yeah, hippies...it kind of does. there are smart hippies, but they're always just looking for a free handout at the end of the day. I smoked out daily sophomore year and it didn't really do much either. hippies are a state of mind.
You like the word "handout." The hippies I knew were the opposite, fiercely independent. It was the college conservatives who thought the poor people owed them a living.
perhaps. college isn't really an accurate accounting for anything, its essentially playland for 90% of the people there. the college republicans are harmless. Its MeCHa you have to look out for. those fuckers were nuts.
I didn't do that shit (very occasional pot) and I was a hippie. For me that meant rejecting fashion standards and wearing what was comfortable, marching for peace, defending endangered animal species, opposing racism, supporting the right of people to live their lives as they chose so long as they hurt no one. For that matter, I guess I still am a hippie. Except now my feet hurt when I go on peace marches.
Left and right seem to be on her... and rightfully so from what I have seen... she sounds like a wacko... the satanic stuff especially. Yes I have heard people say that the criticism is making them stronger... but I don't buy it. It may focus more attention on them for sure... like a screaming kid... but voting is not a pure popularity contest. At least I hope we are smarter than that.
the funniest thing about the "Tea Party" is its essentially Obama Fever, but with the sides reversed. A whole platform built on changing the "establishment" with a bunch of people who are more symbolic than qualified.
Cept that it was based around 1 person (qualifications not withstanding) vs several dozen main nutjob leaders. Granted, the 1 person could potentially do a lot of damage, but a lot of what a president does is based on the senate and house. The nutjob leaders could do more damage, because they're even less qualified than Obama was, and in a lot of cases, are just riding the coattails of the TP, for the $$ and notoriety.
If you're introspective, you learn A LOT about your subconscious mind from that first trip. If you're a self-destructive nihilist seeking pleasure like El Presidente (who can be likeably humorous about it), you'd prefer hash, which makes everything seem artistic. I never saw a bluer Pacific Ocean, with its muscles pushing the waves. But I preferred the abstraction of psychedelics, which are for learning, not pleasure. Afterward, at age 23-25, I wrote 2000 pages of original ideas on my new theory of how levels of consciousness coincide with physical dimensions. Disclosing it to a psychology professor got me an A in his course in 1975. Unpublished, the theory will die with me. A mind is an object that exists in several physical dimensions, maybe 10 or 12. We perceive each dimension as a level of consciousness. We perceive each geometric point as an idea. Each pair of points is linked by an arc, which is the relationship between the 2 ideas. Discovering these arcs is learning. An arc traverses a dimension above the objects it connects. The 4 known forces of physics--electromagnetism, gravitation, and the strong and weak nuclear forces--are each our perception of a dimension. The more complicated an idea is, the more points and levels it contains. The whole is greater than the sum of its parts because the points synthesize into a higher-dimensional object than their constituent parts, since they include the relationships/arcs. In a subject-object relationship, the shorter the distance in levels, the more subjective. The farther, the more objective. Above our minds is a yet-higher dimension, which includes everything--all intelligence (omiscience), power (omnipotence), etc. I call it Unity. My theory explains everything, and I mean every problem you learn in Philosophy 101 and Physics 101. An example is the classical mind-body problem, which is how to link the mind/soul with the physical world. I haven't typed this stuff for years. I know I'm leaving out major parts, which would help make more sense to you. I still have my notebooks full of writing if I want to flesh out the details I once had at the tip of my tongue. Someone will throw them out when I croak.
Sort of like a Timothy Leary thing. My brother did something like that. Dropped acid and then wrote about it and what came into his mind. Maybe that explains why he makes twice as much as I do.
And if you have things to do, don't worry about jlprk's post. P.S. Physics 101 deals only with the material universe. What has that do to with this candidate? Never mind, don't answer.
Excellent. I'm sure, then, that you can use your theory to achieve greater predictive power than modern scientists and thereby solve a few problems, like curing diseases such as cancer or creating a clean, efficient, renewable energy source or maybe even something more mundane, like a faster passenger plane for similar cost to current passenger planes. The theory of everything has been much sought after for generations. If you simply take the time to formalize the thoughts in your notebooks, you'd not only have quite a few Nobel prizes coming your way (this should revolutionize pretty much every scientific discipline), but you'd usher in a new golden age for humanity. I look forward to the repercussions of this theory of yours. And thank you for taking LSD to unlock the secrets of the universe.
I think it speaks volumes about the current dissatisfaction with the state of our politics that this lunatic would win the nomination over the Delaware equivalent of Mark Hatfield. Mike Castle was a Delaware institution and arguably its most popular politician (even larger than the current VP). People voted for Barack Obama because they wanted change. The change they've received has just been more of what pissed them off, so now they're voting for people who have no connection to the system that people don't feel adequately represents them. The real failure is with the Delaware GOP. It's their job to find qualified candidates. They should have found someone with the positions of Ms. O'Donnell (i.e., someone with the support of the Tea Party), but without the baggage.
Lol... I seriously doubt many of the people of voted for her voted for Obama. I think most of the 'we didn't get our change' people are the same.
Where would they find such candidates? Where are the anti-masturbation crusaders who are qualified candidates with no baggage? barfo
Having spent plenty of time in Delaware (three cheers for Dewey Beach), I think they feel safe in their rights to masturbate. I don't think those in New Castle County are particularly pumped about the financial condition of their county government or their property taxes.
