Something to contemplate
Correspondent:: "iDRMRSR"
Date: Sat, 8 Jan 2005 21:45:55 -0500
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OK, imagine someone firing a BB into a block of jello. It will leave a sort
of trial, a hollow space where the BB "was" delineating the margins between
BB and "not-BB", with a general indication of its entry point, path, and
exit point.
Now imagine you are in a jello block in a dimension higher than 3.
Everything that exists in three dimensions is moving through that higher
dimension jello block leaving a kind of tunnel behind it, a nice tunnel
where all existence once was. Since all things probably orbit, it probably
leaves behind a darn interesting pattern if viewed from above!
Only thing is, this is the only dimension there is and we can't see into the
past or even hear the swoosh as everything here in 3D mooshes through the
jello. Can't even get up above it to watch the tunnel being formed.
But, hey, it WOULD BE THERE no doubt!
Thinking about this makes me dizzy!
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Correspondent:: phy
Date: Sun, 09 Jan 2005 02:58:15 GMT
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"iDRMRSR" wrote in
news:x4adnek7mN1-B33cRVn-2A@giganews.com:
> OK, imagine someone firing a BB into a block of jello. It will leave
> a sort of trial, a hollow space where the BB "was" delineating the
> margins between BB and "not-BB", with a general indication of its
> entry point, path, and exit point.
>
> Now imagine you are in a jello block in a dimension higher than 3.
> Everything that exists in three dimensions is moving through that
> higher dimension jello block leaving a kind of tunnel behind it, a
> nice tunnel where all existence once was. Since all things probably
> orbit, it probably leaves behind a darn interesting pattern if viewed
> from above!
>
> Only thing is, this is the only dimension there is and we can't see
> into the past or even hear the swoosh as everything here in 3D mooshes
> through the jello. Can't even get up above it to watch the tunnel
> being formed.
>
> But, hey, it WOULD BE THERE no doubt!
>
> Thinking about this makes me dizzy!
I think you have too much free time on your hands.
-phy
Correspondent:: Ljutefisk Geist
Date: Sun, 09 Jan 2005 15:35:41 GMT
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In article ,
phy00x@yahoo.com says...
> "iDRMRSR" wrote in
> news:x4adnek7mN1-B33cRVn-2A@giganews.com:
>
> > OK, imagine someone firing a BB into a block of jello. It will leave
> > a sort of trial, a hollow space where the BB "was" delineating the
> > margins between BB and "not-BB", with a general indication of its
> > entry point, path, and exit point.
> >
> > Now imagine you are in a jello block in a dimension higher than 3.
> > Everything that exists in three dimensions is moving through that
> > higher dimension jello block leaving a kind of tunnel behind it, a
> > nice tunnel where all existence once was. Since all things probably
> > orbit, it probably leaves behind a darn interesting pattern if viewed
> > from above!
> >
> > Only thing is, this is the only dimension there is and we can't see
> > into the past or even hear the swoosh as everything here in 3D mooshes
> > through the jello. Can't even get up above it to watch the tunnel
> > being formed.
> >
> > But, hey, it WOULD BE THERE no doubt!
> >
> > Thinking about this makes me dizzy!
>
> I think you have too much free time on your hands.
Or too much jello...
Correspondent:: "just john"
Date: 9 Jan 2005 11:27:58 -0800
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Nah, if anybody had too much jello on their hands, they wouldn't be
able to post usenet messages 'cuz their keyboard would short out.
Correspondent:: Eddie Vroom
Date: Sun, 09 Jan 2005 04:53:17 GMT
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iDRMRSR wrote:
> Only thing is, this is the only dimension there is and we can't see into the
> past or even hear the swoosh as everything here in 3D mooshes through the
> jello. Can't even get up above it to watch the tunnel being formed.
>
> But, hey, it WOULD BE THERE no doubt!
That's assuming that the "outer" dimension were, in fact, jello.
I suspect that we're really in a "novelty paperweight" dimension, or
perhaps something more like the old fly-in-the-icecube gag. All for the
amusement of WOTAN and JHVH-1.
...and THEY KNEW! The Mayans KNEW that the plastic would harden in 2012.
--
Art and Fashion for the New Conspiracy
http://www.cafepress.com/luciddragon
the Mystical RevvedErrand Doktor Eddie Vroom
Certified God by the holy authority of
the White Lotus Fortune Cookie Company
June 23, 2004
Correspondent:: "Doktor Dark"
Date: 9 Jan 2005 08:54:21 -0800
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We CAN look into the past by looking at the sky. The sun we see is 8
minutes old. Saturn, thru a telescope, is the Saturn of over an hour
ago, not right now. The image of Alpha Centauri is over 4 years old,
and that's the most current star we see. So there, neener, neener,
neener!
Correspondent:: "Giles"
Date: 9 Jan 2005 10:28:41 -0800
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Doktor Dark wrote:
> We CAN look into the past by looking at the sky. The sun we see is 8
> minutes old. Saturn, thru a telescope, is the Saturn of over an hour
> ago, not right now. The image of Alpha Centauri is over 4 years old,
> and that's the most current star we see. So there, neener, neener,
> neener!
Actually we all live in the past. There is a time lag between the
moment you receive sensory stimuli (such as vision) and the time your
brain can register and process it. The actual lag is on the order of
1/30th of a second (33 ms.) One of Ken Kesey and his Merry Pranksters'
goals was to "live in the now".
"We are all of us doomed to spend our lives watching a movie of our
lives - we are always acting on what has just finished happening. We
think we're in the present, but we aren't." -Tom Wolfe
Correspondent:: König Prüß, GfbAEV
Date: Sun, 09 Jan 2005 18:35:19 GMT
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Giles wrote:
> Doktor Dark wrote:
> > We CAN look into the past by looking at the sky. The sun we see is 8
> > minutes old. Saturn, thru a telescope, is the Saturn of over an hour
> > ago, not right now. The image of Alpha Centauri is over 4 years old,
> > and that's the most current star we see. So there, neener, neener,
> > neener!
>
> Actually we all live in the past. There is a time lag between the
> moment you receive sensory stimuli (such as vision) and the time your
> brain can register and process it. The actual lag is on the order of
> 1/30th of a second (33 ms.) One of Ken Kesey and his Merry Pranksters'
> goals was to "live in the now".
>
> "We are all of us doomed to spend our lives watching a movie of our
> lives - we are always acting on what has just finished happening. We
> think we're in the present, but we aren't." -Tom Wolfe
I think that the Merry Prankster Crankster Gangsters got that stuff
from Baba Rum Raisin!
Paths to God Paths to God: Living the Bhagavad Gita It is
based on the lectures Ram Dass
Books - Be Here Now
... 1997-2003 © Ram Dass and the Ram Dass Tape ... leary zen satori zendo
zazen baba psylocybin
cambridge god ... microbiology lsd tool truth be here now lsd psychedelics
...
www.ramdasstapes.org/beherenow.htm
Correspondent:: "Doktor Dark"
Date: 9 Jan 2005 12:05:16 -0800
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As a Subgenius, I'd rather BE THERE LATER. More slackful.
Correspondent:: "Giles"
Date: 9 Jan 2005 12:32:58 -0800
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König wrote:
>
> I think that the Merry Prankster Crankster Gangsters got that stuff
> from Baba Rum Raisin!
.
.
Actually both groups (East Coast/West Coast) probably got it from
Aldous Huxley:
The urge to transcend self-conscious selfhood is, as I have said,
a principal appetite of the soul. (Doors of Perception)
"Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad." - A.H..
"To us, the moment 8:17 A.M. means something - something very
important, if it happens to be the starting time of our daily train. To
our ancestors, such an odd eccentric instant was without significance -
did not even exist. In inventing the locomotive, Watt and Stevenson
were part inventors of time." -A.H.
Correspondent:: König Prüß, GfbAEV
Date: Sun, 09 Jan 2005 20:45:12 GMT
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Giles wrote:
> König wrote:
>
> >
> > I think that the Merry Prankster Crankster Gangsters got that stuff
> > from Baba Rum Raisin!
> .
> .
> Actually both groups (East Coast/West Coast) probably got it from
> Aldous Huxley:
>
> The urge to transcend self-conscious selfhood is, as I have said,
> a principal appetite of the soul. (Doors of Perception)
>
> "Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad." - A.H..
>
> "To us, the moment 8:17 A.M. means something - something very
> important, if it happens to be the starting time of our daily train. To
> our ancestors, such an odd eccentric instant was without significance -
> did not even exist. In inventing the locomotive, Watt and Stevenson
> were part inventors of time." -A.H.
Maybe so, probably so. You know Baba Ram Das was Richard Alpert
who was a friend of Huxley's and Ginsbergs, and got fired from Harvard
with Tim Leary. So, they were all riding the same meme, more or less.
The National Lampoon did a really good take-off on Alpert called:
Baba Rum Raisin
Ram Das was a guru riding around in a 1958 Buick convertible.