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News Briefs 28-08-2009

This world, then the fireworks…

Thanks to RMG and RPG – and happy b-day to LC!

Quote of the Day:

“The ‘home’ of the mind, as of all things, is the implicate order. At this level, which is the fundamental plenum for the entire manifest universe, there is no linear time. The implicate domain is atemporal; moments are not strung together serially like beads.”

Larry Dossey, ‘Recovering the Soul’

  1. Life imitates stoned
    In re: Great Pacific Garbage Patch –

    This was predicted… in a way, back around the late ’60s or early ’70s, through an old underground comic. I forget the name… but was in the same genre as Fever Dreams.

    The story told how the planet was finally so polluted, that one could walk from the west coast to the Pacific Isles. Later, a highway was built on top of it. But in the end, the planet revolted; erupting and spewing all the garbage and crap to the land surface, ultimately destroying civilization. The survivors then found themselves at the mercy of insects that had grown to immense size. They fed on the remaining humans and hatched their eggs on human bodies, stunned and then stuffed into the hatchery.

    It was a really wild, stoned vision back then… but today? Not so much.

  2. Thanks
    Its a strange thing to suddenly realize that a beloved habit has outgrown one unit of measurement – say, months – and donned the garb of quite another. Which is in this case, years. I’m proud to have at least observed the gradual evolution of this site and the wondering minds it attracts. For I can’t claim to have participated – much. Once, under a different handle, I was an irregular poster of thoughts. But time is ever the pooper of man’s party, and I found myself drawn away from the soothing gold/white on black of TDG. I still came, though. Came and read. For years.

    I can’t even guess how many times I would share with friends or family some odd bit of news gleaned from my time here, only to have them scoff at it and say, “That’s incredible!” Where did you hear about this? It’s not on CNN, BBC News, etc.” But then it would be, a day or so later. At some point of course, when I’d deemed them ready for the rabbit hole, I let them in on my secret, daily habit. Then, after a time, I would start getting 2 AM emails or near-frantic phone calls from those I’d enlightened, eager to share their delight (or fright) of some new thing they’d “discovered” on their own. I’m no father, at least not yet. But I think it must be a little like watching a son you’d taught to swing, smack one of of the park with bases loaded.

    The point is simply this: None of it could have happened if not for the hard work, time and dedication of all those involved in keeping this place alive and even (dare I say?) making it better. So how do I express my gratitude for years worth of these discoveries, revelations and gleaming little wisdoms?

    Maybe I’ll just start with a simple thanks.

    Cheers,
    Bum

    1. Me too…
      Yeah, Me Too… ! 🙂

      Although I disagree with much of the political alignment of the staff.. heh… I certainly appreciate the effort it takes, and look forward to my daily sip from the “Daily Grail”.

      Tnaks much, folks!

      Respects,
      Gwedd

    2. Quite lost!
      I’d be quite lost without the Grail to visit every evening. I hope the Admins realise how grateful I am for their untiring work in bringing me a terrific sampler of news from many sources – it must take them hours of work, and it’s muchly appreciated.

      Also all the folk who post blogs and all those who comment. I don’t have a lot to say, only what I feel is worth saying, but I learn much from reading the words of those who know more than I do and enjoy the discussions even if I don’t take part in them.

      Could I just mention here that for all those who pledged an annual subscription to Greg to give him more time to share with us – that time is now! It was this time last year that we made an ‘annual’ donation, and time goes by so fast that this may have escaped notice. Hope no-one minds me reminding them of this.

      Best wishes to all, Kathrinn

    3. ‘Tis a pleasure and an honor…
      …to be a part of TDG, all the more when we receive kind words like these.

      And thanks to you as well for spreading the word to those who might appreciate this little panacea we like to call TDG.

      Until the next…

      Turner

    4. Cheers
      [quote=Shovelbum]Maybe I’ll just start with a simple thanks.[/quote]

      That’s about all it takes to fuel this place. Thanks for taking the time to make our day!

      Kind regards,
      Greg
      ——————————————-
      You monkeys only think you’re running things
      @DailyGrail

  3. Time and Time Again
    The reversible time article does a decent job to trying to make sense, but it can’t quite step out of the envelope.

    We are built from chemical processes that run in a certain timeways direction. We have to be able to detect those because they are our world. Any running in other directions are of no use to us and so as Einstein said about ether, if it doesn’t affect anything else we know, we can ignore it.

    The article says “entropy can both increase and decrease, but that it must always increase for phenomena that leave a trail of information behind” which is bass ackwards. It can run both (or more, who cares?) directions, and in so doing it leaves a trail of information both ways (positive entropy = negative infmormation; positive information = negentropy). If that trail can be detected by a process, it appears to run in the same direction of ‘entropy’ as that process. They get the term and the definition reversed.

    Another t axis had already been proposed and fit into the maths headed towards a unified field theory (now being fit into superstring symmetry) by Hawking. This was his “imaginary time”, imaginary not in the sense of unreal and made up, but of the Y axis of a graph where the X axis is the number line, and calculations include such as the square root of negative numbers.

    Still, trying to explain it gets way from the essence of the theory on which it’s all based. Quantum phenomena are time invariant — the same both directions — not because they run in two directions (more of our entropic elitist thinking) but because all states co-exist simultaneously. The cup doesn’t start on the table, fall and break. It doesn’t start in pieces, jump up, re-assemble, and land on the table intact. The cup is simultaneously on the table intact, on the floor in pieces and at every point in between. It is only those processes (chemical or otherwise) that proceed in one or another particular direction of entropy that detects the illusion of changing states of the cup by collapsing the quantum wave form across the states as it measures them with its changing structure.

    The wind does not move. The flag does not move. The mind moves; the motion of both the wind and the flag are illusions caused by a moving mind.

    No, I am not the brain specialist…..
    YES. Yes I AM the brain specialist.

    1. The wind does not move. The flag does not move. The mind moves.

      Thank you for illuminating the concept so simply and elegantly. Physorg.com needs someone like you on their staff!

      Cheers,

      Turner

      1. The mind of an alien
        This reminds me of something Whitley Strieber once wrote, that stuck with me. How his ‘visitors’ have a much different view of things as we do.

        For instance, we might look at a tree, but the aliens look at the tree at all its levels of growth all at once —they see the seed from which the tree grew, and they also see all the in-between up until the tree leaves nothing but a dead stump in the ground.

        I don’t know if this is all true or not, but I found it to be a very interesting idea.

        —–
        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

        1. Spaghetti
          Looking at a human life in 4D (like Whitley’s visitors see), you would find that a human life is like a strand of spaghetti, starting out small, growing wider, and then shinking a bit before coming to an end. All strands of spaghetti will start inside another strand and be ‘born’ from it, so it is all a big tangled bowl of strands going every which way. Now the whole bowl spins and moves through space, making the strands spiral and draw big loops around our sun, which is also like a big strand going around the moving bands that are the stars and galaxies.

          4D is Fun!

          ASM

          (And even if no mind is there to observe, the wind still blows the flag)

    2. Well…
      [quote]The wind does not move. The flag does not move. The mind moves; the motion of both the wind and the flag are illusions caused by a moving mind.[quote]

      At least as far as you know…. It may well be completely different in someone else’s mind. Considering that each one of us is living in a parallel universe to everyone else, who knows exactly how these things work?

      My reality is not yours, nor yours mine, even though we bump slightly into each other through encounters such as this. Like folks saying “hello!” to each other as they past on the street, each consumed in their own world, their own momentary existence. We have no idea, sans further interaction, how eachother lives. We assume it to be similar, based upon our own experiences, our own data sets, be we can never really KNOW.

      It’s like identifying colours. We both look at an object, say a red balloon. We both identify the colour as red, but is the colour that I call red the same colour that YOU call red? We were shown an example of the colour when we were young, and told that it’s name was “red”. But what you see and what I see, although bearing the same name, might well be different colours. We simply cannot know, because we live our worlds within our own realities.

      Time for more tea, I believe! 🙂

      Respects,
      Gwedd

      1. Pondering about colours
        Gwedd, I’ve often wondered if we all see the same colours which we call by the same name! I guess there isn’t any way to find out, but I’d really like to know. Just one of life’s mysteries!

        Regards, Kathrinn

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