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Just for those who don't know, tomorrow CNN.com will be playing the complete broadcast of 9/11/2001 on its website, from 8:30AM to midnight tomorrow. In real time -- as if it were 5 years ago that second. Check it out if you have time.
they've closed one of my class buildings due to possible anthrax. in the office of one of the people in the building (the nabsico food science building, where i go to for my endocrinology class) someone opened a letter w/ a white powder. the authorities were notified, 150 people (most students) were evacuated and names were taken for anthrax testing and adminstration of antibiotics, and police closed the building w/ yellow police lines, which i saw on the way to the dining hall. it's possible that it isn't really anthrax, since other similar scares have appeared in other places. but i wouldn't be surprised if it were live anthrax... the places that get antrax seem to be random... the senate, the sun/globe/star building, nbc, microsoft, and now perhaps a building jointly run by nabisco and rutgers. perhaps i won't have to go to my class on thursday now that that building is closed.
more anthrax... two more people, including a baby (who was close to death but is now expected to recover), diagnosed w/ anthrax. that makes four, i believe. and another anthrax letter was sent to the senate majority leader.
what i'm wondering is why they aren't using more dangerous biological weapons. anthrax isn't contageous, but there are biological weapons which are, and they are just as easy, if not easier, to get. so either they don't have any of those (unlikely), or they're threatening to use the others later, and this is just a warning. the letters that come w/ the anthrax have not been released, they could very well be messages threatening just that.
fighting begins in kashmir again... india attacking pakistan over an area that they both claim. i suppose india sees this as a good time to attack?
monday was heaviest day of attacks thus far in afgan, w/ reports of helicopters and secret special forces spectres (low-flying gunships).
giuliani is being knighted by the queen of england. he altruistically is saying that the knighting applies to 'the people of new york'. i don't agree. he acted w/ leadership, and he should accept that. his lack of arrogance is extremely annoying.
colin powell was already a knight. he made no such humble statements when he was knighted. he's currently in pakistan.
japan and germany are remilitarizing, and are both intent on aiding the united states militarily. japanese warships that will be carrying ammunition and missiles to help are already on their way... although constitutionally they are only supposed to be used in self defense, i suppose supplying weapons and having other people push the buttons doesn't count as attacking themselves (?). i also just read that more money is put into japan's military than any other military in the world excepting that of the united states... a lot of money for something that doesn't actually do anything.
i'm wondering about alternate history lines now... it is easy to imagine that gore could be in bush's place now (as arguably he should be, seeing as he had more votes), a few votes in florida, a few things different in the courts, and it would be gore that would be leading the country now. i don't know if it would be much different than it was, but at least i'd feel more comfortable w/ the country being led by someone who doesn't allow others to write his speeches, someone with at least a little bit of health in him. anyway, not much use thinking about it now. it's just worth pointing out how every little thing effects the future in large ways... it may look like nothing one does matters very much to the future of the world, but each little act gains large repercussions as the years go by.
picture of the day:
(the exiled king of afgan. look at that sneaky fellow behind him.)
what i'm wondering is why they aren't using more dangerous biological weapons. anthrax isn't contageous, but there are biological weapons which are, and they are just as easy, if not easier, to get. so either they don't have any of those (unlikely), or they're threatening to use the others later, and this is just a warning. the letters that come w/ the anthrax have not been released, they could very well be messages threatening just that.
fighting begins in kashmir again... india attacking pakistan over an area that they both claim. i suppose india sees this as a good time to attack?
monday was heaviest day of attacks thus far in afgan, w/ reports of helicopters and secret special forces spectres (low-flying gunships).
giuliani is being knighted by the queen of england. he altruistically is saying that the knighting applies to 'the people of new york'. i don't agree. he acted w/ leadership, and he should accept that. his lack of arrogance is extremely annoying.
colin powell was already a knight. he made no such humble statements when he was knighted. he's currently in pakistan.
japan and germany are remilitarizing, and are both intent on aiding the united states militarily. japanese warships that will be carrying ammunition and missiles to help are already on their way... although constitutionally they are only supposed to be used in self defense, i suppose supplying weapons and having other people push the buttons doesn't count as attacking themselves (?). i also just read that more money is put into japan's military than any other military in the world excepting that of the united states... a lot of money for something that doesn't actually do anything.
i'm wondering about alternate history lines now... it is easy to imagine that gore could be in bush's place now (as arguably he should be, seeing as he had more votes), a few votes in florida, a few things different in the courts, and it would be gore that would be leading the country now. i don't know if it would be much different than it was, but at least i'd feel more comfortable w/ the country being led by someone who doesn't allow others to write his speeches, someone with at least a little bit of health in him. anyway, not much use thinking about it now. it's just worth pointing out how every little thing effects the future in large ways... it may look like nothing one does matters very much to the future of the world, but each little act gains large repercussions as the years go by.
picture of the day:
(the exiled king of afgan. look at that sneaky fellow behind him.)
at http://www.cnn.com/2001/WORLD/asiapcf/c
there are several words which cnn claims are 'unitelligible'. amazingly, they all happen in very critical points in the conversation. here are some examples.
HYDER: Yes. It is relatively closer to the border than most places, but it still
substantially deep into Afghanistan in the sense that it is the access and the difficult
road; even short distances can be traveled in very long time. So basically, this
feeling is not just along the border belt, (UNINTELLIGIBLE) also going deeper in
(UNINTELLIGIBLE) provinces to (UNINTELLIGIBLE) province to
(UNINTELLIGIBLE) province.
HYDER: Most people in Afghanistan have only the radio as an access to outside
world. Their only radio service, the radio (UNINTELLIGIBLE) , is now beaming
more and more programs, it is as if the whole country is in a state of war. Most
people are bracing for a major attack. Urban centers are being emptied. However,
the people in rural population who have their crops and particularly in the east and
higher ground, they still have their corn crop, which has not been harvested. They
are not planning to move. Unless the bombing campaign is relentless, Afghanistan's
rural population is unlikely to move.
HYDER: The Taliban have been able to muster the elders of the townships and the
districts, including the (UNINTELLIGIBLE) because their religious scholars. They
have called them in, they have put their input. They have told the government that
Afghanistan is tribal society, (UNINTELLIGIBLE) tribes, (UNINTELLIGIBLE).
Most of the people, including tribes from the Pakistan side of the border,
(UNINTELLIGIBLE) tribe, these people are now siding with their Afghan residents,
because you must not forget, the tribes live across both borders into Pakistan as
well, and most people here feel that the United States is attacking Afghanistan
without substantial evidence against Osama bin Laden. So these people are now
becoming more and more aggressive, and they are saying that if Afghanistan is
attacked, of course, Afghanistan's ruling population will resist. Whether that
becomes the reality or not will be very clear once Afghanistan is attacked.
HYDER: Well, these are thousands of people. Today a source in Kandahar also told
me that on the border belt of Afghanistan and Pakistan the town of
(UNINTELLIGIBLE) for example 50 thousand people ready to volunteer to fight in
case Afghanistan is attacked. More and more people now feel that they have to
stand by their government, whether they like their government or not. They feel
that -- and historically, if history is anything to go by, Afghans always unite when
they're attacked from outside.
HYDER: Well, whatever remains of the Afghan army are a few trained officers or a
few trained technicians from the communist regime or before that from
(UNINTELLIGIBLE) time. The people from (UNINTELLIGIBLE) time are now in
their 70s and late 60s. Most of Afghanistan's Taliban militia is basically volunteers
from the rural areas such as (UNINTELLIGIBLE), Kandahar, (UNINTELLIGIBLE)
province. These are basically villages, (UNINTELLIGIBLE). Most of the fighting
forces are not paid their salaries, they're just given food and rations and they're not
basically paid. It is not a conventional army. It is basically volunteers from the
country side who fought the war -- who fight the wars in Afghanistan, not a
well-equipped modernized army.
now look at all of that. the unintelligibility conveniently comes during key information areas. the least cnn could do, if they had any respect for the intelligence of their audience, would be to replace (UNITELLIGIBLE) with (CENSORED).
there are several words which cnn claims are 'unitelligible'. amazingly, they all happen in very critical points in the conversation. here are some examples.
HYDER: Yes. It is relatively closer to the border than most places, but it still
substantially deep into Afghanistan in the sense that it is the access and the difficult
road; even short distances can be traveled in very long time. So basically, this
feeling is not just along the border belt, (UNINTELLIGIBLE) also going deeper in
(UNINTELLIGIBLE) provinces to (UNINTELLIGIBLE) province to
(UNINTELLIGIBLE) province.
HYDER: Most people in Afghanistan have only the radio as an access to outside
world. Their only radio service, the radio (UNINTELLIGIBLE) , is now beaming
more and more programs, it is as if the whole country is in a state of war. Most
people are bracing for a major attack. Urban centers are being emptied. However,
the people in rural population who have their crops and particularly in the east and
higher ground, they still have their corn crop, which has not been harvested. They
are not planning to move. Unless the bombing campaign is relentless, Afghanistan's
rural population is unlikely to move.
HYDER: The Taliban have been able to muster the elders of the townships and the
districts, including the (UNINTELLIGIBLE) because their religious scholars. They
have called them in, they have put their input. They have told the government that
Afghanistan is tribal society, (UNINTELLIGIBLE) tribes, (UNINTELLIGIBLE).
Most of the people, including tribes from the Pakistan side of the border,
(UNINTELLIGIBLE) tribe, these people are now siding with their Afghan residents,
because you must not forget, the tribes live across both borders into Pakistan as
well, and most people here feel that the United States is attacking Afghanistan
without substantial evidence against Osama bin Laden. So these people are now
becoming more and more aggressive, and they are saying that if Afghanistan is
attacked, of course, Afghanistan's ruling population will resist. Whether that
becomes the reality or not will be very clear once Afghanistan is attacked.
HYDER: Well, these are thousands of people. Today a source in Kandahar also told
me that on the border belt of Afghanistan and Pakistan the town of
(UNINTELLIGIBLE) for example 50 thousand people ready to volunteer to fight in
case Afghanistan is attacked. More and more people now feel that they have to
stand by their government, whether they like their government or not. They feel
that -- and historically, if history is anything to go by, Afghans always unite when
they're attacked from outside.
HYDER: Well, whatever remains of the Afghan army are a few trained officers or a
few trained technicians from the communist regime or before that from
(UNINTELLIGIBLE) time. The people from (UNINTELLIGIBLE) time are now in
their 70s and late 60s. Most of Afghanistan's Taliban militia is basically volunteers
from the rural areas such as (UNINTELLIGIBLE), Kandahar, (UNINTELLIGIBLE)
province. These are basically villages, (UNINTELLIGIBLE). Most of the fighting
forces are not paid their salaries, they're just given food and rations and they're not
basically paid. It is not a conventional army. It is basically volunteers from the
country side who fought the war -- who fight the wars in Afghanistan, not a
well-equipped modernized army.
now look at all of that. the unintelligibility conveniently comes during key information areas. the least cnn could do, if they had any respect for the intelligence of their audience, would be to replace (UNITELLIGIBLE) with (CENSORED).
an interesting perspective and new facts i researched of recent late: afganistan had a civil war, in 1994-1996 the taliban came into power. they were orginally a mercenary group hired by pakistan to protect its trade routes through afganistan, but they eventually took over all up 5-10% of afganistan, the old government still exists, in exile in a small area of afganinstan. the russians have been helping this 'real government' for years, with weapons and supplies. the leader of this 'real government' was nearly assassinated recently by two photographers with bombs in their cameras, sent by osama bin laden, who lives in taliban-occipied afganistan (95-90% of the land). so basically there is a continuous civil war between the real afganistan government and this new pakistan-trained mercenary government, the taliban. in addition, the taliban is very cruel to its people. tv and movies are outlawed, it is against the law for women to learn to read, and there are public executions and public mutilations, sometimes arbitrarily. what's more, the taliban currently have an army of over 300,000 people, all well trained and experienced due to the continuing civil war and war with russia. another thing, during the russian-afganistan war under reagan, the united states supported afganistan, gave them weapons, and trained hardened criminals from afganistan to be terrorists (in fact there was actually a terrorist training ground in new york, of all places).
so, you know what? to me, the most heroic looking country right now seems to be russia. they are urging that more decisions be made by the united nations and not only the united states (which i agree with), they are planning to aid refugees, when they appear (and they will appear). there were many requests for help from the afganistan people who are being massacred by the taliban, and russia was the only one that was doing anything to help. it took casualties in american to convince the reality-hiding americans that we should actually do something against the evil of the taliban, whereas russia didn't need anything like that to convince them, they had the foresight to act ahead of time. of course, they didn't do as much as they could, otherwise afganistan would be free by now, but they did something, and something is better than nothing, and is certainly better than aiding terrorists, as the reagan administration did.
so, you know what? to me, the most heroic looking country right now seems to be russia. they are urging that more decisions be made by the united nations and not only the united states (which i agree with), they are planning to aid refugees, when they appear (and they will appear). there were many requests for help from the afganistan people who are being massacred by the taliban, and russia was the only one that was doing anything to help. it took casualties in american to convince the reality-hiding americans that we should actually do something against the evil of the taliban, whereas russia didn't need anything like that to convince them, they had the foresight to act ahead of time. of course, they didn't do as much as they could, otherwise afganistan would be free by now, but they did something, and something is better than nothing, and is certainly better than aiding terrorists, as the reagan administration did.
today i started the top30 voting. i have a couple of predictions about what i think will happen this time. fuabmx4 will obviously rise... maybe to number 1. i'm hoping i get more people voting than usual (usual is about 20-30), and since there hasn't been an ohr monthly in awhile this may increase voter turnout. also i'm going to try 'cheering' more than i usually do, and see if this helps.
there is a whole anti-cn w/ lawyers thread on the zantetsuken mb... blah. why do such people exist? i can practically -feel- shallowness coming out of that person. but it's against cn, who is also shallow (btw, by shallow, i mean, they really like to have other people hear about their accomplishments, regardless of whether they actually have accomplished those things... also they exaggerate for increase perception of themselves), so my conclusion is that shallow people attract eachother (since they were at one time all associated ohr companies... avian labs and their branches). i wonder whatever happened to icefalcon...? he was the only guy in avian labs i had respect for.
i wish people would post more in their lj's... the only ones who really post regularly are j'sang and deadmoon. when they posts, it's like the gold obtained from killing a bunch of enemies. something you expect. but when someone else like charbile or harlock or neo posts, it's like the gold found in a treasure chest you didn't know would be there.
my poetry teacher took the class outside for the last 20 minutes and read some poems which have themes relevent to the 9/11 day. it was pretty nice, although what wasn't nice is that he isn't delaying the paper's due date.
had my first organic chem lab today... i would have had my first one last tuesday. i saw joe there (my roommate from last year) and we talked about concrete-bound things like that my sister is in the hospital and what grades we got and how long we think it'll be till we graduate and what we did during the summer (he mostly did nothing, i mostly worked on my game. i have a feeling he finds it amusing that i would spend a summer working on a video game).
i walked around new brunswick today... just to walk around it. well, actually i was looking if i could find that used book store that i saw about 4 years ago but never managed to re-find since... but no luck. i did get to see parts of new brunswick i had not seen before, though, such as rwj hospital, where 100s of rutgers students lined up for blood donations last week.
for purposes of filling this entry out, here is something i said on the zantetsuken mb: "not to lower in importance the painting or the post, but i feel this is more a human tragedy than an 'american' tragedy. when i see people with american flags on their cars and doors i have mixed feelings... on the one hand i'm glad they're taking this seriously, on the other hand i really really distrust nationalism. if we keep focusing on the flag we may start viewing this as an 'us vs. them' thing instead of a 'right vs. wrong' thing."
that's the problem with not being able to think abstractly... you don't think of things very broadly, you don't look at how your current situation relates to other situations. every time there is a surge of nationalism (of some type, at any scale) there is a war (of some type, at any scale). the kkk. the nazi's. the japanese. the crusades. even flame wars between groups of friends involve a very small scale 'nationalism'. the shaede vs. banner conflict was one such. people became 'nationalistic' toward shaede, that clouded their judgement, and then they just attacked with all the hatred and force and confusion and pain in them, without any recognition of thought.
for a really funny attack on nationalism and pain clouding rationality, let me 'reprint' something from the zantetsuken mb:
harlock hero's post:
Man, I just ain't be gettin' all these fools runnin' round sayin' that we oughta be waitin' and shit for some damn fool towelheads jes so
we's can be sho that they be the ones that done it! Sucka, I ain't down wit' dat shit! I say we bes be gettin' all up in that bitch and
layin' down the bizombs, yo! Now that's my shit right there, that's my word, and I tell you if anyone disagrees you might as well not
even speak, cause I ain't be down wit dat logical argument shit. Nah, fools, I ain't be here to represent no kinda thinkin', I be here to
represent me and mah piece and the hatred we be carryin' for us some got-damn towelheads, holla if ya hear me. Now I know ya'll
be sayin' I'm ignorant and shit, but ya'll just some chumps, I can tell ya'll that no amount ah education gone prepare you for the shit
you be facin' when I throw up some fades on yo ass if you be frontin' to me. Don't even be steppin, now, wodie, cause I know you
done heard me, and the only fools I be lookin' to cap is some got-damn sand-niggaz. But if you gone say to me, and tell me if I'm
wrong, that we shouldn't be bombin' the shit outta them fools celebratin' in the damn streetz, then you bes just put a towel on yo
damn fool head cause I'll bust a cap in you just as fast as them cause I'm a proud American, a no-limit soldier, you know that shit's
true cause I be wearin' its logo on my pants and you know I got loyal pride, wo, cause of my Fubu shoes, ya heard? Damn, this shit
be flaw, and that's all I gots to say about this shit, and if no one ain't be agreein' ya'll best not be speakin' cause I be puttin' up da
fades, and that's a promise, that's my word, and you done been tole, so you bes not get stole. A'ight, peace out, now, Holla!
P.S - I be givin' a shout-out to my true wodies, novakaisah cause I know he be backin' dis shit 100 percent, true dat!
novakaiser's reply:
-+~Yo G, Nova's got yo back!~+-
Ya knows whut I got 2 say bout' dis shit!??
Tru dat, wodie! Harlock gots hiz shit down, he ain't playin' it crazy like y'all hatas wit that 'logic' thing bein thrown up! Y'all best stop
dat frontin' dat shit cuz dis 'thinking' thing just ain't da playa's stride. Wez gotas drop dem bombz fast, this ain't no time to think and
learn, hell no! We gotta feed da lust for blood an' tote' dem glocks all da way to playa hata' central, Iraq! It don't matta who be da
terroristz and who be da innocent, dim rag-headded forehead-pokadotted greezeballz R all guity! Sheet, harlock an' I REPREZENT!!1
damn towelz pisses me off so bad I's got da mind to pop any wannabe playa who be sportin' a turban, cuz when ya a big balla shot
calla wit twenty inch blades on ya Chevy Impala ya gotta respect yo originz, and dat be the red white an' blue! Whut!?! "Melting Pot"
Sheet, nigga, stop smokin dat shit an' give it to me! It dont matta what this county came frum, it matter whut happen right NOW and
dat all dat mattaz! Da bling bling, da tommy pants wit da fubu wit ya calaz wrapped across yo fohead, ya shiny fast diabloz wit da
two 12s bumpin' in da back, dat whut mattaz! Not no tomorra! So letz blow up some sand-niggaz an' show dem what bein' a big
tymer is bout! ShEEET WODIE! OneZ here ALREADY!
C DAT SHIT!!!! Harlock, DAWG, YA BEST HOLE ME BACK!!! BROTHA, I'AH BOUT TA RIP IN HIZ ASS! IT AIN'T MATTA IF HE
GUILTY OR NOT! HE LAUGHIN AT US! THAT MAKEZ HIM GUILTY 'NUFF! sO LETS BUS DIS' SHIT UP AND BLOW DA AZZES
TRU DA ROOF! WE COMIN' FO YA, ARABIA! YAH, YA BES'S HOL- Wha? Whatca meen arabia ain't no fuckin' country!?! SHIT, I
thought I tole yall to stop dat "thinking" shit, cuz one towel head iz as guilty az da rest, so it ain't matterin' whut hole thay be livin' in
now, cauze we gotta bust diz shit up, and feedin' DA RAGE iz all dat mattaZ!POWA 2 DA PLAYAYZ, 4 WHEN WE GO OUT THERE
AN' BUST SUM AZZES WITHOUT KNOWLEDGE AND REAZON WE BECUME DA GAME!
and nova or harlock, if you want me to remove these messages for any reason (although i don't see any reason why you would want to) just ask.
there is a whole anti-cn w/ lawyers thread on the zantetsuken mb... blah. why do such people exist? i can practically -feel- shallowness coming out of that person. but it's against cn, who is also shallow (btw, by shallow, i mean, they really like to have other people hear about their accomplishments, regardless of whether they actually have accomplished those things... also they exaggerate for increase perception of themselves), so my conclusion is that shallow people attract eachother (since they were at one time all associated ohr companies... avian labs and their branches). i wonder whatever happened to icefalcon...? he was the only guy in avian labs i had respect for.
i wish people would post more in their lj's... the only ones who really post regularly are j'sang and deadmoon. when they posts, it's like the gold obtained from killing a bunch of enemies. something you expect. but when someone else like charbile or harlock or neo posts, it's like the gold found in a treasure chest you didn't know would be there.
my poetry teacher took the class outside for the last 20 minutes and read some poems which have themes relevent to the 9/11 day. it was pretty nice, although what wasn't nice is that he isn't delaying the paper's due date.
had my first organic chem lab today... i would have had my first one last tuesday. i saw joe there (my roommate from last year) and we talked about concrete-bound things like that my sister is in the hospital and what grades we got and how long we think it'll be till we graduate and what we did during the summer (he mostly did nothing, i mostly worked on my game. i have a feeling he finds it amusing that i would spend a summer working on a video game).
i walked around new brunswick today... just to walk around it. well, actually i was looking if i could find that used book store that i saw about 4 years ago but never managed to re-find since... but no luck. i did get to see parts of new brunswick i had not seen before, though, such as rwj hospital, where 100s of rutgers students lined up for blood donations last week.
for purposes of filling this entry out, here is something i said on the zantetsuken mb: "not to lower in importance the painting or the post, but i feel this is more a human tragedy than an 'american' tragedy. when i see people with american flags on their cars and doors i have mixed feelings... on the one hand i'm glad they're taking this seriously, on the other hand i really really distrust nationalism. if we keep focusing on the flag we may start viewing this as an 'us vs. them' thing instead of a 'right vs. wrong' thing."
that's the problem with not being able to think abstractly... you don't think of things very broadly, you don't look at how your current situation relates to other situations. every time there is a surge of nationalism (of some type, at any scale) there is a war (of some type, at any scale). the kkk. the nazi's. the japanese. the crusades. even flame wars between groups of friends involve a very small scale 'nationalism'. the shaede vs. banner conflict was one such. people became 'nationalistic' toward shaede, that clouded their judgement, and then they just attacked with all the hatred and force and confusion and pain in them, without any recognition of thought.
for a really funny attack on nationalism and pain clouding rationality, let me 'reprint' something from the zantetsuken mb:
harlock hero's post:
Man, I just ain't be gettin' all these fools runnin' round sayin' that we oughta be waitin' and shit for some damn fool towelheads jes so
we's can be sho that they be the ones that done it! Sucka, I ain't down wit' dat shit! I say we bes be gettin' all up in that bitch and
layin' down the bizombs, yo! Now that's my shit right there, that's my word, and I tell you if anyone disagrees you might as well not
even speak, cause I ain't be down wit dat logical argument shit. Nah, fools, I ain't be here to represent no kinda thinkin', I be here to
represent me and mah piece and the hatred we be carryin' for us some got-damn towelheads, holla if ya hear me. Now I know ya'll
be sayin' I'm ignorant and shit, but ya'll just some chumps, I can tell ya'll that no amount ah education gone prepare you for the shit
you be facin' when I throw up some fades on yo ass if you be frontin' to me. Don't even be steppin, now, wodie, cause I know you
done heard me, and the only fools I be lookin' to cap is some got-damn sand-niggaz. But if you gone say to me, and tell me if I'm
wrong, that we shouldn't be bombin' the shit outta them fools celebratin' in the damn streetz, then you bes just put a towel on yo
damn fool head cause I'll bust a cap in you just as fast as them cause I'm a proud American, a no-limit soldier, you know that shit's
true cause I be wearin' its logo on my pants and you know I got loyal pride, wo, cause of my Fubu shoes, ya heard? Damn, this shit
be flaw, and that's all I gots to say about this shit, and if no one ain't be agreein' ya'll best not be speakin' cause I be puttin' up da
fades, and that's a promise, that's my word, and you done been tole, so you bes not get stole. A'ight, peace out, now, Holla!
P.S - I be givin' a shout-out to my true wodies, novakaisah cause I know he be backin' dis shit 100 percent, true dat!
novakaiser's reply:
-+~Yo G, Nova's got yo back!~+-
Ya knows whut I got 2 say bout' dis shit!??
Tru dat, wodie! Harlock gots hiz shit down, he ain't playin' it crazy like y'all hatas wit that 'logic' thing bein thrown up! Y'all best stop
dat frontin' dat shit cuz dis 'thinking' thing just ain't da playa's stride. Wez gotas drop dem bombz fast, this ain't no time to think and
learn, hell no! We gotta feed da lust for blood an' tote' dem glocks all da way to playa hata' central, Iraq! It don't matta who be da
terroristz and who be da innocent, dim rag-headded forehead-pokadotted greezeballz R all guity! Sheet, harlock an' I REPREZENT!!1
damn towelz pisses me off so bad I's got da mind to pop any wannabe playa who be sportin' a turban, cuz when ya a big balla shot
calla wit twenty inch blades on ya Chevy Impala ya gotta respect yo originz, and dat be the red white an' blue! Whut!?! "Melting Pot"
Sheet, nigga, stop smokin dat shit an' give it to me! It dont matta what this county came frum, it matter whut happen right NOW and
dat all dat mattaz! Da bling bling, da tommy pants wit da fubu wit ya calaz wrapped across yo fohead, ya shiny fast diabloz wit da
two 12s bumpin' in da back, dat whut mattaz! Not no tomorra! So letz blow up some sand-niggaz an' show dem what bein' a big
tymer is bout! ShEEET WODIE! OneZ here ALREADY!
C DAT SHIT!!!! Harlock, DAWG, YA BEST HOLE ME BACK!!! BROTHA, I'AH BOUT TA RIP IN HIZ ASS! IT AIN'T MATTA IF HE
GUILTY OR NOT! HE LAUGHIN AT US! THAT MAKEZ HIM GUILTY 'NUFF! sO LETS BUS DIS' SHIT UP AND BLOW DA AZZES
TRU DA ROOF! WE COMIN' FO YA, ARABIA! YAH, YA BES'S HOL- Wha? Whatca meen arabia ain't no fuckin' country!?! SHIT, I
thought I tole yall to stop dat "thinking" shit, cuz one towel head iz as guilty az da rest, so it ain't matterin' whut hole thay be livin' in
now, cauze we gotta bust diz shit up, and feedin' DA RAGE iz all dat mattaZ!POWA 2 DA PLAYAYZ, 4 WHEN WE GO OUT THERE
AN' BUST SUM AZZES WITHOUT KNOWLEDGE AND REAZON WE BECUME DA GAME!
and nova or harlock, if you want me to remove these messages for any reason (although i don't see any reason why you would want to) just ask.
they're eating candy and cookies and drinking coca-cola and coffee. lots of sugar and caffiene. that's colin powell near the front. but the question i ask myself looking at this is... can i trust these people to save the world? i mean... look at them. when i think 'most capable people in the world' i don't think of these folks. i don't even know the wa's of most of them.
crawford had an interesting graph on his site about evil. basically, he said:
thou shalt not kill < judicial execution < military killing < killing for vengeance < killing indirectly (collateral damage) < killing innocents for a cause < killing for fun
i agree with this. personally i'm at the 'thou shalt not kill' part. i think death is too great a punishment for any crime.
an important part of this which he did not note is that if you say that any one of these is alright, all of the ones 'smaller' than that also become alright. if you say that military killing is alright under some circumstances, then you imply that executions for crimes are also alright under some circumstances. if you say that killing for fun is alright, then all of the other ones also become alright.
basically it comes down to what you think makes a person 'deserve death'. we can then graph it in this way:
nothing deserves death < certain crimes deserve death < belonging to a certain country's army deserves death < harming me or someone i know deserves death < being in the wrong place at the wrong time deserves death < being ignorant of or against my personal cause deserves death < being alive deserves death
this seems a more logical and understandable way of looking at his scale.
thou shalt not kill < judicial execution < military killing < killing for vengeance < killing indirectly (collateral damage) < killing innocents for a cause < killing for fun
i agree with this. personally i'm at the 'thou shalt not kill' part. i think death is too great a punishment for any crime.
an important part of this which he did not note is that if you say that any one of these is alright, all of the ones 'smaller' than that also become alright. if you say that military killing is alright under some circumstances, then you imply that executions for crimes are also alright under some circumstances. if you say that killing for fun is alright, then all of the other ones also become alright.
basically it comes down to what you think makes a person 'deserve death'. we can then graph it in this way:
nothing deserves death < certain crimes deserve death < belonging to a certain country's army deserves death < harming me or someone i know deserves death < being in the wrong place at the wrong time deserves death < being ignorant of or against my personal cause deserves death < being alive deserves death
this seems a more logical and understandable way of looking at his scale.
wow. i just found out that chris crawford, author of my favorite book on game design of all time, which he wrote back in 1982, when i was 3 or 4 years old, is still alive and active, in fact he wrote an incredible article about the 9/11/01 day. astoundation ensues.
reactions on the zantestsuken mb are manifold (i love that word... manifold) and varied. i for the first time went into the non-ohrrpgce part of it, and i see things like this:
"All people do is kill eachother until someone comes out on top... damn the world. Damn all those who can't accept the world for what it is. Of course war is just one of those things that must happen for civilization to exist.. without wars you got peace, and peace is boring. While peace is boring it's ideal for the community that works together, and this world is not that sort of community. People will always hate and people will always want to kill. Without war kids will shoot up kids in school from mental torment, terrorists will send bombs to people, viruses will be spread throughout the internet, evil will always thrive because evil is part of every human. Civilized humans can live in peace, but some people just can't fight that urge to want to kill, to want to destroy... it will forever be a part of us. We are our destruction."
this is exactly the attitude of the life-aversive person. things like this make me a lot sicker than any terrorist act will ever make me. there is a backwards view of human nature... this is just a variation of the 'original sin' idea of christianity. any living thing that believes any single one of those sentences, really and truly believes one, i have no hope for. someone who believes all of them, i don't want to exist in the same universe with, let alone the same species/civilization.
"All people do is kill eachother until someone comes out on top... damn the world. Damn all those who can't accept the world for what it is. Of course war is just one of those things that must happen for civilization to exist.. without wars you got peace, and peace is boring. While peace is boring it's ideal for the community that works together, and this world is not that sort of community. People will always hate and people will always want to kill. Without war kids will shoot up kids in school from mental torment, terrorists will send bombs to people, viruses will be spread throughout the internet, evil will always thrive because evil is part of every human. Civilized humans can live in peace, but some people just can't fight that urge to want to kill, to want to destroy... it will forever be a part of us. We are our destruction."
this is exactly the attitude of the life-aversive person. things like this make me a lot sicker than any terrorist act will ever make me. there is a backwards view of human nature... this is just a variation of the 'original sin' idea of christianity. any living thing that believes any single one of those sentences, really and truly believes one, i have no hope for. someone who believes all of them, i don't want to exist in the same universe with, let alone the same species/civilization.
a lot of people say things like 'it really hasn't hit me yet' and 'i can't believe this can happen here' and 'it seemed as if i was watching a movie' and 'unbelievable' and 'this can't be happening' and other such cliche sayings.
the cliche saying is a physical manifestation of evil.
more clearly, this is the complacency aspect of which harlock spake often. nothing like those cliche sayings, i'm sure, when through my mind or harlock's mind. we knew things like this can and will happen. we knew that people would treat it as if it were a dream. we knew, and know, that most people think that adventure only happens in video games. people can't think, and so they hide in cliche.
the cliche saying is a physical manifestation of evil.
more clearly, this is the complacency aspect of which harlock spake often. nothing like those cliche sayings, i'm sure, when through my mind or harlock's mind. we knew things like this can and will happen. we knew that people would treat it as if it were a dream. we knew, and know, that most people think that adventure only happens in video games. people can't think, and so they hide in cliche.
one thing about myself during these days... i'm quite honored by my behavior. it hasn't been perfect, but with certainty it has been more perfect than it would have been 2 years ago. i had no irrationality that i could see... not a trace. i had no indecision. i did have a bit of delay/hesitation, but it was minutae (or should that be 'a minutae'?). of course, any hesitation or uncertainty is unacceptable. understandable, yes, concievable, yes, acceptable, no. in summary: i'm not an adult yet, since i still see traces of childish behavior... but each person sees only their own uncertaintly when alone, and i have a feeling that most other people who consider themselves adults had some hesitation and uncertainty about what to do for a few seconds when alone. they just won't be as cognizant of it. and i was alone for pretty much the entire time. except for a few sentences exchanged with others, i haven't communicated with anyone at all... these journal entries are my first realy 'communication' so to speak.
as far as the events themselves, and where they will lead... this is obviously one major event among many events, and should be treated in context. the fight of life-affinity/heroism/human nature/principled justice vs. irrationality/fear/dogmatism/nihilism/li
now i see that NATO is using article 5. i'm pretty sure this is a good sign.
as far as the events themselves, and where they will lead... this is obviously one major event among many events, and should be treated in context. the fight of life-affinity/heroism/human nature/principled justice vs. irrationality/fear/dogmatism/nihilism/li
now i see that NATO is using article 5. i'm pretty sure this is a good sign.
it is important to remember that when i call people heroic, i don't mean that they are necessarily 'the best of humanity' as i hope people will become during the next century. what i mean is that, from who and what they are, they acted in a life-affinitive way rather than a life-aversive way... they acted as heroically as they good, given who and what they are. my claim was that crisises make more apparent the difference between life-affinitive acts and life-aversive acts. extremely apparent... even an amateur at heroism would be able to recognize the difference at this time. it is only in very secure times that percipience is rare. a person's human life and intelligence strives to act as it is supposed to act, and becomes in crisis times more percipient in the sense of life sense... although in life-aversive individuals even this is somewhat impossible, and people look at their superego to tell them how they should feel and act in these situations. but heroes look at their actual humanity, their selves, in deciding how they should feel and act.
this is the first year of the last century of unhumanity, and already such things are happening. if only i and harlock had our airship and heroism group (hey harlock, ever hear of a candelabrum? wouldn't that be a good name for our airship?), we could have flewn there post haste to aid in this. if this had happened a mere 5 years later, i probably would have been a medical doctor by then and been able to go over and volunteer in a hospital. but such acts are for future times. we can do nought now but observe, and plan, and develop ourselves during our youths.
this is the first year of the last century of unhumanity, and already such things are happening. if only i and harlock had our airship and heroism group (hey harlock, ever hear of a candelabrum? wouldn't that be a good name for our airship?), we could have flewn there post haste to aid in this. if this had happened a mere 5 years later, i probably would have been a medical doctor by then and been able to go over and volunteer in a hospital. but such acts are for future times. we can do nought now but observe, and plan, and develop ourselves during our youths.
i'll have a lot more to write about this WTC/Pentagon terrorism later, but this is a beginning.
the night before 9/11/01, i was having trouble sleeping... i woke up like 8 times, especially around 7 - 9 am in the morning. i do not take this as evidence of precognition, because there is nothing 'pre' about it, it was current. this supports my theory of ghosts, btw, but it isn't apparant how to people not familiar with that theory yet... to summarize, ghosts are residual electro-magnetic souls which fade out after awhile, although in certain instances they can be maintained.
when i woke up tuesday, i heard from outside my door my dorm-mates listening to the radio, the radio was on so loud and their comments were so loud that i quickly learned what had happened. i immediately did the only sensible thing.
(as i left my room people tried to talk to me but i ignored them as irrellivent)
i left my room and proceeded into the most populated areas that i could find, which happened to be a room at the cook campus center which had a tv w/ a crowd watching it. i then proceeded to observe them as best i could. opportunites like this don't arise often, and i wasn't about to waste this one.
i was happy to see that my view of human nature was not mistaken, and that people acted as i thought they would. they polarized rather smoothly into the 'heroic' personality pole and the 'reality-dissonent' personality pole. there was no middle ground.
'heroic' personality pole... there were several people around me who fit in to that, such as one person who asked me if i was okay, since i wasn't speaking and just seemed to be watching nothing (though in actuality i was observing others very intently). it took awhile to asure her that i was fine. there was a reporter on tv (channel 2) who was in the heroic personality pole. actually, there were several reporters, but one in particular was an award winning reporter who had run to the buildings and only barely survived, at one time protected from a fireball by a fireman. the mayor was heroic. the author-politician on the plane who called her husband was as heroic as can be expected (i had heard her once before on a talk radio interview, so i was somewhat familiar with her name). there were many heroic people... and when the mayor said something about 'this is what new yorkers are all about' in reference to the heroic ones, he might as well have said 'this is what humanity is all about'.
'reality-dissonent' people were unfortunately common, but less common than i had expected. there were all those people who were just confused and irrational in panic, there was one of my dorm-mates who heard the word 'kamikaze' and yelled 'we're being attacked! only the japanese could do something like this!'... moronicy, the japanese are our allies, have no army to speak of, and would have nothing to gain from attacking their protecters from red china. there were a lot of reality dissonent people in the streets as i saw them hearing the news... a lot of college students who were, if not exactly laughing at it, laughing and smiling out of nervous habit, not used to not being able to hide from serious things.
i'll update as i write more.
the night before 9/11/01, i was having trouble sleeping... i woke up like 8 times, especially around 7 - 9 am in the morning. i do not take this as evidence of precognition, because there is nothing 'pre' about it, it was current. this supports my theory of ghosts, btw, but it isn't apparant how to people not familiar with that theory yet... to summarize, ghosts are residual electro-magnetic souls which fade out after awhile, although in certain instances they can be maintained.
when i woke up tuesday, i heard from outside my door my dorm-mates listening to the radio, the radio was on so loud and their comments were so loud that i quickly learned what had happened. i immediately did the only sensible thing.
(as i left my room people tried to talk to me but i ignored them as irrellivent)
i left my room and proceeded into the most populated areas that i could find, which happened to be a room at the cook campus center which had a tv w/ a crowd watching it. i then proceeded to observe them as best i could. opportunites like this don't arise often, and i wasn't about to waste this one.
i was happy to see that my view of human nature was not mistaken, and that people acted as i thought they would. they polarized rather smoothly into the 'heroic' personality pole and the 'reality-dissonent' personality pole. there was no middle ground.
'heroic' personality pole... there were several people around me who fit in to that, such as one person who asked me if i was okay, since i wasn't speaking and just seemed to be watching nothing (though in actuality i was observing others very intently). it took awhile to asure her that i was fine. there was a reporter on tv (channel 2) who was in the heroic personality pole. actually, there were several reporters, but one in particular was an award winning reporter who had run to the buildings and only barely survived, at one time protected from a fireball by a fireman. the mayor was heroic. the author-politician on the plane who called her husband was as heroic as can be expected (i had heard her once before on a talk radio interview, so i was somewhat familiar with her name). there were many heroic people... and when the mayor said something about 'this is what new yorkers are all about' in reference to the heroic ones, he might as well have said 'this is what humanity is all about'.
'reality-dissonent' people were unfortunately common, but less common than i had expected. there were all those people who were just confused and irrational in panic, there was one of my dorm-mates who heard the word 'kamikaze' and yelled 'we're being attacked! only the japanese could do something like this!'... moronicy, the japanese are our allies, have no army to speak of, and would have nothing to gain from attacking their protecters from red china. there were a lot of reality dissonent people in the streets as i saw them hearing the news... a lot of college students who were, if not exactly laughing at it, laughing and smiling out of nervous habit, not used to not being able to hide from serious things.
i'll update as i write more.
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