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  2. Posted

    I'd like to come. Finally get to meet someone from this community :)

    West of the CBD, what suburb? I'd be catching public transport or riding the ol' pushbike so accessibility is my main issue.

    Looking forward to it. Although it is the night before I go to Sydney, may not be the best idea...

    EDIT: Also that mayan calendar thing was never a prediction of the end of the world, just the end of a cycle was it? (I don't recall exactly what) It was meant to be a change for the positive wasn't it?

     

    nobody really knows about the mayan end date. personally i think there's more to ancient civilisations than we really comprehend, i'm sure many of you think the same.

    i think you'd really need to catch a lift with somebody. i could drive you to the site after work but not back to civilisation. if nobody else can take you back to brisbane, we could bring your pushbike up too and it's downhill most of the way to the closest bus stop (can you take a bike on a bus?)

    keep in mind a lunar eclipse is not very exciting nor does it happen quickly, it's something to appreciate over a long period of time. it might not be worth the trouble if you are traveling the next day.

     

    Uhhh would offer you a lift Sheather as I would like to go too, but my car broke down last Thursday evening in Ryde. I was on my way to drive back to Brisbane when the coolant level/temperature warning light started blinking madly. I was on a main road in heavy traffic in the furtherest right hand lane so I couldn't pull over easily, so the car started smoking from under the bonnet...

    I managed to turn off and pull over in a side rd, then a couple of hours later my car got towed to a repairers. Guess I'm lucky it happened near the heart of Sydney, rather than say two hours north of Sydney. My car was full of luggage though which was a pain to recover the next day, by public transport.

    Anywho, I got a plane back to Brisbane last Friday; and I have access to a manual car here... however I don't have my manual license. So if you have an open manual license I can whack on the L-plates and drive us there.

    I'm actually heading back to Sydney this Wednesday aswell - racq are putting me on a train/coach to go pick up my car when the repairs should be complete. Then I'll be driving it back to Brisbane just before Christmas. phew!

  5. Posted · Edited by OpticalLight

    Faustus, would have offered you a lift but you left it 'til the 11th 12th hour to ask...

    I was packing for Melbs Tuesday night as I had to be there by Wednesday night for the Spitit Molecule movie. So I didn't see your solicitation.

    Ega was amazing, as always. ohmy.gif

    (edit - that's right, this forum is set to GMT+10 me thinks)

  6. Posted

    Hello hello, managed to navigate to and from Melbourne recently, dodging inner city trams and pulling off some pretty awesome parks. Then I f*cked my car against a cement pillar in a shopping centre car park today.

    Sooooooo, anybody know of any panel beaters?

    I know it's Christmas season, so I'm not expecting to get any work done until late January. I'm spending Christmas in Queensland anyway.

    ?????

  12. Posted

    ~bump~

    Looks like I'm the forum correspondent for this little shin dig now.

    So we have three places left on the magic rocket ship.

    Adrian Psy - you seem keen, PM me for details.

    So that leaves two spots.

    Any takers?

    *This will be a strictly yowie free gathering.

  13. Posted

    Most definitely! This will be my fourth Ega wub.gif. I still remember picking up a flyer for Ega and seeing "Denis McKenna" on it. I was like ahhhhhhhhhh I gotta go! shroomer.gif

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    the other night I found myself in some sort of hippy ranch, in a dream, a place that I have dreamt of before.

    sitting on a hill with many others in a festival type atmosphere, a guy pull out a bong and asked if we would like to smoke some DMT.

    he put two big yellow crystals in the cone piece with weed and offered it to me.

    I asked how much was in there and he said 75mg... I got scared and said 'no way man thats too much!'.

    I wonder what would have happened if I had said yes...

    has this ever happened to anyone else?

     

    Heh, now that would be an interesting dream. Unfortunately no, I've never had people offer me DMT in a dream; not that I can remember anyway!

    Kinda makes me want to start inducing lucid dreams again, but then again the experience might be totally different in a lucid dream from a non lucid dream...

  22. Posted

    Just-world phenomenon

    From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

    The just-world phenomenon, also called the just-world theory, just-world fallacy, just-world effect, or just-world hypothesis, refers to the tendency for people to want to believe that the world is fundamentally just so when they witness an otherwise inexplicable injustice they will rationalize it by searching for things that the victim might have done to deserve it. This deflects their anxiety, and lets them continue to believe the world is a just place, but often at the expense of blaming victims for things that were not, objectively, their fault.

    Another theory entails the need to protect one's own sense of invulnerability. This inspires people to believe that rape, for example, only happens to those who deserve or provoke the assault. This is a way of feeling safer. If the potential victim avoids the behaviors of the past victims then they themselves will remain safe and feel less vulnerable.

    History

    This tendency has been noted cross-culturally since antiquity. For example, in the Book of Job, one of Job's former friends is convinced that he must have done something considerably wrong to have received his bad outcomes.

    Scientific studies

    Two studies gave women what appeared to be painful electric shocks while working on a difficult memory problem. More women of broadly the same age and social group who observed the experiment appeared to blame the victim for her fate, praised the experiment, and rated her as being less physically attractive than did those who had seen her but not the experiment.

    In another study, female and male subjects were told two versions of a story about an interaction between a woman and a man. Both variations were exactly the same, except at the very end the man raped the woman in one and in the other he proposed marriage. In both conditions, both female and male subjects viewed the woman's (identical) actions as inevitably leading to the (very different) results.

    The just-world phenomenon was first theorized by Melvin J. Lerner.

    In literature

    Historically, this concept can be dated back to the theodicy of Leibniz, a theory that was attacked by Voltaire in his novel Candide.

    The concept is made use of in Robert Browning's 1855 poem Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came:

    One stiff blind horse, his every bone a-stare,

    Stood stupified, however he came there:

    Thrust out past service from the devil's stud!

    Alive? he might be dead for aught I know,

    With that red gaunt and colloped neck a-strain,

    And shut eyes underneath the rusty mane;

    Seldom went such grotesqueness with such woe;

    I never saw a brute I hated so;He must be wicked to deserve such pain.

    cuff...link

  25. Posted

    New farm park is good during Spring - the flowers are out. The playground there is also interesting to have a look at, it's one of the best in Brisbane and it's built through the trees - if your a big kid at heart it can be a lot of fun.

    The look out at the top of Mount Cootha will give you a scenic view of Brisbane city.

    Lamington National Park

    Mount Glorius

    Mount Nebo

    Fraser Island

    Roma Street Parklands

    Botanical gardens next to QUT (not as good as botanical gardens at Mount Cootha).

    Out of the Glass House mountains, Mt Tibrogargan is a good climb with no ropes needed - depending on which path you choose. Good to watch other people follow the path first if unexperienced. Just watch out for falling rocks, and make sure you call out rock when it falls past. Or if you accidently set a falling rock in motion.

    South Bank has a man made beach - there's usually plenty of bandaids in the water...

    The Science centre near South Brisbane railway station - not to be confused with South Bank railway station - which used to be called Vulture Street station. A bit of history for ya.

    West end markets on Saturday morning at Davies park.

    Northey Street organic markets on Sundays.

    There's a lot of live music in The Valley.

    South Side represent. cool.gif

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