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Re: Introducing Jamie

Dear me, must you be illiterate as well as innumerate?  It's not Fascist to exclude you from a private gathering.

Besides, you haven't been excluded, yet.

Re: Introducing Jamie

Dear me, must you be illiterate as well as innumerate?  It's not Fascist to exclude you from a private gathering.

Besides, you haven't been excluded, yet.

No, Brad R, it is Fascist to be unjust. You have deleted posts by me from this forum which were perfectly allowed and appropriate.

You are on a raging power-trip, at least in regard to me.

I grant that the theoretical owner of this forum can put a gun to his/her head and pull the trigger. I grant the right to do so.

I am not arguing against that.

Rather, I am talking about basic right and wrong. I am saying that you are being a flaming sphincter against me. I am saying that you are taking measures against me because you do not like what I am saying.

And that's actually a tautology, because obviously it must have been something I said which caused you to be so against me. As we have only communicated via text.

I think what caused you to be so much against me is that I have repeatedly challenged you, and that was not something you could continence.

In short, I challenged your intellectual power, and so now you are showing me your physical power.

You could not win on intellectual grounds, but now you will flex your muscles on grounds of property-control.

How very and truly cheap of you. How so very pathetic of you.

Re: Introducing Jamie

I've changed your avatar, too.  It seems to be the most fitting Flame Warrior.

P.S. The word is "countenance," though with all your talk of sphincters I wonder if "continence" was a Freudian slip.

Re: Introducing Jamie

I've changed your avatar, too.  It seems to be the most fitting Flame Warrior. :)

P.S. The word is "countenance," though with all your talk of sphincters I wonder if "continence" was a Freudian slip. :)

Apparently it seems important to you that I get the distinction between "continence" and "countenance" right. Indeed, you put a smiley face at the end. But why is that?

As as matter of fact, I do have very severe problems with my bladder, due to my stays in jail. I have an inherent inborn condition called paruresis. Whatever the reasons (and I actually do know the reasons behind this), I cannot urinate in front of others.

(To elaborate on the reasons I said that I know this: I have come to realize that I am very different from other people. I have over time realized that others do not see the things I see. It has been a very painful realization to me to come to terms with the fact that I actually cannot communicate with other people in the same sense that I can communicate with myself within my own head. And it is truly useless for me to even write this out, since I'm attempting to communicate with dumb animals. And note that I do realize that there are some rather high consciousnesses here like with Frank Tipler, Will Grigg, Terence Mckenna, and Murray Rothbard, but even they have not been stricken by the beatific vision quite so strongly as I have been.

(To further elaborate: I am aware of pretty much everything. I have noticed that the people around me go through life unconscious, or subconscious--whatever term one wishes to use. And it has freaked me out. I see how people do things unconsciously. Everything ranging from little activities, to whatever it is that they are doing.

(But to get back to the topic of paruresis: this is a reflex all humans have, in order to preserve themselves against attack, whether from other animals or other humans. But the more a human being cannot help but be aware of their surroundings, the more this reflex will take effect.)

Re: Introducing Jamie

I've changed your avatar, too.  It seems to be the most fitting Flame Warrior.

... but now if he archives something to Wayback, or WebCite, or ArchiveToday, or others, it'll show up with that silly avatar and people will think he's not a serious and respected contributor to our community.

Re: Introducing Jamie

I noticed that he archived his short story to WebCite before I deleted it...or even responded to it in any way.  Which makes me think he expected it to be deleted.  Well, it's not the first time I've stopped someone from using this forum as his own personal publishing platform; he may have observed that.  And I suspect it's not the first time he's had his story deleted from an online forum. 

I feel sorry for the WebCite folks for the storage space he's consuming, but on the other hand, I doubt the infrequent views add up to much network bandwidth.

Re: Right to Privacy

As old Mrs. Harrington once put it to me, "Yeah, you've got a right to privacy - in your own place and with the curtains drawn - but if you're out in public you don't have the right to not be seen.

Going back to the Anti-State self-introduction

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James Redford is a young born again Christian who was converted from atheism by a direct revelation from Jesus Christ

... and if my tracing is correct (James Rearden to Tetrahedron Omega), then these were "drug assisted" direct revelations from Jesus Christ

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Not much, because during that week and previous to that I had already taken two ten-strips of the same purple gel-tabs. But the first ten-strip did quite a lot.
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I've had four God-trips:

The first was Level Alpha. But I was at the time a convinced atheist and so I blew it off as being my mind on LSD.

The second was Level Omega--this is the event I was referring to in the second paragraph above. But I was still a convinced atheist, so after I came down I blew it off as before--even though in looking back now I consider it to be a remarkable break-through.

The third was Level Alpha at first but then went into Level Omega. It is this event which I have written about on this discussion board in the past, because it was during this experience that I was conveyed detailed and astounding information from Jesus Christ the likes of which I had before never in my life even heard anything like (and which I thought would be blasphemous were God to actually exist), but all of which turned out to be verified in my subsequent investigations (i.e., such as into the Bible and other sources). This is the event which really got me to start thinking seriously about the possibility of God's existence, although I still remained on atheist until some time later when I had been able to confirm all of the information which had been conveyed to me, and it was only then that I had to abandon atheism as being an untenable position given that I had no previous knowledge of the information which had been conveyed to me (i.e., things which I had never heard Christians talk about--or anybody for that matter).

The fourth was Level Omega, but almost trivially so, because by this time I already thoroughly "got it" even though I was still holding on to my atheism, of which only later had to be disgarded upon verification of the information conveyed to me in my third God-trip, as detailed in the previous paragraph.
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What had happened was that during one of my last psychonautical voyages I received direct revelation from Jesus Christ, conveyed to me in what can best be described as "instantaneous knowing."

Double-blind scientific studies have shown that the archetype psychedelics induce genuine religious mystical insights. See the Good Friday Experiment at Boston University's Marsh Chapel on April 20, 1962, conducted by Walter N. Pahnke and assisted by Timothy Leary using psilocybin. See also the 2006 Johns Hopkins University's experiment with psilocybin conducted by Roland R. Griffiths et al.

All the below works are available in full for free at the website of the Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies (MAPS) at http://www.maps.org/books/pahnke/ . (Also at: Good-Friday-Experiment.zip , 45623604 bytes, MD5: 66abb1a9aee702894993989dff03d48a, http://www.webcitation.org/6TdjXbz1e , https://anonfiles.com/file/66abb1a9aee702894993989dff03d48a , http://www.mirrorcreator.com/files/00VPBRUI/Good-Friday-Experiment.zip_links .)

Walter Norman Pahnke, Drugs and Mysticism: An Analysis of the Relationship between Psychedelic Drugs and Mystical Consciousness, Ph.D. thesis at Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass. (June 1963).

Rick Doblin, "Pahnke's 'Good Friday Experiment': A Long-Term Follow-Up and Methodological Critique", Journal of Transpersonal Psychology, Vol. 23, No. 1 (1991), pp. 1-28.

R. R. Griffiths, W. A. Richards, U. McCann and R. Jesse, "Psilocybin can occasion mystical-type experiences having substantial and sustained personal meaning and spiritual significance", Psychopharmacology, Vol. 187, No. 3 (August 2006), pp. 268-283, doi:10.1007/s00213-006-0457-5.

R. R. Griffiths, W. A. Richards, M. W. Johnson, U. D. McCann and R. Jesse, "Mystical-type experiences occasioned by psilocybin mediate the attribution of personal meaning and spiritual significance 14 months later", Journal of Psychopharmacology, Vol. 22, No. 6 (August 2008), pp. 621-632, doi:10.1177/0269881108094300.

There is an ultimate insight provided by the archetype psychedelics (e.g., LSD, psilocybin, mescaline, DMT, etc.), but most people only catch glimpses of it, and are unable to hold on to that insight as they come down from the psychedelic. Which, even so, is still an utterly profound and life-transforming experience. Those who have had an entheogenic dose of an archetype psychedelic are typically familiar with the experience of having a transcendental sense of understanding, of everything in the universe making perfect sense, of there being a deep interconnectedness and purpose to all things, but as they come down, the typical case is for that deep sense of understanding to be lost, and to be merely left with the impression that one once understood the great secret of existence. If one is able to give the correct name to this ultimate insight, and further, to properly understand one's own relation to it (i.e., to give the correct name for oneself), then it is possible to bring this ultimate insight down with one: for then one has the terminology, the label, for this ultimate insight and one's own relation to it, which greatly facilitates apprehension and cerebration of the matter. That ultimate insight is this:

You are God. It's all just You. You are all that exists, has ever existed, or will ever exist. You are the totality of existence, forever and all times. Now of course the conscious portion of your presently limited viewpoint is not the totality of existence, it is just a finite subset of the infinitely greater consciousness of God. But at the ultimate level, you are that greater consciousness, i.e., God.

You are God experiencing and discovering Yourself.

Thus, the word "entheogen" is quite an apt name for the archetype psychedelics.

An equivalent formulation of this is that God, Who is existence itself, is the Logos: i.e., computation, logic, thought, reason, cogitation, ratiocination, cerebration. That is, God is logic itself, i.e., mathematics itself. And mathematics is infinite. God is Georg Cantor's Absolute Infinite. And the set cardinality of God is that of the continuum: 2^(aleph null).

Interestingly, God has been proven to exist based upon the most reserved view of the known laws of physics. For much more on that, see my below article, which details physicist and mathematician Prof. Frank J. Tipler's Omega Point cosmology and the Feynman-DeWitt-Weinberg quantum gravity/Standard Model Theory of Everything (TOE) correctly describing and unifying all the forces in physics. The Omega Point cosmology demonstrates that the known laws of physics (viz., the Second Law of Thermodynamics, General Relativity, and Quantum Mechanics) require that the universe end in the Omega Point: the final cosmological singularity and state of infinite informational capacity having all the unique properties traditionally claimed for God, and of which is a different aspect of the Big Bang initial singularity, i.e., the first cause. The Omega Point cosmology has been published and extensively peer-reviewed in leading physics journals.

James Redford, "The Physics of God and the Quantum Gravity Theory of Everything", Social Science Research Network (SSRN), Sept. 10, 2012 (orig. pub. Dec. 19, 2011), 186 pp., doi:10.2139/ssrn.1974708; PDF, 1741424 bytes, MD5: 8f7b21ee1e236fc2fbb22b4ee4bbd4cb, http://ssrn.com/abstract=1974708 , http://archive.org/download/ThePhysicsOfGodAndTheQuantumGravityTheoryOfEverything/Redford-Physics-of-God.pdf , http://theophysics.host56.com/Redford-Physics-of-God.pdf , http://alphaomegapoint.files.wordpress.com/2013/03/redford-physics-of-god.pdf , http://sites.google.com/site/physicotheism/home/Redford-Physics-of-God.pdf .

Additionally, in the below resource are six sections which contain very informative videos of Prof. Tipler explaining the Omega Point cosmology and the Feynman-DeWitt-Weinberg quantum gravity/Standard Model TOE. The seventh section therein contains an audio interview of Tipler. I also provide some helpful notes and commentary for some of these videos.

James Redford, "Video of Profs. Frank Tipler and Lawrence Krauss's Debate at Caltech: Can Physics Prove God and Christianity?", alt.sci.astro, Message-ID: jghev8tcbv02b6vn3uiq8jmelp7jijluqk@4ax.com , 30 Jul 2013 00:51:55 -0400, https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/alt.sci.astro/KQWt4KcpMVo , http://archive.today/a04w9 , http://webcitation.org/6IUTAMEyS . The plain text of this post is available at: TXT, 42423 bytes, MD5: b199e867e42d54b2b8bf6adcb4127761, http://mirrorcreator.com/files/JCFTZSS8/ , http://ge.tt/3lOTVbp .

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For more on the entheogenic experience which I discuss above, watch a truly wonderful video clip of why late comedian Bill Hicks (requiescat in pace) is glad that (psilocybin) mushrooms are illegal:

Heaven in a Cow's Ass
Finding heaven in a cow's ass. Taped in October of '93?
"I should never have smoked that joint on the third day"

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The foregoing RealMedia video file can be played with the free and open source VLC media player:

http://www.videolan.org/vlc/

And definitely don't miss comedian Joe Rogan's below discussion regarding how the insight provided by N,N-dimethyltryptamine (DMT) is that it is sapient life's destiny to take over the entire universe:

"Joe Rogan talks about DMT", TxJake, Sept. 13, 2006, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=grcqs9cDuN8 , http://www.webcitation.org/6Tdl2UoV7 , https://wayback.archive.org/web/20141027160230/https://cdn.anonfiles.com/1414425699175.zip , http://megalodon.jp/2014-1028-0103-06/cdn.anonfiles.com/1414425699175.zip , https://anonfiles.com/file/4879337fce77c5e1748d7c76d7219a89

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