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The question is phrased so people must press the blue button to survive, any alt., being promortalist & efilistic in their thinking. Unless the outcome or reasons for pressing the buttons is *unknown* , then the idea of "following the heard" does not really have the same efficacy towards the bottomline of pressing the blue button. The red button here is bringing cynicism to the table for no reason, as theres nothing in the question you have to distrust but your own perception of whats been given priority. Or you are just young and stupid, and dont understand how to read, and things like this "See red button, press red button", without having read into "why you make decisions". For you make decisions because they have efficacy in the realm of the hierarchy, that you yourself are calling important, based on language. If what explained is about the blue button, then the blue button is the main character p.s. you might also wanna blame the creators who phrased the question, 'cause they are the ones that've phrased it in that way, and are thus creating an unequal playing field, which isnt quite right if you want there things to be equal; For to make it equal, you just say "red button" or "blue button" without explanation, which is closer to mirroring the amount of unknown decisions you'll have experienced in life.
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I awish his name was something like Jesus of Ceos, or Jesus et Pharmikon, i mean, not Ἰησοῦς Χριστός, 'gah i hate that, its like trying to be 'izaiah christendome (Messiah Massiachyah in Hebrew) like deliberate doublets of who they literally are, typeve thing. Like, Theres something very Gaul/Latin/Thracian, or like something very broken about that naming scheme that departs from Greek, Latin, Like iuno, its generating its own universe of names and language suddenly, like its 3rd BC i wanna say was *tria nomina naming in Rome, then 5th Century AD it collapses, and theres the window of antiquity where everyones names are just like, buried under so many influences, its hard to tell if its revealing something, or if there names were just that literal, Pontus (Personification of the Sea) Pirate? C'mon. Fk these names dude. quick note, κοινόχρηστος (koinochrestos) κοινός (koinos) — “common,” “shared” χρηστός (chrēstos) — “useful,” “fit for use,” “usable” He could be Jesus the Skilled/Useful Artisan
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George Lakoff and Mark Johnson's 'Metaphors We Live By, argues that abstract thought is fundamentally grounded in bodily and practical experience. You can't reach for a metaphor you haven't lived near. A scribal class person, a Pharisee, a Temple priest, their metaphors skew toward law, purity, genealogy, text. You see that in how the Pharisees argue and think in the gospels. Their conceptual world is documentary and juridical. Likewise, Jesus (or the person writing for him) his conceptual world is tactile and material. He has all this knowledge of stone work, and other artisan skills~Even if its in that sortve, magical triplet feel, its pulling from metaphors that are based in some real place. For that reason, somethings going on w/ Jesus the Carpenter/Stonemason, or atleast... Jesus the Temple Builder, like someone who erects temples, but doesnt want theirselves to be known (possibly a freemason, or templar, whatever) i mean, no one knows what this is, but we do know the main theme. "God" is central to this, and everything is very neatly fitted to speak of it as if it was a real thing that people were talking about. I dont know, but i just see a different story unfolding, one around like, little stories: Whether they were directly relevant at the time of their inclusion, i dont know, and who cares. Its an artists rendering to me. It just so happened to have very strong conviction around it.
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Oh right, i did hear that too. I hope not. Or i do hope there was more on the menu than just ibogaine
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Yeah, i question the intentions behind Trump, as it seems to be too coincidental, too much like things are happening for some reason that we cant see, but I dont know what it means. I just see the world changing, and its time for psychedelics to be legalized. I mean, i would go extreme to say all drugs ~ but hey, good enough for now. I havent even really done any drug drugs myself in awhile, and im at the age where im tryina turn people on to these Chinese tea medicines, and these esoteric things, of which i guess must take some time to get more acknowledgement, due to it not really being at the edge of everything provocative and telling. Like, iuno how i knew psychedelics were the answer at like 13, but the provocative and extreme nature of it was evident to me through the connotation. As, it is the 'extremes' that exist far out at the edge that really stick out~that can thus wake people up initially to speak. Hey, it goes back to what Socrates says about Philosophers as a minority, and the nature of those things that exist as a minority, as its outside of the perception of the masses, and public persuasion, seeing as the Philosopher cares about truth and things like this (or Aletheia, or whatever word(s) you might think of it as). True philosophers similarly will always be a minority, as most people are pulled by rep., and practical life, while philosophy demands a controlled, disciplined orientation of sorts.
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I have so many fav. parts, like i even like those filler scenes, that im not sure they mean anything, but they are just so funny/awkward and yet somehow are still managing to communicate something. Like not a minute passes where something isnt being said, even through the ambiance and mystic, like (the whole aethetic im still tryina wrap my head around too, this like, Washington state, meets Canada, meets Est or Central America, Ohio or Pennsylvania, meets Nevada/Las Vegas, like that whole Country Sheriffs depa., the Twin Peaks town that looks like Silent hill in some scenes, that setting has my brain twisted up as well, granted maybe that wasn't meant to be confusing, but I was reading into it deeply anyway... Like I felt we were all over Amer., simultaneously) Oh yeah, what was this scene, like it felt like we were in 1950 or something... This was another scene that through me off (haha you are picking all the scenes that totally through me off, lol) About The Website <https://unwrappingtheplastic.com/2018/07/17/the-end-of-time/> Oh , Wow. Very neat.
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Oh ya ya, this was the last scene, it really through me off, Ha
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Its so amazing. I just recently watched it, my lord, its so good, so weird, and so riddle-like. Im still tryina decipher wat i watched, and everynow and then, i think i got a sense for what was happening; but theres so many things interweaved throughout, that im not sure. Maybe with some more time ill stumble on to something, but its like, i mean, its one of those things where ya need more than a week... Like maybe several decades, to really peel back whats going on, or whats bein said, atleast for me, i would need a decade, Ha.
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Im watching this episode today, granted im only on the first 5 minutes, and its still Hamilton Moris giving his introduction to what the episode is to be about (im farther along now, and 1st 40 mins., we're on the topic of medicine, which touches on Medea, the sorceress and an accomplished pharmakís, a worker in pharmakeía or aka, medicinal magic, and the larger traditions around Ancient Medicine... @44:30 we get into the Jesus stuff) And ive already watched lots and lots of episodes on Jesus and the possible pedo-like behavior, and what ive learned ~separate from facing that issue directly~ is more on the Ancient Pirating side of things, and how what we would call *magic and ritual today, was often infused w/ the world and the ancient beliefs of these peoples, or atleast, it took on different forms. And certainly, you had things like the Sabbath (sabato) or the Greek word σαβά that has a very specific meaning, αιχμαλωσία, or more specifically "captivity"; Not that anyone knows about this, As most bible scholars believe it to be related to "Shabbat", but little do they know that thats based on the common Greek words and definitions, i.e., captivity, or effectively "prisoners". Its important to understand how ppl taken + forced to serve, were effectively captives, prisoners, atleast at first this is how you would see it (and how we would see it now). If they stayed aboard and worked, they might be treated as part of the crew, whether willingly or not (also look up "the selling of people in antiquity") These are terms & idea used initially to describe the latter era of Pirates and Jewish sects dedicated to the trade of individuals, selling, recruiting, pressed-ganged into λῃστεία (leisteía), piracy or the pirate life. People use the bible to define terms, and what you end up w/ is issues, because the Bible is not directly historical. All the events depicted in the Bible have been compressed down to almost zilch, losing all the necessary context and quality in order to derive terminology, and yet terminology is derived from it ~as if you can use the bible for such terminology~ So some things are pointing to actual events, where as others are additions. So i dont really know, or have a clue how to illuminate the texts or pages/fragments that speak to such interactions w/ children. In my opinion, it is more of a story about children / teenagers press-ganged as recruits or slaves, those to be press ganged as pirates within Pirate crews, or into the pirate life generally, as pirating and trade was so significant, Again it is well attested in trade, like w/ such people as Lydia (or simply a Lydian woman?), an early convert of Paul the Apostles, dealing in such luxurious supplies, and apparently others close to the apostles who deal w/ substances like the purple and other trade substances speak on this too.
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kavaris replied to kavaris's topic in Spirituality, Consciousness, Awakening, Mysticism, Meditation, God
wait.. wait.. wait... Thats not how i want to describe it... Towards the end, i was leading into this thing about patterns.. But it isnt exclusive from scale, where things are starkly either this way or that way, Instead, I shouldve said this... You all *exist a the surface level, as a hierarchy of what is most prominent. And that is just speaking to the very blatant and obvious observations of who we (you) and everyone else is... Like, we experience ourselves from the most obvious perspective. Everyone knows that. Thats not what im speaking to, though its part of what im touching on... As this part that is also hard to describe too... Like, the patterns of experience are not patterned on the micro scale, nor is the micro scale a priority, though it is a consequence of a system where the surface level things have to go right, have to go *as planned, in order for it to go right/correctly. Like im saying, the priority of experience is a drastic point of experience, and the micro scale is almost irrelevant to it, HOWEVER its hard to express what that means for certain people, cause you may (and most people in the future) absolutely will find theirselves in positions where you have to sort things out in an almost scientific and technical way in order to unravvel the predicaments yous are in, like... You can absolutely find yourself in a scientific/technical places naturally, due to the scientific paradigms we find ourselves in today already. Now thats not quite the way i originally intended to explain it, but fuck it, yolo, i dont know how to explain it. -
Lol, someone mentioned something about this clenching anus thing not too long ago -That i wanted to add something to, cause I thought of another aspect to it, And make sure yous read everything first, or yous wont know what im talking about, trust That is, based on my response to it too, which was something akin the "immune system, generally, and the anticipating of something SUDDEN, before it happens", atleast thats how i describe it when you boil it down. So when you drop down into a stillness mindset or a vacant parking lot or a desolate forest, those are all instances of having begun in a certain gear, but then having ended up *shifting gears, where your mind and body are trying to acclimate to the environment or situation or sudden change in attitude. And that was all related~As the original poster was talking about butt-clenching in certain situations and what I would probably call, outward expressions of the immune system. But i also thought about another important aspect to the overall immune system (in general) and that is this thing about the Carnival vs. Safari, specifically in the area of food, but it might also apply to other things too. That is, when you pulverize your food, atleast ive noticed, it starts tasting the same, like the flavors of a carnival, sortve this odorless cotton candy. Do yous know what im talking about? On the other hand you have the opposite, that is like, fully formed flesh of lettuce and broccoli (or full peanuts, nuts and things like this too) and like what i would call, "Tasking your body with the digesting of the whole safari". Obviously the idea is to find the middle-of-the-road, between food being not-fully-pulverized and somewhat still fully formed, but it goes to show you that theres this extreme that happens at two ends, that atleast for me ive been to these extremes so many times, and thats why im bringing them up; As it goes beyond just food, but its like, you are trying pulverize and digest what is like this ~ Almost sand, like turning everything into sand, and trying to interpret reality based on sand particles that all look identical, and that are all equally thrown into this carnival of personalities. Then you have where, you are seeing and experiencing everything in its most natural form, out in some African wood, or S. American Rainforest, or high up in the Himalayas or something like this, trying to digest the world and its manifestations in a way where they arent really in a form that can be fully digested per say. Iuno, i was curious what yous thought about that: The Carnival v. The Safari *p.s. Just because Science says things happen at a *micro- level, doesnt mean that thats how things operate, down at some micro level, because the way it really works is through surface-level patterns, and Science has conflated those patterns w/ indiscernible things.. Something for yas to think about.
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I find this interesting, as a window into the whole methodology and Philosophy beliefs of Sparta and the way people were recruited as Spartans (but just looking at it from an historical point, and how it could speak to those beliefs ~if ever discussed). So disregarding Plutarch as well, and the infant boys w/ deformities being thrown into the catacombs below, children could become what were called Spartitiates, which were children who had ancestry or some connection to Sparta; And in alot of places this is still the case, where you can gain citizenship to a place (atleast alot easier, in a certain places) if you have prior ancestry in that place~from some point in your distant past. From the age of 7, boys entered *agoge,* military training for basic obedience and endurance, so they likely were keeping a very tight, tight unit in there; And where my curiosity went last month, was i was doing research in 700 BC Sparta, when Taranto (of Italy) is founded by Spartan immigrants who get kicked out because of this stupid exception ~ Note, there are alot of little movements/interactions between tribes of Italy and Greece from Ancient times, all throughout BCE During the Messenian Wars, unions in Sparta were permitted to increase their number of soldiers, like an intermezzo and exception, in order to keep up w/ war and such, however later, those who were made citizens/soldiers were *nullified, and that later wave of Spartan sons were forced to leave Sparta; Palanthus, the Parthenuan leader, went to Delphi to thus consult the oracle, and the answer, designated by said oracle said for them to settle @ the harbour of Taranto~or the soon to be~New home of the exiles Taranto. The Partheniae arrived in Puglia region, and founded that city, naming it Tarentum after the son of Poseidon. Granted, it gets a little crazier after that, so im not gonna belabor the point. So anyway, that is just to say, they were keeping a tight shift over there in Sparta, and the political purge lead to those in the military losing their citizenship, and what we would now call "a really stupid *exception to a rule". The whole thing was stupid. And Sparta eventually became very brittle and weak because of this as well as their refusal to adapt, as in the 300-400 BCE, w/ only 700 Spartitiates, there was a decline in everything that once made Sparta so essential to the greater Greek provinces. I mean, after that point the story gets funny ~Once Rome takes over~ As well as when the Visigoths (300-400 AD) sack the city, and thats pretty much it for Sparta at that point.
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Yous might find the stuff in first hour interesting, And do feel free to talk bout, but i actually found the latter half, bout an hour or 2 hours in, where we are tlkin bout like all these competing departments in the universities and industries who want to get the financial support for their particular area... Like our system is so screwed up, its like, what could we do about it, i mean it seems to be the story w/ almost anything that relates to scientific research and stuff, i mean, theres potentially good science happening out there, that doesnt survive w all of the competition (or its atleast lesser known, and exists in theoretical forms in papers nd such)
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It might be helpful to know the following three terms: Theomorphos, vs. metamorphoses, vs. teofania~of "theophany" Given that youll have to think of things in this way, as far as the nature of the Ancient Greeks, and whats happening in writing and speech, in regards to the tangled nature of all of those things, together. ϴεόμορφος (Theomorphos) is used when something resembles a god in form or presentation, like a human portrayed w/ divine features. Any quality, idea or concept described as having divine shape, or an artistic expression, depictions where a figure is given godlike proportions or attributes. Its sortve the transposed version of metamorphoses, whereby theomorphos describes the resembling of god in form, presentation, or god-like proportions that may take the form of metamorphoses (the manifestation or transformation of qualities that can become mortals, plants, animals, gods and events) ϴεοφάνεια, made of θεός (god) + φαίνω (to appear) Ergo a "teofania" is any moment where a god becomes perceptible in the world—seen, heard, or otherwise revealed to humans; This of course may transcend typical godly figures as manifestations within natural events instead, but still interpreted as divine presence (storm, light or voice)
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φύσις (phýsis) looks simple, but its got an intricate meaning in the context of Ancient Greece. The basic meaning of φύω (phýō), means "to grow" or "to bring forth" (to emerge) So physis seems like growth, or coming-into-being, the way something unfolds according to what * is * But perhaps a closer, rhetorical plain-English vers., might be, "the inner way a thing develops and shows itself" Heraclitus, Parmenides, et caetera tied physis to the ques., of "What is the real nature... of things... beneath appearances?" .. as another word to invoke the physical nature of things (among several others). In Greek medicine (Hippocrates), Physis becomes the natural constitution of the body, and the body's own tendency to heal / balance itself If you were talking about illness, you were asking how someone's physis had gone out-of-alignment. This connects to the pharmakeia and incantation, as well as modern spiritual prayer, though it is a line that is stretching far between medicine, ritual, and natural processes... into the physical, chemical, alchemical, magical, mystical, spiritual and religious. In modern times, we separate all of these things in our mind, but to Greeks, these things did not have distinct lines or divisions. We, atleast in the modern American English speaking world, are speaking of things in terms of discrete points, as opposed to continuous and infinite spectrums around us. That is, the mystical world is something we can only describe by thinking of it as a range of colors, *pointing* to different shades and colors within an infinite range. That idea is in itself a way to grow out of the basic Amer., principles, and to bring forth one's spirit towards~relating to the eternal, or how to exist within' the eternal (theres more to it) FourTwenty: 2026-04-20 04:20 Feel free to make a *420 post, in here~420 posts being just my normal posts.
