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Baraka_Guru
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Baraka_Guru

Möderätor, Male, from Toronto

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I'm apparently responsible for 2% of the messages posted on this forum. Feb 12, 2025

Baraka_Guru was last seen:
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    1. Baraka_Guru
      Baraka_Guru
      Don't hold your breath, but I may soon have a day off that won't cost me dearly in the end.
    2. Baraka_Guru
      Baraka_Guru
      Ten more hours 'til a rest....
    3. Baraka_Guru
      Baraka_Guru
      Inbox avalanche!
    4. Baraka_Guru
      Baraka_Guru
      I am Jack's false sense of impending doom.
      1. snowy likes this.
    5. Baraka_Guru
      Baraka_Guru
      You are my sun, my moon, my starlit sky!" —Madmartigan
      1. MeltedMetalGlob likes this.
      2. MeltedMetalGlob
        MeltedMetalGlob
        I tried that as a pickup line once. I also almost got run through with a sword.
        Jun 24, 2014
      3. Baraka_Guru
        Baraka_Guru
        No pressure or anything, but your art requires more Willow images.
        Jun 24, 2014
    6. Baraka_Guru
      Baraka_Guru
      It's gonna take a lot to drag me away from you / There's nothing that a hundred men or more could ever do
      1. snowy likes this.
    7. Baraka_Guru
      Baraka_Guru
      It is time to take my geekery to the next level.
      1. snowy
        snowy
        I didn't think it was possible.
        Jun 5, 2014
      2. Baraka_Guru
        Baraka_Guru
        You have no idea.
        Jun 5, 2014
    8. Baraka_Guru
      Baraka_Guru
      Did you ever grow anything in the garden of your mind?
    9. Baraka_Guru
      Baraka_Guru
      Glory to the Sin'dorei.
      1. snowy
        snowy
        We will have justice!
        May 30, 2014
    10. Baraka_Guru
      Baraka_Guru
      Oh, late capitalism, you're so funny!
    11. Baraka_Guru
      Baraka_Guru
      “We salvage what we can, what truly matters to us, even at the gates of despair.”
    12. Baraka_Guru
      Baraka_Guru
      The key to my future lies in my 12-year-old self. The secret is buried in 1988.
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      2. Baraka_Guru
        Baraka_Guru
        It's been sitting right there the whole time. I've been ignoring it.
        May 21, 2014
      3. snowy
        snowy
        My thirteen-year-old self and I are good friends.
        May 21, 2014
      4. Baraka_Guru
        Baraka_Guru
        More specifically, my 12- to 14-year-old self and I need to have a chat.
        May 21, 2014
    13. Baraka_Guru
      Baraka_Guru
      Actually, the greatest trick the Devil ever pulled was writing the Bible.
      1. Bodkin van Horn and Plan9 like this.
    14. Baraka_Guru
      Baraka_Guru
      "That's the way with civilized men. When they can't explain something by their half-baked science, they refuse to believe it."
    15. Baraka_Guru
      Baraka_Guru
      Come to chat, jerks!
    16. Baraka_Guru
      Baraka_Guru
      "I'm too old for this shit." —Sergeant Roger Murtaugh
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      2. Plan9
        Plan9
        C'mon, buddy! *guitar riff*
        May 12, 2014
    17. Baraka_Guru
      Baraka_Guru
      "It is said that it is the peculiar quality of time to conserve fact, and that it does so by rendering our past falsehoods true."
    18. Baraka_Guru
      Baraka_Guru
      Pneumatic fantasies
    19. rezudo
      rezudo
      um yeah could you help me every time i try too post a link or a picture it tells me i need at least 10 posts but ive already done about 12, what am i doin wrong?
      1. Baraka_Guru
        Baraka_Guru
        The system sometimes takes a while to kick in. It's to avoid spammers. Give it some time, keep posting posts, and if it doesn't work later today, let me know.
        May 6, 2014
    20. Baraka_Guru
      Baraka_Guru
      "I need you tonight / 'Cause I'm not sleeping / There's something about you girl / That makes me sweat"
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    The details of my life are quite inconsequential. But very well, where do I begin? My father was a relentlessly self-improving boulangerie owner from Belgium with low grade narcolepsy and a penchant for buggery. My mother was a fifteen-year-old French prostitute named Chloe with webbed feet. My father would womanize, he would drink, he would make outrageous claims like he invented the question mark. Sometimes he would accuse chestnuts of being lazy, the sort of general malaise that only the genius possess and the insane lament. My childhood was typical — summers in Rangoon, luge lessons. In the spring, we'd make meat helmets. When I was insolent, I was placed in a burlap bag and beaten with reeds — pretty standard, really. At the age of twelve, I received my first scribe. At the age of fourteen, a Zoroastrian named Vilma ritualistically shaved my testicles. There really is nothing like a shorn scrotum, it's breathtaking, I suggest you try it —

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    “I can't remember anything. I remember only ideas and sensations.”
    —James Joyce, Ulysses (1922)
    “Humankind cannot bear very much reality.”
    —T. S. Eliot, “Burnt Norton,” Four Quartets (1943)