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ImRunninUDown!33
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 Posted: Tue Aug 19, 2008 3:15 pm Post subject: The Storage |
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I used to be friends with this guy, we were in a few bands together, most never got anywhere but anyway.
He had this idea, wasnt a religion as much as a way of thinking.
The Storage is what he called it, this is how he explained it to me.
"We as human beings are stored our entire lives. We are stored right now, me and you are in Bessmer City, Bessmer city is stored in NC, and NC is stored in the United States. The United States is stored on The Earth, and The Earth is stored in the solar system, the solar system is stored in the universe and the universe is the final place of storage. When we die, we are stored, sometimes in a coffin, and sometimes cremated to be stored everywhere."
Just an odd idea but made sense
just thought id share this seeing as how i had nothing better to do
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stickhorse
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| Posted: Tue Aug 19, 2008 3:21 pm Post subject: |
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your friend was high wasn't he?
did he have THC stored in his bloodstream?
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i knew a homeless guy who (probably still) just reads philosophy books all day outside a starbucks. he is one of the most impressive etymologist. He references the Pleistocene period in which, over the course of a few million years, monkeys turned into man. Then he explains the (I believe) holocene period, the last 10,000 years up to the present haven't involved a large amount of evolution. Instead, however, man has spent the last ten millennium building. From the industrial revolution and up to the present, man, he said had not evolved for its current environment. He attributed this to depression and lethargy.
And he isn't wrong, we did sort of grow beyond our programming, beyond our evolution, the consequences of which could be very psychological.
anyways... this thread is about weird shit people have said that you know, right?
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ImRunninUDown!33
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| stickhorse wrote: | your friend was high wasn't he?
did he have THC stored in his bloodstream? |
actually yes
he was very VERY high
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Moloth
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| Rortykiller wrote: | i knew a homeless guy who (probably still) just reads philosophy books all day outside a starbucks. he is one of the most impressive etymologist. He references the Pleistocene period in which, over the course of a few million years, monkeys turned into man. Then he explains the (I believe) holocene period, the last 10,000 years up to the present haven't involved a large amount of evolution. Instead, however, man has spent the last ten millennium building. From the industrial revolution and up to the present, man, he said had not evolved for its current environment. He attributed this to depression and lethargy.
And he isn't wrong, we did sort of grow beyond our programming, beyond our evolution, the consequences of which could be very psychological.
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very cool...
i, too, think that sentience has seriously mucked up our 'natural' evolution. we no longer must survive our uncontrollable environment... we MAKE our environment suit US.
we've spent millions/billion of year physically evolving.. we have large brains, vocal chords and opposable thumbs... for the entire Holocene period, our technological evolution has outpaced our biological evolution by several orders of magnitude.. and its only getting faster!
lets use the 1st century (CE) as a 'mid-point'... go back 10,000 years from then into the past and look at the changes human civilization and technology has gone through. now, look at +10,000 years FROM then... and look at far we've come in just 2,000!
in another "mere" 1,000 years, we may hit the technological singularity and/or fully become 'trans-human'. i think its pretty safe to say that human evolution, based on natural selection, is pretty much dead. now, WE are the intentional and self-aware captains of our species evolution.
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