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TheAppleCore said:
Hey Roger, how's this for a theory of human psychology -- it is impossible to do something that you don't enjoy. ? Human behavior is entirely driven by aversive and directive emotion: pain and pleasure.
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I would probably agree with that. The tricky part is that humans are such complex beings that we are capable of simultaneously enjoying something while also being totally exasperated and frightened by it.

In fact, (on a tertiarily related note) I would go so far as to say that its impossible to hate something that you don't also love, as the opposite of love is not hate but indifference. IMO, the whole emotion of hatred is based in the frustration of being subject to the whims of phenomena that you are inextricably linked to, primarily by choice.

The motivations of people are quite complicated, methinks.
 
I would agree with that through experience, Rog. The only things that really bring up feelings of disgust for me are things I love/loved. Heroin, first girlfriend. Hhaha.
 
Roger&Me said:
The tricky part is that humans are such complex beings that we are capable of simultaneously enjoying something while also being totally exasperated and frightened by it.
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Yes, and therein lies a more subtle mechanism for the balance of these emotions in the decision-making process.

In fact, (on a tertiarily related note) I would go so far as to say that its impossible to hate something that you don't also love, as the opposite of love is not hate but indifference.
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Well said -- I agree.
 
Oh man, I LOVE basically all eras of Miles before the 80s.

I wouldn't even know where to start talking about such an influential body of music, but yes I enjoy Miles' music very much. :) <3

Not nearly as much as I love Coltrane, though. Giant Steps and A Love Supreme can be heard around my house pretty much daily. :) (Usually accompanied by the beautiful smell of burning ganja :D)

I also love Ornette Coleman in his prime, when he and his band were playing that REAL free jazz. I tell ya, that stuff really gets me going.
 
Yeah, I'm starting to become more acquainted with the guy's stuff, and it's really blowing me away. He's generally a pretty far-out dude, too -- look up some of his interviews on YouTube. :D

Definitely going to look up the Coltrane albums you mentioned. So far I haven't gotten into his stuff in a big way, but I really haven't given him much of a chance.
 
Coltrane's music is very special.

I don't know how else to explain it-- there are very few combinations of words that could even begin to hint at the profundity of his playing.

I wouldn't compare it to Miles' repertoire at all, its much more personal and spiritual.

John Coltrane personally believed that his music was a language that he could use to communicate with the supreme creative force in the universe, and it definitely comes across as such.

It is quite serious jazz music, I recommend giving his music a thorough and exhaustive consideration (!). It is very special noise, I normally only recommend it to people whom I think are cool enough to dig it (like you, applecore :)).
 
I really think I'm in some trouble come placement testing time. I'm confident in every subject except for math. I just took a sample test and correctly answered 5 out of 40. :\

Most of the problems looked like alien hieroglyphs of somekind so I just left them blank. My high school didnt offer anything higher than advanced algebra so I have no idea what the fuck to make of calculus or trig. Even some of the story problems confused me. I have alot of work to do...
 
^ (@Roger) I am honored. :) And intrigued. I take music very seriously as a spiritual ally as well, and appreciate hearing music coming from the same perspective.


This was a pretty heady page in PD Social. I'm having fun here.
 
Bardo5 said:
I really think I'm in some trouble come placement testing time. I'm confident in every subject except for math. I just took a sample test and correctly answered 5 out of 40. :\

Most of the problems looked like alien hieroglyphs of somekind so I just left them blank. My high school didnt offer anything higher than advanced algebra so I have no idea what the fuck to make of calculus or trig. Even some of the story problems confused me. I have alot of work to do...
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Never, ever, under any circumstances, should you underestimate the incredible power of gradual training!

Especially in mathematics.

Mathematical ability is based on nothing but practice. You are simply rusty, out of practice, and in need of proper instruction.

Enroll in class immediately, for serious.

Work at least 5 tough math problems every day.

Don't get discouraged!

I used to be SO bad at math: I was actually 'diagnosed' with dyscalculia-- called simply 'learning disability: math' in modern psychological terms-- the mathematical equivalent of dyslexia.

But through gradual training and constant practice, I raised my mathematical ability to such a degree that I can now comfortably do calculus in its entirety, partial differential equations, linear algebra, statistics, analytical chemistry, mechanics, electromagnetism, quantum mechanics, etc etc etc.

When I was like 18, I probably couldn't even solve a quadratic equation.

Now I'm 22 and I consider myself to have mastered a good chunk of undergraduate-level mathematical, physical, and chemical methods.

Give yourself time to learn (probably about 4 years), and if you enroll in classes and practice every single day for a while, you will become a master of mathematics.

Daily Practice !
 
QUADRATIC FORMULA QUADRATIC FORMULA
X=-b plus or minus the square root of b squared minus 4xc divided by two times a, yay yay yay
yeah i remember that from 10th grade, algebra 2, the quadratic formula song!
PMMA and PMEA interest me.
noticed on the rhodium pharmacology archive there being a few positive reports on PMMA and PMEA has a thead in here.
I wonder about PMEA though, is why the poop is it schdeuled in PA? I think it has been for a long time apparently, even though it never has had any sort of popularity/street appearance.
WTF state legislature? WTF.
 
@Roger- I take offense; am I not cool enough for Miles? :| (joking- I'm TOO cool ;)) <3

TAC, what sort of music are you creating currently? I'm swinging back and forth between darker psytrance and kinda happy droning ambient stuff.....I prefer to create trance, but the ambient stuff sounds more like where my mind is right now.

LMA said:
i am watching top gear australia.
not nearly as good as uk top gear.
and i cant help but thinking about crocodiles every time i hear them talk
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We all talk like that here, but very rarely about crocodiles. Not many down my way ;)

That said, we have lotsa kangaroos where I live atm; they wander into the suburbs by mistake; about a week ago I was driving; the street I was driving down was blocked off as police and wildlife officers tried to catch a kangaroo- the roo went nuts, but they got him. :( They just netted him and took him back to the bush, but apparently this guy likes the 'burbs. Such strange animals- seriously- little weird paws and then MASSIVE FUCKING LEGS THAT ARE ESSENTIALLY SPRINGS MADE OUT OF TENDONS....and a pouch to boot. Mother Nature was on acid when She invoked the kangaroo family....:)
 
Thanks for the tips Rog :)

I'm almost 22 as well and I'm trying to start up college for the first time. I really hope math doesnt slow my progress toward my degree to a snails pace and that they'll have pre-req classes for me to take so I can get caught up to where I should be. There are free online courses I'm looking at to get me a little more prepared for placement testing. The kicker is that my career path involves lots and lots of mathematics so it's something I really have to become very familiar with sooner or later.
 
dude
i wanna go to australia
bad
and srsly
ride a kangaroo, i wanna..they just LOOK like theyre MEANT to be ridden, like they look like they can provide the perfect seating position on their back
i meant about the crocodiles..whenever i hear an australian accent, i think "OY MATE STEVE IRWIN LETS HANDLE DANGEROUS ANIMALS OY SHRIMP ON THE BARBIE"
 
edit: ^They look rideable, but most defintely aren't. They are fullon fighting machines....:)

Whatcha think?

He Whom Emnates LIGHT

Hails unto thee- Goat of the Sabbath,
Emerging from the censer
as the Chemongnostic voice.

Amidst the midst of labrynthine time-
In bodily, forthrite
Thou face is beheld by the sun-
Which, upon, we feasted-
At a dance for the divine, manifest
In woods awake with wonder
At the cessation of ignorance.

And the aura of the Demiurge's light.

Probe and gaze into-
"This is my fleshy form-
No more an etheral seperate"
A blessing to the Sighted Ones.

Ignorance in Man builds
A world made of fear,
Kali Yuga- quillpthotic skins
embrace the Demise...

Beyond the dead ones,
Traversing the Husk of Locust-
A drift in the eternally Awakened
Above and Below;
In the older vista's
we hear the chant of primal debasement
Zos Kia Cultus: Exuro Templum
Fides inversa- enact the possibility-
Do What Though Will-
Love being Law of Life

In Voidlight and Fire
Take hold of the deepwater spirits
On their bellies, to mock thee
And regress to the Devil's Kingdom
 
That was a great read, man.

As with all poems though, I gotta take time to read it in varying cadences and differing perspectives before I can fully appreciate it. :)
 
willow, my focus is dedicated to the 4-methoxy amphetamines right now, theyre interesting imo..so no comment, but..i just looked, adn you peopel EAT kangaroos?
if i ever go to australia, i am gonna sit down with you and munch on a fried kangaroo leg or breast or something.
4-methoxymethamphetamine/4-methoxyethamphetamine dont look too bad at all, long as you know what youve got and dose accordingly. id try either one. and yes, i am quite aware of PMA's tendency to kill. but i wonder..how many people who took those mitsubishis that were PMA had a good time, ya know? I mean it looks like the exact same rolls, same press and size and whatnot, were in BOTH australia and america, so surely a lot of people had taken them..
 
^Yeah, kangaroo's, crocodiles, emus all get eaten....I don't eat meat, but you can get crocodile pies; that much I know. Weird.

That said, I gave my dog a dried and smoked kangaroo spine the other day; he loved it :)

PMA, which I've had once intentionally (and several other times not) was actually really quite nice. It was a very low dose, maybe 10mg (or 15, I can't remember), and no other drugs of course- pretty speedy, euphoria, empathogen qualities, but all borderline manic and anxious. TOO speedy, TOO euphoric, TOO touchy feely, all driven not by that calm MDxx feel but by a more amphetaminergic compulsion. I had a small amount of GHB after about two hours, and felt okay. There does appear to be a very strongly serotonergic overload, sweating and trembling, flushed, thirsty....plus I was well aware I was taking the "killer drug", so I was pretty anxious....

I wouldn't take it again. If I were to dose any amphetamine these days, it would be dexamp or meth. Probably the latter, but that stuff has kicked me around pretty badly, especially earlier this year. Dexamphetamine gives me just the perfect focus, and only in slightly above therapeutic doses....ATM, taking 8mg suboxone daily (soon to switch to subutex, thank fuck) gives me quite a bit of stimulation and drive.
 
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