My Morning Jacket

Off-Topic => Off-Topic Ramblings => Topic started by: ycartrob on Jan 16, 2008, 07:04 PM

Title: horror
Post by: ycartrob on Jan 16, 2008, 07:04 PM
Horror. Horror has a face... and you must make a friend of horror. Horror and moral terror are your friends. If they are not then they are enemies to be feared. They are truly enemies. I remember when I was with Special Forces. Seems a thousand centuries ago. We went into a camp to inoculate the children. We left the camp after we had inoculated the children for Polio, and this old man came running after us and he was crying. He couldn't see. We went back there and they had come and hacked off every inoculated arm. There they were in a pile. A pile of little arms. And I remember... I... I... I cried. I wept like some grandmother. I wanted to tear my teeth out. I didn't know what I wanted to do. And I want to remember it. I never want to forget it. I never want to forget. And then I realized... like I was shot... like I was shot with a diamond... a diamond bullet right through my forehead. And I thought: My God... the genius of that. The genius. The will to do that. Perfect, genuine, complete, crystalline, pure. And then I realized they were stronger than we. Because they could stand that these were not monsters. These were men... trained cadres. These men who fought with their hearts, who had families, who had children, who were filled with love... but they had the strength... the strength... to do that. If I had ten divisions of those men our troubles here would be over very quickly. You have to have men who are moral... and at the same time who are able to utilize their primordial instincts to kill without feeling... without passion... without judgment... without judgment. Because it's judgment that defeats us.
Title: Re: horror
Post by: JacketGal on Jan 16, 2008, 07:14 PM
I've seen horrors... horrors that you've seen. But you have no right to call me a murderer. You have a right to kill me. You have a right to do that... but you have no right to judge me. It's impossible for words to describe what is necessary to those who do not know what horror means. Horror. Horror has a face... and you must make a friend of horror. Horror and moral terror are your friends. If they are not then they are enemies to be feared. They are truly enemies. I remember when I was with Special Forces. Seems a thousand centuries ago. We went into a camp to inoculate the children. We left the camp after we had inoculated the children for Polio, and this old man came running after us and he was crying. He couldn't see. We went back there and they had come and hacked off every inoculated arm. There they were in a pile. A pile of little arms. And I remember... I... I... I cried. I wept like some grandmother. I wanted to tear my teeth out. I didn't know what I wanted to do. And I want to remember it. I never want to forget it. I never want to forget. And then I realized... like I was shot... like I was shot with a diamond... a diamond bullet right through my forehead. And I thought: My God... the genius of that. The genius. The will to do that. Perfect, genuine, complete, crystalline, pure. And then I realized they were stronger than we. Because they could stand that these were not monsters. These were men... trained cadres. These men who fought with their hearts, who had families, who had children, who were filled with love... but they had the strength... the strength... to do that. If I had ten divisions of those men our troubles here would be over very quickly. You have to have men who are moral... and at the same time who are able to utilize their primordial instincts to kill without feeling... without passion... without judgment... without judgment. Because it's judgment that defeats us.
Title: Re: horror
Post by: Angry Ewok on Jan 16, 2008, 10:21 PM
I worry that my son might not understand what I've tried to be... And if I were to be killed, Willard, I would want someone to go to my home and tell my son everything. Everything I did, everything... you saw... Because there is nothing I detest more than the stench of lies...

...And if you understand me, Willard, you'll do this for me.
Title: Re: horror
Post by: Sleazy Rider on Jan 17, 2008, 11:11 AM
 I watched a snail crawl along the edge of a straight razor. That's my dream. That's my nightmare. Crawling, slithering, along the edge of a straight... razor... and surviving.
Title: Re: horror
Post by: ycartrob on Jan 17, 2008, 11:37 AM
(http://www.leninimports.com/marlon_brando_gallery_1.jpg)
Title: Re: horror
Post by: Jaimoe on Jan 17, 2008, 12:16 PM
Horror = being forced to listen to Nickelback while working out at the gym last night. Nothing beats that... well maybe the new single from Ashley Simpson, which makes anything by Fergie and Gwen Stefani sound like Lennon/McCartney compositions.
Title: Re: horror
Post by: TheBigChicken on Jan 17, 2008, 02:08 PM
4 more fucking years of Bush ;D
Title: Re: horror
Post by: The DARK on Jan 17, 2008, 04:44 PM
QuoteHorror = being forced to listen to Nickelback while working out at the gym last night. Nothing beats that... well maybe the new single from Ashley Simpson, which makes anything by Fergie and Gwen Stefani sound like Lennon/McCartney compositions.

I didn't know she had a new one. I'm just going to live the rest of my life like I never heard that...
Title: Re: horror
Post by: Angry Ewok on Jan 17, 2008, 04:48 PM
...you people have destroyed this thread.

I don't wanna take this goddamn shit, man... I didn't come here for this, I don't fucking need this. I didn't get outta the eighth grade for this, man.. All I wanted to do is fucking cook, I just wanted to learn to fucking cook.
Title: Re: horror
Post by: primushead on Jan 17, 2008, 05:03 PM
(http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0140281630.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg)
Title: Re: horror
Post by: Angry Ewok on Jan 17, 2008, 05:13 PM
One of my favorite books of all time. This thread has a chance, after all.

Title: Re: horror
Post by: bowl of soup on Jan 17, 2008, 05:20 PM
(http://i216.photobucket.com/albums/cc232/bowlofwax/blimp.jpg)

Oh!  The Humanity!
Title: Re: horror
Post by: Taterbug on Jan 17, 2008, 05:23 PM
Being buried alive
(http://www.movieposter.com/posters/archive/main/22/A70-11246)
Title: Re: horror
Post by: fitzcarraldo on Jan 17, 2008, 05:33 PM
(http://www.photoq.nl/schuren/afbeeldingen/ffc.jpg)


(http://www.shakefire.com/frivolous/apcolypse3.JPG)
Title: Re: horror
Post by: JacketGal on Jan 17, 2008, 05:38 PM
Have you ever considered any real freedoms? Freedoms from the opinion of others... even the opinions of yourself?
Title: Re: horror
Post by: MarkW on Jan 17, 2008, 06:03 PM
I am beyond their timid lying morality, and so I am beyond caring.
Title: Re: horror
Post by: Sleazy Rider on Jan 17, 2008, 08:11 PM
Hey, man, you don't talk to the Colonel. You listen to him. The man's enlarged my mind. He's a poet-warrior in the classic sense. I mean sometimes he'll... uh... well, you'll say "hello" to him, right? And he'll just walk right by you. He won't even notice you. And suddenly he'll grab you, and he'll throw you in a corner, and he'll say, "do you know that 'if' is the middle word in life? If you can keep your head when all about you are losing theirs and blaming it on you, if you can trust yourself when all men doubt you"... I mean I'm no, I can't... I'm a little man, I'm a little man, he's... he's a great man. I should have been a pair of ragged claws scuttling across floors of silent seas...
Title: Re: horror
Post by: Angry Ewok on Jan 18, 2008, 07:47 AM
Did they say why, Willard, why they want to terminate my command?

I was sent on a classified mission, sir.

It's no longer classified, is it?
Title: Re: horror
Post by: ycartrob on Jan 18, 2008, 05:40 PM
never get out of the boat
Title: Re: horror
Post by: JacketGal on Jan 18, 2008, 06:35 PM
Are my methods unsound?