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News Briefs 23-09-08

By Jameskeon

Did you know that God is Dog spelt backwards?

  • Without God.
  • Is stupid making us google?
  • What the heck is it? And natural arches.
  • Japan hopes to turn sci-fi into reality with elevator to the stars.
  • Saturn’s rings older and fatter than expected.
  • Red spot junior colouring up.
  • Why the Martian southern ice cap is misplaced.
  • Stonehenge: an ancient healing site?
  • Study into near death experiences.
  • Einstein’s 23 biggest mistakes. Or evidence that he ripped off Lorentz?

Quote of the Day:

It’s not that I’m afraid to die, I just don’t want to be there when it happens.

Woody Allen

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10 Comments

  1. Stonehenge Healing
    There is a fundamental principle of stone and crystal “healing” which is that interaction with these forms of matter will cause changes in the humam biofield which can then cause changes in biological orientation and erase or disrupt “stuck” neurological loops and deleterious feddback mechanisms. Essentially, holding or hugging certain rocks and crystals can be like resetting the human biocomputer to a new program. Stones are resonators and reflectors which will measurably alter the vibration of biological systems. Sometimes then the “healing” can begin to take place. It’s like the body has been given a new conversation with itself or a new perspective on its situation. The novelty of the new sensations alone can be a ray of hope for the diseased – sort of like a light at the end of the tunnel for them. Paganism or animism may have been a feature of ancient stone worship as well, but these religious modalities are not necessarily required for a healiing to take place. There is a purely physical mechanism at play here, and there is a purely psychological one as well – give the body a new tune to play and it can sometimes sing its way out of a disease rut.

  2. Yawn
    OK, the latest NYT essay on why not to believe in God was well-written and cogent, but WTF? Where was the author when this was said about 100 times ago? There’s the usual ignorance of the paranormal and how it has zero to do with religion. There’s the usual “existence without religion is grim and pointless but we can take comfort in our courage and nobility” argument, which has been made often. There are the typical arguments from an atheist scientist who holds the outmoded views that a) The only way to believe in God is to hew to the usual “bearded daddy in the sky” concept, and b) The nonexistence of this sort of deity rules out survival of consciousness, purpose, meaning and universal intelligence, which it does not. We’re all subject to our biases, as is this rather pedestrian writer. Yawn.

    1. He
      [quote]When I was an undergraduate I knew a rabbi, Will Herberg, who worried about my lack of religious faith. He warned me that we must worship God, because otherwise we would start worshiping each other. He was right about the danger, but I would suggest a different cure: we should get out of the habit of worshiping anything.[/quote]

      …Including Science 🙂

      Or maybe we should revert to the opposite, and worship everything in the world.

      —–
      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. The Rabbi’s Words
        I wonder if the rabbi is not on to something? Look at all these dictator clowns. There always seems to be some slavish, unquestioning horde fawning at their feet, no matter how unworthy the subject of their attentions. You could understand a Julius Caesar, with massive accomplishments, in an environment like ancient Rome where the prevalent gods acted very much like people. Today with all the intervening history, why bow and scrape before Kim Jong Il, Vladimir Putin, or a host of lesser pretenders?

        Could we be hardwired to need to worship something outside of ourselves? It would explain a lot. Under such a circumstance, it might be much safer to trust in a fixed belief or principle, than a changeable living man.

  3. is stupid making us google?
    [quote]There can be few of us who do not feel a twinge of guilty recognition at this description. Busted! Even those who have come to the Web late in life are not so very different, then, from the fifth-graders who, as an elementary school principal told Bauerlein, proceed as follows when they are assigned a research project: “go to Google, type keywords, download three relevant sites, cut and paste passages into a new document, add transitions of their own, print it up, and turn it in.”[/quote]

    Well, the solution seems pretty simple: less emphasis in written papers, and have the students come forward to EXPLAIN, in their OWN words, the topic at hand. Of course that would mean less hours devoted to covering more topics in the curriculum; but what’s the point anyway? You ask a 20-year-old what he/she learned in his senior year of high-school and most of it is probably forgotten.

    Maybe we should change the way people are educated. How about this: After high-school and 3 years of higher education you take a job; & 5 years later you RETURN to school for another 2 years. After that you keep returning to school every 5 years for another 2 (this time, half-time or weekends) Until everyone earns a Postdoc-worth of education.

    That way, you’d keep updating your knowledge, which would be specially useful for Medicine practitioners.

    —–
    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

  4. For me it’s the monitor
    I can read books all day, even hard to read ones. However, put me in front of a monitor and after only a few paragraphs of a lengthy article I start to lose concentration and start skim reading, often abandoning it altogether long before the end.

    Regards, Kathrinn

    1. It’s the other way with me!
      I’m starting to have a lot of trouble focusing the letters on a sheet of paper; suddenly I see two “ghost” superimposed images of the original at the edges. It’s frustrating as hell 🙁

      —–
      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. RPJ
        Please, friend, go and get your eyes checked by an optometrist – you may need reading glasses. Eyes are precious – you only have two and they can’t be replaced if you lose your sight. Sounds as if you’re getting double vision – easily corrected, but you’ll end up with screaming headaches if it continues and gets worse.

        Regards, Mama Kathrinn!

        1. I’m a bookworm
          I’ve been using glasses for the last… uh… 15 years?

          I don’t know if it’s that my eyes are getting used to the consciously imperceptible flickering of the monitor; or maybe I need to change the bulb of my night lamp. Seating in front of a computer for 10 hours straight doesn’t help either.

          Thank you so much for the concern.

          —–
          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

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