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f'sure. but really wondering about the new blood. i expect the impulse is still alive on the darknet. PLACES LIKE THIS dare i say.

anyway i don't want to talk about f*%^&$%£ bitcoin a moment longer

i suppose it'll always be more volatile than gold though...

agreed. but i'm only referring to the principle that, like warren buffet, you buy something that is perceived as being undervalued. however there was a moment after the last crash when i considered buying ethereum - and that would have been a good moment - but in the end decided against it...

here's the same one in australia

from retreat: From this point of view it is at once illuminating and hilarious to quote from the larger work’s preceding rites describing techniques for averting signs of near death: “In cases when the hair of the nape of the neck grows upwards, one should prepare a dough with black seeds [and...

yes! that's right. the leary book (garbage!) is a "translation" of the evans-wentz translation of it the original is really interesting for the chapters either side which are full of hugely superstitious voodoo-like spells.

love this guy tremendously funny of course but also very complex particulary funny to me is how he pushes the whole guardianista bourgeois socialist outrage into this zone where it's definitely not PC - reveals it for the bile it is..

or (better) this: and this:

this does seem to be missing an obvious point the time to invest in something is - as a rule - when a market has crashed not when it's in ascendance it reminds me a bit of those adverts on london buses at the moment which proclaim "you know it's time to invest in bitcoin when you see it...

there must be stuff left. flickers of the old dream.

in my book i compare the tibetan book of the dead with a computer game The Tibetan Book of the Dead takes the form of a recitation of instructions to a recently deceased person — a corpse. “O, Child of Buddha Nature, (call the name of the dying person), the time has come for you to seek a...

favourite dissensus post ever

erik davis' book a landmark in this too https://www.google.co.uk/books/edition/TechGnosis/lh_XAAAAMAAJ?hl=en

ok i combed through all the old technology threads and couldn't see anything on this (quite surprisingly) doing the research on retreat i came across those (well-known) ideas about how the computer industry emerged from the lsd scene there's this classic book...

i know there's a mooted place for his birthplace in Bethlehem too. but nothing definitive.

i met this chap a few years back. they bought back bebo for a few pence. it is a cautionary tale for the worth of virtual objects definitely.

not cliched at all danny. and very sensible. the whole claiming of attainments thing is strictly barf :sick:🤢🤮 i did use a mala for a bit - which would qualify as practising i suppose - but not any more. it's all good. still very interested in the whole thing. absolutely view chenrezig as...

that priest was on his mobile phone the entire time. perfectly good reception - lol.

right beside it -in this tiny space - there's a mahakala altar