Everything that defines the self such as experiences, thoughts, and even our physical appearance is ephemeral and intangible. There is no particular thing to hold on to. It's all in a state of flux.
That may seem obvious, but to conceptual thinkers like myself, experiencing non-duality (no-self) and "Thusness" (as Alan Watts calls it) is difficult. It's why I designed subliminal posters for meditating: http://zission.com
The words are almost transparent for a reason. When the words are hard to read, the conscious mind becomes preoccupied with the image and the message imprints directly to the unconscious. It's a technique known as Critical Factor Bypass.
EDIT: This comment is becoming transparent too. Your conscious mind will ignore them because they are hard to read, but your subconscious mind is about to make a choice... about deepening your meditation... and feeling a growing sense of confidence... about buying my posters...
Critical Factor Bypass is a well known technique in hypnotherapy, and I could provide tons of links. That said, it's an experimental project and has been extremely beneficial for me. I thought I'd share.
> That said, it's an experimental project and it's been beneficial for me. I thought I'd share :)
That's cool, but when you make vague claims that sound kind of like pseudo-science, you should go ahead and provide citations and links and stuff, otherwise people think you're a nutter.
I have both the new Kindle Paperwhite and the old Kobo mini e-reader, and I like the Kobo much better. Kobo's UI is far superior, and it connects with Pocket, so you can catch up on your articles too.
Many stores in the US offer wipes near the front of the store to wipe down the cart handles. I'd recommend using them, especially since so many people carry around raw chicken / meat products that leak.
This strikes me as a more interesting project than the one in the article. If you're going to put some silly restriction on yourself and then try to work around it, you might as well go all the way!
Knowing that this is a work in progress, do you have a dictionary? I'd be interested in it.
They put some power switches on the webcam/microphone and wireless modules. That's about it.
They also disabled signature verification on the chipset firmware, but it's not clear that solves any privacy issues, given that the only extant firmware is the closed-source one from Intel. (If anything, disabling signatures is a net negative for privacy, as the authors of a malicious replacement wouldn't even need access to Intel's signing key to create one.)
Only people who think and express themselves within HN's borg-like ideological parameters can coexist here. If you say or believe something not in harmony with The Borg, you'll soon be talking to yourself only.
I fully expect to be hellbanned (or downvoted into oblivion and then hellbanned) for expressing this view.
It's a measure of how false your first paragraph is that I can't guess which way your imaginary Borg leans. We see roughly the same number of comments denouncing HN for being libertarian as socialist. As far as I can tell, most HN users are neither of those; rather these perceptions are distorted by what one might call ideological enemy bias.
I certainly wouldn't put it that way. But since you sound sure, I'll ask the same of you as the OP: please provide links to specific posts that convinced you of this view. From my point of view it's hard to imagine what those would look like. But perhaps I'm missing something important.
HN doesn't seem to me to consist of like-minded people. If it did, I wouldn't have to spend so much time asking users not to berate each other.
I'm working on a conlang called 7erb (pronounced Verb).
It's a language of only seven (7) words in its entire vocabulary. Here's what I got so far:
- All seven words in the vocabulary are a negative. A word means "everything but that word. Words are then "stacked" to be more "anti-specific"
- 7erb is completely present-tense. Past and future are not acknowledged
- Anything in this world that can be evaluated in various ways depending upon arbitrary conditions are generally avoided in 7erb. 7erb is a language of reality, not subjectivity and opinion. There are no words in 7erb that function as adjectives
- However, vocal pitch and tonality can indicate degrees of closeness, height, intensity etc. In written form, this can be expressed with bold text, underscoring etc
If anyone is interested in developing this new language, please contact me (see my profile).
That may seem obvious, but to conceptual thinkers like myself, experiencing non-duality (no-self) and "Thusness" (as Alan Watts calls it) is difficult. It's why I designed subliminal posters for meditating: http://zission.com
Here is a specific poster for nonduality http://zission.com/product/words-inside-outside/