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1 minute ago, lovethai123 said:

Thanks for being a strong man. But I am kind hearted and I can easily be manipulated by women.

Most men have been manipulated by women since the first man when the first woman "suggested" that he give her the best bits of the sabre toothed tiger he just killed, in return for a warm fuzzy feeling. I know who got the best of that deal.

Looking for a friend to share the end of the world as we know it with.

Only girls that look like Keira Knightley will be considered ( one needs to have seen the movie to understand that )

Just now, Chazar said:

how  about  all the other sub atomic  particles...............and really how can you possible  know

It's a matter of faith.

2 minutes ago, mauGR1 said:

I think that the guy was quite enlightened, either he was smoking some seriously good stuff.

 

I don't quite understand how you got there, but i believe, and i can't explain how, that whatever has been done in the past, lives on forever.

It's simple really. If someone on a distant planet had a large enough telescope they would be able to see us, but at however long afterwards it takes the light to reach them. So, if light takes 1 year to reach them from us, they see us 1 year after we did whatever they are watching. Ergo, what we do lives on in the light traveling away through the universe, and will continue to live on till the universe is destroyed and the light with it. IMO.

3 hours ago, Tippaporn said:

Some more interesting material regarding myths . . . and facts.

 

"(10:43.) Give us a moment … Most people interpret the realities of their lives, their triumphs and failures, their health or illness, their fortune or misfortune, then, in the light of a mythical reality that is not understood as such. What is behind these myths, and what is their source of power?

Facts are a very handy but weak brew of reality. They immediately consign certain kinds of experiences as real and others as not. The psyche, however, will not be so limited. It exists in a medium of reality, a realm of being in which all possibilities exist. It creates myths the way the ocean creates spray. Myths are originally psychic fabrications of such power and strength that whole civilizations can rise from their source. They involve symbols and known emotional validities that are then connected to the physical world, so that that world is never the same again.

They cast their light over historical events because they are responsible for those events. They mix and merge the inner, unseen but felt, eternal psychic experience of man with the temporal events of his physical days, and form a combination that structures thoughts and beliefs from civilization to civilization. In Framework 2 the interior power of nature is ever-changing. The dreams, hopes, aspirations and fears of man interact in a constant motion that then forms the events of your world. That interaction includes not only man, of course, but the emotional reality of all earthly consciousnesses as well, from a microbe to a scholar, from a frog to a star. You interpret the phenomena of your world according to the mythic characteristics that you have accepted. You organize physical reality, then, through ideas. You use only those perceptions that serve to give those ideas validity. The physical body itself is quite capable of putting the world together in different fashions than the one that is familiar to you."

—NoME Chapter 3: Session 817, January 30, 1978

 

Again, "Facts are a very handy but weak brew of reality."

 

I can hear the howls of some posters now, LOL.

I'm not sure of what that post is saying, but it seems to me it is saying that the Matrix is real and we are all in it, making our own worlds.

14 minutes ago, VincentRJ said:

Are you kidding?  ????  Of course there's more than I'm aware of.

 

One major product of scientific inquiry is the revelation of how little we know. As I've mentioned before, the current hypothesis suggest that our entire scientific/technological apparatuses have the potential to detect only 5% of the matter and energy in the universe, the rest being invisible Dark Matter & Energy. Furthermore, the actual percentage of that 5% that we actually have detected so far, in reasonable detail, is extremely minuscule.

 

There could be as many as 2 trillion galaxies in the universe, or as few as 100 billion. We don't know. There could be as many as 200 billion stars in our galaxy, the Milky Way. So far, we've detected only 4,187 planets revolving around a very tiny fraction of those estimated 200 billion stars in our galaxy. About 1 in 5 of those stars with planets that have been detected so far, have an 'earth-sized' planet in the habitable zone. It can be hypothesized that there are about 11 billion potentially habitable Earth-sized planets in the Milky Way alone, but we don't know. The number of potentially habitable Earth-sized planets in the entire universe could be in the trillions.
 

Sooooo, as I've been saying for ages, our science isn't capable of detecting God or spirituality related things. It's a matter of faith at present.

11 minutes ago, mauGR1 said:

That's a fact, words are hardly fit to describe the spiritual realms, it's nice to have a try though.

There's one book i like, here's a quote:

" “Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror.
But you are eternity and you are the mirror.”
― Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet

That book was really popular decades ago. I have a copy and one day I hope to read it.

12 hours ago, VincentRJ said:

Of course there is more to 'life and the universe' than science is currently capable of understanding, otherwise the human race would be the equivalent of 'God'. We make gradual progress by investigating 'hypotheses' that are initially based upon plausible evidence. We experiment further, multiple times and in various ways, until we get consistent results that appear to match reality. We then call the hypothesis a theory. Years later, the established theory is sometimes proved to be wrong, or is required to be modified in the light of new evidence.

 

The existence of Dark Matter and Dark Energy, which is claimed to represent 95% of all the matter and energy in the universe, is currently a 'hypothesis'. It's existence is possibly the best explanation for the observations, through the Hubble telescope and others, which imply that the universe is expanding at an accelerating rate rather than slowing down, as used to be accepted by most Astrophysicists.

 

However, it might turn out to be the case that a modification of our current theories of Physics will be a better explanation for our observations of the behaviour of distant galaxies, than the existence of Dark Matter and Dark Energy. It's a work in progress.

If that's correct, once all the suns have burned out a load of dead matter will be expanding forever, following the light which means that whatever we do now lives on forever too.

2 minutes ago, Don Mega said:

Its the Boomer Remover Virus !!!

Even without Corona, us oldies take up a disproportionate amount of public hospital care. Problem is they just won't let us die of natural causes. Keep filling us up with expensive medicine and even putting us on machines to keep us alive past our use by date.

7 minutes ago, Ian Nagle said:

After some initial training it would not be that difficult to operate and run a ventilator. Although a good positive attitude is needed I would not put your name forward, all things considered.

I take it you are not a nurse to say that. Positive attitude, LOL.

Perhaps you can volunteer to become a ventilator technician. I'm sure they'll need all they can get.

I dealt with that in a previous post. It is relatively easy to train a pilot to fly a plane too, but would you want one that doesn't know how to deal with problems?

3 minutes ago, Crazy Alex said:

It's interesting you brought up extra nurses. Here in the US, there is an Associate Degree in nursing. My wife built an awesome career on that degree. Now the hospitals are wanting a Bachelor's Degree in nursing. Fine, but the timing seems odd- making the hurdle to get an RN job higher as the supply of nurses is already short. I guess they figured they had room since they cut staffing or... who knows?

Getting way off topic, but that would be down to nursing politics. That was why nurse training was taken out of hospitals and transferred to university.

34 minutes ago, Tarteso said:

We are all waiting for these 2 sacred words.

Wait about a year.

1 minute ago, Crazy Alex said:

My wife worked for a major health care company in the US for over two decades. Retired in 2017. The last five or so years were brutal with the staffing cuts. And the hospital she worked at had particular note: right after working to get some silly "Magnet Hospital" award or status, they REALLY accelerated the cuts. But hey, at least the CEO made out: $9 million pay for his first year. Not bad for running one large hospital. Sucked for the nurses and patients, though. But who cares, right?

I was going to go work in the US back in the 90s. Passed the CGFNS exam. Ended up in the UK instead. Seems that was a good decision.

Nurses always seem to be expected to look after more patients, but that might sometimes be that they just can't get nurses, rather than to make a profit like in the US. My London hospital demoted all the senior nurses to keep more money, but I doubt the consultants were paid less. The one wielding the axe was a nurse- I don't doubt she was well paid for her treachery.

Sooooo, the question is where will all the extra nurses/ trained carers come from? Is the government doing anything about that, or is it just more machines?

23 minutes ago, nausea said:

You can always count on the British to be pragmatic. I think they're making space for more funerals as well. 

If it becomes like Italy they'd better.

I worked in the NHS for 10 years and if they think that organisation is going to save everyone they have a shock coming, IMO. I did agency around many London hospitals and some of them had barely enough qualified nurses to run the wards, let alone cope with hundreds of infectious patients.

3 hours ago, potless said:

My BS detector burned out weeks ago.

 

If your plumbing system allows it, flush the muck down the toilet. Why leave bugs to ferment in your home?

Did you miss where viruses usually don't last long outside a warm body?

Most plumbing will clog up and then your toilet won't work. There is a reason only TP should be used in toilets. However feel free to use TP as tissue to blow your nose.

6 hours ago, webfact said:

Wash your hands often with soap and water for at least 20 seconds, especially after going to the bathroom

Many people don't normally wash their hands after doing #2- disgusting.

7 hours ago, webfact said:

As an alternative, use an alcohol-based hand sanitiser with at least 60% alcohol.

Joking, right?

Panic buying means that none of that is available to buy where I live and there aren't even any cases of Corona at all here.

I intend to carry on as normal, as what is going to cause even more destruction to society, IMO, is over reaction. Entire industries like tourism, on which millions depend to live, are being destroyed. I have no idea how long this is going to go on, but if millions end up broke and jobless, it's going to be chaos that the government will not be able to talk its way out of.

Sooooo, they make loads of ventilators, then where are all the nurses to operate all the new ventilators going to come from? Does the government think loads of nurses qualified to operate ventilators are just hanging around waiting for the call?