MadKally

I would even buy a big pink wig and wear a truckload of make-up and false eyelashes! You must have bullet-proof hair.

LyricalReckoner

That's the idea. We start at state fairs and carnivals and such. We do it cheap, so we get lots of people. Of course, we have to pick the most susceptible among them at first. Not too hard at a state fair. But once we get going, the less susceptible will say they saw it just so they are in agreement with everyone else.

Then a radio show. Then TV. Then the big donations and the mansion.

That's the formula!

scigirl

I love using Watson and Crick's atheism in arguments for those fundies who spout "well look at DNA, it's so complex, there MUST be a (insert deity of choice here)!"

I retort, If it's so obvious to you (who don't even really understand DNA), than why are the discoverers of the thing atheists?

scigirl

Gurdur

LSD is, in my humble opinion and experience, far less risky (for real effects obtained) than magnetic stimulation of the temporal lobes.

Stick with the dosage for an 8-hour trip.

Oddly enough, I too wanted to use a high-strength pulsating magnetic field to disrupt my left temporal lobe as part of my doctoral thesis (and then have language experiments on myself in an effort to find interesting effects), but they wouldn't let me.

Too dangerous, they said. Bastards.

There are other (plants) drugs which will enable "spiritual" experiences, but on the whole you're far better off with simple rigorous meditation exercises, which of course demand far more work, but are far more consistant, long-lasting and far less risky.

Of course, you run the risk of serotomania with meditation over long periods, but hey, life's hard anyway.

MadKally

For $100 a pop, I'd have two a day. I'd like to have one last hit of acid, and just stare at the completely FULL screen WMP set on Battery: Randomization. With my two best friends of course. I'll bet all three of us would be grinning and saying nothing but "WOW".

Way cool , I didn't know you had a doctorate. Congratulations!

scigirl

He has two, if you count the honorary PhD I bestowed on him after the metacrock/gurdur debate.



scigirl

MadKally

Oh, I remember that.

Gurdur

I'ld much rather be bestowed with the granter than the grant.

emotional

I tried meditation and it didn't work. I suppose I didn't try hard enough. I just wonder how hard is hard enough.

Jinto

Hard enough that the oxygen has difficulty getting to your brain. You might want to try doing those "controlled brething" exercises that take more oxygen to do than they actually get into your lungs.

Or you might just want to kill my idiot psychology teacher who thinks that having us all do meditation exercises will actually teach us anything about psychology.

Who gave that idiot a degree anyway? Stupid moron can't even read from the book right.