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| Seer777 Ride the wings of the mind  User ID: 46194679  United States02/06/2014 11:24 AM  Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | yes you right on the coast strip will miss the heavy snow settling but as soon as you go inland towards eugene for today and all of tomorrow the snow fall and settle is high risk Quoting: aether I have no vehicle. I'm not going anywhere. The vehicle is suppose to return Friday. Whether that occurs or not, I assume will be based on the roads. Difficulties strengthen the Mind as labor does the body... ~Seneca |
| aether (OP) User ID: 53372331  United Kingdom02/06/2014 11:25 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | yes you right on the coast strip will miss the heavy snow settling but as soon as you go inland towards eugene for today and all of tomorrow the snow fall and settle is high risk Quoting: aether I have no vehicle. I'm not going anywhere. The vehicle is suppose to return Friday. Whether that occurs or not, I assume will be based on the roads. yes, it may become sat/sun before return of vehicle |
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| Anonymous Coward User ID: 51737662 United States02/06/2014 11:33 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | One of the most significant prehistoric sites in the United States found in Miami Quoting: aether “What’s unusual and unique about the site is that it’s this huge chunk of land where a major part of this ancient Tequesta village site is preserved,’’ said veteran South Florida archaeologist Bob Carr. “It’s one of the earliest urban plans in eastern North America. You can actually see this extraordinary configuration of these buildings and structures.’’ Quoting: observation[link to www.sci-tech-today.com] "The archaeologists, under the direction of veteran South Florida archaeologist Bob Carr, have so far painstakingly dug up eight large circles comprised of uniformly carved holes in the native limestone that they believe to be foundation holes for Tequesta Indian dwellings dating as far back as 2,000 years." "The finds, which have not been widely publicized, have placed public officials and a big downtown developer in a major quandary. The Tequesta village site covers roughly half of a long-vacant, two-acre city block on the north side of the river where the developer, MDM Development Group, plans to build movie theaters, restaurants and a 34-story hotel." /\ and it's Controversial.  Have you guys talked about the FL Bog people? [link to www.nbbd.com] we had never known of them until it arose within 5 mins of reading your post Interesting: "Some of the findings over the three field seasons revised ideas on the type of life people lived seven to eight thousand years ago. Apparently, they were more caring and less nomadic than was generally believed. In one case, the skeleton of a woman who was more than 50 years old when she died, showed that she had suffered multiple bone fractures several years before her death. Her injuries would have kept her from functioning in a normal way for an extended period. During that time others would have had to care for her and assume the work she would normally have done. In another case, a boy, 13 to 15 years old, was the victim of spina bifida, a crippling condition caused by the failure of the vertebrae to grow together around the spinal cord. One foot was severely deformed, and bones of the other leg indicated that a terrible--and probably fatal--infection had caused the loss of the foot and part of the leg. Those two required a great deal of attention and loving care, the woman through a lengthy period of convalescence and the boy for all or most of his life. In a more savage, less developed society, those members of the clan and others such as the elderly, the very ill, or deformed children might have been deserted or even killed." "The fabric used to wrap the dead is the oldest flexible fabric ever found in this part of the world.The "yarn" was made with fibers from native plants--probably palmetto or queen palm--using at least seven different complex weaves that required the use of some type of loom. Weaving a piece of fabric large enough to wrap around an adult body would have taken a lot of time, so the weavers probably would not have been enthusiastic about stopping their work, disassembling their looms, and moving to another camp site every few weeks." "Many artifacts made from wood, bone or antler were found over the three seasons. Several were scribed in geometric patterns." The link for photos of the artifacts isn't working :-( [link to cartlab-www.freac.fsu.edu] |
| aether (OP) User ID: 53372331 United Kingdom02/06/2014 11:46 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Interesting: "Some of the findings over the three field seasons revised ideas on the type of life people lived seven to eight thousand years ago. Apparently, they were more caring and less nomadic than was generally believed. In one case, the skeleton of a woman who was more than 50 years old when she died, showed that she had suffered multiple bone fractures several years before her death. Her injuries would have kept her from functioning in a normal way for an extended period. During that time others would have had to care for her and assume the work she would normally have done. In another case, a boy, 13 to 15 years old, was the victim of spina bifida, a crippling condition caused by the failure of the vertebrae to grow together around the spinal cord. One foot was severely deformed, and bones of the other leg indicated that a terrible--and probably fatal--infection had caused the loss of the foot and part of the leg. Those two required a great deal of attention and loving care, the woman through a lengthy period of convalescence and the boy for all or most of his life. In a more savage, less developed society, those members of the clan and others such as the elderly, the very ill, or deformed children might have been deserted or even killed." "The fabric used to wrap the dead is the oldest flexible fabric ever found in this part of the world.The "yarn" was made with fibers from native plants--probably palmetto or queen palm--using at least seven different complex weaves that required the use of some type of loom. Weaving a piece of fabric large enough to wrap around an adult body would have taken a lot of time, so the weavers probably would not have been enthusiastic about stopping their work, disassembling their looms, and moving to another camp site every few weeks." "Many artifacts made from wood, bone or antler were found over the three seasons. Several were scribed in geometric patterns." The link for photos of the artifacts isn't working :-( [link to cartlab-www.freac.fsu.edu] yes, this is what our investigations and discoveries are telling us we use to emotionally express ourselves and form societies that expressed our emotional expression very different to that which our recent history shows us of doing within our past 3,500 years approx within the records kept by our faiths thus we know we must have known something in our past before approx 3,500 years ago which prompted us to express differently as we did so and that cause is looking like a combination of environmental alteration in our past prompting us to alter what we knew and become different in our attitude a cultural shock is the expression that springs to mind prompted by the environment our cultures were formed into believing what we knew becoming something which we did not know thus we lost our "faith" in what we knew and become something new it seems to go like that |
| aether (OP) User ID: 53372331 United Kingdom02/06/2014 12:10 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | at 11.43 they are talking about rhesus negative blood and i don`t know anything about it either but it is prompting a memory i apparently had a still born elder sister and my parents were told no attempts at children because their blood does not match for some reason known to my parents they wanted a child and got me in getting me, i am told my mother, was monitored through her pregnancy with injections weekly, which she did not like because the needles hurt, and, she was given many medications of unknown meaning to ingest which she did and they got me and never tried for another me my father since before he met my mother had a blood group that was rare enough that he carried a card with him giving details of it and the police often arrived and took him away to give his blood 24/7 when another needed it now all this /z\ is hearsay to me because it is what i was told by my parents and the police and card carrying , to me, stopped by the time i knew me at 2 years old but it prompts me to think when hearing rhesus negative today Last Edited by aether on 02/06/2014 12:13 PM |
| aether (OP) User ID: 53372331 United Kingdom02/06/2014 12:25 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | something else about my parents before i was born which is hearsay to me but true to my parents is that they married some time in ww2 and then never saw each other for 4 or 5 years because my father after marring went behind enemy lines in italy to become the recently died son in a large italian family , as in he took the identity of a dead person his age and gender the family business was a bakery and he sold and delivered bread to the germans and trained the itailian partisans and went on missions with them when the war was over in 45 he stayed until 47 preventing the "communists" from taking over and when he returned in 47 he had forgotten how to speak english and dreamed in italian also oh i never looked at this before Italian resistance movement The Italian resistance movement (Italian: Resistenza italiana or Resistenza) is an umbrella term for a number of resistance groups oppose the Nazi Germany and the Italian Fascist puppet regime of Italian Social Republic during the later years of World War II. It was formed by pro-Allied Italians, following the Allied invasion of the country, the armistice between Italy and Allied armed forces, and German military occupation of northern Italy. The movement is also known as the Italian resistance and the Italian partisans, and the brutal conflict they took part is referred to as Italian Civil War. The modern Italian Republic was declared to be founded on the achievements of resistance leaders, whose political allegiance was mixed and sometimes contentious. Quoting: observation[link to en.wikipedia.org] Last Edited by aether on 02/06/2014 12:26 PM |
| Anonymous Coward User ID: 51737662 United States02/06/2014 01:41 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | wow, that's very interesting. /\ Must have been extremely difficult for your mom, being alone in those times. My father, Italian, has one of the rarer types also, AB. I have some hearsay stories that I'm trying to figure out too. My parents left New Jersey before I was born and possibly conceived. As the story goes, they weren't sure where they would settle and first went to Texas and then spontaneously decided to leave and ended up in St. Petersburg, FL. The thing is there have always been inconsistencies between my mother's versions (even omitting the Tx) and my older sister's (8yrs my elder) as to where in Texas and how long they stayed there, etc. that don't make sense.  |
| aether (OP) User ID: 53372331 United Kingdom02/06/2014 01:58 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | wow, that's very interesting. /\ Must have been extremely difficult for your mom, being alone in those times. Quoting: CommonAnomoly My father, Italian, has one of the rarer types also, AB. I have some hearsay stories that I'm trying to figure out too. My parents left New Jersey before I was born and possibly conceived. As the story goes, they weren't sure where they would settle and first went to Texas and then spontaneously decided to leave and ended up in St. Petersburg, FL. The thing is there have always been inconsistencies between my mother's versions (even omitting the Tx) and my older sister's (8yrs my elder) as to where in Texas and how long they stayed there, etc. that don't make sense. yes it was odd times, i discovered in my late 20`s by accident my mums name was not her name and when i asked why i was given the christian name of my mum by my mum that was not true my father said she didn`t like her real name then i remembered something odd , up until i was 4 my mum was often refereed by relatives by a name that was unfamiliar to me , not my mum`s name then when i was 4 we moved away from my ancestral location of birth and i never heard the foreign to me name mentioned again until i discovered close to me being 30 yes that the foreign to me name of my mum is her real name Last Edited by aether on 02/06/2014 01:59 PM |
| Anonymous Coward User ID: 51737662 United States02/06/2014 02:08 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | wow, that's very interesting. /\ Must have been extremely difficult for your mom, being alone in those times. Quoting: CommonAnomoly My father, Italian, has one of the rarer types also, AB. I have some hearsay stories that I'm trying to figure out too. My parents left New Jersey before I was born and possibly conceived. As the story goes, they weren't sure where they would settle and first went to Texas and then spontaneously decided to leave and ended up in St. Petersburg, FL. The thing is there have always been inconsistencies between my mother's versions (even omitting the Tx) and my older sister's (8yrs my elder) as to where in Texas and how long they stayed there, etc. that don't make sense. yes it was odd times, i discovered in my late 20`s by accident my mums name was not her name and when i asked why i was given the christian name of my mum by my mum that was not true my father said she didn`t like her real name then i remembered something odd , up until i was 4 my mum was often refereed by relatives by a name that was unfamiliar to me , not my mum`s name then when i was 4 we moved away from my ancestral location of birth and i never heard the foreign to me name mentioned again until i discovered close to me being 30 yes that the foreign to me name of my mum is her real name Strannnge. Im curious what your 'ancestral location of birth' is. You have a very formal way of speaking for someone without formal education, I've noticed. :-) Here's a weird thing I found out in my 20's. My parents were never married. Though my mom and I had my father's last name - I don't think anyone could get away with that these days, especially in Florida they nearly want a blood sample to get a drivers license now. It was kind of a big deal, when I found out - discovering I was a 'bastard'  |
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| aether (OP) User ID: 53372331 United Kingdom02/06/2014 02:15 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | wow, that's very interesting. /\ Must have been extremely difficult for your mom, being alone in those times. Quoting: CommonAnomoly My father, Italian, has one of the rarer types also, AB. I have some hearsay stories that I'm trying to figure out too. My parents left New Jersey before I was born and possibly conceived. As the story goes, they weren't sure where they would settle and first went to Texas and then spontaneously decided to leave and ended up in St. Petersburg, FL. The thing is there have always been inconsistencies between my mother's versions (even omitting the Tx) and my older sister's (8yrs my elder) as to where in Texas and how long they stayed there, etc. that don't make sense. yes it was odd times, i discovered in my late 20`s by accident my mums name was not her name and when i asked why i was given the christian name of my mum by my mum that was not true my father said she didn`t like her real name then i remembered something odd , up until i was 4 my mum was often refereed by relatives by a name that was unfamiliar to me , not my mum`s name then when i was 4 we moved away from my ancestral location of birth and i never heard the foreign to me name mentioned again until i discovered close to me being 30 yes that the foreign to me name of my mum is her real name Strannnge. Im curious what your 'ancestral location of birth' is. You have a very formal way of speaking for someone without formal education, I've noticed. :-) Here's a weird thing I found out in my 20's. My parents were never married. Though my mom and I had my father's last name - I don't think anyone could get away with that these days, especially in Florida they nearly want a blood sample to get a drivers license now. It was kind of a big deal, when I found out - discovering I was a 'bastard' yes, i naturally talk in an accent that the world says is a brit but to me i possess no accent and i think my writing does not reflect my speech in early 2012 i was in glp chat several times and no one linked my spoken voice to my writing, it seemed to me and when i am off line i speak in the same ways as the people i am with , my way which shows in the differencing social circles i have maintained all my life, i fit "without thought" to me if i am prompted to i don`t know what the actual me sounds like because since i can remember from the age of 2 i have sounded like the people i am talking to cos i do that naturally Last Edited by aether on 02/06/2014 02:16 PM |
| Seer777 Ride the wings of the mind User ID: 46194679 United States02/06/2014 02:32 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | This is awesome. Thread: AMAZING Writing boy doll-- 240 years old Simply amazing. Quoting: 442 636900 THis piece of machinery blew my mind. It is a masterpiece and left feeling inadequate. [link to www.chonday.com] Difficulties strengthen the Mind as labor does the body... ~Seneca |
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| aether (OP) User ID: 53372331 United Kingdom02/06/2014 02:40 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | This is awesome. Quoting: Seer777 Thread: AMAZING Writing boy doll-- 240 years old Simply amazing. Quoting: 442 636900 THis piece of machinery blew my mind. It is a masterpiece and left feeling inadequate. [link to www.chonday.com] that /z\ is lovely and such soft features and mannerism to |
| aether (OP) User ID: 53372331 United Kingdom02/06/2014 02:46 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Quoting: Fancypantz My gunnery sergeant in the first company I was with in Okinawa said it the best: Quoting: JeffreyW "The nail that sticks out gets hammered." The parallels between military lifestyle and the rank structure of establishment physics are uncanny. From not being allowed to speak up if you don't have rank, to getting the shit jobs first before you can get the cool ones (again because of rank and time in grade), the mental conditioning, the "club" mind-set (either you are a part of the club and did your time or you're not, who gives a shit if you actually have good ideas). It's that bureaucratic approach to science which is killing it. Free-wheeling is not allowed because it upsets the status quo. As a sergeant I could not just walk up to the Colonel of the base and say, "Listen dude, shit is all sorts of messed up, you need to fix, A, B, C, etc. That's the same thing I'm doing. I have no "formal degree", yet I'm trying to tell the "Base Commander" or the "Professors Emeritus" of universities to take their theories and shove it, they are incorrect. What is accepted and allowed is based on the bureaucratic structure itself and not actual understanding or progress. So many careers rest on the structure remaining in tact, thus if a new theory comes along and upsets it, it will get immediately rejected. The nail that sticks out will get hammered. This is why Halton Arp (RIP) was kicked out of telescope time. He was a nail that stuck out, so he got hammered. [link to www.thunderbolts.info] Last Edited by aether on 02/06/2014 02:46 PM |
| Anonymous Coward User ID: 47005580 United States02/06/2014 02:46 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | That is very true, aether. You write much different than how you speak. Do you really think it is something to do with detecting accents? To me, after speaking with you on Skype, it seems that you write differently than you speak. You know how some write exactly how they talk? That wouldn't be you, lol. |
| Anonymous Coward User ID: 11591337 United States02/06/2014 02:50 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | One of the most significant prehistoric sites in the United States found in Miami Quoting: aether “What’s unusual and unique about the site is that it’s this huge chunk of land where a major part of this ancient Tequesta village site is preserved,’’ said veteran South Florida archaeologist Bob Carr. “It’s one of the earliest urban plans in eastern North America. You can actually see this extraordinary configuration of these buildings and structures.’’ Quoting: observation[link to www.sci-tech-today.com] "The archaeologists, under the direction of veteran South Florida archaeologist Bob Carr, have so far painstakingly dug up eight large circles comprised of uniformly carved holes in the native limestone that they believe to be foundation holes for Tequesta Indian dwellings dating as far back as 2,000 years." "The finds, which have not been widely publicized, have placed public officials and a big downtown developer in a major quandary. The Tequesta village site covers roughly half of a long-vacant, two-acre city block on the north side of the river where the developer, MDM Development Group, plans to build movie theaters, restaurants and a 34-story hotel." /\ and it's Controversial. Have you guys talked about the FL Bog people? [link to www.nbbd.com] This part was interesting to me: These articulated skeletons gave information as to how the bodies were buried. In many cases they were buried lying on their left sides, in fetal position, with their heads to the west, and faces to the north. There may have been some religious or other reason for their being buried in that position. Only two were found to have been buried in an extended position as we bury our dead today. One of those, a female about 35 years of age at death, was buried face down and still had remnants of her last meal in her stomach--fish scales and bones, seeds from grasses and berries, and bits of nuts. There were more than 3,000 elderberry seeds in her stomach. Elderberry extract has been found to be beneficial in the treatment of some viral infections, but we have no way of knowing if this woman had eaten the berries as a treatment, or if she merely liked elderberries and possibly died of acute indigestion from eating so many. |
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| aether (OP) User ID: 53372331 United Kingdom02/06/2014 02:53 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | That is very true, aether. You write much different than how you speak. Do you really think it is something to do with detecting accents? To me, after speaking with you on Skype, it seems that you write differently than you speak. Quoting: Septenary You know how some write exactly how they talk? That wouldn't be you, lol. to me our internet is "alive" thus i synergize with it`s feelings naturally to me so it is never me as such when i write within it it is me consciously utilizing that which is not me to be me thus we do it together , to me when i talk in chat or skype or mobile phone i become less conscious of my environment (medium i utilize to be me) thus it and anyone listening experiences more of me because i without thought impress more of me into the medium i use to be me Last Edited by aether on 02/06/2014 02:53 PM |
| Anonymous Coward User ID: 51737662 United States02/06/2014 02:55 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | One of the most significant prehistoric sites in the United States found in Miami Quoting: aether “What’s unusual and unique about the site is that it’s this huge chunk of land where a major part of this ancient Tequesta village site is preserved,’’ said veteran South Florida archaeologist Bob Carr. “It’s one of the earliest urban plans in eastern North America. You can actually see this extraordinary configuration of these buildings and structures.’’ Quoting: observation[link to www.sci-tech-today.com] "The archaeologists, under the direction of veteran South Florida archaeologist Bob Carr, have so far painstakingly dug up eight large circles comprised of uniformly carved holes in the native limestone that they believe to be foundation holes for Tequesta Indian dwellings dating as far back as 2,000 years." "The finds, which have not been widely publicized, have placed public officials and a big downtown developer in a major quandary. The Tequesta village site covers roughly half of a long-vacant, two-acre city block on the north side of the river where the developer, MDM Development Group, plans to build movie theaters, restaurants and a 34-story hotel." /\ and it's Controversial. Have you guys talked about the FL Bog people? [link to www.nbbd.com] This part was interesting to me: These articulated skeletons gave information as to how the bodies were buried. In many cases they were buried lying on their left sides, in fetal position, with their heads to the west, and faces to the north. There may have been some religious or other reason for their being buried in that position. Only two were found to have been buried in an extended position as we bury our dead today. One of those, a female about 35 years of age at death, was buried face down and still had remnants of her last meal in her stomach--fish scales and bones, seeds from grasses and berries, and bits of nuts. There were more than 3,000 elderberry seeds in her stomach. Elderberry extract has been found to be beneficial in the treatment of some viral infections, but we have no way of knowing if this woman had eaten the berries as a treatment, or if she merely liked elderberries and possibly died of acute indigestion from eating so many. Me too! -also the fetal position, makes sense that it's more like birth. After I posted the interesting points, I realized I had forgotten to include that ;-) I'd really like to see the geometric patterns on the artifacts. |
| Seer777 Ride the wings of the mind User ID: 46194679 United States02/06/2014 02:58 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | No. It was really hard to see. The flakes were really small. I thought they were dust at first. It started snowing again about 20 minutes ago, but stopped again. There is no accumulation. Which is helpful if I am going to need to walk to the store later. Having no vehicle here is a bit distressing I will admit. If an earthquake happened I would have to run several blocks to get to higher ground. But it could be done. :) Difficulties strengthen the Mind as labor does the body... ~Seneca |
| aether (OP) User ID: 53372331 United Kingdom02/06/2014 03:00 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | This part was interesting to me: These articulated skeletons gave information as to how the bodies were buried. In many cases they were buried lying on their left sides, in fetal position, with their heads to the west, and faces to the north. There may have been some religious or other reason for their being buried in that position. Only two were found to have been buried in an extended position as we bury our dead today. One of those, a female about 35 years of age at death, was buried face down and still had remnants of her last meal in her stomach--fish scales and bones, seeds from grasses and berries, and bits of nuts. There were more than 3,000 elderberry seeds in her stomach. Elderberry extract has been found to be beneficial in the treatment of some viral infections, but we have no way of knowing if this woman had eaten the berries as a treatment, or if she merely liked elderberries and possibly died of acute indigestion from eating so many. yes , it comes up again, it is a significant sign we are getting repeated to us but we do not know why yet |
| Anonymous Coward User ID: 11591337 United States02/06/2014 03:07 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | This is awesome. Quoting: Seer777 Thread: AMAZING Writing boy doll-- 240 years old Simply amazing. Quoting: 442 636900 THis piece of machinery blew my mind. It is a masterpiece and left feeling inadequate. [link to www.chonday.com] Awesomely creepy  |
| Anonymous Coward User ID: 11591337 United States02/06/2014 03:09 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Me too! -also the fetal position, makes sense that it's more like birth. Quoting: CommonAnomoly After I posted the interesting points, I realized I had forgotten to include that ;-) I'd really like to see the geometric patterns on the artifacts. Yeah, that would be cool to see. They also left out what came of the brain matter findings. |
| Anonymous Coward User ID: 11591337 United States02/06/2014 03:13 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | No. It was really hard to see. The flakes were really small. I thought they were dust at first. It started snowing again about 20 minutes ago, but stopped again. There is no accumulation. Which is helpful if I am going to need to walk to the store later. Having no vehicle here is a bit distressing I will admit. If an earthquake happened I would have to run several blocks to get to higher ground. But it could be done. :) Ha, that is how it was here. On the roads it would blow around like dust. That's good it didn't stick. I wouldn't know what to do without a vehicle. Everything is really far away except a ghetto gas station. |
| Seer777 Ride the wings of the mind User ID: 46194679 United States02/06/2014 03:21 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | No. It was really hard to see. The flakes were really small. I thought they were dust at first. It started snowing again about 20 minutes ago, but stopped again. There is no accumulation. Which is helpful if I am going to need to walk to the store later. Having no vehicle here is a bit distressing I will admit. If an earthquake happened I would have to run several blocks to get to higher ground. But it could be done. :) Ha, that is how it was here. On the roads it would blow around like dust. That's good it didn't stick. I wouldn't know what to do without a vehicle. Everything is really far away except a ghetto gas station. I could walk to a store with a backpack if I needed to. Takes about 20-25 minutes to get there. It is really cold though. Difficulties strengthen the Mind as labor does the body... ~Seneca |
| Fancy User ID: 24347670 United States02/06/2014 03:26 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Quoting: Fancypantz My gunnery sergeant in the first company I was with in Okinawa said it the best: Quoting: JeffreyW "The nail that sticks out gets hammered." The parallels between military lifestyle and the rank structure of establishment physics are uncanny. From not being allowed to speak up if you don't have rank, to getting the shit jobs first before you can get the cool ones (again because of rank and time in grade), the mental conditioning, the "club" mind-set (either you are a part of the club and did your time or you're not, who gives a shit if you actually have good ideas). It's that bureaucratic approach to science which is killing it. Free-wheeling is not allowed because it upsets the status quo. As a sergeant I could not just walk up to the Colonel of the base and say, "Listen dude, shit is all sorts of messed up, you need to fix, A, B, C, etc. That's the same thing I'm doing. I have no "formal degree", yet I'm trying to tell the "Base Commander" or the "Professors Emeritus" of universities to take their theories and shove it, they are incorrect. What is accepted and allowed is based on the bureaucratic structure itself and not actual understanding or progress. So many careers rest on the structure remaining in tact, thus if a new theory comes along and upsets it, it will get immediately rejected. The nail that sticks out will get hammered. This is why Halton Arp (RIP) was kicked out of telescope time. He was a nail that stuck out, so he got hammered. [link to www.thunderbolts.info] Figures lol |
| Fancy User ID: 24347670 United States02/06/2014 03:33 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | No. It was really hard to see. The flakes were really small. I thought they were dust at first. It started snowing again about 20 minutes ago, but stopped again. There is no accumulation. Which is helpful if I am going to need to walk to the store later. Having no vehicle here is a bit distressing I will admit. If an earthquake happened I would have to run several blocks to get to higher ground. But it could be done. :) Ha, that is how it was here. On the roads it would blow around like dust. That's good it didn't stick. I wouldn't know what to do without a vehicle. Everything is really far away except a ghetto gas station. I could walk to a store with a backpack if I needed to. Takes about 20-25 minutes to get there. It is really cold though. 20 min isn't too bad except when it's cold. I just realized its not that far, 2 miles there. It feels longer I guess cause I'm usually hurrying. It will be nice when it finally warms up. |
| Seer777 Ride the wings of the mind User ID: 46194679 United States02/06/2014 03:40 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | ... Quoting: Seer777 No. It was really hard to see. The flakes were really small. I thought they were dust at first. It started snowing again about 20 minutes ago, but stopped again. There is no accumulation. Which is helpful if I am going to need to walk to the store later. Having no vehicle here is a bit distressing I will admit. If an earthquake happened I would have to run several blocks to get to higher ground. But it could be done. :) Ha, that is how it was here. On the roads it would blow around like dust. That's good it didn't stick. I wouldn't know what to do without a vehicle. Everything is really far away except a ghetto gas station. I could walk to a store with a backpack if I needed to. Takes about 20-25 minutes to get there. It is really cold though. 20 min isn't too bad except when it's cold. I just realized its not that far, 2 miles there. It feels longer I guess cause I'm usually hurrying. It will be nice when it finally warms up. Agreed. I just had a funny thought when I took the pug out to go pee. He is terrible on a leash and is surprisingly strong. Pulls me around no problem. It started to hail while we were out there, so we ran back to the house while he pulled me along. I figured if I do have to 'run to higher' ground the pug could help me make it there in half the time, with half the energy. lol. Difficulties strengthen the Mind as labor does the body... ~Seneca |
