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In: Hypnosis?  — view comment
Life's full of stress, and mine is no different. Got mouths to feed and bills to pay, people to deal with. I don't exist in some magical place without...
July 11, 2017 at 00:18
In: Hypnosis?  — view comment
Ouch... this cat's got claws. You're right though, I'm more procrastinating than satiating boredom though. I ought to be updating my resume and findin...
July 11, 2017 at 00:10
He seems cool, and he probably isn't in possession of a book of the end.
July 11, 2017 at 00:07
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ER7Jw4J5Yog Same last name as my mom's maiden name, plus he was also born on June 12, just like me. Isn't that fucking...
July 10, 2017 at 23:12
In: Hypnosis?  — view comment
You know that at one time, researchers believed that dogs did not feel pain, and the noises that they made when you tortured them was actually just th...
July 10, 2017 at 21:51
My holistic metaphysics is aimed toward oneness, so that really, you're all part of me, so that it's always me that leaves the last post. :D last post...
July 10, 2017 at 21:32
In: Hypnosis?  — view comment
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KnTOArSKGTo
July 10, 2017 at 21:30
In: Hypnosis?  — view comment
This is what you said. What does "bypass conscious awareness" mean? I said to call a spade and spade. I said call relaxation relaxation, and assign pr...
July 10, 2017 at 21:02
In: Hypnosis?  — view comment
I know, everyone thinks that bullshit is no big deal... we all say we're about truth, until we decide that there's some personal benefit in bullshitti...
July 10, 2017 at 20:52
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aGuaTb0uE0k
July 10, 2017 at 20:17
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UGACP4eNHVU Gear Second is definitely my favorite technique.
July 10, 2017 at 20:11
In: Hypnosis?  — view comment
Deception is always destructive, autonomy violating, and puppeteering.
July 10, 2017 at 19:59
In: Hypnosis?  — view comment
That's called being deceived... and although quite shitty, divisive, disorienting, disassociating, and destructive... it's definitely a thing.
July 10, 2017 at 19:21
Yeah, suicide bombers are frustrated, but not politically, or religiously, the ones that are frustrated in that sense are sending out the suicide bomb...
July 10, 2017 at 09:23
In: Hypnosis?  — view comment
What is it besides the relaxation, the change in habit, and trying something new, the breathing, and music that is doing that? What is hypnosis beside...
July 10, 2017 at 03:44
In: Hypnosis?  — view comment
No, consciously doing it would be finding the real cause of things, and then changing the world, or changing your routines in such a way that they hav...
July 10, 2017 at 03:27
In: Hypnosis?  — view comment
All da possibilities hit you no matter where you go, but particularly frequented environments your instantly get hit with the activity associations of...
July 10, 2017 at 03:09
I qualified that i thought that, implying less than certainty... ass was covered there. :D I actually wasnt aware of the theory that linked them, muah...
July 09, 2017 at 21:42
Lol, me too man. Me too.
July 09, 2017 at 20:23
Which coincided with the last time that massive volcano under yellowstone (which at the time was more under Russia, I believe) went off. The volcano i...
July 09, 2017 at 18:41
And I addressed that, but I'll go even further. Do you start cheering the bully on when it looks like your kid is about to lose? Do you give up the mo...
July 09, 2017 at 17:49
I didn't say you were stupid, I said that you were interpreting it as stupidly as possible, which makes you self-aggrandizing, thinking that what you'...
July 09, 2017 at 17:30
I would and did. Doctors themselves will tell you that it's up to the person more than anything if they survive traumatic injury, they have to fight t...
July 09, 2017 at 17:18
You don't want to try to interpret things as stupidly as possible.
July 09, 2017 at 15:09
Do you require certainty of success before you'll attempt something? You probably won't get around to much if that's the case. I think that we ought t...
July 09, 2017 at 07:18
Holy shit, holy shit, holy shit, holy shit Doraleous & Associates is back!!!!!!!!
July 09, 2017 at 05:40
In: Hypnosis?  — view comment
Marketers will try fucking anything that can be remotely construed as legal... I think that their best technique has always been, and will always be t...
July 09, 2017 at 03:48
In: Hypnosis?  — view comment
Like I said though, everyone seems to acknowledge that we're talking about the power of suggestion, which is what the placebo effect is, but yet every...
July 09, 2017 at 03:12
In: Hypnosis?  — view comment
“Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate.” - Jung. I'm a fan of meditation for sure, but no hypno...
July 09, 2017 at 02:41
Well... you're the self-proclaimed bullshitter... out of love though... He so loved the world that he deceived them all for their own good...
July 08, 2017 at 21:17
Justness.
July 08, 2017 at 20:54
I know that you keep repeating that like a mantra, but you're just using elevating emotive words in order to emotionally manipulate yourself and other...
July 08, 2017 at 20:51
I'm not... I'm recovering more from being a narcissist. So one lies out of a high self-esteem then...? Then that makes lying good... I didn't, you'll ...
July 08, 2017 at 20:49
No, that isn't at all my concern... it's that lying to oneself makes one an idiot... lying to others makes them idiots... and further, that people tha...
July 08, 2017 at 19:30
It can with self honesty, and self love... but it's to infantilize, and damage anyone else. It's possible to not suffer the physical and mental draw b...
July 08, 2017 at 19:28
You'll never understand through observation anything that isn't just superficial... not from the outside, gotta be inside to get insight.
July 08, 2017 at 19:17
Gives relatable form to the chaos of your experiences. Brings to the surface meaning that already resides in the understanding. A prompting to see wha...
July 08, 2017 at 19:16
Wittgenstein was attempting to kill philosophy wasn't he? Trying to show that you won't find meaning in the texts, in the speech, but in living... so ...
July 08, 2017 at 19:05
"Liar" isn't an identity...
July 08, 2017 at 16:29
I did also qualify with "like", I'll add, as in, not exactly, the words don't really matter to me... that's kind of the whole point...
July 08, 2017 at 07:46
Both "agreement" and "pact" although not "contract" are synonyms of convention. The second definition in the list definitions that I look up of "conve...
July 08, 2017 at 07:42
Well, words mean whatever people want, and how they use them then I guess.
July 08, 2017 at 06:11
Convention is just like agreement in like a contractual, abstract sense, like the spelling of a word, which leaves the individual lived experience tha...
July 08, 2017 at 05:33
I didn't oversell, or undersell convention, but simply made a distinction, and suggested that the mistake is easy to make, because the two things are ...
July 08, 2017 at 04:45
I might checks him out. Not super acquainted with Wittgenstein, which is why I rarely mention him. I read the philosopher investigations on the way ou...
July 08, 2017 at 04:44
To flip him off some though... this is why he was so pissed off and/or deeply depressed all of the time too... he was the specialist of snowflakes... ...
July 08, 2017 at 03:40
Well, no one understood Wittgenstein in Wittgenstein's opinion... What grounds meaning in his (quite agreeable view) is not convention (which is easy ...
July 08, 2017 at 03:31
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Trie3ioTDF4
July 08, 2017 at 02:32
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zpSUWtAlVjA
July 08, 2017 at 02:28
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xw5oq8VtVi4 Those lyrics were ironically faked... hopefully this one is better
July 08, 2017 at 02:10