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Warning: This may cause a rapid decrease in your naiveté.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rStL7niR7gs
I got to "if only you had the power..." then noticed it's 20 minutes long and can't be arsed.
I clearly don't have the power.
"I'm not high at all... this is really traumatic" lol, some people just don't do sobriety
I'll listen to the rest tomorrow. You've been great so far
So what is reality, aub?
reality is that thing that i'm pretty sure exists outside the static of my own anxiety. :P
seriously though, i feel like endeavoring towards a satisfactory or conclusive response to that question is kind of pointless. i think of reality as Huxley put it, possessing an "immanent Otherness," one that we can be aware of but can never fully know through our individual perspective. this is also the reason ego death is such a significant and life-changing experience for people, to be completely outside of yourself, to exist entirely without your subjective identity, is exhilaratingly and ineffably revelatory. this is why the appetite for ecstasy in its philosophical definition, which literally means to be or stand outside of oneself, is so innate amongst humans, be it through mind-altering substances or other profound experiences.
MMM, clearly my real name rolls off the tongue so much more easily.. one thing i love Milo Yiannopoulos (whom i have such a torrid love/hate relationship with) is he didn't shorten his name like other public figure Greeks do. he forces everyone who talks about him to basically deep throat that long Greek last name.. Really admirable!
for years and i never once thought it was sakellar-eye-dis. who are these dweebs who dont know how to pronounce a simple name
inb5 everybody pronounces my handle with a soft g.
Reality is that stubbornly persistent thing we all share.
I think Einstein mighta said that.
ps amazing vid mmm
You mihgt appreciate Aubrey that this same experience often happens to those with brain damage to that area of the brain (mind) that encompasses self identity. You might find this interesting, specifically the chapter on the man who could not identify his own leg:
http://www.audible.co.uk/pd/Non-fict...BkSH0820150120
I love Oliver Sacks. I can't see that without signing up for a free trial which I'd rather avoid, but that book is on my list of things to read anyway. I need to finish Musicophilia first.
This TED Talk by Jill Bolte Taylor is similar. She had a massive stroke and different brain functions shut down, and her experience of it is so compelling and fascinating to listen to. https://www.ted.com/talks/jill_bolte...ht?language=en
Rilla -- Speaking of Einstein, he was a pretty spiritual dude in his own way, and he actually had a whole dialogue on the nature of reality with spiritual philosopher and poet Rabindranath Tagore (who is one dooooope motherfucker, check him out). It's a short read, like 4 pages, you can read the whole thing here, I think you'll dig it: https://www.scienceandnonduality.com...ein_tagore.pdf
this sentiment on spirituality by Einstein resonates with me deeply:
"The finest emotion of which we are capable is the mystic emotion. Herein lies the germ of all art and all true science. Anyone to whom this feeling is alien, who is no longer capable of wonderment and lives in a state of fear is a dead man. To know that what is impenetrable for us really exists and manifests itself as the highest wisdom and the most radiant beauty, whose gross forms alone are intelligible to our poor faculties - this knowledge, this feeling ... that is the core of the true religious sentiment. In this sense, and in this sense alone, I rank myself among profoundly religious men."
This thread is getting less and less random but I like it.
17 purple umbrellas and a pink one.
No polka dots?
I'd rock a sweet polka dot umbrella.
Just twats, then.
Fam-a-lam, let's not reduce people to quotes.
"TAGORE: When the universe is in harmony with man, the eternal, we know it as truth, we feel it as beauty.
EINSTEIN: That is a purely human conception of the universe."
Beauty is a funny thing for me. I take to the gallows humor of reality more than I do the deep harmony of beauty.
That short convo is incredible
Here you go
"beauty is the quantum number associated with the number of bottom quarks"
the strangest possible take on beauty.
Cal-Tech hippies tried to name the new quarks they discovered as Truth and Beauty, but got vetoed by the wider physics community, so they settled on Top and Bottom.
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In my experience, some bottoms are more beautiful than others.
No. Strangeness is the quantum number associated with the number of strange quarks.
Hahaha
Snakes vs lizard.
https://streamable.com/0z8g
Just in case y'all don't reddit.
And it's absolutely awesome. So awesome in fact I've interrupted people watching other stuff and demanded they watch this now and all agreed it was interruption worthy material.
This made me giggle
https://static.independent.co.uk/s3f...5/13/cafe1.jpg
^^ Could do with that sign outside most places near my office in London. There's far too many bearded snobs that look like an Apple ambassador, expecting you to be impressed by their talk of books and films you've never heard of.
There always used to be a pub in a rough area near my parents' house that had a sign in the door saying "no students, no blacks". That's usually assumed of any pub that hangs an England flag in its front window, but good of them to avoid any doubt.
When you say no blacks, I'm assuming you mean the color of trendy turtlenecks, right?
Did you miss the bit about the England flag?
I didn't know that was a thing. Are 'Muricans excluded from these places? I'm neither black or a student.
I'm pretty sure you'd be a toff and possibly beaten up in these places.
These are people who are a band of regulars who make the pub their second home.
Imagine the bar in the Old West where you walk in, the music stops, and everybody turns to stare at you. "We don't take kindly to interlopers around these here parts, mister."
Same type of thing happens in a lot of locals here, especially if it's a small neighborhood pub. The good news is there's a pub on every other corner and these ones are a minority.
Yeah there's not exactly a shortage of places to drink. In fact there's so many it amazes me that we can support so many.
I envy your sheltered life in Cornwall.
The pub scene in the shitty towns without tourism is dead. The smoking ban has fucked it right up the arse. Pubs are closing down fast, and have been for years. The only pubs that thrive are shitty "trendy" bars that the twats go to for the shit music and slags, and pubs that focus on food. Cornish pubs like that awesome beach pub you have in your neck of the woods, the Watering Hole, keep going because they make a fortune off tourists during the summer. Pubs near big football grounds obviously do well enough on matchday to pay the bills. Independant pubs do ok because they offer something most pubs don't... quality ale and cider instead of the brands the breweries insist on forcing on their pubs. The only decent music venue we have here in Kidderminster struggles to make ends meet, and nearly closed down in Janurary.
Dirty little pubs filled with racists are probably propped up by money laundering. It's certainly not going to be the hearty food and enchanting company.
In my city pubs are packed weekends and quite busy during the week. There's a ton of options from wine bars, sports bars, spoons, food places, expensive places with nice booze, live music, all sorts. But it is a city so I guess it should be busy.
And smoking ban has made no difference.
If you're talking about Truro, then we're talking about a city, albeit a small one, that has a thriving tourism scene, even off season. Furthermore, it's a wealthy part of the country, with lots of culture. There's a university-standard college in the city, and Falmouth university is half an hour away. It's no surprise that pubs and bars are thriving there.
lol what?
Local areas in smaller pubs it definitely has. In town (Manchester) it definitely has. I'm not sure why you think there is no change. Maybe in like middle class and above like gastro pubs and places like that.
I can't think of any positives that the smoking ban in pubs and bars has really had.
I'm not suggesting any positives. But in terms of when I go out drinking, which I've done consistently for about 18 years now, I didn't notice any reduction in numbers that coincided with the smoking ban. Probably noticed a lot more people standing outside which has coincided with more effort being put into making beer gardens a bit nicer, but that aside it seems the same.
Starting to understand perhaps, The pubs with rainbow flags must be reserved for the various colors then?
Or is it just for international students and the twats who buy polka dot umbrellas from the united colors of Beneton? (whatever that was supposed to have meant).
I wouldn't like to wander in to the wrong type of pub by accident for not understanding the flag code.
That could be as bad as displaying the wrong handkerchief in Brighton.
When I choose a post to quote and respond to, my space bar no longer works. Thanks, Trump.
Before the last play
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After
https://streamable.com/1cjw
Bummer. I don't remember what I posted but I remember it was funny.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CJlqsdezhhk
You're welcome, ong.
Yeah I'm not unfamiliar with that theory.
Plausible.
It demonstrates pretty standard government function: once there is an agency with a purpose, after it fulfills that purpose, it has very strong incentive to find a "new" purpose, which curiously seems to always be a bastardization of its original purpose. Agencies intended to solve one problem never go away and always "find" the original problem in new places or new ways in order to justify their existence.
Oh hey, wuf. I see you're still (over) using superlatives.
Other than that, how've you been?
Where are the superlatives in what I said?
I be okay. You?
I just bought a Sega Megadrive with 80 built in games, for my kids for Christmas (lol), so excited. It has Golden Axe 1, 2 & 3!
I WANNA PLAY SONIC
Sonic 2 > all *
I've seen no examples of agencies closing up shop because they solved their intended problem. I don't have examples off the top of my head, but I have seen in the past examples of the alphabet soup of government institutions still having power today even though their intended purposes are gone. Per Milton Friedman, the only example he knows of US federal government power reduction is cancellation of the military draft.
David S Pumpkins is too scary. Any questions?
Always... Never... Always...
Savy picked up on it and you responded to him.
Busy, busy. Life is good, though. I laughed at John Oliver's FU 2016 sketch, but I was thinking that it's been a pretty phenomenal year for me. Probably one of the best years of my life (if not the best), taken in balance. I got my dream job... nice neighbors... awesome woman to share it with... kind of a shit apartment, but next year can remedy that.
I'm ready for the short work week and long weekend.
I'm looking for a restaurant which will be open on Thanksgiving... harder than it sounds.
I've got 55 hour work weeks until about Christmas now. Going to be a drag, wake up go work come home sleep repeat.
Literally anything I say right now will piss savy off.
If it makes you feel any better, I would actually quite like some work over Christmas because I'm fucking skint. I could do six weeks of 55 hr weeks if it was all over come Janurary.