Friday, 28 November 2008

encyclopedia dramatica

my new favourite website. basically, it's amazing.
 
"Insane," as it is normally used on both the Internets and IRL, is a general, typically harmless and nonspecific irregularity of thought or perception. It usually refers to lower level leftards, generic Christians and members of various fandoms."

british crazy:


korean crazy

german crazy


there's also plenty of links to outrageous websites, such as my personal favourite "The International Square Earth Society", a website specifically to persuade and back up the belief that the Earth is square, according to the Bible, but also links to a page teaching how the Earth is flat and standing on pillars :s

It's really sad, but I can spend a whole evening reading about this kind of weird stuff on the internet, usually American religious extremism, and in particular, Scientology. 

"Of all the nations on Earth today, God most loves the United States of America.  (This is evident from songs like "God Bless America," and from the fact that Pat Robertson, God's chosen spokesman, lives in the U.S..)"

I guess it's probably because I can't get my head around how people can become so brainwashed by books, which are completely fictitious, live their lives by them and believe that they'll be sent somewhere far greater when they die than everyone else, just by doing so. In this way I find that religion is purely selfish. Scientology is the most bizarre, for many reasons. To have to pay large sums of money to climb the levels in the religion (it is estimated that to reach one of the highest levels OT9, it would cost between $365,000 to $380,000) is utterly rediculous as an individual should not have to pay for a belief, living your life by a set of books including stories about time travel and aliens, whilst knowing the "founder" L. Ron Hubbard was a science fiction author is just plain stupid, forcing members to "disconnect" from their family and loved ones (formally, writing a letter to tell them that they are never going to see or talk to them purely because they do not believe in or are opposed to $cientology), the list goes on.
"I'd like to start a religion. That's where the money is." - L. Ron Hubbard to Lloyd Eshbach, in 1949

"MAKE MONEY. MAKE MORE MONEY. MAKE OTHER PEOPLE PRODUCE SO AS TO MAKE MORE MONEY." - L. Ron Hubbard, Hubbard Communications Office Policy Letter, 9 March 1972

Scientology isn't about making money..

Oh yes, I almost forgot one of the other crazy, slightly frightening rules of Scientology, "Fair Game". An individual can be classed as fair game for numerous reasons, primarily being opposed to the "religion" or interfering with Scientology's actions. Fair Game is no longer officially in action, but is still followed.

"ENEMY — SP Order. Fair game. May be deprived of property or injured by any means by any Scientologist without any discipline of the Scientologist. May be tricked, sued or lied to or destroyed."

Frightening stuff. I've read about several deaths/murders directly caused by Scientology, one being a woman locked in a room and being starved to death because she apparently showed signs of psychological illness after being in a minor car accident. She was taken to hospital but later discharged, and then picked up by Scientologists who then took her to their hotel and locked her in a room for 17 days without food or water. Scientology is strictly against medicine and psychology, yet believes any illness can be cured by a session with an "auditor" (a Scientologist asking a series of short questions, obviously at a price).

I could write loads about this, but its 6:00am and I'm still up for some reason. Here's one of the websites I found about deaths linked to Scientology, Why Are They Dead?.
Tom Cruise isn't crazy.
He KNOWS.


Sunday, 16 November 2008

ultimate insult

"You are so clueless that if we stripped you naked, soaked you in clue musk, and dropped you into a field full of horny clues, You still would not have a clue."

Thursday, 6 November 2008

Sunday, 2 November 2008

ebay

Ok, so thinking about stuff I've done this week.. bought an awesome camera from ebay the other day and it arrived dead quickly. Think I'm kinda getting hooked on buying cheap tat from the internet. This cost me just aver £10 for the camera and shipping from Korea.

Can't wait to take it out with me on a nice day.. 


yessss!!! (Y)

Apparently it takes really awful lomo style pictures which makes it even better.. shame it doesn't have a flash though.

newcastle

It's been a little while since I've written in this blog, I've been kind of avoiding it because I don't really know what to write. And which blog to write it in. So, trip to Newcastle, the Baltic and round abouts the city was pretty good. I got to see one of my best mates Rowan which was pretty cool, and got lost in Newcastle a few times. Unfortunately I forgot to bring my digital SLR in my last minute panic so I didn't get many good pictures. I took my broken digital camera and my diana+ though, so when Jessops actually figure out what they're doing with my films I should have some nice pictures of Newcastle and South Shields to put up.

Oh, and yeh, took my diana+ film to Jessops to get it developed, then went to another camera shop straight after in town, found out that they process medium format for a tiny bit more expensive, and it's ready the next day :( Gutted! Never going to Jessops again.. I had to tell them what to write on the envelope to send it away, not so reassuring. Haven't paid for it either as they had no idea how much it costs, cos they tried to tell me that they would print my square pictures on 6x4...?!
pffft.