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Technology has allowed us to live inward, what will the effects be?

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The Overfiend:


The Fool comes to the foot of an enormous black mountain where reigns a creature half goat, half god. At his hooves, naked people linked to the god's throne by chains, engage in every indulgence imaginable: sex, drugs, food, gold, drink. The closer the Fool gets, the more he feels his own earthly desires rising in him. Lust, passion, obsession, greed. "I refuse to give into you!" he roars at the Goat god, resisting with all his might. The creature returns a curious look. "All I am doing is bringing out what is already in you," the beast responds. "Such feelings are nothing to fear, nothing to be ashamed of, or even to avoid." The Fool gestures angrily at the chained men and women, "You say that even though they are enslaved?" The Goat-god mimics the Fool's gesture. "Take another look."

The Fool does so, and realizes that the chained collars the men and women wear are wide enough for them to easily slip off over their heads. "They can be free if they wish to be," the Goat-god says, "Though you are right. I am the god of your strongest desires. But you see here only those who have allowed their base, bestial desires to control them." At this the Goat-god gestures upward, toward the peak of the mountain. "You do not see those who have allowed their impulses and aspirations to take them up to the top of that mountain. Inhibitions can enslave as easily as excesses. They can keep you from following your passion to the highest heights." The Fool realizes the truth in this, and that he has mistaken the Goat-god. Here he understands now that it is not a creature of evil, but of great power, the lowest and the highest, both of beast and god. Like all power it is frightening, and dangerous...but it is also the key to freedom and transcendence if understood and well used.

QuietTruth:
Consumerism is all in The Book Of Timothy.


--- Quote ---1 This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come.
2 For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy,
3 Without natural affection, trucebreakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good,
4 Traitors, heady, highminded, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God;
--- End quote ---


Now do not tell the world is not fucked.

Shallow:
I to this day have no cell phone and never want one, randomly visit people's houses just to say hello rather than call or email first to set up a meeting, talk to strangers on the bus, and in high school in the warmer months I would sit with my CD player plugged into speakers by the portables by the back entrance and blast my music (Doggiestyle always gathered a lot of people).

you gon always be my latin queen bitch:
damn shallow.....you got a pager? haha

The Overfiend:

--- Quote from: Shallow on January 30, 2010, 10:24:18 PM ---I to this day have no cell phone and never want one, randomly visit people's houses just to say hello rather than call or email first to set up a meeting, talk to strangers on the bus, and in high school in the warmer months I would sit with my CD player plugged into speakers by the portables by the back entrance and blast my music (Doggiestyle always gathered a lot of people).

--- End quote ---


We should all be more like you. I already talk to strangers on the street, now I'm gonna start turning up unannounced at friends houses..

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