Posts by Draconian

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Where is most remote KH?

by badboy in

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any ideas where this might be?

Draconian

Sending Watchtowers down the Amazon in bottles?

The Peruvians speak Spanish, and anybody who gets the bottles will be in Brazil, where they speak either Amazon Indian languages or Portuguese. I hope the Peruvian JWs didn't think of that!

Sounds too much like the movie THE GODS MUST BE CRAZY! only that bottle was an empty.

The Amazon Indians pick up the Watchtower, don't understand the writing, but see artwork of clean-cut people living happily in a meadow. "Where were these drawings made? The United States? Hmm, maybe we should immigrate there. Let's talk to the consulate in Manaus. Are Americans into blowgun-control?"

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Completely Rediculous WT Quotes Re: Music

by Nosferatu in

there's some stuff i found in the publications that i found completely rediculous regarding music:.

g78 5/8 pp.

16-20a recording artist finds something far better.

Draconian

Shucks, the WT never found the REALLY Satanic music, only known by connoisseurs:

from SABBAT, a British heavy-metal thrash band

"Blood for the Blood God"

Once were mighty cities, now crumbled and turned to sand,

These were the Old Slann,

Infinite wisdom, their god-given right

For these genetic scientists, forming new life

But these powerful beings could never have known

Their seeds of destruction were already sown...

All this is a reference to the WARHAMMER role-playing game, of which band-members were fond of. Games Workshop still has game stores here and there, selling their rather expensive brand of boardgames based on little plastic figures of the fantasy school known as "chainsaws and spiky bits".

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Completely Rediculous WT Quotes Re: Music

by Nosferatu in

there's some stuff i found in the publications that i found completely rediculous regarding music:.

g78 5/8 pp.

16-20a recording artist finds something far better.

Draconian

The WT was a pale imitation of all the Religious Right's hulabaloo against "rock music" in the 80s. They even went into claims of "backward masking," trying to convince that if you played Queen's lyric "Another one bites the dust" (slurred as "Annudawom baatz da duzt.") you would hear "Start to smoke marijuana." It's more than likely that sound-engineers in the music industry implant their little jokes, but consider this...

from SATANISM IN AMERICA: How the Devil Got Much More Than His Due by Carlson and O'Sullivan. They mentioned that the human mind is great at pattern-recognition, even when the patterns aren't actually there. If you listen to Beethoven's Ninth Symphony but you don't speak German, you will tend to interpret the choral singing into English words. Thus you will hear phrases encouraging alcoholism such as "I'm not sober; been drinking Miller." You will also hear "Heineken," a brand of beer. You will also hear a rousing chorus celebrating steam-power: "Boiler engine, boiler engine, boiler engine, boiLERR, enGEEEN..." [although what that could mean to encourage young teens to perdition is left up to the Faithful Slave to figure out.]

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What does your name mean?

by pennycandy in

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i gave my intro and then disappeared for a month.

just not enough time these days.. anyway .

.. some of your names are self-explanatory, but some definitely have to be explained to be understood.. i'll start.

Draconian

My alias came from the oldest days of computer BBSes, when we first hooked up 300-baud modems to workstations at the university. I called myself DRACOPOLITICIAN because it was the mid-80's and the Religious Right were having a go at Dungeons & Dragons-players, even getting ordinary reporters to call us the children of Satan on the air, so I did some stuff to fight back, possibly the only advocacy of its kind. A certain computer BBS though limited aliases to 9 letters so I scrunched it to DRACONIAN.

There was a whole amusing back-story to my BBS persona. Draconian was a dragon from a planet with a dying purple sun, who neckered to our dimension. He learned English from stolen videos, but had something of the wrong idea of phrases used in normal human discourse. "Make my day, punk!" "You talking to me? You talking to ME?" He's got no mammalian part of the brain, so does not see issues in ooey-gooey emotional shadings. This plus his typical glaring look ("I'm not glaring at you. If I were glaring at you I would do THIS...[plastic buttons melt, hair singes]") makes humans uneasy. But Draconian has a cat-calendar in his house ("Draconian LIKES cute, furry little kitty-cats!") Go figure. Mousetraps work a little differently on Draconian's homeworld, where they are in fact mammal-traps. The mammal is caught, stretched out, a brush shoots out the side of the trap to slather the mammal with "Special Sauce" and then a little triangle and clapper shoots out the other side to signal that the snack is ready. The dragons were dedicated to capturing and eating every mammal they could, before any mammals could (heaven forbid!) evolve intelligence.

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what does it matter how we live?

by candidlynuts in

i was reading ecclesiastes 1 -3 today(excerpt is from chapter 2)..... and i'm not a bible scholar and dont claim any wisdom... but these scriptures seem to just say you live and you die regardless of who or what you do in life.

its all vanity...... is this the true wisdom of the bible?

that we exsist not by or for any reason.. we just exsist then we die..... end of story?

Draconian

I think Satanus has it right about Africa, but he neglected to mention the most glaring example: Rwanda. This country had it all: mild uplands climate though it be on the Equator, plentiful agricultural reserves, but their people still decided to set upon each other and kill a million, can't blame the evil Whitey there.

In fact, the poorest countries in Africa have had the least amount of time as colonies: Somalia and Ethiopia. So facile claims that African countries have been "stripped" of resources won't work. Poverty of resources itself doesn't lead to immorality, otherwise the Japanese would be primitive tribesmen screwing each other over bits of silver and tin left in their mountains.

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I, ROBOT

by Yerusalyim in

i took the wife and kids to see i, robot with will smith last night....great movie.

my son is a real issac asimov fan.

he said asimov would have hated the movie, but that he really enjoyed it.. come to think of it, i'd be hard pressed to name a will smith movie i don't like.

Draconian

I'd say 25 minutes of commercials and previews is unusual, but it is the summer, and they are trying to rope rabid SF fans like you into their other movie offerings, figuring you for a "niche market" and figuring you for a sucker in the bargain. Hollywood is not pretty these days, their marketing of the movies is very formulaic, but sometimes a great director and a great movie can survive their own hype.

"Suggested by" Isaac Asimov? That reminds me how in Canada we have President's Choice (brand) sauces, usually named in the form of "Memories of [place name] sauce". So a fiery jerk chicken sauce might be called "Memories of Kingston [Jamaica]" sauce but a milder variety would be called "Vague Memories of Kingston" sauce.

BLADE RUNNER is my all-time fave movie. The androids are vicious yet you have to empathize with their plight. Overall I like "cyberpunk" SF: near-future, high-tech, low morals. Other great SF movies I can recommend are THE FIFTH ELEMENT (most expensive movie made under the banner of France), UNTIL THE END OF THE WORLD (a gentle France/Germany/Australia production that's a light-hearted romp around the near-future world), JOHNNY MNEMONIC (Keanu Reeves plays, what else, a cyberhacker as well as a special courier smuggling data in his brain), MINORITY REPORT, and FREEJACK.

Also, RUN don't walk and get the DVD set of the one and only season of FIREFLY. This is a kind of 14-episode SF/western. An ex-war veteran on the losing side against an American-Chinese "Alliance" ekes out a living as a smuggler in a Firefly-class starship, accumulating an unlikely crew. Amazing ensemble acting and intimate shipboard sets. The DVD format is so compact that many video stores will rent out this set for week-long periods. The FOX network messed up the character development by showing episodes out of order, but its video/DVD release was impressive enough to encourage a movie, SERENITY, coming out next year.

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"What is politics?"

by WildTurkey in

a little boy goes to his dad and asks, "what is politics?".

dad says, "well son, let me try to explain it this way: i'm the breadwinner of the family, so let's call me capitalism.

your mom, she's the administrator of the money, so we'll call her the government.

Draconian

[In the Bad Old Days of the Soviet Union,] Comrade Duboff is assigned to a remote Siberian Village as Political Commissar but sees that the simple people there have been pretty much isolated from the currents of glorious Soviet history. So he announces he will hold mandatory Communist Party political meetings every Thursday night where he lectures on the origins of Communism and the history of the Soviet Union.

After a few weeks of this he wants to test out the people so he asks some simple questions. "Who was Marx?" he asks, but there is no response. "Well, then, who was Lenin?" Again the farmers and peasants give him blank looks. And then Duboff gets mad because he's been lecturing for weeks. "People, if you only paid attention during these Party meetings, you would know who they are."

Just then an elderly man in the back of the hall raises his hand, "I have a question for YOU, Comrade Commissar. Who is Kropotnik?" The Commissar is taken aback, and thinks about it, but for the life of him he can't remember any Committee member or Politburo member or anybody in the Party named Kropotnik. He ends up having to admit that he doesn't know.

The old man gives a toothy smile and says, "If you hadn't attended so many Party meetings, you would know that, every Thursday night, Kropotnik is the man who has been SLEEPING WITH YOUR WIFE!"

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