CHRONICLING THE COMING OF THE END TIMES

"This is the way the world ends. Not with a bang but a whimper."

Wed, 03 Apr 2013 23:09:46 +0100

LucasArts is gone. With their final game being the poorly received and poorly reviewed Star Wars Kinect, their demise has given T.S. Eliot’s words from The Hollow Men credence.

Best known for their many Star Wars games, such as Rogue Squadron, the Dark Forces series, Knights of the Old Republic and Battlefront, and also the Monkey Island series, LucasArts has been a beacon of brilliance in the video game industry, having showcased work from legends like Tim Schaffer and Dave Grossman.

In what some may consider an act of kindness, Disney gutted the famed game studio, forcing roughly 150 people out of their jobs and cancelling all current projects, although the company will still exist as a licencor for the Star Wars games.

Before the internet haet machine rears its ugly head to rage at Disney, I feel that it is important to remember a couple of things.

1) Disney will be licencing out the Star Wars licence to 3rd party developers. This should be a good thing.

2) Disney are in the business of making more money. They’ll remember the games that made LucasArts money, if nothing else. Remember that LucasArts made some excellent and well selling games.

3) Star Wars Kinect was so awful that it was most likely a subconscious suicide note from LucasArts

Apparently changing your [insert social network of preference name] profile picture to a red equals...

Wed, 27 Mar 2013 04:11:49 +0000

Apparently changing your [insert social network of preference name] profile picture to a red equals sign is going to convince der guvverment to let gay people marry.
“Pwease Mr Government, sir, I changed my profile picture, now will you give homosexuals the same rights as everyone else?”

Anyone else see a problem with this?

Circumcision and Religious Freedom

Sun, 04 Nov 2012 04:49:18 +0000

If you want to remove part of your body for religious, health or even fashion reasons, that is fine. It doesn’t matter to me what you do to your own body. What I object to is when you force a child to have part of their body removed to please your mumbo-jumbo deity. You are sick and disgusting for depriving another human being the opportunity to investigate the pros and cons of having it removed and to make the decision themselves.

What kind of depraved mind believes that it should be a freedom to inflict a permanent change on another human’s body to please their imaginary friend? It honestly baffles me. What confuses me more is how so many of the people who support this insanity claim to be individualists, yet they would willingly refuse their own child the choice of whether he wants to keep his foreskin or not.

As for the arguments regarding the health benefits of removing it - apparently it reduces the risk of HIV - that’s all well and good, yet seeing how the vast majority of you sick bastards have some deeply held religious belief that removing the foreskin will make your god happy, it brings to mind the question: do you also expect your child to abstain from sex until marriage, as your religious doctrines dictate? After all, if your child abstains from sex until marriage, it is only just before his wedding night that he even needs to consider circumcision. If you do not expect your child to abstain, then you clearly have no care for that specific religious belief, at least not to the extent that you would force your child to abstain, so why force them to undergo this permanent procedure?

CHAMBER: CK...

Sun, 04 Nov 2012 03:08:00 +0000

CHAMBER: CK...:

alonmg-politics:

hyroncore:

If foreskin should be removed because there’s a chance of it getting infected by an idiot not washing himself,

by similar logic, businesses should be nationalised to reduce risk. We both know that’s commie bollocks.

Besides, you are using a belief in a mythological creature to justify…

the World Health Organization recommends male circumcision to help prevent STD’s…
http://www.who.int/mediacentre/news/releases/2007/pr10/en/index.html
God do you guys like never read the news or know how to research?

>See post

>Prepared to make a response regarding the choice of the individual whose penis is to be mutilated

>Click link to see if bullshit

>Page not found (see printscreen below for evidence)

Communist Hypocrisy

Sat, 03 Nov 2012 21:39:45 +0000

“One of the basic conditions for the victory of socialism is the arming of the workers and the disarming of the bourgeoisie.”

narwhal-jousting:

- Vladimir Lenin

Says the man who then became elevated to the level of the displaced bourgeois.

Sounds legit.

Review: The Bible

Tue, 25 Sep 2012 15:09:00 +0100

With breathtaking scope, the world of Bible is an alternative history of our own world, where a powerful deity, known only as Lord God, seeks to save humanity from the punishment he sentenced them to.

In the first book, The Old Testament, Lord God creates the world and everything which exists, before creating the first man and woman, Adam and Eve. When they are tricked into eating the forbidden fruit by a talking snake, Lord God banishes them from the paradise he had created, thus setting in motion the 4000 year epic which follows the stories of Adam and Eve and their descendants, through triumph, misery and the wrath of the vengeful Lord God.

The sequel, The New Testament, sees Lord God’s heart soften enough to attempt to save humanity by becoming one himself through a miraculous virgin birth. Renaming himself Jesus, he challenges the ideas many other humans have, developing a following, preaching love and forgiveness as virtues and using his magic to impress and help people. Unfortunately this mission is a short lived failure, as after only 4 chapters, Lord God’s human avatar is brutally murdered by the very people he was trying to save. What follows is an attempt to spread the tale of Lord God’s brief time in the world.

While the author has constructed a believable and magical world, his overzealous moralising, misogyny and homophobia mar what is could otherwise be a great work of fiction.

3/5

Genre: Fantasy

The Bible is out now.

I have heard the phrase “Who are we to judge?” too many times in recent months. There is...

Sat, 22 Sep 2012 19:10:00 +0100

I have heard the phrase “Who are we to judge?” too many times in recent months. There is an assumption amongst some thinkers that from a position of moral subjectivity, since one’s own standards are different from another’s, one cannot judge them by their actions.

“Judge not that ye be not judged,” say the famous (if often misquoted) words of Jesus Christ, a most insidious form of moral cowardice. To fear the judgement of others is to lack the conviction of the morals you have chosen for yourself. The moral relativist knows that their morals are not set in stone, and that thus to be judged allows them to re-evaluate their own positions.

I do not feel that judging is a moral duty, but when your defence against criticism is that no one has the right to judge, followed by a justification that you, yourself, do not judge, you are judging those who judge, which is hypocrisy.

Simply holding different standards to someone else does not make you any more right than them, but you are perfectly justified in saying that you disapprove of their actions. Perspective can help you understand the motives behind the actions, but that does not always excuse them. It is cowardice to stay silent when you witness actions you hold to be immoral.

Social Justice on Tumblr, fighting racism by being racist. Makes perfect sense.

Tue, 18 Sep 2012 12:43:16 +0100

GPOY

Tue, 18 Sep 2012 11:37:40 +0100

GPOY

"Never belong to a crowd; Never belong to a nation; Never belong to a religion; Never belong to a..."

Tue, 18 Sep 2012 11:11:06 +0100

“Never belong to a crowd; Never belong to a nation; Never belong to a religion; Never belong to a race. Belong to the whole existence. Why limit yourself to small things? When the whole is available.”

- Osho

"Get stuck. Stay in one place your whole life. Always order vanilla even though the menu is four..."

Tue, 18 Sep 2012 10:39:30 +0100

“

Get stuck. Stay in one place your whole life. Always order vanilla even though the menu is four pages long. Become the type of person who sends back lattes. Save up your money for a plasma TV instead of a plane ticket. Talk a lot about things you know nothing about. Have an affair with someone you don’t even find attractive.

Refuse to forget your ex. Make it impossible for yourself to do anything without remembering that you used to do it with them. Hug your knees under the sheets and think about how safe you felt when they held you at night. Remind yourself daily of how empty you feel. Find new ways to make yourself sad.

Get drunk all the time. Consider no Saturday night, national holiday or extended happy hour complete without a vodka-induced breakdown. Graduate college but keep drinking like you’re still in it. Notice that cheap beer tastes watery and stale when you drink it alone but drink it anyway. Look at old Facebook photos wasted and wonder where everyone went.

Never drink. Never do anything that could potentially be “bad” for you. Treat your body like the temple it is and say no to carbs, yes to wheatgrass, go to bed at ten sharp and turn down cake on your birthday. Take fifteen different dietary supplements. Monitor carefully. Succumb to nothing. Miss out on everything.

Compare yourself constantly, to everyone. Allow the standards of image-obsessed, age-obsessed culture to make you feel decrepit at 25. Scroll through skinny girls on Tumblr feeling wistful and inadequate. Pull at the skin on your hipbones, stomach, and underarms in the mirror. Sigh a lot. Sigh all the time.

Don’t fall in love with anyone or anything. Put an impenetrable wall between yourself and other people. Add a fire-breathing dragon and eight yards of barbed wire. Be suspicious of everyone’s motives. Hold grudges long after you’ve forgotten what for.

Fall in love with everyone and everything. Run after the next best thing like it’s a bus you’re perpetually late for. Throw your heart into every other stranger’s hands and be genuinely surprised to be hurt. Refuse to learn. Refuse to ever learn.

”

- How To Ruin Your Life

Photo

Tue, 18 Sep 2012 10:05:24 +0100

Topless Tuesday

Tue, 18 Sep 2012 09:50:33 +0100

Topless Tuesday

Me: "I judge people on their individual merits, their ethnicity doesn't come into it."

Tue, 18 Sep 2012 08:23:00 +0100

Me: "I judge people on their individual merits, their ethnicity doesn't come into it."
Social Justice Sally: "OMG YOU RACIST CRACKER FUCK, YOU'RE REDUCING MY EXPERIENCES"

That awkward moment when you tell someone to resort to ad...

Sun, 16 Sep 2012 11:52:00 +0100

That awkward moment when you tell someone to resort to ad hominem and they do…

Musing: Turtles All The Way Down

Sat, 15 Sep 2012 16:21:26 +0100

If one is to be self-aware, one must be aware of one’s own actions. The logical next step is to be aware that one is aware. Next, one must be aware that one is aware of one’s awareness. Yet again, by this point, one is aware that one is aware that one is aware that one is aware, and so on. This creates a recursive loop of constantly being aware of that which one has just become aware of.

In other words, it’s turtles all the way down.

Arrogance, Aspersion and Atheism

Sat, 15 Sep 2012 12:55:59 +0100

We have just passed the eleventh anniversary of the deaths of thousands of people in the name of one religion, an act which lead to what at least two world leaders openly called a ‘Crusade’ into the Middle East, ending the lives of countless thousands more. These are merely two of the most recent examples of atrocities performed in the name of religion.

Through centuries past, millions have died and been tortured in the name of one god or another. There are many whose radical thought and pioneering scientific discoveries brought them the end of their lives. There are also those who had the misfortune of believing in the wrong gods or were simply in the wrong place at the wrong time. The religious powers have frequently used their authority to silence free speech, thought and expression, which many believe has held back the development of the human race.

Since the advent of the internet, we have found a portal of complete and unrestrained freedom of speech. While this offers a great capacity for the sharing of ideas and knowledge, it has come at a price. Freedom of speech without limitation will always lead to things being said which can often be seen as ignorant and abusive. It is not uncommon, for example, to discover a vicious argument between atheists and religious folks in the comments section of a pop music video, which devolves from what was initially a well structured article to petty name-calling and slander.

It is in part due to the particularly vocal atheist groups on the internet that the term ‘militant atheist’ has entered the common vocabulary. It refers to the aggressive nature of these users, many of whom had never before been able to discuss their own atheism in their own peer groups thanks to the rabid marginalisation many such individuals suffer in their own societies. The term ‘militant’ holds an immediate association with people who are prepared to do extreme harm, including killing others, to spread their message or achieve their goals. There is absolutely no comparison between someone who makes brutish and insulting comments on the internet and someone prepared to end the lives of others.

Of course, this is not to say that I believe that atheists are incapable of wrong doing, neither do I think that wars and crimes against humanity are solely the fault of the myriad religions of this planet - we have shown ourselves more than capable of killing each other for far less than eternal life in paradise. However, the great deal of atrocities that have been performed in the name of one god or many simply cannot be ignored, especially in light of the fact that there has not ever been one single atrocity done in the name of reason, science or logic. This demonisation of the vocal atheist movement as ‘militant’ not only tarnishes the opinions of said movement as ‘extreme views’, but it also trivialises the horrific acts performed by genuine religious militants, essentially comparing the hurt one might feel for being called ignorant for one’s heartfelt beliefs with the bombing of abortion clinics or the burning of embassies in retaliation to a film which dares to say that your religion is not the religion of peace.

Naturally, I could not in good conscience demand that the use of the term ‘militant atheist’ stop being used; this goes against my own philosophy of total freedom of speech. I only ask that the next time you feel that your beliefs are being belittled by over-zealous atheists, remember that using such terms only reduces yourself to their level. As for you who trawl the internet attacking religious beliefs, bear in mind that your own world-view is just as much a guess as anyone else’s. A claim that there is definitely no god requires as much proof as the claim that there is one. I personally hold that the existence of a god has very little evidence to support it, with the majority of what has previously been held as concrete proof being given scientific explanations. However, that does not mean that there is no such being; I have merely made the self-determined choice to live as though there were none.

"Help for Heroes”? Oh right, you mean Subsidised Murder."

Thu, 13 Sep 2012 03:11:26 +0100

““Help for Heroes”? Oh right, you mean Subsidised Murder.”

- Harley Wilson

paxxox: haley-driftwood: diabsoule: dearmonsters: This dude...

Fri, 07 Sep 2012 13:38:01 +0100

paxxox:

haley-driftwood:

diabsoule:

dearmonsters:

This dude always has the right idea on things.

Getting an abortion is stressful enough with people being a massive dick to them about it.

Henry Rollins is the perfect man.

Henry Rollins for president.

digitaloverdrive: I want this to happen SO DAMN MUCH. Yes, I...

Wed, 05 Sep 2012 20:20:29 +0100

digitaloverdrive:

I want this to happen SO DAMN MUCH.

Yes, I know I could have made a better fake DVD cover. This was my first attempt, OK?