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It's called the "Anticipation Build-Up":-) ...I just hope he doesn't let them down.

Darwin day eh? Is there a Creation day?

have a link?

It seems to my by your examples, no. 3 should also be "we don't know," seeing as how we don't know anything else.

Still gross.

I got this out of my Psych textbook (1998).

Anyone who does it in the third tri-mester has got a major obsession with killing babies. What I want to know is where they find the doctors to do it!

The abortionist stabs the scissors into the base of the baby’s skull. The scissors are spread to enlarge the opening. The suction catheter is then inserted and the brains are sucked out, causing the skull to collapse. The head slides out easily. I had no idea they did it like that. It about make me sick to my stomach.

AzurePhoenix...you're a girl!!!!!!! I had no idea. m(17)-pro-abortion. I'd like to follow up on your stance of psychological harm for the woman. You said: I feel the same about this as you do...but when are you anti-abortion? When the baby is in the first or second trimester? This of course is a tough decision for the mother, but I have just one thing to ask. Would you want to be the the bastard son/daughter to a rapist? I strongly think this causes more psychological problems for the product of the rape--the baby, moreso than it would for the mother.

Nonetheless...it is rather mysterious and somewhat confusing. think experiment: If you could read minds (authentically) would you go crazy. If everybody could read minds, would this cause disatrous effects on the brain and psyche? No branch of psychology can comment scientifically on it, and I think it would have some peculiar effects. If Psychokinesis were widespread, what would this do for war? Can anyone say X-men?

This is what I first came up with. If the boundry's were so perfect as to create a perfectly working replica of a hand or a head, then there shouldn't, by reason, be much of a noticeable boundary there. In my mind it would be just like walking into a room, although this room is the digital world and you didn't even know it. Kind of like a matrix or dream-world. Our brains might take awhile to pick up on it (if ever.) So even with the destructive force being there, there is little to no impact on our "reality" and senses. Now all we need are the instructions.

What about the whole teleportation part of the story, where or has this part been debunked?

good or bad?

Well, there's one thing for certain...you wouldn't be able to understand what anyone was saying!...because the auditory cortex is on the left side... whatever. In short, an interesting research field for more than just scientists or psychologists. Anyway, Bascule, great thought. All I can say now is that I know it'd make a great science fiction novel...I don't know, there may be one already that fashions a plot similar to your idea. In fact, I'm almost sure I've seen/heard/read of something like this before. Let me propose: If you stuck your head through 'the barrier' and you are now technically dead, wouldn't your body just slump down lifeless? Unless you had someone there to pull you back through, it's like walking (literally) to your death. Am I getting you correctly? or would the computer simulation of your brain control bodily functions, thereby retaining motor skills and the ability to remain conscious or semi-conscious while remaining--technically--dead? I think we do this already...Its called blogging. no let up there.

I got it...I wasn't being ignorant. Point: serious. anecdote: not. sick and twisted. What would you say for the people with weaker constitutions? Like in some instances what JustStuit is talking about. Not everyone can cope with reality, and therefore hope for ignorance...

What if we are considering a purely non-materialistic world with no sense of time...are girls still evil?

This works for about one second...the time it took you to give them the runaround, they answer "Santa Claus" and it's back to square one. I believe it's called a white lie. Every teacher finds a way to answer tricky questions like these in their own way. If a parent can do it, a teacher can, and oftentimes they're both.

No. wrong idea. I don't have any doubts that what we currently know is cut and dry. I'm concluding this by saying that the writers of my textbook had intent to be elusive; it was one of those lame cliffhangers. "But what if?...." Therefore they had no scientific backing for their statement, only a loosely based research proposition.

I don't drink and I'm just fine. Think there's a connection?

You know it's good thing you put that wink at the end...I would have thought you were serious.

good luck

The right side of his brain was superbly developed.