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There's a big difference between recreational or exploratory drug/alcohol use and drug/alcohol abuse. I found the article blotfelt posted interesting:

http://www.chess.com/ My screen name is Iron-Tom I've tried to get people to play me here before (used to have the link and my screen name in my signature) but only ever had one person come and challenge me. I'm not all that great (usually hover around a 1250-1350 rating), but I enjoy...

I didn't think it was too deviant, but on a different thread I stated that I had a polyamory view on sex/relationships (reply 16), and someone had a rather visceral reaction to this (reply 19) - so, I guess this makes me a deviant.

I have taken several IQ tests in my lifetime. The first one I took, in high school, I got a 96 (bear in mind I was too awesome to care about, well, anything, when I was in high school). I took two on the internet a couple years ago and got 138 one one, and 130 on the other. I took two that...

Seriously, where is "making someone take a cold bath and cover themselves in talcum powder so they feel like a corpse" or the "peanut butter jelly sandwhich"?

Mine wins. (Sorry, I was too late to enter).

No, I'm definitely Ti dominant, which is what might explain why I withdrew into extreme introversion mode while depressed, along with a propensity for 'logic dominated' thinking (when sober, I became hyper-rational and just plain a stick in the mud). I used to think the same thing, and perhaps...

It's a bit of an assumption to think that there are only 4 forces of nature. Even Einstein spent most of his time trying to reconcile only gravity and electromagnetism (the weak force was discovered in the 1930's during this time). What I find fascinating is that visible matter only makes up...

A couple weeks ago or so, after having about hit 'rock bottom' I finally gave in and went to a doctor to get an antidepressant subscription. She subscribed me Bupropion, which is a dopamine and norepanephrine reuptake inhibitor as opposed to a serotonin reuptake inhibitor (something I discussed...

The second verse to abandonment is something I wrote between classes at school, and it wasn't written to any particular beat. I tried reformatting the lyrics a bit to make it fit, but I couldn't do it without compromising the 'message' too much, so I decided to just A Capella it. The beats were...

Trying this again on a different hosting site (SoundClick, I saw Kantor using it). Tell me if it works. Anomie Abandonment

The poll itself is a ruse. What's really ego inflating is the speculating on my intentions for this thread!

This thread was mainly a joke, but I think the choices have some validity, depending on who one is. Choices 1, 2, and 6 seem geared towards newer people, particularly since I'm not as active as I was a year and a half ago. And they're all kind of 'inside jokes' to the people who do know me from...

What caused humans find babies cute? Because people like to take care of things that are cute. Our ancestors that found babies cute would take care of their babies (which shared these same 'find babies cute' genetics) so they could grow up and find their own babies cute and take care of them...

I'm in a stupid mood, so I thought I'd do something stupid. Let me have it!

A curious and amusing use of the melody from the opening credits of House (to be fair, this song is 5 years older than House). You'll have to play it more than twice to decipher some of the lyrics: YouTube- Knieght Riduz - Wuz Here

Does God say the universe has meaning because it's meaningful, or is it meaningful because God says it is?

I don't think there is any causal relationship between intelligence and laziness either way. Intelligence may cause one to be bored, but not so much lazy.

Been watching some TED videos today and found some pertinent ones: A must watch. It's about social networks and directly pertains to this discussion. http://www.ted.com/talks/nicholas_christakis_the_hidden_influence_of_social_networks.html About how our perceptions and culture influence the...

These factors seem biased towards the western mindset - the 'island of subjectivity' and 'rugged individualist' mindset. In a lot of eastern cultures, peoples perceptions are more holistic, they can literally view themselves as 'part of the whole' as opposed to being separate from 'everyone...

The more I think about it, the more I begin to believe I do have a fashion - even if it's a lack of fashion. I've always worn hand-me-downs, garage sale and Good Will clothes, and it never bothered me when I was in school (even though I got made fun of for it quite a bit in junior high). I...

Hereditary isn't as 'digital' as one might think - especially when it comes to something as complex as personality. The assumption seems to be that there is a gene for perception, with an allele for Ni, another for Ne, another for Si, and another for Se; a gene for judgment with an allele for...

I'm drunk right now. I suggest not drinking at all. All of my friends/family know I'm an alcoholic as of 3 weeks ago when I confessed, so I get to wake up to a world of shame and guilt tomorrow (even if nobody finds out).

Neuroplasticity is a relatively new concept, and had a difficult time getting a foot hold with the decades of "brain as a machine" doctrine. If you're interested, here are a couple TED talks that have to do with neuroplasticity: http://www.ted.com/talks/vilayanur_ramachandran_on_your_mind.html...

Waves outside of 400-750 nanometers (visible light) do not pass through everything - if they did, the ozone layer would be useless. Visible light reflects off of the materials we evolved to see (as is stated already), which if I recall is often materials with atoms containing d-orbitals in their...

If we're not careful, this lounge might fall off the edge, and we won't land on everything. The inside appears empty, like the hands of Cro-Magnon cave paintings. A system isolated from the outside only in our minds, where the smell of genocide seems to permeate... AI takes a seat next to the...

Fuck perfection and actualization. I'd prefer to revel in the filth of incompleteness and fantasy. Three cold screams for us soulless appendages of the Enemy! I put on my tattered cloak of nihilism each morning and shuffle off to work with a smile on my face, knowing that I can help erect my own...

"How is life" is a question I've yet to answer. I'm remotely interested now - what is it that makes me remotely interesting?

I'm sure most people skip over them, but I guess as long as at least one person is checking them out, I'll keep posting them.

Yes, but not as much as I used to - I mainly read physics, biology, and philosophy books/websites now.

Apparently you've never heard of adipophilia? There are a lot of fat people that have kids, and there are a lot of fat kids. Without something to kill fat people off before they breed, or something to prevent them from breeding, natural selection will be slow to act (we'll eventually eat...

Increased long-chained fatty acid content in our food makes them, quite literally, addicting (1) to some people. "Moreover, pharmacological inhibition of lingual lipase, the enzyme responsible for efficient LCFA [Long Chain Fatty Acid] release from dietary triglycerides, profoundly decreases...

I'm not that big of a gamer, but that certainly has me intrigued.

One bit of advice: don't try drinking alcohol to make things more interesting. Honestly, one thing I've found, is that forcing oneself into obligations helps (at least for me). When I know I can do something on my own "whenever I feel like getting around to it" I can't work up the ambition to...

As much as I consider myself an advocate of transhumanism, I share in the skepticism. When one reads the actual literature about what we know of the brain (a lot of recent discoveries in the last decade tells us: not as much as we thought; ie adult neurogenesis, neuroplasticity (1) (2)...

A lot of people seem to be missing the point of what I was attempting to get at in the OP? I'm not talking about persona's, or acting (no matter how convincingly) in a certain way. I'm talking about completely relinquishing control of my body to a personality - a character - that I have created...

Well, I didn't really have changing ones personality in mind, so much as adding new ones 'on top' of the existing one, the way that someone with DID has - although, for them, it's usually a coping mechanism brought on by childhood trauma. Think Tyler Durden from Fight Club. Or even John...

Dissociative Identity Disorder is a mental disorder that causes someone to shift between two or more different personalities and usually results from childhood trauma. Someone with multiple personalities has different 'autobiographical selves' or "...one human brain to generate at least two...

Incorrect.

I've 'spoken out' about the idea of uploading in past transhumanist threads around here (and I consider myself an advocate of transhumanism). It does seem a bit implausible, and I don't think there will be much of any enhancing or tampering with peoples brains without more understanding about...