Comment on Open Thread, July 1-15, 2013

Thu, 11 Jul 2013 22:55:18 GMT

Where do your friends get this stuff? Did they read the Sequences on LSD or something?

I doubt it, for the sequences are very long and I don't think one's attention span would hold while tripping. They might have read David Lewis on LSD.

It comes from many different places. Friend A got here through psychedelics and Schrodinger, friend B through their families' Hindu beliefs dating back thousands of years. Oddly enough, they mostly agree with each other.

Do they do anything differently in everyday life on account of it (besides talking about it)?

Not really. Many of them try to influence reality through positive thinking, but then this probably has psychosomatic benefits anyway. But, if for instance one of them was ill, they would use conventional medicine.

How did you get the belief that it is lawful?

Why do I believe that the universe is lawful? Because it appears lawful, and due to reasons discussed in other replies to my post, and my common sense has marked the alternative as insane.

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