Comments on: The rebel artist vs. the android

By: Joy

Joy — Wed, 31 Aug 2016 21:00:30 +0000

Jon, thank you! All the remaining chimera I have unknowingly been trying valiantly to hold together, as the edges have been disappearing, is finally exploding, because I finally found/remembered you. I thought I was missing the key to escaping the Matrix, but now I see it has been in my hand the whole time. No more will I imagine scratching away at the edges of someone else’s “reality,” for I am now intent on imagining my own, and with other like you, to vision a new world into being!

By: Joy

Joy — Wed, 31 Aug 2016 20:48:52 +0000

Dear pov, Have you considered that until someone is “off the fence,” constant wake-up calls are necessary? The only thing that is truly self-empowering is realizing, as this story helps us do with delightful humor, that “this sucks,” and that none of it is true.

By: gökmen

gökmen — Fri, 25 Sep 2015 19:37:14 +0000

You know these guys? https://youtu.be/wQxMB4Wk_y8

By: Michael Burns

Michael Burns — Wed, 23 Sep 2015 15:14:26 +0000

@ Gokmen
None taken…no apology neccessary. Its not my band; those guys are ancient now anyways…they are all getting long in the tooth.
I once road up an elevator to the muzak version of “Shine on you crazy Diamond”.
Its was then I realized that the end is really near…

By: Gökmen

Gökmen — Wed, 23 Sep 2015 00:52:46 +0000

I didn’t mean any disrespect to the band or your memories, I’m sorry If I did.

People I came across who listen to this band were mostly prozac, xanax and other government prescribed drug addicts.

By: Michael Burns

Michael Burns — Mon, 21 Sep 2015 21:57:00 +0000

@ Ğőķměň

The “Pink” are a religion dudester….I saw them once at Saddledome in Calgary.
Brilliant artists.

The first time I heard them…
A summer weekend…middle of July, I think, 1975.
I was living in the mountains in a friend’s cabin…no running water, no central heating… no electricity, right by the Bow river it was near Banff Alberta in a tiny little coal-mining town called Canmore. The place was full of hippies.

I was young and had just met some interesting new people at a gathering of young people. Artists…real artists.

500 Mikes of orange barrel Lysergic acid diethylamide and after about twenty minutes I felt that I had known everyone at that gathering for an enternity.
My young friends introduced me to “Pink Floyd” and the “Doors” my world changed forever. We were golden.

Awakening is to say the least of it. I found heaven that day. And then lost it through my hands like sand.
I didn’t come down from that orange barrel for two days…it was so clean.
I ended up becoming friends with the chemist lol.
I eat a lot of those Littles barrels.
Can’t find those any more.!

Pink Floyd…those guys woke a generation to real of it all…don’t condemn them for a line in song G-man

By: Gökmen

Gökmen — Sun, 20 Sep 2015 23:25:32 +0000

I hated the so great pink floyd all my life while lovers and people around me trying to get me into it, asking me “why you don’t like them?”..true, I was listening music from all genres yet I was asking myself “why I can’t stand these guys?”

Now I know why I hated them, because of their motto “united we stand, divided we fall”
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By: From Québec

From Québec — Sun, 20 Sep 2015 18:23:01 +0000

ROTFLMAO!

You’re so good, Jon. You’re just too much, too funny!

Here are a few things that really cracked me up:

– The President, dressed in a silk rainbow robe

– gluten-free organic genetically modified soy-peanut burgers and GM whey cola.

– …we are all obtaining correct answers, the same answers, to problems we face.

-… where you created a website called Versus the Moron. (I really like that one.) Brilliant!

– RRT stands for Rebellious Rat Tail.

– Emwgrtyonefiftyfruntsillgreenefsevenlenstayeightcricrimescene…”

– “He’s a four-D printout from the superbrain. An agent.”

– Allen Dulles thirteen A seven branched MKULTRA…”

– Then a gentle man who manufactured a product called We Love You Organic Monsanto Cherry Vanilla With Roundup Cookies said:

By: claretempleton

claretempleton — Sun, 20 Sep 2015 16:35:24 +0000

When the means sucks, the end is foreseeable. A wizard once said the more foreign contrived material the body takes in by choice or ignorance, the more the soul becomes confused about its True Self. I sez true of edibles and AI, bioelectrically speaking. Anyway, lovely allegory, Sport.

By: pov

pov — Sun, 20 Sep 2015 13:53:12 +0000

There’s a term that’s been around for a while – “sheeple.” There are many others. So the knowledge that many people are letting themselves be co-opted, programmed, etc is not new. Sure it helps to note that every so often but I think the main thing is to writings that jog something within people who are “on the fence.” To focus on info, ideas, etc that they can use or that can catalyze a return to self-empowerment. Repeating “this sucks” ad infintum doesn’t to me seem helpful, elf-empowering or a path motivated by imagination