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Everything is better with metal.

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Are you sure the meaning of statements regarding that is not that it took millions of years for ALL the mineral oil to be created? Considering the speed of various decomposition processes in nature, it seems odd to take millions of years for once-living matter to be converted into oil. I'm not sure, but I think the claim is that we are using up mineral oil that has accumulated over millions of years and our using-up happens in much less than mllions of years. BUT I wonder whether people saying that are aware that new mineral oil is created all the time. Maybe you can link to a document that clears this up?

"I cannot self-tickle." - Owlinator 2 "Nobody tickles themselves ... and lives!" - Duke Owlem 3D

OK, so now they know even more detail, but does that help in getting the big picture? The article is not clear about that, so I guess they don't want to speak it out loudly that it's not. They don't even say what the conventional medical use of that new information will or can be. They celebrate it for the sake of it. All the interesting questions are missing from the article. Thanks for posting though. Maybe we can eventually corner the answer and beat it up.

Mara sounds very much like Satan.

Did you get a chance to talk to Bismarck?

This is not a thread about multiple orgasms. I was wondering: Does anybody here know whether of the many different phophecies and such about when Jesus would return, is there any one that dated it to any of these?: 1906 (birth) 1949 ff. (active deeds and publicity) 1959 (departure)

DXM is a substance in cough medicine that is, in higher concentrations, also used as a dissociative drug. Wikipedia states something that has profound implications: "A 2004 study showed that dextromethorphan was no more effective for children than a placebo.[8] Studies conducted by the American Academy of Pediatrics show that dextromethorphan is not superior to a placebo in providing nocturnal symptom relief for children with cough and sleep difficulty due to upper respiratory infections.[9]" So all of the anti-cough effect is due to placebo ... in children only?! But how can that be? (rhetorical question) How can a substance effectively have no effect vs. belief in children, while in adults, the chemical substance does more than mere belief would? If you examine this logically, you can come to some very profound spiritual conclusions. No surprise to me that placebo effect is stronger in children. The have faith, they believe easily, while adults are already filled with scepticism, and that can block the self-healing power of belief. There can be various theories now about why DXM has an effect in adults. Does the body notice the presence of a foreign substance DXM and report it to the rational brain, which then gives green light to the creative mind or faith mechanism? I think the rational mind is like a guardian, requiring additional measures to be convinced, but that what ultimately gets anything done is based on belief, based on the divine creative force. This would also imply that systems like the whole medical science are nothing but belief systems. They work because sceptic people can convince themselves that it's not 'just belief', and 'belief' being what they personally believe to be not true. It is a self-imposed additional complication on the path of divine manifestation of reality. Have you ever witnesses someone handwaving a cure as "Oh, forget it, it's just placebo effect!"? The logical fallacy and blindness of such a person is amusing, because if a placebo cures, then there is no reason to discredit it. It is also amusing to watch things like the placebo effect entering medical science doctrine. One would think that any doctor must be dumbfounded by the very idea of placebo effect, but it is now generally accepted. They did studies, they have faith in the truth of the outcomes, and that's where they stop. They don't dare to philosophize about the implications, because it then gets too scary for the rational mind. This is so much like the saying that truth is first called absurd, then fought, then accepted as self-evident. Thus it is sad/hilarious that the same doctors that now acept placebo effect as a real phenomenon in their profession might still ridicule the idea of "healing through belief", although that's pretty much the same that they have strong faith in under the term "placebo effect". They become faithful servants of metaphysics, but don't want it to be called by its real name. This is one example of how humankind evolves on the outside, reflected by society, while on the inside nothing changes.

That's pretty funny. The stuff I watched from Seinfeld was disappointing. People say the show gets better with time, or that its humor from a different era. But soup nazi is a funny idea.

Now that you point it out... how subtlely fucked up is it to call a president a "world leader"?! It already contains clear indication of where the big problems lie. It's like language is a precursor, an indicator of thought and thus action.

That doesn't mean that everything that's being laughed at is the Tao.

Would be. You could make a separate thread about that question. I wouldn't mention the name Obama though. Will just make people laugh at you.

Any belief in Jesus' return that is not connected to some apocalyptic event? You just earned an off-topic award.

The test says I am INRI.

I'm reading the article to the video, and although it sounds credible, one paragraph suddenly hit me like a hammer: "The clear US policy shift following 9-11, away from being an impartial broker of peace in the Mideast to one of unquestioned support for Israel's aggressions only further eroded confidence in the Petrodollar deal and even more oil producing nations started openly talking of oil trade for other global currencies." Does the guy have no clue about the long consistent history of US imperialism, about the difference between official gestures and actual ulterior motives? Maybe he's falling into the common habit of explaining everything with the same thesis. How can he believe against massive evidence that the USA didn't provide unwavering support to Israel's belligerent behavior and acts of cruelty even before 9/11? The article has a point though. It's not far off to assume that those who control things at the very top are also pulling all the strings, directly or indirectly.

Oh no, I would never think a politician could be a returned Jesus. I'm not saying why I mentioned those specific dates.

As is often the case with questionnaires, I cannot fill it out truthfully because the questions are often unprecise, ambiguous. For example: You trust reason rather than feelings Y/N If this meant as a general doctrine followed? If not, this could mean that it sometimes is true and sometimes not. If the statement taken as it is is answered with no, it could either mean that I trust feelings rather than reason or that I DON'T trust reason rather than feelings, meaning for example I trust them both evenly, or as said before, it is situation-dependant. Many questionnaires like this suffer from the problem that they are generalizing a lot. Also it requires a lot of honesty with yourself, lack of self-deception. Imagine this as clarification: Question: Are you are raving lunatic? Yes / No Answer: Sometimes

Who remembers that expansion pack from Oblivion? I just remembered how strong the spiritual implications of its story are. A prankster type half-lunatic rules over the land, which is divided into two parts: Mania and Dementia, with the respective mood theme. In regular intervals, the ruler kinda flees, because a great aggressor will come and reshape the land - a ruler of strict, merciless order. Later it becomes clear that the ruler doesn't so much flee from that event in order to be safe, but that he himself becomes the agent of order. He's bouncing between two extremes. The player is the champion whose task it is to defeat that 'villain'. I found it a nice depiction of how duality works in all of us and how we can become blind of the inner source if we separate and alienate ourselves too much from the opposed extreme.

Could it be that the magical arts have become more widespread in some circles than one would assume? Is there any indication that stage magicians might be incorporating real magic into their illusions? Because some tricks they pull off are so simple and yet astounding, seem to exclude any kind of peparation or diversion of attention, that I was wondering whether it's some kind of novelty in the community. I am especially talking about tricks around matter penetration - placing an object into a glass plate or moving one's hand through glass, with only a newspaper covering the spot.

Well, not including stuff like what Derren Brown does. No matter how amazing that is, it's still explained how it's done with ordinary means. Now that I think of him, I remember that he, too, sometimes uses the TV presentation format to apply the same deceptive methods he uses in his tricks also on the TV viewer. I know the term "real magic" is inaccurate and variable, but diverting attention I would not include, while inducing false images into minds I would include. Also matter penetration. John Chang seems to have demonstrated that. According to what was shown in a documentary, he pushed a wooden chopstick through a wooden table. In the process, a wood splinter allegedly flew into someone's eyes and his spiritual guides reprimanded him for causing hurt while showing off.

Now that you mention it, I was wondering about that, too: Whether magician stuff that's shown on TV (and there being no proof it was shown live) might be a setup - faked. Although that one video where someone reaches through a showcase glass window to take out a cell phone, I don't think the passerbies were actors, since their reaction is so messed up, it can only be real. Because some are rejecting to take the phone into their hands (since it's apparently stolen) but their mind seems incapable of even noticing the unexplainable magical trick. They act as if someone just stole a cell phone in a regular way. Others get a kind of blank stare IIRC - overall it was sad/hilarious. I once showed a random guy I had a nice chat with at L.A. airport a 'magical trick' (based on kinesiology). I was all cheerful and playful and all, but when I showed him the trick, he said I'm creeping him out now, became all serious and hurried away.

I've seen one video from the guy, and one minor trick was pretty good while the main trick that the whole video was making a fuss about was totally lame. (hummer on a ramp driving over his body with one wheel only or something like that)

"Mal" (lat. "bad") Short form of Malcolm http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colm_Meaney Malcolm Meaney

I occasionally notice this peculiar phenomenon, but it's difficult to find information about exactly what I mean: Did you ever see a person and had the feeling it's someone else you know in that body? Like one or both of the following things apply: - They look like their face has been taken from a blueprint of another person's face. - Their demeanor, body movement and facial expressions remind you of someone else. One example is Robbie Williams. His face, especially his mouth and the look on his face, the way he smiles, I have seen that 'archetype' in several other people. I can't remember popular counterparts I could link to, but have you ever seen a person who really doesn't look like Robbie Williams, but their face makes you feel it's him? Another example: I watched a TV series and saw the actor Vanessa Zima (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0956528) and immediately thought: Is she trying to impersonate Alyson Hannigan or what? It was especially clear in that role in the show, but outside, it might still be noticeable to a lesser degree. Watch this video and tell me what you think: What I find interesting is that those similarities can occur without any genetic connection between two people. Is it just coincidence, bound to happen among a big enough group of people? Definitely a huge and complex topic, but trying to figure out the reasons for those things can be fascinating.