Posts by Rich Lock
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Pfft.
American muscle is the only way to go in a straght line drag.
I'll go and warm up me Hemingway.
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Ah, squee! I'm surprised Max Brooks and his father weren't the first out of the gate with a black (and bloody) comedy about the usual nubile suspects being chew toys for Nazi zombies.
Zombie nazis on snow! How do we get to see that here?
You fly up to Auckland for the film festival? :)
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You know my favourite thing about the Nazis? All their hot blonde chicks.
Ahem (Yes that is Ms Johansson).
One day I will be rich, and cause it to exist.
Yes. One day I shall be rich enough to have my own tailor. And I shall own the most finely tailored t-shirts, hoodies and jeans the world has ever seen!
Slightly less tongue in cheek, the only thing that stops me becoming a serious dandy is the lack of the serious money needed to make it happen.
I'd love a frock coat. Preferably in black leather with a red silk lining.
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If anyone is struggling for inspiration, I just stumbled across this Roller Derby name generator.
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We are our own gods...
When do I get the power to smite mine enemies with plagues of boils?
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I find our very existence's utter meaninglessness to be really rather liberating and I'm sorry, Danielle, that it depresses you.
Prescisely! If there is no ultimate point to our existence (or at least not one that we are ever going to be able to discern), then we are entirely free to create a meaning to our individual existences that suits ourselves.
C'mon Danielle, life is yours for the taking! Jump up and grab it with both hands! Or, if you prefer, stay on the couch and watch TV! the choice is yours, and only yours! Forge your own destiny!
Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the law! Be the best you can be!
God, the freedom! I'm getting high on the possibilities! I think I need a lie-down.
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You seem to have taken offence, for which I apologise.
And apologies in return if I came across as a little more testy and blunt than I intended. I took no offence, just clarifying my own position in response.
I tend to be somewhat saddened by the throngs who think that 'we' are the pinnacle and the objective of evolution and I was explaining that I view my/our existence as a 'happy chance' rather than something pre-ordained by any religious or evolutionary force.
And I pretty much entirely agree. We're here, and we are what we are. Don't get too hung up on the meaning of existence, just squeeze as much joy out of it while you can.
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Stewart - I'm quite well aware that in the greater scheme of things my existence is effectively meaningless. I came from nothing, and i will return to nothing, and the universe won't even notice.
But I am human, and therefore find it difficult to look at the world in any other way than through the eyes of a human. Which means that I will take my small (and insignificant and meaningless) pleasures where I can get them. Like thinking about this stuff and asking questions.
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And I'm not a Mr, Rich.
Many apologies.
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Isn't that what the enlightenment is based on? Science and technology shall henceforth be the means of describing and manipulating the material world; let religion and philosophy deal with the metaphysical stuff. You don't trust a scientist to tell you why, nor a priest or a philosopher to tell you how. It's where we're at.
Civiliation has almost reached a stage where we're getting all tangled up in string theory, and searching for particles that may or may not even exist in theory. Most of the cutting edge stuff in physics these days doesn't really seem to have much to do with 'the material world'.
Perhaps we need to start thinking about a bit of reconvergence?
Just a thought.
I'm also trying to think of a way to work in a good prog rock joke
. Someone help me out?