#Fight me with logic and quotes!
For example, if I decide to run a "Jurassic Park" program based on the film, it's basically all talking and exploration until the T-Rex scene.
The scene, in case you've forgotten: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WSM8GcShChk
How would the 'safety' protocols work here, in practice? I'm covered in mud, it's raining, "Lexi" is shrieking, and I'm presumably either Alan Grant or some arbitrary character like another InGen observer or something, along for the ride.
The Jeep is going to nearly crush me, I've got to climb down a rainy, muddle concrete wall plus a tree, run from the gallimimus, dodge raptors and other dinosaurs. The dino bit is probably easiest, by the computer making them just incompetent enough to save me from doom or any real injury. That seems the most logical way, the same as if you're doing a "fight in WW2 scenario" or "Night of the Living Dead". The Nazis would be just bad enough shots that you feel the bullets whiz by but never get hit, they'd always miss knifings, and be just physically weak enough that you can fight them. The zombies would always suck at biting when given an opportunity, etc.
Once the 2-3 hour holo experience is over and we're cruising away on the last helicopter, how close did I legitimately come to physical danger and harm, assuming nothing weird like a cosmic anomaly, alien meddling, or Geordi accidentally telling the computer to create a velociraptor that can singlepawedly defeat the Federation itself?
My apologies if my questions offend. I ask out of curiousity, and as someone who once believed they may have DID.
- When you (an alter) came into being, what was that experience like? Is it sudden? More akin to opening your eyes and having a sense of identity with no history? Or more like you were an individual human once who for whatever reason has woken up in a new body? If you were able to seperate from the host and gain the body which you identify with, would you? If so, would you remain in contact with the host or move on with your life?
- Do you consider yourself a seperate person, in the sense that you unwillingly share a body? Or do you have a sense that you have been created as a stress response and thus feel more of a psychological or perhaps spiritual manifestation.
- If you are say a 40 woman in the body of a 20 year old man - do you feel uncomfortable in your body? Do you recognise it as your own? Would you consider getting surgery to change your apperance to how you see your self?
- If you go into your 'dream space'. Can/do you speak to the other alters or the host? Do the other alters appear as they describe themselves? Do they seem real to you, or does it feel like extreme daydreaming?
- What does the 'dream space' look like? Does it adhere to the physical laws? Does it have a psychological tie with the host, for example their happy place or their childhood bedroom? Can the 'dream space' change apperance based on who is in control, or if it is willed to be different (similarly to lucid dreaming) and finally would you consider the 'dream space' an alter in itself.
First a bit of a prelude, feel free to skip. It's a short summary of my experience with wayfarer so far.
I've been here for a week only and I've gotten to feel a kind of frustration with the Wayfarer Reviews (as a reviewer). I honestly am trying and have been trying to follow every guideline, watched the video and read the guidelines multiple times...
I was trying to be helpful with the review process, to add to the numbers, to grow the community... I gave every single review the time of day and plenty of checking and googling and playing detective.
Well, still my score went into the red. And I wrote a post here about my review score going in the red and asking about ways I can improve my review process... And for the most part people's guidelines were in line with what I was doing. The only takeaway for me was that I should be (if anything) a bit more lenient, and a I think since I've been doing a lot of reviews daily I might have been doing too many and there may be plenty of still open reviews that haven't had a chance to become an "agreement".
Well today I got a "chance" to take a quiz to reset my score. I honestly think I answered everything PERFECTLY! The only things I have doubts about are submissions relating to a basketball court on High School grounds, some other thing on a catholic school grounds and one more relating a High School.
Now in my country we only have primary and High Schools, and I've read the guidelines as I said and in some articles it says just "primary/secondary" schools and stuff on the grounds of are ineligible and on other places it says high schools also (only universities are exempt since students there are already of age). So I followed this rule, whenever there was a "school" i usually answered with the option that it is ineligible due to being on the grounds of a primary/scondary school.
Sigh... I failed the redemption test. It said I didn't get to reset my review score but I should continue reviewing and thus eventually improve my score. I honestly swear if I got anything wrong it probably was 1/10 and I still can't tell you which one... I am not an idiot ffs!
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My personal REVIEW/THOUGHTS about the Wayfarer Review process:
This thing needs to be improved! I am not wishing for any changes per-say in the scoring or guidelines, but more in terms of transparency and training the reviewers.
When I do something wrong, I should be notified what it is! How e
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A buddhas Skandhas are transformed during samadhi to become a Buddha.the Vijnana Skandha or alaya is transformed into mirrorlike awareness.but a buddha only has thoughts based on past merit and action.
Does a Buddha have subjective awareness?or is he just a robot acting on past merit and deeds?what happens to a bodhisattva once he becomes a Buddha?does his subjective awareness cease forever?
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Ignoring the process of samsara and assuming we were divine beings not limited to a body and reincarnation.
- William Walker Atkinson - Author of the Kybalion along with lots of occult/psychic books he's written
- Carlos Castaneda (Gets a lot of heat from people claiming Don Juan fake etc.) I"m not here to debate that. I'm here to tell you his knowledge in the books are real gems that I and thousands of shamanic practitioners can attest for. They get into other dimensions realms etc. which most occult authorities don't even address which makes me think they lack first hand knowledge at times.
- Aliester Crowley Has a lot of goodies too, but I think he lost his mind. Occultism can be a dangerous practice, especially meddling with dark forces)
- Samael Aun Weor (has some crazy theories) He's up there with Carlos and Don Juan. He gets into really esoteric stuff .
- Manly P Hall ( More like an occult historian.) He was a natural born genius who has his way with words. The way he talks is magickal
- Dion Fortune She has some amazing work that falls in line with Blavatsky Teachings)
- Helena Blavatsky I love her estoeric mythology. She talks about the 7 races of man, origin stories, and tons of myths
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We're all interested in truth and finding meaning, and yet - there are so many meanings held as truths by so many people. Unification of truth is a psychological problem, and solving it involves introspection.
Psychologically, there are two parts to our minds - the rational part (which is what we use to delimit, describe, enumerate, classify) and the 'irrational - the part which does none of that.As we grow older and our language and number skills - our pattern making skills - grow, as we start to classify the world into known understood quantities, we find that a childish sense of wonder and possibility starts to fade - and we are left with a rigid pattern of things, which separate us from the things themselves.
People who have only ever used the rational side of their mind, are stuck in a loop. They live on the surface of things, and are unable to visualise the possibility that things outside of their conception of the world exist at all. We see this behaviour in this very forum.
- Purely rational people confuse the world with the map describing it
- Purely irrational people have no map, and have trouble containing their thoughts into silos of language.
Psychiatrist Carl Jung suggested that we need both aspects of of mind (the psyche) - unifying both rational and 'irrational' parts to form a unified vision of the world. He called this the 'Transcendent Function
"The process of coming to terms with the unconscious is a true labour, a work which involves both action and suffering. It has been named the βtranscendent functionβ because it represents a function based on real and βimaginary,β or rational and irrational, data, thus bridging the yawning gulf between conscious and unconscious." - Carl Jung, On the Psychology of the Unconscious
How is it possible for your body to split itself into a great many separate organs? Sure, those organs co-function with each other but they are all separate, they can be detached from your body, removed, replaced. Your mouth is full of separate teeth, your skull has two separate eyeballs in it, your chest has two separate lungs, heart, your belly has any number of separate parts.
Do you find this at all unusual? Hard to accept?
How is it possible that you have a right hand and a left hand? Two hands with different names, different capacities, separate?
Two separate hands that are still a part of one body. Or are they separate?
Are your hands really separate from each other, or is it that you can think of them separately, that you can focus on each one separately, that you can consider each hand separately?
If you didnβt have the ability to focus on each of your hands separately, if you were unable to consider each of your teeth, each of your organs separately, would your body seem like a collection of separate parts to you? Or would you, per force, see it an organism? One organism, existing as one, functioning as one, regardless of how many parts there are in it?
Where does the separation exist, really? In your body, or in how you perceive your body?
Does the separation exist in reality, or in your ability to focus on and consider parts of reality separately?
It's clear that people can't just sit peacefully in a dark room filled with silence. That's because we always have this deep, horrifying darkness within us that constantly needs to be filled with light, sound, fun, conflict. You can never fully relax, never fully sleep, and YOU as well cannot sit in that dark silence, because you too have the need to fill the dreadful silence with idle chatter and noise. I've realized that life is all about reaching out of that darkness to connect to SOMETHING out there, god knows what. Some spiritual reality that connects all people?
But I've become more comfortable with the myriad ways people fill the silence with idle chatter. I think the Buddhists are wrong and we'll never be able to fully sit in that darkness. I think that there is some kind of horrifying nature deep within us that needs to be pacified on a second-to-second basis throughout the day. So what can be done about this? Ultimately nothing, you just have to learn to put up with it and live from day to day.
βLife's but a walking shadow, a poor player,
That struts and frets his hour upon the stage,
And then is heard no more. It is a tale
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
Signifying nothing.β
I submitted a previous script of mine to the blacklist last year and scored a 7. This is a script I was proud of and that I queried a lot of producers and managers with. I didn't get any traction with it.
This summer I finished a different script and sent it out to a number of people, I had two producers respond back saying that they enjoyed it and were interested in reading some of my other work. I also had a prominent manager respond positively, this is a guy who has had multiple writers/clients on the annual blacklist many years in a row. This script scored a 4 on the blacklist. The coverage was also very lackluster.
Just wanted to post this as a resource for people who have had potentially negative scores/feedback from people or anyone thinking of submitting somewhere for coverage. It's all subjective. Trust your gut. Cheers yall.
I will first exclude Calvinist from my definition of Christians in this thread. Any other denominations, including Catholic, is included in my definition of Christians.
If Christianity is true, it is fair to say that God wants as many people to be saved as possible by their own free will. This is to say that God will have a working model for salvation in order to achieve this.
To me, it doesn't make any sense if the only road to getting to know God (of Christianity) is by means of extensive research of various arguments and evidences in favor of Christianity. One must first study philosophy in order to gauge the soundness of argument for God (e.g. Kalam) and then one must study the different religion with all the historical knowledge required to be able to draw reasonable conclusion of their own.
The truth is, the vast majority of people will NOT have the training, time, opportunity required to do all this studying. There are part of the world where the majority of the population cannot finish elementary school, how are they expected to even grasp concept such as many often discussed in this sub. Nonsense.
Therefore, there must be other salvation model that is adopted by God in order for Him to be able to reach people from all kind of background. To quote WLCraig:
> If God were to abandon us to our own intelligence and ingenuity to work out whether or not He exists, He would be a very cruel God indeed. As one of the students in my Defenders class remarked, getting into heaven should not be like getting into Harvard!
This is where the Holy Spirit model of salvation comes in. I believe this is the salvation model that is taught by the bible.
> The Bible teaches that God loves us and so by His Holy Spirit seeks to draw people to Himself.... .... ....
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> Therefore, if a person ultimately fails to come to faith in Christ, it is never just because of lack of evidence or because of intellectual difficulties with the faith. At root, he refuses to come because he willingly ignores and rejects the drawing of Godβs Holy Spirit on his heart.
--- William Lane Craig
Under this model, a person who is willing and sincere in his effort to seek God will inevitably find Him. This makes a lot of sense because then salvation can reach people from different walk of life without a high barrier to entry.
Let me introduce Sam, our hypothetical unbeliever. He comes from a family of atheists that lack a belief in God, any Gods. Sam heard
... keep reading on reddit β‘It really gets on my nerves when characters stress to have a normal life and do everything in their power to make it happen, not caring about others and usually causing issues and chaos. Even if they have what is actually a 'normal life' in the view's eyes. A normal life could also be boring and involve things such as lack of food, paying bills, being in debt, dealing with stress, etc. It varies from person to person.
It's even more mind boggling when it's a manga character saying this (with a silver spoon in their mouth or powers or otherwise,) since the 'normal life' in Japanese social standards is working, having a family and don't have any time for yourself; or otherwise living a boring monotone life. Even worse when the character blames their parents for creating them and 'ruining' their normal life.
TheΒ Centre for Psychedelic Research at Imperial College LondonΒ is looking for people who have had a psychedelic experience since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, and who would like to contribute to science by reporting on their experience. The PsyCOVIDelic Survey is a short anonymous online survey with which we aim to understandΒ the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on psychedelic experiences.
Currently, we are most interested in experiences that took place at the beginning of the pandemic, but we appreciate any experiences that you would like to share with us.
To take part, you must beΒ at least 18 years of age and have taken a psychedelic drug (not microdosing) during the COVID-19 pandemic. The survey begins with questions related to your state of mind and environmental factors present before and during your psychedelic experience. Then, you will have the opportunity to describe your experience in your own words. Additionally, we will ask you about certain aspects of the experience, and finally, there will be some demographic questions. The survey can be completed inΒ 30 minutesΒ and might hopefully provide an opportunity to reflect on and integrate your experience.
Follow the link below to the landing page of the survey, where you can find more information and give your consent to take part:
Thank you for your help with this project!
TheΒ Centre for Psychedelic Research at Imperial College LondonΒ is looking for people who have had a psychedelic experience since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, and who would like to contribute to science by reporting on their experience. The PsyCOVIDelic Survey is a short anonymous online survey with which we aim to understandΒ the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on psychedelic experiences.
Currently, we are most interested in experiences that took place at the beginning of the pandemic, but we appreciate any experiences that you would like to share with us.
To take part, you must beΒ at least 18 years of age and have taken a psychedelic drug (not microdosing) during the COVID-19 pandemic. The survey begins with questions related to your state of mind and environmental factors present before and during your psychedelic experience. Then, you will have the opportunity to describe your experience in your own words. Additionally, we will ask you about certain aspects of the experience, and finally, there will be some demographic questions. The survey can be completed inΒ 30 minutesΒ and might hopefully provide an opportunity to reflect on and integrate your experience.
Follow the link below to the landing page of the survey, where you can find more information and give your consent to take part:
Thank you for your help with this project!
