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• Commented on Why I want Bitcoin to die in a fire
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• Commented on Over-Extended Metaphor for the day
  I'm trying to work a Cthulhu cult into this somehow but I'm drawing a blank. Anyone?...
• Commented on Lovebible.pl
  Mr. Stross: I do think this sort cyber-sorcery is a promising avenue of exploration, if not the holy grail which alchemists, poets, prophets and programmers have sought for centuries. However – and I’m sure this warning is unnecessary for one...
• Commented on On Syria
  Taking out the Syrian regime would open the door to even worse atrocities by the Sunni jihadists. My understanding is that the Alawites are literally fighting for their survival as a people. And from a strategic point of view, getting...
• Commented on The next moves in the Spooks v. News cold war
  I don't disagree. It seems to me that what we really have is a global Deep State, which is an extension of the Western military-industrial complex to much of the world. The ideology of this Deep State is flexible on...
• Commented on The next moves in the Spooks v. News cold war
  I don't think it's irrelevant at all. Have several wars, including the "War on Terror", not been largely manufactured by the elements I'm talking about, and been a driving force behind the imposition of the police state measures under discussion...
• Commented on The next moves in the Spooks v. News cold war
  The closest thing to a Deep State in the USA is probably what some (often unsavory) people refer to as "ZOG". The manner in which Zionist interests manipulate American politics, and seems immune to party changes or public opinion, is...
• Commented on Lies, damned lies, and popular beliefs
  What we have here is a confirmation of that old line about how the left tries to be the reality-based community, and the right tries to create its reality. Really? I guess I've never heard that line. Maybe some on...
• Commented on Lies, damned lies, and popular beliefs
  To understand some of these seeming paradoxes, perhaps you should speak to psychologists, not statisticians. I'm going to suggest that there is something about modern UK society that is deeply psychologically unsettling to a great many people, and it's not...
• Commented on "Fuck every cause that ends in murder and children crying" — Iain Banks, 1954-2013
  I think what you meant to say is the Culture is Star Trek done according you your particular biases, hopes and values instead of Gene Roddenberry's. But in the end, the good guys win, and your preferred cosmic moral order...
• Commented on "Fuck every cause that ends in murder and children crying" — Iain Banks, 1954-2013
  You have to love point #11. In a universe with no good guys, the author nevertheless apparently believes that there are people with good-guy badges whose moral superiority entitles them to erase and exterminate "them" (whoever "they" may be). Which...
• Commented on "Fuck every cause that ends in murder and children crying" — Iain Banks, 1954-2013
  This must be why it is so difficult for me to truly believe in progress and a brighter future; because at the end of the day, no matter how brightly you burned or how hopeful your visions, your life ends...
• Commented on Mo' holding pattern
  Yes, I suppose PhD students and mountain climbers are like Western monks. What I'm trying to get at is that our culture doesn't seem to value or support such activities very much, especially when there's a high risk of death,...
• Commented on Mo' holding pattern
  This idea that you are going to go to other planets without risking your lives or sacrificing other modern comforts and safety standards is absurd. Monks with a stoic worldview and a low sense of attachment to their own lives...
• Commented on Mo' holding pattern
  It seems rather limiting to impose mundane, middle class Western cultural standards on a mission of this magnitude. Being in close quarters for 500 days doesn't require a married couple; in fact that sounds like a bad idea. Why not...
• Commented on The World Shrinks Under The Weight of Madness
  Yes Jack Parsons' life sounds like it came straight out of a comic book. A rocket scientist whom von Braun called the real father of the American space program, a black magician who was Crowley's main man in the USA,...
• Commented on The World Shrinks Under The Weight of Madness
  Love the dark energy = mana theory (one of my pet theories also) and these new guest posts. As long as we're indulging in these kinds of speculations, I might as well mention a similar crackpot theory of mine: Suppose...