Best posts made by Indrid Cold

@heyitszoey Post everything quickly, like a crazy genius, I say.

Which celebrity would you prefer welcome you to Heaven, though? Me, I've narrowed it down to Elvis or Johnny Cash.

The parallel with religion, even dogmatic religion, is a bit tenuous, mate, if you don't mind me saying. For the experiment to truly be an allegory for religion, the bananas would need to be unseen, their existence merely implied by some priest monkey.

I see where you're coming from, but I think you're maybe doing mankind a disservice, or maybe being overly lenient to us, by comparing the monkey experiment to our situation. To put it in perspective, I dislike capitalism as much, I imagine, as you dislike religion, but I wouldn't suggest it's just some mindless, cowardly autopilot. Maybe it is a little bit, but don't forget, there's also such a thing as conceit. I would never be able to win over any capitalists by telling them that they're caught in some mindless loop... but if you played up human consciousness, even evil, you might just build a rapport.

Besides which, eventually, after many generations, evolution will provide the monkeys with telekinesis so that they can free-up them bananas without even touching em. All the little monkeys from chimpan-A to chimpanzee.

Which actor would you choose to play you in a film of your life? Or, y'know, if you were a minor character in a film of someone else's life, maybe fourth down in the credits ...I dunno. I'm not really a narcissisty kinda guy, therefore ...I dunno.

I think maybe Joaquin Pheonix. He's got stuff going on on his face, which makes him briefly seem like an interesting character, but probably it's just crazy-intensity and over-thinking (which on closer inspection is UNCOOL).

What of you?

My position as the oldest person on TWS is something I take very seriously. And it's not like when Grandpa Simpson says a load of stuff, or when those hundred-year-olds get interviewed on the Jeremy Vine Show and everyone just tunes over to Absolute for an hour. I STILL HAVE STUFF TO SAY AND IT'S RELEVANT.

So if you have a question about what it was like before the internet, or what it was like when there was only four TV channels, or what it was like to be alive in the 80's, or what it was like when everything was CHEAP, or what kinda sweets we had back in the day, or what kinda clothes were (are) cool ...COME YE.

@theKing You're being a bit harsh with the grammar, mate. We're a couple of daft lads on a sillyboy website, not CS Lewis and George Bernard Shaw.

• Being in good health.
• Revolution.
• Wearing a really poncey watch.

It's hard to disagree with anything @Berin says, and in fact, it behoves me as a communist to agree that evil comes from the ignorance of good. Howevz ...I don't really understand what good can come from discussing it. It's like reading a William Peter Blatty novel: all that'll happen is that you'll get nervous and depressed. There's just too many variables to take into consideration, whether they're in the world, luck, or our minds. A lot of stuff happens on a whim.

An equally weighty question, I think, is whether the 'path of least resistance' always leads to evil. I'd say that it does. Normal people become politicians to replicate their super-easy bourgeois lives among the rest of population -- it's hard for a non-communist to argue that they're doing anything evil, and yet ...look how thoughtless and precarious our economies are, look at the plight of the working classes. <--and that's my sulky hobby horse getting his exercise for today.

@Wolfie_11 When I was a kid, my dad tried to reassure us that everything would be OK even if there was a nuclear war, by showing us a nearby communal fallout shelter.

In hindsight, I now realize it was just a storm drain cover. But I'm still heading over there at the first sign of trouble.

Petra, it's because I'm a dangerous cult leader and the algorithm doesn't want a Waco situation developing.

It's SPRINGTIME. Outside, it's sunny, and really, we should all be outside, or at least acknowledging that the outside world exists. I mean, I guess it's admirable --on a social level-- that we're all poring over each other's personalities in order to find TRUE FRIENDSHIP, or looking for some kinda existential, serendipitous, internet-based TRUTH, but at the same time ...don't you think just the vibe of our location plays as much a part in our personalities as our opinions, and desires? EH?

I'm not so interested to know the name of where you live, and it's probably best you don't write it because STALKERS EXIST. But I'm curious. Is your locale mostly streets, or fields? Is it hilly or flat? When you look out of your window, can you see other windows, maybe containing other characters going about their lives? Where's the nearest river, and can you hear it at night? How far do you live from the sea --far enough that the concept is magical, or near enough that it's passe? What's the history like? Was there once Romans, or Vikings, or Native Americans knocking about? How high are the trees? Is it dense enough that you'd be able to perpetually hide if there was suddenly a full-scale Police dragnet looking for you? Is it isolated enough that an 'Invaders'-style saucer could land, unobserved? Maybe you live in a city centre. I honestly can't imagine what that's like. TELL ME.

I'm particularly interested in your blind spots -- is there somewhere nearby that you've simply got no idea what's there? I've lived in the same place since forever, so I can picture everything out to, say, 30 miles. Not sure if this is cool or uncool.

Of course you're right, @DIV. There's no circumstances where a Wicket Spanner would rotate unless he was fighting a giant celestial Stormtrooper -- but then again, that might explain what The Devil is?

@Karina-Kara I once crushed up some Chaos emeralds and snorted them in the belief I'd get super-speed (the velocity, not the drug).

All I ask is that they can recite the Communist Manifesto by Date 3.

Would the cat retain the ability to spit?

Drink so much unlimited free coffee and become so jittery that the vibration of your atoms is effected on a quantum level and you travel to another dimension. This will almost be as good as free Wi-Fi.

"All commodities, in so far as they are values, are embodied human labour, and are therefore commensurable, their values can all be measured as one and the same specific commodity; and this latter can therefore be transformed into the common measure of their values" - Karl Marx, Capital.

<-- it's a single sentence, so it still counts as a quote. COWABUNGA.

@PetrAPark3r And here I was thinking that the Corpus Christi festival was just Catholics sitting around listening to 'Corpus Christi' by Jeff Buckley, because they're into dead, tragic indie rockers from the 90's.

Re: [A topic on dreams](, /topic/14768/a-topic-on-dreams)

So, I used the TWS search bar (which is not something I normally like to do, because I like to live in the moment like a zeitgeist sillyboy), and found there's no generic dream dump section.

WELL THERE IS NOW.

The nearest thing was an old post by @Zeus-_ and the pooter-ghost gave me a hard time when trying to reply, so here we are.

TELL YOUR DREAMS HERE. I AM FASCINATED. In my experience of talking to other humans, people generally don't like talking about their dreams, or listening to other people's. Which is weird. Because from my point of view, they're like a free acid trip and should be praised as such.

Me, I've written down all my dreams (except the lucid ones) since 2008. I write them down in books, in tiny 6-point block capitals, like the crazy ramblings of a serial killer.

And about the lucid dreaming, believe it or not, they can be a bit passe. I'd much rather hear about regular ones. I mean, if you want, I can train you guys up in a separate post, so you can go full-on Inception / Waking Life... but they do tend to be a bit po-faced, and I'm not 100% sure they're good for your mental health. In @Zeus-_ original post, @AstroBambina told of the 'hand' technique, but there's dozens of other (easier) ways of training...

But yeah. TELL YOUR DREAMS HERE. Don't be afraid of anyone using psychoanalysis to figure out your inadequacies, because we're all too cool and friendly for that, right?

I'm bored, you're bored, we're all bored, but that's no excuse for imprisoning the universe in a phone case.