the ismization of inanity

first, a definition:

Now, an improved definition (adding granularity)

And, getting to the HEART of the matter - inanity:

Buddhism celebrates 'emptiness,' but not as a persistent vegetative state. Even though I might love carrots doesn't mean that I want to BE one.

Our friends on the right, however, sometimes display the behavior of a salient being trapped in a moebius loop of inanity.



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Bachmann is a Republican candidate and represents them well.

Bachmann is a Republican candidate and represents them well.

Really! Who else - but the republicans - could take a basketball strategy and turn it into a full jowl dribble?

Projected Universe

A team of physicists has provided some of the clearest evidence yet that our Universe could be just one big projection.

“They have numerically confirmed, perhaps for the first time, something we were fairly sure had to be true, but was still a conjecture — namely that the thermodynamics of certain black holes can be reproduced from a lower-dimensional universe,” says Leonard Susskind, a theoretical physicist at Stanford University in California who was among the first theoreticians to explore the idea of holographic universes.

A long-winded explanation (for those who so desire the same) is to be found HERE.

And, there is no reason that the universe could not be a toroidal projection - with neither beginning nor end.

Check it out on a related topic HERE.

Peace on Earth, Good Will Toward Men.

It's Buddhist. Get it?

To download the text in PDF form, go to:
https://archive.org/details/monistquart22hegeuoft

Read from page 130 to about 139...

And WAKE UP (Neo).

It's as good as this

A Zen Highball

is nothing and tonic.

Some might choose Zen Tonic - it's really nothing!

Nothing and nothing... it just doesn't get any better than that.

The psychology of politics

"In psychology, an idiot has the least intelligence on the IQ scale; an imbecile is not quite as dumb as an idiot; a moron is then the highest level of intelligence among the mentally retarded, being now considered as 'mildly mentally retarded.' Specifically, those who have an IQ between 0 and 25 are idiots; IQs between 26 and 50 are considered imbeciles; and those who have an IQ between 51 and 70 are considered morons.

These terms were popular in psychology as associated with intelligence on an IQ test until around the 1960s. They were then replaced with the terms mild retardation (55-70), moderate retardation (40-55), severe retardation (25-40), and profound retardation (below 25). In addition to this, other factors besides IQ are now used in diagnosing these levels of mental deficiency."
Read more at http://www.todayifoundout.com/index.php/2010/03/the-words-moron-imbecile-and-idiot-mean-different-things/#9gusQKYF8SPstgJt.99

Political affiliation comes to mind. Those who have an IQ between 0 and 25 are Fox News addicts; IQs between 26 and 50 are considered Tea Baggers; and those who have an IQ between 51 and 70 are just considered Republicans.

These two are NOT an opening hand at poker.

College bound High School students are above average. And the scoring of this elite group is found HERE.
Let's face it, the AVERAGE IQ in the USA is below the world average! (See #19)

Congressional IQs? Let's not go there!

RED states are usually below average!

The US Military uses Stanines or "Standard Nines" -- a forced ranking of 9 11% groupings. The bottom 11% are unfit, at any level, from serving the US Military Machine. The next 11% - in time of war - can stand guard outside a perimeter. They are the self-sacrificing monkeys of our genus (HOMO). The other new world monkey families are HERE.
This Mormon Cartoon adequately explains L.D.S.

And THIS BOOK collects some other folklore.


We might as well have some Xenu/Xemu Folklore.
Esoteric?