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2015-11-15 at 7:59 AM UTC in Do fast food workers deserve a $15 wage?
I know, it's a bad habit. What is anyone really qualified to comment on? Don't you ever feel insignificant and inadequate. Outside of your field, particularly Silicon Valley, the vast majority of people know almost nothing about and have no interest in computer science, couldn't follow a conversation or debate on it. It's one of the depressing aspects of life, our own limitations.
I suppose my paint point was that people should be more humble and reserved. Lord, can you imagine how relatively glorious the world would look if people learned to shut their fucking mouths and didn't feel a need to comment on everything as if the world can't live without their opinion?
I'm asking everyone for their opinions. It's not like everyone in this thread who gave their opinion was just spouting off for no reason, they were replying to the thread topic. -
2015-11-14 at 4:36 PM UTC in Anyone here coast to coast/ art bell fans
cool, who's your favorite host? Mines Richard Sayrett. He's a big nerd but has a genuine personality
Doesn't matter to me, I just enjoy listening to the callers who rant about how ALIENS CAME FROM HELL and stuff like that. -
2015-11-14 at 4:29 PM UTC in Do fast food workers deserve a $15 wage?Just to be clear, I don't mean solely fast food workers, I actually meant an increase in minimum wage to $15 / hour. I personally think it's a bad idea.
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2015-11-14 at 6:22 AM UTC in Anyone here coast to coast/ art bell fansYeah, I listen to it occasionmally.
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2015-11-14 at 6:18 AM UTC in Chakra Attack!Ommm. That's the sound of me attacking your Chakra! We're bringing Western street knowledge and Eastern spirituality together in a unified approach to contemporary integration - such that the mind and body are one. Such that the ignorance and knowledge be one. Such that the sense and the nonsense be one. When you put sense and nonsense together, what the hell do you got? You got some bullshit going on in your mind! That's everything mushed together like a goddamn jambalaya! Peanut butter and ice cream, gum and butter - ants in your damn pants. It all makes sense, because if you eat peanut butter ice cream, you're going to get diarrhea!
When things don't agree with you, that's what I'm talking about. Now that's sense and that's nonsense together, and they do not agree with each other, and now they have merged and gave your ass diarrhea. We're cleansing everything - mind, body and your spirit. We're going big! We're going all the way. Nirvana, prudah, Valhalla... limbo! Around the world and back again. You're on a round trip, girl, to spirituality! A round trip.
This is the full set. It's something all encompassing. Like a big compass which has everything in it. Not just a silly arrow that tells you which way to go north, but also a lot of other arrows that tell you other shit. Like which way to a liquor store, or some fool's getting fresh or if you are at one all with all mankind. A karma compass that tells you street shit and real shit, but also lots of other arrows, a whole bunch of arrows in that damn compass.
This is a karma compass, everybody, that tells you street shit and real shit. It's like one of them sensors that tell you if there are aliens crawling in the ceiling, and they are getting closer, and you're freaking the hell out, because you are like "This alien is going to drop through this ceiling tile and whoop some ass!" Right, Dear Reader? That damn alien is going to come through that ceiling and whoop some human ass! Wududududuwudududuwudududu...while the men is fighting the aliens, the women are in the corner, crying.
It's not fair, but that's what happens in the movies. That's exactly what happens. You hide in the corner, or you try to run and you trip. Not black women, but white women do trip, I'm sorry. I had to go to there with you, but I've got to go there. I had to pull a race card out... That's what happens. You sit in that goddamn corner and you start to scream and cry, and while the aliens are killing your man, you are sitting there, crying. Then they take you up to space and then impregnate you - you understand what's gonna happen to you?
They're going to take you up there and to do it to you. They're going to do it to you good. They're going to do it to you with their, with their, with their, with their alien prong! You understand? That's how they do it. And that's why you gotta get the spirituality in your body right now, come on now - ommm! Ommm. Today, it's all about empowering the ladies. Spiritual things come in threes! A three-parter. Only not sleaze, and no crossing swords, and no worrying about what's right or wrong or if you've enjoyed it too damn much, because you're supposed to enjoy every last bit of it, Dear Reader.
Do you enjoy every last bit of it?
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2015-11-13 at 10:24 PM UTC in The retarded thread: Fuck, §m£ÂgØL made one first editionThinking too much does cause depression. If you're depressed, learning how to silence your mind can help you. If you're a determinist, you shouldn't be worried too much about planning what you're going to do next.
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2015-11-12 at 9:49 PM UTC in I've remembered my true calling.The internet is a medium that people can use to communicate across the globe at a speed never before seen in history. When you spill your heart out to the entire world and not even a single person replies, you are truly alone.
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2015-11-12 at 12:56 AM UTC in Nothing exciting ever happens here.Hmm. Maybe you can't change the forums after all.
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2015-11-12 at 12:18 AM UTC in Do fast food workers deserve a $15 wage?[h=1][SIZE=12px][SIZE=14px][FONT=arial]D[/FONT]o fast food workers deserve a $15 wage?[/SIZE][/SIZE][/h]
What's your opinion? Would this positively or negatively affect the economy and/or society?
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2015-11-11 at 11:45 PM UTC in More Like This?
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2015-11-11 at 11:37 PM UTC in Nothing exciting ever happens here.If you want to change the forums, you have to be the change you want to see in the forums.
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2015-11-11 at 11:35 PM UTC in More Like This?
Any more songs like this? -
2015-11-11 at 11:09 PM UTC in Do rainbows exist objectively?Light can have an objective wavelength regardless of perception, but the colour that wavelength corresponds to in your mind is clearly perceived and is not objective, as the scientific experimentation has demonstrated. My use of the word "colour" doesn't actually violate anything at all, for example when I say, "the car is giving off light of a specific, objective wavelength that your visual system interprets as the colour red. However, your girlfriend may look at the car and see it as more of an orange colour. This is because men and women evolved to perceive colours slightly differently," I do not violate any usage of the word colour. Also, your logic is ridiculous, claiming that rainbows have an objective existence is exactly like claiming a desert mirage has an objective existence.
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2015-11-11 at 6:59 PM UTC in the fuck is in my meth?
You ate something cooked by trailer trash with battery acid and you're surprised you got a tummy ache?
This is the smartest thing I have ever seen you post. -
2015-11-11 at 6:49 PM UTC in Chakra Attack!This is Chakra Attack! A new approach to better health needs, and I'm your host - Dr. Open Your Mind. Ommm. Let's all say that again. Ommm. Be cleansed one, be cleansed all, it's time to wake up! It's time to sleep, it's time to wash that dirt out of your systems. It's time to be one, it's time to be one on one. It's time, my brothers, it is time right now - time for my show! Welcome to this week's Chakra Attack with Dr. Open Your Mind, and I am, as you have already probably ascertained by now, your host, Dr. Open Your Mind. Have we hummed yet, Dear Reader? Have we ommmed?
Ommm. Ommm. Together, together, together now, come on now. Ommm. And you out there too! Ommm. If I don't feel you, you can't feel me! Come on, Dear Reader, one more time! Ommm. That is beautiful. Yes, we have all ommmed. Whatever are you out there doing, give yourself a big fat ommm. Imagine one great wave of love, one great wave of joy, a great wave of spiritual clarity! Imagine it all ommm up your thighs like a big sticky mess of love. Imagine your soul is like a bazooka! Boom! Or a balloon, that a little innocent child sets free to the heavens. And the camera pans up as that balloon floats free and a swell of music plays as it soars to the heavens. Then it comes down in the ocean, and a turtle eats it, and it has internal hemorrhage and dies. You have killed that turtle. That's the wrong message you're sending! Don't set things free that are going to kill other things! You're attacking the world in the wrong way! Yes you are. That's not the way to live and that is not the message to send! Like a python that's too big for your house. And you set it loose in a schoolyard with children. That python's going to wrap itself around kids, and now you have caused a mess! And it's not how we do it here, Dear Reader. And that's not... The circle of life, that's the circle of life that leads to death! You hear me?
I know you hear me. Come on. Ommm. Ommm. Keep reaching for the heavens, and when you get there, be careful, as there is no oxygen in the heavens and the upper regions of the stratosphere and you will die, I promise you, you will die. Ommm. You cannot go to heaven as a human, you can only go to heaven as a damn angel! You hear me? Ommm. And that's why heaven is full of angels, and not living breathing people. Because people need oxygen, and there ain't no oxygen up there. It's a bit like one of those self-pleasuring choking games, when you're making love to somebody and you put your hands around their neck. They have life, but then you choke the life out of them while you're pleasuring them.
You get on top of a woman - you crush her sternum, you crush her rib cage, you put your hands around her neck and you're giving it to her and taking it away. You're giving life, and you're taking life away at the same time. It's two things going on here - it's a hot and a cold, you know? You're choking, but you're giving life, and feeling. Squeezing the love into them but squeezing the life out. It's an in and then a out motion going on here. You have just played the choking game! That's health. That's integration. That's what we are here to do every morning before we get started - we always ommm. That's the Chakra Attack! -
2015-11-11 at 6:36 PM UTC in An Introduction to HyperspaceCuriosity about hyperspace
is the mental forerunner
of our metamorphosis
into the Higher Dimensions of Consciousness,
like curiosity about sex
is the forerunner
of sexual maturation.
People with no curiosity
about the higher dimensions of their existence
are not yet ready for their Salvation.
The direct perception
of our Higher Self in Hyperspace
is the spiritual destiny of every individual.
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2015-11-11 at 5:35 PM UTC in Do rainbows exist objectively?
that's the major absurd part.
'colours' are labels given to light waves of specific wavelengths. perception is completely irrelevant.
If that were true, specific wavelengths of light would appear to be the same colours to everyone regardless of perception. Since specific wavelengths of light appear to be different colours to different people, perception is completely relevant. -
2015-11-11 at 4:57 PM UTC in Life is scary..."I have spent my whole life scared, frightened of things that could happen, might happen, might not happen, 50 years I spent like that. Finding myself awake at three in the morning. But you know what? Ever since my diagnosis, I sleep just fine . . . What I came to realize is that fear, that's the worst of it. That's the real enemy. So, get up, get out in the real world and you kick that bastard as hard as you can right in the teeth."
-Walter White
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2015-11-11 at 4:48 PM UTC in Do rainbows exist objectively?
What? "The researchers also found that men require a slightly longer wavelength to see the same hue as women" what the fuck does that even mean? Aside from the obvious issue of determining qualia equivalence across organisms (since you quoted a popsci site I'll save you the time of reading the actual paper and tell you they asked to rate colors on a scale from 1 to 100 in each of the RGBY channels. If you can't see the obvious issue here then you're fucked in the head) we've learned that color differential perception varies between sexes in that very article and thus even lopsided hue perception differentials can be explained by fewer discrete perceivable hues
The second link is even worse than the first. It actually demonstrates my point. Consider that the spectrum of human-visible light is filled by what we call colors. Consider that some animals can see a wider spectrum, we see consider them to be seeing colors (per your childrens article, "Bees and butterflies can see colors that we can't see"). What then do we say of light that exceeds the spectrum visible to any animal? Is it not color? Does it become color when there become animals that can perceive it? Was the ocean not blue before animals with a visual system evolved? Your position is fucking absurd and fails to capture the way in which we use the term color in any sane context.
How is my position fucking absurd? It isn't crazy, and it shouldn't be too hard to understand. You asked how colour only exists in the mind. This is how:
If specific colours objectively corresponded to specific wavelengths of light, specific wavelengths of light would appear to be the same colours for everyone. Clearly specific wavelengths do not appear to be the same colours for everyone. Therefore specific colours do not objectively correspond to specific wavelengths of light, and therefore colour is not objective.
Since specific wavelengths of light do not objectively correspond to specific colours, of course animals with different visual systems will see colours we do not see - that doesn't magically make the colours they are seeing objective. On the contrary, it clearly demonstrates that colour is function of an animals visual system and not an intrinsic property of the objects they are viewing. An object only appears to have colours, and will appear to have different colours depending on who is viewing the object. Even the words we use to describe colour reflect this: the word "spectrum" from the term "visible spectrum" is the Latin word for appearance or apparition.
"What then do we say of light that exceeds the spectrum visible to any animal? Is it not color? Does it become color when there become animals that can perceive it?"
We could demonstrate that those wavelengths of light objectively exist, but clearly they do not appear to correspond to any colours in our minds. Therefore we could say those wavelengths of light subjectively correspond to some unimaginable colours in that animals mind, and subjectively correspond to no colours in our minds, but objectively they do not correspond to any colour because clearly colour is a function of an organisms visual system and not an intrinsic property of the objects which they are viewing. -
2015-11-09 at 10:08 PM UTC in Morrowind vs SkyrimFallout 3.
