1. Loneliness Breeds Belief in Supernatural

Comment #120634 by Y-bloc on February 2, 2008 at 7:05 am

YOU ARE NOT ALONE! That’s the big god thing isn’t it? Those grotesque calendars and postcards of a lone soul traversing a beach apparently all by him or her
self as the sun sets on the horizon…alone but for the extra set of footprints in the sand next to them! How manipulative to the lonely, disconnected and downtrodden.
And how about the idea that stillness of soul, isolation, and quiet are so important for really listening and comprehending to the whispers and wonders of god and all the holy-holies? What about all those monks and nuns in churches, cloisters and monasteries all waiting in the vast lonely void for the voice of god to touch them? Of course they are gonna’ hear the voice of god. Who wouldn’t after enough time? People in real seclusion do lose touch with reality. That’s what solitary confinement is all about. A few years of total seclusion breaks the prisoners ‘spirit’. (I just looked up three synonyms for monastery: ‘cell’ and ‘hermitage’, and ‘retreat’)
To be fair though, I work in a group of about 10 people and live in a collective with 8 other humans, a few dogs and two cats. I chat up the cats mercilessly. I ask them questions about mouse hunting, offer suggestions, read aloud from the ingredients on the cat food box and ask them if they enjoy the trisodium-diglyceride in their food. They don’t deign to speak to me so I just make up their answers for them. In fact sometimes I would rather escape from my friends and go and hassle the cats.

2. Heath Ledger Death: Baptist Group To Protest At Memorial

Comment #117735 by Y-bloc on January 29, 2008 at 1:42 pm

WAIT a second folks! I think it's a gag! A sick one, but a gag no less. Check out the page godhatesfags.com. printed on the poster. These people are making a spoof site in order to expose christianity as the piddle that it is. Right?
....These people can't be real can they?
.........Please thell me that they aren't real.....
............please............

3. Heath Ledger Death: Baptist Group To Protest At Memorial

Comment #117731 by Y-bloc on January 29, 2008 at 1:32 pm

Those creeps are pathetic at best. Dangerous and deeply disturbed if you ask me. That's not slander, it's TRUTH.

4. Was there ever dog that praised his fleas?

Comment #117705 by Y-bloc on January 29, 2008 at 12:11 pm

STEAL IT.
SHOPLIFT THE BLASTED THING.
Check that there isn't one of those li'l metal stickers on it then stick it down the back of your trousers and walk out of the store!
And that's that.
Moral dilemma? Moral dilemma?!! Come on, you're joking right?

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5. Scientists Induce Out-of-Body Sensation

Comment #117697 by Y-bloc on January 29, 2008 at 11:56 am

I don't have and problem with the idea that the human mind (the same mind that created the World Wide Web, Kevlar, the Hubble, and the Cadillac Graveyard) may be able to package up all or most of its ultra-present bits of "I AM" information and set them off-side for a few seconds of objective viewing before snapping them back up again. Our brains are obviously a lot more complex than anything we have either created or cognized with them. If we can encapsulate and move other energy-bundles, why not our own? I can imagine a million fantastic things that could go wrong in the .5 seconds that part of your energy was outside of your body too. How thrilling!

6. Washoe, the sign-language chimp dies

Comment #117676 by Y-bloc on January 29, 2008 at 11:09 am

When we speak of language we speak of human language. Human language that has no relevance in the life of a chimp or a gorilla. Language that humans designed over thousands of years with the aid of tools and vocal chords. When you try to teach a chimp to sign you are not just teaching it a word, an idea, a physical gesture that relates to these...you are trying to teach it to translate non-language experiences into language, or trying to pass it a language based experience and convince it to associate it with a non-language experience of its own and to commit that to memory. Not amazing?! Besides repetition and mimicry are how we all learned language, how we learned to social skills...We mimic and our minds respond to the reactions of those (parent/adult(s) we have mimicked, we repeat and confirm. So does a chimp. Sure seems to be the basis of thinking to me. People shouldn't get so spooked by the idea that chimps can think and sign. A cat can think. That doesn't mean one is going to come along and give y'all competition in the quantum physics department any time soon. And thinking and language don't have to be limited to the type of thinking language possessing humans are acquainted with. That would be like saying "it doesn't contain words so it can't be thought or communication."
Farewell Washoe. You were probably a pretty cool chimp.

7. Pale Blue Dot

Comment #117354 by Y-bloc on January 28, 2008 at 3:53 pm

Beautiful. But I felt sad after watching it. It reminded me that humans just refuse to learn from the world around them. We (the generalized 'we', of course) think that if it gets really, really bad we will grudgingly change something...Get a compact car, ride a bike, sit-in against the war, start to use our brains for something more profound than getting through another work-day...But it IS already really, really bad, and we don't change...we wait. Fot it to get worse. Because THEN we will change something. Ugh.
On the bright side, I just viewed a moving and profound piece of enlightened rebel poetry. He had a beautiful mind and a voice to match!