Queue on 7/9/2010 at 15:19
I wear size twelve shoes, and my cats tend to avoid me.
henke on 7/9/2010 at 15:29
Quote Posted by Kolya
By
directionless you mean he didn't provide an interesting conflict and was therefore made a target, right?
No I mean that the opening post discussed driving alot, liking cats, being psychic, and three other topics I can't even remember anymore. Since he's now deleted the entire post you can't see it but it was kinda obvious that this thread was just and excuse for TBE to air his random thoughts on...
everything under the guise of "hey everybody, lets
share".
Stitch on 7/9/2010 at 15:32
I have been to other forums where it is possible to shape good threads out of imperfect first posts. TTLG era 2005, for example.
Edit: I'm kind of torn here, as TBE's original post was admittedly pretty worthless and his reaction to the initial threadshitting was so disproportionately hyperdramatic. At the same time, though, I'm fairly sympathetic to what he was trying to accomplish, and I'll readily agree that TTLG could use more "getting to know each other" threads.
Vivian on 7/9/2010 at 15:38
Why not give it a shot then? Anyone else had any situations in which they were nearly psychic? I always seem to be rubbing my jeans pocket a few seconds before my phone goes off, but I'm entirely sure thats not due to some kind of subconscious perversion. What exactly counts as being borderline psychic anyway? Is it like one of those old GPS units that could only give you a grid reference? I remember my Dad telling my a story about how the first time he went round my Mums house he knew exactly which cupboard had all the cups in and was convinced he was psychic from thereon in. I've actually been there (before my grandparents died, it got bought by numpties and they turned the entire place into a fucking hideously executed attempt at some kind of red-brick neo-georgian palace) and, as I pointed out to him, there are only two cupboards in the kitchen. Seeing as that is a probability as 0.5 of being correct, I suppose that is statistically quite close to being psychic. Or 'guessing', as the rest of world calls it.
Queue on 7/9/2010 at 15:57
Let me ask this (Devil's advocate and all), how is one to know what's a good thread or not? Any discussion, no matter how inane or how deep, how relevant or ridiculous, is a worthy discussion in my mind.
Someone plants a seed, and it goes from there--regardless of the perception of how dumb the original post may be. That's generally what I like about the posts here, threads tend to go in all different directions.
Vivian on 7/9/2010 at 16:01
Quote Posted by Queue
how is one to know what's a good thread or not?
1: read first post
2: hock a loogie into a jar
3: go (
http://www.kareno.org/js/colors/) here
4: Compare the first square you selected. How good a match is the colour to your loogie? If exact, thread is first class thread. Also you may have a lung infection.
Queue on 7/9/2010 at 16:08
And what about all the blood?
Vivian on 7/9/2010 at 16:09
Stir it with a cocktail stick until it homogenizes.
Gingerbread Man on 7/9/2010 at 16:12
Pulvinar. Thalamus. Pre-conscious attention filter. Scary stuff...
This little bit of your brain decides what you will be aware of. It filters sensory input and decides for you what you need to know aboutt.
First of all, that's pretty fucking scary.
BUT!
The fact that we register with our sensoria nearly every goddamned thing (eg a retinal cell is maximally sensitive: It can detect one single photon) most of which never gets past the pulvinar because it's stuff like micro changes in air pressure / wind direction, slight changes in sound / spectral reflectivity, etc etc, makes me understand that we do somehow cross-reference and associate way more sensory input than we are aware of.
Hunches, guesses, intuittion... all based on incomplete information, schemas, and expectations based on deduction / induction. My thought is that people with strong intuition (up to and including the more legitimate psychics, however you choose to frame that category--I just mean to specifically exclude the cold-readers and such) are more freely able to make later use of preconscious information, stored and resynthesised, assembled back into coherence and tested in the great big reality simulator we call consciousness.
Or something.
It's a pretty interested road to wander down. The pulvinar of the thalamus is a real black box, it's a trip.
Vivian on 7/9/2010 at 16:16
Is that anything to do with Deja Vu? I remember someone telling me that was the results of sensation taking two routes through your brain to the 'you' bit (excuse the technical terms) and one took slightly longer, or something.
PS I just realised I mentally connected the phrase 'micro changes in air pressure' with the bit from Alien where Ash makes the scanner doobrie and hence am an absolute dickhead for wasting my brainspace with such crap.
