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05-03-2016 It seems to have left out the part where you do the same to someone else, someone you profess to love, to ensure they begin the cycle as well, only in a world more crowded, contaminated, and abused, and with ever-diminishing resources and meaning. Otherwise, a quick, simple summary for most people, to be sure.Now why anyone would want to participate in such a scheme often baffles me to no end. Life addiction may keep you here, but it really shouldn't make you inflict it on someone else. |
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07-03-2016 Dear Irina,As usual this post is very enlightening. All the stages in life laid out. "Wonderful". Please take care of yourself there. Raul |
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12-03-2016
Hi Raul, You take care of yourself too, heard there was a flood where you live. Damn. |
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08-03-2016 Irina,Nice  Are you on Reddit? |
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12-03-2016
Hey, Brian Nope, just stole it from a stealer, while on Facebook. I'm hardly anywhere, really, not very social))) |
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09-03-2016 Missing from this list is the all important Stage 3a: Parsley Deficiency.People lacking an adequate consumption of this plant in their diet can quickly find themselves having to rely on artificial aids in order to see properly. This isn't really an ‌inconvenience for the spectacles wearers themselves insomuch as it is for others gazing upon them. I give by way of example:  In the above photograph we have the specimen known in Latin as Uriupina Yumyumicus. ... And here we can see a small sample of our test group's reactions when confronted with her unexpected visage:    So, ladies and gentlemen, the evidence is overwhelmingly clear; glasses-wearing-Rinkas can cause hearts to race, eyes to pop and hormones to sky rocket. Please take extra care when driving, as so far we have four independent reports of road fatalities associated with this woman and her selfish sexiness. N.B. Other than being momentarily stunned, no cats were harmed during the experiment. ... One dog did receive a concussion however. |
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12-03-2016
Hilarious pics and commentary)) Thanks |
You should work for The Onion.|
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13-03-2016 Irina,Thank you. IВґm not near the river areas but not far from there either. This is all linked to the El NiГ±o phenomenon, I heard. Many people have been living in these flooded areas in Asuncion, almost 100,000 people. The thing is that the succesive governments did not care about this issue and not the situation got worse. The government set up shelters for some time and many went back to their homes because in January and February there was not much rain. But we had an extremely hot weather with temperatures between 45 and 50 degrees Celsius. We have never had this hot weather. I heard some experts that this is also have to do with the destruction of the forests. And now Paraguay has a severe outburst of dengue, zika and chikunguya fever. This is not new with dengue fever but now is much worse. I myself got dengue fever at the end of January. Now the Ministry of Health reports the first case of pregnant woman with the zika virus. The thing is that the experts are asking women not to get pregnant until the outburst is receding. If humans reproduce regardless of wars, famines, plagues or diseases like Ebola, earthquakes, tsunamis,etc,etc. who is going to pay attention to this request from the Paraguayan Ministry of Health? Take care. Raul |
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13-03-2016
45 and 50 C that's HOT! We've been having close to 40 here in Ukraine sometimes, it might even feel worse than the same degrees in a more humid climate. In Thailand, even in Bangkok which is a busy crowded city the heat seemed less aggressive than in Kyiv. Might be holiday mood though, but I think patrly, high humidity makes all the difference. Or maybe it's subjective... So once you've had Dengue, you shoudn't get sick with it ever again I heard. So at least that's done for you, right? Zika is now also reported to be damaging to an adult person's brain, although I gather that's still tentative data http://www.australianetworknews.com/zika-virus-linked-brain-infection/ So could we all turn into dumb zombies one day?? Not that we're particularly bright as it is, lol. You're right, nothing's going to stop the majority of people who want to reproduce. Having children has always been a risky, gambling kind of a thing to do, nobody's ever set a threshold what amount of risk is unacceptable. Risk of a genetic disorder, of a deformity, birthing kids into wars and famines - we've done it all. Why would we stop now? |
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13-03-2016 Well I hope, that Stage 4 (Death) is really the end of the story...See, I have this intuitive, (but i have to admit) irrational fear that things may be metaphysically even more worse, as they seem to be: What if we truly live in the Matrix, inside a mad machinery that mindlessly bubbles out existence, simulated particles and space-time. And if someone gets fed up with its own existence, kills himself, hoping for salvation in not-existing... no such luck, the Matrix just creates a new instance of that person, maybe in an alternative reality, probably derived of his former memories, and the nightmare just continues. One bad dream just follows the next one. Forever trapped in existence. Or maybe we are dream-figures in an (obviously) deranged super-conscious, an absurd weird lunatic fantasy, dreamed up by a kind of eternal psychopathic void...and this void, bored in its eternal existence, just dreams up playing stupid sado-machoistic games with itself in all eternity..nightmare after nightmare after nightmare...and this void forgot that its dreaming, taking it's nightmares for real..But that's just crazy talk..At least I hope so. I hope that my intuition is wrong, and it's all just fantasy born out of a neurotic mind with to much imagination..or is it..? |
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13-03-2016
lol I've heard similar fears voiced before, I can't say I'm totally sure there's just non-existence beyond this (emotionally). Rationally I'm rather sure. I think it was Slavoj ЕЅiЕѕek who said his worst fear was 'waking up after I'm dead'. I agree, that's freaking dreadful. |
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13-03-2016 Ah well, ЕЅiЕѕek. There are not many things were I could agree with him (often lacks of substance, to much made up post-modernist obscurantism..) But here I can understand him: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hg7qdowoemo |
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13-03-2016
I'm not keen on him either. But he has a thorough toilet architecture analysis |
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13-03-2016 Hehe, I already knew that one. At least he's entertaining, gonna give him that. Or at least when he's not romanizing and justifying Stalinism...well, that's just bizarre. But ok, I still don't get what his exact position is on that, but what I get is that he's very fascinated with it, and not in a negative way. Who can tell whats going on in the minds of these Marxist Comrades..Even worse that he is also pretty much a Hegelian, which remindes me of what Schopenhauer wrote about Hegel: "But the height of audacity in serving up pure nonsense, in stringing together senseless and extravagant mazes of words, such as had previously been known only in madhouses, was finally reached in Hegel, and became the instrument of the most barefaced general mystification that has ever taken place, with a result which will appear fabulous to posterity, and will remain as a monument to German stupidity." And also not bad: "Hegel, installed from above, by the powers that be, as the certified Great Philosopher, was a flat-headed, insipid, nauseating, illiterate charlatan who reached the pinnacle of audacity in scribbling together and dishing up the craziest mystifying nonsense. This nonsense has been noisily proclaimed as immortal wisdom by mercenary followers and readily accepted as such by all fools, who thus joined into as perfect a chorus of admiration as had ever been heard before."Makes me wonder, what Schopy would have said about ЕЅiЕѕek...  |
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14-03-2016
Haha. I gotta admit I've never read any Hegel but what you're describing him to be - even through Schopenhauer's words - reminds me of this particularly good website that I think could be dedicated to so many people who are keen on precisely "stringing together senseless and extravagant mazes of words" |
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14-03-2016 That Chopra site is funny, he has made so much money off of gullible people that won't or can't think.One of my fave philosophers is Jack Handey. Here is a page of some of his quotes… http://www.quotes.net/authors/Jack+Handey+Deep+Thoughts |
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14-03-2016 Whoops, copied the wrong link, those are bogus quotes, here should be the real ones…http://www.boche.net/deep_thoughts.htm |
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14-03-2016
heeeey that's one of my fav jokes there! "When I die, I want to die peacefully, in my sleep, like my grandpa did. Not like the screaming passengers in his car." |
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14-03-2016 You could also try this postmodernism-generator: http://www.elsewhere.org/pomo/ . Copy and paste some sophisticated nonsense from here and your postmodernist academic career will skyrocket. Persistent rumors indicate that ЕЅiЕѕek uses something like this, and that's how he manages to throw out that many books...but i am sure that's just slander...I got a "A critique of postcapitalist narrative of sexual identy and the constructivist paradigm of discourse in subcapitalist patriarchial theory" out of that. Now that sounds like something. Gender studies, here i come.. |
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14-03-2016
I see. Looks legit!))) Wow is postmodernism silly. Here's a good video on it https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UVDjrPS3_7k |
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14-03-2016 Irina,Yes, 45 or 50 degrees is extremely hot in a subtropical country like Paraguay. But this time the weather was much worse than previous years. There are four types of dengue. If I get infected with another type of dengue, that could be more lethal. All the public hospitals are collapsing because of patients with suspicious cases with dengue, zika or chikunguya. The pharmaeutical companies are making tons of money with repellents of all types, paracetamol and citronella.Thanks for the link about the zika research. As usual your posts are interesting and the people who comment also make intelligent observations. Be careful. Raul |
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15-03-2016
Damn, sounds bad. Oh well, you know, once in a while humanity has had epidemics. So... nothing new, in a way, it's just that lots of people maybe thought that we've solved all the problems by vaccinations. But there's always mutations of the viruses, oh and also, bacteria growing resistance to antibiotics as we have been relying on them in meat industry, it was cheaper to give a cow or a pig some drugs to prevent them falling ill than maintaining clean environment for them. This resistance to antibiotics might send us back to pre-antibiotics era, and it was much more gruesome than today. As usual your posts are interesting and the people who comment also make intelligent observations. People who comment on my blog are awesome)) |
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