why that was nice

[JimJ 5,000+ posts]

**** I was trying to have a smart conversation but noooooooo

Quoting press releases is not having a conversation...

 

[faulkton 5,000+ posts]

Stars cannot harbor

their substance forever

one must return a portion of it

to the medium from which they form.

Stars cannot harbor their substance forever

one must return a portion of it

to the space around them.

Stars that are born together

stay together, stay together for a while

in associations known as

star clusters.

Out there in the open

where the big things happen slowly

i can feel it coming toward me

like a skater in a crack the whip.

 

[faulkton 5,000+ posts]

//content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/fyi.gif.9f1f679348da7204ce960cfc74bca8e0.gif I'm an absurd man //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/fyi.gif.9f1f679348da7204ce960cfc74bca8e0.gif

i suggest you read: the myth of sisyphus

 

[tRidiot 10+ year member]

for tonight at least, just clean it out well with soap and water, put pressure on it until the bleeding stops, and then rinse out any remaining blood.
as far as closing it up, you can use super glue (CA glue, cyanoacrylate) and then cover in a bandage. get neosporin as soon as you can to keep on it, it will help it heal very quickly. if you insist on stitching it up yourself, sterilize a needle by boiling it and use dental floss. dental floss is strong and sanitary.

when you stitch it up, you make one stitch at a time and tie it, then cut the thread and do another one. you end up with several small loops of thread that are tied snug and none of them are connected. start at each end and work to the middle, and make sure the stitches are close enough together that your skin forms a smooth bond across the whole wound.

Really good to see you know jack shit nothing about what's "sanitary", or how to stitch up a wound, for that matter. //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/wink.gif.608e3ea05f1a9f98611af0861652f8fb.gif

Haha.

If it were someone other than faulkton, I might care. //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/wink.gif.608e3ea05f1a9f98611af0861652f8fb.gif

 

[J31Rob 5,000+ posts]

yeah. you are.

 

[faulkton 5,000+ posts]

another favorite is 'the grand inquisitor' (a chapter from Dostoevsky's The Brothers Karamazov)

In a town in Spain, in the sixteenth century, Christ arrives, apparently reborn on Earth. As he walks through the streets, the people gather about him, staring. He begins to heal the sick, but his ministrations are interrupted by the arrival of a powerful cardinal who orders his guards to arrest Christ. Late that night, this cardinal, the Grand Inquisitor, visits Christ’s cell and explains why he has taken him prisoner and why he cannot allow Christ to perform his works. Throughout the Grand Inquisitor’s lecture, Christ listens silently.

 

The Grand Inquisitor tells Christ that he cannot allow him to do his work on Earth, because his work is at odds with the work of the Church. The Inquisitor reminds Christ of the time, recorded in the Bible, when the Devil presented him with three temptations, each of which he rejected. The Grand Inquisitor says that by rejecting these three temptations, he guaranteed that human beings would have free will. Free will, he says, is a devastating, impossible burden for mankind. Christ gave humanity the freedom to choose whether or not to follow him, but almost no one is strong enough to be faithful, and those who are not will be dammed forever. The Grand Inquisitor says that Christ should have given people no choice, and instead taken power and given people security instead of freedom.

 

That way, the same people who were too weak to follow Christ to begin with would still be ****ed, but at least they could have happiness and security on Earth, rather than the impossible burden of moral freedom. The Grand Inquisitor says that the Church has now undertaken to correct Christ’s mistake. The Church is taking away freedom of choice and replacing it with security. Thus, the Grand Inquisitor must keep Christ in prison, because if Christ were allowed to go free, he might undermine the Church’s work to lift the burden of free will from mankind.

 

The first temptation Christ rejected was bread. Hungry after his forty days of fasting, Christ was confronted by Satan, who told him that if he were really the son of God, he could turn a stone to bread and satisfy his hunger. Christ refused, replying that man should not live by bread, but by the word of God. The Grand Inquisitor says that most people are too weak to live by the word of God when they are hungry. Christ should have taken the bread and offered mankind freedom from hunger instead of freedom of choice.

 

The second temptation was to perform a miracle. Satan placed Christ upon a pinnacle in Jerusalem and told him to prove that he was the messiah by throwing himself off it. If Christ were really God’s son, the angels would bear him up and not allow him to die. Christ refused, telling Satan that he could not tempt God. Beaten, Satan departed. But the Grand Inquisitor says that Christ should have given people a miracle, for most people need to see the miraculous in order to be content in their religious faith. Man needs a supernatural being to worship, and Christ refused to appear as one.

 

The third temptation was power. Satan showed Christ all the kingdoms in the world, and offered him control of them all. Christ refused. The Grand Inquisitor says that Christ should have taken the power, but since he did not, the Church has now has to take it in his name, in order to convince men to give up their free will in favor of their security.

 

The Grand Inquisitor tells Christ that it was Satan, and not Christ, who was in the right during this exchange. He says that ever since the Church took over the Roman Empire, it has been secretly performing the work of Satan, not because it is evil, but because it seeks the best and most secure order for mankind.

 

As the Grand Inquisitor finishes his indictment of Christ, Christ walks up to the old man and kisses him gently on the lips. The Grand Inquisitor suddenly sets Christ free, but tells him never to return again.

How could you NOT love that?!

 

[DBfan187 5,000+ posts]

dental floss/catgut is fine for stitching.

 

[Flipx99 5,000+ posts]

i suggest you read: the myth of sisyphus

Bah...

The only book I have anything close to that is Eurpides.

and that is a reach

 

[faulkton 5,000+ posts]

Much better than Les Jeux Sont Faits...even in the original French that sucked horribly...
What am I doing, I have an exam tomorrow and we're talking existentialism on CarAudio.com.

Truth is stranger than fiction.

i have three finals this week, yet am here //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/confused.gif.e820e0216602db4765798ac39d28caa9.gif

 

[Flipx99 5,000+ posts]

i have three finals this week, yet am here //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/confused.gif.e820e0216602db4765798ac39d28caa9.gif

I have a take home test due tomorrow, an in class final, another final tues, and a presentation on thurs.

My final on tues is cake though.

 

[eric12421 10+ year member]

hahh for a while i couldnt tell if this was real or not...then i thought about it!

 

[faulkton 5,000+ posts]

Bah...
The only book I have anything close to that is Eurpides.

and that is a reach

Camus identifies Sisyphus as the archetypal absurd hero, both for his behavior on earth and for his punishment in the underworld. He displays scorn for the gods, a hatred of death, and a passion for life. His punishment is to endure an eternity of hopeless struggle.

We are not told how Sisyphus endures his punishment in the underworld: that much is left to our imagination. What fascinates Camus is Sisyphus's state of mind in that moment after the rock rolls away from him at the top of the mountain. As he heads down the mountain, briefly free from his labor, he is conscious, aware of the absurdity of his fate. His fate can only be considered tragic because he understands it and has no hope for reprieve. At the same time, the lucidity he achieves with this understanding also places him above his fate.

Camus suggests that Sisyphus might even approach his task with joy. The moments of sorrow or melancholy come when he looks back at the world he's left behind, or when he hopes or wishes for happiness. When Sisyphus accepts his fate, however, the sorrow and melancholy of it vanish. Camus suggests that acknowledging "crushing truths" like the eternity and futility of his fate is enough to render them less crushing. He refers to Oedipus, who, having suffered so much, is able to "conclude that all is well."

Happiness and the absurd are closely linked, suggests Camus. They are both connected to the discovery that our world and our fate is our own, that there is no hope and that our life is purely what we make of it. As he descends the mountain, Sisyphus is totally aware of his fate. Camus concludes: "One must imagine Sisyphus happy."

 

[faulkton 5,000+ posts]

hello..
you're a ginger? still wondering..

no

 

[J31Rob 5,000+ posts]

no

word.

 

[elementxero 10+ year member]

i suggest you read: the myth of sisyphus

I really like pushing boulders.