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I like how you took my one-off about vacation time at work and ran with it.

Good show, old chap.

That sounds more like wolves in shepards clothing.

Best time for fre-flowing creativity, imo.

[my path up the mountain has been blocked off by a tollbooth]

that fear-desire loop

its fucked up


once people get trapped in it, then you can move them like chess

just flash that thing they are afraid of (death)
or the thing that they want (attention)


even people that front with the 'holistic' route - they want to be known for what they do -- crave that attention


if i hadnt resolved that the only way out of the system is to go thru it, then these retarded posts would not be showing up on any monitors anywhere

my path up the mountain has been blocked off by a tollbooth

and there is still work to be done

There's a reason my church is called "The First Church of Last Exit Before Toll".

::severs left pinky finger::

I think it is probably possible to "rest in peace" in life.  Probably extremely rare, but I can see it being possible. 

I think it happens in brief moments.

Too brief, and then people spend the rest of their life chasing it.

Can lead to excessive drug use.

Another example of Ignorance = Bliss.


Dear lord, I'm typing like LHX.

SHEEP JENGA!

Honestly?

"him-EE-ahbs".



At least, that's the way I hear it in my head.


LMNO
-too paranoid to actually say it out loud.

Of course, this does lead us to the proposition that not only is ignorance bliss, it is also preferrable.

LOL Pineal 23, etc.

Once you can see what your conditioning is telling you, you can make the choice to go along with it, or not.

It's when you don't see it that you're fucked.

So you're saying implicitly that we're all fucked part of the time?

doesn't sound like a half-bad observation to me, actually.

Damn straight.  In case you forgot there is no escape from the Black Iron Prison

How do we know we haven't deluded ourselves into thinking we've considered our conditioned impulses? 

How do we distinguish from a conditioned and non-conditioned impulse?

?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!

Well, at least you caught the reference.

"What the Thinker thinks, the Prover proves."

The basic argument for me remains as follows:


How is your favorite band going to make money if they can't sell their music?  I don't really give a rat's ass about the record company's "take", or the fact that each album only gives a few pennies to the artist.  Record companies decide if an artist will make more albums dependent on how much money they have made or lost on their last album.  An artist is in debt to the company until they "recoup" the money they spent on the album through sales of the album, not merchendise*.  If the comany feels that the band is a financial risk, they will not put up the money for a second album.

So, every song you steal from your favorite artist hampers them from making more of the music you love.  Especially considering that the artists you probably like are obscure and have tenuous deals in the first place.















*In a standard contract.

Well, he helped design the Washington DC Metro system...