Youth

Be proud of what your ancestors did.

A little while ago, my ancestors felt too crowded in the land they were living, they had some beliefs that other people disagreed with, so they left and traveled across the sea to another country that had a smaller population, then spent a while messing around not surviving until the natives helped them.

Well, a little bit after that, they started killing the people that were already there, both directly and by carefully killing off the food sources that they ate, they knowingly meant to completely eliminate the other people from the land.

Of course, they didn't succeed, which may have been worse for those still here, who are distinct from the new people, but not understood and in places, not even accepted.

And that is just my dad's side of my family.

Are you proud of what your ancestors did?

Babies don't sleep this well.

Isn't it strange?

It seems the fate of all creators of great works that they are only understood once dead, the same is true of all things.

pic unrelated, I hope

The people you loke

The validity of primate nature as a source of human power interaction

Are the traits that govern human power interactions shared with other primates? If either developmental, genetic or both, if these traits are shared the potential for research is great, and humanities’ current primate diplomacy may have to be rethought.

When we identify with an action as similar to one of our own, we identify the actor as similar to us. This is called anthropomorphizing when done to something other than human. Though the connection is made using empathy and the task completed may serve an identical purpose, differences in developmental environment mean that correlation must be taken with an air of caution.

Contemporary psychologists are well aware of the experimenter effect, by which the expectations of a researcher influences the outcome of a study. Double blind experiments are used as proofing against this, but with even this precaution there is always a uncontrolled variable in it.

The flavor of anthropological research seems to be one of connection with the focus of ones’ research, awknowleging the influence visited upon group dynamic by the reseracher and encouraging first person conjecture and expectations as a part of the commentary. This technique of meta commentary, by which a discerning reader may account for experimenter bias while accepting the results through a subjective lens may be a far more efficient way of dealing with experimenter bias in research.

Given current methodology of research into primate power interactions, it is enevidable that researchers will influence their results. Only with care and attention to detail on the parts of both the researcher in publishing and peers in review can any further insight into primates be gleened.

Your religion, my one is better

There are many gods, they are all servants of the one true god, the god of reason.

Who created the universe from a single point mass.

Who unfolded all things of all times, using a system that could be understood by beings that would later self assemble as a result of the original work.

All the universe is knowable, all things are true, due to the plurality of existence brought forth by the great maker.

Why?

She had no choice!

This is not even close to what happened.

Light globe pearl

You who would benefit all mankind, remember Prometheus!

He who stole fire from the gods to warm and light the way of men, I have no doubt he is linked to the notion of Lucifer, the light bringer, who was so quickly forgotten by mankind as a creator.

Benefit not your own race, much less any other, for no good deed goes unpunished by the sins of the people.

Selfishness is the only true selflessness, to be truly self conscious is to be able to act to the best of your interests no matter the situation.

The strongest libertarians are self aware selfish people, the strongest authoritarians are self ignorant selfless people, trying to benefit everyone by forcing their own warped self image on others.

Unstated premises abound!

Nobody claps, a few people look uncomfortable, maybe this wasn't the best place to start preaching.

Sometimes I write a chapter

This is a pretty nice cafe, its quiet and I haven't noticed the coffee taste awful. I hope you don't think I sound too pretentious, but I do enjoy the right setting, I'm sure you do as well, though our ideas may differ as to what that is.

"uhh, yeah, that is pretty cool."

Yep, the conversation is wavering, if conversation is easy I can tell I'm enjoying it, this seems a bit strained which means it has only two ways to go, stock questions about items that vaguely relate to us, or a push toward better understanding via unknown common ground.

"Its like how butterflies live in symbiosis with ants, fifty percent or more of all species at some stage in development." Lepidoptera, most everyone likes Lepidoptera in some sense, lets see what reaction I get.

"Really? That is amazing, isn't it great how insects interact with other species of insect, they seem so much better at preserving gene stock of their symbiotes than humans are."

Well, this is good, not only an analysis of the topic at hand, but an impressive background knowledge. We are lost in a world of insect symbiosis, genetic selectivity in codependent organisms and chaos theory.

"Butterflies live in symbiosis with humans, they are beautiful and we breed them to keep them around."

She must be joking, this is way too simplistic a notion given the context.

"Butterflies are to humans as parasitic wasps are to ants, spiders and cockroaches. As humans die from accidents, butterflies flap their wings in the amazon."

"Sounds practically causative!"

Yep, this conversation is going well.

Chapter whatever, I've lost count already

Simple and complex.

Now this is a really difficult one to puzzle out, and since anthropology for the week is already over, its about time to start thinking about the answers.

Complex and simple.

Complex, complicated, confusing, cluttered coordinates. How will I use these to understand human social groups better? Well, lets see...

A complex society is one that I don't understand, a simple one is one I don't know I don't understand.

Well, philosophical standpoints are going to make me turn in circles it seems, so how does one understand a social setting?

AHHA!

The people sitting near me give me an odd look as I throw up my arms and grin.

The only way to understand society is by social interaction. I giggle to myself as I get up and start walking quickly, my fingers twitching.

I enjoy wiggling my fingers when I think, maybe it is a generalised connection between my fingers moving and my mind speaking.

I try not to talk to myself when thinking, but it happens quite often, maybe a psychoiconist will tell me i'm actually talking to my transdimensional pseudoego.

If that doesn't exist yet, it does now, so says I!

Only understanding anthroplogy through human contact, could be a difficult task, i'd better get some reading material.

I'm good idea yes?

So this is a book i'm writing about ideas, I told Nathan. He seemed kinda interested and kept walking. I try to sit on ideas until I make something of them, because otherwise i'll just waste all my creative juice on the concept and never bother recording or making something of it.

Shooting the breeze is nice, but I won't be able to publish a series of interesting conversations I have had with various people.

Well, that and a few lectures when I start on a tangent and nobody seems to follow.

So this book, I tell Nathan, its going to be a series of interesting conversations and a few lectures I have with people who aren't really all that interested in what I have to say, but somehow I'll make this virtual journal of a book have more than one character. Maybe i'll just be all the characters myself, and react according to whatever mood i'm in when I write it.

Nathan agrees this is a good idea and we continue on our quest to cook a delicious lemon and lime slice.

I've got a bunch of ideas, and some of them I think are pretty.

I write them down and put in line breaks whenever I don't think a thought is flowing correctly.

I've still got a belt and a can of tuna sitting on my desk, I really should move them on to their respective owners.

I wonder if that is a chapter worth of information yet.

Kattt777, I will find out who you are.

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.

Nelix wrote this for me

N2O - Isaac - Sun Jul 16 02:26:16 EST 2006

# # = Intro
# * = Commentary by me
# "" = you talking, nested comments are ''
# '' = me talking
#I was strugling to keep up with you, but its pretty compleate. you were quite for a many long times.

*Seperated his life in china from his life in australia, opon reavaluating this idea he is more comfertable.
*Respect for honest comments about slowing down and being honest with your self about drug use.
*Suprise at respecting someone who is a creationist, or at least providing the informationt to me in a mater of fact style


"Pink floyd has an albumed named clouds tast metalic, i know why."
"With controled breathing I can extend this experience longer"
"Yeah thats cold"
" 'The worms eat into his brain' yeah thats great just put that in there"

*4th box
*Singing along with pink floyd
*Becomes confused and picks up my shaving bag, confusing it for the nanginator, "its like an infinate circle of plastic", "no seriusly, that was fucking wierd"
"What?", "What did you say" "2/3s of everything you experience on nitrus is declared a bad packet by your brain" "but i wonder if your brain processes bad
packets" 'it has to process them to know they are bad' "but i don't process them" *continues singing and doing nitrous
"It's great having you as a friend" 'I agree, it's good having you as a friend too isaac' "i say this on nitrous rather than a euphorient" 'i dunno, nitrous is
pretty eurphoric' "i agree, but only because of what it makes you think"
"I gotta ride this, going to do some more"
"first thumble"
"I love how they do the guy from the starts voice"
"wow i have listened to this album alot"
"and i'm impressed by how long could hold my breath"
"basicly when i am walking i train, i count to 5, and then i walk, then do 15, then i do a minute breath out a minute breath out"
"and i have done alot opf meditiation, not the bullshit kind, you know, actualy knowing your self"
"i lost the charger" 'i will turn the light on' "no wait i got it!"
"it was just the sparkly bits lieing to me, trying to trick me into breathing to much oxagen" "caugh caugh shit" "damn" *breaths deep*
"way to get tricky on me man"
"thingsm this songs for you"
"i didnt mean that your weak, i just ment, fuck it i'll explain later" #review
"I feel awesome, but i want to go on, so i am not going to be making facial expresions any more" *procedes to make crazy faces while not breathing*
'have you tried circular breathing rather than holding our breath?', "yeah i do both"
"ahh medicene" *drinks lucuseaid*
'ready to come back to reality?'
"i'm just going to ride" "remmeber in the book when they talk about geting a tank of nitrus under the front seat"
"thats why i never watch the movie, the whole end bits a bit of a downer, the live ones shit and that whole worm shit, not there in the original"

*seems like isaac is reliving alot of his experiences getting high in china while listening to pink floyd

"just one more box" 'last box'
"please stop me if i keep going"
"i love it its got the sound distortion, and i'v got the sound distortion, so between them i'm not sure if i am even hearing it"

*conversation about penis bleeding and fods with coagulent effects that i was unable to document*

"exosist shit, getting a bit nausiated" 'want me to get the bin?' "nothing like that, i would not be able to warn you if it was that"

*more undocumented penis*

"see this is ego and id, and nitrous maintains my ego, and thats why ia m like 'fuck him he can bleed out his own fucking dick'"
"yeah if you listen to this music for a seccond you just think 'what the hell'" *procedes to sing*
"high?? i think he is telling me to do more nitrous, and the keyboards agree"
"how does he come up with a decetful piano line when hes intoxicated"
"i gotta say man, i love the phantasy land i live in, some of the stuff i allow to exiest just for the sake of, oh yeah its pretty interesting"
"hey man think the start of acid is really 'its pretty interesting' but the end is really 'what the hell'"
"man i was trying to feel my pulse and i realised my fingers are numb"
"lets here it for syd"
"i just burped out the ntirous, its funny feeling all that in slow motion"

Scorpion fighting cockroach

I had a dream about a scorpion fighting a cockroach at a fast food joint while two mice fucked on a sign.

I bet on the scorpion and won something, then got taken into the back where people kept poking me in the head and saying they were trying to stimulate my Broca's and Wernike's areas then seeing what languages I could hear and speak back.

Disruption of communications is a sign

My brother decided to be a vegetarian, and a vocal one!

I of course, am guilty, but suggest that as our bodies evolved as chemotrophic not autotrophic we have no choice but to kill something else to live.

Still, a rabbit or a cow seems cuter to someone who has never seen the marvelous worlds of fungi and bacteria that live but a few powers of concentration beyond our naked eye's ability.

I am constantly in awe of the things that exist around me.

Oh yeah, and as of about 5 mins ago I've seen 420 pokemon...