rainrain

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[–] rainrain 1 points 13 hours ago

Goddammit. It makes me want to do drugs

[–] rainrain 2 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

So you'd sacrifice individuality? That's a good scifi one.

If The internet gets good enough with chips in our head and everything. I guess that's what we'd basically have. Access to each other's memories and senses. Just ghosts and an internet of flesh

[–] rainrain 0 points 2 days ago

I'd hesitate to draw a firm line between them.

[–] rainrain 2 points 3 days ago

No shit. Some adult video on 4chan. Not porn. Bad nope nope out after 2 seconds. I would quit a job like that.

[–] rainrain 7 points 3 days ago

We clearly shower differently.

[–] rainrain 11 points 3 days ago (5 children)

It's one of those memes that got ironically reversed. And then the ironic version got remembered by everybody and the original got forgotten.

[–] rainrain 2 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (2 children)

Those are some far out dreams. But consider the more common dreams. Dreams of achievement, security, progress and acquisition. Dreams of domination, submission, escape, fear and hope. Dreams of every desire. These are the dreams that everybody dreams and loves every day.

[–] rainrain 7 points 4 days ago (4 children)

I figure this is the origin story for a lot of terrorists.

[–] rainrain 9 points 4 days ago
[–] rainrain 1 points 4 days ago

Not me. I'm a cowboy. My herd of clients is the finest.

[–] rainrain 1 points 5 days ago

Hey me too. We're twins.

[–] rainrain 1 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

Purpose depends on the person. A person could meditate to get smarter or healthier, to get better at ther job, to get laid, to save all sentient beings. It really is completely arbitrary.

The purpose will change too. Because the way you see will change. Meditation is good for changing the way you see.

Meditation comes with no inherently associated ideas. No purpose or meaning. Like pretty much everything.

 

Advertising, marketing, propaganda. It programs people's brains. It is extremely powerful.

There are dozens of these mass brain-programming campaigns going on right now. It's been happening for many years ... maybe centuries.

The effects can linger for many years. Even passing to the next generation.

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Like, you are in a dark room, shining the flashlight on stuff. Part of a couch, a lampshade, the corner where the walls meet, etc.

Also, it's one of those focusable flashlights. Twist it one way and the light is small and sharp and bright. Twist it the other way and it's a big dim spread out light.

Also, if you are like most of us, the hand holding the flashlight is afflicted with chronic spasms. Always moving the light all over the place. Here, there, over there, etc. Jerking and jumping and wiggling.

 

Private property? Freedom of speech? Freedom to breed? Freedom of thought?...

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Consider the 2. Concentration and the other thing.

Both bring stillness (among other things) but via 2 different ways.

It's like making peace with your neighbors.

One way is to put up a big privacy fence.

The other way is to make friends with them.

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We settled for wax or pine sap and we were darn glad to get it.

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