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Right after he sold it, he wrote a script for the new trilogy -- which Disney rejected -- and he got pissed. And he still does some work on the Mando show. So clearly he still has a passion for it. If I built a passion project like Star Wars, I would rather have it die than sell it off to Disney. What Disney is doing with Star Wars is worse than killing it. It would be like selling Actualized.org to Tai Lopez. I'd rather it just die. I think it would have been better for Lucas to just hire a great CEO and great directors and producers to take over LucasFilm, and he would only do some creative consulting as they take the reigns. That is cool.

Personally, when I trip sit someone, my policy is to stay completely silent and not interfere at all as much as I can stand. It's hard though. The ego really wants to interfere, get in there, and do stuff. But all that stuff is unnecessary. I try to only talk when the person wants me to talk. But it's not always easy to just sit silently. I think these shaman types get off on the idea that they are a vehicle for God and that their actions are important to the trip. So they get too proactive about it. Otherwise it would be hard for a shaman to justify his work/job. The shaman needs to bring his own personal touch to the process, put his own brand on it. Otherwise being a shaman would not be fun. Of course the other big mistake here is that 5-MeO-DMT should not be vaped, it should be plugged. Especially for newbie clients.

@Elevated They should have named the Bill Burr character Bil Burr. The biggest problem with the show is that it is so transparently fan service. It's like the producers sat down at the table and ask, "Okay, how can we milk the original Star Wars fans in every way imaginable? Let's make a show solely about that!" The ending of season 2, with Luke, was so awful. Pure milking fan service. There is not a level too low that this show will not stoop to to milk the fans. The Star Wars universe has become so derivative. There's nothing original about it any more. Same old shit rehashed over and over again to milk rube fans. It's basically a form of abuse.

Ugliest character name ever. They should have named him Yobi.

From what I heard from him, it was mostly because LucasFilm has a huge staff and he didn't want to fire them all. So he sold them to Disney. That is pretty amazing. Lucas is certainly a more conscious guy than most Hollywood types. But still, did he really have to sell to Disney of all places? If there ever was a corporate devil, Disney would be it. Imagine if I sold Actualized.org to Disney.

They make some valid points, but they are really punching down here. Martin Ball is basically a nobody. He's a solo shaman guy. He's not some legit established doctor or scientist, and the people who see him are hippies of his own ilk. This is not an issue I would spend any time worrying about. These "doctors" should be frying bigger fish, like the war on drugs. There is a sort of lack of priorities problem here. With all the shit going on in the world, Martin Ball is irrelevant.

There is no toilet paper because he wipes with his cloth

Credibility and authority is a very trick social game. Once you get into that game, you gotta be super careful because everyone will be looking to discredit you. You gotta suit their standards. Medicine, science, and academia are social reputation games. Your credibility in those fields matters way more than truth or depth of insight or consciousness.

It's sort of funny to me how these "doctors" are deconstructing Martin Ball's practice line by line, as if they were combing through a legal document, when in fact Martin was just some hippie dude in hippie Oregon offering underground illegal shamanic work to other hippies. The things they say have some merit in that Martin Ball engages in what I consider some weird and unnecessary practices, but what the fuck does one expect when working with an underground hippie shaman doing illegal drugs? Of course it's not going to conform to some strict medical ethical codes. Lol These "doctors" might as well deconstruct how you and your buddy where sitting on the couch smoking weed and cracking jokes, but there was no consent from signed. Personally I think the biggest flaw in Martin's approach is that he is smoking the 5-MeO-DMT along with the client. It's much more responsible to trip sit sober. If he was sober he probably wouldn't be doing weird stuff. Two people tripping together can way out of hand as the insanity cross-multiplies.

I've never seen one. Any kind of coating will be a non-natural chemical. And it will flake off into your food. Take a fork and scratch your pan. Watch the coating flake off. That's why all these pans tell you to never scratch them with metal. But over time they all scratch regardless. What does she know?

Bullshit Their coating still flakes off, just like any other non-stick coating. Beware of companies who prey on your health-consciousness by offering you gimmicks and healthy-sounding words. Pssst... hey kid... do you want to buy some green cigarettes? Free of lead and cadmium.

[insert pic of Jesus taking a dump]

To be fair, he also does it to men.

Mandalorian is shallow, mediocre, and overrated.

Him going to the dark side was not Episodes 1-3, it was selling to Disney. Imagine if the end of Star Wars was Luke selling the Rebel Alliance to the Emperor for $2 billion dollars and retiring in luxury.

Don't get anything coated. It must be solid so nothing can scratch off. I mostly use bamboo cooking utensils. Very cheap and all-natural. Steel is great too.

The core is aluminum. It is wrapped in steel. This should not be a problem. The steel is not merely a coating, it's a solid thick layer. No aluminum is getting through that steel.

I was speaking assuming the conventional scientific paradigm. I was trying to use simple examples that meet the viewer where he's at, since this episode's goal was to use everyday examples to explain holism. This was not an episode about deconstructing the materialist paradigm.

Beautiful imagery. We have a Strange Loop Mega-Thread around here. Lots of examples in there.

The Force is a pretty damn accurate depiction of how consciousness and mysticism works.

Not maybe, definitely. Just look at the reviews of the pan you linked. Look at how the coating scratches off in the pics. All ceramic coated pans scratch off like that. And where do you think that coating goes? In your food.

@Recress Change all your plastic for steel/wood.

You are dreaming up the universe, and humans too. You are not a human. You are God cosplaying a human. The true intent behind your question is this: could the universe exist without me? To which the answer is an obvious: NO! Since you created the universe.

It's easy if you heat the pan well:

Ceramic coated pans are garbage. They all chip into your food. You should not buy any pan which is coated in anything because all the coating soon flake off.