The Book of Ashes
Legend in his own mind, creator of all you see here, he walks this Earth on the path of the becoming.
On Monday, 19, April 2004 Ashes wrote...
Marks farewell... 12:48PM
Ok, ok, so the site so far is just function. The graphics are there as place holders. I know it doesn't all go together yet but its going to be a lot of work just to get things back to normal let alone better. Hang on through the crap days.
Hmmm... money permeates my mind at the moment. Entwined in every second thought. Its amazing how much some people earn. Imagine if I earnt 80K. I'd have 2-3K spare each month to spend on what ever or save. Thats a lot of money dude. Hmmm... how can I earn 80K. Working for some who's taking most of the cut isn't the way. But still. I have a few plans up my sleaves.
Today is brillantly hot (for autumn) and sunny. Its beautiful. Saw a thing about Christians and rock bands last night on 20/20. Didn't realise so many NZ singers were Christians. Religion really bugs me. How can people so fully believe in a made up story? Still, its so fundamental to the way we think it makes me believe its something inherent in sentient life and therefore other [alien] species would also believe in religion [over science]. It just doesn't make sense.
Read an article in my New Scientist about a guy who believes theres savants locked within each of us. His theory is based on the fact that some people acquire savant like abilities after suffering brain damage, in particular to certain parts of the brain. His solution to test this was to apply a strong magnetic force, focused to this part of the brain so that it effectively shuts down that part of the brain. After 15 minutes of drawing and doing artistic skills they believe they got improvements of peoples memory, drawing ability, etc... Stuff that, I wouldn't volunteer to stick my head in a massive magnet to shut down part of my brain. The belief is that your brain notices a lot of detail, too much, and the concious part blocks you from most of this. By shutting down parts of the brain you no long get this blocking affect. You would affectively become autistic. Unable to understand people, communicate or be creative, but in being linked with your primitive mind you notice large quantities of data, allowing you to reproduce accurate pictures of buildings you'd only seen once or animals or what ever. Very interesting. If only we could somehow control this, turn it on during your turn at drawing in pictionary for example. What wonders could we benefit from...
It also reminds me of the time I was so hung over I didn't want to move. I effectively shut down my thinking (thats what it felt like) to survive and then for a short period I could picture peoples faces in 3D, rotate them around and it was VERY life like. So much detail. Stuff getting that hung over again to repeat the experiment though :