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see, the beauty of being executed is i die in the end and at that point ima prolly not gonna care much about how it went down


so anyway speaking of a slow torture, my book is sooooooo boring to write and there seems to always be another deadline around the corner. chapter 5 is due tomorrow and i've only 1/3 written it so far. it'll prolly take another eight hours to finish writing this but i have a hard time spending eight minutes on it

evilsoup wrote:explain

Basically Curtis Saxton has some... interesting opinions on Australian aborigines.

Think... 'born in the 19th century' kind of opinions

But he gave us 200 gigatons so it's all cool.

adr wrote:see, the beauty of being executed is i die in the end und at that point ima prolly not gonna care much about how it went down

I still don't think you're really thinking through this. Yeah, we all die in the end, but the lead up to that moment is not exactly fun. Especially when you know exactly when it's going to happen.

It's the torture of anticipation. Or, in the case of crucifixion, the torture of anticipation followed by days of agony.

Edit: Dammit, Phant! Can you at least get the word filter to recognize when we use capital letters?!

Losonti Tokash wrote:so i am already pulling consecutive 13 hour days

you all may recall that election day is in november

That, Mr Anderson is the sound of inevitability... The inevitability that you picked a loooooooser.

adr wrote:being crucified would be a great PR stunt. if i was to be executed, that'd be my preferred method. i read a thing earlier with even some pro-death penalty ppl being upset about a death by lethal injection that lasted like 20 minutes

imagine what their response would be as i hang on the cross for DAYS. PS turns out i'm kinda innocent.

i could abolish capital punishment!


aber dances just aren't my thing.

Iirc crucifixion, while painful and hilarious isn't that slow a death. Supposedly you'd suffocate as your shoulders slumped/dislocated and your diaphragm collapsed. Hell if you believe the Bible, Jesus died in a matter of hours.

According to the show I saw on it, it all depends on the specifics.

If you were beaten half to death before hand, you might expire in hours. On the other hand, there's supposedly record of someone who survived 9 days.

Even if death came quickly, well, there aren't many ways to die that are more painful or horrifying (especially if the crucifixion is one involving nails rather than merely rope). Offhand, I can only think of five that are even comparable: quartering (especially in the English fashion), burning, scaphism, the wheel and drowning (the last of which is relatively preferable from all the others).

Stofsk wrote:

evilsoup wrote:explain

Basically Curtis Saxton has some... interesting opinions on Australian aborigines.

Think... 'born in the 19th century' kind of opinions

whoa what

Kill dem niggers 19th century or steal and baptize their children 19th century?

I know he's pretty conservative, especially compared to the company he kept online. Since moving to the sticks I've met lots of people, liberal and conservative alike with disgusting views on the First Nations. If you're white its one of the last groups where its socially acceptable to be a racist douchebag too.

He posted some more stuff about how they weren't mistreated because the king said to be nice, and it was pointed out that the British completely wiped out the aboriginal Tasmanians.



Their culture was totally obliterated and the survivors were put into a concentration camp where they all died, but there are still some descendants of kidnap and rape victims so they're not REALLY extinct.

Small, sparsely spread groups of people who are trapped in Stone Age hunter gathering or Bronze/Iron Age village stasis are going to get steamrolled by an incoming civilisation that's vastly superior in logistics, population, and technology that's pathologically expansionist, no matter what and how unfairly brutal it is.

It reminds of an example of an Outside Context Problem from Iain M. Banks' Excession where isolated islanders get conquered by men in a iron clad steamship.

big o I'm trying to work out what point you could be trying to make but I just

Big Orangutan wrote:Small, sparsely spread groups of people who are trapped in Stone Age hunter gathering oder Bronze/Iron Age village stasis are going to get steamrolled by an incoming civilisation that's vastly superior in logistics, population, und technology that's pathologically expansionist, nein matter what und how unfairly brutal it is.

It reminds of an example of an Outside Context Problem from Iain M. Banks' Excession where isolated islanders get conquered by men in a iron clad steamship.

The Spartan wrote:I still don't think you're really thinking through this. ja, we all die in the end, aber the lead up to that moment is not exactly fun. Especially when you know exactly when it's going to happen.

aye, it is a torture after all.


Big Orangutan: wickedness inevitably leads to sin, yea, even iniquity in the mind. This is why the LORD delights in righteousness in thought and action

Dude wrote:I know he's pretty conservative, especially compared to the company he kept online. Since moving to the sticks I've met lots of people, liberal und conservative alike with disgusting views on the First Nations. If you're white its one of the last groups where its socially acceptable to be a racist douchebag too.

Aaron. You're back! When did this happen?

Bout 0420

Man, you were up later than I was. That's impressive.

Well the dogs wanted out at 0230 and I couldn't go back to sleep.

it's good to have you back tho

Agreed. I was afraid we'd lost you permanently. Welcome back.

Thanks guys.

So in other news, we have a Great Grey Owl hanging around and Val and I walked in on a Least Weasel in the shop. They are damn cute.

I'm reading that Curtis Saxton stuff and like

What the actual fuck

Good to have you back.

This place was far less interesting without your inherent Dude-ness.

F.J. Prefect, Esq wrote:I'm reading that Curtis Saxton stuff und like

What the actual fuck

a concerned charity

Anyway Aaron glad to have you back too, I thought someone was trying to steal your username when I went to reactivate you.