Tamrin
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Post by Tamrin on Jun 22, 2007 5:16:01 GMT
...surely the descendents would show some variation in DNA? Or am I missing something? They do and you are. The very next line of the linked article reads: " Modern cheetahs are as genetically identical as lab mice...virtual clones..." I.E., not actual clones. Indeed, the article is about a rare genetic variation among cheetahs, known as the King Cheetah, featuring stripes down its back.
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Post by Tamrin on Jun 22, 2007 5:24:41 GMT
Bet your middle name is Thomas .... No, but I am dedicated to Maat
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Post by imakegarb on Jun 22, 2007 5:28:05 GMT
(little smile) Y'know, I once heard it said: "We are bid to be fools for Christ but not blithering idiots." ;D I think doubt is a wonderful thing. For doubt, truly, is where wisdom begins, not where it ends. Or, as Voltaire put it, "Doubt is uncomfortable, certainty is ridiculous.” Hmmmmm. And is it just me or is that Cheetah looking back at the person taking the photo and saying, "THAT would be yummy"?
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Post by maat on Jun 22, 2007 5:30:36 GMT
...credulous - liable to believe something without proof. Credulous: " Disposed to believe too readily; gullible." Being credulous does have its advantages.. when I was new to dowsing/divining I believed that I could find anything anywhere. To demonstrate this to friends and family I got them to hide a 5 cent piece in grass in the large field next to the house. Got out my cut off coathangar diving rods and they took me straight to the small coin. I thought it was so easy, the rest of them wanted to tie garlic round their necks ;D Now I know dowsing and diving are more difficult than I first thought I am much less affective... Maat
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Post by hollandr on Jun 22, 2007 5:47:01 GMT
>I thought it was so easy
That is another of the hidden secrets of nature: how beginners' luck actually works
Cheers
Russell
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Post by maat on Jun 22, 2007 5:49:23 GMT
No, but I am dedicated to Maat In all seriousness - what if, as they say, Truth is stranger than fiction? How do the cautious and the conservative approach an 'outlandish' truth? ie 19th Century man believing man could fly to the moon. How do you handle things when your intuition tells you one thing and your head reasoning tells you another. Head reasoning is notoriously unreliable.... ask a pilot. (Obviously we have moved away from cheetahs a bit here. And with those three stripes down his back he should be very nervous to be around Shane Warne). Maat
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Post by Tamrin on Jun 22, 2007 6:48:57 GMT
In all seriousness - what if, as they say, Truth is stranger than fiction? Indeed, there are so many genuine mysteries that doing more than entertaining arbitrary, fantastic, ridiculous assertions, lacking in sense, credibility or justification (and often reeking of snake oil) seems a waste of time and imagination. I endorse the proposition that appropriate discrimination ( viveka) is the first step on the path of wisdom. Head reasoning is notoriously unreliable.... ask a pilot. There is a joke about the automation of aircraft, whereby it is said that the ideal cockpit crew would consist a pilot and a dog: The pilot to reassure the passengers and the dog to bite the pilot if s/he tries to touch the controls.
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Post by hollandr on Aug 23, 2007 23:33:07 GMT
www.earthfiles.com/news.php?ID=1305&category=EnvironmentFor those who like crop circles And for those who think these things are faked, who is it who gives away the intellectual property of so many beautiful designs every year? Some of them even contain previously unknown geometric theorems And what might this one be telling us about the intelligent entity depicted? Cheers Russell
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Post by hollandr on Aug 25, 2007 8:15:34 GMT
>what might this one be telling us about the intelligent entity depicted?
Try rotating the image to become vertical with the circle and 7 points at the bottom. Then stand inside the lower circle and see what can be seen
Cheers
Russell
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Post by maat on Aug 27, 2007 5:36:29 GMT
Can you give the blonde another hint please.... I can't see anything but the design, although there was a hint of 3D to the image, but I could not nail it.
Maat
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Post by maat on Aug 27, 2007 5:40:46 GMT
In the meantime how about this holograph of you consciousness and the story of how we rot and rust. Much more interesting than it sounds.. fascinating stuff all round. If you do not enjoy the best of health, there may be something here for you to experiment with. "Our blood holds elements - the vibrational imprint - of who we are. It contains the signature of our soul. As the bible says, "The Life is in the Blood". Stories abound that correlate these truths. www.newtreatments.org/Pleomorphic/ga/504/newcancerMaat
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Post by hollandr on Aug 27, 2007 5:49:41 GMT
>another hint please
The lower end of the diagram could easily depict a human being seen from above: one three sided pyramid with another vertically above but inverted, rotated 60 degrees and sharing a common vertex
Thus the upper triad (monad, will, heart) connects through the soul into the lower triad (mind, emotions, body)
So what then is the eight-fold sun burst above the human?
Cheers
Russell
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Post by maat on Aug 27, 2007 22:45:24 GMT
>another hint please The lower end of the diagram could easily depict a human being seen from above: one three sided pyramid with another vertically above but inverted, rotated 60 degrees and sharing a common vertex Thus the upper triad (monad, will, heart) connects through the soul into the lower triad (mind, emotions, body) So what then is the eight-fold sun burst above the human? Cheers Russell THE DHARMA WHEEL !!! en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eightfold_PathRussell - you are a genius! Omigosh Maat
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Post by hollandr on Aug 27, 2007 23:41:48 GMT
A good answer - but why does the eightfold path have 8 paths rather than 7?
"According to Vedic tradition, Aditi is mother of eight Adityas or solar deities (suns). At the end of creation these eight suns will shine together in the skies."
Perhaps humans have a chakra above the body that interacts with the eight solar deities
Cheers
Russell
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Post by maat on Aug 28, 2007 22:47:27 GMT
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Post by hollandr on Aug 29, 2007 2:47:59 GMT
>THE SOUL STAR is located about six inches above the head.
Judging by the crop circle (if my hypothesis is correct) it refers to a chakra much higher above the body
Cheers
Russell
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Post by maat on Sept 6, 2007 0:00:28 GMT
The Tree of Life and Crop Circle Formation by Joseph E. Mason Just found this link. Two subjects I find fascinating... a interesting read. www.greatdreams.com/treeol.htmMaat
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Post by hollandr on Sept 14, 2007 20:58:49 GMT
"A CZECH speedway driver knocked unconscious in a crash stunned ambulance drivers when he woke up speaking perfect English.
18-year-old Matej Kus was out cold for 45 minutes after the crash, but when he woke up he conversed fluidly in English with paramedics, even speaking in an English accent.
The teenager had just begun to study the language and his skills were described by friends and team-mates as “basic at best”.
Peter Waite, the promoter for Kus's team, the Berwick Bandits, told the Daily Mail: "I couldn't believe what I was hearing.
"It was in a really clear English accent, no dialect or anything. Whatever happened in the crash must have rearranged things in his head.
"Before his crash Matej's use of the English language was broken, to put it mildly.
"He was only just making a start on improving it and struggled to be understood, but was keen to learn.
"Yet here we were at the ambulance door listening to Matej talking to the medical staff in perfect English.
"Matej didn't have a clue who or where he was when he came round. He didn't even know he was Czech.
"It was unbelievable to hear him talk in unbroken English."
Unfortunately, the speedway driver's new found skills didn’t last and he remembers nothing of the accident or the following two days. He is now keen pursue studies in English."
How can this happen?
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Post by tws on Sept 15, 2007 0:12:54 GMT
"A CZECH speedway driver knocked unconscious in a crash stunned ambulance drivers when he woke up speaking perfect English. 18-year-old Matej Kus was out cold for 45 minutes after the crash, but when he woke up he conversed fluidly in English with paramedics, even speaking in an English accent. The teenager had just begun to study the language and his skills were described by friends and team-mates as “basic at best”. Peter Waite, the promoter for Kus's team, the Berwick Bandits, told the Daily Mail: "I couldn't believe what I was hearing. "It was in a really clear English accent, no dialect or anything. Whatever happened in the crash must have rearranged things in his head. "Before his crash Matej's use of the English language was broken, to put it mildly. "He was only just making a start on improving it and struggled to be understood, but was keen to learn. "Yet here we were at the ambulance door listening to Matej talking to the medical staff in perfect English. "Matej didn't have a clue who or where he was when he came round. He didn't even know he was Czech. "It was unbelievable to hear him talk in unbroken English." Unfortunately, the speedway driver's new found skills didn’t last and he remembers nothing of the accident or the following two days. He is now keen pursue studies in English." How can this happen? It happened because the brain is like a sponge. It absorbs everything that we see, hear, and read everyday of our lives. The problem we have is in accessing these stored memories. The trauma of the accident opened a "circuit" that allowed him to access perfectly all that he had learned of the English language, and as his trumatised brain returned to normal, the "circuit" shut down. Simple.
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Post by hollandr on Sept 15, 2007 0:45:32 GMT
>The trauma of the accident opened a "circuit" that allowed him to access perfectly all that he had learned of the English language, and as his trumatised brain returned to normal, the "circuit" shut down.
Well that is certainly an explanation. How do we test it? Has anyone found such a circuit in the various brain experiments? How does such a circuit deny knowledge of current identity? Are there other events that trigger such circuits?
Could there be other explanations?
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