I don't often say this, but fuck this video.

If you're 25, the end of your life is an abstraction and the whole "there's time to change things!" is a nice balm. When you're 55, your death isn't an abstraction, it's a fact of life that dominates more and more of what remaining time you have left. The awareness of impending mortality is insidious once you're passed 50. It creeps into every part of your life and every decision you make.

Let me teach you one of those amazing words the Germans come up with for describing various forms of existential agony: weltschmerz. Loosely, this is a form of sadness when one realizes what is versus what could have been. This is the compound interest of regrets and choices not made, or made poorly. Not only does weltschmerz grow with each year, its very presence amplifies itself because the more you know what could have been, the more you see what the cost of that absence is. Then, if that's not evil enough, that knowledge focuses the mind on the time remaining and how little you can do to negate the harm done, which then re-amplifies the weltschmerz.

You can slap whatever Hallmark bullshit you need on this to get through the day, but weltscmerz never goes away. It's always there. It's there at 3:00am when you wake up in a silent house and look at everything around you as consolation prizes for races not won. It's there when you see your friends succeeding in a million different ways that you didn't. It's there when you look at 6 million lines of text you wrote and realize you're not going to be Hemingway after all.

So fuck this video. I don't need a cutesy animated memento mori, I've already got a wall clock in my death row cell.

Here endth the rant.

(Nick Drake nailed weltschmerz perfectly in "When The Day Is Done". Here's the video to that song:

https://youtu.be/Y2jxjv0HkwM)

This "business" has been out of control for eons. It's a fact of life we are all condemned to die so there is no such thing as "lucky" to live through anything.

Worlds end everyday here on earth at an average that lasts about 80 years. Some peacefully, some not so much. The question is, did you make someone's dream come true while you were here? This, Worlds on Earth Con? To be held from when you get here until you leave. Sign up now. Space is unlimited.

And now, this...

I don't consider the chemical reactions of plants to be the same. I said that 'even' plants have a response to negative stimuli. Animals have instinct, a response coded into their DNA, that allows them to respond to negative stimuli. Does that make them a fully sentient being, capable of self-awareness and logical thought? No, it doesn't.

Do insects have rational thought? Do clams or lobster have rational thought? If your entire goal is to avoid (formerly) living matter that can respond to negative stimuli, then why draw the line at plants? Do you really believe that a sea urchin has more capability of self-awareness than a head of lettuce?

This is the fallacy of logic that lies at the core of vegan ideology. Vegans say "I will eat this item because it doesn't understand pain!" when there are, in fact, many life forms that do not understand pain beyond a stimulus reaction.

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I had to come back to watch it again.

Funny, this seems to be one of those things that you either love or don't - maybe sitting through endless Facts of Life, Family Ties sessions in my youth attracts me to this.

The creators are doing an AMA over on Reddit: http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/2lm9se/we_are_the_gobsmacked_creators_behind_too_many/

edit: Rolling Stones interview http://www.rollingstone.com/tv/features/too-many-cooks-casper-kelly-20141107

A gay couple living in a society that acknowledges that that being gay is wrong. What do you expect? America to bend over its moral standing for a small % of the population?

Sure lets get right on it. While we are at it ( rewriting morality) lets sanction pedophiles and murdering and alcoholics. After all they were born that way. Right?

Grow up . Accept the fact that life is not fair and it not meant to be fair.

Thanks again!
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*promote

Many thanks!
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I watched this and now the song is stuck in my head so...
*promote

1). The Jefferson's
2). All in the Family (Archie Bunker)
3). Golden Girls
4). Friends
5). Prince of Bel Air
6). Facts of Life
7). Good Times
. Greatest American Hero
9). Threes Company
10). Sanford and Son (Thanks diggum317)(That was my guess but I wasn't sure)
11). Full House
12). Saved by the Bell
13). Happy Days
14). Cheers
15). The Mary Tyler Moore Show'

they don't make as many facebook posts, or run for political office, or publish books, or run television networks, or foster a frothy mania among tens if not hundreds of thousands of naive-and/or-ignorant-but-certainly-needy people who are sadly and unfortunately easily manipulated by virtue of the fact that life is hard and they need something to believe in.

Isn't it time to drop the charade and own up to the bullshit belief systems and just be kind to people?

>> ^GeeSussFreeK:

@Trancecoach No doubt true of some, I was studying computer science and love philosophy, physical sciences, law and politics, ect while a christian, so it isn't a universal rule. I was lucky that I didn't ever know any of these "fundamentalists" while I was in the church. I met good and decent people, who focused on doing good instead of imposing fear and hate on people. Those people people exist, they just don't make as many facebook posts.

Oh I get it...*wink wink*



>> ^dystopianfuturetoday:

You're finding out the facts of life are all about you.
(Context free inside joke)

Why does it have to be vegan propaganda? I am not deterred from eating pork. Parasites are a fact of life and if anything, they're added protein. Just cook your pork thoroughly. @legacy0100 @BoneRemake

I find it to be an interesting experiment that I've carried out on my own, for science of course. I've even eaten that pork. Coke makes a surprisingly good glaze for pork products. Put it on your next roasted ham.

I first encountered this while working at an organic grocery and even organic, free range chops had the same result.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trichinella_spiralis

"Muscle biopsy is used for trichinosis detection." Seems to indicate that they can be pervasive in the muscles, which is the part that we eat. Wikipedia even describes Trichinella spiralis as cosmopolitan in distribution. How fancy!

You know it's one thing to ding someones car and take off. I don't condone that but I try to say to myself "that person doesn't have a lot of money so they left". Here in NJ everyone has insurance so I call my car insurance company (if the damage is that bad) and they pay for it. Sucks but its a fact of life.


But to actually hit a person like this, who is simply obeying the law then try to run is horrible. Even if the bicyclist WASN'T supposed to use the whole lane there is an entire other lane for you to pass the guy!

I'm glad people finally stopped to help. I hate those videos where everyone just walks by like "Huh I wonder why that guys bleeding on the sidewalk there? That's strange." and then keep walking.