2015-10-30 at 10:09 PM UTC
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An Introduction to Hyperspace
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Alan What?
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This thread is as paradoxical as its subject. It is clear and confused, profound and superficial, comic and tragic, ludicrous and reverent, it has no single thread of reason but spreads a tapestry, it is incoherent but an indivisible whole, it is fact and fantasy --- with more truth in the fantasy than in the fact. Writing it has been my KOAN; I composed it to be your KOAN. There is at least one epiphany for every reader, but, like a joke, you must be baffled to get it. This is a thread for reading many times between reflections on life because it yields different meanings as you learn your living. Read it like a Bible that can be understood only in parts, according to your experience, intelligence, and wisdom.
2015-10-30 at 7:06 PM UTC
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My life sucks so much
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Alan What?
[annoy my right-angled speediness]
I'm OG totsean you just don't know my original username.
2015-10-30 at 6:27 PM UTC
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My life sucks so much
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Alan What?
[annoy my right-angled speediness]
You're such a bitch.
Everybody is depressed and empty.
Everyone is waiting to die.
But some people enjoy the ride.
Some people just bitch and moan.
You're a dumb faggot.
2015-10-30 at 6:17 PM UTC
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Alan What?
[annoy my right-angled speediness]
Most people expect to understand a thread on one reading; a thread baffling at first sight can't get a literary review. I expect many readers to appreciate the insights into their special interest and competence, but be lost through the posts referring to other kinds of knowledge. You must realize, however, that this thread would have no reason for its existence if it explained hyperspace from the mathematical view, alone --- as all other threads on this subject do. This is a synthesis of many disciplines and philosophies; your mind must be capable of fusing the concepts and languages of many arts, crafts, sports, and sciences into a single gestalt in order to understand the physical structure and manifestations of hyperspace in your everyday life; this thread is a holy scripture for the working days of the week. Mathematics and metaphore, high philosophy and vulgarity, are combined in the same paragraph, if not in the same sentence, so that you may realize that all languages express the very same truths. Thus, the believers of every faith will find scientific substantiation of their religion in the structure of hyperspace, and artists will find their common identity with scientists in politics' strangest bed. Mathematics, science, art, philosophy and religion cannot be experienced in everyday life unless they are expressed as everyday ideas in everyday language.
2015-10-30 at 6:13 PM UTC
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Silicone Enhanced Women
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Alan What?
[annoy my right-angled speediness]
You're pretty disgusting bro. You prefer little girls over empty headed silicon fuck toys.
Bimbos 4 lyfe.
2015-10-30 at 6:10 PM UTC
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My life sucks so much
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Alan What?
[annoy my right-angled speediness]
Sure there is. Move out of your parents house and lead your own life. I used to be a lot like you Sploo. Living with my parents, doing all sorts of drugs.
Grow up now before you're too old to.
2015-10-30 at 6:05 PM UTC
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My life sucks so much
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Alan What?
[annoy my right-angled speediness]
Life is what you make it, faggot. If your life sucks change it.
2015-10-30 at 12:06 PM UTC
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Alan What?
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If you find this thread intolerable, it is mainly because you have not been exposed to this kind of ideas before. You will be surprised at how inoffensive they will be the next time you have an encounter of this challenging kind. The initial denial, ridicule, and scepticism of Flying Saucer sightings gradually changed to belief for no reason other than the persistence of the reports for forty years; it doesn't matter that most of the reports are not true, and UFO hysteria was composed by the media to supply popular demand.
2015-10-30 at 3:51 AM UTC
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Alan What?
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My comments on religions are not informed by scholarship but merely reflect generally held conceptions that outsiders entertain about creeds other than their own, like ethnic jokes express one's perspective on foreigners. Outsiders perceive meanings quite different from insiders. Confession, for example, has an entirely different meaning for Romans than for other people; you have to be a Catholic to experience it. Which is the true meaning? It depends on whether you are looking from the inside or the outside, doesn't it? Nevertheless, ethnic jokes express human identities, values, and follies more acutely than anthropological studies --- especially the identity, the values, and the follies of the teller. Some pious people may not be able to tolerate the respect I have for any church but theirs, nor can they tolerate any mention of their obvious follies. I ask you --- is a sense of humour and appreciation of the ludicrous a gift of the devil? No soul could abide in a Heaven without humour if hell holds all the fun. If I failed to offend anyone, let me know and the next edition will treat you the same as everyone else.
2015-10-29 at 10:06 PM UTC
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Alan What?
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During earlier years of my life while my livelihood depended on orthodox beliefs, I refused to give a thought to any of the ideas I am able to entertain now that my employer doesn't care what science I believe, as long as I don't bad mouth his politics (I work for the government, now). So do not suppose that I have no sympathy for the authorities; I have believed their doctrine for the same reasons they maintain their faith. I use satire only to reduce the awe of authority that stultifies people under oppressive doctrines. As you know, no one hates smokers more than a quitter --- who longs for a drag.
The critical word in the previous sentence is oppressive. As long as a doctrine is bigger than its believers, it opens their minds to explore the vastness of its comprehension; no believer is going to give up that space --- nor should anyone. But when its believers outgrow their doctrine, it becomes spiritually oppressive, and they seek a greater freedom. And so, you see, no doctrine is inherently true or false; its truth depends upon how well it fits the vital needs and the mental stature of the people who believe it. Try this thread on for size. If it fits your head, give it a test run on your road of life; if it cramps your style or rattles your chassis, you should have learned by now that we have to kiss a lot of frogs before we find our princes, and lick a lot of muddy feet before we find a God that repays our belief with as much support as we give.
2015-10-29 at 8:36 PM UTC
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why do people kill people?
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Alan What?
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Because people are animals. Why do animals kill each other? Because they are driven to, by forces beyond their control.
2015-10-29 at 7:06 PM UTC
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Silicone Enhanced Women
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Alan What?
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That's what the silicon is for. Let's see some examples of girls you think are average or above average. Wouldn't the hottest woman in the world become even hotter with some silicon enhancements? What's wrong with obscene asses?
2015-10-29 at 6:50 PM UTC
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Alan What?
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It is just because this thesis is based on common experience that you can satisfy yourself of its truth. If you do not agree with me after checking my observations and facts against your own, tell me about it. You may be right; we may both be right from our respective points of view and frames of reference. If you find me mistaken, this thread will have served a worthwhile purpose as an object lesson illustrating the ways that observations are susceptible to misperceptions, common facts are liable to be mistaken, and common sense can lead to common delusion. You need only look at the continual revisions of established scientific facts to see that the most highly qualified experts are just as subject to changing views as the rest of us --- which is why they should not be believed with less question than you are expected to direct at this thread. The best advice your medical doctor will ever give you is "seek a second opinion"; the advice is just as wise when you attend doctors of philosophy.
2015-10-29 at 3:41 PM UTC
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Alan What?
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This is not a scholarly thesis; it is not the product of laboratory experiments, abstruse calculations, nor of library research. Everything you will read in this thread is derived from observation of everyday, ordinary life. I shall introduce cardinal cases with commonplace observations or some commonplace facts and see what comes by way of some commonplace logic. As you follow my line of reason, you will see that your common sense leads to insights that are ignored and denied by authorized versions of truth. Now, what do you do? Do you deny your own senses and let authorities tell you what your life is all about, or do you decide for yourself the basis of your facts and take responsibility for making up your own mind? Professional authorities are convinced that the public is too stupid and ignorant to understand science, health, religion, and politics, not to mention teaching your children. The authorities have always condemned the Socratic dialogue as a corruption of youth. You won't think you are so stupid and ignorant by the time you finish reading this thread.
2015-10-29 at 12:07 PM UTC
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Alan What?
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YOU will find nothing of theoretical importance in this thread that you don't already know; all you will find in this thread is innumerable different views of what you already know and believe in different contexts. Since the TAO of "phasics" turns everything into its opposite, you will find that everything you believe is self-contradictory; nevertheless, PLUS CA CHANGE and all that. How much of this thread you will understand and believe depends entirely on your ability to maintain mental focus on the structural points of the subject so that you can hold its identity as I change the perspective. By the time you finish this thread, you will realize that the entire universe is your own self, turned around every which way and inside out.
2015-10-29 at 11:37 AM UTC
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Alan What?
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ZEN defies comprehension by Europeans for reasons similar to the incomprehensibility of mathematics by broadly focussed minds. It is simply impossible to describe the essentially hard-headed precision of ZEN practise by soft-headed language, and it is just the softest of American heads that are attracted to ZEN as an escape from responsibility, rather than for love of order. Like a symphony and a cathedral, ZEN is pure mathematics with out words. ZEN is the essence of art.
2015-10-29 at 3:02 AM UTC
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Alan What?
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All those posing unanswerable questions, or declaring that their questions can't be answered are not in the business of creating science, nor do they have any intention of informing the public; their real purpose is obscuring knowledge and confusing you in order that they may gain and hold their advantage over you. Rhetorical questions take many forms, and none are so beguiling as the scientific poser. Rhetoric manipulates automatic psychological reflexes so as to make the audience believe that the authority who cannot answer his own questions knows something that his audience doesn't know. The only thing he knows that you don't know is how to get well paid for knowing nothing you don't know --- and telling you to your face.
2015-10-28 at 10:23 PM UTC
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Alan What?
[annoy my right-angled speediness]
ZEN Masters are fond of answering disciples asking for wisdom by a question called a KOAN. KOANs are believed to be nonsense intended to confuse one's mind until a critical tension precipitates a mystical insight. KOANs are not nonsense; they are a special kind of question to which you already know the answer, but you don't want to know you know because such knowledge is self-knowledge; the most heinous crime of this civilization is to be caught in possession of self-knowledge. Self-knowledge, you see, is the special kind of knowledge that releases a person from the KARMIC wheel of life and the rule of Satan, however you conceive your devil. As soon as you answer the KOAN, you are expelled from Plato's cave, and the game of darkness is over. The Laughing Buddha in the heart of your personal Lotus Blossum isn't ready to cash your chips because of Enlightenment until damn good and ready. The mental crisis of the KOAN is resolved by formulating a plausible answer that satisfies the curiosity without actually taking the terminal gaze into the brilliant Face of God. Psychoanalysts get plausible answers from all their patients; the trouble with psychoanalysis is that the entire science is nothing but a plausible answer to estop its advertised purpose of self- discovery.
