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mircea_popescu: meh, apparently "pongo" google-denotes a dalmatian. it's
the species name of a large, loud subhuman hominid.
mircea_popescu: 18th century "rationalist" paintings were very keen on
the cadaver synod, but
this is
the pongo papacy.
mircea_popescu: you should look at
their paratheological disputes sometime.
mircea_popescu: it's like watching reality
tv by & for retards, "oh, look, it's another morning, will john
the retard manage
to
tie his shoes his
time ? we will be back after a word from our sponsor, Watch Paint Dry While Flies Fuck (tm)"
mircea_popescu: how
the fuck am i going
to be interested by a
three-centuries-later,
three-hundred-books-unread rehash of a ~minor~ ~peasant~ movement ?! what next, we're going
to sit around wondering in fascination at pete_d's accomplishments ? hory shit, some guy got married and carefully didn't piss off
the in-laws his whole life. NEVER HEAR
THAT STORY BEFORE PLOX
TELL ME MORE!
mircea_popescu: to write about divinity interestingly, one needs
to be aware of a ~shitload~ more stuff
than is available at oklahoma public library, is
the
thing.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: because
totally, history never happened, started over because "new" world.
mircea_popescu: and ~now~they go about like fucking morons, re-doing
the 16th century german peasant movements.
mircea_popescu: when a decade later
the american germans revolted against europe
they called it "england" for no fucking reason whatsoever.
mircea_popescu: the dutch bought, moved over, started "new england". gave
the same "english" crown
their new world possessions.
mircea_popescu: ch get slaves
to make ~and especially man~ ships cheaply.
mircea_popescu: consider
the illustrative example of how
the germans inhabiting north america ended up
thinking
they're "english" :
the english were losing badly
their war with
the dutch, at
the
time
the republic. so
they decided --
the elite,
that is --
to make
the dutch an offer
they couldn't refuse : behead
the (catholic) king, import william, prince of orange-nassau as
the new english king.
thereby england gets a ruling class and
the dut
mircea_popescu: this goes directly
to my problem with chinese -- english is pretty much
the closest
thing
to chinese known
to white man.
mircea_popescu: which is why i say, makes 0 fucking sense
to have
translated
the
torah.
mircea_popescu: english is ~thin~. it retain nothing. moron can say same words and gain ~nothing~
thereby.
mircea_popescu: because
that's
the fucking problem with english, it can not ~carry~. human languages have
this property,
that
they retain in
their own
thick fibers, particles of
the wisdom of speakers,
to bestow
them on
the dumb neat round heads of repeaters.
mircea_popescu: and it ~is~ in english. but it is not
the english of Jamie McMoron, slightly overweight ex-mechanic
turned "pastor" in Michigan.
mircea_popescu: THAT half liner summarizes ~correctly~
the whole fucking nine paragraph
thing i ended up stuck putting in above.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform moreover it makes a fucking difference WHO speaks english. which is a readily lost point.
there's an episode in seinfeld (when george converts
to "latvian" orthodoxy) including a soundbyte from old jewish woman with strong yidish accent, "when you die, you die. you don't go anywhere."
mircea_popescu: all
the pretense of imperial brits aside,
trying
to build
themselves an alt-english out of hammer-whacked chunks of latin and greek. because guess what, nobody
today speaks 1770-level cultivated english. and certainly nobody among
the self-help ikea-brand of "preachers" in
the intellectually arid center of our colonies in
the new world.
mircea_popescu: and let it be said,
translating
the
torah ~in english~ was a fucking stupid idea. english is not a language
that can ~carry~ such
things.
mircea_popescu: (and yes, /me also
tuned out just about when
the quotes started. for one
thing because i couldn't give less of a shit about
the english version of jewish
texts, i can read
the originals and i can't stand anglotardation)
mircea_popescu: and it so happens
that god wank scores right
there with "commercial communication" aka spam (another
trope of fiction) on
the scale of republican appreciation of fiction.
mircea_popescu: that's 1
trope, 2 fiction, 3 imagination, 4 noise, 5 phenomena. FIVE nodes down from
the
top node of all
things, "the world".
mircea_popescu: god is ~just another
trope~. like "the voyage", like "the
teenage witch", like "vampires" or "magic horses" or "the island of buyan", god is just another
trope.
tropes are common places of fiction. fiction is a product of imagination. imagination is mildly-restrained psychogenic noise, which is a class of noise, like wetware
thought or like fg output. which are phenomena, which is one half of
the world (the other half being o
mircea_popescu: obviously
the (male)
teenager's
temptation is
to imagine his stupid shit is "above". but
this is his problem, not his "intuition" or "wisdom" or w/e
the fuck.
mircea_popescu: there's nothing BEYOND
the world.
the
things claimed
to be so are always and without exception ~inferior~ not superior in
the
tree of
things. one's fantasies of self-realisation, be
they wet dreams about little miss rottencrotch
two chairs down in chem class or "the rapture", are just so much
teenage wank. it dun matter if
the
teenager's name is moses or daniel,
their wank is not "above
the world". it's part of
the world, and
mircea_popescu: and, while at it :
the aferations of "metaphysics", specifically regarding
the matter in
terms of "oh, mp is so lost in
the world he can't see
the
things beyond
the world" is so much infantile aferant bullshit. be it "robo-hitlers" or "gods" or whatever other nonsense,
the important property of
things "beyond"
the world and "above"
the world and "after"
the world and "ultimate" and so on is
that
they are not.
a111: Logged on 2018-12-01 22:13 danielpbarron:
that wouldn't be
the worst
thing
mircea_popescu: the exact same
thing applies universally and
throiughout.
the world works a certain way, and it will continue
to do so. if you build a blog on
the strength of being interesting, you will destroy it with crap ; and if you build a reputation on being sane, you will destroy it with insanity. and so on. at no point is your "conviction" at issue (nor is it interesting, nor important). what's at issue is ~reality~, and reality does
☟︎ mircea_popescu: d in
the process his life and himself. because no, as
tempting as
the
theory is, humans can't generally manage
to destroy
their reputations but survive in body or mind.
a111: Logged on 2018-12-18 07:54 diana_coman: <asciilifeform> danielpbarron: relax, no neg ratings yet. but if folx end up snoring for long enuff, i expect will
tune out -> fwiw I already
tuned out
mircea_popescu:
http://btcbase.org/log/2018-12-18#1881342 <<
this, for
the record, is exactly how
things go. one can build himself a reputation as a director, on
the strength (on
the ~strength~!!!) of shit like pulp fiction, or reservoir dogs, or w/e
the hell. but if
the one
then continues in
the vein of bullshit, directing animation and whatnever kill bill nonsense, uma
thurman's deformed
toes,
that someone will ~destroy~ his reputation, an
☝︎ phf: asciilifeform: well,
the papers have 3600 era pals
a111: Logged on 2018-12-18 11:41 phf: asciilifeform: i'm pretty sure he doesn't have PAL sources in digital form, and if he does, i
think it's purely accidental i.e.
there are source files on some
tape or some drive, but i don't
think he'll be able
to find
them from memory
phf: it's certainly a dodgy, bottom of
the barrel choice of venue
though..
☟︎ a111: Logged on 2018-12-18 05:21
trinque: yet another post of reddit quotes from danielpbarron.
this is sad.
phf:
http://btcbase.org/log/2018-12-18#1881331 << i
think danielpbarron is pushing
transcendental imperative;
though, and as per some of
the long ago
threads on subject of
traditional societies, i will guess it is mostly a pose on his part. his imperative doesn't align with
that of all
the rest of
the republic members, so it is hard
to relate
to on substance, but in form i find it entertaining: what happens if you confront modern christian
☝︎ phf: asciilifeform: i saw you posted a highres photo of macivory you found on
the internet, but could you perhaps post a couple of nice photos of your current board, where one can see labels on chips and whatever
text on
the surface
☟︎ phf: there are 3600 era PAL sources in a form of scans,
there might be some overlap between
those and ivory. i doubt
that's
the case, but it's worth investigating
phf: asciilifeform: i'm pretty sure he doesn't have PAL sources in digital form, and if he does, i
think it's purely accidental i.e.
there are source files on some
tape or some drive, but i don't
think he'll be able
to find
them from memory
☟︎ lobbesbot: phf: Sent 17 hours and 5 minutes ago: <asciilifeform> didja ever
try asking dks for PAL src's ?
phf: asciilifeform: you can leave messages for me in
the log by just mentioning my name, i always see later's before i have a chance
to speak
diana_coman: <asciilifeform> danielpbarron: relax, no neg ratings yet. but if folx end up snoring for long enuff, i expect will
tune out -> fwiw I already
tuned out
☟︎ mircea_popescu: this
thing looks exactrly like argentina "comicon". bunch of braindead orcs, wtf.
a111: Logged on 2017-09-01 06:57 mircea_popescu:
this actually happens, you flip
the pixels it "learned" and it sees
the fridge and says cat.
mircea_popescu: danielpbarron do you have a bunch of readers interested in
the quotes you figure, or what's
the
thinking ?
☟︎ danielpbarron: if it's gonna get me a bunch of negative ratings i'd rather it get removed from
the feed bot. i'd like
to keep using deedbot and eulora
trinque: yet another post of reddit quotes from danielpbarron.
this is sad.
☟︎ BingoBoingo: And when you deposit, make sure
to ping
trinque so he checks
the printers in his red room
trinque: you will not be able
to pay an invoice without first having done so.
trinque: cruciform: have you ever made a deposit with
the bot?
BingoBoingo: Ah, sender-nick in
this context refers
to
the person issuing
the invoice rather
than invoking
the !!pay-invoice command. It's a brevity-vs-ambiguity issue with
the documentation
BingoBoingo: And
that will get deedbot
to execute
the command.
BingoBoingo: cruciform: Use !!received-invoices
to see
the invoice and
then !!pay-invoice sender-nick invoice-number
to settle
the invoice
lobbesbot: asciilifeform:
The operation succeeded.
Mocky: either
that or "catalyzing an interconnected global
tech ecosystem" lol
Mocky: subj company apparently has quite healthy growth rate. my guess is
they are
trying
to undercut
the bottom
tier 'coder' segment