I'm doing 43 things
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2 years ago
My mum bubble-wrapped my bike, LOL!
SCOTSMAN's Life List
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1. meet my father
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2. study Law
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3. age my home-brewed wine for at least 1 year
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4. grow (legal) psychocative plants like Peyote
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5. get a hole punch for leather etc.
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6. buy or build a house or a flat
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7. be financially solvent
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8. go to festivals doing mindlab on a stall or selling homebrew beer or food like bhajia
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9. learn to take things easy
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10. eat more
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11. learn more about neurology, neuropharmacology and philosophy of mind
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12. smoke the venom of the cane toad
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13. do a phD or post-grad M Sc.
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14. gain weight
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15. I want GTC accreditation (if you don't know what that is, forget it)
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16. get a paper guillotine
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17. I want German-style beer glasses with a stem
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18. I want to develop my business plan selling vinyl records online and make a success of it
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19. I want to record my mixing onto CDs
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20. acquire some nice jewellery
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21. go to japan
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22. I want kids - eventually.
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23. I want to live in accomodation with a shower and a bath
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24. I want to get some clear glasses - just for vanity!
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25. I want to continue developing my IT skills
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26. get a new amp (a Sony TE-FE70?) and power amp for parties too
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27. stay off tobacco
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28. learn to play an instrument
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29. take peyote or mescaline
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30. finish reading 'The Mating Mind' by Geoffrey Millar
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31. finish reading 'Thinking About Things' by Brenda Jugde
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32. write a book or books about...
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33. I want mobile internet access
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34. I want to go to Nature-One festival in Germany next year
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35. I want to be able to print labels
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36. I want to go back to Scotland or the North-East of England at the very least
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37. I want to read 'The Cosmic Serpent' (Narby)
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38. I want to progress my career to teaching at HE level
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39. I want to be really fit and healthy
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40. I want to learn Urdu
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41. I want a paper shredder
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42. I want to find a storage space for grooming products such as nail clippers
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43. go on holiday
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Recent entries
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3 years ago
I joined the Association of Teachers and Lecturers and got free entry for the first year as a newly-qualified instructor. Though I’m not really. Resultado!
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3 years ago
...the Tibetan Book of the Dead, reincarnation, consciousness, mind-body issues, drug use, music, dancing and trance states in ancient and modern societies, also looking at overlaps and similarities between psychotic/schizophrenic states, magic, seances, and divination.
I would begin by analysing consciousness as a dynamic, self-perpetuating and inherently evolutionary entity, as opposed to a ‘by-product’ of physical processes as in mainstream western science. I would point out the essential unity of mind and body by asking readers to try to imagine physical matter divorced from awareness (history and the passage fo time as we know it would surely cease as no observer would be present to mark the progression from one state to the next) and contrasting this with mind in isolation from material reality (clearly impossible as no conscious entity could embody self-awareness, lacking anything to distinguish it’s ‘self’ from.
I would then proceed to discuss different ‘histories’ of the universe from a pseudo-scientific viewpoint. I would ask the reader to consider the notion that in essence there are two likely histories of material reality – it either has, or hasn’t existed forver. When one considers carefully the ramifications of an infinite timeline for the universe, it becomes possible or perhaps even likely that this event (my writing this) has occured before and/or will occur again. The situation would be analogous to rearranging the objects in a room endlessly and indefinitely: the chances of reaching an arrangement which has already been in existence increase to an almost infinite level. On the other hand, concieving the universe as having a defiunite starting point gives rise to the problem of explaining how somethjing can be made out of nothing. I will therefore conclude that neither of these scenarios applies in reality and the only logical conclusion to draw is that the universe does not exist and never has done. [more to follow]
