big_fat_fluffy @ big_fat_fluffy @leminal.space

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I actually never met Neil Gaiman, or the people making the accusations, or the person who wrote the article. How about you?

You get angry at people you never met, based on stories written by people you never met.

Your anger is very cheap.

But it's mere hearsay. Is your judgment so casual?

You people cry shitheel with so little substantiating evidence.

burn the witch!

Surely drug use is as old as eating. From the first time that you eat a strange berry or funky apple.

Sure. I'll put it up top

All programmers are goth supermodels.

Well it depends on the definition of censor.

If you define censor as, "to suppress or delete as objectionable" (Webster) then it fits just fine.

Engineers are, as a rule... well, you've seen what they're like. You gotta loosen them up with drugs first if you want a decent conversation.

In that first technique you hold your attention on a thing as perfectly as you can for a time.

That thing can be a visualization or it can be any of a hundred other things.

My favorite is the feeling of breath in the tip of my nose. It's a popular one. No visualization required there.

We have 2 techniques. The Buddhists call them samatha and vipassana. They go by other names, in other traditions, too.
We start with samatha, because it's easy. Just takes diligent effort.
In samatha you hold your attention upon a thing (called your "object") as perfectly as you can for a time.
You can use pretty much anything as your object. But some work better than others and some work differently for different people.
So experimentation is called for there.
Popular objects are mantras (a repeated word), visualizations, sights (like a candle flame), sounds (the wind in the trees), the feeling of breath in the tip of your nose. Lots of room for experimentation there. I like that last one especially.
Here's a nice overview : http://fleen.org/fluffy_cloud (he calls the techniques "shrink" and "grow"). A couple nice books on the subject are "Journey of Awakening" by Ram Dass and "Meditation, the First and Last Freedom", by Osho.
Ultimately you will need to do your own research, perform your own experiments and become your own expert.

Experiment with different techniques. There's a method there that you can get a handle on.

Control of your attention. Because it is the axis of reality.

you see dicks everywhere?

Amazon logo looks a bit like a dick

Yeah but it isn't the key central focus of the deal anymore then. It's just a convenient accessory.

Good catch. Yes, messaging is an exception. I am not familiar with those others.

We can still observe and discuss methods for making observations.

Yes. Hypotheses. Ideas.