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i saw a film recently called "valley of the wolves", it takes place in Iraq.
theres a righteous spiritual leader in it who, after whitnessing the attendants at his adopted daughters wedding
have "holes put in them" (as you so empathetically put it), goes and rescues a kidnapped american journalist from being beheaded.
(he is such an important figure in the region that his very presence caused the kidnappers to put down their sword)
But before riding off to go do this, one of his followers tuggs his sleeve begging him to stay, to be patient, that this violence would pass.
He said something along the lines of,
"patience does not mean to bow, patience means to struggle"
while there are an infinite ammount of ways your story as a major gas company owner and this fictional iraqi sheiks stories do not parallel, i beleive the quote might be useful to you.
Clearly you feel guilt about your contribution.
Stop it then.
Youre right, our economy is based on gas, I work for one of those hippie juice companies, im not high up in the chain whatsoever, so i dont take your comments personally ... in fact, youre quite right, it pisses me off how much gets wasted there. But arent there positive things that we can focus on?!?! The one i work for, for example, gets many ingredieants fair trade from womens cooperatives in 3rd world nations. Change comes slow and in little bits, but if we continue to struggle with it, and struggle in our persistent patience, we may find that change is possible. It might come in larger bits if someone powerful like you started to move in the right direction.
The only alternative seems to be to accept war, resign to violence and hate ourselves for it.
This deciscion you make will affect your community around you, everyone you interact with will feel, in your every action, either your rage and self hate or your optimism and sense of empowerment.
Make things start to move in a positive way, we all have to try to be sources of joy of empowerment or change. Go get a diesel and run it on veggie oil. I'm in the process of doing this and if you dont know what i mean, message me and i will help. No matter how shady a history you have Lee, we can all change.
yknow i have a penguin joke as well.
a hard working and lonely penguin gets a piece of junk mail in his ice cold mail box advertising a deal for a cheap trip to the south west. fed up with his job and feeling like he finally deserves to see someplace outside of antarctica, he plans the trip and buys a ticket.
once he lands in albuquerque he rents a fancy red drop top sports car and starts balazing accross the hot desert at blinding speeds.
in the middle of nowhere, however, his car suddenly breaks down! pushing with his little slippery flippers moving at the pace of a waddle, he manages to push the car into the nearest town which fortunately, has a mechanic shop. the mechanic tells mr.penguin to come back in an hour and by then he'll have determined the problem.
mr. penguin, exhausted and sad that his trip has hit such a crappy point, trudges over to the sidewalk scuffing his little feet as he goes. after sitting there and moping for about ten minutes he starts to feel unbearably hot and begins and waddles into the nearest general store. after flipping through magazines in the general store, for about 10 minutes he realizes he is still overheating and leaps into the sliding glass door ice cream box.
haning out in there, still feeling too hot. he decides to eat an ice cream. hunger and gluttony getting the better of him, by the time the hour has passed he has greedilly gobbled down all the ice cream bars and has a vanilla moustace dripping off of his beak.
upon returning to the mechanic shop the mechanic says to him
"well mr.penguin, it looks like you blew a seal"
to which the penguin says,
"nope, thats just ice cream"
i already cut may hair you old fucking turkey neck.
come over here and ill grip that gullet and squeeze and kill you with my bare hands
faster than ghandi could say satyagraha.
patience is about struggle, and i will enjoy watching you struggle under my thumbs.
die piece of shit!
This is amazing. I missed you SF0. You got my creative mojo back... the votes I got on my first task brought me confidence when I had lost it all... I played for 2 years like a maniac ... I went to film school ... I wanted to share my shit covered Taste The Rainbow with a skat loving jokester and realized... I missed you! I am back - no one knows me here anymore I am sure... what a treat! I can't wait to start fresh!
Also... goddamn this is a great task, who made it?? I love you.
it sucks i cant vote for a comment cause i would
that sounded pretty bad. at least you didnt suffer it in esperanto or some other language no one knows.
2 questions,
how much spainish did you know before the task?
what, if any, were the other swear phrases you learnt?
but also, kinda a dead on hot fantasy. dont know how i missed it before but im glad to have been redirected to it.
indeed.
yeah i do agree with some of the criticism as far as our frat slash corporate presentation.
people did mistake the thing for a commercial shoot and as a result were leery of being captured on film. furthermore many people acted as though we were doing them a favor by letting them take juice without being photographhed, wh
but seriously
your solution wouldnt have worked.
nobody wants a bottle of unlabeled, piss colored beverage from a bunch of guys whose presentation was
frat like at best
now my life is ruined all over again
http://www.elizium.nu/scripts/lemmings/
spread the word.
ruin other peoples lives
ive made it all the way up to mayhem level 1
in the last few days
my eyes are bleeding and i am praying for an early death