I'm pretty sure the god Ra is Lord. After all, he existed before Jesus and the Old Testament, and would not have been pleased with some hairy charlatan trying to claim his throne (or chariot). Ra is fucking old-skool man, Is there any mention in the bible of a battle between Jesus and Ra? Plus he's way cooler than Jesus, he has a falcon's head FFS!  |
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I wish I could go back. But until I see any proof of this while in my normal state of consciousness, I'm gonna assume that it was a hallucination brought on by the DMT, and a result of my brain manifesting facets of my mind, as described above. Still absolutely amazing though, I was in tears of joy when I came back to reality. I don't pretend to understand this shit, but it's totally illogical to think of it as proof of anything paranormal.
You are viewing these experiences the wrong way. You are trying to understand them through the lens of the day to day objectivity of the rational physical world, as your mind interprets it be. The only time the humans brain chemistry is flooded with DMT is said to be flooded with DMT, is upon the point of death. At this point, perhaps 'DMT land' becomes your reality? Think you only have a split second to enjoy the trip before 'nothingness'? Ever had the sensation whilst on hallucinogenics of time being elastic? 5 minutes seeming like 5 hours perhaps? Could a split second therefore theoretically seem like all of eternity? After all, time as we experience it is an illusion of the mind, albeit a persistent one (I think Einstein said that). If that intense split second DMT trip, were to be all you ever knew for the whole of eternity, if it were to be your infinite reality, would it really matter that some 20th century scientist proclaimed it to be simple 'illusion' triggered by a massive release of DMT out your pineal gland? At the end of the day, our objective reality is only how it is due to a combination of brain-structure and the bio-chemical balance of reactions within it. All very 'fluid' or impermanent stuff when you think about it. I do get what you're saying about time dilation (yeah experienced that shit many a time  ), and the idea that that final second could be some sort of eternal state of being, but I think believing in it without any form of evidence whatsoever is illogical and counterproductive. Regarding the idea of DMT being released from the pineal gland, it's a myth. It's possible, but no scientific evidence exists (there is only evidence of trace amounts of endogenous DMT existing in the human body). I believed this myth until about 6 months ago, it seems to originate from the author of "The Spirit Molecule" who speculated about it in the book. here's some links: http://www.erowid.org/chemicals/dmt/dmt_article2.shtmlhttps://www.dmt-nexus.me/forum/default.aspx?g=posts&t=18834The problem I have with these sort of beliefs, is that once you start saying things like "I know for a fact that psychedelics open up my consciousness to other dimensions/forces", there's literally no end to what you can claim. You basically enter the realm of invisible dragons and intergalactic teapots, where you can say anything you want and ridicule people who don't believe you. I'm not saying that your beliefs are definitely wrong (they could be true), but I think it is wrong (and quite arrogant) for you to say with certainty that you're right and I'm wrong, because you subjectively experienced an altered state of consciousness, leading you to your conclusions. I know a few people with have similar ideas to you (after using psychedelics, DMT in particular), and have really got into the whole "new age" thing. Me personally, when I discovered the wonders of psychedelics I started to really get into organic chemistry, drug pharmacology, that kind of thing. Of course I contemplate all that new age stuff, and love talking about it, but I think to understand the world around us it helps to stand on the shoulders of the great scientists that laid the foundations for the modern world that we live in. So instead of believing that drugs open up metaphysical dimensions/energies, let's see if there's a more plausible explanation first (i.e. brain receptors malfunctioning due to oddly shaped molecules getting stuck deep into those synapses). An analogy would be if you said "Trees and plants grow by making sugars deep in their cells, in a chemical reaction involving the Sun's energy" And I said "No you're wrong, trees vibrate at a very specific frequency that enables them to access an energy field invisible to us humans. This field is powered by the ghost of Princess Diana by pedaling a subatomic exercise bike in the 5th dimension. And I'm definitely right, because I saw it with my own eyes while on shrooms the other day! If you don't believe me then you're stupid and close-minded!" Extreme example, but you see the problem with that way of thinking? |
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Old boy (english version) very crazy movie
Original all the way man. Although the remake is good, it doesn't cut it. Watch the original and see what you think, it's got less blatant gore but hits you in a more psychological way, and it's also a lot more convincing IMO. Be prepared for the octopus scene... Hint: you won't find the statement "No animals were harmed in the making of this film" in the credits. Also the one-shot fight scene is just epic. |
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Yes, I truly expected it to go up this week, so I rushed to open a leveraged long position on Monday at $575 (BTCE [facepalm]). Unfortunately, the position will be automatically closed tomorrow evening, so it better fucking go up a bit in the next 24hrs or I'll lose quite a lot of money haha! I'm such a shit trader... In hindsight the volume is so low, that I should never have rushed into it, minimal support for the rally of last week. I suck. At least I'm hodling real BTC, none of that CFD shite   hahahah I suggest you stop trading on BTC-e and you come to Bitfinex for leveraged trading, much better, and your positions don't get closed after a few days like that Seriously, oh and the owners are much more trustworthy than the shady BTC-E Yeah, I've been meaning to check out Bitfinex, but I'm much more comfortable trading dirty fiat than risking my precious BTC haha (I've been using Avatrade, who use BTCe price in their BTC instrument. Risky, but their 20:1 leverage can be very lucrative). Of course I could just buy more BTC to use on Bitfinex... I do need to find a fiat broker with better BTC options really, I'm gonna run out of luck sooner or later... |
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Yes, I truly expected it to go up this week, so I rushed to open a leveraged long position on Monday at $575 (BTCE [facepalm]). Unfortunately, the position will be automatically closed tomorrow evening, so it better fucking go up a bit in the next 24hrs or I'll lose quite a lot of money haha! I'm such a shit trader... In hindsight the volume is so low, that I should never have rushed into it, minimal support for the rally of last week. I suck. At least I'm hodling real BTC, none of that CFD shite |
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Sure sure, energy, cells, I get it duder. Incidentally, which language was the tree speaking in?
English. With an Olde Worlde rural West Country accent. If you must know. Mat , is there a small or huge difference between fly agaric mushrooms and average magic mushrooms, meskalin, LSD. I tried almost everything, but never considered fly agaric as very interesting. I am also aware of your described paranormal phenomenons. Do i need to try them? Have you ever tried to trade on psychedelics, you will get a horrible performance only trading on dissociativa is worse. Amphetamin and Opiate however increase my day trading skills massive. In all of my high dose psychedelic, ketamin whatever dreams, i see nothing else but a horrible crash for Bitcoin even if the trip is generally of a positive nature. Hah I'm imagining a really bad trip where I'm trying to follow a stubby little green monolith through a forest of huge red glowing ones. Also, the forest has bears, and I ask a weird Japanese guy where the train station is. He doesn't speak English. |
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You realize you will be known as the shroom guy who talks to trees from here on out?
He's the guy who admitted it, to me that makes him more trustworthy. As long as you don't go totally insane, or have something bad occur while you are tripping, both real possibilities, psychedelics are usually mind expanding. I'm glad I took a handful of trips back in the 90's. Never touching that stuff again though. You do realise that I am fully aware that trees can't talk English, German, Japanense, or any other kind of obscure treepixie language? When the mind is hit with a phenomena that it doesn't understand, the first thing it does is puts arms and legs on it to transform it into a form which it can readily recognise and deal with. The 'talking' tree was my mind's very first attempt at transcribing the fact that I was aware that this tree was filtering an energy, the exact same energy for which the organism that I refer to as 'my body' is also a filter. When it comes down it, our whole awareness and experience of the universe consists of our mind transcribing and interpreting sensory information into a form which we can relate to and understand. This occurs on a multi-layered and multi-faceted level, is fractal in nature and is expanding and contracting in various areas or dimensions of reality all the time (at least on an evolutionary time frame). It's not very productive to interpret anything experienced on psychedelics as paranormal. Fun, yes. Interesting, yes. Proof/evidence of supernatural forces? No. I'm no stranger to psychedelics and other mind altering drugs, and have experienced some very weird phenomena including anthropomorphism of inanimate objects, telepathy, synaesthesia and even full-blown ego-death. However, when I return to baseline, I can see these experiences for what they almost certainly are - hallucinogenic illusions. I think I've experienced a similar thing to what you're describing, while under the influence of 4-HO-MET and ketamine - I was lying in a field and it seemed as though "nature itself" was trying to communicate, and I felt the energy that you describe, the feeling that everything was inexplicably linked in the same "web of consciousness". I think this can be attributed to the brain innately wanting to make sense of the world, and subconsciously applying "cause and effect" to everything it sees/hears/feels. Also the brain losing its sense of "individuality/ego" and manifesting the different facets of the personality as different beings entirely. I used to believe in a lot of supernatural phenomena, but over the years I've appreciated the lack of evidence and changed my views accordingly. I therefore think of myself as quite open-minded. If I were to see any evidence of supernatural phenomena when sober, I'd change my outlook straight away, but using psychedelic experiences as proof of anything? Nah. PS I also think I've felt the same "energy beings" when I first broke through with DMT, it felt like I was in a crystal realm with benevolent entities watching over me, almost pleading with me to stay. I felt like an "avatar" of myself made of pure energy, a bit like the robot in the animatrix film "Matriculated":  I wish I could go back. But until I see any proof of this while in my normal state of consciousness, I'm gonna assume that it was a hallucination brought on by the DMT, and a result of my brain manifesting facets of my mind, as described above. Still absolutely amazing though, I was in tears of joy when I came back to reality. I don't pretend to understand this shit, but it's totally illogical to think of it as proof of anything paranormal. |
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10 GH/s Processor; high speed ensures efficient bitcoining Plug and play; enables hassle free usage for bitcoining YAY bitcoining till I die mofo. |
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A much more pertinent question is - why didn't psychics buy every single bitcoin in 2009?
PERFECT  OOOWWAaah ooowwaaah ooowaaah /thread |
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Yes, I truly expected it to go up this week, so I rushed to open a leveraged long position on Monday at $575 (BTCE [facepalm]). Unfortunately, the position will be automatically closed tomorrow evening, so it better fucking go up a bit in the next 24hrs or I'll lose quite a lot of money haha! I'm such a shit trader... In hindsight the volume is so low, that I should never have rushed into it, minimal support for the rally of last week. I suck. At least I'm hodling real BTC, none of that CFD shite |
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Bah, there needs to be some in the north of England. We're missing out! I hope that somebody introduces one further north. I'm surprised that Manchester doesn't have one yet, there's a big start-up (especially tech) community in that area of the country.
I would love to buy a Bitcoin ATM, but I aren't liquid enough to spare the funds to bankroll one.
Agree, more needed North UK - I understand London would be a logical place to start, but Bristol?!? Does anyone know who is the company supplying/licensing the machines? I wouldn't mind contacting them and perhaps buying a few to install. Bristol is quite a good location I think, yes it's quite small but it has a pretty large "alternative" population, ie hippies, anarchists etc. Also young Bristolians seem pretty sharp when it comes to political/economic matters in my experience. I agree that some more need to be installed in the North though, and some in Wales and Scotland would be sweet. |
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^^ Nice debunking mate.
Seriously though Phinnaeus, you have been doing some thorough detective work recently, and you have uncovered some apparent links between some people that seem to have questionable motives. However many of your links are circumstantial at best, and your "paedo angle" comments are starting to make you sound like the Daily Mail.
You are approaching this case like a conspiracy theorist, when you should be looking at it like a scientist. A conspiracy theorist thinks of a hypothesis, then tries to find anything that proves his claims. A scientist thinks of a hypothesis, then tries to find anything that disproves his claims. Concentrate more on disproving your hypotheses, and you will be closer to the truth IMO.
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Ok hear me out. If a whale wants to announce a pump anonymously, he can make a long expensive post on http://bitcoinmegaphone.com announcing the date and time. If the post is long enough (ie, expensive enough) people will know he's actually a whale and is serious. Then the post's permalink will get spread around the internet, helping to ensure the pump has a good chance of happening. Thoughts?  How much is he going to spend? 1 BTC for almost 85k characters? How rambly is he? The time it takes to write the message is not worth it lol. LOL CTRL+V  Seriously though, I don't think this would work. If news of the pump got too public, it would become very unpredictable. Best way I think, would be to organise it with a bunch of other whales privately with strict timing, allowing you to play the market with people who don't have a clue what's going on... |
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I've been going through a slightly arty film phase, so I'll recommend:
"Drive" (beautifully shot, nice soundtrack)
"La Haine" (French film about poor guys/gangsters living in Paris, amazing cinematography, dark but very powerful and enjoyable)
"Tetsuo - The Iron Man" (One of the most bizarre things I've ever seen, gruesome and surreal cinematography. Highlights include a giant metal drill penis -you'll either laugh or scream!)
"Old Boy" (Brutal Korean film, very well made with a gripping story and some seriously shocking moments)
"Battle Royale" (This is a must see, totally over the top Japanese film which is basically the "original Hunger Games", bunch of schoolkids are forced to kill each other with assorted weapons, hilarity and tragedy ensues.)
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Good read, nice one  Quite a few people I know should read that, considering the bullshit links they keep sharing with me on facebook... |
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I am not a big fan of the Daily Mail. But I don' think that they are any worse off than the other popular British trash, such as The Guardian. All of the major dailies in the UK do have a tarnished reputation. And DM is no different.
Dude, The Guardian isn't perfect, but I can't believe you just compared it to the DM. It's about as far away as it is possible to get in a British daily newspaper. I think the Mail is actually worse than The Sun/The Daily Star and other tabloids, because it pretends to be serious. But all three are absolute shite. The Guardian isn't that popular, it has 1/10th of the circulation of The Sun and The Mail. Anyway I would personally avoid ALL tabloids while looking for informed opinions in British papers, best off sticking to broadsheets like The Guardian, The Times and the Telegraph. Again, they're not perfect but at least they tend to print facts, not fiction or misleading shouty headlines. |
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Be careful reading the Daily Mail... For people not from the UK: It's basically a joke paper that sensationalizes EVERYTHING and fuels fear and hate among the more suggestible population. Sadly it has the highest circulation of any UK paper...
I wouldn't worry too much about this story - first of all the drugs are not "sex-change" drugs, they are used to inhibit hormones to delay the onset of puberty. They have been used in other applications with no issues. Also the NHS isn't going to start giving these out like candy - as with all "gender dysphoria" issues, I think doctors will be very careful when diagnosing/prescribing.
Absolutely not this. Joke paper? Compared to ALL other "papers" that sensationalize NOTHING? Don't worry people, the governments isn't trying to turn us into a nation of gays and trannies!!
What rock have you been living under the past 10-50 years? Nice strawman argument: You're implying that the Daily Mail is not a joke because other papers sensationalize things too. Fail. Both you and bryant.coleman have fallen into the classic DM traps here, and have failed to understand the full story. The Mail does not care about anyone/anything, has no morals, is the epitome of hypocrisy, and relies on pushing the buttons of people like YOU to peddle their fear porn. http://stephentall.org/2012/04/14/hard-to-believe-shes-just-16-the-headline-that-sums-up-the-morality-of-the-daily-mail/ The classic spread where the DM shows a sexy picture of a 15 yr old Charlotte Church, and opposite has an article complaining about the Brass Eye episode "Paedogeddon", which ironically was taking the piss out of the media's portrayal of paedophiles. And for shits and giggles here's a collection of all the things the Mail says causes and prevents cancer. Many do both: http://kill-or-cure.herokuapp.com/Doesn't look that rocky from where I'm standing mate. |
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Shiite, it's dropping again. ARGH, will have to settle for a skateboard, not a car.   BELIEVE!!! |
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Be careful reading the Daily Mail... For people not from the UK: It's basically a joke paper that sensationalizes EVERYTHING and fuels fear and hate among the more suggestible population. Sadly it has the highest circulation of any UK paper...
I wouldn't worry too much about this story - first of all the drugs are not "sex-change" drugs, they are used to inhibit hormones to delay the onset of puberty. They have been used in other applications with no issues. Also the NHS isn't going to start giving these out like candy - as with all "gender dysphoria" issues, I think doctors will be very careful when diagnosing/prescribing.
Don't worry people, the governments isn't trying to turn us into a nation of gays and trannies!!
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