Main Disc. Thread - Fire vs. Saint Round 4 [The Battle is On!]

The sales would be unimaginably :chart_with_upwards_trend:

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Haha, ask @Sub.Zero how dedicated he was in the early days.

I was happy with 1h per sub per day when I joined here just before ZeroPoint and now we are at less than 15min per loop.

That is progress and giving life back into your hands

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How many here are 100% sure about the life they want (and would accept)?
Sometimes the journey is the most fun!

Probably noone. But isn’t that the whole ZP thing? Understanding who you are, who you actually want to be without all the baggage of societal conditioning and the expectation of others.

I suspect it would still be quite the ride!

@Fire is an absolute tank. One time, he tested a Qv2 sub and ran it 16 hours straight, rofl.

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TOS? TNG?

TNG. The Measure of a Man. One of my favorite episodes.

EDIT: “Your Honour, the courtroom is a crucible. In it we burn away irrelevancies until we are left with a pure product, the truth for all time. Now, sooner or later, this man or others like him will succeed in replicating Commander Data. And the decision you reach here today will determine how we will regard this creation of our genius. It will reveal the kind of a people we are, what he is destined to be. It will reach far beyond this courtroom and this one android. It could significantly redefine the boundaries of personal liberty and freedom, expanding them for some, savagely curtailing them for others. Are you prepared to condemn him and all who come after him to servitude and slavery? Your Honour, Starfleet was founded to seek out new life. Well, there it sits. Waiting. You wanted a chance to make law. Well, here it is. Make a good one.”

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I actually ended up liking Enterprise the best. Which says a lot given the quality is the other main series.

I like it because of that early pioneering spirit. Which I think is what drew me to SubClub tbh.

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I do understand some of the Enterprise hate, but I personally believe that Seasons 3 (The Xindi War) and Season 4 is some of the best science fiction storytelling ever.

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My fav part about the whole Xindi arc was Degra’s transformation

The anticipation! :scream:

So basically anything that isn’t your true self?

I love Anson Mount as Captain Pike. Never much of a Star Trek fan although I watched the original show with my Father when I was a kid

Right now I’m stuck in the show supernatural

Listening to it while I work

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Great show

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I do this all the time. Listening to audiobooks, having tv shows in the background.
But after listening to murder mindfully I often try to do my work more mindfully and just work without distracting myself.
It changes a lot. It gives room for thought. For reflection.

Late to the party and missed all the fun again didn’t I?

People can read deeper meanings where they don’t exist all they want and it won’t change a damned thing (other than their own reality tunnel).

I still find it amusing the level of story-telling that some Christian folks go to with this guy and his “'associates” without taking the time to understand the historical context, his childhood, and even his experimentalist mindset. The irony on the Thelema angle too is that he added that commentary to the end of Liber AL forbidding people from even discussing what its meaning could be to avoid it turning into a religion. And then went in a direction which would make people do it anyway :wink: .

He experimented not just with Western Ceremonial Magic, but Yoga, Islam, Christianity, prayer, Asian traditions, and various other practices which were in fad at the time. He rebuked his own students (Parsons and co) for their work with Babalon and wrote (in a letter to Grady I believe) that Parsons was messing with stuff he had no business getting involved with (and yet people like to conflate the two). Towards the end of his life, as I learned from a scholar who studied him, he began extolling the virtue of prayer over all the other stuff he had experimented with. But he always told his students in his writing to maintain this experimental mindset and take nothing he said on faith.

The guy was a walking contradiction, as many people become when they try to reach for the Absolute (and I don’t mean vodka), and people would probably do well to sharply distinguish between him and the dogmatic people who took up his work afterwards - especially some of his “associates” like Hubbard. We’ll probably never know the real reason he chose that magical name other than to piss off his religious parents, most secret names are chosen for intensely personal reasons.

But like you said, who cares? No need to invoke Ra-Hoor-Khuit before writing a subliminal; that ornery mofo will just get in the way and start talking in some ancient language that no-one understands and mess up the stand-up room with his war engine. :rofl: Keep him the hell away and let him Babalon :stuck_out_tongue: somewhere else. *jokes*

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Odds are at least non zero that one of the two is multi-stage.

But hopefully not both. I’m seriously considering snagging both and don’t want to break the bank :wink: I can only imagine whats been done for the Hero sequel given how hardcore HeO hits.

More love for the Hero line :heart_eyes_cat:

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Well, not gonna brag about what tank I am lol

Or rather, unlocking, restoring, and upgrading what was suppressed and reduced in you.

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Gonna be honest, I find it hard to get into NuTrek. Discovery and Strange New Worlds. I enjoyed the final season of Star Trek: Picard due to the fan service. That’s about it.

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