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Re: I Know What You're Thinking Aaron

Unread postby PenultimateManStanding » Wed 04 Apr 2007, 07:00:28

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('dinopello', 'P')MS has been gloomy lately. I hope he cheers up. From what I know of Aaron, he has a lot more in his head than arcane techno-trivia so I doubt that premise is true. But, being an engineer, it is insane how much of that crap has to be embedded in your neurons in order to solve problems or make things work in this modern age.
Thanks for the good wishes, dino. You also got my point. As for being gloomy, I'm wondering how long we can crack jokes here before we lose our sense of humor.
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Re: I Know What You're Thinking Aaron

Unread postby dinopello » Wed 04 Apr 2007, 07:29:35

Humor will go before music, I think. In fact, I don't think music ever goes. But, humor is pretty resilient too. It's all part of being human. But for damn sure, nobody should give up humor on the portend of doom. Let's at least wait until there is actual doom, OK? Then, when we are picking off zombie raiders, or slaving in Halliburton ethanol fields, or waiting in government soylent slop lines, I personally would rather be with the guy or girl that can laugh at something. Worry isn't a terrible thing but it shouldn't consume you. I wish I could stop grinding my teeth in my sleep though - my dentist wants to know what is worrying/stressing me out so much - one of these days I'm gonna tell her !
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Re: I Know What You're Thinking Aaron

Unread postby Laughs_Last » Wed 04 Apr 2007, 08:51:05

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('PenultimateManStanding', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('dinopello', 'P')MS has been gloomy lately. I hope he cheers up. From what I know of Aaron, he has a lot more in his head than arcane techno-trivia so I doubt that premise is true. But, being an engineer, it is insane how much of that crap has to be embedded in your neurons in order to solve problems or make things work in this modern age.
Thanks for the good wishes, dino. You also got my point. As for being gloomy, I'm wondering how long we can crack jokes here before we lose our sense of humor.

Don't worry PMS, you can count on me.

Example:
Knock knock.
Who's there?
Nobody, they're all dead. It was just the wind.
Oh.


Admittedly, the quality is piss poor, but I'm dedicated to the cause.
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Re: I Know What You're Thinking Aaron

Unread postby Atlantean_Relic » Wed 04 Apr 2007, 09:46:50

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Laughs_Last', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('PenultimateManStanding', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('dinopello', 'P')MS has been gloomy lately. I hope he cheers up. From what I know of Aaron, he has a lot more in his head than arcane techno-trivia so I doubt that premise is true. But, being an engineer, it is insane how much of that crap has to be embedded in your neurons in order to solve problems or make things work in this modern age.
Thanks for the good wishes, dino. You also got my point. As for being gloomy, I'm wondering how long we can crack jokes here before we lose our sense of humor.

Don't worry PMS, you can count on me.

Example:
Knock knock.
Who's there?
Nobody, they're all dead. It was just the wind.
Oh.


Admittedly, the quality is piss poor, but I'm dedicated to the cause.


Please leave the Death jokes to the grave diggers. :roll:
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Re: I Know What You're Thinking Aaron

Unread postby Aaron » Wed 04 Apr 2007, 09:57:38

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('PenultimateManStanding', 'Y')ou've given your intelligence to this system. You are up to speed on all sorts of arcane technological matters. A lot of effort went into it. The shows like 24 make it seem like they are geniuses but the truth is that one has to devote great deal of effort to stay on top of it. Now you know that it was all in vain.


I suppose that depends on what your goals are.

When you own a hammer... every problem looks like a nail.

    To Simmon's Peak Oil is a Transparency Problem.

    To Campbell Peak Oil is a Geologic Problem.

    To Savinar Peak Oil is a Business Opportunity.

    To Kuntsler Peak Oil is a ClusterFuck.

    To Aaron Peak Oil is a Technical Problem.

    To PMS Peak Oil is an Intractable Problem.


And guys... it costs money to run this website. Our little ads don't even cover the hosting fees, much less the time of skilled professionals to run the place.

For me it's a no-brainer. I'm not an energy research scientist, so I'm probably not gonna invent cold-fusion or whatever. But I am a competent technologist... so I use that skill to inform & educate.

I'm also pretty knowledgeable on resource depletion topics & a decent speaker, so I do that too.

I'll be helping present End of Suburbia on the 18th @ Rice University for example, to help clarify the topic & answer questions.

I have been asked to speak in Johannesburg in July. (Not sure on that one yet... it's a long way from home & I might not have the resources to accomplish it).

I spent many years selling my skills exclusively to large companies for big bucks. And then poof! One day my whole life changed & here I am.

Peak Oil may take me down... but it'll be kickin & screamin.

(Weird Thread)
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Re: I Know What You're Thinking Aaron

Unread postby dinopello » Wed 04 Apr 2007, 10:17:03

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Aaron', 'T')o Savinar Peak Oil is a Business Opportunity.


What I don't get is why he thinks Peak Oil will increase the demand for male prostitutes. :wink:


Everyone sees the world from their own perspective. as an engineer who would rather be an artist (and lacking the talent) I see Peak Oil as a risk mitigation problem with high uncertainty and even higher potential bad outcomes - and the risk is almost entirely caused by the inevitable and regretable human condition.
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Re: I Know What You're Thinking Aaron

Unread postby dinopello » Wed 04 Apr 2007, 10:58:46

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Raphael', 'P')erspective to me suggests 'limited vision'.


Good point, it's true, or at least constrained or defined vision. But, perspective also (paraphrasing V) gives means to meaning for us.

Like your use of 'vibration' - a clumsy physical analogy for something we otherwise cannot hope to comprehend.
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Re: I Know What You're Thinking Aaron

Unread postby cynicalheretic » Wed 04 Apr 2007, 11:39:50

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('NEOPO', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('cynicalheretic', 'A') year ago, PMS was one of the most level headed guys on here. Lately (meaning the last month or so) he has become ever more disturbed and chaotic in his thought processes. He now converses with Rapheal as though he see what he says as logical. I worried about his mental state and think that that everyone around him should start looking for shelter.


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Yeah someone as talkative as you lurked for 7 or 8 months before joining :lol:
Now go sit in the corner with AirlinePilot! :-D

Look guys what we need is an intervention here, all those within the vicinity of PMS (mostly spanish people) go to him now with lots of heirloom seedings, shovels and vermiculite!
Books on sustainability, permaculture and how to tie dye t shirts!
Show him how to wear sandals and allow the rabbits to wear hats again! :roll:

and now if he would just come out and tell us what Aarons thinking so we could all know what Aarons thinking damnit!

I did like GWPS' conspiracy theory though yet people say I'm crazy also...
Hmmm I wonder if this and that other thread are connected?
Aw thats right everything is connected and nothing is a coincidence!



There is nothing to worry about Aaron, forget about the man behind the curtain with the weapons of mass destruction and the IQ of a carrot. I promise that we are entering a new age of peace and prosperity. Soon the rivers will run as wine and women will throw themselves at your feet. Everything will be great and wonderful or I haven't always been cynicalheretic on here :P
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Re: I Know What You're Thinking Aaron

Unread postby cynicalheretic » Wed 04 Apr 2007, 11:59:33

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Raphael', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Aaron', ' ')

To Simmon's Peak Oil is a Transparency Problem.

To Campbell Peak Oil is a Geologic Problem.

To Savinar Peak Oil is a Business Opportunity.

To Kuntsler Peak Oil is a ClusterFuck.

To Aaron Peak Oil is a Technical Problem.

To PMS Peak Oil is an Intractable Problem.



And I see it as a 'mythological problem'.

Everyone sees it from their perspective.
Perspective to me suggests 'limited vision'.
You listed 6 men and I am a 7th.
Here is an interesting metaphor that we see ALL the TIME in myth.
The magnificent 7 ... we have all 7 directions and 7 chakras covered.
But it is implied we must work together as a group to defeat an enemy much larger than us.

Only myth addresses the problems myth predicts...because much of myth is structured on the structure of the mind. It identifies the male and female principle or 'energies' that in fact do exist.

Myth, folklore, scripture ... all ancient wisdom suggests the mythical THEY, the THEY that we are to fear, is actually us...it predicts the world we now see around us...

Left vs. Right hemispheres of our mind in conflict.
How many from the above list have studied myth?

In the end myth encourages the individual to 'know thyself'... and this is a really important consideration ... to know which end is up, which end is an entry and which end is an exit.

The End is so near...you can almost smell it...we are actually getting closer to kissing our asses goodbye.........this is what myth suggests...

namaste

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I am glad I don't understand what your write. Otherwise I would have to check myself into a clinic for the mentally disturbed.
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Re: I Know What You're Thinking Aaron

Unread postby MattSavinar » Wed 04 Apr 2007, 12:04:51

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('gpws', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Grifter', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('PenultimateManStanding', 'Y')ou've given your intelligence to this system. You are up to speed on all sorts of arcane technological matters. A lot of effort went into it. The shows like 24 make it seem like they are geniuses but the truth is that one has to devote great deal of effort to stay on top of it. Now you know that it was all in vain.


Why? Have you sensed that Aaron was particularly gloomy recently?

Or is it just that you're feeling doomerish?


maybe arian was hoping that he'd put up this site and when peak oil hit all the traffic be coming to this site and he will become famous and bic will be number #1 on all google searches or something..... maybe arain realized he could ride the peak oil wave to be 'prosperious' in the age of decline,... if tht makes any sense....

however, he must have learnt that peoples no likes the truth, they want to hear WHAT they want to hear, they want to sugarcoat illusion and fantasy and everything to be high energy optimistic upbeat, etcetc... that is the nature of all life, et al evolutionary darwinism.

so therefore, classic case of negative ErOeI for arraon. He created and INVESTED and spent so much into this peakoil.com site hoping for returns (of any sort really) all to find everything he done in vain, because see this site has less traffic than before, the system is perfect UNTIL ITS NOT, and when days comes armagendon is here and grid finally DOES go down, it will do so and who will come to peakoil.com anymore? So see, arraon can't cash in on something that relyies on the very infrastructure (cheap oil) that powers it up and props it up in the first place.....

classic case of negative ErOeI, there will be far more I'm sure,

like college degrees, making friends, having kids, just basically, anything to do with LIFE itself..... to bad so sad...


I doubt Aaron had fortune in his eyes when he put up the site.

However you do have a point: PO sites are at their most valuable prior to the issues they discuss really hitting hard. Once we don't have the excees capacity to spend time, energy, capital on the net, PO sites will disappear into the night.

For this reason I have considered selling LATOC and using the proceeds to finance my escape to the Southern hemisphere.
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Re: I Know What You're Thinking Aaron

Unread postby MattSavinar » Wed 04 Apr 2007, 12:09:26

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Aaron', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('PenultimateManStanding', 'Y')ou've given your intelligence to this system. You are up to speed on all sorts of arcane technological matters. A lot of effort went into it. The shows like 24 make it seem like they are geniuses but the truth is that one has to devote great deal of effort to stay on top of it. Now you know that it was all in vain.


I suppose that depends on what your goals are.

When you own a hammer... every problem looks like a nail.

    To Simmon's Peak Oil is a Transparency Problem.

    To Campbell Peak Oil is a Geologic Problem.

    To Savinar Peak Oil is a Business Opportunity.

    To Kuntsler Peak Oil is a ClusterFuck.

    To Aaron Peak Oil is a Technical Problem.

    To PMS Peak Oil is an Intractable Problem.

And guys... it costs money to run this website. Our little ads don't even cover the hosting fees, much less the time of skilled professionals to run the place.

For me it's a no-brainer. I'm not an energy research scientist, so I'm probably not gonna invent cold-fusion or whatever. But I am a competent technologist... so I use that skill to inform & educate.

I'm also pretty knowledgeable on resource depletion topics & a decent speaker, so I do that too.

I'll be helping present End of Suburbia on the 18th @ Rice University for example, to help clarify the topic & answer questions.

I have been asked to speak in Johannesburg in July. (Not sure on that one yet... it's a long way from home & I might not have the resources to accomplish it).

I spent many years selling my skills exclusively to large companies for big bucks. And then poof! One day my whole life changed & here I am.

Peak Oil may take me down... but it'll be kickin & screamin.

(Weird Thread)


It's a bit more than just a business opportunity. Unlike a lot of the PO blowhards out there I actually am planning an escape from the chaos I have forecast and anybody whose been to my apt (admittingly nobody here) will see evidence of this all over the place.

You sire are blowharding away down there in the first place that is going to be DOA. You have the money to escape the slave grid but have chosen to stay put? And you have a kid, that makes no sense. If I was you I would have hightailed it out of that deathtrap a long ass time ago . . .
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Re: I Know What You're Thinking Aaron

Unread postby Aaron » Wed 04 Apr 2007, 12:12:16

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'F')or this reason I have considered selling LATOC and using the proceeds to finance my escape to the Southern hemisphere.


DNSCOOP says it's worth around 51 grand...

http://www.dnscoop.com/
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Re: I Know What You're Thinking Aaron

Unread postby cynicalheretic » Wed 04 Apr 2007, 12:13:56

Hey Matt, don't worry about it. At the end of the day, none of this matters and nothing will come of it anyway.


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Re: I Know What You're Thinking Aaron

Unread postby MattSavinar » Wed 04 Apr 2007, 12:35:29

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Aaron', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'F')or this reason I have considered selling LATOC and using the proceeds to finance my escape to the Southern hemisphere.


DNSCOOP says it's worth around 51 grand...

http://www.dnscoop.com/


If I use the last 6 months of earnings and use the normal way to value a business (3-to-6 years of projected earnings) it's worth between $225,000 and $450,000 thank you very much.

It's likely worth MORE since projected earnings would likely be higher if somebody could just invest $25,000 or so in expanding the store and a few other things.

According to Leapfish.com it's worth $605,000:

http://www.i-am-bored.com/bored_link.cfm?link_id=17507
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Re: I Know What You're Thinking Aaron

Unread postby Zardoz » Wed 04 Apr 2007, 13:32:50

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('MattSavinar', '.')..I have considered selling LATOC and using the proceeds to finance my escape to the Southern hemisphere.

Hmmmm...

Well, I suppose you could always find work in the ethanol industry:

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Re: I Know What You're Thinking Aaron

Unread postby NEOPO » Wed 04 Apr 2007, 15:41:17

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Zardoz', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('MattSavinar', '.')..I have considered selling LATOC and using the proceeds to finance my escape to the Southern hemisphere.

Hmmmm...
Well, I suppose you could always find work in the ethanol industry:
Brazil's Ethanol Slaves

Yeah, plus I hear there is a glut of brazilian male prostitutes.
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Re: I Know What You're Thinking Aaron

Unread postby PenultimateManStanding » Wed 04 Apr 2007, 16:09:49

What's this nonsense of 'moving to the southern hemisphere'? Like, how is it any safer there? The knives are coming out wherever you are.

but aside from that, how come Matt's site is worth a lot of money but this one isn't?
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Re: I Know What You're Thinking Aaron

Unread postby Twilight » Wed 04 Apr 2007, 16:22:49

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('PenultimateManStanding', 'h')ow come Matt's site is worth a lot of money but this one isn't?

Because it's a business, and this is a $200/month server populated by conspiracy theorists? [smilie=icon_lol.gif]
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Re: I Know What You're Thinking Aaron

Unread postby Aaron » Wed 04 Apr 2007, 16:23:26

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('PenultimateManStanding', 'W')hat's this nonsense of 'moving to the southern hemisphere'? Like, how is it any safer there? The knives are coming out wherever you are.

but aside from that, how come Matt's site is worth a lot of money but this one isn't?


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