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2019-03-26 at 10 PM UTC in What posters did you have on your walls as a teenager?One day the state will raise the children.
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2019-03-26 at 8:48 PM UTC in What posters did you have on your walls as a teenager?Stuff like this:
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2019-03-24 at 5:47 PM UTC in Way of the Peacful Warrior
Paradox: Life is a mystery; don’t waste your time trying to figure it out.
Humor: Keep a sense of humor, especially about yourself. It is a strength beyond all measure
Change: Know that nothing ever stays the same.
We can waste our time trying to figure out some aspect of life when there’s nothing to figure out. Or, we try to figure it all out up front, only to find out we got it all wrong, or that things change under our feet. Or, we forget that, it will come to us when it needs to (“when the student is ready, the teacher will appear.”).
Most importantly, we miss out on the journey … The journey of life.
Life is inconsistent. Life changes under your feet. Life doesn’t go as planned. Things happen. Don’t try to figure it all out up front.
Instead, embrace the journey as it unfolds both the mystery and the opportunity.
Whether it’s work or whether it’s life, find a way to play with it. You’ll be kinder and gentler to yourself, and, as a result, kinder to others. It helps you build compassion, ease the stress, and acknowledge that in any situation, there’s a lighter side that, if you can find it, will help you keep things in perspective.
And, most importantly, enjoy the journey, a moment at a time.
Holding onto something is often what holds you back. It’s the often the shift that makes the difference. Whether that means look with a new lens, lean into the challenge, or learn to let go, you can make more from your moments when you embrace change. -
2019-03-24 at 5:21 PM UTC in Breasts
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2019-03-24 at 3:50 PM UTC in Breasts
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2019-03-23 at 6:11 PM UTC in Breasts
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2019-03-22 at 9:02 PM UTC in What to store printed book sheets in?
Originally posted by Grylls Duo-Tang was a brand name for paper folders made of cardstock paper. They are used to bind multiple sheets of paper by bending embedded brass fasteners through the holes of the paper and folding them down to keep them in place. Some models have three teeth on the fastener, and some have six (two on the top, middle and bottom). They could be different colours such as blue, green, red, orange, yellow and black. They were often used as an organization tool for multiple pages of one subject, chiefly by elementary school students (however, many students usually transition to binders as they enter secondary school).[citation needed]
Duo-Tang folders were originally manufactured by the Duo-Tang company, which was founded in Chicago in 1931, then headquartered in Paw Paw, Michigan after World War II.[1][2] The brand was bought on July 1, 2004 by Esselte.[3][4]
All previous Duo-tang products were subsequently replaced by Oxford / Esselte products or otherwise discontinued.
In Canada, the word duotang is used to refer to any such style of folder regardless of the actual brand (See genericized trademark).
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2019-03-22 at 3:04 PM UTC in Is it illegal to plan a mass shooting?Thought crime.
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2019-03-21 at 9:53 PM UTC in Breasts
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2019-03-21 at 9:09 PM UTC in Atlantis Discovered?
Originally posted by We'reAllBrownNosers I've seen a couple of different ones. One of them was just what I'd refer to as some sort of phantom object or even a living creature. It seemed to phase in and out of our reality or dimension. It moved pretty slow and I'm not sure what size it was. The shape is hard to describe, almost as if it were some sort of flying jellyfish or squid that would either go invisible or exit our reality/dimension. Some people theorize that most UFOs are also unidentified submersible vehicles. They have a tendency to being around water. The green one I saw in the sky, the orb was hovering over a giant pond which looked like a giant green monster's eye if you looked at it from a satellite image. I always wondered if water was somehow a portal for them. That may explain partly why atlantis eventually sank into the ocean, rather than the theory it was an accident.
Olmos Basin is also a major flood zone. https://www.sacurrent.com/the-daily/archives/2018/08/06/communion-author-whitley-strieber-and-others-discuss-sas-hidden-history-of-ufos
I've seen a couple orbs in san antonio as well, spiralling each other in the night sky. I also saw what I'm pretty sure must've been a B2 spirit at some point, probably going to one of the bases here. It had pretty much the exact shape as a B2 spirit, and made a sort of hum, but seeing it from the bottom, it had no lights on it, and looked as if it was made out of the clouds. It matched them perfectly other than the shape, and disappeared into them. I do what is often referred to as "cloud melting" which is a way of using the psi ability/stare to direct clouds, they begin melting towards the horizon you're starring at. It depends on the type of clouds on how low they are, but they can be moving real fast, and you can freeze them, start them up again, etc.
I think the military uses artificial cloud manipulation to hide their aircrafts. Psi wheels are often harder for people to move on cloudy days. For me it doesn't make nearly as much difference as it does for other people, probably because my ability has been strengthened so much. But it is noticeably harder to control the flow of time and traffic and such when the humidity is high enough. Although if you practice during a lot of humid weather, it's noticeably stronger when the humidity drops, kinda like putting weights on your ability, the psi equivalent of lifting weights.
A lot of people have reported seeing pyramid shaped objects under certain flying saucer UFOs, hinting at torsion manipulation. I've never seen them with enough detail to see that, and never had a camera around that could film them when I'd seen them.
Anyway I am convinced the pyramids are related to all of this. Myself and several other people who have witnessed these technologies or paranormal events have traits similar to the Annunaki and Tall White aliens. My friend who was in the air force suggested all humans are spliced with different alien races. The smaller orbs seem to be probes as two of the people I know that've seen them both said it felt like they were scanning their brains, inches from their faces, before taking off with light speed. They also both described them as "solid light", you couldn't see through it, but it seemed as if it were made out of some kind of solid light. There's a thread on Above top Secret recently about this solid light phenomenon. It's pretty interesting. I think the government also uses some of this on cars, because a few times near the Army base I'd seen these black government type vehicles, that would temporarily go invisible, as if to let me know they could do it, to mess with my head. I'd known all kinds of people that had top secret clearance, which is something that is given out like candy in the military, but some of these people had much higher than normal clearance, and some of their friends and family did as well. They had to talk about things very carefully, never officially confirming or denying anything. A couple times I'd seen these things disguise themselves as planes, then shoot off at light speed in some other direction of the sky. Yesterday I saw one disguising itself as a passenger jet, but when it came out of the clouds, it was still a shadow. Pretty bizarre. Somebody told me they have whole fleets of these fake planes in the sky and that he believes they're holograms. Whatever they are, they are also apparently faking the sound as well as the visuals.
Anyway if I remember anything else I'll post it.
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2019-03-21 at 9:06 PM UTC in The Hard Problem of Consciousness
Originally posted by Common De-mominator Obbe's understanding of consciousness is entirely based on Westworld.
I actually haven't seen that yet. But I am planning on it. Why are you such a negative person towards me? We used to play Minecraft together and you would ask me about God. Now you do weird drugs and are an asshole. I try to contribute to your thread and you just want to argue. I think I will just stop participating. -
2019-03-21 at 6:03 PM UTC in The Hard Problem of ConsciousnessAwww, nutz.
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2019-03-21 at 3:10 PM UTC in The Hard Problem of Consciousness
Originally posted by gadzooks Not to.mention, V.S Ramachandran (one of the most prominent neuroscientists in the world), and Daniel Dennet (one of the most prominent philosophers in the world), and a few others as well, all give the book praise.
I didn't know that. I think I might re-read it now, and I will have to look up what these guys have said about it. -
2019-03-21 at 11:59 AM UTC in The Hard Problem of Consciousness
Originally posted by gadzooks And I want to remind you that I am not taking Jaynes' theory as irrefutable gospel. My only reason to even intervene when you and Obbe were discussing it was when I could tell you were dismissing it entirely too flippantly.
Are you SHARK/Captain Falcon/etc? If you are, carry on with that IIT theory. That was actually pretty cutting edge and by far the most empirically testable theory about consciousnesss I've ever seen. But you don't have to dismiss Obbe's (or anyone's, for that matter) contributions to the discussion at hand with such crude insensitivity.
It's not like IIT is without dissenters. It's essentially a very sophisticated house of cards built on a foundation of axioms that are just as speculative as Jaynes' theory.
Thanks for stating this so eloquently... I do sincerely hope you get a chance to read the book, I would be interested in hearing what you think about it. -
2019-03-21 at 11:11 AM UTC in The Hard Problem of Consciousness
Originally posted by Common De-mominator There's nothing to support the theory and the theory does not fit the data nor even really make testable predictions, nor answers the Hard Problem.
I mean you can read it if you want, but understand that you're not really receiving any information about reality from it.
You haven't even read it. -
2019-03-21 at 11 AM UTC in Atlantis Discovered?
Originally posted by We'reAllBrownNosers Telepathy in particular. It's said various races of aliens are highly telepathic. The stare has the effect of controlling gravitational fields around objects that come into it's view, normally decreasing the mass of the objects, or the effects of gravity on those objects. Myself and several people I know have witnessed the exact same type of UFO, what people call "orbs". Many people have theorized as to what these things actually are. What I know is that some of them are large, larger than a conventional aircraft, and some are extremely small, about the size of a softball. But what they all have in common is this glow, sort of whitish bluish, but the larger ones tend to be greenish. They all move incredibly fast, much faster than any publicly known man-made aircraft. Years after we'd seen them (all in the same town) I was listening to coast to coast, and they mentioned the exact town being known for these particular UFO sightings. Before that, I had only heard of a few people seeing them in the area. Turns out, it was actually quite common.
A lot of people report vision problems after seeing certain kinds of UFOs, and some people report psi abilities, or other paranormal activity. I ended up with both vision problems and psi abilities, although I'm not sure they're simply correlated or a result of the encounters. The people who designed the Alien Reproduction Vehicle, supposedly based their design on how they assumed these crafts must work, rather than actually being able to reverse engineer them physically. The rumor is that with the advanced models, you can control them with your mind. My theory is that the technology for both the super fast speed and the antigravity is based on whatever mechanisms are responsible for certain telepathic or psi abilities….
Tell me more about your experiences with ufos. -
2019-03-21 at 10:42 AM UTC in The Hard Problem of Consciousness
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2019-03-21 at 10:26 AM UTC in The Hard Problem of Consciousness
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2019-03-21 at 10:12 AM UTC in KR0Z Dogs for the NES
Originally posted by GGG Will definitely check out that rom. I've never played Mother before.
rs-97 looks interesting but I'm probably just going to make a dedicated emulator device once my tax return comes in, and play from the couch with a 360 controller. Mobile scummVM sounds fucking amazing though. Do you have an rs-97 yourself?
I do, it does the job but I would rather have a gameboy zero. I think. Depends how durable they are. -
2019-03-21 at 2:47 AM UTC in The Hard Problem of ConsciousnessMyth: Scholars do not take Jaynes's theory seriously.
Fact: There are many scholars interested in Jaynes's theory, but few if any are able to focus on it full time. An extensive list of scholars who have written favorably on Jaynes's theory can be found on the Academic and Scholarly Interest in Jaynes's Theory page. Furthermore, at last count over 9,000 books and articles listed on Google Books cite or reference Jaynes's theory. A significant percentage of these are by academics and scholars and the vast majority express a favorable opinion of the theory. Several hundred books referencing Jaynes's theory are listed in our Related Books section. Thousands of additional references to Jaynes's theory in books and articles and be found on Google Books and Google Scholar.
Jaynes was in high demand as a lecturer, and was frequently invited to lecture at conferences and symposia and as a guest lecturer at colleges and universities, including Harvard, Columbia, Cornell, Emory, Johns Hopkins, Rutgers, Tufts, York, Dalhousie, Wellesley, Florida State, Northwestern, SUNY at Genesco, Plattsburgh, Oswego, and Brockport, the Universities of New Hampshire, Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Massachusetts at Amherst and Boston Harbor. He was Scholar-in-Residence at Skidmore, Lake Forest, and the University of Prince Edward Island. In 1983 he gave the keynote address at a conference on "Language: The Crucible of Consciousness." In 1984 he was invited to give the plenary lecture at the Wittgenstein Symposium in Kirchberg, Austria. He gave six major lectures in 1985 and nine in 1986. He was awarded an honorary Ph.D. by Rhode Island College in 1979 and another from Elizabethtown College in 1985. Jaynes's theory was the subject of conferences at McMaster University in 1983 and Harvard University in 1988. A conference dedicated to studying Jaynes's theory was organized at the University of Prince Edward Island in 2006 and 2008. Jaynes's theory was the subject of a speaker session at the 2008 Toward A Science of Consciousness Conference. In 2013, the Julian Jaynes Society Conference on Consciousness and Bicameral Studies featured 26 speakers over three full days, including keynote talks by Professor Roy Baumeister, Professor Merlin Donald, and Dr. Dirk Corstens. The conference brought together Jaynes enthusiasts from around the U.S. as well as Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Netherlands, Thailand, Turkey, and the United Kingdom. Jaynes's book has been translated into Italian, Spanish, German, French, Korean, and Persian.
While many of Jaynes's ideas remain controversial, for example the necessity of language for consciousness, the origin and neurology of schizophrenia, and the mentality of ancient civilizations and it is likely these issues will be debated for years to come, to date we are not aware of any major flaws in Jaynes's analyses that seriously call into question any of his four main hypotheses. Jaynes himself acknowledged there was much more work to be done, and areas that may require revision as new discoveries are made.
http://www.julianjaynes.org/myths-vs-facts-about-julian-jaynes-theory.php
