[duff_beer_dragon]

link "The Return of Horselover Fat" by Chris Tannlund
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', '&')quot;You guys'll never believe where I've been," Horselover Fat said as he pushed aside the screen door and stepped into the small, sunlit kitchen.

[Guest]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('duff_beer_dragon', 'I')t had stopped.

[duff_beer_dragon]

I guarantee you that in actual reality what will happen is that idiots like you will no longer be able to do the sorts of things you do online. As you know, online is the only place you get away with the sorts of useless wastes of spacetime postings that you do get away with.

When there are no more Inferior Men allowed to moderate boards and have control of anything of the kind, that's when the universe will return to how God intended it to be all along, sans morons like you. You probably put your cat in the washing machine and then tried to blame God for it, deedle deedle queep.
"Confessions of a VALIS Contactee" by Geradamas
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', '[')I received the following letter anonymously while preparing this book for publication. It bore the date November 12, 1993, an Oakland, California postmark, and no return address. It was signed simply "Geradamas". I am not in a position either to verify or refute the information contained in the letter; I merely reproduce it here for the interesting material it presents.]

[gg3]

Very interesting, but please explain. What I think I see there is an excerpt from a piece of science fiction written sometime in the last ten years, and somehow associated with Philip K. Dick. It contains a reference to Oil as a kind of Spirit, which would be consistent with pantheism, though not necessarily with paganism as such.

The latter point reminds me of something I read about a subject in one of Stan Grof's later experiments (using a form of prolonged hyperventilation to induce an altered state). The individual reported having the experience of empathy with, or identification with, Oil as a kind of living entity or spirit. Conventionally this could be understood as a dreamlike experience, and no claims are/were made about it having any objective reality.

The subject's report described Oil as an entity with an extraordinarily slow thought process, and either a completely impersonal kind of feeling about it (which could be interpreted as an absence of benevolence, therefore malevolence-by-exclusion), or a deeply sad and mournful kind of feeling about it, related to the way in which human societies used it and fought over it.

Somewhere between materialist monism (which holds that all such things are at best dreams and at worst delusions) and pantheism (which holds that everything is imbued with with Spirit in a kind of distributed Godlike way), there might be room for a kind of mild pantheism, which holds that all forms of matter partake in Sprit to some degree but are not part of a Godlike entity except insofar as God is an emergent interactionist property. I'm not suggesting any of these interpretations is correct either as a matter of mundane fact or as a matter of theology. Rather, an interesting point for further reflection and speculation.

[duff_beer_dragon]

Reflecting and speculating on such is an infinite thing in itself. As soon as you formulate a structure, or a concept, it will outgrow the confines of that. You can only hope to create a world with a structure that doesn't limit the boundless Spirit of which it is all composed of,

in other words it's our collective duty to evolve our thought process to be able to encapsulate all possibilities, without allowing the ones that interfere with the workings to be born,

to be able to think of and know a structure that does not limit but also does not permit the enslavement of one or more over any other(s).

[CTannlund]

Thanks, duff_beer_dragon, for posting my story, "The Return of Horselover Fat." If anyone here would be interested in reading more of my quai-metaphysical ramblings, please surf over to my website www.christannlund.com. In addition to gazoombas of essays, articles, short stories, poetry etc., there's a piece on the site that is composed of an e-mail exchange between myself and Matt Savinar, author of "Life After the Oil Crash" entitled "Oil, Instinct, Anxiety and Ascension" (www.christannlund.com/savinar.htm) that might interest folks on this board.

Thanks again!

Chris Tannlund

[duff_beer_dragon]

That's okay.

I'm not good at this sort of thing, nobody's ever been nice to me and meant it, that I have actually met. Thanks for caring!

[Specop_007]

Threads like this remind me why I should have never quit using drugs.....