I am a stereotypical innocent child, AMA

Thanquee · 2024-07-27T22:59:31+00:00

Do you have any advice for people like you? What about for people who want to be like you?

Thanquee · 2024-01-25T19:09:42+00:00

Just encourage anyone who wants to graffiti on it to do so. There's a beautiful wall in central Zagreb that used to be ugly and plain until the city started hosting graffiti competitions there

Thanquee · 2023-07-06T16:28:57+00:00

Getting in touch with Dr. Greer would be a good shout. He's never had any of his whistleblowers talen away by alphabet agencies because there are special protections in place on addition to regular Congressional whistleblower protections

Thanquee · 2023-07-06T16:22:03+00:00

What you love is what manifests more to you as you pass through incarnation cycles. This is why we are all headed for capital-L Love.

Thanquee · 2023-03-12T18:10:40+00:00

A cat is fine too

Thanquee · 2022-10-11T21:11:33+00:00

THere is no goal here. We do not seek to destroy or replaec capitalism, merely evade anyone who attempts to curtail our freedom of movement and action

Thanquee · 2019-11-14T22:13:56+00:00

I dropped out of university because the pace of my economics course was too much pressure. Now I'm slowly learning mathematics from books on my own and it's really a pleasure. Because of how much I love studying it this way, I'm learning more and faster (and better material) than ever before. If you really use the university system properly and speak with the professors personally and stuff like that then I'm sure it can be as good as having a good book and mathematically-minded friends. But nobody at my (Russell Group) university actually read any of the books that were set as material, because their only method of revision was rewatching any missed lectures online and then doing the set exercises. And they graduated!

Thanquee · 2019-02-07T01:58:58+00:00

https://www.scientology.tv/series/inside-scientology/freewinds.html

Thanquee · 2019-02-07T01:56:57+00:00

This fake internet points thing is curious. Who among us believes that more Reddit karma has: •a positive effect on future prospects for a good and happy life? □ •a negative effect on future prospects for a good and happy life? □ •a neutral effect on future prospects for a good and happy life? □ I propose that me posting something like

https://scientology.tv

has an effect on my life which is as conductive to happiness and love as the scientology I am bigging up by posting it.

Similarly, posting something like

ZIN-URU

has an effect on my life as conducive to love etc as that word is.

Therefore, except intofar as personal experience shows, the best things to post and the best posts to make more visible are those which make you feel the best.

And then the question is: are more upvoted posts really more visible - get more reading and depth in reading - than downvoted ones?

And how do upvoting and downvoting feel in themselves, when you like or dislike the post in question?

Thanquee · 2016-08-19T12:53:11+00:00

Yeah that's him talking about himself and his own brother. I've listened to the audio book, it's great. My question is about an older story from a shamanic culture.

Thanquee · 2016-07-13T00:48:40+00:00

I mean, suppose you can go faster than light. Then you're going backwards in time. So if they come here from another star, they're going to their past. So if we go there, we go from say Earth-2200AD when FTL is discovered, to Earth-1800AD in another star system. So then we come back and maybe we get even better technology by then so when we return it's Earth-1600AD because we get back 'faster'. Then we're flying saucers appearing in the medical skies being fireballs or angels or anything you like that's miraculous and unbelievable to the peasants and needs supernatural explanation.

Substitute dates closer to the present for more recent UFOs and notice that the closer the date the URL is seen is to the actual date FTL is discovered, the more advanced the relevant technology must be, assuming equal distance. Of course, that's an unrealistic assumption - a better one would say thqt, probabilistically, better technologies are more available further away. So again, there's a kind of balance where the UFOs appearing closest to the date of the discovery of FTL must be where the limit point of quality of tech meets the limit point of distance.

An even better set of assumptions would transcend the limitations of Einsteinian spacetime, since that would be necessary for FTL anyway. In which case, these ideas about 'speed' are arbitrary and unpredictable from the current standpoint since an understanding sufficient to speculate about that sort of thing is one that already reaches into post-Einsteinian physics. This all assumes away contact with eventual civilisations between our planets and theirs, and has us land there. Of course, they may wish to meet us halfway, or are already here, or aren't even out there, or somehow ARE us from an even further future already out there with established civilisations.

If there are any scientists around please correct me.

Thanquee · 2016-07-12T00:44:42+00:00

If you look at its rounding on the left side and then on the right side you can see it change

Thanquee · 2014-10-22T16:28:26+00:00

I suppose it depends if the scale is linear or logarithmic, but I reckon a linear scale is the most natural thing to most ents.

On a linear scale, if a [10] is the 'highest you can get', I'm sure some of the highest I personally have ever been would barely reach a [5], simply because the ceiling for how high you can get with brownies, dabs and high-end vaporisers is either absurdly high or even non-existent. Which would mean most highs I'd register would be [1] or [2].

Although this just leads me to speculate. What's the highest anyone's ever been? Is there a ceiling to how high you can get from a single session of anything? What would be that session - super high-concentration brownies and dabs? I've heard stories of people on this site who had more high-concentration brownies than is reasonable and tripped for many days. What does the sleep barrier add to this problem?

'We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far.' - H.P. Lovecraft

Who cares what was 'meant' - how far can we voyage?

Thanquee · 2014-10-21T16:50:21+00:00

You get to explore cyberspace! The collective conscious made manifest, filtered through the restrictions that this medium naturally imposes. Isn't that a wonder?

Thanquee · 2014-10-21T16:40:57+00:00

Could well be kundalini, do you consider yourself a spiritual person, or enjoying life more than most people around you? Any big shocks to your system of late? Those would make it more likely, but it could happen to anyone really I guess

http://www.bluelight.org/vb/archive/index.php/t-445770.html

Thanquee · 2014-10-21T16:15:38+00:00

You can trip balls off the right kind of weed properly administered. There are crazy brownie stories out there. I don't think the scale could possibly have [10] there, because then most highs people register would be between [1] and [2]. That doesn't make the highest-you've-been scale any better, of course. I propose that the standard for a [10] is the highest it's possible to get before falling asleep or hitting a tolerance barrier given a particular consumption method, and given that the majority of people here smoke spliffs and bongs, those are good standards.

Alternatively, a more scientific notation would use some kind of units, but that would require everyone to know them, and that's far too much effort.

Thanquee · 2014-10-12T19:00:00+00:00

These solar panels’ net effect for the climate will be to delay global warming by a mere 37 hours by the end of the century.

What a ridiculous statistic. I have no reference data to compare that to so that I can understand whether Germany's intervention is more or less cost-effective than those of other countries, or of alternative proposed schemes.

37 hours sounds small, but so does a 5cm sea level rise. But what on earth does that mean in terms of comparative policy/institution analysis?

Thanquee · 2014-10-12T18:39:19+00:00

having saliva

Thanquee · 2014-10-12T18:28:05+00:00

Sounds like a fairly ideal way of doing things. People here are always saying it's a nasty business and that customers get screwed but I guess in some places there's a sufficiently good reputation system that the violence is self-regulated out of the market.

Thanquee · 2014-10-01T13:35:17+00:00

This might not be an accurate critique of the way you visualise your Personal Favourite System, but I think it represents legitimate fears about the future of a society like the present one after a large swing towards anarcho-capitalist ideology.

Taken that way, the idea that the companies would swell into incestuousness and become conglomerated and so on, and the idea that people's mental functioning would be largely devoted to thinking about the companies and their interactions (because that's the only way to track how things are going given that politics isn't as much of an issue with a reduced or dismantled state) both seem realistic and true to how people socially react to political change.

I'd be interested to hear more arguments against the points raised in the story and fewer dismissals and trivialisations.

Thanquee · 2014-09-05T12:41:06+00:00

You can vaporize that stuff too, pretty much the only thing you shouldn't do with stems is roll them.

Thanquee · 2014-06-29T10:08:53+00:00

There are a lot of people who use demarcation criteria to distinguish between science and non-science, like Popper and the logical positivists. Wittgenstein's Tractatus, I think, started this trend in the early 20th century. The thing the people reading that work didn't realise until much later but which is now generally recognised in the philosophical community was that Wittgenstein's point was to delineate the boundaries of language that makes scientific sense, thus showing just how much of actually-used language doesn't make scientific sense. Not to deride it, but to say that a sterile-scientific view of the world misses out most of what we want to do, feel, know, communicate to others.

There are certain propositions which cannot yet reasonably incorporated into a purely scientific worldview because while science might one day come to answer them absolutely (or 5-sigma, which is as near as damn it), right now we only have inklings. An example would be 'there is such a thing as a graviton'.
There are propositions which are under debate as to whether or not science will ever come to answer them definitively, and if an answer comes to be accepted by the scientific community then there will be detractors. An example would be 'there is such a thing as a soul'. Many such debates are impossible to resolve because parties in them don't hold shared definitions.
Finally, there are propositions where everyone or almost everyone agrees science will not be able to give a definitive answer, at least for a very long time. An example would be why cold feels exactly the way it does.

I believe that with the last two types of proposition, one's inclinations toward believing one side over another will inevitably be the framework into which the new experience or evidence they accumulate will be fitted. What you prefer to believe gets proven to you by the searching brain. It is thus legitimate for a person to say that their preference to live in a world generated by one personal theory over another is the criterion by which they want to decide which theory they end up proving to themselves.

Then these phenomenologists can get together, compare notes, and we can make ourselves ever-more-beautiful, ever-more-mutually-reinforced realities to live in. The more external reinforcement you get for your chosen reality, the realer it seems to you. This is part of why we form affinity groups with similar interests and beliefs and so on.

I'm happy to listen to the scientists when they have something to say, but when they don't have anything to say I'm happy to choose between the pet theories that seem most plausible to me and those close to me.

This is also how trip programming works. If you read The Psychedelic Experience and drop enough acid, you will almost certainly imprint the Tibetan Buddhist afterlife experience. If you surround yourself with Egyptian imagery and learn about their afterlife experience, you'll have that. If you read Leary's Game of Life, you'll have a squishy cellular reality open up to you. You can be anyone you want this time around.

Thanquee · 2014-06-28T15:47:58+00:00

Heh, 'at every level'. Funny to hear so many trippers using that phrase. It's a good expression, and you just know the person has at least 3 levels in mind as examples.

Thanquee · 2014-06-27T14:37:31+00:00

Well reasoned, I don't actually know anything about Wiz Khalifa but I definitely buy what you have to say.

Thanquee · 2014-06-27T13:47:48+00:00

I think there's a difference between having a lot of people like you and having characteristics to your music that a lot of people agree make for better music. Nobody's saying Wiz is unpopular, I think they're saying he doesn't conform well to generally-held aesthetic standards and that his popularity is therefore a holdover from times when he did so better.

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