Damn Zombies

Unusally Clear-headed

I woke up unusually clear-headed today, after spending the night dreaming that I was remembering things I'd forgotten. It's also been an unusually cold morning, almost like it was already winter.

So what? Well, our memories sometimes become accessible through priming, and priming can occur by any sensation we can perceive. The upshot of this is that the shifting of the seasons comes with it's own cycle of easily accessible memories.

Just something to think about. :)

Now This is Awesome

Eight of Cups

Quoted from the post "A Beginning":

Welcome one and all to a year long experiment I am attempting for 2010. I decided that for the entire year, I will be celebrating as many of the major religious holidays for as many major religions as I possibly can.

A bit of background is in order to explain this. You see, i am by nature not a religious person. I was once Christian, in the sense that I occasionally went to church (Episcopal, if you care to know) and believed in God. When I hit my teen years, I began to question my beliefs (as many teenagers do). I just never really came back to a belief in God. For a long time, I considered myself an atheist, but as I have grown older this has shifted more to agnostic. In recent years this shift in belief has once more eased up to become a belief in some higher power, but not in any single religious faith.

Despite this lack of "faith," I have had a deep fascination of religion for a long time. I have done a little bit of comparing of different faiths. Nothing deeper than a surface glance. Along the lines of a Complete Idiot's Guide to Religion. A quick glance at everything, without a deeper understanding.

Here's the link to "The Piety Project".

So, yeah. This.

I set out with the intention to create a logo, and...

Not Again!

Still the Best Video on Youtube

Gurdjieff and His TranshumAnts

Up until recently, I thought that Gurdjieff predicted transhumanism. After doing some simple research, I have to admit that I was probably wrong, but if you were wondering WTF I was talking about when I made a recent comment about Gurdjieff's logical deduction, here was my line or reasoning.

One element of Gurdjieff's space-opera cosmology is the ants. According to Gurdjieff, ants were an failed experiment by the Sun to create self-developing life forms. The ants chose instead to tinker "with their organs" and in doing so were reduced to what they are today -- cogs in a hive mind.