>> ^charliem:
"HOW ARE YOU GONNA WRITE IT ? YOU CANT EVEN READ IT, YOU TROGLYDITE HOMUNCULUS!"


I take issue with comparisons of Bill O'Reilly to us Troglodytes. We banned the entire O'Rielly clan from our troglobitic community eons ago. Please refrain from such abhorent associations in future dialogs or I will rip your throat out.

Sincerely,
CaveBear

I want to be in the room when somebody solves the last remaining question about the universe mathematically. I have a feeling the world will have one HUGE party and we'll all get wasted together and then wake up the next morning having forgot it all, only to start all over again. It's been happening for eons.

oh and why do electrons sound like machinery on the Enterprise?

I may be the only person here that believes free energy exists and has for some time, but is kept from the masses, until perhaps some maverick gets the information public, or until they have tapped what they will, and the emperor's new cloths are called for what they are- Why then use a pulpit of half-truths?? Global Warming advocates should come clean and tell the world how they thought they could topple the current paradigm-pimps, by making some shit up we can all be passionate about-a cessation of oil and gas use-what really needs to cease, is a bought sold and owed to economic system....we will see as the world nations and diversity creep towards one entity, just how fucking wild it really is-that they have kept from the world the next paradigm, in order to build and concentrate wealth and empire....

The planet's ebb and flow of climate phenom, has been weathered with and without humans for eons, along with her core belching gas and acid. Humans have more to worry about with the vortice of geopolitics than they do the earth cooling down....because solar cycles are the cause and effect primarily, for atmospheric changes...w/ the dance of oceans and core....

Be-damned the lies and the liars

You wanna hit the fuckers where they will listen? Stop paying your income taxes on a mass scale-
don't shop because you are bored and hawked-to
get yer cathode-ray nipple a hammer for New Years

It blows me away when I consider the size, the scope, and the eons that have gone, and lie in wait to come, compared to my few blinking moments of life.

I get what they're trying to say....

But US government trying to make their people dumber by giving all this entertainment, mass media and drugs and alcohol to keep the mind entertained? WTF?

And Josephus' work is a forgery?? National Geographic Channel had just done a special of James, the brother of Christ, and was actually excavating his ossuary. And as you might know, the reason why Josephus is controversial is because in his writings he claims that there's a brother of Jesus named James, which Catholic church denies as their official gospels don't mention him at all.

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2003/04/0418_030418_jesusrelic.html

There's the debate of whether this is real or not, but there's not much debate on the authentication of Josephus.

All these various gods born in Dec 25th... Yea I couldn't find any evidence of this either. They're mythical gods, why would the story telling give them birthdates? They're suppose to have existed for eons upon eons.

So what bullshit is this? I find it very ironic how this film talks about television controlling your mind and the information you get, and at the same time feed you this incorrect info.

Some other points that this movie makes is intriguing, but mixing in anarchist conspiracy theorists to represent your ideals, is just bad idea.

I believe this movie doesn't have enough credibility. Way too Anarcho / anti-government conspiracy friendly to be legitimate.

I believe in karma.

This lop of excrement isn't enjoying the various hells he is now deservedly suffering in and will for eons.

A google of galaxies over a googleplex of eons... and not one visitor? Odd. Maybe WE are now the "Elder Race" of the distant future. Or maybe not.

I simply detest this woman, her video and her goddamn book.

Nothing what she says is a secret, it's common sense that has existed for eons. If it was called "Positive Thinking For the Win" no one would have bought the book, but it's called the Secret and sold off as being some ancient texts and rubbish like that becuase it's the same rehashed story you can find in Self-Help texts dating back to the 19th century.

It's just so vapidly stupid... Her entire case is that if you think about it hard enough it will happen? Oh yeah? Tell that to the people in Darfur or Iraq am sure they can just wish all the death and violence away.

Oh I found something that does a much better job...

Karin Klein, editorial writer for the Los Angeles Times, called The Secret "just a new spin on the very old (and decidedly not secret) The Power of Positive Thinking [book by Norman Vincent Peale (1952)] wedded to 'ask and you shall receive'." The editorial, in one of its strongest criticisms, asserted Rhonda Byrne "took the well-worn ideas of some self-help gurus, customized them for the profoundly lazy, [and] gave them a veneer of mysticism..."

Journalist Jeffrey Ressner, reporting in Time, writes that some critics are concerned with the film’s attitude toward "using ancient wisdom to acquire material goods." In one example in the film, "a kid who wants a red BMX bicycle cuts out a picture in a catalog, concentrates real hard, and is rewarded with the spiffy two-wheeler."

Jerry Adler of Newsweek notes that despite the film's allusions to conspiratorially suppressed ancient wisdom, the notions presented by the motivational speakers who make up the film's cast have been commonplace for decades. Adler notes that the film is ethically "deplorable," fixating on "a narrow range of middle-class concerns — houses, cars, vacations, followed by health and relationships, with the rest of humanity a very distant sixth." Noting that the scientific foundations of the movie are clearly dubious, the Newsweek article quotes psychologist John Norcross, characterizing it as "pseudoscientific, psychospiritual babble."

Tony Riazzi, columnist for the Dayton Daily News, also questions the merits of The Secret, calling Byrne's background as a reality TV producer a "red flag." He also said that "The Secret's" ideas are nothing more than "common sense. Take out the buzzwords and pseudo religious nonsense about what you 'manifest' for yourself, ignore the vague prose and you get the message that thinking positively serves you better than thinking negatively."

Take a clue from video games: armor skins and EM shielding. You won't get rid of space debris. Most of it has absolutely nothing to do with human activity and has been flying around the universe for eons. Deal with it.

This reminds me of an obscure quote:
"I will say that the God concept is at the heart of 2001 but not any traditional, anthropomorphic image of God. I don't believe in any of Earth's monotheistic religions, but I do believe that one can construct an intriguing scientific definition of God, once you accept the fact that there are approximately 100 billion stars in our galaxy alone, that each star is a life-giving sun and that there are approximately 100 billion galaxies in just the visible universe. Given a planet in a stable orbit, not too hot and not too cold, and given a few billion years of chance chemical reactions created by the interaction of a sun's energy on the planet's chemicals, it's fairly certain that life in one form or another will eventually emerge. It's reasonable to assume that there must be, in fact, countless billions of such planets where biological life has arisen, and the odds of some proportion of such life developing intelligence are high. Now, the sun is by no means an old star, and its planets are mere children in cosmic age, so it seems likely that there are billions of planets in the universe not only where intelligent life is on a lower scale than man but other billions where it is approximately equal and others still where it is hundreds of thousands of millions of years in advance of us. When you think of the giant technological strides that man has made in a few millennia — less than a microsecond in the chronology of the universe — can you imagine the evolutionary development that much older life forms have taken? They may have progressed from biological species, which are fragile shells for the mind at best, into immortal machine entities — and then, over innumerable eons, they could emerge from the chrysalis of matter transformed into beings of pure energy and spirit. Their potentialities would be limitless and their intelligence ungraspable by humans." -Stanley Kubrick

It's been eons since I seen this one. . . yikes!

I actually used to do this with a pen and text books when I was still in school (eons ago)

Snake, I think that reality has been around for eons now. Back in the Crusades for example, the Pope was miffed that Saladin took over Jerusalem. Now the Pope at the time wielded great power over the European continent, however going to war with Saladin over holy turf didn't really provide the drive necessary for massive religious conflict.

So what does the Pope do? He merely states that the killing of non-christians would mean forgiveness and place in God's kingdom up above. So all the nobility, the criminals and many pilgrims joined the Crusade. I guess no one read that whole bit in the bible about man was created in the likeness of God.

And don't get me wrong. The same applies to Islamic extremists, for example the word jihad, is misunderstood in the West. Most people think that Jihad means a war against the west/america/christianity. However Jihad means litreally 'Spiritual struggle', in islamic tradition this really refers to be vigilent against vices and sin. e.g. I have a jihad on smoking. Invoking jihad in a military context only occurs when the entire nation of Islam is under threat (am talking Nazi stlye holocaust extermination).

Extremists to drive suicide bombers and the like, of course invoke Jihad because they think blah blah america = evil etc etc. And also being a matyr they say gives you passage to heaven, and 72 virgins or something. This is entirely up to interpertation, written in Arabic the Quran is vague and there lots of interpertations that can be drived from it. And even so, that wouldn't matter much the people who commit terrible atrocities know how to turn one into a radical by appealing to their faith.

All bloody hypocrites.

If the top 15 of us submitted three videos each day, that would be 45 in the que daily. But there are a lot more of us than just 15. Summer may mean additional participants since some folks are not in school. The growth of membership and videos is going to mean more constraints.

Maybe the limit of 2 will need to be reintroduced. Maybe the time in the que will need to be reduced. Maybe a cap on the number of videos are in the que will encourage more aggressive voting up or down.

As for the tagging discussion, I would like to suggest an increase in the maximum for tags. There have been times when I wanted to have more than the limit because of what was in a video. This might help in tracking videos down and encouraging folks to better label what is submitted.

I am sucker for Monty Python sketches, but there are other comedy troops and individuals out there. I had completely forgotten about “The Two Ronnies” – although I don’t remember where or when I used to watch them eons ago.

Whatever y’all decide, don’t turn this into a drudgery yourselves. I’m reminded of restaurant in Algiers Point (across the river from the French Quarter) - it closed because it became too successful.

Anyway, I need to quit thinking so I can wind down this annoying artist mind of mind . . .