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Baraka_Guru
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Baraka_Guru

Möderätor, Male, from Toronto

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Oh, hi! Nov 12, 2018

Baraka_Guru was last seen:
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    1. Baraka_Guru
      Baraka_Guru
      "They have a choice: They can live in my new world or they can die in their old one." —Daenerys Targaryen
    2. Baraka_Guru
      Baraka_Guru
      Valar morghulis.
      1. PonyPotato
        PonyPotato
        Valar dohaeris
        Apr 1, 2014
      2. Baraka_Guru
        Baraka_Guru
        This man is pleased to hear the words.
        Apr 1, 2014
    3. Baraka_Guru
      Baraka_Guru
      "There are no unsacred places; / there are only sacred places / and desecrated places."
    4. Baraka_Guru
      Baraka_Guru
      “Man may trust man ... we'll never have a truly sane world until men learn to trust mankind. That would mean the death of magic, I think.”
    5. Baraka_Guru
      Baraka_Guru
      Conan sensed their uncertainty and grinned mirthlessly and ferociously. "Who dies first?"
    6. Baraka_Guru
      Baraka_Guru
      24 days until season premiere, y'all!
      1. CinnamonGirl
        CinnamonGirl
        I think saying "y'all" takes away some of your Canada-ness. :)
        Mar 14, 2014
      2. Baraka_Guru
        Baraka_Guru
        Yeah, we're more about "guys!"
        Mar 14, 2014
    7. Baraka_Guru
      Baraka_Guru
      "Man is condemned to be free; because once thrown into the world, he is responsible for everything he does." —Jean-Paul Sartre
    8. Baraka_Guru
      Baraka_Guru
      We men may be from Mars, but what's important is that we're seeking Uranus.
    9. Baraka_Guru
      Baraka_Guru
      "It's now or never, as always. If you're not here now, you won't be there then." —Lama Surya Das
    10. Baraka_Guru
      Baraka_Guru
      "Someday, when all your civilization and science are likewise swept away, your kind will pray for a man with a sword."
    11. Baraka_Guru
      Baraka_Guru
      "When I cannot stand alone, it will be time to die. But I'd like a flagon of wine."
    12. EventHorizon
      EventHorizon
      hey what happened to plan9?
      1. Baraka_Guru
        Baraka_Guru
        He comes and goes in cycles. He should be back within the next one to six months or more.
        Feb 19, 2014
    13. Baraka_Guru
      Baraka_Guru
      "Crom! ... Give me a clean sword and a clean foe to flesh it in. Damnation! What would I not give for a flagon of wine!"
      1. DamnitAll
        DamnitAll
        This makes me miss Niner.
        Feb 18, 2014
      2. Baraka_Guru
        Baraka_Guru
        Word.
        Feb 18, 2014
    14. Baraka_Guru
      Baraka_Guru
      "Your worst enemy cannot harm you as much as your own unguarded thoughts." —Gautama Buddha
    15. Baraka_Guru
      Baraka_Guru
      "I remember only ideas and sensations."
    16. Baraka_Guru
      Baraka_Guru
      I pay the iron price.
    17. VLAD
      Vlad
      Hi Baraka,how are you?
      1. Baraka_Guru
        Baraka_Guru
        Hi, Vlad. I'm well, thanks. Welcome to the TFP. Let me know if you have any questions.
        Jan 9, 2014
    18. Baraka_Guru
      Baraka_Guru
      I'm talkin' 'bout a New Year's revolution!
    19. Baraka_Guru
      Baraka_Guru
      "There are no unsacred places; / there are only sacred places / and desecrated places." —Wendell Berry
    20. Baraka_Guru
      Baraka_Guru
      DamnitAll-209: We have 9 days to comply?! To what?! TELL US!
      1. snowy and DamnitAll like this.
      2. Plan9
        Plan9
        LOL'd!
        Dec 21, 2013
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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)