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Regarding 5th and higher dimensions, I do often think back to this vid, pretty sure I pulled it from the old boards, would surprise me if you hadn't seen it. It makes a decent case, but, it is just one theory of many. I keep writing and re-writing something here, largely due to my struggle with communicating my interpretation of 2D perception. So, bringing it back up to 3D. Do you interpret this as a 3D structure? Or do you interpret this as a flat 2D image? You are aware of the depth that the image appears to possess, but there is no way of telling, from this one singular point of view, whether there is truly any depth, any 3rd dimension, to this structure, or whether the image has been arranged in such a way to convey a depth that does not exist. The 2D being interprets, or maybe you might use extrapolates, the image of the triangle, but it remains possible that it is only illusory. Our eyes may technically be collecting light in 3 dimensions. Our two eyes do provide binocular vision, to help with the interpretations. But, if everything viewed outside your window were to be replaced with a flat wall, perfectly painted to exactly replicate the view from outside your window, I propose you would find it a struggle to recognize the difference between the 3D original and the 2D replication, as it is only in your brain that the 3rd dimension is truly interpreted and "seen." Funnily, this Adventure time clip kinda goes along with discussion. The shadows cast by the bubbles, I think, can also correlate with the images that can be seen from a fixed perspective. Looking down on the 2D bubble, you see only the 1D cross section, in the way that the sun shining down casts the 1D shadow (ignoring the absurdity of that notion). Ok, so it gets a little silly, but. In the context of discussing Time as a super-solid, is it possible to cast a shadow in the same manner that lower-order objects do? Would it truly follow that same logic? Looking back to the 4D toys, they all seem to cast 2D shadows, but is that just a limitation of our 3D cross-sectional view?

Pfft. Lookit the Matrix Man, being all scientifically literal about deja vu in his dissertation about worshiping Time. You could at least have some fun with it. A tapping into a collective unconscious, a feeling stretching back through time, riding a fourth dimensional wave. Idk. Just thought it'd be fun to consider. But, my own personal moments aren't that obvious. I just randomly feel like I had a dream about a particular event long before the event takes place. Choose to disagree about perception, tho. The illusions are not relying on 3D vision, but on our brains' limited capacity to interpret the visual signals. We can look at a physical photograph and, while recognizing the object is itself a flat sheet, be able to interpret that the image is in 3D. There is depth of field to it. But, that photograph is no different than what the eyes can see from that exact perspective. We see only the two dimensions, the height and width, and interpret the third, the depth. Let's put it another way. If we were in fact capable of seeing in 3 dimensions at once, you should be able to know the shape and structure of any object at a glance. You should be able to see all 3 dimensions of, say, a box, or an egg. But if it should turn out that one side of the box, hidden from your perspective, is missing, this is information you're incapable of collecting from a single point of view, and your brain is simply left to interpret, to assume, that the box is whole, as it appears from where you view it. You see the flat plane stretched before you, and interpret its depth. The 2D being sees only the flat line facing them, and interprets a perimeter. The 4D being is what would see all of 3D space, in a manner I struggle to comprehend, and be capable of interpreting the 4 dimensional structure. Using your video, as they explain 3D objects viewed from the 2nd dimension, what they fail to account for is where that 2D being is viewing from. Imagine eyes on the side of his head, viewing that cross section from the side he is standing on, and you see that he is incapable of seeing the entire 2D cross sections passing through is plane from his perspective. All he can see is the line segments as the shapes pass through the plane. Were that character able to move freely in his dimension, he could navigate around these shapes, collecting information about their size in relation to his position, and be able to interpret the whole of the 2D cross section. He may also be able to perceive that the line segments grow or fade at the edges, as the "front" of the sphere is closest to him, while the edges are farther away, and in this way, be able to infer from his standing position that the cross section must represent a spherical object, but, without seeing if the circle continues around, there is no way of knowing if the object is indeed a full circle from his stationary position. Bringing this all back around to discussing time, I would suppose that a 2D being would still be able to interact with Time as a fourth dimension, while also being able to interpret the 3rd spatial dimension as objects pass through their plane of existence. Which is kinda trippy, to have interactions with two higher dimensions than your own. As 3D beings, I struggle to imagine how we might even recognize the influence of a 5th dimension. It also speaks to the universal permeation of Time, that no matter what dimension you exist on, you are still at the mercy of the passage of time. I started rambling part way through a lot of that.

Where does deja vu fit into your theory of time? I appreciate that you mention the unidirectional nature of time, but I'm not entirely sure you adequately discussed the implications of this. I don't really know exactly what I would expect here. But, something about the inability to travel in either direction in this "dimension" has never sat well with me. I suppose it doesn't entirely preclude it from being a measurable dimension. Idk. It just feels wrong to have a dimension that you travel through at a (mostly) fixed velocity. But, maybe that's the trick, just needing to learn how to harness gravity in such a way to influence our temporal acceleration in the negative. I'm rambling a bit incoherently here. Typo starting this sentence off. Now I'm wondering if a two-dimensional being would even have any means of conceptualizing time as a fourth dimension. As three-dimensional beings, we're capable of inferring the fourth. Would it stand that a two-dimensional being would only be capable of inferring a third dimension? Or would they skip the third entirely? One of my favorite ways of putting something related to this is something to the effect of: As three-dimensional beings, we don't actually perceive (or maybe more accurately just "see") things in three dimensions. Sight, as an example, is only able to collect data via the retina, an effectively two-dimensional structure, and our brains are what allows us to interpret those data and extrapolate to the next dimension. It's basically what many optical illusions are based on, the idea of forced perspective. The brain can be tricked into incorrectly interpreting data that don't track with what it expects. Similarly, a two-dimensional being would only be capable of seeing anything in one dimension. The pin pushed through the paper wouldn't be a dot, but a line, one dimension. The pin is still mostly cylindrical, albeit very small. The two-dimensional being would see the cross section of that as a line. They could travel around the pinhole, in their two dimensional space, allowing them to collect data and interpret the two-dimensional nature of the cross section of the cylindrical pin as a circle. Would they then be capable of inferring a third dimension that the circle could extend into? Would that be our third spatial dimension, or would that be the two-dimensional equivalent to the temporal dimension? Time could see that circular cross section effectively extended into a cylinder.

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I hate toilets that aren't powerful enough to handle my mighty poos. Why can't they just have slightly bigger pipes? Or maybe it's the curving that's the problem. Probably both, at one point or another. Sometimes I wonder what it must be like, to confidently flush, knowing it'll all go down easy.

Did Primal get shafted because it's not Toonami, or because there's not really many people here that care to discuss it? It's there easy to be found if discussion were to occur. In a general [as] folder, it'd get buried. It'd get buried because many that would frequent such a folder are still just the toonami peeps, who are only here for toonami.

Was Lazzo largely responsible for the whole block feeling kinda very Tim and Eric'd for a while? Not even just those two in particular, but, seemingly everything had that similar tainted air about it, catering to the same taste in humor. If yes, we certainly can't do much worse than that.

More likely it'll be the porn industry that makes it in the first place.

Mostly just enjoy hearing Beau and Steve together again.

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Lol. No, yeah, but, I mean, as worshipers, every religion has to have some doom'n'gloom for the "end of the world." And yeah, obviously there is the understanding that Time is eternal. But, humans are shortsighted, can't see beyond the end of their own existence. It just wouldn't be a religion without a Rapture or a Ragnarok or Enlightenment or Nirvana or whatever, right?

Can we still have that holy war at armageddon? Do time worshipers have an end-of-days prophecy/plan?

Fair context. I don't keep up with all the drama here. Taking a wild guess based on this thread, and saying we prolly coulda used a purge a long while ago. I was definitely misinformed on this one. One of my biggest disappointments when I discovered this place existed, seeing how much of the old boards got dragged along.

"This place is no fun, but I still require somebody to force me to stop not having fun." Personally, I don't blame the assholes as much as the jackasses that constantly feed the fire. You're all contributing to this place burning down, instead of starving them of attention. "Be the change" and all that. Contribute positively, instead of bitching about the situation you helped create.

Just change your password to gibberish and log out. Seems easier than being lazy waiting for someone else to solve your problem.

Mkay. Get back to me when Time loses all meaning because the Void has consumed all. When all the stars have gone out, when all matter has decayed, when all the black holes have evaporated, when the universe has finally reached that stable perfection that is absolute maximum entropy, when Nothing remains, and will remain, forever. Edit: Ok, quick skim of the Sithis wiki, since I'm not deep, or at all, into ES lore. And I gotta say, these chumps don't know shit about worshiping the Void. Chaos? Death? The Void is absolute stable perfection, the truly unachievable state of the existence of non-existence. The Void is the duality of everything and nothing. This whole system is flawed if they're attributing both "light" and "order" to the same god, Anu. Light is true chaos. It's bizarre how often everyone tries to combine things like "light" and "life" with perfection and order and stability. Light and life are absolutely chaotic elements. Light is movement. Light is energy. How is it anyone can believe energy and stability can co-exist? Delusional. No. Life will end, the light will fade, and all that will be left is the darkness, as the universe slowly grinds to a halt, achieving perfect stability. Nah. The more I read, the more I think this lore doesn't remotely fit with my idea of The Void. The Void isn't a counterpart to anything. The Void is the sum of all that is and all that is not. Death is the counterpart to Life. The Void encompasses them both. The Void is Beginning and End. From the Void, the universe was ripped, chaotic and violent, and from that moment, the universe has only ever sought to return to that state of Nothing.

I still think you're mad, choosing Time over the Void to worship. Maybe someday we can wage a Holy War over it. On the other hand, I do acknowledge/respect that Time is really only one step removed from the Void. So, you're ahead of the game on that one.

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Really depends on the career you're looking for, though. For myself, the field I'm in doesn't really have a strong presence on Indeed, so it was of little use. At that point, you go hunting for sites with a narrower purpose that companies in the field gravitate to.

Damn, dude, how many sites are you getting banned on to know that "just about every site out there" has a log out button on their ban screens?

Y'know, it's awfully convenient how all these dead people just happen to be ending up fighting someone(s) they knew in life. I mean, I guess I get how Kabuto is trying for the psychological warfare approach. But, seems like, with the reputation they all have, it would've been smarter sending them up against opponents that couldn't get inside their heads.

I didn't share the video. Just said it's worth looking into. My personal favorite was the kid that freaked out over the color purple. But, most of them typically get the most emotional over the color green, the color of nature. They all turn speechless at the sight, never having known just how vibrant it is. Because the colorblindness just sorta blends it in with surrounding wavelengths. The glasses filter/suppress some of that blended spectrum, mashing down the peaks of wavelengths so that the brain is actually able to interpret a distinction.

You... didn't look into that at all, did you? Enchroma very much, very clearly, explicitly states it offers no benefit to monochromatic vision. Their product helps because those "few colors" people can't see are filtered/separated, so that they can distinguish between the colors that just blend together.

For anyone that wants to keep up the weepy emotionals over folks being granted the gift of sight, should look up videos of Enchroma glasses, that allow colorblind folks to distinguish colors.