El Zapato

Eraserhead: psychedelics are reflected in surrealism.

Ask if a tree falls in the forest and no one is there to hear it, does it make a sound... I suppose your experience was much more intense than mine...But I found the best therapy for me was to just talk about it. How it happened, and feelings such as guilt were important to me.

I agree with you in principle, but trees falling down are not 3D quantum events. Pretty much big things are excluded.

that's funny, good story indeed.

The weirdest damn thing, I have had the name Marcus Aurelius bouncing around in my brain for the last couple of months for no discernible reason, until now. So, of course, I voted for him. I'm not sure I would agree with Lao Tzu musings.

ok, sounds reasonable

Plenty dang good...I would prefer the colors somewhat richer though.

Oh come on, ru serious? The ant, of course...

I love this lady:

It will make a sound but no one will hear it...well, maybe a sentient ant or two...they are everywhere the damn pesky things.

@LoseYourvelf oh, yeah...

That is really what is going on...egoistic structure. If I'm right, no make that, if I'm correct...I'm good. It is incumbent upon me to convince everyone else that they are wrong...that is a whole lotta work, and I ain't up to it. I'm happy being perfect and so be it.

Ach du Lieber, so I have been told ... It occurred to me that I should explain that I am a totally benign human being with a slight penchant for slapping ideas around. I've been told that also...

lol, John Bradshaw was enlightening for me...

As my daughter was growing up, I occasionally read her excerpts from a book called, "The Myth of the Happy Child". I was careful, but I wanted her to be aware of 'reality' in an age-appropriate fashion.

Terrible!

lol, that is certainly what I thought. It was like a bad case of vertigo...

yes, I could feel myself going into that state and mentally would just say no, I don't want to do it. I have seen myself lying on my bed ... etc.

I never found them pleasant to the point where I consciously chose to stop. I have had along with good evidence OBEs I merged into an airplane, met a person got her name and then met her for the first time on a phone call shortly thereafter.

Online, I'm around 1700-1800, but typically closer to 1700. If anyone wants to join a team let me know. Our team has been traditionally No. 1 on GameKnot

@Joshe I've been considering what the election results will be in the final tally. Logic dictates that Harris will win handily, but the right doesn't function on logic; it functions on fantasy, so anything is possible.

Oh no, not Mearsheimer...that guy is lost in his alternate universe.

With luck, it would go away with him. To me, it is very similar to Texas' closest-to-the-heart dream to secede from the Union.

How can you disprove something that cannot be proven within the same discussion framework? Or do you look for the higher; more philosophical, and less scientific conclusion? I have one thing that I feel is unassailable from any angle...faith through personal experience. Phenomena exists that transcends what one can sit on, What are we gonna do if we can't sit on it and examine it from an empirical perspective? There are neurological components that indeed can be examined, but in my opinion, those characteristics, in and of themselves are non-judgmental. But, no one has the right to infringe on your rights to be you, as long as you don't annoy me.

However, there are tools to simulate those paradigms which are very nice. If I remember correctly 'Mathematica' is one such tool?