A poem I wrote after seeing a baby bird die

DrScience11 · 2012-05-26T12:31:38.610389+00:00

Nothing important to add (I've never been very poetic) but I just wanted to say that I really enjoyed it.

tokerjoker11 · 2012-05-26T12:18:03.454829+00:00

Ah cheers.

tokerjoker11 · 2012-05-26T03:28:23.592571+00:00

Eckhart Tolle - The Power of Now. For some reason RES is being weird but the url to it is here: lifeintegrity.com/The-Power-Of-Now-EckhartTolle.pdf

With this book you don't even need to meditate. Just read through it and it should click. Meditation definitely helps though.

If you decide to meditate right away and don't want to read a book then just sit still, close your eyes and focus on your breathing. But be really really focused. If any other thoughts come up then acknowledge them but then go back to focusing on the breath. Feel the sensations. The results speak for themselves!

tokerjoker11 · 2012-05-26T03:24:01.424654+00:00

It's a little ignorant to dismiss something without any knowledge of it. Read Eckhart Tolle, try it, then come back to me. No need to be so narrow minded.

tokerjoker11 · 1 day

If you're interested, meditation is wicked for things like normal life. After a week of 20 minute meditation you can feel the energy that things like trees or even a pen can emit. Sounds weird, but it's ridiculously calming.

thebatwing · 2 days

Why is everyone's jimmies being rustled by a gorilla in space?

aloneinlove · 2 days

This is true. I actually spent the last 10 minutes listening to music. Damn, procrastination is so subtle.

aloneinlove · 2 days

Thank you for this. Now that I know why I procrastinate so much I can stop it!

hattalk · 3 days

Sometimes reddit really surprises me. This is one of those times. I generally do a good enough wipe on the first go that I don't need to try again later.

MyParentsArentHome · 5 days

A friend of mine posted a status on my facebook saying about how I "just want someone to hold" and "give me a hug when I'm feeling low" and I'm "searching for my soulmate".

Thing is, a lot of people on my facebook replied with saying how lonely they are and how I took the words right out of their mouth.

Bit awkward when I told them it was a facebook rape but I thought it was hilarious.

wiseones · 7 days

I know this isn't exactly what you asked, but check out this place called motion. Its a massive rave in an old skatepark that they renovated. Easily my favourite venue of all time.

TheUKLibertarian · 11 days

Holy shit, this was only 6 days ago? Time passes so much differently for reddit related things...

haha but yeah I did see. :)

bluekaylo · 11 days

I don't know what to believe anymore.

Are you a sexually active kite?

December23 · 11 days

I enjoyed Zizek! quite a lot.

pinkpastry · 12 days

n'awh. then you can both crab stroll down the beach, claws in hand. or ... claw in claw.

bigdickbandit109 · 12 days

Are their faces oddly long or is that just me being weird? Like they look photoshopped. It scares me if I look for too long.

Attractive girls none the less, I'm probably just way too tired.

MastodonMetal · 16 days

Cheers! That is possibly the coolest thesis I've ever heard, apart from the one about Batman comics.

Four-FingeredFist · 16 days

Nobody has mentioned drugs yet. Certain drugs like salvia or dmt warp your imagination so much that you see and experience things that you couldn't have thought of before.

But once you've experienced these drugs you can reproduce their images and similar ones with your mind. So I'd say that we can push the boundaries of our imagination much further than what they currently are now.

There's the problem with imagining what it's like to be in other dimensions. Many would say that it's impossible to imagine what 2D is really like. However certain drug reports have people mentioning experiencing these kinds of things.

Not really answering your question, but figured it was relevant.

MastodonMetal · 16 days

Which Family Guy episode did it?

NiferVol · 16 days

I think anal is like cider. You have one bad experience and it turns you off for life. Glad yours went well! :)

brontosaurus-rex · 17 days

Ok, but better on it's own doesn't mean anything.

What's your point though? Why do all those things matter?

brontosaurus-rex · 17 days

By 'better' do we mean more moral? Better is a very badly defined term.

If we're talking about morals, then the difference between the two is that animals do not have sentience. We have the ability to understand right and wrong and good and bad (even if we do have limited understanding of those terms). Animals don't so calling them immoral can't be done really, since we're enforcing our ideas of morality on them. Also a big difference is that animals do things for survival - they follow instinct and act accordingly.

Since we have sentience then we make calculated decisions and frequently choose the wrong ones in spite of our knowledge of right and wrong. We may have laws but those are generally just to keep society together.

Although, I'm not arguing that a life of an animal is 'worth' more than that of a human. And I'm not arguing the opposite since such a thing seems degrading.

brontosaurus-rex · 17 days

Haha, true but "we" also massacured millions in WW1 and WW2 as well as commiting genocide in Rwanda and countless other atrocities. You could argue that animals are 'better' than us in that way.

brontosaurus-rex · 17 days

If anyone's interested in hearing the anti-meat arguments in a very eloquent way then check this out.

If you give this a watch and still decide to eat meat, that's cool. But at least try and watch it to challenge your views. You might discover different way of living or you might decide that eating meat is fine - either way, you win. ;D

brontosaurus-rex · 17 days

In what way are we 'better'? You may say we're more rational or have sentience but to say that these things make our lives more important than theirs is a misunderstanding of ethics and morality.

bluekaylo

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