"The US elected He Who Is Not To Be Named in 2016!?"

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i meant to post this earlier, anyway; and then i saw shiboleth's post of "The Three Stooges," so i couldn't help but remember this question i've been pondering...

i've been trying to figure out if Poe was referencing a particular historical event in "The Cask of Amontilladothe victim, Fortunato, is a Scottish Freemason ( Read more... )

( hello... agency of provacateur, may i help you? )

props to pinkflesh17 for this amusing link: LJ Markov Random Text Generator,
( from which i produced the following... )

I have added a great deal of structure to the areopagus community.

I believe that i have implemented a system which will
constructively assist in the moderation of conflict resolution!

Please let me know what y'all think, or just join in the fun (as long as you play by the rules).

i wanted to invite all of my friends to join the community that i have created...

it's called areopagus, and i intend for it to live up to all that implies!

2004-08-12 @ 11:22:00 addendum: further discussion of cooperative communities on 08/12/04

Ultimately, the economy of reciprocal altruism has been proven effective in theory -- whether demonstrated in an abstract sense through the prisoner's dilemma, or in the applied methodology of Bucky Fuller's Critical Path -- communities can be structured ( Read more... )

the value of love cannot be hidden, hoarded away. nor can love be in any way limited in its expression, if it is to retain its worth. much like bits of electronic information, love is not diminished by being shared -- in fact, the currency of love gains value through being given to others ( Read more... )