Monday, October 03, 2005
Saturday, September 10, 2005
Amazing slideshow from someone living in pre and post-Katrina New Orleans
Amazing slideshow from someone living in pre and post-Katrina New Orleans:
http://www.kodakgallery.com/Slidesh...&Uy=vhxvcl&Ux=1
Excerpt from Day 2:
"This is a story upon itself... I walked up the ramp of the Superdome with the permission of the Louisiana State Guards. They asked me not take any pictures of inside or of them. I walked around the dome and they became more comfortable after I spoke of being from Nicaragua and living in the Quarter. Some of them wanted to show me something incredible. At the bottom of the Hyatt, there was this white Honda Civic. When they arrived, they noticed a man laying on the roof of this car. They went to help him and after he was revived, he told them he had been sucked from his fourth story room and landed on his back on top of this car. Miraculously, he didn't suffer ANY major damage! No blood, nothing. Some broken bones and internal bruising. As I left the Dome, I walked to the car and took a picture for you to be amazed."
http://www.kodakgallery.com/Slidesh...&Uy=vhxvcl&Ux=1
Excerpt from Day 2:
"This is a story upon itself... I walked up the ramp of the Superdome with the permission of the Louisiana State Guards. They asked me not take any pictures of inside or of them. I walked around the dome and they became more comfortable after I spoke of being from Nicaragua and living in the Quarter. Some of them wanted to show me something incredible. At the bottom of the Hyatt, there was this white Honda Civic. When they arrived, they noticed a man laying on the roof of this car. They went to help him and after he was revived, he told them he had been sucked from his fourth story room and landed on his back on top of this car. Miraculously, he didn't suffer ANY major damage! No blood, nothing. Some broken bones and internal bruising. As I left the Dome, I walked to the car and took a picture for you to be amazed."
Friday, September 09, 2005
What exactly is Scientology??
From SA forums:
Please don't fuck the thread up with "Oh I've been to xenu.net before and know all about it you fucking retard " posts. This thread is mostly for people who DON'T know about Scientology, like myself not too long ago.
With all the Scientology hate on the forums and the internet in general, I felt obligated to hate it as well. Did I know what Scientology was? No. I knew that Tom Cruise was one, they hated psychiatry, and they used kooky machines once in a while. They also take themselves pretty seriously.
But what exactly ARE Scientologists? What are their beliefs? These I did not know. So I decided to delve into Scientology and read up on it. It gets VERY VERY fucked up. Hilariously so. Do not think this is a boring essay on the tenents of Scientology. I am skipping all the boring bits (talking about the two different states of mind that is similar to Freud's superego and id, etc.)
(No I did not join or actually talk to any, just researched them online).
Most of the information can be found on places like wikipedia if you look hard enough.
Scientology was started by L. Ron Hubbard, of course. He was a science fiction writer (this should set off warning bells for any sane person) who is responsible for Battlefield Earth. It wasn't always a religion, but it was converted into one after a few years.
Some of the central themes are that people are spirits called "Thetans", and there are a limited number of them apparently because all these Thetans lived past lives. "Bad people" are basically people who have suffered trauma or tragedy or something in past lives. Let me just say that I am using the term "people" very very loosely. I'll explain later.
Let me next explain the process of Auditing. Auditing is a way of meeting with a "higherup" Scientologist to "clear the mind". The higherup uses a E-meter (which I believe some goon stole once from a Scientologist), which to quote wikipedia "is claimed to work through neural pathways of the nerves of the body and brain of the preclear as influenced by the spiritual being [Thetan]". What does that mean exactly? Who the fuck knows. The whole point of this "Audit" is to clear your mind of any past traumas to make you a better person. Scientologists claim this process can do all kinds of wacky things, like raise your IQ, cure dyslexia, and train you to relax better.
We are not yet to the great part. This is all just to establish the religion as something that is pretty messed up, but still SOMEWHAT grounded. It's not too different than some older religions, to be honest, just with newer sounding terms.
The ARC triangle I will briefly mention. It's basically just a way of living that are interrelated to successful living (which the DO categorize, by the way. I mean successful living, not the ARC thing.) The terms of the ARC triangle are affinity, reality, and communication. This, particularly reality, should strike you as amusing if you know anything about Scientology already. If not, keep that in the back of your mind.
The Tone Scale is the categorization I mentioned in the previous paragraph. It's a way of keeping track of how successful you are. The higher you are on the Tone Scale, the more value you are to society. Weird.
Okay now we are ready to delve into the REALLY fucked up stuff. If you didn't care about all that previous stuff, start reading here.
Scientology has different levels, like a government Top Secret program, called Operating Thetan Levels. The most "advanced" Operating Level information is only disclosed at sea aboard a cruise ship. Most members don't even know the entire creed of the religion they are in. It's a seeeeecret. What do they have to hide?
Xenu. Many people may have heard of Xenu before, and there is a xenu.net that is also anti-Scientology. If the Xenu incident is all you know about Scientology there is still some more.
So what is Xenu? Earlier I mentioned past lives, and it ties in to that. Xenu was allegedly an alien Confederate Commander from 75 million years ago who took hundreds of billions of his victims and stacked them around Earth's volcanoes. Then he blew them all up with hundreds and hundreds of hydrogen bombs and then brainwashed the victims with a 3D "super collosal motion picture" that was 36 days long.
The longer version of the story can be found here: Wikipidia
I will summarize for those not interested in the minutae details.
Xenu was, as I said, a Confederate Commander who was about to lose command. To remedy the problem he decided to get rid of his surplus population. He killed the galactic police and then captured the surplus people and injected them by way of claiming "income tax inspections". The evil psychiatrists helped (see the end of the post for more about psychiatrists).
Again from wikipedia, "Xenu's victims were transported in interstellar space planes which looked exactly like Douglas DC-8s."
The people were then, as previously mentioned, strapped to volcanoes and blown to SHIT with hydrogen bombs. The people were then transformed into raw Thetan state, and the people captured them using something called an electric ribbon and sucked into a "vaccuum zone" which is where the 36 day 3D supercolossus movie was played. Apparently the movie was implanting the "memory" of all the current world religions, proving their falsity.
Yeah, you read that correctly. They then claim that the traumatized Thetans gather
around people today and this is why we need people to cleanse our souls.
Hubbard produced a book of many Scientologists claims of "Past lives", and wikipedia lists the following four:
A person who was "deceived into a love affair with a robot decked out as a beautiful red-haired girl"
A person who was "run over by a Martian bishop driving a steamroller"
A person who was "transformed into an intergalactic walrus that perished after falling out of a flying saucer
And a person who recalled "life as "a very happy being who strayed to the planet Nostra 23,064,000,000 years ago.""
Tom Cruise, the most notable Scientologist, hates psychiatrists, and this is indeed a core belief of Scientology. But why? Apparently, Scientologists believe that psychiatrists invented pain and sex eons ago to repress people, and are responsible for WWII, September 11th, and the decline of education in America.
Founded in reality my ass!
-Myrddin Emrys
http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/263120 <- fun and informative too hahahaha
Please don't fuck the thread up with "Oh I've been to xenu.net before and know all about it you fucking retard " posts. This thread is mostly for people who DON'T know about Scientology, like myself not too long ago.
With all the Scientology hate on the forums and the internet in general, I felt obligated to hate it as well. Did I know what Scientology was? No. I knew that Tom Cruise was one, they hated psychiatry, and they used kooky machines once in a while. They also take themselves pretty seriously.
But what exactly ARE Scientologists? What are their beliefs? These I did not know. So I decided to delve into Scientology and read up on it. It gets VERY VERY fucked up. Hilariously so. Do not think this is a boring essay on the tenents of Scientology. I am skipping all the boring bits (talking about the two different states of mind that is similar to Freud's superego and id, etc.)
(No I did not join or actually talk to any, just researched them online).
Most of the information can be found on places like wikipedia if you look hard enough.
Scientology was started by L. Ron Hubbard, of course. He was a science fiction writer (this should set off warning bells for any sane person) who is responsible for Battlefield Earth. It wasn't always a religion, but it was converted into one after a few years.
Some of the central themes are that people are spirits called "Thetans", and there are a limited number of them apparently because all these Thetans lived past lives. "Bad people" are basically people who have suffered trauma or tragedy or something in past lives. Let me just say that I am using the term "people" very very loosely. I'll explain later.
Let me next explain the process of Auditing. Auditing is a way of meeting with a "higherup" Scientologist to "clear the mind". The higherup uses a E-meter (which I believe some goon stole once from a Scientologist), which to quote wikipedia "is claimed to work through neural pathways of the nerves of the body and brain of the preclear as influenced by the spiritual being [Thetan]". What does that mean exactly? Who the fuck knows. The whole point of this "Audit" is to clear your mind of any past traumas to make you a better person. Scientologists claim this process can do all kinds of wacky things, like raise your IQ, cure dyslexia, and train you to relax better.
We are not yet to the great part. This is all just to establish the religion as something that is pretty messed up, but still SOMEWHAT grounded. It's not too different than some older religions, to be honest, just with newer sounding terms.
The ARC triangle I will briefly mention. It's basically just a way of living that are interrelated to successful living (which the DO categorize, by the way. I mean successful living, not the ARC thing.) The terms of the ARC triangle are affinity, reality, and communication. This, particularly reality, should strike you as amusing if you know anything about Scientology already. If not, keep that in the back of your mind.
The Tone Scale is the categorization I mentioned in the previous paragraph. It's a way of keeping track of how successful you are. The higher you are on the Tone Scale, the more value you are to society. Weird.
Okay now we are ready to delve into the REALLY fucked up stuff. If you didn't care about all that previous stuff, start reading here.
Scientology has different levels, like a government Top Secret program, called Operating Thetan Levels. The most "advanced" Operating Level information is only disclosed at sea aboard a cruise ship. Most members don't even know the entire creed of the religion they are in. It's a seeeeecret. What do they have to hide?
Xenu. Many people may have heard of Xenu before, and there is a xenu.net that is also anti-Scientology. If the Xenu incident is all you know about Scientology there is still some more.
So what is Xenu? Earlier I mentioned past lives, and it ties in to that. Xenu was allegedly an alien Confederate Commander from 75 million years ago who took hundreds of billions of his victims and stacked them around Earth's volcanoes. Then he blew them all up with hundreds and hundreds of hydrogen bombs and then brainwashed the victims with a 3D "super collosal motion picture" that was 36 days long.
The longer version of the story can be found here: Wikipidia
I will summarize for those not interested in the minutae details.
Xenu was, as I said, a Confederate Commander who was about to lose command. To remedy the problem he decided to get rid of his surplus population. He killed the galactic police and then captured the surplus people and injected them by way of claiming "income tax inspections". The evil psychiatrists helped (see the end of the post for more about psychiatrists).
Again from wikipedia, "Xenu's victims were transported in interstellar space planes which looked exactly like Douglas DC-8s."
The people were then, as previously mentioned, strapped to volcanoes and blown to SHIT with hydrogen bombs. The people were then transformed into raw Thetan state, and the people captured them using something called an electric ribbon and sucked into a "vaccuum zone" which is where the 36 day 3D supercolossus movie was played. Apparently the movie was implanting the "memory" of all the current world religions, proving their falsity.
Yeah, you read that correctly. They then claim that the traumatized Thetans gather
around people today and this is why we need people to cleanse our souls.
Hubbard produced a book of many Scientologists claims of "Past lives", and wikipedia lists the following four:
A person who was "deceived into a love affair with a robot decked out as a beautiful red-haired girl"
A person who was "run over by a Martian bishop driving a steamroller"
A person who was "transformed into an intergalactic walrus that perished after falling out of a flying saucer
And a person who recalled "life as "a very happy being who strayed to the planet Nostra 23,064,000,000 years ago.""
Tom Cruise, the most notable Scientologist, hates psychiatrists, and this is indeed a core belief of Scientology. But why? Apparently, Scientologists believe that psychiatrists invented pain and sex eons ago to repress people, and are responsible for WWII, September 11th, and the decline of education in America.
Founded in reality my ass!
-Myrddin Emrys
http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/263120 <- fun and informative too hahahaha
Wednesday, September 07, 2005
what the fuckin muthafuckin fuck??
BARBARA BUSH ON THE VICTIMS OF KATRINA...
"And so many of the people in the arena here, you know, were underprivileged anyway so this (she chuckled)--this is working very well for them."
"And so many of the people in the arena here, you know, were underprivileged anyway so this (she chuckled)--this is working very well for them."
Listen to short audio clip of this
Tuesday, August 23, 2005
Kitty Loaf
check out this page I made, the pics arent mine, but its funny!
KITTY LOAF
funny flash animation i enjoy singing
badger badger badger
check this out: freefalling
neverending fall
Funny and Extreme Videos - Crazy Frog - Funny Video Clip - KillSomeTime.com
KITTY LOAF
funny flash animation i enjoy singing
badger badger badger
check this out: freefalling
neverending fall
Funny and Extreme Videos - Crazy Frog - Funny Video Clip - KillSomeTime.com
Wednesday, June 15, 2005
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