As long as we’re still having fun.

but an additional explanation that attempts to transcend cultural baggage (as far as that’s possible) might not be a bad idea if your goal really is to communicate your experience.

What the hell - you want me to do ALL the work for everybody? This is a damned tall order you’re asking. I am not their
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ROPjV0LP7uo
or your
http://www.lyricsfreak.com/d/depeche+mode/personal+jesus_20039367.html
for that matter.

Wait, you can’t communicate experience anyway. Only express it. Is this blog poetry or nonfiction? If both, my brain will assplode.

You can’t express experience either. All you can do is EXPERIENCE experience. I know that SOUNDS terribly trite but it is pretty much the ONLY POINT of everything that I am saying. Life is happening to you right now. YOU. You who are reading this.

I *am* providing a Rorschach test so that you can feel what its like to be alive as my words brush across your skin and yours acrosss mine. Life is happening to us.

Words suck.

Words suck, words fuck, words quack like a duck, words can drive a truck, words can get you trapped in the muck, words can make you feel like a schmuck, words are all we have with any luck. We need some way to communicate from spaceship to spaceship and this information-rich beam we fire at one another is for some reason one of the best mechanisms available, able to penetrate out into the depths of space and time.

Hey, Tim has been replaced by a language immitating AI. Security!!! Security!!!

I have checked out through the back door of my data body.

Yeah I know what reference you are talking about there. Michael Harner or somebody I think!

Hey, Tim has been replaced by a language immitating AI. Security!!! Security!!!

But shouldn’t and don’t all cultures use the language of their time to describe their experiences?

Should they? It’s definitely helpful for finding metaphors, but an additional explanation that attempts to transcend cultural baggage (as far as that’s possible) might not be a bad idea if your goal really is to communicate your experience. Without it, the picture you’re painting looks a lot like a Rorschach test.

Not that there’s anything wrong with that.

Mostly, but not entirely

> Any original thought (novelty within the system) is quickly co-opted and sold back to youself and others in order to bind you more closely to the consensus reality.

Only if the original thought is expressed… and truly original thought is impossible to express. The way that can be described is not the true way. (Obviously what I am expressing here is unoriginal bollocks, but U get my point?)

I am suspicious of music. I assume everyone in a position of authority is lying. I suspect people in coffee shops sitting near me may be psychic vampires.

This is not paranoia. These beliefs fit the evidence dogdammit!

And Rushkoff knows his shit. I love his perspective.

http://www.itconversations.com/shows/detail243.html

And I love this site. Truly. Tim, your writing engenders joy in my heart. Thank you. And if you think that sentiment is too sentimental or pretentious then, well….

You are correct. Your perceptions are accurate and you can sleep safe in your bed in the knowledge that you are not crazy.

Even though you read this blog.

Where are your thoughts coming from?

I think I saw this on Rigorous Intuition where it had been quoted from a book who’s name I don’t know. A man went to South America to explore psychedelic plants. He had a frightening experience and he sought out the help of a old shaman to alleve his torment. The man had seen strange lizards fall from space back in time. They told the man that they were his ancestors, they had seeded Earth after becoming refugees from a war. The old shaman told the man “Oh, they always say that”.

What a freaking enlightening bit of writing. There is a realization here that you are MOSTLY the sum part of the things that have been sold to you over your lifetime by the AI. Any original thought (novelty within the system) is quickly co-opted and sold back to youself and others in order to bind you more closely to the consensus reality. Everytime you break away you forge your new chain to the machine.

Yes, exactly. And the method by which they have learned to encourage this is wrapped up in a tag cloud that looks like this:

freedom individuality power status enlightenment
creativity self-expression uniqueness

There is no such thing as safe words or concepts anymore. You can’t just pick the opposites of each of these words and find the answer either. Because the whole thing is driven by a dialectical process where these little whirls are spun off the main body as though they were departing from it, but their purpose is only to make the main body ever larger.

You should write articles for “Adbusters.”

Yeah I dont really like them
http://www.timboucher.com/journal/2006/08/21/busting-adbusters/

adbusters==spambots

commoditizing anti-commoditization since 1989!

exactly

I just wonder how many people are capable of being that pissed off at the world?

That paranoid and suspicious?

This may sound absurd after this post but I don’t feel either paranoid or suspicious. Maybe thats my own wonderful self-delusion taking control. But all I can compare it against is how I used to feel and paranoia used to drive me crazy. Maybe I’ve just made peace with how I really am. In any event, anger is only useful as a tool, which is how I was using it here. It makes things exciting, memorable and provokes a response.

Are reference points like patterns of condensed nothingness, the ‘building blocks’ of maya?

I don’t know. I’ve never really seen a maya.

The AI simile, it appears, points to the ego,

No, its not that simple. If I meant the ego, I would just say the ego. And furthermore what is the ego? How does it work, by what mechanisms?

But eventhough your metaphors are hip and contemporary, they are colored by cultural connotations and may therefore be limited in scope.

I’m not really trying to be hip and contemporary. I’m just trying to understand and to communicate my own experience. My own experience is - by its very nature - going to be limited in scope.

Also I dont really understand why you’d seem to see maya etc as *less* colored by cultural baggage than the things I’m saying. Not that I myself would even necessarily compare them. But shouldn’t and don’t all cultures use the language of their time to describe their experiences?

Well, I’m glad others are paranoid too.

I’m not sure who but someone invented a word, ‘pronoia’, that Terrance McKenna used to describe a state of being paranoid in a good way. You have to believe that the universe is conspiring to inform/enlighten/entertain you. It takes a good sense of humor and a practical mindset. However, evil entities may actually be trying to take over your mind and those people may be psychic vampires.

Um, not to be too judgemental but I don’t think the Dragon Rouge stuff helps. I liked their site too but when the rubber meets the road that stuff is a little over my head.

Most of what comes out of Washington DC is political disinfo so you’re in elite company.

Paranoia is awareness. Don’t be scared of this.

Exactly. Being alert or mindful should ease fearfulness, not cause it. Sometimes I get into a rut and words/emotions churn around in my head. I get addicted to the blaze of emotions, not to where the emotions were supposed to lead me to. If something causes long term fear than it was probably used to control you through your fear even if it was the truth.

commoditizing anti-commoditization since 1989!

or his own religion

or his own country

or his own reality

You should write articles for “Adbusters.” Unless you have taken a vow of poverty or somthing. They won’t be ready for you yet but that’s to your credit and can be to your advantage.

For me its like an addiction I have no control over rather than a work out routine. But maybe its a positive addiction, like being addicted to working out.

How paranoid are others here?

I am suspicious of music. I assume everyone in a position of authority is lying. I suspect people in coffee shops sitting near me may be psychic vampires.

I am suspicious of all “Channeled material.” I think I have actually posted at political disinformation blogs.

I sense hostile entities trying to control my mind.

If this is what it takes…..man!

That paranoid and suspicious?
I mean its almost impossible it seems to me.

Too paranoid? How can anybody be too paranoid? Were just not paranoid enough. It’s like a workout routine. You have to keep at it and the more effort you put into your paranoia the more results you get.

(Btw, the Thorazine poster is just awesome.)

I am not a normal person.

I think I understand you. I just wonder how many people are capable of being that pissed off at the world?

That paranoid and suspicious?

I mean its almost impossible it seems to me.

Tim I enjoyed your ‘blog’ entry today.

I have nothing more to say.

It seems you have translated various Eastern/occult ideas into 21st century language. Are reference points like patterns of condensed nothingness, the ‘building blocks’ of maya? Is that what you meant earlier on by “thick air”? The AI simile, it appears, points to the ego, builder of the (f)ark within us. But eventhough your metaphors are hip and contemporary, they are colored by cultural connotations and may therefore be limited in scope.

Anyway, you have identified a particular modus operandi and expressed an emotional reaction. But aren’t you’re falsely connecting a moral judgement to a phenomenon that is essentially timeless, universal, and completely natural? And/or is this dubious association part of the tag cloud for this site?

How many times do I have to repeat that phrase for you?

I’ve been telling my cat to stop scratching the door frame for about nine years. She’s just not groking my AI!
I tend to think that those people and I have what I call a high parity rating
If I have a High Parity Rating w/you on spoken examples of time phenomenon but not written, low rating on cartoons and sexy females, medium on conspiracy theories etc., etc., and the global AI knows my profile what can it do with that info? Not the $$$ transactions but the spiritual ones. If a corporation is legally a person and potentially immortal and they can find a way to bind me to them/them to me wouldn’t that increase the realms of their immortality? What about a coup attempt? If my spiritual trajectory can be calculated to be XXXXX and they can, through a series of subtle connections that keep me coming back for more, keep me rooting for/buying from/supporting legislation about YYYYY won’t I literally be selling my soul/betraying my country without even knowing? Isn’t that what’s already happening?

# Tim Boucher Says:
February 27th, 2007 at 4:17 pm

reminds me of http://www.timboucher.com/journal/2006/02/12/music/
# Tim Boucher Says:
February 27th, 2007 at 4:18 pm

More spambots copying me

http://contentnew.com/NSRI/all-natural...enis/14370/sodom-amp-gomorrah-saddam/

all+natural+penis

HAVE THE INANIMATE OBJECTS YOU DEAL WITH BEGUN SPEAKING MORE INSIGHTFULLY AND WARMLY THAN THE OSTENSIBLY LIVING BEINGS YOU MUST DEAL WITH?

TRY SCHIZOPHRENIA TODAY!! YOU ARE NEVER LONELY WHEN YOU CAN PERCEIVE THE SUBTLE CHANGES IN THE STATE OF BEING OF A CANDY CANE LEFTOVER FROM THE OFFICE XMAS PARTY! INCOMMUNICABILITY IN EXPERIENCES IS PROPORTIONAL TO PERSONAL RESONANCE! SCIENCE PROVES OUR PRODUCT WORKS!

RE ROBOTIC SIMULACRA IMITATING YOUR EVERY MOVE? SPAMBOTS JOCKING YOUR STYLE? DILUTING AND COMMODITIZING EVERY FACE

all+natural+penis
schizophrenia+natural+candy+cane
we+call+it+fucking+around+otherwise+folks+get+inexplicably+upset
incommunicable+fucking

One note, altogether now…

heh

http://contentnew.com/NSRI/all-natural...enis/14370/sodom-amp-gomorrah-saddam/

This is a pretty nice one, isn’t it? It looks that way from here, although I know you, reader, are seeing it from a different angle.

There’s something funny about the frame, though…

their is miso soup in my brain i add chards of kale and cubes of tofu
my minimoog sends the signal out every now & now & back then
on a clear night you may hear it through running water or not

@30 i avoid the reality reruns

crossworld puzzle must be solved in the alotted time
as the russian musak plays
gravity speed pulls as the levels increase
so wear the big boots to keep ya grounded
safely thumb pressing buttons
“That was a close one!”

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Now with less salt.