Ripping: v. to dismantle and destroy free publications.

From the Rippers Page:

What are rippers? Rippers are a clandestine group of revolutionary rebels from around the world, who are out to detroy the greatest evil plaguing our world today! What evil you ask, the GREAT EVIL of FREE ENTERPRISE of course!!! These evil free enterprises are spreading their evils otherwise known as “free publications” across the world on every street corner, at every storefront, and at every bus stop! Tempting as it may seem to the average passerby who sees one of the fancy newspaper looking machines that says “free take one”; they must resist grabing one because those “free publications” are fueling the the very system that keeps the average businessmen in poverty because they cannot compete competively with a free product.

An organization formed in Tucson dedicated to the destruction of free enterprise material. I was an early member back in the day. Recently, there has been heavy resistance to the Rippers and their missions. Stifled by the media, the rebel Rippers keep evil in line with their escapades and stealthy maneuvers.

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I was thinking about thinking. Is it possible to not think at all? Or to think of everything simultaneously? I can assume it takes many cubic miles of minuscule meta-thoughts to make one coherent thought. Sometimes, (I think) I am thinking so complexly that my own brain will not understand. Those short moments when I baffle my imagination with a feeling of fulfilling nothingness, the surreal value of my empty yet vivid imagery invades my humanly character. At times, I know these sensations are not me alone, but a greater source of majesty. A ruler of existence trickles a droplet of almighty wonder on me- a mere speckle of dust, but a galaxy of awe in my eyes.

An artificial persion asked me this very question, and below is what my artificial reply was:

We have lost the past. The past held onto practically everything including fun, excitement, Adolf Hitler, dinosaurs, the printing press, Adam and Eve, books, phonographs, cavemen, art, portable slaves, weapons of minuscule destruction, the Confederacy, morality, candle-lit hangings, iron maidens, typewriters, and bathing once a month.

Must be aleviated immediately. Lorem ipsum is good for that:

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