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Metal / Re: How to talk about art
« on: June 15, 2010, 08:31:04 AM »
MachinalHeidegger:
I would assume your post was targeted because it was the most recent. While the criticism against you was harsh, I would much rather your hurt feelings than a degenerating forum. I'm sure you can rationalize the insult and overcome your aching pride, do you really think systematic evaluation of art is a 'carcass of a system', c'mon bro, really?
When you get down to brass tacks there really is no easy way to communicate the 'feel' of an album. The passions and fervor rage inside you but its unquantifiable, intangible.
Systematic evaluation begets greater complexity in analysis than album = colour. Your getting closer to the (useless) emotive aspect of the album with colour association but completely sidestep the (useful) intellectual stimulation that makes the music beautiful.
There's very little point in a public forum if a morass of idiotic opinions drown out the ones worth reading.
I would assume your post was targeted because it was the most recent. While the criticism against you was harsh, I would much rather your hurt feelings than a degenerating forum. I'm sure you can rationalize the insult and overcome your aching pride, do you really think systematic evaluation of art is a 'carcass of a system', c'mon bro, really?
When you get down to brass tacks there really is no easy way to communicate the 'feel' of an album. The passions and fervor rage inside you but its unquantifiable, intangible.
Systematic evaluation begets greater complexity in analysis than album = colour. Your getting closer to the (useless) emotive aspect of the album with colour association but completely sidestep the (useful) intellectual stimulation that makes the music beautiful.
There's very little point in a public forum if a morass of idiotic opinions drown out the ones worth reading.
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Metal / Re: Funny fact about newbies in metal
« on: May 27, 2010, 07:59:15 AM »
The brain must learn to differentiate and track separate instruments, most people's musical upbringing is informed entirely by pop music, consequentially they don't develop appreciable musical cognition. The typical normals inability to process classical music demonstrates this. The neural circuitry simply isn't there.
Like aerobic training, persistently challenging your musical boundaries will increase your ability to understand complex musics. This is a natural process that will continue through your life, a few years from now your conceptual understanding of music will have doubtless increased.
A word on cannabis, the drug intensifies sense perception, music, sex and food all feels good man, however it also occludes mental function with constant indulgence rendering you little more than a shit farm with feelings (encapsulated by 'MOAR' and negativity because your a useless stoner). Existing as a useless meatsack whose only goal is to keep smoking weed, intellectual and spiritual growth blocked by the waking coma of intoxication, unable to acquire or process complex data (reading books, listening to music) because of total memory obliteration and by choice of constant intoxication averred against any higher thought or philosophizing: synonymous with rampant faggotry and a sure, albeit slower way to acquire AIDS.
Like aerobic training, persistently challenging your musical boundaries will increase your ability to understand complex musics. This is a natural process that will continue through your life, a few years from now your conceptual understanding of music will have doubtless increased.
A word on cannabis, the drug intensifies sense perception, music, sex and food all feels good man, however it also occludes mental function with constant indulgence rendering you little more than a shit farm with feelings (encapsulated by 'MOAR' and negativity because your a useless stoner). Existing as a useless meatsack whose only goal is to keep smoking weed, intellectual and spiritual growth blocked by the waking coma of intoxication, unable to acquire or process complex data (reading books, listening to music) because of total memory obliteration and by choice of constant intoxication averred against any higher thought or philosophizing: synonymous with rampant faggotry and a sure, albeit slower way to acquire AIDS.
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Chasm / Re: Distrust of antidepressants
« on: May 21, 2010, 06:43:52 AM »
Various responses;
SSRI's disrupt removal of serotonin from the synaptic cleft, over time causing a steady increase in free serotonin. While the drugs aren't 'habit forming' in the traditional sense they will often cause a rebound syndrome when they are discontinued. Stopping an SSRI abruptly causes a massive shift in the brains chemical equilibrium, essentially shorting it of the surplus neurotransmitters it's adapted to working with. The rebound leaves the patient with lower serotonin levels and a good two week shit slide of horrible symptoms until the brain can reconfigure itself. Known as SSRI discontinuation syndrome, it's known to occur even when patients are gradually weaned off their drugs.
Cannabis is mentioned in the same context because the cannabinoids also affect the serotonic system (though that is not the only neurotransmitter they affect) and long term inundation will cause a shift in neurochemical equilibrium that causes 'withdrawl symptoms' (ie your brain ran out of lubricant) after abrupt cessation. Interestingly endogenous cannabinoids are implicated in memory repression and regulation by inhibiting serotonic neurons, each time you spark up your essentially smoking a euphoric amnesiac.
Schizophrenia is thought to be caused by excessive dopamine concentrations in the mesolimbic cortex (amphetamine psychosis approximates schizophrenia, amps increase free dopamine concentrations.) The class of drugs used to treat schizophrenia, the major tranquilizers, work by reducing free dopamine concentrations in the brain. Schizophrenia and it's treatments aren't comparable to depression at all. The major tranquilizers are mighty dangerous drugs with high mortality rates. Patients have mandatory blood toxicity (this is for a specific drug, the name eludes me but it's one of the newer ones) tests each month to check if the drug is killing them. A pharmacist I know who dispenses these medications says that most schizophrenics would prefer to live with the increased mortality rate than remain untreated, self isolated meat sacks who can't cope with reality. Point being, "psychos" are real biological fuckups with real medical treatments to improve their quality of life, Don't lump all medical treatments in with anti depressants, it's the application not the science you should be opposing.
That said with regards to drugs bringing humans closer to reality, or maximizing the potential of our biological engines; hallucinogens don't bring us closer to reality. They take us into our heads, their therapeutic application is giving us a tool to analyze our internal paradigms and bring them into a state that better corresponds with reality. However most trips don't bring you closer to nirvana, it's just another form of (fun) intoxication. Advocating hallucinogens to maximize human potential is kinda like the argument for anti depressants; there are area's where they prove valuable but in the end its just another drug, a tool that can help you along the way but not a substitute for getting there on your own. Cut to Hunter S. Thompsons speech against the hippie counter culture from fear and loathing and trey azagthoth urging us to fulfil our potential..
However the racetam class of nootropic drugs appears especially promising in this regard: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piracetam
SSRI's disrupt removal of serotonin from the synaptic cleft, over time causing a steady increase in free serotonin. While the drugs aren't 'habit forming' in the traditional sense they will often cause a rebound syndrome when they are discontinued. Stopping an SSRI abruptly causes a massive shift in the brains chemical equilibrium, essentially shorting it of the surplus neurotransmitters it's adapted to working with. The rebound leaves the patient with lower serotonin levels and a good two week shit slide of horrible symptoms until the brain can reconfigure itself. Known as SSRI discontinuation syndrome, it's known to occur even when patients are gradually weaned off their drugs.
Cannabis is mentioned in the same context because the cannabinoids also affect the serotonic system (though that is not the only neurotransmitter they affect) and long term inundation will cause a shift in neurochemical equilibrium that causes 'withdrawl symptoms' (ie your brain ran out of lubricant) after abrupt cessation. Interestingly endogenous cannabinoids are implicated in memory repression and regulation by inhibiting serotonic neurons, each time you spark up your essentially smoking a euphoric amnesiac.
Schizophrenia is thought to be caused by excessive dopamine concentrations in the mesolimbic cortex (amphetamine psychosis approximates schizophrenia, amps increase free dopamine concentrations.) The class of drugs used to treat schizophrenia, the major tranquilizers, work by reducing free dopamine concentrations in the brain. Schizophrenia and it's treatments aren't comparable to depression at all. The major tranquilizers are mighty dangerous drugs with high mortality rates. Patients have mandatory blood toxicity (this is for a specific drug, the name eludes me but it's one of the newer ones) tests each month to check if the drug is killing them. A pharmacist I know who dispenses these medications says that most schizophrenics would prefer to live with the increased mortality rate than remain untreated, self isolated meat sacks who can't cope with reality. Point being, "psychos" are real biological fuckups with real medical treatments to improve their quality of life, Don't lump all medical treatments in with anti depressants, it's the application not the science you should be opposing.
That said with regards to drugs bringing humans closer to reality, or maximizing the potential of our biological engines; hallucinogens don't bring us closer to reality. They take us into our heads, their therapeutic application is giving us a tool to analyze our internal paradigms and bring them into a state that better corresponds with reality. However most trips don't bring you closer to nirvana, it's just another form of (fun) intoxication. Advocating hallucinogens to maximize human potential is kinda like the argument for anti depressants; there are area's where they prove valuable but in the end its just another drug, a tool that can help you along the way but not a substitute for getting there on your own. Cut to Hunter S. Thompsons speech against the hippie counter culture from fear and loathing and trey azagthoth urging us to fulfil our potential..
However the racetam class of nootropic drugs appears especially promising in this regard: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piracetam
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Chasm / Re: Undiscovered ANUS
« on: April 07, 2010, 01:19:25 AM »
from stoner adventures in 6th undiscovered country;
The abstraction on sharp lusts of the flesh broken with narrator admitting how well hung he is always stuck with me. TUC and prozakhistan are my favorite parts of anus, they aren't written didactically so transmit a headspace, much like music. Resonance. Reads like a more coherent Burroughs, hours and hours of material there. There must be oodles of pages on prozakhistan that only link from some labyrinthine vestibule
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Abstraction of vision in a sharp shot of moment as I see
squirming in my crotch a footlong maggot, squirming agonizedly,
burrowing into her, maybe mewling I can't tell her scream. Not
even her: she is gone, but the maggot is there. The rotting heap
of the city writhes with its minions. The eyes of living inside,
cocaine off the mirror and then the reflection twisting, the
carnivorous maggot chewing through all that lives. The piles of
trash twitch alive, and curl around the nearby humans like adders
striking at the wrist. The corpses of the dead burst; the coffin
lids split; maggots roll upon the earth, crawling from the wound-
graves of the deceived, killed, buried, and lied after. She is
gone; it is over. Am I hallucinating? All I see is maggots, the
crawling of decay, the appetite of putrefaction. Choking in my
throat: fear or vomit, and then, beneath my skin, I feel them
spawning, moving, too near me, chewing me into trash like the rest
of the city. A violent cough vivisects. Scream, dash, chaos of
angular falling outward of door, gravel roll and recovery, back
inside: must find Spike.
The abstraction on sharp lusts of the flesh broken with narrator admitting how well hung he is always stuck with me. TUC and prozakhistan are my favorite parts of anus, they aren't written didactically so transmit a headspace, much like music. Resonance. Reads like a more coherent Burroughs, hours and hours of material there. There must be oodles of pages on prozakhistan that only link from some labyrinthine vestibule
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Metal / Re: Metalheads who went on to greater things
« on: April 01, 2010, 06:59:34 AM »
Used hitler as an example of one persons actions cultivating international renown, many metalheads do fantastic things that you'd have no way of knowing about. Suggest thread be renamed to "hessians who did interesting things outside of music that garnered the attention of a wider community", but all things considered the current thread title is doing a wonderful job. I don't recommend heetler as a blazing role model for the hessian youth in their fight against banks and absented foreskins, however he really sold me on the meth addict/genocidal lulz angle and should be recognized accordingly (a shower of syringes and uncleaved foreskins on his head).
I'm curious why you'd vilify this, also thread derailment
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QuotePower over self = overman
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I'm curious why you'd vilify this, also thread derailment
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Metal / Re: Metalheads who went on to greater things
« on: March 31, 2010, 06:45:36 AM »
What are you expecting trauco a hessian hitler?
Becoming an engineer or a professor of statistics and economics in brazil seem like pretty valid successes to me. Authority positions like that have power within a society.
They aren't going to change the world, statisically speaking that's pretty much impossible for most of us. They can change their world however. Power over self = overman.
A few of my friends are similarly disillusioned, thinking they can change the world and whip their self righteous egohorse all the way to elysium fields peopled with burnished warsluts and historic figures reincarnated as anthropomorphic bongs. Naturally when they realize the futility of this dream they slide into depression, forsake any meaningful action and reach for the KY.
Mindsnares aside, It would be incredibly awesome to see some authority figure flying the anus algiz rune.
I've always wondered what happened to Hat, does anyone know where Jason Oliver, the vocalist and guitarist from infester ended up?
Becoming an engineer or a professor of statistics and economics in brazil seem like pretty valid successes to me. Authority positions like that have power within a society.
They aren't going to change the world, statisically speaking that's pretty much impossible for most of us. They can change their world however. Power over self = overman.
A few of my friends are similarly disillusioned, thinking they can change the world and whip their self righteous egohorse all the way to elysium fields peopled with burnished warsluts and historic figures reincarnated as anthropomorphic bongs. Naturally when they realize the futility of this dream they slide into depression, forsake any meaningful action and reach for the KY.
Mindsnares aside, It would be incredibly awesome to see some authority figure flying the anus algiz rune.
I've always wondered what happened to Hat, does anyone know where Jason Oliver, the vocalist and guitarist from infester ended up?
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Commerce / Re: Averse Sefira display interesting flyer
« on: February 05, 2010, 04:11:21 PM »
Holy shit, averse is enema
!!!
Archived shows. As a hessian you are compelled to listen to as much metalenema possible, Avrs Sefra! Fuck!
!!!
Archived shows. As a hessian you are compelled to listen to as much metalenema possible, Avrs Sefra! Fuck!
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Commerce / Averse Sefira display interesting flyer
« on: February 01, 2010, 02:55:34 PM »
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_SqPVa1DSefY/SvElpIySxgI/AAAAAAAAAgM/RdgDTdzaWKY/s1600-h/av3.jpg
Flyer beneath the Brazilian flag \m/
Flyer beneath the Brazilian flag \m/
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Chasm / Re: All music is rhythm
« on: September 16, 2009, 01:45:09 AM »
those vibrations smack against your eardrum which converts them to electrical data borne to the brain where it's perceived as sound. Tree falling in a forest sort of thing.
Antioxidants will speed the expulsion of cannabis from your system, my lord green tea is delicious.
Antioxidants will speed the expulsion of cannabis from your system, my lord green tea is delicious.
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Metal / Re: Refreshing Metal Albums
« on: May 29, 2009, 05:36:12 AM »
queefinator, there's no need for your antagonism, chill the fuck out.
You may have a lot of experience in the underground, good for you, it doesn't justify acting like a dick.
Altars of Madness is incredible, daily listening has been demonstrated to cure AIDS.
Averse Sefira's early stuff is compelling. They're easy to dismiss because they take a while to articulate their ideas. Listen patiently for the rewards are immense.
Intestine Baalism make for a toe tapping good time. I like the way their vocalist doesn't headbang so much as pose with horns thrust to the sky at live shows. .
You may have a lot of experience in the underground, good for you, it doesn't justify acting like a dick.
Altars of Madness is incredible, daily listening has been demonstrated to cure AIDS.
Averse Sefira's early stuff is compelling. They're easy to dismiss because they take a while to articulate their ideas. Listen patiently for the rewards are immense.
Intestine Baalism make for a toe tapping good time. I like the way their vocalist doesn't headbang so much as pose with horns thrust to the sky at live shows. .
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Chasm / Re: Any scientists, mathematicians, or engineers here?
« on: May 26, 2009, 06:12:46 PM »
Failed out of environmental engineering in 07 and will likely fail out of conservation biology at the end of this semester.
retrospective on causal thought processes:
Studying sucks, copious bong hits and sitting alone in dorm room listening to metal is a much better alternative-
+Oh Noes, degree isn't magically completing itself, another cone and spinning pentagram again will fix everything
++Oh shits, nullifying brain activity and avoiding power process is magnifying deep seated self loathing, affirms preexisting notion that failure is inevitable and is used to justify giving up without even trying
+++Depression and negative behaviours manifest, reliance on cannabis as reality avoidance mechanism- consumption increases reinforcing deleterious cognition
Summary: neurotic personality discovers reality isn't a wish fulfillment device, runs away terrified.
Regular meditation, curtailing intoxication, a diet high in fibre and exercising the will to power are doing wonders, but I've failed too much assessment to pass most of my subjects.
Maturity is borne of experience, sure would have been nice If I'd attained some earlier in life...
retrospective on causal thought processes:
Studying sucks, copious bong hits and sitting alone in dorm room listening to metal is a much better alternative-
+Oh Noes, degree isn't magically completing itself, another cone and spinning pentagram again will fix everything
++Oh shits, nullifying brain activity and avoiding power process is magnifying deep seated self loathing, affirms preexisting notion that failure is inevitable and is used to justify giving up without even trying
+++Depression and negative behaviours manifest, reliance on cannabis as reality avoidance mechanism- consumption increases reinforcing deleterious cognition
Summary: neurotic personality discovers reality isn't a wish fulfillment device, runs away terrified.
Regular meditation, curtailing intoxication, a diet high in fibre and exercising the will to power are doing wonders, but I've failed too much assessment to pass most of my subjects.
Maturity is borne of experience, sure would have been nice If I'd attained some earlier in life...
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Chasm / Cast from a strange kiln
« on: May 07, 2009, 09:17:36 AM »
A worming tongue of flame cast open my solar plexus. The usual axioms were followed, breathless nothing And pulsing in the chest rising tangling the heart sometimes twin coursesings of tongues knitting in my flesh. The serpents rose and claimed the brain stem. Frothing solvent of the void bubbling through cracks in the skull dampening the self and the serpents push farther peaking at the crown of the skull imprisoned by bone. Trying to burrow through, my pineal is glowing bejeweled with heat and agitation and joy like oineric somnambulance. Muscles spasming, Dragons in my skull can't escape their immurement so force my cranium skyward, back locks taught in position totally straight. Muscles spasm every few seconds as though i were paralyzed by dream and the burning ever burning sometimes aching contention of it is overwhelming.
A rather intense introduction to chakras while meditating. Has anyone taken this to its terminus, the Kundalini awakening?
A rather intense introduction to chakras while meditating. Has anyone taken this to its terminus, the Kundalini awakening?
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Metal / Re: On watching the metal disaster play out
« on: March 02, 2009, 06:26:33 AM »
Metal has been absorbed by the mainstream and the hipsters who latch onto it for the satanik bruthal image are losing the esteem of their peers because of that commodification. Metal is another shade of the status quo thus the burnished elitism of yesteryear has become tarnished and common. Extreme metal is no longer a viable penis extension so the masses drift to other attractions. With less mediocrity flooding the genre works of merit will doubtless surface, I wouldn't expect a reinvention of form in this period but a return to where metal lost it's steam in the early nineties. A strong scene would need to be reestablished before any quantum leaps in quality occur; A society of competing bands is necessary for growth, the nineties were fantastic for metal because the progenitors were simultaneously competing and learning from each other, they were questing for greatness rather than acceptance. This is why regions had certain a sound associated with them. A Darwinistic framework is essential for the genre to continue. Pondering where metal will go is quite useless without action, it becomes easy to assume metal is dead because a new path isn't visible well lit with guard rails and amenities clearly signed. The cart comes after the horse, one band won't reinvent the genre, but a handful working in conjunction will.
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Metal / Re: Death Metal bands that succumbed to The Norming
« on: March 02, 2009, 03:24:17 AM »
What do you make of Immolation incorporating nu metal techniques into their lexicon on Harnessing Ruin? Grasping for artistic diversity perhaps, though it stinks of 'the norming'. Interesting that they appear to have reduced (or perhaps intelligently integrated) these elements on Shadows in the Light.