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Re: Man stabbed by fellow Microsoft employee

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Guy was stabbed in the neck and head and survived? Modern medical care is a miracle.

It's somewhat about luck. Phineas Gage got an iron rod through his head 150 years ago and survived. The body can be surprisingly fragile and tough at the same time.

He's still alive?

Re: Man stabbed by fellow Microsoft employee

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https://josephcantrell.org/ He’s got some psychiatric issues.

You're not kidding. From his "about" page:

"As I neurally wave farewell here, I remain an atheist, and I'm delighted scientists are still researching to move humanity to its highest apexes of enlightenment. My various neurotransmitter release rates decelerate over time due to a prenatal genetic alteration by alcohol and tobacco, but in my neural disturbances, I've danced and conversed with processions of rainbow "ghost" women to keep me company through the occasional derivative misty night. From age five to age twenty-six, I called this attention deficit hyperactive disorder, A.D.H.D. Now, I've grown to call this part of myself the descript phrase Neural Deceleration Disorder, N.D.D. By selectively disconnecting certain neurons and combining slow motion adrenaline release, I am first to declare I am the strongest man alive by such mechanisms. Neurons and other cells in parts of my body like the eyes, visual cortex, cerebral cortex, and prefrontal cortex work somewhat independently yet are holistically intertwined like a networked graph to create the reality I perceive. The website logo of josephcantrell.org in the top left is an image of my brain generated using an MRI machine at Georgia Tech, and it is encoded with the recognition of my motivations. Decode my obfuscated code in my home executive functions JS file, and refresh straight away for secret magnetic induction powers to blacken the hole of the Milky Way. 101010x3!"

Re: Man stabbed by fellow Microsoft employee

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https://josephcantrell.org/ He’s got some psychiatric issues.

You're not kidding. From his "about" page: "As I neurally wave farewell here, I remain an atheist, and I'm delighted scientists are still researching to move humanity to its highest apexes of enlightenment. My various neurotransmitter release rates decelerate over time due to a prenatal genetic alteration by alcohol and tobacco, but in my neural disturbances, I've danced and conversed with processions of rainbow "gho…

Reads like amphetamine psychosis.

Been there.

Re: Man stabbed by fellow Microsoft employee

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's somewhat about luck. Phineas Gage got an iron rod through his head 150 years ago and survived. The body can be surprisingly fragile and tough at the same time.

He's still alive?

In the corporeal sense no, but he does live on in every intro psych textbook. Tons of early insight into brain function actually came from freak industrial accidents where someone took a hit to the brain and lived to tell the tale.

Re: Man stabbed by fellow Microsoft employee

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

You're not kidding. From his "about" page: "As I neurally wave farewell here, I remain an atheist, and I'm delighted scientists are still researching to move humanity to its highest apexes of enlightenment. My various neurotransmitter release rates decelerate over time due to a prenatal genetic alteration by alcohol and tobacco, but in my neural disturbances, I've danced and conversed with processions of rainbow "gho…

Reads like amphetamine psychosis. Been there.

How did you recognize it in yourself, and how did you overcome it?

Re: Man stabbed by fellow Microsoft employee

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https://josephcantrell.org/ He’s got some psychiatric issues.

You're not kidding. From his "about" page: "As I neurally wave farewell here, I remain an atheist, and I'm delighted scientists are still researching to move humanity to its highest apexes of enlightenment. My various neurotransmitter release rates decelerate over time due to a prenatal genetic alteration by alcohol and tobacco, but in my neural disturbances, I've danced and conversed with processions of rainbow "gho…

Anyone that decodes functions.js (https://josephcantrell.org/functions.js) can find the hidden message he talks about:

https://josephcantrell.org/res/images/trippy1.png

May be suffering from schizophrenia or some related issue.

Basically it creates an animation where trippy1 is rained down the page infinitely.

Re: Man stabbed by fellow Microsoft employee

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He seemed to be going down a nasty rabbit hole of paranoia. He believed Velocity internet was racketeering and working with gang members to cut off his internet and mess with him.

He recorded phone calls with their support: https://josephcantrell.org/res/audio/

He also catalog a bunch of random stuff here: https://josephcantrell.org/res/reports/

I wonder how on earth Microsoft didn't pick up on this behavior earlier? There's no way he was completely normal at work.

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