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2017-06-12 at 11:13 AM UTC in The Retarded Thread: Click Here for AIDSFuck me I can even get porn, this is so fucking awesome. I think it belongs to some weird church across the road coz the WiFi is named serendipity, lol.
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2017-06-12 at 10:49 AM UTC in The Retarded Thread: Click Here for AIDSOmfg, this is like Christmas, I just found there's a free unprotected WiFi signal at my window. If I go to the right of the window its fairly strong enough. When my laptop is working I'll have to put a desk against the window. This is so fucking exciting man.
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2017-06-12 at 10:42 AM UTC in You're all fucking NIGGERS
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2017-06-12 at 10:22 AM UTC in You're all fucking NIGGERSFfs, I just forgot to turn my sausages while answering you there, now they're too well done on one side. See the sacrifices I make for y'all.
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2017-06-12 at 10:19 AM UTC in You're all fucking NIGGERS
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2017-06-12 at 9:55 AM UTC in You're all fucking NIGGERSPatience my son. Good things come to those who wait. And this will be the true meaning of epic. Not like, you know, the internet version of epic that is now banded about willy nilly to every cunt and his dog.
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2017-06-12 at 9:52 AM UTC in Corrupt a WishAm I actually here? Can any of you fucking see me? HELLOOO, am I dreaming?
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2017-06-12 at 9:50 AM UTC in You're all fucking NIGGERSHe might be off his nut but he does have a point. Don't worry totse, I've thought up the solution to these problems, believe me it is so beautiful and clear. I will be writing it up and distributing it in due course. Ive recently realized that this is the purpose of my whole existence, I am about to become the greatest human being to ever walk this earth. The changes I will bring to mankind will be unprecedented in the whole of human civilization thus far. I just hope I can handle the godlike status it will bring me. I'm sure with the right drugs I will.
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2017-06-12 at 9:40 AM UTC in Corrupt a Wish
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2017-06-12 at 7:55 AM UTC in Corrupt a WishI made a wish^^^ you numbnuts
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2017-06-11 at 10:50 PM UTC in The Nigga Confessional™ †
Originally posted by Totse 2001 I'v been off my meds for nearly 3 days now and the only feelings I have are these weird shocking sensations going up my neck and wanting to push the planet earth into the sun.
I'v payed more than my share of taxes and suddenly am getting cut off in 4 months from having medical benefits. So I might as well go cold turkey now and tell the system to shove it up its fucking ass
yeh you tell em son, and tell em 202 my nigga's and 404 wagwan's while your at it.
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2017-06-11 at 10:48 PM UTC in Determinism
Originally posted by Open Your Mind Another problem I see with the compatibilist point of view is that it rests solely on the concept of the "self" and how you define yourself, which is actually an illusion. You see, one of the problems we have in discussing consciousness objectively is that consciousness is irreducibly subjective. Consciousness is what it's like to be you. If there's an experiential, internal qualitative dimension to any physical system, then that is consciousness, and we can't really reduce the experiential part of this to only talk about information processing and neurotransmitters. For example, by looking at different states of the brain, all we can do is correlate experiential with changes in brain states. But no matter how tight these correlations become, you can't just throw out the actual experiential side of consciousness. That would be analogous to saying if you just flipped a coin long enough, you would realize it only had one side. It's true that you can become committed to only talking about one side, you can say that heads being up is only a case of tails being down, but that doesn't actually reduce one side of reality to the other.
To give a more precise example, we have very strong third-person "objective measures" of things like anxiety and fear. Your bring someone to the lab, they say they're feeling fear, you can scan their brain with FMRI and see that their amygdala response is heightened, you can measure the sweat on their palms and see that there is an increased galvanic skin response, you can check their blood cortisol and see that it is spiking. So these now are considered objective third-person measures of fear, but if half the people came into the lab tomorrow and said they were feeling fear yet showed none of these signs, and said they were completely calm when their cortisol began to spike and their palms began to sweat, these objective measures would no longer be reliable measures of fear. So the cash value in the change in physiology is still a change in the first-person, conscious, subjective side of things. We are inevitably going to rely on peoples subjective reports to understand whether our correlations are accurate. So the hope that we are going to talk about consciousness shorn of any kind of qualitative internal experiential language is a false one. We have to understand both sides of it, subjective and objective.
I'm not arguing that consciousness is a reality beyond science or beyond the brain, or that it floats free of the brain after death. I'm not making any spooky claims about the metaphysics of consciousness. What I am saying is that the self is an illusion. The sense of being an ego, an I, a thinker of thoughts in addition to the thoughts. An experiencer in addition to the experience. The sense that we all have of riding around inside our heads, as a kind of passenger in a vehicle of the body. That's where most people start when they think about any of these sorts of questions. Most people don't feel identical to their bodies, they feel like they have bodies, like they're inside the body, and most people feel like they're inside their heads.
Now that sense of being a subject, a locus of consciousness inside the head is an illusion. It makes no neuo-anatomical sense. There is no place in the brain for your ego to be hiding. We know that everything you experience - your conscious emotions and thoughts and moods and the impulses that initiate behavior - all of these things are delivered by a myriad of different processes in the brain that are spread out over the whole of the brain, they can be independently erupted, we have a changing system. We are a process and there is not one unitary "self" that is carried through from one moment to the next unchanging, and yet we feel that we have this self that's just the center of experience.
Now it's possible, I claim, and people have been claiming for thousands of years, to lose this feeling, to actually have the "center" drop out of the experience, so that rather than feeling like experiences are happening to you, you identify with/feel identical to the sphere of experience that is all the colour and light and feeling and energy of consciousness, with no sense of center. This is classically described as self-transcendence or ego transcendence in spiritual, mystical, new-age literature. It is the baby in the bathwater religious people are afraid to throw out. If you were to seriously take on the project of being like Jesus or Buddha, whatever your favorite contemplative is, self-transcendence really is at the core of the phenomenology being described there. And what I'm saying is that's a real experience.
It's clearly an experience that people can have. It tells you nothing about the cosmos or what happened before the Big Bang, nothing about teh divine origin of certain books, it doesn't make religious dogmas anymore plausible. But it tells you something about the nature of human consciousness. And it just so happens that this experience of self-transcendence does link up with what we know about the mind through neuroscience, to form a plausible connection between science and spirituality. If you lose that sense of a unitary self, if you lose your sense that there's a permanent, unchanging center to consciousness, your experience of the world actually becomes more faithful to the facts. It's not a distortion of the way we think things are at the level of the brain, it actually brings your experience into closer register with how we think things are.
where you get that from, wikipedia?
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2017-06-11 at 10:45 PM UTC in The Nigga Confessional™ †
Originally posted by RestStop TBH a nigga been pushin' shards hard for the past two years and bangin' skanks on the reg. I honestly want to be sober and clean and thinking about getting back with my ex gf and live some sort of a normal life. That country boy RestStop on the rise, with the 20 inch chrome wheels on the side!!!
you'd be bored out of your mind my son, just accept your delicious addiction, embrace it, fucking own it. 2 my nigga's and 2 wagwan's for even contemplating such a thing.
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2017-06-11 at 10:43 PM UTC in Fruitfuck you captain flaccid
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2017-06-11 at 10:41 PM UTC in HELP, computer now fucked after installing shitty old printerI know its in the terminal somehow, but its a bit hard as the terminal just closes after 4 or 5 seconds after I open it. every program does this. do I need a disk or summing?
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2017-06-11 at 10:40 PM UTC in Corrupt a WishI...WISH...I...KNEW
fucking tard
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2017-06-11 at 10:38 PM UTC in Fruitman I'm fucking pissed off right now. my account got banned by this slippery sneaky fuck, I got a slight smack withdrawel, my fucking computers fucked coz I skimped out and bought some cheap shit trashy printer and I'm bored out of my fucking mind waiting for payday next Friday. this is fucking bollocks, I want to make a complaint pleeze.
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2017-06-11 at 10:34 PM UTC in The Nigga Confessional™ †anyone who trash talks mary tyler moore deserves to be stabbed in the fucking balls. you are resolved my son.
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2017-06-11 at 10:23 PM UTC in The Nigga Confessional™ †I would fucking love your punishment. if you were qualified to give it to me.
and if I hadn't said fruit ffs.
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2017-06-11 at 10:22 PM UTC in HELP, computer now fucked after installing shitty old printerI am on linux
