jakelafort

I don’t know the name of it, unfortunately, but there was a sci fi novel or short story about a man who wanted to go back in time to “fix” something (the death of someone important to him) and while he succeeded in going back in time, no matter what he did or how he changed the antecedent circumstances, they would still die then somehow.

That…[Read more]

Simon Paynton wrote:

Unseen wrote:
the mere act of observing some events (simply knowing about them, in other words) has some way of modifying them.

Surely observing requires photons to knock into and bounce off something, therefore, potentially modifying it.

You’ve got it backward, Simon. Photons go into the eyes. They don’t shoot out of them.

@ Simon

If anyone wants an area ripe for investigation by parapsychologists, it’s psychokinesis since it seems experimentally proven that the mere act of observing some events (simply knowing about them, in other words) has some way of modifying them. (Split Screen Experiment)

Simon Paynton wrote:
went to college with someone who was completely unsuited to her course, and her chart says “you will do things that you are completely unsuited for”.  I have seen a number of other weirdly specific accuracies.

J.B. Rhine was a scientist with a specialty in researching parapsychology. One of the main critiques of his rese…[Read more]

I once did Horrorscope readings for 5 different star signs. All were very keen to have it done by a professional 🙂

I made up a few generic paragraphs that sounded profound but very vague. “You are happy to work on a task on your own but also enjoy being part of a team when the task allows for your own skill sets to be called upon”.  I spoke…[Read more]

Here is one of the co-authors of Project 2025 discussing the plans.

I would call it a truism. You would have to be mad to think otherwise 🙂

However, and I don’t know why, the professional birth charts that people can draw up seem to be very accurate.

This is as good as any place to pass along a meme I made yesterday:

The Trumpster thinks that all Christians are evangelical and either play golf or are obsessed with it and share his obsession with crowd size.

Have a great week everyone!

The difference between faith and insanity is that faith is the ability to hold firmly to a conclusion that is incompatible with the evidence whereas insanity is the ability to hold firmly to a conclusion that is incompatible with the evidence.

William Harwood (Dictionary of Contemporary Mythology, London, 1st Books,…[Read more]

I think I would fell safer with a monkey at the helm rather than Mr. Magoo.

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Not sure about A.I. but I know what I do like. I am happy to share some of my bananas.

Simon Paynton wrote:
Yes, a Christian said to me that heaven and hell must exist, otherwise there is no ultimate justice.

That is a summary of Kant’s moral proof of God’s existence. “Shit. If I eff my neighbor’s wife and never suffer for it in my lifetime, then if God isn’t there to send me to suffer forever in a burning lake of fire,” there is…[Read more]

Have a great week everyone!