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"When she's abandoned her moral center and teachings...when she's cast aside her facade of propriety and lady-like demeanor...when I have so corrupted this fragile thing and brought out a writhing, mewling, bucking, wanton whore for my enjoyment and pleasure.....enticing from within this feral lioness...growling and scratching and biting...taking everything I dish out to her.....at that moment she is never more beautiful to me." - Marquis de Sade

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Hey Biggs do de Sade, man.
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promethean75 wrote: Thu Dec 08, 2022 1:53 am "When she's abandoned her moral center and teachings...when she's cast aside her facade of propriety and lady-like demeanor...when I have so corrupted this fragile thing and brought out a writhing, mewling, bucking, wanton whore for my enjoyment and pleasure.....enticing from within this feral lioness...growling and scratching and biting...taking everything I dish out to her.....at that moment she is never more beautiful to me." - Marquis de Sade

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Hey Biggs do de Sade, man.

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Ralph Ellison from Invisible Man

I was never more hated than when I tried to be honest. Or when, even as just now I've tried to articulate exactly what I felt to be the truth. No one was satisfied -- not even I.


Yawn. That's everyday for me. And, no, not just here.

All it takes to get along in this here man's town is a little shit, grit, and mother-wit.

Tried that once in Baltimore. But only once.

But we are all human, I thought, wondering what I meant.

And then all the way to the grave.

If only all the contradictory voices shouting inside my head would calm down and sing a song in unison, whatever it was I wouldn't care as long as they sang without dissonance.

:lol:
As you may well imagine.

I was looking for myself and asking everyone except myself questions which I, and only I, could answer.

Next up: looking for you.

It was unbelievable, but perhaps only the unbelievable could be believed. Perhaps the truth was always a lie.

And that's before he gets to race.
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The Onion

PornHub Announces Contest To Allow One User Under 18 To View Content


Not your kid, let's hope.

Distracted God Accidentally Puts Baby’s Soul In Envelope To Utility Company

So, just out of curiosity, how did that turn out?

Study Finds American Women Delaying Motherhood Because The Whole Thing Blows

Let's define "blows" here.

Parakeet Unaware Its Companionship The Only Thing Stopping Man From Committing One Of Bloodiest Acts In American History

Well, we don't call them "birdbrains" for nothing.

Every Member Of Police Department Excitedly Volunteers To Go Undercover In White Supremacist Group

Hoods and all.

4-Year-Old Convinced Father A Moron After 45th Consecutive Hide-And-Seek Victory

Next up: Chutes and Ladders.
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Fyodor Dostoevsky from The Brothers Karamazov

There is only one way to salvation, and that is to make yourself responsible for all men's sins. As soon as you make yourself responsible in all sincerity for everything and for everyone, you will see at once that this is really so, and that you are in fact to blame for everyone and for all things.


I ask you, can there be a more idiotic frame of mind?!

It’s not God that I do not accept, you understand, it is this world of God’s, created by God, that I do not accept and cannot agree to accept.

This world for one: "...an endless procession of earthquakes and volcanic eruptions and tornadoes and hurricanes and great floods and great droughts and great fires and deadly viral and bacterial plagues and miscarriages and hundreds and hundreds of medical and mental afflictions and extinction events...making life on Earth a living hell for countless millions of men, women and children down through the ages..."

They have succeeded in accumulating a greater mass of objects, but the joy in the world has grown less.

Indeed. And just imagine him being around today!

Being at a loss to resolve these questions, I am resolved to leave them without any resolution.

As though for the rest of us, that is an actual option.

It's God that's worrying me. That's the only thing that's worrying me. What if He doesn't exist? What if Rakitin's right---that it's an idea made up by men? Then, if He doesn't exist, man is the king of the earth, of the universe.

All things being permitted then. If you don't get caught, say.

People talk sometimes of a bestial cruelty, but that's a great injustice and insult to the beasts; a beast can never be so cruel as a man, so artistically cruel. The tiger only tears and gnaws, that's all he can do. He would never think of nailing people by the ears, even if he were able to do it.

Unless, of course, we have good reasons to.
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The Onion

SWAT Team Busts Down Door Of Denver Woman’s Home To Apologize For Previous Raid


And no one is killed this time.

Herschel Walker Scrambles To Collect Dozens Of Fetuses That Fell Out Of Pants Pocket

Old news, right?

Employee Offering Suggestion At Meeting Slowly Grows Quieter And Quieter Until Eventually Squeaking ‘I Don’t Know’

At Tesla we're informed.

Bob Dylan Apologizes For Machine-Printed ‘Signatures’

Next up: machine written songs.

White House Warns Supply Chain Shortages Could Lead Americans To Discover True Meaning Of Christmas

The birth of some dude, right?

Trump Attempts To Ease Tensions With Jewish Community By Noting He Also Would've Murdered Christ

Any Jews here mollified?
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Franz Kafka from The Trial

How are we to avoid those in office becoming deeply corrupt when everything is devoid of meaning?


See, I told you.

I am never serious, and therefore I have to make jokes do duty both for jest and earnest.

Or, here, those witty ripostes.
When they are witty.


It's characteristic of this judicial system that a man is condemned not only when he's innocent but also in ignorance.

Next up: feigned ignorance.

He was always inclined to take life as lightly as he could, to cross bridges when he came to them, pay no heed for the future, even when everything seemed under threat. But here that did not seem the right thing to do.

At the trial for example.

You see, Willem, he admits he doesn’t know the law, and at the same time claims he’s innocent.

That's where they get you.

It’s only because of their stupidity that they’re able to be so sure of themselves.

Yo, Satyr! You're up!!
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The Onion

‘Someone’s In Here!’ Says Man In Restroom Asserting Own Existence For First Time In Months


Good for him!

Congress Takes Field Trip To Goldman Sachs To Learn How Laws Get Made

Crony capitalism let's call it.

Man Just Having One Of Those Decades Where He Doesn't Feel Like Doing Anything

On the other hand, what's ten years these days.

Lazy Poor Person Has Never Earned Passive Income From Stock Dividends A Day In His Life

Well, that certainly explains a lot.

Study Finds Not Acting Like Total Fucking Moron Most Attractive Quality In Potential Mate

Next up: Total Fucking Pinhead.

Amish Horse Has Probably Never Used Cell Phone

Next up: Mennonite horse.
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iambiguous wrote: Sat Dec 10, 2022 10:31 pm The Onion

..so peel back layers of CRAP

‘Someone’s In Here!’ Says Man In Restroom Asserting Own Existence For First Time In Months


Good for him!

..probably a BIG FAT SHIT that's gonna fuck up a plumbers day.


Congress Takes Field Trip To Goldman Sachs To Learn How Laws Get Made

Crony capitalism let's call it.

..members of Congress usually give it up the arse, now they have a gold member to further their cold shaft.


Man Just Having One Of Those Decades Where He Doesn't Feel Like Doing Anything

On the other hand, what's ten years these days.

..what's EVERY fucking four years where English professional football players cannot kick a penalty shot on target? ANGER FOR US PLEBS THAT ONLY WATCH THE SHITE ON TV.


Lazy Poor Person Has Never Earned Passive Income From Stock Dividends A Day In His Life

Well, that certainly explains a lot.

..and he could probably CRAWL off his FAT ARSE and still get a football on target better than an English professional football player.


Study Finds Not Acting Like Total Fucking Moron Most Attractive Quality In Potential Mate

Next up: Total Fucking Pinhead.

..I suppose that explains why iambiguous is still a virgin.


Amish Horse Has Probably Never Used Cell Phone

Next up: Mennonite horse.

..Amish horse is probably ALSO a virgin...here's your lucky break iambiguous, watch some Mr Ed and learn how to sweet talk your potential mate.
I'm just a tad pissed off.
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Herman Melville from Bartleby, the Scrivener: A Story of Wall Street

I would prefer not to.


More to the point: Can they make you?

Ah, Bartleby! Ah, humanity!

And, no, not just on Wall Street.

I am a man who, from his youth upwards, has been filled with a profound conviction that the easiest way of life is the best.

And even if it makes the lives of others harder still?

But thus it often is, that the constant friction of illiberal minds wears out at last the best resolves of the more generous.

Just note the assholes here.

So true it is, and so terrible, too, that up to a certain point the thought or sight of misery enlists our best affections; but, in certain special cases, beyond that point it does not.

You've either been there or you haven't.

I am one of those unambitious lawyers who never addresses a jury or in any way draws down public applause but in the cool tranquility of a snug retreat do a snug business among rich men's bonds and mortgages and title deeds.

A master of the universe!
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Philosophy Tweets

“Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence.” Aristotle


And not much can't be rationalized given that.

“I like beautiful melodies telling me terrible things.” Tom Waits

Next up: beautiful philosophies.

"A healthy man wants a thousand things, a sick man only wants one." Confucius

Let's try to pin down what that is.

"Love is a kind of warfare." Pūblius Ovidius Nāsō,

Unless you're doing it wrong.

“The most painful state of being is remembering the future, particularly the one you'll never have.” Søren Kierkegaard

The abyss let's call it.

“Face the facts of being what you are, for that is what changes what you are.” Søren Kierkegaard

:lol: If you know what I mean, of course.

“The tyrant dies and his rule is over, the martyr dies and his rule begins.” Soren Kierkegaard

Okay, but look where that's gotten us.
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Found a really decent Stirner cheat sheet for u guys if u ever need it. Put together by YouTube sensation and fellow anarchist spook buster Dr. Bones.

https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library ... heat-sheet
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Siddhartha Mukherjee

"Our ability to read out this sequence of our own genome has the makings of a philosophical paradox. Can an intelligent being comprehend the instructions to make itself?" John Sulston


Well, can you?

A model is a lie that helps you see the truth.

Vague enough for you?

Consider the genesis of a single-celled embryo produced by the fertilization of an egg by a sperm. The genetic material of this embryo comes from two sources: paternal genes (from sperm) and maternal genes (from eggs). But the cellular material of the embryo comes exclusively from the egg; the sperm is no more than a glorified delivery vehicle for male DNA—a genome equipped with a hyperactive tail.

Next up: testosterone.

Indeed, cancer’s emergence in the world is the product of a double negative: it becomes common only when all other killers themselves have been killed.

The good news?

In the laboratory, we call this the six-degrees-of-separation-from-cancer rule: you can ask any biological question, no matter how seemingly distant—what makes the heart fail, or why worms age, or even how birds learn songs—and you will end up, in fewer than six genetic steps, connecting with a proto-oncogene or tumor suppressor.

Don't forget to pass this on.

Modesty is a virtue, he would later write, yet one gets further without it.

A hell of a lot further in this world.
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The Onion

Friends, Family Admit They Expected Man’s Mental Breakdown To Look Completely Different


In fact, they welcomed mine, he boasted.

Less Popular Friend Only Included In Suicide Pact Out Of Pity

Hey, dead is dead, right?

Bedtime Story From Fucking Bible Again

Not counting the Book of Revalations, of course.

God Loses Tip Of Finger In Black Hole Accident

It's in the wormhole now.

Man Approaches Unfamiliar Shower Knobs Like He Breaking Wild Stallion

Good for him!

Elon Musk Worried He Won’t Have Enough Twitter Employees Left To Fire On Christmas Eve

Fortunately, there's always the next one. You know, if Twitter is still around for the next one.
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Eric Hoffer

The opposite of the religious fanatic is not the fanatical atheist but the gentle cynic who cares not whether there is a God or not. The atheist is a religious person. He believes in atheism as though it were a new religion.


Resolved: this is bullshit.
New thread perhaps?


Every extreme attitude is a flight from the self.

Yeah, sort of.

A man is likely to mind his own business when it is worth minding. When it is not, he takes his mind off his own meaningless affairs by minding other people's business.

Yeah, sort of.

The game of history is usually played by the best and the worst over the heads of the majority in the middle.

At least we know it's a game.

There is apparently some connection between dissatisfaction with oneself and a proneness to credulity. The urge to escape our real self is also an urge to escape the rational and the obvious. The refusal to see ourselves as we are develops a distaste for facts and cold logic. There is no hope for the frustrated in the actual and the possible. Salvation can come to them only from the miraculous, which seeps through a crack in the iron wall of inexorable reality. They ask to be deceived. What Stresemann said of the Germans is true of the frustrated in general: "They pray not only for their daily bread, but also for their daily illusion." The rule seems to be that those who find no difficulty deceiving themselves are easily deceived by others. They are easily persuaded and led.

Yo, her!
Among others, of course.


Jesus was not a Christian, nor was Marx a Marxist.

The rest, let's say, is history.
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