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Baraka_Guru
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Baraka_Guru

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Oh, hi! Nov 12, 2018

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    1. Baraka_Guru
      Baraka_Guru
      Moral relativism: It explains why you can find veal at the grocery store but not canned dolphin.
      1. CinnamonGirl
        CinnamonGirl
        It also explains why dogs are friends, but cows are food.
        Jan 8, 2012
      2. Baraka_Guru
        Baraka_Guru
        This is true.
        Jan 8, 2012
      3. EventHorizon
        EventHorizon
        i have this exact topic today in ethics class. interesting that they would teach us that moral relativism exists instead of "we're always right"
        Jan 9, 2012
    2. Baraka_Guru
      Baraka_Guru
      I just had a nerdgasm at the just-posted Game of Thrones Season 2 teaser.
    3. Baraka_Guru
      Baraka_Guru
      "The power of verse is derived from an indefinable harmony between what it says and what it is. Indefinable is essential to the definition"
    4. Baraka_Guru
      Baraka_Guru
      I really should stop killing the unicorn.
    5. Baraka_Guru
      Baraka_Guru
      "As the air to a bird or the sea to a fish, so is contempt to the contemptible."
      1. EventHorizon likes this.
    6. Baraka_Guru
      Baraka_Guru
      Poetry is the longest distance between point A and point B.
    7. Baraka_Guru
      Baraka_Guru
      Syntactically, electromythographically....
    8. Baraka_Guru
      Baraka_Guru
      The shouty weekend drunks are on the balcony again.
    9. Baraka_Guru
      Baraka_Guru
      "The poet is indeed the right popular philosopher." -Sir Philip Sidney
    10. Baraka_Guru
      Baraka_Guru
      Faking it until I start making it....
    11. Baraka_Guru
      Baraka_Guru
      In a matter of hours, if not days, I will be hitting some weird slipstream.
    12. Baraka_Guru
      Baraka_Guru
      I am free and lost. / I feel. I have fever, chills. I am myself. "Dreams Without Illusions" – Fernando Pessoa
    13. EventHorizon
      EventHorizon
      hey who would i talk to about getting access to tilted politics, weaponry, and all the rest of the goodies?
      1. Baraka_Guru
        Baraka_Guru
        According to what I see, you should have access to those.
        Nov 10, 2011
      2. EventHorizon
        EventHorizon
        awesome thanks BG!
        Nov 11, 2011
    14. Baraka_Guru
      Baraka_Guru
      So dark.... #feelingkindanordic
    15. Baraka_Guru
      Baraka_Guru
      I'mma gonna shoot me some zombehs...
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      2. EventHorizon
        EventHorizon
        i bet you wont...
        Nov 7, 2011
      3. Baraka_Guru
        Baraka_Guru
        Didn't get them all.... :( No ZombieSquirrels in my line of sight, thankfully.
        Nov 7, 2011
      4. ZombieSquirrel
        ZombieSquirrel
        You would never have survived if ZombieSquirrels were around.
        Nov 8, 2011
    16. Baraka_Guru
      Baraka_Guru
      Population overgrowth is a feminist issue.
    17. Baraka_Guru
      Baraka_Guru
      We can plant a house. We can build a tree. I don't even care. We can have all three....
    18. Baraka_Guru
      Baraka_Guru
      pterodactyl teutonic acid
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    20. Baraka_Guru
      Baraka_Guru
      "Let the snake wait under / his weed / and the writing / be of words, slow and quick, sharp / to strike, quiet to wait, / sleepless."
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    The details of my life are quite inconsequential. But very well, where do I begin? My father was a relentlessly self-improving boulangerie owner from Belgium with low grade narcolepsy and a penchant for buggery. My mother was a fifteen-year-old French prostitute named Chloe with webbed feet. My father would womanize, he would drink, he would make outrageous claims like he invented the question mark. Sometimes he would accuse chestnuts of being lazy, the sort of general malaise that only the genius possess and the insane lament. My childhood was typical — summers in Rangoon, luge lessons. In the spring, we'd make meat helmets. When I was insolent, I was placed in a burlap bag and beaten with reeds — pretty standard, really. At the age of twelve, I received my first scribe. At the age of fourteen, a Zoroastrian named Vilma ritualistically shaved my testicles. There really is nothing like a shorn scrotum, it's breathtaking, I suggest you try it —

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