Moloth - The M-Forums

nope, just any quote about anything... as long as its interesting or thought-provoking..

Life is like a shit sandwich... the more bread you have, the less shit you have to take.

I used to be into beastiality, domination, and necrophilia, but then I realized I was just beating a dead horse.

a bit political... but it needs to be repeated:
http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/20 … logy-team/

“It’s time we once again put science at the top of our agenda and worked to restore America’s place as the world leader in science and technology,”

“It’s about listening to what our scientists have to say, even when it’s inconvenient – especially when it’s inconvenient,” Obama said, adding that government support had been essential for the greatest scientific breakthroughs of recent history, like the development of the Internet. “Because the highest purpose of science is the search for knowledge, truth and a greater understanding of the world around us."

A similar article with a bit more detail:

http://apnews.excite.com/article/200812 … FVG00.html

"From landing on the moon, to sequencing the human genome, to inventing the Internet, America has been the first to cross that new frontier because we had leaders who paved the way," Obama said in announcing his selections in his weekly radio address. "Leaders who not only invested in our scientists, but who respected the integrity of the scientific process."

"Because the truth is that promoting science isn't just about providing resources - it's about protecting free and open inquiry. It's about ensuring that facts and evidence are never twisted or obscured by politics or ideology,"

Such as:

In their posts, the four scientists will confront challenges in global warming after years of inaction by the Bush administration, which opposed mandatory cuts of greenhouse gas pollution. Last year, former Surgeon General Richard Carmona testified to Congress that top Bush administration officials often dismissed global warming as a "liberal cause" and sought to play down public health reports out of political considerations.

Since 1993, summer Arctic sea ice has lost the equivalent of Alaska, California and Texas, and global warming is accelerating. The amount of carbon dioxide in Earth's atmosphere has already pushed past the level some scientists say is safe.

And wow.. I actually met Dr. Harold Varmus, when he was the director of NIH.  Quite an honor.

Time, the greatest of teachers, eventually kills all of its students.

Q: What's the difference between a used car salesperson and computer sales person?

A: The Used car salesperson knows what they are lying about.

Never ascribe to malice that which can be explained by incompetence.

--Occam's Butter Knife

"The idea of God was not a lie but a device of the unconscious which needed to be decoded by psychology. A personal god was nothing more than an exalted father-figure: desire for such a deity sprang from infantile yearnings for a powerful, protective father, for justice and fairness and for life to go on forever. God is simply a projection of these desires, feared and worshipped by human beings out of an abiding sense of helplessness. Religion belonged to the infancy of the human race; it had been a necessary stage in the transition from childhood to maturity. It had promoted ethical values which were essential to society. Now that humanity had come of age, however, it should be left behind."
--Sigmund Frued

"Religion. It's given people hope in a world torn apart by religion." -Charlie Chaplin

You could be suffering from early 21st century syndrome.

   You should be happy. You have fulfilled the requirements of a media-driven life. You have your own place. You have a "decent" job. You have a woman. And yet, underneath it all, there is this dissatisfaction. You can't quite place it, but it is there nonetheless, gnawing in your brain.

      You flick randomly through internet pages for hours after dark. The TV chatters in the background. Every world developement is known to you a few minutes after it happens. You are the master of an external world that appears and presents itself through text and pics and vids.

      You go about the business of living as it has been described to you and you can check all the boxes for relative success. And yet it doesn't feel like success. Not the way it does in the movies or on TV. No orchestral music chimes in when you do something good, no ominous montage depicts things negatively when your performance is not up to par. Life itself is removed from you because consciousness itself does not match up to the way "we" are used to receiving information; that of third person observer through a cam. The first-person view is somehow limiting: It limits us to this space and time, which is not in keeping with how consciousness can effortlessly cross time when "connected" to the internet.

   Life today in a modern industrial society has an air of rigidness about it. Everywhere you go, you run up against barriers and rules. Speed limits, parking restrictions, decorum, social rules (unwritten but bearing on the mind), myriad exacting laws. All of them supposedly designed for the collective benefit of everyone. But no individual feels like everyone, each individual feels like you. So you end up being oppressed by the collective rules designed to protect you. This is called the "system".

      There is nothing "wrong" with you, brother.

      You are merely suffering from the collective malaise of having all that we are supposed to want. Supposedly, human existence today is the best it has ever been. The facts bear this out. Life expectancy today for the average person is higher than it's ever been, right?

      And yet you long for the hunt. The risk. The hunter-gatherer life, buried deep somewhere in your hypothalamus, longs for that time when your own ingenuity resulted in food for your group. When you could exploit your human genius for real and direct gain... feeding yourself and your tribe. Going to the office today gains you money to obtain these things. But it does not offer the thrill of the hunt. The risk. The adrenaline rush of the successful raid on the enemy camp, the high of the perfect kill.

      *Homo sapiens sapiens* is not a very old species in relative terms. But it is a cunning one and the greatest force this planet has ever seen. But, the amount of time we successfully gathered as hunters (2 million years) is far longer and evolutionary significant in comparison to the existence of human civilisation (8 thousand years). Yet, all cogent information tells you you are better off today than anyone in human history.
 
      And yet, on a quiet walk outside the city, you stare at the moon through leafy glade and can almost touch the truth of a different life. A life you were designed for but no longer is.

      There is nothing wrong with you, brother, that is not wrong with all of us.

Think about the average person. Now, realize that half the people on Earth are stupider than THAT.