This is exactly how I behave when I have any encounter like this. Then a pack of wolves comes out of nowhere and devours me.

For those who think giving back to society is as simple as paying taxes: don't forget there's a huge trillion dollar devouring monster that will waste most of that money and hand over the rest of it to its politically connected friends.

Want to give back to society? Provide a service or product, preferably on a large scale, do it profitably and feed that monster as little as you legally can.

>> ^ajkido:

http://www.reddit.com/r/asmr/LOL, this is so cool! I had no idea other people had this too! It also happens with accents for me! Thank you so much for the link!

>> ^renatojj:

Serious question: when you see or hear someone nom noming next to you (and you're not eating), do you guys feel this strange feeling, like a goosebump, or like your brain is being gently caressed or tickled?


http://www.reddit.com/r/asmr/

Also makeup tutorials on Youtube tend to be good for getting that sensation. (A gentle female voice explaining the actions while doing simple but careful tasks...)

>> ^SDGundamX:

This should be the video definition for "Nom, nom, nom..."


If I ever decide to "go there" I figure that would be my choice for a channel.

Lost my '92 Accord EX sedan in 2000 to a snapped timing belt. Totaled the car (which admittedly doesn't take much on an 8-year old vehicle).
My understanding was that the next model year would simply shut down if the timing chain broke, rather than devour itself from the inside like mine.

I wonder if that sinkhole they mentioned that devoured oil extracting equipment could have anything to do with the vacant hole caused by the vacant space where the oil used to be?

I've been watching these (they're up to episode 4 as I write), and they are such a trip down memory lane for me, they traverse my gaming life very well. I loved Kings Quest when it came out, I played some Zork (not much though), and devoured the Space Quests, Police Quests, Leisure suit Larry... and then the Monkey Island games. LOVED them.

I love these retrospectives.

And I love being a backer of DoubleFine's Adventure game, cannot WAIT for that to arrive

>> ^legacy0100:

Bugs creeps me the fuck out. But they're sooo cool to watch at the same time. Fuck, I don't know what to do!!!!!


Upvote as a show of good faith. Otherwise they will crawl into your bed while you sleep and devour your insides.

post it. i'll watch it.>> ^Yogi:

I've watched everything Charlie Brooker has done...gonna devour this!

I've watched everything Charlie Brooker has done...gonna devour this!

Well, let's talk about rationality for a minute, since you seem to be a logical person. I just don't think there is any basis in a secular worldview for rationality. For instance, if you believe in evolution then you believe that life came from non-life, which means that your rationality came from irrational forces. How can you trust it? If you have inherited your reasoning capability from rocks and primates, how is it trustworthy?

Another question is, how do you have any free will in a secular worldview? If the way things are at this moment is due to the arrangement of atoms at the beginning of the Universe, then there is no such thing as free will. Those atoms have you locked in from birth to death and no one has any meaningful awareness. There is no way to get outside this box that materialism puts you in. How do you respond to this quote:

If there is no God, then all that exists is time and chance acting on matter. If this is true then the difference between your thoughts and mine correspond to the difference between shaking up a bottle of Mountain Dew and a bottle of Dr. Pepper. You simply fizz atheistically and I fizz theistically. This means that you do not hold to atheism because it is true , but rather because of a series of chemical reactions… … Morality, tragedy, and sorrow are equally evanescent. They are all empty sensations created by the chemical reactions of the brain, in turn created by too much pizza the night before. If there is no God, then all abstractions are chemical epiphenomena, like swamp gas over fetid water. This means that we have no reason for assigning truth and falsity to the chemical fizz we call reasoning or right and wrong to the irrational reaction we call morality. If no God, mankind is a set of bi-pedal carbon units of mostly water. And nothing else.

Douglas Wilson

Since you mentioned that you work with math, where do you find the laws of logic in nature? How do you presuppose something which is unchanging and immaterial in a Universe which is material and always changing? I can account for these things in a theistic worldview, so how do you account for them?

>> ^GeeSussFreeK:
>> ^shinyblurry:
I can relate to tyson, as I felt the same feelings when i was a kid..started reading cosmos at age 4, went to planetariums, got a telescope, devoured any and all information i could get my hands on about astronomy. I can relate to his sheer sense of wonderment about it. What I find interesting though is how he talks about having a personal relationship with the Universe, that it talks to him, that it was "calling" him, and how the Universe (as starstuff) is within him. That is unmistakably worship.

Indeed, this video talks much about the irrational kinds of religious orders secular people still hold to, like love or living forever. People, even those who claim to be rational, still deal with our monkey nature more oft then they would like to admit to themselves <IMG class=smiley src="http://cdn.videosift.com/cdm/emoticon/teeth.gif">

>> ^shinyblurry:

I can relate to tyson, as I felt the same feelings when i was a kid..started reading cosmos at age 4, went to planetariums, got a telescope, devoured any and all information i could get my hands on about astronomy. I can relate to his sheer sense of wonderment about it. What I find interesting though is how he talks about having a personal relationship with the Universe, that it talks to him, that it was "calling" him, and how the Universe (as starstuff) is within him. That is unmistakably worship.


Indeed, this video talks much about the irrational kinds of religious orders secular people still hold to, like love or living forever. People, even those who claim to be rational, still deal with our monkey nature more oft then they would like to admit to themselves

I can relate to tyson, as I felt the same feelings when i was a kid..started reading cosmos at age 4, went to planetariums, got a telescope, devoured any and all information i could get my hands on about astronomy. I can relate to his sheer sense of wonderment about it. What I find interesting though is how he talks about having a personal relationship with the Universe, that it talks to him, that it was "calling" him, and how the Universe (as starstuff) is within him. That is unmistakably worship.

>> ^Sarzy:

If I saw more than one of those things in my house, I'd be like "NOPE. NOT TODAY" and I'd immediately be in my car on the way to a hotel, calling an exterminator.


Where you will be promptly devoured by bedbugs.