stuff like this is always preaching to the converted. The selfish don't share because they don't want to - just like a toddler they have to be forced to do so because reasoning with them doesn't work. The concept that "we are one" simply doesn't fly with them because it incorporates the concept of the future - after you die, in fact - which selfish people especially refuse to think about. If you can get people to stop being afraid of death and loneliness, you can get people to consider what happens on earth after they are gone.Once they care about life beyond their own time, then the idea of sharing isn't so terrible.

And me personally, I think he misspeaks; it's not "we are one" it's "we are strands of a tapestry - pull one and eventually the whole thing will shred" and although he says it's not economics, he's wrong. It IS economics. Economics is all people ultimately. Economics is a tapestry too and each person is a thread in it. Just like government and all other aspects of society.

haven't even watched this yet, still having fun reading the banter, again, both sides of the fence have devout, both faiths rely on unprovable datum for their conclusions, and we seem to think in this particular trip as sentients, that it is imperative we reach a decision as to whom or whom not to believe, that this resolution will somehow make the remainder of our short trek more tolerable or peaceful.....

"In God We Trust" "One Nation Under God".....don't really see the seething obsession on the part of Atheists to erase a grand part of the United States tradition, history, and heritage.......every once in a while a dysfunctional freak, will file charges against some school district, and soon all can see, that the real issue is not getting the mention of god out of schools, or prayer, etc.....It's about the snotty, bitter little dweeb's own bullshit, whether it be a recent divorce, or he has been a shit all his life anyhow, now he has a pulpit.......

Look how fucked up Madeline Murray O'Hare was....her son...
Look how screwed the preacher's lives are that get busted for their bullshit, and how quick all are to blame god's inadequacy on his followers, or downplaying the atheist's
arguments, on the few whacked spokespersons.....

Perhaps this is why Jesus came down on the Pharaseeical practice of praying in public....."Go in yer closet to pray"....this means you atheists, as well, yer religion is just as insulting to the psychic space of your fellow humans.....

KEEP YOUR BELIEFS TO YOURSELVES-seems the best bet....after all, yer brain is yours alone, and the loneliness in there will be with you the rest of your life.......start screaming this or that from a mountain, and see how fast the rest of the monkies scream back foul.......or become followers, if that's your desire.......

Atheism is the same beast as the Born-Again Fundamentalist Pentacostal-Both are confused, self-deluded, and close to being burnt-out, on a very short, interesting, trip we call humanity......why don't ya'll get a fucking room!!!!????

BIG UP CANADIAN MASSIVE!

From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kids_in_the_Hall

One of the more surreal short films in the show, containing minimal dialogue and apparently set in a dystopian future society. It features a man (McCulloch) who works at a sausage factory and falls in love with a woman who works there kissing the boxes so they have the company's lipstick logo. Too nervous to talk to her, the man, who had stolen some sausages for his crazy, sausage-obsessed father (Thompson), leaves them on her doorstep and leaves. Knowing he can never lead a normal life while caring for his gibbering idiot father, he resigns himself to loneliness. Most likely a parody/homage to the David Lynch film "Eraserhead".


... SAUSAGES!


Bonus video - Gavin - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JVAMM5KNr90
("once, there was this guy..")

Tagervention to try to save it.

I love this video for the same reasons as maudlin. It works in a way that the designers probably didn't intend, unless they really want to sell their mixed-use condo via the feeling of loneliness.

As the Pavement song goes:

Architecture students are like virgins with an itch they cannot scratch
Never build a building 'til you're 50, what kind of life is that?

Bardaf, I didn't mean to suggest the Vatican would've approved of Hitler, (though they didn't disavow the "blood libel" until 1914) - just that Hitler was raised Catholic, and that he took parts of the Bible quite literally, and twisted the rest to fit his hatreds:
"My feelings as a Christian points me to my Lord and Savior as a fighter. It points me to the man who once in loneliness, surrounded by a few followers, recognized these Jews for what they were and summoned men to fight against them and who, God's truth! was greatest not as a sufferer but as a fighter. In boundless love as a Christian and as a man I read through the passage which tells us how the Lord at last rose in His might and seized the scourge to drive out of the Temple the brood of vipers and adders. How terrific was His fight for the world against the Jewish poison. To-day, after two thousand years, with deepest emotion I recognize more profoundly than ever before the fact that it was for this that He had to shed His blood upon the Cross. As a Christian I have no duty to allow myself to be cheated, but I have the duty to be a fighter for truth and justice... And if there is anything which could demonstrate that we are acting rightly it is the distress that daily grows. For as a Christian I have also a duty to my own people." - Hitler, April 12, 1922

Bardaf, I didn't mean to suggest the Vatican would've approved of Hitler, (though they didn't disavow the "blood libel" until 1914) - just that Hitler was raised Catholic, and that he took parts of the Bible quite literally, and twisted the rest to fit his hatreds:
"My feelings as a Christian points me to my Lord and Savior as a fighter. It points me to the man who once in loneliness, surrounded by a few followers, recognized these Jews for what they were and summoned men to fight against them and who, God's truth! was greatest not as a sufferer but as a fighter. In boundless love as a Christian and as a man I read through the passage which tells us how the Lord at last rose in His might and seized the scourge to drive out of the Temple the brood of vipers and adders. How terrific was His fight for the world against the Jewish poison. To-day, after two thousand years, with deepest emotion I recognize more profoundly than ever before the fact that it was for this that He had to shed His blood upon the Cross. As a Christian I have no duty to allow myself to be cheated, but I have the duty to be a fighter for truth and justice... And if there is anything which could demonstrate that we are acting rightly it is the distress that daily grows. For as a Christian I have also a duty to my own people." - Hitler, April 12, 1922

Bardaf, I didn't mean to suggest the Vatican would've approved of Hitler, (though they didn't disavow the "blood libel" until 1914) - just that Hitler was raised Catholic, and that he believed the Bible quite literally:
"My feelings as a Christian points me to my Lord and Savior as a fighter. It points me to the man who once in loneliness, surrounded by a few followers, recognized these Jews for what they were and summoned men to fight against them and who, God's truth! was greatest not as a sufferer but as a fighter. In boundless love as a Christian and as a man I read through the passage which tells us how the Lord at last rose in His might and seized the scourge to drive out of the Temple the brood of vipers and adders. How terrific was His fight for the world against the Jewish poison. To-day, after two thousand years, with deepest emotion I recognize more profoundly than ever before the fact that it was for this that He had to shed His blood upon the Cross. As a Christian I have no duty to allow myself to be cheated, but I have the duty to be a fighter for truth and justice... And if there is anything which could demonstrate that we are acting rightly it is the distress that daily grows. For as a Christian I have also a duty to my own people." - Hitler, April 12, 1922

"You're trying to deal with your loneliness by surrounding yourself with friends. How's that going to work?"

Perverted moths.

Nice.