universe, Star Wars, Gundam, Macross, Dragon Ball, Forgotten Realms, Cthulhu Mythos, BattleTech and Metal Gear franchises. There is no formalized definition of when the appearance of fictional characters in another author's work constitutes a shared universe. Fiction in some media, such as most television programs and many comic book titles, is understood to require the contribution of multiple authors and does not by itself create a shared universe. Incidental appearances, such as that of d'Artagnan in Cyrano de Bergerac, may instead be considered literary cameos. More substantial interaction between characters from different sources is often marketed as a crossover. While crossovers occur in a shared universe, not all crossovers are intended to merge their settings' back-stories and are instead used for marketing, parody, or to explore what-if scenarios.[1][2] The term has also been used in a wider, non-literary sense to convey interdisciplinary[3] or social commonality,[4] often in the context of a "shared universe of discourse." ----------------------------- Development Although there are Victorian examples of counterfactual history, it was not until the very late 20th century that the exploration of counterfactuals in history was to begin in earnest. An early example is If It Had Happened Otherwise (1931) which features a contribution by Winston Churchill who examined what would have happened had Robert E. Lee won at the Battle of Gettysburg. [1] Although this volume is notable for featuring imagined histories by serious historians, the histories are presented in narrative form (in most cases with a fairly whimsical tone) without any analysis of the reasoning behind these scenarios, so they fall short of modern standards for serious counterfactual history and are closer to the fictional alternate history genre. A significant foray into treating counterfactual scenarios seriously was made by the economic historian Robert Fogel. In his 1964 book Railroads and American Economic Growth: Essays in Econometric History, Fogel tried to use quantitative methods to imagine what the U.S. economy would have been like in 1890 if there were no railroads. [2] Fogel hypothesizes that, in the absence of the railroad, America’s large canal system would have been expanded and its roads would have been improved through pavement; both of these improvements would take away from the social impact of the railroad. He estimates that “the level of per capita income achieved by January 1, 1890 would have been reached by March 31, 1890, if railroads had never been invented.” [2] Few further attempts to bring counterfactual history into the world of academia were made until the 1991 publication of Plausible Worlds: Possibility and Understanding in History and the Social Sciences by the Cambridge sociologist Geoffrey Hawthorn, who carefully explored three different counterfactual scenarios. [3] This work helped inspire Virtual History: Alternatives and Counterfactuals (1997), a collection of essays exploring different scenarios by a number of historians, edited by the historian Niall Ferguson. Ferguson has become a significant advocate of counterfactual history, using counterfactual scenarios to illustrate his objections to deterministic theories of history such as Marxism, and to put forward a case for the importance of contingency in history, theorizing that a few key changes could result in a significantly different modern world.

a ring is also caled a ...

call8me8jim — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 13:27:10 GMT

In geometry, a torus (pl. tori) is a surface of revolution generated by revolving a circle in three dimensional space about an axis coplanar with the circle, which does not touch the circle. Examples of tori include the surfaces of doughnuts and inner tubes. The solid contained by the surface is known as a toroid. A circle rotated about a chord of the circle is called a torus in some contexts, but this is not a common usage in mathematics. The shape produced when a circle is rotated about a chord resembles a round cushion. Torus was the Latin word for a cushion of this shape[citation needed].

" please state you questions in the form of a response" -starbuck wonka-

call8me8jim — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 19:37:57 GMT

Q:statment: fear leads to anger, anger to hate, hate to the dark side. morality is calsed by fear of ones own conchince. hmmm A:ramifications? (please use whole sentences) :

video

call8me8jim — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 02:36:56 GMT

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fAkd9aJjrHo

duck soup

call8me8jim — Fri, 26 Dec 2008 23:03:43 GMT

"Freedonia is broke and on the verge of revolution. Mrs. Teasdale (Margaret Dumont), Freedonia's principal benefactress, will lend the country 20 million dollars if the president withdraws and places the government in the hands of the "fearless, progressive" Rufus T. Firefly (Groucho Marx). At his inauguration, Firefly shows up late, insults everyone in sight, and sings a song about how he intends to abuse his power. Naturally, the crowd cheers wildly." -Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide- best movie ever!

lyrics/lol

call8me8jim — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 09:37:05 GMT

the cia is gona kill the next budha before he has a chance fuc anything up. Come on, although ya try to discredit Ya still never read it I'll thread it poetic the fury that they had in '66 I'm mad Still knee-deep in the system's shit he was a body remover I'll give you a dose come close To the rage inside of me Fist in the air, in my hart is hypocrisy Movements come and leaders go movments speak, and people know thots kan kill these punks Got bullets in their heads, red sqaud police, the judges, the feds Networks we plead, don't keep keepin' people calm color color code message societys striations, separations , defenitions You know they went after King When he spoke out on Vietnam He turned the power to the have-nots he didn't see ther color, just saw ther harts saw the rags that put on And then came the shots Yeah! Yeah, back in this... Wit'n mind I flex left it to locals, lackin' dat finesse Whadda I got to, whadda I got to do to wake ya up To shake gods cup, to break a dolar up Cause blood still flows in the gutter it's always red little boy says power and it makes shutter fuck the groove, get the love Then stick and move like I was Cassius ther was no clay ther was nly mohomed the budha, the jesus, yea every one was ritchis we keep pullin schemes on the dream begin the end Ya better beware paranoiya in the air 20/20 visions for pictographic metaphors Networks at work, keepin' people calor coded hate murdered X and they said it was god he gave them back ther pride the wisdom was to come And then came the shot Uggh! What was the price on his head? first half of a plan What was the price on his head! take a century to do what he had comin up next you won't hear the shot i'm already dead a.d.d. 360 wow it's a little more effective paliative, directive. 'He may be a real contender for this position should he abandon his supposed obediance to white liberal doctrine of non-violence...and embrace black nationalism' 'Through counter-intelligence it should be possible to pinpoint potential trouble-makers... and neutralize them. Through counter-intelligence it should be possible to pinpoint potential trouble-makers... and neutralize them and neutralize them, and neutralize them, and neutralize them' Wake up! Wake up! Wake up! Wake up! Wake up! Wake up! Wake up! Wake uuuuup! How long? Not long, cause what we reap is what you sow.

life worth living is strange

call8me8jim — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 10:36:24 GMT

Reading makes a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man. Francis Bacon (1561-1626) beware the woodsmans axe lightning, fire steal and flesh. i think that enuf people have been planing for long enuf that if the fish bowl gets shaken up again then things won't look anything the same as they did when it all went up, power will become mony, position influence , and influence will become power, mony will become advantage as everthing setlles again. i hope it's not ugly. To know what you prefer, instead of humbly saying Amen to what the world tells you you ought to prefer, is to have kept your soul alive. Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894) the days of curiosity are gone, when things work so well who needs to know how things work. knowing how things work is for the people who deal with things that don't work, they are strange, ...maybe they are beneath me. why think when doing feels sooo much beter. shut your stupid brain up before i do it for you.

tilt

call8me8jim — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 07:20:33 GMT

our disatisfaction is what makes the best of us. --------- http://www.4shared.com/ -------- in your memory, what hapens when ther are a lot of questions that you can't answer what hapens when you can't answer questions. ---------------- 22 minutes in, the invisible man, season 1, episode 16 , tittle: flowers for hobbes this is how i feel all the time. ----------- One of the darkest evils of our world is surely the unteachable wildness of the Good. H.G. Wells (1866-1946) -------------- "your childen are not yours, they come throo you but not from you, and thow they are with you , they do not belong to you." do not lead me, i may not folow do not folow me, i don't always know wer i'm going just wander with me, speak with me, tell me what you see, as we try and find our way. - we each try to own eachother in our own little way, we live and we strive and it all falls away. we try to own our selfs , we fight to controle our lives, is it any wonder that we find it so hard to live and let live, is it any wonder that we find it so hard to accept it when we die. _starbuck ennis_late_08_ --------------- Lit My Own Worst Enemy Lyrics Can we forget about the things I said When I was drunk I didn't mean to call you that I can't remember what was said or what you threw at me Please tell me, please tell me Why My car is in the front yard, And I'm Sleeping with my clothes on Came in through the window last night And your gone Gone It's no suprise to me I am my own worst enemy 'Cause every now and then I kick the living shit out of me The smoke alarm is going off, And there's a cigarette Still burning, Please tell me why my car is in the front yard And I'm sleeping with my clothes on Came in through the window last night and your gone Gone please tell me why my car is in the front yard And I'm sleeping with my clothes on I came in through the window last night It's no suprise to me I am my own worst enemy 'Cause every now and then I kick the living shit out of me Can we forget about the things I said When I was drunk I didn't mean to call you that ------ if you release a man from hell he'll take it with him in his memorys. ------ Perhaps it is impossible for a person who does no good to do no harm. Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811-1896)

thansgiving poem

call8me8jim — Sat, 22 Nov 2008 21:44:11 GMT

"your childen are not yours, they come throo you but not from you, and thow they are with you , they do not belong to you." do not lead me, i may not folow do not folow me, i don't always know wer i'm going just wander with me, speak with me, tell me what you see, as we try and find our way. - we each try to own eachother in our own little way, we live and we strive and it all falls away. we try to own our selfs , we fight to controle our lives, is it any wonder that we find it so hard to live and let live, is it any wonder that we find it so hard to accept it when we die. _starbuck

cristmas poem

call8me8jim — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 13:24:26 GMT

once upon a midnight dreary, wie i pondered weak and waery. ther came a gental taping , a taping at my chanbur dore. somthing somthing, it's probly my imagination, my girlfreind died , boohoo, oh shit a bird dude that dird is fuckin creepy. dude i think that bird died up ther cals it hasn't moved in a wile. the end

i like making pictures that makke me seem egostistical. :)

call8me8jim — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 23:58:38 GMT

javascript:playMe(328); http://www.thislife.org/Radio_Episode.aspx?episode=328 http://audio.thisamericanlife.org/player/CPRadio_player.php?podcast=http://www.thisamericanlife.org/xmlfeeds/328.xml&proxyloc=http://audio.thisamericanlife.org/player/customproxy.php ------------- http://www.thislife.org/Radio_Episode.aspx?episode=318 ----------- Any live cell with fewer than two live neighbours dies, as if by loneliness. Any live cell with more than three live neighbours dies, as if by overcrowding. Any live cell with two or three live neighbours lives, unchanged, to the next generation. Any dead cell with exactly three live neighbours comes to life. --------------- ----------- "it's not easy for me becals i'm thotfull." -david leterman to bill o'riely- ----------- Not to kill any living creature Not to steal anything Not to engage in any form of sexual misconduct Not to lie or use false speech Not to trade alcoholic beverages Not to discuss the faults and misdeeds that occur by any Buddhist Not to praise oneself or disparage others Not to be stingy or abusive towards those in need Not to harbor anger or resentment or encourage others to be angry Not to criticise or slander the Three Jewels ---------- ) delineated 18 major vows and forty-six minor vows. These Bodhisattva vows are still used by the Gelukpa and Kagyu traditions of Indo-Tibetan Buddhism. The eighteen major vows (as actions to be abandoned) are as follows: Praising oneself or belittling others due to attachment to receiving material offerings, praise and respect. Not giving material aid or (due to miserliness) not teaching the Dharma to those who are suffering and without a protector. Not listening to others' apologies or striking others Abandoning the Mahayana by saying that Mahayana texts are not the words of Buddha or teaching what appears to be the Dharma but is not. Taking things belonging to Buddha, Dharma or Sangha. Abandoning the holy Dharma by saying that texts which teach the three vehicles are not the Buddha's word. With anger depriving ordained ones of their robes, beating and imprisoning them or causing them to lose their ordination even if they have impure morality, for example, by saying that being ordained is useless. Committing any of the five extremely negative actions: (1) killing one's mother, (2) killing one's father, (3) killing an arhat, (4) intentionally drawing blood from a Buddha or (5) causing schism in the Sangha community by supporting and spreading sectarian views. Holding distorted views (which are contrary to the teaching of Buddha, such as denying the existence of the Three Jewels or the law of cause and effect etc.) Destroying towns, villages, cities or large areas by means such as fire, bombs, pollution or black magic. Teaching emptiness to those whose minds are unprepared. Causing those who have entered the Mahayana to turn away from working for the full enlightenment of Buddhahood and encouraging them to work merely for their own liberation from suffering. Causing others to abandon their Pratimoksha vows. Belittling the Sravaka or Pratyekabuddha vehicle (by holding and causing others to hold the view that these vehicles do not abandon attachment and other delusions). Falsely stating that oneself has realised profound emptiness and that if others meditate as one has, they will realize emptiness and become as great and as highly realized as oneself. Taking gifts from others who were encouraged to give you things originally intended as offerings to the Three Jewels. Not giving things to the Three Jewels that others have given you to give to them, or accepting property stolen from the Three Jewels. Causing those engaged in calm-abiding meditation to give it up by giving their belongings to those who are merely reciting texts or making bad disciplinary rules which cause a spiritual community not to be harmonious. Abandoning the either of the two types of Bodhicitta (aspiring and engaging). ----------- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bodhisattva_vows

love

call8me8jim — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 11:41:10 GMT

Fanaticism is governed by imagination rather than judgment. Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811-1896) "Love is not an answer, it is a reason." ---------------------- this life is a meens to an end, don't let the meens become the ends. --------------------- do it all now, entertain us, life is stupid, and contagius ------- Invention, it must be humbly admitted, does not consist in creating out of the void, but out of chaos; the materials must, in the first place, be afforded: it can give form to dark, shapeless substances, but cannot bring into being the substance itself. Mary Shelley (1797-1851) -------------- Go to sleep my darling, close your little eyes. Bright angels beside my darling abide Sleep peacefully and sweetly, look into dream's paradise. --- The literal translation for the original Brahms lullaby error , not found ----- Star, little star The night is approaching: the flame is tottering, and all are sleeping ------------ brain washed and conditioned ... repeatedly ... :) ------- i'm not gona ask for this problem, but it's here so i'm shure as hell gona enjoy it wile it's here. the moment is good. ------------- how is the moment?

Fix every thought

call8me8jim — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 09:34:45 GMT

this persistent and irational desire to be a real boy concerns me, tell me, do you hate your wooden skin? my mind is built without the normal filters or feedbacks. Fix every wandering thought upon That spot where all thought is done when in the truthe of living lies , no man knows ... i kling to these rare moments of sanity as if they matered and try to record them.

title pending

call8me8jim — Sat, 04 Oct 2008 00:10:37 GMT

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apophenia ---------------------- i've put most of who i was behind me, it keeps my back becals it loves me. i taste the parts that come up to suport me, i feel it as it comes up to suround me. a buble thikened rite in front of me, a slimy tastles shield for those who exite me. the kitsune trash of textures enlightning, a tastles section left us tacken nightly. wisdom of the tastles mexicaly cuisine. baxter dexter left to have a ight tea. fast smooth usless , forthwrite , dieing, unafraid and to bluf you and take a beeting. ---------------------- sleep seems like a distant memory. ---------------------- why dose everything make my hand shake so much? wer was i yesterday? was any of that real? who is this? ---------------------- in·nu·mer·ate (-nmr-t, -ny-) adj. Unfamiliar with mathematical concepts and methods. n. A person who is unfamiliar with mathematical concepts and methods. in·numer·a·cy n. ---------------------- http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=googlable 1. Googlable A state of being in which a person, place, or thing is found via Google. I don't date men who aren't Googlable. by SouthernBelle Aug 28, 2005 share this 0 comments 2. googlable Data is listed in a format that can be searched by Google. I removed my robots.txt file, so that my website would be googlable. by sexyhalibut Jun 3, 2004 share this 0 comments 3. Googlable Results are listed for someone you're looking up on Google. I would have sent this information to him, but he's not googlable. ---------------------- pray with your arms open, hug. and i opened my arms to a neibor as a prayer to god. i said only, thank you. for what you've given me, a hart to give , a prick to love. but somtimes the cheek you turn is harsh, and love you give, it burns. -starbuck ennis- -late 2008- ---------------------------------- http://www.sinfest.net/archive_page.php?comicID=2945 ---------------------------------- barfoot in the head ------------------- bable 17 ---------------- better than childhood who needs childhood when you've got _______ . ------------------------- a budhist moremon who's studying frederick wilhelm and William Gibson throo the eyes of hinline and spider robinson ------------------------- http://www.sinfest.net/archive_page.php?comicID=2947 ---------------------=== http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harm_reduction --------------------- Other harm reduction programs to be expanded on: Encouragement of the use of safer smoking alternatives such as vaporizers, as opposed to water pipes, cigarettes and straight pipes Encouragement of the use of smokeless systems of nicotine delivery, known as Tobacco harm reduction, as opposed to the much riskier method of burning and inhaling tobacco. Promote the use of safer modes of use such as safer crack pipes (as opposed to use of a pipe which may burn or cut the users mouth, increasing risk of transmittable diseases) Use of screens which are safer than the use of a brillo pad which may embed metal particles into the lungs. Promote various safer use strategies such as having a chronic alcoholic have a chaser of water between drinks. Advocate the use of a Substitute Decision Maker or Power of Attorney so a person's rent is paid before the drug of choice, ensuring the person always has housing. Provide vitamins to ensure a person's physical needs are somewhat met Lessen the use of mouthwash, gravol, etc as a substance to use, substitute with something less destructive to the human body. Allowing young people decision making power and access to contraceptives Allowing young people decision making power to harm children in utero. State regulated production and distribution of formerly illegal drugs (legalization) --------------------- the american flesh made dream, the american dream made fetish. -------------------- the disipline of despareation. --------------- tells you to comlete the sentence: who needs childhood when you've got _______ . --------------- Starbuck has been catching up on his sleep. --------------- if as wilhelm claimed "merit is in it's self ofensive" then i hope to ofend. if as wilhelm claimed "merit is in it's self ofensive" then i was trying to ofend. --------------- http://davidemeadows.newsvine.com/_news/2008/09/23/1898942-whats-wrong-with-the-bailout-tarp --------- http://www.myfoxcleveland.com/myfox/pages/Home/Detail?contentId=7541460&version=1&locale=EN-US&layoutCode=VSTY&pageId=1.1.1 -----------

run corse

call8me8jim — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 03:49:26 GMT

i just can't help my self, i've already got jesus, josef smith , budha, spider robinson, robert hienline, and my father bouncing around in my head, now i gota go throw a half genius wakjob like niechie into the mix. i am fo fucked, when i die gods gona have to play with dice just to be fair in desiding wer i go, heaven, telestial heaven, reincarnation, a higher plain, i would write wer hienline would send me but if i asked him he would just end up asking me this same question i'm asking my self now, or will i just never die becals no mater what i do i'll always be a child? oh well, at least i'm not puting anyone in my head that thinks i mite just turn into dust ... wait a danm minute! DANM YOU Wilhelm !!!! (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) :) LOL, GLAD I'M MORMON, WE GET THREE HEAVENS! :) don't tell anyone but i kinda hope i get to be a heavenly social worker between the midle one and the botom one. shhh! ------------------ jake stonbender ----------------------------- weird dosn't just hapen, you have to go out and find weird, with a mind for weird, you have to make weird. weird is a choice you make every day. ... normal dosn't just hapen... -------------------------------------- "i wish it wer time for cheers, but it's not. it's time for vengence!" -the maxx- by sam kieth http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ag4-3q3dncs&feature=related ------------------------------- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QK66BkqFVpQ&feature=related ------------ "the funy thing about ,out of the way places, is that that althow you rarely meet up with other peaple , when you do, they almost always end up being freind material" -spider robinson- ----------------------------------- is done healing other peaples wounds, i've got my own to tend to. is done healing other peaples wounds. i've got my own sht to deal with ------------------------------------- 4 questions to decide your strategy 1.Do you have a weak group? If yes, reinforce it. 2.Does your opponent have a weak group? If yes, plan to attack it. 3.Can you make a big territorial move? If yes, do it. 4.Could your opponent make a big territorial move or does s/he have a big territory? Try to prevent, destroy or reduce it with appropriate measures. --------------------------- most of the peaple who agree with me about what the truthe is choose to ignore the complexity of the truthe and ther by in ther actions they reject the way i think peaple should live their lives. and most of the peaple who live ther lives the way that i believe a life should be lived embracing the truthe, and living a good life becals of it, well those people usualy don't have the same truthe that i see. S.B. ------------------------- To invade the opponent's territory quite near the end of the game, with no particular plan, but with the hope that the invasion works or that the opponent makes a mistake. -------------------- Openly stressing you are Definitely Right when discussing or reviewing games just because your rank is higher than the person or people you are discussing with. --------------------- adrenalin, drugs and madness pic two and run with it. --------------- forgeting that i ever knew somone with ther name. --------------------- i forgot how much strait punches hert my wrists. aparently i also forgot how to trow an elbow too, and i've got the friction burn on my arm to proove it. fuck people, it's an auful word, the spelling makes no sence at all. ----------------------- "It's getting very hard to tell the vagrants apart from the hipsters downtown. I'm losing confidence in my ability to differentiate" - jhonen vasquez- on his twiter --------------------- "man is somthing to be surpassed! what have you done to surpass man?" fredrick nichie --------------------------- Thou great star! What would be thy happiness if thou hadst not those for whom thou shinest! --- The saint laughed at Zarathustra, and spake thus: "Then see to it that they accept thy treasures! They are distrustful of anchorites, and do not believe that we come with gifts. The fall of our footsteps ringeth too hollow through their streets. And just as at night, when they are in bed and hear a man abroad long before sunrise, so they ask themselves concerning us: Where goeth the thief? Go not to men, but stay in the forest! Go rather to the animals! Why not be like me--a bear amongst bears, a bird amongst birds?" "And what doeth the saint in the forest?" asked Zarathustra. The saint answered: "I make hymns and sing them; and in making hymns I laugh and weep and mumble: thus do I praise God. With singing, weeping, laughing, and mumbling do I praise the God who is my God. But what dost thou bring us as a gift?" When Zarathustra had heard these words, he bowed to the saint and said: "What should I have to give thee! Let me rather hurry hence lest I take aught away from thee!"--And thus they parted from one another, the old man and Zarathustra, laughing like schoolboys. --- "my pity is not a crucifiction" nitchie --- The hour when ye say: "What good is my happiness! It is poverty and pollution and wretched self-complacency. But my happiness should justify existence itself!" The hour when ye say: "What good is my reason! Doth it long for knowledge as the lion for his food? It is poverty and pollution and wretched self-complacency!" The hour when ye say: "What good is my virtue! As yet it hath not made me passionate. How weary I am of my good and my bad! It is all poverty and pollution and wretched self-complacency!" The hour when ye say: "What good is my justice! I do not see that I am fervour and fuel. The just, however, are fervour and fuel!" The hour when ye say: "What good is my pity! Is not pity the cross on which he is nailed who loveth man? But my pity is not a crucifixion." Have ye ever spoken thus? Have ye ever cried thus? Ah! would that I had heard you crying thus! It is not your sin--it is your self-satisfaction that crieth unto heaven; your very sparingness in sin crieth unto heaven! Where is the lightning to lick you with its tongue? Where is the frenzy with which ye should be inoculated? --- A new will teach I unto men: to choose that path which man hath followed blindly, and to approve of it--and no longer to slink aside from it, like the sick and perishing! --- When Zarathustra had spoken these words, he again looked at the people, and was silent. "There they stand," said he to his heart; "there they laugh: they understand me not; I am not the mouth for these ears. --- --- http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext99/spzar10.txt --- ------------------- that nichie shure is full of shit, but he comes up with some good conclutions as long as you keep him away from religion and if you can get him to stop saying superman over and over again. -starbuck ennis- ------------------------ And therefore are ye now angry with god and with his people. And unconscious envy is in the sidelong look of your contempt. I go not your way, ye despisers of the faith! Ye are no bridges for me to enlitenment! -starbuck ennis- froim the "F. U. Wilhelm" series --- What is the greatest thing, ye seekers? asketh the one seeking to be like god , that I may take it upon me and rejoice in my faith. i here by pledge : To humiliate oneself in order to mortify one's pride? To exhibit one's folly in order to mock at one's wisdom. and ther by ensure that my pride never overwelm my wills desire, and that my thirst for wisdom never be quenched thow my mind be at bursting. i here by pledge: To desert our cause when it celebrateth its triumph? go wer others fear to go, to find the undone and make it done, to find the forgoten and make them remembered . i here by pledge: To feed even on the least scraps of knoledge and wisdom, and for the sake of truth to suffer hunger of the ego. i here by pledge: To acept my trials with a greatfull hart and to not burnen others with the tasks set before me unless my need is great or they ofer ther hand, and to forgive those who do not ofer ther hands when i fall, but not to forget ther chioce, to hide my rememberence of ther neglect behind smiling eyes as i forgive and remember. i here by pledge: To go into dark places when that is wer ther is work to be done, and not disclaim nihlists nor zelits. i here by pledge: To love those who despise us, and give one's hand to the phantom when it is going to frighten us, to turn my cheek even when the one i feel has slited me is a representitive of god himself. -starbuck ennis- froim the "F. U. Wilhelm" series --- for is the perpis of the weak not to test the strong? do we not grow greater in our every triumf in direct prportion to the trial? --- ar'we ?! --- estar. ---------------- i'm smart enuf now to know that my mistakes wer mistakes when i made them, but now quite smart enuf yet to know what all the mistakes wer when i made them. -------------------------- if a principle isn't worth dieing for it isn't a principle , it's a theory. -unknown- ------------------------------ these girls arn't my type, they're young and imature, skiny, shalow, and they don't seem very secure in them selves or who they are, they don't seem to be comfortuble with ther own sexuality let alone anyone elses, and from what they've said and demonstraited here, they apear to value material and intelectual things more than spiritual and emotional things. stuff and nonsence, over peace and love ... not my kind of girls. ---------------------- http://support.microsoft.com/contactus/ ------------------- can't you see, prety soon the clock will say "six six six!" and we're all gona die! ------- http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4713068 --------------------- http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=94727139 ----------------- the fisherman took my horns, the carpenter took my fork. the healer taut me to love . the monk taut me how to fight with my hands. the philosifer taut me nothing i didn't know, but i was nice to see that another known it. what to why to . how to. when to. -------------------- "bury me face down, so the world can kiss my ass." -unknown- ------------------ beter to get squashed like a grape than to than to walk in the guter. better to be squashed like a grape than to leave half the rode unwalked. better to get lost on your way, or be squashed like a grape than to let the roddes deside your path for you. ---------------- orpha ---------------------- creat the world you want, want what no-one else has. no one, not "what few have, or what the elite ,powerful, great, inteligent, enlitened, have. What. No PERSON. Has! none. never. not. won't , if posible. ----------------- more than the cum of my parts. more tha the sum of my philosifys. more than the sum of my t.v.-shows. more than the black of my whites. he's got more ones than zeros, if you knw what i meen. -------------------- my life has been going well enuf, no thanks to me realy, i eliminated some of the burs in my side that wer the sorce of most of my new issues . i've made the insanely radical desition for my self that i'm going to stop going out of my way to hang out with sociopaths and borderlines. i know that seems like an ovius thing but i it's been sort of a thing i've done since i was a kid , and , well, like anyt other behavior, the cost started to outwigh the benefits, at first just the benefit to my self became insuficient, but then the benifit to others started to fizzle out and i just couldn't justifie it anymore. now the tricky part will be to find another perpis to my life since my none profit ,compulsive ,one man ,performance art ,freelance social work, has finaly run it's corse. ----------------------