tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-67326152009-10-11T11:48:59.655+11:00The keyboard is mightier than the machine gun... The political, philosophical and general outpourings of a troubled soul living in Australia and blogging his Vietnam veteran's head off.Gerrynoreply@blogger.comBlogger500125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6732615.post-1114490978943406582005-04-26T14:30:00.001+10:002008-10-06T05:46:50.410+11:00

Well, I've blogged myself to a standstill. I can't do this shit anymore. I'll leave you with these words by Jim Morrison:This is the end Beautiful friend This is the end My only friend, the end Of our elaborate plans, the end Of everything that stands, the end No safety or surprise, the end I'll never look into your eyes...again Can you picture what will be So limitless and freeDesperately in

Gerrynoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6732615.post-1115192611984081312005-05-04T17:38:00.001+10:002008-10-06T05:46:17.963+11:00

Ok, I'm back again. I've still got things I want to say. But I'm going to try to do it differently. More on that later... After you've stopped laughing...

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I can't sleep. Again. Depressed. Again. So here I am, again. Hopelessness. Pointlessness. And that general lack of motivation. Flatness. Emptiness. A feeling of burnt-outness. Everything's just too hard. Even blogging. And yet it also feels like self-pity. And laziness. Am I just a no-hoper? A loser? Too piss-weak to get up off my arse and kick my pathetic life into some sort of shape

Gerrynoreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6732615.post-1116602670617066952005-05-21T01:23:00.001+10:002008-10-06T05:44:13.054+11:00

I must be an idiot. Everyone else would figure out their predicament and fix it. Not me though. I was going to say "not I" but that sounded just too damn grammatically korrekt so I deliberately typed "not me". You wanted to know this didn't you? Yes, I thought so. That's why you're here...Why am I here? Fucked if I know. I'm depressed again. There are so many things you can't really talk about in

Gerrynoreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6732615.post-1116855844774111572005-05-23T23:23:00.001+10:002008-10-06T05:33:40.477+11:00

And there have been a few.Should I have posted them? Is there any point to such posts other than self-pity and attention seeking?And upon reading them how are people supposed to respond?- ignore them and only respond to other posts instead?- tell me to cheer up?- tell me to pull myself together?- share your own stories of woe?- share your own stories of recovery?- play counsellor and reflect

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I don't want your sympathy. I don't want your comments or your emails. I just want you to know that I'm in hell again. If the do-gooder in you absolutely must send me kind thoughts, please do it telepathically.But you know what's really sad? It's that there's nowhere to go (other than a loony bin) if you can't cope anymore and you desperately want to just find a very basic sanctuary with a bit of

Gerrynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6732615.post-1144372172733052602006-04-07T11:00:00.001+10:002008-10-06T05:25:55.985+11:00

Why was the cold war necessary? Why did we kill three million Vietnamese people (at least two thirds of which were innocent civillians?) Why did Saddam Hussein's socialist regime need to be "taken out"? Here are some clues: “Since trade ignores national boundaries and the manufacturer insists on having the world as a market, the flag of his nation must follow him, and the doors of the nations

Gerrynoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6732615.post-1148228826286595982006-05-22T02:04:00.001+10:002008-10-06T05:23:25.915+11:00

I'm only just barely holding it together. How weak of me not to be strong, socially adept and well adjusted. How dare I be so self indulgent as to go to pieces. There will be no room for weaklings under The New Regime dictated by Globus Pax Americana. The strong will prosper and the weak shall rightly perish. If they're going to run the planet this way, I insist they provide euthanasia clinics

Gerrynoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6732615.post-1151323269076225262006-06-26T21:39:00.001+10:002008-10-02T06:23:58.885+10:00

Wankers.Everywhere, wankers.Big, hairy-palmed wankers.Right now people I thought I cared about are accusing me of "attacking" them. I feel attacked. They claim I am "abusing" them. I feel abused. They feel invalidated. I feel invalidated.So what is this thing about feeling "attacked" and how seriously should we take such feelings?Well, here in the blogoshpere we have a perfect laboratory for

Gerrynoreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6732615.post-1151480800342478392006-06-28T17:21:00.001+10:002008-10-02T06:15:11.176+10:00

The following comment was detected in the blogoshere: "The world has had quite enough yang energy, war, rape, violence, etcetra."Bollocks.Last time I searched the internet, yang energy was defined something like this: "The Yang energy is masculine in nature and is described as light, dry, directed, focused, logical, and action oriented."Of course Jesus, Ghandi, King, and Chavez were all yinnified

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I guess I've still got a few things to resolve...Whilst it's clear to me that I'm utterly mad, I see the rest of the world no saner either. What passes for sanity these days seems to me to be nothing more than the unthinking participation in history's greatest evil whilst pursuing one's own ever more selfish and hedonistic interests. And against this is ranged a whole spectrum of religious

Gerrynoreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6732615.post-71209909108215119372008-07-26T00:10:00.000+10:002008-07-26T00:12:38.197+10:00

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These are the bikes I have owned.Three are of the actual bikes.The rest are from the net.Thought I'd show you.I don't know why.S'pose it's zen.Maybe not.

Gerrynoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6732615.post-1204975631513545402008-07-23T23:51:00.003+10:002008-07-24T00:06:34.970+10:00

Responding to the discussion in the previous post, Icy Vovo emailed me the following which I thought deserving of a new post:A leader should provide vision and integrity. Propaganda is the enemy of integrity. The Pope leads with weakness as he lacks integrity. He is not worthy to represent God on earth. He needs to be reminded 'Thou shalt not lie'.My response to Icy Vovo is: Is God a lie? Who/

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In a comment on an earlier post, JahTeh said:"This is such hypocrisy when the Church discourages condom use which is contributing to the AIDS epidemic which is killing thousands in Africa."This point of view is a popular one.But I'm nothing if not a Devil's Advocate, so here goes...She's wrong.The Catholic church teaches that sex should only be done for the purpose of procreation and only by

Gerrynoreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6732615.post-8548912011830971432008-07-19T01:08:00.003+10:002008-07-19T01:21:11.742+10:00

Carbon trading is the answer, according to Penny Wong and Kevin Rudd...Still a bit confused about how carbon trading works?This clever bit of satire explains it PERFECTLY >>>( I did give this clip a bit of a plug about three months ago, so some of you keener types may have already watched it. So bite me...)

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It's official. Blogging's good for you. Expressive blogging, that is. And here at DD we're nothing if not ex#*%@pressive!!!

Gerrynoreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6732615.post-71237528202687032502008-07-17T22:00:00.002+10:002008-07-17T22:10:31.737+10:00

I've said previously that the US is itching to invade Iran.But... An interesting article in Counterpunch by Uri Avnery puts up a convincing argrument for why the US and/or Israel would be mad to attack Iran. However, Uri does not factor-in the possibility that the US and/or Israel are indeed stark raving mad.[Thanks to Mike B. for the heads-up]

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In the previous article, I introduced you to the Archbishop of Sydney, Cardinal Pell.Well, in this article, I shall honour him with the Diogenesian Discourse's Archidiot of the Year Award.Why?Pell is reported as having the view that the way to deal with climate change is to make more babies.This gem of "wisdom" flies in the face of overwhelming evidence that the biggest single problem facing

Gerrynoreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6732615.post-10451574957353854112008-07-16T08:10:00.007+10:002008-07-16T09:18:40.177+10:00

The pope's in town. He believes in God. He also believes that the current climate change catastrophe is caused by human activity.Cardinal George Pell, the Archbishop of Sydney, and the pope's host in Sydney, also believes in God. But Pell is a climate change skeptic.Now this is interesting. Think about it for a while....Pell, without any substantive evidence for the existence of a god, can

Gerrynoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6732615.post-81037565646455645232008-07-09T09:23:00.001+10:002008-07-09T09:27:47.571+10:00

“Modern life is often a mechanical oppression and liquor is the only mechanical relief.” —Ernest HemingwayThe 10 best things about booze >>>

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OK, this next bit is from a discussion forum in which I was locking horns with a person whom I consider to be an arrogant, white supremacist personage of Dutch extraction who, on previous occasions, has argued (if my recollection is correct) that the white race is genetically superior to other races. He's tried posting comments on this blog in the past but so far he hasn't managed to say

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Deep in the comments bin on another blog, I said this:Now, RH... Lad... I need to set you straight about what you said:"...if it weren't for Christ I'd have killed about 10,000 people by now, you'd be one of them. It's nothing. -You're nothing. I could shoot you like flicking on a light switch. Really."Firstly, RH, it's not Jesus who's stopping you killing, it's you. You have chosen not to kill

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In the coming days, major roadworks will commence on this blog.A few months ago, a mysterious, God-caused event made the main text in this blog "disappear". Right throughout the entire blog. All 800-or-so blog posts... My ego was NOT happy... I cursed God... She did not reply... Bitch!!!I immediately contacted the NSA and asked them why they had done this. They said George made them do it

Gerrynoreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6732615.post-71266859763210734112008-07-05T09:37:00.003+10:002008-07-05T09:48:55.960+10:00

You know those multi-blade razors? The ones that give you a closer shave? The ones that are guaranteed to have her swooning at your feet? Yeah, those ones. Well, don't it just rip your scrotum how they go blunt so quickly?Diogenes to the rescue! After every couple of shaves, hold the razor under a strong jet of hot water for about five seconds, with water striking the blades at the angle

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