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02-15-2007, 10:37 AM
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Join Date: Jan 2007
Location: In desert part of Oregon, Central
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Da Vinci had made some of the greatest technological things in history! Like starting the blueprint for the flying machine, which was accredited to the Wright Brothers.
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These are not books, lumps of lifeless paper, but minds alive on the shelves.
~Gilbert Highet
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02-15-2007, 10:45 AM
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Join Date: Jul 2006
Location: The Icy Forest of New England
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Yes I know. But we still have more advanced techologically than we were then.
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"Tigers love pepper, they hate cinnamon."
-Zach Galifianakis
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02-15-2007, 10:50 AM
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Join Date: Jan 2007
Location: In desert part of Oregon, Central
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Shall we continue this debate in messenger? Because I think some people are tired of the endless debate.
We may be more advance than the Renaissance era, but the aliens  definitely surpass us.
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These are not books, lumps of lifeless paper, but minds alive on the shelves.
~Gilbert Highet
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02-15-2007, 11:32 AM
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Join Date: Jul 2006
Location: The Icy Forest of New England
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Ha ha, Okay check out my profile for me AIM. Because I don't have anything else.
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"Tigers love pepper, they hate cinnamon."
-Zach Galifianakis
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02-15-2007, 01:45 PM
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Join Date: Jan 2007
Location: In desert part of Oregon, Central
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added u. but will it work with msn?
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These are not books, lumps of lifeless paper, but minds alive on the shelves.
~Gilbert Highet
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02-15-2007, 03:28 PM
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Join Date: Nov 2006
Location: elsewhere
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I love Renaissance Art. It's so nice... *thinks of Giovanni Bellini* Mmmmm....
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Twinkle, twinkle, little bat
How I wonder where you're at.
Up above the world you fly
Like a tea-tray in the sky.
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02-15-2007, 04:18 PM
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Join Date: Mar 2004
Location: Netherlands
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I agree. Giovanni Bellini is great!
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02-15-2007, 04:28 PM
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Join Date: Aug 2006
Location: the concrete and steel beehive of Southern California
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Originally Posted by Mir
Egos are tainting our collective consciousness.
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Profound!  That made me think.
Some taint.
Some make blue.
Some add spice,
And some are "glue".
Together we stand,
but divided we fly.
But maybe the opposite
in each other's eye.
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02-15-2007, 04:30 PM
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Join Date: Dec 2006
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I can't take credit for that. 'tis the brilliant Bill Hicks (RIP) who said that many moons ago.
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02-15-2007, 05:06 PM
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Join Date: Aug 2006
Location: the concrete and steel beehive of Southern California
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(googles Bill Hicks...)
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02-15-2007, 05:10 PM
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Join Date: Nov 2005
Location: El Paso, Texas/ Ciudad Juarez, Chihuahua
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I just got an epiphany of the limitless possibilities in this universe!
I need to find a way to be immortal!
I think I might just have had an existential orgasm.
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"No theory, no ready-made system, no book that has ever been written will save the world.
I cleave to no system. I am a true seeker."
-Mikhail Bakunin
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Originally Posted by George Carlin
People who say they don’t care what people think are usually desperate to have people think they don’t care what people think.
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02-15-2007, 05:18 PM
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Join Date: Aug 2006
Location: the concrete and steel beehive of Southern California
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THAT is why I want to be buried in a mausoleum.
It is the closest to lasting a looooooong time in a way that people can touch and see some remnant of me.
If one is cremated, only virtual bits of information remain to leave our mark on this world. Maybe a photo or two.
But a mausoleum with "HumanePain" engraved in stone letters 3 inches deep, well, that will last for at least 200 years!
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02-15-2007, 05:26 PM
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Join Date: Dec 2006
Posts: 3,360
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Contributions made to art, literature and music last a hell of a lot longer.
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02-15-2007, 05:30 PM
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Join Date: Aug 2006
Location: the concrete and steel beehive of Southern California
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Ah yes, true, true. 'Tis why I write. Diversified paths to the same end, hoping one of them will work. (sits back in Library wing chair and contemplates immortality...)
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02-15-2007, 05:32 PM
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Join Date: Nov 2005
Location: El Paso, Texas/ Ciudad Juarez, Chihuahua
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Still, those attempts for immortality fall short of one's expectations, especially when you realize that the human mind is not limited by matter, so why should it decay with it?
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"No theory, no ready-made system, no book that has ever been written will save the world.
I cleave to no system. I am a true seeker."
-Mikhail Bakunin
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Originally Posted by George Carlin
People who say they don’t care what people think are usually desperate to have people think they don’t care what people think.
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02-15-2007, 05:33 PM
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Join Date: Dec 2006
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I have accepted the inevitability of death, I work towards prolonging my lifespan as much as possible.
If I ever get to have kids, I shall print out one of your works and read to them as a bedtime story. Just to keep you memory alive. I promise. =)
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02-15-2007, 06:12 PM
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Join Date: Feb 2006
Location: Massachusetts
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I just realized something:
The correct "gothy pants" are rather tight-fitting, but the fake ones, AKA the Mallgoth pants [raver pants], are really baggy.
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You ain't no punk, you punk; you wanna talk about the real junk?
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02-15-2007, 06:21 PM
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Join Date: Nov 2006
Location: elsewhere
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In one of the Sandman books, some people were walking around in Hell and they were talking to a guy who was being tortured, and they were telling him that he was free to go, and he was saying "But I'm [so-and-so]! I was responsible for the death of millions of people, I ***** hundreds of women and then viciously murdered them. I tortured people myself just for the pleasure of it!" or something to that effect, and the people who were talking to him said, "You've been dead for millennia. No one even remembers anything about you. You've been forgotten. They don't even remember your name."
That moment touched me. Impacted me in some way. Not sure how, but...
*shrugs* Nothing lasts forever, I guess. Maybe that's why eternity and immortality scare me. That and because I can't comprehend them. I do best with finite things.
On the other hand, things can't just... End...
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Twinkle, twinkle, little bat
How I wonder where you're at.
Up above the world you fly
Like a tea-tray in the sky.
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02-15-2007, 06:24 PM
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Join Date: Dec 2006
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They won't. The body is an illusion.
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02-15-2007, 06:26 PM
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Join Date: Jan 2007
Location: In a black hole with a black moon
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I'm using my fingers instead of words...I'm my fingers instead of words...
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02-15-2007, 06:31 PM
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Join Date: Feb 2006
Location: Massachusetts
Posts: 3,421
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:O
NO.
NO QUOTED CHRISTIAN DEATH!
SHAISSE! NOW IT'S IN ME!
Duhnuhnuhnuh nuhhhh nuhnuhnuhnuh
Burniung crosses on a ******'s lawn
Burning dollars,
What's a house without a home?
Dance in your white sheet glory--
Dance in your pashhhhion!
Talk about sugar on the 6-finger'd beast,
Conversations 'bout the holes in your hands,
Walk through the gardens of Men's desires
And conversations 'bout the kingdom of fire!
Blahblahblah
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You ain't no punk, you punk; you wanna talk about the real junk?
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02-15-2007, 07:01 PM
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Join Date: Nov 2005
Location: El Paso, Texas/ Ciudad Juarez, Chihuahua
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I wonder what's the word the original manuscripts of the Scriptures had instead of 'homosexuals'.
Maybe the word is really 'sodomites'.
In which case, there's no reason to equate 'sodomite' with 'homosexual'
What made the 'sodomites' so famous was not the sexual depravity per se, but the fact that they would even fuck an angel.
Maybe then the verses that speak about homosexuals actually mean 'people who would willingly desecrate what is holy'
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"No theory, no ready-made system, no book that has ever been written will save the world.
I cleave to no system. I am a true seeker."
-Mikhail Bakunin
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Originally Posted by George Carlin
People who say they don’t care what people think are usually desperate to have people think they don’t care what people think.
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02-15-2007, 07:41 PM
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Join Date: Mar 2004
Location: Netherlands
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Which would tempt me to bring up the following; "Who deceides what's holy and what's not?" The Pope or maybe another religion then the christian belief?
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02-16-2007, 12:46 AM
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Join Date: Nov 2006
Location: elsewhere
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Or the individual him/her self?
*sings to Stars of Trash by Gitane Demone* I love that song...
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Twinkle, twinkle, little bat
How I wonder where you're at.
Up above the world you fly
Like a tea-tray in the sky.
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02-16-2007, 02:54 AM
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Join Date: Aug 2006
Location: the concrete and steel beehive of Southern California
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I love the way our collective consciousness has been very profound lately.
(gazes out second story library window at early morning city lights...what a glorious universe!)
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