COLLECTIVE MADNESS
“Soft despotism is a term coined by Alexis de Tocqueville describing the state into which a country overrun by "a network of small complicated rules" might degrade. Soft despotism is different from despotism (also called 'hard despotism') in the sense that it is not obvious to the people."
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ReplyDeleteJesus Christ, allen said he was "head and shoulders" above everyone here, "head and shoulders above everyone here" because "I'm a Marine".
ReplyDeleteJesus Je--sus CHRIST.
Can't you at least get your fellow Marines to quit pissing on corpses, at least on camera?
It's bad for the image of the country.
"Lawyers do rule the earth, Toshtu. I'm in on that secret."
ReplyDeleteAnd there's not a damn thing you can do about it, without a lawyer.
We're all just looking for representation. Lawyers are the New Jesus.
bob,
ReplyDeleteI have no control over Marines in need of bladder evacuation, just as Jenny has no control over Marines in need of semen evacuation. Life is unfair.
Sport, you needed to "piss" on a woman who is a free spirit. That is the same thing as a "whore" to you. Melody, is such a free bird. Live with it.
bob said...
ReplyDeleteCan't you at least get your fellow Marines to quit pissing on corpses, at least on camera?
Probably not, bob, they are Marines. You are what?
bob,
ReplyDeleteThat's why, bob, when you order "fix bayonets", they do not stick potatoes on the ends of their rifles.
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ReplyDeleteWell, well.
Da flim-flam man be back and he appears to be in the middle of another bender.
What is it Al? A little stress? Problems at work? Problems at home? Couldn't find eight or nine other guys willing to conduct services with you?
From your appearances here over the past couple weeks, you appear to be losing it. A couple of benders, a number of incoherant posts, the school marm act. Strange stuff. Why don't you hit the sack and sleep it off?
Tomorrow's Monday. Try seeking a little help.
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Quirk.
ReplyDeleteI have no idea of what you are talking. You don't either, I think. But, Quirk, don't let thinking get in the way of your gobbledegook.
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ReplyDeleteI have no idea of what you are talking.
I'm sure you don't in your condition; but not to worry...er...
Well, I was going to say someone would go to bat for you but I'm not sure who that would be.
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"Religion is like a penis. It's fine to have one. It's fine to be proud of it. But don't whip it out in public and wave it around."
Toshtu
If religion were like a vagina, there would be more churches.
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Beware, Bob. In the future when we argue philosophy, you can quote Kant and Nietzsche all you want. I will quote Toshtu mixed with a little T.
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ReplyDeleteWho's Killing Iran's Nuclear Scientists?
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When I was in India recently, I saw a sign that said,
ReplyDelete'English speaking taxi driver'.
I thought to myself,
"What a brilliant idea."
"Why don't we have them in Australia ?”
"On an Apparent Intention in the Fate of the Individual," points out
ReplyDeletethat when you reach an advanced age and look back over your lifetime,
it can seem to have had a consistent order and plan, as though
composed by some novelist. Events that when they occurred had seemed
accidental and of little moment turn out to have been indispensable
factors in the composition of a consistent plot. So who composed that
plot? Schopenhauer suggests that just as your dreams are composed by
an aspect of yourself of which your consciousness is unaware, so, too,
your whole life is composed by the will within you. And just as people
whom you will have met apparently by mere chance became leading agents
in the structuring of your life, so, too, will you have served
unknowingly as an agent, giving meaning to the lives of others. The
whole thing gears together like one big symphony, with everything
unconsciously structuring everything else. And Schopenhauer concludes
that it is as though our lives were the features of the one great
dream of a single dreamer in which all the dream characters dream,
too; so that everything links to everything else, moved by the one
will to life which is the universal will in nature."
-joseph campbell
Sounds like a college freshman discovering pot.
ReplyDelete:) heh
ReplyDeleteThat wasn't bad, Rufus.