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.”

Sounds like a good recipe for inducing cancer.

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.

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.

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'.

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

Utter nonsense.

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.)

It's the Trump creature isn't it?

Just imagine an immortal Trump creature!

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

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.

Have you ever actually met any?

A philologist once told me that there are only two original words in the English language. Those words are 'football' and 'fuck'.

"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) As I've pointed out before there was no letter 'J' 2000 years ago so this is BS. Whisky on the rocks. It was slavery (despite the revisionist claims of certain racist arseholes). You haven't given us any to handle.

I always liked this quote from Robert Heinlein: “Anyone who cannot cope with mathematics is not fully human. At best, he is a tolerable subhuman who has learned to wear his shoes, bathe, and not make messes in the house.”

Definitely 10 points and a gold star there.

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.

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.