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The internet is like a new library of images being dumped on everyone's head, every morning. If we don't wake up with billions of images crashing through the bedroom window and jpeg strands in our teeth from the night before, we become agitated but can't clearly explain why

― Karl Malone, Tuesday, 30 May 2017 16:09

If only more of them were good art though.

you should write a book!

― scott seward, 30. maj 2017 17:03 (forty-nine minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I think David Foster Wallace has already written that book a couple of times, unfortunately. From Infinite Jest: 'to be human is probably to be unavoidably sentimental and naïve and goo-prone and generally pathetic'

(that quote is the only thing I put on the 'about me' thing on Facebook. Hey, remember when that was a thing? Wonder if it would work on tinder...)

We should have a group ILX fieldtrip to meet Dr. Roger Challop

http://health.usnews.com/doctors/roger-challop-604782

i thought get out was just ok

starting to think that most movies, actors and actresses are shit

Individual components are things of beauty and perfection it's when you attempt configuration that shit falls apart

I generally find her annoying but Kathy Griffin holding Trump's severed head photo is punk af.

was surprised conservative snowflakes are actually upset about that?

oh you have no idea

if measured by how many people he has made laugh, trump is the greatest comedian to come out of the US in the 21st century

if measured by how many people he has angered, trump is the greatest troll to come out of the US in the 21st century

not sure if this is controversial or just a sad century for poptimists

over 80 dead in kabul yesterday but yeah it has been a sad century for poptimists too.

http://www.nbc.com/sites/nbcunbc/files/files/images/2015/2/26/140228_2750477_Debbie_Downer_s_Oscar_Jam_anvver_2.jpg

it's been sad days for afghanistan for the last 200 years i'd say

I blame the Afghans

They're the common denominator

what's rugs got to do with it

What's rugs but a second hand emotion

they just need a re-branding. maybe a new name. maybe a casino or two. they are already laying the groundwork by demolishing so many outdated buildings.

cofveve

cofveve is the meaning of life.

the big bang proves god's existence

Does that even qualify as an 'opinion'? It's kinda just non-factual...

Btw I believe in the big bang, and I believe in God's existence. But one doesn't really follow from the other.

Here's another one: It's quite possible that God created the earth 5000 years ago. (it just follows that he sure made it look like he didn't, for whatever reason)

Has this become the thread of posting any controversial opinion regardless of whether you believe it or not?

Danny Devito is a very tall man.

If one's definition of God is limited to being the 'first cause', initiating all subsequent causes and effects, then the Big Bang theory aligns well with that definition of God. But it is a very narrow definition and the proof (as far as it goes) does not extend to proving any other attributes God might have, or even prove God's further involvement with the universe at all past the first instant.

now playing on Netflix...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tudQkA06tTM

ilx is oozing with experts

so you're an ooze expert now?

^ apparently not english language ones

Ooze askin

Just because something isn't true doesn't mean you shouldn't believe it.
Just because something can't be done doesn't mean you shouldn't try to do it.

I think I've said this before.

shoot for lag∞n. even if you miss, you'll land among calstars.

Even in hindsight, Hilary Clinton was still the right choice as a candidate in 2016.

Also, anyone who still wants to debate the primaries should have his/her mind checked.

Yeah, those two opinions don't really make sense together. And the second one probably isn't at all controversial.

I really dislike the The Mountain Goats' music

First one I thoroughly endorse.

by and large everything will get worse until or unless global capitalism is destroyed

probably not that controversial at this point, but felt the need to get it off my chest after seeing that global drought projection chart

Global capitalism isn't the root cause of all our woes. Does this one count?

People would find a way to rip each other to shreds and destroy the planet even if everyone became Quakers and set up small communitarian villages based on love of kale and the poetry of Rumi.

it's how we do!

that's definitely the opposite of a controversial opinion

To some extent, we are far less murderous and destructive than before. Not that it'll ever be enough.

alas i am with just1n3

living to be old is pointless (this is v v much a "me" opinion tho and not some truth)

scratching oneself in public is perf acceptable

Things get demonstrably better

Smoked Gouda tastes like American Cheese

living to be old is pointless

^ mayflies' motto

'humble' is Kendrick jumping the shark

^yeah okkkk

lol

time will exonerate me.... it's a bad song.