Kzoppistan

I love mpol. And gun pron. It's true. I love Old Guard more. I don't know what this is about. Don't care. Too drunk to find the relevant pages that might relay the data needed. From this point forward, until Old Guard finds resolution with this conflict, the House of the Serpent will engage the nations of FAN. "I know that you have sinned. I know that you have sinned because if you had not, God would not have sent me against you." Signed, President Mr. Otingocni, Ruler of Kzoppistan, Arbiter of Righteousness, Champion of the White Sphere, Zealot of Zenith. Amen

Hell yeah, OG for LIFE!

Almost every prayer or ritual is either a celebration of, or most usually, an appeal to a higher power. Whether that divine succor is for power to achieve or restore balance, to grant wisdom or vision, or for strength to prevail over the trials and temptations of one's life, it is essentially a begging of a higher source (in what ever form we conceive of it) to grant some of its/their energy to the receptor. Just like with the flow of electrons, in order to accept the flow of a higher potential, the path must be clear for that power to flow. In order to receive such power, we must be vessels prepared. Just like a battery, or any chemical reaction, there is an abundance of energy at one end of the equation, and a deficit on the other. We are not the power, we are the path for which that power flows. The works almighty course through us, if we can only sense it. Fear is a natural contraction in the face of danger. It closes off pathways. It contracts. Draws in for defense. In order to utilize one's personal resources to fight or flee, whether mentally or physically, it disengages from basins of power for greater mobility. Thus, to be receptive to the great sublime, we must anchor ourselves in these basins of power, we must eliminate the action of fear upon our persons. We can accept it, experience it, allow it to flow through us, but we cannot allow it to control us to any inordinate degree. Even in the face of danger, we must remain connected, the pathways must remain open, fear must be subjugated by what ever personal tactic available, and in that way, we bring greater power, an accumulate of personal AND connective energy, to bear upon the obstacles in our lives.

This is bull shit! Also, congrats

How do you feel about stick figures? Because I can rock some stick figures.

The spears of the Zulu Empire are strong and many. A wise choice among the wisest of the wise.

From the Desk of Kzoppistanian Announcements and Lies Mr.O <3's RIA. This one is true.

I can dig it.

Good stuff. Here's one of many I've collected over the years..

i support what ever this is

I disagree, but I'm too hung over to argue about it. And now I feel bad for making this topic. That's it, everybody go home.

One thing Schatt did was represent a strong minority. That was why even though people derided him, there was a strong, if minor (or major considering each time period), force that supported him. Cliche if it may be, Schatt has the "common touch" in that he not only understood his demographic but operated within it. What ever personal reasons for seeking the limelight, it was greatly supported by a supplemental drive by those he represented to do so as well. Just something to think about.

For the record Tywin, when Schatt was fully operational, he got the same criticisms you get now.

Did you really just quote yourself? Ok, my next blog post will be about you. Now give me some material to work with!

Schatt, you wound me, "colors that my poop has been" was a great success towards working out that "one" issue my therapist assured me. Hmm, that said, you said a good point that blogs are a bit redundant in the facets you mention. But, I do hasten to add one point that those can't do, that has been largely neglected by most except by, perhaps, Delta, that the blog adds a sense of personal closeness to the thoughts of those you admire. The only personal websites I've ever followed were by those of proven status who are relaying their personal thoughts. But we see no blogs by, say, Brehon, or, wait, is he still head of NPO?... ok, damn it, I'm showing my out of dateness, but my point is that people crave the words of the successful. Again, that is why I am surprised more leaders don't use the blogs as their own personal platform. Of course, perhaps I'm a revolutionary in that sense and should run the world on the basis of that somewhat evolutionary fact, but I don't, and it still stands that some people (like, say, you), could use it more for what it is currently utilized for.

Hmm, compelling, but I need more. Just something a little more... exciting, evocative, something that would draw people to click on the blog title link. Something that would inspire some creative destruction, er, I mean, construction. You can go that extra mile of inspiration. I know it.

Why? What do you offer to the general public?

Is that... is that a joke? Cause it could be. That's good. but I don't want to mess up the count for my just posted blog content, ha ha.

I've never catered to an audience in writing my blog, just a kind of random juxtaposition of thoughts and articles that suited my chaotic fancy. I even usually avoid CN related topics due to so much of it everywhere. I just usually post beer reviews. In fact, I'm incredibly drunk right now, drink Dirty Bastard Ale it's awesome. But that aside, the tool is surprisingly versatile. So I started to wonder, what would people be really interested, CN wise, to see in blog content? Humorous content? Propaganda Pics? Discussion of current events? Non CN stuff? What? Personally, I like analytical content, leadership type literature, both a meta and intimate consideration of current events. ECt. The blogs are actually a great platform for current leaders of big alliances to popularize their stances, I'm surprised it's not used more for this.

I like this article, and I like Steve Buscemi.

Holy Snap, Azaghul, are you trying to win by outliving everyone, geez, how old is your nation, anyway?

Something that's irritated me for a while is when people try to draw an imaginary dichotomy between 'logical' or 'rational' decision-making and 'emotional' decision-making. Often accompanied by the implication that one is rational while the other is irrational. Or that people are more or less emotional than others, or somehow irrational. Some breaking news, folks, no person is irrational. Barring physical defects or physiological differences that result in clinical insanity or mental impairment, every human being is a very precise calculator of deciding what is best for them (or their in-group to gradational degrees outwards). Sometimes the weights people place on the values that guide their decision making are less adaptive than others, or were maladaptive by exceptional formative experiences unlikely to happen again. But they're still logical. Some people are impulsive, and haven't learned how to allow a strong emotional state to fade in intensity before making a decision. But, everybody is both ruled by logic and also ruled by emotions. And I don't mean that in a figurative way, I mean that in a very literal way. To make any decision, you must have an emotional value attached to it. These two things, colloquially 'logic' and emotion, which are often paired as opposites, are actually reliant upon each other in making decisions. For being ruled by emotions, a good example of how that works is this situation: when you are staring at two items on a menu at a restaurant, and both are almost exactly the same in level of appeal. Your body is not craving anything in particular. Ever have that happen? When neither, or none, (if there are multiple items) are more appealing than the other- what happens? You can't decide. The clock is ticking. The waiter is waiting. The friend is not-so-discreetly checking his watch. Remember that feeling? You are literally mentally paralyzed because you do not have enough differential emotional value attached to those items. Happens all the time. If you work in a restaurant, you see people stumped for some time while they weigh their options. Behavioral economists have known for years that too many options hampers the decision making ability by overloading the amount of different values a person can juggle in their mind. Finally people pick the item by some sort of other metric, like opposite of which one they had last, or flip a coin, alphabetical, or have their friend pick for them, or some such. This is not a stand-alone experience, every decision you make is ruled by the emotional attachments you have to the various outcomes. If you had no emotions, you could not make a decision. And people are inherently and inflexibly logical. To prove that, consider this: no decision you have ever made has ever been against your interests as you knew them to be at the time of making the decision. Now, some decisions are what may appear to be sacrificial in nature, but are actually exchanges, time or money or what may have you, in exchange for upholding a certain sociological or philosophical ideal. It is paying maintenance on keeping that ideal in circulation because that ideal is beneficial. Some decisions are short sighted and against long term interests, perhaps, but not against immediate ones. I ate that piece of cake because satisfying that desire had more drive than the abstaining from such for a long term goal. Satisfying immediate desires often takes priority over abstract ones. But for a moment, think of any decision you made earlier in the day. Why did you make the choices in that chain that you did? Now, without changing anything else about the situation, could you have made a different decision? Really? If so, why didn't you make that decision instead? More than likely, ever action you did was in some way better than all other actions conceived of in that space of time allocated in the decision making process. Even in an attempt at proving this thought experiment wrong, if you did something inherently against yourself or random, like smashing your head against a wall or doing a silly dance, you have still elevated the desire of asserting your own agency higher than accepting the belief that you in fact have no agency at all, mainly because it is a comforting concept, and the satisfaction of emotional demands comes at any cost, even that of truth. But we will all make the same decision over and over again if placed in the same circumstances and armed with exact same level of knowledge as previously before. Most of your decisions are made before they even, if they ever, reach your upper consciousness. Almost all of your decisions are made for you. And a good thing, too, otherwise you probably would go insane with all the minute details you would have to attend to instead of it seeming much like an automatic process that it is. All of those decisions, especially of the sort like navigating through traffic are trusted implicitly as being the best for you, allowing you to daydream about what you want to do after work or what ever else occupies your mind. Thankfully, we live real-time and have the ability to alter our course of action by updating our knowledge base from previous experiences. But one thing remains the same, it is that people will inherently make *what they believe to be in their heart of hearts* the best decision every time because it gets them what they want- regardless of the other costs (which, incidentally, indicates the level of importance that event, relationship, object, ect., has to them). When people do things that seem crazy or "emotional", just realize that one, we're all emotional, and two, they are operating from a different table of values that you are. And remember that the satisfaction of emotional and immediate desires almost always take precedence over abstract ones. If you're really inquisitive, try to ascertain what the weight of those particular values are. So, in short, stop making those false opposite statements and I'll stop writing long winded paragraphs.

First I thought this topic was about me. Then I realized it was about actual alliances and real people involved in Robertian affairs. *sigh* Quoted for truthiness

I love your work.

Hail, STA, even I will come out to drink to that. Salute