Several of the greatest movies ever made 100% wouldn’t exist without his work. Schindler’s List, The Pianist, Saving Private Ryan, and The Thin Red Line are just a few of the films he made possible. Say what you will about his various indiscretions, but the man loved the arts.
Nice explanation. I could still get behind that. I know there are woo-ey versions of it, but I find the fundamental idea of “visualization” to be pretty solid, regardless of whether the mechanism is internal, external, or purely imagined.
Funny, but just to get it out of the way:
Akshually! LSD doesn’t do that!
I think there’s a semi-reasonable way to engage with the idea. If you have some specific goal and you continually think about it/focus on it, of COURSE that will make it more likely/make you better at it. At that level, it’s sort of just tricking yourself into actually getting shit done. Like faking it until you make it–act confident and soon you’re actually confident, etc.
But I understand that most people take it further than that. I just think it’s harmless at its most basic, even as I also think it’s Oprahesque bullshit.
In fact, the odds are you will never hear the song you’d like best.
This is a/the part of the Bible (Genesis 2) people reference to support that belief:
10 And a river went out of Eden to water the garden; and from thence it was parted, and became into four heads.
11 The name of the first is Pison: that is it which compasseth the whole land of Havilah, where there is gold;
12 And the gold of that land is good: there is bdellium and the onyx stone.
13 And the name of the second river is Gihon: the same is it that compasseth the whole land of Ethiopia.
14 And the name of the third river is Hiddekel*: that is it which goeth toward the east of Assyria. And the fourth river is Euphrates.
15 And the Lord God took the man, and put him into the garden of Eden to dress it and to keep it.
*Ostensibly Tigris
For every you, there’s a woman who feels compelled to pet me because of my beard. I’ll take that trade-off.
Oh, my God. That’s disgusting! Which app was it advertising!?
In the better timeline we left, they’re now playing the Sega Dreamcast 5.
When I was a child, we only had two dimensions, and we were grateful for them.
Thanks! That was an interesting read.
I just think it’s a very idealistic and unrealistic view of the likely outcomes. To use an extreme example: imagine applying the situation to a North Korea or Russia. Or the U.S., certainly. My point is that it would be the ultimate tool for stifling opposition and consolidating power, among many other things.
This would be a dystopia almost by definition unless every single government is replaced in the interim.
Pretty much covers all the bases.
Honestly, you’d be surprised. I never went this far, but as a man who used to own many colorful blazers, bowties, pocket squares, fancy pants, etc…women respond to the confidence.
They’re amazing. Sweet, sour, chewy, crunchy. The whole textural experience is great. Now I want some.
What would be the absolute worst mushroom I could find and eat, as far as effects?
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Baby, you stick around long enough, you just might get to see the full set…
But rock beats scissors and scissors are metal.