CCD

About 4 years ago I sent him 20 bucks, asked him some question about an invention that was lost when the inventor died. He posted a link to an old, vaguely-related forum post someone made about the guy, then said that CCD stood for "Consciousness is not a Calculating Device" when it's just my initials. He then ghosted me until I got a refund through PayPal & made a big, pissy blogpost about it which he later deleted.

Form member Voidisyinyang published an eBook called The Alchemy of Rainbow Heart Music which despite being over 600 pages long & badly written (which he says is because it's written in a "right brain" way) I managed to read all the way through it. Basically nothing mentioned in it seems to have any sort of practical application except there was quite a bit about sitting in the full lotus position for an extended period causing all sorts of funny & very hard to believe things like inducing orgasm in people at a distance. Improving my flexibility (which I admit is lousy to begin with) is something I've been meaning to do for years, because I remember as a kid being pretty close to doing a full split & my lack of flexibility makes me feel old. I plan on practicing improving my flexibility either way, but if I can get & give orgasms out of it, all the better! And if I can prove it's a load of nonsense, that's also good. (admittedly orgasms would be better) I've tried PM'ing void with questions, but he's asking for money. In the book he said that sitting in the full lotus is sort of like completing a circuit with a battery. Obviously just connecting your thighs to the opposite soles of the foot with a length of wire isn't going to do anything, but I was wondering what he'd say to touching feet & thighs with another person to mimic the effect of sitting in full lotus without actually having to do it. I'm not willing to pay him $20 for a long winded "No" reply, so I figured I'd ask if anyone here would be willing to give it a try, as I'm currently not able to do it myself. I tried creating this thread once before, but it wouldn't go through. Then I tried asking about full lotus on a thread made by Voidisyinyang, but it got locked. Hopefully this one will stay up.

What is chi? It's either matter, a physical material like gas or plasma, or it's a form of energy/work. If it's the former, you could separate it from the body just like you could blood or lymph. If it's the latter, the big question is what is it doing or what can it be used to do?

Basically everything that I've said about "qi powers" applies just as well to gods & spirits. If they actually existed in any way, they'd be testable somehow. Even if we were talking about some weak god that's part of a large pantheon of gods, should at least be as powerful as an average human. Even if that god could only exist in one place at one time, it should still be just as capable of proving they exist. If an all-powerful god wanted people to worship him, it shouldn't be easy for the god to prove its existence, but none ever do. Most theists say that their god doesn't want you to believe because of proof, but you should have faith just because. That "just because" is usually either a vague threat or promise of some kind, with no proof to back it up.

That just seems like a very long-winded way of saying "you mad."

I'm talking about ordinary people who've admitted that they have tried simple things like moving things with their mind, or reading someone else's mind. Most people have at least tried things like that a few times in their life. Fewer people have pursued it with enough dedication to see results. More just stick to focusing on "spiritual development", so they can feel that they're better than other people without actually having to prove anything.

My understanding is that people who pursue these things do so for egotistical reasons rather than aversion to them, since test subjects in experiments usually remain unnamed. Having supernatural abilities makes someone feel unique or special compared to those who don't, which is why so many seem to promote their own anecdotal evidence or beliefs as facts pertaining to the supernatural. Both disproving & proving it would be a major blow to the ego, so it's easier to avoid doing so entirely. Failure to preform would be a simple, obvious blow to the ego, but proving it would have a longer-term impact. If rigorous scientific testing could prove the existence of the supernatural, it'd be explained & then simply become natural. More would learn it, excel at it, explain & understand it better than you ever could, so it would become logical, ordinary & mundane. The easiest way to feel like an expert at something is to be the only who does it.

I was just asking, no need to get so butthurt over it.

Know anybody near North East Colorado, or near El Paso Texas? Even if I could afford to fly half way around the world just to meet random strangers & ask them questions about the supernatural and get answers in a language I don't understand, I'd prefer to not subject myself to the sunk-cost fallacy that would go along with it.

Yes. I've spent longer than that working towards other things. I have no interest in being trained by someone who's not willing to prove that they even have the skill they'd be willing to teach me in the first place. I wouldn't even want to learn how to juggle from someone who can't even do it themselves.

It'd be better for you than just blindly believing just for the sake of it.

If something exists, it has an effect on something else. If something has an effect on something else, that effect can be observed. If something can be observed, it can be studied. If something can be studied, it can be understood. If something can be understood, it can be manipulated. Air, heat, magnetism, electricity, each are invisible on their own, but we've been able to observe, study & manipulate each of them with tools. The more we know about something, the better we can control it. Imagine there is a force completely unknown to modern science that we'll call PSI that allows people to move things with their mind Psycho-Kinetically. If there are people who can perform PK, that doesn't make it supernatural, simply because we don't understand it. If one person can do it reliably enough to conduct tests, then with enough tests it could be figured out & would likely be the case if it could be used to teach other people PK or otherwise deduce who could do it or who couldn't. The biggest problem I see with anything pertaining to spiritual / super-natural things (including, but not limited to PK) are people who blindly accept "facts" with nothing supporting them. These "facts" either being something they've just heard from somewhere else & regurgitate without questioning, probably from a source that doesn't have actual experience with the subject but created the illusion of being an expert, or from bits of anecdotal evidence or personal beliefs mascaraing as facts. (The latter of which is usually accompanied by a lot of secrecy & resistance to investigation that could contradict it. Frequently straying off-topic to preach is usually a giveaway.)

The asteroid is going to miss us by a long shot & I've never even seen a news article saying otherwise. I think it's really pitiful that so many people want it to hit the Earth.

Why are you so hung up on my choice of words? I got the refund. I almost never use PayPal, so I wasn't entirely sure if I got it or if it was processing.

I've been thinking that I had kidney problems more than anything, but TCM is so vague & broad with its causes & treatments that it's borderline useless, like astrology, or a placebo.

I don't drink at all, so I assume my liver's fine, but I don't really know for sure. In the Alchemy of Rainbow Heart music he claimed he could tell a Native American guy was angry because he had liver problems from drinking a lot, and cured it just by meditating near him. Like how he assumes the Native American guy has a drinking problem, he's assuming I have a liver problem. But I'm not even mad, at least not since I got my refund.

If you offer a service in exchange for money it's not a donation. He can call it a donation all he wants, that doesn't make it one. And it seems I got my refund. He made a blog post expressing his butthurt over it. I didn't really even ask that much of him, but he still tried to weasel out of it.

So not only haven't I gotten anything from Drew, he's completely ignoring me now. I'm trying to see if I can get a refund through PayPal. Edit: Got my refund

There's not really a single coherent topic to the book itself, some parts were about things like the 3/4 ratio being YIN & the Perfect Fourth, with 2/3 as YANG & the Perfect Fifth, which I vaguely understand what he meant, but I don't really know much about music or composing, so I can't really say if that's is off-topic, unclear, or otherwise irrelevant. If it's not in Hz, I don't really understand it. There were probably things that could be explained a whole lot better with some simple math, like the 3:4:5 Triangle, but he probably felt that would make things too logical. Drew seems to hate rationality. One thing I remember is that he seemed insistent that the nervous system worked using sound, but it's actually electro-chemical, the action potential is however close to the speed of sound, but not sinusoidal. Although it is "ultrasound" in the sense that neuron firing happens at a much greater frequency than the 20kHz upper limit of the ear drum, using things like bone-conduction. Any time he talked about ionizing or quantum mechanics all I could really do is roll my eyes.

I'm just going to mute you too.

Limahong, please keep your shitposting to a single post at a time.

Apparently my initials are a code word for: stop asking for something with results you can test.

I sent Drew a donation & I immediately regret it because he's being a pain in the ass. Instead of doing what I asked of him, he's constantly sending me links & copying information from somewhere else and trying to goad me into asking a different question instead.

Most of that post was actually about coffee, but I guess it still applies.