transhumanoid:

was thinking on the walk home today about how truly lame it is that you can’t actually get magical powers from self-discipline and uh “training.” like if you don’t masturbate you really should be able to levitate and if you meditate enough maybe speak with animals and so on. that is really just how the world should be and the fact that that’s all made up is a huge disappointment

I mean I’ve been thinking a lot lately about how the only precedents I’ve ever heard resembling this recent change complex I’m going through – which is ultimately like a sudden +4 Charisma, +2 Perception upgrade out of nowhere – are in (Western and Eastern) monastic traditions, and I do in fact spend a lot of time by myself thinking things over in silence.