13thdimensionconnection

Here's an original. I never thought I'd be the type, to get myself get sucked in I really tried hard to resist, the whole social network thing But everyone is on it, a billion people can't be wrong Now I look back and wonder, where my time has gone I've been sitting here for three hours now, refreshing my facebook It's been about 5 minutes now, I'd better take a look My attention span's been cut in half, but my friend size almost doubled Yet more distant I become and now this has me troubled Why am I so addicted to this meaningless shit My life has been torn apart, but at least I'm not a twit.

What the hell? Link please, that is the most hilarious statement I have ever heard regarding kronic.

Hutch, thanks for the link. It was news to me and now I am fascinated. As for the continued existence of thylacines, I'm not yet convinced. That said I would love to see them make a comeback in my lifetime.

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I'm currently on my second staffy (named Bud) and while they definitely have the strength to be able to be dangerous I have never owned or even met one with the nature to do so. From my experience they are incredibly loyal and, as long as they are treated properly, gentle dogs.

Condescension is pretty much the exact opposite of what I was trying to achieve. What I meant to convey is that religious ideals can be extremely helpful and insightful to the believer and that a truly faithful person requires no proof of god to be certain of its existence which I find admirable and somewhat enviable. I'd love to be able to believe in something purely on faith, I guess I just haven't found the right thing to believe in yet. To be honest I think if there is anything that could be taken as condescension it is against nonbelievers such as myself. Very sorry if you feel like the piece was insulting to your views ref1ect1ons, that was absolutely not my intent. FancyPants, thank you for understanding where I was coming from. I feel exactly the same way about blaming the perpetrator, not the weapon of choice. All religions have sects of extremists but the good that the religion can bring far out ways the damage that a few who misinterpret it can cause. Also your Grandmother sounds like a wonderful christian, refugees already have it so hard that it makes me quite happy to know there are open-minded and decent people like her around.

Sorry I don't post often and sorry it is generally large blocks of gibberish I wrote while intoxicated. Just thought I'd share this. I'm an athiest, but I understand why people would feel they need to follow a religion. True religion brings a kind of understanding that most athiests would never actually accomplish, despite their mockery of the understanding. If something completely unexpected happens an athiest would generally have no idea why, a religious person knows it was because of God. Most athiests ridicule, even if not vocally, this approach. It seems illogical to them to conclude whatever it may be as simply being god's will. But I admire it. The athiest may know everything has been created from hydrogen after the big bang but he doesn't know exactly how. Sure we have our theories, but we don't really know. The faithful knows. God did it. How exactly did God do it? By being God. Sure it is a somewhat ignorant understanding, but on a psychological level the truly faithful understands the world more than we ever could. I stress the truly faithful part because quite honestly faith is not easy, especially nowadays. Everywhere in the modern media there is evidence against what a person may believe in if not outright pandering of the belief. I mean with all of the fact-smudging and alternate cases presented, it's hard enough trying to figure out if global warming is real and that's purely scientific. Imagine trying to have faith with athiests, christians, jews, islam and religions all over the world fighting to "save" or "enlighten" each other with their many conflicting stories of how and why we are here. They generally have good intentions but they can't all be right. Hell not even a full percentile could be right. Really all they are doing is making everything more confusing for everybody, especially those that actually believe. This is why I admire people who are able to have faith, despite the vast majority of the world being opposed to what they believe in. The modern righteous are a lot more non-conformist than the goth/indie/alternative/whatever the fuck they want to call themselves movement. Even if one does not fully believe that everything is god's will, sometimes just the thought can be enough to help. Times of loss or great sadness play an interesting part in religion. Religion can be useful as a crutch, even by those who have never been able to actually believe. These times of sadness can be enough to make even the most faithful or unfaithful question their choice. The faithful may question why a supposedly kind god could let such a horrible thing happen to them. The unfaithful may question if it was their disbelief in god that caused it. That moment of disbelief is what drives religion. The long time faithful will almost always get their faith back and feel like the religion brought them back and helped them through it, the long time unfaithful doesn't have that. There will always be that lingering thought that maybe, just maybe, they are wrong about everything. The very basis of science is that hypothesis can be disproved and that our understandings may change. Most scientists would not believe Einstein's demonstration of the photoelectric effect, the thought that light could be both a wave and a particle was deemed preposterous. Science is about challenging and changing ideas, God is God. If somebody truly, and I stress that word, believes they understand their religion nothing can disprove it to them. What is religion but a desperate attempt to explain the unknown? Humans are terrified of the unknown, it is in our nature to embrace what we know and find out what we don't. Religion answers the questions that we simply cannot. Those answers may not be enough for everybody, but for some they are. Yes, I've seen Jesus Camp too, unconditional belief in a god can be scary as hell. It can be used in awful ways, such as suicide cults, terrorism and genocide. But you can't expect humankind not to corrupt something. Ever since we figured out how to use tools we have been constantly in search of new and innovating ways to kill and fuck shit up. For what it's worth, belief has brought a lot of comfort to the sad, a lot of clarity to the conflicted and a lot of peace to the dying.

Now that I like. Care to elaborate?

Everyone seems to have a demonoid account anyway but if they run out of invites I think I still have a few left. Just send me a pm if interested

If it provides you and others happiness or fulfillment then most certainly it can be classed as success. Success is mostly used to describe career positions, wealth etc. however in my own personal opinion I believe success to be anything that achieves somebody's happiness. It is a very broad definition I know but it works. If you are happy because of your career advancement then that is success, if you are happy because you made yourself a very nice sandwich then that too is success, however short lived. If you are unhappy with your job, no matter how high the position, then in my honest opinion you have not succeeded. What is the point of a life of riches if you are miserable?

I'm keen. Missed last year's but hopefully I will have transport this time around.

PROTIP: Linux

This does not bode well for the future of our liberties.

As the others have suggested, change to a different browser. I prefer Firefox because I do not like Chrome's statistics collection (the browser will report back to Google with information for Google Ads no matter how you try and restrict it). Once you have Firefox I would recommend downloading NoScript (once configured with your usual sites it is barely noticeable) and AdBlockPlus which are add-ons for the browser, these will help protect you from drive-by scripting attacks. MalwareBytes is a handy program to try and remove your current infestation however it can only detect some current rootkits such as TDSS and TDS3 without removing them so if that happens just google the name of the rootkit and generally there is a method to clean your system. Winpatrol is another useful utility, this is like a much more secure task manager with security features and it can really help in the discovery and identification of spyware. If none of this works you might have to try a system restore and if the malware has deleted previous restore points you may have to format. Or you could just use linux like all the cool guy like me. This is actually bad advice. Macs have a growing malware market and due to arrogance on the user's side most Macs are completely unprotected. Not to mention the fact that once you are infected, you are screwed because of the walled garden environment that Apple likes to push on its customers.

Hello, you don't know me and I don't know you but that's okay. I just wanted to let you know that everything will be alright and that if you are to succeed in finding true happiness in this world you will have to always keep that in mind. I take it by you reading this that you are interested in both psychoactive substances and long blocks of text. In light of the fact that you may or may not remember reading this I will try and keep it short, just what you need to know. Life is, as far as we know, limited to carbon-based bundles of genes and water that can be found on the third orbital in a star system which resides in a colourful bladed disc made up of millions of other star systems. This is probably nothing new to you, however, have you ever taken a moment to think about what this means? Yes, you know the facts, but do you understand them? It means that at this current point you are on a ball of molten metal with a crust, which is spinning around a second ball of hydrogen and other basic gases so large that the vast majority of people could not fathom the scale. This ball is "burning" at a temperature so intense that only after radiating approximately 150 million kilometres it provides a temperature fit to sustain life, as we know it. Out of the 7 other planets in this solar system and infinite (or at least beyond comprehension) more in the universe, Earth's perfect orbit radius provided the vital energy source that has made it the only known source of life. I doubt that there are no other life forms in the universe, however, because there is a lack of confirmation I will not state this as fact. As far as we know, our precious Earth is the only place where there is life. As far as we know. We have been taught from the very beginning that knowledge is equivalent to understanding. This is far from the truth. Take economics for instance, do you understand the stock market? Me either. I am not going to lie to you dear reader, I have no idea how finances actually work. Who am I to say how many pieces of paper a certain object is worth? Who is anybody? How is this decided? I mean I know a train is more expensive than a car, and I know that is because it requires a greater amount of materials and labour. However, I have no use for a train. I only have use for a car, a car that I would gladly trade any train for. Some say money is the root of all evils and to an extent, I agree with them. However I agree with them in the sense that I could not conceive a world where it did not exist. Giving objects a price means giving them a quantifiable status, everything has to be priced. How else would you know how much it is worth? How many dollars? How many yen? How many planes or yachts or buckets of soap is this object worth to you? It doesn't matter. It only matters how much it is worth to society. People that aren't you. This is the downside of the human collective. We are so reliant on each other that we allow strangers to inform us how many pieces of paper we have, how many we need, how many will allow us to eat and how we can get more. We even made knowledge a commodity thus thoroughly separating it from understanding. Money may not be the root of all evils, but it is the root of all control. Humankind was so desperate to find logic, we found insanity and renamed it. We is a very beautiful word. I could not think of word more beautiful than "we". In use it merely implies the narrator plus one or more. It can mean so many things, any number of people. It could just be a single friend or it could be a room full of onlookers. It can be used to describe society as a whole or even the entire human population, living and dead. No matter how it is used though, it means humans coming together. This is a very beautiful thing. When a person says "we" they are showing that they believe they are part of something greater than themselves. When somebody is part of something greater than themselves, they become a member of society. It is this sense of belonging that keeps the world together. This sense of being coupled with the illusion of money makes for some interesting choices. Life is all about choices. No matter how you try to argue that it was peer pressure, or stress from work, or that she said she was 18, you made the choice. Take it from a man that is currently writing a book or something as he trips an immeasurable amount of balls, choice is not an illusion. Not yet at least. So for now and as long as we can maintain this charade, bad choices will be punished while good choices merely expected. There are certain ways that you have to behave lest you wind up giving head to a skinhead cellmate so he doesn't stab you. Life is all about choices and if you make the wrong ones, you are fucked. You know this, however, if you are to get by you must understand it. You don't always have to understand your choices, only that they are choices, made by you. Good luck.