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I am freeflux. edit
I don't want to give away too much information about myself here . . .
I live in Iowa, I am male, I play saxophone (Mark VI), I love music of all kinds, my favorite bands are king crimson, death, Pink Floyd, Tool, meshuggah, judas priest, and Magma, among others. I am 18 years of age, I have brown hair, brown eyes, I'm short, liberal but not democrat, and I have a high enough IQ to be in the high IQ society (but didn't want to pay 55$ entrance fee). I love origami.
I'll withhold my last name, since anyone can view this page and mine is unique. My first name is Tyler. My lucky number is seven.
random quote on christianity I found amusing edit
So, your story is that we must all telepathically tell a zombie that we will eat its flesh and drink its blood to apologize for the acts of a magical rib-woman who met a talking snake... ???
-some guy
comments about me from others edit
This is where you can edit my page and not piss me off. Just say something, like a guestbook, if you will. Also if you hate some edit I made, ect. Wikipedia:How to edit a page
Farm Bill edit
This is a NY Times magazine article which discusses a very crucial bill which desperatly needs to be amended. This bill is partly responsible for america's obesity problem. Don't believe me? Read on:[1]
THese next 2 are activist websites dealing with this issue: [2] [3]
And this is a USDA list of proposed amendments to the farm bill. [4]
A quote edit
Never ending material growth is the cornerstone of our current economic system, and yet, constant growth within finite terrain is the ideology of the cancer cell. - (paraphrased from Culture Jam, a decent book with the occasional briliant insight.)
Some Lyrics edit
Newborn by muse (off of Origin of symmetry)
link it to the world link it to yourself stretch it like a birth squeeze the love for what you hide the bitterness inside is growing like the newborn when you've seen, seen too much too young, young soulless is everywhere hopeless time to roam the distance to your home fades away to nowhere unstoppable 'cause you've seen, seen too much too young, young soulless is everywhere destroy the spineless show me its real wasting our last chance to come away just break the silence 'cos i'm drifting away away from you oooooohhh Yeah link it to the world link it to yourself stretch it like its a birth squeeze and the love for what you hide and the bitterness inside is growing like the newborn when you've seen, seen too much too young, young soulless is everywhere destroy the spineless show me its real wasting our last chance to come away just break the silence 'cos i'm drifting away away from you oooooohhh
Intension by tool (off of 10000 days)
Pure as we begin. Pure as we come in. Pure as we begin. Ruled by will alone. Pure as we begin. Here we have a stone. Gather, place, erase so. Shelter turns to home. Pure as we begin. Here we have a stone. Throw to stay the stranger. Swore to crush his bones. Ruled by will alone. Spark becomes a flame. Flame becomes a fire. Light the way or warm this. Home we occupy. Spark becomes a flame. Flame becomes a fire. Forge a blade to slay the stranger. Take whatever we desire. Moved by will alone. Pure as we begin. Pure as we begin. Move by will alone. Leave as we come in. Pure as light return to one. Move by will alone. Move by will alone.
Nothing Ever Dies by Kamelot (off of The Black Halo)
Here we are Under the same old sun All alone yet somehow bound and unified Dust to dust... Ashes to ashes won't take long We search for a harbour Somewhere to belong They say that faith is all you need To stay forever young What you've sown is what you reap Our sins can't be undone There is a god in each society So right is wrong where wrong is right No one could be sure Still we are certain That what we know is truth The only truth We're building our temples taller They say that faith is all you need To stay forever young What you've sown is what you reap Our sins can't be undone How can we trust them once again They used to tell us lies Their voices will sustain Cause nothing ever dies Love is the only truth Pure as the well of youth Until it breaks your heart You took me higher Than the mountains I have climbed You waited all your life for me You left me all alone behind But we'll meet again We will meet again
Slit Your Guts by Cryptopsy (off of None So Vile)
Pardon, please, the narrow Confinement of your limbs; Unfortunately, it's necessary For your correction; Shriek to your heart's Content, if you wish; I promise you pain and Nightmares, in that sequence. Permit me to introduce you to "Tuesday"... I favor her, this pretty blade So tall and fine; Hatred and violence are not Our ways, but firm we are; Squirming is useless, so is this Colon, cry for me. Svelte is implement, Its gentle caress lets you Bleed; its subtle curvature Dancing, deeply slit your guts. It's for your own good; You need guidance, I provide; What is your pleasure? This is Mine; A welcome change!
Something to chew on edit
You are a male. You wander the forests desperately trying to do two things.The first is to bump into a band of randy females, in the hopes that, well... they're feeling randy enough to procreate. The second, of course, is that you desperately try to avoid running into another male, since they view you as something that can clog up an entire band of randy females for almost a year with only a few hours work.
Of course, if you did encounter a wandering solitary male, you'd probably try to kill them, since they can clog up a band of randy females for damn near a year, shutting your already-slim chances out of the game. However, the degree of vigor with which they'd try to kill you means it's best for you if you don't bump into each other.
You walk alone.
Suddenly, you bump into a group of homosexual and a few bisexual men. They're not trying to off each other - in fact, they're pair-bonding pretty well - but since you immediately think "male," you try to kill the nearest one - what are the other 99 going to do?
Who 'won' this round in the game of darwinism - your hetero ass, or the gay man whose bisexual cousin is passing on the family genes when he's not hanging with the guys?
An interesting Article: edit
Impeachment Now
Most people cannot tell the difference between cause and effect. They see the effect and, passively, figure that if they slash at that, they'll end the problem. Then when it returns again, they're baffled, and figure some evil conspiracy has made a fool of them. They're partially right - the "evil conspiracy" is the limits of their own intelligence, and this is why our ancestors created caste systems: most people lack the capacity to participate meaningfully in politics.
Back in the 1980s, when our actor-cum-president decided that a war on drugs was necessary to save the American people, we had a festival of confusion of cause and effect. Drugs were the cause: not prevailing misery at empty lives, an excess of wealth and a dearth of worthy causes, or an overall sense of decay like the scent of dead rat under a distant eve. So we fought drugs and let the causes slumber, to the effect that this day drugs are as popular as ever, but instead we have a paramilitary police hiring millions to fight them. Because we did not see the cause, we adopted it as a parasite.
Another situation of note is the war on terrorism: by the very nature of this name, we assume terrorism is the problem, and not our fundamentally broken foreign policy that will leave us boxed into a corner. Our allies are obligated to be friendly; when our back breaks in the next Viet Nam, they will begin edging away, knowing that when every bully gets weak, out come the detractors who swarm around him and devour him, such that only bones are left. We assume terrorists have no cause, and are both cause and effect in themselves, while idly supporting their enemies and bombing their countries in the name of two religions that history has taught them are hostile.
Right now, many people want to put their heads back under the blanket and go to sleep after having swatted off the alarm clock, and that alarm clock is G.W. Bush, our President. He is not a cause, but an effect; the cause is a fragmentation of America and a lack of real solutions, so people tend toward the guy with the most realistic and simplistic answer to our problems. It is a fond but delusional hope that got him elected, and an equal and opposite deluded response that impeaching him will solve anything. He is not the cause, but its result; impeaching him will give us several more years of palliative democracy, and make our problems even worse because, like cancer, the gravest problems cannot be immediately seen.
If we wish to extend the metaphor, even politics itself only addresses effect. We have become so detached from the cause - the decline of our values, the loss of a culture in common, the loss of belief in ourselves, and the adulteration of our population with morons - that we believe an election, a handful of laws, or maybe a good war can solve our situation. No; we have taken it beyond salvage, as far as those means are concerned. Politics in this age deals only with effects, because to address the cause is to unmake our current form of politics.
Impeachment will strengthen our disease by hiding its symptoms. It will make us feel good for some time, while our failings within gain strength and, not being appeased, will return with a vengeance. It will make us popular with people who do not ultimately care about our welfare, as they realize that under both Democratic and Republican presidencies they have been bombed, invaded, or taunted with financial aid that comes with many strings attached. They do not confuse cause and effect: we are the cause, their misfortune is the effect. Therefore, they wish to see us go -- and quickly.
We might feel better, as if watching a cartoon, when we slay the dragon and go home in a golden wreath of symbolic glory, but this is also a case of confusing cause and effect. The dragons and parasites and enemies are here because we invited them, as our system rotted and we fought increasingly among ourselves, and we continue to invite them, because we have no values system to replace our original one, and therefore settle upon "if it's profitable, it must be good." That is like sending a battle-cry to the hounds of hell to come here, dress in suits, and begin tearing up the prize to divide and scurry away with. Impeachment does not address these circumstances.
I do not write this article in support of Mr. Bush, but rather out of lack of support for any of the candidates, and recognition that deposing one figurative head of government for another who will not solve the problem is like taking a massive bong hit and pretending the real problem does not exist. You do not fix problems by addressing effects, but by tackling their causes, and if your current political system makes it "offensive" or "unpopular" to attack those causes, then your current political system is part of the cause. It is it - that political system that prevents you from taking action - that you must impeach.