Live tweeting the local sports bar. Gator's Dockside Some interesting archetypes in here Bars are always a good study in contrast between dismal reality and dreamt excellence A wake up call for the motivated and inspired ...or a trap for the hopeless and despondent
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Just saw a 50+ year old man sitting by himself at the bar take a picture of his margarita and text it. Is this something everyone does and is cool to do or is it totally beta?
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Woman at the touch game. Playing slot machine. Cant even win money Just slamming the shit out of the button, dopamine seeking. You're never going to win, lady. That drip is dead Clackclackclackclackclack Just trying to find something in the emptiness. Your search is hopeless
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We're all searching for connection. Resonance. Technologically enhanced, staring at small screens, screaming into the interconnected void ..help me... I'm here.... ..someone love me...
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It's funny listening to people just say stuff to each other. Jawin' at the bar, saying nothing important Nothing that lasts. They think they're fulfilling some kind of need but really they are hamsters on a wheel, never getting anywhere, empty of content. It's Masturbation.
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Watching American Idol muted with subtitles is the ultimate edge fest
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We all seek pleasureful experience The joy from stillness and meditation...that smile, that smirk... ...in the nothingness that joy spontaneously pervades, what do we do with that? Is this seeking too? What if it is spontaneous and non-intentional?
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Replying to @Cantide1 @QiaochuYuan
septal area is responsible for the most desirable self stimulation- it's intensely pleasurable and has a sexual flavor (there were some human electrode studies)
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the lateral hypothalamic corridor is distinct from the septal area, is also a site of self stimulation, and responds unconditionally to bodily need state. it's the neuroanatomy that Panksepp's SEEKING system is concentrated in it's responsible for anticipation of reward
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there maybe other pleasure systems i am not familiar with but there is neuroanatomical basis for pleasure to arise independently of activity of SEEKING
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Replying to @_StevenFan @QiaochuYuan
Do you think we can transcend this pleasure in our practice as we transcend suffering or desire?
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Seeking via neuroscience and psychology informed dharma.