I'm obviously content to allow people to be stupid.
I've lived in Indiana for the past 28 years! ;0)
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Guess my points went Zooooom, then. Likely here, too.
We have stumbled well-into meta- Territory aka epistemology http://faculty.educa...-cziko/wm/06.html
Play? or Resign if your comfort-level got?/gets exceeded. Here, later, you acknowledge your own experience of emotional-states via music, {meditation? inner-spawned chemicals? or outer-added ones??} facilitating..? maybe even permitting-at-all?? solutions to what you thought/still-think? were purely-intellectual, self-assigned Problems. Simultaneously you hold-in-'mind(s!)' the contradiction that, having experienced the strait-jacket of the mechanistic-logic of intellect--verily having failed to solve {some problem,} You conclude that (in your mind) it's too-dangerous--if not stupid-by-your-lights even to acknowledge that: What crazy was talking about (much of which obv. went Zooom, too) and I chimed-in on, from my experience and lore--was no mere dilettante 'recreational'-employment lark: employing our mentations to pursue experiments in an area acknowledged to be impoverished/filled with as much wrongth?/dumbth? ... as was Physics pre-Boltzmann ET AL. (How generous of you to forthrightly tolerate our gawd-given Right ..to act stupid; your empathy is, surely well-validated: you know the exact dictionary definition of the word. What more might a one need than that?) Sorry that, my view of your insight-module is: of someone smugly content to hold strong opinions about matters you have not even logically investigated, never mind.. attempted to Reason about. You're fun to agree-with/argue-with on a number of topics; alas, on My jury, I'd have to go for a peremptory challenge: on grounds that "candidate's response to circumstantial evidence is seen to be prejudiced by casual 'opinions' untested by experiment/yet taken for some sort of personal-Certainty." (Recall the thread on poor *Boltzmann?) His arguments were dismissed ["with-prejudice", goes that court-phrase] by the near-consensus then, of entrenched beliefs about.. er PHYSICS'--its Main-Principles (like say, "atoms" and such?) * Oh. and. more recently: Hawking's presentation upon (what next==soon came to be called Hawking-radiation in black holes/Singularities.. was momentarily met with dumbfounded ridicule-like noises, within that gaggle of fully-credentialed scientists er, fellow club members? Welcome to the club. ;^> Carrion.. we're all just composed of those atom-things, 99.999999%-of-which volume is [just chock-full-of *Dark-energy and Dark-matter--which are the same 'thing' and maybe even tiny-Universes] ..but-we-call-it, 'empty-space'. Still. * Dark: euphemism (like an MD's, 'non-specific vaginitis') for, We don't know Shit about that 'empty-space' Either. The "open-minded" Are aware that 'open' does not mean.. that there's no keeping anything IN or OUT of that mind (via my definition, anyway.) Our minds appear to be quite apart <--from--> that entire mechanical/physics-al Model of the material 'universe'; perhaps even.. quite-apart-from the body(??) no wonder so many people are afraid to really Use theirs? it just.. so.. M y s t i c a l (..and boy-howdy does THAT word scare lots of 'creative-accountants', bankers and, just-plain folks. Eh?) |
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Backwards as usual
But we are used to that.
http://m.jech.bmj.co...1-200252.abstract Conclusion High childhood IQ may increase the risk of illegal drug use in adolescence and adulthood.Conclusion High childhood IQ may increase the risk of illegal drug use in adolescence and adulthood. |
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Love. It. succinct, scientific, satisfying--
almost becoming er, sarcastically?-so
Heh.. Grad HS at 15.5; IQ--one of those silly high-enough-numbers.. twice, maybe 3x. (A Princess(!)--fiancé of a physicist administered one of those: her ~vocation. Heh.) Never remotely tempted near alcoholic dependency==depressant; pot, only quite rarely (a couple Wowie grades--as a verification) --largely depresses Inquisitiveness, at least in this sack-ful of chem-bio--soups. Ditto, hardly-any (of the demon-Âearing category), though some pure Owsley was one of those. No epiphany there, but Interesting. My Other experiments re the esoteric, pretty-much trumped the above re. 'enlightenment' efforts. (Though the entire Coca-leaf, as chewed by the locals--has more Interesting, thought-provoking substances than ever have been separated-out, let alone honestly-Investigated.) How Puritan-Murican-to-a-Tee, that fact. So, seems I'm an outlier, even amidst this test-collection of just-such. Guess I'm just fuckin-Lucky to be, still, shufflin around, given the hugely-scary nature of these experiences (not-to-mention Vincent Black Shadows or steering-around a light aircraft.. as amused friend disparaged my efforts to create er, sinusoidal-depeleneration in-the-sky. Ooooh: wavicles!) Seems that one person's scary-Bugaboo is another's raison d'etre.. or in some cases.. even salvation-from? ... a tribe or Nation of primitives and scaredy-cats of all stripes. Now.. if there Be such things as, The Bardos.. in some 'next'.. ... maybe a One gets to pick One's next nano-universe to Play In. I no words. Law above fear, justice above law, mercy above justice, love above all. |