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"Playing at being mentally ill" is not an approach that goes over very well here, FYI.

I'm actually sorry. I didn't think about that.
I swear though, I do have actual doubts about myself, for reason I'm not yet comfortable explaining.
Also, I'm sure I have the genes.

My Only uncle (RIP) was in an institution since before I was born.
My only brother got a little better recently after a ton of church, but seems to not be capable of sympathy.
My mom is a religious fanatic, and is normal for the most part.
And my dad (Rip) had very serious anger issues, and a lot of people I met that knew him, referred to him as crazy Steve.(He was x-special forced, Explosive ordinance disposal in Vietnam)

I am 23, so I could still change forever for all I know.
It really has been a great fear of mine ever since I read about the relation between Schizophrenia and genetics as a kid.

Oops.

In denial of your own insanity, you say?

You see:
Suppose I am not crazy, but instead am under the delusion of being crazy.
Wouldn't a delusion of insanity be insanity itself?

Suppose I am crazy and am completely correct. What symptoms do I have?
If none, then I am wrong and therefore crazy.
If I do have symptoms, then the insanity would make me unaware of them.
The symptoms/delusions would feel as real as a sane person's reality feels to them.

In this way I get to feel assured that I am self aware of my state of mind.

Suppose you fuck off and die, asshole.

You don't take jokes very well do you?
Truly, we're all in the process of fucking off and dieing.
We have simply crossed paths on the way to hell.

Jesus fucking wept, they weren't lying when they said a crack epidemic is making a generation fucking demented.

IRL random street approaches.

Not another fucking PUA. Please.

I don't think this guy is.

I think he is just not getting the point.

Please, explain.

In denial of your own insanity, you say?

You see:
Suppose I am not crazy, but instead am under the delusion of being crazy.
Wouldn't a delusion of insanity be insanity itself?

Suppose I am crazy and am completely correct. What symptoms do I have?
If none, then I am wrong and therefore crazy.
If I do have symptoms, then the insanity would make me unaware of them.
The symptoms/delusions would feel as real as a sane person's reality feels to them.

In this way I get to feel assured that I am self aware of my state of mind.

The real irony is that the reason he found this board in the first place was because I sent him links to a few of the many creative projects that have stemmed from it, and from the big ole meanies here, over the last few years. 

Pssshhhh. Creative projects, we need NUMBERS dammit!
Post counts! New blood!

"New Blood"

New Blood, Reporting in!
Honestly, I am here because of that book. I've never enjoyed reading utter nonsense so thoroughly.
The ability to or not to enjoy that book is a great profiling system. That is what raised my expectations of this place to unbelievable heights.

Those who do not enjoy it, obviously don't belong here.
Those who do enjoy it, get to try this place out.

If you want fresh blood, find a way to adapt Lord Omar's, "A Primer for Erisian Evangelists" for modern use through chat services and IRL random street approaches.
I swear that approach, applied with a pinch of charisma, would actually work!


On the bright side though, I'm pretty worried that liking that book means I can no longer be in denial of my own insanity....

Bright, because denial isn't reality, and reality is good weather it be a good or bad reality.

The trick is to make everyone miserable so that they keep posting.

Sun Tzu says that if you loose a battle, you will want to fight another one to try and win.
( Definitely with much better wording and a sentence before that one about what happens if you win a battle. )

I feel like that applies here, because these are not mere arguments, they are motherfucking battles of the mind.

So this is ridiculous:
http://www.twitch.tv/twitchplayspokemon

They've been in the same area for 36 hours now, by my count. It was working just by first type first serve but they just added this anarchy/democracy thing which is interesting but I don't know how it works. I guess it was in desperation to try to get these fucks out of the basement and stop them from releasing their best pokemon again, lol. I also notice that start spam has lessened.

We just need a prince of Pokemon to come dictate their actions......

Lol, is this really some demonstration/test comparing democracy to anarchy?
No one is trying to argue against that, but yeah right... as if real life equates to a game of pokemon.

Still, its interesting that soo many people are willing to try.

You guys are killing this forum and through it, Dischordianism itself.

The forum stats show that not only are you failing to attract new users, you're actively driving away old ones. I say "you" because there's clearly a core group of users who have been here from near the start, and I say you're the ones doing it because that makes you the only common denominator. It's not a question of people naturally losing interest in the cause/philosophy/religion/whatever, something like this can potentially survive indefinitely; it has no natural life-cycle. Under RAW and his mates, it grew explosively.
But it's obviously dying now. There's plenty of debate in the archives where you've argued and defended your reasons for doing what you do impeccably, I'm sure you could effectively out-reason or belittle me as you have done so many other nutcases, but it really doesn't matter how well you can justify it to others or even yourselves if it's not working.

Have you not noticed or do you just not give a shit? Answers on a postcard, please.



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Could it be that the core users are just unhappy with life?

Finding contentment while on the path to the end of a goal.
Once at the end of said path, they feel the same as before because they never solved anything.
They simply distracted themselves.

Leading them to destroy everything they worked for?

Fly to Houston, Texas, and lay butt naked on Montrose Downtown.

Houston, Texas-fag reporting in!

No grays here, just an extra dose of gray-face curse.

Awesome, when I was a child you could buy little dime-sized pellets of that stuff with your news-years sparklers and such...  We would light them at the dinner table ...  Might still be found in china?

You can still find those sold on Indian reservations.

This is interesting, and worrying:

Scientists say two of the deadliest pandemics in history were caused by strains of the same plague and warn that new versions of the bacteria could spark future outbreaks.

Researchers found tiny bits of DNA in the teeth of two German victims killed by the Justinian plague about 1,500 years ago. With those fragments, they reconstructed the genome of the oldest bacteria known.

They concluded the Justinian plague was caused by a strain of Yersinia pestis, the same pathogen responsible for the Black Death that struck medieval Europe. The study was published online Tuesday in the journal, Lancet Infectious Diseases.

The two plagues packed quite a punch. The Justinian Plague is thought to have wiped out half the globe as it spread across Asia, North Africa, the Middle East and Europe. And the Black Death killed about 50 million Europeans in just four years during the 14th century.

I'll admit, I probably have a slightly irrational fear of the bubonic plague.  Well, maybe not irrational on a historical scale, given the vast amounts of death it is responsible for...but maybe.  Unfortunately, the only modern bubonic plague epidemic was the 1855 outbreak in China and India, so while I'm sure the CDC etc has models for it, the nearest approximate historical analogy is not comforting.

While it seems the normal version of the plague is more easily contained, it's that something like a "radiation event" can cause a mutation which concerns me.  Something completely uncontrollable, that creates a variant which is far more virulent and deadly.  And of course, let's not forget the biological warfare applications of an enchanced virus.  Japan experimented (and used) bubonic plague in WWII.  Even if it was never intended to be deployed, the kind of countries that would mess around with plague are the kind of country with typically poor control on weapons use (let's not forget, up until the 1960s, US military commanders could have gone rogue and initiated nuclear war on their own).

Dear Cain,

On these premises
that an outbreak is inevitable,
people will not stop pooping out too many babies,
and that a cure does not exist.

I would say that the sooner the better!
Our population density is only going up, which makes more harder to avoid the germs.....

Also if it doesn't happen soon enough, we will probably be killed off in some other much worse manner.
At least when a germ kills us we can't be mad at anyone and do more harm with revenge.

Anyone in favor of this notion?

Sincerely,
~O.R.

In case you missed it. Nvidia's nextgen GPU. 192 core, is a 5w mobile chip.

Sexy little beast too

That thing could be a suppository!
Finally!! We can game out of our asses!
That will be ass tons of fun!

I was just wondering if any of you relatively intelligent yet curious-minded people had any theories on why meditation is possible, how it works or how we came to have such a capacity?
Why does it have the benefits it does?
From an evolutionary or biological perspective.
I haven't the foggiest meself.

We have free will. It is that simple.
We are not controlling our minds so much as we are being our minds.

Every time you move your hand, you are really making your mind send signals to your mussels.
Meditating is really no different than anything else we do that exercises free will and choice.

The simply difference is that we are not used using our minds for meditating.

Think about it like when you learned to play Guitar Hero. Even though it is a very simple concept, the first time you play you're going to make a lot of mistakes and struggle. Its so easy, but we cannot do it at first because we have not learned it yet.

In that regard, meditations effects do improve with practice.

Well, either that, or you slowly enforce the delusion that is is having an effect:
that would then give in a placebo effect. Which is an effect you would be controlling with your will power.
( A technical difference, but still practically the same shit)

What are you trying to achieve wit meditation?

Wow what a waist of time....
Making land mobility for your fish is like handing out your silent film collection out to the blind.....