This world is the World of Darkness

Mon Oct 17, 2011 3:22 pm » by **Otoel**

Yes I am referring to all of humans as a species, and yes I am dissociative to this species. I like all am human in physical make up and design; made of the elements of this soil. I like others want steak when I am hungry. I like others want a bottle of white wine when I am thirsty, or, even when I am not thirsty. I like others once wanted to have fancy cars and I have had them. I like others wanted a wonderful comfortable home with luxuries and I did have them. I like others see a hottie of the opposite sex showboating and I want to give it some pure good old fashion monkey luvin just like the rest of the fellow demons. I like others was also born into demon’s clothing, the type of clothing that chain and imprison the spirit. I like others have to survive in an environment that breeds hypocrisy and judgmental attitudes of jealousy and envy. All humans, just like I, fashioned their mind and body from the invisible within the womb of the mommy; while she fed us proteins and nutrients from the vegetables, fruits and meats of this world. We started this venture as invisible microscopic cells, and we created the mind and the body from nothing; but I assure you, it never begins inside mommy’s womb! What is first, the chicken or the egg? The egg! Agreed! What is before the egg is the invisible cell that begins forming the egg from the invisible, AGREED! This magic of nothing creates all that is something! Your spirit was first born within this world, within the airs that you breathe now. Within the atmospheres of the womb of this world, there were you born into spirit. Once your spirit is born it needs no mind and body to exist, and can make a mind and body from nothing. When you die, most return to this plane of the airs within the womb of this world; the human dream world! They can choose to re-materialize and fashion another mind and body. I however, will not embrace this option to return into physical form after separation. Your spirits were born inside the house of this world. My spirit was born inside another house, the oceans of this universe.

Your brain won’t allow you to believe the apocalypse could actually happen

You may love stories about the end of the world, but that's probably because, deep down, you don't believe it could ever happen. But that's not because you're realistic. It's actually a quirk of the human brain, recently explored by a group of neuroscientists, which prevents us from adjusting our expectations about the future — even if there's good evidence that bad things are about to happen.
A group of researchers from Germany and the UK designed a fairly complex psychological test to determine how people planned for negative events in the future. First, they asked the about the likelihood of 80 different disturbing events happening, such as contracting a fatal disease or being attacked. After they'd recorded people's responses, researchers told each subject the actual, statistical likelihood of such events happening. In some cases, people had overestimated the likelihood and in some cases they'd underestimated it.

Then, after some time had passed, the researchers asked subjects again about the likelihood of these events happening to them. Interestingly, they found that people had a much harder time adjusting their expectations if the real-world statistical likelihood was higher than what they had first guessed. They had little trouble adjusting expectations for a more favorable outcome. It was as if people were selectively remembering the likelihoods of future events — forgetting the bad odds but not the good ones.

And in fact, that's exactly what was happening. The researchers had been doing fMRIs on the people when they did these tests, and were able to see which areas of the brain became active when people remembered (or failed to remember) how likely it was that they would face a horrible calamity. In their paper, published this week in Nature Neuroscience, the researchers write:

We found that optimism was related to diminished coding of undesirable information about the future in a region of the frontal cortex (right IFG) that has been identified as being sensitive to negative estimation errors . . . this human propensity toward optimism is facilitated by the brain's failure to code errors in estimation when those call for pessimistic updates. This failure results in selective updating, which supports unrealistic optimism that is resistant to change.

Basically, human optimism is a neurological bug that prevents us from remembering undesirable information about our odds of dying or being hurt. And that's why nobody ever believes the apocalypse is going to happen to them.

There is one fascinating exception to this rule, though. As the researchers note, the only people who consistently offer accurate estimates of bad things happening to them are clinically depressed. So — perfect depression is perfect awareness?

Ultimately our neurological bugginess could serve an adaptive function, which is preventing us from becoming so depressed about the impending apocalypse that we can't get out of bed in the morning.

http://www.nature.com/neuro/journal/vao ... .2949.html

Mon Oct 17, 2011 3:39 pm » by **Teloc**

otoel wrote:Yes I am referring to all of humans as a species, and yes I am dissociative to this species. I like all am human in physical make up and design; made of the elements of this soil. I like others want steak when I am hungry. I like others want a bottle of white wine when I am thirsty, or, even when I am not thirsty. I like others once wanted to have fancy cars and I have had them. I like others wanted a wonderful comfortable home with luxuries and I did have them. I like others see a hottie of the opposite sex showboating and I want to give it some pure good old fashion monkey luvin just like the rest of the fellow demons. I like others was also born into demon’s clothing, the type of clothing that chain and imprison the spirit. I like others have to survive in an environment that breeds hypocrisy and judgmental attitudes of jealousy and envy. All humans, just like I, fashioned their mind and body from the invisible within the womb of the mommy; while she fed us proteins and nutrients from the vegetables, fruits and meats of this world. We started this venture as invisible microscopic cells, and we created the mind and the body from nothing; but I assure you, it never begins inside mommy’s womb! What is first, the chicken or the egg? The egg! Agreed! What is before the egg is the invisible cell that begins forming the egg from the invisible, AGREED! This magic of nothing creates all that is something! Your spirit was first born within this world, within the airs that you breathe now. Within the atmospheres of the womb of this world, there were you born into spirit. Once your spirit is born it needs no mind and body to exist, and can make a mind and body from nothing. When you die, most return to this plane of the airs within the womb of this world; the human dream world! They can choose to re-materialize and fashion another mind and body. I however, will not embrace this option to return into physical form after separation. Your spirits were born inside the house of this world. My spirit was born inside another house, the oceans of this universe.

Your brain won’t allow you to believe the apocalypse could actually happen

You may love stories about the end of the world, but that's probably because, deep down, you don't believe it could ever happen. But that's not because you're realistic. It's actually a quirk of the human brain, recently explored by a group of neuroscientists, which prevents us from adjusting our expectations about the future — even if there's good evidence that bad things are about to happen.
A group of researchers from Germany and the UK designed a fairly complex psychological test to determine how people planned for negative events in the future. First, they asked the about the likelihood of 80 different disturbing events happening, such as contracting a fatal disease or being attacked. After they'd recorded people's responses, researchers told each subject the actual, statistical likelihood of such events happening. In some cases, people had overestimated the likelihood and in some cases they'd underestimated it.

Then, after some time had passed, the researchers asked subjects again about the likelihood of these events happening to them. Interestingly, they found that people had a much harder time adjusting their expectations if the real-world statistical likelihood was higher than what they had first guessed. They had little trouble adjusting expectations for a more favorable outcome. It was as if people were selectively remembering the likelihoods of future events — forgetting the bad odds but not the good ones.

And in fact, that's exactly what was happening. The researchers had been doing fMRIs on the people when they did these tests, and were able to see which areas of the brain became active when people remembered (or failed to remember) how likely it was that they would face a horrible calamity. In their paper, published this week in Nature Neuroscience, the researchers write:

We found that optimism was related to diminished coding of undesirable information about the future in a region of the frontal cortex (right IFG) that has been identified as being sensitive to negative estimation errors . . . this human propensity toward optimism is facilitated by the brain's failure to code errors in estimation when those call for pessimistic updates. This failure results in selective updating, which supports unrealistic optimism that is resistant to change.

Basically, human optimism is a neurological bug that prevents us from remembering undesirable information about our odds of dying or being hurt. And that's why nobody ever believes the apocalypse is going to happen to them.

There is one fascinating exception to this rule, though. As the researchers note, the only people who consistently offer accurate estimates of bad things happening to them are clinically depressed. So — perfect depression is perfect awareness?

Ultimately our neurological bugginess could serve an adaptive function, which is preventing us from becoming so depressed about the impending apocalypse that we can't get out of bed in the morning.

http://www.nature.com/neuro/journal/vao ... .2949.html

this is all utter bullshit, brother otto, as usual... but the headline is correct...

thats a beginning...

:mrgreen:

Mon Oct 17, 2011 3:41 pm » by **Otoel**

this is all utter bullshit, brother otto, as usual... but the headline is correct...

thats a beginning...

Refute my argument using valid logic.

Otherwise you are agreeing that I am "Ze Beist"

Mon Oct 17, 2011 4:05 pm » by **Teloc**

otoel wrote:
this is all utter bullshit, brother otto, as usual... but the headline is correct...

thats a beginning...

Refute my argument using valid logic.

Otherwise you are agreeing that I am "Ze Beist"

i agree... (though i dunno what a beist is)..

Mon Oct 17, 2011 4:24 pm » by **Zaphod**

I like others have a great desire to hit you over the head with something heavy.

:mrcool:

What a load of rubbish! That was 2 minutes of my life I won't be getting back!

Mon Oct 17, 2011 4:44 pm » by **Samuelthemule**

i refute your argument thusly!

too bad you can't read invisible text!

Mon Oct 17, 2011 4:46 pm » by **Otoel**

samuelthemule wrote:i refute your argument thusly!

too bad you can't read invisible text!

It is the invisible that creates the visible...

If you must stand up to my ideals, then you will also have to face our integrity.