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Hello bawa, and welcome to the forums! That's quite a story you describe there. I suggest you re-post it to the Hindu section of the forums: http://thedaobums.com/forum/184-hindu-discussion/ That might increase the chances that those with the knowledge your looking for see your story. Good luck! In the meantime: Please take the time to read the two posts pinned at the top of this Welcome page and take a look at the forum terms and rules. This covers all you need to know when getting started. For the first week you will be restricted to ten posts per day but after that you can post as much as you like. Also, until you’ve posted fifteen times in the forums, you’ll be a “Junior Bum” with somewhat restricted access and will be allowed only two private messages per day. Good luck in your pursuits and best wishes to you, SC and the TDB team

Hello dirtydiesel, and welcome to the forums! Happy to have you here, and thanks for the very thorough introduction :-) Please take the time to read the two posts pinned at the top of this Welcome page and take a look at the forum terms and rules. This covers all you need to know when getting started. For the first week you will be restricted to ten posts per day but after that you can post as much as you like. Also, until you’ve posted fifteen times in the forums, you’ll be a “Junior Bum” with somewhat restricted access and will be allowed only two private messages per day. Good luck in your pursuits and best wishes to you, SC and the TDB team

That's about the size of it, yeah. Removes all the mystery, I know. Our consciousness is an interpretation of their will. Our desires stem from their desire to survive. We are them. There is no other life here. It's the logical, dare I say elegant?, conclusion I've come to and no matter how I turn it around, and no matter what other perspectives I read or hear, it just makes sense and answers pretty much everything. For example, crude oil. WTF? Why did humans start messing around with that nasty black shit deep in the ground? Well, bacteria thrive in oil, but it's not easily accesible. What to do? Program a desire for the stuff in their most efficient machines ... gotta go, visitors

But nature did invent the bicycle when it invented humans. I think about this a lot, in fact. My personal theory of life is that the same microbial forces that ruled this planet alone for a about two billion years are still ruling it. In us, they've simply brought forth a very efficient machine they can utilize to get them what they want/need in order to keep evolving. The wheel was a method of accelerating the process, or cheating time, so to speak.

All I wanted to do was show some bronze-age people a bicycle, teach them to ride it, and let them think about the physics behind it.

Hello Jeremy, and welcome to the forums! Glad you found your way to us, I think you'll find plenty of good information to enhance your practice. My advice, though, is to take it sloooooow. Btw, I'm an ex-pat American who's been living in Germany for twenty years :-) Please take the time to read the two posts pinned at the top of this Welcome page and take a look at the forum terms and rules. This covers all you need to know when getting started. For the first week you will be restricted to ten posts per day but after that you can post as much as you like. Also, until you’ve posted fifteen times in the forums, you’ll be a “Junior Bum” with somewhat restricted access and will be allowed only two private messages per day. Good luck in your pursuits and best wishes to you, SC and the TDB team

where do you live?

That kind of heating pad is very popular here in Germany. The most common filling is cherry pits.

We've bought two lamas and a other livestock for South American families through Plan. I love the idea!

Hmm... My years of ultramarathoning made me appreciate wet grass for that purpose. Enough so that I've found myself at times wishing we had some in the bathroom lol

Plan International https://plan-international.org/ Great people who help kids in places others won't go, and who stay long after the public has forgotten.

Haha, love it :-) A simple kaleidoscope!

I don't know about "in the world" but it sure is profitable, and cynical.

I was thinking more of the microbes of that time which we're not exposed to and which would probably kill us in a month. Same as someone from two thousand years ago being transported to the 21st century

Hello Stumpich, and welcome to the forums! Happy to have you here. Many members view The Dao Bums as a home away from home .... Please take the time to read the two posts pinned at the top of this Welcome page and take a look at the forum terms and rules. This covers all you need to know when getting started. For the first week you will be restricted to ten posts per day but after that you can post as much as you like. Also, until you’ve posted fifteen times in the forums, you’ll be a “Junior Bum” with somewhat restricted access and will be allowed only two private messages per day. Good luck in your pursuits and best wishes to you, SC and the TDB team

hmmm, thinking about your own survival then? I was thinking more along the lines of blowing their minds and giving them something to work with. I first thought about a dune buggy, but once the gas runs out, it's just a museum piece. That's why I went with mountain bike. And it's something they could replicate pretty quickly. Bamboo bikes are on the market now anyway. A solar-powered flashlight would be pretty amazing, especially if it had a secret on/off switch so I would be the sole bearer of immortal light haha :-) Would they kill me for it, or worship me? Of course, a first aid kit with antibiotics would probably be the most important for the short term ....

The lizard people? I mean, that tongue seems to have grown overnight and it could catch flies

well, I was thinking about food preparation when I wrote my previous comment.

Hey, thank you very much for that post :-)

I wonder what her father thinks about it. Is his heart all achey breaky or does he enjoy the ka-ching too much to care?

I mean, what do get out of it? What use is it to you? How do you use the information?

wrong movie haha

Can't believe I just said thank you for that ... Edit: this boring, fact-based German-language article from 2013 states unequivocally that Apophis isn't a threat in either 2029 or 2036 ... whew! http://www.spiegel.de/wissenschaft/weltall/asteroid-apophis-kollision-mit-erde-auch-2036-ausgeschlossen-a-877337.html

or a MUCH bigger life vest!