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Real Life / Re: This Cosmic Dance of Bursting Decadence
« on: September 05, 2013, 10:19:24 AM »
At the end of the day, the idea is still there that we're locked in a system of death and rebirth, with the end goal of breaking free. It's a cool idea, but it's based on nothing. I imagine I'll get that anywhere, with any spiritual system — this point where the actions and the beliefs they recommend are based on an assumption that has no real basis. That's probably going to be a thing I can't really meet her halfway on, without it being some kind of lie.

That's understandable. A lot of people are turned off by the death/rebirth thing.

I could see meditation maaaaybe being worth a look. I seriously tried to give it a go a couple of times, a few years back, but the idea of stalling into a sort of blank stasis rarely seemed an appealing alternative to doing something more alive. I kind of think I should look into this a bit more, because she's really into meditation, and maybe that might have some appeal I'm not seeing.

"blank stasis" isn't necessarily wrong, but... it also kinda is. Well, it depends on what kind of meditation you're doing. But it's more of a way to force your mind to concentrate.  In a way, it's kinda like mental exercising, in that it gets easier to concentrate the more you practice. For the breath type meditation I mentioned earlier, you're probably going to focus on your breath for about one minute before you get distracted. You're going to keep getting distracted. It's basically impossible to have an unbroken focus when you're meditating.


I think part of it is that, at least as far as I understand it, you meditate to step out of your life, and closer to this undercurrent of the universe, from which we build up and away from, before falling back into when we die. At least, that's how I see the idea. Maybe I just have this completely different idea of what meditation is, than what others think it should be/see it as being useful.

Meditation means different things to different people. I'm not really familiar with that idea, because the type of meditation I did when I joined a cult went on a meditation retreat  actually focused more on my body than the universe. The theory was to do "body scans" to pick up on subtle sensations of the body, and learn to accept them. Supposedly, this would make me become a more equanimous person as I improved in the meditation.

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Real Life / Re: This Cosmic Dance of Bursting Decadence
« on: September 05, 2013, 09:48:34 AM »
Meditation sounds boring.

Meditation is boring as hell. It is also pretty worthwhile if you can keep doing it consistently.

Edit: There's also a huge variety in types of meditation.

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Real Life / Re: This Cosmic Dance of Bursting Decadence
« on: September 05, 2013, 08:43:07 AM »
I'd say it's worth taking another look at Buddhism.

The thing about Buddhism is that it's fractured, like any other religion. There's tons of rituals and weird shit in it, like any other religion, but what I like about Buddhism in particular is that its core teachings aren't really focused on what you think it'd be - with something like Christianity, no matter what flavor, the core element of belief is the belief in a God who loves you and doesn't want you to burn in hell so he sent his only begotten son etc. etc. Whereas one of the core elements of Buddhism regardless of sect can be summed up as:

1. Life is characterized by several types of suffering.
2. This suffering is caused by craving and aversion.
3. This suffering can end...
4. If you follow these simple steps XYZ.

If you're interested in meditation specifically, Mastering the Core Teachings of the Buddha is pretty in depth about practice and the general spiritual journey any dedicated mediator eventually goes through. If you're looking for more of a guidebook, Mindfulness in Plain English is pretty popular.

Actually, regardless of spirituality, meditation is something worth looking into. It's unfortunately commonly associated with new age-y spirituality and oneness with nature, because most documents concerning meditation usually contain some spiritual trappings. But the actual practice of meditation is completely independent of any spiritual trappings. At its most basic, you're literally sitting down and paying attention to your breath.

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Forum Games / Re: Maids in Space!
« on: April 20, 2013, 04:17:36 AM »
Being in the bathroom, Alex doesn't notice the the icy look of Ikora. She does take advantage of her extensively long bathroom break to clean her apron, though.

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Forum Games / Re: Maids in Space!
« on: April 12, 2013, 07:20:40 AM »
Alex stands and gawks.
"...You guys look like you know what you're doing, so I'm gonna go to dust off my uniform."
Alex goes to bathroom to clean up.

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Forum Games / Re: Maids in Space!
« on: April 02, 2013, 12:03:26 PM »
I'll use 1d6 favor to trigger a random event.

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Forum Games / Re: Maids in Space!
« on: April 01, 2013, 09:01:50 PM »
Alex, having been knocked temporarily comatose by the explosion, wakes up just in time to hear the master's declaration. "I'm a terrible cook...I hope the captain like TV space dinners." She uses her luck of 3 to root through the fridge for something to eat.

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Vampires vs Werewolves X / Re: VvWX: Feedback
« on: March 07, 2013, 07:51:59 PM »
I feel like the werewolves came closer to winning than the vampires did. From someone who was privy to Team Edward's strategies, did you feel like you didn't have the tools to win, or that you just made some strategic errors that you couldn't recover from?

The vampires never had a chance, unfortunately. Even though they managed to turn the seer night 1, Francois already scryed Aoko as dracula at the same time I had called you out as dracula. I'm assuming Francois also scried Frocto the day afterwards, which is how Nex would know he was 2nd drac. So the wolf team had the ability to stop vampire turns at any point after day 3 or so. 

Also: I told y'all to kill Classic! Or turn him, which would've killed him anyways. Whatevs.

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Vampires vs Werewolves X / Re: VvWX: Feedback
« on: March 07, 2013, 06:06:49 PM »
Hah, I was actually feeling pretty good about the wolves' chances before I was lynched.
One, I managed to signal the devil without anyone realizing,
two, we found out nickasummers was the seer,
three, our seer found dracula, and
four: Bongobill outed himself.
Plus, we found out some other inno roles.

Obviously, things didn't really go as planned.

Main factor:
We targeted the vampires too early. Ideally, we should have started outing vampires by day 5 at the earliest.

other reasons:
Guild's plan, obviously. I didn't think it was a good idea initially, but when he managed to rope Kayma and Bongobill into some sort of inno bloc, I thought he might actually pull it off. It wasn't a bad plan in theory. Here's why I think it failed:
-Scope too large. Too many people in the plan. It was inevitable that someone would mention it publicly. Which leads to my second point.
-Shouldn't have included Dracula in the plan. Obviously, there was no way to predict what would have happened, but there really was nothing good that could come by including Dracula.
-Why were we targeting the weretiger so early? I dunno if Guild was serious or just feinting, but considering the huge inno number advantage, there really was no benefit for us in looking for the weretiger at that point in time.

Mostly, it was the vampire thing, I think.

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Real Life / Re: Gettin' In Shape!
« on: February 27, 2013, 05:26:14 PM »
And yet the first article on webmd says 3-5 lbs a week should be considered normal for some one only dieting and doing light excersize(as long as you stick to the plan and dont have cheat days)with 5+ a week still being healthy as long as you eat atleast 1550 calories of lean meat, fruit and veggies a day.
Was it this one? Because that one says it's only safe to lose 3-5 pounds in the first week.

Still I am kinda wondering where you guys are getting your facts since I've been speaking directly with people who have fucking PhDs.
It's pretty much implied that you should always listen to your doctor over some random idiot on the internet. Anyways, the information given by others in the thread are basically general guidelines that you pick up if you read enough about health on the internet or on books or wherever. That means they don't necessarily fit into every situation. For example:

Just going by what my doctor/dietician told me at the health center my tribe owns which was, "Losing weight too fast is a myth. Losing weight at any rate, as long as you're not starving yourself or throwing up is healthier than being fat."
Considering I'm over 100 lbs overweight and can still jog 1.5 miles non-stop without falling over or really even being tired at the end.
They don't apply if you're obese. (I actually forgot that you mentioned this when I posted; my mentioning of that obesity study was just a coincidence.) I think everyone else was assuming you were like 180 and just dropped 20 pounds. Which probably wouldn't be healthy for you. See your health care provider for further details.

That said, don't let some internet stranger dissuade you from making better life choices. If you see the progress, and you're feeling better, and your doctor okays it, who's to say you're wrong. If it works for you then it works.

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Real Life / Re: Gettin' In Shape!
« on: February 27, 2013, 02:59:41 PM »
I think what they're getting at is this: While you may have lose 20 lbs, only some of that is fat. There's other things to account for like water weight, muscle loss, even food you've just eaten. (Obviously, if you've just eaten a heavy meal, that's going to weigh you down and vice versa.) You might weigh yourself next week and find out you've gained some weight back. Basically, when it comes to weight loss, your day to day weight doesn't really matter as long as you continue losing weight over time.

Also, I forgot if this is true or not, but I think the rules they give don't apply if you're obese.

Also also: "Losing weight too fast is a myth."
This statement is kinda vague. Like, if you basically starve for a month you're going to lose weight, but according to conventional knowledge, it'll probably be unhealthy. Though I think I read a news article about a study obese patients who ate nothing and only took vitamin supplements for a month or something and had no adverse side effects, so I guess YMMV.

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Real Life / Re: LET'S POSITIVE DRINKING.
« on: February 24, 2013, 09:04:39 PM »
You should throw some vanilla beans in there and make vanilla extract

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Forum Games / Re: Maids in Space!
« on: February 20, 2013, 07:08:02 PM »
Alex looks back. "mmmyeah... it looks like you guys have a handle on this situation. I'm going to go investigate the ship for anything suspicious." She strides through the doors and uses her Detective Skill of 2 to look for any cool loot.

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Thaddeus Boyd's Panel of Death / Re: I Don't Do Windows
« on: February 19, 2013, 04:47:45 PM »
I've actually been having similar problems with WUBI. For some reason this past week, I decided to increase the size of my ubuntu partition by reinstalling it. Of course, this deleted all of my data on that partition that I stupidly forgot to back up. Nothing crucial, so whatever. But for some reason, the new partition has problems installing and will either crash, boot up to GRUB, or if the reinstallation finally works, it runs incredibly slowly. I'll open Firefox or open a directory and the screen will go gray and unusable for a minute. Updating it helped it with the slowness issues slightly; now it only freezes when I open firefox and a directory simultaneously. Of course, for some inexplicable reason, that barely usable partition also stopped working the next time I booted it.

Not to mention when I first time I tried to reinstall(some time this weekend, I think it was Saturday or Sunday), WUBI installed ubuntu 13.04(???) for some reason. This OS didn't have any problems with speed at all as far as I could tell. The only problem I had with it was that I could only log in as guest. The newest version of WUBI forces you to include a username and password when you're installing, so you already have an account set up when you load up Ubuntu for the first time. However, 13.04 didn't have the default profile set up so I had to choose which user to log into. The account that I set up in WUBI didn't work.

What the fuck Ubuntu why is everything breaking. This is literally the only time I can think of in the past 2-3 years of using Ubuntu that I've had a serious problem. It's like all those times I probably should have been suffering computer bullshit but didn't has finally caught up with me.

So yeah, dunno if you're also using WUBI (and I dunno if that's the problem, I might've gotten these same issues if I installed a fresh copy of ubuntu over my entire hard drive), but it seems like they've been having some problems or something.

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Vampires vs Werewolves X / Re: Vampires Vs Werewolves X: Millennium Waltz
« on: February 06, 2013, 11:32:15 PM »
I think the question is from the perspective of another dead player: in other words, can dead players talk amongst themselves? I don't necessarily think in that case it's self explanatory; Of course I could be completely off base here. It certainly wouldn't be the first time.

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Vampires vs Werewolves X / Re: Vampires Vs Werewolves X: Millennium Waltz
« on: February 06, 2013, 03:56:10 PM »
lol

Also I should probably be in the dead pile

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Vampires vs Werewolves X / Re: Vampires Vs Werewolves X: Millennium Waltz
« on: February 04, 2013, 10:45:33 AM »
I didn't know if you knew
So I'm taking this chance to say
That I had the best day
With you today

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Vampires vs Werewolves X / Re: Vampires Vs Werewolves X: Millennium Waltz
« on: February 04, 2013, 07:20:09 AM »
I interpreted "Obviously anonymous account" as "Obviously, I've changed their name to keep it anonymous" But now that I've thought about it, your interpretation makes more sense.

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Vampires vs Werewolves X / Re: Vampires Vs Werewolves X: Millennium Waltz
« on: February 04, 2013, 06:53:37 AM »
...huh? I took that to mean Defenestration obviously anonymized the name, rather than someone anonymously sending a PM to him. Yes/No?

Also, who tells people they're not villains... Except villains? That shit's like bad guy 101, brah

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Forum Games / Re: Maids in Space!
« on: February 01, 2013, 11:56:37 PM »
Alex notices Ikora rousing from her nap. "It took a while, but it seems my harmonious fist has finally rejuvenated her. You can take care of yourself, right?" Alex asks. She doesn't wait for an answer though,  because Shura's message has her attention. "It seems they need help getting the shields back up." She rushes over to the shield room to try to fix what's broken with her limited repair skill of 2.

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