Too young to be this old/Too old to be this young

Jesse Helms dies. Another prick bites the big one.

"It's just incredible that he would die on July 4, the same day of the Declaration of Independence and the same day that Thomas Jefferson and John Adams died, and he certainly is a patriot in the mold of those great men," said former North Carolina GOP Rep. Bill Cobey, the chairman of The Jesse Helms Center in Wingate, N.C.

Whoa, there, Billy. Take a step back and think about what you just said.

I just broke through my writer's block with a vengeance.

I started typing my book's part about gay marriage, and I don't think I've ever typed that quickly in my life. I actually believe my fingers were moving as fast as the ideas were moving through my head, which is a first. It's a dream I've always had, and finally I know how it feels to write exactly what I'm thinking.

The only drawback is this splitting headache I have. I feel like a CPU that desperately needs a cooling fan.

Must sleep. Clowns can eat me. Don't care.

"Her good looks could have sailed a ship
But her will alone could have sunk it."

--Close Call by Rilo Kiley

Now that's clever.

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We are taught to believe
We are lied to and deceived
Shielded from the truth
By those we learned to trust since birth.

Eh.

I want to evolve. Release this human shell. The agony of ennui is threatening my stability. I want to let go.

Why do I love techno so much?

Kernkraft 400 by Zombie Nation is just amazing at 4:30 in the morning. ha.

In 1975, if you bought 1000 shares of Wal-Mart stock, it would have cost you 18.50 dollars.

In 1999, those 1000 shares you bought would have been worth 69 000 dollars.

No message there. Just a thought.

"Even the British royal family is feeling the economic pinch."

Oh, I'm sorry, your highnesses. I feel really awful that you have been hit by this, as well. Gee golly, I really do!

And now we're going to attack Iran, because our President cannot decide when to pull his head out of his ass, and look at the world in a different light. Thanks a lot, dumbfuck.

Also, how many of you realize that if one of the Supreme Court justices not named Scalia, Roberts, Alito or Thomas dies or retires before January 20th, 2009, even more of your liberties will be removed?

Oh, let's see what else is in the news on this joyous anniversary of my birth:

--In Bulgaria, protesters threw rocks, bottles and gasoline bombs at participants from the country's first annual Gay Pride Parade, shouting such slogans as, "Be Intolerant, Be Normal."

--A 17-year-old boy rode the Batman roller coaster, and lost his hat. So, like any other precocious youngster, he hopped two six-feet-tall fences, covered with warning signs about the dangers ahead, to retrieve the lost hat. He was summarily decapitated by the ride as it flew by at 50 mph. Good job, random South Carolina kid. Wait...

"Local Kid De-Cap-itated by ride, then Decapitated by ride" Comedy gold, I tells ya.

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yawn. Time for bed. Maybe.

NOT SAFE FOR WORK. NOT KIDDING AT ALL. NSFW. EVER.

That being said, I could have made the ending to this video better. But enjoy, anyway!

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Well, it's official...sort of.

This guy is now 28 years old.

When you're taught numbers as a child, you learn to regard them as basic and fundamental. And yet, they're not.

Arabic numbers, 0-9, are basic only because we count on ten fingers. Every other base is equal to ten, just written differently. 729 in base ten is 729, and in base 16 it's 2D9. And yet, 729 equals 2D9. so there is no great mystery surrounding the Arabic numbers. They're just one way of stating a position on a line. We don't even need numbers for numbers, but merely symbols. Because that's all numbers are.

I know that seems simple, but throughout my life I have learned many simple things as an adult, since I was taught as a child only the superficial arguments for subjects.

11:00 A.M. -- Alarm goes off.

12:00 P.M. -- Jacob wakes up.

12:05 P.M. -- Isaac Asimov teaches Jacob binary code.


It's been a good day so far. And now, for Wal-Mart to ruin it.

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EDIT: I understand why 0! is 1, and yet, I still don't really get it. Factorials are multiplied down to one, so I don't understand why zero is even used. The only reason it's used is because the formula for factorials, when re-arranged for simplicity, allows for zero.

Granted, they say that when regarding factorials as sets, zero counts as one because it holds the null set, but I never quite liked the set of nothing, either. It's beyond me to think that an empty set is still a set.

I can see it, and I can understand it. And yet...

This was an actual advertisement on the top of the page I was viewing.

The following is exactly what bothers me about the reaction to this Supreme Court case. Read the reactions of the proponents of the death penalty for child rapists, and tell me they aren't reacting purely out of emotion, simply because the word rape has the word child in front of it.

( Some lawmakers angered by death penalty ruling )

This debate about child rape is making my head hurt. I'm trying to get my point across, but I'm not well-schooled in the law. I'm just giving my opinion with as many logical steps as I can muster. But it's exciting, nonetheless.

One person is being civil, and the others are being, well...the average debate member. I'm not too keen on their attempts at witty comebacks.

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My point in the debate is this:

Child rape is no different than adult rape, because both victims are scarred, regardless of age. The push for the death penalty comes from the child-worshippers' creation of distinctions based purely on whether or not a crime is being committed against a child.

I don't see any difference between children and adults, except that which is obvious, i.e.: mental maturity, ability to understand key concepts, etc.

At this point, a proponent of the death penalty for child rapists will usually state something about "She was only a child!"

Yes, but what does that entail? Why is a child different than an adult, thus forcing a jury to mete out a different punishment for the same basic crime?

Rape is rape, no matter the age of the victim. And I highly doubt that an adult victim could have a higher level of understanding about their rape than a child. No victim of rape calmly and rationally discusses how they were hurt, because the act is about force and violence, and it takes away the mental security of the victim.

Therefore, the act of rape is equal, no matter the victim. And if the act is equal, the punishment should be equal, as well.

In any other crime, the punishment is never more severe for a defendant who committed the act against a child. If you beat a man and then beat his son, you don't receive a harsher sentence for the child's beating, do you? Yet again, I don't know the exact law about this, but I'd be confused to find that there are differences in sentencing, as I don't see the necessity.

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Edit: I'm being lambasted on both sides by people who think I'm soft on crime. I just can't win, I guess.

A debate forum exercise in futility:

http://community.livejournal.com/debate/4226061.html?style=mine

...but I tried. Any thoughts?

Robert Faurisson is a former French professor who is a Holocaust denier, and has been fined by the French government for his views. The reason for this is the fact that France made it illegal to deny the Holocaust.

Now, I can't agree or disagree with M. Faurisson's view, since I don't know enough about the gas chambers that he denies were used in the concentration camps, but I believe that his views should not be illegal, and they should not be silenced simply because the majority disagrees with them.

X-Men Frogs and Lungless Frogs:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/25346676/?GT1=43001
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/23996711/

Nature is cool.

Can't sleep; clowns will eat me.

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I'm having a moment of pure, unadulterated nothingness. Excitement has exited through my ears and has landed squarely on the pinnacle of the one true God. And he has nothing to do but listen with one ear to the floor, waiting on the approaching footsteps of his beloved wife, Shiva the destroyer.

Nothing makes any sense to you, does it? Leave you enough rope and you'll hang yourself with it, unless you find other uses for it. You never know when you'll be stranded on the edge of a cliff and need to lasso a nearby tree that is hanging precariously next to you on the craggy underbelly of the monstrous eroded rock formation.

Take your time and eat the wild berries, unless they seem to be disappearing from your fingertips as you imagine them disintegrating inside your diseased formaldehyde distressed and tangled mess of a body.

Nothing erases the interpretive dancing of a chorus of elderly gentlemen, swinging their partners around like rag dolls on a string made of discombobulated magnificence.

Something can't hold up against the scrutiny of your antipathy, forsaking the thought of strategic missionaries and their lofty pursuit of gregarious conundrums.

Mirrors surround your haughty, yet desirable fictional melancholy. You can see inside the soul that embodies your every desire, can't you? Of course you can knowingly depress the lever and disappear at any moment. it's not as if you're stuck in this shell forever. You can leave it all behind and start anew. You can let it all go.

...but I still don't believe in a universal consciousness. Sorry Daria.

What I do believe in is a universal unconscious. I think we all are evolution's monsters, hidden in polite dress-up clothes.

Without agreed-upon societal norms we'd revert to our mechanical interests and become that which our inner monster wishes to be.

Or maybe I'm a little fucked in the head.

SIDE NOTE:

How can anybody not be fucked up, even a little? Maybe it's my bias, but I love being weird. I'd hate to wake up every day and be grateful for my every breath, then proceed with my day with the most optimistic attitude, smiling at random strangers because life is good.

Is that even normal? Our dear departed Mr. Carlin, joining our long-ago departed Mr. Hicks, are probably still mocking us for our normalcy in a world of pretentious preening, bereft of compassion and love.

How could anybody think that this world is a great place, simply because of the rose-tinted glasses they wear? Even through rose-colored glasses, this world is ridiculous and vainly destroying itself through utter incomprehensible hatred for everything important.

I told my co-worker today that I eat food that's bad for me because, even if I eat healthy food, I'm going to die of a heart attack from the stress of daily life. He thought I meant the stress of work (which is a large part of it), but I meant the stress of being on the same planet as the most wretched and sado-masochistic creatures alive. So I eat terrible food because it tastes good, and I know deep inside that it's not what is going to kill me. So what is going to kill me?

George W. Bush
Evangelical Christians
Obese people
Rampant unchecked capitalism
Starved children in a world of buffets
Poverty in a world of Paris Hiltons
War between egos
Secret campaigns for worldwide domination
Single-minded worldviews
Banned books
Banned speech

And a multitude of other things that piss me off every day of my life. I CANNOT stop thinking of everything that bugs me, even when I know it makes no use of my mental faculties. I CANNOT stop being stressed by it all. I have momentary jaunts into enjoyable sidetracking diversions, but that doesn't make up for the sheer idiocy and vitriol that leaves the world awash in a disgusting layer of filth and degenerate devolution.

*dies*

I think I will always believe that everything on our level of sensation is not real, in the sense that it is more than the sum of its parts.

Nothing about us is real in any normal sense; we are only a collection of synergistic energies.

Jacob is not greater than the sum of his parts; he is a name that was given to a collection of energies, and there is nothing concrete about him.

Every moment Jacob interacts with his environment, which changes his structure. He is ever-changing, and thus is never really real. He is nothing more than billions of years of evolution focused onto a single space-time occupant.

Jacob has breathed in Adolf Hitler, and he has breathed out stardust. He has actively pursued that which has already been drawn out for him; a limited sequence of events that seem to him as choices.

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PAUSE:

I just listened to Sevendust covering NIN's Hurt, and they did a great job. Until, that is, the end of the song, when some jackass yelled, "Johnny Cash!"

NO!

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Stupid Sevendust ruined my train of thought. See Rose, that's the only way they ever really affect me.

Well, this is certainly interesting. Whether or not it's true, I am not sure. I haven't researched it yet, but it seems plausible.

Stolen from someone on another site:

"And the Lord said unto John: 'Come forth, and receive eternal life.' but John came fifth and won a toaster."

George Carlin died.

Carrot Top is still alive.

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Notwithstanding all of my talk about Communism, I certainly can't respect Marx's trust in the authority of the State, as outlined in the Communist Manifesto.

Maybe it's due to the environment in which I've been raised, but the idea of mandatory State-run facilities that could be run without the bureaucracy does frighten my libertarian side.

I like the idea of creating State-run facilities that could not exist without the State, but I will admit that I'm hard-pressed to find anything worthwhile that society couldn't run on it's own. Take away the military-industrial complex, and we don't even need the government.

However, I wonder what would happen if tomorrow the government was dissolved and society was left to fend for itself. Would we come together and create a communal society that could sustain itself without the need for representatives making, interpreting and enforcing the laws? Or would the will to power re-create a bloated government, rife with fraud? I think that opens another question about the nature of man when faced with the choice of will to power over the will of the people.

Is it possible for mankind to create a sustainable co-operative without eventually eroding into a chaotic tangle of corruption and decadence? Even if the concept works in the beginning, at some point the tables shift and the government starts to overstep its boundaries. Absolute power, after all...

Everyone, since the only person I know on here who is even remotely close to where I live is demonic_daria, and I met her on LJ when I lived 2000 miles away.

I should put on my Nikes and my purple triangle draping cloth, then hitch a ride on Hale-Bopp.

Have you thought about Marshall Applewhite today?