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http://www.stroudnewsandjournal.co.uk/news/9834681.One_hundred_campaigners_protest_at_the_closure_of_the_Halfway_House_pub_in_Box/?action=success Maybe I'm wrong in my final post, your thoughts would be much appreciated. Edit/ Just added another post so it's the 2nd from last post, which is in question.

I am actually very disappointed that England tried so hard to gain the Olympics, given the inherent corruption within the IOC. I think if the Netherlands rejection of the bid process was more universal, things like the Munich massacre would have had much more prominence, simply because money is less of a factor. Captain panic has a very good point in that terrorism depends on publicity and of course is the reason for the targeting of said athletes. If corruption/money wasn’t so integral with the IOC then, maybe, we’d have games to truly admire.

In the past, without relevant knowledge, explanations would likely be, its magic or god did it. Since Einstein has filled in some of the gaps in our collective knowledge, we don’t need to resort to falsehoods to explain away such things, we just need the appropriate metaphor.

Good luck with that, you’re going to need it, unless of course you really are a god.

This possibility http://www.kurzweilai.net/astronomers-find-evidence-of-other-universes-in-cosmic-microwave-background Is worthy of consideration and if true implies the multiverse exists within something.

I’d manifest myself, here on earth, do a few miracles, to get some attention and reign down divine retribution on ALL the greedy corrupt SOB’s that have caused this latest mess. Then scare the replacements into working towards a decent future for us all, something like “karma is real so give Buddha a try”. I’d spend the rest of the day asking the ladies if they “fancy a bit of deity?”

I'm always happy to acknowledge, that although we are at the top (probably) of the intelligence tree, our furry friends are a lot closer to us than most people are happy to admit. I'm also very happy this intelligence has proved so useful, I'd be happier still if they took it a stage further and build poacher traps.

No problem, thanks for your input.

I think its more socialization you mean, social conditioning is far stronger and tends to be applied by others on individuals (brainwashing) rather than self imposed. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_conditioning

I think its more socialization you mean, social conditioning is far stronger and tends to be applied by others on individuals (brainwashing) rather than self imposed.

In my youth I would clamp a pair of headphones to an acoustic guitar and use them as a rudimentary microphone, it can be done but the quality isn’t great. I don’t imagine you’d get very much electricity from this idea even if you seriously scale it up and find a relatively stable source of sound waves.

When a person moves to a new area they, from the start, begin to assimilate the local accent, seemingly subconsciously. Yet to the locals the original accent is, generally, still very strong, however if said person returns home they often sound like a ‘native’ of the region they’ve moved to. I assume it’s a social imperative of sorts but why isn’t the process more complete? The person enters a sort of half way house neither one nor the other, the social fit is incomplete and therefore, in some respects, counterproductive as he/she is markedly different, both, in the new and the old social groups.

I feel a new topic is called for. Keep your eyes peeled.

It can be surprising how short range this issue can be, if I travel 250 miles from my home near Gloucester to Newcastle they may as well be talking Swahili.

It's hitting the bars looking for women, I suppose you could call it “trawling”.

Wow that’s a tremendously selfish position to take, give a thought for the train driver. http://www.thisisdorset.net/news/4547664.The_worst_nightmare_of_every_train_driver/

We are social animals and war in general is a result of ignorance not an excess of knowledge, so in what way are we the problem? What is it you think needs fixing about ourselves? When, with science, we have found and understood what you think needs fixing, do you intend to force this fix on people? The metaphorical dice you talk of isn’t always ours to roll, previous extinction events had nothing to do with us and without science we are certainly unable to defend ourselves from future such events. Without a working knowledge of the future how can you possibly know we will lose? The only way to unlearn what is known is to undergo the very disaster you seek to avoid and effectively regress to the Stone Age, problem solved.

Without a working knowledge of the future it’s impossible to define any such line, even if one existed.

Knowledge leads to understanding, wisdom is understanding.

How am I supposed to post with righteous indignation now?

I’d be more inclined to view this so called evidence if both these sites weren’t trying to sell me a pyramid or connected items. Wikipedia takes a more objective view. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pyramid_power http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pyramidology

I certainly don’t agree that “there must be a supreme entity of some sort.” Physics goes on shoring up the current theories and in doing so create ever smaller areas in which theist’s can point and say God must be there. At the same time psychologists describe the reasons, we humans, feel a need to have a deity of sorts to cling to. The pincers of science get ever closer to pinching out the flame of God.

No it really isn't and what films, that aren't fiction, have you seen? What makes you think we'll go mad without preparation? Pseudoscience isn't science and do you have access to the 400 year old razor blade? Some evidence of these claims please. Please let's not go down that road it's clearly not fake. edit/ Wikipedia doesn't think it's fake.

The fermionic condensate is made of matter and the BEC is made of photons and gluons? Does this mean that the BEC is a liquid force field (or maybe a superliquid force field)?

I guess we’ll find out on Wednesday but here’s some interesting reading in the mean time. http://networkedblogs.com/zsIH4