the stormgod sprang up from his wagon: Mood Music IV

Tuesday, June 23, 2009

Mood Music IV

Depeche Mode - Dreaming of Me.
Early Depeche Mode sounds like it's just a shitty casio keyboard with out-of-tune singing overtop of it. The sentiments are so trite it's nearly impossible to take them seriously, especially since they don't sound like they believe a word they're singing. Maybe it was novel in 1980...

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Maxims and minims for the wise and the foolish

I think that historians are talking nonsense, because they don't write their essays in Coq. — Umunmutamku
LANGUAGE IS A HIERARCHICAL AUTHORITY
A GOVERNMENT OF THE CONSCIOUSNESS — Tezcatlipoca
Whoever fights against the empire, becomes the empire. [or something along those lines] — Philip K. Dick [as told to Tezcatlipoca]
- We’re not fighting the empire! We are the empire! Go away, or we'll smack you with this stick! — Tezcatlipoca
You don't have to be straight to shoot straight. — Barry Goldwater
- Indeed, we must prevent life, which is frequently fatal. — Umunmutamku
  - There are also a number of legitimate scientific reasons for it as well (though I don't know what they are) — Tezcatlipoca
Instead of thinking of Scripture as a manual, I try to think of the Bible as ‘a boyfriend’. — punkrainbow
- Your feelings are lying to you. — Jer 17:9
READ A BOOK, I'M SURE IT'S IN ONE OF THEM. — Tezcatlipoca
- Books are full of bullshit and lies! — Tezcatlipoca
  - We will lie to you but we will lie to ourselves as well. You will, however, see through our lies and grasp the shining truth within. — The KLF
A Gnostic is by definition a knower, and since knowledge supersedes belief, a knower cannot very well be a believer. — Stephan A. Hoeller

talking about the great unknown is ridiculous. it’s THE GREAT UN-FUCKING-KNOWN — Anonymous

The enemy knows the system. — Claude Shannon

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