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nubbins`: "a strange happened so
i badded it"
nubbins`: permethrin woulda been great for my hammock when
i went to colombia ;/
nubbins`: actually yeah permethrin+cats,
i remember that one
mircea_popescu:
i was just filling in the gaps, dunno wtf he actually used,
danielpbarron:
i got bit by a feral cat and freaked out less than this guy; didn't go to doctor even
mircea_popescu: actually
i used to know, many years ago, an old, 2/3 tailless , earless, blind tomcat.
mircea_popescu: but
i guess it's because we're sociopaths, aka, idiot-intolerant.
mircea_popescu: "gee,
i wonder why the poor cat isn't scaling the wall after being sprayer with permethrin and not being fed for a week"
thestringpuller: asciilifeform: you may appreciate this thought. So
I like XC running, so
I just like to run to work out. At some point it's like your body is heating up like a GPU trying to run a video game (hence sweat). So
I've always thought of exercising as our bodies running "tough programs". lol
nubbins`:
i read an enormous amount of fiction in uni
Adlai: read it back when
i had 4-5 hours of daily reading time in middle school
nubbins`: that's sorta the last one
i enjoyed
Adlai: right. ender's game's plot, with different words. it doesn't have its own plot, and
i need a few decades before
i can read this author again, after children of the mind
nubbins`:
i got through about 7 of those books before giving up
Adlai: what
i do know is that one guy took cold showers on the sabbath, because if he opened the hot water tap, it might trigger the thermostat in the base's boiler
jurov: dunno if
i could resist to troll them with a bone
jurov:
i'd ask them, what if there's a cemetery below him in australia?
bitstein: Yea,
I remember when
I was on my birthright trip, my friend stayed behind when we visited Mt Hertzl.
jurov:
i'd fuck myself. we'd only have to resort to reading /dev/random about who goes first.
☟︎ trinque: times in the past
I have had cluster headaches
trinque: that
I am sitting here having this experience defines "me" sufficiently for me to use it
trinque:
I will still strive to be the one not capped by the 45
trinque: asciilifeform:
I began criticizing the idea that all of the infinite me's are to be considered as though they are the me driving the keyboard
trinque: talking at crossways
I think
nubbins`: "which do
i shoot" "either or, but not both"
nubbins`: asciilifeform
i published an (embellished) bio of a man with schizophrenia
trinque: can
I tell you what it feels like for me to type this?
trinque: asciilifeform: well yeah,
I think defining self is meaningless
jurov: lol you insist on psychedelic and whatnot.
i'm about normal brain function
☟︎ trinque: found thoughts escaping out into the things
I was seeing around me
trinque: Adlai: that one's on the list for when
I can take a long enough vacation
jurov:
i'm all for moderation. not immerse yourself in it, just be aware of the stream
nubbins`:
i had a roomie who did this with moderate success
trinque: if
I fall asleep at all
I'm good
trinque:
I run a business, too reactionary atm
nubbins`: take melatonin, and every time you touch a doorknob or a light switch in waking life, ask yourself "am
i dreaming?"
trinque: the scenarios the mind can simulate...
I'd like a pill someday that causes lucid dreaming
trinque: had one where
I asked god what it meant to not exist
trinque: man when
I was a kid,
I'd have bizarre dreams
danielpbarron: Adlai> note that you can actually get cevs by doing just this, if you can keep your eyeballs from moving for ~5 minutes <<
i used to do this when getting lecured by my mother as a child
jurov:
i've tracked myself many thoughts back to that dream form
trinque: jurov: had the thought once in meditation that
I was always... hm... thinking everything
I've ever experienced all the time
trinque: what you're calling "your mind"
I'm calling attention
trinque: Adlai: dennett went down that road too as
I recall
trinque:
I'd just ask Yudkowski "how are all of you feeling today?"
Adlai: nubbins`: actually,
i'd maintain the same even if harriezer's simulators recreate exactly what happens to trinque's brain in real time
trinque:
I do not think there's a verbal definition of being
trinque:
I like asciilifeform's mind amplifier concept
trinque: and only to myself,
I can't disclose that thing to anyone else
trinque: but yeah,
I am *here*, *this*, and *now*
trinque: so if
I change my thoughts about myself,
I change?
trinque: dunno if
I put that clearly at all
trinque: and
I think a better way than not considering it at all
trinque: and that thing is what
I identify with, that my experience of being is right fucking here
trinque: Adlai: so?
I'm experiencing subjectivity, whatever the fuck that is, *here* and definitely not *there*
trinque:
I took a look at less wrong a while ago, and decided
I could find an easier fetish
trinque: nubbins`: ever read
I have no Mouth and
I Must Scream?
brendafdez: it still is, at least as of last week
i got ddosed when entering the chan
brendafdez: trinque yes
i never bothered to configure it properly
jurov:
i did not say anything about answers
jurov: from experience
i surmised it's used to find accurate projection for inner turmoil
danielpbarron:
i ordered what was described as "pocket sized" and it turned out to be much larger
nubbins`: jurov
i think it's used more as a reference manual than a novel
jurov:
i was like okay, read it like any other book
jurov: btw,
i was always curious what is one supposed to do with the bible all the time?
danielpbarron:
i don't need fancy thingys; just the whole NKJV text pocket sized with a zipper so the pages don't get messed up when
i travel with it but w/e my KJV works well enough
danielpbarron: that also has the "references" B.S. which
I don't need --
I'd rather have the NKJV alternate transation footnotes
danielpbarron: actually maybe nubbins` can help me there;
I have this really nice pocket Bible with a zipper and real leather, but it's KJV and
i'd like it in NKJV
danielpbarron:
i'd like more NKJV but they just aren't as widly produced
ascii_field: went to find a soft-leather-bound Bible with gold edges on the India paper, just like
I had wanted and asked for, without unwelcome suggestions or anyone pretending to know better than me. It was so respectful
I almost got religion, myself. '
ascii_field: Shrugged, A New Kind of Science, and then other people chimed in with suggestions for Gray's Anatomy, The Chicago Manual of Style, and the 25-year anniversary edition of Gödel, Escher, Bach, all of them arguing that if
I wanted the most important book,
I would want their suggestions.
I scremed, "Enough!", and space just as suddenly warped back to the bookstore and the very helpful young Muslim woman behind the counter
ascii_field: '
I went to my local bookstore the other day.
I wanted to give a beautifully bound Bible to a Christian friend of mine. Suddenly,
I felt space around me warp and
I was in USENET space. People from comp.lang.scheme offered me a beutifully bound Torah. People from comp.lang.dylan offered me a beautifully bound Koran. People from elsewhere on the Net offered me beautifully bound copies of The Lord of the Rings, Atlas