Stranger things

[Nungali]

On 23/08/2024 at 9:44 AM, Taomeow said:

 

Or like Biden using this argument in his July debate with Trump:  "You have the morals of an alley cat.”   

 

It's worth noting that per CNN (!), Biden's dog, Commander Biden, was involved in 11 separate biting incidents at the White House, chomping on officers/Secret Service agents and putting some of them in the hospital.   https://www.cnn.com/2023/09/26/politics/commander-biden-biting-incident/index.html

 

I won't comment on the morals of that dog, however, to avoid politicizing dogs too.  

 

 

 

 

We dont do that down here . Instead we have 'the democracy sausage ' .   Now thats a strange thing !

 

It was pretty strange here in my little Darkwood Valley yesterday .    Sus looking cars going up and down the road . Then various police vehicles . An off road motorcycle crew, fully kitted out .   Hmmmmm ' homicide squad involved ' ... not  again ! 

 

All a bit of a mystery about what it was until later today .  Someone  further up river started the day gardening and noticed someone had dropped, lost off their roof racks ... discarded  a surf board bag in their driveway.

 

Thing was ... it didnt have a surfboard in it    

 

All the headlines where ' Body found at Darkwood' ... and due to the somewhat unusual name , each story had a location map .... of our formally little hidden away paradise ! 

 

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Edited August 24 by Nungali

[Nungali]

18 hours ago, Taoist Texts said:

one would think so, but no, he did grasp the most important one:

Trump believed the human body was like a battery, with a finite amount of energy, which exercise only depleted. So he didn’t work out. When he learned that John O’Donnell, one of his top casino executives, was training for an Ironman triathlon, he admonished him, “You are going to die young because of this.”

https://www.cnn.com/2017/05/15/politics/donald-trump-exercise/index.html

 

 

 

So he does  not support 'rechargeable energy '   

[Nungali]

14 hours ago, old3bob said:

 

ok, btw do you know who is against exercise?  and there is the political (to some) trump cat picture innuendo which is apparently ok?

 

I didnt think it was and I expected to get into trouble .... off Cobie    

[Cobie]

(I just read this online, don’t know if it’s true) Allah gave Islam 1500 years, we are now in their year 1446. 
 

 

[S:C]

this came up and I forgot whom I wanted to share this with… I hope it finds its way 

12 hours ago, snowymountains said:

 

The one where if a lion eats us everything is kaput for us, the only reality.

Unlike a dream, where all sorts of things can happen after a lion eats us.

9 hours ago, dwai said:

 Don’t live near a lion then! Btw how do you know what happens after a lion eats us? 

might be worth pondering about

 

@dwai how do you recognize a lion for a lion (and yes that’s a metaphorical/philosophical question) ?

 

 

Edited August 24 by S:C
remembered / deleted / forgot / sorry / thx

[Taomeow]

1 hour ago, S:C said:

 

@dwai how do you recognize a lion for a lion (and yes that’s a metaphorical/philosophical question) ?

 

 

 I recognize the lion by his claw.   

 

The story apparently goes like this.  In 1696, Johannes Bernoulli sent a letter to all the major mathematicians in Europe challenging them to solve a mathematical problem.  Newton, upon solving it, sent the solution to Bernoulli anonymously.  The latter immediately recognized who could have come up with such an elegant solution, and exclaimed -- in Latin of course which was the language of scientific discourse at the time --

 Tanquam ex ungue leonem.  We recognize the lion by his claw.  

 

One of my favorite expressions.  There's other ones similar in meaning which I also like, e.g.:

To see a World in a Grain of Sand, And a Heaven in a Wild Flower. -- William Blake

To know shit from Shinola. -- American folklore 

 

 

 

Edited August 24 by Taomeow

[S:C]

Can a lion eat you twice?

 

[Taomeow]

1 minute ago, S:C said:

Can a lion eat you twice?

 

 

I don't think a lion can eat me even once.  I normally get along with felines.  There's mountain lions reportedly encountered on occasion on hiking trails where I live, so I carry some kitty treats with me, just in case.  (And an oversized shirt to spread like wings and look large and intimidating in case kitty treats don't work.  And boy can I meow!)  

   

Although chances of being eaten by a lion the next time I step out the door are 1:2 if we were to trust standard statistical methods:

either it will eat me, or it won't.

 

    

[old3bob]

even much smaller bobcats have been known to attack people, although not that common. (for instance ambush in waiting)

[Shadow_self]

On 23/08/2024 at 7:28 PM, Taomeow said:

I have some info about how people with power and money who also happen to be health-conscious (not all of them are) go about improving their odds of dancing on everybody else's graves.  Leaving the most so-called "conspiracy" (aka clandestine) stuff out of it (although I could tell some stories...), I'll cite the male nurse who gave me a couple of vitamin and mineral IV infusions during the pandemic (the so-called Myers cocktail).  It's a slow drip (taking at least an hour), and he had nothing else to do during that time, so we had nice chats.  He told me things about his pandemic employment adventures, and then mentioned that his most steady and significant income was coming from administering various IV goodies to his wealthy private clients.  Some of them do this all the time, plus extra stuff as needed to clear up things like hangover or jet lag...       

 

Some of them view victory as conquering the world (by amassing wealth and power) as opposed to getting past worldliness (our lower nature)

 

Certain wealthy people , in my experience are utterly terrified of death.

 

Its often due to their attachment to what they've accumulated (materially, socially, and psychologically). Understandable in some ways

 

While they might be hopeful to the idea of outliving others, its been my experience that if this is their approach , they can inadvertently  create the conditions to likely be the ones left frequenting graveyards and other regions after their time has come

 

Sometimes one does get what they want, but what they end up getting isnt what they thought it was

[Taomeow]

[Taomeow]

Just got a UPS package from a friend -- some memorabilia which she found in the process of cleaning out a storage space.  That storage had decades' worth of accumulated stuff -- first her mom's, then her own.  On the outside, the package she mailed looks mighty funky.  The thing is, in the process of decluttering she found, among other things, a box of postal stamps from the 1970s and, since they are still valid, decided to put them to good practical use.  They are 13-cent stamps and she had to use 110 (one hundred ten) of them to mail a 1lb package. 

 

Sort of puts inflation in perspective.

[Taomeow]

[Apech]

5 hours ago, Taomeow said:

 sums up the French!

[Taomeow]

"Cats, beings of many incarnations, bring with them ancestral wisdom and open portals to other dimensions."

-- Edgar Cayce 

 

Edited August 31 by Taomeow

[Nungali]

I need to see what is on the other side of that door ! 

 

 

 

 

 

[Nungali]

The last few nights , I can lie in bed, look out the window and out to glowing orange spots on the escarpment . Weird, there has been a fire going there for three or four days now .  A LOT of smoke , the first day, and obvious, but  not yesterday and no discernible fire , yet as soon as it gets dark , the orange lights appear . Its not just a sky glow , bright fire . It doesn't go out and it doesn't spread  ? Its too far away to be glowing coals or smouldering logs .  Curious .

 

As I noted to some ; " They are burning the cycad forest again  ."    

 

Years ago I found an old fire trail and walked it , it goes along the base of the escarpment  and is primeval and lush in there , its a natural extension of the nearby national park , a 'Gondwana environment ' :

 

https://www2.environment.nsw.gov.au/topics/parks-reserves-and-protected-areas/protected-areas/world-heritage-listed-areas/gondwana-rainforests-of-australia

 

I came around a spur onto a south face and I was in an amazing cycad forest  .  I went back a few times . Once after the escarpment had some fires ( when sections of it where going off like giant Roman Candle fireworks , I walked in there to see what caused that ) but the fire didnt get into the cycads . Its a beautiful and magical place .  I took a friend for a walk there last year and it was burnt out .  I had noticed the smoke from around there a few months previous .  How sad , those beautiful ancient  plants that must have taken a long time to grow all burnt and damaged and looking sick .  There was no evidence pervious to a fire being in there  any time recently . However , the track is a fire fighting trail and I guess they decided to 'clear' around that .   I thought eventually it might recover , but now this, again .   And its just this one spot they burn , where the cycads are  . no other fires have been lit, or no burn offs anywhere else that I can see . 

 

'My ' cycad forest !  

 

 

 

yeah, they are a 'fire regeneration' plant , but not if they get burnt EVERY year .

 

 

 

[Taomeow]

Genetic data suggest that pre- last ice age human populations of Western Europe (dark skinned blue-eyed people) did not survive that last ice age and disappeared completely between 25 000 and 19 000 years ago.  Once the climate warmed up (rapidly -- melting an ice sheet two miles thick that was covering the continent), settlers from the East (fair skinned, dark eyed) moved in and spread across the territory of modern Western Europe.  These new settlers had an almost identical hunter-gatherer lifestyle and culture (fat goddess statuettes etc.) to that of the people whence they came, i.e. modern Eastern Europe.  However, the two populations didn't mix at all for some 6 000 years (between 14 000 and 8 000 years ago.)  That, despite the absence of any geographic barriers that would prevent them from mixing.  This led to a rather rapid accumulation of genetic differences between those who lived to the West and those who lived to the East of the Baltic sea.  

 

Researchers whose information I've used above promised to explain why they didn't mix in the next publication.          

[Cobie]

 

4 hours ago, Taomeow said:

… human populations of Western Europe (dark skinned blue-eyed people) did not survive that last ice age and disappeared completely …

There still are some “blue-eyed people” in “Western Europe”; where did they come from?

 

 

Edited September 8 by Cobie

[Taomeow]

22 minutes ago, Cobie said:

 

There still are some “blue-eyed people” in “Western Europe”; where did they come from?

 

 

 

I'm talking about a specific period.  Which ended 19000 years ago.  Then I'm talking about another specific period -- 14000 to 8000 years ago.  The blue-eyed western Europeans disappeared during the first one of the periods discussed.  During or after that second period, one or (most likely) both things happened:     

 

1. Blue eyes are the outcome of many genetic modifications, the most common (but by far not the only one) being a variant of the OCA2 gene which is involved in making melanin.  Environmental conditions that are conductive to making less melanin (which is what blue eyes really are -- eyes with less melanin) would favor the appearance and proliferation of this trait in the newcomers (who underwent many genetic changes besides this one once they settled in the new environment.)

2. After the second period discussed, i.e. from 8000 years ago to present, there were many new waves of many new settlers from elsewhere, who may have also brought blue eyes to the area. 

 

[Taomeow]

This is the image of two entangled photons.

 

 

 

[Gerard]

Check this rare view of Jupiter taken by Juno's mission:
 

 

 

 

Stunning NASA Juno Image Captures Sunrise and Sunset on Jupiter in One Shot

👍

 

Edited September 16 by Gerard

[Taomeow]

5 hours ago, Gerard said:

Check this rare view of Jupiter taken by Juno's mission:
 

 

 

 

Stunning NASA Juno Image Captures Sunrise and Sunset on Jupiter in One Shot

👍

 

 

Image didn't post.   but I'll find it, thanks 

[Taomeow]

In 2017, American Heart Association (AHA) held its annual dinner in Anaheim, CA.  All the dishes served were what they promote as "heart healthy."  In the course of the dinner, AHA president, Dr. John Warner, had a heart attack.  

Edited September 17 by Taomeow

[Nungali]

On 9/16/2024 at 7:06 PM, Gerard said:

Check this rare view of Jupiter taken by Juno's mission:
 

 

 

 

Stunning NASA Juno Image Captures Sunrise and Sunset on Jupiter in One Shot

👍