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– Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathusra, “At Noon”

“You lose yourself, you reappear
You suddenly find you got nothing to fear
Alone you stand with nobody near
When a trembling distant voice, unclear
Startles your sleeping ears to hear
That somebody thinks
They really found you.”

– Bob Dylan, It’s Alright, Ma (Im Only Bleeding)

“My practice of war may be summarized in four propositions. First: I attack only causes which are victorious – and at times I wait until they are victorious. Second: I attack only causes against which I cannot expect to find allies, against which I shall stand alone – against which I shall compromise myself alone. I have never taken a step in public which was not compromising: this is my criterion of doing what is right. Third: I never attack persons; I only avail myself of the person as of a strong magnifying glass with which one can render visible a general but creeping calamity which it is otherwise hard to get hold of… Fourth: I attack only causes in which any personal difference is out of the question, and in which any background of unwholesome experiences is lacking. On the contrary, to attack is with me a proof of good will, and sometimes of gratitude”

-Friedrich Nietzsche, “Ecce Homo”, translated from German to English by Walter Kaufmann

According the Purr, the sexual revolution of the sixties and seventies and the resulting feminism movement has gone too far. She now far too often encounters women with bitter regrets over failed relationships that all have one thing in common: lack of sexual compromise. Purr explains that on a regular basis she meets women who’ve refused to show sexual interest in their relationships for periods of time only to be cheated on and/or divorced.

In relationships where men feel sexually neglected by their partner they are highly likely to look elsewhere to satisfy their sexual desires. Purr says that in almost all of the cases the women have had no good reasons, such as medical issues or a traumatic event, to deny their men sex and that is understandable that men in such relationships go elsewhere for sex.

Of the hundreds of women she’s met, Purr says:

“They’ve lacked interest in sex for a variety of reasons, and expected to set the ground rules with no negotiation. The consequences? Troubled or broken relationships.”

And finally the most important advice Purr has for women:

“You may think it’s a terrible comparison to make between chores and sex. But I believe that sex should be seen as a duty because it is one of the most fundamental ways in which you can make your partner feel better. You may not want to have sex, just as you may not want to visit his parents, but you must tend to every aspect of your relationship if you wish it to survive.”

Thanks to Daily Mail for this piece

Then Digg expanded to include many categories. And Digg’s popularity grew. Now Digg is dead to me. I rarely find anything of interest though I continue to be one of the many that view Digg daily.

It bums me out. I think Digg will grow in popularity thanks to the new direction it is taking. Why? Because frankly it is becoming dumber and dumber which equates to more and more popular.

Do I have the solution? Actually, I think I do. Rewind back to the times when I did like Digg. It was the community that made it so cool. It was not gamed as heavy as it is now. The front page did not include 4-year-old viral content. It was fresh and interesting and it was the community that made it thus.

Now onto the solution: Division. Digg needs to be separated into different populations.

Having to deal with the entire population ruins Digg. The obvious response to this is going to be “Filters”. Filters are not an answer. Filters do little but narrow down what retarded content you are going to view. Want to see only retarded tech stuff? Filter out the rest.

Digg is a great idea and will continue to entertain the herd. However, Stumbleupon may be even better. Though far from perfect, it at least gets to know its users and filters what content it delivers to its users based on their behavior. When I go to Digg.com and sign in, I still get fed the junk that everybody else does.

I could ramble on further but I like to keep ideas simple. I would also like to see what others think about my thoughts in their barest form.

From ABC News:

In some very cruel cases, you may be justified in using the ‘bullying’ label. In most cases, you’d be far better off taking your kid to karate classes and teaching them self-confidence.

via TheObserver UK

I don’t know about the rest of you but I’ve never owned a slave and so I could give a crap about it. I do not feel bad for black people because of the slave trade because I do not know any blacks that are slaves or were slaves earlier in their life. While many other races have overcome discrimination by working hard, many blacks cling to government help, sympathy, and reverse-racism. Reverse-racism — as in being chosen because of your ethnic background in order to meet a quota.

Back to Bill Cosby. The man despises the way that many blacks speak – guttural Ebonics if you ask me. He hates the way the blacks buy $500 sneakers (rather than $200 for Hooked on Phonics). He hates the way blacks are named — what the hell is up with a name like Shaniqua? (I find it interesting that Shaniqua is a misspelling according to my spell check.

It is definitely worth reading the full transcript of Bill Cosby’s speech if this makes you smile as much as it has made me smile.

But seriously, according to a new research publication, it isn’t just Bush who may be thinking about the end of times – just about eight-in-ten Americans have no doubt that God exists, that prayer is important, and that “we will all be called before God at the Judgement Day to answer for our sins.” This percentage has only fluctuated a bit since 1987.

Here’s what I wonder: Are people scared of saying otherwise? If you are only moderately religious but have heard that not believing in God will send you straight to hell, what are you going to say when asked such questions? When asked such questions you may feel uneasy about your true feelings and just state what you’ve been told is right. It is not possible to believe that eight-in-ten Americans have even had the kind of spiritual awakening necessary to form a religious point-of-view.

Do eight-in-ten Americans ever separate the notion of Spirituality from Religion? Have you?

No, Nine Inch Nail’s Trent Reznor wasn’t the first to coin this phrase. Hell, I’d bank that Nietzsche wasn’t either… by a long shot. Nonetheless, Nietzsche is one of the first respected scholars to lay such a claim. What does he even mean here? Let me be the most honest by saying that I have no idea because I am not Nietzsche and I’m especially not the Nietzsche that had busied himself experiencing the moment the thought occurred to write this message. But I will tell you this folks: Thank God for Friedrich Nietzsche.

God is dead. Face it folks: the God that made miraculous things occur in the Old Testament has not existed a day past the birth of the New Testament. God is a three-letter word. At the time Nietzsche wrote this statement, human beings were already thinking of God more as a word than as a truth. As humans became more intelligent about reality, primitive notions of God dissipated.

What I mean by this:

• God is a three letter word that represented a notion
• God is necessarily a salient perspective
• God is not a user friendly concept
• God can be called any word in the dictionary so long as the word is used to describe God
• God spelled backwards is Dog. Mix it up and you get Ogd or Gdo or Dgo
• Ogd is a good name for a caveman
• We know damn well that in order to describe what is God-like we do not need to resort to the protection of a single word; God is just a word or sound that is used to describe something that is God-like, or, something that is incomprehensible

God is dead. People who would claim otherwise should be required to provide a solid reasoning for their silly thought processes. “God”. When said out loud it is only a sound – many would not even recognize it as a word.

Nietzsche asks “Must we ourselves not become gods simply to appear worthy [of the murder of God]“ Well? Why not believe that we are actualizing the possibility of becoming God-like?