Documentary Thread

[Badman Juice]

you don't seem sure about much that's why you keep using question marks, isn't it?

thats right, i'm not quite sure why you have to keep trying to be an internet hardman, being a dick to everyone? does it make you feel clever?
it's funny how you base this on one comment where i used 2 question marks.
tnuc!

I don't get where you got the hardman thing from, I'm not threatening you with violence. I'm not intentionally being a dick, I just have no desire to impress or befriend anyone on a forum, so I say what I want. I'm winding you up because you decided to make a stupid comment rather than contribute, presumably to make yourself feel clever, and also because I'm a tnuc who derives enjoyment from your agitation.

[tyson]

^ Man, You're only in this thread to complain about someone complaining...

I just finished watching the Wonders of the Solar System series. Good stuff.

[Badman Juice]

Nah I figured I'd reply to him seeing as he has so many questions and explain myself.

It's bait but The Union is a very good documentary.

[laurent__duval]

part 1 is about somewhere, not on youtube though as channel 4 used a bit in a russell brand show.

jokes as fuck though. the manager rips on conrad so much.

[snoretex]

krautrock : the rebirth of germany

[particle-jim]

I just finished watching the Wonders of the Solar System series. Good stuff.

Carl Sagan's Cosmos is far superior... Sagan is the fucking man

[helix]

krautrock : the rebirth of germany

Krautrock is siiiiiq.

[christophera]

carl sagan was a closet pothead who was unable to express how he really felt about the nature of existence due to the political pressures of the scientific community.

[particle-jim]

carl sagan was a closet pothead who was unable to express how he really felt about the nature of existence due to the political pressures of the scientific community.

[christophera]

I do not consider myself a religious person in the usual sense, but there is a religious aspect to some highs. The heightened sensitivity in all areas gives me a feeling of communion with my surroundings, both animate and inanimate. Sometimes a kind of existential perception of the absurd comes over me and I see with awful certainty the hypocrisies and posturing of myself and my fellow men. And at other times, there is a different sense of the absurd, a playful and whimsical awareness. Both of these senses of the absurd can be communicated, and some of the most rewarding highs I’ve had have been in sharing talk and perceptions and humor. Cannabis brings us an awareness that we spend a lifetime being trained to overlook and forget and put out of our minds. A sense of what the world is really like can be maddening; cannabis has brought me some feelings for what it is like to be crazy, and how we use that word ‘crazy’ to avoid thinking about things that are too painful for us. In the Soviet Union political dissidents are routinely placed in insane asylums. The same kind of thing, a little more subtle perhaps, occurs here: ‘did you hear what Lenny Bruce said yesterday? He must be crazy.’ When high on cannabis I discovered that there’s somebody inside in those people we call mad.

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Many but not all my cannabis trips have somewhere in them a symbolism significant to me which I won’t attempt to describe here, a kind of mandala embossed on the high. Free-associating to this mandala, both visually and as plays on words, has produced a very rich array of insights.


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I can remember the night that I suddenly realized what it was like to be crazy, or nights when my feelings and perceptions were of a religious nature. I had a very accurate sense that these feelings and perceptions, written down casually, would not stand the usual critical scrutiny that is my stock in trade as a scientist. If I find in the morning a message from myself the night before informing me that there is a world around us which we barely sense, or that we can become one with the universe, or even that certain politicians are desperately frightened men, I may tend to disbelieve; but when I’m high I know about this disbelief. And so I have a tape in which I exhort myself to take such remarks seriously. I say ‘Listen closely, you sonofabitch of the morning! This stuff is real!’ I try to show that my mind is working clearly; I recall the name of a high school acquaintance I have not thought of in thirty years; I describe the color, typography, and format of a book in another room and these memories do pass critical scrutiny in the morning. I am convinced that there are genuine and valid levels of perception available with cannabis (and probably with other drugs) which are, through the defects of our society and our educational system, unavailable to us without such drugs. Such a remark applies not only to self-awareness and to intellectual pursuits, but also to perceptions of real people, a vastly enhanced sensitivity to facial expression, intonations, and choice of words which sometimes yields a rapport so close it’s as if two people are reading each other’s minds.


http://marijuana-uses.com/mr-x/

[christophera]

sagan made a shitload of money saying that religion is bullshit. it's good to know he was just saying it for money.

[Badman Juice]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b0 ... or_Sinner/

[noam]

by the looks of that photo he's a makeup wearer and more than likely a cross dresser

[wubstep]

Might aswell ask again;

Name of that 'history of oil' type documentary? Starts out on a stage?

Anywhere to watch Wonders of the Universe online?

[aeser]

saw Restrepo recently and it did my head in. best war documentary i've ever seen hands down.

[64hz]

Cannabis enables nonmusicians to know a little about what it is like to be a musician, and nonartists to grasp the joys of art. But I am neither an artist nor a musician. What about my own scientific work? While I find a curious disinclination to think of my professional concerns when high – the attractive intellectual adventures always seem to be in every other area – I have made a conscious effort to think of a few particularly difficult current problems in my field when high. It works, at least to a degree. I find I can bring to bear, for example, a range of relevant experimental facts which appear to be mutually inconsistent. So far, so good. At least the recall works. Then in trying to conceive of a way of reconciling the disparate facts, I was able to come up with a very bizarre possibility, one that I’m sure I would never have thought of down. I’ve written a paper which mentions this idea in passing. I think it’s very unlikely to be true, but it has consequences which are experimentally testable, which is the hallmark of an acceptable theory.

is there any chance you know what this is parson?

[christophera]

dunno

[64hz]

shame, his thought bout cannabis massively reflect some of my own, and infact sooth some of my insecurities.

[christophera]

check this out if you haven't http://marijuana-uses.com/mr-x/

[Bazzle09]

Might aswell ask again;

Name of that 'history of oil' type documentary? Starts out on a stage?

Anywhere to watch Wonders of the Universe online?

This one?