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GePap · April 21, 2003, 01:13

Well, I am back form the lion's den of the Shrubbies, and I thought, why not come back with something fresh?

So, the premise is simple: write in some quotes from any of your previous or current avatars: now, if you have an avatar whom does not speak in any way, be creative and make one up.

So, to enlighten ye heathens with some Nietzsche:

Reader's bad manners.- A reader is doubtly guilty of bad manners against the author when he praises his second book at the expense of the first (or vice versa) and then asks the author to be grateful for that.

The worst readers.- The worst readers are those who proceed like plundering soldiers: they pick up a few things they can use, soil and confuse the rest, and blaspheme the whole.

Sharpest critism- One criticizes a person, a book, most sharply when one pictures their ideal.

Bosh · April 21, 2003, 01:16

"squeak"

C0ckney · April 21, 2003, 01:16

"

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DarthVeda · April 21, 2003, 01:20

Holy Crap I'm in Hell!

GePap · April 21, 2003, 01:20

Some more:

Original- Not one that is the first to see something new, but that one sees as new what is old, long familiar, seen and overlooked by everybody, is what destinguishes truly original minds. The first discoverer is ordinarily that wholly common creature, devoid of spirit and addicted to fantasy- accident.

Philisophers error- The philosopher supposes that the value of his philosophy lies in the whole, in the structure; but posterity finds its value in the stones which he used for building, and which is used many more times after that building- better. Thus it finds the value in the fact that the structure can be destroyed and nevertheless retains value as building material.

Too much and too little- all men now live thorugh too much and think through too little: they suffer at the same time from extreme hunger and colic, and therefore become thinner and thinner, no matter how much they eat.- Whoever says now, "I have not lived through anything"- is an ass.

The Emperor Fabulous · April 21, 2003, 01:26

la de da la de de I'm a cow dancin on a tree
la de da la de do While I dance I like to moo

...ok, you have anything better?

Frankychan · April 21, 2003, 01:27

"Not the spores! Not the spores! Agh! Ack! Aaaaaaaaaaah!"

-From G.I. Joe The Movie

GePap · April 21, 2003, 01:31

Being misunderstood- When one is misunderstood as a whole, it is impossible to remove completely a single misunderstanding. One has to realize this lest one waste superfluous energy on ones defense.

How one improves bad arguments/- Some people throw a bit of their personality after their bad arguments, as if that might straighten their paths and turn them into right and good arguments- just as a man in a bowling alley, after he has let go of the ball, stil tries to direct it with gestures.

Being deep and appearing deep- Whomever knows he is deep strives for clarity; whoever would like to appear deep to the crowd , strives for obscurity. For the crowd considers anyting deep if only it cannot see to the bottom: the crowd is so timid and afraid of going into the water.

Against mediators- Those who wish to be mediators between two resolute thinkers are marked as mediocre: they lack the eyes to see the unparalleled; seeing things as similar and making them the same is the mark of weak eyes.

Dying for the "truth"- We should not let ourselves be burnt for our opinions: we are not that sure of them. But perhaps for this: that we may have and change our opinions.

asleepathewheel · April 21, 2003, 01:33

"Hey, Harry the Hamster, do you hear something? I thought I heard something over in that direction [waves to a nearby hill]. Ah, must be a chicken or some other form of poultry that inhabits this terrain."

The last words of Eli the Eliminator, Immortal of the Lost Empire of Vox Controli.

GePap · April 21, 2003, 01:42

The conditions of God-"God himself cannot exist without wise men" -Luther said, and was right. But "God can exist even less without unwise men" - that good old Luther did not say.

Dreams- We have no dreams at all or interesting ones. We should learn to be awake the same way- not at all or in an interesting manner.

what is the seal of attained freedom?- No longer being ashamed in front of oneself.

Rationality ex post facto- Whatever lives long is gradually so saturated with reason that its irrational origins become improbable. Does not almost every accurate history of the origin of something sound paradoxical and sacreligious to our feelings? Doesn't the good historian contradict all the time?

End and goal- Not every end is a goal. The end of a melody is not its goal; and yet: as long as the melody has not reached its end, it also hasn't reached its goal. A parable.

Tuberski · April 21, 2003, 01:51

ACK!!!!! PPTTHHBBBPTTTTT!!!!!!

ACK!

Skanky Burns · April 21, 2003, 01:54

Take that! And that! I shalt slaughter thee!!

GePap · April 21, 2003, 01:55

A testimony of love- Somebody said: "About two persons I have never reflected very thoroughly: that is the testimony of my love for them".

Don't Touch!- There are terrible people who, instead of solving as problem, bungle it and make it more difficult for all who come after. Whoever can't hit the nail on the head should, please, not hit it at all.

Not to wish to see too soon- As long as one lives through an experience, one must surrender to the experience and shut ones's eyes instead of becoming an observer immidiately. For that would disturb good digestion of the experience: instead of wisdom one would acquire indigestion.

Remorse- Never give way to remorse, but immidately say to yourself: that would mean adding a second stupidity to the first.- if you have done harm, see how you can do good.- If you are punished for your actions, bear the punishment with the feeling you are doing good- by dettering others from falling prey to the same folly. Every evildoesr who is punished may feel he is the benefactor of humanity.

Punishment- A strange thing, our punishment! It does not cleanse the criminal, it is no attonement: on the contrary, it pollutes worse than the crime does.

My dog- I have given a name to my pain and call it "dog": it is just as faithful, just as obstrusive and shameless, just as entertaining. just as clever as any other dog- and i can scold it and vent my bad moods on it, as others do with thier dogs, servants, and wives.

Drake Tungsten · April 21, 2003, 01:56

I wish I had a custom avatar so that I could participate in this thread...

GePap · April 21, 2003, 01:58

Quote:

Originally posted by Drake Tungsten
I wish I had a custom avatar so that I could participate in this thread...

Quote:

So, the premise is simple: write in some quotes from any of your previous or current avatars: now, if you have an avatar whom does not speak in any way, be creative and make one up.

Drake Tungsten · April 21, 2003, 02:03

Well then...

My avatar says "It's now obvious that I skipped right to the Nietzsche quotes in the first post."

Dis · April 21, 2003, 02:04

Maybe

Darius871 · April 21, 2003, 02:05

"Sorry captain, but when I see a naked man running after a naked women with a butcher knife, I don't assume he's collecting for the Red Cross."

Frankychan · April 21, 2003, 02:10

Why do I feel this thread is only to show of GePap's knowledge of Nietzsche?

GePap · April 21, 2003, 02:12

Quote:

Originally posted by Frankychan
Why do I feel this thread is only to show of GePap's knowledge of Nietzsche?

Hey! I just got this new book and... ahem...

This can be a very nice thread, if people participate in good fun.

Dis · April 21, 2003, 02:12

the problem with Nietzche is that he was a depressive crazy man. I have trouble taking any philosphical advice from that type of person. Although you could make the argument that I'm a depressive crazy man. But why make the problem worse by taking advice from another depressive crazy man?

and to quote my avatar. "Your life ends... in the wasteland"

Apocalypse · April 21, 2003, 02:42

My avatar is a CD cover of Third Eye Blind's upcoming CD Out of the Vein, so her are some songs....

Blinded
Just an old friend coming over
Now to visit you and
That's what I've become
I let myself in
Though I know I'm not supposed to but
I never know when I'm done
And I see you fogging up the mirror
Vapor around your body glistens in the shower
And I wanna stay right here
And go down on you for an hour
Or stay and let the day just fade away
In a wild dedication
Take the moment of hope
And let it run
Never look back
At all the damage we have done now
To each other
To each other
To each other
But when I see you
It's like I'm staring down the sun
And I'm blinded
There's nothing left to do
But still I see you
I never believe that things that happen for a reason and
They never go as planned
I wanted to thank you for a vision that was lost that you returned
But you pass what you understand
Now her appetite is blown
Little else is known
'cept she's a little angry
Grabs a towel, looks away
And heat fades with the day
And I fall down on what to say
Oh something clean, let me be clever
Hey oh well, whatever
But that's not what I mean
Where we've been has left us burnt still
I wont turn now from a fight
You know I'll never win
So when I see you
You know all the things I've done
But I'm blinded
Like I'm staring down the sun
When I see you
When I see you
When I see you
It's like I'm staring down the sun
Yeah!
(Hey! I'm Blinded!)
(Hey! I'm Blinded!)
Time it passes and it tells us what we're left with
We become the things we do
Me, I'm a fool spent from defiance, yeah you got me but
I didn't give up on you
But the rest is not a t-shirt or a swan song, no
Heat is born again and
It's not easy being me
When I can't promise I will mend
Or bend when you believe
That we are fixed now from our birth
And I've just fallen back to earth
Still you know I'll try again
Cause I believe that we are lucky
We are golden
We have stolen manners in the days when we were one
So when I see you
In spite of all that we've become
I'm still blinded
But I'm still staring down the sun
When I see you
When I see you
When I see you
When I see you
Oh yeah
I'm still staring down the sun
Oh yeah
I'm still staring down the sun
Oh yeah
I'm still staring down the sun
I'm blinded ('eah!)
When I see you

Crystal Baller
I close my eyes and I see a freak
I think it's me and I'm afraid to speak
Keep on going from week to week
This way I didn't lie
Dream of lives we could of had before
Heaters broke down, open doorways
Friends of yours will tell you more
What happens in your mind
Can we try and take the high road?
Though we don't know where it is
Wanna be your Crystal Baller
Wanna show you everything good
I like to make dreams in the afternoon
Allow me to but did I speak too soon
Words drunk off of somebody's joke
What happened to the time

A foot note in your dance hall days
In my mind the record still plays
Still wonder what the **** it says
I’m hoping there is time
We can try and take the high road
Though we don't know where it is
Be your Crystal Baller
Be your diamond ring
Can we talk about tomorrow?
And the promise that it brings
Let me be your Crystal Baller
I will show you everything good
And I like the way it was before, Oh!
I like the way it was before
And in the moment you were speaking at me
And you'd rather be with somebody else
I respected (blah blah blah
I like to make dreams in the afternoon
And I've been tuned but did I speak too soon
Words drunk off of somebody's joke
What happened to the time
Dream of lives we had before
Heaters broke down, open doorways
Friends of yours will cheat you more
It seems that way sometimes
I wonder where we were going?
Homesick for your primal loin
Wonder why the wind keeps blowing
Even through my mind?
Can we try and take the high road
Don't know where it ends
Let me be your Crystal Baller
Let me be your diamond ring
The one I never gave you
And the promise that it brings
Let me be your Crystal Baller
I will show you everything good
Be your Crystal Baller
Crystal Baller
Be your Crystal Baller
Crystal Baller

Faster
Those zoney burnout girls are always the ones for me, and
Chemicals wearing me down in your summertime bacchanalian, and
I saw her go faster than the morning comes
She walks away like a lady
It's always the fallen ones I think are always gonna save me
I want to go faster whoa
I wanna get off one time and not apologize
whoa I wanna say bye, admire and look you in the eye
And then she flexes her knees to try and abate the feeling
She mouths the words 'please' to the poster on the ceiling and
I want to go faster and right in front of me
She stares at him so madly
She's got the nerve to say she wants to **** that boy so badly
I saw her go faster whoa
I wanna get off one time and not apologize whoa
I wanna say bye, admire and look you in the eye whoa
I wanna get off one time oh
I wanna get off one time and off one time
I was hoping you'd be there waiting for me
When I was waiting you were waiting when
You were not waiting for me
And I was hoping you'd be there waiting for me
When I was waiting for you
Hoping you'd be waiting for me
I was hoping you'd be there waiting for me baby
And that you're not the kind to wait for anybody but me
And then I was hoping you'd be waiting for me
Hoping you would be waiting for me
Oh I want to get off one time
Oh I get off one time
Oh wanna go
Whoa get off one time and not apologize
And not apologize!

Forget Myself
I couldn't believe it
Those sapphire eyes
Martha Stone photogenic thighs
And the cameras flash and we are stars
We're laughing in the back of chauffeured cars
All the talk on the phone and your voice of desire
Winter blows through the summer fires
I promised you what's ours is ours
Somewhere backstage, it wasn't a bar
I go crazy when you walk in the room
I laugh at myself with the girl that's blooming
Kinky sex couldn't be too soon
All afternoon and
LA parties in the phoney lands
Phoney grabs with the manicured hands
I always thought you were pretty like a whip
I should've watched my step
Cause I keep on forgetting myself
And I keep on forgetting myself
I keep forgetting myself and
I keep on forgetting myself
I keep on forgetting myself
And I keep on forgetting myself
Who am I? We both don't know
Time ticks by, where'd you go?
You always knew where you were going to
So sweetly you said please come with you
The biggest fear running through my head
When you said you loved me you meant what you said
I was floating, did it go to my head?
We still sleep with the dogs on the bed
But the LA parties and the vodka fizz
This is not my life, or maybe it is
And I keep on forgetting myself
And I keep on forgetting myself
I keep forgetting myself and
I keep on forgetting myself
I keep on forgetting myself
And I keep on forgetting myself
Who am I? We both don't know
Time ticks by, where'd you go?
Oh I make you doubt me
Oh I...You're better off without me
Think I'm looking over your shoulder
Cause there's someone younger and you're feeling older
You're crazy cause you're never fading
Don't want to be so complicated
See my life come undone
I watch it go and let the damage run
I'd change the song now if I could
In the slickness of your blood
I keep on forgetting myself
And I keep on forgetting myself
I keep forgetting myself and
I keep on forgetting myself (where'd you go?)
I keep on forgetting myself
And I keep on forgetting myself
Who's that guy? We both don't know
Whoa whoa whoa where'd you go?
Where'd you go now?
Where'd you go?
Where'd you go?
Where did you go?
Where'd you go?

Palm Reader
Just give me a call
When you feel better
But you never do
And I'm just another debter
To some palm reader
Who's got her hands mixed up
Palm reader's breath
Smells of brandy and cigarettes
As she sells me sweet forgets
She needs something to get her through
She runs a scam like me and you
Oh yeah, me and you
Freud said that love
Was a good psychosis
But I don't know
I've had too many doses
He's a creep
And we all know this
He probably made it up
Believe in me
And this lie
Tell me everything will be alright
Cos it's so good to believe
You could turn my hope into a weapon
I kept your sweater til the scent was gone
Bunched up in my hands
When the days were long
But I still sniff it
I walk alone by the coffee window with it
And did you stop
Tell me never ever fall in love
And they dont know why
Neither do I
Neither do I
Neither do I
Neither do I
Believe in me
And this lie
Tell me everything will be alright
Cos it's so good to believe
We could turn it all around in a night
You and I
Yeah it's so good
But you turn my hope into a weapon
Yeah you could turn my hope into a weapon
I am not. I am not.
There's no one to trust
Except maybe the two of us
But that's in the past
The place where I'm living
Haunted by broken dreams
I read the horoscopes in magazines
Especially yours
In the sign of the Leo
The regal ones
Something-ered at your cross show
Oh it's so slow
And will they let me go
Let me go
Let me go
Let me go
Believe in me
And this lie
Tell me everything will be alright
Cos it's so good to believe
We could turn it all around in a night
You and I
Yeah it's so good
But you turn my hope into a weapon
Yeah you turn my hope into a weapon

Wake For Young Souls
Today I found my soul
I felt it die inside me yeah
I told you life is like dyno
I have your face in a photo in high school
And you were alive
And that's all I had
And I can't remember who I was myself then
And doesn't help
Still I look to you as a friend
To tell meWho we are now, who we are
It's who we are now, who we are
Where does time go now on the wake for young souls
Another lullaby go sing oh......
Well the wind that blows
It's blowing colder
And the child that grows
She's growing older
And the friends we know
They are behind us
But the friends we know
They're growing colder so
It's who we are now, who we are
It's who we are now ,who we are
Where does time go now on the wake for young souls
You tell me, who we are now, who we are
It's who we are now, who we are
Oh no now on the wake for young souls
Cycle of the moon brings blood to the woman
And blood of the woman brings birth of a child
The child grew up
He forgetting something
Birth of a child comes someplace while
Living great days with the shade of the wind
Unbodied, unsouled, unhurt, unseen
On the day of the dead like a song in my head
He speak to me in the shape of a dream
Treating natural bowl like the wind that blows
Follow the direction no matter where it goes
So it shall be the earth and the sea
Let the truth blow like a hurricane through me
I've been cold, if I've spoken in anger
Two have been born
Forgive me
No I don't see your Mother
Not like before
Though she hasn't forgotten
She doesn't like to be reminded anymore
Annie got married
It didn't come without tears
But the day you died I had laughter for these years
So it's who we are now, who we are
It's who we are now, who we are
Where does time go now on the wake for young souls now
It's who we are now, who we are
it's who we are now, who we are
Oh no now on the wake for young souls
All the things we know
They're gonna fall away from me yeah
Like a grain of sand
Slips through a good friend's hand

Az · April 21, 2003, 03:23

"If I had not become the president, I would have wanted to be the Minister of Education"

Eli · April 21, 2003, 03:26

Grog of the Gathering Storm, two seconds before his death in the hands of Eli the Eliminator :
"Not in the face! Not in the face!"

BustaMike · April 21, 2003, 03:38

Please don't go, the drones need you, they look up to you.

War4ever · April 21, 2003, 03:40

civ2 , master of the warrior defence in MP games

Ari Rahikkala · April 21, 2003, 05:27

"So you can't see me? Are you so cowardly that you aren't willing to bear even my existence?"

Note that this was posted at a time when I had no avatar... and that might have changed by the time you read this. Or it might not have changed. Who knows?

Ari Rahikkala · April 21, 2003, 05:36

OK... now I have a really, really cute new avatar! (yes, that's Rei and Tux)

It does need a bit of cleaning up, though...

Dauphin · April 21, 2003, 05:49

"You just don't flaunt your stuff. Mama says it wouldn't be polite"

Adagio · April 21, 2003, 06:28

"Nobody steals our chicks, and lives"

"Come get some"

Avatar from Duke Nukem