Day 38 - A Pot in Every Chicken, Fake Religions, The French French, and Sleeping Your Way To Immortality

Mr. Silver
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2011/06/22/new-bill-ending-federal-ban-on-marijuana-to-be-introduced-in-congress/
They'll chicken out...but the end is becoming inevitable

8:25 AM Mr. Gray

Yeah...I really try not to read stories like that while at work, thanks

8:30 AM Mr. Silver
hehe
eh...
Although the culture is of no interest to me, the topic has been a logical thorn in my side since the early 80s
8:39 AM Mr. Silver
Titanic waste of resources, lives, opportunities.
All going back to Nixon not liking Hippies
"He did wha???  What a moron."

8:41 AM Mr. Green

Yep, Nixon, the quintessential Republican... always gotta be hatin’ on someone

Mr. Gray

Yeah the whole Nixon going after the "hippies" by making things illegal was just stupid

Its a waste of money, and you'd think prohibition would have been a big enough clue. Only caused bootlegging, smuggling, gang violence and didn’t stop a thing

It just created a need for a black market on something that could be taxed

I read that Washington (state) is trying to push through legislation to make it useable for recreation and go completely against the federal ban

Mr. Silver
“Whatever you do, don't look at the trap!”
"I looked at the trap, Ray."

 Mr. Gray

Apparently Vin Diesel is working on a new Riddick movie

I like that character

11:31 AM Mr. Gray

Movie will be R-rated apparently too

bonus

11:41 AM Mr. Silver
Bloody, with swears and boobies

11:42 AM Mr. Gray

Hoping so LOL

8:17 AM Mr. Brown

I can't get out to look up Scientology on wiki

8:18 AM Mr. Silver

Interesting

Delving into fabricated religions today then?

8:20 AM Mr. Brown

Still not sure what it is

Sounds stupid

8:20 AM Mr. Silver

It is stupid

8:20 AM Mr. Brown

Just wanted to see how stupid

8:20 AM Mr. Silver

But the author knew it going in

Having read some of his fiction, his opinion about humans being gullible idiots was pretty developed

8:24 AM Mr. Brown

I'm still not sure what their belief system is

8:25 AM Mr. Red

Hey all the Hollywood actors go for it as their religion...so it HAS to be good.

8:26 AM Mr. Brown

lol

8:26 AM Mr. Silver

Never helped Hubbard's case to state that if you want to get really rich and famous, start a religion.

Of course, the fact that this statement clearly outlines why he founded Scientology and is still ignored...well...it just bolsters his opinion of human intelligence

8:29 AM Mr. Red

Yeah but he did get really rich didn't he?

I remember a 'religion' - Pastafarian if I remember right

8:33 AM Mr. Red

Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster

http://www.venganza.org  

8:37 AM Mr. Brown

You shall not eat your god

lol

8:46 AM Mr. Brown

I was watching a show this morning that was going through the different religions through time to see the development of evil or the devil.

Hinduism is cool because they say that Evil comes from us.

Not a god.

That the evil is within

that to me is a strong and valid belief

9:00 AM Mr. Silver
Direct translation from the ancient texts "People are a-holes"


 

10:00 AM Mr. Blue

heh

Topic on talk radio this morning was that Obama is to blame for the gang violence in Mexico

In fact, he is funding it

10:02 AM Mr. Silver

yyyyyyyyyyyeahhhhhhhh

10:10 AM Mr. Blue

So that he and the ATF can push their agenda of stricter gun control

10:19 AM Mr. Silver

They were blaming him for purposely driving up gas prices too, like he could.  Morons pandering to morons.

11:24 AM Mr. Blue

"more random than a teenage girl."

11:34 AM Mr. Blue

"I’m not the brightest bulb in the book."

11:36 AM Mr. Red

“or sharpest knife in the crayon box”

12:22 PM Mr. Silver

So...2 days...

Only 1 visit to the blog yesterday

They hate us again

12:23 PM Mr. Brown

lol

Are we becoming boring?

1:17 PM Mr. Silver
So, I don't get it.

1:18 PM Mr. Blue

what?

1:21 PM Mr. Silver
Well, what I wasn't getting was The French...but

1:22 PM Mr. Blue

What French?

1:23 PM Mr. Silver
The French ones. Well...I got 8 hits from France the other day...and now after 48 hours and 2 more posts...just 1 hit, from the USA

1:24 PM Mr. Red

The Dutch were on vacation?

1:24 PM Mr. Silver
Danes.  The Dutch haven't chimed in yet.
So anyway, we went from cosmopolitan to everyone leaving.
Was it “The French” that did it?

12:29 PM Mr. Blue

I am extremely tired

12:29 PM Mr. Brown

Why are you always tired?

12:30 PM Mr. Blue

I have permanent mono?

I dunno

If I don't get 13 hours of beauty sleep I’m a mess

12:30 PM Mr. Brown

Sounds like you are not sleeping well if you need 13

12:30 PM Mr. Silver
nope

12:30 PM Mr. Blue

Well I don't actually need 13...9

12:30 PM Mr. Silver
Still

12:31 PM Mr. Brown

If you get 5 hours of REM, you’re golden

12:31 PM Mr. Blue

But it takes a while to get into REM

12:31 PM Mr. Silver

I could never get into REM...I like just a couple songs...

(ba-dum CHISHHhhhhhhh!)

12:32 PM Mr. Blue

agh yuck

12:32 PM Mr. Brown

You need a parrot that is taught to say Ba-dum chishhhhhhhh

12:32 PM Mr. Silver
(wants!)
12:38 PM Mr. Silver
Maybe teach it a laugh track and "wah wah waaaaaaaahhhh" too!

1:26 PM Mr. Blue

I forget who, but some writer had a technique of attaching a bell to himself and he'd sit in a chair... and every time he would nod off the bell would ring and wake him up. He said he got his best ideas when he was in this half-sleep/half-awake stage. Might been an inventor even.. maybe Tesla

1:28 PM Mr. Red

Never heard that, interesting

1:31 PM Mr. Brown

That’s the point when I used my mind to stop a clock

1:31 PM Mr. Silver
I get most of my best stories and project ideas on the borders of The Neverland, yes

1:33 PM Mr. Blue

If I did that my writing would be about feathered turtles and dinosaurs

1:34 PM Mr. Silver
sounds good.

1:34 PM Mr. Red

Hey it may sell

1:42 PM Mr. Blue

to druggies

1:42 PM Mr. Silver

and kiddies

1:43 PM Mr. Red

Their money is good too

1:44 PM Mr. Brown

When my friend's body was attacking his cerebellum

He said he lived on a farm for what seemed like a full year as a hallucination

And at another point he thought he was in a old army hospital

1:53 PM Mr. Blue

Wait, what?

2:05 PM Mr. Brown

He was hallucinating hardcore

2:08 PM Mr. Brown

It was very vivid, he said

He went from spring through winter back to spring at this farm

In his head

2:09 PM Mr. Blue

Like “Inception”

Ken Watanabe's character was stuck in his dream for like...60 years

But in reality it was only a few hours

2:39 PM Mr. Brown

That is exactly how it was like for my friend

Only few hours here but a year or so there

3:06 PM Mr. Silver
If you could bottle a reliable form of that, you'd be a trillionaire

3:08 PM Mr. Blue

Like a sleep-state pill?

3:11 PM Mr. Silver
No. One dose and you "live" an extra year doing something else in a dream.
Assuming it didn't completely fry your brain doing it, every night could be an extended adventure and you'd come out of a month of nights with 30 years of extra experiences under your belt.

3:12 PM Mr. Blue

But wouldn't you be incredibly detached from reality when you woke up?

To the tune of 30 years detached?

3:16 PM Mr. Silver
Yes

3:16 PM Mr. Blue

That'd be pretty sweet

3:20 PM Mr. Silver
Have a nice 3000 year retirement in your last real 8 years of old age, perhaps
3:20 PM Mr. Silver

One unbearable day in the real world to eat and such, then back to adventure

3:20 PM Mr. Blue

I’d probably never wanna leave

3:21 PM Mr. Blue

Nobody would ever leave

Some of my dreams suck

Like the ones where I can barely move and everything is too distorted to enjoy

But the lucid ones.. I’d love to be in those like, all the time

3:22 PM Mr. Silver
Well, I did specify "reliable"

3:23 PM Mr. Blue

Yes

I think what might work is something that knocks you into REM, but then gives you a hit of something...like maybe a bit of caffeine or something...to give you energy in your REM state.

Because usually if I’m TOO TOO tired, that’s' when my dreams just aren't fun.