Rabbit Holes

This is where I'll post all the wikipedia articles I think are neat or interesting. This all I do when I'm stoned, by the way. I just work through my backlog of saved Wikipedia links.

Why is there anything at all? I think about this one way too often. If everything that exists used to be crammed into a point of no time and no space, just raw dense energy packed together, why tf was there energy in the first place? Like we can kind of handwave the question and say god put it there, but at that point yknow why even ask questions in the first place.

The theory that makes most sense to me is the idea that 'true nothing is unstable.' I dunno why, I can just visually picture it, true nothing not having the 'structure' to maintain itself. The 'something' HAS to punch through in order for there to be equilibrium. I dunno, everything else in nature seems to work in cycles of ebb and flow, maybe one day we will return to nothingness. I reckon by the time that happens, the conditions for life to exist in the universe will have long past.

Milgram Experiments

We did this whole unit on the concept of disobedience in my comp class in high school. I failed the class (it was weighted too, lol) but I never stopped thinking about these exeriments and others like it. The experiment was to measure willingness to obey authority, even if obedience will cause harm to others.

I think its significant somehow that in many creation myths, mankind only gains real intelligence and advancement through some act of disobedience. Adam and Eve in the garden of Eden, Prometheus stealing the fire...fuckin...Azazel teaching humans to use makeup. For some reason that one always struck me as kinda funny. Azazel shows up and says 'okay, baby, here's how you paint your eyelids to get a man. and here's how to make a FUCKING SWORD if you like, i dunno, need one.'

History of Red Ochre

Red Ochre has been used by humans for all sorts of cool shit for like 40,000 years. I'm kind of a witchy spooky spiritual person, and it's always surprised me that red ochre isn't considered more holy or spiritual. Our earliest ancestors used it for everything, from medicine to body paint to cave art. Both humans and neanderthals sprinkled it in the graves of their dead, which fuckin cool on its own by the way. I think that might have been one of the first signs that humans were developing spirituality or religion.

Like, how is this stuff not for sale at every metaphysical shop?? Such ancient practices, such history! Wow. (are we still allowed to make the original doge joke, or is it pretty much ruined forever now?) I've been trying to find some red ochre for my witchy rituals, but it's kinda hard to find just raw red ochre powder. I think the stuff they sell to artists has addatives to make the paint better. Maybe I'm wrong, send me an email if you know more about this lol.

Gwion Gwion Rock Paintings -

I love getting high and thinking about the incredible history of Australia. They are thought to have the oldest continuously going cultures on the planet. The thing that stuck out to me most about the Gwion Gwion art is that it shows actual clothes which might not seem like a big deal but it's pretty uncommon in prehistoric art - at least, the art we've found so far. In fact most prehistoric art doesn't have detailed humans at all, mostly animals and human stick figures.

As for why they're there, Wikipedia is a little bit vague? It seems like when they were researching the paintings back in the late 30s, the Aboriginal guide seemed 'uninterested' in them, and just said that a black bird used blood to paint the stone and that the figures are probably spirits. There's some literature about this expedition in particular, I'll have to read more.