The importance of keeping up with current events
Posted by:: Phin
Date: Thu, 03 Mar 2005 22:54:15 GMT
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I mean, I know it's too much data, and it's confusing and bad for your
mental health and you can't really DO anything about them anyway so it
fills you with a sense of disempowerment and helplessness....
But it's important to know what's going on.
That way when the bombs start going off and everything collapses, and
you're turned into powder, you'll know WHY.
Or at least, your own little version of WHY.
And that's important.
I think.
-=-Phin
Posted by:: König Prüße, GfbAEV
Date: Thu, 03 Mar 2005 23:16:32 GMT
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Phin wrote:
>I mean, I know it's too much data, and it's confusing and bad for your
>mental health and you can't really DO anything about them anyway so it
>fills you with a sense of disempowerment and helplessness....
>
>But it's important to know what's going on.
>
>That way when the bombs start going off and everything collapses, and
>you're turned into powder, you'll know WHY.
>
>Or at least, your own little version of WHY.
>
>And that's important.
>
>I think.
>
>-=-Phin
Well, I have actually thought about this before.
Current events are too much except to search
for weird bits, it's so much sensory overload.
You can reduce it to numbers and indices, and
have a simple one-number index that tells you
when it's time to move, and gives you co-ordinates
for where is a good place to relocate.
If you look at "class field theory," you can hook
the statistical data base to that, and a cuckoo clock
to tell you when it's time to move and good locations.
Hey, it works for real estate!
In any case, that's what I am currently doing for want
of a better strategy.
Posted by:: HellPope Huey
Date: Fri, 04 Mar 2005 03:37:33 GMT
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I don't really give a colossal fuck when It finally happens, as long as
it doesn't happen in the middle of me porkin' the missus or "Spider-Man
3."
--
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"I dunno, a bag of marbles?"
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Posted by:: "Rev. Ivan Stang"
Date: Fri, 04 Mar 2005 09:51:03 -0500
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In article
, König
Prüße, GfbAEV wrote:
> Phin wrote:
>
> >I mean, I know it's too much data, and it's confusing and bad for your
> >mental health and you can't really DO anything about them anyway so it
> >fills you with a sense of disempowerment and helplessness....
> >
> >But it's important to know what's going on.
> >
> >That way when the bombs start going off and everything collapses, and
> >you're turned into powder, you'll know WHY.
> >
> >Or at least, your own little version of WHY.
> >
> >And that's important.
> >
> >I think.
> >
> >-=-Phin
>
>
> Well, I have actually thought about this before.
> Current events are too much except to search
> for weird bits, it's so much sensory overload.
> You can reduce it to numbers and indices, and
> have a simple one-number index that tells you
> when it's time to move, and gives you co-ordinates
> for where is a good place to relocate.
>
> If you look at "class field theory," you can hook
> the statistical data base to that, and a cuckoo clock
> to tell you when it's time to move and good locations.
> Hey, it works for real estate!
>
> In any case, that's what I am currently doing for want
> of a better strategy.
>
The old "fly-by-night" lifestyle.
I get most of my news from alt.slack. My wife listens to NPR on the way
home and then when she arrives, asks me if anything BIG happened in the
news.
I also read a range of oddball web news publications with widely
varying agendas, to make it extra confusing. But I only do that once a
week or so.
Some Subgenii are more concerned with TIMELESS and RECURRING events
than with current events. Most of which are recurring events anyway.
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Posted by:: nenslo
Date: Fri, 04 Mar 2005 16:51:47 -0800
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"Rev. Ivan Stang" wrote:
>
>
> Some Subgenii are more concerned with TIMELESS and RECURRING events
> than with current events. Most of which are recurring events anyway.
>
One of the best brainclearing devices known to mere humanity is to get
your hands on an old newspaper from the 1920s. It's pretty much the
same content, just different dialect and names. You end up wondering
why you bother paying attention at all if they are just going to keep
doing this over and over.
Posted by:: König Prüße, GfbAEV
Date: Sat, 05 Mar 2005 00:58:12 GMT
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nenslo wrote:
>"Rev. Ivan Stang" wrote:
>>
>>
>> Some Subgenii are more concerned with TIMELESS and RECURRING events
>> than with current events. Most of which are recurring events anyway.
>>
>One of the best brainclearing devices known to mere humanity is to get
>your hands on an old newspaper from the 1920s. It's pretty much the
>same content, just different dialect and names. You end up wondering
>why you bother paying attention at all if they are just going to keep
>doing this over and over.
Yeah, they could save a lot of effort and wasted time by just
have one newspaper. Maybe the one that says, "Dewey Wins!"
Posted by:: "angelicusrex"
Date: Fri, 4 Mar 2005 23:54:05 -0700
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I have one that say's "Titanic Sinks." Gigantic luxury ship hits a Nenslo
in the Atlantic and takes hundreds to Davey Jone's Locker!
A.P.
Posted by:: Rev DJ Epoch
Date: 7 Mar 2005 14:28:45 GMT
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"angelicusrex" wrote in news:38t3bsF5sbnc9U1
@individual.net:
>
>
> I have one that say's "Titanic Sinks." Gigantic luxury ship hits a
Nenslo
> in the Atlantic and takes hundreds to Davey Jone's Locker!
>
> A.P.
>
>
>
Just how DID they get all those people in the trunk of the Monkeemobile,
anyway?
--
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Posted by:: "krustymadfaker"
Date: 5 Mar 2005 00:08:01 -0800
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>nenslo wrote:
> One of the best brainclearing devices known to mere humanity is to
get
> your hands on an old newspaper from the 1920s. It's pretty much the
> same content, just different dialect and names. You end up wondering
> why you bother paying attention at all if they are just going to keep
> doing this over and over.
If that's your Philosophy it makes me
wonder why your are such a miserable
pie making bastard.
"The illegal we do immediately. The unconstitutional takes a little
longer."
-Henry Kissinger
"Because the arm of this conspiratorial government-within-
the-government is evil incarnate! They -it- will stop at nothing! They
stole half of Nebraska!" - Sam Devereaux in The Road to Omaha (by
Robert Ludlum)
"Happiness is [DELETED FOR SECURITY REASONS]"
- The Computer
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report to the food vats." -Paranoia R.P.G.
Posted by:: nenslo
Date: Sat, 05 Mar 2005 00:24:22 -0800
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krustymadfaker wrote:
>
> >nenslo wrote:
> > One of the best brainclearing devices known to mere humanity is to
> get
> > your hands on an old newspaper from the 1920s. It's pretty much the
> > same content, just different dialect and names. You end up wondering
> > why you bother paying attention at all if they are just going to keep
> > doing this over and over.
>
> If that's your Philosophy it makes me
> wonder why your are such a miserable
> pie making bastard.
Well it isn't.
Posted by:: Zapanaz
Date: Sat, 05 Mar 2005 00:44:40 -0800
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On Sat, 05 Mar 2005 00:24:22 -0800, nenslo wrote:
>krustymadfaker wrote:
>>
>> >nenslo wrote:
>> > One of the best brainclearing devices known to mere humanity is to
>> get
>> > your hands on an old newspaper from the 1920s. It's pretty much the
>> > same content, just different dialect and names. You end up wondering
>> > why you bother paying attention at all if they are just going to keep
>> > doing this over and over.
>>
>> If that's your Philosophy it makes me
>> wonder why your are such a miserable
>> pie making bastard.
>
>Well it isn't.
but still.
--
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Customer Support Specialist
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jetzt fliege ich,
jetzt sehe ich mich unter mir,
jetzt tanzt ein Gott durch mich.
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Posted by:: "angelicusrex"
Date: Sat, 5 Mar 2005 12:59:41 -0700
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> If that's your Philosophy it makes me
> wonder why your are such a miserable
> pie making bastard.
Now THIS I laughed out loud at!
A.P.
Posted by:: "just john"
Date: 7 Mar 2005 07:09:30 -0800
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I found at an early age that paying attention to current events aided
the proper appreciation of Mad Magazine.