infinite_ass @ infinite_ass @leminal.space

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Imagine if particle physics got popularized for 10 centuries.

I believe that there are these tiny people called Quarks and they like to spin and have charming personalities

Astrology and religion seems like that. Something that once made sense and then got sorta socially digested.

Yeah those guys are the worst. Damn glad that isn't us.

The best language is complete, succinct, orderly and clear. And never adds a single goddamn thing ever.

Rural IL here. Full of conservatives.

Nobody here cares if you are trans. Couldn't care less.

Never met a school church shooter either.

They both had dogshit writing. Deeply bad. Criminally stupid.

It means yr all sucked up into yr head. Talking to yrself. Playing games you created.

That's how plants do it. For a billion years. Must be the best strategy.

Every movie has a bad guy and a good guy. Simple stories for simple people.

Hallmark movies have gotten popular lately at my favorite pegleg establishments. 4 of the 10 in the "featured" list are hallmark.

Last year I think we'd never see even one.

It's because movies really suck now. We're literally scraping the bottom of the barrel.

Why do movies suck now?

This reply makes me feel defensive and outraged.

You're the ahole here. Politics has gone to your head.

Silver Morning by Brian Eno

https://youtu.be/W4Ax7gAxDf8

Maybe memories are actually really simple. Like the words on a screen. An arrangement of symbols, then a boatload of meaning and interpretation and rationalization. So all you need to do to make memories is to insert a few words. The brain's "memory interpreter" does the rest of the work.

For example, we insert the words "brother appears". Then, for the "new memory", we reference your memories of your brother. His appearance and the sound of his voice. Then we contrive a narrative explaining why "brother" is at this place and time. Etc. Voila! You now have a memory of your brother standing there saying some stuff.

So to make a memory, it wouldn't require a grand delicate manipulation of brainstuff. Just a simple thing.

The lead paint and the asbestos both served a need. For colored toys and insulation, specifically. And then we found a better way to serve that need. It isn't a dumb need.

Don't assume that everybody who sees things differently is an idiot.

Given its vast popularity, I expect that some would argue otherwise.

Call it "stories that people are taking way too seriously". I'm sure that you can think of other stories that people take way too seriously too, that have nothing to do with religion.

I think that we might be seeing the power of propaganda there. Consider that the science of propaganda is very old. Thousands of years old. There's population-control psychology there. It's got hooks.

(On the flipside, imposing a set of rules for moral behavior is a good thing. People can be animals. And if you need to cite an old story about gods and wizards to give those rules some oomph then so be it.)

It serves a need. Get rid of the need and you'll get rid of the religious bullshit. But if you get rid of the religious bullshit without getting rid of the need, some other kind of bullshit will crop up.

There's one by Hughes that eats your memories. It walks through floors and walls like they aren't there. You can see it coming from far away, even with your eyes closed.

You kill it by beating it to death with a hard drive.

Looks like an office executive type guy.

The crisis is most economically resolved by disposing of the orangesuit. Makes perfect sense.