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tetrapod.sapienblack, black coffee


what is it with people who live life like they bought it at a store? like they know exactly how it is supposed to work, and they live like it too? like it's so simple. just follow the instructions on the package, and it should all work fine. and thank you for shopping at Planet Earth, third rock from the sun in a no-name backwater galaxy.

like as if some engineer designed life for us, so it must be logical, and meaningful, and therefore damnit, i am going to act like it.


what damage does the concept that some engineer-god designed our life do to us? and the way we view the world? where is the chaos? where is the sluttiness? where is the terror? where is the poetry? we see it on CNN, but is it what they say it is? why do we sterilize ourselves? what is it with buying buying buying? why do we do this? why do we support it?


so god supposedly crippled our genome so that, yay, we may be imperfect, amen. you'd think though, that with a little bit of god still left in us, that we would approach life a little more poetically. a little less materialistically. a little less ape like. a little more god like.


black, black coffee, amen children of the cosmos. be true to your origins and embrace the miracle of your existence. get of your fucking imaginary merry-go-round and burn your candle at both ends. and may you be a god.


tetragod

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coolhandlukeRe: black, black coffee



People love the movie fight club. Wonderful film and an even better book. There is a part of Tyler's narrative where he's describing the overgrown forests on rodeo drive as he stalks an animal and marvels at an abandoned superhighway. I smile at this all of the time. I ache for it. Nuclear holocaust; I'd hate the casualties. Nuclear holocaust; I'd love the resulting chaos. If nothing more I'd embrace the return to what is truly important: People, family, eating, sharing ideas, humanity, nature, surfing, respect. I'm with you tetra. Can I keep my leather couch?



CHL
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CygnusRe: black, black coffee

I prefer French coffee, with as much milk as coffee itself.

But coffee usually makes me sick.

Therefore, this dude cannot abide.
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AK - JeffRe: black, black coffee

I don't understand the soapbox that you preach from? Are you against order and orderliness in one's life? Or just up too late?

I'll take mine with a dose of order and kindness, no unkindness please!

Jeff
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tetrapod.sapienRe: black, black coffee
I don't understand the soapbox that you preach from?

that's okay.  it's not for everyone.

CHL -

bombs for surfing!  let it rain down!  amen!

TS
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startingoverRe: black, black coffee



Nuclear holocaust; I'd hate the casualties. Nuclear holocaust; I'd love the resulting chaos.


I was riding my bike this weekend and saw some smoke from a fire which looked just like a mushroom cloud. Those were my thoughts exactly.

I think it's all about change and new horizons.
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Big DogRe: black, black coffee

Made me think of Squeeze's "Black Coffee in Bed"

There’s a stain on my notebook
Where your coffee cup was
And there’s ash in the pages
Now I’ve got myself lost
I was writing to tell you
That my feelings tonight
Are a stain on my notebook
That rings your goodbye
With the way that you left me
I can hardly contain
The hurt and the anger
And the joy of the pain
Now knowing I am single
They’ll be fire in my eyes
And a stain on my notebook
For a new love tonight

From the lips without passion
To the lips with a kiss
There’s nothing of your love
That I’ll ever miss
The stain on my notebook
Remain all that’s left
Of the memory of late nights
And coffee in bed

Now she’s gone
And I’m back on the beat
A stain on my notebook
Says nothing to me
Now she’s gone
And I’m out with a friend
With lips full of passion
And coffee in bed
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forsharryRe: black, black coffee

I have four letters/numbers for ya... H5N1 baby, yeah!

chicken flu chicken flu chicken flu flu flu

Where are all things breaking down?  Where is the chaos, mayhem, and destruction? and why can't I get the friggin answering machine to work right?!

But Daddy, I want a goose who lays golden eggs!

 

forsharry, Tetragod's lovely siren of the deep blue sea and ravager of vessels and men
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chrissyRe: Re: black, black coffee
...at the end of the rat race you are still a rat.
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AlmostAtheistRe: black, black coffee

Your body is the result of 900,000,000 generations, every child of which survived because it had more and better kids than the one before it. Therefore you crave a mate, and crave children.

Your forebears protected their children, so you do. You are naturally inclined to love them. We know we are, and have developed social expectations about it. You protect your children.

Your body knows you need salt right now, and it knows there's salt in Doritos. Therefore, you crave Doritos.

Looking too deeply into why you "like" what you like and "care about" what you care about isn't good for your "soul", Tetra. I suggest you watch an old episode of Star Trek with someone that's only seen the new ones so you can say, "Yeah, but for the time, the effects were pretty good!"

And set the bong down.

Your in Christ,

Dave
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coolhandlukeRe: black, black coffee


I hate it when people post songs. Seems I'll have to hate myself. If you don't know the song Aenima by Tool, report to your local "record shop" and commence consumerism. Maybe just download it. Thats a better idea. My favorite part is f*ck L. Ron Hubbard and f*ck all his clones. Ahh I feel cleansed
Some say the end is near.
 Some say we'll see armageddon soon.
 I certainly hope we will.
 I sure could use a vacation from this
 
 Bullshit three ring circus sideshow of
 Freaks
 
 Here in this hopeless f**king hole we call LA
 The only way to fix it is to flush it all away.
 Any f**king time. Any f**king day.
 Learn to swim, I'll see you down in Arizona bay.
 
 Fret for your figure and
 Fret for your latte and
 Fret for your hairpiece and
 Fret for your lawsuit and
 Fret for your prozac and
 Fret for your pilot and
 Fret for your contract and
 Fret for your car.
 
 It's a
 Bullshit three ring circus sideshow of
 Freaks
 
 Here in this hopeless f**king hole we call LA
 The only way to fix it is to flush it all away.
 Any f**king time. Any f**king day.
 Learn to swim, I'll see you down in Arizona bay.
 
 Some say a comet will fall from the sky.
 Followed by meteor showers and tidal waves.
 Followed by faultlines that cannot sit still.
 Followed by millions of dumbfounded dipshits.
 
 Some say the end is near.
 Some say we'll see armageddon soon.
 I certainly hope we will cuz
 I sure could use a vacation from this
 
 Silly shit, stupid shit...
 
 One great big festering neon distraction,
 I've a suggestion to keep you all occupied.
 
 Learn to swim.
 
 Mom's gonna fix it all soon.
 Mom's comin' round to put it back the way it ought to be.
 
 Learn to swim.
 
 F**k L Ron Hubbard and
 F**k all his clones.
 F**k all those gun-toting
 Hip gangster wannabes.
 
 Learn to swim.
 
 F**k retro anything.
 F**k your tattoos.
 F**k all you junkies and
 F**k your short memory.
 
 Learn to swim.
 
 F**k smiley glad-hands
 With hidden agendas.
 F**k these dysfunctional,
 Insecure actresses.
 
 Learn to swim.
 
 Cuz I'm praying for rain
 And I'm praying for tidal waves
 I wanna see the ground give way.
 I wanna watch it all go down.
 Mom please flush it all away.
 I wanna watch it go right in and down.
 I wanna watch it go right in.
 Watch you flush it all away.
 
 Time to bring it down again.
 Don't just call me pessimist.
 Try and read between the lines.
 
 I can't imagine why you wouldn't
 Welcome any change, my friend.
 
 I wanna see it all come down.
 suck it down.
 flush it down.
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doogieRe: black, black coffee

"Production and consumption define our hollow lives." -- Bad Religion

The key is to appreciate naturalism AND materialism for what they are. no more, no less.

A bird sitting on the hood of a new mercedes is not less beautiful because it's sitting on a mercedes, but the car might be.
 
(i just wanted to get in on this bong poetry stuff )
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daystarRe: Re: black, black coffee

Damn... CHL, you beat me to it.

daystar (of the learning to swim class)
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jstalinRe: black, black coffee

A Megadeth song:

I don't remember where I was

I realized life was a game

The more seriously I took things

The harder the rules became

 
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GetBusyLivingRe: black, black coffee

I was gonna post the same song CHL!! Great minds think alike .

GBL
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UndecidedRe: black, black coffee

what is it with buying buying buying? why do we do this? why do we support it?


Would you rather build everything you have yourself, sew your clothes, raise your food, make your car, make your glasses, die from a bacteria, not have a radio, TV, movie to see, no computer, no glass windows, no air conditioner, heated house. If you didn't buy you wouldn't have any of this. I guess you could find a cave someplace and try it out for awhile.

Ken P.
 
I re-read your post and I see you were talking about the society we live in. It seems to be the best one around. When you look at Africa and most other lands you can appreciate that our society isn't all bad. I liked it better back in the 50s but I was young then. Many of the young generation today don't know how to take responsibiliity for their life and expect others to do it for them. My grandkids are like this. I hope they will grow out of this mentality.
 
 
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avishaiRe: black, black coffee
Nuclear holocaust; I'd hate the casualties. Nuclear holocaust; I'd love the resulting chaos.





I was riding my bike this weekend and saw some smoke from a fire which looked just like a mushroom cloud. Those were my thoughts exactly.

These and many other sentiments crack me up. While I understand the sentiment, it seems to often be one from fairly newly exited dubs.

It's just the same as wanting "Armageddon" to come clean up everything for you, only somehow "cooler". 

 
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coolhandlukeRe: Re: black, black coffee
It's just the same as wanting "Armageddon" to come clean up everything for you, only somehow "cooler". 

Well, you told me. Yeah, thats what it is, my newly exited brain cannot wrap itself around my life or the fact that I can choose it to be however I want. Yes, that and the fact that my uncool past has somehow propelled me to seek coolness by stating that I'd like change. I choose my life. I choose the outcomes. I chose what I did when I woke this morning. I will chose to touch myself when I'm going to sleep tonight.

The sentiment is that change, social and otherwise is necessary. If I had my choice, yeah I'd live in a house with a garden and with orchards. I'd raise animals and kill them for food. That is where my life is pushing towards. I would love for my vacations to be trips into the wilderness or up and down the coast of whatever continent I happen to be on. I don't want Armageddon to come to clean anything, I just want to be free as I see it. That is what tetrapod is talking about.

You must touch type because your condescending statements obviously indicate that you've stared down at your nose in such a way that would prevent you from accurately seeing your keyboard.

CHL (of the not trying to be cool but born that way class)
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TopHatRe: black, black coffee
Excuse me TP, but I had enuff chaos when I was growing up from the age of 10 until age 30...I need a stable life.
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avishaiRe: black, black coffee
The sentiment is that change, social and otherwise is necessary. If I had my choice, yeah I'd live in a house with a garden and with orchards. I'd raise animals and kill them for food. That is where my life is pushing towards. I would love for my vacations to be trips into the wilderness or up and down the coast of whatever continent I happen to be on. I don't want Armageddon to come to clean anything, I just want to be free as I see it. That is what tetrapod is talking about

Hey, it's fine to want all that. But others were also saying they wished nuclear holocaust to achieve that end.

I understand it's hypothetical, etc., And I'm not trying to be condescending, i'm just saying to examine your thought processes.
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