Manticore

You might remember your dreams as profound, but it does not mean they really are...

Here is an extended excerpt from an 1870 lecture by Oliver Wendell Holmes which was published in 1879

I once inhaled a pretty full dose of ether, with the determination to put on record, at the earliest moment of regaining consciousness, the thought I should find uppermost in my mind. The mighty music of the triumphal march into nothingness reverberated through my brain, and filled me with a sense of infinite possibilities, which made me an archangel for the moment. The veil of eternity was lifted. The one great truth which underlies all human experience, and is the key to all the mysteries that philosophy has sought in vain to solve, flashed upon me in a sudden revelation. Henceforth all was clear: a few words had lifted my intelligence to the level of the knowledge of the cherubim. As my natural condition returned, I remembered my resolution; and, staggering to my desk, I wrote, in ill-shaped, straggling characters, the all-embracing truth still glimmering in my consciousness. The words were these (children may smile; the wise will ponder): “A strong smell of turpentine prevails throughout.”

I don't know much about it, but from what I recall it was simply transferring stemcells from your bones, to other areas. But I wonder if it is possible to increase the reproduction rate of stem cells such that it exceeds their death rate.

Sounds like a good recipe for inducing cancer.

And not, as almost all neurologists and psychiartrists claim insofar as the nature of dreaming is concerned, merely the imagery that is emitted into your waking memory from your brain's filing activity of the previous night. Dreams come from when thre brain takes new memories and experiences and thoughts from the day past and tries to find the best place to file them into your short and long-term memory banks.

If that is true, then I must have had some very strange days that left no conscious memories whatsoever.

You didn't. It's not that easy to do.

I think humans are distinguished from other animals by our ability to create and appreciate surrealism.

 

Yes, I was thinking this might be the most likely answer. It has been a few years, so it's definitely old in that regard. It is not weak for the games I'm trying to play, it is just generally old. Can that be an issue as well?

 

 

Yes, GPU is the first thing you'd think. What would you recommend?

Age in general, I'd normally say no. On the other hand, check the drive light while you're playing - hard drives can definitely slow down with age so if your games are using the drive a lot you might get the symptoms you describe.

To give any useful advice about the GPU I would need full specs - GPU model, Video RAM size, bus speed, PC RAM size & speed.

Even then, I tend to be very much hands on when fixing PCs (I sometimes think my fingers know more about it than my brain).

So you claim to be invulnerable?

Could be a GPU problem. With videos it is doing very little work - merely passing data to the screen. With 3D games it is taking the majority of the workload.

Same in Dutch, but we have -loos as suffix, while "less" translate to "minder" which doesn't cause any confusion.

 

Being used to this kind of suffix, I never even noticed this confusion when learning English. The horrible spelling is much, much worse in my opinion.

Yes, English spelling is insane.

(Sorry if you've heard this before - it's pretty old.)

Take the letters 'gh' as pronounced in words like 'rough'.

The letter 'o' as pronounced in 'women'.

And the letters 'ti' as pronounced in words like 'motion'

Put them together to get the word 'ghoti' - pronounced as 'fish'.

Satellites that are further away actually travel slower. The International Space Station has a Low Earth Orbit, about 400 kilometers (250 miles) above the earth's surface. Objects orbiting at that altitude travel about 28,000 kilometers per hour (17,500 miles per hour).Jan 17, 2013

But you said "Differently weighted things need to travel at different speeds to stay in orbit" which is bollox.

Differently weighted things need to travel at different speeds to stay in orbit, dependent on the altitude of their orbit. Though the difference is small, it certainly accounts for the time dilation difference between the weights of the crafts. The different speeds can probably be accounted for by the different heights in orbit.

 

Utter nonsense.

Well we would need a way to wipe the memory of traumatic events, so that we could live comfortable lives.

And if you do that to someone then they are not the same person. So why bother at all.

(I can't even imagine how boring a 'comfortable' life would be.)

"The God of the Old Testament is arguably the most unpleasant character in all fiction: jealous and proud of it; a petty, unjust, unforgiving control-freak; a vindictive, bloodthirsty ethnic cleanser; a misogynistic, homophobic, racist, infanticidal, genocidal, filicidal, pestilential, megalomaniacal, sadomasochistic, capriciously malevolent bully." – Professor Richard Dawkins, The God Delusion.

 

It's the Trump creature isn't it?

Immortality equals chaos and nothing but problems.

Just imagine an immortal Trump creature!

People wouldn't hurt me because they knew I'd mean business.

No, they'd just get a whole bunch of their friends to help them.

Wow! You were all pretending to be so objective in your debating about the life of Christ. It didn't take much to bring out your true colours. Third generation dyed in the wool atheists suckling at the teets of mammon, bleeting like sheep, and perhaps running like lemmings towards what? Freud prostituted his talents to appease the powers, as revealed by his letters with Jung. 20 years brought on WWI. Woodrow Wilson appeased the Central Powers with a Fourteen Point Plan, devised with Edgar Cayce's input, to further prevent WWII. Reneging thwarted the intended effect in another 20 years, with the claim that they were too idealistic! Plainly, a further 20 put us in the Cuban Missile Crisis with the same causes, corporate greed and exploitation! Einstein likewise worked hard to establish the UN, and to spread some light. Corporations should be controlled, not controlling, on every front! And like Einstein and Woodrow, our efforts should be to embrace Truth, Justice and Liberty, a chain that is unbreakable if liberty is as set in Washington by Thomas Jefferson, "I have sworn upon the alter of God eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man." We don't know the truth about helium and the Hindenburg, that requires science, but Rudolf Deisel had it right, and there are no suspicious circumstances? Have you Google Earthed the North Pole lately. It's all open sea! Forget about 17% swings in critical electorates when polls are usually out by 2%, for Al Gore. Keep believing convenient "truths" and I'll see you on Polaris maybe. Revelation Chapter 11. The Wheel turns.

Spoiled 4 year old tantrum.

The problem with immortality would be that your brain would eventually run out of storage capacity (I've seen estimates of 300 years, though nobody knows for sure) and then you would, presumably, just grind to a halt.

If there's one thing I know about humans, it's that they love avoiding taking responsibility for their actions.

 

Have you ever actually met any?

 

 

English was not "invented". Like all languages it evolved, and is still evolving to meet the needs of its users.

A philologist once told me that there are only two original words in the English language.

Those words are 'football' and 'fuck'.

I gave Einstein's opinion.

"The religion of the future will be a cosmic religion. It should transcend personal God and avoid dogma and theology. Covering both the natural and the spiritual, it should be based on a religious sense arising from the experience of all things natural and spiritual as a meaningful unity. Buddhism answers this description. If there is any religion that could cope with modern scientific needs it would be Buddhism."

(Albert Einstein)

 

Jeshua ben Joseph is the original, but that is neither here nor there.

As I've pointed out before there was no letter 'J' 2000 years ago so this is BS.

 

What do "water and the spirit" translate to in modern English,

Whisky on the rocks.

 

Consider the Civil War. Was it slavery, or was it 13 States seceding from the Union tax base that caused the real concern? I might conclude with QED.

It was slavery (despite the revisionist claims of certain racist arseholes).

 

You can't handle the truth.

You haven't given us any to handle.

I always liked this quote from Robert Heinlein:

I though that was the point you were making -- which seems have gone over JC's head (see what I did there).

Definitely 10 points and a gold star there.

 

 

But then again, they spoke Aramaic which isn't written with our alphabet. (Although it doesn't have the phoneme represented by the J in English. But then most other languages don't pronounce his name that way.)

That's what you get when you discuss the mishmash of stolen legends, politically motivated editing, hallucinations and mistranslations that make up the Christian Book of the Dead.

What is your cite for that? I doubt that that was the only text.

No. Most had, as a secondary definition, something like: n. When you are awake and aware of your surroundings.

2000 years ago, there could not have existed anyone named Jesus (or John, James, Jehova etc.) because the letter 'J' has only existed for four or five hundred years.