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The Immortality Project
What Would Jesus Do?
Ԕake stock of those around you and you will hear them talk in precise terms about themselves and their surroundings, which would seem to point to them having ideas on the matter. But start to analyze those ideas and you will find that they hardly reflect in any way the reality to which they appear to refer, and if you go deeper you will discover that there is not even an attempt to adjust the ideas to this reality. Quite the contrary: through these notions the individual is trying to cut off any personal vision of reality in his own very life. For life is at the start a chaos in which one is lost. The individual respects this. But he is frightened at finding himself face to face with this terrible reality and tries to cover it over with a curtain of fantasy, where everything is clear. It does not worry him that his ideas are not true, he uses them as trenches for the defense of his existence, as scarecrows to frighten away reality.Լ/i>
-Jose Ortega y Gasset
I thought I had witnessed the end of days after choking on a little offering called Ԕhe Gastineau Girls.ԠThe Gastineau Girls is a reality show based on the comings and goings of a mother-and-daughter act, aptly named Gastineau, that seems to not to have any appreciative skills other than a zest for living the good life ֠the means of which are dubious at best, but seem to revolve around Momӳ performing-fund extraction from a few former suitors. Needless to say, the duo spends most of its days getting pedicures, enjoying flutes of Dom, and air-kissing vacuous hangers-on, while the viewer sits stupefied, wondering where the hell their show is. Meanwhile, the Gastineaus navigate a world so removed from the reality that the show purports to reveal that they essentially behave like royalty, so imperious is their attitude regarding the skill level of this rickety endeavor. These broads put the ԣuntԠin ԣontessa.Ԡ
As wobbly as the GastineausҠflim-flammery, was it paled in comparison to the one played out by the NFL at the Super Bowl. As Ford Motor Company prepares to relieve 30,000 employees of their jobs, you would never know it, by the laissez-faire attitude of the worldӳ most successful professional league. So bloated was the presentation ֠there was literally 12 hours of game day coverage ֠that I thought I was a victim of the infamous Chinese water torture, as each ridiculous non-fact was given the gravitas of a declaration of war. The non-ness of the pre-game was only trumped by the game itself, a contest with the excitement of a limp erection, and its only real value as a harbinger of the decline of Western civilization. Add that to the image of the 95-year-old Steelers fan wearing nothing but a Ԕerrible DependsԠundergarment, and you have a portentous cocktail for the end of days.
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