[Hughie Green]

“Zen is not “attained” by mirror-wiping mediation, but by “self-forgetfulness in the existential ‘present’ of life here and now.” We do not “come”, we “are.” Don’t strive to become, but be.”

Bruce Lee

[strawberry]

Arnold Layne, on 04 March 2012 - 09:55 AM, said:

Booj, Strawberry, I meant to add a smiley or ten, just to indicate I was being somewhat silly and giddy. Read me with a giggle going on, and you won't misread me I hope.

Arnold, I was raised with the romantic notion that if a person's motives are good then everything else fits into place. I know the road to hell is paved with good intentions, but perhaps if I were to read your posts with a giggle, then in turn you could take a moment to recognise the sincerity in mine.

Arnold Layne, on 04 March 2012 - 09:55 AM, said:

Mind you, I think that given the level of mockery us creationist get here on UK420, a little the other way is surely permissible? My apologies, if not.....

Of course. Whatever I may be, I am not a hypocrite. I really do believe that people are entitled to their own views. But, equally, I think it's ok for people to question mine and anybody else's.

Saying that, I don't think I've ever mocked anyone here. Perhaps my initial post in this thread serves as an example. I could have written that every scientific claim in the OP's video was false in the context of the video, I could have explained why and cited references, but it was *so* ridiculous that I felt my role no different from that of the child pointing out that the emperor was wearing no clothes. I appreciate science isn't your thing, so I"d like of offer an analogy in music (an area in addition to motive in which I think we could share some common ground), if you were to hear one of your favourite riffs re-used in an awful pop-song whose lyrics are contrary to those of the original, you could spend your time explaining in great detail why it jolts your psyche, or you could just point like Christian Andersen's child. In an ideal world, perhaps we would all take the time for the longer post. Sometimes life is too short.

Anyway, Arnold, I hope you take this post in the spirit in which it is intended.

Booj, rather than embarrass you again with warranted praise, I'll instead say that Taoism was my first love when I left the religion of my parents at that age where I was finding my own mind and was first dabbling in the deeper reaches of physics. I think the way of Tao has strong parallels with the statistical side of the physics surrounding the various quantum mechanical theories. I have no sense of intuition when it comes to science, which is why I do quick calculations in threads if someone asks about the relativistic effect of planetary motion or similar; having
no preconceptions has served me well but when I come across a person at work who struggles to understand probability theory relating to something such as quantum mechanics, I still love to explain about how the bear never looks for the honey but some always seems to turn up..... (I hope that doesn't sound as if I'm reducing Taoism to Hoff.)

[Arnold Layne]

[vape]

What about black holes?
They turn up uninspected
What happens to sound when it In counters one of them,let alone light and matter
Strange things them black holessssss

[bazzad9]

good vid here on black holes mate

h ttp://www.khanacademy.org/science/cosmology-and-astronomy/v/black-holes

[Boojum]

vape, on 11 March 2012 - 10:19 PM, said:

What about black holes?
They turn up uninspected
What happens to sound when it In counters one of them,let alone light and matter
Strange things them black holessssss

Well sound is an oscillation (or wave), it's the movement of air. Space is a vacuum so there is no sound, so theoretically (cos that's all black holes are - theoretical) sound would never encounter a black hole. If there was air to carry sound near a black hole then I think the same would happen to it as everything else that happens around a black hole, it would be dragged towards the event horizon until it was unable to escape, and then no fucker knows what happens.

[PaulHackett]

I'm with Boojum on this one!
And strawberry. and
Arnie. and
Bazzad
fuck it, maybe infinity aint so bad after all

eta and hughie green!
eta2 am I in the right thread?

This post has been edited by PaulHackett: 11 March 2012 - 11:27 PM

[ratdog]

Boojum, on 11 March 2012 - 10:41 PM, said:

(cos that's all black holes are - theoretical)

I wouldn`t say it totally theoretical tbh

[PaulHackett]

Is right ratdog, I was in a never ending spiral there, gang of cunts they are!
Cheers mate

[vape]

Boojum, on 11 March 2012 - 10:41 PM, said:

vape, on 11 March 2012 - 10:19 PM, said:

What about black holes?
They turn up uninspected
What happens to sound when it In counters one of them,let alone light and matter
Strange things them black holessssss

Well sound is an oscillation (or wave), it's the movement of air. Space is a vacuum so there is no sound, so theoretically (cos that's all black holes are - theoretical) sound would never encounter a black hole. If there was air to carry sound near a black hole then I think the same would happen to it as everything else that happens around a black hole, it would be dragged towards the event horizon until it was unable to escape, and then no fucker knows what happens.

Sounds like a film, thanks

[Hir]

Sasquatch, on 29 February 2012 - 02:15 AM, said:

It starts getting interesting from the 44th minute, and the geometrical stuff in Part 3 is from 1.13.

That's, a must watch video. Thanks Sasquatch. So the Egyptian pyramids are reflecting the same message, the end of the precession of the equinoxes as the Mayan calendar. For all the realists who say this has no other significance than the end of a cosmic twenty six thousand years cycle, this makes it seem as if December 2012, 9 months time, has some greater significance than just turning over a new leaf on a huge calendar.

The secret of what this all means, best guess, is part of the secret that Masonry is interested in. We know the Pyramid with the all seeing eye, Cleopatra Needle is one of their symbols. They refer to their deity as The Great Architect, they use the compass and set square. In short I suspect they know what all this means, least the 33 degrees do.

This post has been edited by Hir: 14 March 2012 - 03:20 AM

[Sasquatch]

The cycle of precession is mentioned in one form or other in ancient cultures from all over the world, and there just has to be some reason for that, and for the Egyptians choosing 21/12/12 as the end point.
FFS those fuckers knew what the speed of light was! That isn't just clever geometry,that's serious hardcore science current civilization has only been aware of for just over 100 years.I don't think it's complete pyramidiocy to speculate that the pyramids might actually have been there the last time the cycle turned or were built just after to preserve what they knew about it for future generations.
I'm not a Twelver but the Egyptians knew something we haven't got our heads round yet and I suspect we will finally find out in 9 months' time.

[Felix Dzerzhinsky]

Sasquatch, on 14 March 2012 - 01:55 PM, said:

I'm not a Twelver but the Egyptians knew something we haven't got our heads round yet and I suspect we will finally find out in 9 months' time.

Yep we'll find out that like calendars elsewhere when they roll over it signifies nothing particularly significant and there will be a lot of red faces on folk that think otherwise. Personally I can't wait for December myself and begin some serious ribbing.

[Sasquatch]

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Yep we'll find out that like calendars elsewhere when they roll over it signifies nothing particularly significant and there will be a lot of red faces on folk that think otherwise. Personally I can't wait for December myself and begin some serious ribbing.

The full story is that there is a bump or boss on the Sphinx's chest, and on 21/12 it will be pointing directly at the star Regulus in Leo, which in Arab culture is known as The Heart of the Lion.It would be a very happy coincidence if somebody dug up an ancient text which reveals the ancient Egyptians chose Regulus because it's big. Added to which whatever, if anything, happened obviously wasn't cataclysmic enough to stop them building it.
We have 9 months in which to identify the Twelvers, and after 21/12 make sure they never dare post anything on the web again. Particularly those who have already predicted alien disclosure, spaceships following Elenin etc.

[Felix Dzerzhinsky]

Sasquatch, on 15 March 2012 - 01:20 AM, said:

We have 9 months in which to identify the Twelvers, and after 21/12 make sure they never dare post anything on the web again. Particularly those who have already predicted alien disclosure, spaceships following Elenin etc.

Amen to that