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Chasm / Re: Altruism=narcissism
« on: February 14, 2012, 06:10:21 PM »
Why are most people who are poor, poor?
Why are most people who are rich, rich?
I imagine the difference is that one group has money.
How do you get money?
You work a job that pays a high enough salary, or
You inherit, or
You put your money into investments that pay off well, or
You own a business
How do you not get money?
By not doing one or more of the above
Why are the poor poor and the rich rich, and not otherwise?
Why are most people who are rich, rich?
I imagine the difference is that one group has money.
How do you get money?
You work a job that pays a high enough salary, or
You inherit, or
You put your money into investments that pay off well, or
You own a business
How do you not get money?
By not doing one or more of the above
Why are the poor poor and the rich rich, and not otherwise?
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Chasm / Re: Gustave Le Bon & crowd psychology
« on: February 14, 2012, 02:30:59 PM »
This way of looking at the world makes more sense to me.
As the number of humans increases, the more we need unity.
If we don't find it in culture (or war) we will find it with a lowest common denominator.
Think about the people next to you on the bus, train, in the grocery store, or post office.
These are your fellow citizens. What do you have in common?
Increasingly the answer is "not much" except that you both like money, food, housing and automobiles.
That is the crowd in action.
As the number of humans increases, the more we need unity.
If we don't find it in culture (or war) we will find it with a lowest common denominator.
Think about the people next to you on the bus, train, in the grocery store, or post office.
These are your fellow citizens. What do you have in common?
Increasingly the answer is "not much" except that you both like money, food, housing and automobiles.
That is the crowd in action.
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Chasm / Re: Acknowledging human nature
« on: February 13, 2012, 04:03:06 PM »
I don't think there is "human nature."
We have the same nature as any other animal.
Or maybe plants, even, for many of us.
When awful things happen it is for a reason.
No, not in the religious sense that Jesus meant it.
In the common sense, that something caused it.
Sometimes this is mental defect.
Sometimes it is suicide combined with rage at a dysfunctional society.
Because it is dying and can't admit it.
Because it is dying from lack of any purpose.
That covers your school shootings at least.
We have the same nature as any other animal.
Or maybe plants, even, for many of us.
When awful things happen it is for a reason.
No, not in the religious sense that Jesus meant it.
In the common sense, that something caused it.
Sometimes this is mental defect.
Sometimes it is suicide combined with rage at a dysfunctional society.
Because it is dying and can't admit it.
Because it is dying from lack of any purpose.
That covers your school shootings at least.
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Metal / Re: DEMONCY - ENTHRONED IS THE NIGHT: PRE ORDERS NOW AVAIBLE
« on: February 13, 2012, 04:01:03 PM »
It's better than the spam
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Chasm / Re: Should labels reject Nazi music?
« on: February 13, 2012, 02:19:33 PM »
The whole point of freedom is that you can reject whatever music you want.
It's ridiculous to complain about censorship of Nazi music, unless it is someone preventing you from publishing that music.
Good luck keeping your day job though.
This society is every bit as tribal and primitive as it was 10,000 years ago.
If you don't go with the flow, they will hurt you.
In any way they can and think they can get away with.
Knowing that, I guess, I would not publish Nazi music.
Even if I were (and I am not) a Nazi.
It's ridiculous to complain about censorship of Nazi music, unless it is someone preventing you from publishing that music.
Good luck keeping your day job though.
This society is every bit as tribal and primitive as it was 10,000 years ago.
If you don't go with the flow, they will hurt you.
In any way they can and think they can get away with.
Knowing that, I guess, I would not publish Nazi music.
Even if I were (and I am not) a Nazi.
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Chasm / Re: What is the meaning of life?
« on: February 13, 2012, 02:17:31 PM »
The meaning of life is life.
Live it well.
That does not mean live it for yourself.
That would be so easy, so obvious...
It means to make it a beautiful object, like a Faberge egg.
That includes both self and world.
However, for most people this is a mystery.
They only can understand what they are ready to understand.
They only understand the words they already understand.
It's Darwinistic in that way...
We must evolve, and then the truth is obvious to us.
Until then, we are simply disconnected.
Live it well.
That does not mean live it for yourself.
That would be so easy, so obvious...
It means to make it a beautiful object, like a Faberge egg.
That includes both self and world.
However, for most people this is a mystery.
They only can understand what they are ready to understand.
They only understand the words they already understand.
It's Darwinistic in that way...
We must evolve, and then the truth is obvious to us.
Until then, we are simply disconnected.
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Chasm / Re: Black History Month
« on: February 08, 2012, 08:18:53 PM »
I think we should restart the Liberia project, and give American blacks a place for self rule because if they are not even happy with a black president, they're never going to be happy.
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Chasm / Re: ANUS Book List
« on: February 08, 2012, 08:17:38 PM »
Why wouldn't you just get these from Guetenberg?
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Chasm / Re: There are no "Native Americans"
« on: February 08, 2012, 08:17:12 PM »
These aren't your leaders, these are your employees. Diversity is so boring because it turns every place into the same muck.
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Chasm / Re: Message to the West: 'You're poor now so live like poor people'
« on: February 08, 2012, 08:15:39 PM »Quote"I think you have paid your workers far too much money for much less work," he says.
"So you cannot expect to live at this level of wealth when you are not producing anything that is marketable."
Sage advice, indeed.
This totally applies in the US too. Any given office has a dozen people doing the work of three. Half of them are minorities, gay, fat or Jewish.
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Chasm / Re: Healthy Plan for Marriage
« on: February 08, 2012, 03:59:52 PM »
We have no shortage of white people so stupid that picking crops is the best use for them...
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Chasm / Re: Signs of collapse
« on: February 08, 2012, 03:53:07 PM »
I blame a general lack of discipline too because there are always things to steal that are worth money, it's just that now people are trying to steal the easy pickings.
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Metal / Re: A-list prole musik
« on: February 07, 2012, 07:48:35 PM »What exactly makes John Coltrane prole music?
How is it not prole music?
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Chasm / Metalheads make a lot of music
« on: February 07, 2012, 07:47:28 PM »Sadly enough, metalheads, in my experiences, are at least ten times more likely to play an instrument or compose music than fans of other music.
This means metalheads are incompetent, since so little of it is any good.
I appreciate your utilitarian argument but another five million bedroom bands won't make one Burzum.
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Chasm / George Washington Carver
« on: February 07, 2012, 07:45:20 PM »He deserves points just for inventing peanut butter, but he was a pretty intelligent and respectable man otherwise.Fuck you, eat shit and die
Are we still in junior high school? Try this instead.
Quote
Peanuts, which are native to the New World tropics, were mashed into paste by Aztecs hundreds of years ago. Evidence of modern peanut butter comes from US patent #306727 issued to Marcellus Gilmore Edson of Montreal, Quebec in 1884, for a process of milling roasted peanuts between heated surfaces until the peanuts reached “a fluid or semi-fluid state.” As the product cooled, it set into what Edson described as “a consistency like that of butter, lard, or ointment.” In 1890, George A. Bayle Jr., owner of a food business in St. Louis, manufactured peanut butter and sold it out of barrels. J.H. Kellogg, of cereal fame, secured US patent #580787 in 1897 for his “Process of Preparing Nutmeal,” which produced a “pasty adhesive substance” that Kellogg called “nut-butter.”
http://www.counter-currents.com/2011/02/the-invention-of-peanut-butter/
GWC claimed to have invented it in 1903.