The Other Side of Midnight - Richard C. Hoagland - Live Chat Thread

[Barfly]

god needs to get his shit straight. Duplicitous bastard.

Bob Dobbs and the Flying Spaghetti Monster are the only deities i believe in.

[maren]

The Kurdish Peshmerga was suppose to defend them but they retreated when Daesh was doing their rampage last year(that brought the United States into bombing Daesh). The YPG/YPJ/PKK fought through Daesh territory to create a corridor of safety to Rojava. Some refused to ever leave Sinjar, but the YPG has been training their own defense forces. Some have also joined YPG and YPJ forces.

How do you always know all of this stuff?

[SciFiAuthor]

Yeah...I think I'd freak out.  Probably think Hoagie was the peacock.

I wonder if Hoagie will reveal himself as the peacock angel and freak the guest out.

[coaster]

Send us a postcard of the Peacock Angel when you drop in on them.

Will do.

[ShayP]

I wonder if Hoagie will reveal himself as the peacock angel and freak the guest out.

i do hope so.

[zeebo]

Yep, it's +5 Dick Cavett tonight.

Haha, yep.

[pate]

Not sure what the heck you are talking about....but all this peacock imagery is far more simple than all this confabulation he's talking about. It's about the mind seeing itself...it's a metaphor...and he missed it. Most do.

Simple minds require simple imagery?

Know thy audience? Thus sayeth tha lawd!

I dunno what I'm talking about either, apologies Rose...

[Sandra Kristen]

Here is the wikipedia article about the Daesh attack.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sinjar_massacre

[Northcoaster]

I wish when Hoagie asked him if all that was what the Yahzidi believed in he would have said "nah, I just made it up"

[pate]

How do you always know all of this stuff?

Google goggles?  It's the latest tech, yo!

[SciFiAuthor]

This is kind of silly, the reason ISIS is killing Yazidis is because Iraqi conservative muslims see the Yazidi as devil worshippers.

[(Sandman) Logan-5]

I heard female peacocks were called peacunts

I guess it depends on if they like you or not. 

[Barfly]

I may have to hit the bong to make more sense of this.

[Sandra Kristen]

How do you always know all of this stuff?

I follow the Syrian war very closely. Plus the YPG/YPJ and their system of government is something I am a huge fan of. Anarcho-Feminists? Heck  yeah!

[QuantumMystics]

[trostol]

i prefer a giant turtle

[pate]

(must make my cryptic references clear, ruins "joke")

"Rooster Illusion" is from the movie Tropic Thunder.

"Peacock must fly" is from the movie The Other Guys.

Apologies, n00bs must be initiated at some point.

Or that's my theory and I'm sticking to it...

[maren]

Here is the wikipedia article about the Daesh attack.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sinjar_massacre

Okay thanks.  I thought you just knew this off the top of your head!  I thought SO knowledgeable, GREAT memory, presents in a way that's easily understandable.  What else would I expect from a Sister Warrior?

[Barfly]

I follow the Syrian war very closely. Plus the YPG/YPJ and their system of government is something I am a huge fan of. Anarcho-Feminists? Heck  yeah!

Anarcho-Feminists? I bet you could kick my ass.

[zeebo]

... all this peacock imagery is far more simple than all this confabulation he's talking about. It's about the mind seeing itself...it's a metaphor...and he missed it. Most do.

I think I actually agree with you on this one. 

[pate]

i prefer a giant turtle

That's level seven stuff...

Shut yer typin' fingurs!

[norland2424]

I follow the Syrian war very closely. Plus the YPG/YPJ and their system of government is something I am a huge fan of. Anarcho-Feminists? Heck  yeah!

for being commies that is one group i do have faith in, more then i do in like FARC or any other commie groups that i have forgot about 

[Art]

Shape-shifting peacock dragon?  Now that's what I call a religion!

[trostol]

never heard dragon and phoenix as interchangeable

[SciFiAuthor]

I follow the Syrian war very closely. Plus the YPG/YPJ and their system of government is something I am a huge fan of. Anarcho-Feminists? Heck  yeah!

Talk about an interesting development in the middle east. Iraq is last place you think you'd see anarcho-feminist  warriors and hardcore socialists and communists yet there they are.

[pate]

Million eyes on a peacock tail is a bit of a stretch, maybe a few dozen eyes...

[(Sandman) Logan-5]

Bob Dobbs and the Flying Spaghetti Monster are the only deities i believe in.

[RoseGirl]

RCH must be reading this forum, eh?

[SaucyRossy]

little bit....reminded me of looking at one from the top.

Is that the official logo or can we all try to design one?

Would love it if you designed one!

[pate]

Talk about an interesting development in the middle east. Iraq is last place you think you'd see anarcho-feminist  warriors and hardcore socialists and communists yet there they are.

I always wondered about the marriage of the anarchists to the socialist/communists...

Seemed like it was going to end in divorce for some reason.