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Title: So I've come to the dark(ish) side. Do you have cookies?
Post by: Morgenleoht on March 26, 2013, 11:20:14 pm
So I was reading about some white supremacist music festival being held in my hometown today and just felt disgust at the fact that a lot of the wankers who'll go to it sharing my belief system. It was the nail in the coffin as I've become very jaded with the general lunacy, crystal-gazing fuckwittery and denial of reality that pervades the New Age movement. I was done with it after trying the prayers, the positive thinking and the crystals, seeing the bullshit about Himalayan salt lamps sucking positive ions out of the air and helping with depression and/or mould, seeing people spend hundreds of dollars on psychics and casting my own runes and them not doing a fucking thing.

So I'm officially agnostic with an Asatru slant. I still follow the Nine Noble Virtues (oddly enough, the Odinic Rite ones of Courage, Truth, Honour, Fidelity, Discipline, Hospitality, Self Reliance, Industriousness, and Perseverance) and do my damnedest to keep my word and stick by those I consider kith and kin but I have accepted that there is no scientific proof for my beliefs.

I'm not a full-blown atheist mostly because I honestly don't know. Maybe one day I'll be more certain.

So... yeah. I'm an agnostic. Can I have cookies?
Title: Re: So I've come to the dark(ish) side. Do you have cookies?
Post by: Rabbit of Caerbannog on March 26, 2013, 11:21:56 pm
S'mores cookies?

(http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_r1KgKJsYdXY/ShbdoiZh-FI/AAAAAAAAAbs/NlfIW_Bboc4/s400/P1040191.JPG)
Title: Re: So I've come to the dark(ish) side. Do you have cookies?
Post by: QueenofHearts on March 26, 2013, 11:25:27 pm
"Welcome to the darkside" seems a silly thing to say. I prefer viewing this as a "now you've seen the light."

/me hands Morgenleoht Cookies
Title: Re: So I've come to the dark(ish) side. Do you have cookies?
Post by: nickiknack on March 26, 2013, 11:34:39 pm
"Welcome to the darkside" seems a silly thing to say. I prefer viewing this as a "now you've seen the light."


Exactly, this isn't the Sith Order, plus they lied about having cookies to begin with.  ;D
Title: Re: So I've come to the dark(ish) side. Do you have cookies?
Post by: Her3tiK on March 26, 2013, 11:35:52 pm
Maybe.
Title: Re: So I've come to the dark(ish) side. Do you have cookies?
Post by: Morgenleoht on March 26, 2013, 11:36:46 pm
...Now I want cookies.
Title: Re: So I've come to the dark(ish) side. Do you have cookies?
Post by: Shane for Wax on March 27, 2013, 04:53:31 am
"Welcome to the darkside" seems a silly thing to say. I prefer viewing this as a "now you've seen the light."


Exactly, this isn't the Sith Order, plus they lied about having cookies to begin with.  ;D

I beg your pardon we have wonderful cookies.
Title: Re: So I've come to the dark(ish) side. Do you have cookies?
Post by: ironbite on March 27, 2013, 01:18:50 pm
Your cookies are bad and you should feel bad.
Title: Re: So I've come to the dark(ish) side. Do you have cookies?
Post by: Cerim Treascair on March 27, 2013, 05:45:54 pm
*shoves oatmeal raisin cookies down Ibby's throat, and offers chocolate chip to everybody else*
Title: Re: So I've come to the dark(ish) side. Do you have cookies?
Post by: ThunderWulf on March 27, 2013, 05:47:11 pm
*shoves oatmeal raisin cookies down Ibby's throat, and offers chocolate chip to everybody else*

Hey come on now!  Oatmeal raisin cookies have such a bad rep when they're actually really good. :P
Title: Re: So I've come to the dark(ish) side. Do you have cookies?
Post by: Cerim Treascair on March 27, 2013, 05:49:36 pm
*shoves oatmeal raisin cookies down Ibby's throat, and offers chocolate chip to everybody else*

Hey come on now!  Oatmeal raisin cookies have such a bad rep when they're actually really good. :P

Depends if they're made with molasses and brown sugar or not.
Title: Re: So I've come to the dark(ish) side. Do you have cookies?
Post by: Meshakhad on March 27, 2013, 11:26:10 pm
Pshaw. Here, have some of my mother's homemade double chocolate chip cookies.
Title: Re: So I've come to the dark(ish) side. Do you have cookies?
Post by: rookie on March 27, 2013, 11:36:34 pm

Hey come on now!  Oatmeal raisin cookies have such a bad rep when they're actually really good. :P

Depends if they're made with molasses and brown sugar or not.

How else would you make them?
Title: Re: So I've come to the dark(ish) side. Do you have cookies?
Post by: Osama bin Bambi on March 28, 2013, 01:11:08 am
Oatmeal raisin cookies taste like cat litter. Ginger snaps are where it's at.
Title: Re: So I've come to the dark(ish) side. Do you have cookies?
Post by: Captain Jack Harkness on March 28, 2013, 01:22:45 am
*shoves oatmeal raisin cookies down Ibby's throat, and offers chocolate chip to everybody else*

Hey come on now!  Oatmeal raisin cookies have such a bad rep when they're actually really good. :P

Oatmeal Raisin is the Nickelback of cookies.
Title: Re: So I've come to the dark(ish) side. Do you have cookies?
Post by: Shane for Wax on March 28, 2013, 03:57:23 am
Oatmeal raisin cookies taste like cat litter. Ginger snaps are where it's at.

I prefer snickerdoodles. Which, the Dark Side has so yay.
Title: Re: So I've come to the dark(ish) side. Do you have cookies?
Post by: TheL on March 29, 2013, 11:55:25 am
S'mores cookies?

(http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_r1KgKJsYdXY/ShbdoiZh-FI/AAAAAAAAAbs/NlfIW_Bboc4/s400/P1040191.JPG)

OMG DO WANT

I'm going to have to buy marshmallows and Ghirardelli now.
Title: Re: So I've come to the dark(ish) side. Do you have cookies?
Post by: mellenORL on March 29, 2013, 12:35:33 pm
*offers ginger snaps and a fresh hot latte to dip them in.....forgot what posting for? mmmmmmm.....gingersnappies and latte...mmmmmm*

Seriously, sorta, have you read up on the old Gaia Theory? I think that is a fun type of semi-spirituality kind of thingy to contemplate. Although the following is not very accurately taken from the theory, imagine that the earth is like a rock covered in a thin film of interdependent living things that seem to communicate in the effective but mindless way that cells in the body coordinate and cooperate via chemical messenger hormones and such.

In the case of the earth, current studies are tracing life-specific sulphur isotopes cycling from sea to land then back again...via means and manners which cannot explain it away as a weather phenomenon!

Now, since the body is certainly something much greater than the sum of its parts, extrapolate this analogy to the earth. Is it possible that the earth itself is like a living, "multicellular" organism> A Planetism (as it's called in the theory)?

Many critics say no, because the "earth cannot reproduce". Well, maybe not sexual reproduction...but what about sporing? Could humans be the "neurons" of a developing planetism's higher nervous system? Is space exploration planetism Earth's first foray into adolescent angst?
Title: Re: So I've come to the dark(ish) side. Do you have cookies?
Post by: Morgenleoht on March 29, 2013, 05:15:35 pm
*offers ginger snaps and a fresh hot latte to dip them in.....forgot what posting for? mmmmmmm.....gingersnappies and latte...mmmmmm*

Seriously, sorta, have you read up on the old Gaia Theory? I think that is a fun type of semi-spirituality kind of thingy to contemplate. Although the following is not very accurately taken from the theory, imagine that the earth is like a rock covered in a thin film of interdependent living things that seem to communicate in the effective but mindless way that cells in the body coordinate and cooperate via chemical messenger hormones and such.

In the case of the earth, current studies are tracing life-specific sulphur isotopes cycling from sea to land then back again...via means and manners which cannot explain it away as a weather phenomenon!

Now, since the body is certainly something much greater than the sum of its parts, extrapolate this analogy to the earth. Is it possible that the earth itself is like a living, "multicellular" organism> A Planetism (as it's called in the theory)?

Many critics say no, because the "earth cannot reproduce". Well, maybe not sexual reproduction...but what about sporing? Could humans be the "neurons" of a developing planetism's higher nervous system? Is space exploration planetism Earth's first foray into adolescent angst?

That confuses me. LOL.

I did crack a joke yesterday to my aunt that I wish I was asexual so I could say I'm an autistic agnostic Aboriginal asexual. She told me I'd confuse myself. LOL.

I like oat and raisin, chocolate (and variations thereof) apple spice, honey nut and Anzac biscuits. I demand moar cookies!
Title: Re: So I've come to the dark(ish) side. Do you have cookies?
Post by: Art Vandelay on March 29, 2013, 08:33:08 pm
*offers ginger snaps and a fresh hot latte to dip them in.....forgot what posting for? mmmmmmm.....gingersnappies and latte...mmmmmm*

Seriously, sorta, have you read up on the old Gaia Theory? I think that is a fun type of semi-spirituality kind of thingy to contemplate. Although the following is not very accurately taken from the theory, imagine that the earth is like a rock covered in a thin film of interdependent living things that seem to communicate in the effective but mindless way that cells in the body coordinate and cooperate via chemical messenger hormones and such.

In the case of the earth, current studies are tracing life-specific sulphur isotopes cycling from sea to land then back again...via means and manners which cannot explain it away as a weather phenomenon!

Now, since the body is certainly something much greater than the sum of its parts, extrapolate this analogy to the earth. Is it possible that the earth itself is like a living, "multicellular" organism> A Planetism (as it's called in the theory)?

Many critics say no, because the "earth cannot reproduce". Well, maybe not sexual reproduction...but what about sporing? Could humans be the "neurons" of a developing planetism's higher nervous system? Is space exploration planetism Earth's first foray into adolescent angst?
So manned space flight is basically the planet rubbing one out?
Title: Re: So I've come to the dark(ish) side. Do you have cookies?
Post by: mellenORL on March 30, 2013, 12:34:45 pm
*offers ginger snaps and a fresh hot latte to dip them in.....forgot what posting for? mmmmmmm.....gingersnappies and latte...mmmmmm*

Seriously, sorta, have you read up on the old Gaia Theory? I think that is a fun type of semi-spirituality kind of thingy to contemplate. Although the following is not very accurately taken from the theory, imagine that the earth is like a rock covered in a thin film of interdependent living things that seem to communicate in the effective but mindless way that cells in the body coordinate and cooperate via chemical messenger hormones and such.

In the case of the earth, current studies are tracing life-specific sulphur isotopes cycling from sea to land then back again...via means and manners which cannot explain it away as a weather phenomenon!

Now, since the body is certainly something much greater than the sum of its parts, extrapolate this analogy to the earth. Is it possible that the earth itself is like a living, "multicellular" organism> A Planetism (as it's called in the theory)?

Many critics say no, because the "earth cannot reproduce". Well, maybe not sexual reproduction...but what about sporing? Could humans be the "neurons" of a developing planetism's higher nervous system? Is space exploration planetism Earth's first foray into adolescent angst?
So manned space flight is basically the planet rubbing one out?

*dips another ginger snap in latte* Yup! And the Earth apparently has the hots for Mars. Not like there's any other viable merger mate in the solar system, but hey...Mars has that kinda brooding, quiet, passive potential that really turns Earth on. And besides, Mars has been sending little spit balls (Mars origin meteor impact blast debris) at Earth for billions of years....so. I'd call that a backhanded flirtation at Earth. Wouldn't you?

In any case, I find it kind of amusing to think it slightly possible that the reason we humans exist is that we are Earth's attempt to think and to spread her life energy to other planets.
Title: Re: So I've come to the dark(ish) side. Do you have cookies?
Post by: Old Viking on March 30, 2013, 04:09:23 pm
If we're earth's attempt to think she has a long way to go.
Title: Re: So I've come to the dark(ish) side. Do you have cookies?
Post by: mellenORL on March 30, 2013, 05:07:12 pm
Yup....and at the rate earth is evolving, it'll take another bazillion years before she has a proper thinking cap. We are just the first set of primitive neurons, and will no doubt be long extinct before this happens.