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The Bad News Bears
Man, I normally think of myself as pretty well-acclimated to the idea that things “aren’t going so great” here in America. But tonight I was reading over at Cryptogon (which I don’t check nearly as often as I should), and I was like, “WELL, HELL DAMN FUCK!” This guy makes me look like I’m running around climbing rainbows and planting gumdrop trees while intensely fucking sinister shit is going on in plain sight.
We live in a wild world, and frankly I’m amazed that any of us really deep in the counter-culture don’t just freak out one day and taking an uzi to a shopping mall. I mean, reading all our websites every day is enough to make anybody go stark raving bonkers. But then, I guess so is just reading the regular news. At least we’re having fun while we’re going bonkers. Or at least I am. I love this stuff. I can’t believe that we’re really doing it, and that we’ve gotten together so many great people to write and read and join in the conversation. I don’t know what it “means” or if it’s ever gonna “go” anywhere or “change” anything, but shit - thanks for doing it everybody. It ain’t easy, that’s for sure.
Oh, one other thing I wanted to address. It’s crazy how all of us come together on this stuff from different angles, and somehow it all turns into this big crazy interlocking Voltron thing. Like just one of our sites alone is something, but 5, 10, 15 of them together is crazy! It’s just like this constant incredible mind-fuck, with twists and turns I can never predict. You read something on one of our sites, you read it somewhere else, and suddenly, the light goes on over your head.
That happened to me tonight also reading DunneIV. He brought up something I saw on Ran’s site earlier. It was about this new Supreme Court ruling that authorizes the government to seize your home in the name of corporations. At first when I saw it on Ran’s site, I was like, “Hm, that’s troubling…” and filed it away. Then I saw JK hit it again and connect the dots to the impending real estate bubble bursting that people are always whispering about (has to pop sometime, right?). Well get this: suddenly the value of your real estate plummets. You try to sell it, but nobody’s buying. Along comes the government all of a sudden saying: “We’ll take that off your hands, BITCH!” and then you’re done. Combine that with Jeff’s recent mention of 40 million people’s credit cards being compromised, and them passing that bankruptcy reform bill a while back, and KABOOM! You’re gonna be fucking thanking them when they pack you into the concentration camps for a hot meal and a stiff board to sleep on. Here’s a tasty tip: Sprinkle a little homebrew gnosticism and some weird alien stuff on top for flavor. Enjoy!
Goddamn. We are some crazy ass motherfuckers, and I wouldn’t have it any other way.
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June 23rd, 2005 at 11:55 pm
We’re in so deep that we know if one of us does freak out with an uzi that’ll only give “THEM” the excuse they’re looking for to shut us all down *wink*
June 24th, 2005 at 12:52 am
Alex Jones (infowars.com) would argue that its all part of the plan for world domination and what not. I recommend checking some of his stuff out, just keep in mind that he is a hardcore texas christian, and thus most of his conspiracy info/beliefs are jaded towards biblical beliefs (and thus a COMPLETELY negative viewpoint towards the occult - both the good and the bad). Its still a good thing to look at because he brings up a lot of good points.
Also interesting to note about Alex Jones. He’s not just bashing Bush because of things he’s done lately. Jones has been after Bush since at least 1998, so maybe he’s on to something.
Laslty, the stuff about the Bohemian Grove (also google Bohemian Club), mixed with the “Franklin Coverup” is some crazy, messed up shit. If one were to follow along the lines of mind control via satanic ritual abuse, then perhaps most of our leaders are under some form of mind control.
Check it out!
June 24th, 2005 at 1:00 am
oh ive looked at jones work extensively, never fear. he’s even been featured personally in a tarot card i designed: the alarmist, as i think he’s a good representation to not get too carried away with this shit, no matter how crazy it may seem.
what i’m saying in this post is more that sometimes the immensity of what we’re all doing really hits me.
June 24th, 2005 at 2:16 am
“running around climbing rainbows and planting gumdrop trees”
lol.. nothing wrong with that!
dude, the bright side of life is way cooler.. for instance, when you were in apocolypse mode for a week i wasnt reading you as much….
alex jones makes me want to smash my head into a wall. which is not always a bad thing, just not the most productive things i could be doing…
ive recently realized that when you FIGHT evil, you become it.
to know evil (not in that old school slept with way, but that too) and to decide to do good is the truth… IMO..
so studying how the “NWO” works is one thing, quite distinct from FIGHTING THE NEW WORLD ORDER BY SCREAMING INFO WAR!!! YOU PRISON PLANET INMATES WAKE UP!!!!!!!!!
::BZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ BZZZZZZ BZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ…SHUT UP!!! sleep…::
^^^ that was me turning off my alarm.. and going back to resting..
but word, im not really into scaring the shit out of people…. it doesnt really accomplish much… it tends to create denial & people turn on you…right back to guess who?
its all just a reflection, our inner darkness reflected back at us, forcing us to deal with it..
i realized today that occult symbolism communicates on a subconcious level, because the occult IS the subconcious…. of our collective human mind… not exactly this topic but…thought id share that..
one
human?
June 24th, 2005 at 2:36 am
Long live the Empire (actually, long live insurgency)! And “thank the maker” for people like Antonio Parra…
Ecuador Refuses to Sign U.S. Immunity Pact
June 24th, 2005 at 3:38 am
crazy schmazy. considering that our ‘leaders’ are apparently seriously deranged psychopaths, yet we can still sit around and have a leisurely talk about it, we’re doing alright. the future may not look so good, but sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof…
June 24th, 2005 at 3:43 am
You’ve nailed it Tim. Liking the system is hereby over. It’s out and in our face. “Like It” or not. . .
I like it. I can see them now.
June 24th, 2005 at 3:55 am
I’m a fool for anarcho-brit lyrics. Morrissey pegged this question way back when he was with The Smiths in the song I want the one I can’t have. What we’re doing is indeed the “riches of the poor”.
On the day that your mentality
Decides to try to catch up with your biology
Come round …
‘Cause I want the one I can’t have
And it’s driving me mad
It’s all over, all over, all over my face
On the day that your mentality
Catches up with your biology
I want the one I can’t have
And it’s driving me mad
It’s all over, all over, all over my face
A double bed
And a stalwart lover for sure
These are the riches of the poor
A double bed
And a stalwart lover for sure
These are the riches of the poor
And I want the one I can’t have
And it’s driving me mad
It’s all over, all over my face
A tough kid who sometimes swallows nails
Raised on Prisoner’s Aid
He killed a policeman when he was
Thirteen
And somehow that really impressed
Me
And it’s written all over my face
Oh, these are the riches of the poor
These are the riches of the poor
I want the one I can’t have
And it’s driving me mad
It’s written all over my face
On the day that your mentality
Catches up with your biology
And if you ever need self-validation
Just meet me in the alley by the
Railway station
It’s all over my face
Oh …
June 24th, 2005 at 4:06 am
sane & insane are the same..
one of the first bits of “occult truths” i really took to is good ole “as above, so below”
the fractal nature of the datasphere… learning about one event, applying the idea to systems.. cross polinating hybrid thoughts…and the SPEED!! hyper is almost too slow to describewhat ive learned…. or lived!
it definitly a great time to be alive….. and here is a great place to be (everyone seems to want to go to New Zealand??? wtf? lord of the rings syndrome?)
anyways, i realized before my response wasnt totally on topic, and now ive realized that this response was even less coherent, so i will end with…
KEEP IT UP TIM!!
keep posting, cursing, offending, inspiring whatever…. its a good thing.
one
human?
June 24th, 2005 at 10:22 am
I think it’s great to read congenital pessimists as long as one can balance their perspective with an optimistic interpretation. For example, before I saw your mention of the eminent doman case I had a positive impression of it. Then I tried to understand the negative interpretation of it. One thing a good magickal education provides is the ability to use one’s imagination to slice through other people’s interpretations.
A lot of times people just incritically accept negative interpretations of conspiracy theories. That acceptance leads to a shutdown in thought almost as bad as what one encounters among fundamentalist religions.
My take on the eminent doman case is that it is largelely a positive development. First of all, it is constitutionally correct, the feds really should not interfere with the way localities manage themselves. More importantly, it is socially and economically correct because most of the value of a piece of property is not in the physical structure itself, but in the location. The value of a good location is largely determined by the availability of public and private development (e.g. subway stops, utilities, shops, restaurants). Therefore, the public as theoretically represented by the local government has a partial right to determine how real estate in its jurisdiction is managed.
The problem is not eminent domain, the problem is most localities are too large and not genuine participatory democracies.
June 24th, 2005 at 1:57 pm
This is sort of a digression, but not. Has anyone else read Scott Adams’s God’s Debris yet? It does indeed make for an interesting “thought experiment” and has had me thinking about whether we really do have free will, the cybernetic theory of information, and whether I need to worry? I can genuinely say I am pretty un-sympathetic towards either side (any “either side” whether it be good-bad, technocracy-counterculture, Mickey Mouse or Bugs Bunny, et cetera), and I sorta see these conflicts this way. I can appreciate order, it makes sense. Pun sort of intended. And most of my magical practise came about from chaos magic, and I love the arts and I work as a graphic designer, so I look to the shadows to bring back reinterprations and glimmers of things I was as of then unaware of. Do I believe either exists independently? No.
But because I am currently reading God’s Debris, and for those of you who haven’t might I suggest checking it out because it serves as a good reminder in some regards and breaks things down to their metaphorically simplest methods for ease of communication. This simplicity also allows a much vaster framework to be built around it. In this, I find that as we “move forward” in time the precedent level of informational architecture upon which the mass of us focus ourselves is quite busy, but it’s the simplicity that allows us to move forward. The idea and pictogram of a molecule, say, or an electron, or even a painting of the archangels. These things helped people to understand, whereas in the occult — or, at least, esotercism and certain concentration exercises and Zen meditations — you refine your process of thought into something akin to a laser and access the information make-up of such and such an object, be it a rock, atom, maybe even an angel, flower, or goldfish. It’s no different than holography: consciousness acts just as light does. They have similar properties, just on different levels. And as modern physics has shown, all matter is, is light slowed down. And this is a holographic universe.
Forgive my rant, I am just recovering froma bout of influenza, but while I was half-passed out for the past week and lying in a pool of my own cold sweat, all I could think about is that Christ, We are all the same thing!
This moment, this is the story. An ever-evolving story. These are the key words right here: it’s a personal story, billions upon billions of little snippets to make up a whole. Probability and cybernetics bring to light that, essentially, we’re not as unique as we like to think we are. Eventually, the system is bound to reset itself. And all will be as it should be. I mean, we can go off and start a war with the technocrats and bureaucrats if we want to, but eventually the system balances itself out as it should. Flip a coin five times, you may just get four or five heads, or tails, whatever. But flip it 1,000,000,000,000 times and chances are you’ll get a pretty darn good idea of what I am talking about. Actually, all light, if this is the building block of this octave of reality — Malkuth — can be deduced to binary: the rise and trough of the vibrational frequency, it’s repetition through time.
I am sorry for the rant, I just needed to get it out. And if anyone wants to dispute this with all theories of Well, as a sorcerer I can do this, or as a free-thinker I can do that, which plagues me daily — for I believe I know I can go out and change the world in so many ways, I am just afraid of the really scary efforts, which is why probably most others don’t attempt them either — then I really can’t prove either point. We just sit back, theorise, and watch the system churn on. And, as Scott Adams’ seems to be putting it, God slowly pulls itself back together again. Whatever “God” is.
Kinda makes me wanna get a case of wine, a call-girl, a tent, and some coke.
Actually, maybe I just answered my own non-question: we need to make the world a more magical place. Hmm, it’s always the simplest answers that make the most sense.
June 24th, 2005 at 5:29 pm
Jason: I guess I don’t understand how govt seizure of property fits into a libertarian perspective. Maybe it’s not the federal govt doing the seizing, but what does that matter? They’re still taking property forcibly against your will. That seems to be pretty antithetical to any kind of ideas about individual liberty
June 24th, 2005 at 5:30 pm
Fell:
You don’t have to dress it up; I can tell everything makes you want to do that! Ha!
June 24th, 2005 at 6:19 pm
Yeah I shouldn’t be allowed to type while ill.
:P