NationStates Jolt Archive


To what do you offer up your blind, unquestioning support?

Bobs Own Pipe
27-02-2006, 01:37
Yeah, maybe it's your nation's military. Maybe it's someone else's military. Or maybe it isn't anything to do with polishing gun-barrels and wearing olive drab ensembles at all.

Are you a fervent adherent of the Unification Church? A dedicated Flat-Earther? A frothing-at-the-mouth anti-abortionist?

Do tell.







And no, there's no flippin' polls to click at. Just words to read.
Tluiko
27-02-2006, 01:38
To my girlfriend;)
Neo Kervoskia
27-02-2006, 01:38
Money and the destruction of children's hopes.
Czardas
27-02-2006, 01:42
Hedonism, assorted hard drugs, and the laws of physics.
Cocytium
27-02-2006, 01:42
Bill Braski.
Dubya 1000
27-02-2006, 01:44
My good ol' Bible. Never once let me down :)
H N Fiddlebottoms VIII
27-02-2006, 01:46
And no, there's no flippin' polls to click at. Just words to read.
But I owe my complete and blind loyalty to polls! How dare you malign the center of my existence, for that you must die!
*goes Officer Powell on your ass*
Letila
27-02-2006, 01:57
Nothing. I control my goals; they don't control me.
Colodia
27-02-2006, 01:58
Kelvin temperature

*throws chemistry book across the room*
H N Fiddlebottoms VIII
27-02-2006, 02:00
Kelvin temperature
HEATHEN! Celcius is the only measurement that is useful in general parlance, Kelvin is a pitiful attempt to corrupt it by an "enlightened elite." Don't you see? Absolute zero is a lie!
Soheran
27-02-2006, 02:01
Skepticism.
Colodia
27-02-2006, 02:02
HEATHEN! Celcius is the only measurement that is useful in general parlance, Kelvin is a pitiful attempt to corrupt it by an "enlightened elite." Don't you see? Absolute zero is a lie!
Celcius, it rhymes with Myrth.

Don't you see it's all a Jewish conspiracy?
Nadkor
27-02-2006, 02:04
Nothing.

To do so would be silly.
Fleckenstein
27-02-2006, 02:04
Skepticism.
sarcasm
Ladamesansmerci
27-02-2006, 02:06
sarcasm

cynicism...and possibly communism *runs away from flames*
Moantha
27-02-2006, 02:07
Cynicism.

Or reading. Depends on my mood.
The Bruce
27-02-2006, 02:07
The consumption of oxygen, water, and food are the only things that I accept blindly. Everything else is pretty much on the table for debate. Although science may one day even make those three consumables debatable, it probably won’t happen in my time.
Fleckenstein
27-02-2006, 02:09
anything i cannot see.
what? it was anything you blindly support. if i can't see it, i must support it. got a problem? good, cause i don't care.
H N Fiddlebottoms VIII
27-02-2006, 02:11
Celcius, it rhymes with Myrth.
Pure Bolshevik propaganda!
Don't you see it's all a Jewish conspiracy?
More likely, Kelvin is a conspiracy on the part of the Illuminati. That 0 is the freezing point of water, and 100 the boiling point reveals an Ingenious Designation that points to the hand of the divine in the creation of Celcius.
What does Kelvin have? 373.15 K, a stupid measurement if there ever was one. Who has time to wait for that extra .15 K when they need to get their Ramen boiling?
And another thing, I don't trust this "Absolute zero" business. No one has ever conclusively found or proven it to exist, and without that proof it renders the entire system off.
Bobs Own Pipe
27-02-2006, 02:11
The consumption of oxygen, water, and food are the only things that I accept blindly. Everything else is pretty much on the table for debate. Although science may one day even make those three consumables debatable, it probably won’t happen in my time.
Consumption of CHON (as with Frederik Pohl's Gateway books) - Carbon Hydrogen Oxygen Nitrogen and various trace elements of things thrown in for texture and flavour.

Given.
Colodia
27-02-2006, 02:23
Pure Bolshevik propaganda!

More likely, Kelvin is a conspiracy on the part of the Illuminati. That 0 is the freezing point of water, and 100 the boiling point reveals an Ingenious Designation that points to the hand of the divine in the creation of Celcius.
What does Kelvin have? 373.15 K, a stupid measurement if there ever was one. Who has time to wait for that extra .15 K when they need to get their Ramen boiling?
And another thing, I don't trust this "Absolute zero" business. No one has ever conclusively found or proven it to exist, and without that proof it renders the entire system off.
Kelvin is +273.15 than Celcius will EVER be!
BillGermainia
27-02-2006, 02:24
eric harris and dylan klebold
The Black Forrest
27-02-2006, 02:27
Money and the destruction of children's hopes.

HEY! Stop reading my mind!!!!!!!
Eutrusca
27-02-2006, 02:29
"To what do you offer up your blind, unquestioning support?"

"Blind, unquestioning?" Nothing. Not even the US Constitution or my beloved brothers and sisters in the US military. I come close with my family, but even they don't get away with acting like idiots.
DHomme
27-02-2006, 02:54
Pure Bolshevik propaganda!


The best kind of propaganda, you ask me.
Rangerville
27-02-2006, 02:56
Absolutely nothing. I will reiterate what Eutrusca said, the closest to blind loyalty i get is my family and friends, but even they couldn't do something horrible and still be supported by me.
H N Fiddlebottoms VIII
27-02-2006, 02:58
The best kind of propaganda, you ask me.
Your revolution may well kill one or two figure heads, you may even succeed in disrupting our business for a generation or two, but you will never touch our pronunciation guides!!
UberPenguinLandReturns
27-02-2006, 02:59
Not dying until I'm bored of life.
DHomme
27-02-2006, 03:02
Your revolution may well kill one or two figure heads, you may even succeed in disrupting our business for a generation or two, but you will never touch our pronunciation guides!!

Fool! All existing pronunciation guides stem from the material conditions ie the bourgeoise state. Once we get rid of capitalism and replace it with a workers' state then your language guides will be useless, USELESS I SAY!!!!!
Eutrusca
27-02-2006, 03:04
Fool! All existing pronunciation guides stem from the material conditions ie the bourgeoise state. Once we get rid of capitalism and replace it with a workers' state then your language guides will be useless, USELESS I SAY!!!!!
Silly little person. Tsk! :p
H N Fiddlebottoms VIII
27-02-2006, 03:13
Fool! All existing pronunciation guides stem from the material conditions ie the bourgeoise state. Once we get rid of capitalism and replace it with a workers' state then your language guides will be useless, USELESS I SAY!!!!!
Those pronunciation guides are the guides of FREEDOM! A Godless non-dictator such as yourself would never understand their true value.
Soheran
27-02-2006, 03:54
USELESS I SAY!!!!!

You'll be part of the vanguard, will you?

Leninists.

:)
Bobs Own Pipe
27-02-2006, 05:50
I personally am a mindless minion of J.R. Bob Dobbs.
Ritlinana
27-02-2006, 05:59
Nature. Any Human Tries To Hurt Nature, I'm Gonna Hurt Them Even More.
Sinuhue
27-02-2006, 06:00
To you, Bob...to you...though how I wish you'd reveal yourself to me...

But seriously...I give my open-eyed, questioning support to humanity. There is no cause I would ever follow blindly. Ever.
Lunatic Goofballs
27-02-2006, 06:02
Semisolidity. It is far superior to semiliquidity and I will not be convinced otherwise!
Sinuhue
27-02-2006, 06:02
I personally am a mindless minion of J.R. Bob Dobbs.
OH!

I thought so.

But I'm glad to have it confirmed!:fluffle:
Verdigroth
27-02-2006, 06:06
grilled cheese sandwiches.
Ga-halek
27-02-2006, 06:46
For much of my life I gave blind, unquestioning support to "truth" and "reason", but I have realized that even those are false idols. Currently I support nothing unconditionally.
H N Fiddlebottoms VIII
27-02-2006, 06:56
For much of my life I gave blind, unquestioning support to "truth" and "reason", but I have realized that even those are false idols. Currently I support nothing unconditionally.
Fucking Buddhist!
*shakes fist*
Lunatic Goofballs
27-02-2006, 06:58
Fucking Buddhist!
*shakes fist*

Blasphemy! When you die you're going.... um... nowhere. :confused:
H N Fiddlebottoms VIII
27-02-2006, 07:02
Blasphemy! When you die you're going.... um... nowhere. :confused:
No, for Buddhists, Nowhere is sacred. As a blasphemer against the Buddha, I won't be able to go Nowhere when I've died.
Logically, then, I must now be going Somewhere, but I don't know Where, exactly, except that it is definitely not Nowhere.
Lunatic Goofballs
27-02-2006, 07:03
No, for Buddhists, Nowhere is sacred. As a blasphemer against the Buddha, I won't be able to go Nowhere when I've died.
Logically, then, I must now be going Somewhere, but I don't know Where, exactly, except that it is definitely not Nowhere.

Then you're gonna go...somewhere?

Probably somewhere very unpleasant. Like New Jersey.
H N Fiddlebottoms VIII
27-02-2006, 07:07
Then you're gonna go...somewhere?

Probably somewhere very unpleasant. Like New Jersey.
Actually, the Buddhist said that excessive pleasure was a Bad Thing, while a good life was one lived in stoicism and without worldly desires. So Buddhist Hell is probably some sort of drugged-up, libertine bordello, where you can have all the pleasures and desires of the world.
Lunatic Goofballs
27-02-2006, 07:08
Actually, the Buddhist said that excessive pleasure was a Bad Thing, while a good life was one lived in stoicism and without worldly desires. So Buddhist Hell is probably some sort of drugged-up, libertine bordello, where you can have all the pleasures and desires of the world.

That explains Richard Gere. :p
Posi
27-02-2006, 07:09
I blindly follow H N Fiddlebottoms VIII!
Lunatic Goofballs
27-02-2006, 07:10
I blindly follow H N Fiddlebottoms VIII!

That explains the bruises. :p
Antikythera
27-02-2006, 07:12
i offer up my blind unquestioning support to my own life:)
Posi
27-02-2006, 07:14
i offer up my blind unquestioning support to my own life:)
That's a waste of time. You should support H N Fiddlebottom VIII's life. Why? Because I told you to.
Ga-halek
27-02-2006, 07:17
Fucking Buddhist!
*shakes fist*

It is unusual for someone to realize how nihlistic Buddhism is. But though I am not a Buddhist I do associate with many Buddhists (who do not realize how nihlistic their religion really is). I highly respect the religion but cannot bring myself to believe in it.
Ga-halek
27-02-2006, 07:24
Actually, the Buddhist said that excessive pleasure was a Bad Thing, while a good life was one lived in stoicism and without worldly desires. So Buddhist Hell is probably some sort of drugged-up, libertine bordello, where you can have all the pleasures and desires of the world.

Those who do not attain Nirvana (only monks really can and even then it is tricky) are reincarnated. The exact nature of reincarnation varies from creed to creed; but the positiveness or negativness of your incarnation is connected to your karma which is unconnected to attaining Nirvana (except that one needs to be a human to attain Nirvana and that requires good karma, but if you are already a human you don't really need to worry about that). Many Buddhists do believe in a "hell" of sorts for those of extremely bad karma (mass murderers and the sort) and it is not particularly different from the Christian or Islam hell; you are tortured to death repeatedly in creative ways until enough bad karma is burned off for you to be reincarnated into a higher state of existence, such as a housefly. Buddhism has even more variation between its creeds than Christianity so some of this is sure to not hold true for some groups.
H N Fiddlebottoms VIII
27-02-2006, 07:26
I blindly follow H N Fiddlebottoms VIII!
Indeed. As someone who just proved, with absolute logic, how to get to the greatest party in the Universe, I feel I am deserving of a few followers.
H N Fiddlebottoms VIII
27-02-2006, 07:32
*snip*
The concept of "Hell" entered Buddhism through Mahayana-corruption after the Buddha tried a bad mushroom (it didn't make him twice as tall, sadly).
Posi
27-02-2006, 07:46
Indeed. As someone who just proved, with absolute logic, how to get to the greatest party in the Universe, I feel I am deserving of a few followers.
:eek: My lord considers me a few people! What a glorious day!
H N Fiddlebottoms VIII
27-02-2006, 07:50
:eek: My lord considers me a few people! What a glorious day!
You're one of a few, sorry. I think that South Islands is another one, and Harlesburg is definitely gay for me, so he counts as one. And since Fass is gay for everyone, I'm going to put him down as a follower. So them, plus you, makes 4.
Lunatic Goofballs
27-02-2006, 07:55
You're one of a few, sorry. I think that South Islands is another one, and Harlesburg is definitely gay for me, so he counts as one. And since Fass is gay for everyone, I'm going to put him down as a follower. So them, plus you, makes 4.

I sort of wander aimlessly, but I may follow for a few days. You know, until I wander off again. :)
Posi
27-02-2006, 08:00
You're one of a few, sorry. I think that South Islands is another one, and Harlesburg is definitely gay for me, so he counts as one. And since Fass is gay for everyone, I'm going to put him down as a follower. So them, plus you, makes 4.
Really, I am not the only one who figured out your abundance of truthiness? Although, I am not surprised Fass knows. Lunatic Goofballs said he just decided to join for life, so you are up to five followers.
Boonytopia
27-02-2006, 08:02
Beer.
H N Fiddlebottoms VIII
27-02-2006, 08:03
Really, I am not the only one who figured out your abundance of truthiness? Although, I am not surprised Fass knows.
Suuuure, Fass follows me and believes everything I say, but it is better not to tell him you found out because that might make him angry and then he'd just deny everything.
Lunatic Goofballs said he just decided to join for life, so you are up to five followers.
Provided that we kill him in the next few days, which I am 87% sure is what you meant.
Posi
27-02-2006, 08:06
Suuuure, Fass follows me and believes everything I say, but it is better not to tell him you found out because that might make him angry and then he'd just deny everything.
Of course we won't. NS can always use another conspiracy.

Provided that we kill him in the next few days, which I am 87% sure is what you meant.
It would be out and out silly for one to think that is not what I meant.
Lunatic Goofballs
27-02-2006, 08:10
Suuuure, Fass follows me and believes everything I say, but it is better not to tell him you found out because that might make him angry and then he'd just deny everything.

Provided that we kill him in the next few days, which I am 87% sure is what you meant.

Feel free. I always come back three days later. :)
Posi
27-02-2006, 08:12
Feel free. I always come back three days later. :)
Which requires you to get an errection, and turning on dead people is just silly.
H N Fiddlebottoms VIII
27-02-2006, 08:14
Of course we won't. NS can always use another conspiracy.
Indeed, let us never speak of it again.
It would be out and out silly for one to think that is not what I meant.
My powers of perception are, again, proven to go far beyond the bounds of what is normal and human.
Lunatic Goofballs
27-02-2006, 08:17
Which requires you to get an errection, and turning on dead people is just silly.

Actually, those were just happy coincidences. :)
Posi
27-02-2006, 08:21
Actually, those were just happy coincidences. :)
O, well that is just fine 'n dandy.
Lunatic Goofballs
27-02-2006, 08:33
O, well that is just fine 'n dandy.

Also the fact that Jesus came back three days after he died is another happy coincidence.

I am not the Savior. I have been accused of many things, but 'resucing someone's soul' is not among them. My parents boinked like everybody else's. :)
Cabra West
27-02-2006, 08:42
Let's see... to nothing and nobody.
I do fully and totally support some people, but neither blindly nor unquestioningly.
The Half-Hidden
27-02-2006, 21:57
To what do you offer up your blind, unquestioning support?
Nothing. Not to say that I don't support anything, just I question the things I support.

My good ol' Bible. Never once let me down
Maybe you should read it before writing one of those "fuck the poor" posts of yours on this forum.
Smunkeeville
27-02-2006, 22:00
my blind unquestioning support?

gonna hafta go with my husband. He is always right, and when he is wrong he is still right. :p
Ravea
27-02-2006, 22:01
Why, my Alien Overlords, of course.
DHomme
27-02-2006, 22:03
You'll be part of the vanguard, will you?

Leninists.

:)

Better reco'nize, mensh.
Aedui
27-02-2006, 22:04
No offense but that's a stupid question.

Chuck Norris, obviously.
Imperiux
27-02-2006, 22:11
Imperialism
Fascism
The UK
The British Empire
The Conservatives
The Pound
Communism
Dictatorships
Willamena
27-02-2006, 22:13
Friends.
Theorb
27-02-2006, 22:42
Define "Blind", because im not supposed to be blindly following Christ, if your blind, how can you see the Truth?
Posi
28-02-2006, 00:43
This thread has started to drift to far from H N Fiddlebottoms VIII for my liking.
Bobs Own Pipe
28-02-2006, 03:16
Define "Blind", because im not supposed to be blindly following Christ, if your blind, how can you see the Truth?
Braille? White sticks? Seeing-eye dogs?

I dunno, the question is posed. Either you offer up your blind, unquestioning support or you don't. Don't get in a snit over a definition.

'Cause I'm not a dictionary. And as you'll note throughout this thread, I'm not offering droll witticisms or sneering indictments. So make up your frickin' mind.

Are you an unabashed, drooling devotee of Jesus of Nazareth, or are you not?

Speak up or shut up, it's all a small matter.

:p
Dinaverg
28-02-2006, 03:35
The big N! Raving Nintendo fanboys unite! Wheeeeeeeeeee!
Bobs Own Pipe
28-02-2006, 04:32
OH!

I thought so.

But I'm glad to have it confirmed!:fluffle:
Wow, a fluffle for being a mindless minion?

Criminy, I should've told her I was a craven Connie-ite. Chicks dig that self-actualizing Post-Feminist SubGenius schtick...
El Gunietor
28-02-2006, 04:47
My blind, unquestioning support goes to manchester united. why oh why? :headbang: stupid glazers stealing my club :sniper:
M3rcenaries
28-02-2006, 05:06
The Catholic Church
The Chicago White Sox
Escapism

In that order.
Muravyets
28-02-2006, 05:44
Nothing. Not even myself. Everything has to prove itself to me. Even me.

Fortunately, I'm only interested in myself, so I don't really demand much proof from the rest of the world. But I'm bitching at myself incessantly.
Muravyets
28-02-2006, 05:47
Imperialism
Fascism
The UK
The British Empire
The Conservatives
The Pound
Communism
Dictatorships
British Empire?

OK...
Monkeypimp
28-02-2006, 05:47
the Wellington Hurricanes super 14 rugby team. They have caused me much joy and pain.
Vittos Ordination2
28-02-2006, 05:48
Skepticism.

Good answer.

I say reason.
AllCoolNamesAreTaken
28-02-2006, 05:53
My blind unquestioning support goes to:

1. Abortion- No, I do not just respect a woman's "right to choose". Accidents happen. Babies suck. Gooooooo abortion!

2. The NFL/NCAA- Football. American football to you soccer fans. The best sport ever.

3. Atheists. I love you all. Fight the power that is the mind controlling opiate of the masses.

4. Whomever opposes the drug war. Nuff said.
Angry Fruit Salad
28-02-2006, 07:14
duct tape.
Dark Shadowy Nexus
28-02-2006, 07:21
I blindly support,,,,,nothing.
THE LOST PLANET
28-02-2006, 08:22
duct tape.
Why would you need to?



Duct Tape supports itself.
Lacadaemon
28-02-2006, 08:27
British Empire?

OK...

Well, technically, the queen is still on a lot of money. But I don't think the majority of her subjects like to think of it as an 'empire' anymore.

It basically boils down to some sheep in the south atlantic, a few dodgy tax havens here and there, and a small airfield on cyprus.

It's really a shadow of its former self.
Corinan
28-02-2006, 08:32
The improvement of Humanity.
Knowledge.
Freedom from oppresion.

That order.
Muravyets
28-02-2006, 18:47
Well, technically, the queen is still on a lot of money. But I don't think the majority of her subjects like to think of it as an 'empire' anymore.

It basically boils down to some sheep in the south atlantic, a few dodgy tax havens here and there, and a small airfield on cyprus.

It's really a shadow of its former self.
If your tally is accurate then it's already casting a bigger shadow than I expected. But hey, we're all free to knock ourselves out with the stick of our choice. The man may place his blind, unquestioning devotion anywhere he likes. I guess this speaks to just how blind and unquestioning his devotion can get. He wins this thread, imo.