Drank

Mixed in a Collins glass

One shot peppermint Schnapps
Two shots Green dragon vodka
Two shots lemon juice
Three shots lime juice
Three shots pineapple juice

Mad, they call me mad!

So it would seem that McVeigh found his justification for the Oklahoma city bombing while watching Clerks.

Clerks, released a year before the bombing, contains a scene in which Randal discusses and justifies the actions of the rebels acting against the empire by blowing up the death star. Citing politics as something everyone has a responsibility to be constantly aware of and active in.

McVeigh supposedly justified his actions to his biographers using the same analogy, I saw this referenced in a Jon Ronson film on the bombing.

I wonder what Kevin has to say about all this.

I didn't do it on purpose.

Imprinting

The social obsession with perky breasts is closely linked with negative social attitudes toward homosexuality in men. A sexually underdeveloped human causes less of an emotional response, hence we find ourselves loving less deeply. The fear is of extremes of sexuality, a friend once commented that the Venus looked 'doable, but nothing special'.

Whether the blending of sexuality and sexual characteristics will lead to better understanding between sex remains ambiguous, but it is clear that positive social attitudes towards reduced sexual differentiation leads to reduced strength of relationships.

I'm sure I could fit a bit in on fetishism of children here too.

I'm so vain, you probably think this poem is about me

a million partners in the dance may call my name
and whisper soft upon a pillow of their love
but only a single one has ever made me smile


I swear I used this image before

Youth

Be proud of what your ancestors did.

A little while ago, my ancestors felt too crowded in the land they were living, they had some beliefs that other people disagreed with, so they left and traveled across the sea to another country that had a smaller population, then spent a while messing around not surviving until the natives helped them.

Well, a little bit after that, they started killing the people that were already there, both directly and by carefully killing off the food sources that they ate, they knowingly meant to completely eliminate the other people from the land.

Of course, they didn't succeed, which may have been worse for those still here, who are distinct from the new people, but not understood and in places, not even accepted.

And that is just my dad's side of my family.

Are you proud of what your ancestors did?

Babies don't sleep this well.

Isn't it strange?

It seems the fate of all creators of great works that they are only understood once dead, the same is true of all things.

pic unrelated, I hope

The people you loke

The validity of primate nature as a source of human power interaction

Are the traits that govern human power interactions shared with other primates? If either developmental, genetic or both, if these traits are shared the potential for research is great, and humanities’ current primate diplomacy may have to be rethought.

When we identify with an action as similar to one of our own, we identify the actor as similar to us. This is called anthropomorphizing when done to something other than human. Though the connection is made using empathy and the task completed may serve an identical purpose, differences in developmental environment mean that correlation must be taken with an air of caution.

Contemporary psychologists are well aware of the experimenter effect, by which the expectations of a researcher influences the outcome of a study. Double blind experiments are used as proofing against this, but with even this precaution there is always a uncontrolled variable in it.

The flavor of anthropological research seems to be one of connection with the focus of ones’ research, awknowleging the influence visited upon group dynamic by the reseracher and encouraging first person conjecture and expectations as a part of the commentary. This technique of meta commentary, by which a discerning reader may account for experimenter bias while accepting the results through a subjective lens may be a far more efficient way of dealing with experimenter bias in research.

Given current methodology of research into primate power interactions, it is enevidable that researchers will influence their results. Only with care and attention to detail on the parts of both the researcher in publishing and peers in review can any further insight into primates be gleened.

Your religion, my one is better

There are many gods, they are all servants of the one true god, the god of reason.

Who created the universe from a single point mass.

Who unfolded all things of all times, using a system that could be understood by beings that would later self assemble as a result of the original work.

All the universe is knowable, all things are true, due to the plurality of existence brought forth by the great maker.

Why?

She had no choice!

This is not even close to what happened.

Light globe pearl

You who would benefit all mankind, remember Prometheus!

He who stole fire from the gods to warm and light the way of men, I have no doubt he is linked to the notion of Lucifer, the light bringer, who was so quickly forgotten by mankind as a creator.

Benefit not your own race, much less any other, for no good deed goes unpunished by the sins of the people.

Selfishness is the only true selflessness, to be truly self conscious is to be able to act to the best of your interests no matter the situation.

The strongest libertarians are self aware selfish people, the strongest authoritarians are self ignorant selfless people, trying to benefit everyone by forcing their own warped self image on others.

Unstated premises abound!

Nobody claps, a few people look uncomfortable, maybe this wasn't the best place to start preaching.

Sometimes I write a chapter

This is a pretty nice cafe, its quiet and I haven't noticed the coffee taste awful. I hope you don't think I sound too pretentious, but I do enjoy the right setting, I'm sure you do as well, though our ideas may differ as to what that is.

"uhh, yeah, that is pretty cool."

Yep, the conversation is wavering, if conversation is easy I can tell I'm enjoying it, this seems a bit strained which means it has only two ways to go, stock questions about items that vaguely relate to us, or a push toward better understanding via unknown common ground.

"Its like how butterflies live in symbiosis with ants, fifty percent or more of all species at some stage in development." Lepidoptera, most everyone likes Lepidoptera in some sense, lets see what reaction I get.

"Really? That is amazing, isn't it great how insects interact with other species of insect, they seem so much better at preserving gene stock of their symbiotes than humans are."

Well, this is good, not only an analysis of the topic at hand, but an impressive background knowledge. We are lost in a world of insect symbiosis, genetic selectivity in codependent organisms and chaos theory.

"Butterflies live in symbiosis with humans, they are beautiful and we breed them to keep them around."

She must be joking, this is way too simplistic a notion given the context.

"Butterflies are to humans as parasitic wasps are to ants, spiders and cockroaches. As humans die from accidents, butterflies flap their wings in the amazon."

"Sounds practically causative!"

Yep, this conversation is going well.

Chapter whatever, I've lost count already

Simple and complex.

Now this is a really difficult one to puzzle out, and since anthropology for the week is already over, its about time to start thinking about the answers.

Complex and simple.

Complex, complicated, confusing, cluttered coordinates. How will I use these to understand human social groups better? Well, lets see...

A complex society is one that I don't understand, a simple one is one I don't know I don't understand.

Well, philosophical standpoints are going to make me turn in circles it seems, so how does one understand a social setting?

AHHA!

The people sitting near me give me an odd look as I throw up my arms and grin.

The only way to understand society is by social interaction. I giggle to myself as I get up and start walking quickly, my fingers twitching.

I enjoy wiggling my fingers when I think, maybe it is a generalised connection between my fingers moving and my mind speaking.

I try not to talk to myself when thinking, but it happens quite often, maybe a psychoiconist will tell me i'm actually talking to my transdimensional pseudoego.

If that doesn't exist yet, it does now, so says I!

Only understanding anthroplogy through human contact, could be a difficult task, i'd better get some reading material.

I'm good idea yes?

So this is a book i'm writing about ideas, I told Nathan. He seemed kinda interested and kept walking. I try to sit on ideas until I make something of them, because otherwise i'll just waste all my creative juice on the concept and never bother recording or making something of it.

Shooting the breeze is nice, but I won't be able to publish a series of interesting conversations I have had with various people.

Well, that and a few lectures when I start on a tangent and nobody seems to follow.

So this book, I tell Nathan, its going to be a series of interesting conversations and a few lectures I have with people who aren't really all that interested in what I have to say, but somehow I'll make this virtual journal of a book have more than one character. Maybe i'll just be all the characters myself, and react according to whatever mood i'm in when I write it.

Nathan agrees this is a good idea and we continue on our quest to cook a delicious lemon and lime slice.

I've got a bunch of ideas, and some of them I think are pretty.

I write them down and put in line breaks whenever I don't think a thought is flowing correctly.

I've still got a belt and a can of tuna sitting on my desk, I really should move them on to their respective owners.

I wonder if that is a chapter worth of information yet.

Kattt777, I will find out who you are.