to: all. several completely legitimate and scientific questions

[mathmetism]

heyo, senseis, it’s me, jerry. i have questions.

when we ~transcend~ into this higher plane of consciousness, is our body just chinchillin’ out in reality, totally out of touch? like if someone tries to lick my eyeball, or draw a dickbutt on my face, does the matrix shoot me a ping? or am i just waking up to pink eye?

has a rogue multidimensional being ever hijacked someone’s consciousness while they’re out fishing? y’all ever meet any primeval dark gods of inconceivable pain out there?

has anyone tried calibrating a radio to pick up this frequency instead of playing pink eye roulette?

how do I know which body to come back to? what if i end up in brenda?

how much does perception shape the horizon? if i drop acid, can i effectively transform the singularity into one of those big inflatable wiggly boys they put outside used car dealerships?

let a girl know

hugs & kisses
jerthro trull

Comments

[kobes]

I'm sorry, who's "Brenda"?

[Is that someone he should worry about?]

[mathmetism]

brenda knows who she is and what she’s done
don’t worry about brenda

[kobes]

[He's a little worried about Brenda, now! But, moving on:]

You can't access the Horizon without having some sort of "connection to oneself", so it stands to reason that said connection would enable you to go back to the right body.

Then again, I haven't been here long enough to be any sort of expert. Maybe you're right. Maybe people get mixed up all the time and nobody's mentioned it.

[mathmetism]

baller

i'm not saying it couldn't potentially be wicked cool to body swap with your buddies but a heads up on the possibility would be optimal. like what if you meditated in from a relaxing and lightly sensual bubble bath? a w k w a r d

[kobes]

Sorry?

Right. That would be
Uncomfortable
I don't think that'd be a good idea. What if your body drowns? Do you get stuck in the Horizon forever?

[mathmetism]

you're forgiven

interesting quandary
does that make horizon purgatory? the great beyond? a waiting zone for reincarnation?
do abraxians believe in karma?
more importantly, do they have defibrillators?
i need to do science

[kobes]

No, I meant

[Actually no, nope, not worth it.]

Nevermind.
They believe in gods, I've gathered that much. Maybe THEY believe Horizon's some sort of afterlife waiting room place.
I don't know for sure, I haven't been in it yet.

[Then why is he...even participating in this conversation.]

What's a defibrillator?
Good luck. The technology here is weird.

[Not a snail phone to be seen :(]

[mathmetism]

you ever see dead normal people wandering around the horizon?

a machine that restarts your heart via electrocution if you die
i mean """die"""
what even is death really

[kobes]

No. Because I haven't been there yet.
For all I know, there could be plenty of dead normal people walking around there.
But I feel like it would've been mentioned by now.

Electrocution like lightning? That sounds incredibly unsafe.
Death is when you die. When you aren't alive anymore.

[He'd thought that was obvious???]

[mathmetism]

and yet 50% - 70% successful if deployed within 5 minutes of collapse
i know, wild

is it though?
at what point do you call not alive?
what if you're brain dead but your body's still kicking?
or your body's shut down but you're brain's still going?
how much do you know about Graham's number?

[stations]

Jerry, no.
What did we say about mathematically disproving the concept of death in front of strangers? We talked about this.

[mathmetism]

"its impolite to shatter the fundamental principles of mortality, and funerals aren't the place to awaken randos to the true nature of impermanence and raise the global consciousness one congregation at a time"
man ill never commune with louis armstrong's philosophical genius at this rate

[stations]

I'm sure you'll manage.

[kobes]

That seems like too small of a percentage.
Then again, I guess they're 100% dead if you do nothing, so...maybe not.

You're dead when everything about you's dead.
Nothing.
Who's Graham?
Do they know Brenda?

[mathmetism]

yeah, she owes him money

you're never nothing
"everything about you" is a lot of things
about 18% carbon, 65% oxygen, 10% hydrogen, 3% nitrogen and a whole clusterfuck of other elements doing the molecular cha cha slide inside your skin bag
matter's never created or destroyed
that's all still there when the electrical impulses in your heart and brain cease to cha cha real smooth
while you're decomposing, those atoms disperse into the earth, the plants, the air
that's where all the base materials of you started out
you've been breathing air and eating plants to keep the biological rodeo yeehawing this whole time, it's your entire composition
which part of that's your consciousness, and does it matter if you can't remember when you were something else before the right chemicals lined up and pooped out the adorable little hairless biped that became you?
maybe you're only the electricity that stopped firing, and our "soul" is just unstable subatomic particles that accidentally woke up and started self-actualizing
but even that's electron transfer at work

maybe we're everything everywhere and we always were and we always will be but we just don't remember IT WASNT MATH JACK IT WAS CHEMISTRY, SUCK ON THAT LOOPHOLE BIATCH (affectionate)


anyway i gotta go bribe a guy about a floorboard, peace