Displaying 511 To 540 Of 3,373 Comments Kanye West Doesn’t Care About White Women I agree it’s stupid, but I think the only reason it doesn’t shock is that almost nothing shocks anymore. We are exposed to so much crap entertainment that our shock barometers are out of whack. » Posted By whatsthatsound On June 14, 2011 @ 12:54 pm Well, I feel that it’s a real sign of social illness that we have come to so thoroughly fetishize the bodies of murdered women. I bet there would be a lot more outcry if the bodies had been of dogs, or horses. » Posted By whatsthatsound On June 14, 2011 @ 12:51 pm Sally, what audadvnc posted was a parody of the video I wrote about, not the real thing. That group, “Key of Awesome”, creates some of the cleverest satire on youtube. I think they are connected to “Barely Political”, who gave us the Obama Girl (who also appears in the Kanye parody vid above). I’m NOT going to post the link to the real vid, because I recommend passing it up, but if someone places it in the comments section, I have no problem with that. » Posted By whatsthatsound On June 14, 2011 @ 12:47 pm “Run For Your Life” IS a terrible song, but I don’t really get the comparison. I think you’d be on firmer ground with Warren Zevon’s “Excitable Boy”, or maybe something by Nick Cave. But to me, a better comparison is hypothetical: if the video showed Eminem with a bunch of dead/murdered black women, how okay would you be with that? » Posted By whatsthatsound On June 14, 2011 @ 9:40 am I’m puzzled too, but I see it as starting from the adage that “war is hell”. It morphs war imagery with hell imagery. I don’t know who the person that is suffering in hell is, if perhaps it is someone who committed an atrocity in an earlier war, perhaps? Anyway, that’s my take. I think it’s meant to express war/hell through images of rage, hate and agony. War is all those things, after all. » Posted By whatsthatsound On June 13, 2011 @ 1:43 am Weekend Music Thread – Stay Cool Velvet Underground, “Cool It Down” » Posted By whatsthatsound On June 12, 2011 @ 5:35 pm Coolness, indeed! » Posted By whatsthatsound On June 12, 2011 @ 4:19 pm Badass!! » Posted By whatsthatsound On June 12, 2011 @ 1:44 pm I’m just throwing this into the mix cuz I think it’s a “cool” song. Jane’s Addiction, “Been Caught Stealing” » Posted By whatsthatsound On June 12, 2011 @ 7:16 am Thatcher and Palin – Two rotten eggs deserving of each other. NIce article, Pop. And your bio is a hoot! » Posted By whatsthatsound On June 12, 2011 @ 6:25 pm EXCLUSIVE: The Secret Palin Emails! Good stuff! I can just see it if she becomes president. A “War on Syntax”. » Posted By whatsthatsound On June 10, 2011 @ 7:05 pm Michelle Bachmann Meets the “God Helmet” c-lady, that “beep your loved one to heaven” story just about beats everything!! » Posted By whatsthatsound On June 12, 2011 @ 4:34 pm KQ, sorry if that sounded rude, it’s just that people of faith are a bit puzzled by that argument, as if it would ever cause someone to question their belief in God. I guess a better way to think about it would be, does it make more sense to you that awareness mechanically arose from non-awareness, or is awareness the ground of the universe that we are a part of and our awareness is a manifestation of? This was pretty much the whole point of my essay, “The View From The Left Hemisphere of the Universe” And when I use the word “intuit”, I am not talking about making assumptions from that which seems most obvious to us. I am talking about a deeply felt sense that something is. In other words, in my own life, I have “experienced” God. When Jung says that he “knows” there’s a God, I know what he is talking about. » Posted By whatsthatsound On June 11, 2011 @ 1:31 am KT, do you know about James Lovelock, the man who put forth The Gaia Hypothesis? I think you would really like his ideas, if you’re not already aware of them. http://erg.ucd.ie/arupa/references/gaia.html “What is the hypothesis of Gaia ? Stated simply, the idea is that we may have discovered a living being bigger, more ancient, and more complex than anything from our wildest dreams. That being, called Gaia, is the Earth. More precisely: that about one billion years after it’s formation, our planet was occupied by a meta-life form which began an ongoing process of transforming this planet into its own substance. All the life forms of the planet are part of Gaia. In a way analogous to the myriad different cell colonies which make up our organs and bodies, the life forms of earth in their diversity coevolve and contribute interactively to produce and sustain the optimal conditions for the growth and prosperity not of themselves, but of the larger whole, Gaia. That the very makeup of the atmosphere, seas, and terrestrial crust is the result of radical interventions carried out by Gaia through the evolving diversity of living creatures.” » Posted By whatsthatsound On June 11, 2011 @ 12:12 am KQ, that is what I have heard called the argument of endless regress, or as Dawkins puts it, “who designed the designer?” I think that question is only relevant to those for who find it so. People of faith have no problem with it, and frankly, it has great limitations. Even the word, “design” and the fact that it is placed in the past tense, is telling. As humans, we are accustomed to thinking of things that have beginnings and ends. We find it very difficult to hold in our heads the possibility that something could have always been. That God, for example, could ALWAYS be here, and ALWAYS be exactly complex as “He” needs to be to create a universe like this. We’re never going to be able to explain something like that, but we can intuit it. The opposite seems strange too. That the universe would suddenly “start”. How could that be? First the universe wasn’t, and then it was? What would have been the CAUSE of that? And wouldn’t that cause, by definition, be “outside” and beyond the universe? So, like you said, it just ends up being endless mirrors, and we have to admit that our minds can’t go all that far into the mystery. We can devise arguments, but those arguments hold no value for those who aren’t interested in them. » Posted By whatsthatsound On June 10, 2011 @ 7:54 pm Well, God said to Batshit, “you’d better run”, » Posted By whatsthatsound On June 10, 2011 @ 5:58 am Thanks, Buddy. I probably could have worded it better, but I’m glad you appreciated it. 🙂 » Posted By whatsthatsound On June 10, 2011 @ 4:54 am Exactly. It’s like saying you know how a computer works, so you consider that particular machine the creator of the internet. It’s just “making up” all the information that passes through it via the internet, which in actuality doesn’t exist outside it. Nice try. » Posted By whatsthatsound On June 10, 2011 @ 4:18 am I hope you were smart enough to keep that to yourself in some bars. » Posted By whatsthatsound On June 10, 2011 @ 12:55 am God told Michelle Bachmann to have her campaign out on Highway 61. » Posted By whatsthatsound On June 9, 2011 @ 11:17 pm Bruce Springsteen told me I was “born to run”. He’s God in some parts. » Posted By whatsthatsound On June 9, 2011 @ 11:06 pm not going to touch either of those! 🙂 » Posted By whatsthatsound On June 9, 2011 @ 11:05 pm yeah, but what I meant was that they could debate about who would make the best president. So a “presidential” debate, rather than a “presidential debate”. » Posted By whatsthatsound On June 9, 2011 @ 11:03 pm That God! He and I still crack up about the time He told me, “Become an artist, wts; you’ll make MILLIONS!” » Posted By whatsthatsound On June 9, 2011 @ 10:36 pm Sounds like you just made a bit of work for yourself, Cap’n. » Posted By whatsthatsound On June 9, 2011 @ 10:05 pm Wow! Think of the implications of that, Sally! What if he hadn’t really told Abraham to sacrifice his first born son, but to pick up a sack of rice at the first Lawson’s he passes? Poor Isaac could have been spared all that therapy. » Posted By whatsthatsound On June 9, 2011 @ 10:03 pm The other day, God called on me to run for president, too. I just assumed that’s one of the things God does when He gets bored, and that He probably just chose me at random. I wish Michelle Bachmann would just do what I did. » Posted By whatsthatsound On June 9, 2011 @ 9:42 pm glad to be of help, Kes! » Posted By whatsthatsound On June 9, 2011 @ 2:36 pm Well, of COURSE the Founding Fathers were pissed at Darwin! Darwin was King George III’s chief henchman! George and Darwin were trying to nip American EXCEPTIONALISM in the bud by making us mistrust our Bibles. Evolution was the chief psychological weapon, which is why we call it the American Evolutionary War. » Posted By whatsthatsound On June 9, 2011 @ 2:35 pm Today’s Lesson In Herstory: The Gettysburg Address On November 19th, 1863, President Abraham Lincoln gave the following warning to the British: Four shots and seven bells ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, an EXCEPTIONAL new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men should be armed. Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so EXCEPTIONAL, can long endure. We are met on a great battle-field of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should warn the British that they aren’t going to take our freedoms. » Posted By whatsthatsound On June 9, 2011 @ 6:44 amComments Posted By whatsthatsound
https://planetpov.com/2011/04/23/the-view-from-the-left-hemisphere-of-the-universe/
Batshit say, “You must be puttin’ me on!”
God say “no”,
Babs say “what?”
God say, “Babs, you can do what you want,
but let Me assure you that you are The One”
so Babs say, “God, how can this election be won?”
He said, “Have it out on Highway 61”
Hey, how about a “presidential debate” between those two?
I told Him, “Don’t be silly! I’d make an absolutely terrible president!”
And that was the end of it. I never heard any more from Him about it.
But we WON!
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