What I don't get is if Michael Jackson has so many financial troubles, why doesn't he just release another song? It will be multi-platinum and make millions, almost guaranteed. People love his music, even if it's a mediocre effort and more than 10 years past its prime.
“For God will not permit that we shall know what is to come... those who by some sorcery or by some dream might come to pierce the veil that lies so darkly over all that is before them may serve by just that vision to cause that God should wrench the world from its heading and set it upon another course altogether and then where stands the sorcerer? Where the dreamer and his dream?”
totally random topic >_>, but ok, isn't he making a comeback? i think he just released an album with kanye west and will.i.am and such, sure there will be real new stuff down the road.
This is just one topic for this thread. I'm hoping it will be like "the bitching thread" or "today I learned", but people can post about stuff that perplexes them. People can ask for help with homework here if they like.
I just read that he has a collaboration with Akon and that they're going to re-release Thriller or something. But why did he wait until he had to sell off Neverland Ranch before he decided to make money the easy way again?
“For God will not permit that we shall know what is to come... those who by some sorcery or by some dream might come to pierce the veil that lies so darkly over all that is before them may serve by just that vision to cause that God should wrench the world from its heading and set it upon another course altogether and then where stands the sorcerer? Where the dreamer and his dream?”
he was busy working for his alien lords...
maybe he'll release another game as well? I remember the Gensis game to be quite fun, and some reviews place it in the top 100.
making zombie dance... truly the king of pop
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Haha! I remember that game. Opening doors to find small children who scream "Michael!".Originally Posted by Death BOO Z
Maybe he doesn't have enough funds to kick off a new single? I used to listen to his songs, but that was way way back, and I'm not sure if he has a lot fans from the current generation of listeners.
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He made a new mario game.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=833xoDxyb6A
Lol i had that game for megadrive, it was fun actually ( the original without the mario stuff )
ok lets stay on topic...enough micheal jackson talk
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What I don't get:
It was his first chance in a while to do some modding, so he gave it a try. He might be a little rusty.
What I don't get is, if North American major league baseball is a private enterprise, why did Congress get involved with the steroid scandal? When my private company does drug tests, will Congress get involved and hold hearings too? Seems like an internal matter.
“For God will not permit that we shall know what is to come... those who by some sorcery or by some dream might come to pierce the veil that lies so darkly over all that is before them may serve by just that vision to cause that God should wrench the world from its heading and set it upon another course altogether and then where stands the sorcerer? Where the dreamer and his dream?”
What I don't get is, why is there a sudden wave of ignorant fucks robbing convenient stores? There's hardly more than 50 bucks in the drawer at a time, surveillance is often everywhere, AND it requires a weapon. That's armed robbery. For pocket change. I mean, at least aim high, run up in some upscale houses when no one's home
"They call it 'The American Dream' because you have to be asleep to believe it" - George Carlin
I think it's because they misunderstand the "convenience" part of convenience store, and figure it's "convenient" to rob. When a store gets robbed, it's a faceless corporation that loses. Robbing someone's house is just wrong, regardless of insurance.
“For God will not permit that we shall know what is to come... those who by some sorcery or by some dream might come to pierce the veil that lies so darkly over all that is before them may serve by just that vision to cause that God should wrench the world from its heading and set it upon another course altogether and then where stands the sorcerer? Where the dreamer and his dream?”
The people who rob them are likely more stupid than the worst of our members and far more desperate. People who need their next drug fix no matter what, and thus won't stop to consider their "plan" for a single second. I have sometimes heard from shopkeepers / clerks stories about how outrageous druggies can be.
Unfortunately Kraco, I think the majority of people who do that aren't drug addicts at all but are just "ignorant fucks" as Azazel put it. Despite the small amount of money most people get from robbing a convenience store there are still plenty of people willing to do it.
I dunno Ani, staring down the barrel of a gun never really did anything for my motivation.
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No, it's been my experience most of them are junkies. Usually what they do is hit a nearby gas station here, then hop over the levee to the hood to get a crack rock. You can smoke a 50 dollar rock in a matter of 30 minutes or less, then on to the next. Its miserable.
"They call it 'The American Dream' because you have to be asleep to believe it" - George Carlin
Oh really wow. Well where I grew up didn't have a lot of drugs so there weren't many junkies, robberies were mostly done just by bored idiots or people who for one reason or another felt they needed money desperately enough to steal for it. Junkies aren't something I'm familiar with.
-That explains that neg rep, I guess.
Dreaming impossible dreams.
Sapphire is awesome!
What I don't get is employee mentality.
company pride/spirit, corporate politics, climbing the business ladder.
For some reason people love this stuff. I don't understand it.
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Heh, you seem to be one of the few that either avoided indoctrination into believing that employee mentality is the cat's meow, or you broke out of it having gained knowledge that somehow remains obscure to most people. Either way, good for you.
But yeah, this mentality is worked it's way into us from the time we're young: "Go to school, get good grades. Go to a good high school, get good grades. Go to a good college, get good grades. Then, get a great paying job. Be Ambitious!" Our parents help out with that, so do our teachers, and even our peers. It's kind of hard not to fall into that.
I think it's ridiculous to suggest that working the 8 to 5 for a company makes us sheep or robots. Work pays the bills for me, but I have other pursuits outside of work. It's nice that you love what you do enough to spend that much time doing it, but I'm only willing to give the 40-50 hours a week for my job, and I spend the rest of my life doing other things which I enjoy, though I can't get paid to do them.
I've found in this life that too many people want to be superstars when the world needs more cogs for the machine.
“For God will not permit that we shall know what is to come... those who by some sorcery or by some dream might come to pierce the veil that lies so darkly over all that is before them may serve by just that vision to cause that God should wrench the world from its heading and set it upon another course altogether and then where stands the sorcerer? Where the dreamer and his dream?”
I suppose what was said about stagnating into nothingness was true, and that this indoctrination prevents that. However, this indoctrination also prevents most people from looking outside of that box. Everything a lot of people do is in terms of this indoctrination, and a lot of people are unhappy about it. Consequently you get a lot of unhappy people willing to take the risk to try something outside of that comfort zone that might otherwise make them happy, or at least less miserable. I don't know very many people who have done the 9-5 for over 10 years and continue to enjoy it. Furthermore, I've spoken a few of them (being friends and family and whatnot) about trying to make money from investing in something, you know, making your cash work for you. None of them have the balls to try it. That's not a good thing, and it's a result of having been pushed to do the "sure thing" and the "safe thing" their whole lives.
I myself would've wanted to be a musician and a martial artist from the time I was young. Might've had a career in either field by now had I started when I was young, because I've found that I have talent for both. But I started both those things rather late in life, and if a career in either is possible, it'll be much harder to achieve, and I'll never be as good as I would've been on account of having not trained since an early age at those things. This, all because my parents were indoctrinated to do the "sure thing" and the "safe thing" and figured it would be good for me as well, thus discouraging those pursuits, and having me focus more on standard traditional school work, as if I couldn't do all of it.
I don't think this indoctrination by itself is a good thing. Risk taking and dreaming ought to be promoted while raising your children with a firm grounding in reality, and an understanding in what it takes to succeed at anything. "Go to school and get a job and pay off debt, and buy a house and retire" is far from the only reality. It's the sure one, but it's also the average, mundane and unextraordinary one.
About the world needing cogs for the machine: I don't want that for MY children, and I don't want that for myself. So I won't raise them that way, and I'll work not to be that way. You may be right with that line, but I don't worry about it, because the indoctrination has a rock solid grip on our populace.
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