Principia Discordia > Think for Yourself, Schmuck!
ITT: Confess your WOO!
Q. G. Pennyworth:
I genuinely believe that persistent thoughts have some kind of "realness."
I don't think every fictional character is "real," but I think "real" is a thing they can become.
A "real" character is owed a certain level of respect and autonomy.
No, I don't have a better word for what I'm trying to get at there, suffer my scare quotes.
Besides that:
I will absolutely imagine shoving [insert emotional state or abstract concept] into a rock and imagine taking it out again as needed, because fuckit who gives a shit how stupid it is if it works.
I once thought I heard the electricity in the wires of the machine that's running the universe.
The only time my prayers are answered are when they're directed at people I made up.
The Good Reverend Roger:
--- Quote from: Chelagoras The Boulder on June 26, 2017, 05:29:12 pm ---I believe transhumanism is the next logical step in human evolution and, if implemented properly, has the potential to make us MORE human not less, by bypassing certain defects leftover from being cavemen, such as the monkeysphere problem. I think that in the future they'll come up with a kind of synthetic neural pathway that allows the frontal lobe to respond to stimuli at the same time as the older lizard brain parts, thus allowing our brains to respond with logic about as quickly as it does emotion.
--- End quote ---
I believe that this will make one hell of a horror movie, really. It's got the "we're not there yet so let's guess" approach of Altered States, with turbo-powered lizard brain zombie things.
I mean, seriously, my frontal lobes are way more awful than my lizard brain.
The Good Reverend Roger:
--- Quote from: Q. G. Pennyworth on June 26, 2017, 10:00:49 pm ---I genuinely believe that persistent thoughts have some kind of "realness."
I don't think every fictional character is "real," but I think "real" is a thing they can become.
A "real" character is owed a certain level of respect and autonomy.
No, I don't have a better word for what I'm trying to get at there, suffer my scare quotes.
--- End quote ---
Yossarian is as real as he needs to be in the 21st century, so I can't argue with this.
The Good Reverend Roger:
I believe in the (short) future.
I believe in Saturday Night™, despite the lack of evidence.
I believe that the party is still out there somewhere.
And also,
I believe in Pango.
Chelagoras The Boulder:
--- Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on June 27, 2017, 12:39:46 am ---
--- Quote from: Chelagoras The Boulder on June 26, 2017, 05:29:12 pm ---I believe transhumanism is the next logical step in human evolution and, if implemented properly, has the potential to make us MORE human not less, by bypassing certain defects leftover from being cavemen, such as the monkeysphere problem. I think that in the future they'll come up with a kind of synthetic neural pathway that allows the frontal lobe to respond to stimuli at the same time as the older lizard brain parts, thus allowing our brains to respond with logic about as quickly as it does emotion.
--- End quote ---
I believe that this will make one hell of a horror movie, really. It's got the "we're not there yet so let's guess" approach of Altered States, with turbo-powered lizard brain zombie things.
I mean, seriously, my frontal lobes are way more awful than my lizard brain.
--- End quote ---
Dude, I would totally watch this. Like, they try it on a guy who's a sociopath, he goes from antisocial mumbly dude with no empathy to a Dexter level serial killer.
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