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The_Ivory_Man 07/27/18 1:59:53 PM #1:	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NAh9oLs67Cw" data-time=" John Barrymore explains it's deep philosophical implications in this video. --- "Just because someone is killed doesn't mean they died" - Shojikan <cite>The_Ivory_Man posted [p:905815161] in The Greate... [t:76846731]...</cite> <quote> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NAh9oLs67Cw" data-time=" John Barrymore explains it's deep philosophical implications in this video.</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
A_Good_Boy 07/27/18 2:01:24 PM #2:	Imaging spending an hour watching some dude ramble about a video tangentially related to an old Garfield comic strip. --- Who is? I am! <cite>A_Good_Boy posted [p:905815249] in The Greate... [t:76846731]...</cite> <quote>Imaging spending an hour watching some dude ramble about a video tangentially related to an old Garfield comic strip.</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
Authentic_fan 07/27/18 2:02:50 PM #3:	A_Good_Boy posted... Imaging spending an hour watching some dude ramble about a video tangentially related to an old Garfield comic strip. Yeah I came into this topic to see a funny comic and instead there's a 1 hour video <cite>Authentic_fan posted [p:905815323] in The Greate... [t:76846731]...</cite> <quote><cite>A_Good_Boy posted...</cite> <quote>Imaging spending an hour watching some dude ramble about a video tangentially related to an old Garfield comic strip.</quote> Yeah I came into this topic to see a funny comic and instead there's a 1 hour video</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
Darkman124 07/27/18 2:03:23 PM #4:	--- And when the hourglass has run out, eternity asks you about only one thing: whether you have lived in despair or not. <cite>Darkman124 posted [p:905815340] in The Greate... [t:76846731]...</cite> <quote></quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
Hayame Zero 07/27/18 2:03:48 PM #5:	That series of disturbing Halloween strips where everyone disappeared were better. --- ...I think I'm done here... <cite>Hayame Zero posted [p:905815363] in The Greate... [t:76846731]...</cite> <quote>That series of disturbing Halloween strips where everyone disappeared were better.</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
Blue_Target 07/27/18 2:07:01 PM #6:	Those lasagna cat videos are like the hidden gold mine of YouTube. --- https://imgtc.com/i/RdM9Q5I.gif https://imgtc.com/i/Ju4lDBV.gif <cite>Blue_Target posted [p:905815525] in The Greate... [t:76846731]...</cite> <quote>Those lasagna cat videos are like the hidden gold mine of YouTube.</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
The_Ivory_Man 07/27/18 2:10:50 PM #7:	Authentic_fan posted... A_Good_Boy posted... Imaging spending an hour watching some dude ramble about a video tangentially related to an old Garfield comic strip. Yeah I came into this topic to see a funny comic and instead there's a 1 hour video A_Good_Boy posted... Imaging spending an hour watching some dude ramble about a video tangentially related to an old Garfield comic strip. It's worth leaving on in the background while you play a video game or something. It's pretty quotable. For other Garfield stuff, I do like Garfield without Garfield. http://garfieldminusgarfield.net --- "Just because someone is killed doesn't mean they died" - Shojikan <cite>The_Ivory_Man posted [p:905815706] in The Greate... [t:76846731]...</cite> <quote><cite>Authentic_fan posted...</cite> <quote><cite>A_Good_Boy posted...</cite> <quote>Imaging spending an hour watching some dude ramble about a video tangentially related to an old Garfield comic strip.</quote> Yeah I came into this topic to see a funny comic and instead there's a 1 hour video</quote> <cite>A_Good_Boy posted...</cite> <quote>Imaging spending an hour watching some dude ramble about a video tangentially related to an old Garfield comic strip.</quote> It's worth leaving on in the background while you play a video game or something. It's pretty quotable. For other Garfield stuff, I do like Garfield without Garfield. http://garfieldminusgarfield.net</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
DevsBro 07/27/18 2:11:46 PM #8:	Authentic_fan posted... A_Good_Boy posted... Imaging spending an hour watching some dude ramble about a video tangentially related to an old Garfield comic strip. Yeah I came into this topic to see a funny comic and instead there's a 1 hour video This. --- 53 LIII p16 0x35 <cite>DevsBro posted [p:905815746] in The Greate... [t:76846731]...</cite> <quote><cite>Authentic_fan posted...</cite> <quote><cite>A_Good_Boy posted...</cite> <quote>Imaging spending an hour watching some dude ramble about a video tangentially related to an old Garfield comic strip.</quote> Yeah I came into this topic to see a funny comic and instead there's a 1 hour video</quote> This.</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
Megaman50100 07/27/18 2:15:36 PM #9:	love the different types of reactions in this thread, --- move all remaining groundhog mercenaries to the front lines. Have sheep troopers squadrons A and B flank the cows. They're using DC-17 hoof blasters. <cite>Megaman50100 posted [p:905815940] in The Greate... [t:76846731]...</cite> <quote>love the different types of reactions in this thread,</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
The_Ivory_Man 07/27/18 2:20:16 PM #10:	I have a feeling people didn't watch Well, from that point on, I made sure I read the Garfield comic strips, though as I read each one, as each day passed... the strips seemed to resonate with me less and less... I sent letters to PAWS Incorporated, long letters, pages upon pages... asking if Mister Jim Davis could somehow publish just the one comic, over and over again... "It would be meditative," I wrote, "the strength of that." Could you imagine? But... no response... The strips lost their power, and eventually I stopped reading, but... I did not want my perceptions diluted, so I vowed to read the pipe strip over and over again... That is what I call it, "The Pipe Strip." The Pipe Strip. Everything about it is perfect. I can only describe it as a miracle creation, something came together... the elements aligned... It is like the comets, the cosmic orchestra that is up there over your head... The immense, enormous void is working all for one thing, to tell you one thing... Gas and rock, and purity, and nothing. I will say this... When I see the pipe strip... and I mean every single time I look at the lines, the colors, the shapes that make up the three panel comic... I see perfection. Do I find perfection in many things? Some things, I would say... Some things are perfect... and this is one of them. I can look at the little tuft of hair on Jon Arbuckle's head... it is the perfect shade... The purple pipe in Garfield's mouth... How could a mere mortal even MAKE this? I have a theory, about Jim Davis... After copious research and, yes, of course, now we have the internet, and this information is all readily available, but... Jim Davis, he used his life experiences to influence his comic... Like I mentioned before, none of them seem to have the weight of the pipe strip... But you have to wonder about the man who is able to even, just once, create the perfect form, a literally flawless execution of art, brilliance! Just as in a ward... I think there is a spiritual element at work... I've seen my share of bad times and... when you have something... Well, it's just... emotions, and neurons in your brain, but... something tells you that it's the truth... Truth's radiant light. Garfield, the cat? Neurons in my brain, it's... it's harmony, you see? It... Jon and Garfield, it's truly harmony, like a... continuous, looping, everlasting harmony... The lavender chair, the brown end table, the salmon-colored wall, the fore's green carpeting, Garfield is hunched, perched... perhaps with the pipe stuck firmly between his jowls... His tail curls around. It's more than shapes too, because... I... Okay, stay with me... I've done this experiment several times. You take the strip. You trace only the basic elements. You can do anything, you can simplify the shapes down to just... blobs, just outlines, but it still makes sense... You can replace the blobs with magazine cutouts of other things, replace Jon Arbuckle with a... car parked in a driveway sideways, cut that out of a magazine, stick it in... Replace him there in the second panel with a... a food processor... Okay, and then we put a picture of the planet in the third panel over Garfield... It still works. These are universal proportions. I don't know... how best to explain why it works, I've studied the pipe strip, and analyzed Jon and Garfield's proportions against several universal mathematical constants. E, Pi, the Golden Ratio, the Feigenbaum Constants, and so on... and it's surprising... scary even, how things align. You can take just... tiny pieces of the pipe strip, for instance, take Jon's elbow from the second panel... and take that, and project it back over Jon's entire shape in the second panel, and you'll see a near perfect Fibonacci sequence emerge... --- "Just because someone is killed doesn't mean they died" - Shojikan <cite>The_Ivory_Man posted [p:905816159] in The Greate... [t:76846731]...</cite> <quote>I have a feeling people didn't watch <quote>Well, from that point on, I made sure I read the Garfield comic strips, though as I read each one, as each day passed... the strips seemed to resonate with me less and less... I sent letters to PAWS Incorporated, long letters, pages upon pages... asking if Mister Jim Davis could somehow publish just the one comic, over and over again... "It would be meditative," I wrote, "the strength of that." Could you imagine? But... no response... The strips lost their power, and eventually I stopped reading, but... I did not want my perceptions diluted, so I vowed to read the pipe strip over and over again... That is what I call it, "The Pipe Strip." The Pipe Strip. Everything about it is perfect. I can only describe it as a miracle creation, something came together... the elements aligned... It is like the comets, the cosmic orchestra that is up there over your head... The immense, enormous void is working all for one thing, to tell you one thing... Gas and rock, and purity, and nothing. I will say this... When I see the pipe strip... and I mean every single time I look at the lines, the colors, the shapes that make up the three panel comic... I see perfection. Do I find perfection in many things? Some things, I would say... Some things are perfect... and this is one of them. I can look at the little tuft of hair on Jon Arbuckle's head... it is the perfect shade... The purple pipe in Garfield's mouth... How could a mere mortal even MAKE this? I have a theory, about Jim Davis... After copious research and, yes, of course, now we have the internet, and this information is all readily available, but... Jim Davis, he used his life experiences to influence his comic... Like I mentioned before, none of them seem to have the weight of the pipe strip... But you have to wonder about the man who is able to even, just once, create the perfect form, a literally flawless execution of art, brilliance! Just as in a ward... I think there is a spiritual element at work... I've seen my share of bad times and... when you have something... Well, it's just... emotions, and neurons in your brain, but... something tells you that it's the truth... Truth's radiant light. Garfield, the cat? Neurons in my brain, it's... it's harmony, you see? It... Jon and Garfield, it's truly harmony, like a... continuous, looping, everlasting harmony... The lavender chair, the brown end table, the salmon-colored wall, the fore's green carpeting, Garfield is hunched, perched... perhaps with the pipe stuck firmly between his jowls... His tail curls around. It's more than shapes too, because... I... Okay, stay with me... I've done this experiment several times. You take the strip. You trace only the basic elements. You can do anything, you can simplify the shapes down to just... blobs, just outlines, but it still makes sense... You can replace the blobs with magazine cutouts of other things, replace Jon Arbuckle with a... car parked in a driveway sideways, cut that out of a magazine, stick it in... Replace him there in the second panel with a... a food processor... Okay, and then we put a picture of the planet in the third panel over Garfield... It still works. These are universal proportions. I don't know... how best to explain why it works, I've studied the pipe strip, and analyzed Jon and Garfield's proportions against several universal mathematical constants. E, Pi, the Golden Ratio, the Feigenbaum Constants, and so on... and it's surprising... scary even, how things align. You can take just... tiny pieces of the pipe strip, for instance, take Jon's elbow from the second panel... and take that, and project it back over Jon's entire shape in the second panel, and you'll see a near perfect Fibonacci sequence emerge...</quote></quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
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