“Being agnostic is all about the realization that even though there probably is some sort of god or creator out there somewhere, the human race is and will always be too stupid to find them.” – Oscar Wilde
Albert would have been proud.
-Puppy >.< Yip!
“Late in the deciding Game 6 of the 1993 Patrick Division Semifinals between the Capitals and New York Islanders, Pierre Turgeon stole the puck from Hunter and scored, putting the game out of reach. Hunter, who was trailing Turgeon on the play, checked Turgeon well after the goal as he started to celebrate. Turgeon sustained a separated shoulder from the hit, causing him to miss all but Game 7 against the Pittsburgh Penguins in the second round, as well as most of the series against the Montreal Canadiens in the conference finals. New NHL commissioner Gary Bettman, who had earlier promised to crack down on violence, suspended Hunter for the first 21 games of the 1993-94 season — at the time, the longest suspension in league history for an on-ice incident (in terms of games missed). Years later, Hunter admitted that he’d gone too far.
With amassing a staggering 3565 penalty minutes, Hunter currently has the second-most penalty minutes in NHL history…When the Capitals retired his No. 32 jersey, he was presented with the penalty box from the demolished Capital Centre at the retirement ceremony. Hunter is the only NHL player ever to score over 1,000 points and rack up over 3,000 penalty minutes (1,020 points and 3,565 PIMs over 1,407 NHL games).”
-Wikipedia
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“The truth? I thought we were talking about a court of law. Come
on, you’ve been around long enough to know that a courtroom isn’t
a place to look for the truth.” – A Civil Action
If you haven’t yet, fans of Loreena McKennitt, Celtic music, pre-poppy Fleetwood Mac and pretty/positive music in general may want to check out ‘Wild Earth Child’ by Jenna Greene.
I’m even in the liner notes! THINK OF IT!
Review in my Music section.
-Puppy >.< Yip!
“Faith for good reason arises out of the mystery that underlies
the very structure and nature of reality, a mystery that in its
entirety will never be entirely demystified despite what those who
have placed reason on their altar might like us to believe. The
mystery of life that gives rise to faith as a supra-rational means
of unlocking life’s mystery—one that reason does not hold the key to—suggests that faith is fundamentally rational in that it is a
logical response to the mysterious.” – Swami Tripurari
“Threats are illogical. And payment is usually expensive.” – Sarek
“It is a good viewpoint to see the world as a Dream. When you have
something like a Nightmare, you will wake up and tell yourself it
was only a dream. It is said the world we live in is not a bit
different from this.” – Yamamoto Tsunetomo
If someone tells you that in the past, for years, they were knowingly and intentionally a horrible person…that they used people like toys for their own amusement and then tossed them aside when they ceased to be “amusing” to them, were vicious, cruel, knowingly and willingly sadistic, and that they pretended to be a “normal” person and acted as such in order to fool people into trusting their intentions as a “nice” person so as to gain their confidence so that they could play with their heads and then laugh about it…
BUT says they’re “much better now”…
Be just a BIT cautious concerning them.
-Puppy >.< Grrr…
“Nothing is original.
Steal from anywhere that resonates with inspiration or fuels your
imagination. Devour old films, new films, music, books, paintings, photographs, poems, dreams, random conversations, architecture, bridges, street signs, trees, clouds, bodies of water, light and shadows. Select only things to steal from that speak directly to your soul. If you do this, your work (and theft) will be authentic. Authenticity is invaluable; originality is nonexistent. And don’t bother concealing your thievery — celebrate it if you feel like it. In any case, always remember what Jean-Luc Godard said: “It’s not where you take things from — it’s where you take them to.”” – Jim Jarmusch
“There is no final revolution. Revolutions are infinite.” – I-330
“In the end, what would you gain from everlasting remembrance?
Absolutely nothing. So what is left worth living for? This alone:
justice in thought, goodness in action, speech that cannot deceive,
and a disposition glad of whatever comes, welcoming it as necessary, as
familiar, as flowing from the same source and fountain as yourself.”
– Marcus Aurelius
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“I think he (George Martin) showed me a cover of a magazine that said ‘Happiness Is a Warm Gun.’ It was a gun magazine. I just thought it was a fantastic, insane thing to say. A warm gun means you just shot something.” – John Lennon
“It was far easier for you, as civilized men, to behave like barbarians than it was for them, as barbarians, to behave like civilized men.” – Spock
Analysis: Civility is the selective control of impulses, not the fear of them. Something which some people don’t realize, perpetuating their view of tranquility and maintaining their ignorant self-satisfaction.
-Puppy >.< Yip!
“Slanted and enchanted” -Robert Christgau
“All rock critics working today, at least the ones who want to do more than rewrite PR copy, are in some sense Christgauians.” – Jody Rosen
-Puppy >.< Yip!
“You know, if I were you, I’d make a point of taking an hour or so away from all the noise and insanity of this place.”
(I should do that.)
“…And I’d make sure everyone knew I didn’t want to be disturbed during that hour or so of solitude. Because that would be *my* time, my own private time, which no one – if they had any sense of self-preservation at *all* – would dare interrupt.”
– ‘A Civil Action’
“There is addiction to indulgence of sense-pleasures, which is low, coarse, the way of ordinary people, unworthy, and unprofitable; and there is addiction to self-mortification, which is painful, unworthy, and unprofitable.” -Buddha
Simplification: Moderation.
Thoughts:
Since the cause of suffering is desiring what one does not have, there are two ways to remove suffering. One, to have everything one wants. Two, to want nothing. Since neither of these courses are logically feasible, one must decide what is obtainable and what is not. Having done so, desire what you may have and disregard what you may not have.
-Puppy >.< Yip!
“I love you so much, because you’re good.”
“Hey, I said, you can keep my things they’ve come to take me home.” – P. Gabriel
“What is called the spirit of the void is where there is nothing. It
is not included in man’s knowledge. Of course the void is
nothingness. By knowing things that exist, you can know that
which does not exist. That is the void…
…People in this world look at things mistakenly, and think that
what they do not understand must be the void. This is not the true void. It is bewilderment…
…Polish the twofold spirit heart and mind, and sharpen the twofold gaze perception and sight. When your spirit is not in the least clouded, when the clouds of bewilderment clear away, there is the true void…
…if we look at things objectively, from the viewpoint of laws of the
world, we see various doctrines departing from the true Way.
Know well this spirit, and with forthrightness as the foundation
and the true spirit as the Way. Enact strategy broadly, correctly and openly…
…In the void is virtue, and no evil. Wisdom has existance, principle
has existance, the Way has existance, spirit is nothingness.”
SHINMEN MUSASHI
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“Grey, Jack…the world is grey.”
– Clear and Present Danger
“He is a seemingly arbitrary man, this is because he knows what he
is talking about better than any one else. He…has, I believe, an absolutely open mind. This, with an iron nerve, a temper of the ice-brook, and indomitable resolution, self-command, and toleration exalted from virtues to blessings, and the kindliest and truest heart that beats, these form his equipment for the noble work that he is doing for mankind, work both in theory and practice, for his views are as wide as his all-embracing sympathy.”
“Alyssa is a super kewl girl .. she is in jail and i wanna make a cult so every one can make her a sign and I will be posting her poems and
updates about her .. please help her by making her signs or writting
her poems ,, i will then forward them to her.”
Cult on Vampirefreaks.com
Oh yeah, goths are harmless. Unless they list their hobbies as cutting and killing people.
Again, there are some “real” goths on VF, and this isn’t meant to denigrate them…but the majority are angst-ridden adolescents or post-adolescents (Or in some cases VERY-post-adolescents) with tendencies toward psycopathy, sociopathy, serial killers, and other warm and fuzzy subjects.
-Puppy >.< Yip!
10/16/16: I don’t know who “Alyssa” is, I don’t know what she’s allegedly done, I don’t know if she’s guilty or not. And there are certainly plenty of decent people on VF. But there ARE a large amount of fcked up scumbags. (housekeeping)
Championships in what most Americans consider the four “major” sports…Football (NFL), Baseball (MLB), Basketball (NBA), and Hockey (NHL).
Football:
New York Giants/New York Jets: 5
New England Patriots: 3
Since New York has two teams and Boston only one, this would
indicate a virtual tie. Although New York does win the “If you
predict a Super Bowl EVERY year eventually it’s bound to happen”
Rx Ryan positivism approach.
UPDATE: Ditto.
Baseball:
New York Yankees/New York Giants/New York Mets/Brooklyn Dodgers: 35
Boston Americans/Boston Braves/Boston Red Sox: 8
Utter domination by New York.
Basketball:
Rochester Royals/New York Knicks: 3
Boston Celtics: 17
Utter domination by Boston. In fact, the ratio against New York here is even more than the ratio for them in baseball.
Hockey:
New York Rangers/New York Islanders: 8
Boston Bruins: 6
Since New York has two teams and Boston only one, this would
indicate a virtual tie…actually, it would indicate Boston as doing slightly better, but hey, who’s counting?
So basically, what we have is a draw. So all stupid, ignorant,
obnoxious (as opposed to real) New York sports fans should really
get their story straight… is it who’s better NOW, or in the past?
When the Yankees win, it’s who’s better now. When they lose,
it’s who WAS better. When the Knicks lose, it’s…ummm…wait til next year. When the Jets lose, it’s…ummm…well…wait til next year.
In fact, statistically, Boston has won more championships per team on the average than New York.
New York Total: 10 Teams, 51 Championships. That’s 5.10 per team.
Boston Total: 6 Teams, 34 Championships. That’s 5.66 per team.
UPDATE: After the Giants win, NY only needs 5 more to (almost) tie Boston. Keep reaching for the stars!
Oh wait! Anticipating the “New England isn’t just Boston!” comments…
That means Boston has 5 teams, 31 Championships. That’s over 6 per team.
UPDATE: You can include Buffalo teams, too…if you want to see even more of an edge for Boston. I mean, it’s just sad that some people base their own lives and self-confidence on a false belief of sports “Supremacy”.
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DISCLAIMER: This is not meant to apply to real goths, nor is it meant to “attack” one “group”…it is a satirical commentary on a flawed principle using one example.
I’ve heard people claim that they have a “fascination” with death, darkness, things of that ilk, etc…
Now far be it from me to deny anyone’s right to be “fascinated” with anything…but the reason given, on occasion, seems to me to be a bit lacking in substance.
That is, it is pointless to deny the inevitable, and instead of fearing it, we should embrace it.
Well, I would suggest that a nasty case of diarrhea is inevitable in every person’s life, at one time or another. As good as you feel now, even if it hasn’t happened YET, sooner or later you’re going to be running to the bathroom with intense urgency. It is inevitable. Does that mean we should spend time sitting around thinking about the tragic inevitability of messy bowel movements? I mean, if you want to, go right ahead…but it seems a bit silly to me.
The point is that just because something is inevitable does not inherently make it worthy of worship, reverence, study, interest, etc…
Yes, death is inevitable. As far as I know, noone has ever avoided it. But I prefer, instead of “resigning” myself to my “fate” and doing whatever I “feel like” because, hey, life’s too short…looking upon the inevitable as the final moment in my life. Life, after all, being nothing more than a succession of moment after moment (Thank you, Yamamoto Tsunetomo). Therefore, I choose to live each moment according to my design. Therefore, I choose to live each moment as I believe I should, being master of my own self and my own self “will” (Thank you, Aleister Crowley), rather than a being ruled by random impulses, addictions, and/or fascinations.
-Puppy >.< Yip!
“The fanatical atheists…are like slaves who are still feeling the weight of their chains which they have thrown off after hard struggle. They are creatures who…in their grudge against traditional religion as the ‘opium of the masses’…cannot hear the ‘music of the spheres’.”
– Albert Einstein
“Do or do not. There is no try.” – Yoda
Yoda, you ignorant slut. Oops…wrong bit.
“Try. There is no do or do not.” – Puppy
And for those who see a flaw in that, screw semantics. I use words, they don’t use me.
-Puppy >.< Yip!
“. . . things do not gain meaning by going on for a very long time, or
even forever. Indeed, they lose it. A piece of music, a conversation,
even a glance of adoration or a moment of unity have their alloted time.
Too much and they become boring. An infinity and they would be
intolerable.”
– Simon Blackburn, “Religion and Respect”
“If we take eternity to mean not infinite temporal duration but
timelessness, then eternal life belongs to those who live in the
present.” – Ludwig Wittgenstein
Because he’s one of a very small number of people that realizes how LUCKY he is to get PAID lots of money for playing a GAME.
I don’t understand people wanting him to fail.
Is he a good quarterback? No, he’s a horrible quarterback. I knew that when Denver was winning despite him (because of their defense) and I know that now.
But it doesn’t matter. He’s sincere in his belief, he’s a genuinely nice person, he doesn’t treat the game as his life, he takes all the insults and jokes aimed at him (some good-natured, some vicious) and shrugs them off because he’s a TRUE believer.
He doesn’t thank God when he wins and curse when he loses.
He thanks God because he BELIEVES. He believes in hope, he believes in people, and he believes that how you conduct your life is more important than how well you throw a football.
Only fervent Atheists, complete scumbags, and the pitifully Envious have reason to hate him.
Peace.
– Puppy >.< Yip!
“When we’re kids, before we’re taught how to think, or what to believe, our hearts tell us there is something else out there.”
“When you get sad, it rains.”
“Lots of people get sad when it rains.”
“It rains, because you’re sad.”
Men In Black II
“I’m not an atheist. I don’t think I can call myself a pantheist. The
problem involved is too vast for our limited minds. We are in the
position of a little child entering a huge library filled with books
in many languages. The child knows someone must have written
those books. It does not know how. It does not understand the
languages in which they are written. The child dimly suspects a
mysterious order in the arrangement of the books but doesn’t know
what it is. That, it seems to me, is the attitude of even the most intelligent human being toward God.” – Albert Einstein
“In Wildness is the preservation of the World.” – Henry David Thoreau
“…I have found strength where one does not look for it:
in simple, mild, and pleasant people, without the least
desire to rule—and, conversely, the desire to rule has
often appeared to me a sign of inward weakness: they fear
their own slave soul and shroud it in a royal cloak…”
– Friedrich Nietzsche
“Let’s play…Master and Servant…” – Depeche Mode
“Whatever happened to Depeche Mode?” – Puppy
-Puppy >.< Yip!
“…men that are free, well-born, well-bred, and conversant in honest companies, have naturally an instinct and spur that prompteth them unto virtuous actions, and withdraws them from vice, which is called honour. Those same men, when by base subjection and constraint they are brought under and kept down, turn aside from that noble disposition by which they formerly were inclined to virtue, to shake off and break that bond of servitude wherein they are so tyrannously enslaved; for it is agreeable with the nature of man to long after things forbidden and to desire what is denied us.”
– Francois Rabelais
“At its core, meditation is about touching the spiritual essence that
exists within us all. Experiencing the joy of this essence has been
called enlightenment, nirvana, or even rebirth, and reflects a deep
understanding within us. The spiritual essence is not something that
we create through meditation. It is already there, deep within,
behind all the barriers, patiently waiting for us to recognize it.
One does not have to be religious or even interested in religion to
find value in it. Becoming more aware of your self and realizing your spiritual nature is something that transcends religion. Anyone who has explored meditation knows that it is simply a path that leads to a new, more expansive way of seeing the world around us.”
– Aaron Hoopes, ‘Zen Yoga’
Every day, good things happen and horrific things happen.
Contrary to the propagandic vitriol of the Nihilist, focusing on the good is not being ignorant to reality.
It is choosing Light over Dark.
If you want to cry and yell and scream over horrific things, there are plenty of places to do it, and plenty of people to help you along on your self-destructive journey.
If you prefer to focus on the good that does exist, check out the “Good News” site every day.
Ignore everything else? No. But the proponents of Logical Positivism (such as myself) have, for the most part, found that anger, bitterness, hate, and the fervent attempt to destroy anyone else’s happiness that some people thrive on leads only, eventually, to harm one’s self, one’s loved ones, and one’s life. Therefore, as a logical being, I choose to (attempt to) rise above such things when possible, and TRY to be happy.
Be a good person, live a good life…try to be happy.
It’s a choice by a moral person, not a demand of a cowardly nature.
Emotional Cowards are those that seek solace in the ephemeral, fleeting, and meaningless because they’re afraid that those are the only things they can depend on. And by the nature of most Nihilists, given how they treat other people, they’re probably right. For them…not for me.
And now, smile! Cute animules!!! 
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/12/16/cat-and-dog-hugging-kissi_n_1154015.html
-Puppy >.< Yip!
From someone who’s been there, and back, more than once…
However bad you may feel, never give up hope.
You may be helpless to change your situation, now…
But nothing’s ever hopeless.
It’s hard to remember that when you’re curled up in a ball, wishing you could cry, but even that effort is beyond you.
But it is true.
– Puppy >.< Yip!
“Rather than becoming one with God, the Black Brother considers his ego to be god. According to Crowley, the Black Brother slowly disintegrates, while preying on others for his own self-aggrandisement.”
– Wikipedia, ‘Thelema’
“We have the RIGHT…”
“To wage war, Captain? To kill millions of innocent people? To destroy life on a planetary scale? Is that what you’re defending?”
Star Trek, ‘Errand of Mercy’
“People should not give up their hope. They should endlessly work hard to find hope.” – John Woo
The systematic attack of spirituality and belief by fervent Atheists seems to take place in much the same way that Albert Einstein noted when he said that most fervent Atheists are simply intellectuals and quasi-intellectuals rebelling against forced belief with active disbelief. As if because one thing was wrong (as forced belief is) it somehow makes the equal and opposite reaction correct. To force one to believe in any form of Spirituality is incorrect, but to force one to disbelieve in any idea of possible Spirituality is incorrect, arrogant, and just plain stupid.
“During the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries…The term ‘atheist’ was an insult. Nobody would have dreamed of calling himself an atheist.” – Karen Armstrong
As to historical injustices performed in the name of Religion versus those performed in the name of Atheism, the fact that Atheism has only been widely ALLOWED to be an even POSSIBLE belief system explicitly disavowing the existence of anything at all “Divine” for less than 300 years makes the comparison irrelevant, although the Pol Pot’s and Stalin’s of the world have certainly done their best to make up for lost time.
– Puppy >.< Yip!
“traffic in the half-baked nihilism of a stoned high school student who has just discovered Nietzsche and Nine Inch Nails” – Laura Miller on Palahniuk
Puppy: I think that’s not accurate. “Half-baked” and “stoned” imply use of drugs, ostensibly to amplify creativity, and I see none of that in Palahniuk’s ‘Fight Club’. They also imply that the writer in question is not fully in control/command of their writings, which is doing a dis-service to every half-baked work ever made, by a high school student, college student, professional writer, or anyone with half a brain that is literate. Invoking Nietzsche and NIN, besides bringing up two vastly different talent levels, degrades the at-least-well-meaning nature of those who are fascinated by them and write inferior works in an attempt to live up to them. Palahniuk is different. Here is a grown man, clean and sober, intentionally writing high-school level chaotically uneven I-guess-you-could-call-them-“philosophical” rants about vastly different subjects and somehow attempting to link them, and he is working at the HEIGHT of his talent level. Sad, really.
“Until you can create something that captivates people, I’d invite you to just shut up.
It’s easy to attack and destroy an act of creation. It’s a lot more difficult to perform one.” – Chuck Palahniuk
Puppy: Let’s analyze this.
“Until you can create something that captivates people”.
Puppy: The use of the word “Until” states that IF the conditions FOLLOWING the word are reached, THEN the person quoted is in fact giving their approval for the action being criticized to be TAKEN, in fact with their blessing since no other caveats are made.
So, IF “you” = anyone that wants to blast Palahniuk’s “creations”, and I think it does, since he expands to a broad scope later in the quote…
It follows that if anyone in the world “can create something that captivates people”, they thereby have Chuck Palahniuk’s blessing to trash Chuck Palahniuk’s work, if they so choose.
Semantically speaking, anyone “can” create something that captivates people…just because they haven’t DONE it doesn’t mean they CAN’T…but let’s assume he made a semantic mistake intentionally or was just really peeved.
something = anything
people = more than 1 person
Therefore…
IF anyone creates anything that captivates more than one person, THEN they can trash his work, by his own admission.
So, Justin Bieber has every right to criticize ‘Fight Club’.
And everyone that put a video on YouTube that got 2 or more “Likes”.
MOVING ON…
“I’d invite you to just shut up” – Well isn’t that grown-up of him. NYAH NYAH!
“It’s easy to attack and destroy an act of creation. It’s a lot more difficult to perform one.”
So Chuck you’re saying her criticism has destroyed your works?
I think “act” is the definitive word here, as Chuck’s “performance” on ‘Fight Club’ is pandering to the mindset mentioned by the critic. Nothing more. That some other people buy into such transparent horsesh1t is a testimony to the fall of the novel as a means of great expression.
“It is easier to destroy than to create”.
Also, 1+1 = 2
Sad.
-Puppy >.< Yip!
“I nurtured the hope, that there was hope.”
-Puppy >.< Yip!
“Good…Honest…Hatred. Very refreshing.” – Commander Kor, Klingon Occupation Army
-Puppy >.< Yip!
MTV Unplugged in New York [DGC, 1994]
Not only did Kurt Cobain transcend alt-rock by rocking so hard, he transcended alt-rock by feeling so deep. On this accidental testament, intended merely to altify the MTV mindset by showcasing the Meat Puppets and covering the Vaselines, Cobain outsensitives Lou Barlow and Eddie Vedder in passing. His secret is sincerity, boring though that may be–he cares less than Barlow without boasting a bit about it, tries harder than Vedder without busting a gut about it. The vocal performance he evokes is John Lennon’s on Plastic Ono Band. And he did it in one take. A (Robert Christgau)
“You know that I care…
what happens to you.
And I know that you care…
for me too.
So I, don’t feel alone
On the way to the stone
Now that I’ve found somewhere safe
To bury my bone.
And any fool knows, a dog needs a home
A shelter…
From pigs on the wing.”
“X is the image of the arrested adolescent. Entirely self-oriented. Still intimidated by the people around them and attempting to prove themself superior to them. Through sexual conquest they can, for a time, quell their constant feelings of inferiority and failure. Indeed the idea of a non-sexual relationship is completely foreign to them. As the years pass, and their physical attractiveness diminishes, they’ll be doomed to a life of loneliness, and despair, unable to give or receive Love.”
– Adapted from D. Chambers.
12/21/11: Update:
“Am I insinuatin?” “No, just dancin”
– Adapted from M. Howard and C. Howard
-Puppy >.< Yip!
It’s easier to live without something if you hold it in disdain, or know you can never attain it.
Believe.
-Puppy >.< Grrr…
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