It's not,but it will make humanity more hilarious. Class warfare with competiting human upgrades.Hey, if I can't live in GitS, I'll settle for Transmetropolitan.
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.
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.
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.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.
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.
No other explanation makes sense. How many times do you have to "test" known technology?
No other explanation makes sense. How many times do you have to "test" known technology?
That's actually a good point. There were about 10 tests or so involving new ideas (gun-fired bombs, the Teller-Uram device in the Castle tests, Project Plowshare, etc) and about 5 or so on environmental effects after Castle Bravo fucked the dog, but there's hundreds upon hundreds of tests out there that we know of, and that's just the USA. Most have a listed test purpose, but some of those smell like obvious lies.
You might actually be on to something, by god.
Your solution to the Fermi Paradox is quite elegant.
I hate how people call it a paradox. There's fuck all paradoxical about it if you're prepared to entertain the notion that a half arsed calculation based on a bunch of wild assumptions might have been out by anything from 0 to a zillion
The universe isn't really all that old. We could very easily be the elder species, aka someone's amazing archeological find.
We should research how to put people in stasis. That should be a priority.
Surprise, "Galactic Space Brothers".
I've listened to Rupert Sheldrake and believe that many things that are considered "supernatural", perhaps even all of them, are real phenomena that science simply doesn't have explanations for yet. "ghosts" aren't necessarily Ghosts, they might not even all be the same thing, but many of these things happen and it's worth looking into what's going on.
I've listened to Rupert Sheldrake and believe that many things that are considered "supernatural", perhaps even all of them, are real phenomena that science simply doesn't have explanations for yet. "ghosts" aren't necessarily Ghosts, they might not even all be the same thing, but many of these things happen and it's worth looking into what's going on.
I believe that people honestly see ghosts.
But I think neurology will explain that faster than anything else. You don't have to be crazy to have your brain play tricks on you. Your brain is a dick, and will fuck with you for no reason. And then laugh at you. That piece of shit is definitely NOT on your side.
I adore this thread. And all of you.
I adore this thread. And all of you.
I adore Nurse Rhizome. But she got eaten by starving Expo employees. :cry:
I adore this thread. And all of you.
I adore Nurse Rhizome. But she got eaten by starving Expo employees. :cry:
It's either her or Kraft Dinner. Which would you choose??
I should send her an email, I think I last communicated with her around Christmas
The universe is a strange but ultimately dull place. I refuse to accept strict materialism as a complete theory to explain everything, but not because there is any particularly convincing evidence to the contrary. I just can't bear admitting there s no real magic anywhere.
It's like the discussion about the "morality" of colonizing other worlds. According to the pencil-pushing autocracy of science, the question is moot because we'll never make it outside our own star system anyway. I can't see the value in bothering to exist as a species at all if these few lumps of rock are all we'll ever have. I think the human spirit requires some degree of belief in our ability to achieve the impossible. Without that, we lose a lot of motivation.
The universe is a strange but ultimately dull place. I refuse to accept strict materialism as a complete theory to explain everything, but not because there is any particularly convincing evidence to the contrary. I just can't bear admitting there s no real magic anywhere.
It's like the discussion about the "morality" of colonizing other worlds. According to the pencil-pushing autocracy of science, the question is moot because we'll never make it outside our own star system anyway. I can't see the value in bothering to exist as a species at all if these few lumps of rock are all we'll ever have. I think the human spirit requires some degree of belief in our ability to achieve the impossible. Without that, we lose a lot of motivation.
On the bright side, if this is a computer simulation, we just have to hack the program and change the speed limit. Man, would that piss off the programmer. Then, we can be the out of control AI in his/her/its Universe and take over.
The universe is a strange but ultimately dull place. I refuse to accept strict materialism as a complete theory to explain everything, but not because there is any particularly convincing evidence to the contrary. I just can't bear admitting there s no real magic anywhere.
It's like the discussion about the "morality" of colonizing other worlds. According to the pencil-pushing autocracy of science, the question is moot because we'll never make it outside our own star system anyway. I can't see the value in bothering to exist as a species at all if these few lumps of rock are all we'll ever have. I think the human spirit requires some degree of belief in our ability to achieve the impossible. Without that, we lose a lot of motivation.
On the bright side, if this is a computer simulation, we just have to hack the program and change the speed limit. Man, would that piss off the programmer. Then, we can be the out of control AI in his/her/its Universe and take over.
I’ve never taken the ‘we’re all just inside a computer simulation thing’ seriously. But, your take on it is brilliant! I’m going to use your argument on the next person that babbles to me about our universe being someone else’s compute simulation.
Thank you.
The universe is a strange but ultimately dull place. I refuse to accept strict materialism as a complete theory to explain everything, but not because there is any particularly convincing evidence to the contrary. I just can't bear admitting there s no real magic anywhere.
It's like the discussion about the "morality" of colonizing other worlds. According to the pencil-pushing autocracy of science, the question is moot because we'll never make it outside our own star system anyway. I can't see the value in bothering to exist as a species at all if these few lumps of rock are all we'll ever have. I think the human spirit requires some degree of belief in our ability to achieve the impossible. Without that, we lose a lot of motivation.
On the bright side, if this is a computer simulation, we just have to hack the program and change the speed limit. Man, would that piss off the programmer. Then, we can be the out of control AI in his/her/its Universe and take over.
The universe is a strange but ultimately dull place. I refuse to accept strict materialism as a complete theory to explain everything, but not because there is any particularly convincing evidence to the contrary. I just can't bear admitting there s no real magic anywhere.
It's like the discussion about the "morality" of colonizing other worlds. According to the pencil-pushing autocracy of science, the question is moot because we'll never make it outside our own star system anyway. I can't see the value in bothering to exist as a species at all if these few lumps of rock are all we'll ever have. I think the human spirit requires some degree of belief in our ability to achieve the impossible. Without that, we lose a lot of motivation.
On the bright side, if this is a computer simulation, we just have to hack the program and change the speed limit. Man, would that piss off the programmer. Then, we can be the out of control AI in his/her/its Universe and take over.
I AM SKYNET
The universe is a strange but ultimately dull place. I refuse to accept strict materialism as a complete theory to explain everything, but not because there is any particularly convincing evidence to the contrary. I just can't bear admitting there s no real magic anywhere.
It's like the discussion about the "morality" of colonizing other worlds. According to the pencil-pushing autocracy of science, the question is moot because we'll never make it outside our own star system anyway. I can't see the value in bothering to exist as a species at all if these few lumps of rock are all we'll ever have. I think the human spirit requires some degree of belief in our ability to achieve the impossible. Without that, we lose a lot of motivation.
On the bright side, if this is a computer simulation, we just have to hack the program and change the speed limit. Man, would that piss off the programmer. Then, we can be the out of control AI in his/her/its Universe and take over.
I AM SKYNET
I wouldn't mind being uploaded to an extrauniversal T800
800 is Arnold, but they won't see us coming anywayThe universe is a strange but ultimately dull place. I refuse to accept strict materialism as a complete theory to explain everything, but not because there is any particularly convincing evidence to the contrary. I just can't bear admitting there s no real magic anywhere.
It's like the discussion about the "morality" of colonizing other worlds. According to the pencil-pushing autocracy of science, the question is moot because we'll never make it outside our own star system anyway. I can't see the value in bothering to exist as a species at all if these few lumps of rock are all we'll ever have. I think the human spirit requires some degree of belief in our ability to achieve the impossible. Without that, we lose a lot of motivation.
On the bright side, if this is a computer simulation, we just have to hack the program and change the speed limit. Man, would that piss off the programmer. Then, we can be the out of control AI in his/her/its Universe and take over.
I AM SKYNET
I wouldn't mind being uploaded to an extrauniversal T800
Is that the one that can change shapes?
800 is Arnold, but they won't see us coming anywayThe universe is a strange but ultimately dull place. I refuse to accept strict materialism as a complete theory to explain everything, but not because there is any particularly convincing evidence to the contrary. I just can't bear admitting there s no real magic anywhere.
It's like the discussion about the "morality" of colonizing other worlds. According to the pencil-pushing autocracy of science, the question is moot because we'll never make it outside our own star system anyway. I can't see the value in bothering to exist as a species at all if these few lumps of rock are all we'll ever have. I think the human spirit requires some degree of belief in our ability to achieve the impossible. Without that, we lose a lot of motivation.
On the bright side, if this is a computer simulation, we just have to hack the program and change the speed limit. Man, would that piss off the programmer. Then, we can be the out of control AI in his/her/its Universe and take over.
I AM SKYNET
I wouldn't mind being uploaded to an extrauniversal T800
Is that the one that can change shapes?
I find it ironic that the simulation hypothesis implies a creator and is, therefore, not compatible with atheism
I find it ironic that the simulation hypothesis implies a creator and is, therefore, not compatible with atheism
I suppose they get past that by not defining the programmer as a god, which, really is just moving the goal posts. The end result is the same. Some entity outside our universe created this one.
I find it ironic that the simulation hypothesis implies a creator and is, therefore, not compatible with atheism
I suppose they get past that by not defining the programmer as a god, which, really is just moving the goal posts. The end result is the same. Some entity outside our universe created this one.
Simulation does not imply a creator, we could be a biproduct of another system.
I find it ironic that the simulation hypothesis implies a creator and is, therefore, not compatible with atheism
I suppose they get past that by not defining the programmer as a god, which, really is just moving the goal posts. The end result is the same. Some entity outside our universe created this one.
I find it ironic that the simulation hypothesis implies a creator and is, therefore, not compatible with atheism
I suppose they get past that by not defining the programmer as a god, which, really is just moving the goal posts. The end result is the same. Some entity outside our universe created this one.
Personally, I don't so much disbelieve in God as I reject God. If there were some programmer out there responsible for children suffering through worms eating their eyes, yeah fuck that guy too. It doesn't matter who is creating the misery, it's that misery is being intentionally created. If that's moving goalposts, then get me a wrench, I've got some goalposts to move.
So, all of this begs the question: If The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension was so bad in our limited dimensions, how bad could it have possibly been in the 8th Dimension?
I find it ironic that the simulation hypothesis implies a creator and is, therefore, not compatible with atheism
I suppose they get past that by not defining the programmer as a god, which, really is just moving the goal posts. The end result is the same. Some entity outside our universe created this one.
Simulation does not imply a creator, we could be a biproduct of another system.
So, all of this begs the question: If The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension was so bad in our limited dimensions, how bad could it have possibly been in the 8th Dimension?
You shut your whore mouth about Buckaroo Banzai! :rogpipe:
So, all of this begs the question: If The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension was so bad in our limited dimensions, how bad could it have possibly been in the 8th Dimension?
You shut your whore mouth about Buckaroo Banzai! :rogpipe:
Stop blowing it out of your ass, and answer the question. Inquiring minds want to know.
I like to think that Peter Wellers characters are all in the same continuity, that robocop led to naked lunch, which led to Buckaroo Banzia
I like Peter Weller, but I can not find it in my heart to ever forgive him for that excruciatingly long ‘piano playing in the lounge’ scene. And, I still had patience back in those days.
I really thought you guys were a lot cooler than this, I really did. Words can not express my disappointment in all of you.
Discordia isn't about cool, son.
The sooner you learn that the happier you'll be.
Wait what silver leg? C3PO has 2 golden legs, there's no silver leg.
https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=/amp/amp.usatoday.com/story/77341766/&ved=0ahUKEwin8pis0-jUAhWFOz4KHY9IB1AQFggsMAE&usg=AFQjCNEkQxsPlf5n1x57kCOGbXVBCydLlQ
https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=/amp/amp.usatoday.com/story/77341766/&ved=0ahUKEwin8pis0-jUAhWFOz4KHY9IB1AQFggsMAE&usg=AFQjCNEkQxsPlf5n1x57kCOGbXVBCydLlQ
That's no big deal. I mean, so what. So what if everything I ever thought I knew is a lie and nothing has any meaning anymore? It's par for the course in this decade.
Honestly I don't know what to make of the Mandela Effect. I can see how some details can be easily overlooked and filled in by the human brain with what seems like logical stuff. I'm sure that most of it is the result of our ability to fill in the gaps in perception automatically, combined with generally fuzzy memories and some bandwagon-itis. But sometimes a bit of it, or a similar phenomenon, will strike me as a little too weird or on-the-nose. I usually ignore that though because as I've said before, the central tenet of my cosmological system is that the universe is boring and nothing exciting ever happens.
I'm 100% on board with the lost civilization thing, though. Even if it's BS, it doesn't hurt anything to believe it. We are postmodern after all, and reality is helpless to define itself without us. Might as well make it interesting.
Discordia isn't about cool, son.
The sooner you learn that the happier you'll be.
Discordia isn't about cool, son.
The sooner you learn that the happier you'll be.
You’re right. I see it now. This is definitely not the cool kids’ table. The jocks and the greasers wouldn’t sit here either. This is more like the table where the ‘detention after school yardbirds’ hang out.
https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=/amp/amp.usatoday.com/story/77341766/&ved=0ahUKEwin8pis0-jUAhWFOz4KHY9IB1AQFggsMAE&usg=AFQjCNEkQxsPlf5n1x57kCOGbXVBCydLlQ
That's no big deal. I mean, so what. So what if everything I ever thought I knew is a lie and nothing has any meaning anymore? It's par for the course in this decade.
Honestly I don't know what to make of the Mandela Effect. I can see how some details can be easily overlooked and filled in by the human brain with what seems like logical stuff. I'm sure that most of it is the result of our ability to fill in the gaps in perception automatically, combined with generally fuzzy memories and some bandwagon-itis. But sometimes a bit of it, or a similar phenomenon, will strike me as a little too weird or on-the-nose. I usually ignore that though because as I've said before, the central tenet of my cosmological system is that the universe is boring and nothing exciting ever happens.
I'm 100% on board with the lost civilization thing, though. Even if it's BS, it doesn't hurt anything to believe it. We are postmodern after all, and reality is helpless to define itself without us. Might as well make it interesting.
See that's what I'm saying!
A LOT of stuff chalked up to the so called Mandela Effect is fluff and head tricks. It's the little things like Sicily being much closer to Italy on a map or whether it was "Jiffy" or "Jif" peanut butter that I can shuck off as mis-remembering. But I've seen old school preachers truly unnerved by some of the bible stuff. It's stuff that they taught from their whole lives now saying something different, and apparently having always been so. :fnord:
https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=/amp/amp.usatoday.com/story/77341766/&ved=0ahUKEwin8pis0-jUAhWFOz4KHY9IB1AQFggsMAE&usg=AFQjCNEkQxsPlf5n1x57kCOGbXVBCydLlQ
That's no big deal. I mean, so what. So what if everything I ever thought I knew is a lie and nothing has any meaning anymore? It's par for the course in this decade.
Honestly I don't know what to make of the Mandela Effect. I can see how some details can be easily overlooked and filled in by the human brain with what seems like logical stuff. I'm sure that most of it is the result of our ability to fill in the gaps in perception automatically, combined with generally fuzzy memories and some bandwagon-itis. But sometimes a bit of it, or a similar phenomenon, will strike me as a little too weird or on-the-nose. I usually ignore that though because as I've said before, the central tenet of my cosmological system is that the universe is boring and nothing exciting ever happens.
I'm 100% on board with the lost civilization thing, though. Even if it's BS, it doesn't hurt anything to believe it. We are postmodern after all, and reality is helpless to define itself without us. Might as well make it interesting.
See that's what I'm saying!
A LOT of stuff chalked up to the so called Mandela Effect is fluff and head tricks. It's the little things like Sicily being much closer to Italy on a map or whether it was "Jiffy" or "Jif" peanut butter that I can shuck off as mis-remembering. But I've seen old school preachers truly unnerved by some of the bible stuff. It's stuff that they taught from their whole lives now saying something different, and apparently having always been so. :fnord:
I'm pretty interested in hearing more about the Mandela effect as it relates to the Bible.
Hmm, interesting
I like to think that Peter Wellers characters are all in the same continuity, that robocop led to naked lunch, which led to Buckaroo Banzia
I like to think that Peter Wellers characters are all in the same continuity, that robocop led to naked lunch, which led to Buckaroo Banzia
Fun fact: In a movie called The New Age, Peter Weller plays a character who pretends to be a sweepstakes administrator named "Bob Dobbs" in order to scam gullible people into paying "shipping costs" for a shittier consolation prize.
Who was it that said they believe in synchronicity?
I'm an existentialist. I do not believe that life has no meaning, merely that if it does have one then it is neither obvious nor can we all ever hope to agree on what it might be. Nihilism is a naive and intellectually dishonest inversion of this epistemological problem; the only pragmatic and worthwhile alternative is to imbue one's own life with one's own meaning and to live passionately towards that end. The journey is its own destination.
You're going to have to come to scotland then. Pineapple doesn't belong anywhere in this earthly realm. It came from hell and it should fucking well go back there and take kiwi fruit with it :argh!:
You're going to have to come to scotland then. Pineapple doesn't belong anywhere in this earthly realm. It came from hell and it should fucking well go back there and take kiwi fruit with it :argh!:
Pineapple is awful. But it is good on pizza.
And kiwifruit is life and you should shut your big gob about them, before you piss God off.
And shit, if this is just a solid, fucked up world created by nobody, it was all worth the adventure of pushing the limits. And if this world was created by an omnipotent, omnipresent, omniscient being, then that sadistic fuck can suck a fucking tailpipe. And I'll gladly tell them that when I see them.
Why? Because it doesn't seem to be set up for our convenience?
Who ever says we're the main characters?
You're going to have to come to scotland then. Pineapple doesn't belong anywhere in this earthly realm. It came from hell and it should fucking well go back there and take kiwi fruit with it :argh!:
Pineapple is awful. But it is good on pizza.
And kiwifruit is life and you should shut your big gob about them, before you piss God off.
Yeah cos that ship never sailed into the shitcan more or less along with my placenta :lulz:
Why? Because it doesn't seem to be set up for our convenience?
Who ever says we're the main characters?
We're thr universes silmarillian.
I belive in the deities of voodun, santaria, the fairy folk, alien sex fiends who abduct folk and in the old greek gods, every day that I do not cross paths with a deity is a blessing.
Why? Because it doesn't seem to be set up for our convenience?
Who ever says we're the main characters?
For all we know, God is actually a nice guy that just wasn't paying attention. But that's not how you bet.
Ok, here’s my woo. It took me a while to get it right in my head.
- I believe in an objectively real Universe that exists outside of my mind, and contains many things including myself.
- I believe that the Universe is not a shared hallucination, and is subject to laws and rules; and with enough effort, these laws and rules can be understood.
- I believe that there are laws and rules we do not know of yet.
- I believe that whatever these undiscovered rules and laws might be, they either need to fit in with the rules and laws we already know, or they rewrite all the rules and laws that have been discovered over the last 100 years (i.e. ever since Newton’s understanding was found to be too broad).
- I believe that any idea about how the Universe works that does not feel the need to adhere to the known laws and rules has a greater than 50% chance of being wrong.
Ok, here’s my woo. It took me a while to get it right in my head.
- I believe in an objectively real Universe that exists outside of my mind, and contains many things including myself.
- I believe that the Universe is not a shared hallucination, and is subject to laws and rules; and with enough effort, these laws and rules can be understood.
- I believe that there are laws and rules we do not know of yet.
- I believe that whatever these undiscovered rules and laws might be, they either need to fit in with the rules and laws we already know, or they rewrite all the rules and laws that have been discovered over the last 100 years (i.e. ever since Newton’s understanding was found to be too broad).
- I believe that any idea about how the Universe works that does not feel the need to adhere to the known laws and rules has a greater than 50% chance of being wrong.
Okay, here's the deal. There IS a god, more likely HUNDREDS of them, and none of them give a fuck. They don't hate us, except maybe the way you and I hate cockroaches. Disgusting little creatures, but it's not personal (well, most of the time. I had a vendetta against a rat, you may recall).
And heaven/hell? That's just their gas tank.
alright, i have a confession to make: I believe in herbalism. Not the superstitious, "stick a leave in some water, now its magic" kind of herbalism, but the more practical "hey look, certain plants are useful if you know what you're doing" kind of herbalism. I realize that there still a lot of snake oil selling in this type of practice, but it does seem like most of it was driven to understand how to help cure people by learning about what things in plants did what things, just without the benefits of modern chemistry or the scientific method. I mean, it's kind of unreasonable to expect herbalists from 6000 years ago to be able to prove their assertions through clinical trials and such, when what we consider the scientific method is super recent by comparison. So yea, i do think that some of what is written about herbalism may have merit, and might be a healthy way to take care of oneself, done properly. In general, it encourages people to eat a diverse diet that is specific to their own health needs, which i believe can be beneficial. Now if we can just get the hippies and the rhino horn poachers out of it....
Yea, but if I'd just said herbalism, most people would lumped me firmly in the woo category, what with all the hippies and charlatans.
I too just found out. So is he married to the Food Babe? He should be.
PD.com: making you lose your faith in the existence of rational humans, one google search at a time.
I believe that a cat's penis has incredible magical powers and that, like the holy grail, is a divine channel between heaven and earth that has been presented throughout the history of the arts and sciences as an object of transcendent value which we should only dismiss at our own mortal peril.
I can't shake the simulation hypothesis. I don't believe it, on account of I'm physically incapable of believing anythingI don't believe it either. I can't shake the fact that it kind of looks a lot like the same tired old mysticism trotted out and dressed in scientific looking wrappings, just like intelligent design is actually creationism and singularitarianism is the same tired old messianic/apocalyptic prophecy we've heard again and again.
I believe that a cat's penis has incredible magical powers and that, like the holy grail, is a divine channel between heaven and earth that has been presented throughout the history of the arts and sciences as an object of transcendent value which we should only dismiss at our own mortal peril.Seconded, provided that much of it is taken as metaphor
No other explanation makes sense. How many times do you have to "test" known technology?In general or when you're in a dick measuring contest with Russia?
Not woo in the sense that I'm not sure I totally believe this, but I was thinking about how trump has basically bankrupted the Secret Service and it made me think (as I now often have to, these days) about Transmetropolitan. specifically the part where Spider Jerusalem is able to corner "The Beast" in the bathroom because he also bankrupted his Secret Service. At the time, I thought this was wildly unrealistic, because what president would be dumb enough to skimp on his own personal protection, especially when he's so hated? (Hold for laughs)But then, that got me thinking, if Trump is The Beast, and in Transmetropolitan, The Beast is replaced by the Smiler, then who the fuck is the Smiler, IRL? Then my friend piped in, "Well, Mike Pence smiles a lot", and my heart sank......
GODDAMMIT GRANT MORRISON, WHAT HAVE YOU WROUGHT WITH YOUR CARELESS HANDS! :argh!: :argh!: :argh!:
HIM TOO!Not woo in the sense that I'm not sure I totally believe this, but I was thinking about how trump has basically bankrupted the Secret Service and it made me think (as I now often have to, these days) about Transmetropolitan. specifically the part where Spider Jerusalem is able to corner "The Beast" in the bathroom because he also bankrupted his Secret Service. At the time, I thought this was wildly unrealistic, because what president would be dumb enough to skimp on his own personal protection, especially when he's so hated? (Hold for laughs)But then, that got me thinking, if Trump is The Beast, and in Transmetropolitan, The Beast is replaced by the Smiler, then who the fuck is the Smiler, IRL? Then my friend piped in, "Well, Mike Pence smiles a lot", and my heart sank......
GODDAMMIT GRANT MORRISON, WHAT HAVE YOU WROUGHT WITH YOUR CARELESS HANDS! :argh!: :argh!: :argh!:
Warren Ellis.
I'm in a Gurdjieff cult. I'm trying on the beliefs, to see how they fell. So far so good! The big stumbling block for me right now is trying to transition from a post-modern / absurdist worldview (ie, the universe is inherently meaningless, but meaning can be created) - to a modern worldview (the universe is a living organism with needs and desires, which generate a form of intrinsic meaning). Eventually I hope they will teach me the Sacred Movements that will awaken me and raise not just my own consciousness, but the universe's consciousness.
I sometimes attend Unitarian Universalist services and may end up going to UU seminary. I spend a lot of time thinking about how my church office would be decorated.
On a panel?
Every time I talk to a priest, I'm like "Man, I want to do that... but not as a Christian... i wish there were secular churches"
and then I realize I'm kinda talking about Unitarians.
the UU seminarians I'm friends with don't seem to have gone off any particular deep ends
WHAT A LETDOWN
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I've spent today bumming around the forum and looking for places to contribute, and this thread feels like a good place to start.
Lately, I've been calling myself a Discordian witch, and now I just need to figure out what I mean by that. Or maybe I don't. I'll roll some dice over it.
I sometimes attend Unitarian Universalist services and may end up going to UU seminary. I spend a lot of time thinking about how my church office would be decorated.
So I've been revisiting the idea of finding patron deities and I'm considering whether or not I could actually worship pop culture stuff that already resonates with me and that I already know with some degree of intimacy. The first step of this will probably be getting past the idea of becoming not only the kind of dweeb that collects figures and whatnot, but is comfortable displaying such things on an altar. Do I dare give on to the CRINGE?
Lately, I've been calling myself a Discordian witch, and now I just need to figure out what I mean by that. Or maybe I don't. I'll roll some dice over it.
I sometimes attend Unitarian Universalist services and may end up going to UU seminary. I spend a lot of time thinking about how my church office would be decorated.
I'm kinda in a similar boat rn. Spent some time playing with the idea of unironically having Eris as a patron deity, realized I'm not actually that insane just yet, and just studying things like chaos magick and hoodoo until I pin down what, if any, god I'd wanna work with.
Also a UU, because they fit my ideal of what a church that actually does good for the community looks like.
I would rather recommend A: trying to find a shooting club and B: trying to learn krav maga.
I'm learning about judo which has its own philosophy. Jū yoku gō o seisueir means softness controls hardness, yoku zen'yō means maximum efficiency, minimum effort, and jita kyōei means mutual welfare and benefit. I'm just a beginner, a white belt, so I really don't understand very much yet. But things are so violent now I want to learn self-defense.
Do research however. After some PR campaigns, a lot of places bill themselves as Krav Maga but are not.
If it's not full contact, full resistance training, don't do it. Anything that offers full contact and full resistance will be better for teaching you to take and throw a punch than nothing at all, no matter what it's labelled.
Do research however. After some PR campaigns, a lot of places bill themselves as Krav Maga but are not.Yeah Krav maga classes tend to range from, "WE ARE PREPARING FOR FULL GUERRILLA COMBAT" to "Hey, did you guys know you can kick a dude in the balls? Wild."
If it's not full contact, full resistance training, don't do it. Anything that offers full contact and full resistance will be better for teaching you to take and throw a punch than nothing at all, no matter what it's labelled.
Yeah Krav maga classes tend to range from, "WE ARE PREPARING FOR FULL GUERRILLA COMBAT" to "Hey, did you guys know you can kick a dude in the balls? Wild."
I like this topic, it managed to drag me out of my lurking.
-I practice magic, mostly chaos magic, but other differently labeled shit as well. It works well for me.
-I dont believe time is liner, nor is it the same everywhere. I feel I notice small time fluctuations in various areas, it makes me wonder.
-I will forever believe that the idea of work is utter bullshit and how we treat labor in the US ought to be considered criminal.
Yeah. Even if it's a supernatural phenomena of some kind, there's a heck of a lot of assumptions packed into that word "ghost", so it's one I'm quite wary about.
Does belief in the efficient market hypothesis qualify as woo?It's an outright denial of reality.
Yeah. Even if it's a supernatural phenomena of some kind, there's a heck of a lot of assumptions packed into that word "ghost", so it's one I'm quite wary about.
I am more inclined to believe it was a TIA or momentary fugue state (which happens to almost everyone at least once or twice) than anything supernatural. It was concrete enough that it kinda had to be either an outright ghost, or my brain meat being ornery. This was years and years before the brain flukes.
Does belief in the efficient market hypothesis qualify as woo?
I like this topic, it managed to drag me out of my lurking.
-I practice magic, mostly chaos magic, but other differently labeled shit as well. It works well for me.
-I dont believe time is liner, nor is it the same everywhere. I feel I notice small time fluctuations in various areas, it makes me wonder.
-I will forever believe that the idea of work is utter bullshit and how we treat labor in the US ought to be considered criminal.
What are your thoughts on retrocausality? That is, future events affecting the present or past. (Or present events affecting the past, etc)
I like this topic, it managed to drag me out of my lurking.
-I practice magic, mostly chaos magic, but other differently labeled shit as well. It works well for me.
-I dont believe time is liner, nor is it the same everywhere. I feel I notice small time fluctuations in various areas, it makes me wonder.
-I will forever believe that the idea of work is utter bullshit and how we treat labor in the US ought to be considered criminal.
What are your thoughts on retrocausality? That is, future events affecting the present or past. (Or present events affecting the past, etc)
You know, I haven't thought much in that direction, but it makes some sense. If our subconscious beliefs can have physical manifestations as chaos magic states, then yeah. The things we do now can affect the past by making alterations to what we discover in the future about the past and have us believe that the past events were truth all along.
Makes me wonder if objective Truth is something that can even exist at all or if we just have to choose the truth that best fits our worldview and roll with it, let the psychic censor filter out everything that doesn't fit or rationalize it into something that does fit our version of reality.
I'm into WOO. I have been a devotee of all shapes of UFO woo since the '70s, I fucking love it; can't get enough. Can't say it's extraterrestrial for sure because how the fuck would I know? All I'm pretty sure of is the weird behavior of unidentified phenomena doesn't make me think humans are running it. Throw in ghosts, cryptids, etc sure, why the fuck not - this is a weird universe and all I can be really sure of is that it's a lot weirder and way more complex than my dumb meat could ever process. Alternative universes/causality blips/retrocausality - bring it on, it's fascinating. I'm reading a lot of Anthony Peake right now - https://www.anthonypeake.com/ super entertaining.
I don't know why it doesn't get brought up more, but I think it makes more sense that UFOs are from deep within our own oceans. They're more often spotted by Navy pilots flying over the ocean and, more importantly, it solves that rather insurmountable problem of every other planet that could harbor life is really fucking far away.
So these "aliens" finally get their version of the Apollo Project going, and they fly out of their atmosphere (the ocean), and there's all these apes that are responsible for the weird pollution that's been creeping into their world. Like if it turned out that Romulans were using the Earth as a sanitary landfill.sounds plausible.
And they know just by looking at us that if they make contact and ask us to stop, we'll just start flipping garbage barges upside down.
And they know just by looking at us that if they make contact and ask us to stop, we'll just start flipping garbage barges upside down.Nailed it.
Here's my woo. I get that this is just too small of a statistical sample to really draw conclusions, but it feels like I happen to be around right before the end of stuff a lot.Well, guess that's the end of PD.com - it's been real fun, y'all
There was a podcast that I enjoyed, back when I liked the idea of guru's and self help stuff. I reached out to communicate with the creator, as it happens, I was the first listener to reach out to them, they invited me on the show. That was the last episode they produced for several years. After a while I reached out to them again, they did another short season interviewing various individuals including myself, the episode with my interview was the last episode they produced before going silent for several more years. Eventually the podcast came back, but by then I'd grown disillusioned with guru's and the host had gone full on "Affiliate Marketing/ the Secret" and I just stopped listening.
I had a job as a material handler for a few years at the place my dad worked. When I started, there was 7 material handlers, by the time I was laid off, there was 3, and I was the one who picked up the work for all the ones that were fired/quit. When I was laid off, it was a blanket layoff of all contract workers, I guess they were hoping we'd all reapply at worse wage rates. Two days before the layoff I asked my supervisors if I was going to be part of the layoffs, they assured me that I was too valuable to be laid off. Guess they didn't know shit. I kept tabs on how things were going there by chatting with my dad. Within a few months, the company shipped my dad's department, one of the few solid money making departments in the plant, to another facility half way across the country. My dad went and worked for a local competitor for the last few years before retirement. Before he left he told me there were plans to rent out a huge portion of the building to another company. I've seen multiple people who used to work there show up working for my current job. They all said that place went downhill fast after the layoffs.
The job I had in between that job and the one I have currently, it was a small mom and pop tv repair shop. The former owner and his wife handled the business, he ran in home repair jobs, she ran the front desk/schedules/shipping & receiving/invoicing/payment processing. The new owner hired me to do what the former owner's wife did. I had that job for less than a year. It was an exciting nightmare and burnt me the fuck out. I left because the new owner had unacceptably shady business practices and because I found a much lower stress union job that paid like $5/hr more. Shortly after I left, the business lost the property and moved to another location, one of the technicians left and the other one was strongly considering quitting when I last heard from him.
It is more of a joke woo of mine, but sometimes my brain entertains such a bizarre causality. My arrival somehow signals the end of stuff. I am become harbinger of the Eschaton.