JamesThomas

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  Fuel From a Garden Hose - Hydrogen Fuel

  by BlackPearl in

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  18 years ago

  has anyone here thought about the possibilities of getting all of our fuel needs from the unlimited supply of hydrogen in our water?

  you see, there two parts hydrogen to every single part oxygen in h2o.

  what that means is, if we can extract the hydrogen from the water, we can burn it as a fuel, just like propane or gasoline.

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  JamesThomas 18 years ago

  It's a fascinating subject.

  If you go to the very top of the forum there, and click on the forum name, it takes you to a page that has many of the members listed along with pictures of there projects.

  There is a fellow there named Bob Boyce, who is definitely one of the gurus of hydrogen generation. I suggest checking out all his past posts. There are other very knowledgeable folks there as well with some real experience under their belts.

  Have fun, and be very careful as electrolysis will generally give you a hydroxy mix of hydrogen/oxygen which is extremely explosive stuff. You can start off with a very inexpensive small experimental unit and work your way up to a booster for a car, or whatever. It's all there.

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  Fuel From a Garden Hose - Hydrogen Fuel

  by BlackPearl in

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  18 years ago

  has anyone here thought about the possibilities of getting all of our fuel needs from the unlimited supply of hydrogen in our water?

  you see, there two parts hydrogen to every single part oxygen in h2o.

  what that means is, if we can extract the hydrogen from the water, we can burn it as a fuel, just like propane or gasoline.

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  JamesThomas 18 years ago

  Here is a good forum for do-it-yourself hydrogen generation. There are some very knowledgeable people there that will be happy to get you up to speed.

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  So non-creationist - what do you think of those who still accept creation?

  by AK - Jeff in

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  18 years ago

  no firestorms please.

  but be honest.

  do you think that we are of a lower level of intelligence than those who accept evolutionist' theories?.

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  JamesThomas 18 years ago

  My feelings are that a heartfelt desire to pay reverence to a Source, is a natural and honorable thing.

  However, when we use this desire to engrave a mental image (an invisible god) that divides us into the chosen and the damned, we have stepped from what is honorable, to what is harmful and insane.

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  meditation: your thoughts? :)

  by DeusMauzzim in

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  18 years ago

  the wtbts always has meditation as a topic on conventions.

  they always state that eastern meditation makes the mind "blank", so this is a no no.. of course we know that it is actually the convention that makes the mind blank :).

  so what are your thoughts on meditation now?.

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  JamesThomas 18 years ago

  Are you sure you ain't just sweet on me?

  No. Never. Not a chance. Highly unlikely. Well, maybe a little.

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  meditation: your thoughts? :)

  by DeusMauzzim in

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  18 years ago

  the wtbts always has meditation as a topic on conventions.

  they always state that eastern meditation makes the mind "blank", so this is a no no.. of course we know that it is actually the convention that makes the mind blank :).

  so what are your thoughts on meditation now?.

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  JamesThomas 18 years ago

  Your suposta close your eyes. Not look in a mirror, Gumbo.

  I was just thinking about you while having lunch....and here you are. Must be magic.

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  What if you're missing the purpose?

  by journey-on in

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  18 years ago

  for those of you who espouse the philosophy that one needs to discard who we "think" we are and embrace the "reality" of who we really are, what if, there is a divine purpose to our miniscule existence in the here and now and that purpose is to experience the pull of opposite forces (duality), and you are missing it by not allowing yourself to experience the ego self?

  what if you are missing the whole purpose of this pull of pain and joy by trying to suppress it or place yourself outside of it?

  the below is a short story sent to me by a friend and it is an example of what i'm inferring.

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  JamesThomas 18 years ago

  Coggy:

  I guess what I am asking is this, how much of our true self, our true nature, is really just the conditioned physical process of neurons firing in response to stimulation, including the ability to ask this question? We want our lives, ours selves to have greater meaning, greater purpose, greater levels of consciousness, other planes of consciousness, but perhaps the truth of the matter is that we are just a big tube, with three openings and we put dead plants and animals in one end and expel compost from the other. Perhaps all our senses and awareness are only to aid in this purpose and survive. When our senses deteriorate, our ability to consume and expel deteriorates until we finally die. Perhaps all the artificial constructs/beliefs of our minds are just further machinations to aid in our organisms survival. Including the belief in life after death. Our organisms drive to survive is so great that it will even imagine non-existant planes of existence where its conscious awareness will survive death in some way and then spend inordiante amounts of time trying to bring that plane into existence at all costs (ie, religiously motivated wars that kill all who do not share the vision/goal for survival). Wouldn't it be the ultimate irony if our biological organisms drive to survive, is what eventually causes us all to become extinct?

  There is a very important and compelling ache behind your questions. Isn't what you are asking, simply : "What am I; really; really; really?" I suggest taking the agony of your earnest and sincere desire to want to know -- within. I have experienced that it is just this hunger that is the vehicle that carries us to undeniable realization of what we seek.

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  What if you're missing the purpose?

  by journey-on in

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  18 years ago

  for those of you who espouse the philosophy that one needs to discard who we "think" we are and embrace the "reality" of who we really are, what if, there is a divine purpose to our miniscule existence in the here and now and that purpose is to experience the pull of opposite forces (duality), and you are missing it by not allowing yourself to experience the ego self?

  what if you are missing the whole purpose of this pull of pain and joy by trying to suppress it or place yourself outside of it?

  the below is a short story sent to me by a friend and it is an example of what i'm inferring.

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  JamesThomas 18 years ago

  Narkissos:

  James,

  Is the complex questions and expositions created by the mind, a valid reason to not see for oneself?

  Did I say that?

  Everyone "sees" what they have to "see," everyone then interprets it as they can. And no matter what we have "seen" we can only refer to it (on this board for instance) through interpretations.

  If I have learnt something from my religious experience, it is to be particularly wary of interpreters who claim not to interpret.

  I agree! Nothing thought or said or posted here is what is being referred to. I often say that all thoughts and words are mere interpritations; and that nothing I say is true; and we need to look for our-selves and see first-hand. Words regarding our "true-being" (or whatever interpretive label we put on it) at best are only an enticement to look and see if there is any valid reality that the words point to. Considering what we have been through with religion, wariness of interpreters is a very healthy thing, yet it does not mean that a sign pointing to Paris is useless because it's not Paris. j

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  What if you're missing the purpose?

  by journey-on in

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  18 years ago

  for those of you who espouse the philosophy that one needs to discard who we "think" we are and embrace the "reality" of who we really are, what if, there is a divine purpose to our miniscule existence in the here and now and that purpose is to experience the pull of opposite forces (duality), and you are missing it by not allowing yourself to experience the ego self?

  what if you are missing the whole purpose of this pull of pain and joy by trying to suppress it or place yourself outside of it?

  the below is a short story sent to me by a friend and it is an example of what i'm inferring.

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  JamesThomas 18 years ago

  Journey-on,

  To try and understand intellectually what we truly are, is futile. It's a mental exercise that can go on forever, with the only valid outcome being: having no clue.

  So, I guess my answer to you, is no answer. You have to see for yourself. Then you tell me.

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  What if you're missing the purpose?

  by journey-on in

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  2. friends

  18 years ago

  for those of you who espouse the philosophy that one needs to discard who we "think" we are and embrace the "reality" of who we really are, what if, there is a divine purpose to our miniscule existence in the here and now and that purpose is to experience the pull of opposite forces (duality), and you are missing it by not allowing yourself to experience the ego self?

  what if you are missing the whole purpose of this pull of pain and joy by trying to suppress it or place yourself outside of it?

  the below is a short story sent to me by a friend and it is an example of what i'm inferring.

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  JamesThomas 18 years ago

  Narkissos:

  Now who/what is observing "that which observes everything" and comes back to tell about it within the constraints of language -- if not a separate, dualistic, language-based mind?

  And by calling "It" "Con-sciousness" hasn't this mind sneakingly ascribed "It" its own complex co-gnitive structure, only reversing it as a mirror image (which in this case may imply the denial of complexity, otherness, separateness, antagonism)? If slightly more subtle, is this process, in depth, any less "anthropomorphic" than the old mythmaking by which man made deities after his own image (however equally denying what he disliked in it, i.e. finitude, weakness, transience and mortality) in order to construe himself as the image of a somehow better Other?

  Is the complex questions and expositions created by the mind, a valid reason to not see for oneself?

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  What if you're missing the purpose?

  by journey-on in

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  2. friends

  18 years ago

  for those of you who espouse the philosophy that one needs to discard who we "think" we are and embrace the "reality" of who we really are, what if, there is a divine purpose to our miniscule existence in the here and now and that purpose is to experience the pull of opposite forces (duality), and you are missing it by not allowing yourself to experience the ego self?

  what if you are missing the whole purpose of this pull of pain and joy by trying to suppress it or place yourself outside of it?

  the below is a short story sent to me by a friend and it is an example of what i'm inferring.

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  JamesThomas 18 years ago

  Poppers, your guidance is so clear, warm and graceful as to bring tears to my eyes.

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