Thinkers Anonymous
It started out innocently enough. I began to think at parties now and then to loosen up. Inevitably, though, one thought led to another and soon I was more than just a social thinker.
I began to think alone—"to relax," I told myself—but I knew it wasn’t true. I was thinking all the time. I began to think on the job. I knew that thinking and employment don’t mix, but I couldn’t stop myself.
I began to avoid friends at lunchtime so I could read Thoreau and Kafka. I would return to the office dizzied and confused, asking, "What is it exactly we are doing here?"
Things weren’t going so great at home, either. One evening I had turned off the TV and asked my wife about the meaning of life. She spent that night at her mother’s.
I soon had a reputation as a heavy thinker. One day the boss called me in. He said, "Skippy, I like you, and it hurts me to say this, but your thinking has become a real problem. If you don’t stop thinking on the job, you’ll have to find another job." This gave me a lot to think about.
I came home early after my conversation with the boss. "Honey," I confessed, "I’ve been thinking…" "I know you’ve been thinking," she said, "and I want a divorce!" "But, honey, surely it’s not that serious!" "It IS serious," she said, lower lip aquiver. "You think as much as a college professor, and college professors don’t make any money, so if you keep on thinking we won’t have any money!"
"That’s a faulty syllogism," I said impatiently, and she began to cry. I’d had enough. "I’m going to the library!" I snarled as I stomped out the door. I headed for the library, in the mood for some Nietzsche, with a PBS station on the radio. I roared into the parking lot and ran up to the big glass doors….but they didn’t open. The library was closed.
To this day, I believe that a Higher Power was looking out for me that night. As I sank to the ground clawing at the unfeeling glass, simpering for Zarathustra, a poster caught my eye: ‘Friend, is heavy thinking ruining your life?’ it asked. You probably recognize that line. It comes from the standard Thinkers Anonymous poster. It is responsible for what I am today—a recovering thinker. I never miss a TA meeting. At each meeting we watch a non-educational video; last week it was "Porky’s." Then we share experiences about how we avoided thinking since the last meeting. I still have my job, and things are a lot better at home. Life just seemed…easier, somehow, as soon as I stopped thinking.
This is the song that never ends yes it goes on and on my friends some people started singing it not knowing what it was and they'll continue singing it forever just because
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FDR: We find our population suffering from old inequalities, little changed by vast sporadic remedies. In spite of our efforts and in spite of our talk, we have not weeded out the over privileged and we have not effectively lifted up the underprivileged. Both of these manifestations of injustice have retarded happiness... We have, however, a clear mandate from the people, that Americans must forswear that conception of the acquisition of wealth which, through excessive profits, creates undue private power over private affairs and, to our misfortune, over public affairs as well...
Bill Hicks: How about a positive news story about acid. Today a young man on acid realized that all matter is mearly energy condensed through a slow vibration, we are all one consciousness experiencing itself subjectively, life is only a dream and we are the imaginations of ourselves. Here's Tom with the weather.
Is the chemical aftertaste the reason why people eat hot dogs, or is it some kind of bonus?
Lost some time once. It's always in the last place you look for it.
- Both by Neil Gaiman
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Kurt Vonnegut Jr.: If you really want to hurt your parents and you don't have nerve enough to be homosexual, the least you can do is go into the arts, (or social work.. thats my own
Thinkers Annonymous from all walks of life
Blues: John Lee Hooker B.B. King, Classic Rock: Floyd Doors Beatles Zep Cream Stones, Prog Rock: Yes King Crimson ELP Mars Vulta, Psychedelic Trance: Infected GMS Sun Project Hollucinogen, Russian Rock: Kino Auktyon Grazhdanka Bossa Noga, Classic Metal: Purple Dio Sabbath Rainbow, Mod Rock/Alternative: Nirvana Pearl Jam RHCP STP, Classical: Beethoven Berlioz Gershwin Grieg, Trip Hop: Tricky Portishead Bjork, Hip Hop: Prefuse 73 Roots Badu (college radio hiphop is cool too)
Voltaire, Tom Waits, Lounge Lizards, MMW, P.J. Harvey, WaterWalls, Christina Curtain, TOOL, The Billy Nayer Show, Nick Cave +Badseeds, Morphine, blood brothers, alkaline trio, fela kuti, yeah yeah yeahs, bloc party
Love live shows!!!
I really want to see you
Really want to be with you
S. Kubrick, Q. Tarantino, S. Jonze, F.F. Copola, D. Lynch, S. Cronenberg, M. Scorcese, O. Stone, H. Miyazaki, W. Allen, S. Lee, Coen Bros., Wachowski Bros., T. Gilliam, M. Brooks, R. Polanski, J. Jarmusch, K. Smith, T. Burton
B-movie horrors, Indies, Documentaries, Porn, other: Waking Life, Threesome, Pi, Breakfast Club, Young Guns I + II, Terminator, Evil Dead ...
DONT DREAM IT BE IT
all the monsters live in midian
sesame street rulz and simpsons effin rocks, And These great Comedies of our time: Kids in the hall, Ali G, Daily Show, Chapelle show, The American Presidential Election process...
Hesse, Casteneda, Bulgakov, Robbins, Kerouac, Shakespeare, Faulkner, Vonnegut, Burrows, Adams, Herbert, Asimov, Bach, Welsh, Gaiman, the Tanach, um.. textbooks at the moment
"no time for the ol in out luv ive just come to read the meter..."
Frank Zappa