Last post wins!!!!!

[j_tour]

You mean... a manifesto???   

No, a collection of head and torso shots.

[perfect_pitch]

No, a collection of head and torso shots.

I presume these were taken in your dank and dimly lit basement at the time?

[j_tour]

I presume these were taken in your dank and dimly lit basement at the time?

I don't have a basement.  I have a crawlspace/miniature attic where the maximum height is 157 cm. 

I can fit myself in there, but only in a prone position.

My guests are "free" to roam, however.

It's a very cozy proposition.

[perfect_pitch]

I don't have a basement.  I have a crawlspace/miniature attic where the maximum height is 157 cm. 

I can fit myself in there, but only in a prone position.

My "guests" are "free" to roam, however.

It's a very cozy proposition.

I fixed your quote for you...

[j_tour]

I fixed your quote for you...

"You" did "good" and I think it'd be a real "shame" if someone "fixed" you.

[perfect_pitch]

"You" did "good" and I think it'd be a real "shame" if someone "fixed" you.

I don't need fixing...

[j_tour]

I don't need fixing...

Your "interpretation" of the classic oldie "Silent Night" needs fixing:  too many notes.

[perfect_pitch]

Your "interpretation" of the classic oldie "Silent Night" needs fixing:  too many notes.

Also, too many sharps. And way too many key signatures. Hell - get those *** clefs off the page, it's too cumbersome.

Any while we're on Advent and the end of the approaching year - what's a Klu Klux Klan members favourite Christmas carol???

[j_tour]

You risk angering me with your foolishness!

[perfect_pitch]

You risk angering me with your foolishness!

But I'll give you credit for the funny image... it's only difficult if you're a singer though. They can't count for sh*t.   

[j_tour]

But I'll give you credit for the funny image... it's only difficult if you're a singer though. They can't count for sh*t.   

That's true.  I don't know why 9/8 is on that list...that's pretty basic.  Although kind of useless as a meter IMHO.  Quick waltz with some elementary subdivisions.

Did you know I was without internet for over an hour?  That's terrible. 

[lostinidlewonder]

Needs more passion.

[j_tour]

None of those specimens seem very healthy.

[perfect_pitch]

Normally I don't cave in and watch a lot of the YouTube videos that are posted here - I've been scarred too many times in my life... but curiosity got the better of me...

What in the mother of *** did I just watch??? Is this some sort of live version of Dungeons and Dragons played out by a bunch of sad fuckers in Cosplay???

[lostinidlewonder]

Normally I don't cave in and watch a lot of the YouTube videos that are posted here - I've been scarred too many times in my life... but curiosity got the better of me...

What in the mother of *** did I just watch??? Is this some sort of live version of Dungeons and Dragons played out by a bunch of sad fuckers in Cosplay???

It's a real life battle with real magic.... and dangerous weapon attacks.

[perfect_pitch]

It's a real life battle with real magic.... and dangerous weapon attacks.

Maybe, but the acting is piss poor.

...also, there's no such thing as magic. Next you'll have me believe some omnipotent deity is sitting there up there in the sky watching my every move - when I cheat on my taxes, when I take a shower, when I'm bored and the lube is right...

...I don't believe that for a second.

[j_tour]

...I don't believe that for a second.

People are watching you always.

People who love you very, very much.

Technically, they're half-pig, half-human, of grotesque size and visage, and incapable of human speech.

But they're watching.  They watched tax fraud Paul Hogan, and now they're watching you.

[lostinidlewonder]

Maybe, but the acting is piss poor.

It's a real life battle, no acting!!

...also, there's no such thing as magic. Next you'll have me believe some omnipotent deity is sitting there up there in the sky watching my every move - when I cheat on my taxes, when I take a shower, when I'm bored and the lube is right...

What crazy people believe in some being living in the sky? That would be some kinda magic I don't know about. An omnipotent deity should be timeless, within and beyond the dimension of space/time we exist in.... perhaps that is a magic I can believe in.

Consciousness is rather magical if you really think about it. It's evolution and nature has been distracting me for several years now.

[j_tour]

What crazy people believe in some being living in the sky? That would be some kinda magic I don't know about. An omnipotent deity should be timeless, within and beyond the dimension of space/time we exist in.... perhaps that is a magic I can believe in.

A Spinozan quasi-animistic theology.  That's more or less a part of the geometric exposition of Spinoza's Ethica.

What you have to do is keep washing your hands, scrubbing the filth from each pore of the body, while reciting the Symbolum Nicaenum (Nicene Creed in the universal language).  Again, and again.  Until the blood stops.

But that's just a hobby.

The rigorous method of accounting for consciousness is best approached by several competing theories which are as diverse in nuance as they are resolutely anti-metaphysical.

[lostinidlewonder]

Given that consciousness is most likely not a computation it makes it even more wonderous what it exactly is.

[j_tour]

Given that consciousness is most likely not a computation it makes it even more wonderous what it exactly is.

Well, thank you for saying that against the computational theory of mind.  I hate that sh*t, and it's wrong as could be.

Unfortunately it has had wide support among people I otherwise admire.

It's despicable, and wrong.

Congratulations:  you're no longer on my "list."  For now.

[perfect_pitch]

I'm just going to let you bastards duke it out... and watch as the chaos ensues.

[lostinidlewonder]

Well, thank you for saying that against the computational theory of mind.  I hate that sh*t, and it's wrong as could be.

Unfortunately it has had wide support among people I otherwise admire.

It's despicable, and wrong.

Congratulations:  you're no longer on my "list."  For now.

The brain obviously works like a quantum computer if it were calculating anything at all, an organic computer that we are very far away from ever understanding. My brain hurts reading about modern quantum physics but the surface understanding of it all makes me glad I live in a time where these things are being discovered. We know so much about everything but still so little. I remember watching this video about villiagers learning about the size of the universe:

I'm just going to let you bastards duke it out... and watch as the chaos ensues.

We are holding hands though while talking about consciousness not being a computation... lol.

[j_tour]

Maybe as a crude analogy one could say something about quantum computing, in the sense that animals were sometimes likened to automatons, i.e., robots, back in the early modern era in Europe.

But despite promising work with fMRI and other advances in knowledge about the brain itself, you're right, one still doesn't know much about consciousness.

There are certain features that have been described in detail which seem to be true, such as the directedness (or intentionality) of mind, the lack of a specific bodily location of consciousness (is it in the brain, or what?), how is it that human consciousness seems to be adapted for objects of a certain size and quality, and what is the cooperative role of the body in forming the human "attitude" toward the world.

And I ain't holding no hands, fool!

Not playing no Tacobell Canon neither!

[lostinidlewonder]

There are certain features that have been described in detail which seem to be true, such as the directedness (or intentionality) of mind, the lack of a specific bodily location of consciousness (is it in the brain, or what?), how is it that human consciousness seems to be adapted for objects of a certain size and quality, and what is the cooperative role of the body in forming the human "attitude" toward the world.

Perhaps consciousness is what permeates through everything in existence. I sometimes wonder about reports about out of body experiences or near death experiences although there's a lot of deceptive false accounts its hard to know what to trust. The process of dying reveals intriguing anomalies with consciousness.

And I ain't holding no hands, fool!

Well then what's the point??

[j_tour]

Perhaps consciousness is what permeates through everything in existence.

Maybe.  The most apt analog of consciousness throughout the animal kingdom (yes, including bacteria, and so forth, which lack any sort of structure one would call brain-like) seems to me to be drawn from the language of ecology.  So, for various species, one has differing levels of "attunements," which exist within an "ecological niche."

So, a tick, let's say, senses a mammal's pelt passing beneath or alongside it, and drops itself onto the object, and embeds itself.  In the way that a human finds certain objects suitable for grasping, or for sitting on, in the realm of medium-sized, middle-distance objects.

Well then what's the point??

Well, I don't know!  You got a daughter, or granddaughter?  Sister?  Hot cousin?  I could always go with some strange.

First one's holding hands, then necking, then impregnation, and then confession to a mortal sin.

[lostinidlewonder]

Well, I don't know!  You got a daughter, or granddaughter?  Sister?  Hot cousin?  I could always go with some strange.

First one's holding hands, then necking, then impregnation, and then confession to a mortal sin.

I might have a great grand daughter somewhere. Just hold your own hand, pat yourself on the shoulder, give ones self a hug.

[j_tour]

Just hold your own hand, pat yourself on the shoulder, give ones self a hug.

Ah.  I know what that means! 

Crank up the alternator!

Good thing I'm handy!

[perfect_pitch]

Just hold your own hand, pat yourself on the shoulder, give ones self a hug.

I find it's better if you lie on one hand, and wait till its numb - then when you do it, it feels like someone elses hand.

[j_tour]

I find it's better if you lie on one hand, and wait till its numb - then when you do it, it feels like someone elses hand.

Someone's gnarled, hairy, tobacco-stained hand etched in calluses?

Well, to each his or her own, I guess.

[lostinidlewonder]

[j_tour]

[lostinidlewonder]

Come on j_tour your self censoring has gone offline. lol You need to reboot it and adjust as required.

[perfect_pitch]

What a load of absolute sh*t... as if people believe in Astrology.

That is like the biggest turn off for a man, when a woman asks 'what Star sign are you'.

I can't believe they marketed it towards men as well... that's got to be the worst pick up line for a woman as well:

Male: I can prove to you I'm a virgo as well if you let me drop my trousers...

I am WILLING to bet not a single male bought those...

[j_tour]

I am WILLING to bet not a single male bought those...

Probably true.  Astrology is marketed to women, generally.

But how dare you malign the ancient arts! 

That sh*t gets me pregnant cats, yo!

[lostinidlewonder]

[j_tour]

"Beautifully styled bikini panties."

That is all.

That is like the biggest turn off for a man, when a woman asks 'what Star sign are you'.

That's not true.  This last girl was super into that sh*t, and she was pretty cool.

Of course, she turned out to be completely unhinged and deranged, as confirmed when I was shooting pool with one of her coworkers earlier today who had some stories to tell.

You'd think:  with me, that would be a perfect match, but, no, there are some depths into which I do not plunge.

Correlation is not causation! 

[perfect_pitch]

I see... 'Bruce Wayne and his



WARD



You mean... Bruce Wayne was his pimp and Dick Grayson was his dirty little slut??? According to comic book history - Dick Greyson was 18 years younger than Bruce Wayne.

I'm almost willing to bet Bruce Wayne was the first comic book paedophile.

[j_tour]

Silence, nerd! 

I'm almost willing to bet Bruce Wayne was the first comic book paedophile.

No, probably not.  I do kind of question televising Little League baseball, but probably not. 

"18 years" younger?  sh*t!  I'm not dusting off the homeplate because a gal is 238457 27 years old!  It's old enough dammit!  Plenty!  Almost past expiration date!

[perfect_pitch]

I hope you realise that not only are you getting stale by posting these, and you desperately need new material; but that I don't watch any of them.

I don't know who David Lynch is, I don't CARE who he is, or what he does and frankly... he could be admitting that he's an alien by ripping off his face mask and showing us the creepy cephalopod he is underneath...

...and I still wouldn't care.

[j_tour]

I don't know who David Lynch is, I don't CARE who he is, or what he does and frankly...

The die has been cast.  You will perish, fool!

Really?  It's not like Lynch is some weird Commie director. 

I think the original tune is in Bb....Red Garland or somebody covered it.  Only "trick" to the tune is to walk down from IIIm in tenths LH to the IIm7.

[perfect_pitch]

Really?  It's not like Lynch is some weird Commie director. 

[lostinidlewonder]

Maybe this serious..

[perfect_pitch]

I LOVE videos like this. I love how she says 'I can do this'

NO, SHE *** CAN'T!!!

The bizarre thing as well is that she still uploaded it despite her hatred for her 'audition'.

[j_tour]

Eat a goat's dick.

[perfect_pitch]

[j_tour]

You filthy bugger. 

Do you know who hates David Lynch?

Communists, that's who.

[perfect_pitch]

You filthy bugger. 

Do you know who hates David Lynch?

Communists, that's who.

Yes, but not everyone who hates him is a Communist. Communists aren't the only ones allowed to hate him.

*** David Lynch. I don't care for him, and he can frankly go fob off as well...

...you grasshole.

[j_tour]

Yes, but not everyone who hates him is a Communist.

Go around with your sass mouth denying the antecedent and sh*t.

[perfect_pitch]

Bourbon... or better known for its other name:

'I can't believe it's not Whisky'.