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GirlinContempt Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-13-07 11:59 PM
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So I hear the lounge is a
hotbed of intellectual activity.
Confirm/deny?
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Kerrytravelers Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-13-07 11:59 PM
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1. I'm here. CONFIRM!!!!
:rofl:
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GirlinContempt Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-14-07 12:01 AM
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2. Check
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RevolutionaryActs Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-14-07 12:04 AM
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3. Duhhhh.... wha?
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GirlinContempt Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-14-07 12:08 AM
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5. check check
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RevolutionaryActs Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-14-07 12:16 AM
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6. Clique clique
:P
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GirlinContempt Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-14-07 12:18 AM
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8. HEEEEEEEEEEEEEEY
you aren't in my...

I mean...
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Bucky Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-14-07 12:04 AM
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4. No, if you want intellectually rigorous and emotionally detached debate, go to GD
They will cure you of the desire for political debate.
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GirlinContempt Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-14-07 12:30 AM
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15. Hmmm, what further twists and turns will this question take?
I am breathlessly anticipating future developments.
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KitchenWitch Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-15-07 12:41 AM
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35. Strawman
:P
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Strawman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-15-07 03:06 PM
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40. you pickin' on me?
taking my name in vain? :P
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HEyHEY Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-14-07 12:17 AM
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7. Well, my posts are.. the rest.. I don't know about
Edited on Wed Feb-14-07 12:22 AM by HEyHEY
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GirlinContempt Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-14-07 12:27 AM
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13. With such a clever edit
they must be
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allinktup Donating Member (318 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-14-07 12:21 AM
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9. confirm
but whatever you do, don't say anything that could be construed as an insult to an admin; they'll eat you alive. Someone in here earlier today had a vid locked and got mad and whoo hoo... they let him have it.
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GirlinContempt Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-14-07 12:31 AM
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16. Oh dear
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bridgit Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-14-07 12:22 AM
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10. stop it!! you're killing me here!!
:spray: :rofl:
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GirlinContempt Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-14-07 12:26 AM
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12. Ahhh. Our resident Aristotle finally weighs in on the issue at hand.
You tip the scales, madam, the balance is in your favour.
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bridgit Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-14-07 12:35 AM
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17. whilst studied of gestalt it was suggested in due course...
that there are two forms of shit...one, is bullshit; and we, or most of us understand what that is, or is to be

the other is: elephant shit; and that, it has been suggested further, is merely intellectual bullshit
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GirlinContempt Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-14-07 12:36 AM
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18. Ahhh
And is elephant shit < > or = intellectual wanking? The internal circle jerk? The perpetual motion machine?
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bridgit Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-14-07 12:49 AM
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22. rightly so, it was never suggested "intellectual wanking" could not be possible see here:
http://rightweb.irc-online.org/profile/1431

entropy discounts/impacts "the perpetual motion machine" while other refer to "the internal circle jerk", as 'the small cosmic orbit', a term which i prefer:

Identity of the world (samsara) and nirvana

Mind is the origin of all things.
Mind is the universal seed,
Both samsara and nirvana spring forth from it.

As is nirvana, so is samsara.
Do not think there is any distinction.
Yet it possesses no single nature
For I know it as quite pure.

Here there is no beginning, no middle, no end,
Neither samsara: nor nirvana.
In this state of highest bliss
There is neither: self: nor other.

Whatever you see, that is it,
In front: behind, in all the ten directions.

One should not think of molecules or atoms;
It is this supreme bliss that pours forth unceasingly as existence.

Do not sit at home, do not go to the forest,
But recognize mind wherever you are.
When one abides in complete and perfect enlightenment,
When samsara and where is nirvana?

Unity of self and other
"This is myself and this is another."
Be free of this bond which encompasses you about,
and your own self is thereby released.
Everything is Buddha without exception.

Do not discriminate, but see things as one,
Making no distinction of families.

Look and listen, touch and eat,
smell, wander, sit and stand,
Renounce the vanity of discussion,
Abandon thought and be not moved from singleness.
Abandon thought and be just like a child.

Do not then conceive differences in yourself.
When there is no distinction between body, speech and mind,
Then the true nature of the Innate shines forth.

Liberation through indulgence
I have visited in my wanderings shrines and other places of pilgrimage,
But I have not seen another shrine blissful like my own body.

Eat and drink, indulge the senses,
Fill the mandala (with offerings) again and again,
By things like these you'll gain the world beyond.

Enjoying the world of sense, one is undefiled by the world of sense.
One plucks the lotus without touching the water.
So the yogi who has gone to the root of things
Is not enslaved by the senses although he enjoys them.

Even as water entering: water
Has the same savior,
So faults and virtues are accounted the same
As there is no opposition between them.

The supreme bliss of orgasm
There is neither passion nor absence of passion.
Seated beside her own, her mind destroyed,
Thus I have seen the yogini.

That blissful delight that consists between lotus and vajra , ie, penis],
Who: does not: rejoice there?
This moment may be the bliss of means, or of both wisdom and means…
It is profound, it is vast.
it is neither self nor other . . .
Even as the moon makes light in black darkness,
So in one moment the supreme bliss removes all defilement.
When the sun of suffering has set,
Then arises this bliss, this lord of the stars.
It creates with continuous creativity,
And of this comes the mandala circle .
Gain purification in bliss supreme,
For here lies final perfection.

Critique of meditation
Thought bound brings bondage, and released brings release,
there's no doubt of that.

When bound, it dashes in all directions,
But: released: it stays still.
Consider the camel, friend.
I see there a similar paradox.

"One fixes the eyes, obstructs the thought, restrains the breath.
That is the teaching of our lord and master."
But when the flow of his breath is quite motionless,
And the yogi is dead, what then?

Critique of asceticism
The Jain monks mock the Way with their appearance,
With their long nails: and their filthy clothes,
Or naked and disheveled hair,
Enslaving themselves with their doctrine of release.

The purification of the intellect (Cittavisuddhiprakarana)
As a clear crystal assumes
The color: of another object,
So the jewel of the mind is colored
With the hue of what it imagines.

The jewel of the mind is naturally devoid
Of the color of these ideas.
Originally pure, un-originated,
Impersonal: and without stain.

So with all one's might, one should do
What ever fools: condemn,
And, since one's mind is: pure,
Dwell in union with one's divinity.

The mystics, pure of mind,
Dally with lovely girls,
Infatuated with the poisonous flame of: passion,
That: they may be set free: from desire . . .

The mystic duly dwells
On the manifold merits: of his divinity
He delight in thoughts of passion,
And by the enjoyment of passion is set free.

As a washer-man uses dirt
to wash clean a garment,
So: with impurity,
The wise man (and presumably a woman :shrug:) makes himself pure.
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GirlinContempt Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-14-07 12:53 AM
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24. But is it greater than, less that, or equal to
My simple mind needs more direct help
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bridgit Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-14-07 01:09 AM
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25. ah yes while both yes *and* preeee-cisley when now we enter the elegant universe...
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/elegant it's too big, it's too small, it has no equal, yet is equal to everything :bounce:
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asthmaticeog Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-14-07 12:26 AM
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11. Define your terms, poster.
Mark.
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GirlinContempt Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-14-07 12:29 AM
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14. First, riddle me this:
if the product resulting from the labor process is homogenous then the value of the period's product can be divided by the total number of items (use-values) produced to derive the unit value of each item.
Formula?
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Bucky Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-14-07 12:39 AM
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19. E equals MC hammer
I once wrote a love poem using microeconomic imagery. Well, not a love poem, per se...
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bridgit Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-14-07 12:51 AM
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23. Yippie!! it's Hammer Time!!
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asthmaticeog Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-14-07 12:42 AM
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21. Just use-value? What about value in trade?
Or what if I were to take "value" to mean only the amount of labor involved; is there surplus labor?

Or what if it's almost 1:00 A.M. and I'm too tired for this?
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JVS Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-15-07 12:34 AM
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34. watch this
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1xJ2RvIKYIA
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slj0101 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-14-07 11:10 AM
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30. Know your role, jabroni.
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WCGreen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-14-07 12:42 AM
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20. It takes one to know one....
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BuelahWitch Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-14-07 01:21 AM
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26. Huh?
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Heidi Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-14-07 01:25 AM
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27. You might want to ask to see the data behind that claim.
:hi:
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GirlinContempt Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-14-07 11:04 AM
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28. hmmmm
good call
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Left Is Write Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-14-07 11:04 AM
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29. Well, it's a hotbed anyway.
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fla nocount Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-14-07 11:11 AM
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31. Naw.that's GD. You don't want to go without body armor though. n/t
Edited on Wed Feb-14-07 11:12 AM by fla nocount
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xmas74 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-14-07 11:14 AM
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32. It will be
once we begin our pirate discussion.

Arrrgh!
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GirlinContempt Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-15-07 12:23 AM
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33. Avast!
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xmas74 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-15-07 12:23 PM
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36. What be your pirate name.
Arrgh!
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leeroysphitz Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-15-07 12:33 PM
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37. Lounge guys is smart and they talk smart about smart stuff ALOT.
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Deep13 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-15-07 12:35 PM
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38. Nope, we're hugh morans!!!11!!!1!
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Bassic Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-15-07 12:39 PM
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39. Confirm
Gooffing off is very intellectual.


But I must admit that we are stunted by the sex thread ban. :crazy:
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