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Howard the Duck 11-15-2011 09:00 AM
i beleive i'm chaotically good

sonar1 11-15-2011 10:07 AM
In "being" I have noticed to two most prevalent elements in the known Universe apparently are:

1 - Hydrogen


2 - Stupidity


And since I can only seem to be good at one thing at a time I have made my choice at which of these elements to incorporate into my existence every day.

SIRIUSB 11-15-2011 10:12 AM
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Originally Posted by sonar1 (Post 1119996)
In "being" I have noticed to two most prevalent elements in the known Universe apparently are:

1 - Hydrogen


2 - Stupidity


And since I can only seem to be good at one thing at a time I have made my choice at which of these elements to incorporate into my existence every day.
What about Justin Bieber? Doesn't he fall somewhere between Hydrogen and Stupidity?

sonar1 11-15-2011 11:40 AM
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Originally Posted by SIRIUSB (Post 1119997)
What about Justin Bieber? Doesn't he fall somewhere between Hydrogen and Stupidity?
But of course.

He's been on Oprah hasn't he?

That qualifies as a gaseous state of being. More methane than hydrogen, but still.

Anybody who can jostle for camera position on Soul Train, or Oprah, gets their fifteen minutes...

Howard the Duck 11-15-2011 07:08 PM
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Originally Posted by sonar1 (Post 1119996)
In "being" I have noticed to two most prevalent elements in the known Universe apparently are:

1 - Hydrogen


2 - Stupidity


And since I can only seem to be good at one thing at a time I have made my choice at which of these elements to incorporate into my existence every day.
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Quote:
i'm the newest gas known to men - helium - Jimi Hendrix
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Zaqarbal 11-16-2011 09:50 PM
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Originally Posted by Vanilla (Post 1118200)
So, life. What is life? What is existence?
A dream within a dream.



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Originally Posted by Edgar Allan Poe (narration by Orson Welles).

"For my own part, I have never had a thought which I could not set down in words, with even more distinctness than that which I conceived it. There is, however, a class of fancies, of exquisite delicacy, which are not thoughts, and to which, as yet, I have found it absolutely impossible to adapt to language. These fancies arise in the soul (alas, how rarely!) only at epochs of most intense tranquillity, when the bodily and mental health are in perfection and at those mere points of time where the confines of the waking world blend with the world of dreams. And so I captured this fancy, where all that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream."

Frownland 01-08-2014 12:05 PM
Does the Playboy mansions have chocolate bunnies for Easter?

Discuss.

Xurtio 04-08-2014 10:01 PM
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Originally Posted by Howard the Duck (Post 1118480)
basically, it just refutes the anthropomorphic concept that imposes an "order" on the universe
Chaos theory doesn't refute anything. It's just a collection of mathematical tools to use to understand the emergent behavior of deterministic systems that are unpredictable because of their sensitivity to initial conditions. It's like saying chess theory refutes something. Chess theory is just a toolbag.

Laws and principles and such can refute things, but "theory" is a word used in academia to represent a collection of observations and tendencies, not the way laymen used it when they "have a theory".

Mr. Charlie 06-23-2014 06:10 PM
Here's an idea that crossed my mind on psychedelics not long ago:

Does the mind really produce cosnsciousness, or is the mind merely a conduit through which consciousness can travel, that consciousness is in fact something separate to ourselves (or to put it another way - something akin to a tuner picking up FM radio)? Both seem equally plausible to me.

GuD 06-23-2014 11:44 PM
Hedonism and pragmatism > all the foofy metaphysical crap.

thoughts?


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