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    Hi DT,

    I didn't know that but it certainly figures...Do you have a post for that?
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    I don't think I posted specifically about Mnuchin here. He's one of the swamp monsters that Trump brought into his administration. Trump found a bunch of doozies. Steve is just one.

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    Coincidence, this book I'm reading is one of Neal Asher's AI Polity series...the one with all the mycellium in it ... I'm reading today to disengage from electronic media...and here I am again:

    "In fact, the worm's promulgation through the telefactor systems had not been so much an attack as a tentative probe -- for attack would presuppose a guiding intelligence. The technology was searching for new directions in which to grow, rather like a creeping vine. (A moon-sized war ship) Jerusalem toyed with this comparison, considering how Jain tech, like a fig vine, could strangle its host. But, no, it was more of a plague technology. The AI then amused itself by making statistical comparisons between the extrapolated spread of Jain tech on Earth and other historical plagues on the same planet. ... "

    "Should this particular Pandora affliction get out of control, the one most closely resembling it might be the flu epidemic that World War 1 soldiers brought back with them from the trenches. Then, again, that comparison was not so close either. Piqued, Jerusalem turned the bulk of its attention inward"

    Brass Man Copyright 2005 ...
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    As an afterthought, I figured I would add, disengaging doesn't include my current ongoing 10 chess games...

    For the team, that I am co-captain of

    Tell me when to stop...I will, of course...

    Oh, and should I mention...nah, even I bore myself sometimes..

    but, it isn't like Rocket Science...lol, damn, I'm funny
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    I can't stop myself now...Chess is one of my obsessions, I started playing when I was 13 and coincidentally won a city championship that same year. I quit for a long time but took it up again much later and have been playing since.

    So the point is that I have a lot to say, be liking it or not... Emphasis on the .
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    I always think of things after the fact...Poincare's Point: He also postulated correctly that a geometric point has no magnitude...that's my fundamental point of it all...it's a joke actually, my joke...

    "Mathematics is the art of giving the same name to different things.
    Science is built up of facts, as a house is built of stones; but an accumulation of facts is no more a science than a heap of stones is a house.
    It is through science that we prove, but through intuition that we discover."
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    The astonishing thing happening right now is that police are resigning in protest, police forces are disbanding, to the relief of some and to the horror of others. This is a true catalytic moment in American history at the very least.

    It is the philosophical meeting the proverbial rubber on the road event. Most enlightened philosophies would proffer that the world is progressing, be they spiritual, moral, or humanist. Animalism would take the opposite view but then it isn't exactly 'enlightened'.

    The softer sciences and even some hard sciences engaged in statistical analysis would exclaim, "Hallelujah". My instincts want to believe this is all a good thing, but my spidey sense is tingling warning me that we are in for one hell of a show in the near future. If only the bad actors in the play would see that this is a moment offering them their true freedom, but what are the odds?
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    It is through science that we prove, but through intuition that we discover."
    I like that quote very much, NAP.

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    It might sound like an old hippy cliche, but with love and compassion we truly can heal and fix things.


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    Wind, it is a cliche but has always been true...the twist we miss, are the hallucinogenic chemicals or in DT's case the creepy mycellia that get in one's head and makes unsolicited changes...
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    Absolutely. Psychedelics have been banned and demonized because they are a threat to the status quo as they expand awareness.

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    I bet people would outlaw NDEs if they could. I was just listening to a TED talk on the subject. The speaker described his experience being ensconced in total love. He did not want to return. He fought the EMTs who were trying to revive him.

    He experienced the life review and learned that the purpose of life here is to love.

    He said that as more time passes since his NDE, he finds it more difficult to just love everyone. I've never had an NDE, but I can relate to the difficulty.

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    I think I have, DT...I didn't feel the 'love', I could hope it is like late in the day after a round of pot smoking...One can't really tell the difference anymore...but I doubt it...

    It was more like shock and awe to me. I tried 'directing' it for awhile, and actually 'met' someone once, then received a call a day or two later, literally out of the blue, an out of state call from someone I had never met before that was 'interested' in me. It seems silly now...what our imaginations are capable of producing...

    oops, OBE, not NDE...I always confuse the two...I'll pass on the NDE...

    I did have a sociology professor that actually had published material on NDE's and OBE's. I was really surprised that a 'serious' scientist was pursuing those topics...

    Turns out she was having an affair with my barber/stylist...It figured...
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    OBE is certainly safer than NDE. I'm reminded of the movie Flatliners where a group of medical students deliberately seek NDEs. I don't think I actually saw it. Or the remake.

    My close calls with death were not the kind which might lead to an NDE. They were avoided events which could have killed me.

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    Keifer Sutherland: Flatliners...it was a good movie...once or twice...

    Actually, I have had one or two experiences like that...it scares me now to think about it.
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