I'm new here so this is my first post. I have read lots of posts on this forum and haven't seen anything mentioned on this topic before--so I was just curious if it is an individual experience or something more.
I have begun meditation to Tool albums for they are great relaxation tools (haha), I let Lateralus run through from first track to last each night. (By meditation I mean lying on my back, palms up, getting lost in the music). However, I can never hear the entire song of The Patient. There is one point during this song that puts me to sleep... or just makes me blank out. I usually suddenly feel startled, or as though I get woken up at a later part in the song and I find myself disorientated and confused on whether or not I had fallen asleep.
I'm not saying the song is boring neither, it's one of my favorite tracks off the album. Does anyone else find they share a similar experience? It has happened more than about 14 times now...
Just out of curiousity; I know nothing about meditation but i wonder, when you meditate through the whole album, don't tracks like "The Grudge" (the end of the song) or "Ticks & Leeches" (the beginning and end of the song) disturb the process of meditation or give you some sort of unpleasant feeling. I think i would feel very uncomfortable during these tracks.
To be honest it did at first... although with meditation to music you seem to pick up on the emotions etc. Through a lot of Tool tracks you become overwhelmed with paranoia or some kind of unpleasantry. Usually it hits hardest during the beginning of Intension on 10,000 Days, and on Mantra for Lateralus. The Grudge does not bother me as I usually begin with it so you're not completely relaxed etc... and Ticks and Leeches doesn't interrupt my meditations any.
We'll never learn how to time travel, if we ever did, we would be seeing people from the future.
Have you ever considered the possibility that Greys might be advanced humans from the distant future? Don't get me wrong, I don't actually believe that... its just an interesting thought.
or that whenever we did learn to time travel it simply put us into a parallel reality to where we couldn't time travel on the same timeline as our present selves?
You're right but who cares about hard evidence? It's just an intuition thing, of course the chances of two living beings finding each other in the universe is slim to none, but it doesn't mean they're not out there. And if they're not, and the aliens we've seen are just us from this exact spot in the universe in the future, then why hasn't someone come back and killed Bush yet?
Time travel to change the past is dumb, time travel in general (as a concept, I'm not talking the possibility of it here, just the concept) is a dumb notion. What could be gained from going back in time? There will be people who pipe up and say "so we can experience historical events firsthand, settle debates, etc.", but keep in mind that there is no way to really observe or measure anything without altering it slightly, and alteration of the past is almost sure to be devastating to the present that we know. And going into a future only shows possibility, not certainty.
It's just dumb.
As for me, I'd believe that time traveling is actually problematic.
In terms of trying to fix a past or trying to delve into the future, it would cause ripples of larger problems, where reversing the effect would be even harder to fix. And then you'd have two problems on your plate.
And then we'd be in a crisis.
I'd never want to time travel for such a reason. If anything, we should enjoy life at the pace that it is going, and nothing more.
That's what I basically mean by it being dumb. It's so problematic that it would take a sheer force of will to ignore the enormous problems with such an action and actually do it.
It's human nature.
It's like this one story I heard, where a man was put in a room with steel doors and walls, and had to find a way out.
So, after much thought, he decided to grab the ceiling fan and take it out in such a way that it would still be whirring when he took it out of the ceiling.
After hours of trying, he managed to cut a hole in the wall, and escaped thus.
Never in his plan did he think of the simplest solution: trying out the door, which had been unlocked that whole time.
Humans always try to go in circles to find an answer to their problems, when ninety-nine percent of the time, the solution is as clear as day.
Hence, I'm open to the concept of time-traveling, though not supportive.
Time travel creates a paradox... but existence is one HUGE paradox... We are everywhere and no where... we are awake, and we are dreaming... No belief system is void of paradox... so I wouldn't rule the possibility out. While it can be problematic, I don't think its dumb. I've spent many bored hours in high school daydreaming of how I would like to fuck with people in the distant past with technology had I been given the chance.
Considering the size of the observable universe... I'd say its pretty goddamn likely that there are intelligent beings out there. But I'm with you... I'm in no position to confirm their existence.
I haven't thought about it in a long... loooong time. It was just one of those things that swirled around my head in boring high school classes to keep myself entertained.
Not to say that I would actually do it. Its just, fun to think about how one small event would change the way people did shit for a long time... Like maybe, blowing a fireball in the face of an early Pope... shit like that.
