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Simon
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Posted - 11/14/2008 :  10:18:57  Show Profile Send Simon a Private Message  Reply with Quote


As found here. It's all so clear, now...

Look again at that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every "superstar," every "supreme leader," every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there – on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.
Carl Sagan - 1996

Kil
Evil Skeptic

USA
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Posted - 11/14/2008 :  13:21:53   [Permalink]  Show Profile  Visit Kil's Homepage  Send Kil an AOL message  Send Kil a Yahoo! Message Send Kil a Private Message  Reply with Quote
Well see? It all becomes clear now...

Uncertainty may make you uncomfortable. Certainty makes you ridiculous.

Why not question something for a change?

Genetic Literacy Project
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Chippewa
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USA
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Posted - 11/14/2008 :  17:22:21   [Permalink]  Show Profile  Visit Chippewa's Homepage Send Chippewa a Private Message  Reply with Quote
Wait a minute, that's Sean Hannity's chart! My chart is duller, being so obvious with the GOP and Dick Cheney behind it all.

Of course you know, in reality it all leads to Viacom. They seem to be behind everything we see and hear.

Diversity, independence, innovation and imagination are progressive concepts ultimately alien to the conservative mind.

"TAX AND SPEND" IS GOOD! (TAX: Wealthy corporations who won't go poor even after taxes. SPEND: On public works programs, education, the environment, improvements.)
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Ricky
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Posted - 11/15/2008 :  09:28:50   [Permalink]  Show Profile  Send Ricky an AOL message Send Ricky a Private Message  Reply with Quote
If looking for what a "reverse vampire" is, don't look it up on Urban Dictionary.

Why continue? Because we must. Because we have the call. Because it is nobler to fight for rationality without winning than to give up in the face of continued defeats. Because whatever true progress humanity makes is through the rationality of the occasional individual and because any one individual we may win for the cause may do more for humanity than a hundred thousand who hug their superstitions to their breast.
- Isaac Asimov
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Simon
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Posted - 11/15/2008 :  17:28:51   [Permalink]  Show Profile Send Simon a Private Message  Reply with Quote
I know Ricky; I made the same mistake... uuugh

I wonder what they are referring to.

Look again at that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every "superstar," every "supreme leader," every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there – on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.
Carl Sagan - 1996
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H. Humbert
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Posted - 11/17/2008 :  15:00:37   [Permalink]  Show Profile Send H. Humbert a Private Message  Reply with Quote
On another message board I frequent, a poster asked:
Could God be the creation of man? I mean in the sense that our emotions and prayers give it energy that causes it to exist in some form..a Egregore, so to speak... a living thought form that feeds off of our energy and might even be able to work small miracles in some quantum kind of way?
I started to explain that emotions and prayers were not "energy" in any real sense of the word, but then I stopped myself. What better way to show the insanity of such a question than to agree? So I gave the following gibberish as a reply instead. I was proud of myself for being able to work in the term "reverse vampire," even if I still don't know what it really means.
Absolutely! The combined positive energy of the life field most definitely could give rise to a universal consciousness, even if one that would at the same time be necessarily unconscious to itself. Left undirected, or more precisely free to follow its own direction, this would absolutely cause perturbations in the temporal sequencing of quantum events. These events might be interpreted by some people as "miracles," but of course they would only seem that way to us. However, more worrying are the destructive implications of this, especially the negative influence of chaotic energy--"reverse vampires" if you will.

"A man is his own easiest dupe, for what he wishes to be true he generally believes to be true." --Demosthenes

"The first principle is that you must not fool yourself - and you are the easiest person to fool." --Richard P. Feynman

"Face facts with dignity." --found inside a fortune cookie
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pleco
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Posted - 11/17/2008 :  15:30:43   [Permalink]  Show Profile  Visit pleco's Homepage Send pleco a Private Message  Reply with Quote
H that was evil lol.

by Filthy
The neo-con methane machine will soon be running at full fart.
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pleco
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Posted - 11/17/2008 :  15:32:39   [Permalink]  Show Profile  Visit pleco's Homepage Send pleco a Private Message  Reply with Quote
Reverse Vampire

Originating from Tansylvania, a small town near Rachel, Nevada, reverse vampires are minions of the King of the Unliving and have all the powers of a diseased dirty sock. They usually are either lactose intolerant or are vegetarians and always live with there mommies (they never get married so this means that normally only up to 18 of them live in one 2 ft. by 4 ft. by 5 ft. room at any one given moment. They originated in Antarctica but by the late 1700's invaded North America (they helped the Americans out in the American Revolutionary War), Japan, Wales, Flemmland, and even Mexico City! Insider information[1] says they will also attempt to invade the moon by the year -9740271.59268 (negative nine million seven hundred forty thousand two hundred seventy one point five nine two six eight). They are known to crave light in general but especially that of the sun.[2]


I hope that clears it up.

by Filthy
The neo-con methane machine will soon be running at full fart.
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Simon
SFN Regular

USA
1992 Posts

Posted - 11/17/2008 :  17:30:31   [Permalink]  Show Profile Send Simon a Private Message  Reply with Quote
Yeah; I actually saw the Aqua Teen Hunger Force episode a few days ago, after the reference here. I guess or collective curiosity send a wave in the quantum weave of causality that caused Adult Swim to program it... Or maybe it is just a coincidence.

Essentially, reverse vampires crave sun-light and sleep in tanning beds rather than coffin. And they can take the shape of a school bus for some reason.

Look again at that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every "superstar," every "supreme leader," every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there – on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.
Carl Sagan - 1996
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