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Eterna1 said:

The Cheshire Cat said:

too afraid of the damage it can cause to my brain. maybe after I get my phd :P

Yeah, Richard Feynman took LSD and floated around in John Lilly's sensory deprivation tank only after he'd finished the atomic bomb. But then he regretted it because he figured he didn't know enough about whether it would damage his brain and that he was taking a stupid risk. 

About universal consciousness or "panpsychism" in contemporary analytic philosophy: it's the account fallen back on by people who can't get over the problems that come with physical explanations for consciousness, e.g.: at what point does consciousness emerge as a discrete phenomenon? is there a level of complexity at which physical processes function that suddenly gives rise to consciousness? Sometimes the half way ground is taken and you get "protopanpsychism," which holds that there to be a protoconscious component in every particle. 

Then there are people who think it's silly to posit weird protoconscious stuff when we know so little about physical matter in the first place. Nonetheless, I like the conclusion that we don't have any justification for a void in death. Sometimes your posts give me existential angst so I need to argue with you :)

And Francis Crick, co-discoverer of the structure of DNA, frequently tripped acid. He believed that the sober mind had evolutionary filters that stifled creativity.

LMFAO

Eternal, maybe we should hook on Skype and have a nice conversation once I get my life back (its exam period at the moment)

Lemon said:

I think I'll wear sandals today.

Don't you dare. You disgust me.

That is all.

The Cheshire Cat said:

Eternal, maybe we should hook on Skype and have a nice conversation once I get my life back (its exam period at the moment)

can i.. can i watch?

I want in

We should have a WCOM Skype group or something.  I have an account that I haven't used in 2 years.

Blaze said:

The Dunwich Horror said:

It's like this.  We're all NPCs in a really big RPG.  No one knows who the player is or that they're even in a game.  There was a creator, they created the world, us and our programming, but their role in this has long since ceased.  Now we exist only as a world for the player to explore and interact with.  A player we will never recognize in a world we think is ours.

But that creator can shut off the server at any time.

Once we stop paying our dues.

Once the player stops paying his dues or just loses interest.  Nothing the rest of us can do about it.

Adam said:

We should have a WCOM Skype group or something.  I have an account that I haven't used in 2 years.

I have Skype, we could do like a conference call kind of thing. Biggest obstacle is timezones.

You can't do multiple video chat on Skype unless you pay.

Today I'm feeling blue and down in the dumps. I'm pretty sure my mom and dad are going to split up soon, got some more job rejection e-mails and I was really hoping this one from Tennessee to fall through since my cousins wife works inside the company and referred me. This girl i've been messaging on okcupid just stopped messaging me, not that it matters but it sucks.

Things are not going well. I appreciate what I do have though.

Started off with one of those days myself.  

my parents have been talking about splitting up every several years or so, I think if it wouldn't be for the discomfort that it would cause us the children they would have done it a long time ago

The job hunt's got me down too shoshone.  Do you have any temp agencies near by?  I think I'm going to stop into one sometime this week.

Opinions?

kind of a weirdly shaped spoon

My knee-jerk reaction is that I want to climb it.  Cool picture.

it's silly.

Even thought my parents sometimes fight and can't stand each other at times, I think they'll will stay together forever. Partly because of us kids, partly because they know they wouldn't make it on their own. While I prefer to see them together, it is sometimes sad to see them both unhappy for periods of time.

Today was my 3rd week on in my graduate job (sorry those without jobs...!). On the other hand, i've pretty much been told they're relocating me to christchurch for 3 months or more. Will be doing recovery-rebuild work after last years Christchurch earthquake which killed ~200 people. I quite like the idea of helping out, and don't fear aftershocks or further earthquakes. The downsides are that I'm going to be away from good friends, which I'm not particularly ready for. I've gotten used to friends coming and going, but it feels a bit different when I'm the one going. The other downside is this has been forced on me because of the company's financial situation. I would have preferred to have a stronger say/choice. Not sure why that is important to me, but it is.

I bet you'll find it a good thing to move to another place and meet new people.

Taxi's are ridiculously expensive, unless you split the tab so I don't blame you.

I can't stand taxis either, would almost always prefer finding another way

7 people is a crowd for dj's? How many people are there usually in a crowd if no-one took their friends? I just ask because when we play to less than 30-50 people, even the smallest venue seems empty.

It was a very small thing, only about 25 people. It was someone testing out a space and seeing what kind of crowd he could get. 

But DJs are the new rock stars in case you haven't noticed...

today (yesterday) i went to the autoshow. it was awesome. i might even take my nephew again on saturday (he wanted to go but didn't make it). i tried to make a booty call on this fly honey i know downtown too but the ho blew me off.

also today (today) i had a dream where i was walking into a store that had Home Depot like shelving/racking (the orange ones) and in one isle a girl i was talking to at the show was doing squats with more weight than i. she couldn't do it but when i approached her, she asked me why i hadn't given her a spot. i responded that i didn't want to disrespect her. we had some convo that's jumbled in my memory but she said "things will get better" or something like that right before i woke up. now this girl was a chick who was selling race car driving courses at a booth. i was chatting her up (without any ulterior motives) and i found out she was a race car driver who placed 3rd in some tourny. the thing was she was very petite and i wouldn't have pictured her as a racer. EDIT: i think her almost doing more weight than me was some subconscious reaction to me finding out she can drive better than me.

also, yesterday (yesterday) i dreamt that i saw an old friend of mine and i tapped her on the shoulder as i walked by. she barely recognized me but then i realized she looked different. that very same day as i was walking to the autoshow, i swear i thought i saw her (my old friend) in a car at the intersection. they were stopped for a good 30 seconds and she looked like she was staring at me (she had sunglasses on) but i didn't wave because i didn't see a hint of recognition and i also thought i was seeing things due to my dream earlier.

i'm like fucking negrodamus sometimes.

my grandma is sleeping and just told a joke and laughed at it

I just told my dad I'd split the mortgage on the cabin with him, oy vey, I think it's the right decision for a bunch of reasons, but it changes my plans for the next few years

TheMightyPeon said:

i swear i thought i saw her (my old friend) in a car at the intersection. they were stopped for a good 30 seconds and she looked like she was staring at me (she had sunglasses on) but i didn't wave because i didn't see a hint of recognition

I'm pretty sure that's the plot of a Lifetime movie I watched when I was 12.

I keep sleeping in way too long.

Today I got the internet back, but I don't know how long for! AAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

*woosh* he's gone again. 

Internet seems fixed now, crisis averted.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-17106736

Today i dropped out of cegep.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-17106736

horrible journalism. good rap is about storytelling.

Lemon said:

Today i dropped out of cegep.

why?

Lemon said:

Today i dropped out of cegep.

AND INTO THE ROYAL CANADIAN MOUNTED MARINES OOOOOO RAAAAAH

TheMightyPeon said:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-17106736

horrible journalism. good rap is about storytelling.

yeah dude that article was terrible

Bryce said:

I keep sleeping in way too long.

creed said:

TheMightyPeon said:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-17106736

horrible journalism. good rap is about storytelling.

yeah dude that article was terrible

Exactly.

Today I woke up expecting to see a ton of snow, but the forecast was wrong and its just wet everywhere.

Right now I'm in North Bay where there's an assload of snow coming down, but I heard TO was getting buried even worse. 

Lol, no.

I'm in the South Bay and its 75 degrees

My mother is a liar. 

I'm in Eugene, OR and it's mild weather all around. I'm loving this moist air. My nose feels healed. Dry east coast winter is painful on the sinuses.

i got some moist air for you, baby.

today, was anotha day, anotha dolla. did acupuncture which seems to be working. my joints are better. my night maybe been flopped due to floppers. tomorrow i'm gonna take my nephew to the autoshow.

damned floppers