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6. Merkellellllelelel

Y'know, I just noticed, but I think you actually meant Merkelli-li.

... please tell me someone has photoshopped merkel's head onto a shoggoth.

... wouldn't an ASCII tetris be best off using different letters for the different shapes?

Have any of the people here who have had spiritual experiences of the unexplained phenomena kind ever attempted to find the explanation on the internet or something? (Or at least look for similar cases), or do you simply say 'yep, that was a spiritual experience?'

Well... yeah? I mean, the major repeated experiences that most would call explicitly spiritual (talking to/being talked to by god stuff*) that I've been through were both extreme depressive breaks causing me to hallucinate like goddamn. The various awe/prayer states I've been in have all been (fairly trivially at this point, insofar as you can call it trivial when it's taking over a decade to reach this point) induced by meditative practice -- they're pretty straightforward low-tech mindhacking, so to speak. The various bits of unlikely coincidence, some of which involved near-death stuff, were, well. Coincidences. I'm okay with accepting that sometimes it's just the luck of metaphorical dice.

They can still be spiritual experiences, though, if you just equate "spiritual experience" to a certain mental state that's no more supernatural (or less, if you're feeling whimsical) than the ability to love. It's chemical cocktails and neurological pathways all the way down, so to speak.

That's more or less how I've internalized it over the years, anyway. I've had the divine talk to me, I've had the unlikely coincidences, I've been through pretty much the whole kit and kaboodle. I've chalked it up to the human brain having a really easy time of going haywire, and it hasn't caused a notable fluctuation in occurrences.

*FYI, according to the voices that were temporarily in my head when I was a pre-teen, and again as a young teenager, accompanying the overwhelming spiritual style emotional overload, and the thrashing, and the screaming and tongues and whatnot, mother earth is in pretty extreme suffering and we as a species are basically killing god.

Temporary insanity is a hell of a drug. Gods be buggered but I don't want to go through that again.

... I have somehow gained control of a thread I didn't make. Alright then.

... how in the hell is jeb noted positively on the education front? Basically the entire public school system in florida hates the bastid.

And I mean, shit, all of it. North, south, central -- during the period Jeb was around, not a single teacher I'd been in contact with, nor any they had been in contact with (which, overall, would count in the many multiple hundreds from pretty much all over the state) had basically anything positive to say about the guy. Bugger straight sodomized the florida school system.

To be more specific on what's happening in that screenshot for those who don't fully know he's apparently able to use his own brain cells to give extra processing power to the analytical engine in his cyborg eye.

Yeah, that's... that's definitely mostly-impossible technobabble unless you're dealing with really weird tech, insofar as I'm aware. You can't just... offload machine processing onto an organic brain, or vice versa. Not only would it not really help for most things, they... can't really talk all that well without some sort of interpreter, and that's probably going to eat up more processing than whatever gains might be made.

Chalk it up to magitek and wipe hands of it, ha.

As to the multi-threading, I was talking more about software multi-threading -- which only gets really sexy when you've got multiple cores, imo -- than hardware.

Eh? It... probably would? Isn't that like 9/10ths of what multithreading is, after all?