Hard News: For Good Friday
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Down the Rabbit Hole is now available in a Quantum Edition.
I rest my case.
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Far out. Really? They did the roughcasting around the skirts of some houses (and the odd patio) like that in Pt Chev and people think that was bad.
Really. And expect people to be sentenced in a few years for some of this. A couple of weeks ago was the turn of the architects, council officers and building inspectors that oversaw the addition of a floor at the primary school in San Giuliano di Puglia, that collapsed in the 2002 earthquake killing 27 people, including all the local boys born 1996.
I also strongly suggest not looking up the word "Vajont" on Wikipedia.
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"PS: the low wooden A-frame design is wise."
Might have something to do with 800yrs experience eh?
The one thing that didnt get factored in (tho' it is part of the legend myth corpus) is tsunami.
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I rest my case.
I didn't think this was a competition. Or evangelism. Just a safe place to express ideas.
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It is a Law of Internet that any advertised product with Quantum in its name is fraudulent.
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I kind've like the conceit:
...if they wish to “Go Quantum” by using a randomization function on their DVD player, the film restructures itself every time it’s viewed so it’s never the same film twice
There are a few classic films this would work wonders for ;-)
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Ruaumoko
Looked into his throat a while back at the Waimangu Valley. Very impressive. A close relative of the giant Japanese namazu, I reckon.
I didn't think this was a competition. Or evangelism. Just a safe place to express ideas.
You don't even have to evangelise. Just pursuing an 'impure' line of thought is enough to have the inherently authoritarian go all mediaeval on you.
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Because thinking about things like quantum entanglement mangles even the cleverest brains? And no matter how awesome that shit is, it doesn't help to put bread on the table, or offer direct and easy solutions to social problems?
Quantum entanglement, at a distance, even! Synchronicity - told ya. Tho quantum entanglement sounds like a state John Key might find himself in rather soon.
Apparently, reality is just a state of mind after all.
That was a good link, thanks Rich. Interesting fella called Ian McN posting in the comments and some book titles to add to the "Must Read One Day" pile. Like Roger Penrose: "the Road to Reality" - anyone read it and is it any good??
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Ruaumoko, kia ora!
Pops up in this more popular guise of late, and as the name of the marae at the Kelston Deaf Education Centre. Stomp!
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Hilary, I'm not sure this is a safe place to admit to reading New Scientist .
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WH,
People are always finding ways of incorporating good ideas and criticisms into their personal positioning strategies. It makes me want to not. I am such a rebel like that.
It's not the good ideas I mind obviously, it's the scarcely concealed implication, 'this is how neat I am', which leads to the feeling that you're less having a genuine conversation than participating in someone's extended image management effort. I dunno, maybe I have this wrong.
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But why are we here now? I think it is to give us a chance to do our best for each other and our world, and that treating others as we ourselves would like to be treated - in a family, community or bigger context - is a universal principle for the advancement of humanity.
Hear, hear, Hilary. That's a big part of my belief system too.
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Getting back to Russell's original posting. I think the meal cooked with love tastes better because of the positive energy it creates, and that is shared and multiplied by those who gather to eat it. I reckon one day we will learn how to measure this energy, but in the mean time does I think it's fine to speculate.
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It's not the good ideas I mind obviously, it's the scarcely concealed implication, 'this is how neat I am', which leads to the feeling that you're less having a genuine conversation than participating in someone's extended image management effort. I dunno, maybe I have this wrong.
Maybe you have. Maybe some people just like good ideas and loathe bad ones, and come here to discuss ideas freely. Maybe.
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It's not the good ideas I mind obviously, it's the scarcely concealed implication, 'this is how neat I am', which leads to the feeling that you're less having a genuine conversation than participating in someone's extended image management effort.
I think that's unfair. Isn't it human nature to speculate on the meaning of existence? I think therefore I am and all that. And some of us have had a few decades to do this. It's not to do with being superior or inferior to anyone else. That's what I meant about needing a safe place.
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When threads like this discuss matters of religion and belief, it's inevitable that people will put forward their own belief systems. There's nothing wrong with that. The blogosphere would be an empty place if people didn't express their opinions.
On the other hand, if people want to put forward their personal philisophies for examination, they need to be prepared for criticism. As long as its constructive and not nasty.
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Since it's Easter how about a discussion on death and /or resurrection. Why do people talk about death as passing on or over if they don't think there is a destination?
From my experience of being with people dying from terminal illness I've noticed that a little while before they die they seem to reach out to something as if there is some amazing presence or scene they can see but we can't. From then on the death process is like a peaceful running down of a clock.
Why is it that people a long way away geographically sometimes know the time that a person died? Why do pakeha have more trouble with the concept of an afterlife than Maori who acknowledge the presence of ancestors on formal occasions?
And what really happened to the historical Jesus?
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How would we reach any conclusions? It is all speculation, anecdote and meaningless phrases like 'positive energy.'
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It's not really essential to reach conclusions in a discussion like this.
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And what really happened to the historical Jesus?
That they nailed him to a cross is, I think, generally accepted by most historians.
As for his resurrection, I don't personally believe any of it, but then that's just my view.
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http://tr.youtube.com/watch?v=_q5mlb3Bjzs
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OK, my turn. I think it is all untrue: resurrection, afterlife, the historical Jesus.
There, done.
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Why do people talk about death as passing on or over if they don't think there is a destination?
"Passed on" or "passed over" are common euphemisms for "died". We should be careful about attributing meanings to words or phrases when no such meanings are intended.
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Why do people talk about death as passing on or over
Passed away is probably more common, but any are surely just to give some comfort to those left behind. 'She's / he's dead' doesn't have the same implied sense of placidity that we need to assign to the departed to make ourselves feel better.
"They've gone to a far better place"....well, actually no...they're dead.
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