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  2. Ultimate musical improvisation/creativity

    Carl-Richard replied to Carl-Richard's topic in Self-Actualization Journals

    I post a lot about virtuosity (sheer technical skill), but on the other "side" you have people who are very into songwriting and creating a certain refined sound perhaps by chasing an internal vision of what they want to see. A band that has recently stood out to me there is Sybreed. Think Krautrock, industrial, Rammstein, with prog and djent elements, and then just this soulfulness that is hard to pin down but it's just there, pure clear inspiration. Another band like this is Cynic (similarly ecclectic but still highly visionary and intuitively attuned; in fact I know of no other band that sounds like Cynic even in terms of the genre, not just the visionary signature).
  3. I'm gunna guess to create a fake Jesus. They hype it up about gaining conciousness and being evil then a fake Jesus appears in the computer and Christians lose their minds.

  4. Dune: Part 3 (Official Trailer)

    Cubbage replied to Natasha Tori Maru's topic in Off-Topic: Pop-Culture, Entertainment, Fun

    @Leo Gura @Leo Gura There are good writers in Hollywood, but if the writing for a big franchise like Dune is too nuanced, the masses won't get it by default and cause the mindless masses are where the money is, this means the film won't make as much money and thus the incentive to water down the complexity of Dune and any other original or pre-existing IP makes sense from the corpo standpoint cause if the writing is too layered, dense, intellectual and detailed it will be inaccessible to the masses. The masses are gagging for epic fantasy trilogies ala lord of the rings, star wars, pirates of the Caribbean, narnia etc. And Dune is the only film series at the minute which is capturing the essence of those films, so I'm not surprised that these films haven't seen their full potential, the big wigs don't want Dune to be too alienating to audiences so having a fairly arthousey director like Denis adapt it is probs the best of both worlds. Jodorowsky's Dune would have been unreal. The Holy Mountain is a deeply spiritual film imo, he could have translated the spiritual qualities of Dune into a movie better than Denis. Denis is a master at establishing thick, rich atmosphere at the expense of plot. The characters aren't deep but the performances and production are too masterful for it not to spark some emotion out of me.
  5. All you're doing is fooling yourself, which is very damn ironic considering the position you find yourself in: that of a "self-aware human" rejecting what he/she truly is, all so you can "play your part" better
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  7. @felixk_priv yea but your gf is asking you to be clear so just say something that you think it is thats clear. If you say im not clear and they say I want you to be clear just say what you think it is.

  8. My meditation journal

    Thittato replied to Thittato's topic in Self-Actualization Journals

    1st session of kayaking this year. It was super-nice. I only paddled for 1 hour and 15 min, put it was perfect as a kick-off. I've been training consistently with kettlebells now for over a month, and I have expanded from only kettlebell snatch into a full program, so it was amazing to see what an effect this had on my paddling. I felt much more robust in all kinds of ways as I was having my first session of this year - not rusty at all. Very interesting with functional strength. Here are my kayaking numbers from the previous years: 2021: 20 sessions 2022: 30 sessions 2023: 11 sessions 2024: 9 sessions 2025: 5 sessions In total: 75 sessions So the enthusiasm has been steadily declining since those first two years, and I used to start the season much earlier, so I'm not sure how much I'll paddle this year, but I'll do at least 5 sessions to bring the number of totals up to 80.

  9. I'm moving to China

    WonderSeeker replied to WonderSeeker's topic in Personal Development -- [Main]

    When you come to Korea, take a train to Daegu. I'll grab ya a meal and we can check out the local scenery. Heard it's a nice place. Lot of Silk Road history
  10. The truth usually arrives along with a whole bunch of horseshit.
  11. Rove says Iran may create 'problems' before midterms to hurt Trump Jun 30, 2026 — Republican strategist Karl Rove on Monday said Iran could create "problems" to hurt President Trump ahead of November's midterm NewsNation https://www.newsnationnow.com The Hill https://thehill.com Mark Esper: Iranians want to 'get what they can' before midterms 10 hours ago — Former Defense Secretary Mark Esper predicts Iran will seek maximum leverage in peace negotiations with the US before midterm elections 🇮🇷 🇺🇸 🇮🇷 🇺🇸 China could be thinking the same thing. If only pussy ass Europe would.
  12. $4Trillion invested Worldwide spending on AI is forecast to reach $2.5 trillion in 2026, with major tech companies committing approximately $1 trillion this year alone toward data centers, semiconductors, and software. Between 2013 and 2025, venture capitalists and corporations cumulatively poured well over $1.5 trillion into the technology. [1, 2, 3] Data center electricity use is expected to triple from about 4% of US consumption in 2023 to 12% by 2028.5% of the US's electricity is used for data centres. For AI-focused data centres specifically, we're probably talking around 2%. the annual electricity cost solely for generating ChatGPT responses is estimated to exceed $3 billion. would cost approximately $318 billion per year to virtually eliminate extreme global poverty. Around 800 million people worldwide live in extreme poverty, surviving on less than $3 a day. What is AI for? We have 800 million people being relegated to trash pits.$4trillion invested in ai, when for 300B you could end poverty in a year, 15 billion a year electricity cost for current A.I. levels; expected to triple. Why wouldn't we pull everyone out of poverty and teach more people to program or whatever A.I. is doing: being artists and video creators, scientists? We have 800 million supercomputers scrounging through garbage. AI is completely contained to human created content by the way, it's not solving all our math and physics problems so why do people think it will solve real world problems when more sensors and equipment connect it to the real world?
  13. He has a new girlfriend every week now. Back when he wasn’t famous he would hide his douchiness and was complaining about being perpetually single.
  14. You cherry picked one poll, two others find him with the highest lead.
  15. I did a project recently on Socrates and the soul, which errs towards the Soul and Being and things of this nature (basically, a project on Platos dialogues, which of course are endlessly fascinating, in ways ill not express here to avoid giving too much away). Theres a history of the Greek term used; for that idea, "where it comes from, how its used", within a ~ roughly 30 page book called 'Socrates and the doctrine of the soul, Alas Socrates also uses the soul much like we do, for instance if anyone is a musician, we call these genres, 'the blues, or theres soul music, gospel music, and what do we mean by that kind of soul? We also use the soul in ways that cross through the soul as either an intellectual form of, or the soul as inheriting a spiritual quality, or embodying consciousness / universe / exp., etc., And the Socratic soul is a generation after the more Ba / Ka, Egyptian spirit~soul / Athenian tradition (pre Homeric tradition), though ill let everyone investigate just what that is im tlkin about, As its like a movie and you dont give away the movie (inb4 the odyssey, the great movie that everyone is gonna pay $50 for... although, all jokes aside, i googled tickets for it, and it says its sold out, so ppl are really goin to see that movie i guess) You can think on that, where much of what ill say now is gonna be ambiguous for the sake of letting everyone qualify their own perspective. But theres also Parmenides, a logician well-known for "to be" + "Being", things like this, or one might say so, and on, what is perhaps a very stressed version on what it even is 'to be — for he does the proper, investigation of such things from these tediously expanded angles; Alas, Parmenides is probably the more difficult of all the dialogues, and id suggest leaving dialogues like this, for last, when you can really let it sink in~wat is happening. That is my suggestion. Start wherever, just dont staert w Parmenides, unless you think u rdy for that one. Even though ive not expressed Spirituality, Consciousness, Awakening, Mysticism, Meditation, God, Youd be surprised how often they use "god" singular as an anchor, likewise, how often they consider making distinctions between things that one might say are \*spiritual v. reasonable (granted, it crosses through the idea of \*Forms, as opposed to a very strict "this is the logical thing [of form] versus, this is the subjective thing of experience (INSERT Parmenides @ this point, where, this is an incredibly deep and introspective place to have evoked and investigated things from, from Parmenides at one's side) Anyway. Iuno wat the point was, cnt remember, but i think it helps in investigating mystical, metaphysical stuff. Also especially, it gets you to see who Socrates is, or rather, who Plato is through the illustration of characters like Socrates, who is mentioned by other Greeks too, so its not like these are fake people. They are verified as ppl outside of the dialogues. P.s. Many scholars, at that time, and after, talk alot of sh** to each other too, so theres no end to the amount of name calling and overly expressed, negative opinions, much like today n age weirdness... People often get Plato mixed up w/ someone like this, but youd be surprised to learn that theres nothing in Plato like this, alas you will only ever find a Socratic marathon, lots of wise individuals or interactions, and expressed through one, continuous dialogue (or atleast its better to think of it that way, instead of like "This totally separate topic A, that totally separate topic B, and that other totally separate topic C, D, etc, etc" The titles for each dialogue are ways for us to keep track of em all, so we have a way to organize it and think of it... They are very drunk during the Symposium, so from their perspective / circumstances, its not a simple, straightforward situation, in regards to how they are to get memorized/recorded... In atleast one other dialogue, it is actually 'someone elses memory that Plato is giving us, per \*their perspective on "What they had experienced" on recalling and telling the bulk of the dialogue, thereafter, where it then blends into that bulk dialogue... Plato & Socrates are my fav., so thats yet another reason that i think i want to ensure others see what i see in that realm)
  16. Bro was manic and in a deep state of psychosis. How he was acting in his recent videos and for the past few years is exactly what psychosis looks like from an outsiders perspective. His death is exactly the end that many people with mental issues come to. It doesn't matter how many times he said he was acting or that it was some grand scheme. All that was a psychotic cope for his behavior and antics. Just because you are in psychosis does not mean that you are not intelligent or can't act in ways that seem normal.
  17. I had a thought that what most "shredders" (people who play fast guitar) do is their either don't improvise, or if they do improvise, they play very simple and isolated and repetitive phrases that usually don't connect to a larger story (or it jumps into a quite different story, one at a lower level of speed and intensity). They do the equivalent of saying very fast "I like cake, I like cake, I like cake" and then maybe "I like muffins, I like muffins, I like muffins", and then they go to singing more slowly "Oooh cake, caaake...... cake" or "Broccoli! Kale! That's what I like". Meanwhile someone like Shawn Lane, Guthrie Govan or Allan Holdsworth are like really fast like Eminem rapgod speed "I went down to the market to buy some cake and then I saw this lady with this massive cake and I thought 'damn, how much does that cost?', probably priceless if you ask me". They tell a whole story, they do interesting and funny things, like Guthrie Govan especially, he is like a guitar comic, he tells literal jokes on the instrument, some sounds and deliveries (lead ups and punchlines) he makes are so surprising and crazy but also witty and they make sense, they make you laugh, like how Theo Von talks almost all the time. And again, all while playing at lightspeed. It's one of those cases of having both a high IQ and high cognitive complexity (which usually translates to genius), or simply being tapped into pure creative intelligence. Watch this: And then this: https://youtu.be/I7AaKrHgK1A?t=312&is=HooO5XrolcOOxe-5 Or this:
  18. @LifeEnjoyer yeah he played the character so well he needed to die exact the same way. The "Drug Overdose" Connection The mention of a drug overdose is tied directly to a real-world musical that inspired Connor's online stunt: Dear Evan Hansen: Connor explains that his entire online persona over the previous year was modeled after this Broadway musical. The Character: A key character in the musical is named Connor Murphy—sharing the exact same name as him. The Overdose Plot: In the play, the fictional Connor Murphy struggles with severe mental health issues and ultimately dies by suicide from a drug overdose. Connor states that he used this coincidence to stage a real-life version of the play on YouTube. As part of this "act," he pretended to be heavily involved with psychedelics (like Ayahuasca) and feigned a drug-induced psychosis online to simulate the character's downward spiral and raise mental health awareness.
  19. And he's in last and losing to collins
  20. Troy Jackson is the dsa and Bernie endorsed candidate
  21. @Joseph Maynor You’re right. @OBEler I’m so confused.
  22. False, he's in last "Shah led Collins 47 percent to 46 percent; Bellows tied at 47 percent each; and Jackson, a former Platner ally, trailed Collins by one percentage point, getting 47 percent to her 48 percent." DSA is garbage https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/5961588-potential-platner-replacements-neck-in-neck-with-susan-collins-in-new-maine-senate-poll/ "The statewide survey, first reported by NOTUS, tested head-to-head match-ups between Collins and three Democrats"
  23. It is kinda like The Osbournes media business model. Just create low brow interesting things to distract people and keep them hooked. Or the Kardashian business model at least with regard to media.
  24. This video really sums up his mentality for me. Hes so insecure he literally cant believe someone could be secure and their self-worth not be based on looks -
  25. This is why I like to say it is important to meet people in person. Especially nowadays when we don't even know who we are dealing with online. You get a better sense of someone when you sit down with them for dinner or meet with them over a course of days.
  26. @LifeEnjoyer Yes like me. I question everything right now. I was 100% sure connor murphy was just acting. It is a mindfuck and I get mindfucked the more videos I watch about him. He sounds like a normal person.

  27. Neil the Seal

    Carl-Richard replied to Natasha Tori Maru's topic in Off-Topic: Pop-Culture, Entertainment, Fun

    My favorite 🤩
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