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  1. Obbe Alan What? [annoy my right-angled speediness]
    I'm gonna tell you about a dream I once had. I know that when someone says that, then usually you're in for a very boring next few minutes, and you might be, but it sounds like, you know, what else are you going to do, right? Anyway, I read this essay by Philip K. Dick.

    What, you read it in your dream?

    No, no. I read it before the dream. It was the preamble to the dream. It was about that book, um Flow My Tears the Policeman Said. You know that one?

    Uh, yeah yeah, he won an award for that one.

    Right, right. That's the one he wrote really fast. It just like flowed right out of him. He felt he was sort of channeling it, or something. But anyway, about four years after it was published, he was at this party, and he met this woman who had the same name as the woman character in the book. And she had a boyfriend with the same name as the boyfriend character in the book, and she was having an affair with this guy, the chief of police, and he had the same name as the chief of police in his book. So she's telling him all of this stuff from her life, and everything she's saying is right out of his book. So that's totally freaking him out, but, what can he do?

    And then shortly after that, he was going to mail a letter, and he saw this kind of, um, you know, dangerous, shady looking guy standing by his car, but instead of avoiding him, which he says he would have usually done, he just walked right up to him and said, "Can I help you?" And the guy said, "Yeah. I, I ran out of gas." So he pulls out his wallet, and he hands him some money, which he says he never would have done, and then he gets home and thinks, wait a second, this guy, you know, he can't get to a gas station, he's out of gas. So he gets back in his car, he goes and finds the guy, takes him to the gas station, and as he's pulling up at the gas station, he realizes, "Hey, this is in my book too. This exact station, this exact guy. Everything."

    So this whole episode is kind of creepy, right? And he's telling his priest about it, you know, describing how he wrote this book, and then four years later all these things happened to him. And as he's telling it to him, the priest says, "That's the Book of Acts. You're describing the Book of Acts." And he's like, "I've never read the Book of Acts." So he, you know, goes home and reads the Book of Acts, and it's like uncanny. Even the characters' names are the same as in the Bible. And the Book of Acts takes place in 50 A.D., when it was written, supposedly. So Philip K. Dick had this theory that time was an illusion and that we were all actually in 50 A.D., and the reason he had written this book was that he had somehow momentarily punctured through this illusion, this veil of time, and what he had seen there was what was going on in the Book of Acts.

    And he was really into Gnosticism, and this idea that this demiurge, or demon, had created this illusion of time to make us forget that Christ was about to return, and the kingdom of God was about to arrive. And that we're all in 50 A.D., and there's someone trying to make us forget that God is imminent. And that's what time is. That's what all of history is. It's just this kind of continuous, you know, daydream, or distraction.

    And so I read that, and I was like, well that's weird. And than that night I had a dream and there was this guy in the dream who was supposed to be a psychic. But I was skeptical. I was like, you know, he's not really a psychic, you know I'm thinking to myself. And then suddenly I start floating, like levitating, up to the ceiling. And as I almost go through the roof, I'm like, "Okay, Mr. Psychic. I believe you. You're a psychic. Put me down please." And I float down, and as my feet touch the ground, the psychic turns into this woman in a green dress. And this woman is Lady Gregory.

    Now Lady Gregory was Yeats' patron, this, you know, Irish person. And though I'd never seen her image, I was just sure that this was the face of Lady Gregory. So we're walking along, and Lady Gregory turns to me and says, "Let me explain to you the nature of the universe. Now Philip K. Dick is right about time, but he's wrong that it's 50 A.D. Actually, there's only one instant, and it's right now, and it's eternity. And it's an instant in which God is posing a question, and that question is basically, 'Do you want to, you know, be one with eternity? Do you want to be in heaven?' And we're all saying, 'No thank you. Not just yet.' And so time is actually just this constant saying 'No' to God's invitation. I mean that's what time is. I mean, and it's no more 50 A.D. than it's two thousand and one. And there's just this one instant, and that's what we're always in."

    And then she tells me that actually this is the narrative of everyone's life. That, you know, behind the phenomenal difference, there is but one story, and that's the story of moving from the "no" to the "yes." All of life is like, "No thank you. No thank you. No thank you." then ultimately it's, "Yes, I give in. Yes, I accept. Yes, I embrace." I mean, that's the journey. I mean, everyone gets to the "yes" in the end, right?

    Right.

    So we continue walking, and my dog runs over to me. And so I'm petting him, really happy to see him, you know, he's been dead for years. So I'm petting him and I realize there's this kind of gross oozing stuff coming out of his stomach. And I look over at Lady Gregory, and she sort of coughs. She's like [cough] [cough] "Oh, excuse me." And there's vomit, like dribbling down her chin, and it smells really bad. And I think, "Well, wait a second, that's not just the smell of vomit," which is, doesn't smell very good, "that's the smell of like dead person vomit." You know, so it's like doubly foul. And then I realize I'm actually in the land of the dead, and everyone around me is dead. My dog had been dead for over ten years, Lady Gregory had been dead a lot longer than that. When I finally woke up, I was like, whoa, that wasn't a dream, that was a visitation to this real place, the land of the dead.

    So what happened? I mean how did you finally get out of it?

    Oh man. It was just like one of those like life altering experiences. I mean I could never really look at the world the same way again, after that.
  2. Obbe Alan What? [annoy my right-angled speediness]
  3. Obbe Alan What? [annoy my right-angled speediness]
    Originally posted by Sophie What's it like to be you Obbe?

    Tell me what you think.
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    Go back in time and stop yourself from eating the gummies.
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    I dunno man. Do you think actually going through treatment will eventually make her happier, enable her to make better choices and live a better life, or is that all bullshit?

    If you don't bring her anything is she going to resent you? Is she just going to call one of her old "clients" to come bring her some instead and forget about you?

    Are you investing too much thought on someone you don't really know who you met almost as soon as you got out of prison and got into a relationship with relatively quickly? Is it worth it?

    Be true to yourself.
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    Bill Krozby, mmQ, what are your opinions on universal healthcare?
  13. Obbe Alan What? [annoy my right-angled speediness]
    The world is a strange place. All the world is a stage and you and I are actors.
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  15. Obbe Alan What? [annoy my right-angled speediness]
    Many works of science fiction as well as some forecasts by serious technologists and futurologists predict that enormous amounts of computing power will be available in the future. Let us suppose for a moment that these predictions are correct. One thing that later generations might do with their super-powerful computers is run detailed simulations of their forebears or of people like their forebears. Because their computers would be so powerful, they could run a great many such simulations. Suppose that these simulated people are conscious (as they would be if the simulations were sufficiently fine-grained and if a certain quite widely accepted position in the philosophy of mind is correct). Then it could be the case that the vast majority of minds like ours do not belong to the original race but rather to people simulated by the advanced descendants of an original race. It is then possible to argue that, if this were the case, we would be rational to think that we are likely among the simulated minds rather than among the original biological ones. Therefore, if we don’t think that we are currently living in a computer simulation, we are not entitled to believe that we will have descendants who will run lots of such simulations of their forebears.

    What are your thoughts on the simulation hypothesis?



  16. Obbe Alan What? [annoy my right-angled speediness]
    Originally posted by greenplastic Yes, I would be forced to come up with a new name

    Why? I mean some 20 or so years ago you probably had 50% the mass you have now. But you still had the same name then, didn't you? Were you not the same person as you are today?
  17. Obbe Alan What? [annoy my right-angled speediness]
    Originally posted by greenplastic 50%

    So if you lost 50% of your body in an accident, you would no longer identify with "greenplastic"? You would stop being who you are?
  18. Obbe Alan What? [annoy my right-angled speediness]
    Bar none, I am the most humble-est
    Number one at the top of the humble list
    My apple crumble is by far the most crumble-est
    But I act like it tastes bad outta humbleness
    The thing about me that's so impressive
    Is how infrequently I mention all of my successes
    I pooh-pooh it when girls say that I should model
    My belly's full from all the pride I swallow
    I'm the most courteous-biddable, hospitable
    Reverential, normal-ary Arnold Schwarzen-orgarary
    I hate compliments, put 'em in the mortuary
    I'm so ordinary that it's truly quite extraordinary

    It's not a competition, but I'm winnin'
    You won’t hear me admit it
    Because I'm so timid and submissive
    I treat fat people like they were thin
    Talk simple for the dumbos
    I'm so humble

    I'm not your normal definition of a rockstar
    I don't complain when my private jet is sub-par
    Ya mom's old, but I'll ask if she's your sister
    People say I'm charming, bu-but I beg to differ
    I feel more humble than Dikembe Mutombo
    After a stumble left him covered in a big pot o' gumbo
    I guess in a way, bein' gracious is my weakness
    People say I'm so unpretentious for a genius

    I've got it all and I'm gettin' more
    But I never fall, beat 'em all
    'Cause you know I'm so humble
    I say that with no ego
    I'm so humble
    It's just good manners
    They say I'm a ten, but I'm an eight at best
    "Plus two, " says you
    Not me, 'cause I'm so humble
  19. Obbe Alan What? [annoy my right-angled speediness]
    The state of the house can reflect the state of the occupants minds. Looks like her mind is FUBAR.
  20. Obbe Alan What? [annoy my right-angled speediness]
    Originally posted by Captain Falcon i think its hilarious u kids talking shit about this meme. u wouldnt say this shit to him at lan, hes jacked. not only that but he wears the freshest clothes, eats at the chillest restaurants and hangs out with the hottest dudes. yall are pathetic lol

    Plagiarism!
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