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The Way We Look	January 10, 2008, 3:45AM
by: Sin_Suffix
First off I am classifying this as a rant, because for all explainable purposes it is. Secondly, one thing to keep in mind always is that no matter what, no one can make the entire world happy. This rant is about the way we look, how it affects others, how it affects us, and the limitations our looks put on our lives. This first subject I'd like to discuss is piercings. On a general whole, this form of body modification is not widely accepted. Oh sure lots of people have their ears pierced, even the female (and some male) lawyers have that. But do they have them stretched out? No. They don't have them stretched because it does not look professional. Before I go much farther, many of these subjects have the issue of whether or not they would look right in a professional setting. And that may be the biggest problem of all. Back to piercings. Did you know that at McD's, if you get a piercing and can't yet switch out the piercing jewelery with a retainer (a clear piece of jewelery that makes the piercing less noticeable) they make you put a band aid on it? Or they just fire you if you don't take it out. This may be understandable for food sanitary reasons. No one wants to bite into a burger and find a CBR. However, if your jewelery is put in right and is tight there is no way it will just fall out into food. And personally I'd rather see a girl with a lip ring then a girl with a band aid on her lip. Piercings are a form of self expression as well as a religious ritual, depending on your particular religion. How will you getting a piercing affect others? Well in a perfect world, it wouldn't. But as we all know there are millions of people out there who are closed minded and who are set in their ways. Some may get physically ill just to see a person with piercings. Some may think you must be crazy to put a hole in you lip or eyebrow or nose or personal areas. Some may find it fascinating. This will in turn affect you. The person will either be disgusted with you, or be generally interested and ask you questions. Second subject, tattoos. Tattoos are orginally a form of tribal body art. They were meant to show age, rank, and accomplishments. All in all they were a mark of honor and respect. In the early to mid 1900s it appealed to the masses. However it was the 'wrong' crowd that got them. Bikers, sailors, and other unfavorable groups (for the time period anyway) may have contributed to the negative outlook on tattoos. Gaining in popularity within the last decade, 85% of Americans have at least 1 tattoo. So why are tattoos still looked down upon? Well most of the world is run by a generation who spent their prime time in the era where only the unfavorable people had tattoos. We'll just have to let that phase out. Its very difficult to get a job when you have a tattoo on your hands or face. This is something you should always consider when you get a tattoo. Another issue with tattoos is the gaining popularity it has with gangs. Often times you don't have the ability to explain the reason you got a tattoo to an interviewer. When considering getting a piercing or tattoo you should always keep in mind you current job, your future job plans, and whether or not you really really want this for the rest of your life (tattoos). Now hair. Hair is pretty unique as it is without throwing in the dreads, mohawks, under shaved cuts, etc. And then we have the numerous hair colors. What's so wrong with dying your hair bubble gum pink? I don't know. Honestly I don't. Its a color, isn't it? So what's the big deal? Think of it this way, would you want to buy food from a guy with a nappy green mohawk? I wouldn't mind it but some people do. In the aspect of dreads there are a lot of people who believe that since you are putting them in you cant wash your hair for forever. This is a misconception. There are several hair product lines to keep you and your dreads from stinking up a 10 block radius. They also keep your hair healthy. But since not alot of people know this or can afford it, they tend to give other people with dreads a bad image. So far I have risen points in tattoos, piercings, and hair. But I haven't really said much about anything. I mean for this rant to just be a topic of discussion. What are your opinions on tattoos? Piercings? Hair? Do you think the world should just 'get over it'. keep an open mind, and accept different forms of expression? Do you honestly see the progress it has so far made and do you think 10 years from now it will be even less of a big deal? Finally, is this something we, as the next generation, should be concerned about?
topic: Rants
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Sophist discourse, hate your way to your own tomorrow.	January 4, 2008, 3:30PM
by: Hooks_in_You
Recently I looked up the word "sophist" and discovered its meaning. Please don't make me read it out to you. Okay, okay, I’ll read it, just please don't [content removed- unsuitable] me again. soph•ist (sŏf'ĭst) n. 1. 1. One skilled in elaborate and devious argumentation. 2. A scholar or thinker. 2. Sophist Any of a group of professional fifth-century B.C. Greek philosophers and teachers who speculated on theology, metaphysics, and the sciences, and who were later characterized by Plato as superficial manipulators of rhetoric and dialectic. Upon reading this, it quickly became apparent that their definition described how I approach arguments. When I argue with people I often find it useful to assume that their point of view is the correct one and that mine is the incorrect one, but it is my point of view that I must force them to believe is correct. Note the use of the word force. There are advantages to this line of reasoning. Firstly, since you already assume that your point of view is wrong, you cannot be changed by their reasoning or logic, you are as Pantera said "immovable stone, in their world of weak", i.e., your arbitrary rigidity, means that win or lose your opinion remains the same, and you can win by simple attrition. Secondly, since you already assume that you are wrong, you will have a better grasp of their counter-arguments, and can plan the argument several responses in advance. For example, you would ask them a simple yes or no question as part of your argument, already prepared with a separate argument for each response. So often, those that believe their stance to be right find it difficult to empathise with their opponents (note again overtly aggressive context) standpoint, and thus weaken their position. It is helpful to have them answer a few simply chosen yes or no answers because then the source is themselves and rebuttal becomes more difficult. One such argument was posted here before under the moniker "Fuck you, Christianity!" and was by all accounts a specious article, but it works. It does exactly what I designed the argument to do. It is psychologically abusive to low level Christians because it displays knowledge of their religion superior to what they themselves possess, as well as a depth of understanding that often allows you to simply lead them along the conversation. Obscure or specialised knowledge in someone else’s field (particularly their own beliefs) undermines their entire argument. Its difficult for them to continue when you correct their assumption that humans were created perfect by distinguishing between perfection and flawlessness and explaining the actual meaning of "in his own image"- it means the trinity of God, and of man (MIND/FATHER, BODY/SON, SOUL/HOLY GHOST). Someone once said to me that there are those that see life as a game and those that see it as a war. I see fields of disagreement as a war- the purpose of which is to change their opinion, belief or decision, into my opinion, belief or decision. Anything short of this is failure. By these criteria, and by many others’s I am by definition, a loser! LOSER! My point is that neither side is right in the vast majority of arguments (particularly the heated and impassioned ones) and that strategy and deception can be useful tools to ensuring that your side is the winning side. If you are good then next week I’ll explain how being over polite, as well as careful word choice, facial expressions and vocal inflections (not quite sycophancy at its extremis, but not far off either) can be used as a mild form of mental manipulation (you tell them who to believe you are instead of allowing them to think for themselves) and allows you to control (through them) the length and depth of the conversation. Thank you for reading and I apologise for any spelling errors. In case you didn't notice the irony (and thus the humour) of a sophist argument conjured for the express purposes of arguing the validity of sophist arguments, then I would like to take this moment to point of the blindingly obvious. Congratulations, you are the most retarded person to actually finish reading this article, have a gold star, because you're special!
topic: Rants
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Abstaining from Intellectual Intercourse	January 3, 2008, 7:00PM
by: Saturnalia
There's a new "abstinence only" philosophy that I've been seeing lately. Abstinence means that if you don't do it, you won't have to worry about whatever consequences come with giving into those desires. Dear God! People could get impregnated with new ambitions and points of view! They could start conceiving their own theories and philosophies! And the spread of such horrible diseases as revolution and art and progression could quite possibly infect the entire nation! This menace must be stopped! We much drive it into our children early: intellectual intercourse is much too dangerous an activity for anyone to engage in. Forcing them to use prophylactic measures such as mindless entertainment or substandard education aren't enough. Only by completely cutting yourself off from anything educational will keep you safe. Did you know thinking too much could actually be very detrimental to your health, even kill you? All you would need is to read a book or converse with one person that could be carrying some filthy form of knowledge that will change you into a raving intellectual obsessed with quantum physics or some other nasty thing. You would never be the same person. You'd never be able to sit and play World of Warcraft with your friends for seventeen hours straight again! And remember, educating yourself is an abomination in the eyes of God, you filthy pervert. If you keep doing that, you're bound to go blind anyways.
topic: Life
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Faeries: The beginning of a genre.	January 1, 2008, 3:42AM
by: Murderous_Breeze
Being a massive fan of the fantasy genre of games, movies, books and figures, i thought i would take the time out of my some-what busy day and share with you gals and guys my views on the ever-so-changing world of FANTASY. Fantasy could mean a million things, anything that people view not part of the reality of our world, is fantasy. But what makes this genre so diverse? Who were the people that architected some of the stories and creatures you see in the beautiful worlds of such stories as King Arthur, Avalon, Lord of the Rings, and all the folklore tales passed down from generation to generation. We will start with THE most influential fantasy epic of our time and most likely all time: The lord of the rings. Now, as many of you know, John Ronald Reuel Tolkien wrote this 3 part epic set in the world of Middle Earth. Now im not going to sit here and tell you what its about because, honestly, i wouldnt know where to start. Tolkien was that kind of a writer, that his genius would see that the Lord of The rings books, could not be duplicated and misinterpreted in any other way but the way her made them to be. A vast world filled with beautiful and dangerous forest, Orcs, Goblins, Elves, Hobbits, Wizards living together with the kingdoms of men. Lord of the rings is trully a masterpiece, a book so fascinating and rich in detail that you will most likely have to read it twice to understand things you missed the first time you read it. Now Tolkien did more then recycling a world of fantasy, he actually created the first ORC. Now i have had many debates with idiot Warcraft fans who say that it was BLIZZARD entertainment who created the ORC. Now me being a huge Warcraft fan aswell, i know that it wasnt Blizzard who designed the Orc, in fact about 70% of the World Of Warcraft is inspired by Tolkiens work in all his various books: Orcs, Elves, Talking and walking trees, need i go on? Now lets move on shall we? We have established that Tolkien created most of the creatures we see in todays movies and games, but who was his inspiration? Which author was Tolkien fascinated with? Yep. You guessed, none other then one of the single and most artistic visionists of the 16th century, William Shakespear. King Arthur, Avalon, the sword in the stone, Puck the trickster, the 3 sisters, Lady of the lake, these are all the works of Shakespear. Shakespear single handedly defined the fantasy genre of Faeries and Elves. He showed betrayal, forbidden love, romance, desire, deception, murder and lust in most of the plays he wrote. It was he who made famous Elves as a single race, and not the same as the Faerie folk, he made them taller, ellegant and honourable. He would show the greatest of bravery in Faeries, and the most evil of deception. The world of Faeries (Fairies), elves and pixies is a very laughable one in todays standards. Disney cartoons like Cinderella, introduced faeries as kind and gentle creatures, that could grant wishes favouribly to misfortuned people. When the reality of the routes of these creatures lay in a more darker and sinister world. Two renowned artists, Brian Froud and Alan Lee created a illustrative book, biographing these folklore creatures from around Europe in a book simply titled "Faeries". In the books wonderfully and beautiful rendered paintings and illustrations that 2 did, it shows Faeries as vile and evil creatures, whos characteristics are nothing like that of there human counterparts, they will decieve and lie to humans to trap them and make them faeries, they will steal babies and exchange them for gross and deformed faerie babies. This book also showed creatures like Elves, who in actual route, are one in the same as Faeries, the 2 words are interchangable. It even tells stories of people being lured by the beauty of Faerie women, and being trapped in there world forever. So now we have established authors and film makers of the fantasy genre were influenced by people like Tolkien, and Tolkien was influenced by Shakespear, but what was before Shakespear? Even today it is still unknown the true origins of faerie folk. Many researches believe that they derived from Celtic traditions and northern Germany beliefs. Before the introduction of the Church, its safe to say, that all of Europe was polytheistic, worshipping multiple gods and spirits. Faeries could be some of these spirits and gods. In Irish folk for example, they believe in spirits of the dead, like the Banshee, would attach themselves to a particular family. In north-east Germany, they believed that faeries were lost children. Whatever the truth behind Faeries may be, it still remains a wonderful and beautiful research topic. Each culture has there own beliefs about these spirits, whether they are good, or evil. So next time you watch a fantastic epic, do some research of the characters, and i assure you, atleast ONE of them will be linked to one of these enchanting creatures.
topic: Philosophy
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Animal Attacks	December 31, 2007, 3:17PM
by: MorningStar23
Animals kept in cages for human entertainment. It seems natural enough. You take your children to the zoo, your friends come with you, and you buy a souvenir T-shirt. You get to see the Animals in 'their natural habitat' which is really a simulated habitat created by humans for animals far from what they're used to. But lets face facts here, we're animals too. We evolved from apes, and we are mammals, same as the lions, tigers, and bears! (oh my) But is it natural to see a human freak show? A carnival with humans locked in cages, prodded at with sticks, taunted with food? No it's not natural, and here's why. We understand how the humans locked in cages are feeling. Lonely, hatred, loathing for the world that allowed them to be captured there. Is it just possible that the animals that we tease with food and prod at with sticks just might hate everyone and everything? And yet we still wonder why they try to escape, killing many people on their path to freedom. Is it really that much of a mystery? The problem is that people see the great and majestic animal as something inferior to humans, put here by God to with with as we like. (Also one of the many reasons I've found it difficult to believe in 'God') Now don't get me wrong, I'm not from PETA, in fact, don't give them money, they're as crooked as George Bush himself. I eat hamburgers and fully enjoy them. I've even eaten crocodile once. What got me to write this is the news coverage of a Tiger attacking people. A human can beat another human within an inch of his life, but gets a fair trial, with a jury, a judge, and they still sometimes get away. If an animal should even do half of that, we put it immediately to death. I think there's something wrong with that myself. Why is it that Humans think they are superior to animals in every way, when they are in fact animals themselves? Because we've mastered dialect and technology. Without those two key factors, we would be out there foraging for food, protecting ourselves against every predator that might come our way. We would be just like them. I thought this was all completely obvious to everyone, but apparently not. So the question arises again. Why did a tiger break out of it's human made habitat and kill someone? Why did it attack? It can't possibly hold a grudge against humanity for keeping it there. It can't possibly want freedom. It can't possibly view every human as a threat, and attack them for fear that any human they see could be the one to put them back into captivity. But if we were in a cage with people always looking at us, taunting us, would we not do the same? Try and escape, anyone who gets in the way of our freedom could pose a threat. We would harm them too. Just look at the past... animals have attacked people in either resentment or on a quest for freedom as long as we've had them in captivity. How could this pattern not be obvious? I know that some people are going to read this, and no, it's not my personal belief, it's fact. And if there is a God out there, I'll willingly go to his hell because I wouldn't want anything to do with him anyways, so if you're going to reply to this article saying that I'm going to hell, I know, and I thank you for the compliment.
topic: Various
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Are You Gay?	December 27, 2007, 8:16PM
by: times420
ha soo alot of people have a problem with gays and lesbians.... they think that we all woke up and decited to be like this... thats just like saying you want cancer one day and then after living in a body that has so much pain the next day you dont want it.... well see...thats just the way lesbians and gays are. we didnt choose to be like this....actually...sometimes...some people do it because they want attention..and want to have people know about them so they lie that they are something their not. ...i want to spit on you low lifes being gay is the most hardest life style someone can ever live though....just like back int he day when people were being slaved and killed because of what skin color they were or because they had a big nose. what if one day every gay person in this world started to hate all the straight people in the world...what if the world was all suppose to be gay and then random people are straight. i wonder how you people would feel then. being gay is who we are and not what we want to be. no person would ever want to be gay because there is so much hate for the things people cant control. if people have a problem with gay people you should keep your shit to yourself. gay people love everyone no matter who you are because they learn to love life for what it gives you and to always be happy for even the things you cant help. i'm not trying to change your minds on gay people now to love them all and i dont plan on people to start loving me. i just want people to be more out of the box then in it gay people shouldnt be put down or beaten to death because of something they cant control. but they should be respected for living the hardest life in the world because there is always negative people towards us gay and lesbians. try living in our shoes for a day i bet you wouldnt even last an hour for all the shit people say and do....and disrespect us. so i guess i'm done blabing on about this. and i might not have got to the point i wanted to get to cause i cant remeber anymore...but atleast i made an effort to try lol. i hope this helps you rude bitches out there about gay people and to understand the hard living we have to do everyday. but other then that. good bye :D
topic: Life
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School Systems and the zero tolerance policy.	December 26, 2007, 6:01PM
by: TheCurtainOfBlood
As many of you may know, the Tim Burton film "Sweeney Todd" came out recently, and Burton, Depp, and Todd fans-- including myself, have flocked to see it. I've been a fan of Sweeney Todd for the past year or so, I have loved the musical stage version with George Hearn and Angela Lansbury, and I adored the Tim Burton adaptation. Usually after seeing a good film, I go on a website I have an account on, called IMDB (the internet movie database), and go on the fourms for that movie where discussions take place about it. Reading around I caught one thread that said "Student Expelled", and curiously I looked into it. I have had a long history of school punishments, so I was drawn to it and read it, and inside it told of a student who was attended a pretty good art/drama school, and was attending there for a good amount of time. His girlfriend also went to the same school, so things were running rather well. Eventually, his girlfriend broke up with him for an unspecified reason, and the breakup got to him sometimes. While feeling somewhat crappy, he decided to do some writing, and at the time he had the musical song number "Epiphany" from Sweeney Todd playing in his head, and decided to write them down in his notebook. "Epiphany" is played when Sweeney Todd (in the film and musical play), misses his chance for revenge against the man who wronged him, and decides to seek vengence upon London. It goes somewhat like this: "They all deserve to die. Tell you why, Mrs. Lovett, tell you why. Because in all of the whole human race Mrs Lovett, there are two kinds of men and only two There's the one they put in his proper place And the one with his foot in the other one's face Look at me, Mrs Lovett, look at you. Now we all deserve to die Tell you why, Mrs. Lovett, tell you why. Because the lives of the wicked should be made brief For the rest of us death will be a relief We all deserve to die." Thats not the whole thing, but it gives you an idea. Anyway, to make a long story short, he wrote it out, his girlfriend got ahold of the notebook, and took it to the school athorities. From there, the student was at first suspended, and then expelled from the school for making a "death threat". Some of you may sit there and go "that's just stupid of the student to do that", but I sympathize with him. How many people have written out the lyrics to something while you were feeling a certain mood? How many of you sometimes just need to vent the way you feel to feel better? I've had my moments. Many people reply saying "you should sue the school". And while I whoreheartly feel that would be appropriate, I dont think it would be possible. As bullcrappy as it may seem, school systems today have the right to suspend its students freedom of expression and speech. Why, earlier this year in Febuary, I was suspended for a month, had to get a psychatric evaluation to be allowed back into school, and once I was back in school, I was forced to have an aide follow me around the school halls because I was a danger to the public. Would you like to know why? I drew a picture in my notebook of a milk carton attacking sombody. Sad, very sad. We discussed in my global studies class about the zero tolerance policy my junior year, and we talked about several cases where people have tried to take the school to court over them suspending/expelling them for what is concidered "unfair reasons". First it began as simple things, but since waves of school shootings that stuck the United States in the late 90s, people have upped the strictness on their power over student's personal freedoms. Its not an issue that can be solved, and its certainly not an issue that is going to leave all by itself. I have a long history myself of school punishments and the zero tolorance policy, none of which involved any sort of psysical violence. The first time I was ever suspended, it was out of my own stupidity. It was not long after Columbine, in fifth grade, and a certain teacher I did not like was giving me problems and it made me feel very angry. After class in the halls, I vented a threat that was manipulated by other people and turned into something else that was ventually reported to a higher athority, and it was suspended for about ten days and the incident was published in the local newspaper. A whole string of crap happened in 7th grade I wont get involved in. In 8th grade I was suspended for about five days. Every morning I had to take an antidepressiant in middle school, and one morning in the beginning of 8th grade my throat was feeling really groggy, so I put the pill in my pocket and would take it later in the day. At some point, I put my hand in my pocket in school, and forgot I put the pill there, so I pulled it out and threw it in the trash. Sombody reported me, I was put in the police office, a police officer searched me and all my possessions, including my locker and backpack. They also went through all the trashes in the school untill they found the pill, and I was suspended for five days. It gets better, all through my sophemore year I had to deal with crap because of my myspace. My myspace, to other people was "dark and disturbing, and talked about murder." My myspace page back then was no different than my darkstarlings as of now, the only difference was that I had a small true crime section under my General section that said I liked to read about murderers and study their psychology on what propells them to make them kill, I feel like by researching them we can pinpoint red flags and strike down crimes faster based on their motivations. Parents would freak out, school would freak out, and it all would go to the police department. The police would question me, on SEVERAL occasions throughout the year, and at one point in May of that year, the police was sent to my mother at work to question her, and eventually they came to my damn HOUSE! It gets even better; my junior year, remember at the beginning of the article that I was suspsended, examined, and watched because of the milk carton drawing? Well in between all that I would find out through my psychatrist that the school, and the police department were monitoring all my online web pages, including myspace, darkstarlings, vampirefreaks, and imgoth.com. They were checking all the comments I made to people, and the comments made to me, check all the other people's profiles who commented me, checked and monitored all my friends profiles, and did this untill the end of the year. Oh, hunnies, it gets even better. The aide that was assigned to me had to follow me around through the halls in between classes, to the bathrooms, and everywhere else. When I came into school, I had to report directly to the office to meet my aide, and the aide had to follow me out of the school when it ended. I also had to eat my lunch in a special room, to isolate me from the public because I was a danger. Anyway, after a month of being in the school, and having the aide, it was April, and a threat was made by another student in the school. From what we know, the student made the threat on one of the school computers in the library, it was sent as an e-mail to a teacher, saying that something violent was going to happen at school on April 20th. April 20th being the anniversery of the Columbine shootings, naturally the school shit a brick and went crazy on security. And it especially went apeshit on me. The town police department was hired to send police officers to patrol all halls of the school, and everyone entering the building had to be searched. And, anyone who was fingered as a suspect, was questioned, and of course, that meant yours truly. I was questioned, all my friends who were concidered "goths" were questioned, the police were yet again sent to my house on several occasions to harass my parents, and I was once again monitored. The school announced that it questioned about 30 people, however, as I would find out, out of all those people, I was the first one questioned, I was the only one who had my friends questioned, I was the only one who had police come to my house, and I was being watched the entire time by an aide, so how could I? This went on untill mid-May the following month, when nothing happened whatsoever follwing the threat. I would later find out that people had pools going on me about who could get me suspended/expelled first and the longest, among several other things. And all this is true. Schools make an effort to make kids safe, but are they really? Or are they simply putting them in more danger than keeping them safe? What if the knot is getting tighter around them and only encouraging them to commit violence. Imagine a kid with high goals in his life, and people one day point a finger at him in an accusation for something in school he never did, and he is arrested and convicted, and all his goals are now demolished. What if? What if? I also did research, I looked through several news articles that question the zero tolorance policy, one included a school being evacuated after sombody reported a gun in the cafeteria that was later discovered to be a ham sub sandwitch. It was snowing outside like all hell and they had kids standing outside in the freezing snow for four hours while the police got on the roofs of the school and went inside and scanned the entire building before finally entering the cafiteria where it was reported where a gun was found. That gun turned out to be a ham sub. This inspired me to look up a few articles online about other incidents at school just to see how far things have gone. A study was made that stated teachers are using the zero tolorance policy to their advantance over kids, weather to molest them or whatever else. Reports of kids dying of asthma attacks because their school didnt allow them to bring in an inhalher. Money being paid from the town for police departments to patrol a school for a week because some kid sent an e-mail to a teacher threatening to kill them on April 20th (the anniversery of Columbine) and absolutley nothing happened. Its the fear of the unknown that drives them, and more and more its getting out of hand. Is it really making kids safe, or putting them in danger? Thats just the first of many instances at school, go on google and type in "school zero tolorance policy" and read up on all the other stupid crap the school system does to students. They use that "probable cause" crap ever since Columbine, and continue to enforce it no matter how rediculous. If you ask me, it wouldnt surprise me, if, in ten years that schools will be allowed to install security cameras and hire more police officers to patrol school halls, seeing how they're already doing it today. Things will become Orwellian, and the school dropout rate will continue to skyrocket higher and higher like its already doing. But what can we do? There is nothing, because the danger is laying like a needle in a haystack, and in order to find it you have to burn the whole stack down to get it.
topic: Rants
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Population control, please!	December 18, 2007, 4:19PM
by: diluted_intelligence
Did you know that research indicates that 70% of the people who get genital herpes do so while their partners show no visible signs? I feel really bad for those people, but there's one more piece of information that we can infer from this study. 30% of people who catch genital herpes do so while their partners DO show visible signs. (Pause for jaw-dropping, perplexed "what the fuck" look) I can't even imagine the conversation.... Joe- "Jenny, you look so hot....but....what's that giant wart on your vagina?" Jenny- "oh....that. Uhm.... genital herpes?" Joe -long pause- "eh, I could be immune" It's beyond me to rationalize it. So, with this in mind, why not use this to our advantage to control the growing global population? The older I get, the more I realize that I'm surrounded by stupidity, apathy and ignorance. Even worse, it seems like it's those who fall under that category that breed like rabbits! So I have a solution. Let's make STDs our friend, and let them do all the work for us. It's like genocide, but self engineered. Here's how it works; When you're born, you are administered some sort of reversible neutralizing agent that renders you impotent. After you reach the age of 20, you may opt to go through a series of tests to prove you're not incompetent, unable to support yourself, or an unfit parent, and if you pass are given the reversing agent to be able to have children. What's this mean for all the dumbasses out there? A lowered need for protection, and the guarantee of a STD epidemic. Who knows, maybe they'll even start mutating into each other and gonnaherpasiffilAIDS will be born and wipe out half my hemisphere. Sure, medicare and taxes will be high for the next fifty years but after that, it's smooth sailing. (For the record. I'd fail the test to get my spermies back)
topic: Rants
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Climate, Bloody Climate	December 3, 2007, 6:16PM
by: JudgeJudas
As often, this will include "bad-language", so live with it or don't read on. And now, we begin: Don't get me wrong, it's a bloody shame the whole world is closing in on its end, that the poles are melting and animals are dying and all that, but I'm just so fucking tired of the whole climate shit. You know what I say? Fuck the climate! Just fuck it. Every-fucking-where I go, everywhere I read just about anything and any fucking news-broadcast I listen to, I hear some bloody wanker complaining about it and that we must do something about it. Well people, it isn't all that bloody hard to recycle, take a bus every now and then instead of a big gas-sucking car, not be such materialistic bastards that we buy new furniture every season(and then not throwing the old ones away, actually a big no-no on the whole recycle-thing) and if the more famous part of the world would quit using private jets (congrats o the founder of IKEA, who still flies coach even though is rich as hell), we would actually do a whole lot more than if we do nothing. But hell, this article isn't about saving the fucking world, it's all about giving the climate-trend a big glorious "FUCK YOU", and it deserve one like most of the politcal trends do, but this is one of the big ones. Honestly, and I really do want you all to be honest; Am I the only motherfucker who has become totally and utterly fed up with all that bullshit? Every god-damn political party, at least here in Norway especially, talks about how important the climate is and how they will save the whole bloody world. Of course, as most politicians, they don't mean shit, who would have guessed? But still, they talk about how we will by loads and loads of the climate-shares (or whatever it was called, I guess most of you know what I'm talking about), reduce th Co2-releases from our country by half within 2010(this was in 2006 mind you), oh wait, 2012, no 2014. But that doesn't fit my schedule of spending the tax-payers money on useless shit only people in a part of the capitol can benefit from. How bout 2018 instead? Yeah, that works now. Truly, this shit happens here, and to those who hears the same thing from the fork-tounged politicians in their country, don't you want to throw a big fucking baby-seal skinned panda-pie in their face and tell them to shut the fuck up? Ok, I see how I went a little far with the pie, for I don't have any anger against animals and believe that cruelty towards them is a prime example how useless some assholes can be, so don't take that one to close to heart, a blueberry-pie would do a better job, but that doesn't sound as angry and pissed off, now does it? And to top it off, now we should be these new (and expensive) climate-friendly cars that uses eco-friendly fuel instead. Well you know what? They cost a shitload of money, the fuel is even worse, and where the fuck am I supposed to get the fuel where I live? If you don't live in the capitol or close to it (and it's a long way south, especially for me), you have no chance of getting the fuel, so buying the car is bloody useless now isn't it? But to make sure people would buy them, they are seriously considering to raise taxes on owning normal cars. Isn't it just glorious? The last fucking week, the new, Norwegian 24-hour news-channel TV2 Nyhetskanalen(TV2 The Newschannel, TV2 being a rather old, "normal" channel, with TV-shows, news, sports, the weather etc), had a "climate-week". So just about all the news I watched there involved the, you guessed it, the bloody motherfucking climate. And it gets better, I saw a newsreport on the whole forest-fires in California (or am I mistaken, this is where the famous Austrian Arnold is the governor?), and some dumb-ass actually managed to say that maybe it wasn't some kids who started the fires but, and I swear to God he said this, that it was the climate that attacked! Honest to God. How can people believe such things? Not to badmouth Americans (I'll probaly do that in another article instead, notice that this line actually involved some direct humour), but how can anyone take them serious if they say shit like that? You know the world is getting truly fucked up when South Park (the Two Days Before the Day After Tomorrow-episode) are not only the logic cry for help in the world, but actually depicts the modern world so bloody well. (Actually, South Park has a foul tendency of doing this most of the time, after all it is a brilliant show, but something as insane as the plot in that episode should, but sadly does, find no resemblance in the real world.) Let the poles melt. Let the animals die. Make every fucking volcano on earth erupt and spew hot lava over every city and its inhabitants within miles and miles of it. Let islands sink, the west-Indies, Iceland, Britania, the east-Indies and everything near Australia. Let the oceans drown the Netherlands and let every crazy European with power wage war on eachother as they revel in violent ectasy. Let that monkey-brained president in the US drop the A-Bomb on every country that huge European colony has called communists, terrorists. Let something unkown rise from the unkown depths and slay anything it closes in on. Let plagues ravage the world again. Let earthquakes tear apart countries and continents. Fill the air with lethal amounts of carbon dioxide so that we either boil from the heat or choke to our own miserable death. And while we're at it, let us hav a new ice-age, cover the shattered, teared-apart world in ashes, nuclear waste and a lethal clouds of atomic radiation and top it all off with a big, bad-ass, motherfucking, everlasting, incomprihendable ice-age! Let all of this happen, just shut the fuck up about the climate, use atleast two pair of braincells and just do what you can, just don't stuff a propaganda-pamplet down my throat. Oh well, i's sad the worl is ending, but this is losing any grip it might have had in reality, the media and the politicians are, as usually, exploiting this as much as they can, so I guess it's them I despise, not the climate, but I just had to get this out. There's just so much bloody propaganda in the whole thing, I can honestly say that I, to some times, have read more convincing anti-communists pamplets. (I'm not a communist, but the anti-communist pamplets are often even worse than the communist pamplets, so oh well.) If anybody read this far, I am suprised, but thank you, or something like that. There is actually no good way to end this, I'm not as annoyed at this moment, and how do you end a "fuck-everything"-article?
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Happy Turkey Day	November 20, 2007, 1:30PM
by: KLOKWERKAOS
Thanksgiving is one of the USA's most sacred holidays, right up with the 4th of July. It conveniently occurs on the "fourth Thursday in November" each year. Not only does this day mark the official beginning of the Holiday Shopping Season, it is also one of the key elements in the country's national mythology. Oppressed pioneers, "The Pilgrims," arrive on the savage shores of Massachusetts, desiring only religious freedom. After a tough year of overcoming countless adversities, they rejoice with a festival of giving thanks to G*d, and eating a lovely dinner with family and friends, and of course some kindly Indians. The reality is a little different. The reality is a story about mass-murder that went on for hundreds of years. History Every schoolchild in the USA has been taught that the Pilgrims invited the local Indians to a major feast after surviving their first year in "New England." In 1620 the English ship Mayflower landed at a place to be named Plymouth, delivering 102 right-wing Christian extremists. By today's standards, this would be a group of hardcore Christian lunatics, isolated in the mountains somewhere, far from the sinful world, where the Anti-Christ is already running the show and the Rapture was supposed to have happened a few months ago. This English crew was kicked out of England not because of "religious intolerance," but because these "Puritans" were such assholes that they were too stuff for even the English to deal with. Imagine England of Shakespeare's time. Music, cakes & ale, tea & crumpets, wenches, sex and ribaldry were the order of the day, and were about all that any normal people cared about. Good times! Then you have these fucking Puritans, wearing only black, walking around all gloomy, as music, dancing, non-married "lustful glances," and basically every fun thing they could think of were considered forbidden. You couldn't whistle a tune or tap your foot if you heard one; if you weren't married, you couldn't even look in the same direction as a person of the opposite sex. They would punish each other with bizarre penalties for any violations of their law. They made the Taliban look like Japanese tourists. The original Native people of this stretch of shoreline had already been killed off. In 1614 a British expedition had landed there. When they left they took 24 Indians as slaves and left smallpox behind. Three years of this epidemic wiped out around 95% percent of the inhabitants of the coast, destroying most villages completely. A thrilling tale of survival The Puritans built their town of Plymouth near the deserted ruins of an Indian village. They ate from abandoned cornfields grown wild. Only one Indian named Squanto was around the place -- he had spent the last few years as a slave to the English and Spanish in Europe. Squanto spoke English and taught the Pilgrims how to plant corn and how to catch fish until the first harvest. Squanto also helped the colonists negotiate a peace treaty with the few remaining people of the nearby Wampanoag tribe. Going home to his own Pawtuxet tribe, a day's hike to the north, Squanto had his throat cut as punishment for stupidly helping these weird strangers. In celebration of their good fortune, the colony's governor declared a three-day feast of Thanksgiving after that first harvest of 1621. The Pilgrims were very lucky that most of the Indians in their area had already been killed off, and they gave thanks for this. The scheming begins Many more religious nutcases began to arrive, taking land and enslaving Indians to help them farm it. By 1637 there were about 2,000 settlers. They pushed out from the coast and decided to remove the inhabitants. In the coming decades, these new settlers would form armies and go out raiding and destroying Indian villages, just to get them the fuck out of the way so Civilization could begin. One of the settlers wrote, "Those that escaped the fire were slain with the sword; some hewed to pieces, others run through with their rapiers, so that they were quickly dispatched and very few escaped. It was believed we thus destroyed about 400 at this time. It was a fearful sight to see them thus frying in the fire...horrible was the stink and scent thereof, but the victory seemed a sweet sacrifice, and we gave the prayers thereof to God, who had worked so wonderfully for us." By 1676, the colonists declared an official "day of public thanksgiving," saying, "there now scarce remains a name or family of the savages that are not slain, captivated or fled." By this time, the Puritans had destroyed the Wampanoag and all other neighboring tribes. The Wampanoag chief "King Philip" was beheaded. His head was stuck on a pole in Plymouth, where the skull still hung on display 150 years later. A Massachusetts law of 1695, the same year in which the Puritans of Salem were burning teenage girls to death for being "witches," gave colonists permission to kill Indians at will, declaring it was "lawful for any person that shall find any Indians traveling or skulking in any of the towns or roads to kill them as they may or can." Incidentally, the neurotic "puritanism" and prudishness of the Puritans is the reason Americunts are generally so fucked up in this regard, even now, in comparison to other countries. Honest Abe A couple of hundred years later, President Abraham Lincoln, just after ordering the army to wipe out some pesky Injuns out on the Plains, declared Thanksgiving to be a legal National Holiday. Since then Since that time, as most of the USA's original inhabitants are either fabulously wealthy running casinos or dirt-poor, living in broken-down trailers, Thanksgiving has morphed into a somewhat mandatory day when as many friends and/or family-members as possible are forced to gather at someone's comfortable home, to spend a whole day cooking a turkey, chit-chat about meaningless nonsense, re-live personal and family traumas from years and decades ago, and watch football games, even if one seriously hates football. Then, when all the food is ready, everyone sits fake-nicely around the table and fills their already-obese faces with as much food as they can possibly shove in. Indeed, most Americunts no longer call this Thanksgiving, in favor of the less-potentially-offensive term of Turkey Day. After this gluttonous orgy, and after a drunken uncle or two get into a fist-fight, and a child breaks a valuable antique, and two other children fight about the Nintendo, every one puts on their size XXXL sweaters and goes for a nice Thanksgiving walk around the block. This takes over an hour, as many of the adults have to stop and rest every 10 meters or so and smoke a cigarette. Returning to the house, everyone has several additional helpings of dessert, including ice cream and pie, until there is absolutely no food left in the house. Or maybe The alternative approach to a modern Thanksgiving is often chosen by people who want to receive special God-points for being extra-nice to "those less fortunate." These do-gooders go on down to the local homeless shelter or church-based soup kitchen, and spend the afternoon serving a Thanksgiving DinnerTM to "The Homeless." This meal always bears a striking resemblance to ordinary jail food, perhaps with a somewhat larger amount of imitation "mashed potatoes" or applesauce. This is fine with the throngs of unfortunate diners, nearly all of whom are crackheads or meth addicts or hardcore alcoholics. Afterwards, the do-gooders go to a fine restaurant, where they have pre-arranged for an elaborate Thanksgiving meal to be prepared. They have done such a good deed this Holiday Season, one that will take them through the year secure in the knowledge of their virtue. And now to the shops The next morning, "The Day After Turkey Day," is known to be the biggest shopping day of the year, and the launching of the Holiday Season marketing blitz. Many of the women will be seen at the shopping centers before dawn, queued up for early-opening stores, ready to max out the remaining credit cards yet again. And what are they buying? Thousands of dollars "worth" of toys and gadgets and electronics and other expensive shit, to help bolster the US economy, and to maintain the illusion that gives their lives meaning. And that's the story of Thanksgiving. (written by the good people of ED)
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