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2018-05-01 at 12:43 AM UTC
Originally posted by Malice I had my first proper edible yesterday. It was a lot nicer, especially the body high, but I ended up falling asleep. Definitely more psychedelic, but I think it was centered around death and the nature of reality/life.
I feel different today, as if it normalized my brain activity to a large extent and I just feel more normal.
And the world is still my idea of hell.
Picked to my pure d-meth and will begin trialing low doses starting tomorrow. I don’t expect it to work, though.
It feels odd to know you’re probably going, yet to have fully resigned to yourself. No desire for salvation, nothing left you want to do, no fear.
And so number three is Nirvana, the goal of Buddhism; it's the state of liberation corresponding to what the Hindus call moksha. The word means 'blow out,' and it comes from the root 'nir vritti.' Now some people think that what it means is blowing out the flame of desire. I don't believe this. I believe that it means 'breathe out,' rather than 'blow out,' because if you try to hold your breath, and in Indian thought, breath--prana--is the life principle. If you try to hold on to life, you lose it. You can't hold your breath and stay alive; it becomes extremely uncomfortable to hold onto your breath.
And so in exactly the same way, it becomes extremely uncomfortable to spend all your time holding on to your life. What is the point of surviving, going on living, when it's a drag? But you see that's what people do. They spend enormous efforts on maintaining a certain standard of living which is a great deal of trouble. You know, you get a nice house in the suburbs, and the first thing you do is you plant a lawn. You've gotta get out and mow the damn thing all the time, and you buy expensive this-that and soon you're all involved in mortgages, and instead of being able to walk out into the garden and enjoy, you sit at your desk and look at your books, filling out this and that and the other and paying bills and answering letters. What a lot of rot! But you see, that is holding onto life. So, translated into colloquial American, nirvana is 'whew!' Because if you let your breath go, it'll come back. So nirvana is not annihilation, it's not disappearance into a sort of undifferentiated void. Nirvana is the state of being let go. It is a state of consciousness, a state of being, here and now in this life. -
2018-05-01 at 1:56 AM UTC
Originally posted by CASPER I was going to ask you guys if you knew of anything still up. Finally got up the nerve to call one this weekend after findting the strip club a waste of money, and TER and all the other sites i knew about were down with that gay error message. Eve craigslist. All those chicks HAVE to go somewhere. Looked like "eros.com" was up, but ive never even heard of that and there are no reviews.
Help a brotha out. Is it too much to ask for a slender but not too skinny, brunette chick with B cup tits and a nice bubble butt, to order to my hotel room so i can lay her back on one of the two twin beds, and fuck her mouth until i throatpie her, and then 5 min later, bend her over the sofa and do a couple lines of coke off her ass and then fuck her while we watch Die Hard? Do i not deserve that?
You'll have to just meet a nice lady man sorry -
2018-05-01 at 1:58 AM UTC
Originally posted by Malice I had my first proper edible yesterday. It was a lot nicer, especially the body high, but I ended up falling asleep. Definitely more psychedelic, but I think it was centered around death and the nature of reality/life.
I feel different today, as if it normalized my brain activity to a large extent and I just feel more normal.
And the world is still my idea of hell.
Picked to my pure d-meth and will begin trialing low doses starting tomorrow. I don’t expect it to work, though.
It feels odd to know you’re probably going, yet to have fully resigned to yourself. No desire for salvation, nothing left you want to do, no fear.
if you're going to kill yourself you might as well try slamming some of that meth firstThe following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire! -
2018-05-01 at 2:04 AM UTC
Originally posted by CASPER I was going to ask you guys if you knew of anything still up. Finally got up the nerve to call one this weekend after findting the strip club a waste of money, and TER and all the other sites i knew about were down with that gay error message. Eve craigslist. All those chicks HAVE to go somewhere. Looked like "eros.com" was up, but ive never even heard of that and there are no reviews.
Help a brotha out. Is it too much to ask for a slender but not too skinny, brunette chick with B cup tits and a nice bubble butt, to order to my hotel room so i can lay her back on one of the two twin beds, and fuck her mouth until i throatpie her, and then 5 min later, bend her over the sofa and do a couple lines of coke off her ass and then fuck her while we watch Die Hard? Do i not deserve that?
i guess you prolly picked the worst weekend. most likely pretty soon the US girls will either find their way onto the deep web or a foreign site will accommodate them from outside the feds reach. its not going away for long that's for sure.
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2018-05-01 at 3:22 AM UTC
Originally posted by TT.x1c what is the point where information turns into matter
one such point is dna
another is chemical bonds
us chemists explore this space and become alchemists
Both DNA and amino acids are already matter though, while DNA may contain meaningful information, matter isn't "created" nor is information typically lost in the process of protein synthesis. -
2018-05-01 at 7:25 AM UTC
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2018-05-01 at 7:47 AM UTC
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2018-05-01 at 8:05 AM UTCmatter comes from energy. how do all you fucking big heads not fucking know this?
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2018-05-01 at 8:11 AM UTCWhy is it may
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2018-05-01 at 8:12 AM UTCThis is such an asinine discussion. You guys know what he meant.The following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire!
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2018-05-01 at 8:55 AM UTC
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2018-05-01 at 9:02 AM UTCThe following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire!
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2018-05-01 at 9:03 AM UTCDamn, shinedown fucking sucks now. I guess I know how Metallica fans felt in the 90s.
We had so many "almost good" bands in the last few years, I thought there was going to be an explosion of awesome music in the 2020s.
But no, "radioactive" becomes a hit and now every once half-decent band tries to sound like imagine fucking dragons. How did that shit even get called "rock"? That's not rock.
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2018-05-01 at 9:08 AM UTC
Originally posted by Juicebox Damn, shinedown fucking sucks now. I guess I know how Metallica fans felt in the 90s.
We had so many "almost good" bands in the last few years, I thought there was going to be an explosion of awesome music in the 2020s.
But no, "radioactive" becomes a hit and now every once half-decent band tries to sound like imagine fucking dragons. How did that shit even get called "rock"? That's not rock.
Fuck you.
that's the problem with music now. record companies only interested in sales and mo money. so they just keep pushing the artists to make something similar enough to something that was a hit before, on the logic that if all the idiots bought that then they'll all buy this too.
although to be fair, there's so many fucking idiots around now that just keep buying this crap, so you can kinda understand why they do it. it completely fucks the artistic input of music tho.
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2018-05-01 at 9:09 AM UTCum thats kinda the point of a record company , innit?
think they had those before 1990 too dinndey?
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2018-05-01 at 9:45 AM UTC
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2018-05-01 at 9:54 AM UTCthey had way more artistic freedom back then.
this case changed the industry in such a huge way.Panayiotou v Sony Music Entertainment (UK) Ltd
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Panayiotou and others v Sony Music Entertainment (UK) Ltd. ([1994] ChD 142) was a contract and entertainment law case before the High Court of Justice's Chancery Division. The plaintiff, entertainer George Michael, argued that his recording contract constituted an unreasonable restraint of trade. Michael alleged that the defendant had failed to promote his album Listen Without Prejudice Vol. 1 with due vigour as punishment when the artist decided to downplay his status as a sex symbol. Michael described his situation as "professional slavery" because his contract required that he produce music and cede the copyright to Sony for many years, leaving him no control over how the music would be marketed nor placing a reciprocal requirement that the label invest in promotion. Had the case succeeded, it might have curtailed the practice of signing artists to multi-album contracts. The court wholly rejected the claims.
Background[edit]
Georgios Panayiotou, known professionally as George Michael, signed with Innervision Records in 1982 at the age of eighteen as part of the then relatively unknown pop duo Wham!.[1][2] Innervision were distributed by CBS Records. In 1984 this contract was nullified as part of a legal compromise wherein Wham! were obligated to produce up to eight new albums for CBS Records; the label and the contract were acquired by Sony Music Entertainment in 1987.[1] Following Wham!'s success and subsequent break up, Michael renegotiated a new eight-album deal with Sony as a solo artist in 1988.[1] This deal was further renegotiated in 1990 to reflect Michael's superstar status, achieving terms comparable to similarly high-grossing artists.[1][3] Michael's first solo album, Faith, was released in 1987 and had sold 14 million copies by the time suit was filed; his second solo album, Listen Without Prejudice Vol. 1 was released in 1990 and had sold 5 million copies.[4] Listen Without Prejudice represented a new direction for Michael, downplaying the sex symbol status he had cultivated with Wham! in favour of a more reserved identity purely as a serious musician; he decided not to place his highly recognisable image on the album cover and declined to appear in promotional videos. Michael alleged that Sony under-promoted his new album in response to these decisions. He further charged that the contract restricting him from seeking a new label and prevented him from managing his professional image as he saw fit.[3][5] Michael described this imbalance of power and his long-term lack of control over his career as "professional slavery".[4]
It was common practice in the recording industry to sign many emerging artists like Wham!, banking that long-term profits from the few commercial successes would cover the losses from promoting the remainder. A decision holding Michael's contract unenforceable could have dramatically reduced the expected return on investment for signing and promoting an emerging artist, leading to fears that the practice would end. Michael argued that the structure of the industry concentrated power in too few hands, and that these companies competed by selling music, but not in the terms offered to new artists. This led to an imbalance of power, where the artist was contractually obligated to produce a set number of albums of acceptable quality and cede copyright to the label, but the label did not bear a reciprocal obligation to market and promote the product, in accordance with the artist's wishes or otherwise.[1][2][5]
Michael was advanced a sum of £1 million in February 1992 under the terms of the 1990 contract. This amount was returned to Sony in August of the same year in preparation for filing suit in October.[1][6]
Decision[edit]
Michael filed suit before the Chancery Division on 30 October 1992, and Justice Jonathan Parker issued a ruling on 1 June 1994. The plaintiff's claims were wholly rejected. Parker held that Michael's contracts were reasonable and fair,[7] especially in consideration of his access to expert legal advice, several renegotiations, and terms comparable to the industry standard for an artist of his commercial success.[1][3] There were five prongs to the justice's dismissal:
the case was indeed such that the doctrine of restraint of trade would be applicable;
the 1984 agreement was a compromise in good faith and the conditions obtaining there would pertain to all subsequent renegotiations: there is a legitimate public interest in upholding such a compromise, and the suit fails at the initial hurdle;
leaving aside the origin of the 1988 agreement, its provisions were justifiable: the label has a legitimate and enforceable recoupment interest in an exclusive contract of some duration;
restraint of trade under Article 85 of the Treaty of Rome establishing the European Community concerns trade between member states, and was held not to apply; Article 222 governing property ownership, including intellectual property, would have superseded in any case;
by activating its terms in requesting an advance in 1992, Michael affirmed the 1988 agreement.[1][6]
In July 1995, Sony sold the contract to rival record companies Virgin Records and DreamWorks Records.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panayiotou_v_Sony_Music_Entertainment_(UK)_Ltd
it took away an artist ability to decide on pretty much any aspect of their career and gave all the power to fucking assholes like simon cowell and pete waterman who wouldn't know or care about real art if it was the cure for their own terminal diseases. they'd still be more obsessed with just making more fucking money to chuck on top of that huge pile they got already that they will never live long enough to spend.
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2018-05-01 at 10:45 AM UTC
Originally posted by Lanny Both DNA and amino acids are already matter though, while DNA may contain meaningful information, matter isn't "created" nor is information typically lost in the process of protein synthesis.
i dont think information is lost or matter is created in either case
information is somehow transmitted by nothing but matter
then a son looks like his father
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2018-05-01 at 12:12 PM UTCnothing really
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2018-05-01 at 12:17 PM UTC
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