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06:27 / 22.05.05

It means blanco. As in White is black and black ...is back.

07:33 / 22.05.05

"It means blanco. As in White is black and black ...is back."

Are you saying that you've created a word with negro- in it to mean "white"? That's....unusual.

07:53 / 22.05.05

I think it's time to discuss your, ah...philosophy of drug use as it relates to artistic endeavour.

Less searchable M0rd4nt

10:45 / 22.05.05

It's not drugs. It's the cursed blood of Malkav.

10:50 / 22.05.05

Cursed yet tenebrously blessed.

Less searchable M0rd4nt

11:19 / 22.05.05

His cracked insight goes beyond our limited perception--perhaps even to the Final Nights?

11:35 / 22.05.05

Hush, childe, you must not speak of such things.

Our Lady Has Left the Building

13:27 / 22.05.05

Is... Morpheus... my... mummy?

13:31 / 22.05.05

STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK

13:44 / 22.05.05

What's our policy on empty posters?

14:57 / 22.05.05

When we meet on the streets, you will be eating your teeth. And the only sucking you will be able to do is on momma's teet. Ensure comes in momma flavor now.

15:16 / 22.05.05

On the plus side, he has promised you a go on his mum's tits.

16:24 / 22.05.05

Link

I know who's behind the gasmask it's Rage.

alejandrodelloco

17:02 / 22.05.05

Please stop the confusing my head with weird words morpheus it bad is oh noes i lay down now sleep brain hurt

17:45 / 22.05.05

The words weird not so much are

but hurty brain bit way thrown together they are is

although, funny too it can be

As Master Yoda hath said: His brain squirming like a toad is.

19:33 / 22.05.05

Morpheus is your sleeping king. Now bow, or sprinkle on my feet as most of you vagrants are so versed to do. Did anyone read that last link...noooo.
CMC ceramic matrix composite and a korean made Shahab-3 missle amount to a probable threat by these people...and what the hell is the Wisconsin project on nuclear arms control.
Who the hell would threaten the cows cheese and beer that state is so well known for and what the hell do most people there worry about....the Green Bay Packers?

19:35 / 22.05.05

and what do they pack, these people of Green Bay? Fudge?

19:40 / 22.05.05

Morpheus, dear, none of your revelations are particularly surprising: anyone who's perused The New Statesman will have a pretty good idea that all this stuff is going on.

How would you like us to react?

20:50 / 22.05.05

It looks like the arms talks are folding and the nonprolif treaty will finally crumble beginning the NEW arms race this week. Read it and ignore

Oh fat white one...as Potsy says...Sit on it Richie.

21:01 / 22.05.05

It looks like the arms talks are folding and the nonprolif treaty will finally crumble beginning the NEW arms race this week. Read it and ignore

As opposed to reading it and...?

What's your suggested alternative, Morpheus?

21:02 / 22.05.05

And if you need to here it from my freind...Hey.

21:07 / 22.05.05

To repeat the question:

Once we've read the Guardian article to which you've linked, what is your suggested alternative? Fonz notwithstanding, how might we go about combatting the changes to the non-proliferation treaty?

alejandrodelloco

00:38 / 23.05.05

With badgers, of course.

Nuclear badgers.

04:48 / 23.05.05

If I respond to your question will it incite another barrage of nonsense. Do you really want to know what I think or are you just itching to tear it apart like every other post.
What I think you should do sir namesake of the great destroy boy is do what you think is best. What I have already done is formed a posse. We meet each week under the pretence of player cards and discuss what is actually happening and what we are learning, because we have no doubt that this country is basically on the verge of a civil war and all that it takes is a match strike to get it going. Do I want that, fuck no.
Do you remember the L.A. riots? I was there and watched ordinary beverly hills superconsumers going bad and burning that city down over basically bullshit. I got shot at by normal store owners for walking up the street on Melrose of all places. It won't take much to get this country upside down and when it does, no one is going to stop it.
Our president has pushed a majority of the people here to the point of utter desperation and like Iraq, the people are not going to put up with it if pressed up against a wall and many people are already against a wall here. I don't want that to happen, but I felt it before 911 and I feel it now. This shit is going to go down and there is nothing that is going to stop it....unless you open up your mind and discuss it. Maybe it can stop with a simple consensus of conscious awareness. I am already fighting this just posting here. I play cards and discuss with my freinds what to do if it does, and what I see as the plan by these people, and I sure as fuck don't act like I'm apathetic to the actual horror of it as it stands at this moment.
Then I watch Deadwood.
You seem to want to be lead..well I'm not your leader.

06:42 / 23.05.05

You seem to want to be lead..well I'm not your leader

Well, actually, I don't think he wants to be led. I suspect he's simply trying to reconcile your propheised apocalyspse with your actions. just trying to expose the absurdity of your posts. The world is enddding ... so I'll post about it on a message board and then get self-righteously upset when people don't want to disengae from their normal conversations.

ONLY NICE THINGS

07:10 / 23.05.05

Hey, don't forget the card school, Lucky Liquid. Which isn't really a card school. It's a secret meeting of the secret chiefs, where cards just happen to be played.

07:48 / 23.05.05

Not particularly wanting to be led, Morpheus, no, however impressive your card-sharp (and presumably Vampire: The Masquerade) skillz. Just trying to get some clue to what's driving you here. You unveil your revelations with a flourish and much (somewhat confused) pomposity, with the now-familiar 'WAKE UP SHEEPLE I AM TEH ORICLE!!!!!' posturing, but the stuff you're actually telling us is hardly news to anyone able to follow the Guardian editorials or Google 'Project for the New American Century'. Perhaps this stuff passes for earth-shattering in the context of US news but, over here, it's discussed daily on the Today show. I don't think people are blithely ignorant of the neocon agenda, environmental time-bombs, etc., etc.; on the contrary, we're rather well-informed.

So... given this disparity between the content (worthy but nothing new) and the style of your delivery (oracular, peevish when corrected), I'm wondering whether you're motivated by a desire to have people react in a particular way - take some sort of specific political action, say - or whether you're simply mouthing off as a rather tedious means of self-aggrandisement we have come to know and love here on Barbelith.

Or whether you do indeed follow the shattered path of Malkav...

07:50 / 23.05.05

This shit is going to go down and there is nothing that is going to stop it....unless you open up your mind and discuss it.

Are we talking about the 'pissed-off Americans overthrowing their Government' shit or the 'neocon agenda' shit? The first sort doesn't seem a bad option to me; good luck with it. The second is, I'm sure we're agreed, globally toxic - but luckily you've proposed a comprehensive package of card-playing, discussion and garbled ranting on message-boards, in order to address it. Yay you!

Don't worry, I'll be doing my bit too. I'm bringing down Western capitalism by organising a whist drive this Thursday. Time permitting, I may also fit in some mind-opening discussion with my RPGer buddies. Vive la revolution!

Regrettable Juvenilia

08:03 / 23.05.05

Do you remember the L.A. riots? I was there and watched ordinary beverly hills superconsumers going bad and burning that city down over basically bullshit.

I think your analysis of the events of late April 1992 is at best flawed, and at worst insulting to those who were, in fact, rebelling in protest at (specifically) the acquittal of the four white police officers who were recorded on videotape assualting Rodney King, and (more generally) the racism and inequality ingrained in the institutions of the USA, of which that verdict was symptomatic. "Basically bullshit"? "Superconsumers"? (What does "superconsumers" even mean?) Look again.

09:02 / 23.05.05

I'm wondering whether you're motivated by a desire to have people react in a particular way - take some sort of specific political action

And if indeed you do desire to do so, why pick Barbelith? If you want to recruit for the activism, there are plenty of other web boards (Urban 75 and enrager.net both strike me as better bets) and indeed, plenty of real life campaigns you can hitch your wagon to. However, I’d wager that’s not as much fun as telling us all how wrong we all are is it? Barbelith could be a space for organising something like that, I suppose, but I think you’ve pretty much deaded any good will people may have had to such a proposal.

Hint: unspecific, apocalyptic rants backed up with psychism won’t get you very far. Try a specifically targeted, single-issue campaign with a clear programme. Too much bother? Oh well, boost that sense of self righteousness by coming on here and ranting.

More broadly speaking, there is a conversation to be had about whether the web (or more specifically Barbelith) induces passivity or not, but I don’t think you’re the man to lead it.

11:31 / 23.05.05

don't send him to u75, please

14:31 / 23.05.05

I believe Urban 75 would be the perfect forum for your unique debating talents, Morpheus.

14:33 / 23.05.05

He'll just get banned for fruitloopery anyway.

STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK

14:44 / 23.05.05

Morpheus- fuck U75. Go to Byrne Robotics. PLEASE.

(sits back and waits like a child on November 5th).

15:13 / 23.05.05

It's just like me when I first arrived all over again.

You poor bastard.

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