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Oder in da Toskana
Mit 'n Dalai Lama
Ganz entspannt
Den Zug vasama
Das ist Freiheit
— Josef Hader, Das ist Freiheit
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How to receive total consciousness
A giant bowl of Cap’n Crunch every morning gets me there. I’ve seen things you people wouldn’t believe.
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Total conciousness is massively overrated
Consider the following scale:
- Being drunk is to be intoxicated by alcohol to such an extent as to be unable to perceive the world clearly through the senses.
- Being sober is to be able to perceive the world clearly through the senses, yet humans are quite capable of giving themselves illusions and little stories to make life more bearable.
- Being knurd is to be (un)intoxicated with Klatchian Coffee to such an extent that all such comfort stories are stripped away from the mind.
This makes you see the world in a way ‘nobody ever should’, in all its harsh reality.People generally find being knurd excruciating, as their comfortable illusions are stripped away and all of life’s terrors are exposed. (Is this what the Hiver feels like all the time ?) When accidentally knurd, people hurry to get alcohol into them to restore the balance. In fact, they generally go too far, getting very drunk in order to a) make certain they aren’t knurd, and b) get so comfortably illusory that the mind can’t recall those terrible realities.
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eta: The One Box didn’t work too well. Removed.
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Graciously?
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If someone held a pitchfork to my neck, then I’d be in a state of total consciousness, too.
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Big hitter, the Lama.
I once had this memorized. Great for parties in the 1980s.
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No one knows anything.
You’re going to make mistakes and
You’re going to do things that people think are stupid.
You can’t sit there and go,
“I never want to make a mistake.”
-Bill Hader, Bill Hadering
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The first thing people do when they get knurd is scream in the existential horror of unfiltered perception
The second thing they do is make sure they never get knurd again.
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According to one movie, the first step is to learn about The Matrix…
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The path to consciousness has many branches.
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aka the Revenge of the Knurd.
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“It’s unpleasantly like being drunk."
“What’s so unpleasant about being drunk?”
"You ask a glass of water.”
― Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
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Will check this out. It seems lighter than Meetings with Remarkable Men:
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Do those things involve a totally shredded roof of your mouth?
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Ah, so you too have travelled the path to enlightenment!
Pain is temporary; enlightenment is forever.
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"Is that the straight path of truth or a forking road of cobras?"© Graham Higgins.
And there’s the problem. Can someone please stop the ride? I’d like to get off.
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