Oliver Thylmann

My brother bought a Playstation 2. And I thought about buying one before that. And now I tried it and it is cool. And now I am closer to buying one than ever before. Prices dropped 25% on Friday (yesterday) too! Damn Damn Damn! And I would be able to watch DVDs… AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA. Live Sucks!

Late at night, 3:22 am. Have been drinking with a friend, watching TV in the old place. Just read that Adrian is making is journal friends only. Thinking about the same thing. I should use the public one for some article type posts which will appear on the front page of my home page. anyway…
I think, not sure, that I just saw part, or even more, of “Behind the Veil” that Scot was talking about recently. It was on ARTE and it was really interesting. It’s about what a woman has filmed in Afghanistan. Partly her own tape and partly from a movement by women against the Taleban inside Afghanistan. Really interesting and really shocking. The thing is that those people believe that they brought back order in the country, which might be right, but the method seems very very harsh. I just don’t think that bringing order equals bringing order. The means to do that are important in the entire picture. And the Taleban are killing or at least putting to jail anyone that is against them and they even said so publicly in front of the camera.
My only problem is that I do not yet understand the Taleban. Before passing a judgement I would like to understand them. And you just don’t go “Let’s kill anyone against us” without a reason. I would really like to dig into their brains to see what is behind all this. They seem to really believe in what they are saying. Then again, I can’t even pretend to understand what was the reasoning behind Nazi germany. Then again, under the idea that what Jews did (just the belief that they did that) was totally bad, I could see the reasoning. And I don’t even have that with the Taleban that. But I would like to get there. Much more digging to do.
The show before that was interesting though on ARTE. They showed how all these things evolved. Pakistan for example supported the Taleban partly because a pipeline that would go through Afghanistan would go through Pakistan. Pakistan wanted that. Otherwise it would go through russia, but that was not something the country where the gas originated wanted. The other option would be the Iran but that would be against US laws to not allow any help whatsoever to the Iran. So Pakistan wanted a government that they are supportive of in Afghanistan and that is partly why they supported the Taleban. All this is so much more complicated than we even remotely understand it isn’t even funny. …
Hmm…

We are getting close to done here. One of the old places is almost empty and clean. My legs and arms and back and essentially the entire body feels that it _needs_ to be over though. I will be so glad when the move will really be done.
And I just read a positive message on the terrorist attacks:
Out of potentially 74,280 Americans directly targeted by these inept cowards, 93% survived or avoided the attacks. That’s a higher survival rate than heart attacks, breast cancer, kidney transplants and liver transplants – all common, survivable illnesses. The Hijacked planes were mostly empty, the Pentagon was hit at it’s strongest point, the overwhelming majority of people in the World Trade Center buildings escaped, and a handful of passengers gave the ultimate sacrifice to save even more lives.

http://boards.fool.com/Message.asp?mid=15819855

93% is amazingly high really.

A move can be fun. I just found some old pieces of paper with song texts on them that I have written while still in a band. I think it was some time at the end of school or soon after. It’s fun reading them now. I think I had some kind of crisis finding out who I am
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Well, the first half of the move is done and happened yesterday with the move of my gf’s stuff. It went very well with a lot of people helping and therefor it was finished a lot faster than we thought.
We have to say though that the new place is just one floor too high. You know, you carry something heavy up there and just when you have one floor to go you feel like this would be the good place to stop and have the appartment. But no, it’s another one floor which really goes on the arms and legs.
Thankfully we had good weather which was good for loading and unloading and I hope it will stop raining now as I now have to move my things from aachen to cologne. Grrr… Actually I think I have less stuff but I will have ot see if I can take my biggest things appart somehow and I just don’T think it will be possible with my “Schrank” (the place where the clothes are ). Well, I will see how it goes.
It’s actually fun moving and the new place rocks so much it isn’t funny. Everybody was getting jealous
More later. I don’t have a phone line yet in the new place so updates will be a bit slow.

I just tried searching for “thylmann” on images.google.com and this is what turned up, among others:

http://www.niddertalbahn.de/k634/216116c.htm

First picture I have seen of this thing. I really belongs/ed to our family but now I have to find out what’s going on with this thing

I just got this from Moby’s Homepage:
These are from last year by the way.

http://www.moby-online.com/cms/viewdiary.asp?Diary_ID=4&ViewType=Next

An interesting read
“Mars is essentially in the same orbit…Mars is somewhat the same distance from the Sun, which is very important. We have seen pictures where there are canals, we believe, and water. If there is water, that means there is oxygen. If oxygen, that means we can breathe.”
…Governor George W. Bush, Jr., 8/11/94
“I believe we are on an irreversible trend toward more freedom and democracy – but that could change.”
…Governor George W. Bush, Jr., 5/22/98
“One word sums up probably the responsibility of any Governor, and that one word is ‘to be prepared’.”
…Governor George W. Bush, Jr., 12/6/93
“Verbosity leads to unclear, inarticulate things.”
…Governor George W. Bush, Jr., 11/30/96
I have made good judgments in the past. I have made good judgments in the future.”
…Governor George W. Bush, Jr.
“A low voter turnout is an indication of fewer people going to the polls.”
…Governor George W. Bush, Jr.
“Illegitimacy is something we should talk about in terms of not having it.”
…Governor George W. Bush, Jr., 5/20/96
“We are ready for any unforeseen event that may or may not occur.”
…Governor George W. Bush, Jr., 9/22/97
For NASA, space is still a high priority.”
…Governor George W. Bush, Jr., 9/5/93
“We have a firm commitment to NATO, we are a part of NATO. We have a firm commitment to Europe. We are a part of Europe.”
…Governor George W. Bush, Jr.
“I have been asked who caused the riots and the killing in LA, my answer has been direct & simple: Who is to blame for the riots? The rioters are to blame. Who is to blame for the killings? The killers are to blame.”
…George W. Bush, Jr.
“The Holocaust was an obscene period in our nation’s history. I mean in this century’s history. But we all lived in this century. I didn’t live in this century.”
…Governor George W. Bush, Jr., 9/15/95
“Quite frankly, teachers are the only profession that teach our children.”
…Governor George W. Bush, Jr., 9/18/95
“The American people would not want to know of any misquotes that George Bush may or may not make.”
…Governor George W. Bush, Jr.
“We’re all capable of mistakes, but I do not care to enlighten you on the mistakes we may or may not have made.”
…Governor George W. Bush, Jr.
“It isn’t pollution that’s harming the environment. It’s the impurities in our air and water that are doing it.”
…Governor George W. Bush, Jr.
[It's] time for the human race to enter the solar system.”
…Governor George W. Bush, Jr.
and people are still planning on voting for him.. it boggles the mind. -moby

and another post, the next one.
THE WIT & WISDOM OF GEORGE W. BUSH. All Quotes 100% Authentic:
“I think we can agree. The past is over”
“I have learned from mistakes I may or may not have made.”
“It was just inebriating what Midland was all about then.” [An alky's Freudian slip for Exhilarating]
“It’s clearly the budget. It has a lot of numbers on it.”
“The most important job is not to be governor, or first lady in my case.”
“Will the highways on the Internet become more few?”
“Like your neighbor just like you like to be liked yourself.”
“Rarely is the question asked: Is our children learning?” “Laura & I really don’t realize how bright our children is.”
“I was raised in the West. The west of Texas. It’s pretty close to California. In more ways than Washington, D.C., is close to California.”
“I know how hard it is for you to put food on your family.”
“I propose that every city have a telephone number 119 — for dyslexics who have an emergency.”
“There ought to be limits to freedom.” [said in support of his handlers' legal efforts to shut down parody websites]
please forward these to ANYONE who can vote. this is serious. the man is just. not. smart.
sigh.
moby
And god! It doesn’t stop.
This is from here: http://www.moby-online.com/cms/viewdiary.asp?Diary_ID=6&ViewType=Next
Only the fun part:
You don’t elect a president based on who would be more fun to hang out with at a barbecue.

Terror feeds on Anger. Anger feeds on Poverty. At least partly. And I think poverty is a huge part on the climat in Afghanistan. So what if we were to send in billions of dollars of medicine, food, any non-military help? With a UN/US sticker and flag on all the packages and products to show people that we care for their suffering and that the US and the world is not trying to kill them all.
The thing is that lack of information is another of the big problems. These people just have no idea what the western world is really like. If our actions lead to more suffering and poverty then the anger and terror will only grow.
The challenge would be to do this but try to still hold those who did this responsible.