way cool pictures

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"...just that the internet is this great leveler then..." mused the goblin now, not really wishing to hijack the thread here, but even so, he noted that anyone of any age, facing any hardship, or deprivation too, could post on in defiance of it then, so he simply repeated something, saying "...oh yes, in dailylife one is whatever, ah but not here then, not now either, ah no, for here on this forumland one is what one makes of oneself, and if I ever wanted to give a writer some gift it would be this simple understanding then, that "as in books, so on threads too, same pact with the muse and same journey to self here"..."

"...what a strange logic, that "to kill and steal for the greater good of the state" is somehow justified let alone permissible where one doesn't personally profit from it..." went the goblin now, trying to throw both heinrich himmler's cold words, together with those savage images too, to the back of his mind now, and yet they returned each time, like some fish bone stuck in the back of his throat, adding "...simply "might is right" had came into power in germany because peter the great had put it so well when he confided "well, he one thing worse than bad government is weak government", for america is weak now and these fish bones are not of my making, just they are there..."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7_XS3Xra0Xs

"...I will never be known nor make money out of this either, promise..." went the goblin now, adding "...just to become a known unknown at best then...", so the internet was vast, fast, and alive he felt and these were early days too, adding "...no I just want to be a livewriter on this internet here, where the truth is that, like you, I too haven't the slightest clue what that means, only that it's mine for the trying and I am going to try for it..."

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Well, goblin, maybe you'll eventually gain notariety and a place in Wikipedia as a famous internet poster, like early newsgroup posters Archimedes Plutonium and The Internet Oracle.

"...that would be a thought..." said the goblin liking it, sounding rather like "the tomb of the unknown goblin" then, of course all spoiled when or if his dna revealed that he was actually some poxey nobody in dailylife too, concluding "...oh, how boring it must be to become as aged as ones works now, ah but if you're reading this then what more should I care for..."

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" A child screaming in pain, that is the sound of revolution."- John Braine'

This is one of those times when one must ask if the ends justifies the means? does the better society that may or may not come out of a revolution justify the violence and deaths of the revolution itself?

"...it's very well put..." went the goblin now, adding "...though one has to be careful about "the ends justifies the means" here, and those excuses they use to justify it each time such as in "preemptive", "for the greater good of society", where even if one does not personally profit from a crime, it's still a crime in my view, for the nazis were the first exponents of neoconservatism now, but let's hope that they were the last too lest one be on the wrong side of their ends here..."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neoconservatism#Great_Depression_and_World_War_II

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2a_cmbi3iIg

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I know I have a touch of dylexia, my wife will say turn right and I turn left, she says turn left and I turn right. I told her to start pointing and it works a lot better.

"...reminds me of americans tourist asking the swiss police for directions again..." mentioned the goblin, adding "...oh no, the police are very polite and helpful, only that regardless of whichever destination one actually asks for they invariably send one to mcdonalds..."

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the goblin wanted to join in again, apologized for his last one about computers, and would now try for something more in tune with readers here, saying "...don't throw away those used 78 gramophone needles each time, for if you have have enough of them, you can always sprinkle them around the base of your hydrangeas and the iron in them with be absorbed by the plant and turn the flower blue here, and you'll be the envy of the neighborhood..."

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what are the rules

"...ah no, not actual rules, more like guidelines here..." went the goblin thinking back to the point where the muse had first handed him the contact saying "...so goblin our little pact goes "honestly, a shared life, and a thick skin", so what say you then, think you can cut it as a livewriter now..." where the goblin had simple asked what was in for him in return then, "...a "journey to self" goblin, to see yourself by what you post and to conquer forumland by it..."

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"Our government is corrupt and the entire world is on edge." sighed the vampire pixie faerie, who was just now realizing that the government was kind of, if not just like, a vampire. "I suppose that here would be a more appropriate use for the phrase, two wrongs don't make a right."

"...nah, the phrase is more like "out of sight is out of mind", since if one doesn't see oil on the surface of the sea, nor see combat soldiers in warzones, nor notice that manufactured goods are produced elsewhere, nor remember that there is both a noflyzone and a media-blackout still in place, that gitmo is still there too, or realize that the dollar in ones pocket had never been worth less, in fact any of these facts then, then one could probably think that all is well in america today..."

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LOL.... you're a tad trollish on other forumns, now aren't ya ?

"...nah, it's more like that idea in stargate sg-1 again, where the trolls are all goa'uld in their intention towards posters and forums, and where the livewriters for their part are more like the tok'ra in their symbiosis with the posters now, whereas the posters themselves are just indifferent hosts until they get bagged one type or the other becoming either a goa'uld or a tok'ra now..." proposed the goblin about it, adding "...but just like in stargate sg-1 too, one can't relate to this until it's too late and one just feels it from within one and it bursts out..."

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I'm still here please send what I won.

"...ok I'll post it to you in appreciation of your unflinching audacity mortal..." replied the goblin, adding "...no, better still, I'll post it here for you even...", and yet, the goblin somehow guessed that what most posters really wanted to see was not anything that the goblin wrote, so much as what they had written, or thought, in reply to a post that had provoked some reflection within them, adding "...for my role is to turn sheep into wolves here, but that doesn't equate to happiness at all, no, life is a slaughter house of sorts, it's just that the sheep don't have the capacity to see beyond their dailylife here, they accept their boundaries because society dictates its values to them, where the only difference is that the wolf hides himself amongst he sheep but its thoughts are hard won..."

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"...live and let live then, but perhaps the only reason why people come here trying to flog their books, besides the obvious financial interest to do so, is because they don't see forumland for what it really is, as a place to write in..." mentioned the goblin across so many forums now, explaining "...ask yourself something then, if someones book is as interesting as they claim it to be, then wouldn't that fact by reflected in their posts too...", in fact, to the goblin it was almost as if the opposite was true here, that those who didn't think of themselves as writers often made better posts, where the writers for their part just seemed like so many bumper-stickers reading "my other stuff is a ferrari", for surely wouldn't anyone reading the plug for some book first look at the posts of that writer to see how he or she wrote, and if those posts were non existent, or without flare, well then didn't one already know by what one saw in those posts all that one would really need to know now, "...as in books, so in posts..." uttered the goblin again