The thought occured to me the heuristics are really just symptoms of
obsesive compulsive disorder. And I have developed quite a number of
useful models that have helped me do things, like win chess games
verses artificial intelligence.
Today at the gym I developed a new sort of heuristic that a friend
indirectly taught me. It is called "Minding the edges of awareness".
All you have to do is direct your gaze lower, so your attention is
floating around your feet or at least above the ground, and put all of
your visual awareness on your left hand.
These two processes dramatically increase your abillity to relax, and
to be alert to everything going on you around the peripheral of your
environment.
When you look directly forward you have tunnel vision, because our
eyes are trained to stair at objects. Televisions, computers, pretty
women, deer, etc. But when you look down at the ground around your
feet, and "lower your gaze". Then you tune into a larger sensory
operating mode, involving the ears, and tactile senses.
And the same is true when you put attention on your left hand. I like
to keep my left hand loose when I am walking through an area or am on
the street, with my right hand in my pocket. With my gaze on my left
hand I don't look suspicious at all. But doing this simple heuristic,
I completely and entirely relax, and it allows me to focus and
interact with my enviornment using both my right and left brain. That
way I don't get distracted, and I don't worry about the nervous energy
or body language around me.
This might be considered "left handed" in old times, because even if
I was sneaking up on you to attack, you wouldn't sense my movements as
being anything other than calm and ordinary. Perhaps even
deliberately graceful. Like a CIA agent who was about to twist your
neck off with his bare hands.
Maybe I should apply for a pattent. You think?
They don't give out patents for stupidity, besides you are over qualified.
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Q: What's tiny and yellow and very, very, dangerous?
A: A canary with the super-user password.
Froz...
Hahah! Whatever Froz. There are dozens of people reading this post
who aren't obsesive compulsively critical. Best thing I can do is
laugh it off anyway. Because I went out and gave this hueristic a run
today, and found out a lot about human behavior.
Just giving myself a walk through town, I noticed that I felt very
much in place with my environment and was moving with the flow of
trafic around the town and the people very easily. Never out of step
with what was going on around me, not tripping out about anything.
Then when I found a nice place to sit down with a cup of coffee, and
do a little reading two gentleman were discussing loud nonsense right
next to me. So as I got up to leave, offended at their outrageous
noise pollution I walked off. And then they started following me. So
I just turned a corner into an alley and walked around the block
again, and they were none the wiser. So if you ask me the whole thing
followed natural, and intentional human hueristics.
But the odd part is what I started noticing that was completely out of
the ordinary. After those fellows were following me, I began to make
my way back home. Except as I did, I noticed someone walking through
the mist. He had oil all over him, and I couldn't tell if he had a
beard, or even if he was wearing dark sunglasses. I'm not sure if he
was really ethnic, or if he was white. But he was a mix of dark and
light colors, blended in with the low visibility of the mist. Out of
my peripheral I saw him aproaching, and I waved and met his gaze.
He was a short fellow, who walked with upright millitary posture. He
spoke loud, with a confident tone that wasn't angry at all. "You look
ti'ed there. Ah you ti'ed?" His accent sounded like something that
people in the aplichacian mountains still only used, but reminded me
of a time traveleror from the past. I told him I was, smiled and
walked along my way. There wasn't any problems at all, but if I was a
mistress of the evening walking through the streets this time at
dusk. With such a thick fog, I would have been more woried.
But he had anchored me into a new reality, that other people may not
have seen. A paranoid reality of shadows, where there were real
victims, and real heroes. Where the archetypes within stories were
real. Perhaps it was a momentary laps of sanity. But looking back
it seems that it all was orchestrated. And that maybe there are
people stalking the twilight, gathering intelligence, and manipulating
us.
In heurestics the idea is called anchoring. If you present someone
with a presentation along certain lines, they will still feel like it
is relavent later on in life. Like your insults make me feel the
people in my life would say the same thing to me. But my program that
I wrote about is another kind of anchor, that over-rides the usual
ordinary reality. And opens you up to noticing what is really going
down on the edges of reality. It lets you see through the fog.
But the lesson I learned today is that you can't trust all of the
anchors that act as our guides. This dark figure was light a
lighthouse in the night, sounding off a fog horn to a ship at sea.
Perhaps if you see me again, then maybe running won't be good enough.
Especially if I catch you at night, when you are already so tired.
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Hatter Quotes
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"You're only one of the best if you're striving to become one of the
best."
"I didn't make reality, Sunshine, I just verbally bitch slapped you
with it."
"I'm not a professional, I'm an artist."
"Your Usenet blinders are my best friend."
"Usenet Filters - Learn to shut yourself the fuck up!"
"Drugs killed Jesus you know...oh wait, no, that was the Jews, my
bad."
"There are clingy things in the grass...burrs 'n such...mmmm..."
"The more I learn the more I'm killing my idols."
"Is it wrong to incur and then use the hate ridden, vengeful stupidity
of complete strangers in random Usenet froups to further my art?"
"Freedom is only a concept, like race it's merely a social construct
that doesn't really exist outside of your ability to convince others
of its relevancy."
"Next time slow up a lil, then maybe you won't jump the gun and start
creamin yer panties before it's time to pop the champagne proper."
"Reality is directly proportionate to how creative you are."
"People are pretty fucking high on themselves if they think that
they're just born with a soul. *snicker*...yeah, like they're just
givin em out for free."
"Quible, quible said the Hare. Quite a lot of quibling...everywhere.
So the Hare took a long stare and decided at best, to leave the rest,
to their merry little mess."
"There's a difference between 'bad' and 'so earth shatteringly
horrible it makes the angels scream in terror as they violently rip
their heads off, their blood spraying into the faces of a thousand
sweet innocent horrified children, who will forever have the terrible
images burned into their tiny little minds'."
"How sad that you're such a poor judge of style that you can't even
properly gauge the artistic worth of your own efforts."
"Those who record history are those who control history."
"I am the living embodiment of hell itself in all its tormentive rage,
endless suffering, unfathomable pain and unending horror...but you
don't get sent to me...I come for you."
"Ideally in a fight I'd want a BGM-109A with a W80 250 kiloton
tactical thermonuclear fusion based war head."
"Tell me, would you describe yourself more as a process or a
function?"
"Apparently this group has got the market cornered on stupid.
Intelligence is down 137 points across the board and the forecast
indicates an increase in Webtv users."
"Is my .sig delimiter broken? Really? You're sure? Awww,
gee...that's too bad...for YOU!" `, )
> WHAT DOES THIS NUT SMOKE??
"CoreyWhite" <Corey...@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:1172093749.9...@j27g2000cwj.googlegroups.com...
>So would that mean that everyone who looks at their left hand has to pay you
>royalties?
What the fuck is this Retard Week or something? I swear if I see just
one more top poasting, attribution header snipping, thread continuity
fucking retard I'm just gonna have to start gettin nasty...and oh, oh
you don't wanna see me nasty, Kiddo.
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Onideus Mad Hatter
mhm น x น
1) When reading them in an email you tend to faceplant into the
keyboard with boredom after the third stanza.
2) They are commonly mistaken for the babblings of an unemployed
writer or something from the tower of babel
3) Without the aid of visual and auditory awareness; what YOU perceive
as your anchor may not be what the readers unconcious picks up.
I am interested in your theory on a lowered gaze and narrowed
attention. Why is it you chose your left hand?
One theory involving neurolinguistic programming would have it that
you could well be walking around accessing your 'Auditory Internal
Dialogue' representational system by shifting your focus lower left of
center. This website http://www.manifestation.com/neurotoys/calibrate.php3
states that this gate is used to generate language, or "That little
voice in your head."
If the whole premise of ericksonian hypnosis is valid then by
focussing attention on your left hand while occupying the concious
mind through peripheral visual stimuli, you could well be accessing an
altered state of conciousness in which you surrender your safety to
your unconcious mind. I believe that YOUR unconcious mind is well
capable of taking care of your safety, it's managed to get you this
far hasn't it? But don't be suprised if after walking around tomorrow
you NOW feel so thirsty and dry in the mouth that YOUR unconcious mind
is screaming at you to get a drink of Coke! NOW !!
I find it impossible to focus attention on more than one thing at a
time, as i am sure alot of other people do, so for me a bad idea would
be walking around town with a narrowed attention and my head down
without safety equipment. My thoughts are that you use your fixed
attention on your left hand as a conduit to slip into an altered
state. Once there you are peripherally aware of you surroundings on
some unconcious level, while your concious mind is occupied with many
many other things, including remembering to occassionaly remember your
left hand and to forget to remember to focus on your right hand in
your pocket. If this is the case then i envy you and i pity you. I
envy you because this is a state of mind most sought after. I pity you
because YOUR ..... unconcious mind ... wil still FEEL like screaming
at you ... NOW ... to get a drink of coke!
Thanks for the link, that is almost exactly what I am doing. Except I
call the process astral grounding. Running attention into your feet,
and into the ground, while letting it extend through the left side of
your body doesn't just tune you into the subconscious. It is like
when electrical lines are struck by lightning or recieve radio
interference. If your cable are grounded the signal comes through
loud and clear, so you have more control. You don't have to stare at
the ground, but mind the edges of it and notice where you put each of
your feet as you walk about, while at the same time keeping attention
on your left hand. The left hand is like a shield, and watching the
ground makes it easy to look all around you without using your eyes.
It is called stopping to think. And when you think you have seen
something just look up to meet it with your eyes, and then go back to
noticing your hand. So whatever you see doesn't put you into a trance.
>R<Hatter shits in Joe's mouth>
You let me know if you want some more, Kiddo.
More lame tactics? Sure usenet can always use more lame tactics.
>
> --
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> Onideus Mad Hatter
> mhm ą x ą
>>>R<Hatter shits in Joe's mouth>
>> You let me know if you want some more, Kiddo.
>More<Hatter shits some more down Joe's mouth>
Still hungry?
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Onideus Mad Hatter
mhm น x น
"Onideus Mad Hatter" <use...@backwater-productions.net> wrote in message
news:e5cqt2lrn10l12n2h...@4ax.com...
>What's wrong with top posting anyway?
Well first of all you're doing more than just top poasting, you're
snipping out the attribution line too. Both of which are important
for a little something called THREAD CONTINUITY. Imagine taking a
novel and then reading the chapters in reverse order, starting say at
chapter 15, then to 14, then to 13, etc, etc. Although in your case
you're snipping attribution lines, in which case you're pretty much
reading random chapters with no names. Not gonna make a whole lot of
sense that way, now is it? Yeah, that's why you don't top poast, ya
dumb fuck. Now, MOST PEOPLE who aren't retards have the ability to
figure this out on their own, but there are some people, like yourself
Luke, who are what we like to refer to as "chromosomal deficients" or
"trainables" and with your kind, special attention has to be given to
explain the incredible fucking obvious.
"Onideus Mad Hatter" <use...@backwater-productions.net> wrote in message
news:a6vst2h24oiklp3n3...@4ax.com...
>But you can read my reply and also have what I'm on about below. It doesn't
>matter where the reply is. It's not worth the hassle, really. You make it
>sound like I just destroyed an entire rainforest.
Well technically you are destroying the rainforest of Usenet. See the
problem is...again, you're retarded. As such you don't comprehend the
NATURE of Usenet. You don't ALWAYS have all of the posts, sometimes
there are propagation issues, sometimes you're Google diving for
information, sometimes posts are picked up and reposted on Webbie
Boards, etc, etc. In one of those events, imagine you posted a story,
a chapter of it each week, but as fucking stupid as you are, you top
poasted every time. This is what it's going to look like (imagine
each sections as being several pages in length):
>>>>They wound up with horrible gas and bloating all night long.
>>>Once they were safe they went home and ate beans.
>>>The ghost frightened the two and ran them out of the forest.
>>In the forest they encountered a spooky ghost.
>Dick and Jane went for a walk in a spooky forest.
DUM DUM DUM DUM DUM DUM...and remember retard, that could be the ONLY
post they have access to. Or, even if it's NOT the only post they
have access to, they would wind up having to link and read EVERY
SINGLE POST rather than simply thread jumping to the bottom and being
able to track ALL IN ONE POST. Sure for YOU AND I who are MAKING THE
POSTS, yeah, it doesn't really matter all that much, but FOR EVERYONE
ELSE it's kind of an important thing.
Further, if you weren't a retard you would realize that you're using
Outhouse Express, which IS NOT a news reader, it's a MAIL READER that
has some halfassed new reading functionality bitched into it...very
sloppily at that. But hey, you're a retard, I mean it's not like we
can expect retards to figure out how to operate that REALLY
COMPLICATED Google thing and find out about all the other ACTUAL news
readers/clients which will AUTOMATICALLY JUMP TO THE BOTTOM ON
REPLY...nah...we can't expect that from trainables, no siree.
Of course, now that I think about it, a LOT of newsgroups actually
include this BASIC information in their FAQs...but then, I guess we
can't expect a RETARD to figure it the fuck out that they should read
a froups FAQ BEFORE THEY START POSTING...nah, just fire up that
idiot-ware Outhouse Express and wow, yer on Usenet like a WebTV user
is on the Internet! ...tha fuck, does it GET any more retarded for
you?
Still underwhealmed by your "wit".
>>>>>R<Hatter shits in Joe's mouth>
>>>> You let me know if you want some more, Kiddo.
>>>More<Hatter shits some more down Joe's mouth>
>> Still hungry?
>Still<Hatter shits some more down Joe's throat>
Just can't get enough, huh?
"Onideus Mad Hatter" <use...@backwater-productions.net> wrote in message
news:1m0tt25uopkqmkt1e...@4ax.com...
>Tha<COCK SLAP>
I'm sorry, I don't read posts made by retards.
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Onideus Mad Hatter
mhm ą x ą
"Onideus Mad Hatter" <use...@backwater-productions.net> wrote in message
news:1m0tt25uopkqmkt1e...@4ax.com...
> That's some terrible OCD you have there.
A terrible lack of ability to edit the quoted material you have there.
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Nemo
"Nemo" <inv...@invalid.net> wrote in message
news:IqSdnRSTQbvPGXzY...@pipex.net...
>> A terrible lack of ability to edit the quoted material you have
>> there.
Coupled with an inability, no doubt due to the use of Microsoft®
products, to post replies below the quoted material. One is then able
to follow the course of the debate. As you are formatting your replies
at present, one sees the answer before the question. vide:
http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/usenet/brox.html
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Nemo
High baby, You want to get tied up? You into that sort of thing?