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It's because I work with people who have been traumatized mentally (and can't function socially) .. so you get a little touchy around these kind of things, since it's my job to help them adapt again .. and I know how much small remarks hurt people with a low selfesteem .. and while it may seem very unhealthy for a normal person to be obsessed with SW or computers etc .. it can be a bridge for some people to reach a normal life .. and if they are attacked during that process it will only hurt their progress in the long run ..

While I was out running today I thought of a commonality between Eastern Mysticism and Classical Skepticism (and indeed scientific method): The practitioner is always trying to strip away the distractions of the illusory world we think of as real life, trying to get back to who we are through meditation, back and back and back until we are one with the universe. (Or at lesat that's how I understand it.) So to, when considering the events of life, a skeptic or a scientist must strip away the detail, deconstruc the minutiae and re-construct a trend or some sort of shorthand (equation) to summarise what is really going on. (Leaving aside for the moment that Eastern Mysticism is not interested in deconstruction and Western Philosophy is.) In order to do this, I must go back and strip away the distractions of life and endeavour to find -- perhaps not a single union with the universe, as in the East -- but a vector (direction and force of the flow of events). So in effect there is a lot of commonality with the two thought methodologies, just with Oriental thought one is subsumed in the result and with the Occident one is left watching the universe go by and checking its heading and speed. Am I making this clear? <{POST_SNAPBACK}> I'm not sure exactly what you are saying.. but although I may seem like I know Buddhism, that's really not the case .. So I can't say what the goal of their philosophy is .. I've just read a little about it and adapted it to my own world view .. but my understanding of it is that you do not strive to be one with the universe, but one with yourself .. the problem is that you can never "see" yourself, and if you look inwards you will only see a mirror reflecting the immediate self .. so you have to transcend the you of now, to reach the inner self .. but mainly it seems to be about enlightment, to simply understand yourself and thus your surroundings .. but you are like a river which is forever changing even though in whole you seem to be the same .. so it's, suffice to say, a little difficult .. ^_^

I think he's brilliant, Im gonna be just like him when I grow up :D In fact Ive often fantazised about having a talkshow where I invite celebrities and insult them deeply and bitterly on a personal level. Like: But seriously, he's only saying out loud what most of us is already thinking. And a lot of the people he's attacking deserve what they're getting(the celebrities atleast) <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Sure I think they are nerds .. and I find it equally tragic to stand in line for a week to see a movie, but their actions don't affect me, they don't insult me and basically nerds are pretty harmless people .. I can easily take a joke on my expense, because I'm able to answer for myself, but I hate when people attack those who can't .. and go berate the local badasses in a bar and you'll see a different outcome .. and I find them more tragic (the violent drunk people) so why not make fun of them? because they'll beat the living crap out of you.. and what have celebrities done? now you are being a typical scandinavian but they are a easy target, and most of them are intelligent people who can take a joke and snap back in a responsible way.. so I really don't have a problem with talkshow hosts taking a shot at their guests ..

I think it's the spikes that makes a morning star what it is.. since they resemble a small sun/star ..

I just digged up my old Jeff Buckley - Grace ... damn that guy was talented!! "Lover, You Should've Come Over" is one of the best songs I've ever heard ..

Never seen it .. but I doubt it's as interesting, since it reveals the point in the beginning then .. and it's not that hard to keep track of the film in the first place! Yeah, they probably will .. but I do know some hardcore SW fans who have refused to watch both Episode II and probably III as well ..

it's funny .. but sometimes he crosses a line imo .. you can clearly see that some of these people aren't particularly adept at standing up for themselves .. and I'm not a big of a fan of punching people in soft spots when they can't defend themselves..

I thought both Irr

so in theory it's possible to sleep for about 4 hours and then expose yourself to a multi-spectrum light to avoid sleeping alot during a certain period?

better reveal my age before it's too late .. 20, for another month or so ..

You know I had the exact same opinion when I was twelve .. I know .. nothing more fun than to rub in the obvious from time to time! "

but then again .. we will never truely know!

It is a very sad thing that nowadays there is so little useless information. - Oscar Wilde HA! proved you wrong!! :D

if it's just that there is a rather cool mod which allows you to buy better engines, tractor beams and power generators .. so you can fly much faster with bigger ships ..

Just for the record .. I'm not taking a relativist stand! because that actually requires self-evident thruths .. I'm saying you can't compare, unless you believe in a common reality and thus ceartinties to which you can compare things .. that the only thing I can be certain of, is my interpretation of reality and it's not certain if you compare it to the common reality (but to me it's real). my argument this entire time has been, in order for you to rely on anything outside of your head you need a leap of faith .. since you don't know and you can't see, hear, feel etc anything but your own reality .. sorry for dragging that into the light .. but I just wanted to clear that up .. "

I'm sure it does for true trekkies ..

The only mods I found (that were used on internet servers) included all kinds of ships from Sci-fi film and series like Star Wars and Star Trek .. which had absolutely no place in Freelander imo! + none of them had any ships in the design of the houses' ships! which made it even more stupid .. so I gave up on it after a very short while ..

everyone I've met has been the easy going hippie kind .. even those Jesus-Freak-T-shirt-people .. just wanting to talk about their faith and hoping that I will see the light some day in my own time .. but then we shoved all the bad ones to USA, so no wonder they are more extreme over there .. hehe

lol .. yeah I don't think a ghost would lean out of the door that way in a kinda "WTF" pose ..

First, Baley will spam our minds to Oblivion, then the russkies will move right in for our fluids while we stand there dazed and confused. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> I'm not that much of apammer :"> I just tend to be here more than any of you I've been active for almost 11 hours now " <{POST_SNAPBACK}> You've been here for about a one and a half month and already you've got nearly 2000 posts .. if that's not spamming these boards I don't know what is! :ph34r: I mean 42.1 posts per day ..

I'm not saying it doesn't work .. but that you need to believe in the framwork, and in the apperant reality, for science to have any merit ..and this to me, is the same as believing in God (fundamentally) .. so it's not worthless or loses any value based on the fact that it is uncertain! it merly requires a leap of faith .. that's all I'm saying! that you shouldn't hold science as some sort of infallible entity, but regard it with a healthy degree of skepticism and see if it fits into your own world view!

Mandrake, do you realize that in addition to fluoridating water, why, there are studies underway to fluoridate salt, flour, fruit juices, soup, sugar, milk... ice cream. Ice cream, Mandrake, children's ice cream.

Dr. Strangelove is the most insane movie! damn Russkies!

... but it would feel like forever as time would elongate to infinity for you as you approached the point of singularity. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> remind me never to be swallowed by a black hole ..

True, but I disagree with the idea that if a person decides that what we call a dog is to him a cat, it is truely a cat in his reality. In fact, he is just ignorant, or suffering from a mental disorder. There has to be absolute truth, in my opinion. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> well what *is* that absolute thruth then? that the cat or dog exist? how do you know for 100% certainty? they are both a bunch of atoms fused togehter? 99% of the creature and everyting is in reality nothing .. is it based on what you see, hear or feel? if I strip away all your senses .. what is reality then??