Mormons, Magic, and Mescaline

[Kulthenius]

It worked for Jean Luc Picard.

Well yeah, he did command a starship and then go on to develop omniscient psychic mind control powers before being resurrected and brought back in all his glory.

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I got news for you. Life is batshit crazy and makes no sense, religion is filling people's heads with some kind of cohesive mental jelly that holds all these crazy and disparate thought strands together in a nice simple way.

There is a reason adults grow out of their taste for jelly*.

MM

* Jell-O - for our US cousins.

Thank you for clarifying 'jelly'. The propensity to teach Queen's English in China has led to me adapting to certain terms that are still foreign to many Americans. Though I still smile like an immature idiot whenever Limies, Kiwis, or Ozzies, ask 'to bum a fag'.

I completely agree life is batshit crazy, and there are many parts that don't make sense. However, much does make sense, and this may be a pipe dream, but hopefully one day psychology lessons and reason will replace man in the sky mantras and people will be able to use the 'sticky glue' of self-worth to connect their thoughts in meaningful and productive ways.

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My advice when dealing with Mormons, take the second M out of the word and you see what they're all about. Joseph Smith was visited by an angel named Moroni after all. It obviously was his biggest and most damaging heist, since he made a living of being a fraud.

The name choices do seem like an inside joke he played on his followers.

[ManMachine]

Santa is a ninja.

Yep, and I'll note that the cookie nomming fat fuck *still* owes me a goddamn minibike.

You are so on the naughty list.

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Thank you for clarifying 'jelly'. The propensity to teach Queen's English in China has led to me adapting to certain terms that are still foreign to many Americans. Though I still smile like an immature idiot whenever Limies, Kiwis, or Ozzies, ask 'to bum a fag'.

I completely agree life is batshit crazy, and there are many parts that don't make sense. However, much does make sense, and this may be a pipe dream, but hopefully one day psychology lessons and reason will replace man in the sky mantras and people will be able to use the 'sticky glue' of self-worth to connect their thoughts in meaningful and productive ways.

Surely it's Aussies?

I fear your utopian, Huxlian future may be a little beyond the reach of people who display a propensity for being wholly unreasonable in their thinking. We live in a world predicated on marketing companies keeping us brim-full of self-doubt, you'll have to 'Kill all the ad-men!' - to paraphrase Shakespeare - if we are to make any headway in that area. Even then I doubt the human race has the capacity to raise itself above the lowest common denominator, enlightenment will remain a delusion of the minority.

MM

[LastPoet]

You couldn't possibly fathom