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They always come up with their arguments for fashion.
I always wondered why I let them talk me out of myself.
I don't get haircuts anymore.


Ya see, to shave is to relieve the itching. So is bathing. Clothes come in handy in a number of ways but is there a reason cut hair?
I suppose.
Compulsory hair shortening for the conformity of it imposes delusions of control while dominance sucks the life from interaction. We become empty action.

Redwoods... Every day that even one small shoot of one exists subsumes the gnarl of humanity to mortality. The death of them is ruinous and untimely.

My hair is my Tardis.

Tardis, n.

Brit. /"tA;dIs/, U.S. /"tArd@s/ Also with lower-case initial. [< TARDIS (acronym < Time And Relative Dimensions In Space), the name in the science-fiction BBC television series Doctor Who (first broadcast in 1963) of a time machine outwardly resembling a police telephone box, yet inwardly much larger.]

In allusive use. Something resembling or likened to Doctor Who's TARDIS; spec.: (a) a thing which has a larger capacity than its outward appearance suggests; a building, etc., that is larger on the inside than it appears from the outside; (b) a thing seemingly from another time (past or future).

"[1969 Times 29 Mar. 22/3 His best poems are like Doctor Who's Tardis, the solid streetcorner policebox, which actually contains a sidereal spaceship.]" "1985 Christian Sci. Monitor 30 Apr. 35 It's+a tardis of a poem, unassuming, but renewing, roomy, opportune." "1988 New Musical Express 24 Dec. 33 The shiny streamlined tardis of Kraftwerk." "1990 Pink Paper 4 Aug. 12/4 This is the perception that comes from the Tardis that seems to be New Scotland Yard, timewarped in the nineteen-sixties." "1996 Time Out 17 Jan. 41/3 One of the conveniences of having a Tardis for a stomach is that you can order loads of main courses." "1999 J. Preece Good Beer Guide 111/2 A Tardis of a pub—the small frontage conceals a long pub, half serving as a restaurant (a good vegetarian selection)."

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"Tardis-like adv. and a.

"1986 Times 4 Dec. 15/6 *Tardis-like, the inner dimensions are at odds with the outer." "1987 Marketing (Nexis) 22 Oct., The famous trading floor with its Tardis-like hexagonal boxes has already gone." "2000 P. McCarthy McCarthy's Bar viii. 151 Small family homes that, Tardis-like, have miraculously created the space to accommodate big-boned American families." "2001 Press (Christchurch, N.Z.) (Nexis) 27 June 55 Only Mercedes-Benz's Tardis-like A-class comes within cooee of the Echo's space utilisation."







“A man will walk into Hell with both eyes open, but even the Devil can’t fool a dog.”
Earl Hamner


O bonny Portmore, I am sorry to see
Such a woeful destruction of your ornament tree.
For it stood on your shore for many's the long day
Till the long boats from Antrim came to float it away.

O bonny Portmore, you shine where you stand.
And the more I think on you the more I think long
If I had you now as I had once before,
All the Lords in Old England would not purchase Portmore.

All the birds in the forest, they bitterly weep
Sighing, "Where shall we shelter, where shall we sleep?"
For the Oak and the Ash tree are all cutten down,
And the walls of bonny Portmore are all down to the ground.

O bonny Portmore, you shine where you stand.
And the more I think on you the more I think long
If I had you now as I had once before
All the Lords of Old England would not purchase Portmore.

Loreena Mckennit is superlative at this. I think the lyrics' author is unknown.

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(Dickie Peterson)
Relax your mind
Lord let it take
An electric explosion
I said a strong earthquake
And then on a freeway
Just let it take you away, child
Far away
Oh yeah, come over
Come back in my big automobile
And Babylon.


I'll give you a shove
Why don't you take a rush
Let me hear you cry
From a deafening hush
Just let it take you away
Far Away
Yeah, yow, come over, big automobile, big automobile
Babylon.


Now the blues ain't nothing
But a good man feeling bad
Yeh-yeh, Yeah!
I know that the blues ain't nothing, ain't nothing baby
But a, but a good man, but a good man, but a good man feeling bad
And I just ain't the kind
That goes around feeling sad
Hey! Oh, no, not me baby, no way!


Say why don't you take a shove
Oh, come on and take a rush
Let me hear you cry
From a deafening hush
Let it take you away
Far away
Oh yeah, stick it in the fire baby
I want big automobile
Big automobile, baby
Babylon.


OW!

MONSTER - SUICIDE - AMERICA

From the 1970 release "Monster"
Steppenwolf Cover


Words and music by John Kay, Jerry Edmonton, Nick St. Nicholas and Larry Byrom

(Monster)
Once the religious, the hunted and weary
Chasing the promise of freedom and hope
Came to this country to build a new vision
Far from the reaches of kingdom and pope
Like good Christians, some would burn the witches
Later some got slaves to gather riches

But still from near and far to seek America
They came by thousands to court the wild
And she just patiently smiled and bore a child
To be their spirit and guiding light

And once the ties with the crown had been broken
Westward in saddle and wagon it went
And 'til the railroad linked ocean to ocean
Many the lives which had come to an end
While we bullied, stole and bought our a homeland
We began the slaughter of the red man

But still from near and far to seek America
They came by thousands to court the wild
And she just patiently smiled and bore a child
To be their spirit and guiding light

The blue and grey they stomped it
They kicked it just like a dog
And when the war over
They stuffed it just like a hog

And though the past has it's share of injustice
Kind was the spirit in many a way
But it's protectors and friends have been sleeping
Now it's a monster and will not obey

(Suicide)
The spirit was freedom and justice
And it's keepers seem generous and kind
It's leaders were supposed to serve the country
But now they won't pay it no mind
'Cause the people grew fat and got lazy
And now their vote is a meaningless joke
They babble about law and order
But it's all just an echo of what they've been told
Yeah, there's a monster on the loose
It's got our heads into a noose
And it just sits there watchin'

Our cities have turned into jungles
And corruption is stranglin' the land
The police force is watching the people
And the people just can't understand
We don't know how to mind our own business
'Cause the whole worlds got to be just like us
Now we are fighting a war over there
No matter who's the winner
We can't pay the cost
'Cause there's a monster on the loose
It's got our heads into a noose
And it just sits there watching

(America)
America where are you now?
Don't you care about your sons and daughters?
Don't you know we need you now
We can't fight alone against the monster

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This is a rough transcription of Dr. Peikoff's November 24 spoken reply to my question available at his website www.peikoff.com

The rights of prisoners, whether or not they have any, ect. has been a deal breaker for me and Objectivism but then I hardly ever agree with anyone about anything.

Dear Dr. Peikoff.....

I think they are.
Humanists and Individualists get along just fine.
Perhaps I am being oblivious and redundant.
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Dr. Peikoff responds.

"A ah, really linguistic question....

Are Humanism and Individualism incompatible?

In the ordinary usage today, they are incompatible. Originally Humanism meant the stress on Man, Man as important, rather than God and religion, and in that context and of course, individual rights and the value of man are perfectly compatible.

But today, Humanists are generally, the term is generally used for people who accept the Christian Ethics but make Mankind the beneficiary of our self-sacrifice rather than God. So, for instance, the Communists would be called Humanists and so on.

And that use goes back to Auguste Comte, who started the "Religion of Humanity" with the "Goddess of Humanity" being what we worship.

Now in that sense you can usually tell a Secular Humanist which is what the evangelicals hate, is somebody who is concerned with this world, and with the collective of man, as what you should worship within this world.

So the choice between religion and humanism as it stands today, is super naturalism or collectivism.

humanism

("hju;m@nIz(@)m) [f. human a. + -ism, after humanist. Cf. Ger. humanismus.]

†1. Belief in the mere humanity of Christ: cf. humanitarian n. 1a. Obs.

"1812 Coleridge Omniana in Lit. Rem. (1836) I. 377 A man who has passed from orthodoxy to the loosest Arminianism, and thence to Arianism, and thence to direct Humanism."

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2. The character or quality of being human; devotion to human interests.

"1836 Hor. Smith Tin Trump. (1876) 241 More consonant+to truth, as well as to an enlightened spirit of humanism." "1850 Gladstone Homer II. 242 The Homeric Mercury+exceeds in humanism+the other Olympian gods." "1875 Browning Aristoph. Apol. 119 With kindly humanism they countenanced Our emulation of divine escapes Thro' sense and soul." "1888 Amer. Anthropol. Jan. 12 According as he [man] raises his intellectual and moral nature to the levels of a higher and higher humanism."

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3. Any system of thought or action which is concerned with merely human interests (as distinguished from divine), or with those of the human race in general (as distinguished from individual); the ‘Religion of Humanity’.

"1860 J. Gardner Faiths World II. 76/2 The Philanthropic Humanism soon gave place to a higher Humanism, which began to spring out of the ardent study of the ancient classics." "1876 Gladstone in Contemp. Rev. June 25 Comtism or Positivism, or, as it might be called, Humanism." "1877 W. K. Clifford Lect. (1879) II. 249, I neither admit the moral influence of theism in the past, nor look forward to the moral influence of humanism in the future." "1883 A. Barratt Phys. Metempiric 128 Altruism+overshadows the Egoism on which rests the morality of individual men, and already shows occasional symptoms of fading into a higher Humanism." "1887 Spectator 25 June 853/1 From the strictest Roman Catholicism to the nakedest humanism."

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4. Devotion to those studies which promote human culture; literary culture; esp. the system of the Humanists, the study of the Roman and Greek classics which came into vogue at the Renascence.

"1832 Sir W. Hamilton Discuss. (1853) 276 note, Die Gelehrten Schulen, etc., i.e. Learned Schools, according to the principles of a genuine humanism." "1877 J. E. Carpenter tr. Tiele's Hist. Relig. 91 Greek humanism and Greek philosophy." "1881 Gardiner & Mullinger Introd. Eng. Hist. vii. 105 When the Middle Ages drew to a close with the humanism of Italy." "1882 M. Arnold in 19th Cent. Aug. 220 We talk of knowing Greek and Roman antiquity+which is what people have called humanism." "1885 Symonds in Encycl. Brit. XVIII. 709/2 Petrarch+was even less eminent as an Italian poet than as the founder of Humanism, the inaugurator of the Renaissance in Italy." "1885 Academy 5 Sept. 144/1 The humanism of Erasmus and More, once planted in England, grew there as it did abroad." "1897 Dowden Fr. Lit. i. iii. §2. 46 The early humanism of France was clouded and lost in the tempests of the Hundred Years' War."

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5. Philos. A pragmatic system of thought introduced by F. C. S. Schiller and William James which emphasizes that man can only comprehend and investigate what is with the resources of the human mind, and discounts abstract theorizing; so, more generally, implying that technological advance must be guided by awareness of widely understood human needs.

"1903 F. C. S. Schiller Humanism p. xvi, I propose+to convert to the use of philosophic terminology a word which has long been famed in history and literature, and to denominate Humanism the attitude of thought which I know to be habitual in William James and in myself." "1904 W. James Coll. Ess. & Rev. (1920) xxxii. 450 No one can ever foresee what terms will succeed in the struggle to gain currency.+ ‘Humanism’ is perhaps too ‘whole-hearted’ for the use of philosophers, who are a bloodless breed; but, save for that objection, one might back it, for it expresses the essence of the new way of thought, which is, that it is impossible to strip the human element out from even our most abstract theorizing." "1907 F. C. S. Schiller Studies in Humanism 12 Humanism+is merely the perception that the philosophic problem concerns human beings striving to comprehend a world of human experience by the resources of human minds." "1945 E. A. Burtt in Humanist V. iii. 108 It may seem presumptuous, if not paradoxical, to suggest that a movement claiming the name ‘humanism’, and emphasizing rational comprehension as the foundation of every good achievement, might fail lamentably in its understanding of man." "1959 P. Tillich Theology of Culture ii. viii. 121 He [sc. Sartre] calls his existentialism humanism. But if he calls it humanism, that means he has an idea of what man essentially is." "1961 O. Reiser in J. S. Huxley Humanist Frame 240 A major objective of a scientific Humanism is the organization of human knowledge for the purpose of human progress." "1966 C. H. D. Clark Scientist & Supernatural v. 174 Humanism glorifies science without telling us how the laws of science arose nor how they are to save us from our innate selfishness." "1969 K. Kaunda Towards Complete Independence 43 Our philosophy of Humanism stresses above all the importance of man as an individual."

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amazing how much we agree about without agreeing about incarceration and the importance of the rule of law for the incarcerated, ain't it?

To Leonard Peikoff....

Reply


Thank you for responding to my question about the compatibility of humanism and individualism.

http://my.opera.com/whistlestopursus/blog/are-humanism-and-individualism-incompatable

boo, n.2

(bu;) [Origin uncertain.]

= marijuana.

"[1959 J. E. Schmidt Narcotics Lingo & Lore 19 Bo-bo jockey, a capnophilist who smokes marijuana cigarettes. Noted in 1947.]" "1959 Esquire Nov. 70H Boo, marijuana. Also, Gage, Greens, Head, [etc.]." "1965 Harper's Mag. Aug. 49/2 The story, sounding as if it originated with somebody full of Mexican boo smoke, came to prominence in The Independent American." "1967 [see Mary Jane 2]. " "1975 New Yorker 26 May 33/2 The old Portagee is cheerful, healthy as a pippin apple,+smokes a little boo, has a whole string of foxy chicks who keep him up most of the night." "1979 High Times Mar. 18/2 There was ‘boo’—very popular in late-'50s/early-hipster New York City. Why boo? From ‘taboo’, perhaps." "1985 Playboy XXXII. 119/2 Where's the fun in+inhaling carbon-monoxide fumes, when you could be toking refreshing essence of boo smoke."

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