Would those "noise-cancelling headphones" work in this case?
Yes, if you can afford them. But it becomes very irritating to have them
on for long periods of time. You can hardly learn to sleep with them on,
and getting to sleep whenever you feel like it is essential in this
situation.
It is possible to build a big version of noise cancelling headphones, so
you can live inside the chamber instead of just putting your ear inside
it.
Build a passive shield. Walls and a roof over a big bed with
television, computer and stereo inside. If the disturbance from from
under your apartment you can start by putting a thick layer of mats on
the floor. The quality of the walls is not so important, as long as it
dampens the sound 20-40dB or more.
Mount a big loudspeaker in the wall closest to the noise source. Put a
microphone further away from yourself outside the walls.
Amplify the signal from the mic and send it to the loudspeaker, with a
polarity switch, so you can choose the best cancelling polarity. The same
speaker can serve as the center bass speaker in your stereo inside the
walls, mix the bass signal and the noise cancelling signal.
I have not tried electronic noise cancelling yet, but I am working on it.
Not that I have extremely noisy neighbors but I am used to live in the
forest and I am hypersensitive to noise from neighbors.
Another strategy you can try is to print out flyers or small books about
creationism in theory and practice, and explain how detrimental to
humankind these old traditions and initiation rites are.
It can be in the form of an initation to join the "Humanists against
Creationism" movement. A movement which tries to put an end to the
traditional "creation" of manly minds and the "creation" of the eternal
love, and the "creation" of the holy marriage, and the "creation" of the
holy mind, based on the holy wrath.
All this "creating" requires a lot of violence and mobbing, to make men
very very angry, determined and controlled before the girls make him
happy, or he dies.
These social "creation" processes have been going on for many thousands
of years. These traditions and gender roles are beginning to dissolve in
our modern world, but they are still very much alive.
We see how women in the western industrialized world try to become more
like men. But it is probably not a good idea, to abolish the male
dominated structure by making everybody into men.
The feeling of invincibility and almightyness the man born from anger and
love experiences is nice for him personally, but it has detrimental
effects on all others in his social environment.
The others are naturally scared, because a real man is a powder keg just
waiting to explode, even if he can be a symbol for safety and protection
too. His selfconfidence and "love" are built on a foundation of extreme
anger, which take years to build up. All who accept his mental
dictatorship feel nice and cosy with him, like his own girl friend/wife.
Their kids have no choice but to accept the intensive mental atmosphere
they grow up in. It can be a positive or negative experience, but it is
always more intensive and excited than the untrained natural mind. The
not-created mind is closer to a natural state of mind, but most of us
have been strongly influenced from the creationist lifestyle in the
society around us.
As long as we are convinced that the "supernatural" male mind power is
friendly, as we are as kids, it can seem like a positive thing. When we
are thrown out of the social environment through violence we are in a
terrible situation.
If you want more information about humanism versus creationism use
google.
Create a nice document from this and put it in all mailboxes in your
area. Create a web page too, and a yahoo group
put links to the web
in the flyers. Make your neighbors understand how many humanists there
are, in one way or another. Make them understand which side is which. Who
are working to conserve the traditions and who are trying to replace them
with new ideas, like democracy, individual freedom, equality, human
rights, civil rights, ets.. Make them shut up in shame.
If you are lucky this will put an end to all noise and disturbances.
If you are unlucky you will just have started a global civil war which
will go on for generations. That's why a lot of people are trying other
alternatives. You see and hear them all the time in media.
This is what everybody is talking about, all the time, on all channels,
more or less successfully.
You need an unnaturally excited brain to hear what they are really
saying.
With good sound proofing you can ignore it all and sleep, and build
electronics, instead. And think more clearly than any of those minds
which are blinded by anger, created love, self-determination, ego, sex,
alcohol, will-power, etc..
Welcome to the real world.
