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i like the idea of eric thinking "gimmick books??? can i get that on my kindle?"

gimmick or not, i don't see a reason why an interesting person couldn't make this a good book.
I read the first half of Z-Day or WWZ or whatever that zombie book was called and iirc it was choppy and hard to read like that would be, but for the most part it was decent.
I think the point is though, anybody who has enough posts on a message board to make a book out of them is not someone anyone wants to read about.


ps. i'm touched that you call me eric
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it just feels natural :3 also mongoloid is a little bit derogatory.

the book would have extremely limited relevance even if it were written well. i'm sure it would have a super niche audience but it wouldn't be very good. at best it would make money.
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here's an interpretation for those of you who REALLY want to go out there, and I'm sure this might anger a few people but here goes. the ultimate goal of many eastern faiths is less YOU'RE GOING TO HAVE A BULLSHIT FUTURE WITH GOD and more the acceptance of nothingness. if we were to go gnostic and into the idea of language as a real tool for triggering mental change, is it possible that an ancient Sanskrit prayer, combined with a mind reeling in despair, could actually unlock something with a single restating?

I would buy this but this happens with MANTRAS, which this is but mantras are repeated. that's how they work. no one says OMMMMM and suddenly goes HOLY FUCK WHAT WAS THAT. they say OOOOOOOOM for hours and hours and years and lifetimes and never achieve enlightenment. there's also the fact I didn't achieve much. I just feel...peaceful when I shouldn't.

but this is still an interpretation and the purely scientific ones aren't satisfying me so!
its time for you to do shrooms.

all that hindu/buddhist/tao/sufi/gnostic stuff makes perfect sense once you have had a taste of what they are talking about. the thing people call god is in the void (maybe god is the void I dont know), and that is where you find ultimate truth. shrooms, soma, haoma, peyote, meditation, prayer, chant, sayin the rosary whatever you want to call it they are all means to an end. culturally bound vehicles if you will, but ultimately they are all getting at the same thing, and I think it may be spiritually soothing for you to tap into it in a controlled setting

who knows though, I'm sure you've experienced ego-death before, but it may not be a bad idea to revisit some of these neural pathways in search of meaning/healing/whatever (because ultimately all these types of healings have to do with change in mindset anyway so yeah, a powerful experience like that) I guess my recommendation would be to see if theres any Native American church shit goin on anywhere near you, cause their road men have incredible healing powers and I'm not saying that they can make tumor go away, but they can certainly help your mental health for sure

so I guess all I can say is in recommending this path of action I strongly urge the use of good sense and a controlled, safe, comfortable environment and more than likely the presence of some sort of healer or experienced researcher who knows the ins and outs of these things, but you know this already
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you have a problem? there's a drug for that
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you won't just be thinking about these things, they'll be REPEATED BACK TO yoU IN A HUGE ASS VOICE. You will be thinking the entire time GOD SAYS I SHOULDNT BELIEVE IN HIM seriously what the fuck man?
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you have a problem? there's a drug for that
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there's a fancy word for a drug for that
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there's a fancy word for a drug for that
and you are a charlatan who understands nothing about the development of religious thought
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ugh shut up man. you're so pretentious sometimes it's unbelievable.
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'region comes from a druge. mohammed smoke a druhg, vishnu ate a drugs, jesus crhist an moses both inject the drues'
~wash cycle, anthropologist
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and you trolls are disgusting fucking people. take a look at yourselves and what you do for entertainment jesus lord
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steel should not go roll up on a reservation and start asking the witch doctors to use their healing powers and give him peyote or something, that is the worst advice ever and some newage mystical shaman horseshit.
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But He Will Discover -God-

What may be an eternity to man is a moment for god.
I have no need for hesitation.
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lol im gonna post this thing in here cuz im pretty proud of it

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and you trolls are disgusting fucking people. take a look at yourselves and what you do for entertainment jesus lord

wait wait. what exactly are you saying they do for entertainment?

if you're trying to imply someone who disagrees with your GO SEE A HEALER AND DO PEYOTE bullshit must be a troll who does it as a hobby weeeelllll hey maybe you should slap yourself in the face a couple of times with a wound-up hot towel.

That’s right, you have the young gaming with the old(er), white people gaming with black people, men and women, Asian countries gaming with the EU, North Americans gaming with South Americans. Much like world sporting events like the Wolrd Cup, or the Olympics will bring together different nations in friendly competition, (note the recent Asian Cup; Iraq vs. Saudi Arabia, no violence there) we come together. The differences being, we are not divided by our nationalities and we do it 24-7, and on a personal level.

We are a community without borders and without colours, the spirit and diversity of the gaming community is one that should be looked up to, a spirit and diversity other groups should strive toward.
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i think the GO FIND A WITCHDOCTOR, BUY YA SOME MOJO part is over the top but he has a point about shifts in mindset/perspectives being good for your mental health at times.
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and if this was one of you giving this advice

this is where you'd go 'whoops just trollin ya calm down dude this is the internet'

excuse me for being interested in and believing in the efficacy of the oldest of the world religions I'm just some nutjob cause clearly for 50,000 years until the advent of organized religion everything everyone was doin up to that point was a bunch of bullllshit

ffs do any of you actually believe I would give that advice to anyone who wasnt in a circumstance like steels man..

oh you have a cold? here take some shrooms and feel better. yeah thats definitely it. works every time  :tsk:
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ffs do any of you actually believe I would give that advice to anyone who wasnt in a circumstance like steels man..

oh you have a cold? here take some shrooms and feel better. yeah thats definitely it. works every time  :tsk:
no you just talk about drugs more than the average person and i decided to make a joke about it. calm down the psychedelics are giving you angers.
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and if this was one of you giving this advice

this is where you'd go 'whoops just trollin ya calm down dude this is the internet'

excuse me for being interested in and believing in the efficacy of the oldest of the world religions I'm just some nutjob cause clearly for 50,000 years until the advent of organized religion everything everyone was doin up to that point was a bunch of bullllshit

ffs do any of you actually believe I would give that advice to anyone who wasnt in a circumstance like steels man..

oh you have a cold? here take some shrooms and feel better. yeah thats definitely it. works every time  :tsk:

i wasn't making fun of you for the talk about psychedelics and their medicinal value or what have you. i just think it's hilarious that you called some guy a charlatan for not having an encyclopedic knowledge about ANCIENT DRUG INFLUENCES ON RELIGION or whatever.

whoa... that n00b doesnt know that Hammurabi wrote his Code of Laws under the influence of peyote? what a bitch.
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Steel, please, please I hope this is begin. If it's not, don't let 50% statistic scare you. Think about it, seriously more than half the people in this world suck and are not as strong as you. You're definitely among the persevering population. Seriously you will do it!