My man Mike just posted a really interesting reply to something that I said in response to something that he said, in response to something that I said (I’ll let you follow the trail of breadcrumbs back through the original posts yourselves).

Anway, I was gonna post this as a comment on his board, but then it turned into a funny story that I wanted to share with the rest of the world:

that’s a really good & interesting post. im glad i played some part in lighting that spark - even if it was by calling you a “wet blanket”. i’d like to hear more shit about this, like how lawschool changes your brain and stuff….

all this talk of “risky behavior” reminded me of a story my brother told me recently. seems that when he was a teenager, my dad one time took my bro aside and told him, quite cryptically, that masturbation leads to “risky behavior.”

really throws what you’re saying here into a whole new light.

Incidentally, how abstract is it that I am quoting from what I was going to say?

Oh, also, I wanted to point out how hysterical it is that you used the phrase “personal risk calculus.”

UPDATE!

I also wanted to mention that one of the reasons I can’t get real heavy into computer programming, is that I don’t like what it does to my mind. It tweaks me out and makes me see problems in a way that I find alarming. I never want to give that side of my brain too much power, cause it seems like it would lead me in a weird(er) direction. So I’m saying that I have experienced what you’re talking about, but on another level. Also, of course once I started calling myself an “occult investigator” it was like giving myself license to let my brain run off quite madly into a very fun direction. And now I kind of see everything from this new filter/slant of being what I am, and doing what I do. You know?