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Grown men do have a problem with a build of up rancid oil in their clothes. Detergent and non-chlorine bleach do not fully eliminate this problem. The odor is universal, distinct and it is something that is hard to eliminate, unless you have an advanced technique of laundry washing.

I don't want to be sitting in a room that has been coated in Fabreeze. Have always been a bit paranoid about industrially manufactured mystery concoctions, but still use conventional laundry detergents.

Commercials are often loud, obnoxious and dumb. Hopefully the era of online streaming will do away with them.

I experimented with non-addictive hallucinatory/dissociative drugs mainly because it gave me inclusion in a social group, it broke down inhibitions. It also wasn't really a choice because I was so desperate for the pleasure of being high with friends. The drugs were a means to really connect with people who are otherwise divided by oppressive cultural norms.

One night everyone piled on-top of each other and we all felt like we were one organism. It was hilarious and ecstatic.

My biology got thrown out of whack though. Stress levels went through the roof and I spiraled into severe depression. Two of my friends had a psychotic break. One cut his wrists, another drove through a concrete barrier.

Depending on the psychological stability or health of the person and the context in which it is used, recreational drug use can be more or less dangerous.

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Imagine a future where A.I. can interpret and build a structure from your writing, such that descriptions are enriched into other formats and languages without having to know how to speak those languages.

The goal is easy and fluid transcription, from 2D to 3D to 4D and back.

Thanks for reply and concern.

The post in question is no longer important to me and will send a PM next time. It may be that I was looking at post preview and failed to submit it but doesn't explain missing draft.

I think I'm having internet connection issues (on and off).



No Hanover, it wasn't helpful. Go do something useful.

Pet traumatic stress disorder
Widespread asthmatic crisis
Worst hang overs known to young bipedal apes
Insomnia

What is not to like about New Year's eve?

The problem with plant growth enhancement is dealing with the more basic limiting factors of growth (water and soil fertility). These factors have to be dealt with first before any secondary improvement.

There are great ideas for fixing global problems that can't be implemented because there is no financial incentive. The Terra Preta soils of South America made biochar a hot topic, as both a soil amendment that improves growth while also sequestering a stable source of carbon back into the ground. While it is a fantastic idea it is too costly. I'd love to see someone looking for funding a biochar startup on Shark Tank (instead you get disgustingly shit products that siphon off consumer surplus) .

The purpose of art is to satisfy that "not enough" feeling that seems to torture us all.

Let's go back to the future of the new romantic movement! Don your cosplay and engage the public.

You're being evicted from the armchair and the cybernetic prison that is this forum.

The Borg is a just a commune of analytical philosophers. Resistance is futile.

There is a secondary circadian clock which is regulated by digestion, so you probably don't want to eat too late. Limit your eating window to 8 hrs as a matter of habit.

Take a hot epsom salt bath before bed.

If we care too much about non-human suffering, then our right to sell and buy fried, grilled, roasted or sauteed animal might be taken away by moral agents.

Sarcasm Tags might be useful to indicate when we want to ridicule and point out irony without voice inflection.Sarcasm

Troll Or when we are a pro-inflammatory hypocrite, or an uninsightful disturber of serious discussion.Troll

Sarcasm--->Not only should we be punished for misreading but also for post redundancy due to skipping posts. I suppose it could be part of the PF's behavioral engineering program.<---Sarcasm

Catholics wouldn't be able to eat Jesus if he hadn't undergone the crucifixion (dismemberment).

The blood and flesh of Jesus were once that of Dionysus (wine representing the spirit of the that god). Maybe Jesus is far more Apollonian now, an formal image emptied of ritual ecstasies or awe with an oppressive cultural entailment, in the light of our hyper rational age.

I wonder if Nietzsche ever talked about the symbolism of Christianity as it relates to these two impulses.

More than one wife is traditional in some parts of the world. What cultural script should we follow?

Maybe it's about the existential functions of good art, given that Nietzsche was complaining about the decline of Greek tragedy with the rise of the Socratic impulse.

Nearly everything is unintelligible in a supreme sense, until we have to sit and listen to the mind give us a lesson on whatever it is it wants to explain.

None of us have the time, patience or audacity for such a feat.

Life is 70% ridiculous and 25% horrific and 5% everything else.

So any discussion about the meaning of the meaning of life is by default ridiculous.

I agree with BC's assessment. But also, meaning must predate language and culture, even if it just comes down to a rudimentary quality of experience adapted by instincts.

Is a carrot meaningful to an elephant?
Does a mouse find any pleasure in a cookie crumb?

Yes.

Witcher 3 for the gorgeous medieval landscape and soap opera.

Tested free trial of StarCraft II but looks like you have to pay for each of the race campaigns. Looks like fun (or at least distraction from existential woe).

More interested in learning how to build 3-D objects/designs for the future promise of 3D printing.
Design suites and software are prohibitively expensive, but need to do some more searching.

If we dumped out a collection of stuff onto a table, you'd be able to meaningfully sort through it on the basis of what might be useful to you at a present or future date.

We assess the value of things, people (et cetera).

If you were heavily depressed, to the point that you couldn't even look at the stuff I dumped out on to the table, then maybe there has been a significant loss in the capacity to find value in those things.

Depressed and anxious people are likely to say that "life has no meaning." Maybe there are perceived barriers to acquiring a meaningful state of being for many people.

I often think that if I only had tons of money, life would be more enjoyable, since the tedium and unpleasantness of work could be dispensed with in pursuit of other options (meaningful kinds of work).

You have to exist first before you put on parfum (essence).

"It will never be known what acts of cowardice have been committed for fear of not looking sufficiently progressive."

This highlights the well known psychological pressure of group conformity. "Cowardice" and what is "progressive" is partially defined by the group you're embedded in or trying to appeal to.

If you can't chug way too much beer through your anus, you're probably a "pussy" in some frat circle. What that might have to do with being progressive is up for debate. Status can "progress" in a group hierarchy.

"Everything begins in mysticism and ends in politics."

The Red Elephants see great opportunity in blood sport (red is toward others, flushed alertness: fear).

The Blue Donkeys are burdened with a slave cart (blue is toward the self, blood has left the face: fear).

Every Donkephant is a Elekey, enrobed in a purple mantle of toward others toward the self.

Or... Go Cubs!

The flame of boredome and suffering renders it all into what might well be mystery.

Edit: It's backwards. Everything begins in politics and ends in mysticism.

My bed and my sleep have been monetized by titanic productivity.

The earth is actually a horde of Dragon's gold and you have to rent a space (a coin) to sleep on, all the while feeling anxiety of being eaten up in the process. Dragons don't eat gold, they eat people.

Just say no to Dragon gold, of which nearly everything is turned.

Make your clothes out of coins, be the gold that the Dragon values, and you'll be fine.

So Lambda is responsible for this mess.

Mostly women attend the meditation and prayer service at the building I upkeep.

There were a lot more women than men in the Holy Hell cult, if I recall.

Isn't football a religious/spiritual activity though?

Humans and their dumb intellectual classifications.

Suicide is a the ultimate pain reliever, better than heroin. And the good thing is that it doesn't even matter that you wont experience pleasure again - because this is a kind of suffering, and you are dead. The dead can't be deprived. — dukkha

This almost reads as a rationalization for murder.

The impulse to suicide stems from real suffering. It is a stop gap measure which could just as well accompany an existential resentment strong enough take the lives of other people.

Redeeming the world is different from personal redemption. I find that the latter is always prioritized and seen as a kind of prerequisite for the former. — Thorongil

I would say this could be emphasized more as a grounding context for understanding this topic, that ultimately the act of redeeming the world takes place form a first person point of view and is about the awareness of suffering in the world (one's own suffering) and what one needs to do in order to overcome it or come to terms with it psychologically.

The Crucifixon has been said to represent "a voluntary participation in the sorrows of the world" (Joseph Campbell). Instead of escaping the world, redemption is about the individual voluntary meeting his fears in an exercise of existential overcoming, true learning, that he may ascend to new being.

“If I had a world of my own, everything would be nonsense. Nothing would be what it is, because everything would be what it isn't. And contrary wise, what is, it wouldn't be. And what it wouldn't be, it would. You see?”

Alice (drunk off her ass)

Eugenics isn't about what "you" want, it's about what the authorities have decreed. — Bitter Crank

I think we can use the term to apply to designer babies in a Capitalist setting, even though as you say it is speculative sci-fi at the moment. The term is possibly too shadowed by its history and should maybe be abandoned to your definition.

You've seen the film, GATTACA, I'm sure, where citizens are discriminated against on the basis of whether they've undergone pre-birth genetic enhancement.

I should add that I want the child I deserve, I don't want to pick. — Agustino

But you would want to avoid severe genetic defects that might upend your family's future well being, right? So you don't really mean what you just said.

Is this a recommendation to "be here now"?

It isn't easy for those to reign in their irrational fears by which their perceptions are organized. A lot of the time the projected future, present and or past is unhelpfully false, or at least distorted in some sometimes useful sometimes harmful way. My fears about the future have me in an existential anxiety trap. Reworking the habits of perception is not easy by any means.

Stories of past, present, future bring order to chaos, unless they do the opposite, which they often do.

And I second what Unenlightened said, the eloquent bastard.

Whatever it is that makes a breeding pair attractive to each other probably has nothing to do with non-obvious but serious genetic flaws.

And eugenics is a social plan, not personal preferences. — Bitter Crank

We're not just talking about non-obvious genetic flaws with regard to eugenics, we're talking about the possibilities of shaping human features in a cosmetic or performative way out of personal preference. Though I know natural selection isn't a eugenics program of any sort, the same forces, cultural or instinctual, that help us pick our mates also help us to determine what we want our children to look and act like.

Why are so many South Koreans getting plastic surgery (and why do they have to attach a picture to their job resume)? I'm sure they would leap to any eugenics program that would make it easier on their children in such competitive atmosphere.

New Yorker: About Face

We already practice eugenics with regard to sexual preference and mate selection. The reason we desire some traits in our sexual partner has something to do with the likelihood that the traits in our offspring will be beneficial to them at some level, even if what we have selected for is average and quite common.

The body is either all apples, all oranges or mixed fruit basket.

It's full of impolite disinterest and poop.

Was a self-employed landscape maintenance guy who luckily fell into a job with a salary, rent and utilities covered by employer. My income is the effect of a private investment company and its privately funded non-profit foundation, so I'm basically working for a wealthy person.

I find work routine and dull but it does help me to keep physically and mentally together. I don't have much discipline or energy to use my off hours for personal growth and usually find myself consuming mindless entertainment. I struggle with insomnia which sours my mood a lot.

If I was wealthy enough I'd work on building an off grid tiny house community centered around a communal farm and a workshop for promoting open source DIY activities. Fuck the Capitalist pigs who don't know how to utilize land properly.

So now that you've given up your legal rights as a human being we are sending you to Foxconn, were you will work building Iphones until you collapse. You are already obsolete as a worker there and completely expendable. After you are dead your fat will be rendered down and sold to street food vendors and your desiccated ground remains will be sold off as fertilizer.

You have simply become the means to someone else's end (something the rest of us human beings have been historically trying to escape).

I was being facetious. I guess MU's argument is more subtle than that but I still don't really grasp it.