I've always thought that mundane actions like staying up an extra 3 minutes before sleeping don't affect your life the day after.
If you wake up to a timed alarm, you should act like you normally act unless those few minutes seriously left you sleep deprived and groggier than ever.

These philosophical conversations can be interesting to a point so I usually enjoy them. Thanks :)

also tits.

TOFUUUUUUUUUU---WHooooo!

I feel pretty much the same way... though I'm not going to fuck up my forks :P

You bent a fork...

OMG!!!

Did you actually write that whole thing or did you copy/paste it. It actually looks most like you copied it and than did a word search and changed some words, and possibly that you went through it and made everything lowercase (but it was probably like that anyway) and if you didn't do all of that, then amends to you and congrats on the good thinking and the fork-bending.

A friend of mine used to chop pencils in half with the edge of a sheet of paper,

its neat!

you should do shows!

So realising you have the power to bend forks into zany positions willhelp you animate flash with a more original edge?

Wow, I'm amazed that I understood all of this. I guess I have to thank the philosophy class I took. Anyways It's weird and scary how all types of media and the average person over the years has twisted the perception of people in thinking one way and/or immoral for the sake of pleasure.
If more people learned to perceive things differently instead of how the media and the average person perceives them. We wouldn't have trends, More options in everyday life will open up, and the world would be a lot better off.
Now off to destroy some silverware!

i saw the word quantum mechanics and fell asleep

nice thinking only problem is that were just humans nothing greater, bound to our bodies (while this is wrong there is nothing bound to our bodies we are our bodies) but fact is that this gives us the will to live. from wich all other things come when we rly could accept the things you wrote we wouldnt be anymore humans and life wouldnt mater as same as time but we simply cant atleast not fully. time is relativ so why bother it wouldnt make a diference if you die today or tommorrow and so nothing would matter (i dont live after this cause im human and this is wrong if your religious) SO I THINK THERE IS YOUR MISTAKE WERE ALL (JUST) HUMANS

yeah time doesn't exist

but.....

there are many many different ways to use the word 'exists'

How in abstractness's name do you de-attach yourself from your senses?! I think it's true everything you say, but it is too much for everyone to understand... I think we need to evolve a lil more so that more people can bend forks consequently having to eat with bare hands...

If it feels good, why stop?

feels good man

that's deep have you ever heard this thing called "the secret" its kinda the same concept of a positive thinking and the balance of the universe, its cool to think about but sometimes it hurts my head (not trying to sound stupid,sorry if i am)

JibberJabber:
I think the Internet is connecting us all with EVERYONE indirectly, but at the same time disconnecting us directly/physically from each other. In a spiritual sense, the internet brings us all together without having to stare into one anothers physiucal appearance and be influenced by everybody's charismatic/manipulative physical expressions. One could argue that this virtual world is a much better playground to grow spiritually without the disturbance of material sources than anywhere else...

But like our wise elder Madonna said, we are material beings living in a material world... we need to be literally close to others in order to function "correctly", and people have been carelessly abusing convenient fuels and technologies to manipulate the reality of our world since the dawn of humanity. And doing things over and over again is just a part of what we are. Everything we do sprouts from the repetitive act of copulation, and our imagination can only go as far as to combine things like legos from personal experiences we have gathered througvhout our existence.

So meeting new people on a personal level is great and we should all do that as much as we can, we should also strive to bend forks with our minds like the master danomano65 so enlightingly demonstrates because as one very cool consumer product called BioShock states, "We all make choices in life, but in the end our choices make us."

So what's my point? I don't really have one :) All I can leave you with is something to ponder about: What is so different about the world now than a million years ago? Everything needs to recycle and get rid of excrement, and the world is just about done digesting its food and getting ready to take a long nice dump... or is it one of those ghost turds?

What proof do you have that time is not real?! I see a clock, and I see it ticking by, every second. How can you say that's not real?

I remember I read a lot about that shit last Summer and it fucked with my head.

Have you ever seen "What the bleep do we know?" Its a really good movie all about quantum mechanics, but it seems you've already learned most of what it's covered ;)

Its a good movie regardless, you should check it out

ohhhh i love this stuff. think about it all the time.

"i am also grateful for the opportunity to understand more about my human experience so early in my life. i want to help. i want to listen. and i want to give."
i absolutely feel the same way.

i dont completely agree with some of your conclusions (i dont believe in a soul for one, and i have a very hard time taking in all this great realization and lack of a greater goal, and feeling like it gives me a purpose. it feels quite the opposite for me actually. :( )

and stuff like 'love is the answer' seems to me to be, well, unrealistic and utopian. to me, the conclusion to take away from all this about humanity is that, since theres no purpose, and its all just infinite possibilities and events, doing things the 'wrong' way and 'imperfectly', both as defined in human terms, are always unavoidable. all that mantra really does is act as if people wont keep acting the same just because you understand the true nature of them and their actions.

"if you tune into this connection among the people of the world, and believe that your life will be successful, the reality you wish to live will manifest itself."
ever seen 'The Secret'? its a fairly recent movie. thats basically its message. i saw the first twenty minutes, and i just dont buy it. i think this perspective gives wayyy too much credit to the human mind in the grand scheme of things. sure, we're all made of electrons, aka nearly empty space, but do you think that somehow means that all that space will bend to our will? sure, we have a large part of control in the progression of our lives, and positive thinking does wonders. but really now? the world works in its own ways around each of us, and sadly enough our place in it is limited. sometimes nature cannot be reckoned with. but i appreciate the optimism, anything that can give you that much positivity and purpose is a good way of viewing things. because the world doesnt change according to your understanding of it, only you do.

hope i didnt yuck your yum too much. its been a pleasure. :)

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Reading some of the comments above, I believe that there are some truly ignorant, shallow people, not just here, but everywhere in the world, and that some of the previous comments prove thus.
I agree with everything you stated above, and for me, everything came down to perception and understanding.
You mentioned something similar to 'what would the world be like if we weren't here?', and I've always had a similar question.
Everybody knows the 'if a tree fell in a forest, would it make a sound' kind-of philosophical question, and mine is just adapted from that.

If there was a UNIVERSE without any living creatures in it, no form of life, would the universe exist?
What would it exist for?

And there's people saying 'how can you disprove time?'
My personal explanation to that is comparing time with a mile.
Humans look across the land and say 'the land stretches for a mile that way, therefore, a mile exists'.
but a mile is nothing more than a measurement Man kind created to measure distance.
This is exactly what time is.
Time is what Mankind created to measure aging and decay. it is nothing more, nothing less.

I think the people that watch your video and just go 'oh, whoop-di-doo, you bent a fork, how is that supposed to improve animation' don't quite get it.

There is no fork.

also tits.

If this were true, I wanted you to post this video and go on about stuff.

Also... it's not that hard to bend a fork.

I do however, agree that time isn't real (on the basis that time is a human perception and never actually existed until we created it's definition.)

Also, you say "let's get original people!" yet you use the whole fork metaphor.

You say you didn't try but it is clearly shown you put effort in by the way you move your fingers afterwards.

Stop kidding yourself.

Didn't read any of that. Was to busy watching some guy handle a fork.

Mmm. Handle lthat fork you dirty man. HANDLE IT!

Eammy you idiot.

Time is a man made thing. Just a way to give some order to humans.

hmhm i think iam rly atached to my senses. hope your right would make dieing alot easier (if your a kid dont read further ) so why not kill yourself cause you cant your to atached to your senses just a human get along with it^^ call 5min a year and you would still feel its not a year

your response to my message (above) reminded me of a quote from somewhere, which google doesn't help me locate.
but it was;
There is no such thing as the future. Only a hundred zillion 'Nows'.

how you described it i thought you bent the fork with your mind and not using hands

but it was a nice read

i just saw your tofu series (awesome) my question is the tofu series based off your enlightenment, or is tofu just one big ol mindfuck :P

I still have difficulty believing the measurement problem.

My teacher used to get wound up with me because I thought that scientists were only getting this effect because our instrumentation for observing and measuring was too intrusive, and that it was just a matter of building a better electron microscope... They kept telling me that Bohm had proved that no matter what microscope we designed, we could still not measure the speed and the position both... I couldn't get my head around it at all.

I suppose that once you drill down to that level of existence, you are talking about potentialities rather than hard and fast actualities. That's the way I see it anyhow.

The thing in Quantum Mechanics that really spooks me is the bit about particles and entanglement - two protons being able to communicate faster than light as long as they have previously been in contact. That always blows my mind, and bizarrely I find it much easier to beleive than the "measurement problem".

So, how did you reach this state of belief / understanding ? Is it because of things you have read, or people you have met, or both ?

Your Tofu story rocks by the way. Can't wait for the next instalment !

I forgot to say... you may think I am being pessimistic, but I think things will stay the way they are because the people in power like to maintain the status quo.

You are totally correct to say that it is insane to be fighting over oil. We could easily make car engines which run on ethyl alcohol. Why isn't the road jam packed with these vehicles ? Because the rulers of the planet don't want it that way. Why do we keep on using nuclear power when we could manage with hydroelectric dams and barrages and wind turbines and methane harvesting (where all you need is the sewage that the human race produces every day to fuel your power plant) ?

Because the people who are really in control don't want these things. They like the world in the fucked up state that it is currently. Things are more profitable that way.

Maybe I am just a paranoid with a negative attitude. I guess we'll never know.

its time to love .. come to my house later today :D o'kay ?

Oh hey what's up, man. In my absence I've fallen behind in Office Spider. Labor Day weekend I'll have some catching up to do. And a new series I'll have to check out too.

That was all over the place and self contradicting. Thumbs down.