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Run The Jewels - JU$T

Mastered economics 'cause you took yourself from squalor (Slave)
Mastered academics 'cause your grades say you a scholar (Slave)
Mastered Instagram 'cause you can instigate a follow (Shit)
Look at all these slave masters posin' on yo' dollar (Get it? Yeah)

Look at all these slave masters (Ayy) posin' on yo' dollar (Get it? Yeah)
Look at all these slave masters (Ayy) posin' on yo' dollar (Get it?)
Look at all these slave masters (Ayy) posin' on yo' dollar (Get it? Yeah)
Look at all these slave masters

Ayy
Business time, I'm on mine, I be mindin' mine (Make money)
Every time on my grind, I'm just tryna shine (Stay sunny)
Make a dollar, government, they want a dozen dimes (No cap)
The petty kind, might kill ya 'cause they see you shine (Stay strapped)
I done had to have a talk with myself plenty times (For real)
Am I a hypocrite 'cause I know I did plenty crimes? (Yes, I'm is)
I get broke too many times, I might slang some dimes (Back to trappin')
You believe corporations runnin' marijuana? Ooh (How that happen?)
And your country gettin' ran by a casino owner (Ooh)
Pedophiles sponsor all these fuckin' racist bastards (They do)
And I told you once befo' that you should kill your master (It's true)
Now that's the line that's probably gon' get my ass a-assassinated (Yeah-yeah, yeah)

Master of these politics, you swear that you got options (Slave, yeah)
Master of opinion 'cause you vote with the white collar (Slave)
The Thirteenth Amendment says that slavery's abolished (Shit)
Look at all these slave masters posin' on yo' dollar (Get it?)

Look at all these slave masters (Ayy) posin' on yo' dollar (Get it? Yeah)
Look at all these slave masters (Ayy) posin' on yo' dollar (Get it?)
Look at all these slave masters (Ayy) posin' on yo' dollar (Get it? Yeah)
Look at all these slave masters

(Confucius say)
Man, you better duck out, get the bag and then bug out (Uh)
Try to run home, you might run your luck out
'Cause just when your bases loaded
They'll roll a grenade in the dugout (You're out)
Earth folk, not a mellow bunch
We got our thumbs in the air like Hell or bust (Uh)
Look at who we done blessed with our trust
I don't think we'll be left with too much
Hand on my heart and my mind on my drugs
Got a Vonnegut punch for your Atlas shrug
They love to not love, it's just that dumb
Lord, sweet Buddha, please make me numb
Brain bounce off walls like a sentient Roomba
Just found out his creator's stupid
Lit by the supermoon, I'm too lucid
Plus got shrooms in the blood, I'm zoomin'
Beep beep, Richie, this is New York City
The X on the map where the pain keep hitting
Just us ducks here sitting
Where murderous chokehold cops still earnin' a livin'
Funny how some say money don't matter
That's rich now, isn't it? Get it? Comedy
Try to sell a pack of smokes to get food
Get killed and it's not an anomaly
But hey, it's just money

Mastered economics 'cause you took yourself from squalor (Slave, yeah)
Mastered academics 'cause your grades say you a scholar (Slave)
Mastered Instagram 'cause you can instigate a follow (Shit, yeah)
Look at all these slave masters (Yeah-yeah)
Let it sink in (Yeah)

20/20, run the map
Raw, I'm uncut in my hourglass
Don't watch it spill to the bottom half
You see the piece, now run it fast
On the tarmac in a Starter jack
C4 when I run it back
Like a track star run a record lap?
Nah, like when his needle catch (Yeah)
Clean look, poet pugilist
A shooter's view, a Zapruder flick (Yeah)
Too rude for ya rudiments
Who convinced you you could move against the crew in this?
Comin' up through the fence
Offshore outta Port-au-Prince (Yeah)
Louverture left his fingerprints
On our hearts at the gate and the world our residence
How can we be the peace
When the beast gonna reach for the worst? (Yeah)
Tear all the flesh off the Earth
Stage set for a deafening reckoning
Quick like the pace of a verse
So I'm questioning this quest for things
As a recipe for early death threatening (Yeah)
But the breath in me is weaponry
For you, it's just money

Santa is 3 persons. The actual Santa, Mom and dad (that really counts as one person), and the christmas spirt. Its simple.

Actually many are not aware of this, but there are a counsil of gods that basically make up the one god. Its difficult to explain, but think of it as a hourglass. In the pinch, that is god. At the bottom that is jesus, god, and holy spirit. But on the upper end, that is Hoaha, Gooha, zizzipo, meleliooo, Goney, Abcdee, and a trillion small men covered in blue fur.

>> ^AdrianBlack:

dead


Thanks and fixed.

>> ^Fusionaut:

Holy crap... each of these hourglasses go for 9500 Euros? Wtf??!?!?!
http://www.colette.fr/#/eshop/article/30653876/ikepod-mini-hou
rglass-hgss10/739/

Whoa an autoplaying music player on an e-shop where you can buy hourglasses for €9500 and watches for up to €36000. What?

Holy crap... each of these hourglasses go for 9500 Euros? Wtf??!?!?!
http://www.colette.fr/#/eshop/article/30653876/ikepod-mini-hourglass-hgss10/739/

Divine inspiration from somewhere in the heartland.

She's a cold blast from Alaska
Ingrained with common sense
She's not a Harvard lawyer
But she knew what the Founders meant
A cold blast from the north
That freezes Congress in their tracks
With God and the Tea Party
She's gonna take it back

[Chorus]
Sarah Palin, she won't listen to their bunk
Sarah Palin's comin' south to hunt some skunk
Sarah Palin, she'll throw them all in jail
And when she gets to Washington
It'll be cold as hell

Sarah has the wisdom
To walk through an open door
She is stomping out the wretches
Where the evil lines are stored
She will scrub the floors and sweep the riff raff into cracks
With God and the Tea Party
She's gonna take it back

[Chorus]

[Spoken]
Congress patted themselves on the back
For some new bill they just passed
I watch as my freedom slowly runs through an hourglass
They think they spend our money better than we do
But they can talk until they're blue and old
'Cause if they ever gave us anything
They always wanted something in return
Sarah knows.

Sarah's marching home

You make good points. However if you made heroes (female and male) plain looking they would no longer seem special. Superheroes are basically modern gods and goddesses. And just like the Greeks and Romans, we make our gods hypermasculine (heavily muscled) and our goddesses hyperfeminine (beautiful, with hourglass figures).

However, American superheroes aren't the only ones portrayed this way. Britain's Judge Dredd is pretty big. So is MarvelMan, aka MiracleMan. Doctor Manhattan is also pretty big. (Insert big blue penis joke here.) And let's not forget Japan's Goku and Gohan, among others.

I'll concede that American superheroes are probably the most pronounced in this regard, and sometimes it's downright awful. But if the artist is good then extremes are generally avoided, and combined with good writing you get a comic book that stands shoulder to shoulder with others in the medium, at least in my opinion.



>> ^rebuilder:

What I mean is the female characters are ludicrously over-sexed and often portrayed in poses and clothing whose sole purpose is to maximize the amount of tits and ass shown. It just seems like a cheap way to market to a target audience of young boys. Of course there's also a stereotypical male figure, which has been getting more and more outlandish as well. My main issue with that is that it seems there's a certain standard way to draw comics in the US, designed more for saleability and a kind of industrial production method than for artistic purposes.
Most of the time you can tell the crap from the interesting stuff just by looking at the drawing style, but sometimes you find a very good story illustrated by a technically accomplished artist who has, to my eye, been corrupted by lifelong exposure to what they probably think is "the way" to draw comics. That I find sad.
I just find it hard to take any character seriously when their body language come straight out of a Playboy shoot.
>> ^kronosposeidon:
I don't see the softcore porn aspect that you mention, at least not in the superhero comics I've read, and I've read a lot of Wonder Woman, and a little Batman, Superman, and Green Lantern. (I stick to the DC universe. It's hard to keep up with just one universe of superheroes. Learning the Marvel characters would be too much for my poor brain.) You'll see some ample cleavage with some of the ladies (Wonder Woman and Power Girl, I'm looking at you), but never more than that, and no sexual body parts of either sex are ever grabbed or fondled. That's what I think of when you say "softcore."

I want you to know that as an otherwise staunch atheist, I don't resent you for believing what you do. I, however, feel exactly the opposite of what you do - believing with heart and soul in a God is depressing - the God of the Bible is a wholly unsympathetic character, and while "goodness" in itself doesn't say anything about existence, it certainly changes what I want to believe.

I am curious as to why a spiritual world makes more sense to you than a physical one? To me the physical world makes sense, because all I have sensed exists in the physical world, we can measure it, smell it, observe it, test and manipulate it. It's all really there and when you see some of the fantastics vistas the physical world presents to us or just contemplate the complexity of something as simple as a physical object like an hourglass, you cannot help be be in awe. Each grain of sand interacting against the other, causing each other to fall in a random but precise manner.

As Douglas Adams put it "Isn't it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies at the bottom of it too?" Putting in a spirit world makes no sense to me, seeing as it explains itself just nicely without it.

Finally I saw this comic which you might like or dislike, anyway, it's worth a read: http://www.everythingdiescomic.com/?s=44

>> ^lantern53:

My God is pretty awesome, which totally makes sense to me. I don't believe He was ever jealous. Anyway, not believing in God, I think, would be very depressing. To think there is no spirit world goes beyond what is totally believable...in other words, a spirit world makes far more sense to me than a physical world.

"mere science"??

You should seek a purpose, because that's what you were built to do. Thinking is little more than randomness put together with simple rules which define how the randomness is interpreted by the body.

Think of an hourglass - from a distance, it's a fairly simple process: sand falls down through the pin hole and lands on the bottom - simple laws of physics, coming together in a cacophony of randomness. To be able to predict which grains of sand falls first, in which order they fall, the exact time it takes, etc etc. is incredibly complex and to be able to predict all details of the falling sand you would need a complete simulation of the universe, to make up for background radiation, quantum flux and whatnot.

The hourhglass cares not for all the reasons it does what it does, it just does it. Simple causality. Our brains function the same way, albeit with more complex rules determining our reactions to the causal forces. These "simple" rules present a virtual reality comprised of senses and interpretations in our brain which essentially create our consciousness, not a homonculus, but as a meta-software running in all parts of the brain, some places storing information, some places interpreting visual input and so on.

Your consciousness is desperate to observe its place in the world which is why all sorts of theories are created. "Purpose" is something we make up as we go along.

"I live for my kids", "I live for myself", "I live for soccer", etc etc. There is not universal purpose, other than potentially continuing the species, which is the underlying evolutionary effects, but they don't always work with us - we are one of the few species who actively work against natural selection, and thank goodness for that.

Uhm, gonna stop rambling.
>> ^maeric2000:

If the universe is an accident then why should I, an accidental creation of chaos, seek purpose? How is my purpose anything more than an accidental coming together of molecules into a pattern that seems to indicate design but is argued to be mere science?

Like sand through the hourglass, so passes the videosift of our lives.

(that's a soap opera reference, for those who have better things to do at 11:00am.)

Some of these turned out pretty good. Rules and regulations DO scare me, though Hey Ya! only makes me cry SOME of the time...



SOMEONE SAYS "IS THIS OKAY" YOU SAY?
Never You Mind

WHAT WOULD BEST DESCRIBE YOUR PERSONALITY?
Brain Crack

WHAT DO YOU LIKE IN A GUY/GIRL?
Merry Happy/Little Red

HOW DO YOU FEEL TODAY?
I Should Have Known Better

WHAT IS YOUR LIFE'S PURPOSE?
City Traffic Puzzle

WHAT IS YOUR MOTTO?
Art Star

WHAT DO YOUR FRIENDS THINK OF YOU?
One Angry Dwarf and 200 Solemn Faces

WHAT DO YOU THINK OF YOUR PARENTS?
Bachelorette

WHAT DO YOU THINK ABOUT VERY OFTEN?
Australia

WHAT IS 2+2?
Broadway

WHAT DO YOU THINK OF YOUR BEST FRIEND?
Bent

WHAT DO YOU THINK OF THE PERSON YOU LIKE?
Home

WHAT IS YOUR LIFE STORY?
Ultimate

WHAT DO YOU WANT TO BE WHEN YOU GROW UP?
Hourglass

WHAT DO YOU THINK WHEN YOU SEE THE PERSON YOU LIKE?
Twisted

WHAT DO YOUR PARENTS THINK OF YOU?
Softer, Softest

WHAT WILL YOU DANCE TO AT YOUR WEDDING?
Heaven Beside You

WHAT WILL THEY PLAY AT YOUR FUNERAL?
Julia

WHAT IS YOUR HOBBY/INTEREST?
Someone to Save You

WHAT DO YOU THINK OF YOUR FRIENDS?
Beverly Hills

WHATS THE WORST THING THAT COULD HAPPEN?
Sex & Candy [HA! There are FAR worse things...]

HOW WILL YOU DIE?
Me and Bobby McGee

WHAT IS THE ONE THING YOU REGRET?
Breakdown

WHAT MAKES YOU LAUGH?
Viva La Vida

WHAT MAKES YOU CRY?
Hey Ya!

WILL YOU EVER GET MARRIED?
Everything

WHAT SCARES YOU THE MOST?
Rules and Regulations

DOES ANYONE LIKE YOU?
I Love You Golden Blue

IF YOU COULD GO BACK IN TIME, WHAT WOULD YOU CHANGE?
Moonchild

WHAT HURTS RIGHT NOW?
People as Places as People

>> ^spawnflagger:
can someone give the whole list, along with what game the character is from?


Solid Snake - Metal Gear Solid series
Mushroom - Mario series
Alucard - Castlevania: Symphony of the Night
Goombah - Mario series
Sonic
Yoshi - Mario series
Mega Man
Pikachu - Pokemon series
Kratos - God of War series
Link - Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker / Phantom Hourglass
Cloud - Final Fantasy VII & spinoffs
can't make this one out
Samus Aran - Metroid series
Kirby - Kirby series
Donkey Kong
Big Daddy - BioShock
Master Chief - Halo series
Triforce - mystical object from Zelda games
Dante - Devil May Cry series
Sackboy - Little Big Planet

ah ok- some context below. you gave me what i believe to be my first downvoted comment, so you hold a special place in my sift. see you round!

In reply to this comment by thedeusmachine:
I'm not sure what you're referring to but no, I'm not a fan.

In reply to this comment by E_Nygma:
not a fan of the long-winded and pointless diatribe, eh?

In reply to this comment by E_Nygma:
i have her shirt. not her exact shirt i mean, but you know, the same design. i didn't steal her shirt; the fit is different. mine is less fitted in form and less hourglass in shape, probably because it's a guy's shirt and hers is a girl's shirt. the color is the same though... a sort of purple, or possibly a plum hue? not really sure how i'd describe it. i guess if i could find it i could better describe the shade. i know it has a zombie on it. a zombie chasing a brain. a brain on a string- a string that is attached at the other end to a fishing pole. the fishing pole is held by a young boy, sitting on the shoulder's of the aforementioned zombie. it's pretty circular in description. i think the zombie is green. i like green. there's this disease called kuru you can get by eating human brain. it's kinda like mad cow but is more like mad human. i wonder if zombies ever get that disease. if they did would they die? how to kill a zombie: 1)gunshot to head, 2)kuru. but yeah, i have her shirt.

i have her shirt. not her exact shirt i mean, but you know, the same design. i didn't steal her shirt; the fit is different. mine is less fitted in form and less hourglass in shape, probably because it's a guy's shirt and hers is a girl's shirt. the color is the same though... a sort of purple, or possibly a plum hue? not really sure how i'd describe it. i guess if i could find it i could better describe the shade. i know it has a zombie on it. a zombie chasing a brain. a brain on a string- a string that is attached at the other end to a fishing pole. the fishing pole is held by a young boy, sitting on the shoulder's of the aforementioned zombie. it's pretty circular in description. i think the zombie is green. i like green. there's this disease called kuru you can get by eating human brain. it's kinda like mad cow but is more like mad human. i wonder if zombies ever get that disease. if they did would they die? how to kill a zombie: 1)gunshot to head, 2)kuru. but yeah, i have her shirt.