tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27577838.post116556245704736981..comments2023-09-30T07:15:36.391-04:00Comments on Noble Savagery: okay, so i lied. Magical critique of environmental/social/activist communityUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27577838.post-1165892846641376412006-12-11T22:07:00.000-05:002006-12-11T22:07:00.000-05:00as to intuition, I've been writing a huge paper on...as to intuition, I've been writing a huge paper on [legit physics] models of quantum consciousness.<BR/><BR/>there's a problem in neuroscience. we perceive seeing our foot hit the ground as happening at the same time that we feel it touching the ground. but there's actually a significant lag between nerve signals. for several decades most biologists and philosophers fought between the "stalinist" and "orwellian" (i shit you not) explanations for this. both suggest that the brain simply edits them together.<BR/><BR/>but in 2002, on the urging of a couple physicists, they did some tests on patients where they automatedly showed them a series of boring images. then they'd randomly introduce one with strong emotional content. here's the deal: patients' brains started generating strong emotional responses up to FOUR SECONDS BEFORE the pictures were actually shown. later work emphatically proved the results.<BR/><BR/>...seemed doubly relevant. keep your neurological time state vectors extended lest you break another foot.Williamhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00818379291904345272noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27577838.post-1165707285930943852006-12-09T18:34:00.000-05:002006-12-09T18:34:00.000-05:00hmmm. i always think about what you say, Will, and...hmmm. i always think about what you say, Will, and i suspect that the Druid fella is doing more than thinking deep, detached thoughts, though i could be wrong. i agree that if that's what he's doing, than he's not a good teacher. and i can also tell you that i haven't seen much human size magick going on (i haven't learned to thow fire balls and i haven't tried weather magick). but i know that life is stranger than fiction, and i don't want to dismiss something just because i haven't been able to understand it. i got a girlfriend as soon as i did some "magick", and the whole intuition thing... i'm sure the dude's got something cool going on. he's written a bunch of books<BR/><BR/>on another note, reacting to a new age pacifist is how i broke my foot. did i tell you?<BR/><BR/>i was being driven home by a kindly woman who had attended a workshop with me. she told me that when it came to a choice between using lethal force to save what you love, it would be better to die. that pissed me off, because i was already feeling impotent as fuck from not doing anything about the fucking developers around here. i didn't want to smack them, she was doing me a good turn. but i was just overcome with rage, and went i vented it later while running, i was so zoned out that i tripped and broke the foot.<BR/><BR/>i learned my lesson, i don't get angry at people like that anymore. they can be comrades and effective activists in certain circumstances, and next to useless in other ones. just like mevivir vino veritashttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06247637077719401381noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27577838.post-1165617385977707652006-12-08T17:36:00.000-05:002006-12-08T17:36:00.000-05:00baj, for the record, taxonomy no equal science in ...baj, <BR/><BR/>for the record, taxonomy no equal science in any way shape or form. you can have science without language. in fact, I'm not even sure you can even have science and language together. science is about touching reality, language is about abstracting ourselves into structures away from it.<BR/><BR/>as the author should know magic is a pretty damn loaded term and it invokes a bunch of stuff (both hands-off apathies towards roots/reality and the arrogant self-centrism of approaching reality through stubbornly macroscopic memetic constructs). word/meme manipulation and reversal can be useful. "anarchy=order" certainly set off a whole bunch of coolness. but his approach to magic just seems a pretty ineffective hill to die on.Williamhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00818379291904345272noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27577838.post-1165608087379179722006-12-08T15:01:00.000-05:002006-12-08T15:01:00.000-05:00mr multisubject: bring on the criticism!william: m...mr multisubject: bring on the criticism!<BR/><BR/>william: my attention wanders when someone tries to explain something to me in terms of science without incorporating magic, or intuition, or something.<BR/><BR/>taking homebrewing, or making kombucha or sourdough bread for examples: i know that specific types of microorganisms or digesting parts of my food, and changing the chemical composition of some complex molecules into others which my palette and stomach find more amicable. at the same time, i get a warm fuzzy feeling that makes me want to hop up the street to a local shrine. arright, now i need to get back to thatvivir vino veritashttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06247637077719401381noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27577838.post-1165606012954462542006-12-08T14:26:00.000-05:002006-12-08T14:26:00.000-05:00...Memetics by any other name.I heart this. But t......Memetics by any other name.<BR/><BR/>I heart this. But the thaumatic language is outrageously fucking pretentious.Williamhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00818379291904345272noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27577838.post-1165565833223279662006-12-08T03:17:00.000-05:002006-12-08T03:17:00.000-05:00Pl. do not be shy of comments and critism. We are...Pl. do not be shy of comments and critism. We are not your enemies.ybr (alias ybrao a donkey)https://www.blogger.com/profile/13635995478285822763noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27577838.post-1165565788428584562006-12-08T03:16:00.000-05:002006-12-08T03:16:00.000-05:00Better to coexist with Veneration of Saints and ma...Better to coexist with Veneration of Saints and martyrs. What is happening in Iraq? Mutual distrust and killings between shiyas and sunnis. Unite, live and let live.<BR/><A HREF="http://www.secularismyb.blogspot.com#venerationofsaints" REL="nofollow">Veneration of Saints</A>ybr (alias ybrao a donkey)https://www.blogger.com/profile/13635995478285822763noreply@blogger.com