acrylicist on Dear Foodit: I'm halfway through Food, Inc...and I'm so disgusted that I don't even want to eat anything anymore. What the FUCK are we doing to ourselves?!? - http://www.reddit.com/r...
acrylicist on America, we need a third party that can galvanize our generation. One that doesn't reek of pansy. I propose a U.S. Pirate Party. - http://www.reddit.com/r...
"No one on this planet that I know of quotes Moby Dick or cites it chapter and verse as an authority, but everyone considers it to be a kind of novel that should be read from start to finish. But it has one fantastic quote that I'm aware of: "Ignorance is the parent of fear..." but taken in context: "Even as it was, I thought something of slipping out of the window, but it was the second floor back. I am no coward, but what to make of this headpeddling purple rascal altogether passed my comprehension. **Ignorance is the parent of fear**, and being completely nonplussed and confounded about the stranger, I confess I was now as much afraid of him as if it was the devil himself who had thus broken into my room at the dead of night. In fact, I was so afraid of him that I was not game enough just then to address him, and demand a satisfactory answer concerning what seemed inexplicable in him." The quote doesn't have its power alone, its merely a set up for describing how scared he is. So,..."
- Aleph Acrylicist
acrylicist on Torture caught on camera in UAE: Afghan man was beaten with a nail-studded wood plank, had his genitals set on fire, his anus pierced by a cattle prod and then repeatedly run over by an SUV with the help of a cop. Today, the man responsible, a UAE royal, was acquitted. - http://www.reddit.com/r...
"My impression of the Bible is it was a lot of gibberish setting up the reader for extreme cognitive dissonance to accept it. There's a reason why everyone only quotes the Bible--actually reading it makes less sense, the rest of the problem with the Bible is the same issue with Islamic extremism: because it occasionally makes no sense or was ambiguous the interpretations are filtered through the prejudices of the leadership of any organized religion to direct the flock."
- Aleph Acrylicist
""Hey man, we got that ginormous load of brass ingots, what can we do with them?" "I KNOW, we'll make a ice ball maker!" "Get the fuck out of my office!""
- Aleph Acrylicist
acrylicist on Reddit, I (flossdaily) desperately need your help. Someone has plagiarized my writing, has refused to remove it from their site, and is now accusing me of being the plagiarist. - http://www.reddit.com/r...
"Algebra 2/Trig Teacher in response to the question: "Why do we need to learn this stuff?" "I don't know, I'm just supposed to teach it to you.""
- Aleph Acrylicist
"But it wouldn't be the same, its another genetic instance of Hitler who did not earn the same amount of negative karma. This Hitler could be submitting links about bacon-flavored narwhal to Reddit--should he be killed? I don't think so."
- Aleph Acrylicist