Kyle Jacob Biodrowski

Hey I was pleasantly surprised by that one Kyle!

I heard it on XM Radio on the way to an appointment. I just had to post it here.

Oh huh how did I forget this one!! 189 million views!! Yes, we are all doomed!

Well um..Brant you did lament that many songs have no video!

I was a huge fan of System of a Down in my early to mid-teens. I used to listen to them every day on my way to middle school. The bus trip was only 5-10 minutes long, but I got a few songs in, lol.

Too bad the lead vocalist turned into an environmentalist wacko. He has a nice set of pipes.

Courtesy the year 1998:

What happened System of a Down? You were such great critics of Bush and big government. Are you afraid of Obama? It seems that many of the bands that were critical of Bush are silent in the Obama era.

Mediafire?!!

Are you black hat?

Michael

.... what?

Is your hat of the charcoal variety? If so, please see a tailor.

Now who'll make snarky comments on my "anti-life" thread?!

Lol I love that guy, the one on ducks really made me laugh!

"Kind of like Charlotte's Web but underwater."

Oh lawdy! I love his video on ducks. He pretty much gets stuck on the topic of the duck's penis!

Before I forget, you'll love this one Brant. I just know it!

http://youtu.be/yeKXm1u-sa8

They use to make videos. Some were quite good. Now they put up a photo and lard on the "music."

(I don't have to learn how to put up videos and graphics; I merely goad others to do my work for me, a regular Tom Sawyer)

--Brant

will somebody put up the Rush vid?

(I keep tipping my hand; my evil goes nowhere--damn!)

Here's an indictment of music videos by Ronnie himself.

But if you must have a video...

There are untrue facts (facti, factoes, factuses) in novels. There are also true facts (facti, factoes, factuses) therein. Thus the use of untrue and true is justified. This is possible if the foundational matrix is false and necessary to keep a reader's bearings objective in the subjective swirl.

--Brant

context!

Matrix, you say?

The picture above is what finally convinced me that I'm a visual learner. Now if only my visual learning abilities would help me decipher what Brant just said...words are visuals, right?

Yes, I was just taking a dig at mainstream news outlets for calling falsehoods, facts.

See, I forgot I was talking to the smart whipersnapper...my bad...

Whippersnapper? Is that some kind of turtle tamer?

Whip those snappers into place!

isn't the plural Octipi?

Question: What Is the Plural of Octopus?

Answer:

You really can't go very wrong if you try to come up with a plural for octopus on your own. Like many nouns, it has a few acceptable plural forms. The correct forms are octopuses, octopodes, or octopi.

Out of curiosity, why do folks use the phrase "true facts."

What would an untrue fact be?

A...

Some facts are untrue, namely the ones told by MSNBC.

Then they would not be "facts," right?

A fact (derived from the Latin factum, see below) is something that has really occurred or is actually the case. The usual test for a statement of fact is verifiability, that is whether it can be proven to correspond to experience. Standard reference works are often used to check facts. Scientific facts are verified by repeatable experiments.

Yes, I was just taking a dig at mainstream news outlets for calling falsehoods, facts.

isn't the plural Octipi?

Question: What Is the Plural of Octopus?

Answer:

You really can't go very wrong if you try to come up with a plural for octopus on your own. Like many nouns, it has a few acceptable plural forms. The correct forms are octopuses, octopodes, or octopi.

Out of curiosity, why do folks use the phrase "true facts."

What would an untrue fact be?

A...

Some facts are untrue, namely the ones told by MSNBC.

Everything you've ever wanted to know about the octopus, condensed into one video.

This thread is like a weed in our beautiful garden.

--Brant

weeds, actually

Nearly 20 days without a post! I'm slacking in my anti-life duties.

I never...

You just "lost" a crapload of future evenings.

Given what I've seen so far, it's more than a fair trade.

I just started watching Lost and I can already tell it's going to be a four-episode-a-night series.

Funny, for some reason, before I actually watched an episode, I thought I wouldn't be able to get into the show. The trailers just didn't catch my interest. I'm only on the forth episode, which is "Walkabout", and I already like the series. "Walkabout" is my favorite episode, so far. It even made me tear up, which isn't that hard to do, I guess. But, for me, tearing up is a sign that I just witnessed a powerful event or sequence on television.

There was a coup and you didn't get the memo.

Aha! More proof for Naomi that there can be a bloodless coup!

There was blood. We just had a good drainage system.

Out of curiosity, what are you going to be using the quote for?

For the most diabolical of actions, the integration of knowledge in order to form a more accurate view of the world.

Thanks folks!

Now I know I'm not going crazy. (awaiting the arrival of Brant)

I read The Fountainhead nearly 5 years ago, which seems like a long time ago. It's strange how certain events can pull long "forgotten" memories to the forefront of one's mind.

What's going on here? Did I miss something? Who gave you people permission to go ahead without me?

--Brant

five years seems like a long time ago because you are very young; for me five years ago was like yesterday and the 1960s the day before

There was a coup and you didn't get the memo.

Yep, I'm aware as to why five years seems so long to me. After all, currently, five years is nearly 25% of my total life I've lived on this earth.

1960's, eh? You may as well have said the 1700s. Both seem so far away to me.

Not too long ago, I watched home movies featuring me as a baby. At that time, I lived in the same house as I do today. But that house looks so...basic and foreign, yet strangely comforting and warm.

Kyle, you're not imagining things! Here is the passage you're remembering, spoken by the great evil one himself, Ellsworth Toohey:

"...there's always a purpose in nonsense. Don't bother to examine a folly - ask yourself only what it accomplishes. Every system of ethics that preached sacrifice grew into a world power and ruled millions of men."

Its use in Rand's extremism essay was actually in quote marks, though not attributed to its actual speaker, E.T. (who did not call home).

REB

It's from the scene between Toohey and Keating after Toohey has learned about the deal Keating cut with Roark over the Cortlandt commission.

Thanks folks!

Now I know I'm not going crazy. (awaiting the arrival of Brant)

I read The Fountainhead nearly 5 years ago, which seems like a long time ago. It's strange how certain events can pull long "forgotten" memories to the forefront of one's mind.

That quote appears in "Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal", chapter 17 "Extremism or The Art of Smearing".

You can find it here.

Thanks Jerry!

I don't know why I thought I had read it in Rand's fiction. I've never read Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal.

I'm looking for a quote by Rand. It reads something along the lines of "Don't bother to examine absurdity, instead ask what it accomplishes."

I can't find this quote anywhere on the web and I'm fairly certain I read it in The Fountainhead or Atlas Shrugged.

I never met an ice cream I didn't like.

-Joe

There's still plenty of time to change your attitude toward ice cream.

I believe this approach is nonsense, but when I read about Sarah-haters getting tripped up over and over up by taking satire as fact when the item fits a bigoted stereotype of her, it does seem like their core story is running them and not the contrary.

I imagine deviating from the story would be rather...painful for the Sarah-haters. I mean, look at how invested they are in their beliefs. They've likely spent a good portion of their time, effort, and energies mocking her. They can't turn back. Sunk costs and all. They also derive benefits from their story. Entertainment and a sense of superiority. Both are had when they take the satire as truth.

In consideration of these benefits, why would the Sarah-haters ever change their beliefs?

Most people are fine not knowing the truth. To know the truth would be too costly.

On a side note, this whole idea of a core story interests me. And I can't say why.

I've already posted this song, but this is of higher audio quality.

Guilty pleasure of mine.

http://youtu.be/cRvGnq_WpAQ