Reverend Skunk Says...

Face it, partial zombification has taken its toll on Reverend Skunk. He says some crazy-ass shit even when he isn't talking about the Zunkle tape. Occasionally, though, the Reverend utters something that even we think is worth sharing. It doesn't happen very often, but we thought we'd better start writing stuff down here, in case he asks about it. In fact, the last thing he said was...

If you habeas MY corpus, yeah, yer dang paperwork better WAY be in order!

... and before that, he said...

How do you know money can't buy happiness? Have you ever actually tried spending every last dime on the people and things you love?

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Holy Crap. It didn't take the new regime long to expand horizontally from undocumented immigrants to brown people in general, to the homeless, the disabled, the mentally ill, and well, pretty much anyone who can't adequately pay up and suck up. And the regime has expanded vertically from fast-tracking deportations, to deporting people to corrupt, barbaric prisons in countries that are foreign to them, to detaining them in domestic concentration camps, to pulling people out of their cars and grabbing them when they appear for legitimate court proceedings, to rounding up homeless people (again) and rounding up (by executive order) ANYONE without a verifiable permanent address! And let us not ignore all the funding cuts that will literally send your brothers and sisters into starvation. One has to wonder when the outright murders will begin.

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Right, whatever that is, is *your* right. Everything should be right. No, everything is not right, but no one can take right away from you or give right to you. Government can only do right or not do right. Government can only honor your rights or dishonor them. It cannot even presume to tell you what they are. It is not right that they lie about such things.

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This was already here.

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Am I the "Enemy Within" yet? Or do I have to kiss a guy first?

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You're dreaming this.

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Obey your phone!

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If you get one of those new brain implants, be sure to get the premium upgrade package. It has a lot fewer commercials.

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One day, you will be silent.

One day, you must be silent.

Will you also be silent until then?

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We live in a society that (a) demands that we conceal our genitals, (b) expects that we classify our genitals as either innies or outies, and (c) expects that we declare our classification in public by way of our apparel and demeanor.

Society furthermore demands that we ignore, disregard and avoid the genitals of others; that we pretend in many ways that we don't even HAVE genitals. It also expects that we declare our genital classification on just about every form we ever fill out.

We are coerced into forming ourselves and conducting ourselves accordingly. That is, the social norms inevitably imposed upon us are in many ways contingent upon whether our genitals are innies or outies.

All of this ostensibly to ensure the optimal performance of a mating game that works all too well without our help. Those of us who have any confusion or apprehension at all about playing this stupid, dangerous, arcane game face ostracism, ridicule, beatings, and death.

I can't say as that I would call this "civilized" at all.

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If we do not fully understand what it is that makes us conscious as human beings, we will most likely create conscious machines before we realize that we have.

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Any time you automate something - every single time you automate something - you introduce at least one new way to screw it up.

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Are you sure? Because I'm not.

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Please check back here often, folks.

The Reverend is sure to keep talking. Thanks!

 It absolutely, positively goes without saying.

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