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  What should we name the baby?

  by Eyebrow in

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  i am due in the middle of october and my husband and i cannot come up with a name.

  i almost had him sold on venus, until he asked people at work what they thought and he got wierd looks.

  i wanted to name the last baby sidney, but let him name her because he has never gotten a chance to name a kid before.

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  bboyneko

  Destructor, god of destruction.
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  What is the real meaning of life?

  by Nicolas in

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  i mean, if we have been created by the evolution then, our life really have no purpose.

  we live about 80 years and then we die and it's finish.

  it seem really dull to me.

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  YOur body must rest a number of hours a day. During this time what is your spirit doing, it needs no rest.. its a lot of time when you get right down to it.

  Experiments with computers modleled after our brain, nueral-nets, have shown that dreaming is a necessity of this sort of wiring. The nuerl net needed to rest every couple of hours and generate random data or else all the tiny errors in the net would multiply and cause massive system failure. In the same way, we need to sleep and generate random data, dreams, so as to keep our brains healthy.

  So you run the network in wake-sleep cycles, and it learns. The authors got a big collection of handwritten digits from the post office. They fed the digits to the network, and it learned to recognize them - without anyone telling it what to look for.
  They also printed out the network's dreams--the simulated input patterns. Images of the 10 digits appeared in the dreams. What's more, the images were not idealized representations of the digits. Rather, they were all variations on the ideal, and the variations in the dreams very much resembled the variations found in the actual input data. A sample of the input and a sample of the dreams looked pretty much the same.

  On this theory, you could start to understand why people hallucinate when they aren't allowed to dream. If you don't dream, then your brain can't keep its perceptual categories optimized for your current reality. And a divergence between perception and reality is essentially the definition of a hallucination.
  You could also start to understand the experience of dreaming: a dream would appear to be the subjective experience of your brain running backwards.

  .. http://world.std.com/~swmcd/steven/stories/dream.html

  .. http://www.imagination-engines.com/newpcai.htm

  -Dan
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  Religion makes people smart!

  by Kent in

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  arkansas woman killed in mistaken rapture .

  by elroy willis .

  arkansas city (eap) -- a little rock woman was killed yesterday after leaping through her moving car's sun roof during an incident best described as a "mistaken rapture" by dozens of eye-witnesses.

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  Funky Derek, thank you for your research. Here is a funny and TRUE story about religion and brains..no pun intended:

  God's Gun
  
  Florida Times-Union, Oct 3, 1998

  JACKSONVILLE, FL--Melvyn Nurse came from a world of drugs and guns before finding God and Jacksonville's Livingway Christian Fellowship Church 13 years ago. But even after starting his new life, he never forgot.

  Thursday, the youth minister died from injuries resulting from a self-inflicted gunshot wound--an accidental death that came from efforts to educate today's youth that guns kill. It was a powerful message left ringing in the ears of all who attended.

  For this, church members are proclaiming him a hero.

  "He said, 'I want you to hear it [the discharge]. You single mothers, if somebody's fooling you and somebody has this, your babies could get a hold of it,'" Associate Pastor Michael Cooper recalled of the lecture. "I believe he was in the same mind-frame as I was, that you don't get hurt using blanks."

  Nurse had dry-fired the .357-caliber revolver several times after inserting one blank into the chamber and spinning the cylinder. He fired the gun into the ceiling once and put it down on a podium and continued his metaphorical message about weapons, drugs and dangerous games people play--like Russian roulette.

  At the end of the 30-minute presentation last week, Nurse grabbed the gun again, this time putting it to his head and squeezing the trigger. His body collapsed behind the podium in front of a congregation of 200, including his wife and four daughters.

  "He was out of sight, and everybody was waiting. We thought it was part of the demonstration," Cooper said. "I got up and saw it was real."

  Nurse, 35, was taken to University Medical Center, where he remained in critical condition until his death Thursday afternoon.

  "He was trying to convey a point that sin leads to death," said Associate Pastor Charlie Freeman. "Brother Nurse is a hero. What makes him a hero is his love for young people and seeing great change in young people and turning them from the direction they're going in."

  For this, church members are proclaiming him a hero.

  But local gun enthusiasts say Nurse's death was needless, the result of his lack of education.

  "Every firearm should be treated as though it's loaded," said Mark Finnell, a salesman at Southside Gun & Pawn. "It was a lack of knowledge in this situation that caused this serious tragedy."

  Cooper said Nurse, an apartment complex maintenance supervisor, had visited gun ranges and was aware of the danger. But neither pastor knew that a blank bullet could be just as damaging as the real thing.

  The force of the shot shattered Nurse's skull.

  "It just doesn't make any sense to put a gun to your head and pull the trigger, whether it's loaded or not," Finnell said. "I would have stopped him if I could have taken the gun out of his hands."

  Cooper said Nurse never planned to point the barrel at his head. He planned on firing it over his head, but his aim was off.

  Regardless, Cooper said the church and the Nurse family would go on. He said it's not up to anyone to question God's motives.

  For now, he said all they can do is stop asking why and focus on the good it accomplished.

  "After the demonstration it was 3-D. It was impounded in them, and you will never forget that. There's no way you could ever forget this message," Cooper said. "Guns, as he said, are dangerous no matter who uses them."

  Funeral arrangements were unavailable last night.

  AFTERWORD:

  Contrary to popular belief, as evidenced above, blank ammunition can kill at close range. When discharged, a hard cardboardlike wad shoots several feet from the barrel. Blanks are by far most often used on Hollywood movie sets, the settings for two of the prop's most famous fatalities.

  On October 12, 1984, model-actor Jon-Erik Hexum playfully put a blank-loaded pistol to his head on the set of the TV spy show "Cover Up." The concussion forced fragments of his skull into his brain, and he died six days later.

  More notably, on March 31, 1993, Brandon Lee, son of 70's martial arts star Bruce Lee, was killed during the filming of "The Crow." Lee's death was a bit more complicated. Unbeknownst to the propmaster, the stunt gun that killed Lee had misfired during a previous scene, lodging a slug in the barrel. The gun was reloaded with blanks and fired at Lee. The blank charge was enough to deliver the waiting slug. Lee died 13 hours later.

  Almost predictably, these circumstances, coupled with the strange event of his famous father's untimely death, have some of Lee's fans suspecting murder.

  moron.......
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  Remote Viewing

  by funkyderek in

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  following on from the anybody else had visions?

  thread below ( http://www.jehovahs-witness.com/forum/thread.asp?id=10144&site=3).

  i have offered a prize of 50 american dollars or the equivalent in your currency of choice for whoever can guess (or envision or whatever) the contents of a picture i have chosen.. i will be emailing the picture, in password zip format to [email protected] along with unambiguous details of what qualifies as a correct guess.

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  Not a conspiracy theory, fact. Here is an article from the washington post regarding project stargate.

  Washington Post, 04 December 1995

  Up Close & Personal with a Remote Viewer
  Joe McMoneagle Defends the Secret Project

  NELLYSFORD, Va.
  Joseph McMoneagle may be watching you read this.

  After all, that was his job for 15 years— watching people he could not see for the Pentagon. He was called a "remote viewer."

  Remote Viewers have been in the headlines recently because it's come to light that several of them worked on the "Stargate" program, a top secret, multimillion-dollar project at Fort Meade, Md., using their supposed paranormal know-how— and know-where— to help locate American hostages, enemy submarines, strategic buildings in foreign countries, and who knows what else. A new report, commissioned by the CIA, was critical of Stargate and called further expenditures unjustified.

  Yesterday, at his light and airy home in Nelson county Va., McMoneagle defended remote viewing, which he explained as the act of describing or drawing details about a place, person or thing without having any prior knowledge of that place, person or thing. He said that true remote viewing, unlike crystal-ball gazing and tea-leaf reading, is always conducted under "strict scientific protocols."

  Granted, it still sounds squirrelly. And it doesn't really help to know that McMoneagle, a retired Army officer, has also trafficked in near-death experiences, out-of-body travel and unidentified flying objects. In 1993 he wrote a book called "Mind Trek—Exploring Consciousness, Time and Space through Remote Viewing."

  But he put his skills on the line last week on national television— when ABC became, for an hour, the other psychic network— and the demonstration was impressive. Since then the phone's been ringing.

  Despite a bad back and the exhaustion that comes with flash-point celebrity, he was eager to talk about his expertise. He was stretched out flat on his living room couch, wearing a green V-neck sweater, bluejeans and brown loafers. He's got a thick neck, gray-white hair and a trace of bitterness in his voice.

  "My career was destroyed in the Army," said McMoneagle, who joined in 1964 and was severely injured in a helicopter accident in Vietnam. He said he knew when he first joined the Stargate project—which was then called Grillflame—in 1978 that he would never again be taken seriously for any other job in the military. But he felt the assignment was too important to national security to decline.

  "Everybody's got it all backward," he said of the criticism and ridicule the project is receiving today. He explained that the government was not using psychics to find people or things. They were using remote viewers, about 15 of them, who operated under strict guidelines developed in the laboratories at SRI International, a California contractor, to provide additional information to be used in conjunction with intelligence gathered by satellites or spies or any other traditional means.

  He said the reported cost of $20 million for the 20-year product was minuscule compared to its value, and estimated that remote viewers saved the government about $240 million by helping find lost Scud missiles in the Persian Gulf War. Research has shown that remote viewing works 14 percent of the time or more, he said, "There is a huge percentage of intelligence collection systems that don't do as well."

  The information provided by remote viewers, he reiterated, was never used without other types of corroboration. He said nearly every agency with an intelligence wingan intelligence wing— including the CIA, the National Security Agency, the Drug Enforcement Agency, the Joint Chiefs of Staff, the Secret Service, the Coast Guard and Customs— employed remote viewers at some time or another.
  On a typical workday, McMoneagle said, he reported to an old, leaky wooden barracks at Fort Meade, where he went into a one-person office. He sat at a desk with a typewriter and a mug of coffee. The cup said This End Up and had an arrow pointing the wrong way. He was then presented with sealed envelopes—sometimes large brown ones, sometimes small white ones—and he was asked to supply information about whatever was inside.

  There might be a photograph of a person, he said, and he would be asked to describe where the person was locateed. In that way, he said, he helped the Army locate hostages in Iran. He said he predicted almost precisely where Skylab was going to fall, 11 months before the spacecraft returned to Earth in 1979. He named the city in Italy— Padua— and described the second-floor apartment where Brig. Gen James Dozier was held hostage by the Red Brigades in 1981. The information arrived in Italy on the day Dozier was released.

  Over the years, McMoneagle said, he was involved in about 450 missions. One of his favorites was in 1980, when CIA personnel captured a suspected KGB agent in South Africa. They wanted to know how the agent was communicating with the Soviet military. They put an envelope on McMoneagle's desk, and without knowing anything of the man, McMoneagle told the CIA that the man liked to use a small pocket calculator. The calculator turned out to be a disguised shortwave radio.

  McMoneagle retired from the Army in 1984, but continued to work as a Stargate consultant.

  Last week he appeared on "Nightline" and on the ABC special "Put to the Test." "It's not like he handed me a perfect photograph of the location," said independent producer Ruth Rivin, of Elemental Productions, when asked about McMoneagle's performance. "Some of the descriptions were pretty remarkable," she said. "We followed all the scientific protocol laid out by Edwin May, a nuclear physicist [at SRI] who's been researching remote viewing for the last 20 years."

  Rivin flew McMoneagle to Houston, a city he had never visited. She hired a location scout and instructed her to take photos of several Houston landmarks. One of the spots was chosen by a roll of the dice, and Rivin sent an official of the Houston tourist bureau there. McMoneagle was locked in a windowless room, shown a photo of the tourism official and asked to describe where the woman was. He spoke of a natural river that had been improved by man and of a bridge with foot traffic. The woman was standing near the ship channel in Houston. A bridge— for automobiles— was in the distance.

  Today, McMoneagle runs his one man-company, Intuitive Intelligence Applications, from a bedroom equipped with a Zeos computer, windows facing the Blue Ridge mountains and a color photo of the Sphinx. He said he can help a wildcatter find an oil well or a quarry operator know where to mine.

  But he's still quietly angry about the way his service to his country is being portrayed. He said he was never paid more than a man of his rank—chief warrant officer. And as a consultant until 1993, he made even less.

  "The project was approved on a year-to-year basis," he said. "This approval was based on our performance. So why the hell are they running for cover now?"

  And as for Stargate and remote viewing, what makes you think they still aren't using it? Russians and Americans are still spying on one another, recently the russian ambasador to the united states was expelled for spying. Stargate was secret up until it was officially disbanded.

  As for it havin no value:

  The surprise was the source of this information--the CIA itself. "CIA confirms U.S. used 'psychic' spies," announced an Associated Press wire story Nov. 28 last year. According to it, Project Stargate employed psychics "to hunt down Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi, find plutonium in North Korea and help drug enforcement agencies."

  Former Central Intelligence Agency director Robert Gates, appearing on Nightline that day, gave the official position on Project Stargate. Along with Gates was a former technical advisor to the agency, as well as a physicist involved in psi research.

  The physicist spoke of "dramatic (ESP) cases in the laboratory, both statistically importnat as well as visually compelling." The advisor, allowing himself to be identified only as "Norm," said that little of the psi work produced "any significant intelligence product," but then spoke of results with psychics that made for "eight-martini nights" -- apparent intelligence parlance for information so accurate it cracks the sense of reality of everyone involved, requiring a few drinks to recover. Gates downplayed the effectiveness of the Stargate program, saying ESP had a low priority for the agency.

  .. http://www.mceagle.com/remote-viewing/pub/news/96jun02-vc.html

  -Dan
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  Does Science Prove The Existence of God?

  by AngelofMuZiC in

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  first, i would like to say...... hooray for me>>>>this is my 100th post.

  should i get a cake?

  (hehe i know i'm corny) i plan to keep on posting, cuz i love mostly everyone here, and i have fun.. here's the real question....does science and all of these evolution theories actually prove the existence of a designer...god?

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  bboyneko

  If that delicate balance was slightly off, life as we know it would not be able to exist on this planet. Too much nitrogen, and we would freeze. Too much oxygen, and we would blow up...essentially speaking.

  Heheh I hate this argument. Oh gee, if earth were one inch different in its distance form the sun life couldnt exsist!! This proves god!

  Think a little....Look at salt water fish. They could say, wow, if this water didnt have the amount of salt and minerals in it, its pressure would be far less and we'd pop like baloons. THis proves god made us. Then the fresh water fish say, oh look at how our water is extremley light on minerals, if it had salt and minerals in it, we'd be crushed by the pressure and this proves god made us!!

  Don't you see? Life adapts to the environment it's presented with. Life exsists in the hottest depths of magma filled earth to the coldest sub artic wastelands to the nice pleasant islands of the bahamas. We are adapted to the air pressure of earth..if we go to the air pressure of mars, we'd pop due to the low air pressure, our bodies and organs are used to getting 'pushed' into shape. Our eyes are used to the amount of light on earth, too bright or too dim and we cant see anymore.

  God cannot be put to the scientific method of tests. If he exsists, he chooses to hide and one wonders why.

  -Dan
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  Remote Viewing

  by funkyderek in

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  following on from the anybody else had visions?

  thread below ( http://www.jehovahs-witness.com/forum/thread.asp?id=10144&site=3).

  i have offered a prize of 50 american dollars or the equivalent in your currency of choice for whoever can guess (or envision or whatever) the contents of a picture i have chosen.. i will be emailing the picture, in password zip format to [email protected] along with unambiguous details of what qualifies as a correct guess.

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  Because they do not really exist. I don't doubt you have experienced something. I do doubt you can obtain any real, outside knowledge from ESP

  One wonder why, if there is ZERO evidence and it is all made-up, why police frequently hire psychics to search for bodies, and why the US Government for many years had psychics (remote viewers) working for them in project stargate.

  Why would they hire them if they were producing zero results? Why for so many years? If it is just crazy made-up self-delusional crapola. Like I always say, you really gotta experience it for yourself ot start realizing we are more than the sum of our parts.
  -Dan

  p,s- isnt my girlfriend hot?
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  Remote Viewing

  by funkyderek in

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  following on from the anybody else had visions?

  thread below ( http://www.jehovahs-witness.com/forum/thread.asp?id=10144&site=3).

  i have offered a prize of 50 american dollars or the equivalent in your currency of choice for whoever can guess (or envision or whatever) the contents of a picture i have chosen.. i will be emailing the picture, in password zip format to [email protected] along with unambiguous details of what qualifies as a correct guess.

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  Abaddon, thabk you! Yes, the facts seem to show that remote viewers do not a person to be the 'beason' pr whatever. Targets can be accuratley described from thin air. It is a very amazing ability. Guess what? Anyone can do it. try it yourself sometime with the magazine method, selecting a random page in a magazine and stick a marker inside, then sketch your impressions. You might just asmaze yourself.
  -Dan
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  What should we name the baby?

  by Eyebrow in

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  i am due in the middle of october and my husband and i cannot come up with a name.

  i almost had him sold on venus, until he asked people at work what they thought and he got wierd looks.

  i wanted to name the last baby sidney, but let him name her because he has never gotten a chance to name a kid before.

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  bboyneko

  And his name shall be: Stink-Or!
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  Remote Viewing

  by funkyderek in

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  following on from the anybody else had visions?

  thread below ( http://www.jehovahs-witness.com/forum/thread.asp?id=10144&site=3).

  i have offered a prize of 50 american dollars or the equivalent in your currency of choice for whoever can guess (or envision or whatever) the contents of a picture i have chosen.. i will be emailing the picture, in password zip format to [email protected] along with unambiguous details of what qualifies as a correct guess.

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  bboyneko

  nah, my gf dpsent like doint it, she says it gives her a terrible panic feeling when she does it.
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  "AHA! AHA! OUR EYE HAS SEEN IT!"

  by You Know in

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  the question has always been, primarily: is jehovah really god?

  secondarily, the question has been: are jehovahs witnesses really jehovahs witnesses?

  or, perhaps worded differently: is the watchtower really the voice of christs appointed faithful and discreet slave of prophecy?

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  bboyneko

  aha! AShahahaaAAAHAHAaaaaaaaa! HE haahAHAAHAH! AHHHHH HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!