News Briefs 17-10-2012
Posted by Greg at 11:46, 17 Oct 2012Do you take your Darklore 7 with milk and sugar?
- Magic mushrooms and cancer: a magical mystery cure?
- Angkor Wat built with the help of ancient…canals. And no, Giorgio, that's not how you spell aliens.
- Creativity closely linked to mental illness.
- Calling all psychics: a chance to prove your powers in a scientific test. See here and here for pertinent thoughts on this regurgitated publicity stunt.
- Proof of heaven?
- Sam Harris won't debate Eben Alexander on his NDE science (a follow-up to this criticism).
- Was ancient Alexandria constructed to align with the rising sun on the birth date of Alexander the Great?
- Learned psi: training to be a psychic.
- Psychic medium talks to Steve Jobs. Apparently.
- Neuroscientists find the molecular 'when' and 'where' of memory formation. Apparently.
- How a plant can tell whether you're wearing a blue or red shirt as you're approaching it. (What a Plant Knows on Amazon.com).
- Unknown 'beast' spotted in West Berkshire.
- Forget the Presidential debate, here's the man you want: guy solves a Rubik's Cube in 25 seconds, while doing one-handed push-ups.
- Image of the Day: Gears of the Machine (Elves).
Quote of the Day:
Many people will not tolerate a state of doubt, either because they will not endure the mental discomfort of it or because they regard it as evidence of inferiority.
W. I. B. Beveridge
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12 April 2007
6 hours 9 min
I take it straight with no ice, sonny! ;)
It's not the depth of the rabbit hole that bugs me...
It's all the rabbit SH*T you stumble over on your way down!!!
Red Pill Junkie
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@red_pill_junkie
12 April 2007
6 hours 9 min
No, we must remember they are diseased individuals, and therefore abnormal. Pity those poor poor bastards.
AAAAAAARGH! This is the thing I hate the most about our materialistic, atheist society. Everything has to be rationalized as malfunctions of the brain.
But what if we approached the subject from a different perspective, and consider the possibility that Art is just another form of spiritual channeling? And that a high level of creativity also denotes a high level of psychic sensibility?
It's not the depth of the rabbit hole that bugs me...
It's all the rabbit SH*T you stumble over on your way down!!!
Red Pill Junkie
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@red_pill_junkie
14 April 2009
3 weeks 3 days
the spirit of Fundamentalist Protestanism runs deep...
there is this beautiful & powerful play called Equus, aboot a young man patient of a psychiatrist and the dangers caused by the conflict between the normalizing power of society (you must not deviate too much from the norm) and the necessary nuances of being a human being...
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All that lives is holy, life delights in life.
--William Blake
12 April 2007
6 hours 9 min
Yes, good example.
It's not the depth of the rabbit hole that bugs me...
It's all the rabbit SH*T you stumble over on your way down!!!
Red Pill Junkie
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@red_pill_junkie
2 May 2004
19 hours 45 min
Reminds me of recent research revealing the dopamine systems of highly creative people are on par with that seen in schizophrenics.
Which begs the question -- how do highly creative people cope when they're prevented from expressing their creative urges, because of internal or external pressure (jobs, family, society, etc)? Although I ask that rhetorically, as we both know the answer from personal experience! Never ceases to amaze me how the deeper, lateral implications are never considered by experts though.
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@levitatingcat
6 April 2010
4 hours 40 min
...may be someone's escaped pet llama :P
at least it's smiling in the amateur sketch.
...I forgot how I got here but everyone seems to be heading off in that direction. I hope someone brought food. I have a feeling this is going to be a long journey................
6 April 2010
4 hours 40 min
A Plant can tell if you've went down the rabbit hole or not?
;)
...I forgot how I got here but everyone seems to be heading off in that direction. I hope someone brought food. I have a feeling this is going to be a long journey................
6 April 2010
4 hours 40 min
It's funny how the psychic is kind of telling us what she feels he said rather than what he would actually say if she really "talked" to him. Do I think he is in Hell? no, I personally think he reincarnated as a sheep......
.........which is a personal hell, the cosmos is always a little more original than the straight answer
:P
...I forgot how I got here but everyone seems to be heading off in that direction. I hope someone brought food. I have a feeling this is going to be a long journey................
14 April 2009
3 weeks 3 days
How a plant can tell whether you're wearing a blue or red shirt as you're approaching it. (What a Plant Knows on Amazon.com).
So THAT'S what those singing plants in just aboot every episode of Star Trek were doing...
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All that lives is holy, life delights in life.
--William Blake