[floatingslowly]

if yr facing the camera.

[demonrail666]

my right or yours?

damn: too slow

[gmku]

Har har. Picture right, you fools.

[SuchFriendsAreDangerous]

Originally Posted by gmku

I've always viewed 9/11, tragic as it was, as karma of sorts for our country's sins.

true, but if thats the case, I say there is a lot more Kharma to be paid, so for the sakes of most innocent americans I pray that the judgment is reserved for another era..

[gmku]

karma isn't necessarily reciprocal or timely. but we're sure to pay in more ways than one.

[SuchFriendsAreDangerous]

Originally Posted by gmku

karma isn't necessarily reciprocal or timely. but we're sure to pay in more ways than one.

don't forget Oswald Spengler who argued in"Decline of the West" that it is the organic and inevitable route of civilizations to come into decline and collapse, just as life must succumb to death.. His analysis was exceptionally poignant, and considering the time, his comments of decline of tradition and even a rise in public atheism and rebellion is practically a prophecy of the current age. in his argument, kharma has nothing to do with it but results in the same crash.

interesting..

"The transition from Culture to Civilization was acocmplished for the Classical world in the fourth, for the Western in the nineteenth century. Form these periods onward the great intellectual decisions take place, no longer all over the world where not a hamlet is too small to be unimportant, but in three or four world-cities that have absorbed into themselves the whole content of History, while the old wide landscape of the Culture, become merely provincial, served only to feed the cities with what remains of its higher mankind. World-city and province--the two basic ideas of every civilization--bring up a wholly new form-problem of History, the very problem that we are living through today with hardly the remotest conception of its immensity. In place of a world, there is a city, a point, in which the whole life of broad regions is collecting while the rest dries up. In place of a type-true people, born of and grown on the soil, there is new sort of nomad, cohering unstably in fluid masses, the parasitical city dweller, traditionless, utterly matter-of-fact, religionless, clever, unfruitful, deeply contemptuous of the countryman and especially that highest form of countryman, the country gentleman. This is a very great stride towards the inorganic, towards the end--what does it signify?
The world-city means cosmopolitanism in place of "home" . . . To the world-city belongs not a folk but a mob. Its uncomprehending hostility to all the traditions representative of the culture (nobility, church, privileges, dynasties, convention in art and limits of knowledge in science), the keen and cold intelligence that confounds the wisdom of the peasant, the new- fashioned naturalism that in relation to all matters of sex and society goes back far to quite primitive instincts and conditions, the reappearance of the panem et circenses in the form of wage-disputes and sports stadia--all these things betoken the definite closing down of the Culture and the opening of a quite new phase of human existence--anti-provincial, late, futureless, but quite inevitable.
This is what has to be viewed, and not with the eyes of the partisan, the ideologue, the up-to-date moralist, not from this or that "standpoint," but in a high, time-free perspective embracing whole millennia of historical world-forms, if we are really to comprehend the great crisis of the present.
...
For it will become manifest that, from this moment on, all great conflicts of world-outlook, of politics, of art, of science, of feeling, will be under the influence of the same contrary factor. What is the hallmark of a politic of Civilization today, in contrast to a politic of Culture yesterday? " Spengler

[floatingslowly]

plug in, turn on, jack out.

[atsonicpark]

JFK!!!!!!!!!

WHY?!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

AHHHHHHHHHHHHh.

[godsfavoritedog]

I agree but it's hard to say it without coming across as some Rev. Phelps/Westboro Baptist type.

[SuchFriendsAreDangerous]

Originally Posted by godsfavoritedog

I agree but it's hard to say it without coming across as some Rev. Phelps/Westboro Baptist type.

"Suppose I tell some guy truth (snaps fingers) Guys'll drop dead! seen?!" Peter Tosh

 

[reginald]

I had to post this from the .gif thread.

That damned irreverent SNOOP !!!! hahahahahaa...

 

[Satan]

 

[notyourfiend]

Originally Posted by gmku

I've always viewed 9/11, tragic as it was, as karma of sorts for our country's sins.

me too. more global capitalism's sins though.

[static-harmony]

Isn't the recession that same karma?

[Toilet & Bowels]

Originally Posted by static-harmony

Isn't the recession that same karma?

not so much, the people who are responsible for the recession aren't suffering from it

[Lamont Cranston]

Isn't karma supposed to come back on the perpetrator, and not some random by-standing third party?

[godsfavoritedog]

I know this is a day late, but you gotta love The Onion:

http://www.theonion.com/content/vide...urce=a-section

[ploesj]

Originally Posted by godsfavoritedog

I know this is a day late, but you gotta love The Onion:

http://www.theonion.com/content/vide...urce=a-section

heh heh

[infinitemusic]

Originally Posted by Derek

Thousands and thousands of people die a day. If this happened to a group of people that weren't middle class American then it wouldn't almost be this much of a big deal.

It still was a sad event though, I'm not denying that.

You should already know I agree with you, but just because other people die and some people don't care, it doesn't mean we shouldn't care about this.

[infinitemusic]

Originally Posted by Derek

What about the thousands of people in third world countries who die A DAY?

Absolutely no one gives a shit. Maybe if they had decent first world jobs, a house and cars then someone might care.

I totally agree, but that's not what you were saying GMKU vvv. If you had said that, I would've been agreeing with you the whole time.