Sixth annual lucy fur something something day

[Dent]

"May all that have life be delivered from suffering" Gautama Buddha (c.566 BC - c.480 BC)

[Orgazmo]

"Only the good die young." -Jesus Christ

[angry pancake]

Seeing the today is lucyfur day, Easter, and 4-20. I expect lucyfur to rise from the dead and bring cannabis to us all.

Have faith good nubblites.

[DJ FC]

RIP LUCY FUR - DJ FC drunk in Tokyo

[DDTempest]

Don't forget it's also Hitler's Birthday

[angry pancake]

7th annual.

[Orgazmo]

RIP Lucy Fur. You'll never be shot dead in our hearts.

[Dent]

RIP

Also good idea on reusing the thread, it leaves more room for "Blondes xxxx"

[Mr. Blonde]

Blonde's Lucy Fur Death Thread

I was just thinking about her randomly the other week. We all talk about how you could "die tomorrow", but I think it's become such a cliche we forget how close death is to us at all times. Really good motivator for getting one's affairs in order.

[Repugnant Abomination]

Funny, I was just thinking about her the other day too. I wonder how her kids are? Sad to say, but it's hard to see them ever recovering from something like that.

[SittinOnDubsWGW]

Originally Posted by Mr. Blonde

Blonde's Lucy Fur Death Thread

I was just thinking about her randomly the other week. We all talk about how you could "die tomorrow", but I think it's become such a cliche we forget how close death is to us at all times. Really good motivator for getting one's affairs in order.

Why the hell does it matter if your affairs are in order, if you're dead?

[SittinOnDubsWGW]

Originally Posted by angry pancake

7th annual.

Post more please.

[Dent]

Originally Posted by Mr. Blonde

but I think it's become such a cliche we forget how close death is to us at all times.

"I still recall vividly the shock I experienced on first encountering this multiworld concept. The idea of 10^100 slightly imperfect copies of oneself all constantly splitting into further copies, which ultimately become unrecognizable, is not easy to reconcile with common sense. Here is schizophrenia with a vengeance.”(41)
(Bryce DeWitt)

FUCK FUCK FUCK

Heraclitus — 'No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it's not the same river and he's not the same man.'

Originally Posted by SittinOnDubsWGW

Why the hell does it matter if your affairs are in order, if you're dead?

tat tvam asi? (open individualism)

Can we discuss identity somewhere? my guess is that you're in the majority with closed individualism, see the picture linked.
Shit you give a fuck about


Edit : fresh off the press Living life in the third person

Imagine living a healthy, normal life without the ability to re-experience in your mind personal events from your past. You have learned details about past episodes from your life and can recite these to family and friends, but you can't mentally travel back in time to imagine yourself in any of them.

[Mr. Blonde]

Originally Posted by Dent

tat tvam asi? (open individualism)

Can we discuss identity somewhere? my guess is that you're in the majority with closed individualism, see the picture linked.

"Philosophy, without the drugs, sucks" - Joe Rogan.

It seems to me that those of us (humanity) who intentionally keep their distance between psychedelic drugs or things like yoga and meditation are, somehow, unable to experientially comprehend what you are talking about.

It is said that when Bodhidharma arrived in China he met with the emperor, who, having sponsored the construction of a great many Buddhist monasteries and temples and patronized the teachers of the various Buddhist sects, assumed that he would gain much merit in the form of a happy and prosperous reign and an auspicious rebirth. But according to legend their dialog went as follows:

Emperor Wu: "I have built many temples, copied innumerable Sutras and ordained many monks since becoming Emperor. Therefore, I ask you what is my merit?"

Bodhidharma: "None whatsoever!"

Emperor Wu: "What then is the most important principle of Buddhism?"

Bodhidharma: "Vast emptiness. Nothing sacred."

Emperor: "Who is this that stands before me?"

Bodhidharma: "I don't know."

When the emperor did not understand, Bodhidharma crossed the river to Shaolin, where he meditated in a cave for nine years.

"...the nature of this one Reality is such that it cannot be directly or immediately apprehended except by those who have chosen to fulfill certain conditions, making themselves loving, pure in heart, and poor in spirit." - Huxley

On a purely physical basis it could be some kind of buildup or structure in the brain that psychedelics or meditation help to dissolve so we can see things in a more open and nonjudgmental way -- I think this is the idea behind the whole "pineal gland calcification" thing. Another way to look at it is: everything I sense must come through the filter of my physical body and brain before it reaches me as "reality", and like any filter, the output would be either reduced or distorted in some way.

I've been wanting to make a thread about identity for a while but I figured it would mostly fall on deaf ears. I may be wrong but I think you and I are the only ones willing or able to talk about the fact that "you" aren't really "you", you were "something" when you were born then given a name, a personality, etc. etc. "What was your original face before you were born?" The idea of "world as drama" (namely Hinduism) has really helped me to deal with it.

person (n.)
early 13c., from Old French persone "human being, anyone, person" (12c., Modern French personne) and directly from Latin persona "human being, person, personage; a part in a drama, assumed character," originally "mask, false face," such as those of wood or clay worn by the actors in later Roman theater...

The fact is, consciousness is inherent in nature, I would say that, as mystical as it sounds, it is not only a fundamental property of nature (i.e. reality outside of human creations such as buildings, society, social structures etc), but the PURPOSE of nature. Consciousness is the means by which nature experiences itself.

I actually find it very difficult to eat meat or kill insects anymore because I am so aware of the base consciousness of that being (or as I like to say, "is-ing"). It can be intensely trippy/weird at times, and is one of the things that has made me extremely aware of death (it's everywhere all the time)

Realizing "open individualism" is the primary goal of most religions I think, but I also think there are different stages of realization.

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Eight-Circuit Model of Consciousness

[angry pancake]

Originally Posted by SittinOnDubsWGW

Post more please.

Nothing I say will make any difference. Laura is gone. I knew her IRL.

It's one of those times that I would like to say say that I believe that she is in a better place and yadda yadda yadda. But a much I was her in real life friend and the rest of you were not, and I would like to say something snarky or profound, I don't have it. She's just gone and there's nothing left.

It doesn't mean I don't miss chatting her on IM, or visiting her up in the suburbs north of Detroit, or discussing jiu-jitsu techniques, or those early morning phone calls when she thought her husband was bat shit crazy and was going to kill her.

She was just a chick who was just trying to make her way through the world with out too many problems. But unfortunately she was married to the biggest problem she'd ever have. She ended up dying at the hands of her estranged husband, who had kicked her out of their home, a man more than twice her size who felt the need to shoot her nine times in the head with a .45 caliber pistol in a Chili's parking lot on April 20, 2008. Leaving behind 2 pre-teen kids.

I was relatively friendly with Laura and her husband. I had met her kids. I don't know what happened to the kids afterwards. I'm completely out of the loop since that time. I just wish them well. If I ever stumble across them, I'd let them know that their mom stayed in a situation that was dangerous to herself for a long time to preserve whatever sense of normalcy that family had. Even if it ultimately cost her life.

[Mr. Blonde]

I believe the good sir Dubs meant to post more regularly (something I would also like).

How is life, AP?

[Saint DH]

That was a heavy post AP. Made me feel. Sorry about your friend, man.

[angry pancake]

8th has come and gone.

We forget.


ETA: fuck it.*missed the 8th new thread. Ap sucks at the internets.

[Dent]

Don't worry AP I got it covered for some time to come.

[Dent]

Would AP have wanted his own something something day?

[Orgazmo]

Probably. He always was a needy bastard.