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Show is starting to ramp up now after a month of budget wrestling matches and indecisiveness on behalf of the Producers and Art Department. But they have found their drive and the purse strings have opened so... We'll be picking up our third stage and a new mill this week. Going to be crazy time again for the forseeable next month or two. This will be playing on my headphones pretty much daily on loop, as I channel my inner ocean currents to counteract all the crazy.

My son, wife and I recently read the biography of this trip aloud together, in turns... wow.wow.wow! Three years! Every single man came survived... gob-smacked is the term I used too throughout the harrowing account, particularly when they realized they were going to have to kill, butcher and eat their dogs. I can't imagine the fortitude involved in that process. no. fucking. way. And then, after it was done... Shackleton made the rounds and asked the men if they wanted to accompany him back there for another go, some years later! stone cold crazy mate... stone cold.

holy self fulfilling prophecies! wow. just wow.

Well said mate. I enjoyed the article and your succinct response here. My own chronic adversarialness was a direct expression of my Chronic Certaintism. Chronic Certainty, maintained itself in local awareness for me, born from notions of Naive Realism, (where one assumes their perceptions are processing and taking in 100% of reality at 100% accuracy). This method of assumption was taught to me by my Materialist Father, our schooling system and Western Society as a whole. The Certainty born of this assumption is a malady I would not wish on anyone. It is a malady of mind that is quite painful to unwire. The first cracks appeared in adolescence but were quickly pasted over with dogma. But through turning inward and a steady exploration and eventually an unavoidable diet of doubt, born of curiosity and a desire to be able to entertain ideas without instantly having to accept or reject them, the inevitable dissolution of former certainties finally began in earnest. Chronic Certainty is a malady that in my case, bore its own sustenance within its structural isolationism. The more certainty I held of an assumption about my perceptual modeling of reality, the less I was able (or felt it profitable or helpful) to even entertain, or consider any notions or ideas counter to my perceptual certainties... as Cognitive Dissonance was untenable and would require either a reassessment of what I was already certain could not be untrue, or the adoption of the potential that my perceptual processes were incomplete and inaccurate. That for yeeeears was unthinkable. Chronic Certainty is like unto a mental disorder as I view it from my current perspective. One I would not wish on anyone, no matter how acidic, virulent or abusive they be... Indeed, could I cure humanity of one illness, Chronic Certainty, if not top of the list, would be top three. Thanks for the chance to re-explore this aspect of my unfolding awareness through this conversation Bums. It is deeply appreciated!

I'd love to support you and purchase a copy. Sending you a pm.

objectively unprovable assumption

This interview with Donald Hoffman is a compelling exploration of the nature of consciousness, Naive Realism and our perceptual modeling process and Programming/Artificial Intelligence. They cover some of the potent explorations and findings of Mr. Hoffman's career as revealed in his book The Case Against Reality. Fascinating conversation.

I have had no trouble finding teachers, since I stopped assuming I knew what to look for... Turned inward for a time and allowed the waters that were all stirred up by mind and projections and 'everything i knew' to settle without meddling them... then a revolution of sorts occured... i realized my assumptions about life were worthy of doubt. and when I reached back out... now I encounter teachers everywhere about me. And the most effective ones, usually aren't human. muddiest waters left undisturbed by process rest in clarity

this... until sleep takes me tonight.

For me, detachment is 'not taking the universe personally'. Forms, emotions, thoughts arise and pass away... awareness witnesses. awareness is one with what unfolds in form and non... Life unfolds as life... Ultimate Reality is not happening 'to' me... but through me as all is one in Brahman. I'm creeping a bit closer to living what has up to now been solely a head knowledge, intelligence thing.

omg... thank you Bums! I needed this after the day I just finished with... Big Viking Gratitude

Oh fuck...

Mostly Norwegian... but a fair amount of the rest is Scot. The Kilt is not a bad idea... have a buddy who sometimes works our crew, he wears one every Friday. Two years ago I banned pants as a New Year's Resolution. Decided I was only going to wear Pajama Bottoms that year. Nailed it. Second year, it was, only Linen pants with draw strings. This year, pants it seems, are back...

both... though I can't claim to know about the MAGA hat personally. for the MAGA hat influence, I'm taking Larry David at his word

For my partner in life and in life creation, (we have one son), the action of Tao in our sexual interest is like a bellows... Kind of like in every other aspect of life I"m beginning to notice... if slowly. We definitely recognize patterns in our three decades together... not just of sexual pursuit and interest, but in collective interests, artistic pursuits, topics and areas of study. My gal and I come together in 'seasons'... in many areas of life. After our son came. There were permeative and foundational shifts, both subtle and overwhelming... She had some post-partum depression and the reality of being a parent for both of us, brought a whole keel full of buried parent child memories and relevant energies to the surface that took time, patience and more time, to balance. Keep communicating... very openly and frankly. Talk talk talk and reach out with love. The rest will occur as nature unfolds...

I banned pants. Turns out, this is almost as effective as wearing a MAGA hat, for keeping most folks at bay. Downside... the folks it doesn't keep at bay... the one's I'd most like to... oh well... back to the lab

I regularly take media fasts now. It began from a deep need to cease the heart-harming, painful influence of random news, and participation in horror glorifying story-telling movies and tv and most of all, the emotionally bent and charged conversations here @ the bums. No media, no tv, no internet. First fast was meant to be a month. Was so welcome, like being able to breathe freely for the first time in a while, that it turned into nine months. Some 12 years ago, after reinvesting myself in sincere cultivation and after reconnecting and beginning to be able to hear my body again, I foundationally shifted my approach to food. To great effect. I was in a health crisis and managed in 90 days, to rework my blood chemistry by cutting out processed foods and sugar bs that my GP asked me to outline my methods, so he could emulate them with his family. Kept me from a life time of using blood pressure, blood sugar and cholesterol medicines. That led to re-evaluating what I was putting on my body... soaps, detergents for laundry, toothpaste, hair products... Lastly and by far the most impacting to quality of cultivation and overall life... was the media/thought fasting. What I choose to allow myself to ruminate on in mind, what I select to watch, read and talk about... in short what I select to allow into my mind space is now of paramount importance. Always resonated with Buddha's statement 'take care what you allow yourself to think, this becomes your reality.' But now, it's no longer a mental slogan to me, but a living expression of the impact of mind and body, with environment. Love, Respect and Vitality to you All.

Probably right. Thanks for the quick reply, I'll let them know before I head to bed. peace...

I'd never heard of MP until reading about it here yeeears back. After the third thread (i'm guessing), i lost interest in it as any thing but another basic system that seems to no longer be available... aside from its ability to engage folks every few months/years in dozens of pages of repititious claims and argument. Then again... I don't deride this... it just lacks gravity for me... my own meditations are quite repetitious so... to each their own.

Japanese Millenials: The Elders are a burden on our Society. Ningen Isu: Ok then, Hold my Sake!

I definitely don't want whatever elon's smoking...

Wife just turned me onto this story of the Aussie Shepard saves hundreds of sheep from fire

No more carpets... rugs are welcome, carpeting is decidedly uncivilized.

That is pure awesome! as a general warning... expect a PM from me if/when I make it down that way mate. We got some hanging out to do!