StabbinHobo posted:

incredible flesh posted:

at the high-tide of night, when the first breath of dawn came upon the wind, the forerunner - he who calls himself echo to a voice yet unheard - left his bed-chamber and ascended to the roof of his house. long he stood and looked down upon the slumbering city. then he raised his head, and even as if the sleepless spirits of all those asleep had gathered around him, he opened his lips and spoke, and he said:

“my friends and my neighbours and you who daily pass my gate, i would speak to you in your sleep, and in the valley of your dreams I would walk naked and unrestrained; far heedless are your waking hours and deaf are your sound-burdened ears

long did i love you and overmuch

i love the one among you as though he were all, and all as if you were one. and in the spring of my heart i sang in your gardens, and in the summer of my heart i watched at your threshing-floors

yea, i loved you all, the giant and the pigmy, the leper and the anointed, and him who gropes in the dark even as him who dances his days upon the mountains

you, the strong, have i loved, though the marks of your iron hoofs are yet upon my flesh; and you the weak, though you have drained my faith and wasted my patience

you the rich have i loved, while bitter was your honey to my mouth; and you the poor, though you knew my empty-handed shame

you the poet with the barrowed lute and blind fingers, you have i loved in self indulgence; and you the scholar, ever gathering rotted shrouds in potters’ fields

you the priest i have loved, who sit in the silences of yesterday questioning the fate of my tomorrow; and you the worshippers of gods the images of your own desires

you the thirsting woman whose cup is ever full, i have loved you in understanding; and you the woman of restless nights, you too i have loved in pity

you the talkative have i loved, saying, ‘life hath much to say’; and you the dumb have i loved, whispering to myself, ‘says he not in silence that which i fain would hear in words?’

and you the judge and the critic, i have loved also; yet when you have seen me crucified, you said, ‘he bleeds rhythmically, and the pattern his blood makes upon his white skin is beautiful to behold’

Yea, i have loved you all, the young and the old, the trembling reed and the oak

but alas! it was the over-abundance of my heart that turned you from me. you would drink love from a cup, but not from a surging river. you would hear love’s faint murmur, but when love shouts you would muffle your ears

and because i have loved you all you have said, ‘too soft and yielding is his heart, and too undiscerning is his path. it is the love of a needy one, who picks crumbs even as he sits at kingly feasts. and it is the love of a weakling, for the strong loves only the strong’

and because i have loved you overmuch you have said, ‘it is but the love of a blind man who knows not the beauty of one nor the ugliness of another. and it is the love of the tasteless who drinks vinegar even as wine. and it is the love of the impertinent and the overweening, for what stranger could be our mother and father and sister and brother?’

this you have said, and more. for often in the marketplace you pointed your fingers at me and said mockingly, ‘there goes the ageless one, the man without seasons, who at the noon hour plays games with our children and at eventide sits with our elders and assumes wisdom and understanding’

and i said ‘i will love them more. aye, even more. i will hide my love with seeming to hate, and disguise my tenderness as bitterness. i will wear an iron mask, and only when armed and mailed shall i seek them’

then i laid a heavy hand upon your bruises, and like a tempest in the night i thundered in your ears

from the housetop i proclaimed you hypocrites, pharisees, tricksters, false and empty earth-bubbles

the short-sighted among you i cursed for blind bats, and those too near the earth i likened to soulless moles

the eloquent i pronounced fork-tongued, the silent, stone-lipped, and the simple and artless called the dead never weary of death

the seekers after world knowledge i condemned as offenders of the holy spirit and those who would naught but the spirit i branded as hunters of shadows who cast their nets in flat waters and catch but their own images

thus with my lips have i denounced you, while my heart, bleeding within me, called you tender names

it was love lashed by its own self that spoke. it was pride half slain that fluttered in the dust. it was my hunger for your love that raged from the housetop, while my own love, kneeling in silence, prayed your forgiveness

but behold a miracle!

it was my disguise that opened your eyes, and my seeming to hate that woke your hearts

and now you love me

you love the swords that strike you and the arrows that crave your breast. for it comforts you to be wounded and only when you drink of your own blood can you be intoxicated

like moths that seek destruction in the flame you gather daily in my garden: and with faces uplifted and eyes enchanted you watch me tear the fabric of your days. And in whispers you say the one to the other, ‘he sees with the light of G-d. he speaks like the prophets of old. he unveils our souls and unlocks our hearts, and like the eagle that knows the way of foxes he knows our ways’

aye, in truth, i know your ways, but only as an eagle knows the ways of his fledglings. and i fain would disclose my secret. yet in my need for your nearness i feign remoteness, and in fear of the ebbtide of your love i guard the floodgates of my love”

after saying these things the forerunner covered his face with his hands and wept bitterly. for he knew in his heart that love humiliated in its nakedness is greater than love that seeks triumph in disguise; and he was ashamed

but suddenly he raised his head, and like one waking from sleep he outstretched his arms and said, “night is over, and we children of night must die when dawn comes leaping upon the hills; and out of our ashes a mightier love shall rise. and it shall laugh in the sun, and it shall be deathless”

Nice piece of fish posted:

By the way this thread should have a cat or dog tax. Just to cheer us the gently caress up in general.

Admiral Ray posted:

https://i.imgur.com/cR2tlNx.gifv

AceOfFlames posted:

My dad also did a PhD in climate change and kept flying around to various conferences.

Rime posted:

Rising CO2 levels are dissolving the ocean floor

ChairMaster posted:

Voting for an establishment Democrat isn't really that different from voting for a Republican as far as climate change is concerned, neither party has any interest in doing anything meaningful.

Chris James 2 posted:

Good morning everyone

https://twitter.com/CBCAlerts/status/1057060359230631941

starkebn posted:

you don't like hydro? how about a couple of these things at every town?

https://qz.com/1355672/stacking-concrete-blocks-is-a-surprisingly-efficient-way-to-store-energy/

MiddleOne posted:

Doesn't sound like it would scale well in practice at all.

starkebn posted:

"we've tried nothing and we're all out of ideas!"

Notorious R.I.M. posted:

I recommend getting in shape. You'll need it and it'll make you less of a coward.

starkebn posted:

you don't like hydro? how about a couple of these things at every town?

https://qz.com/1355672/stacking-concrete-blocks-is-a-surprisingly-efficient-way-to-store-energy/

Rime posted:

There is something deeply dark and dystopian, and slightly macabre, about the idea of massive towers which raise and lower demolition rubble to generate electricity.

There are three options in tackling climate change. Only one will work.

Rime posted:

Across Canada, caribou are on course for extinction, a prominent expert warns. What happens after that?

Ocean Shock: The planet's hidden climate change beneath the waves.

starkebn posted:

you don't like hydro? how about a couple of these things at every town?

https://qz.com/1355672/stacking-concrete-blocks-is-a-surprisingly-efficient-way-to-store-energy/

Rime posted:

I bring rich articles highlighting the end of the word.

Epitope posted:

Mate seriously, this isn't healthy. It's the same kind of fixation that leads to people shooting up synagogues. A lot of those links aren't even climate change, but other kinds of environmental degradation. Not that those aren't important, but what is your goal? Do you just want the climate change thread to be the mope about how bad humans are for other animals thread?

Epitope posted:

Mate seriously, this isn't healthy. It's the same kind of fixation that leads to people shooting up synagogues. A lot of those links aren't even climate change, but other kinds of environmental degradation. Not that those aren't important, but what is your goal? Do you just want the climate change thread to be the mope about how bad humans are for other animals thread?

Epitope posted:

Mate seriously, this isn't healthy. It's the same kind of fixation that leads to people shooting up synagogues. A lot of those links aren't even climate change, but other kinds of environmental degradation. Not that those aren't important, but what is your goal? Do you just want the climate change thread to be the mope about how bad humans are for other animals thread?

Mameluke posted:

Get "lean" instead of "buff." You'll appreciate having a lower caloric intake when food prices rise!

Conspiratiorist posted:

All environmental degradation is linked btw.

Epitope posted:

Mate seriously, this isn't healthy. It's the same kind of fixation that leads to people shooting up synagogues. A lot of those links aren't even climate change, but other kinds of environmental degradation. Not that those aren't important, but what is your goal? Do you just want the climate change thread to be the mope about how bad humans are for other animals thread?

Rime posted:

I said last year that we should rename the thread to Total Biosphere Collapse , as that is the cliff we are facing and which climate change is only one facet of but a major contributor to.

I don't see any value in human lives if we eradicate all other sentient life on earth, except that which is a financially efficient industrial food stock or pet, in order to sustain our species. There could be no greater crime.

Rime posted:

There could be no greater crime.

Epitope posted:

Sure, everything is connected, but I'm not sure what you're getting at. Lets say the scientists are able to wizard up a new technology that removes all the green house gases from the atmosphere, and beams out some excess heat for good measure. Whew, climate change averted! Even in that fantasy scenario, we're still continuing to decimate habitat and worsening the mass extinction event we're causing. Conservation is a worthy cause, which relates to and can help with climate change, but is not the same thing as climate change.

Epitope posted:

I'm probably just bitter that you are in here crowing about how you Care So Deeply about this issue, but you couldn't even be bothered to post in my thread in our cozy little hiking forum

https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3813121