[Rob Instigator]

Originally Posted by dead_battery

yeah.

the chinese slave labourers will eventually be replaced by machines.

these processes are not ugly and brutal, but they are real.

addiction is also slavery. 1st worlders are enslaved in this way more easily. the more money you can get at the more of a junkie you can become.

neurological slavery! thats what it is.

truth.

whether you are a slave to nicotine, or sugar, or to the prime time TV programming, someone somewhere is living large off of you

[Rob Instigator]

Originally Posted by !@#$%!

but they have free will! they could just walk away! decisions! no???

Ha! free will is not a final determinant of anything. it is an INITIAL condition. a cop can fuck you over whether or not you choose to disobey. your free will is still active, just useless at that moment.

[Rob Instigator]

Originally Posted by !@#$%!

but you're enshrining the "personal" above all which is very culturally american and probably more so exacerbated in texas.

if you were in p.r. you'd probably be thinking more about the family. "smoking is bad for me but lets me work harder which is good for my family."

In PR people love Winstons and Salems.

the number of americans that smoke does not matter to the companies. they makle billions a year selling to the tens of milluions of smokers in India and china.

[!@#$%!]

Originally Posted by Rob Instigator

Ha! free will is not a final determinant of anything. it is an INITIAL condition. a cop can fuck you over whether or not you choose to disobey. your free will is still active, just useless at that moment.

it's useless at more moments than it's comfortable to realize though. free will is the opium of the american people-- joe the plumber has a union job now though ha ha ha ha haaa.

(he wanted less taxes for the rich cuz some day he might own the company that he worked for. lololol. free will!)

[!@#$%!]

and i should add, this discourse of the "personal" and individual choices as supreme is what's brainwashing people to ignore the possibility of social change-- this at the same time that big business actively works to shape society in its image and complement, which is to reduce free will (unless you're free to shop till you drop and indenture yourself for life!)

[Rob Instigator]

is this evil due to religion, slavery, free will, or what? http://www.chron.com/default/article...or-4078569.php

[!@#$%!]

Originally Posted by Rob Instigator

is this evil due to religion, slavery, free will, or what? http://www.chron.com/default/article...or-4078569.php

tabloid news are designed to keep people distracted from the real problems-- like *everyone* getting raped by the illusion of "personal choices."

[SuchFriendsAreDangerous]

Originally Posted by dead_battery

the neurological reality OVERPOWERS culture. you can hear all the bullshit about free will and positive thinking blah blah blah but the fucking addicted brain does not get such an intense sensation from that that its addictive pathways are deactivated.

That is not true either. For example, we have very distinctly, neurochemically hard-wired sexual desires and impulses, yet we are not overpowered by them enough to say, begin masturbating in the middle of the mall or just sexually assault every person we're attracted too.. Culture is a powerful way in which humans have devised mechanisms to better understand and yes control reactions to neurochemistry.

This is because humans are social mammals, we are as hard-wired to respect other humans as we are to take shits and sleep at night.

[dead_battery]

thanks for the neuro-biology lesson professor bongwater

we're "wired" for the basest of tasks and that's it. everything else is basically advertising for our genes

"respect"? deference to authoritarian ape power structures more like. i'll be nice if you deign to me, or i'll be nice if i want something.

"culture" is just rituals and behaviours and a word that's too vague. culture doesn't magically control us. we like to fantasize that it does, and act like we embody it because it makes us look powerful.

and you as a religious man pretending to hold the keys to the kingdom, as if you stand over it all and we must prostrate before your holy ego. bullshit.

[Nefeli]

yay! daddy not going back to hospital.

by pass in 1987///we are since new year's eve in and out- 2 stent procedures, 1st really fucked him up destroyed his heart 65fucking%, 2nd was 10 days ago and although it went well considering, some of the tons of pills was creating some problems.
holding our horses, but right now i m very happy.

[dead_battery]

thanks jesus

[Genteel Death]

Weed paranoia in my dining room. Again. I'm feeling exasperated now.

[pony]

Yesterday I learned that I no longer have a problem with crying in public. I let everything out on a long ass train ride and even looked people who were staring at me directly in the eye while I was having my (really good and freeing!) cry.

[dead_battery]

respect

[Bytor Peltor]

Headed for a day at the beach......there will be boiling and eating of crawfish and shrimp all day long

[EVOLghost]

Sounds delicious.
Noveller and St. Vincent tonight!

[!@#$%!]

Originally Posted by pony

Yesterday I learned that I no longer have a problem with crying in public. I let everything out on a long ass train ride and even looked people who were staring at me directly in the eye while I was having my (really good and freeing!) cry.

germans are huge starers!

therefore your kung-fu must be good

sorry about your sorrows

[dead_battery]

i really support crying in public.

i cant cry and havent done so for like, over a decade.

i like the idea of being able to cry deliberately in front of people. especially in public.

lately i have this sensation of like tears welling inside me, but it never turns into full on crying. ive probably got decades of blocked up emotions and cigarette butts in my head. also i have had constant mucus, for over a decade. constant mucus coming up. i feel like this all needs to be unblocked and just released but it CANT happen. ive even sat there and TRIED to cry but it wont happen. maybe it would heal my emotional problems. probably not.

[dead_battery]

nobody better recommend neti potts, fuck that shit. they dont work

[dead_battery]

ganjaesus is writing a longass reply.

lets get ready to trolumble.