Stonehead

"Nothing is true. Everything is permitted." --The Old Man of the Mountain

"Fuck them who can't take a joke."

It is just you. Fuck you, you fucking fuck!

You've been had. You're a victim of Operation Mindfuck.

Have you seen the little piggies Crawling in the dirt And for all the little piggies Life is getting worse Always having dirt to play around in. Have you seen the bigger piggies In their starched white shirts You will find the bigger piggies Stirring up the dirt Always have clean shirts to play around in. In their styes with all their backing They don't care what goes on around In their eyes there's something lacking What they need's a damn good whacking. Everywhere there's lots of piggies Living piggy lives You can see them out for dinner With their piggy wives Clutching forks and knives to eat their bacon.

Uh huh, too soon

Not bad. Took about 17 replies to go from aspartame to politics. I'm surprised no one said anything about sex. Or did they?

I'm sure there are as many motivations as there are different people. But, sometime don't you think that there are better ways of exercise? Does it ever seem masochistic? It really takes a ego sometimes to put yourself through some of the 'epics'. Aesthetics. Yeah...

I've heard this many times, that climbing is the shizzle; no, not really the shizzle but the pursuit of it is some lofty, noble endeavor. I wonder though if it's not really an indicator of something else. What is it called...? Transvaluation?? Where values are reversed based on their framing? Maybe the impulse is more base than that. That rather than a noble influence, it's more something like hatred. Of fear, of weakness, of anonymity, of inferiority... The goal is the same. To make us more than we are or ordinarily would be. I suppose you could call that impulse Promethean in which case there is a price to be paid.

Are you a Calvinist? Because that certainly sounds similar to predestination. Or, maybe you're an atheist, that biology is destiny, if our genes allow us the potential for long life then it's a very real possibility given it's not shortened by our experiences. In any event, so much certainty…

We’re talking about certainty and probability. No one knows with certainty his date of departure but I suspect one realizes the very real possibility given risky undertakings. Maybe it’s more about knowing the likely manner of death rather than the timing. One thing is given: that all of us will die…in the mountains, on the roads, in a foreign country, or at home. How much time do I have and what do I do with that time? This notion of dying prematurely is often voiced by the survivors. Can you really say that the person died before his time? Certainly, he or she may have lived to realize more experiences and to be a physical part of this interconnected reality of ours. But, who’s to say, that this isn’t just as it should be? I suppose it would be one thing if a person knew with some certainty that he would get an aneurysm or lose his LASIK eyesight, or whatever. In that case, it would seem to be a death wish but it’s still a personal choice. Are we to focus on the passion of life or the seeming injustice of a life cut short? But again, are we unrealistically elevating this notion of passion, of zeal for life, above all other values? That notion of balance comes into play here. There are two major forces in our lives—fear and desire. One can rule over the other with its consequent effects on your life. These forces are amoral although their consequences can have a moral effect. Or, maybe I may hate my fear as it is weakness so that I strive to overcome it. So it necessarily need not lead me away from something just my desire may not force an attraction towards something. Ok, you can call this fluff or bs but those are my thoughts on the whole matter…not really answers, only a continuation. Wasn't it Descartes who said, "I question, therefore I am"?

This is early in the morning so ‘cuse me for pulling this out my ass. I’ll postulate that he’s lamenting the end of the heroic age of human endeavor where man largely by his wits and his physical ability is pitted against the titanic phenomenon of nature. Following this age of ‘giants’, marked once by man, naked, ‘cept for his genetically endowed and individually developed abilities is a technological man, a cyborg, a hybrid of a physical being merged together with his technological creations that reach beyond mere mortal man with his limitations of physical senses and imagination. That technology might be as simple as an oxygen canister or sophisticated as satellite phones and GPS. The realm of the few has been opened up to the masses. The herd is coming with their oxygen and fixed ropes. All that’s left is to capitalize on our innate desire and if that desire isn’t there, then to manufacture it through public relations. With the help of modern technology and the development of future technologies, we will commodify the experience. Do you have enough money to blast off into space?

What 'bout this shizzle?

Sometimes it can’t be proven as actual conspiracy but some actions sure are damn convenient as in this case.

Hahaha. That's great. "Well, isn't that special?" "Now, who could it be? Could it be...Satan?!" "How Convieeenient."

WICKED!!!

Didja notice DeLay's hometown is Sugar Land?

Patent filed for dog poo cement

Yay! Happy Birthday! Too bad Scandals Take Toll On Bush's 2nd Term

Terence McKenna postulated the end of time (timewave zero) on December 21, 2012 AD..

LUCY IN THE SKY WITH SHATNER

Why should the nuclear club be limited to Russia, USA, France, Britain, and China? Haven't we already let Pakistan, India, Israel, and perhaps South Africa into the fold? I know, I know. It seems so reckless to allow the number to proliferate but given the state of tension between some players isn't a balance of power in nuclear arms actually stabilizing assuming that the leaders are rational, sane people? Also, are we to deny the right of other people to self-determination in regard to energy self sufficiency?

Do ya remember the brouhaha surrounding the swine flu, I think, during the late '70s? Seems the swine flu epidemic didn't materialize and that the vaccinations actually caused more deaths. The Bush administration has already indicated its willingness to dispatch troops to enforce a quarantine in the event of an outbreak of bird flu. At face value, seems a sensible thing to do, to plan ahead in the contingency of an outbreak. But, man, things keep getting weirder and weirder...

I thought that it was a human threat, but that it required further mutation to become communicable among humans (not just from bird to human) and thus become a pandemic-sized threat. Is that a gross oversimplification? Viruses can act as agents in transpecific gene transfer.