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Baraka_Guru
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Baraka_Guru

Möderätor, Male, from Toronto

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I'm apparently responsible for 2% of the messages posted on this forum. Feb 12, 2025

Baraka_Guru was last seen:
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    1. Baraka_Guru
      Baraka_Guru
      “Do not regret growing older; it is a privilege denied to many.”
    2. Baraka_Guru
      Baraka_Guru
      I am edit incarnate.
    3. Baraka_Guru
      Baraka_Guru
      "Summer afternoon—summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language." —Henry James
    4. Baraka_Guru
      Baraka_Guru
      Am I demon? You need to know.
    5. Baraka_Guru
      Baraka_Guru
      Multiple contacts on DRADIS! Incoming fast! Set Condition One throughout the ship. This is not a drill. I repeat: THIS IS NOT A DRILL.
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      2. Baraka_Guru
        Baraka_Guru
        Do you want my fucking horses or not?
        Jul 26, 2013
      3. arkana
        arkana
        No parent should have to bury their child...
        Jul 26, 2013
      4. Baraka_Guru
        Baraka_Guru
        FORTH EORLINGAS!
        Jul 26, 2013
    6. Plan9
      Plan9
      Best stretch your hip abductors and adductors.
      1. Baraka_Guru and snowy like this.
      2. Baraka_Guru
        Baraka_Guru
        Ev'ry day, bro.
        Jul 22, 2013
    7. Baraka_Guru
      Baraka_Guru
      Should I be carb-loading for this weekend? Let me know because I'll have to start on Wednesday.
      1. GeneticShift
        GeneticShift
        Probably.
        Jul 22, 2013
      2. snowy
        snowy
        Couldn't hurt.
        Jul 22, 2013
    8. Baraka_Guru
      Baraka_Guru
      White belt.
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    9. Baraka_Guru
      Baraka_Guru
      “Go back to the abyss! Fall into nothingness that awaits you and your master!”
    10. Baraka_Guru
      Baraka_Guru
      "Nothing is lost...everything is transformed."
    11. Baraka_Guru
      Baraka_Guru
      "The universe is made of stories, not of atoms."
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    12. Baraka_Guru
      Baraka_Guru
      “History, Stephen said, is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake.”
    13. Baraka_Guru
    14. Baraka_Guru
      Baraka_Guru
      Steve Holt!
      1. GeneticShift and snowy like this.
      2. snowy
        snowy
        It's a Shémale. ;)
        Jun 5, 2013
      3. Baraka_Guru
        Baraka_Guru
        I really need to rewatch the entire series.
        Jun 6, 2013
      4. snowy
        snowy
        We're binge watching it.
        Jun 6, 2013
    15. Baraka_Guru
      Baraka_Guru
      You're a crook, Captain Hook. Judge, won't you throw the book at the pirate...?
    16. Baraka_Guru
      Baraka_Guru
      That awkward moment when you read Nietzsche and realize that the abyss has been staring at you this whole time.
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      2. snowy
        snowy
        A philosophical, nerdy abyss.
        May 22, 2013
      3. Baraka_Guru
        Baraka_Guru
        Indeed.
        May 22, 2013
    17. Baraka_Guru
      Baraka_Guru
      Fell deeds awake, fire and slaughter! Spear shall be shaken, shield be splintered, a sword-day, a red day, ere the sun rises!
      1. snowy
        snowy
        Love this quote.
        May 1, 2013
    18. Baraka_Guru
      Baraka_Guru
      Working to support my career.
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      3. Baraka_Guru
        Baraka_Guru
        If only. I'd be totally flush (in more ways than one).
        Mar 26, 2013
      4. arkana
        arkana
        Oh are you a musician now too?
        Mar 26, 2013
      5. Baraka_Guru
        Baraka_Guru
        Something like that.
        Mar 26, 2013
    19. Baraka_Guru
      Baraka_Guru
      Too many Doritos. Why do I hate myself?
      1. Plan9
        Plan9
        You lack discipline!
        Mar 3, 2013
      2. Baraka_Guru
        Baraka_Guru
        This is true, but even Conan is well known for his indulgences.
        Mar 3, 2013
    20. Baraka_Guru
      Baraka_Guru
      When life hands you lemons, read about Dothraki blood pies, delicate Pentos pastries, river trout baked in clay, and honeyfingers instead.
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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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    “I can't remember anything. I remember only ideas and sensations.”
    —James Joyce, Ulysses (1922)
    “Humankind cannot bear very much reality.”
    —T. S. Eliot, “Burnt Norton,” Four Quartets (1943)