No I love Sam Adams and I know, I know.. lol. I was just pondering the smaller microbreweries exporting, that'd be interesting to see what true foreigners have to say about ours compared to theirs.
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I am very happy to be vaping about 5 months now and off that wretched nicotine gum which is what I used first.
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Sounds like you've never been anywhere near San Diego, the microbrew capital of the world.
baltimore and philly are the pretty keen on their home brews too. I've been out west, a lot of good beers have come from your side.. like sierra nevada for instance, they started off in a local home-brewers group. You're going to inevitably lose some fans when you get "big", but it doesn't mean you have to lose quality too. I know some microbreweries out of delware and maryland that grew pretty quick and they're still just as good as ever. Guinness lost a lot of fans when the government forced them to clean the meat out of their vats back in the 70's, but I still love it even though it's healthier
All the cyclists in bmore go down to canton which is a small micro-brew loving town. I've sampled some very interesting and delicious brews but a lot of time these fly-by-night guys don't have the right technique. Even some of the lesser breweries that have gained some reputation have been around for a while. Purely d.i.y home brew is hit or miss.. usually miss. first timers killing their mash with too many hops and bizarre spices that don't amalgamate at all.
when all is said and done, a good time-tested craft beer really hits the spot. I really like Blue Moon's seasonal harvest ales. If you want some good imported pub ale, try boddingtons from manchester. they're pretty big in the U.S now. They come in 4 pint cans with the widgets like guinness and murphy's stout.
All the cyclists in bmore go down to canton which is a small micro-brew loving town. I've sampled some very interesting and delicious brews but a lot of time these fly-by-night guys don't have the right technique. Even some of the lesser breweries that have gained some reputation have been around for a while. Purely d.i.y home brew is hit or miss.. usually miss. first timers killing their mash with too many hops and bizarre spices that don't amalgamate at all.
when all is said and done, a good time-tested craft beer really hits the spot. I really like Blue Moon's seasonal harvest ales. If you want some good imported pub ale, try boddingtons from manchester. they're pretty big in the U.S now. They come in 4 pint cans with the widgets like guinness and murphy's stout.
45 and was a PAD smoker for 27yrs..I got tired of the constant cough the EVIL TAX BULLIES and the PC POLICE...I quit the day my kit arrived in the mail 8 months ago..it is still amazing to me how easy it was
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How much is a pack where your living Chaos? Here in CT I believe we are the second most expensive state in the contiguous states. Last I checked, a pack of Newport 100's was around $8.50, $8.25 if you were lucky, but a lot of gas stations were selling them for $8.75 which would really pee me off. I remember getting coins back from a $10 bill when I'd buy a pack of my favorite smokes, and that's when I switched to RYO tobacco.
Here in Maryland it's about $6.90 a pack. The tax generates about 475 million dollars a year just for the state. Then there's the federal tax too. The loose tobacco tax was raised from $1 a pound to $20 a pound. Way to help the poor!
Here's how it sounds to me:
You're poor? You smoke rolling tobacco? well, not for long buddy. We'll tax you for your own good. We'll raise the prices so high that you won't be able to afford them. Doing it for your health you stupid, lazy, degenerate ***. Um, You're welcome....
Meanwhile these guys cash in their expense accounts, put a few million into miscellaneous state projects, then the rest vanishes. Annapolis never ever uses their tax dollars for what they claim the original goal is. Baltimore city has the same problem. Every time the stats are analyzed they fall short. Total bookeeping nightmare. They'll get backed into a corner when someone questions them, say the dollars went to the general fund, and then wait for the news to report a shooting,
and casually change the subject.
You were looking for lost tax revenue when you started off... by the end of it you're celebrating Baltimore's murder rate plummeting.. safe and sedated.
Here's how it sounds to me:
You're poor? You smoke rolling tobacco? well, not for long buddy. We'll tax you for your own good. We'll raise the prices so high that you won't be able to afford them. Doing it for your health you stupid, lazy, degenerate ***. Um, You're welcome....
Meanwhile these guys cash in their expense accounts, put a few million into miscellaneous state projects, then the rest vanishes. Annapolis never ever uses their tax dollars for what they claim the original goal is. Baltimore city has the same problem. Every time the stats are analyzed they fall short. Total bookeeping nightmare. They'll get backed into a corner when someone questions them, say the dollars went to the general fund, and then wait for the news to report a shooting,
and casually change the subject.
You were looking for lost tax revenue when you started off... by the end of it you're celebrating Baltimore's murder rate plummeting.. safe and sedated.
hahaha gotta love it. I loved someones ecf signature it really captures the times we're in. I believe it said something like "watching the democrats and republicans fight in congress and the senate is a lot like watching a pair of drunkards fight over the tab in a bar aboard the Titanic" haha.. Yeup.. :/ I have been interested in politics all my life. Conspiracy theories grabbed my attention when I was around 13 years old and I've been into politics ever since. This is the greatest country on Earth but we've got some huge problems that we're going to SUFFER through, and ARE suffering through, unfortunately.
I tried to get into physics just so I could avoid irksome political debates at the pub and at parties 'n what not. Next thing I know I'm almost in a fist fight with my buddy Bart over what Time really is.. hahaha. Arguing is a sport for those who want to learn from their injuries, I always say.
I'm not so much a Conspiracy Theorist as I am a skeptic. I can be convinced of facts, I simply demand good reason and evidence to do so.
I'm not so much a Conspiracy Theorist as I am a skeptic. I can be convinced of facts, I simply demand good reason and evidence to do so.
I feel ya. I love physics and I've spent a lot of my life researching into a lot of physics and philosophies as well. Great stuff. When I was younger, I always used to think that even if I failed out of high school, never went to college, even if I ended up homeless, I'd still have my strong beliefs and my thoughts to keep my company. Now that I am turning 21, I am changing a lot and moving away from that, haha.
Betrand Russel once said, "A philosopher cannot fear the absurd", in reference to some critical issues like matter, space, time, thoughts and reality in general. When you really get into philosophy, I'm not talkin' about just studying it at a school... I mean like some serious real life journeys..you'll know what he meant. It can be like what Hunter S. Thompson called, the Introspective Nightmare. And you don't need any substance to take your mind to the extreme depths it's capable of reaching. ..
some times I've got caught "too deep in the rabbit hole" and it's extraordinarily difficult to return to normal after that. My girlfriend asked a cool question when I first met her and I was talkin' about this kind of thing.. she asked what's the difference between psychosis and philosophy? Obviously marriam-webster could give you two disparate meanings, but in reality there's such a fine line that they are almost the same. If you're not careful, it will become a psychosis very easily as Philip k .... found to be true.
really, If you look at some of the hardcore equations that theoretical physicists have come up with, like Schrodinger... nothing really makes sense at all. Not even nothing itself. I urge people to be comfortable with what they believe reality to be and enjoy the time they have here. I try to follow my own advice too, but every now 'n then I slip back into some bizarre thinking.
some times I've got caught "too deep in the rabbit hole" and it's extraordinarily difficult to return to normal after that. My girlfriend asked a cool question when I first met her and I was talkin' about this kind of thing.. she asked what's the difference between psychosis and philosophy? Obviously marriam-webster could give you two disparate meanings, but in reality there's such a fine line that they are almost the same. If you're not careful, it will become a psychosis very easily as Philip k .... found to be true.
really, If you look at some of the hardcore equations that theoretical physicists have come up with, like Schrodinger... nothing really makes sense at all. Not even nothing itself. I urge people to be comfortable with what they believe reality to be and enjoy the time they have here. I try to follow my own advice too, but every now 'n then I slip back into some bizarre thinking.
Trust me, you underestimate my research. (although I'd still like to remain humble about it) I didn't apply myself much at all in school. Growing up I thought of school as a "bad" institution designed to pump out programmed minds. I would come home from school and spend my entire day, into the night, and OFTEN until time to get ready for school, researching philosophy, ego, mind, phychology, politics, religion, art, etc. etc. So, I can empathise and understand what you mean by being lost in thought and it being a complete shock that can take over your emotion and your mind and disallow your thinking of anything else for long periods of time. I have practiced altered and unaltered introspection and even meditation and I too believe in unaltered more so than I believe in altered states of meditation. I completely agree that after prolonged exposure to philosophical thought, and research into different philosophies, you can lose ground and get lost, and it DOES become a perminant thing. I am still lost and I don't think there is any going back to normality at a certain point. My beliefs are different than the average human for the rest of my life and I don't have a big problem with that at all. I've experienced Ego death on psychedelics as well. I spent a night in the hospital, with my mother by my side the whole time, outside of my body. My life was devoted to introspection, research, ego perception, psychonautics. Psychonautics does not pertain to the use of psychedelics, but rather introspection into the mind, and philosophical and psychological exploration. The root word being psycho, or, psychosis, speaks for itself. If you choose to research into the mind, the ego, the universe and all it's greatest philosophical minds and ideas, you wont be the same person as your neighbor, or as you were before you did so. Also, living in the moment is a great pheat and I definitely recommend anyone reading this research and try it themselves. Recommended Reading: The Power of Now by Echheartd Tolle. I know, I know, if anyone reading this is into this type of thing, The Power of Now is not necessarily the greatest book, more of the HYPE and fashion of the true power of now than.. The true power of now, haha.. But, it will get your foot in the door and set your path in the right direction. Its a beautiful book.
I got a periodic table of elements from the science center for my view-out room a few years back... for some reason I thought it would help bring me back if I got too lost while . It's a time when I started gettin' really crazy into philosophy so I attempted to get more into physics and objective sciences. I read Werner Heisenberg's Physics and Philosophy trying to distinguish one from another. The period table of elements actually made things worse one night I was tripping. suddenly I knew that there was no such thing as a solid ground. If anything science was inferior to what kind of chaos the mind could produce. Then the secrets of the universe had another intangible barrier to surmount: the most complicated piece of matter in known existence--- the brain. A self aware organ that seemingly functions on its own without the help of consciousness, ego, or anything. If the mind can create it, then it exists. Fortunately as Einstein pointed out, God doesn't play dice.. there seems to be a set of fundamental laws the govern the universe... but any one single malfunction in the brain, and all laws of physics vanish, as dreams and hallucinations demonstrate. Then, as I peaked, I realized that there is no rational explanation for the existence of the human brain whatsoever...and no theory to this date has been able to satisfy this riddle and possibly never will.
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Wouldn't you say the human brain or mind serves as an evolutionary achievement of the universe? If all things evolve forward, I see the human being and the human mind as being the most highly evolved matter we know of. Matter that has become self-aware. From every microorganism to every miniscule atom, some of the main objectives of everything are to survive, multiply, adapt, improve. If we are made up of the Universe, then I see consciousness itself as a progressing evolutionary trait of the Universe itself to survive, adapt, multiply, improve. Consciousness of the mind is needed to acknowledge existence. Without consciousness we would just be matter without meaning. Our life's meaning is to witness. At least, that is a part of it, haha.
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That's an interesting concept, but any attempt to anthropomorphize the universe seems a bit pantheistic to me. Evolution being an achievement of the universe implies that the universe itself is a conscious, sentient system of matter with intentions and goals. If this were true, then the statement that human consciousness is necessary to acknowledge the universe's existence becomes invalid, since that would mean it was already conscious enough to give rise to our sentience. There would be no "need" to become self aware if the inherent condition of the universe is inert matter. I see the human brain as an unexplained phenomenon on every fathomable angle. It just doesn't make sense why it exists or how it came into existence in the first place.
I prescribed to the pantheistic belief systems for a long while back in the day. There are too many theories to list obviously but I do like to play around with different ones in my head. Perhaps we are a budding off of the universe's consciousness. Our carbon based matter has come together and evolved in an attempt to share in the universe's consciousness. Perhaps that is the main goal of all matter, to become as one with the mother matter, the mother consciousness? I like to think that matter is nothingness, and consciousness is the singularity that brought "somethingness" to the nothingness. These two "things" need each other to exist and they create each other out of themselves. If you think about how there could not always be matter, and there was once nothing, then I think it becomes easier to see that matter is nothing. Without consciousness to create something, or without consciousness to witness something, or nothing for that matter, then there can't be anything made or witnessed. I'm rambling and this is just a silly thing I like to say to people that haven't really looked into philosophy at all, but I still find it fun to think of. Also this theory is only a silly theory and it only works within the confines of the human mind and, so, there is no validity in my opinion. The first thing that anyone who knows philosophy says to me when I recite this theory is a string of words that can shatter any theory of beginning... We as humans have never experienced nothingness, it may be outside the ability of our minds to comprehend, so it can exist, we just can't comprehend it.
Another thing I love to think about is that we are all force. We are all energy force. When we burn oil we are burning plants and animals that devoured other plants and animals that grew from energy from the sun. The sun is a burning star that is burning from the explosion of the big bang. We are all running on the energy from the big bang. We are all essentially made up from the energy of the big bang. So in essense we are energy, we are force, we are the "playing out" or the action of the universe's creation and existence and we are a part of the end as well. So if that is true, there is obviously no such thing as time, there is only one instance, one thing, and that one thing is still happening, it hasn't ended, and we are all just a part of this one thing happening, when it ends, if it ends, we end.
I guess I'll leave it at that, enoughs enough for one night.
Another thing I love to think about is that we are all force. We are all energy force. When we burn oil we are burning plants and animals that devoured other plants and animals that grew from energy from the sun. The sun is a burning star that is burning from the explosion of the big bang. We are all running on the energy from the big bang. We are all essentially made up from the energy of the big bang. So in essense we are energy, we are force, we are the "playing out" or the action of the universe's creation and existence and we are a part of the end as well. So if that is true, there is obviously no such thing as time, there is only one instance, one thing, and that one thing is still happening, it hasn't ended, and we are all just a part of this one thing happening, when it ends, if it ends, we end.
I guess I'll leave it at that, enoughs enough for one night.
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I was at a film festival a couple years ago and there were these two neurobiologists trying to figure out how memory works in the human brain. Take for instance, a random thought. Think of an event at random that you actually experienced, immediately there are details produced in the brain, even mental images. So they said how can I see these memories while I'm looking at you right now? Then it dawned on them that retrospection, introspection, and immediate sensory data about current reality could all essentially exist simultaneously in the brain. How can it process something that did happen, something that could hypothetically happen (a plan, an idea, etc), and something that is happening presently all at the same time? Well, then you have to think about what is actually past, present, and future. where does The present actually take place? Then they theorized that if you had no memory at all whatsoever, then it would be impossible to process the present, therefore the future could not exist either. So time is dependent on neurology, and not actual objective reality. But then what is memory itself?
Some computer engineers were attempting to compare human memory to a memory system built into a computer, but really they work completely differently.. we know this because even the most experienced neurobiologist could not supply an answer to how memory was stored in the brain. Many theories and conjectures were produced, but nevertheless no sustainable results or facts.
The only way to ever figure it even how the brain operates (which excludes how it came into existence altogether) is to reverse engineer it entirely, and then reconstruct it. If this would be possible, which some people believe it is... then it would theoretically be possible to clone consciousness.. create an exact replica of a human brain. So then I asked myself, how will two identical sources of consciousness (not like identical twins, but completely the same in every aspect) be able to exist at the same time? This isn't like making a copy of a tshirt or a barcode that says the same thing.. but unique because both sources would be self-aware simultaneously in pure equality.
Some computer engineers were attempting to compare human memory to a memory system built into a computer, but really they work completely differently.. we know this because even the most experienced neurobiologist could not supply an answer to how memory was stored in the brain. Many theories and conjectures were produced, but nevertheless no sustainable results or facts.
The only way to ever figure it even how the brain operates (which excludes how it came into existence altogether) is to reverse engineer it entirely, and then reconstruct it. If this would be possible, which some people believe it is... then it would theoretically be possible to clone consciousness.. create an exact replica of a human brain. So then I asked myself, how will two identical sources of consciousness (not like identical twins, but completely the same in every aspect) be able to exist at the same time? This isn't like making a copy of a tshirt or a barcode that says the same thing.. but unique because both sources would be self-aware simultaneously in pure equality.
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I recently watched a video attempting to explain that human memories are completely internal and mechanical, and not involved at all in the "spirit" theory. It was on TED talks. Apparently scientists have found, or they would like us to believe they're theories or findings, which are that physicial PARTS of the brain create memories. They have also figured out, or they believe they've figured out, that consciousness, or SELF, ID, etc... comes directly and solely from the brain stem. It was very interesting man, I'll try to find it for you.
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So...uh...not to interrupt anything but...man...this Smok Tech XXXL Clear Dual Coil Cartomizer sure hits pretty hard. Not sure I like it.
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