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[Tin Man]

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I would have to say the answer for me is “No”.
But I can appreciate the quote and it did make me contemplate where “I” fits in with the “We” or more so the “is-ness”.
I do think that I have had some very unusual childhood and some adulthood experiences (*winkwink*), but those are hardly subjective just to me.
They are what originally sparked my interest in such things, but I don’t consider myself anymore lucky than being born with green eyes instead of brown.

So often the ones who think themselves different are the most uninteresting. I've come across quite a few people (many who were on this or the INTJ forum) who revel in their supposed uniqueness. Yet their thinking pattern was quite bland and predictable. That or they're moody teenagers who feels like nobody understands them. There are billions of people alive today, trillions that once lived. You might be slightly different, have enough uncommon experiences to give you a life that alternates from the norm. Still, it's likely there are many others with similar experiences and thoughts.

I don’t think I’m special…

Don't say that. You're special.

[video=youtube;-7Hy7uAb_eU]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-7Hy7uAb_eU[/video]

 

[Skarekrow]

So often the ones who think themselves different are the most uninteresting. I've come across quite a few people (many who were on this or the INTJ forum) who revel in their supposed uniqueness. Yet their thinking pattern was quite bland and predictable. That or they're moody teenagers who feels like nobody understands them. There are billions of people alive today, trillions that once lived. You might be slightly different, have enough uncommon experiences to give you a life that alternates from the norm. Still, it's likely there are many others with similar experiences and thoughts.



Don't say that. You're special.

[video=youtube;-7Hy7uAb_eU]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-7Hy7uAb_eU[/video]

I mean…honestly, people who think that they have some sort of mental advantage to me upon meeting because they studied here or there doesn’t mean jack squat…I’ve met some real fucking idiots…they’re like idiot savants, they can do that one thing really well but they couldn’t heat up a hot pocket.
I like to meet everyone as equals and if there is respect to be earned and shown then it will be shown and recognized.
I’ve had to walk surgeons through surgeries step by step…no kidding…more than a handful of times…not heart surgeries, but shit they should KNOW.
But then…ask me a math question, I’m like Sloth from the goonies “Ruth! Baaby RUTH!”
Beats the fuck out of me man.
We’ve all got our talents and our lesser realized talents…hehe…but no man is born above another in my eyes.
That is the first thing that will make me hate someone intensely is if they act in an arrogant manner.

 

[sprinkles]

I mean…honestly, people who think that they have some sort of mental advantage to me upon meeting because they studied here or there doesn’t mean jack squat…I’ve met some real fucking idiots…they’re like idiot savants, they can do that one thing really well but they couldn’t heat up a hot pocket.
I like to meet everyone as equals and if there is respect to be earned and shown then it will be shown and recognized.
I’ve had to walk surgeons through surgeries step by step…no kidding…more than a handful of times…not heart surgeries, but shit they should KNOW.
But then…ask me a math question, I’m like Sloth from the goonies “Ruth! Baaby RUTH!”
Beats the fuck out of me man.
We’ve all got our talents and our lesser realized talents…hehe…but no man is born above another in my eyes.
That is the first thing that will make me hate someone intensely is if they act in an arrogant manner.

Nobody gets anywhere alone. Adaptability is all one can really claim because all things have been made possible by somebody who came before you.

Can you imagine if everyone had to invent their own wheel independently? If everyone had to become the first mathematician? Imagine if everyone had to essentially invent language for the very first time?

Imagine being abandoned at birth and living in a wasteland where nothing exists that is not your own idea. It's impossible isn't it? We acquire knowledge through proximity with others and these people who claim too much superiority are really kind of an ignorant joke.

 

[Skarekrow]

Nobody gets anywhere alone. Adaptability is all one can really claim because all things have been made possible by somebody who came before you.

Can you imagine if everyone had to invent their own wheel independently? If everyone had to become the first mathematician? Imagine if everyone had to essentially invent language for the very first time?

Imagine being abandoned at birth and living in a wasteland where nothing exists that is not your own idea. It's impossible isn't it? We acquire knowledge through proximity with others and these people who claim too much superiority are really kind of an ignorant joke.

It especially irks me when people speak with a superior tone when the only box they are really standing on (teetering) is the randomness of where they were born and the color of their skin…flat out.
If you still think you are better than that terrorist who blew him or herself up in a crowded square, then you are a fool.

 

[Skarekrow]

The Man Who May One-Up Darwin

On a sunny afternoon, at a bustling cafe less than a mile from Stanford University’s Palo Alto campus and more than 5,000 miles from his home, an assistant professor from MIT is telling me about science.

Very advanced science.
His name is Jeremy England, and at 33, he’s already being called the next Charles Darwin.

Say what?
In town to give a lecture, the Harvard grad and Rhodes scholar speaks quickly, his voice rising a few pitches in tone, his long-fingered hands making sudden jerks when he’s excited.

He’s skinny, with a long face, scraggly beard and carelessly groomed mop of sandy brown hair – what you might expect from a theoretical physicist.
But then there’s the street-style Adidas on his feet and the kippah atop his head.
And the fact that this scientist also talks a lot about God.

“Every 30 years or so we experience these gigantic steps forward. … And this might be it.”
Carl Franck, a Cornell physics professor

​

The 101 version of his big idea is this: Under the right conditions, a random group of atoms will self-organize, unbidden, to more effectively use energy.
Over time and with just the right amount of, say, sunlight, a cluster of atoms could come remarkably close to what we call life.

In fact, here’s a thought: Some things we consider inanimate actually may already be “alive.”
It all depends on how we define life, something England’s work might prompt us to reconsider. “People think of the origin of life as being a rare process,” says Vijay Pande, a Stanford chemistry professor. “Jeremy’s proposal makes life a consequence of physical laws, not something random.”

England’s idea may sound strange, even incredible, but it’s drawn the attention of an impressive posse of high-level academics.
After all, while Darwinism may explain evolution and the complex world we live in today, it doesn’t account for the onset of intelligent beings.

England’s insistence on probing for the step that preceded all of our current assumptions about life is what makes him stand out, says Carl Franck, a Cornell physics professor, who’s been following England’s work closely.

“Every 30 years or so we experience these gigantic steps forward,” Franck says. “We’re due for one. And this might be it.”
And all from a modern Orthodox Jew with fancy sneakers.

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Before England became a religious man – he prays three times a day – he was a scientist.
From the time he could read, he devoured books on subjects from philosophy to music to fantasy.

By 9 he was plowing his way through Stephen Hawking’s opus, A Brief History of Time . “He couldn’t comprehend it, but he tried really hard,” says his father, Richard England, an economics professor at the University of New Hampshire.

Yes, Dad is an economics professor and Mom a public school teacher, and the couple took their two children to museums and to visit the Harvard campus, just a few hours from their small seacoast town.

But the elder England contends his son’s upbringing doesn’t begin to explain his intellectual curiosity.
Or England’s long timeline of asking big questions.

Over drinks some years ago, a childhood friend reminded him of a time that young Jeremy turned to him out of nowhere and reflected: “You know, Adam, if the dinosaurs can go extinct, then so can we.”

England was 3 then.
For his part, England says it wasn’t until he hit about 7 that he felt a sense of anxiety about “not knowing enough.” That anxiety would compel him through an almost comical list of academic bastions – Harvard, Oxford, Stanford and Princeton, and now, a 3-year-old teaching gig at MIT.

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Still, God wasn’t a big player for England during most of his early life.
While his mom is Jewish – his dad was raised Lutheran but never felt strongly about passing on his Protestant ties – there wasn’t a lot of religious talk while he was growing up.

The Englands would share a festive meal for Passover and light candles for Hanukkah, but the family didn’t keep a Bible in the home.
His mother, England says, was born in Poland in 1947 to a family ravaged by the Holocaust.

Much of her extended family – including her grandparents – were killed by the Nazis, and in the wake of such destruction, England says, Judaism brought up negative, painful feelings for her; she distanced herself.

It seems ironic, then, that anti-Semitism would eventually push England to the faith he says his mother spurned.
While studying at Oxford in the early 2000s, he faced his first anti-Israel sentiment from classmates – which got him, in expected fashion, reading books and picking people’s brains to figure out where he stood on the issue.

And in 2005, he visited Israel for the first time – where he “fell in love.”
Studying the Torah provided an opportunity for intellectual engagement that he says was “unlike anything I had ever experienced in terms of subtlety and grandeur of scope.”



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Back in Palo Alto, between meeting with Berkeley professors and Stanford students, England reboots his computer to show me a simulation he’s been working on, meanwhile explaining that his lab is less test tubes and white coats than blackboards and computers screens.

Jet-setting across the country to talk about his theories isn’t England’s usual routine.
That, he says, looks more like dirty diapers, brainstorming atop a yoga ball with his infant son, working with students and plugging data into formulas.

England didn’t begin with number-crunching, though.
During his postdoc research on embryonic development, he kept coming back to the question: What qualifies something as alive or not?

He later superimposed an analytical rigor to that question, publishing an equation in 2013 about how much energy is required for self-replication to take place. For England, that investigation was only the beginning. “I couldn’t stop thinking about it,” he says, his normally deep voice rising until eventually cracking. “It was so frustrating.”

Over the next year, he worked on a second paper, which is under peer review now.
This one took his past findings and used them to explain theoretically how, under certain physical circumstances, life could emerge from nonlife.

In the most basic terms, Darwinism and the idea of natural selection tell us that well-adapted organisms evolve in order to survive and better reproduce in their environment.

England doesn’t dispute this reasoning, but he argues that it’s too vague.
For instance, he says, blue whales and phytoplankton thrive in the same environmental conditions – the ocean – but they do so by vastly different means.

That’s because that while they’re both made of the same basic building blocks, strings of DNA are arranged differently in each organism.
Now take England’s simulation of an opera singer who holds a crystal glass and sings at a certain pitch.

Instead of shattering, England predicts that over time, the atoms will rearrange themselves to better absorb the energy the singer’s voice projects, essentially protecting the glass’s livelihood.

So how’s a glass distinct from, say, a plankton-type organism that rearranges it self over several generations?
Does that make glass a living organism?

These are pretty things to ponder.
Unfortunately, England’s work hasn’t yet provided any answers, leaving the professor in a kind of speculative state as he doggedly tries to put numbers to it all.

“He hasn’t put enough cards on the table yet,” Franck says. “He’ll need to make more testable predictions.” So it remains to be seen where England will land in the end. Other scientists have made similar claims about energy dissipation in the context of non-equilibrium thermodynamics, but none has found a definitive means for applying this science to the origin of life.



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So what does God have to do with all this?
In his quest for answers, England, of course, finds himself at the center of the classic struggle between science and spirituality.

While Christianity and Darwinism are generally opposed, Judaism doesn’t take issue with the science of life.
The Rabbinical Council of America even takes the stance that “evolutionary theory, properly understood, is not incompatible with belief in a Divine Creator.”

For his part, England believes science can give us explanations and predictions, but it can never tell us what we should do with that information.
That’s where, he says, the religious teachings come in.

Indeed, the man who’s one-upping Darwin has spent the past 10 years painstakingly combing through the Torah,interpreting it word by word much the way he ponders the meaning of life.

His conclusion?
Common translations are lacking.

Take the term “creation.” England suggests we understand it not as the literal making of the Earth but rather as giving Earth a name.
All throughout the Bible, he says, there are examples of terms that could be interpreted differently from what we’ve come to accept as standard.

That even applies to some of the good book’s most famous players, like Joseph, the ancient biblical interpreter of dreams, who rose to become the most powerful man in Egypt after the pharaoh.

Maybe, England suggests, he wasn’t a fortune-teller.
Maybe he was a scientist.

 

[Skarekrow]

Nassim Haramein:
Sacred Geometry And Unified Fields
(Full Version)


[video=youtube;mFTMiVs4VhY]https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&amp;v=mFTMiVs4VhY[/video]

At the Nexus Conference in July 2010, physicist Nassim Haramein presented new concepts explaining how we are all interconnected and can access infinite knowledge.​

 

[Tin Man]

I mean…honestly, people who think that they have some sort of mental advantage to me upon meeting because they studied here or there doesn’t mean jack squat…I’ve met some real fucking idiots…they’re like idiot savants, they can do that one thing really well but they couldn’t heat up a hot pocket.
I like to meet everyone as equals and if there is respect to be earned and shown then it will be shown and recognized.
I’ve had to walk surgeons through surgeries step by step…no kidding…more than a handful of times…not heart surgeries, but shit they should KNOW.
But then…ask me a math question, I’m like Sloth from the goonies “Ruth! Baaby RUTH!”
Beats the fuck out of me man.
We’ve all got our talents and our lesser realized talents…hehe…but no man is born above another in my eyes.
That is the first thing that will make me hate someone intensely is if they act in an arrogant manner.

Well said. I think there's a part in all of us which is arrogant and stupid enough to foster the delusion of uniqueness. And if you excel in certain areas then it can be easy to buy into that. Often life beats that out of you, but some people hold tight to it. I suppose it can give them a sense of meaning or bring order to an unpredictable world.

I don't think there's anything wrong with being confident in your abilities, or admitting that there's some things you find easier than others. But to take that as evidence for superiority is just dumb. There is, of course, a lot of work involved in becoming proficient in anything, even if you're naturally talented but so much comes down to luck or genes.

 

[Skarekrow]

The spiritual evolution of consciousness from quantum physics point of view

[video=youtube;dhG4oGeOxDs]https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&amp;v=dhG4oGeOxDs[/video]

On the basis of quantum physics theories is Michael König in his speech before the vivid models of elementary particles with which their physical and mental qualities describe.

The electromagnetic interaction plays a special role. Elementary conscious processes, such as information storage, can be already at the level of certain elementary particles - the electrons and positrons - locate.

In order to confirm the results of the biophysical basis of modern science, namely that coherent electromagnetic fields - Biophotons - control the biological metabolism.

Michael König supports his theories with experimental results and also introduced new technological applications that are used to increase our vitality, which currently leads to the development of novel products in the areas of wellness, treatment and preventive medicine.

The speaker completes his speech with a philosophical digression in which he points out the potential consequences of the presented models of explanation of quantum physics for the humanities, in particular, exert their impact on the consciousness research, psychology and theology.​

 

[Skarekrow]

"When my husband was dying, I said: 'Moe, how am I supposed to live without you?' He told me: 'Take the love you have for me and spread it around.'"​

 

[Skarekrow]

Well said. I think there's a part in all of us which is arrogant and stupid enough to foster the delusion of uniqueness. And if you excel in certain areas then it can be easy to buy into that. Often life beats that out of you, but some people hold tight to it. I suppose it can give them a sense of meaning or bring order to an unpredictable world.

I don't think there's anything wrong with being confident in your abilities, or admitting that there's some things you find easier than others. But to take that as evidence for superiority is just dumb. There is, of course, a lot of work involved in becoming proficient in anything, even if you're naturally talented but so much comes down to luck or genes.

Luck or genes, is right.
Take medicine for example.
Never met a heart surgeon who’s own Father wasn’t a Doctor of some kind (there are those who become Doctors for the right reasons too of course)…this is even after seeing that their own Father wasn’t their for them growing up most of the time (but he’ll be different…right?), and I can tell you most of them became doctor’s or surgeons to please their “Daddy’s” I could write a pretty good essay about that whole subject.
No, that doesn’t make them all assholes, just human…some still are assholes and some are really good doctors who have regained some sense of how to honor those who are the most vulnerable.
But again…most have the same problems we do….they found an anesthesiologist dead in a bathroom stall at the hospital several years ago, he had overdosed accidentally.
Here is a man…respected for what he has done and does…in his line of work…you just watch the money roll in.
You would even think that this is a reasonably intelligent person doing what he does and all….much too intelligent and much too knowledgable about pharmacology to accidentally fuck up…and yet…he did.

 

[Skarekrow]

[video=youtube;IZeWPScnolo]https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&amp;v=IZeWPScnolo[/video]​

 

[Tin Man]

[MENTION=5045]Skarekrow[/MENTION]

You might be interested in this. It's an interview of Ursula Le Guinn, with input from Neil Gaiman and a few other fans of her work.

 

[Skarekrow]

@Skarekrow

You might be interested in this. It's an interview of Ursula Le Guinn, with input from Neil Gaiman and a few other fans of her work.

I will give it a listen!!

 

[Skarekrow]

[video=youtube;An4a-_NjilY]https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&amp;v=An4a-_NjilY[/video]​

 

[Skarekrow]

Still stuck in limbo.
Thought that maybe writing about it would help…I think.

On one hand, there is much that I want to do…on the other hand, I try to do those things and soon lose energy.
So in limbo I sit…I am so tired of it all…the relentlessness of it all.

Tired of writing this now.

 

[Kgal]

I'm so tired....and I don't know why because I slept all night.
This is how I feel. It probably matches you.

 

[Kgal]

I am very glad I'm not stuck on some space station totally dependent upon the boobs on Earth to get the oxygen to the astronauts.

http://www.cbsnews.com/videos/out-of-control-space-cargo-ship-falling-towards-earth/

 

[Kgal]

These are some strange dudes...

DNA Results For The Nephilim Skulls In Peru Are In And The Results Are Absolutely Shocking

http://thetruthwins.com/archives/dn...re-in-and-the-results-are-absolutely-shocking

"If you are not familiar with the Paracas skulls, the following is a pretty good summary from a recent article by April Holloway…

Paracas is a desert peninsula located within the Pisco Province in the Inca Region, on the south coast of Peru. It is here were Peruvian archaeologist, Julio Tello, made an amazing discovery in 1928 – a massive and elaborate graveyard containing tombs filled with the remains of individuals with the largest elongated skulls found anywhere in the world. These have come to be known as the ‘Paracas skulls’. In total, Tello found more than 300 of these elongated skulls, which are believed to date back around 3,000 years. A DNA analysis has now been conducted on one of the skulls and expert Brien Foerster has released preliminary information regarding these enigmatic skulls."

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[Skarekrow]

I'm so tired....and I don't know why because I slept all night.
This is how I feel. It probably matches you.

I honestly don’t think I was made for this place…Sensiko has said the same thing.
Sometimes that great wall of sadness for someplace else crashes down.

 

[Skarekrow]

[MENTION=2578]Kgal[/MENTION]

My current mood -