A good read not that I agree with every thing...
"One death is a tragedy. One million deaths is a statistic."
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What do monkeys have to do with war, oppression, crime, racism and even e-mail spam? You'll see that all of the random a$$-headed cruelty of the world will suddenly make perfect sense once we go Inside the Monkeysphere.
http://www.cracked.com/article_14990_wh ... phere.html
What is the Monkeysphere?
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"In my weird politically incorrect hypothetically incoherent contradicting obscured world definitively maybe"
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Re: What is the Monkeysphere?
Yes, its the people of the functional strategy. its about the welfare of the one.
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Re: What is the Monkeysphere?
wizardofid wrote:
"One death is a tragedy. One million deaths is a statistic."
-Kevin Federline
Uhmm, actually no.
Joseph Stalin wrote:"A single death is a tragedy, a million deaths is a statistic."
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A surprising amount of modern pseudoscience is coming out of the environmental sector. Perhaps it should not be so surprising given that environmentalism is political rather than scientific.
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A surprising amount of modern pseudoscience is coming out of the environmental sector. Perhaps it should not be so surprising given that environmentalism is political rather than scientific.
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Re: What is the Monkeysphere?
Interesting... I have quite a few problems with the conclusions drawn though. The author goes from systematically and skillfully describing the scenario we're in, but then reverts to thumb-sucking for his proposed solutions.
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+1
But I guess that's because, like he said, there are no simple solutions.
But I guess that's because, like he said, there are no simple solutions.
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Re: What is the Monkeysphere?
Take that back, I say!
I am an Ape not a Monkey. [most of the primates portrayed in that article are apes too]
I am an Ape not a Monkey. [most of the primates portrayed in that article are apes too]
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Re: What is the Monkeysphere?
You are busy judging the merits of an article on cracked.comD3PART3D wrote:Interesting... I have quite a few problems with the conclusions drawn though.
You have more problems than you realize.
I'd like to round up all chimps and have them executed. They are 4 times stronger than us - and 7 times smarter than D3PART3D.
Re: What is the Monkeysphere?
Gosh. I sometimes wonder about when you're just messing with me and when you're being serious - you are both a very humorous and a very honest person. Anyway, I am very aware of my messy mental state, and I didn't take note of which site the article was on and didn't see the book at the bottom. *ego saved*
Do crazy people know that they're crazy?
Do crazy people know that they're crazy?
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I'm not crazy, its everyone else around me.
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Some wise guy once said that as long as you worry about going crazy you're still fine. It's when you stop worrying when the trouble starts...