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[IanEye]

Good discussion, bad subject line.

I don't think Atzmon is what we talk about when we talk about Krishnamurti. And after the forum's latest near-death experience in our last Atzmon thread, I think I need to be clear upfront in this one: I'll regard advocacy here for Atzmon as a violation of RI's posting guidelines.

[Wombaticus Rex] We think that is a fair ,and a wise guy..er...rule, to be guided by..

[random RI member] What is reality?

[Wombaticus Rex] .. and were not afraid of it ..are we??

[random RI member] Eat it!!

[Wombaticus Rex] You bet!

[random RI member] Eat it raw.

[Wombaticus Rex] rah...rah...rah....thats the spirits we have here. So c'mon kids

[random RI member] fuck you.

[Wombaticus Rex] line up, sign up, and re-enlist today!!

WR, I wish you well, but I honestly don't feel good about the claims made and the evidence offered here in this thread.

So while I would have liked to see more positive outcomes here, I will let it go at that.

And Lo, another thread becomes a referendum about your feelings.

[IanEye]

This thread is too important to be derailed.

This thread is too important to be derailed.

[Elvis]

I asked you a question. And it wasn't, "Can you copy-and-paste yet another article I don't need to read?"

by MacCruiskeen » Sat Jan 10, 2015 3:13 pm

[RocketMan]

Just one example, amongst myriad; since 1945 we have literally and explicitly held a power in our hands, previously understood to reside amongst only the vengeful and merciless Gods - the ability to destroy ourselves entirely. Quite what this has done to the collective human psyche is, in a negative sense, unmeasurable, - however, nature, seeking zero-sum, the point of harmony, softens the perilous and debilitating negative by giving personalised positive focus to the fraught individual psyche.

[stillrobertpaulsen]

Poppy always gave me the creeps. He exudes some strange William Burroughs vibe more than William Burroughs. One of those 1920's straw hat depraved varsity cads, like Crispin Glover playing Jay Gatsby, a soft spoken strangler of cats.

[Luther Blissett]

The US government is its own Jon Stewart.

[stillrobertpaulsen]

I hate to break it to you, but you're all terrorists.

[BrandonD]

It doesn't "mean" anything. The universe just tries to give everybody what they want, subject to a hierarchy as yet to be discovered.

[Joao]

Of course it wasn't people-powered, it was some rich developer daughter of a rich developer who bourgeoised it out, catered almost exclusively to the New Philadelphia yuppie whites, had bought the entire building for a fraction of its value, and "promised" to turn it into a "maker space", the assumption being that we would all read this Silicon Valley lingo as a gross good, to be brighteyed and cheerful at its mere whisper without applying any critical thinking to its meaning or impact.

[MinM]

The Leonard Cohen thread brought this one to mind...

I have actually felt for a long time that The Ventures might have been Government Agents. From the mid-60's into the 70's, while the U.S. was in Viet Nam, The Ventures would tour Asia extensively.
They would perform at an Army base, then at a private club, then on a Naval battleship, then another private club. It seems like the ideal cover to gather intelligence, then debrief, gather more intelligence....

[RocketMan]

As was mentioned before, I took my dad and brother as sort of anti-gurus because they were brilliant and yet they could be so wrong is such simple ways. I noted that this happened because they were so heavily invested in promoting and protecting their self image that their large brain power was expended doing just that, with nothing much left over for higher quality thinking.

This was later shaped into a general theory about ‘smart’ people that suggested because smart people achieve their self identity through their superior abilities in establishing correlations between categories, (so as to show they are ‘smart’), they are seldom able or willing to understand limitations and assumptions that shaped the categories from the start. Establishing internal consistency within any set of categories is enough to create the appearance of truth. Yet if ones goals serve to protect consistency (dogmas) then the value of appearance of truth becomes elevated over that of truth itself.

[Nordic]

Ahabs Other Leg:

Quote:
It's worth remembering that the current PM likely fucked a dead pig in the face and he won't be resigning over it.

[brainpanhandler]

I'm not sure why people keep confusing a concept of artificial intelligence with the concept of artificial consciousness. AI is programming that is predictive, independent and initiative through complex algorithms that are nearly today's reality. AC is self-realization and we have no idea where to even begin except by understanding that natural consciousness seems lost already on many people's artificial personas - which are, consequently, much easier to construct.

[backtoiam]

coffindodger wrote:
Continuously waking from one unrealized dream state into another is enlightening, if a little tiring.

[FourthBase]

"parapolitically correct"