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Post by hal9000 on May 6, 2011 22:46:17 GMT
Clearing your mind doesn't mean you think of nothing. it means you focus on something. For Kat that was meditating. most meditating involves a mental image. on a side note I miss Kat's long hair. I thought clearing your mind was to prevent distractions from interfering with what you mean to focus on. Annie is focusing on her inner firebird. Kat is focusing on mechanics. Take, for instance, riding a motorcycle at high speeds. It requires intense concentration on the task at hand (on pain of death or serious injury) and thus a lot of people find a trip to the track (or the local twisty backroads) to be a fairly zen experience.
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Post by deviantlightning on May 6, 2011 23:07:33 GMT
I'm with Kat on this one ;D Clearing your mind of all thought can be a difficult task, even if you're not a mechanical supergenius. And I've been to the ginkakuji ("silver pavilion") in Kyoto, where they have the ultimate Zen rock garden, and I sat there, cross legged, starring at the rocks and stones and pebbles representing waves and clouds and mountains and such, and while I eventually managed to not think about anything, I didn't feel any enlightened for having done it. and that lasted for about two seconds before I started thinking about... I forget what, but it was probably the theme song to something. maybe wondering if I should have continued with the tour group instead of sitting there. * logically, even thinking about the shapes of the rocks that you're starring at is thinking, even if you're not thinking verbal words. it was kinda cool, but I suspect that Kat's attempt at mental flight or whatever it is is ultimately doomed to failure. and then she will build the A/C robot. So wait thinking about nothing makes you a zen master? HOLY HELL GUYS I'VE BEEN ENLIGHTENED FOR YEARS. In all seriousness all I ever got out of meditation was the knowledge that I fall asleep very easily. To the best of my knowledge, meditation is about trying to control what you think about, recognizing what you're thinking about and keeping your mind from wandering on its own. It's also known by the boring name of "concentration." Ever tried being perfectly conscious of your own thoughts and not let it wander of its own accord? Ever tried literally no internal dialogue or opinion about what's going on? It's fucking hard, I tell you.. Anything else you might hear about meditation and enlightenment is poetic fru-fru hopelessly garbled into mythology and supernatural claims. But let me know if you happen to discover otherwise and start doing Jedi shit.
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Post by rainofsteel on May 7, 2011 0:20:43 GMT
On panels 6-7, where the artistic s-curve parts-explosion begins to unfurl, for a few seconds I thought Kat was actually making that happen in their world, and then I saw the final panel.
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Post by Amethyst on May 7, 2011 4:53:45 GMT
By the way - how did you recognized it's a human one? Because I never learned what an animal nervous system looked like.
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Post by jayne on May 7, 2011 4:55:44 GMT
By the way - how did you recognized it's a human one? Because I never learned what an animal nervous system looked like. Humans are animals so yes you did! ;D
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Post by Goatmon on May 7, 2011 9:26:45 GMT
PAY ATTENTION KAT
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Post by stcredzero on May 7, 2011 17:14:58 GMT
Kat seems to be a cousin of Kimiko Ross of Dresden Codak. dresdencodak.com/cast/I wonder if the same real-life short-haired big-eyed hardware hacker brunette is the inspiration for both.
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Post by Amethyst on May 7, 2011 17:44:44 GMT
Because I never learned what an animal nervous system looked like. Humans are animals so yes you did! ;D Don't get semantic with me, young lady!
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Post by lamepudding on May 7, 2011 18:10:08 GMT
It also made me smile that Annie doesn't see the Court as empty... I'd hate for her to become lonely and resentful about the lack of trees like Jeanne did I don't think it was trees that Jeanne was pining for. don't you mean PINE-ing? LOLOLOLOLOLOLOL -is shot-
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Post by Per on May 7, 2011 18:53:58 GMT
Welcome to the mind of a person with OCD, Kat She wants her biomechanical arms constructed just so?
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Post by La Goon on May 7, 2011 21:09:38 GMT
I wouldn't say that Kat is actually meditating here. She isn't thinking about what she intended to - she let her thoughts wander. Surely this will be a useful experience to her - she has probably already gotten something useful right now, and also she's now aware that she can use this technique. I guess it still won't be "proper" meditation though. Meditation isn't meant to have an actual "output" per session
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Post by TBeholder on May 7, 2011 22:13:26 GMT
And I think it makes a fine avatar! Hey, this gives me a gorgeous idea! I'll turn into avatar-sized black and white pseudo-QRs a bunch of small bitmaps - like these fellows or some Dorfs. Or even better - a bunch of QR-like anigifs! With surprise shifts like on Georgie L's avatar or just slo-o-owly moving pixels. Just to mess with people's heads, you know? ;D But let me know if you happen to discover otherwise and start doing Jedi shit. Why do you think anyone would bother to? Because I never learned what an animal nervous system looked like. Humans are animals so yes you did! ;D Normally yes, but since America is overrun by mimic fungi, you never know... Kat seems to be a cousin of Kimiko Ross of Dresden Codak. dresdencodak.com/cast/I wonder if the same real-life short-haired big-eyed hardware hacker brunette is the inspiration for both. " Hardware hacker"?
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Post by legion on May 7, 2011 23:51:47 GMT
Kat seems to be a cousin of Kimiko Ross of Dresden Codak. dresdencodak.com/cast/I wonder if the same real-life short-haired big-eyed hardware hacker brunette is the inspiration for both. " Hardware hacker"? Both those connexions have been mentionned several times. Physically Kat does look like Kimiko, but she has a much better personality.
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Post by pasko on May 8, 2011 11:34:46 GMT
To the best of my knowledge, meditation is about trying to control what you think about, recognizing what you're thinking about and keeping your mind from wandering on its own. It's also known by the boring name of "concentration." From the little I know, it is a step beyond. Concentration is what you describe, while meditation is no thoughts at all.
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Post by basser on May 8, 2011 14:50:03 GMT
To the best of my knowledge, meditation is about trying to control what you think about, recognizing what you're thinking about and keeping your mind from wandering on its own. It's also known by the boring name of "concentration." From the little I know, it is a step beyond. Concentration is what you describe, while meditation is no thoughts at all. The way they taught us to do it in school was by counting breaths in cycles of four while focusing on nothing else, and to eventually stop counting and just take measured, even breaths. If a thought occurs to you or something catches your attention you first acknowledge it, then let it pass by. If you try to force yourself think of nothing all at once you'll fail, so instead you focus on something simple and calm until you're in a tranquil enough state to go blank. (Or, in my case, fall asleep.)
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Post by Max on May 8, 2011 19:53:59 GMT
Can someone explain Tom's comment to me? I really don't get what he's talking about.
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Post by legion on May 8, 2011 20:57:21 GMT
A burn is a witty insult or retort, I think.
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Post by jayne on May 8, 2011 23:39:12 GMT
I can't tell what part might have been a burn (but isn't)
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Post by Mezzaphor on May 9, 2011 1:49:57 GMT
Kat's line about clearing her mind being harder than she thought could be interpreted as a dig at Annie. "It's easy for you to clear your mind, because you don't have much in there to begin with." But you'd have to be looking for an insult to interpret it that way.
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Post by Polly Plummer on May 9, 2011 3:22:15 GMT
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