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by zafka 4y ago
This struck me enough to save for another read. While I do not have a desire to spend all my time studying philosophy, I admire/envy those who do. I also realize that most of those who do spend their life doing this are often tortured
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by zafka 4y ago
Hi please email ( link in profile ) I probably have several books that fit your description- Collected because I love books and collecting things :) Though not so old, I have my 1939 Grimm's fairy tails sitting next to me. It is in ve
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by zafka 4y ago
This makes me smile. I have been maintaining a personal ( and sometimes business) website for over twenty years. I feel sort of responsible for keeping that 90's vibe alive.
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by zafka 4y ago
Bravo!!
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First time I have seen it. I was wondering if anyone had used it.
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by zafka 5y ago
Ok. I think we are on the same page. I have never seen a detox death either. I have heard that benzo's are the hardest to withdraw from, and it does sound pretty frightening. For a lot of alcoholics the hardest thing to quit is nicoti
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by zafka 5y ago
Hi Chris, Not sure if you are asking a question or not. To clarify, my understanding is that there is a greater risk of death when detoxing from alcohol,although it is possible to die from benzo withdrawal it is not as common. My informat
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by zafka 5y ago
Great post! I have been a long term member myself, and you described my feelings about AA pretty well. It was fun to read what Charlie Munger ( Warren Buffet's partner) wrote about AA. He says that AA uses a number of natural psycholo
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by zafka 5y ago
Benzos are often given short term- 3-5 days on a taper schedule to someone in detox. It is not recommended to give a script to an alky. Benzos are not as dangerous to withdraw from as alcohol but are horrible to detox from as they are fat
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by zafka 5y ago
As someone who quit drinking alcohol quite a long time ago ( which I am quite sure is why I am alive today) I agree that one of the "side affects" of LSD is that it helps one to come to the realization that they are killing themse
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by zafka 5y ago
LSA is also found in quite a few Morning Glory seeds "Heavenly blue" is one of the commonly mentioned varieties.
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by zafka 5y ago
I would be very interested to know where Stuart Ritchie's funding is coming from these days also. I am rather surprised that he did not list all his sources of income in a show of transparency.
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by zafka 5y ago
Funny thing is, reading books is one of those things that are not affected negatively by my ADHD - At least books that interest me - As a child I would get very sucked into books and totally ignore other inputs. I was the kid who got yelled
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Increasing demand threatens toad population(nytimes.com)
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by zafka 5y ago
Indeed- Which author?
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by zafka 5y ago
Thanks! It is good to hear from an optimistic 73 year old. Just a decade shy of that mark, I am working out how I will transition to the next phase. Intellectually I know that step one needs to be more physical activity-inertia can be a kil
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by zafka 5y ago
Richard Alpert (Ram Dass) Talked about this idea in a way that made a lot of sense to me. He stated (roughly) that the LSD experience gives you a glimpse of what can be found through extensive spiritual practice. After the first few "t
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by zafka 5y ago
I am saving this to read all the comments later. This is appears to be very close to what I was thinking of to replace my need for 3rd party cloud storage. Still need to add striping and encryption of files across various other computers. T
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by zafka 5y ago
Well congratulations on a very cool career. I often lament the fact that there is no more Bell Labs. I try to promote that concept at my company knowing that I am just tilting at windmills. Happy Holidays!
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by zafka 5y ago
Thanks a bunch for this story! I really like the way you used your music class for research. If you don't mind me asking- What sort of things are you doing now? Are you able to do much R&D?
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by zafka 5y ago
I really love your understanding of the biological effects on human interaction: "I tend to forget humans are embodied and expect more logic out of them than their bodies will allow." Thanks for today's smile.
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by zafka 5y ago
I just went to Abe books and the price was $2600.00- Perhaps tied to this article?
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by zafka 5y ago
Sounds like early design on jet fighter seats. Found it!!! https://www.thestar.com/news/insight/2016/01/16/when-us-air-...
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by zafka 5y ago
I did not get that impression at all. The first example talked about visualizing differential equations.
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by zafka 5y ago
I did not. Thank you for the link. I hope to explore the idea more. From a quick scan there seems to be a lot of value there.
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by zafka 5y ago
Very cool. I have been planning to do something similar on 5 acres in FL. Your location sounds much more exotic! My main issue is I am still accumulating funds so most likely I will need to set up a 501C and have future artists continue my
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by zafka 5y ago
Thanks Much! Just read some of your comments on things today and it seems we have a little in common.
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Link please - or email it to me, my email is in profile. If nothing else it will provide encouragement to another wanna write eventually person.
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Excellent storyteller! This reminds me of a long running series from the Chicago Sun Times: ''Things I Learned En Route to Looking Up Other Things.'' That column dovetailed with my love of reading the World Book Encycl
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by zafka 5y ago
I absolutely love the rationale for the name of the effect.

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