Truth! - part 14
The following statements might be true. Or maybe not. Who gives a shit? Like anybody listens to me anyway:
Depression can occasionally serve an important purpose: To get you to stop moving around so much. People suffering from the after effects of a trauma in almost all cases suffer from depression. This is because when one is injured, it is usually in their best interests to do nothing (or next to nothing) until the body has healed enough to start doing things. It's similar to how we get depressed in the winter because food is scarce and inaction conserves energy.
I feel like the best way to understand the "nothing" that is death is to have a concussion. We all lose consciousness through sleep, fainting, passing out drunk etc, but with those there is always a sense of the passage of time. I recently was involved in a serious accident and was convinced that I never lost consciousness through the whole ordeal, until several witnesses assured me that I definitely did. It was that level of nothing. Utterly devoid of perception, to the point where I could not tell that any time had passed whatsoever. I've come to the conclusion that must be what death is like.
The Mayans were an amazingly advanced people. With chilling accuracy the Mayan Calendar predicts the end of the Mayan Calendar.
100% men are from Mars and 100% women are from Venus. However, gender is a continuum not a dichotomy and none of us are 100% one or the other. Therefore we all are from somewhere in between. Now let's see, what's between Mars and Venus? Hmmmmmmm. Oh yeah, EARTH. I guess we should get over this men vs. women bullshit then and figure out the simple fact that we all want the same basic things.
It's 2010. That's 8 years after the Jetsons took place. I think it's time to start putting resources toward firing bigoted fuckheads into the sun.
Escargot are a delicious vehicle for garlic butter and I'm always into the garlic butter. However, with the intensity of the garlic butter, you can't really taste the snail. It could be anything. I suspect that escargot with a pencil covered in candle wax instead of a snail would taste exactly the same.
Speaking of French food, Absinthe? Nonsense. There's no green fairy. There are no hallucinations. The wormwood in it is only a trace and not anywhere near the volume that could do you any damage. It's not even delicious. It's just bland and lacks the burn of the other liquors. That's the only reason artists went crazy on it. It's so bland you can drink a ton of it and not notice.
Every time I or an incident I've witnessed have been mentioned in a news report (more than you might think) they always get at least one detail wrong. Usually more. Casts a degree of doubt on the accuracy of rest of the news.
Cats are not aloof. They're just socially awkward and are afraid to show interest in things because they don't want to look stupid.
"Pope" is a variation on "Papa" indicating a male. If the Catholic church ever gets to the point that they elect a female head of the church they'd have to call her something else. "Mope" perhaps?
I am frequently embarrassed by the racist thoughts that pop into my head. But then I think it through and realize I think similar thoughts about every other race including my own. As it turns out I'm not racist. I just don't like people.
The word "apology" comes from the Greek "apologos" which means "statement or story about". This means that the original use was not as a statement of remorse for some infraction but presenting your side of the story in defense of whatever fucked up thing you did. That's not an apology; that's just an excuse.
"Tabloid" is commonly used now to indicate silly, sensationalist journalism, but you know what the word actually refers to? The shape and size of the paper. 11"x 17" printed down the long side. I find that interesting for some reason.
I just figured out what really killed Soviet Communism. In every bit of both pro and anti communist propaganda, everybody is either a factory worker, farm worker, or scientist. If these films are true (and why wouldn't they be) Russia had no doctors, firefighters, cooks, teachers, office workers, accountants, house painters, etc. You can't run a country like that.
Did you know that one out of ten people is in the minority? Also four out of ten people are also in the minority, but a larger minority. Conversely four out of five people outnumber the remaining one by a daunting 400%. Seriously folks, how long are we going to let this go on?
Depression can occasionally serve an important purpose: To get you to stop moving around so much. People suffering from the after effects of a trauma in almost all cases suffer from depression. This is because when one is injured, it is usually in their best interests to do nothing (or next to nothing) until the body has healed enough to start doing things. It's similar to how we get depressed in the winter because food is scarce and inaction conserves energy.
I feel like the best way to understand the "nothing" that is death is to have a concussion. We all lose consciousness through sleep, fainting, passing out drunk etc, but with those there is always a sense of the passage of time. I recently was involved in a serious accident and was convinced that I never lost consciousness through the whole ordeal, until several witnesses assured me that I definitely did. It was that level of nothing. Utterly devoid of perception, to the point where I could not tell that any time had passed whatsoever. I've come to the conclusion that must be what death is like.
The Mayans were an amazingly advanced people. With chilling accuracy the Mayan Calendar predicts the end of the Mayan Calendar.
100% men are from Mars and 100% women are from Venus. However, gender is a continuum not a dichotomy and none of us are 100% one or the other. Therefore we all are from somewhere in between. Now let's see, what's between Mars and Venus? Hmmmmmmm. Oh yeah, EARTH. I guess we should get over this men vs. women bullshit then and figure out the simple fact that we all want the same basic things.
It's 2010. That's 8 years after the Jetsons took place. I think it's time to start putting resources toward firing bigoted fuckheads into the sun.
Escargot are a delicious vehicle for garlic butter and I'm always into the garlic butter. However, with the intensity of the garlic butter, you can't really taste the snail. It could be anything. I suspect that escargot with a pencil covered in candle wax instead of a snail would taste exactly the same.
Speaking of French food, Absinthe? Nonsense. There's no green fairy. There are no hallucinations. The wormwood in it is only a trace and not anywhere near the volume that could do you any damage. It's not even delicious. It's just bland and lacks the burn of the other liquors. That's the only reason artists went crazy on it. It's so bland you can drink a ton of it and not notice.
Every time I or an incident I've witnessed have been mentioned in a news report (more than you might think) they always get at least one detail wrong. Usually more. Casts a degree of doubt on the accuracy of rest of the news.
Cats are not aloof. They're just socially awkward and are afraid to show interest in things because they don't want to look stupid.
"Pope" is a variation on "Papa" indicating a male. If the Catholic church ever gets to the point that they elect a female head of the church they'd have to call her something else. "Mope" perhaps?
I am frequently embarrassed by the racist thoughts that pop into my head. But then I think it through and realize I think similar thoughts about every other race including my own. As it turns out I'm not racist. I just don't like people.
The word "apology" comes from the Greek "apologos" which means "statement or story about". This means that the original use was not as a statement of remorse for some infraction but presenting your side of the story in defense of whatever fucked up thing you did. That's not an apology; that's just an excuse.
"Tabloid" is commonly used now to indicate silly, sensationalist journalism, but you know what the word actually refers to? The shape and size of the paper. 11"x 17" printed down the long side. I find that interesting for some reason.
I just figured out what really killed Soviet Communism. In every bit of both pro and anti communist propaganda, everybody is either a factory worker, farm worker, or scientist. If these films are true (and why wouldn't they be) Russia had no doctors, firefighters, cooks, teachers, office workers, accountants, house painters, etc. You can't run a country like that.
Did you know that one out of ten people is in the minority? Also four out of ten people are also in the minority, but a larger minority. Conversely four out of five people outnumber the remaining one by a daunting 400%. Seriously folks, how long are we going to let this go on?
posted by John McKenna at 10:47 AM
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