StoneHappyMonday
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Struggling to find tangible points here Charles but I'll give it a go anyway.
This was my point about the snobbery. If we're all just victims of conditioning, which we are, then we need a little more understanding, not condemnation ("wouldn't let my daughter marry him")
Fight for/in support of. You say tomato, I say tomato. And lets not categorize anyones fight as a simple 'anti-' when the alternative is buried hidden under distortion and lies. I think its fine to be anti-capitalism without having a clue as to what the alternative might be. I think its fine to be anti-prohibition without having a 10 dollar/point Marshall plan setting out the road to Oz. Our fights are necessarily abstract exactly because we have nothing concrete to replace them because 'there is no alternative'. The abstract is the alternative.
Or Welsh. (private joke for the Welsh there)
Not sure of your point here but, if it's the power of conditioning we're talking about and its 'dope' vs 'the dominant culture' then yes I see large parts of my life as a constant battle to unravel the lies of our masters. The power of dope to condition us is puny in comparison. If conditioning is like a bike ride then dope just takes me through the park on a sunny day. The dominant culture has that to the power of a billion - enough to rocket me to the moon. Except then they try to make me buy/sell/advertise said moon.
What is to be done Mr Lenin?
I have 'vague' ideas what to do about 'political' problems yes. But I've left my tank in Tirana. Many years ago. So for now we fight, scratch, kick, thump (a copper) and generally 'put our ideas out there' on this not-so-obscure drug site. The water ripples. Its all we have. Information. And BL > FB. Etc.
('Etc' is for the internet generation. "Thanks etc" - Rosie, Corrie)
Always. This is the nature of our beast.
And that's why I'm here. Hopefully that's why you're here too. Its a new technological battle to influence psychology and humanity. We can get away with more here than we can face-to-face. Its the biggest single step for mankind that Internet Armstrong has made. Indeed, the internet is the only taste of freedom I feel we've ever been allowed outside drugz. Which aren't allowed anyway.
We the same.
Labels are just labels. The best teachers come to learn too.
And here we're in 100% agreement dancing around the cherry tree in the land of Oz (not Aus).
Aren't dichotomies great?
Ooh ooh I see an excuse for X-Clan (for Brimz)
There's a posse at the crossroads.
Yes it can go beyond the Mailreadersforum. There's a multitude of reasons to be here (some named by you, some not). Not least information Mr Stranded Prisoner. Not as sexy as the 'lurve' you espouse. But worth more than 'the lurve' in gold.
Keep striking. For Oz.
Now what were we talking about?
In real life, I don't think I'm 'biased' against anyone; as a 'junkie' I know quite a lot about being biased against.
This was my point about the snobbery. If we're all just victims of conditioning, which we are, then we need a little more understanding, not condemnation ("wouldn't let my daughter marry him")
I don't 'fight' for anyone. In support of someone, perhaps, but not for any abstract or to be anti-something.
Fight for/in support of. You say tomato, I say tomato. And lets not categorize anyones fight as a simple 'anti-' when the alternative is buried hidden under distortion and lies. I think its fine to be anti-capitalism without having a clue as to what the alternative might be. I think its fine to be anti-prohibition without having a 10 dollar/point Marshall plan setting out the road to Oz. Our fights are necessarily abstract exactly because we have nothing concrete to replace them because 'there is no alternative'. The abstract is the alternative.
I don't think I'm 'superior' and know I'm no more important than anyone else. Nor inferior, unless I'm afraid.
Or Welsh. (private joke for the Welsh there)
We all have specific capacities and when you fill the spectrum, you've a community. You agree? I'm conditioned. Aren't you? At times, I've behaved in ways I perhaps wouldn't have but for the dope. Haven't you?
Not sure of your point here but, if it's the power of conditioning we're talking about and its 'dope' vs 'the dominant culture' then yes I see large parts of my life as a constant battle to unravel the lies of our masters. The power of dope to condition us is puny in comparison. If conditioning is like a bike ride then dope just takes me through the park on a sunny day. The dominant culture has that to the power of a billion - enough to rocket me to the moon. Except then they try to make me buy/sell/advertise said moon.
Of course it's the law, not the drug, that makes 'junkies' - that's at the heart of what I'm on about - but, other than appreciating it's not that easy, I've no idea what to do about the drug laws or treatment. Or anything you can vaguely term 'political'. Have you?
What is to be done Mr Lenin?
I have 'vague' ideas what to do about 'political' problems yes. But I've left my tank in Tirana. Many years ago. So for now we fight, scratch, kick, thump (a copper) and generally 'put our ideas out there' on this not-so-obscure drug site. The water ripples. Its all we have. Information. And BL > FB. Etc.
('Etc' is for the internet generation. "Thanks etc" - Rosie, Corrie)
In everyday 3D, I think my reaction to you can say more about me than it does about you.
Always. This is the nature of our beast.
In cyberspace 'you' exist only as an extension of a 'me' which doesn't exist either. You can 'cut down' people, as you may want to in a nightclub. There, fear of a violent reaction, of stupidity, will stop you; online, you're freer.
And that's why I'm here. Hopefully that's why you're here too. Its a new technological battle to influence psychology and humanity. We can get away with more here than we can face-to-face. Its the biggest single step for mankind that Internet Armstrong has made. Indeed, the internet is the only taste of freedom I feel we've ever been allowed outside drugz. Which aren't allowed anyway.
I just want us all to wise up.
We the same.
I'm student, not teacher and so are you.
Labels are just labels. The best teachers come to learn too.
You have no face but the one I give you, which has to be an aspect of the same face as you give to me. We're alone with metaphysics, first love of all poets, and the information. I know nothing, same as you, and the best for which I may hope is to serve something of which I know nothing.
And here we're in 100% agreement dancing around the cherry tree in the land of Oz (not Aus).
In cyberspace, it's a different sort of dynamic, without eyes, ears, smell or weather. I could be a bank clerk in Sheen and you a dyke in Damascus, we create an idea of our fellow posters from a balance of informational probability, our projections and imagination. We can, consciously or not, shade our personalities - to appear a winner, to pull that girl on Facebook or for a hundred other reasons; we create an image in hope of it earning a desirable response. In service, the desirable response is not for your personal benefit.
Aren't dichotomies great?
The dope isn't a 'pain' killer, just makes it you don't care so much or, at times, at all. Have I got the right you? What's your service, how do you rank? Where you going, where you been,
Ooh ooh I see an excuse for X-Clan (for Brimz)
There's a posse at the crossroads.
So what are we doing on no longer obscure drug sites - looking to score, to share that hilarious episode of projectile vomiting, for 'personal' friends or a sense of belonging? Impersonally, can it go anywhere the Mail readers forum doesn't reach? Don't ask me, it's just the same as asking Brimz, etc. We're stranded and only our kinds of love, nothing else, can set the spark.
Yes it can go beyond the Mailreadersforum. There's a multitude of reasons to be here (some named by you, some not). Not least information Mr Stranded Prisoner. Not as sexy as the 'lurve' you espouse. But worth more than 'the lurve' in gold.
Keep striking. For Oz.
Now what were we talking about?
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