Perfect Pasta: Deus ex Macaroni…
We’re writing a book… me and my characters…
We’re writing a book… me and my characters…
Is Yoda a Sith Lord?
I bet you’re thinking Yoda is a Sith Lord, right?
Because Obi-Wan Kenobi said so? The same Obi-Wan that trained Anakin Skywalker? The same Anakin Skywalker that turned into Darth Wader?
Just because they have a lightsaber doesn’t make them all-knowing and wise…
Why colonize space?
I think it is important mankind learns how to travel between stars and find new planets to colonize.
Why?
It would give our lives meaning beyond being a top-level predator.
If we were to go out among the stars and start terraforming planets, we’d use plants and animals from the earth, and all of a sudden their survival rate, in the long run, would increase manyfold.
We would be able to give back to other species for all the shit we’ve subjected them to…
Unless, of course, we started terraforming planets with life…
Irrational Logic
It is logical… just not in a rational way…
Isolate or Integrate?
There are two major approaches to dealing with continuous exposure to foreign cultures: Either you isolate yourself until that pesky foreign culture tires and go somewhere else or you integrate that culture until one plus one equals another one.
There are many ideas and theories about integration and perhaps very few good clean facts and answers, I actually don’t know…
…but I do know this; you can always ask any North Korean about isolationism…
…if they even understand that’s an issue in their country…
…and if you’re even able to contact them…
…yeah, you probably can’t ask a North Korean…
Mankind is doomed!
Veganism
Veganism: No harm, no fowl.
Raging Anti-Americanism in Future Religion?
State Senator Lynn Hutchings defense of the death penalty:
The greatest man who ever lived died via the death penalty for you and me. I’m grateful to him for our future hope because of this. Governments were instituted to execute justice. If it wasn’t for Jesus dying via the death penalty, we would all have no hope.
Yes. And Jews were involved, on a corner, in the execution of Christ, and because of that, Christianity has always been afflicted by raging antisemitism that culminated (we hope) in the terror regime of Nazi Germany.
So, if American executions would happen to produce a future religion, that religion would then treat Americans like Nazis treated Jews?
I have a proposal:
Fucking stop it! Now!
Incomprehensible, Painful, Harmless
My jokes can be graded on a scale between incomprehensible and painful, with harmless as a forgiving middle point.
Plotting with Cracks and Wedges
Take a situation. Find its cracks. Put wedges in those cracks. New cracks will likely appear. Keep putting in wedges until the whole thing flies apart. That’s your climax. The wedges and the cracks are the pressure points, the conflicts, and the story leading up to and causing that climax.
