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Jenshae Chiroptera
#81 - 2015-03-14 16:01:59 UTC
Gimme Sake wrote:
Who dat Karl Max?!?! James 315 said dat!! :P
The way followers of The Order are so evangelical I have classified CODE as a cult, much like Jehova's equally annoying and harmless.

CCP - Building ant hills and magnifying glasses for fat kids

Not even once

EVE is becoming shallow and puerile; it will satisfy neither the veteran nor the "WoW" type crowd in the transition.
Khergit Deserters
Crom's Angels
#82 - 2015-03-15 01:39:00 UTC
Jenshae Chiroptera wrote:
Khergit Deserters wrote:
-xxX-Karl L337 Marxxx
Fixed. P

HA!
Gimme Sake
State War Academy
Caldari State
#83 - 2015-03-15 04:19:10 UTC  |  Edited by: Gimme Sake
What's not "evangelical" about social movements? Comfortably justified ideas adopted as the script recommends. Are they followed out of altruism or they are merely a satisfying excuse to avoid it?

"Never not blob!" ~ Plato
Jenshae Chiroptera
#84 - 2015-03-16 02:07:52 UTC
Gimme Sake wrote:
What's not "evangelical" about social movements? Comfortably justified ideas adopted as the script recommends. Are they followed out of altruism or they are merely a satisfying excuse to avoid it?
Some ideas catch on, go viral and spread like wild fire, others get a few zealots trying to ram it down people's throats. Blink

CCP - Building ant hills and magnifying glasses for fat kids

Not even once

EVE is becoming shallow and puerile; it will satisfy neither the veteran nor the "WoW" type crowd in the transition.
Sibyyl
Garoun Investment Bank
Gallente Federation
#85 - 2015-03-16 03:04:45 UTC

Gimme Sake wrote:
Are they followed out of altruism or they are merely a satisfying excuse to avoid it?


Typically if you have folks soliciting you, you will wonder what they want from you instead of what they will give you. Social movements are no different from corporations in dimensions of agenda and greed. They are simply more cellular, and less monolithic.

Joffy Aulx-Gao for CSM. Fix links and OGB. Ban stabs from plexes. Fulfill karmic justice.
Khergit Deserters
Crom's Angels
#86 - 2015-03-17 01:34:54 UTC
What's strange is when you have people so devoted to some peaceful/beneficent social movement that they become aggressive about it. You know, approaching and blocking innocent strangers and demanding that the sign petitions, get on mailing lists, and of course donate money. The idea of the movement is peaceful and well-meaning, but the hardcore believers are as about as angry, militant, thick-headed and aggressive as any redneck fash-ist jackboot.

Humans.... some of them just don't try to get it, or even try to get it.

Anyway, an example of when members of a nice social movement sadly try to get a little too aggressive.... They should have listened to Gandhi and MLK maybe?
Jenshae Chiroptera
#87 - 2015-03-17 05:22:07 UTC
Quote:
Do not be greedy! Chinese: 贪不得胜; pinyin: Tān bùdé shèng; literally: "Greed cannot prevail"

Your enemy's key point is your own key point.

CCP - Building ant hills and magnifying glasses for fat kids

Not even once

EVE is becoming shallow and puerile; it will satisfy neither the veteran nor the "WoW" type crowd in the transition.
Khergit Deserters
Crom's Angels
#88 - 2015-03-17 18:17:48 UTC  |  Edited by: Khergit Deserters
My wife and I lived happily for 25 years. Then we met.
-Rodney Dangerfield

Edit: A derail there.
I don't know mate, greed seems to be doing pretty well for itself. Getting more popular all the time and gaining new recruits from all around the world, by the minute. Some have the mentality and makeup to do well at it. Those ones don't seem to suffer many adverse consequences from it. A few twinges of guilt once in a while, for the more aware ones, but those can be rationalized away. But one unavoidable sad consequence is you end up with a reptilian/crocodile face at around age 50. Gym-toned body of a 30-year-old, best haircut, great clothes. You look great from behind, but... OMG can't hide the leathery crocodile face and mean look in the eye. The rehearsed flash-smile is on it's way, but-- too late.

(Results may vary, by location. The above are observations from the New York City, USA area).
Khergit Deserters
Crom's Angels
#89 - 2015-03-30 00:21:06 UTC  |  Edited by: Khergit Deserters
Such a nice almost-Spring day here in New York, USA that I necroed this thread and wrote a haiku:

Snow still, in the shade
But in the sun, ya old grill
You're hotting up good

I wanted to add something about my yellow dog with pent-up winter indoor energy going crazy all over the yard on his rope toy. But there was no way to work that in in 5-7-5 syllables. Haiku has no tolerance for tl:dr long-arse meanderings.
Jenshae Chiroptera
#90 - 2015-03-30 08:15:20 UTC
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vIy76M-4txo

CCP - Building ant hills and magnifying glasses for fat kids

Not even once

EVE is becoming shallow and puerile; it will satisfy neither the veteran nor the "WoW" type crowd in the transition.
Gimme Sake
State War Academy
Caldari State
#91 - 2015-03-30 20:14:17 UTC
Khergit Deserters wrote:
Such a nice almost-Spring day here in New York, USA that I necroed this thread and wrote a haiku:

Snow still, in the shade
But in the sun, ya old grill
You're hotting up good

I wanted to add something about my yellow dog with pent-up winter indoor energy going crazy all over the yard on his rope toy. But there was no way to work that in in 5-7-5 syllables. Haiku has no tolerance for tl:dr long-arse meanderings.




In the shade, still

tldr

lies the old grill

tldr, tldr, tldr

the sun.


Nah, really, the tldr inside a haiku is so long it becomes breathing space.

"Never not blob!" ~ Plato
Khergit Deserters
Crom's Angels
#92 - 2015-03-30 23:13:29 UTC  |  Edited by: Khergit Deserters
Jenshae Chiroptera wrote:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vIy76M-4txo

That universe just keeps on expain-ding and expain-ding Smile

Edit: F-You American television. The premise of every commercial is every male is unfulfilled horny, and every female is a manipulative hotty. In some kind of backlit slow motion drama bar scene. Which never happens. Or some kind of stop-motion BMW urban getting-into-cars scenes. Which also never the feck ever ever happen.

That was on the Hockey Channel.

I hate to see what fecking equivalent is going on on the women's version of the Hockey Channel. Probably about the same level of mind-insulting crap. We are all impressionable, right?

Liberte! Fraternite! Egalite! Or at least some thinking aboot it.
Jenshae Chiroptera
#93 - 2015-03-31 13:22:50 UTC
If an advert gets through to me, I make sure to boycott their product.

Make this policy go viral and see the world change. Blink

CCP - Building ant hills and magnifying glasses for fat kids

Not even once

EVE is becoming shallow and puerile; it will satisfy neither the veteran nor the "WoW" type crowd in the transition.
Gimme Sake
State War Academy
Caldari State
#94 - 2015-03-31 17:16:48 UTC
Jenshae Chiroptera wrote:
If an advert gets through to me, I make sure to boycott their product.

Make this policy go viral and see the world change. Blink



Hope you know all adverts are directed at "you".

"Never not blob!" ~ Plato
Jenshae Chiroptera
#95 - 2015-03-31 21:30:47 UTC
Gimme Sake wrote:
... Hope you know all adverts are directed at "you".
Roll
I have been involved with strategic target marketing.
I am talking about wide net advertising that you see constantly because it is too prolific. If I remember the brand, I boycott it for being annoying.

CCP - Building ant hills and magnifying glasses for fat kids

Not even once

EVE is becoming shallow and puerile; it will satisfy neither the veteran nor the "WoW" type crowd in the transition.
Khergit Deserters
Crom's Angels
#96 - 2015-04-01 23:54:43 UTC  |  Edited by: Khergit Deserters
Sorry OP, I'm going to litter your thread with another haiku. This one is on the theme of the ephemeral and transient nature of all things. A common theme of samurai death poems.

IT Director
Is getting married in May
Shots Night... is kaput.
Jenshae Chiroptera
#97 - 2015-04-02 00:19:19 UTC
"Of all the things that I have lost over the years, it is my mind that I miss the most." - forgot who.

CCP - Building ant hills and magnifying glasses for fat kids

Not even once

EVE is becoming shallow and puerile; it will satisfy neither the veteran nor the "WoW" type crowd in the transition.
Khergit Deserters
Crom's Angels
#98 - 2015-04-02 02:17:42 UTC
"I'd rather have a bottle in front of me than a frontal lobotomy."
-Tom Waits

Thinking about DNA-based evolution... So, a Cambrian worm's or more advanced bug arthropod's cells chemically arrange themselves into photo receptor cells. Proto-eyes. Happens over eons, of course. OK, but why have we never seen a fossil with proto-eyes on its back end? Or its underside?

If evolution is just a chemical reaction, repeated over quillions of generations--- where are the missing links? Why those eye lens just magically jumped to the front headlights area?
Jenshae Chiroptera
#99 - 2015-04-02 03:47:15 UTC
Khergit Deserters wrote:
.... where are the missing links? Why those eye lens just magically jumped to the front headlights area?
They died rapidly with few samples.
Rather ask, "Why have we found only one creature with eyes that work mechanically like a camera?"

CCP - Building ant hills and magnifying glasses for fat kids

Not even once

EVE is becoming shallow and puerile; it will satisfy neither the veteran nor the "WoW" type crowd in the transition.
Hengle Teron
Red Sky Morning
The Amarr Militia.
#100 - 2015-04-02 17:15:56 UTC
Jenshae Chiroptera wrote:
If an advert gets through to me, I make sure to boycott their product.

Make this policy go viral and see the world change. Blink

But that goes against the human nature of choosing the familiar.

There's a reason advertising works.