Baddogma's Other Meta Cafe- Polite Discussions About Scientific Mysticism and General Weirdness

a reply to: KilgoreTrout

Reminds me of the Supernanny: off you go darling

Isn't he half of some duo?

I got real problems here, the Mansion keeps driving my investigators insane! I can only beat 2 star difficulty and...
Real world? Meh...who cares

a reply to: Reverbs

I'm 90% sure it's for everybody. Also given the circumstances I'd say most people deny it out of fear because they don't want to be called crazy.
And since most people never develop out of the adolescence Truman(?) Syndrom others probably just accept it as proof the world is theirs and everybody else just revolving around them. So it's not such a big step to assume aliens/angels/God(s)/whathaveyou are there just for them and nobody else too.
And here we are, right?
Increase in paranoia, Q etc, end times, social unrest, ...plus isolation now on top, increase in suicides...
question just is: is there a breaking point?

originally posted by: Reverbs
Rainbow Kitten Surprise.. hahaha.. I found that music because of random..

YOU can believe in yourself though.
That's like one thing.

I think sometimes it's hardest of all to believe in yourself (myself). Loved the rainbow kitten surprise.

Laughter, allegedly, is the best protection against the evil eye.

One has to be careful not to get too giddy though. Or do you? I'm not sure, we may see.

Anyway, I am currently learning what I can do with polymer clay and I have set myself a design project of making an amulet to ward off the evil eye (as you do). These are some feathers I made...



Colours and laughter (and music to sing and dance to) may not be the solution but it's one hell of a tonic, strenghtens the resolve and let's the unimportant stuff sink back down to the bottom. That's my thinking, and perhaps even strategy, at the moment.

According to Heston Blumethal the "ultimate" fries/chips, need to first be par-boiled, then patted dry and chilled. Then fried till they just start to colour, drained and chilled again, and then refried. There may be some agitation involved as well in order to get extra crispy bits. I have never done it, seems a bit faffy just for chips, and if I amgoing to that trouble I'd make roast potatoes instead, I like more a more fluffy to crispy ratio.

a reply to: Peeple

Yes, (Vic) Reeves and Mortimer. Different chemistry there though. They take each other to quite surreal places. I would love to see David Mitchell and Mortimer paired up in something more substantial but I doubt Mitchell could cope.

The "real" world is dull as old boots. I crave some variety.

I watched Dark Waters, I already knew the ending so the eye-leakage started long before I think it was supposed to. I'm sick of being told what I already know. What has been talked about and known about for decades. A major conspiracy, perhaps even one of the biggest. And now it's a mainstream movie. Will it make a difference? Du Pont is literally Sauron and the poison seeping out of it has turned the US into Mordor. Via the atomic bomb detonations and it's seepage into the water it is everywhere and in everything, in everyone even unborn babies - and it's still just this one lawyer trying to get that cleaned up. How?!? Just how!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!



Anyway, Bob...

a reply to: KilgoreTrout

If you only cook "chips" once, you get small baked potatoes... with very potato taste. Not bad... just not anything special.

It's similar to pizza dough.

Yea you can make dough in 30 minutes and rise it in a warm environment.. you'll have dough...

Just.. It does make a huge difference if you cold proof the dough. Or soak and blanch "chips"

It's no question of should one do it or not. Just a question of who likes good food. :p

a reply to: Peeple

A breaking point?
I don't think so peeps.
Humanzees will always bend not break.
Adapt to the new normal.

In fact I don't think 90% of us are supposed to notice. Though I do agree it's there for ALL of us. The "hidden hand"


The Q thing is a great example of ego and wishes. Mixed with woo. "How things should be if something more is out there, 'in my image.' "

a reply to: Peeple

Speaking of the woo universe thingS.. and how I'm currently locked on.. this video popped up and I was the first view on YouTube.

I have not watched it yet, but it has that suspect feeling like what now?

Yesterday I was playing xcom2 and a new recruit joined with my real name. Ok so I design him to be me.. then first battle he almost died and develops a condition.. it's generalized anxiety that stems from the aliens presence control.. it was just funny as I've always had anxiety over this topic (my og version was higher dimensional alien control grid [my 4 year old mind didnt use those words]) from when I was 3 or 4.. first memories..

So that was yesterday. Day before that I went to the doctor and they said you have bad anxiety and prescribe ed d me stuff, I get home and xcom2 me again "you have bad anxiety"

This is in amix of a 100 other things again like "reverbs you still there? Hello, the matrix still has youdude."

Stop it im still trying to deal with the regular last 4 years of my life I dont want to focus on the thing that's been in the back of my head for over 30 years.
But it's got my number ya know.



Anyway..
This video is suspect because reasons. I assume its related lol.



Edit:
Yea of course. I remember ok.. lol its yea.. my title over member wasn't always wolf kitten buttercup or teots brother or BB.


It used to be Re- and so it looked like:

Re-
member

And that's how I feel about this whole thing in general this cosmic joke.. that is being played on me and I just can't quite remember . Something from before I was here.

Video did not disappoint.

a reply to: Reverbs

When I was younger lol 6-8 years ago I had a room mate who brought home a print from a garage sale with a guy on a chair hooked up on this machine which took care of all his bodily necessities.... don't remember who that was from, or I would show you.

It's incredible hard for me to read this and talk about it somehow, at this very moment. I hear you I'm feeling with you, it's just that... piled up frustration that comes with it, being so long searching and having no answers.
I mean I guess it's nice to know others are looking too, it's not so nice to realise it's always in connection with drugs people are talking about it.

But well anxiety is my middle name. And I think feeling otherwise would be a sign I'm really crazy.
There's this awesome big thing that happened and showed us its power, right? And there's this 'club' where we know they know, right? And as consequence of something not in our power sending them a message through us they declared us their enemy, right?
Took away the ones we loved, showed us their guns etc.
And as far as I know it could happen again any second, again with no control from my perspective...
So yes 'anxiety' seems an appropriate reaction to loss of control and having these naging 'forces' without really knowing what to do, because I/we didn't do anything the first time, it just happened.
Sounds like you're at peace with it being a part of you.
I'm not even there.
So sorry I can't offer anything meaningful.

originally posted by: Reverbs
a reply to: Peeple

A breaking point?
I don't think so peeps.
Humanzees will always bend not break.
Adapt to the new normal.

In fact I don't think 90% of us are supposed to notice. Though I do agree it's there for ALL of us. The "hidden hand"


The Q thing is a great example of ego and wishes. Mixed with woo. "How things should be if something more is out there, 'in my image.' "

The funny thing is:
We know those rituals have been performed. It's part of the ongoing 'invasion through the veil'. I don't think it's satanic and I don't think Parsons, Crowley and co intended any of this to happen... they imagined the outcome would be something very different I assume.
But I mean if they were half as smart as they thought they were they could have known that 'they' don't take place, control or act in the material world...
It's all always about the mind. That's where the 'demons' live, where 'God' talks to you, the part where the magic takes effect.

Oh gaaaawd it's so depressing
The stupidity of mankind

a reply to: KilgoreTrout

They look like tiny feathers!
Very pretty.

...now even more depressed

a reply to: Reverbs

Sorry was I trying to teach my grandmother to suck eggs there?



I enjoy eating food that others have enjoyed preparing much more than I enjoy eating food that I didn't enjoy preparing.

Let's put it that way shall we?

I'm sure your pizza and fries are delicious.

originally posted by: Reverbs

Video did not disappoint.

Hmmm...that was really interesting. Thanks for posting that.

originally posted by: Peeple
The funny thing is:
We know those rituals have been performed. It's part of the ongoing 'invasion through the veil'. I don't think it's satanic and I don't think Parsons, Crowley and co intended any of this to happen... they imagined the outcome would be something very different I assume.
But I mean if they were half as smart as they thought they were they could have known that 'they' don't take place, control or act in the material world...
It's all always about the mind. That's where the 'demons' live, where 'God' talks to you, the part where the magic takes effect.

Oh gaaaawd it's so depressing
The stupidity of mankind

Crowley didn't recognise any of the rituals that Parsons performed. Crowley in fact considered Parson's to be a "weak-willed fool" who was being easily led by "prowling swindlers," and he was right but that's because often it takes one to know one. Parsons was Crowley's meal ticket and Hubbard stole in and took it.

I'm currently reading a biography of Marjorie Cameron, Parsons' second wife. It is really her, rather than Crowley and Parsons, that is influencial in that mind-set that the rituals that were performed had anything to do with portals and demons or UFOs. Fascinating woman.

But yeah, in short, a great deal has been projected onto the Babalon working and what Parsons did or didn't do most of it whipped up by the media into a outpouring of moral outrage. Sex is evil, don't you know? Parsons' intention, with the Babalon Working, was free-love and licentiousness. One could say that he did succeed in that, and we can assume that that is the "demon" that escaped the "portal"...but we'd have to be very ignorant of the world, wouldn't we?

originally posted by: Peeple
a reply to: KilgoreTrout

They look like tiny feathers!
Very pretty.

...now even more depressed

Don't be. Those feathers are the product of persistence and many, many (so very many) failures. And thanks in no small part to all the wonderful people who make youtube videos to share their skills.

God bless the internet and all who sail in her.

a reply to: KilgoreTrout

Just mentioned them because they're symbolic for the fact tthere are groups and individuals conjuring up who knows what additional to those religious types praying for who knows who to come and take control over Earth.
If only sex would be that demon. No problem. It's the perversion part where things get difficult but that didn't start with those rituals too.

I come from a different background "moral outrage over sex" isn't even a thing for me.

a reply to: Peeple

At peace? I guess so. It's a peace like one day I will die.. making peace with death, kind of peace.

My signature is a joke about it.
My sense of humor keeps me sane.

Welcome to paradise.

I understand you peeps.
We are strong in our own ways.
You are more honest about the thing, that I dont want to face without my jokes.

originally posted by: KilgoreTrout

Hmmm...that was really interesting. Thanks for posting that.

Yea and the thing is this. Synchronicities start.. I am like no not right now. Then it gets more invasive then peeps says the thing that I surmise is happening on ATS and I look at ats see it, and then the thing intensifies and a video just pops up right in the middle.. I already knew..

But that was nice right?


The food thing I'm not arguing or not trying to anyway. My mom can paint photo realistic watercolors. For me it's way too hard to make art out of paint. She loves it and it's worth all the effort.

I would rather someone else like You make the art and me to appreciate it. Movies, videogames, podcasts, all of it. MUSIC!

With food it's just something I've been using for so long now it's like no effort. It's just a flow thing. All the little intricacies matter in some degree relative to the level of perception possible.

a reply to: Reverbs

But isn't that ultimately what it's all about? How you handle it? Jokes are like probably 95% of the time the best approach.
It's all a decision. There's more than enough people who adopt hostility as their default stance, so every bit of lighthearded friendliness and laughter is an act of defiance.
I'd say, at this point.

I'm not as good at it as I'd want to be. But working on it.

a reply to: Peeple

What do you suppose that they are actually conjuring up? I don't see any success beyond a possible localised effect. That and a suceptibility to group and mass suicide. What has praying ever really brought about? I believe there are benefits to praying, and to the practice of ceremonial magic but there is no indication that either has ever been directly responsible for actual change beyond that of the individual.

Moral outrage isn't particularly a thing for me either but it was still a factor in my parent's upbringing so it hung like a vague spectre over mine in a way. And there has always been a class aspect to it, you can be as immoral as you can afford to be in any age as long as you're not scared of the moral majority or notoriety.

a reply to: Reverbs

It was really nice. I don't know who the guy was but Rogan bounced well with him and that brought a lot out.

In terms of synchronicities, this article landed on my desktop yesterday...

Science’s relationship with the concept started out simply enough: an event causes another event later in time. That had been the standard understanding of the scientific community up until quantum mechanics was introduced. Then, with the introduction of the famous “spooky action at a distance” that is a side effect of the concept of quantum entanglement, scientists began to question that simple interpretation of causality.

Now, researchers at the Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB) and the University of Oxford have come up with a theory that further challenges that standard view of causality as a linear progress from cause to effect. In their new theoretical structure, cause and effect can sometimes take place in cycles, with the effect actually causing the cause.

www.universetoday.com...

I don't think it is the answer to synchroncity but I think it's around that area. Maybe? It's all a bit beyond me. I've had massively inexplicable synchronicities, many of them around ATS and related matter. As a meaning maker I do make meaning of that but not too much. If I make too much of it I am likely to fall, it may not turn out as easy to get back up again, not that it was terribly easy last time...and so it goes. At this point, while I finish being a parent, one wouldn't want to # it all up at this late stage by going completely off my trolley and I have accepted that that may always be a possibility so I take small bites of everything and try not to get carried away. It might be that I wouldn't lose touch with reality but I won't take the risk, too many have failed before me and I'm certainly no bigger and better than them, quite the contrary. So...I just try not to get too excited.

Anyway, to all who visit the cafe, new series of films by Adam Curtis on BBCiplayer, "I can't get you out of my head"

Curtis’s overarching thesis is made clear at the beginning, perhaps to avoid accusations that a documentary-maker, too, can be one of the tricksters and manipulators of reality at which his creation is about to take aim. “The ultimate hidden truth of the world is that it is something we make. And could just as easily make differently – David Graeber 1961-2020” runs the opening caption.

From there we move swiftly yet steadily through the dancehalls of 50s London as the empire crumbles, as an influx of immigrants arrives to what they had been told was their homeland. How the seeds of American paranoia were sown and the conditions under which they sprouted and flourished – the fertile soil of the JFK assassination, the waters of Watergate, the Valium sold as harmless until it became clear it was anything but, the growing domination by China – is laid out. The chance technological solutions to relatively small problems that led to a capacity for mass surveillance and to unimagined power being handed to banks, giving rise – effectively – to a shadow system of government.

www.theguardian.com...

I've watched the part one and it was very good (if not especially "new", it was new to have the mirror turned on me in many ways). I thoroughly recommend it.