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It was first published in 1989. You gotta give some credit to the forethought the author had, although I'm sure transhumanism/singularity was around longer than that. More importantly, the love aspect? Very nice...

http://www.skyhunter.com/marcs/GentleSeduction.html Fantastic read! It talks about two people's views on the singularity.

I was completely out of line when I said what I said before. For some reason I thought that kokoro was part of a cabal of u413 agents who come to forums and tease us about us not being able to get on and whatnot. I know, absolute paranoid delusions. I'm sorry kokoro, it was unsuitable...

kokoro, I can see your trolling attitude and have seen evidence of it happen before. Also, you're being a bit pretentious. I got in, I'm now working on how to read private messages....

Was that to me? I'm working on getting in, I'm just annoyed at their use of .movs. They're probably applefags anyway.

FUCK THEM they use apple quicktime stuff for the second step. I don't want to download that shit onto my computer. nevermind, i'm getting "quicktime alternative"

hey cobra, thank you so much for posting. I lost my job yesterday... and today was my last day at work... your critique gave me 10 minutes of escape from the shithole my life is in right now.

Not to mention you are not allowed to take a break from the forum!!! We will search every fjord if we have to!

Nope. It's Disney. And all their anthropomorphed animal characters.

Haha, all the things you said are themes that have been mentioned before, but never in your style. We definitely worry about not using the definitions of words correctly. I recently met another INTP... except he fucking sucks at explaining things. So he's trying to explain the Incompleteness...

Crazy spirals. like from this:

@Banana Mango: You need less dogma.

I'm reading this... I'm maybe halfway through. It's fucking blowing my mind- and I really didn't expect it to be able to! I was hoping for some h(a/i)ppy finding-yourself story, and instead I'm getting philosophical cinder blocks dropped on me. Spoiler for people who have read 1/2 of the book...

Really? Creatures of his fantasy? I mean, it's a funny line to use. But it was Eldrian, Fleur, myself and other unknowns who were playing around in his party room. Don't give me this pravda. We were doing it to try to figure out his identity... get him to respond a bit more. At one point...

Yeah, I second the fail. The book "Left Hand Turn Around the World" mentioned that theory, but disproved it. I mean, how often is it really that a killing blow goes directly to one's heart? It seems more likely that there would be a BENEFIT from being left-handed in the sword fighting...

Everything is more funny if you stereotype & generalize. And thus, our "INTJ=yuck" comments are born out of humour, not out of thoughtful psychoanalysis.

Wasn't there something else about the hexagon rotating at the same rate that saturn's radiowaves rotate? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saturn#North_pole_hexagon_cloud_pattern So, the interior of Saturn (whether it's gas or solid) has formed some kind of crystalline structure that might send...

I feel like this is a practical joke, based on Arthur C. Clarke's "2010" and the monoliths.

Haha, shit guys, I think I just rubbed the data the wrong way. Let's imagine that lefties make up 10% of the population, righties make up 90%, ambidextrous freaks like flow don't exist. (mmmm..... good imagination ;) ) I'm also going to ignore the mention of people who have equal language...

Who's ready for me to drop the bomb on you guys? But first, since I'm left handed, I'll make you listen to some anecdotes I remember coming back from school, in elementary & middle school, with my left hand covered in graphite. On busy days I'd actually have a layer of graphite on the bottom...

I think fundraisers are usually pretty inefficient uses of people's time. It would probably be more productive to get a part-time job flipping burgers...

You're an awesome member of the forum, I thoroughly enjoy your posts. 500 more?

Dude, it's the Cthulhuized version of you! http://www.texwelt.net/images/galleries/cthulhu_final_petit.jpg

the proper capitalization is: "iNtuitive". ;)

i hate to agree with you, but you're right.

gonna be honest. I'm drunk. I can see double-images of what I'm typing. It's kinda hilarious. I'm using my left-eye to focus on what I'm typing, because that's my strong eye. I'm also left-handed and left-hooded. I might *actually* have my brain reversed in it's function. How...

The human race is technologically progressing too fast for our genetic make-up to matter anymore. So I abhor genocide and believe in evolution. Evolution also is... is just a "this is how things happen" kind of explaination. It's a (decent well established) fact. Abhorring genocide is an...

Me neither! Do you have forests? I come from Oregon, a temperate rainforest, so any forests you have probably wouldn't live up to my standards anyway. ;)

I think that it wouldn't be someone wanting it that way. It's just a million decisions by a million people to create it that way. I mean, if it happened that way. Yeah, I was definitely not planning on playing philosopher with this. And honestly, I don't talk to Olive much anymore, we are...

wikipedia says: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heroin#Pharmacology That's what I found. But wiki didn't clarify whether it was permanent or not... and also didn't have a citation! So I'm calling BS and I want you to find a reference. From my understanding of receptors... it just wouldn't...

hahaha it says "Australia" right there! WTF is wrong with me! Also yeah... i guess they don't have forests in Australia.

I uh... don't know if I believe the permanent part. I mean, this is definitely the mechanism addiction- drug causes more-than-normal amounts of your happy chemicals to be around, but when you're off the drug you have less-than-normal amounts of happy chemicals. (I think heroin, since it's an...

camp in the forest! For a loooong time! (and most likely, it's winter where you are. :D good timing.)

*is very surprised anyone else was able to comprehend what the OP posted*

So, to all the readers... What are your reactions to Olive's piece? Do you think she has a point? Where do you think the ideal male/female power & roles balance will be? How much does "artificially created culture" play a role in defining gender roles? What aspects of gender roles are...

This was posted by my friend Olive. She's a female. I went to high school with her, and I haven't really talked to her in a long time. She's into the Livejournal Roleplaying scene, which is strongly anime based. I honestly didn't totally wrap my head around everything Olive wrote... the most...

Putative

lol! You know, Heath Ledger died on my 21st birthday. True story.

I think Anthile is this: I'm not sure what I am. I think it's actually two different questions: "What are the metaphors which represent yourself & your life?" Most of you have been sharing metaphors about Yourself instead of Your Life. Okay so... for my life... a good metaphor is "an uphill...

(So I think the big difference between "poetry & blogging" and "literature" as that 'literature' is stuff that is not written by us, and poetry & blogging is stuff that we forum members have written.) I have this audio tape, "Images of Fire" by David Whyte where he shares some poems of his own...

There already is some techonology to restore certain kinda of eye damage. If you still have your optic nerve intact, then there's a decent chance of success. Especially since we have a developed optic nerve from years of use of it. (Giving eyesight to someone born blind is much more...

I just got a friend of mine, who has smoked weed this january, to join me in the "don't smoke weed" new year's resolution. I'm not sure how long he's going to do it... hopefully a year, but he might only have a few months in mind. Either way, I'm happy. I just learned that some of the people...

I know what you're doing. People often say that "dreamed" something fantastic like that, when in fact they were just tripping balls. Was it weed, shrooms, lsd, dxm or dmt? ;) (But awesome dream!) So I think: Is relevant. Imagine if you had the perfect scapegoat. Someone who makes all the...

And when I used the term "turd" it was in the most endearing way possible. ;) Go join the irc!

WishingWell, Cheese and I need to stop treating this thread like a urinal. But our turds of wisdom still stand. (Posts #53, 54, and the steaming 57.)

Haha no your post was great, you elaborated on what I was trying to get at. I'm also a big fan of laying down the assumptions you're working with as a foundation. Last night I got into a political discussion and I really wished I could have properly been like "okay, following YOUR...

Who gave you a license to be crazy?? :-P jk <3

Fun things are happening in the IRC in my mind. And it's happening without you in my mind.

I reveal my cluster of transgenic tomatoes Hid here in my overcoat. The universal sign of discommendation and of failed persuasive ability. Although I have soiled myself with their smelly and wet-grimy beings I want to share my burden. HOY, WishingWell, receive my blessing! And please stand...

I'm telepathic.