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Monday, May 15, 2023

Flamingo Bowl Spring 2023 League Week 7 5/9/23

 

Ritual is important. Rituals let our brain shift and squirm until it is in a place it can focus without focusing. Depending on what our ritual is preparing us for, once we reach this state our brain can react without wasting time on cognitive thought, or on the other hand it can open itself to less-than-visible sensations and connections. Ritual is a training for our brain. An exercise. It connects our tenuous present with the comfort of the past and the mysteries of the future, allowing us to escape the constraints of linear time and instead utilize time's non-existence to our benefit.


Alcohol's use in ritual is as old as civilization. We use it to unlock connections in our brain that are sealed off by conscious thought. The time and ritual used to prepare alcohol for consumption mirror it's use to free us from time in ritualized use. One sip and we can connect with ancestors and descendants. Two sips and time unfolds itself and reveals the illusion it is. Three sips and you can really start rocking.



It's never just you and the pins. It's also not just you and the pins and your ball. It's not even just you and the pins and your ball and the lane. Nor is it you and the pins and your ball and the lane and the approach. It's not even you and the pins and your ball and the lane and the approach and the rest of your team. It's not you and the pins and your ball and the lane and the approach and the rest of your team and the opposing team. It's not even just you and the pins and your ball and the lane and the approach and the rest of your team and the opposing team and some other random people bowling. It's not just you and the pins and your ball and the lane and the approach and the rest of your team and the opposing team and some other random people bowling and the quantum connections between the you and the final resting place of the pins. Nor is it just you and the pins and your ball and the lane and the approach and the rest of your team and the opposing team and some other random people bowling and the quantum connections between the you and the final resting place of the pins and the genetic imprints left by past bowling experiences and your ancestors. It's not even just you and the pins and your ball and the lane and the approach and the rest of your team and the opposing team and some other random people bowling and the quantum connections between the you and the final resting place of the pins and the genetic imprints left by past bowling experiences and your ancestors and the cultural expectations of your bowling. It's also about you and how hungover you are.


Monday, May 8, 2023

Flamingo Bowl Spring 2023 League Week 6 5/2/23

 

There is no use lamenting a lost past. As creatures of the never-ending now, we must fully immerse ourselves in the raging maelstrom that is the present. Yesterday has given birth to the monsters of today, and we must decide for ourselves whether we will cower in fear of these beasts or show the beasts what horrors the present can actually create.


A split in the road. What looks like opportunity to change the path seemingly decided for us can often be nothing more than a diversion. Temptations that only a fool would indulge - and here I am, gleefully leaving all calls for reason behind.


A slumber that even midnight storms cannot disturb.

Tuesday, May 2, 2023

Flamingo Bowl Spring 2023 League Week 5 - 4/25/23

 

One of the difficulties in large-scale quantum communications is that all the particles have to be the same frequency. Scientists around the world are working on projects to stabilize these particles so they remain on the same frequency. Quantum Diamonds - diamonds that maintain the same carbon chain throughout space and time - are one solution to this problem. Once this stabilization accomplished, near-instant communication across vast areas will be possible. Everything can be on the same page. A universal understanding.



What if the diamond's were not crucial to this transmission of information, though? They may present an avenue for stable particles, but they do not have to be the only path. Occultists use chants and mantras to "vibrate," which is the same idea as getting all associated particles to operate on the same wavelength. Religious songs and chants are based on the same idea. A woman was outside the bowling alley, saying some sort of ritual or prayer, when suddenly a cyclone of confetti sprung up and tried to entrap me. Her ability to operate at the same vibrations as the air (and perhaps other unseen items) made the air behave according to her thoughts. These diamonds are not necessary, then.


If these quantum diamonds can transmit information instantly, they are also receiving information instantly, and who makes this distinction? Is there even a distinction? In the Diamond Sutra, Sakyamuni Buddha explains that there is not actually an escape from the transience of life, as the transience of life is an illusion. How can I be cursed when "I" don't exist? When a diamond can transmit information to all points instantly, then there is no transmission because all points instantly know and already knew. The end to suffering is to break down these distinctions between "I" and "that." There is no diamond, and no information to transmit.