<PoisonPen> There are no a priori truths.
 
 
 

<PoisonPen> I started out being really pissed off by the 
assholish behaviour I've been encountering playing Unreal 
Tournament online, but I've realized something that's made 
it a fascinating experience.

<PoisonPen> Games like Unreal Tournament are the real world 
in microcosm.  I started realizing that the same sort of "you 
suck" triumphalism shown by the illiterate 12 year olds with
fast-twitch reflexes is EXACTLY THE SAME the US exhibits.

<PoisonPen> I've become more interested in the behaviour 
of the players than in the game itself.  It's amazing how closely
the behaviour of spoiled 12 year olds who can't spell parallels 
that of the American government.

<PoisonPen> this is the SAME behaviour you see on an 
international level from the US.  I should have seen it 
before.  The United States is a *child*!  It's a dysfunctional 
child who has been given a rocket launcher for his birthday,
and no one on Earth can stop him.
 
 
 

<Shoggoth> No, Bastinado is right.  All poor people are stupid. 
Like, er... Gandhi.  Socrates.  Thoreau.  Nietzsche.  Too bad
they weren't as smart as rich people, like, um... Dan Quayle.
 
 
 

<Neek_at_Werk> PP told me that atheism is what happens 
when Christians eat their own souls.  Then he gave me dogfood.
 
 
 

<PoisonPen> The Pledge of Allegiance is a travesty of 
nationalist psychosis.  It's no wonder America is the 
seething pit of hysterical, xenophobic fascism that it is.
 
 
 

<PoisonPen> I tell every Christian that I will get down on 
my knees and pray for Jesus to enter my heart for $10,000. 
I have yet to  find a Christian willing to pay $10,000 for my
immortal soul. I wonder what they'll say to God when he asks 
them why they let my soul be condemned for eternity to hellfire 
because they were too cheap.
 
 
 

<PoisonPen> I got down on my knees and prayed for God to 
give me a sign.  I got all sorts of signs.  Perfect strangers
came up to me on the street and said: "God told me to tell 
you something."  This went on until I decided I'd had enough, 
and new that God could not possibly exist.  I had received too 
much proof.
 
 
 

<PoisonPen> I mean that when I looked for God I had completely
inexplicable Hollywood-style supernatural encounters that proved
beyond a shadow of a doubt that God existed.  This is how I know 
that God does not exist.
 
 
 

<PoisonPen> mcat: The fact that you're a full-time atheist
argues against it.  It's unlikely there's any such thing as a 
true atheist, since religion is older than humanity.  It's an 
instinctive, genetically-programmed behaviour.  The fact 
that you believe yourself consciously to be an atheist 
argues that there is some measure of intellectual 
dishonesty going on.
 
 
 

<PoisonPen> I can't imagine anyone so dense, so unenlightened, 
so completely blind to understanding, that he would mistake the 
gentle musings of Lao Tzu to the chicken-scratchings of that bitter, 
soulless, venom-souled harridon AYN RAND.  It's almost beyond 
comprehension that anyone with a lick of sense beyond cretin 
could compare the two unless he was, say, under the influence 
of drugs.  Or stupidity.
 
 
 

<PoisonPen> Ayn Rand is the curdled remains of a black, 
bitter, shrivelled apple from the tree of hypocrisy growing 
under the outhouse in the deepest pit of Hell.  She couldn't 
grope her way out of her own rectum with a flashlight and a 
copy of Gray's Anatomy.  Her entire rancid philosophy could 
have been killed if anyone had been brave or desperate 
enough to stick their penis into that frigid arctic pucker of 
her twat.
 
 
 

<PoisonPen> *** Topic is 'To be a freethinker is to search
for truth without... <-- There is no truth.

<infinite_monkey> "There is no truth." = "This sentence is not true."
 
 
 

<PoisonPen> Conservatism is a mental illness caused by 
the rapid pace of social change.  It manifests as a schizoid 
break, with xenophobic and paranoid behaviours.
 
 
 

<PoisonPen> I remember after my 40 day fast, bowel 
movements became a special occasion for awhile.  You 
don't really appreciate a bowel movement until you've 
stopped having them for a month.
 
 
 

<PoisonPen> Actually, astrology does work.
 
 
 

<PoisonPen> Although it's not that far fetched.  One of 
the shrinking woman fetishists is a christian, and he writes 
pro-Christian SW fetish porn in which the characters act with
Christian charity and there's no nasty sex stuff.
 
 
 

<PoisonPen> I think the concept of Original Sin has a lot 
of merit.  Humans are basically evil. War are mean, sadistic, 
brutal, savage, tree-climbing, shit-flinging monkeys who will 
eat our own children if we get hungry.  It takes a special 
effort to rise above it, an effort almost no one makes.
 
 
 

<PoisonPen> I have sworn an oath before God that I will
dance on Mike Harris's grave.  In the long, dark hours of
the night when me hatred of Mike Harris burns like anthracite, 
I bank the flames which burn my heart with the knowledge that 
I will dance on his grave.
 
 
 

<PoisonPen> I think if I ever decided to kill myself,
I would take Mike Harris with me.

<PoisonPen> Mike Harris and I could go screaming 
down to Hell together.

<Octnominoth> PoisonPen, then you'll be with him in hell

<PoisonPen> Octnominoth: Me and Mike Harris together in Hell?  
To quote Roraschach from Watchmen, "You don't get it. 
I'm not locked in here with you.  You're locked in here with me."
 
 
 

<PoisonPen> The whole "gift-giving" thing is repulsive to me.

<ShinyEyedMermaid> why PP?

<PoisonPen> Because it celebrates material consumption.  
Because it carries with it the assumption that the ability to 
purchase consumer goods equates with morality.  Because it 
assumes that you need a specific reason to share your wealth 
with others, that sharing is something out of the ordinary, to 
be horded within the family so none of the money escapes.
 
 
 

<PoisonPen> Whenever I think there might be hope for the 
species, I come here and cure myself.
 
 
 

<PoisonPen> The biggest problem with discussing Marxism is
the constant agitprop by the capitalists.  Even in Marx's time,
this occured.  He states *specifically*, for example, that he is
not opposed to the sort of property that existed long before 
capitalism.  The capitalists *lie*.
 
 
 

<PoisonPen> And you know what?  I'm not the only angry 
person out there.  There are an awful lot of us, and growing
every day.  You suburban SUV-driving bourgeoisie can rant
and sneer and peer down your nose all you like, but your 
days are numbered.  Count on it.  And when the mobs 
come for you, I might just be with them.
 
 
 

<PoisonPen> Yes.  YurSrve hates me because I write porn 
for a living.  He thinks that's evil badness that will make 
the man with horns stick a pitchfork in my ass for eternity.
 
 
 

<ButtonsGuinetteFromGeorgia> PoisonPen takes the 
StHeathen approach to debates. he's right. everyone 
else is absolutely wrong and stupid.

<PoisonPen> Not everyone else is wrong and stupid.  
Only those who disagree with me.
 
 
 

<PoisonPen> Why the HELL can't fundies spell "Buddha"?  
I have yet to meet a fundie capable of spelling "Buddha." 
Is it a union rule or something?
 
 
 

<PoisonPen> No, Satan is sophisticated.  I doubt even he 
could love monster truck rallies, fart jokes, and 500 identical 
cop shows.
 
 
 

<PoisonPen> Someone told me there's a new movied 
called "Snatch."  They missed out on a real marketing 
opportunity.  They should have had someone like Bittney 
Spears starring, so they could  advertise: "Coming soon
to a theatre near you: BRITTNEY SPEARS' SNATCH!  Thats
right!  Thirty  feet wide and in full, throbbing Technicolour! 
Everyone this summer is going to want to see Brittney Spear's 
SNATCH!  Bring the whole family!"
 
 
 

<PoisonPen> When I was in Vancouver, one of the Catholic 
cathedrals had posted a notice on their door telling parishioners
not to give money to the beggars outside, but to give the 
money to the Church instead, so that the money would be 
used properly.  I was so irritated I went in and tried to give 
them a piece of my mind, and I even quoted the Bible at 
them.  All they did was retreat behind a locked door until 
I went away.
 
 
 

<PoisonPen> You know, I take it back.  You're not materialists.  
At least materialists have an honest dedication to the 
accumulation of knowledge for knowledge's sake.  Most of
you are decadent bourgeois imperialists using materialism 
as little more than a rationalization for ignoring spritual 
matters, while refusing to pay the price that actual materialism 
demands.
 
 
 

<PoisonPen> I found God under the cushions on the 
couch.  He must have fallen out of my pocket when I 
sat down.  He was covered in lint and I'm pretty sure 
he's dead.
 

<PoisonPen> I've often wondered if women and gay 
men fantasize about getting it on with God.  I mean, 
nuns have that whole "bride of God" thing going on.  
And God, by definition, would have the best penis in
the Universe.
 
 
 

<PoisonPen> There's a Chick tract called "Why is 
Mary crying?" which gets me really hot.  His depiction
of Mary is really sexy.  She's got this whole nubile 
virginal look, and she's weeping with this wide-eyed
look of innocence that really just turns my crank.
 
 
 

<PoisonPen> Every time I come here I'm reminded 
why North America will have to drown in blood before
it changes. 
 
 
 
 

<PoisonPen> I just want to hurt spammers.  With an 
O-line.  With e-mail.  With a large, blunt instrument. 
 
 
 

<PoisonPen> This place looks more and more like #Politics 
every day.  Complete with flag-waving, barefoot, Alabaman 
NRA activists.
 
 
 

<PoisonPen> Your sneering modernist triumphalism is 
part and parcel of the whole materialist phallocentric
hierarchy which is currently oppressing our society.  
You can't even see it because you're *immersed* in it.
 
 
 

<PoisonPen> StHeathen, Dark_Core, Rorschach_, or Jest 
would have no difficulty with those terms.  This is another 
example of the attitude I was referring to.  Most of you
can't see it because it surrounds you constantly.  Your 
mental filters have 'zeroed' on the prejudice, making
it unperceivable.
 
 
 

<PoisonPen> KonKan took his ball and went crying 
home to mommy because he got his peepee slapped.
 
 
 

<PoisonPen> According to the existential school of 
psychoanalysis, all psychopathology is the result 
of the sublimation of the terror we feel on contemplating
the existential verities: Why am I here? Who am I really?  
What happens when I die?  We know the answers -- that
there is no meaning, that we are nothing, and that we go
to nothing -- but are too frightened to admit them.

<Ryft> Unfortunately, all such answers are pressumptuous, 
since we do not know -- and cannot know -- that there is 
nothing after death. Those that die do not come back and
tell us what is on the other side. We merely assume that
it's nothing.