Refreshing sars

time is a ripple pointed toward you
space is a ripple folding around you

to picture space in your mind you must picture space
to picture time in your mind you must picture space moving

with this knowledge I sketch 4d graphs in my mind.

a fourth dimensional object is dynamic

KC green is a cool guy, send him money so that he doesn't starve to death while writing comics.

I wrote this because I had a dream last night

Etiquette has been a subject whose lack of appreciation in literature I have found most shocking. It is a wonderful thing to understand and use to make people feel comfortable in any situation, but most articles on the subject that I have read are observations, designed to allay a single issue. This essay is a procedural guide.

Respect is all you need to communicate. any protocol, any language, any country, any time, any place, any person, you will manage. Respect is empathy carefully carried out within the context of everything you know about another person. Respect starts with a premise, that the degrees of similarity between all parties and the importance of interaction based on those similarities is worth the work required to make it. Only worry about your own end here, it is not respectful to assume another party is not benefiting as much as yourself from your communication. Without respect, you have no premise with which to base dialogue and can only assume that asymmetrical communication is occurring.

Verbal communication, grunts, whistles, honks, beeps and hums are your oral arsenal. When another person can hear you and you can hear them you are communicating aurally. However, to communicate verbally, you need to say something that they understand and mean it. Mean what you say, say what you mean, be lucid and uncompromising in speaking your mind. Self editing to improve understanding of an audience is a good thing, but self editing to avoid offending an audience is a bad thing. Be certain they need to be offended before you do, but do so if the information you are offering requires it. If they are offended by what you say, you have said it earnestly in the spirit of communication, do not apologize for offending someone if you meant what you said. Instead explain why you said it and what you hoped to convey in saying it. Above all else, be honest, the universe is confusing enough a place without people saying what they do not believe to be true muddying the water.

Physical interaction, using our bodies to communicate, it's a powerful tool if you know how to use it, and since it is always being used, some study of it comes highly recommended. Know yourself, know what mood you are in, how you are feeling, whether the topic of conversation interests you, if you are hungry, thirsty, fatigued or tired. Know that you are communicating any discomfort you may feel to other people via your body language. Learn how you act and react when different things happen. Because you are communicating without speaking, you won't have to discuss your own or other people's bodies as separate things, this leads to an idea of intimacy and trust that is easily shared. This brings us to touch, touching puts people into a feedback loop where nerves and reactions can be monitored by either party. Different cultures put different emphasis on the importance of touch as it is a close and intimate means of communication, representing balanced forms of communication such as empathy, respect and love. As with all powerful means of communication, if unwanted they are confronting. Care should always be taken in ensuring that some prior interaction via talking or eye contact precedes touch.

With these procedural approaches in mind, your ability to interact with other beings will improve. I hope this has illuminated someone as to my understanding of the nature of communication, if you understand that is good, if you don't, that is better, contact me immediately!

The naked mole rat lives in a eusociety, humans might, but I doubt it.

THIS JUST IN

When I grow up I want to be a lepidopterist


Anyone want to help me run a backyard butterfly house?

Ethan Hawke

Dan Deacon is a cool guy, eh plays music and doesn't afraid of anything.


Apparently I look like a neofascist...

Save our little friends

Do you use antibacterial cleaning products in your house? You might be a worse killer than Hitler!*

Millions of humans worldwide commit daily acts of genocide, the victims; bacteria, the digesters, the nitrogen fixators, our little friends that make the world healthy and clean. These vile acts are socially acceptable, but why?




*blaming a fascist leader for the complacency of the many seems like more of the same, in a society of equality, people accept what blame they deserve.

Twinkle twinkle

In your utopia, what do you eat for breakfast?

A good friend named sue.

10 lies you may have been told about drugs.

Find out the truth about dangerous cults.

Save yourself.

True or false tests are an inadequate form of testing knowledge as poor wording and varying lemmas mean that these are inherently a brainwashing tool, not a teaching aid.


1. There are good drugs and bad drugs.

False, drugs are chemicals, they have no intent.


2. Most drugs don't hurt your mind.

It is possible that many recreational or medicinal drugs may cause temporary or permanent brain damage.

However there are hundreds of classes of drugs that have little or no interaction with neurotransmitters.


3. No one knows what causes people to take drugs.

Any person who willingly doses themselves with a drug does so for a reason.

Respectfully asking someone why they take drugs is the fastest way to understanding.


4. Most drugs aren't habit-forming.

Physiological addiction is a possibility when using many classes of drug.

Psychological dependence is likely for an even wider range of drugs.

Habituation to anything is possible, however I haven't ever had a penicillin craving.

(Man, insulin withdrawals are the worst...)


5. Alcohol isn't a drug.

An alcohol is a hydroxyl substitute to a hydrocarbon chain. Most frequently used of these chemicals is ethanol, which is most certainly psychoactive.


6. Marijuana [cannabis] isn't harmful.

facepalm.jpg

30 seconds with google will give you more information about this than you can read in your lifetime.


7. Ecstasy is safer than other drugs.

True, very true, i'll bet 10 dollars on it.

Door number 1

Door number 2

Door number 3

(Those were the first three off the top of my head)


8. Drugs increase creativity.

Drugs do not give you super powers, anything you do while on a drug comes from you.


9. Drugs improve your senses.

If a drug boosts a neurotransmitter that is otherwise deficient, as in myasthenia gravis, then yes, drugs can improve your senses.

As for psychoactives, I believe that is a alteration in perception, not an increase in sensory data.


10. Drugs stay in the body for only a short time.

Excretion kinetics, wikipedia is your friend.

stolen without permission from
http://www.narconon.org/bookstore/10-things-drug-booklet
please don't give them a dollar, its too much for this trash



fair use is a bitch eh?


Bit of information here, my brother came home with a pamphlet about drugs, which I thought would be a laugh.

Thinking it would be the regular government propaganda of blah blah blah, be careful you don't know, nobody does, I was shocked to find it was actually a scientology front pretending to be an expert on drug education.

These poor misguided fools are wasting your tax dollars, you know, the ones that could improve our hospital, education or public transport systems.

This is not information, this is noise, and we are paying for it.

Anyways, I called them up and offered to locate white papers on pubmed that contradicted their erronious statements.

I got hit with the logical fallacy 'well, that's your opinion and you're entitled to it' which of course it isn't and i'm not.

So i'm putting this here, hoping that my bit of noise may obscufate theirs in some small way.

A blind man driving a school bus is funny; i'm not going to bother the blissfully ignorant with my annoying brand of truth.

It started with an E and ended with a D

You're mediocre.
I'm grotesque.
You're mediocre

Every story ends with dust.
I'll die in time.
No body.

One thought at a time.
At my own pace.
Until the world burns.

Love

GET THE HELL OUT OF MY OFFICE

My uncle

My uncle is bigger than you are.

My uncle is a parsec wide.

My uncle invented space travel.

My uncle can't go outside.


His uncle is a charming bloke, who hijacked an entire school.

He fought in 'nam and Korea, Japan and Taiwan too.

You'll find him robbing whitegoods stores and always tracing calls.

Fighting market forces for a free Tibet for all.


Chorus


His uncle jumped an ice cream van and fought a deadly blaze.

He seduced a lusty zookeeper and thus a walrus saved.

Without this paragon of truth, the police still wouldn't fly.

He rolled five natural twenties on a nineteen sided die.


Chorus


His uncle is an awesome bloke, and you can meet him too.

Just ask your pineal gland, she'll tell you what to do.

Class segregation is merely skin deep.

Fascism comes from the root word fascia meaning band.

Fascists are the band that groups people together via their aversion to fascist people.

Fascists are a sign of a healthy society in which people are making uninformed decisions and enjoying themselves, if too many fascists gather in a single place then they may form a band that is too restrictive on society at large as it may fail to encompass certain peer humans.

Of course, the end result is the same, but it is a sign of an incredibly unhealthy society to exclude any willing member based on superfascial differences.

In short, the fascists are important to societies, but not because they are a part, but rather because they exist and are excluded.

Path is ok, but how about road?

Ok, lets talk basics.

I mean real basics, not the kind where you nod and agree but don't have a clue what i'm talking about, I mean the kind that everyone knows about because they've learned about it via personal experience.

This is my mouth, you all have one similar to mine, it makes you happy when you put certain things in your mouth, and it makes other people happy when certain things come out of your mouth.

It's a very pleasurable hole really. Now, around here, you have your anus, yep, easy enough to find, probably most commonly known as the place where shit comes out of.

The anus like the mouth can make you feel good if you put things in it or take things out.

Everyone follow so far?

Good!

Now you may have noticed via repeated experimentation, that what you put in your mouth comes out of your anus.

This procedure is known by all and hence is not a good party trick.

So Sun Zi says "The art of war is of vital importance to the State."

But that is only because he was powerful but not the most powerful.

And that he was smart, but not the most smart.

And that he had won political favor, but not enough.

And that he had read the prince, but had not understood it because it was only written in Italian.