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Winston Smith

Winston Smith

Flunked Scientology
you got it!

Takes a thief to catch a thief! :clap:

Spent many years rewriting history...changing facts to fit current circumstances! :happydance:
 
Winston Smith

Winston Smith

Flunked Scientology
But ofcourse!!

Alanzo said:
Tell me: Were you ever able to get laid with that TeleView peering into your room all the time?
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Julia and I regularly visited Mr. Charrington's flat in the prole's area! I don't want to spoil the story, though. The telescreen may read my mind.
 
Alanzo

Alanzo

Bardo Tulpa
Winston Smith said:
methinks I have subverted the subject matter in this thread. Please don't report me.
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Well, Alex has run off, without responding, to hide in his cave and shut out the dissonant ideas he can not confront.

It's too bad, really, that a person as intelligent as Alex hides his head in the sand and waves his butt in the air.
 
alex

alex

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Alanzo said:
Well, Alex has run off, without responding, to hide in his cave and shut out the dissonant ideas he can not confront.

It's too bad, really, that a person as intelligent as Alex hides his head in the sand and waves his butt in the air.
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I wish you the best traveling sex a marketing person could have.

True. I can not confront your service fac. Nor mine.

I suppose I'll be back.
 
Alanzo

Alanzo

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alex said:
I wish you the best traveling sex a marketing person could have.

True. I can not confront your service fac. Nor mine.

I suppose I'll be back.
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I knew I could get you to come back to this thread! :happydance:

Whenever you're ready, Alex - I'll be here!!! :)
 
Winston Smith

Winston Smith

Flunked Scientology
There's a place for us. Sometime. Somewhere. Did you know Utopia literally means "Nowhere?" It does not exist, and it will never exist.

But Bernstein was one of the greatest musicians ever to walk the earth. I had the privilige to play under him once and was in awe...felt the presence of true genius. He connected with musicians in a spiritual way almost. To bad he was gay...died I believe of AIDS, but it was hushed up.
 
Alanzo

Alanzo

Bardo Tulpa
Winston Smith said:
There's a place for us. Sometime. Somewhere. Did you know Utopia literally means "Nowhere?" It does not exist, and it will never exist.

But Bernstein was one of the greatest musicians ever to walk the earth. I had the privilige to play under him once and was in awe...felt the presence of true genius. He connected with musicians in a spiritual way almost. To bad he was gay...died I believe of AIDS, but it was hushed up.
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A-ha!

Winston reveals a part of himself.

I'll bet you played Tuba.
 
clamicide

clamicide

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Shoot! I wanna see more doublethink examples. Anyone want to send this thread back to the original topic? Maybe it's just me...
 
Tiger Lily

Tiger Lily

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It's been a while since I read 1984 so I looked it up. I GOTTA read that book again now that I've seen the real thing! The similarities are eerie.

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Doublethink is an integral concept of George Orwell's dystopian novel Nineteen Eighty-Four.

According to the novel, doublethink is:

“ The power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one's mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them....To tell deliberate lies while genuinely believing in them, to forget any fact that has become inconvenient, and then, when it becomes necessary again, to draw it back from oblivion for just so long as it is needed, to deny the existence of objective reality and all the while to take account of the reality which one denies — all this is indispensably necessary. Even in using the word doublethink it is necessary to exercise doublethink. For by using the word one admits that one is tampering with reality; by a fresh act of doublethink one erases this knowledge; and so on indefinitely, with the lie always one leap ahead of the truth.[1]
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:)TL
 
clamicide

clamicide

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Tiger Lily said:
It's been a while since I read 1984 so I looked it up. I GOTTA read that book again now that I've seen the real thing! The similarities are eerie.



:)TL
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Definitely amazing. The movie was on cable recently and was surprisingly good for a book adaptation. Totally recommend it.
 
Alanzo

Alanzo

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clamicide said:
Yes. Definitely would not watch it instead of reading the book--it was far from perfect, but for an adaptation I was pleasantly surprised.
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I agree.

George Orwell is hero of mine, though not just because of "1984".

His "Notes On Nationalism", I think, is a must read for any Ex-Scientologist.

The dude sought freedom of thought in everything he did.

So I would always opt to read Orwell, rather than see someone make a movie out of what he wrote.

I do like the Apple Macintosh Commercial, though:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OYecfV3ubP8
 
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