Mad World

gonna need pics

I got one but it is too far away.

https://imgur.com/a/M8W70

Theory I've been considering the last week or so. Just did some Googling and seems I am not the only one to consider it..Makes sense to me.


Achems_Razor - 07/01/2011 at 05:57
@Azilda:

You say you do not know why the penis may have been modified to look like a mushroom. It may have been because of the "Amanita Muscaria" mushroom that brought religious epiphanies to the users, some evidence that it may have been helpful as a religion starter.


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It would make sense if say originally it was a ritual with these mushrooms. They knew what they were and what they would do and bought new people in, to experience a mushroom trip.

Maybe after the first(?) time you were marked in that manner as reverence to the revelations and new ways of thinking about things. Or maybe you had to be before showing you were willing to carry the burden of the experience and how it would be painful to move forward after. Knowledge is a burden. Articulating it, even heavier.


The interesting thing is, mycelium network and fungi could be seen as creating/connecting everything and people could in a sense be fungal bodies and our consciousness a mycelium.

Fun to consider.

“Throughout the living world, telecommunication is more likely the norm than the exception.”

Mystics understood this; they have always assumed that something like the internet already existed, in their vision of a “system of hidden filaments or threads that bind all things.”

Ancient philosophers, from the Stoics to the Brihadaranyaka Upanishad, saw creation as a kind of cosmic textile. “How intertwined in the fabric is the thread and how closely woven the web.” Maybe, Smith suggests, it is not a coincidence that the first fully programmable computer was the Jacquard loom, a machine for entangling threads.
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..the computer Internet..the mycelium, shares the same network design..

that's my preference and the way I function best, but of course it's not always possible

No. The floating candies are on top of the candy background. That’s how I see it.

Do you think an AI could make sense of Magic Eye pictures? Could we effectively “blind” an AI using them?

CIA guy is literally on every podcast I listen to lol

I like him

Can I get a summary? Two hours is a tall order.

Highlights? Clip reel?

oh I have not watched this one yet

in the que though lol

I am distracted...as always lol

To be honest...if I could forget, and not get the memories randomly resurfacing...I think I would probably choose to forget. I'm not sure.
I have been practicing "thought stopping" - so when some things come up, I just talk over the memory until it sort of stops. It's not that effective though, because they tend to pester and intrude (during some times more than others)
Part of the reason I was spending 12 hours a day occupying my active mind with a game and my passive mind with the audio of a podcast or youtube was literally to eliminate the space where thoughts could intrude at all.

The topic was... and actually, it relates to my most recent thread:
the current obsession gen Z has with being mentally ill
r/fakedisordercringe has a lot of it
(can't link that site? didn't know this)
specifically, these disorders are really popular among them:
ADHD, Autism, DID, BPD, and Tourette's.
(on tiktok, I've also really deep dived this)
supposedly 45% of gen Z has a diagnosed mental illness.

That's a fuckload. It's half of their generation.
However, I really don't think that 45% includes much of extremely rare disorders like DID/BPD which are even more rarely diagnosed in those under than 18...
I think the going theory is that COVID really really fucked with the mental health of gen Z, but the absolute obsession with mental disorders is really curious.

As a millennial, when we were in that age bracket, we had a phrase: "labels are for soup cans"
It's really not that way anymore... (not to sound like a crotchety old person)
And sociologically, I just was really fixated on trying to understand the appeal of claiming a mental illness diagnosis.
You'll see on a lot of these tiktoks: "5 signs you have [xyz] disorder" , and it'll be utterly basic stuff, like
"You bite your nails"
"you have trouble sleeping"
"you get super obsessed with the person you like"
"you have a hard time being honest with others"...
Like the modern day equivalent of pop horoscopes, but with mental illnesses.
And they will brag to each other when they are diagnosed with something serious enough to require medication, or, they will get sad and upset when they fail to be diagnosed with - say, autism.

Autism is the number one in popularity among Gen Z, at the moment. 9.4 billion views.
I think it's a good thing that autism has been destigmatized, but it's become fetishized. Actually, among older adults too.


I am not sure why this one really fixated me. Maybe it's my psychology background. Maybe it's just because its so very, very different than the people I encounter here or in communities like this.
Seeing the other side of it, and reading hundreds of comments/watching hundreds of these tiktoks...

I'm actually not that surprised that our intelligence services are worried about that app. unironically.

These are everywhere on social media. I have never taken Adderall but I have definitely wondered if it might help. Not that I’d go to the doctor anyway..but I’ve thought about it at length..

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CIA guy is literally on every podcast I listen to lol

I like him

I like you K, you excel in the subjects I‘m lacking… what are your best achievements so far utilizing your god given gifts that you are proud of???

here's a clip, they're YT shorts not normal YTs so no embed

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this one is sort of a short but has an embed

here's an fu follow up of sorts! lol