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I was like that with my root canal.... (Obviously not as serious as your back but an example of similar acceptance of pain) - I had suffered months of pain which had been getting worse and worse - thumping right up into my temple and deep into my head from the tooth... twitchy nerve in my eye from it and temple - was hard to eat and very depressing. When the needle went in from the dentist - although it hurt - I welcomed it with relish knowing the pain would soon be gone.... as the anaesthetic started to work I became very emotional at the absence of pain that had plagued me for months and I actually cried. When she was drilling me - It hurt a little but again the pain was welcomed because I knew it was taking out the nerves that had been torturing me for so long. I think I have passed out twice from my back spasming during periods of back pain. I knew it was going to happen both times - I could feel it coming. The second one was more of a shock - it felt like a trapped nerve or a twisted muscle sort of 'snapped' back into place all of a sudden - it was like an electric shock shooting up my back through my injury - it was so weird and I just passed out. I came round on the floor with much less pain in my back than before I fainted - maybe it needed to just totally relax without me stiffening up. After this - I can now take pain in back that would have made me scream when I was younger and laid me up - now I just sort of catch it quick - relax and let it slip into the right posture regardless of the pain and then just get on with it - the pain goes.

Except he didn't - because he is a figment of people's imagination brought on by superstition, mis-drawn conclusions, ignorance and lies told to control large groups of people.

!!!!!!!!Presidential Alert!!!!!!!! "I just need to say - it isn't shaped like a mushroom - it's huge, much bigger than that, much bigger, really huge, really!"

The 'implications' were implied by the whim of the author - not the logical scientific conclusion. I didn't read all of the links - what in your opinion were the implications then and how were these conclusions drawn from the data? Because no-one here has found any proof od god from reading the links you provided, you'll have to be more specific about what you think this evidence is exactly that points towards whatever it is you think is a god. Spoon feed it to me. ok - just seen your longer post... I'll read that.

What was the conclusion then? Summerize it.

It really isn't that persuasive. It shows our brains work in similar ways.

Define it how you like - it isn't proof god. The reports make observation.... in that much it is scientific.... jumping to conclusions based on mystic mythology isn't scientific though. However you define god or the perennial philosophy the fact that people have similar experiences under the influence of medicines, drugs or in prayer like and meditative states doesn't prove anything. It is evidence that our minds work in similar ways (presumably because we are all human and you minds all work in the same way) not that there is any outside sentience involved.

I've noticed a lot of JR cross breads with the likes of the chihuahua recently. It might not go down with the die hard JR enthusiasts but it makes for a lovely dog. I would imagine this can only be a good thing for the genetic stock. My parents have one and it is a lovely dog.

Only if the armed response unit was called. The visit was to check on her mental state - the visitors would not have been armed and wouldn't have expected her to be concealing a firearm in the house. Even if she did get her air pistol out they would have probably realised it was an air pistol before calling the armed response unit.

So she was acting crazy and showing signs of mental illness...... does this warrant the police shooting her to death? In the UK or the EU I am certain she would have been taken into hospital and helped through her mental illness..... in the USA? - BLAM! Take that you crazy bitch! That's the end of you. No more troubling your neighbors with crazy shouting. Despicable policing! If the gun laws weren't so stupid in that country then the police wouldn't have been so certain that her BB gun was a real one and wouldn't have had to blow her away just to make sure. Fucking ridiculous. I don't expect her family will get compensation for a wrongful shooting - it will be justified as self defense because she pulled a BB pistol. Poor woman. A pointless and avoidable death of a beautiful but troubled woman. Is this the standard of mental health care in the US? 'Are you OK miss?... oh no, you're not, shit, you're crazy' - BLAM! FFS. Wouldn't have happened in almost any other 1st world country.... I doubt the 'care team' that went to her house would have felt the need to be heavily armed in the first place and they would have had training in how to deal with people that have mental problem..... and that training wouldn't have involved the use of guns. This is another avoidable death that your (the USA) out of date gun laws are responsible for imo. Tragic! She was born in LA in 1968..... gone too soon. RIP. ...... ........ ........ ........ .......... Sorry - i was a little shocked and angry when I wrote the above. I wasn't there. Who knows what went on. I think it takes balls to be a police man when you know everyone has a gun - these guys put their life on the line every day and obviously felt their lives were in threat. Seems so pointless though.

Because they are both totally delusional?

K - Thanks.

What about adding helium to the combustion gas? I've never heard of that and can't find anything to suggest it would increase the C60 yield. I was wondering where the OP got it from. Mute anyway if it isn't actually a very good lubricant. What is it supposed to be lubricating here in the OP anyway? The travel of the plasma in the barrel? I am not sure I understand... maybe I should have just kept quite in this thread after all, lol.

OK - seems that some breads are more susceptible - doesn't mention mixed breads though from my skim reading. https://dogcare.dailypuppy.com/breeds-susceptible-parvo-8187.html

C60 - you asked if it was a lubricant and seemed to suggest that adding helium would increase the amount of C60 made. I do not know if enough would be generated to be lubricating. There is always a small amount produced during combustion - we were told at school (a long time ago) that it was produced at the edge of a candle flame. Why does helium increase the amount generated during combustion? Is that written somewhere? I hadn't heard about it.

Yea it would. I just had a quick search, but can't spend too long on it as I am at work. Apparently it isn't as deadly as people think if the dog gets treatment. If treated, 15% of puppies that get it die according to a google search. Maybe this is due to modern medicine - I am talking 30 years ago, maybe the medicine wasn't as good then or something. I would 'guess' than a mongrel would be more resilient but I would be speculating - it seems to make sense but would be nice if confirmed.

Yea I know that - but Parvo! We were well impressed with him for that and so was the vet. Most dogs that get that don't pull through.

Are you sure they are random movements? If you try to focus on them they will move (if they aren't exactly centre) - this may appear random... but I am not sure it is. Some will seem to move faster and further than others.... My guess is that these are deeper or closer to the surface or something - I am not sure otherwise why a fixed mark would travel faster than it's neighbour or in a different direction. Just speaking from my own experience with them. I'm changing my guess as to what they are to specks of dust in the water droplet or on the glass which gets taken up into the droplet - I am probably wrong though - I don't even wear glasses.... but have had floaters most of my life. Are they relatively recent in their definition? I remember telling my brother's optician about them when I was a child as I wondered what they were in front of my vision and he didn't believe I had them and thought I was making it up. He had a laugh with my mum about me 'seeing spots in front of my eyes' and didn't believe me at all when I described them... I thought he was an idiot. I now know them to be floaters, but only discovered this recently (within the last 25 years or so). Excellent idea! Just don't got to the one my brother used to see. :-D

Floaters are with you all the time, blinking doesn't get rid of them - it can't be them though if you only see them when looking at the droplets. Do you see anything if you look at a white sheet or wall? I am sorry - I have no idea what your spots are. Let us know if you find out.

One of the best dogs I ever had was a total pick a mix. He was definitely part Labrador, part Greyhound, part Dalmatian.... and at least a few other things thrown into the mix that weren't so obvious. He was a rescue dog that had been treated very badly and neglected. Once we got him out of his shell and into our loving family he was great dog. He was tough, loving, intelligent, brave, playful, funny and one of the most resilient dogs I've know.... although a little needy (probably from being neglected). He saved me from dog attacks more than once against much bigger dogs, he survived being run over and having his legs broken, survived severe sickness and even survived the dreaded Parvo disease that is usually the end for any dog - he pulled through to live years more. We put his toughness down to a good mix of other breads. He got out a few times and was notorious for finding the ladies in heat - there are many dogs in our old area that have the same markings on their backs and with his twisted sticky up tail even today. I've not know any dog get through Parvo - the vet said he was amazing. This is my shout out to mixed breed dogs... they are the best imo!

When you look straight and then suddenly move you eyes to the left or right do they follow the motion of the direction of your eye movement?

I didn't say it was 'all bad' did I? Can you quote me on that? I said, or inferred, that it wasn't set up to encourage harmonious Jewish and Arab cohabitation. Nor is the Koran.

It is on topic as an extension to the conversation and you are wiggling out of it... Where in the first 5 chapters of the old testament (The Torah) does it mention that forgiveness is a good 'eye'dea? I can't really speak for the Koran.... can you say where it talks about forgiveness? I thought that was mainly a Christian thing. I don't think I am anti semitic... but The Torah isn't Christianity with love and forgiveness.... it's the old testament 'eye for an eye' style philosophy. Conquer your foes with the power of god behind you - so is the Koran. All the while they stick to their 2000 year old out dated religions there will be no peace in the area and you know it. Not while they stick to the teachings of their books anyway.

Do their religious teaching state that they should live in harmony with each other then? Does the Koran suggest living side by side in peace with Jews? Does the Torah state that the Jews should marry and live in a shared harmony with Arabs?

Hmm... but will their respective religions and religious leaders allow it?