The Simulacrum

Nothing is wholly obvious without becoming enigmatic. Reality itself is too obvious to be true.

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The Fractal Trace Experience IV:  (Earth)

“The cell is the functional basic unit of life.”

Is the Earth a cell shared by every living being?

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The Fractal Trace Experience III: a skull

To be, or not to be?

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Whose broad rifles and bright bullets through the perilous fight, O'er the ramparts we watched, were so gallantly streaming?

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Brasília, Brazil

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liberationfrequency:

When they kill us, it is order. When we resist, it is violence.

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And so we go on with our lives We know the truth, but prefer lies Lies are simple, simple is bliss Why go against tradition when we can Admit defeat, live in decline Be the victim of our own design The status quo built on suspect Why would anyone stick out their neck?

NOFX, The Decline

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“I don’t respect that anymore. I don’t like to play the Holocaust card. My late father was in Auschwitz. My late mother was in Mydonic concentration camp. Every single member of my family, on both sides was exterminated. Both of my parents were in the Warsaw ghetto uprising. And it’s precisely and exactly because of the lessons my parents thought me and my two siblings, that I will not be silent when Israel commits its crimes against the Palestinians. And I consider nothing, more despicable than to use their suffering, and their martyrdom, to try to justify the torture, the brutalization, the demolition of homes, that Israel daily commits against the Palestinians…If you had any heart in you, you would be crying for the Palestinians.

Norman Finkelstein  (via wackenergy)

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Anyone who believes in indefinite growth, on a physically finite planet, is either mad, or an economist.

Sir David Attenborough

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Bollocks.

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Symbolizing my self-universe, final part: the Self-Universe.

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Symbolizing my self-universe, part III: the PHAS star.

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Symbolizing my self-universe, part II: the 'pataphysical shuriken.

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Symbolizing my self-universe, part I: the anarchist turtle's shell.

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The Fractal Trace Experience II: Che

Mandelbrot Parameters: X1 = -16.19; X2 = 16.19; Y1 = 16.19; Y2 = -16.19; Depth = 1.

Original picture: click.

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The Fractal Trace Experience I: a tree

Mandelbrot Parameters: X1 = -1.76; X2 = 1.18; Y1 = -2.35; Y2 = 0.59; Depth = 3.

Original picture: click.

(Made with GIMP 2.6.11)

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Pai-ma lun

A disputant inquired, "Is 'A white horse is not a horse' an admissible proposition?"

Master Kung-sun replied, "It is."

"How can that be the case?"

"The term 'horse' is that by which we name the form, the term 'white' is that by which we name the color. The term by which we name the form cannot be used to name the color. Therefore, I affirm, 'A white horse is not a horse.'"

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“Of course the people don't want war. But after all, it's the leaders of the country who determine the policy, and it's always a simple matter to drag the people along whether it's a democracy, a fascist dictatorship, or a parliament, or a communist dictatorship. Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism, and exposing the country to greater danger.”

Hermann Göring at the Nuremberg Trials.