The Trash Heap of the Heapers' Hangout

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  • It may therefore be objected that there can have been no such initial
    stage of peaceable life as is here assumed. There is no point in
    cultural evolution prior to which fighting does not occur. But the
    point in question is not as to the occurrence of combat, occasional or
    sporadic, or even more or less frequent and habitual; it is a question
    as to the occurrence of an habitual; it is a question as to the
    occurrence of an habitual bellicose frame of mind--a prevalent habit
    of judging facts and events from the point of view of the fight. The
    predatory phase of culture is attained only when the predatory attitude
    has become the habitual and accredited spiritual attitude for the
    members of the group; when the fight has become the dominant note in the
    current theory of life; when the common-sense appreciation of men and
    things has come to be an appreciation with a view to combat.

    The substantial difference between the peaceable and the predatory phase
    of culture, therefore, is a spiritual difference, not a mechanical one.
    The change in spiritual attitude is the outgrowth of a change in the
    material facts of the life of the group, and it comes on gradually as
    the material circumstances favourable to a predatory attitude supervene.
    The inferior limit of the predatory culture is an industrial limit.
    Predation can not become the habitual, conventional resource of any
    group or any class until industrial methods have been developed to such
    a degree of efficiency as to leave a margin worth fighting for, above
    the subsistence of those engaged in getting a living. The transition
    from peace to predation therefore depends on the growth of technical
    knowledge and the use of tools. A predatory culture is similarly
    impracticable in early times, until weapons have been developed to such
    a point as to make man a formidable animal. The early development of
    tools and of weapons is of course the same fact seen from two different
    points of view.
  • The life of a given group would be characterised as peaceable so long
    as habitual recourse to combat has not brought the fight into the
    foreground in men's every day thoughts, as a dominant feature of the
    life of man. A group may evidently attain such a predatory attitude with
    a greater or less degree of completeness, so that its scheme of life and
    canons of conduct may be controlled to a greater or less extent by the
    predatory animus. The predatory phase of culture is therefore conceived
    to come on gradually, through a cumulative growth of predatory aptitudes
    habits, and traditions this growth being due to a change in the
    circumstances of the group's life, of such a kind as to develop and
    conserve those traits of human nature and those traditions and norms of
    conduct that make for a predatory rather than a peaceable life.

    The evidence for the hypothesis that there has been such a peaceable
    stage of primitive culture is in great part drawn from psychology rather
    than from ethnology, and cannot be detailed here. It will be recited in
    part in a later chapter, in discussing the survival of archaic traits of
    human nature under the modern culture.
  • My dreams exceed my real life
    But reality tunnels!
  • ...And even when your hope is gone
    move along, move along, just to make it through
    (2015 self)
    Neat!

    Where'd you get that from, Naney?  I'd love to read the whole book that that came from.
  • huh apparently the pirate ship quintet (who, confusingly, have eight members) finally released a full length album

  • ...And even when your hope is gone
    move along, move along, just to make it through
    (2015 self)
    a red fern can only be planted by an angle but only from a good angle
    that cares for people and if not it can never be planted and i bet their
    are more than twenty of diffent kinds of good angles up their evin if a
    bad angle hates someone and then they changed their mind about those
    people out their and the angle starts to care about the people and they
    turn into good angles then they can plant a red fern only if it is by
    the persone that they care about or the people that the angle cares
    about and it is true about the whole red fern thing
  • sunn wolf said:

    huh apparently the pirate ship quintet (who, confusingly, have eight members) finally released a full length album

    Yeah, it's been out for awhile now. I think I was released released sometime last May or in June.
  • Neat!

    Where'd you get that from, Naney?  I'd love to read the whole book that that came from.
    it is Thorstein Veblen's Theory of the Leisure Class and i have a link to it in my sig.
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    man shit has been happening this week.
  • You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
    Is it wrong that looking at MIT's current homepage makes me cry

    I mean I didn't know this person, but it still makes me sad that he was struck down so senselessly
  • Is it wrong that looking at MIT's current homepage makes me cry

     

    Not at all.
  • You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
    WBNS said:

    COLUMBUS, Ohio - Ohio authorities are asking the public to be vigilant in looking out for a suspect in the Boston Marathon bombings who remains at large and is the subject of a massive manhunt.

    They emphasize there is no evidence the man is in or headed to Ohio.

    Is that even, like, possible? I mean, I suppose it's been enough time since he disappeared that he could theoretically have made it to Ohio if he just kept going the entire time, but somehow I doubt he could make it that far, especially after likely having been wounded in the shootout.
  • More people have said that and been killed than there are thorium decay products.
    10 years after the incident in Subterranean Animism, Kanako has staged a
    technological takeover. Gensokyo has been greatly modernized and Kanako
    controls all of it. However, the return of the shrine maiden, as well
    as an errant magician, may change things
  • apparently fox news specified for their confused viewers at home that “chechens are not caucasian”, which is perhaps the most succinct summary of why it’s a stupid term I have ever seen in my life

    where it gets better:

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  • how do you pronounce Touhou
  • image Wee yea erra chs hymmnos mea.
    Toe-hoe.
  • AH-dahlf HIT-lur
  • like so bad you have no idea
  • my room is covered in torn up paper
  • You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
    "Boston Bombing will impact future police training"

    OH FUCK NO

    Don't get me wrong, the overwhelming law enforcement response in Watertown is completely justified. We're talking about an armed man who likely has explosives loose in a densely populated area and has shown he has no qualms about killing. You can't take chances with that shit.

    But saying that this unique response to a unique incident should become a part of standard training is, well, somewhat worrying. Is this kind of thing going to become a regular occurrence?
  • I am awake.
  • You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
    I suppose I'm slippery-sloping again

    But basically my worry is that if cops start saying "occupying an entire neighborhood with multiple SWAT teams is one of our standard procedures now", they'll start doing this kind of thing when the situation doesn't warrant it the way it does today

    I'm extremely distrustful of law enforcement, but you probably worked that out by now
  • You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
    so apparently "sister is going to the mall" turned into "sister and her friend are going to hang out around the house"

    brb bashing my head on the wall repeatedly
  • I'm extremely distrustful of law enforcement, but you probably worked that out by now
    r u my mom
  • edited 2013-04-19 18:36:44
    You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
    I guess really I'm just distrustful of authority in general, or of anyone who has power that can easily be abused.

    I worry this means I'm broken somehow.
  • it does call your princess credentials into question
  • More people have said that and been killed than there are thorium decay products.
    Humans are easily corrupted. Power corrupts. It's okay to be skeptical. :)
  • so apparently "sister is going to the mall" turned into "sister and her friend are going to hang out around the house"


    brb bashing my head on the wall repeatedly
    You should make your house into it's own little mall. with different products from different stores on display.

    and then when people try to question your actions you repeat the above statement "Sister said she was going to the mall, so obviously the duty fell to me to make this place into a mall"

    But not really cause that's kind of a rude thing to do and say.
  • You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
    Naney said:

    it does call your princess credentials into question

    Pfff hahaha somehow I'd never thought of that before, really

    It's hilarious because the princess thing is really just one big power abuse fantasy anyways

    anyway in domestic news i want to get a sandwich but i don't want to be upstairs where the family is being loud and annoying

    might try to smuggle it back to my bedroom
  • More people have said that and been killed than there are thorium decay products.
    I can 1cc Touhou 10: Mountain of Faith easily. I tried lunatic mode just now, and the very first stage gave me a game over. ^_^
  • Central, I am secretly the police and we are now taking away everything.

    Thoughts?
  • Urgh. Today has been a pretty bleh day overall.
  • A bleh end to a bleh week.
  • You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
    Kexruct said:

    A bleh end to a bleh week.

    A bombing killed 3 people and injured over 100 others, all of whom just wanted to race

    Someone tried to poison President Obama because he thought the government wanted to sell body parts on the black market

    14 people died when a fertilizer plant in Texas went up in flames

    A sinkhole in Chicago swallowed three cars whole

    An innocent police officer was shot dead by terrorists simply for being in the wrong place in the wrong time

    And police occupied an entire residential suburb for the better part of a day trying to find the person responsible for two of the above items, only to fail

    Bleh week indeed.
  • THIS MACHINE KILLS FASCISTS
    I kind of feel like hugging someone after this week, too. :/
  • Central Avenue said: Kexruct said:A bleh end to a bleh week.

    A bombing killed 3 people and injured over 100 others, all of whom just wanted to race
    Someone tried to poison President Obama because he thought the government wanted to sell body parts on the black market
    14 people died when a fertilizer plant in Texas went up in flames
    A sinkhole in Chicago swallowed three cars whole
    An innocent police officer was shot dead by terrorists simply for being in the wrong place in the wrong time
    And police occupied an entire residential suburb for the better part of a day trying to find the person responsible for two of the above items, only to fail
    Bleh week indeed.

    I was talking about
    my week.

    There is nothing I can say that would do justice to how horrible this week was for everyone else.

    Wow, I'm a really selfish bastard, aren't I?
  • You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
    Oh, I didn't mean it that way.

    Really I was just kinda having a "seriously, what the FUCK" moment at how hellish this week has been in general.
  • Kexruct said:

    A bleh end to a bleh week.



    A bombing killed 3 people and injured over 100 others, all of whom just wanted to race

    Someone tried to poison President Obama because he thought the government wanted to sell body parts on the black market

    14 people died when a fertilizer plant in Texas went up in flames

    A sinkhole in Chicago swallowed three cars whole

    An innocent police officer was shot dead by terrorists simply for being in the wrong place in the wrong time

    And police occupied an entire residential suburb for the better part of a day trying to find the person responsible for two of the above items, only to fail

    Bleh week indeed.
    and to fucking top it all the fuck off i just fucking bit into a fucking piece of fucking ginger
  • edited 2013-04-19 19:32:17

    seriously this happens every goddamn time my mom makes a stir-fry


    also the meat is crappy


    don't get me wrong, she's a great cook 98% of the time


    but she sucks at stir-fries
  • g'nite desertdude
  • You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
    1. Understandable, given recent events.

    2. Good night Lazuli.
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    seeing pics like this makes me want tattoos.
  • More people have said that and been killed than there are thorium decay products.
    Violence in the western world for once. I sympathize, but I think about these things every day too.
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