12-21-12

[Riotgear]

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Quit flirting with Maggot (he's not your type).

Yeah but he has a great head on his shoulders and he's quick on the draw with sage advice.

[OnBendedKnee]

And he's smokey.

[Riotgear]

Plus he protects little old ladies he'll never meet. Heroic really. Like LC.

[sally]

Sally nailed it.

I stole that from Kurt Vonnegut.

To the as-yet unborn, to all innocent wisps of undifferentiated nothingness: Watch out for life.

I have caught life. I have come down with life. I was a wisp of undifferentiated nothingness, and then a little peephole opened quite suddenly. Light and sound poured in. Voices began to describe me and my surroundings. Nothing they said could be appealed. They said I was a boy named Christopher Webster, and that was that. They said the year was 1968, and that was that. They said I was in Leeds, England, and that was that.

They never shut up. Year after year they piled detail upon detail. They do it still. You know what they say now? They say the year is 1982, and that I am fifty years old.

Blah blah blah.

[HairOfTheDog]

It was a good kipe, sally.

As for me, not sure if I'm leaving this world alone or with the masses; not sure when it will happen; not sure what happens after that (if anything) - just focusing on living.

I guess, pretty much no matter what you do it's bound to be a waste of time in the end so you might as well go mad. (I stole this last line from Kerouac - like both he and Vonnegut a lot.)

[Ilyanna]

HotD - I love Kerouac. I've re-read On the Road a few weeks ago for the third time, and I still find little, remarkable things it it that I've missed before.

[HairOfTheDog]

HotD - I love Kerouac. I've re-read On the Road a few weeks ago for the third time, and I still find little, remarkable things it it that I've missed before.

He's great, I read "On the Road" when I was on a long stop-and-go road trip right after I turned 21. I still have the same soft-cover copy, but haven't read it again in years.

Been reading some 70/80s philosophical stuff as of late. Terrance McKenna, while researching mushrooms, predicted the end of the world (this cycle, as we know it, not literally per se) to be in 2012 using numerology "time zone zero" + a tie-in to a stimulus based on periods of human novelty.

He narrowed it down to November 2012 using his intepretation of part of I Ching (then selecting the Hiroshima bombing as the point of "novelty). Later, he agreed to 12/21/12 to reconcile with others whom he respected who were using that date - which marks the end of the Mayan baktun 13^th calendar.

There are a lot of different interpetations regarding what will happen depending on the 12/21/12 scholar/source. Personally, I'm confident that I'll be doing last minute Christmas shopping, same as every year. But, who knows? Most authors that I've read predicted that the date would mark a significant change in how we live and our interconnectedness with each other and the environment, not as a doomsday. That's my understanding anyway; but I sometimes have to re-read sections of such works several times.

[Riotgear]

Kerouac is like Dali. A fucking fraud.

And it's time wave zero Doghair. Fucking maroon.

[HairOfTheDog]

Kerouac is like Dali. A fucking fraud.

And it's time wave zero Doghair. Fucking maroon.

I like Kerouac a lot.

And, yes, I made a mistake, it is time "wave" zero. I don't have it in front of me - sue me.

Still not gonna call you names nor do I care what's up your ass.

[Riotgear]

Okey dokey then.

[Jimbone]

Kerouac is like Dali. A fucking fraud.

And it's time wave zero Doghair. Fucking maroon.

Well that seems a little harsh... bad day?

[Riotgear]

Kerouac is like Dali. A fucking fraud.

And it's time wave zero Doghair. Fucking maroon.

Well that seems a little harsh... bad day?

Not at all. It was beautiful here. Pretty warm and quite humid but nice none the less. Had a few projects to babysit earlier today but by early afternoon everything was moving along nicely. I've got a bit of money in my pocket, a bit more on the way and my wife likes my new haircut. All in all not a bad day.

[Ilyanna]

Kerouac is like Dali. A fucking fraud.

Anyone after the first hairless monkey thinking up stuff is a fraud, so . Kerouac was cool, though, contrary to Bukowski. He and Dali - perverted idiots.

[HairOfTheDog]

Kerouac is like Dali. A fucking fraud.

And it's time wave zero Doghair. Fucking maroon.

Well that seems a little harsh... bad day?

Hi, Jim. No worries.

The esteemed scholar is setting me straight for making a mistake in a post.

He's the brilliant mind that brought us gems such as the concept of strong women is mostly a modern one. Apparently, mythology doesn't exist, nor did Joan of Arc, Hatshepsut, Empress Theodora, Isabella I, Wu Zetian...

Also, from this same Mock mastermind, disobedience is mostly a modern concept and women have the biological and/or physiological ability to prevent being impregnated by a rapist. History, literature and science got it all wrong, but that's okay. RG is here to scold and enlighten me. His insight and derrogatory personal statements are surely to be given serious consideration.

Anyway, I like reading the different theories, but don't believe that 12/21/12 will be different than any other day. You?

[Riotgear]

Heh heh heh.

[ramseycat]

That is my father in law's birthday.

There's a reason that you're NOT known as Ms. Insightful.

Insight has nothing to do with it. I was just saying it's his birthday. Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar.

[Donovan]

I'm a 'die you're dead' guy FTR.

I'm not counting on the world to end on 12/21, but if it happens I think you go back to being a wisp of undifferentiated nothingness.

So, neither of you are buying the premise of the 2002 movie 'Dragonfly' where Kevin Costner's dead wife is able to communicate with him through Dragonflys and let him know their daughter is alive somewhere in Colombia?

You'd think she'd go with a parrot. At least they can talk.

[Donovan]

Sally nailed it.

I stole that from Kurt Vonnegut.

To the as-yet unborn, to all innocent wisps of undifferentiated nothingness: Watch out for life.

I have caught life. I have come down with life. I was a wisp of undifferentiated nothingness, and then a little peephole opened quite suddenly. Light and sound poured in. Voices began to describe me and my surroundings. Nothing they said could be appealed. They said I was a boy named Christopher Webster, and that was that. They said the year was 1968, and that was that. They said I was in Leeds, England, and that was that.

They never shut up. Year after year they piled detail upon detail. They do it still. You know what they say now? They say the year is 1982, and that I am fifty years old.

Blah blah blah.

I like this bit, it's an awfully fancy way of saying we're all worthless farts.

[Jimbone]

Anyway, I like reading the different theories, but don't believe that 12/21/12 will be different than any other day. You?

Nothing to see or prepare for. Niribu doesn't exist and isn't on a collision course with anything. The Mayans couldn't see into the future, because if they could they wouldn't have been wiped out by the Spaniard's.

I'm thinking it's just another day. My guess is the chisel broke, and that's the day it broke on.

[Riotgear]

That is my father in law's birthday.

There's a reason that you're NOT known as Ms. Insightful.

Insight has nothing to do with it. I was just saying it's his birthday. Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar.