12.03.08
Posted in America, New Economy, Science, personal, stupidity at 17:48 by Toby Petzold
You want in on the ground floor of the next big way to help fat people lose weight? Come up with a way to neutralize their olfactory nerves. I don’t know how it would work —whether it be a surgical or pharmaceutical method— but so much of the pleasure in eating is related to smell and taste that such a measure would surely depress the desire to eat anything more than what sustenance requires.
Of course, the other thing that would be depressed by such a method of weight control would be the person’s spirits. It is extremely discouraging to be unable to smell or taste one’s food and drink. But a doctor could also prescribe happy pills to keep the poor bastard going, so maybe it would work. It’s no less crazy than stomach stapling or lap band surgery.
Oh, well. I don’t guess it would ever really work, anyway. For one thing, it’s dangerous to eat something you can’t smell or taste. Hell, it’s dangerous in general to not be able to depend on those senses. Someone could serve you up some enchiladas con caca and you’d never know the difference until it was too late.
As for me, I’ve got about two or three percent of my smell back —and I really have to work for even that. I find myself daydreaming about what my first smell will be. Will it be pleasant? Yes. Yes, it will.
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12.01.08
Posted in Science, personal at 05:05 by Toby Petzold
Being sick the last few days —and unable to smell or taste anything— it occurred to me that human being is inextricably linked to those senses and that any robotic futures we might imagine for ourselves would fail to be fully human without them. That is, if you seek immortality and believe it may be had by uploading the contents of your brain into a supercomputer, then what you would be preserving is not human in any meaningful sense, but a soulless, worthless replica.
We are not merely cerebrocortical, but gloriously limbic. Give me my gravity switches and my magnetic alignments and point my pole to true north.
You may keep your robot pussy until that day.
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09.04.08
Posted in America, Democrats, Election of 2008, Republicans, Science, personal, religion at 01:12 by Toby Petzold
I’m pro-choice, but it doesn’t bother me in the least that Sarah Palin is not. A woman who would abort her unborn child is in absolute possession of the very prerogative that would allow her to. And it isn’t because a man must physically halt at that unknowable biological threshold and pass no judgement, but because a woman must know her own capacity for dealing with the consequence of that choice. Either choice is the right choice for that particular woman. Either a woman embraces her motherhood —or what it is she makes of her reproductive system is neither the best for herself nor society.
Still, the phrase “abortion on demand” suggests a kind of cartoonishly inhuman stereotype of the wanton libertine who regards her uterus as a garbage disposal which she can clear at any time with the flick of a switch. Do such women exist? Maybe. Do many women carry a baby to term and then instruct some doctor to perform a partial-birth abortion? I just can’t imagine that. But I don’t need to because I defend such a woman’s prerogative to do so. And it is because the very notion sickens me so that I say that such a wretched excuse for a woman benefits society by her choice to not successfully procreate.
In any event, the pro-choice movement needs the friction of the fight with women like Palin because it’s a fundraising thing. If you’re constantly arguing that Roe v. Wade is at death’s door and that this country will become an Evangelische Reich where the ranks of the Chimperorjungen must be swelled, then there must be a reason for making that case besides the usual liberal proclivity for lying, so what is it? Manufactured crisis fundraising.
No principles but power, baby.
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07.20.08
Posted in America, Earth, Eminently Occidental, Science, energy, marihuana, moonbats, religion, stupidity at 20:00 by Toby Petzold
When Al Gore accepted the Nobel Prize, he said that we human beings are the problem.
If that sort of self-loathing Leftist pessimism isn’t the direct descendant of the concepts of original sin and the unredeemed sinner, then it is their retarded nephew. Therefore, what Gore and the Gaiists are practicing is religion. Moreover, it is utterly derivative of Judeo-Christian morality, which must be just awful for these tweed jacketed and besandaled morans to finally recognize: “Wha-? We’re just as trapped by the oppressive orthodoxy of sin and redemption as mere Christianists and Neocons?!”
Just quit tripping and settle down, hippies. Come up with something slightly less insane than to promise a completely carbon-neutral America within ten years. Jesus, Gore! Put down that bong and be serious.
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Posted in Science, Unexplained Mysteries at 19:44 by Toby Petzold
Is the phenomenon of synesthesia evidence of a purely physiological mind-soul complex —as manifested through the mechanics of neurology— wherein a system error persists and is well-tolerated, or is it just one more instance of witchcraft and demonism? I say the former: errors are the irritation that begets a pearl —and what moves mutation, the engine of our being. Error itself is the final proof of material and objective reality, for we do not know what we are but by what we are not. It is the imperfection in our being that finally distinguishes, see. It’s the snag. The nub of the gist of the rub of the Not and the Am.
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04.02.08
Posted in Science at 20:37 by Toby Petzold
This stuff about mixing human with cow is very unsettling. You know full well, though, that the way to godhood will come by way of financial incentives —sick though it may often be.
But if they come up with a way for me to sport some horsecock in me trousers, I’m all in, jackson! I’ve been champing at the bit to repopulate the world in just this way, so there’s one more reason why this is a great time to be alive.
What noisy cats are we.
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01.09.08
Posted in America, Science at 16:13 by Toby Petzold
I just heard Barrack Hussein Obama say that it’s the drug companies that are keeping “change” from happening. Hmmm.
Do you know how many millions of Americans owe their mental and physical health and, indeed, their very lives to the use of pharmaceuticals? That’s a big “change” from a century ago when people routinely died from diabetes, infections, cancer, etc. that can be easily treated and controlled today through drugs. There’s not a person reading these words who doesn’t know a friend or loved one whose life hasn’t been lengthened and improved by the research and development dollars spent by “Big Pharma.”
Let’s keep our demagoguery informed, shall we?
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12.10.07
Posted in America, Dhimmis in Eurabia, Earth, Eminently Occidental, Science, moonbats, religion, stupidity at 18:41 by Toby Petzold
Jim Hoft mines from the Gorebot’s speech today before the Nobel Committee the motto that should follow him to the compost heap where his grave shall be: “We Are What Is Wrong.”
How succinctly put is the self-loathing essence of the Left. What a window on their soul!
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09.06.07
Posted in Science, Unexplained Mysteries, personal at 19:22 by Toby Petzold
It’s funny how a casual comment from another that touches on a very specific dislike of your own is like a shared moment of perfect, ineffable truth. Writes Glenn Reynolds:
I’M SKEPTICAL ABOUT THE CLAIMS THAT THE fake butter flavoring in microwave popcorn causes lung disease in people who eat it, but I have to say that I’ve always found it disgusting. Maybe my sense of smell is different, but to me it’s always smelled more like rancid motor oil than butter, and I always hate it when people are microwaving popcorn at the office. So if people want to ban the stuff based on dubious science, well, I’ll be less upset than I might otherwise be . . . .
I made the mistake a long time ago at work of making too much of my utter disgust at the smell of artificial butter-flavored microwave popcorn. I think it has possibly become the tool of the passive-aggressives with whom I work. But who can stand such a stench? Popcorn in general is nasty enough, but with that godawful shit added to it? It smells like a concoction of gym sock squeezings and rancid Parmesan cheese.
Hell, I hope they find out that microwave popcorn is the most carcinogenic thing since nuclear fall-out and ban it altogether.
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08.31.07
Posted in Democrats, Republicans, Science, Unexplained Mysteries, personal, religion, stupidity at 23:57 by Toby Petzold
I’m not offended by Larry Craig because of his homosexuality, but because he is a hypocrite who once had the power to actively deny gays their full civil rights. And, if I recall correctly, he used it.
Craig’s little misdemeanor is actually unrelated to his now-recognized homosexuality. People of all orientations enjoy the thrill of illicit sexual behavior. But the recklessness appalls and the absurdity of such closetedness is apparent.
I would ask my friends in the Republican Party —who love their country enough to know that its foreign policy must never again be lost to the degenerates in the other party— to carefully consider the value of its own anti-gay positions. Is it the Holy Bible that gives you the authority to ignore the science of sexuality? Homosexuality is as old as the species. God said, “Let there be light —and it was fabulous.” You know that. Gender preferences are innate. Is there really any question? Moral conservatism consists of a hell of a lot more than denouncing and demeaning homosexuals; it should, instead, extol and practice the virtues of commitment and honest sexual being.
Take it from an involuntarily celibate old man: human beings should have a right to be what they are as sexual creatures, but they owe it to others to have complete dignity about it and to take absolute responsibility. We are only separate from the animals by our human being —the eternal mind of the species, thinking itself into existence.
Lying to the world about what you are as a man for the sake of political ambition? I reject that as wrong and still unnecessary.
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