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  2. Posted · Edited by botanika

    As psylo said you don't need a tour - just rent a bike or befriend a local tuk tuk. Try visit sihanoukville, as nabraxas mentioned, rent a moped and drive up the coast - it's near deserted.

    Can find shrooms at ankor ;)

  5. Posted · Edited by botanika

    That's one small step for step for the planet right?

     

    It's another tax. Its a financial policy designed to create revenue (economic growth). A true environmental policy would be to change the financial industry itself. There's no trees or parks in monopoly.

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    I hope you didn't think I was pointing that post at you..  I was having a crank generally at society.  You don't need to point anything specifically at people, most people are so generally cranky because their environment is so shit they need alcohol to drown out the fact they are unhappy.  At least, that's my not so humble opinion.

    We do it to ourselves, and we don't even realise it.

     

    That's right we are not immune from the static of our industrial cities either.

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    Lyebirds are pretty amazing. I remember camping in the watagans one time and awakening in my tent I heard a progression of different birds - kurrawongs, magpies, rosellas etc and was thinking 'wow all these different birds are visiting the trees around me in succession...so many types of birds they must all have a schedule' Got out of the tent and it was a lyrebird.

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  9. Posted · Edited by botanika

    Sorry I'm having mind spurts.

    Is consciousness spread the by genes or purely by memes - or both? While that diversity is useful now and has helped us expand across the planet, I sometimes feel that the diversity is too great and it prevents cohesion. Thus attempts to halt environmental destruction invariably fail.

    We are obsessed with doing stuff, and obsessed with technology and knowledge.

     

    'Mind spurts' ...I like that ...like a mental solar flare.

    Maybe we will never reconnect with nature in the way we used to. Life goes where it goes. Against much larger environmental pressures intelligence and the technology it produces can also be a liability.

    Not everyone on the planet, by group, has the same genetic or memetic capabilities. Huge difference between Aboriginals in the desert and their relationship with nature versus Jewish bankers in America and their relationship with money. So it's not just the diversity of consciousness but the hierarchy of it, the convergence of it through race/culture mixing and the evolution of it via adaption. Genetic consciousness. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2113350/Why-individualism-free-thinking-genes-British-people.html

    Beware though, because as you get 'gooder' people get 'eviler'... I wonder how to pass this little obstacle? ;)

    This is interesting because apparently NASA did a study on the correlation between intelligence and aggression. The study was unfortunately never made public (I can think of quite a few reasons why) but some of the results were fairly obvious. I'll try keep it politically correct - let's just say there are certain regions of the world influenced or occupied by highly intelligent groups of people that are constantly at war on a large scale (and additionally the source of the world monotheist religions and complex concepts of good vs bad) and there are other groups of people on the planet that are generally not (and are generally more polytheist). All human groups have aggression but not to the same extent. The study was done by NASA for the purpose of using groups of people on earth as a case study to determine if extra terrestials were ever encountered and they were highly intelligent would they also be highly aggressive?

    This is kind of unrelated but interesting: 'The origins of the human brain can now be traced back at least 600 million years, when we last shared a common ancestor with marine ragworms'

    http://news.discovery.com/animals/worm-human-brain.html

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    Yeah, fucking Hollywood, but "fucking psychedelic culture" too. The terror and uproar that this movie has created in the psychedelic community is ridiculous. The tone is always this self-righteous "how dare they desecrate the Holy Brew" sort of thing. When Andre Serrano or Bunuel or Salman Rushdie or others fuck with the Sacred of other cultures and they incite conservative outrage, we roll our eyes and tell them to loosen up. But when pop culture uses ayahuasca as a prop for a throw away joke in a movie no one will remember in 6 months, we collapse to the floor in convulsions of outrage, crying "Sacrilege! Sacrilege!"

    Where's the strength and Universality that the entheogenic experience teaches us? Are we not a little too eager to create Saints and Relics and Taboos? (And in the case of aya, it's not even the Western anglophone culture's sacrament that's been desecrated! We've stolen it and repackaged it and arguably cheapened it for ourselves anyway!)

    So what that TV shows are talking about entheogens? That's what Pinchbeck and McKenna and countless conferences and "Ayahuasca Monologues" are hoping for: public discourse. You can't push for discussion, and then demand that it be pursued only on your terms. If you talk, everyone will talk, and that includes Hollywood dim-wits and stand-up comedians. That's what freedom is. Trying to control its freedom isn't really freedom. It's the paranoid self-delusion of the scared.

     

    This ^

     Ask 95% of the people walking out of the cinema what "that drug" was, and I'll bet they couldn't tell you.

     

    Exactly and many people leaving a Jennifer Aniston film probably wouldn't care or ever have the opportunity or desire to take it anyway!

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    Some of you guys have the weirdest race/class combinations. Although I can't say much, I have my heavy armour sneakthief khajit that fights with a bow and fists. High elf warrior and wood elf mage were two combos that I never thought I'd see.

     

    I think I was trying to make an 'allrounder' character LOL. I started out slashing my way through with heavy armour and a warhammer but lately I've been either sneaking around with a bow or doning robes and doing missions casting spells. It's one of the things I like over games like Dragon Age in that you are sort of classless in a way. Each race has certain advantageous traits but a warrior can cast spells and a mage can weild a big weapon. Dragon Age was useless in that regard that you get all this loot you can't use. I've put the difficultly at master otherwise it gets too easy and I never end up using any of the potions or spells properly. Bump it down occassionally when I get stuck or have to wipe out a hoard of bandits. If you're after a real bitch of a hard game, try Dark Souls.

    They should re-release Daggerfall, Morrowind and Oblivion with enhanced graphics engines or detail textures and ability to import characters.

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    Great game. Been tired at work last 2 weeks due to late night missions. Im a level 16 high elf warrior I think. Just completed retrieving the elder scrolls from Blackreach and might get back to some side missions before heading back to the throat of the world. Game is bit glitchy at times though.

  22. Posted · Edited by botanika

    Ive never seen an obituary or tombstone or reference to anyone famous in history that said 'they were neat and tidy'. That said when I do occassionally get around to doing a big clean, I do feel very satisfied and content afterwards. You need some balance.

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    Other books on that site also look good. I like the idea of an electric universe.

    http://www.mikamar.biz/book-info/tes-a.htm

    The book contains sensible science for the experts written for the public, and represents the first substantial public exposition of the latest developments in the Electric Universe/Plasma Cosmology that is challenging the current “gravity only” system of thinking. It further undermines the “scientistic” cosmological mythology of the “big bang” and the “expanding” universe, while replacing it with confirmed electrical engineering and high energy plasma explanations.

    http://www.mikamar.biz/book-info/tes-a.htm

    Converging scientific and historical investigation has led to a new vision of the “Electric Universe” and a radical reconstruction of the past. According to proponents of this viewpoint, popular ideas in our cultures must now give way to a deeper appreciation of electrical phenomena and the vast record left to us by the ancients in their heavens-oriented petroglyphs, myths and symbols.

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