only P via 1984 as 1984 becomes the Brave New World

[Prashant Kumar]

The spam recipes are a joke.

gmailblog.blogspot.com/2008/02/del-eat-your-spam.html

On 18 August 2012 13:48, Ian Livingston <igrlivingston at gmail.com> wrote:

> >No offense, Ian, but you're using a gmail account (as am I).  How do you
> think Google pays for the servers and all to offer you free email?  By
> showing you ads tailored for you.
>
> Yes, I know, Robert. And I am often delighted with how insanely far-off
> the mark those targeted ads universally strike. My favorites by far are the
> recipes attached to the spam folder. It's probably been 30 years since I
> touched a can of that crap (sorry, any loyal limeys, just is what it is)
> and another 30 will likely see me past the end of my days safe from those
> recipes.
>
> My comment was tailored to the thrill-teasing aspect especially associated
> with theme parks and such. But everything from Popsicles to Previa presents
> itself as the great other that will make your life juuust right until you
> need some more. Addiction is like that. It's religion without explicit
> prayers and mysticism: so long as you are in the temple you are at one with
> all you know, as soon as you start to sober up, you start preparing to
> return to the sanctity of the temple. To paraphrase the beloved Janis: It's
> all the same fucking thrill, man!
>
>
> On Fri, Aug 17, 2012 at 4:19 PM, Robert Mahnke <rpmahnke at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>
>> On Thu, Aug 16, 2012 at 10:59 AM, Ian Livingston <igrlivingston at gmail.com
>> > wrote:
>>
>>> So it sounds like a doping scheme, replacing religion with thrills.
>>>
>>>
>>> On Thu, Aug 16, 2012 at 9:55 AM, alice wellintown <
>>> alicewellintown at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> and in the end,
>>>> the love you make & take
>>>> is equal to
>>>> your ride
>>>> on the snake.
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> --
>>> "Less than any man have I  excuse for prejudice; and I feel for all
>>> creeds the warm sympathy of one who has come to learn that even the trust
>>> in reason is a precarious faith, and that we are all fragments of darkness
>>> groping for the sun. I know no more about the ultimates than the simplest
>>> urchin in the streets." -- Will Durant
>>>
>>
>>
>
>
> --
> "Less than any man have I  excuse for prejudice; and I feel for all creeds
> the warm sympathy of one who has come to learn that even the trust in
> reason is a precarious faith, and that we are all fragments of darkness
> groping for the sun. I know no more about the ultimates than the simplest
> urchin in the streets." -- Will Durant
>
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