EL PRESIDENTE
Username Retired in Honor of Lanny.
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its the whole shallow message of just fighting the current "establishment".
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Let us know when it wears off. OK, OK, just kidding.
If you're introspective, you learn A LOT about your subconscious mind from that first trip. If you're a self-destructive nihilist seeking pleasure like El Presidente (who can be likeably humorous about it), you'd prefer hash, which makes everything seem artistic. I never saw a bluer Pacific Ocean, with its muscles pushing the waves. But I preferred the abstraction of psychedelics, which are for learning, not pleasure.
Afterward, at age 23-25, I wrote 2000 pages of original ideas on my new theory of how levels of consciousness coincide with physical dimensions. Disclosing it to a psychology professor got me an A in his course in 1975. Unpublished, the theory will die with me.
A mind is an object that exists in several physical dimensions, maybe 10 or 12. We perceive each dimension as a level of consciousness. We perceive each geometric point as an idea. Each pair of points is linked by an arc, which is the relationship between the 2 ideas. Discovering these arcs is learning. An arc traverses a dimension above the objects it connects. The 4 known forces of physics--electromagnetism, gravitation, and the strong and weak nuclear forces--are each our perception of a dimension. The more complicated an idea is, the more points and levels it contains. The whole is greater than the sum of its parts because the points synthesize into a higher-dimensional object than their constituent parts, since they include the relationships/arcs. In a subject-object relationship, the shorter the distance in levels, the more subjective. The farther, the more objective. Above our minds is a yet-higher dimension, which includes everything--all intelligence (omiscience), power (omnipotence), etc. I call it Unity. My theory explains everything, and I mean every problem you learn in Philosophy 101 and Physics 101. An example is the classical mind-body problem, which is how to link the mind/soul with the physical world.
I haven't typed this stuff for years. I know I'm leaving out major parts, which would help make more sense to you. I still have my notebooks full of writing if I want to flesh out the details I once had at the tip of my tongue. Someone will throw them out when I croak.
My theory explains everything, and I mean every problem you learn in Philosophy 101 and Physics 101.
People voted for Barack Obama because they wanted change. The change they've received has just been more of what pissed them off,
Lol... I seriously doubt many of the people of voted for her voted for Obama. I think most of the 'we didn't get our change' people are the same.
The real failure is with the Delaware GOP. It's their job to find qualified candidates. They should have found someone with the positions of Ms. O'Donnell (i.e., someone with the support of the Tea Party), but without the baggage.
Where would they find such candidates? Where are the anti-masturbation crusaders who are qualified candidates with no baggage?
barfo
Having spent plenty of time in Delaware (three cheers for Dewey Beach), I think they feel safe in their rights to masturbate. I don't think those in New Castle County are particularly pumped about the financial condition of their county government or their property taxes.
Does the US Senate determine the financial condition of their county government, or their property tax? And if so, is O'Connell better for those things than Castle?
barfo
Sorry for the inside reference, it wasn't intentionally vague. I was referring to Chris Coons, her opponent. He currently runs New Castle County (the northernmost and most populous county in DE and the part that is a suburb of Philly and includes Wilimington).
I think you'd be surprised. It's not like Barack Obama ran as a leftist. He fooled a lot of people.
I don't think he fooled... perhaps people had unrealistic expectations... and you can't fault Obama for that. He inherited a mess... and if people thought he could snap his fingers and it would go away... well that is on them.
LOL. Yeah, he didn't try to encourage those expectations...
Obama said:... the road will be long. The journey will be difficult...
barfo
Still waiting for the oceans to stop rising and the planet to heal? He could have dampened expectations, instead he encouraged them. Now he's being hoisted on his own petard. Delicious.
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"I touched myself instead of voting for O'Donnell"
If you say so.
My take would be (a) it's the closing of a nomination acceptance speech. Of course it is going to be upbeat. And (b), he didn't promise that things would happen instantly. In fact he said the opposite, as I quoted.
Now, if you want to blame him for people who can't understand English, that's ok I guess.
There are some things he listed that he hasn't made much of any progress on, like climate change. But there are also some where there has been progress.
barfo
I care much more about her policies than her private views years ago. BTW, if she were elected to the Senate, I'm pretty sure her opinion of whether or not you pleasure yourself she doesn't see as in her purview. Chris Coons is much more interested in regulating your private life than is Christine O'Donnell.
His strategy must be to make things much worse before they begin to get better, because everything he's focused on has gotten worse, less effective and more expensive.
Sort of like a Timothy Leary thing. My brother did something like that.
I look forward to the repercussions of this theory of yours.
Well, I'm not in that district. But did Coons say that the government needs to monitor every pregnancy to be sure the woman carries to term? I mean, that's pretty regulating, isn't it? Telling a girl whose father raped her that she must be forced to give birth? If Coons said that he gets my equal contempt.
Really? Things have gotten worse? Did you forget already how bad things were? Lets see... stock marget crashed... banks were not lending money... massive unemployment... housing was dropping like a rock... no one could sell one... banks were dropping like flies... major companies were going bankrupt... Iraq was a neverending mess... and so many people thought we were circling the drain that you could not even buy any ammo at a gun store... and you believe that none of that has gotten better?
It's not all bad. Rich people are getting richerIt's not a matter of belief that things haven't gotten better, it's a set of statistically varifiable facts.
Yes, it's gotten worse. The stock market is still in the crapper, banks still aren't lending money, unemployment is higher, housing values and transaction volume have declined even further, bank failures are higher now, major companies continue to go bankrupt, Iraq turned around under Bush (thanks to the surge which Obama opposed) and ammo is still in short supply because people think Obama is going to use the EPA to ban lead ammunition.
It's not a matter of belief that things haven't gotten better, it's a set of statistically varifiable facts.
People voted for Barack Obama because they wanted change. The change they've received has just been more of what pissed them off, so now they're voting for people who have no connection to the system that people don't feel adequately represents them. The real failure is with the Delaware GOP. It's their job to find qualified candidates. They should have found someone with the positions of Ms. O'Donnell (i.e., someone with the support of the Tea Party), but without the baggage.
