Utah
from Fort Worth, TX is reading Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtryFebruary 23, 2012 - 9:50am
<---- is currently winning battle for last post.
avery of the dead
from Kentucky is reading Cipher SistersFebruary 23, 2012 - 9:52am
But who will win the war?
Matt Attack
from Richmond, Va. is reading As I Lay Dying, William FaulknerFebruary 23, 2012 - 9:52am
Lies.
avery of the dead
from Kentucky is reading Cipher SistersFebruary 23, 2012 - 9:55am
Matt - you forgot the little arrow pointing to yourself.
Matt Attack
from Richmond, Va. is reading As I Lay Dying, William FaulknerFebruary 23, 2012 - 9:57am
Oh yeah.
<---Lies. I am winning. I am always winning. It's what I do. Don't hate.
Moderator
Utah
from Fort Worth, TX is reading Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtryFebruary 23, 2012 - 10:34am
<---- loaded with hate and winning. Don't worry, I'll channel my hate into something productive.
avery of the dead
from Kentucky is reading Cipher SistersFebruary 23, 2012 - 10:47am
^^^^^^^^^^^ Don't hate.
Moderator
Utah
from Fort Worth, TX is reading Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtryFebruary 23, 2012 - 10:48am
Parrot
avery of the dead
from Kentucky is reading Cipher SistersFebruary 23, 2012 - 10:50am
Are you calling me a parrot? Or do you hate parrots?
Or is this a medical condition.
Nick Wilczynski
from Greensboro, NC is reading A Dance with Dragons by George R.R. MartinFebruary 23, 2012 - 11:16am
@alien: Isn't it hilarious? But I don't get IFC so I pirate my episodes.
My favorite bit this far comes from the second season, they are having a book signing and reading at women and women first and they keep hassling the author about how to use their printer and talking about the epic novel that the girl (the one who is biologically female irl) has written, and so the author asks them "How long have you been writing?"
"A few years," says one.
"All of my past lives," says the other.
So now I just walk around muttering "all of my past lives" and giggling. People don't look at me funny or think I'm nutty.
aliensoul77
from a cold distant star is reading the writing on the wall.February 24, 2012 - 5:58am
Yeah, the feminist bookstore sketches are the best.
Nick Wilczynski
from Greensboro, NC is reading A Dance with Dragons by George R.R. MartinFebruary 24, 2012 - 6:37am
They are absolutely my favorite. The best humor for an individual will play on things that they know intricately, there is no joke like an inside joke, and in a lot of ways that is the philosophy behind the whole show, I mean, it makes fun of hipsters and I laugh at it because I know all too well the eccentricities and internal contradictions of that lifestyle, we all do, even if we won't admit to the name "hipster" which is one of the reasons that it is such an interesting social movement is because it is so... self aware.
But that element of the show, the inside joke angle, it hits me especially hard with those two because not only are they hipsters but they are biblophile writers. The hardcore feminism is amusing, their relationship is funny (like when the one wants to have "secret talk" with Heather Graham and the other one sneaks up behind them and starts knocking books off the shelf), but I laugh the hardest when they make jokes about writing ("I felt like it was a brag journal and what a journal should be is a document of misery") or indie bookstores ("Top selling author? No, we only want bottom selling authors.").
But the "all my past lives," quote. My God. I mean, I can literally see myself saying that. I know damn well how ridiculous it sounds, but I totally understand where she is coming from.
Typewriter Demigod
from London is reading "White Noise" by DeLilo, "Moby-Dick" by Hermann Mellivile and "Uylsses" by JoyceFebruary 24, 2012 - 7:35am
I started the battle, I'll finish it tyvm.
avery of the dead
from Kentucky is reading Cipher SistersFebruary 25, 2012 - 8:25am
The neighbors across the way seem to be having some sort of party - I have not been invited.
Snooty fucking pentecostals. They're just jealous because MY Jesus lets me wear pants!
Jose F. Diaz
from Boston is reading Wolf Hall by Hilary MantelFebruary 25, 2012 - 1:17pm
Funny people who believe in religion. It's cute.
Renfield
from Hell is reading 20th Century GhostsFebruary 25, 2012 - 2:53pm
Spent a couple days drinking during the week and I've seemed to have done something seriously wrong to my throat meat. Pain. Don't know what to do.
Also, yall seen that Ru Paul Drag Race? Kind of addicted to that.
Nick Wilczynski
from Greensboro, NC is reading A Dance with Dragons by George R.R. MartinFebruary 25, 2012 - 3:03pm
@Diaz: Jesus had some good ideas. I mean, organized religion is a total bust. I don't want to "donate" money to a church so they can build a bigger goddamn parking lot or pay off legal settlements against children they've molested. That's obviously not the work of God. But there is a couple of churches in GSO that run soup kitchens and those people aren't so bad. It's almost like they took that Sermon on the Mount stuff seriously and frankly, that's great, I think Christianity should be built around Jesus's ideas instead of the mythology of his lineage.
And we should bear in mind that actively disorganized religion is also a total bust. Rastafari (the long lost 4th Abrahamaic faith) is built on the idea that "organized religion sucks, we'll have a few central tenents but fuck it, I'll leave the details up to you guys. No, I don't want any money."
And, I mean, it isn't an effective religion because of that. It doesn't serve the social roles a religion ought to, although it works for individuals and I'm not going to deny that, but it also spreads slow and nobody takes it seriously.
Jose F. Diaz
from Boston is reading Wolf Hall by Hilary MantelFebruary 25, 2012 - 3:19pm
I like Buddhism. It isn't a religion. It is just a way to live your life. Don't starve yourself, but don't over indulge either. Live to be happy, but don't do it if it will cause others suffering. The same thing with Jesus's teachings. Except some people decided to take it as law as opposed to a way to live. Oh well.
Nick Wilczynski
from Greensboro, NC is reading A Dance with Dragons by George R.R. MartinFebruary 25, 2012 - 3:36pm
Oh, well, I'm not going to argue with Buddah either, he had a totally reasonable life philosophy.
And in any event, reincarnation is the only rational afterlife. It even ties into evolution if you think about it, where not only are there genetic changes to these creatures but also they are evolving spiritually and gaining a fuller understanding of life.
How do you feel about Confucius? And Why is it that Asia got all of the reasonable religions? TAOism! They got frikken Taoism and all we got was, what, Islam? Mormonism? Catholocism? Our religions are all so mystical that it is dumb, not even Protestantism is that rational. Magic stories of miracles DO NOT TEACH ME ANYTHING ABOUT LIFE.
If only Socrates had started a religion.
aliensoul77
from a cold distant star is reading the writing on the wall.February 25, 2012 - 3:44pm
I sometimes wonder about the reincarnation thing and if it's real or not. Even if it isn't then it's something cool to think about. I like the concept of new and old souls. Some people do seem like they have lived many lifetimes, they have build in personalities that can't just be genetic memory based on by parents. Although I do wonder if we start making human clones if genetic memory is possible. Anyway, some people do seem like they are really new souls though like fresh out of the soul machine, dumb as shit and blank as a slate. I'm sure you know what I mean. Past lifes, alternative universes, parallel realities, ghosts, the interventionist God versus the watcher Deity. All great writing concepts. The dogmatic one trick pony story of a crucifixtion/resurrection and then just surrender to faith has no imagination, it's a Dead End stop on the way to Crazyville.
Typewriter Demigod
from London is reading "White Noise" by DeLilo, "Moby-Dick" by Hermann Mellivile and "Uylsses" by JoyceFebruary 25, 2012 - 4:28pm
Egh, my opinion of religion is this:
You know the point that when you wrote something you thought was awesome, when you were like, tweleve, and you believed it was awesome for ages and ages? Now, years later, you're writing in an anthology, and somewhere, you find in your computer, that file. That story you adored so much. And as you read through it, you see all the holes, how shit it is. That's what happened with God and us. He's reread us, and thought,
"Fuck, I was a dumbass back then." so now he's passive-aggressivly ignoring us. I don't adhere to any faith, despite being born jewish. I believe in God, but I don't think he likes us very much. I would be bhuddist, but their veiws on matieral possession conflicts with mine- ie, you should not get too attached to anything.
Jose F. Diaz
from Boston is reading Wolf Hall by Hilary MantelFebruary 25, 2012 - 4:42pm
Laramore Black
from Joplin, Missouri is reading Mario Kart 8February 25, 2012 - 5:25pm
I haven't commented on this in like a thousand posts.
aliensoul77
from a cold distant star is reading the writing on the wall.February 25, 2012 - 6:16pm
Laurance, I love your octopus head icon...I also like giving you head.
Chris Davis
from Indiana is reading A Feast of Snakes by Harry CrewsFebruary 26, 2012 - 12:00am
I'm thinking of writing an adventure story giving a new origin to how Joseph Smith came up with The Book of Mormon called "Walking a Mile in another Man's Magic Underpants". It will be kind of like Latter Day Saints meets Indiana Jones. Any thoughts?
aliensoul77
from a cold distant star is reading the writing on the wall.February 26, 2012 - 12:04am
anything that mocks mormonism is fine with me. Then again, I'm an ass like that.
aliensoul77
from a cold distant star is reading the writing on the wall.February 26, 2012 - 12:04am
Although the South Park guys have pretty much covered that with "The Book of Mormon" play.
Chris Davis
from Indiana is reading A Feast of Snakes by Harry CrewsFebruary 26, 2012 - 12:12am
and their "all about Mormons" episode and "Orgazmo" those guys have a ridiculous mad-on for Mormons, which I find hysterical. Anything that involves freemasons and magic glasses has an endless possibility of fun ripe for the mocking.
Renfield
from Hell is reading 20th Century GhostsFebruary 26, 2012 - 11:32am
Boone Spaulding
from Coldwater, Michigan, U.S.A. is reading Solarcide Presents: Nova ParadeFebruary 26, 2012 - 12:23pm
Egh, my opinion of religion is this:
You know the point that when you wrote something you thought was awesome, when you were like, tweleve, and you believed it was awesome for ages and ages? Now, years later, you're writing in an anthology, and somewhere, you find in your computer, that file. That story you adored so much. And as you read through it, you see all the holes, how shit it is. That's what happened with God and us. He's reread us, and thought,
"Fuck, I was a dumbass back then." so now he's passive-aggressivly ignoring us.
I like that. It's been famously batted about, "Is God Dead?"/"God Is Dead".
Sometimes when I get tired of people questioning faith and mystery, I just offer this conversation-killer: "God is alive. His love for humankind is dead," or "God is alive; his faith in humankind is dead."
Crickets....
.
Matt Attack
from Richmond, Va. is reading As I Lay Dying, William FaulknerFebruary 26, 2012 - 12:35pm
<----winning
Boone Spaulding
from Coldwater, Michigan, U.S.A. is reading Solarcide Presents: Nova ParadeFebruary 26, 2012 - 12:41pm
^ That's not how whining is spelled...
Matt Attack
from Richmond, Va. is reading As I Lay Dying, William FaulknerFebruary 26, 2012 - 12:43pm
DAMN YOU. Also sidenote, I took a little trip today and just drove.....you should be relieved to know the Atlantic is still there.
Matt Attack
from Richmond, Va. is reading As I Lay Dying, William FaulknerFebruary 26, 2012 - 1:50pm
<---also, winning again
avery of the dead
from Kentucky is reading Cipher SistersFebruary 26, 2012 - 1:55pm
I went car shopping yesterday. I didn't get anything and subsequently my whole family sort of hates me. It was a good trip.
Boone Spaulding
from Coldwater, Michigan, U.S.A. is reading Solarcide Presents: Nova ParadeFebruary 26, 2012 - 2:20pm
What kind of car are you thinking of getting? (Model-wise: compact, down-size station wagon, hybrid, etc.)
Matt Attack
from Richmond, Va. is reading As I Lay Dying, William FaulknerFebruary 26, 2012 - 2:33pm
Boone since you took your cigarette picture down, I had to put one up to carry the smoky torch. I call it, "Dirtbag from the future."
aliensoul77
from a cold distant star is reading the writing on the wall.February 26, 2012 - 2:31pm
Just get chrystler 300!
.
February 26, 2012 - 2:32pm
Mustang.
aliensoul77
from a cold distant star is reading the writing on the wall.February 26, 2012 - 2:33pm
Matt, you have really captured that look.
Matt Attack
from Richmond, Va. is reading As I Lay Dying, William FaulknerFebruary 26, 2012 - 2:35pm
I know, it wasn't easy. You had to look sickly and rape-y at the same time. I am not quite sure how he did it.
Typewriter Demigod
from London is reading "White Noise" by DeLilo, "Moby-Dick" by Hermann Mellivile and "Uylsses" by JoyceFebruary 26, 2012 - 2:37pm
Matt, stop trying to win. Plus! I'm fucking free from exams. So i can help all the workshoppers!
Matt Attack
from Richmond, Va. is reading As I Lay Dying, William FaulknerFebruary 26, 2012 - 2:44pm
I can't help it, it's what I do.
avery of the dead
from Kentucky is reading Cipher SistersFebruary 26, 2012 - 2:46pm
I'm looking for a Ford Fusion. I found one I liked, but it made a funny noise and although I was willing to die in it, my husband vetoed the purchase. That bastard.
Boone Spaulding
from Coldwater, Michigan, U.S.A. is reading Solarcide Presents: Nova ParadeFebruary 26, 2012 - 2:59pm
@Matt - saw the pic in another thread, laughed for 10 seconds! GOT IT!.
OK - now you're winning.
(kinda look like post-suicide-attempt Luke Wilson in The Royal Tenenbaums)
Matt Attack
from Richmond, Va. is reading As I Lay Dying, William FaulknerFebruary 26, 2012 - 3:04pm
That was such a good movie, I am glad you got it though. A homage to you sir.
Boone Spaulding
from Coldwater, Michigan, U.S.A. is reading Solarcide Presents: Nova ParadeFebruary 26, 2012 - 3:02pm
(I want all my profile pics to be grainy, blurred, scratched, gritty - unclean, like a mugshot or autopsy photo)
Jose F. Diaz
from Boston is reading Wolf Hall by Hilary MantelFebruary 26, 2012 - 3:03pm
Get a Jeep Wrangler
Boone Spaulding
from Coldwater, Michigan, U.S.A. is reading Solarcide Presents: Nova ParadeFebruary 26, 2012 - 3:05pm
@averydoll: your turn! Grainy mugshot profile pic. Get creative. Get scary. Impress us.
Your current photo is belieingly wholesome. You need to represent....
Jose F. Diaz
from Boston is reading Wolf Hall by Hilary MantelFebruary 26, 2012 - 3:08pm
In my profile pic: That's Greg Dullie from the Twilight Singers in black. You may also know him from Afghan Wigs.
<---- is currently winning battle for last post.
But who will win the war?
Lies.
Matt - you forgot the little arrow pointing to yourself.
Oh yeah.
<---Lies. I am winning. I am always winning. It's what I do. Don't hate.
<---- loaded with hate and winning. Don't worry, I'll channel my hate into something productive.
^^^^^^^^^^^ Don't hate.
Parrot
Are you calling me a parrot? Or do you hate parrots?
Or is this a medical condition.
@alien: Isn't it hilarious? But I don't get IFC so I pirate my episodes.
My favorite bit this far comes from the second season, they are having a book signing and reading at women and women first and they keep hassling the author about how to use their printer and talking about the epic novel that the girl (the one who is biologically female irl) has written, and so the author asks them "How long have you been writing?"
"A few years," says one.
"All of my past lives," says the other.
So now I just walk around muttering "all of my past lives" and giggling. People don't look at me funny or think I'm nutty.
Yeah, the feminist bookstore sketches are the best.
They are absolutely my favorite. The best humor for an individual will play on things that they know intricately, there is no joke like an inside joke, and in a lot of ways that is the philosophy behind the whole show, I mean, it makes fun of hipsters and I laugh at it because I know all too well the eccentricities and internal contradictions of that lifestyle, we all do, even if we won't admit to the name "hipster" which is one of the reasons that it is such an interesting social movement is because it is so... self aware.
But that element of the show, the inside joke angle, it hits me especially hard with those two because not only are they hipsters but they are biblophile writers. The hardcore feminism is amusing, their relationship is funny (like when the one wants to have "secret talk" with Heather Graham and the other one sneaks up behind them and starts knocking books off the shelf), but I laugh the hardest when they make jokes about writing ("I felt like it was a brag journal and what a journal should be is a document of misery") or indie bookstores ("Top selling author? No, we only want bottom selling authors.").
But the "all my past lives," quote. My God. I mean, I can literally see myself saying that. I know damn well how ridiculous it sounds, but I totally understand where she is coming from.
I started the battle, I'll finish it tyvm.
The neighbors across the way seem to be having some sort of party - I have not been invited.
Snooty fucking pentecostals. They're just jealous because MY Jesus lets me wear pants!
Funny people who believe in religion. It's cute.
Spent a couple days drinking during the week and I've seemed to have done something seriously wrong to my throat meat. Pain. Don't know what to do.
Also, yall seen that Ru Paul Drag Race? Kind of addicted to that.
@Diaz: Jesus had some good ideas. I mean, organized religion is a total bust. I don't want to "donate" money to a church so they can build a bigger goddamn parking lot or pay off legal settlements against children they've molested. That's obviously not the work of God. But there is a couple of churches in GSO that run soup kitchens and those people aren't so bad. It's almost like they took that Sermon on the Mount stuff seriously and frankly, that's great, I think Christianity should be built around Jesus's ideas instead of the mythology of his lineage.
And we should bear in mind that actively disorganized religion is also a total bust. Rastafari (the long lost 4th Abrahamaic faith) is built on the idea that "organized religion sucks, we'll have a few central tenents but fuck it, I'll leave the details up to you guys. No, I don't want any money."
And, I mean, it isn't an effective religion because of that. It doesn't serve the social roles a religion ought to, although it works for individuals and I'm not going to deny that, but it also spreads slow and nobody takes it seriously.
I like Buddhism. It isn't a religion. It is just a way to live your life. Don't starve yourself, but don't over indulge either. Live to be happy, but don't do it if it will cause others suffering. The same thing with Jesus's teachings. Except some people decided to take it as law as opposed to a way to live. Oh well.
Oh, well, I'm not going to argue with Buddah either, he had a totally reasonable life philosophy.
And in any event, reincarnation is the only rational afterlife. It even ties into evolution if you think about it, where not only are there genetic changes to these creatures but also they are evolving spiritually and gaining a fuller understanding of life.
How do you feel about Confucius? And Why is it that Asia got all of the reasonable religions? TAOism! They got frikken Taoism and all we got was, what, Islam? Mormonism? Catholocism? Our religions are all so mystical that it is dumb, not even Protestantism is that rational. Magic stories of miracles DO NOT TEACH ME ANYTHING ABOUT LIFE.
If only Socrates had started a religion.
I sometimes wonder about the reincarnation thing and if it's real or not. Even if it isn't then it's something cool to think about. I like the concept of new and old souls. Some people do seem like they have lived many lifetimes, they have build in personalities that can't just be genetic memory based on by parents. Although I do wonder if we start making human clones if genetic memory is possible. Anyway, some people do seem like they are really new souls though like fresh out of the soul machine, dumb as shit and blank as a slate. I'm sure you know what I mean. Past lifes, alternative universes, parallel realities, ghosts, the interventionist God versus the watcher Deity. All great writing concepts. The dogmatic one trick pony story of a crucifixtion/resurrection and then just surrender to faith has no imagination, it's a Dead End stop on the way to Crazyville.
Egh, my opinion of religion is this:
You know the point that when you wrote something you thought was awesome, when you were like, tweleve, and you believed it was awesome for ages and ages? Now, years later, you're writing in an anthology, and somewhere, you find in your computer, that file. That story you adored so much. And as you read through it, you see all the holes, how shit it is. That's what happened with God and us. He's reread us, and thought,
"Fuck, I was a dumbass back then." so now he's passive-aggressivly ignoring us. I don't adhere to any faith, despite being born jewish. I believe in God, but I don't think he likes us very much. I would be bhuddist, but their veiws on matieral possession conflicts with mine- ie, you should not get too attached to anything.
I haven't commented on this in like a thousand posts.
Laurance, I love your octopus head icon...I also like giving you head.
I'm thinking of writing an adventure story giving a new origin to how Joseph Smith came up with The Book of Mormon called "Walking a Mile in another Man's Magic Underpants". It will be kind of like Latter Day Saints meets Indiana Jones. Any thoughts?
anything that mocks mormonism is fine with me. Then again, I'm an ass like that.
Although the South Park guys have pretty much covered that with "The Book of Mormon" play.
and their "all about Mormons" episode and "Orgazmo" those guys have a ridiculous mad-on for Mormons, which I find hysterical. Anything that involves freemasons and magic glasses has an endless possibility of fun ripe for the mocking.
I like that. It's been famously batted about, "Is God Dead?"/"God Is Dead".
Sometimes when I get tired of people questioning faith and mystery, I just offer this conversation-killer: "God is alive. His love for humankind is dead," or "God is alive; his faith in humankind is dead."
Crickets....
.
<----winning
^ That's not how whining is spelled...
DAMN YOU. Also sidenote, I took a little trip today and just drove.....you should be relieved to know the Atlantic is still there.
<---also, winning again
I went car shopping yesterday. I didn't get anything and subsequently my whole family sort of hates me. It was a good trip.
What kind of car are you thinking of getting? (Model-wise: compact, down-size station wagon, hybrid, etc.)
Boone since you took your cigarette picture down, I had to put one up to carry the smoky torch. I call it, "Dirtbag from the future."
Just get chrystler 300!
Mustang.
Matt, you have really captured that look.
I know, it wasn't easy. You had to look sickly and rape-y at the same time. I am not quite sure how he did it.
Matt, stop trying to win. Plus! I'm fucking free from exams. So i can help all the workshoppers!
I can't help it, it's what I do.
I'm looking for a Ford Fusion. I found one I liked, but it made a funny noise and although I was willing to die in it, my husband vetoed the purchase. That bastard.
@Matt - saw the pic in another thread, laughed for 10 seconds! GOT IT!.
OK - now you're winning.
(kinda look like post-suicide-attempt Luke Wilson in The Royal Tenenbaums)
That was such a good movie, I am glad you got it though. A homage to you sir.
(I want all my profile pics to be grainy, blurred, scratched, gritty - unclean, like a mugshot or autopsy photo)
Get a Jeep Wrangler
@averydoll: your turn! Grainy mugshot profile pic. Get creative. Get scary. Impress us.
Your current photo is belieingly wholesome. You need to represent....
In my profile pic: That's Greg Dullie from the Twilight Singers in black. You may also know him from Afghan Wigs.