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Urgent! Need help - I told my parents.

by filip in

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we have just gotten home from sunday-meeting, when my mom ask me if i believe in god and so on.

so i tell her, cause you adviced me to be honest.

and despite all my fears, she took it very calm, and then told my dad whos also taking it calm, and it doesnt seem like theyre hating me now or want to throw me out of the house.. the thing is.

Incense_and_Peppermints

lol, it didn't "get through to me"...i was making a point.

ah, me...

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pRE-FLOOD PEOPLE were techologically advanced!

by badboy in

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they had batteries in india, so i am told by a jw(i think it was iraq,actually!

),they have discovered all kinds of objects, suggesting that pre-flood people were almost as advanced as modern people.. look at the turin shroud,they certainly have printing?

(or whatever) to produce it!.

Incense_and_Peppermints

Thats awsome!!!
*** Going out to buy a geranium ***

isn't that cool? geraniums are in season now... (out here, anyway). it's truly amazing what Man can do with the simplest of tools, and inspired by his inquisitive nature and his imagination...

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IronGland - You were AMAZING last night!

by Incense_and_Peppermints in

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.

(jk) .

hehehe

one mississippi...two mississippi...

by Incense_and_Peppermints in

http://www.grand-illusions.com/face.htm

(this is cool.

and you must count to 30 to get the full effect...)

Incense_and_Peppermints

Good Lord! It's a man crying giant heart shaped teardrops!

lol! (i just luv stuff like that...)

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pRE-FLOOD PEOPLE were techologically advanced!

by badboy in

jw
friends

they had batteries in india, so i am told by a jw(i think it was iraq,actually!

),they have discovered all kinds of objects, suggesting that pre-flood people were almost as advanced as modern people.. look at the turin shroud,they certainly have printing?

(or whatever) to produce it!.

Why didn't the Romans invent Photography?

Or how to bend nature to your will

The word photography comes from the Greek "photos", meaning light, and "graphos" meaning drawing, but the ancient Greeks didn't invent photography. The word camer a comes from the Latin "camera", meaning room, and "obscura", meaning dark. It's not surprising the Ancient Greeks didn't invent photography, after all, they never liked to get their hands dirty, but the Romans, who would have been at home in the "Dark Room", could have invented photography, but never did. Why?

Nowadays, most people take photographs. Remove the modern cameras and film, and many homes still contain the things needed to produce a photograph, things which the Romans could have had access to as well.

What do we need to produce photographs?

A dark room or box
Lots of light
Something which is sensitive to light
A way to focus the light
Chemicals that will reveal and fix the image

Until the recent development of digital cameras, most photography involved the use of films coated with various light sensitive compounds of silver. The sensitivity of certain silver salts to light was known from about 1727, when Johann Heinrich Schulze published his findings in the Nuremburg Academy of Natural Philosophers. But many natural things are sensitive to light. Long ago people noticed the effect of light on green plants, or how it made coloured fabrics fade. It is the effect of light on plants that makes Roman Photography possible.

This is what you need

One healthy geranium plant with large leaves
A dark room or large box
A slide projector
A slide of a high contrast negative image
Methylated spirits or other strong alcohol
Tincture of Iodine from a pharmnacist
Various pots, jars, trays and small boxes

How it all works

The chlorophyll in healthy green leaves captures light and uses its energy to join together carbon dioxide and water. The result is the organic compound we call starch. It is the basis of much of the food we eat. Starch is white, but if you drop a small amount of a solution of iodine on it, the starch turns black. So that's it really. All you have to do is get a plant to produce lots of starch in the right place, then stain the starch with iodine. Don't let a few details prevent you starting straight away.

Keep the geranium in a dark room or box for two days. During this time the plant will use up all the existing starch in the leaves. Snip off one leaf, leaving plenty of stalk attached. Fix the leaf flat against the outside wall of a small box, gently push the stalk through a hole in the box.

Arrange for the cut end of the stalk to rest in a dish of water, to keep the leaf fresh. You can use sticky tape to keep the leaf reasonably flat. In a dimly lit room project a small but very bright image onto the leaf. Leave it to expose for about four or five hours, depending on the brightness of the projected image. After the exposure you should be able to see the effect of the light on the leaf, in the form of a faint, pearly image.

Now comes the violent bit. You have to kill the leaf, for the good of your art, you understand. Drop it in boiling hot water. After a minute or two, remove the now very limp leaf and place it in a bowl of cold water. Allow the leaf to fan out to a mere remnant of its former self. It should look like a fragile translucent pale brown thing, floating on the water.

Place a few drops of Tincture of Iodine on the surface of the leaf; after twenty or thirty seconds rock the bowl gently to spread the iodine. Slowly the positive image should appear, your first, and possibly last, photo on a geranium leaf. You have to keep the leaf in water, and after a few hours the image may fade, but you can restore it any time with a little more iodine.

Our portrait of a man has come out slightly dark, but hey - this is experimental science! If you know of any improveents to this method, we would be very pleased to hear about them.

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one mississippi...two mississippi...

by Incense_and_Peppermints in

http://www.grand-illusions.com/face.htm

(this is cool.

and you must count to 30 to get the full effect...)

Incense_and_Peppermints

http://www.grand-illusions.com/face.htm

(this is cool. and you must count to 30 to get the full effect...)

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Urgent! Need help - I told my parents.

by filip in

jw
friends

we have just gotten home from sunday-meeting, when my mom ask me if i believe in god and so on.

so i tell her, cause you adviced me to be honest.

and despite all my fears, she took it very calm, and then told my dad whos also taking it calm, and it doesnt seem like theyre hating me now or want to throw me out of the house.. the thing is.

Incense_and_Peppermints

I'll check in here from time to time, so if you are ever in need of a friend, just pm me.

wait a minute... you, an ADULT, and a STRANGER, are telling a MINOR CHILD to PM you...how does Filip really know you're not really a jw but some "predator"?

p.s. no, Filip, i didn't pm you... but you are welcome to talk to me about anything here in the board, and i will be very happy to listen. sometimes that's all anyone needs..

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Who is the most cynical on this board?

by stillajwexelder in

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i can be pretty bad - but who is the most cynical on this board?

Incense_and_Peppermints

the mystic --- Frankiespeakin

sunshine & idealism --- Missy

warmth & kindness --- Sunspot

the "steel magnolia" -- FrannieBanannie. (i would love to have long talks with her while cooking a fabulous dinner for a whole houseful of people. or maybe piece together a quilt.)

sweetness and light -- Stefanie

the Rebel -- Valis

most mystifying -- Satanus

i can't label him, but i always smile when i read his posts -- Prophecor

she cracks me up -- Kaykay

...and then there's Brummie...

***lots more i'm sure but i just can't think of them now...

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Urgent! Need help - I told my parents.

by filip in

jw
friends

we have just gotten home from sunday-meeting, when my mom ask me if i believe in god and so on.

so i tell her, cause you adviced me to be honest.

and despite all my fears, she took it very calm, and then told my dad whos also taking it calm, and it doesnt seem like theyre hating me now or want to throw me out of the house.. the thing is.

Incense_and_Peppermints

Filip...

Help lies about you everywhere. Why look only in one direction? When you are enclosed, bound, can any help reach you? But when you are open, there is unending help in all things, from the song of a bird to the call of a human being, and from the blade of grass to the immensity of the heavens. ~ J. Krishnamurti

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CAN WE TRUST ANYBODY?

by stillajwexelder in

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can we trust anybody?

Incense_and_Peppermints

i am very slow to trust. or to get close to strangers.

Incense_and_Peppermints

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Why didn't the Romans invent Photography?