Serious philosophical question

I’ve heard of ergot poisoning from rye bread, but what neurologically toxic intoxicant is there in baked dog shit?

 

Mushrooms grow great on dogshit.

 

Ergot poisoning is sometimes blamed for both outbreaks of lycanthropy in medieval Europe and witchcraft in puritan New England. I wonder if werewolf feces are a possible vector?

 

I guess it depends on whether or not you believe there is something that happens after all of this. But I think whether you believe there is or their isn't, you might as well spend your life trying to be a mensch.....otherwise you're just being an asshole, amiright?

 

Hicks… esque… we’ll done and good luck

 

We risk encroaching on dungeon territory if we continue in this vein, but if you accept that we are each a fraction of the total energy in the universe, then we can not be destroyed. The form in which we might continue is fodder for a discussion elsewhere.

 

I usually enjoy your views and this one as well. It seems like it should be a conversation between Calvin and Hobbes under the stars.

I always thought that being happy would be easy, just figure out what makes you happy. Luckily racing did that for me for decades.

Next chapters are harder as you may still have the passion the drives you but lack the physical ability to continue that trajectory.

I do know that all of my best memories are shared with other like minded passionate good people. While I consider myself an outlier in most situations the adventures I treasure most are the shared ones.

 

I just posted that very quote yesterday

 

The way you posit the question, there is no purpose. But there’s much more to this existence than that. Whether you choose to believe that is up to you.

 

Which coincidentally was my comp number.

 

Perhaps this Isaac Asimov story, The Last Question", is appropriate here.
Here is the link for those of you that read.
https://xpressenglish.com/our-stories/the-last-question/

 

Yeah I mean I'm not even attempting at getting remotely into the metaphysical minutiae of energy and friction and vibrations and yada yada yada.....starts to sound too much like some space cadet chick talking about "manifesting the man of my dreams" and "putting out my spiritual vibrational energy into the universe" type stuff.

I'd say Gandalf summed it up well when he said....

 

Good one!

 

Yep, exactly! Your purpose can be anything you want, but you have to assign it. No one else can do it for you.

And then, similarly, your successes - and failures - are only ever as important as you decide they are. If you celebrate your successes, they will be celebrated... and for me, at least, I find it easier to look past my failures when I remember that nothing else in the entire universe cares enough about my purposes to even consider the concept of my failure.

We create our own worlds. I just try to make mine a happy one.

 

A good read. I was a big Asimov fan in my youth, but eventually decided I wanted a little more character development in my reading. As good as his writing is, I can't help but feel that he considered the humans in his stories to be simply a device to further the tale.

 

I am the walrus therefore get off my lawn.

 

That’s 1620HRS to a West Point graduate.

Oh fuck, so now you’re pondering a shooting spree?

 

I’m gonna guess you have some time on your hands. Read a book and feel better.

I recommend Solzhenitsyn.

 

It all will never make sense, its a waste of time trying to figure it out. Enjoy your time on this earth every day and all of the good things around you because eventually it will be gone