[QUOTE=Zpoon;39417065]Just dropping this in here: [url]http://www.pitt.edu/~jdnorton/teaching/HPS_0410/chapters/index.html[/url]
Good read, relativity and stuff in laymans terms. Covers some of the stuff you are discussing.[/QUOTE]
this shit is blowing my mind
[QUOTE=Faren;39423825]that's a pretty minuscule difference when you compare to other species though[/QUOTE]
Yes, but It does kind of disagree with the "they came from Asia" b.s, but that may have been 15,000 years ago for all we know. Evolutions got some weird courses :p
[QUOTE=muddywaterfall;39422389]this is amazing.
[video=youtube;IaDOkMEK4uk]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IaDOkMEK4uk&feature=share[/video][/QUOTE]
The guys got some good ideas, but don't believe in everything you hear on those videos, I seen every single one, a few have some good facts, some just have some conspiracies he mistakes as real, which make him look bad.
[QUOTE=FoodStuffs;39421574][media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0NbBjNiw4tk[/media]
physics is the shit[/QUOTE]
michio kaku pwns
this video pwns
[QUOTE=muddywaterfall;39422389]this is amazing.
[video=youtube;IaDOkMEK4uk]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IaDOkMEK4uk&feature=share[/video][/QUOTE]
Nice video, part of the series I posted. Like said before by someone else, it should be taken with a grain of salt. From what I've looked into as far as occultism and spirituality this show's main message is a luciferian illuminist one. I am not talking about "illuminati", I am talking about a spiritual standpoint.
Also Michio Kaku said at one point in the video that 100 years from now the people would be like gods to us. and that "A technology of sufficient complexity is indistinguishable from divinity". This marks a fundamental misunderstanding of God shared by Michio AND "Spirit Science".
This is of course only from my opinion from what I've read regarding spirituality. Grain of salt for you.
when he says they will appear like gods to us he's using the term quite loosely and i believe you're getting hung up upon semantics.
i do take all of this with a grain of salt, but kaku just preaches like a motherfucker and makes sense most of the time. that's why i like him so much. not to mention he isn't gimmicky like that stocky black guy or in the video quoted above.
[QUOTE=FoodStuffs;39428567]when he says they will appear like gods to us he's using the term quite loosely and i believe you're getting hung up upon semantics.
i do take all of this with a grain of salt, but kaku just preaches like a motherfucker and makes sense most of the time. that's why i like him so much. not to mention he isn't gimmicky like that stocky black guy or in the video quoted above.[/QUOTE]
"appear like gods" well the thing is, if you go back 6000 years ago lets say. You are using super advanced technology of today. Hell, if you want you can have technology we'll have in 2000 years. But those people back then will see you as a "god" and that's what I think Zenneron was getting at.
Such advanced technology will be viewed as "magic"
And the guy on Spirit Science, David, actually is in a process of still learning. He mentions this many times throughout the series. He is just trying to say it in a way people that grew up like him would understand kind of. Lost and really have no idea what the fuck is going on society.
But for me, I don't really watch his videos for he gets to caught up with theories that are hard to prove. I like some of the other members in the group of "spirit science" that aren't all cartoony and childish.
In one of the Michio Kaku videos he mentions that a photon cannon, as in the cannons they had on Star Trek, is impossible because of the way light behaves. But what if it's not actually a cannon of photons, though rather a graviton cannon that creates an object with a gravitational pull high enough to trap light, like a tiny black hole. Therefore naming the cannon after what it appears to be shooting, since you can't actually see black holes.
all he's saying is that using photos to conduct energy is insanely efficient.
like he brings up a photon drive and other stuff and says that it would be impractical to use photons for any of it.
[editline]31st January 2013[/editline]
because im pretty sure he says something like a photon beam would basically be a light cannon...
[QUOTE=FoodStuffs;39421574][media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0NbBjNiw4tk[/media]
physics is the shit[/QUOTE]
The real god is the sun. We're all made of stars.
-snip how the shit did I get here)
[QUOTE=LoucoussBe;39496826]The real god is the sun. We're all made of stars.[/QUOTE]
i hate that we're all stardust shit.
not even necessarily.. afawk we're all from the same dust left over from the first explosion to happen in the universe.
[QUOTE=FoodStuffs;39509798]i hate that we're all stardust shit.
not even necessarily.. afawk we're all from the same dust left over from the first explosion to happen in the universe.[/QUOTE]
So if dust from the first explosion in the universe is everything.... We're made of... EVERYTHING!!!!
I guess the new age hippies we're right..
"we're all one man"
[QUOTE=FoodStuffs;39509798]i hate that we're all stardust shit.
not even necessarily.. afawk we're all from the same dust left over from the first explosion to happen in the universe.[/QUOTE]
people say we're made from stardust because stars are [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stellar_nucleosynthesis"]how lighter elements are used to create heavier elements[/URL]
without those stars life as we know it couldn't exist
[editline]8th February 2013[/editline]
also because it sounds cool because stars are pretty and stuff
[QUOTE=ljonny;39510657]I guess the new age hippies we're right..
"we're all one man"[/QUOTE]
yeah the new age hippies definitely didn't coin that ideology
[QUOTE=FoodStuffs;39509798]i hate that we're all stardust shit.[/QUOTE]
I was going to agree with you. Though, I realized that our senses of empathy, and the redundant ability to render a mirrored emotion from ourselves upon seemingly at nothing; is because we are evolutionary designed to base our lives around the perception that is required to function as a pack. This is exactly the same phenomenon that causes belief in deities. The spiritual evidence that someone is watching over you, with both love and sometimes hate, simply comes from a primitive sense of connectivity with the universe.
[QUOTE=FoodStuffs;39509798]not even necessarily.. afawk we're all from the same dust left over from the first explosion to happen in the universe.[/QUOTE]
I don't think I would go so far as to infer that the Big Bang theory implies creation from a single point in the universe, because of laws in causality. Whether the event was just another powerful natural thing to occur in an already existing universe, and we can't see the rest of it because of the event being so powerful that it disrupted the movement of light, or if membranes caused it from a higher dimension in a multiverse. My expressed opinion approaching those theories is to be agnostic in purpose to avoid unnecessary discussion.
as far as we know
afawk
i'm "agnostic" to the idea too. but i still base ideals around it because it had made sense to me from the start and still does, in the same exact way. everything was created from one of the most basic reactions in the universe.
whatever came before, fuck i couldn't comprehend so i don't think about it. it's the creation of the universe itself that created the laws of physics iirc. so before big bang i don't think i want to know, or else H.P. lovecraft would have to come out of his grave and write a story about the rest of a short manic life after seeing what came before. of me.
and it'd be true.
also i just realized a few weeks ago i feel truly dead on the inside. i really thought i had actually realized it instead of just knowing it, but it's taken this long. i was laying in bed going to sleep high and i noticed that the only things that made me realize i'm still "alive" is the pulsing on the inside of my left breast as my heart pumps blood through my body, and the constant expansion and deflation of my diaphragm, and the slight expansion and deflation of my sides as my lungs fill with air.
i've also had this feeling of great exhaustion. there's a much more epic word than exhaustion that sounds and feels a lot better to use but i forget. ever since i got off the mad doses of anti psychotics i've had this great relief wash over me. i've described how it felt to much to be on those meds so we'll just say i was constantly shell shocked for 2 years. the first day i didn't take them everything bad stopped. but i still felt incredibly terrible. like a really bad hangover. it lasted for two weeks. i remember the reason why it stopped was because i had gotten some weed. and it had already began to subside anyways.
after that i've felt this great exhaustion ever since. a feeling like the very deep innermost core of my fibers are constantly on the verge of simply crumbling. i feel like that rock axe tim robbins used in shawshank after he had discarded it in the end when they found it. it's hardly worthy of being called anything anywhere near a description of what it's like, but it's as good as i can put it. it's missing a lot but it's basically what it is to feel dead inside. a mortar round could strike my backyard and i'd leisurely investigate and stoically go "well i guess bombs are falling out of the sky" then calmly go from there. probably just sit down at my desk or my bed to what i was doing hoping for one to come straight through my roof.
[QUOTE=FoodStuffs;39525568]i'm "agnostic" to the idea too. but i still base ideals around it because it had made sense to me from the start and still does, in the same exact way. everything was created from one of the most basic reactions in the universe.[/QUOTE]
If we consider the semantic implications of expressing agnosticism, it would be more accurate to state that "Everything we know, was created from one or several of the, perhaps, most basic reaction/reactions in the universe/multiverse.".
But I believe I am over analyzing.
that's the thing with philosophy... a lot of shit can just go wrong over semantics.
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hgXlHWF3_Go[/media]
that was the first section of the movie i understood fully (well probably somewhere closer to ~90%, its ambiguity makes it more difficult to draw conclusions); fits incredibly well with [url=http://deoxy.org/t_langvr.htm]this[/url] passage
[QUOTE=FoodStuffs;39525568]i've also had this feeling of great exhaustion. there's a much more epic word than exhaustion that sounds and feels a lot better to use but i forget.[/QUOTE]
Lethargic? Catatonic?
I had a thought pattern before I read through your post, that you seemed more depressed than usual. I was actually contemplating about asking if something was wrong.
[QUOTE=FoodStuffs;39525568]
after that i've felt this great exhaustion ever since. a feeling like the very deep innermost core of my fibers are constantly on the verge of simply crumbling.[/QUOTE]
this might interest you:
[quote]So... WHAT CAUSES BURNOUT:
We have primal urges and intellectual goals. We apply will-power to inhibit the primal urges and direct our energy towards the intellectual goals.
Primal urges, neurochemically, are fueled by dopamine. Will-power is fueled by norepinephrine. To apply will-power, you consume norepi from your norepi reserves. If you run out of norepi, you lose self-control and have to wait for your norepi to replenish.
How does norepi replenish? Where do we get more norepi to keep up our will-powered strict quests running?
Here lies the paradox: NOREPI IS THE RESULT OF USED DOPAMINE BEING METABOLIZED INTO NOREPI!
But dopamine is the fuel of primal urges... So how do you get the dopamine to get used and to metabolize into norepi? Answer: By indulging in your primal urges!
So the paradox of will-powered denial of primal urges is that if you deny yourself from indulging in primal things, then you won't regenerate any will-power, and it will soon run dry and you lose control to your primal urges!
So too much will-powered denial leads to a relapse into primal indulgence... Paradoxical? Extremely!
So a burnout is when you keep abusing this paradox for too long and too hard. At the same time you are not sufficiently replenishing norepi, and in addition your norepi system is building a tolerance to itself, requiring ever more of the chemical, while also at the same time having your dopamine production cut down because it's not being used... At some point this unsustainable loop crosses a treshold after which it becomes impossible to activate anymore, and your will-power system crashes completely. The only way for the knot to unravel is to wait for possibly months for the system to reset.
During burnout you can't seem to achieve anything, because your whole achieving system has become too demanding to start up again. You can only wait for it to disintegrate completely (which eventually happens to unused neural structures), and then you have to rebuild it from scratch. Burnout is BAD.
To evade this unfortunate scenario we need to balance primal indulgence and higher ambitions. For every hour of studying/exercising/working, you need one hour of gaming/reddit/trolling. For every salad there has to be a chocolate bar. For every push up a stroke of the penis.
TL;DR: Will-power is a limited resource, which is replenished by indulging in primal pleasures. Balance!
PS: So primal urges and intellectual goals make two categories. Third one is CREATIVITY, which is fueled by serotonin, which is independent of the two others. Serotonin is replenished by eating cheese. Then there are a few other minor systems, but those are the main three. Keep them in balance: indulgence, ambition, and creativity.
[/quote]
na i'm not burned out i'm just used up. i'm not depressed because i enjoy everything normally and stuff.
things always have a tendency to be happening a while for me with me not even noticing. least shit on the inside. like i've seen shitloads of psychotic breaks coming, i just never knew exactly what they where.
also i've really been getting shit done in my life. even though there is more not doing anything than usual lately i'm still doing shit. hell, i'm joining a rock climbing gym just to fill up some more time.
it really is quite strange because i'm genuinely not depressed, just extremely drained in a way that won't come back and that's hard to explain. like i feel like i'm at my halfway point at best even though i'm just barely an adult.
from the sufi proverbs: "this, too, shall pass". keep your head up and hopefully your diligent success will bring you a more fulfilling future. i don't know what you do when you notice a potential mental problem like this, but i have to say it anyways: take care of your body (which it seems like you definitely are), maintain some positive social interactions and try to find profound meaning within small things as often as you can. with practice the bigger things become that much more profound.
[QUOTE=AgentBoomstick;39525713]this might interest you:[/QUOTE]
As an autistic whom have been manically studying all aspects of the brain for the past 5 years, I must ask you one thing: What form of psychotically diseased individual with inherited heresy for knowledge would be possessed enough to write such filth?
Though I find this rhetorical question highly unsavory and suspect I might be a bit cranky after being awake on speed for two days without eating anything, except for a small chocolate bar. I'm going to eat something now and when I come back I will be less... verbosely objectionable.
[QUOTE=FoodStuffs;39525568]as far as we know
afawk
i'm "agnostic" to the idea too. but i still base ideals around it because it had made sense to me from the start and still does, in the same exact way. everything was created from one of the most basic reactions in the universe.
whatever came before, fuck i couldn't comprehend so i don't think about it. it's the creation of the universe itself that created the laws of physics iirc. so before big bang i don't think i want to know, or else H.P. lovecraft would have to come out of his grave and write a story about the rest of a short manic life after seeing what came before. of me.
and it'd be true.
also i just realized a few weeks ago i feel truly dead on the inside. i really thought i had actually realized it instead of just knowing it, but it's taken this long. i was laying in bed going to sleep high and i noticed that the only things that made me realize i'm still "alive" is the pulsing on the inside of my left breast as my heart pumps blood through my body, and the constant expansion and deflation of my diaphragm, and the slight expansion and deflation of my sides as my lungs fill with air.
i've also had this feeling of great exhaustion. there's a much more epic word than exhaustion that sounds and feels a lot better to use but i forget. ever since i got off the mad doses of anti psychotics i've had this great relief wash over me. i've described how it felt to much to be on those meds so we'll just say i was constantly shell shocked for 2 years. the first day i didn't take them everything bad stopped. but i still felt incredibly terrible. like a really bad hangover. it lasted for two weeks. i remember the reason why it stopped was because i had gotten some weed. and it had already began to subside anyways.
after that i've felt this great exhaustion ever since. a feeling like the very deep innermost core of my fibers are constantly on the verge of simply crumbling. i feel like that rock axe tim robbins used in shawshank after he had discarded it in the end when they found it. it's hardly worthy of being called anything anywhere near a description of what it's like, but it's as good as i can put it. it's missing a lot but it's basically what it is to feel dead inside. a mortar round could strike my backyard and i'd leisurely investigate and stoically go "well i guess bombs are falling out of the sky" then calmly go from there. probably just sit down at my desk or my bed to what i was doing hoping for one to come straight through my roof.[/QUOTE]
I don't mean to preach, but it seems like you lack sense of purpose. You are in a general melancholy about the timing of your life, in a premature mid-life crisis.
My suggestion: Read up on some of Descartes and Berkeley's Epistemology. I find when everything else loses it's meaning it helps to get back to the roots of all this insanity we call life.
it's not really a problem, it's more of a state.
it's like a giant mental scar of those 2 years and it's only just now starting to finish forming. that giant ghastly grey gash will always be there, it's apart of me now.
lol, i actually had to accept how i felt when the meds got really bad, in the same way i accept this. only this is much more pleasant, i don't "have" to accept this i just do. it just feels like i'm way older than i really am.
i also do have purpose. Expressing myself through various means which i am actively engaged in and rabidly pursuing.. and love i guess, but that's backburner shit.
[QUOTE=Memnoth;39525816]As an autistic whom have been manically studying all aspects of the brain for the past 5 years, I must ask you one thing: What form of psychotically diseased individual with inherited heresy for knowledge would be possessed enough to write such filth?
Though I find this rhetorical question highly unsavory and suspect I might be a bit cranky after being awake on speed for two days without eating anything, except for a small chocolate bar. I'm going to eat something now and when I come back I will be less... verbosely objectionable.[/QUOTE]
I think you are over-reacting. I have found that my studying is 200% effective when I take 5 minute breaks to listen to music or have a wank or play a game. Then I go back to what I am doing. There is a study about this somewhere but I can't find it. I think this [url="http://psychcentral.com/news/2011/02/09/taking-breaks-found-to-improve-attention/23329.html"]link[/url] refers to this concept.
As for taking breaks:
Naps are good breaks, generally between the hours of 11pm and 9am
[editline]8th February 2013[/editline]
[QUOTE=FoodStuffs;39525821]it's not really a problem, it's more of a state.
it's like a giant mental scar of those 2 years and it's only just now starting to finish forming. that giant ghastly grey gash will always be there, it's apart of me now.
lol, i actually had to accept how i felt when the meds got really bad, in the same way i accept this. only this is much more pleasant, i don't "have" to accept this i just do. it just feels like i'm way older than i really am.
i also do have purpose. Expressing myself through various means which i am actively engaged in and rabidly pursuing.. and love i guess, but that's backburner shit.[/QUOTE]
My suggestion stands
i don't think i've lost my roots. maybe i'm just not understanding, but i don't see what studying epistemology would do. i'm tired. it's late.
[QUOTE=Memnoth;39525816]As an autistic whom have been manically studying all aspects of the brain for the past 5 years, I must ask you one thing: What form of psychotically diseased individual with inherited heresy for knowledge would be possessed enough to write such filth?
Though I find this rhetorical question highly unsavory and suspect I might be a bit cranky after being awake on speed for two days without eating anything, except for a small chocolate bar. I'm going to eat something now and when I come back I will be less... verbosely objectionable.[/QUOTE]
LAY IT ON ME I CAN TAKE IT
it's funny you say that because i've been up for two days drinking coffee by the pot. but really, discuss whenever you feel fit enough to do so. i'd love to hear it.
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