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Chasm / Re: Eekwallitee-shmolitee.
« Last post by crow on May 15, 2013, 07:30:11 AM »Shannon Falls, that's near Britannia Beach, no? I've lived in Squamish and Pemberton, in the past, when the road to Lillooet was just a mule trail.
Yes, I tend to be unable to stand people for very long, too. Which is strange, really, because I am actually quite social.
I pick up too much psychic chaos from anyone I'm around. Makes me feel quite sick. The downside of extreme sensitivity.
Anyway, you know that when you live somewhere, you often never get around to exploring it? That would be a real shame in a place like BC. It's really something. You can get really, really lost in a place like this
Yes, I tend to be unable to stand people for very long, too. Which is strange, really, because I am actually quite social.
I pick up too much psychic chaos from anyone I'm around. Makes me feel quite sick. The downside of extreme sensitivity.
Anyway, you know that when you live somewhere, you often never get around to exploring it? That would be a real shame in a place like BC. It's really something. You can get really, really lost in a place like this
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Chasm / Re: Reaction speed.
« Last post by Corpse on May 15, 2013, 05:56:56 AM »I used to play competitive smash bros melee when I was younger, and if you'll all stifle your laughter for just a moment, you'll notice that, if nothing else, it requires pretty exemplary reaction speed.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vXgpGBbh5r8
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vXgpGBbh5r8
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Chasm / Re: Eekwallitee-shmolitee.
« Last post by Corpse on May 15, 2013, 05:47:03 AM »A certain level of asceticism is possible in a city; more, perhaps, than usual, as the distractions and temptations are more abundant here. I mostly just abstain from eating junk food, consuming alcohol, watching TV, and wasting money away on frivolities. Some days I'll fast, just as an extra measure. My only indulgence is playing video games. Though I've cut back on this quite a bit in the past while, I'm loathe to eliminate it from my life entirely. I'm quite good at acts of omission. The only thing I actively do to discipline myself is working out. While most people I know quite enjoy being active, I hate every minute of it.
As for hermiticism, that's far less realistic, especially considering I'm working full time as a cashier. Every interaction with other people for the past 9 years has done nothing but drain me and make me more asocial. 8 hours a day of that is too much for me. Outside of work, and seeing my family at home, I rarely see any humans.
Haven't visited many places; as I'm still rather young, I don't have much freedom, and can't go off adventuring throughout BC. I have hiked Mt. Garibaldi in High School, and camped at Shannon Falls, but that's about the extent of my travels here. Sorry to disappoint. And I hope you think something of me by now, whether it be good or bad. There's nothing wrong with forming quick first impressions, provided you're equally as quick to amend them.
As for hermiticism, that's far less realistic, especially considering I'm working full time as a cashier. Every interaction with other people for the past 9 years has done nothing but drain me and make me more asocial. 8 hours a day of that is too much for me. Outside of work, and seeing my family at home, I rarely see any humans.
Haven't visited many places; as I'm still rather young, I don't have much freedom, and can't go off adventuring throughout BC. I have hiked Mt. Garibaldi in High School, and camped at Shannon Falls, but that's about the extent of my travels here. Sorry to disappoint. And I hope you think something of me by now, whether it be good or bad. There's nothing wrong with forming quick first impressions, provided you're equally as quick to amend them.
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Chasm / Re: Reaction speed.
« Last post by King_Benny on May 15, 2013, 02:55:15 AM »Martial arts can improve reaction speed drastically. I used to practise silambam a lot during my younger days, you must really have good reaction speed to avoid being hit...
Here's a clip bout silambam http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0VyPeHsxKS0
Here's a clip bout silambam http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0VyPeHsxKS0
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Chasm / Reaction speed.
« Last post by crow on May 15, 2013, 02:01:00 AM »There is a buzz around the internet about high reaction speed being related to IQ.
The swifter one's reactions are, the higher the IQ is supposed to be.
This is of interest to me, because I have super fast reactions.
For example, driving with my wife, at night, on an island loaded with deer, one must often take evasive action with almost no advance notice. Before my wife has even registered anything deer-shaped, I am on the brakes, and the car safely stopped, or almost stopped. This amazes her, but is inconsequential to me. I expect deer, and prepare, accordingly.
Some years ago, I was working at a Club Med, in Mexico, and one of the inane pastimes employed by the staff to entertain the guests, went like this...
Suspend a twelve-inch ruler, at chest-height, between thumb and index finger, by its twelve-end, with the one-end facing the floor.
Have the guest prepare to catch the ruler by placing their open thumb and index finger at the one-mark.
Randomly drop the ruler, with no warning.
Observe how glacially slow peoples' reaction times are.
Most would fail to catch the ruler at all, while a few managed to grasp it at about ten or eleven inches.
I could routinely grab it at one inch, or - at most - two.
You might try this, yourself, if you can come up with another willing body. It is illuminating. But here's a tip that will certainly help: You'll do much better if you can completely relax. And this, I imagine, also enhances intellect.
Neither preempt, nor stress-out.
Zero to sixty, outside of time
The swifter one's reactions are, the higher the IQ is supposed to be.
This is of interest to me, because I have super fast reactions.
For example, driving with my wife, at night, on an island loaded with deer, one must often take evasive action with almost no advance notice. Before my wife has even registered anything deer-shaped, I am on the brakes, and the car safely stopped, or almost stopped. This amazes her, but is inconsequential to me. I expect deer, and prepare, accordingly.
Some years ago, I was working at a Club Med, in Mexico, and one of the inane pastimes employed by the staff to entertain the guests, went like this...
Suspend a twelve-inch ruler, at chest-height, between thumb and index finger, by its twelve-end, with the one-end facing the floor.
Have the guest prepare to catch the ruler by placing their open thumb and index finger at the one-mark.
Randomly drop the ruler, with no warning.
Observe how glacially slow peoples' reaction times are.
Most would fail to catch the ruler at all, while a few managed to grasp it at about ten or eleven inches.
I could routinely grab it at one inch, or - at most - two.
You might try this, yourself, if you can come up with another willing body. It is illuminating. But here's a tip that will certainly help: You'll do much better if you can completely relax. And this, I imagine, also enhances intellect.
Neither preempt, nor stress-out.
Zero to sixty, outside of time
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Chasm / Re: Eekwallitee-shmolitee.
« Last post by crow on May 14, 2013, 08:30:39 PM »Cracking people up is my reason for living. And cracking myself up, the best reason of all.
Would I think less of you if you were asian? I don't think anything of you at all. But if I did, then no: I quite like asians, actually. The ones I have known seemed very civilized and easy to be with. I am a taoist, after all.
It is, however, somewhat shocking to see how they have turned a white city into an asian one, in so short a time.
Multiculturalism seems to be an excellent method by which white people eliminate themselves from their homes.
But who am I to judge? I do the same thing with wildlife: I adopt anything that shows up, and invite them to displace me from my living room: rabbits, crows, raccoons, mice...
I like your lifestyle preference. But how do you do that in a city? Have you, by any chance, visited Bella Coola? Ocean Falls? The Queen Charlottes?
Would I think less of you if you were asian? I don't think anything of you at all. But if I did, then no: I quite like asians, actually. The ones I have known seemed very civilized and easy to be with. I am a taoist, after all.
It is, however, somewhat shocking to see how they have turned a white city into an asian one, in so short a time.
Multiculturalism seems to be an excellent method by which white people eliminate themselves from their homes.
But who am I to judge? I do the same thing with wildlife: I adopt anything that shows up, and invite them to displace me from my living room: rabbits, crows, raccoons, mice...
I like your lifestyle preference. But how do you do that in a city? Have you, by any chance, visited Bella Coola? Ocean Falls? The Queen Charlottes?
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Chasm / Re: Eekwallitee-shmolitee.
« Last post by Corpse on May 14, 2013, 08:11:59 PM »Quote
Ah. Canayjan, eh? Vancouver? You must be oriental
That cracked me up. I attended UBC for Computer Engineering for a short while, and about 80-85% of the population there was Asian. I really didn't mind it, though. Do you begrudge the influx of asians here? Would you think less of me if i were Asian?
As for the topic at hand, I'm pretty apathetic when it comes to politics. The concept of a hermitic, ascetic lifestyle has appealed to me more and more in the past while.
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Chasm / Re: What are you like?
« Last post by crow on May 14, 2013, 07:55:51 PM »Ah. When you like yourself, you know it.
But as Humanicide observes: it's mostly a work-in-progress. Or a non-issue, altogether.
Personally, I feel self-improvement/realization, is a duty all humans must undertake, although comparatively few do.
The idea being to reach a point of balance, where you are all you might be, at the moment you are, without going any further and becoming fake all over again, from the other direction.
Balance is quite easy to recognize: nothing pulls you, either way. Feels terrific, but somewhat difficult to maintain.
But as Humanicide observes: it's mostly a work-in-progress. Or a non-issue, altogether.
Personally, I feel self-improvement/realization, is a duty all humans must undertake, although comparatively few do.
The idea being to reach a point of balance, where you are all you might be, at the moment you are, without going any further and becoming fake all over again, from the other direction.
Balance is quite easy to recognize: nothing pulls you, either way. Feels terrific, but somewhat difficult to maintain.
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Chasm / Re: Eekwallitee-shmolitee.
« Last post by crow on May 14, 2013, 07:48:53 PM »Ah. Canayjan, eh? Vancouver? You must be oriental
Here I am, doomed to the Gulf Islands Gulag. It's pretty, though, if you can avoid the termites/activists.
I would, of course, have voted Conservative, if there were any conservatives in the Conservative Party.
But since there aren't, and they fire any candidate who has a tenuous grip on reality, what can I do?
Moan on ANUS, I guess.
And then do some gardening.
Here I am, doomed to the Gulf Islands Gulag. It's pretty, though, if you can avoid the termites/activists.
I would, of course, have voted Conservative, if there were any conservatives in the Conservative Party.
But since there aren't, and they fire any candidate who has a tenuous grip on reality, what can I do?
Moan on ANUS, I guess.
And then do some gardening.