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Title: HAVE YOU EVER COMPLETELY CHANGED YOUR PERCEPTION OF SOMETHING?
Post by: ncba93ivyase on May 21, 2013, 12:39:00 AM
lsd reinforced an idea i'd been thinking about for a while and introduced to in my religion of asia class: buddhism's idea of a lack of self

while we recognize that the food we eat and our bodies are completely separate entities, that food also becomes a part of us at some point and it also leaves us. so at what point do we become ourselves and at what point can we accept that something we did in the past with an entirely different basis of understanding was done by another individual entirely, even though the body that committed the action has the same name

why is the name we label ourselves with more important to our identity than our current thoughts. why is dissociation from our semipermanent physical form so scary

[spoiler]WHY DO DRUGS MAKE US HAVE BUDDHIST AND HINDU THOUGHTS[/spoiler]

[spoiler]also this post was inspired by socks's's's pseudo-philosophical ramblings  and sun city girls, not drugs[/spoiler]
Title: Re: HAVE YOU EVER COMPLETELY CHANGED YOUR PERCEPTION OF SOMETHING?
Post by: Mando Pandango on May 21, 2013, 12:53:07 AM
this nigga high y'all
Title: Re: HAVE YOU EVER COMPLETELY CHANGED YOUR PERCEPTION OF SOMETHING?
Post by: ncba93ivyase on May 21, 2013, 12:55:04 AM
Quote from: Sir Popsicle the Sesquipedalian on May 21, 2013, 12:53:07 AM
this nigga high y'all
high on LIFE lol (love our lord!)

(http://i.imgur.com/Lr4PG8w.jpg)

Title: Re: HAVE YOU EVER COMPLETELY CHANGED YOUR PERCEPTION OF SOMETHING?
Post by: Hiro on May 21, 2013, 12:56:12 AM
i wouldn't say our past is more important that our present, but it's still important because your past and present shape your future
Title: Re: HAVE YOU EVER COMPLETELY CHANGED YOUR PERCEPTION OF SOMETHING?
Post by: silvertone on May 21, 2013, 07:26:53 AM
the stronger i get the weaker the world becomes
Title: Re: HAVE YOU EVER COMPLETELY CHANGED YOUR PERCEPTION OF SOMETHING?
Post by: Totla on May 21, 2013, 11:56:43 AM
Quote from: Pancake Persona on May 21, 2013, 12:55:04 AM
high on LIFE lol (love our lord!)

(http://i.imgur.com/Lr4PG8w.jpg)


lol actually means lucifer our lord so if you say it you worship satan
and you call yourself a christian
Title: Re: HAVE YOU EVER COMPLETELY CHANGED YOUR PERCEPTION OF SOMETHING?
Post by: ?????? on May 22, 2013, 08:04:35 AM
you can say the same thing on how someone behaves with certain people
i change drastically with different people

their behaviors trigger unconscious behaviors within myself along with mirroring neuronal activity and etc. that basks my ~self~ with external stimuli 
I'M A THOUSAND PEOPLE IN ONE

also i guess a name is needed for some illusion of stasis
Title: Re: HAVE YOU EVER COMPLETELY CHANGED YOUR PERCEPTION OF SOMETHING?
Post by: Ace on May 22, 2013, 12:26:26 PM
I've been at gunpoint once before and I'm really glad it happened because it mellowed me as a person
Title: Re: HAVE YOU EVER COMPLETELY CHANGED YOUR PERCEPTION OF SOMETHING?
Post by: ncba93ivyase on May 22, 2013, 12:31:01 PM
Quote from: Ace on May 22, 2013, 12:26:26 PM
I've been at gunpoint once before and I'm really glad it happened because it mellowed me as a person
whoa

more details, please
Title: Re: HAVE YOU EVER COMPLETELY CHANGED YOUR PERCEPTION OF SOMETHING?
Post by: Ace on May 22, 2013, 12:42:04 PM
huh I can't respond in here
Title: Re: HAVE YOU EVER COMPLETELY CHANGED YOUR PERCEPTION OF SOMETHING?
Post by: Ace on May 22, 2013, 12:43:17 PM
Except now I can? Are there some banned phrases on here? It had to do with a miscommunication of information that led to some policemen thinking that I stole my own car, haha
Title: Re: HAVE YOU EVER COMPLETELY CHANGED YOUR PERCEPTION OF SOMETHING?
Post by: Nyerp on May 22, 2013, 12:44:46 PM
"eval" breaks posts for some reason
Title: Re: HAVE YOU EVER COMPLETELY CHANGED YOUR PERCEPTION OF SOMETHING?
Post by: Mando Pandango on May 22, 2013, 12:45:50 PM
i remember one time there was some combination of characters that made the servers go screwy or something? if you can figure out what it was maybe jmv can fix it

boyah is a free speech zone under the guise of emoticons:
faggot
nigger
you get the point
Title: Re: HAVE YOU EVER COMPLETELY CHANGED YOUR PERCEPTION OF SOMETHING?
Post by: ME## on May 22, 2013, 12:45:58 PM
Quote from: Ace on May 22, 2013, 12:42:04 PM
huh I can't respond in here
were you trying to string together the most horrid sequence of letters, eval?
Title: Re: HAVE YOU EVER COMPLETELY CHANGED YOUR PERCEPTION OF SOMETHING?
Post by: strongbad on May 22, 2013, 12:46:02 PM
yeah human beings have no inherent worth and our existence is a mere sliver relative to everything else in the universe
nihilism akudood;
Title: Re: HAVE YOU EVER COMPLETELY CHANGED YOUR PERCEPTION OF SOMETHING?
Post by: Ace on May 22, 2013, 12:47:52 PM
Quote from: Dovydas on May 22, 2013, 12:45:58 PM
were you trying to string together the most horrid sequence of letters, eval?


nope, nothing unreasonable

maybe it had to do with the fact that I was using perfect grammar for my story and boyah hates that
Title: Re: HAVE YOU EVER COMPLETELY CHANGED YOUR PERCEPTION OF SOMETHING?
Post by: silvertone on May 22, 2013, 12:50:05 PM
Quote from: udderfailure on May 22, 2013, 12:46:02 PM
yeah human beings have no inherent worth and our existence is a mere sliver relative to everything else in the universe
nihilism akudood;


[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CHWHXmLg7YE[/youtube]
Title: Re: HAVE YOU EVER COMPLETELY CHANGED YOUR PERCEPTION OF SOMETHING?
Post by: ME## on May 22, 2013, 12:50:18 PM
Boyah hates a lot of things
Title: Re: HAVE YOU EVER COMPLETELY CHANGED YOUR PERCEPTION OF SOMETHING?
Post by: silvertone on May 22, 2013, 12:50:25 PM
there are a few band phrases out side of E V A L. that are in place to protect us from arabs.
Title: Re: HAVE YOU EVER COMPLETELY CHANGED YOUR PERCEPTION OF SOMETHING?
Post by: Ace on May 22, 2013, 12:51:50 PM
Quote from: silvertone on May 22, 2013, 12:50:25 PM
there are a few band phrases out side of E V A L. that are in place to protect us from arabs.


are there actually banned phrases? I didn't say anything bad by any stretch of the imagination

Quote from: Dovydas on May 22, 2013, 12:50:18 PM
Boyah hates a lot of things


amen
Title: Re: HAVE YOU EVER COMPLETELY CHANGED YOUR PERCEPTION OF SOMETHING?
Post by: Mando Pandango on May 22, 2013, 12:52:43 PM
you can't say anything bad about nietzche or you will trigger an automatic permaban
Title: Re: HAVE YOU EVER COMPLETELY CHANGED YOUR PERCEPTION OF SOMETHING?
Post by: silvertone on May 22, 2013, 12:54:19 PM
Quote from: Ace on May 22, 2013, 12:51:50 PM
are there actually banned phrases? I didn't say anything bad by any stretch of the imagination


they are mostly weird phrases that were used a lot by arabs hacking into snorkel's web host.  like not actual words, just random collection of letters (e v al being one of them), secret codes.
Title: Re: HAVE YOU EVER COMPLETELY CHANGED YOUR PERCEPTION OF SOMETHING?
Post by: Ace on May 22, 2013, 12:56:17 PM
Quote from: silvertone on May 22, 2013, 12:54:19 PM
they are mostly weird phrases that were used a lot by arabs hacking into snorkel's web host.  like not actual words, just random collection of letters (e v al being one of them), secret codes.


oh, strange. Well, hopefully the site didn't freak out when I tried to post it ten times and kept getting error messages  saddood;

I guess my story just happened to have a weird sequence of letters
Title: Re: HAVE YOU EVER COMPLETELY CHANGED YOUR PERCEPTION OF SOMETHING?
Post by: Hiro on May 22, 2013, 02:52:31 PM
Quote from: udderfailure on May 22, 2013, 12:46:02 PM
yeah human beings have no inherent worth and our existence is a mere sliver relative to everything else in the universe
nihilism akudood;
relative to everything else? what has more value than ourselves?
everything is equally worthless  akudood;
Title: Re: HAVE YOU EVER COMPLETELY CHANGED YOUR PERCEPTION OF SOMETHING?
Post by: ?????? on May 22, 2013, 04:22:02 PM
Quote from: Snack Dad on May 22, 2013, 02:52:31 PM
relative to everything else? what has more value than ourselves?
everything is equally worthless  akudood;
look at this deep guy right here
Title: Re: HAVE YOU EVER COMPLETELY CHANGED YOUR PERCEPTION OF SOMETHING?
Post by: strongbad on May 22, 2013, 08:08:49 PM
Quote from: Snack Dad on May 22, 2013, 02:52:31 PM
relative to everything else? what has more value than ourselves?
everything is equally worthless  akudood;

yeah exactly
it's all fucked
Title: Re: HAVE YOU EVER COMPLETELY CHANGED YOUR PERCEPTION OF SOMETHING?
Post by: C.Mongler on May 22, 2013, 11:49:49 PM
i had some thoughts about perception once that blew my skull straight fuck outta me bollocks but its 2 am and fuck if i remember em right now
Title: Re: HAVE YOU EVER COMPLETELY CHANGED YOUR PERCEPTION OF SOMETHING?
Post by: Mando Pandango on May 23, 2013, 01:28:52 AM
I have a lot of thoughts about existence and shit but i've never really radically changed my perception on any of it so idk
Title: Re: HAVE YOU EVER COMPLETELY CHANGED YOUR PERCEPTION OF SOMETHING?
Post by: The Hand That Fisted Everyone on May 23, 2013, 01:33:55 AM
i havent had a set perception of life/reality in five years
Title: Re: HAVE YOU EVER COMPLETELY CHANGED YOUR PERCEPTION OF SOMETHING?
Post by: Mando Pandango on May 23, 2013, 01:35:37 AM
I think about time a lot and it makes me uneasy

the concept of time really scares the bejeezus out of me, tbh
Title: Re: HAVE YOU EVER COMPLETELY CHANGED YOUR PERCEPTION OF SOMETHING?
Post by: The Hand That Fisted Everyone on May 23, 2013, 01:42:32 AM
Quote from: Sir Popsicle the Sesquipedalian on May 23, 2013, 01:35:37 AM
I think about time a lot and it makes me uneasy

the concept of time really scares the bejeezus out of me, tbh
i know the idea of a french canadian into fat broads is an intense idea to wrap your head around do your best not to think about it
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Post by: silvertone on May 23, 2013, 03:20:04 AM
lol
Title: Re: HAVE YOU EVER COMPLETELY CHANGED YOUR PERCEPTION OF SOMETHING?
Post by: silvertone on May 23, 2013, 03:20:34 AM
Quote from: N o t S i d on May 23, 2013, 01:33:55 AM
i havent had a set perception of life/reality in five years
nothing is true....everything is permitted....
Title: Re: HAVE YOU EVER COMPLETELY CHANGED YOUR PERCEPTION OF SOMETHING?
Post by: Totla on May 23, 2013, 06:23:03 AM
between grade 6 and grade 11 i slowly shifted from very conservative evangelical christian to a pretty left leaning agnostic atheist. that was fun
Title: Re: HAVE YOU EVER COMPLETELY CHANGED YOUR PERCEPTION OF SOMETHING?
Post by: strongbad on May 23, 2013, 10:46:15 AM
this is pretty cliché but after reading brave new world i would say that my perception on our society changed pretty drastically 
Title: Re: HAVE YOU EVER COMPLETELY CHANGED YOUR PERCEPTION OF SOMETHING?
Post by: Socks on May 25, 2013, 05:18:11 AM
When I first opened up the Metamorphosis, I had nothing in mind except quickly reading it before the test date came. I recall scanning the first line and proceeding to read the rest, while I had these small and immediate thoughts washing over me. Trivial stuff, like thinking of next period, the class I was in, noticing the cover, other students and so on... And although I had been reading continuously during these moments, all of a sudden I had to stop. I was confused, the story was not making sense. I could read the words plainly and understand what was being said, but it did not seem right, and it was very strange. I felt that I might have missed something significant as I was told the book was about a man, living with his family. Yet I was reading about a talking cockroach, unsure if it was supposed to be reality or a dream. I think I flipped ahead to see if I could pick up on what was going on but that was no help. I still could not sort out what I was reading. I went back and carefully read and re-read the first paragraph again. I began to grasp at what was causing my confusion. I concluded there was no mistake by the author, that the story had said indeed what I initially thought it had, and that it is was as real as any story can be real, regardless of the content. This was an awakening. I recognized that I was confused because I had not accepted the premise of what I read. I was not ready or prepared to encounter and understand such a way of thought and writing. I saw how simply and unaware I had approached the story, as if it was any story, and as if I would learn it without much effort. Very much like the countless other books I had been assigned and read in the past. I did not question that the nature of literature, as I knew it, could be anything but settled and established. We learn from example and so from that experience came that mindset, which believed that it must be unacceptable, and therefore not possible, to create and narrate a story in that fashion. Because I had never seen anything like it before, I did not know that it existed, or could existed, or even that it should exist. I would have never appreciated and attempted to express myself or write a story the way Kafka did. The reason is that although I was not conscious of how I communicated, I was really acting and seeing things with an established notion of what literature is and ought to be. I was certain then and I am even more certain now, that had I not run into that story when I did, the way I imagine and perceive life at present, would be very different. I remember this moment well and always will, because it is a tangible experience that I carry, and which showed me how much meaning and intent can be missed or misinterpreted  if one does not approach what they encounter with the proper mindset and a willingness to reason and also question what they know and what is held as absolute.
So here is to Gregor and his troubled dreams, and of course the Man behind it all.
Title: Re: HAVE YOU EVER COMPLETELY CHANGED YOUR PERCEPTION OF SOMETHING?
Post by: Daddy on May 27, 2013, 10:20:24 AM
Quote from: Fuck on May 22, 2013, 12:44:46 PM
"eval" breaks posts for some reason
it's PHP's configuration with cloudflare or something