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A Bit of a Bump Down

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I have been finding it quite difficult to look at the front of this page recently.  I have now finally isolated the cause.

Not the LOL swastika.

Not the bare chest.

It’s the stars on that arm.

I can’t stands em!

I’m not old – but thinking for a moment about the oldschool cliche “barbwire bicep” tattoo of days gone by, I can’t feeling that all the forgotten warriors of earlier eras, for instance, the ones with the classic anchor on their wrist – I doubt they regret it quite so much as more recent owners will.  I mean, I don’t think barbwire or random stars are going to make a revival.  Still – that’s fairly obvious.  Since it is obvious, consider getting a thoroughly more original “I HAVE NO SOUL”: trampstamped on you.  It’s everything you’d want in a tattoo – original and soul-less.  Perfect.

On the LOL swastika tattoo

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LOL indeed

What a conversation starter.

Given the choice (between death and a tattoo) I’d take this over barb wire, tribals (I am translucent white, the only tribe I belong to is the moontan crew) or any other cliche “wall” images (see stars on arm for reference), any day.  A barb wire bicep is embarassment you have to live with for the rest of your life.  At least this is/was original.

Of course, it’s almost certainly fake – no 70kg geek (see collarbones) is going to be able to take on the responsibility of defending the type of outrage it’ll incite from people who desperately need outrage in their life.

Get Real

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Ohh righteous indignation!  Bones to pick! Rage-Ale to imbibe!

I’m quite the fan of cosmology (you know, tarot and whatnot) but I do especially tire of people’s (that is, useless superlative-toting cunts) incessant use of descriptions such as “nearly over” as a cutesy way of expressing “fucking ages, but not on a cosmic scale”.

The earth is going to be unhabitable in 2 billion years?  Nearly Over?

Don’t get me wrong.  Scientists (and I accept, the originator of this link) are quite welcome to make use of such language because care is always taken to be contextual, but, isn’t it terribly quaint how at the second and third levels of communication these concepts tend to degrade further and further into astronomical exaggeration?  How many times have I had to read tripe using similar source material where now, the headline is “Scientist Predict End of Earth Soon”? Somewhere about halfway, maybe three quarters (real slippery wanker territory, that) into the article, the shithead talentless “copy and paste/sensationalist drone” makes a reluctant retraction, thus largely invaliding their actual intended insinuation.  Never mind, you bought the paper or you clicked on the link.  Mission accomplished.

Sure, your soulless drivel sells advertising imprints, but let’s face it, you’re just another version of the lawyer.  A big, fat, exaggerating liar.  You’re contributing to the detriment of society by fevering the ignorance of the many.   Case in point, the furore surrounding the LHC creating a black hole.  Newspapers reporting imminent doom, knowing full well that at the very least, COLLISION of particles is required, something was never intended to be tested on that fateful day when half the world (that is, the ones who matter – the ones with wallets) carefully scrutinised their horoscope, scanning for any hints of singularities in today’s (un) lucky numbers.

Silly me, letting the truth get in the way of a good bit of mass hysteria.

I respect that in some cases, this type of practice is genuine in intent, but it’s mostly trying to be just a little more grandiose, a bit more dangerous.  Isn’t danger tasty?  Is fake danger?  Not to me, it just makes us insular fools who strike out at anything remotely resembling “threat”?

A turban, he’s got a fucking turban on his head!  Man the machine guns, left rudder, quick to starboard!

I wonder if in times to come, people will look back on these times of cosmic “enlightenment” and marvel at how everything was expressed in the language of the doomsday.  That is, in thousands of years, when it’s still a couple of billion years until “the doomsday” scenario occurs.  Morons.

Another Corker

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The sleep blog (http://www.sleeponthemic.com) received this incoming search term:

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Check it

Never a dull moment on the intramanets.

A Harsh Personality, Ethics

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If you’re somewhat of a caustic individual, you’ve likely experienced this.  Judgement rendered upon you by others that to be so “difficult” in some way necessitates that you must be immoral.  I really can’t speak for any others of my ilk, of course, but I find it interesting that people assume by virtue of some casual, harmless “evil”, that I would be capable of truly cruel acts or severely lacking in empathy.  Every now and again, a little slice of that opinion comes my way and has me scratching my head.

Even if I were capable of such evil, I believe in “Karma”.  By that, I mean that I believe if a person truly takes on such a belief structure, whereby they are punishable for acts they implicitly know to be wrong, they will find a suitable (perhaps random) examples of misfortune to pseudo balance that act.  So, essentially, I am of the mindset that if you “believe in karma” you fulfill that belief by finding examples that suitably reinforce this viewpoint.

Beyond this, I also suspect that at times, you manifest these “punishments” yourself.  A negative viewpoint has at some level, a detrimental effect on your life.  It can bring your misfortune.  So in that sense, Karma is real.  As real as you are, of course.  There is no mystical force at play, here – only yourself.

I do not believe a murder with zero ethics / moral structure inhibiting such acts suffers retribution (bar criminal justice) in any way, shape or form during or “after life”.  Harsh, but almost certainly true.  This isn’t some divine existence we are living.  It is an endless quantum fishbowl.  Personally, whilst it is difficult to admit this in front of regular people (people who have zero capacity to think beyond their physical existence on earth) my guess is that it is a statistical certainty that you will “live” again.  To some, this would be fairy talk, however, one day, science will likely lead us to more universal acceptance that the concept of zero, nothing, a start etc does not apply.  Certainly, right now, it is suspected.