How is this sensationalist? Nicaragua has seen a temperature increase of 3 degrees celcius over the last 50 years and they have a very low mountain range, meaning they can't just keep moving up.
Also note, the change in climate has already affected production zones and quantity.
Ever heard of this thing called Google? Would have been faster than posting. Then again, just a smidgen of logical deduction on your part would give you the answer.
Always be careful of what you accuse others of, since people can't see the world through themselves all their opinions and advice usually only apply to themselves. Cosmic jokes and everything.
Let's see, superstorm coming along, high probability of surges, maybe some flying debris. Hey, let's take a couple of million dollars of product and just leave it unprotected where it's likely to get damaged.
Either someone is really dumb and getting fired, or is getting a raise for figuring out a way to dispose of troubled units while getting insurance money.
Right. It works for us who don't have to live near steaming piles of toxic e-waste. What's with all these people that want to think of the poor, why can't they just do what we did and sell it to some other ignorant people. Do you know how much time and effort has been put into this system of I shit on you and you shit on someone else? Next thing you know they'll want us to take responsability for all our actions!! Long live the USA!!
Historically, it's been bad for any country that isn't the US.
I think all the other countries would be happy to just get screwed equally. However, the bully has lost his enigma, so it might actually be his turn to bend over and...
Why does he quite clearly believe in, your definition of, spiritual divinity and gods?
Just because a parents answers a child's concern about Santa Claus does not mean that parent suddenly becomes a believer in Santa Claus. Perhaps, he might know what gives rise to the belief in such things, and perhaps what is conceived in the mind has as much an effect on a person as external reality. The gods and heavens are then reality for people with these questions, would a wise man ignore another's reality simply because it is not part of his?
The only thing one should ever assume is that one does not have all the necessary information or personal definitions to make assumptions about anybody else.
Only complex when you throw in the western definition of gods, brought about as a means of control for the catholic church
If you use the term god as a human that has achieved perfection along at least one human continuum then all the complexities drop away. Indian gods are descriptions of the siddhis attainable when dedicating yourself to control of just one continuum. Omnipotence is for all of consciousness brought together as a functional whole, basically an Einstein-Bose condensate.
Simple and totally consistent with science as it stands today.
The real problem with studying religion, is that it is much harder to get to the truth when you study personal interpretations of peoples perceptions of their spiritual experiences. Much easier, or harder since it requires actual effort, to study the spiritual experiences directly so as to see what gave rise to different cultures different explanations of the same experiences.
Actually, you are spreading ignorance, hatred, bigotry, war and subservience. Atheism and codified religion are two sides of the same coin of ignorance.
You assume that he has religious beliefs. All he said was that he takes really small notes in a bible. He didn't even personalize it to say his bible.
Now, given that he is writing notes, it's quite possible he isn't an unquestionning sheep. Why notes? Is he questionning the dogma? Is he a researcher? Perhaps he is an ignorant inconsiderate prick like yourself and likes to sneak into church and write dirty limericks alongside Psalm 23?
Your lack of logical thinking is a control mechanism far more daunting than religion.
umm, just learn how to use your hands and write properly and be done with it.
It's never good to discourage people from doing something when your reason is based on your inability to use your body properly. Not everybody faces the same demons.
Visual distortions is perhaps not the right term. Feature and motion detectors work fine, there is nothing distorted. Rate of firing does drop though and lag in accumulating features drives your pattern matchers to work on limited information causing you to mentally assemble an inaccurate picture. More of a mental distortion.
The interesting thing to consider, is whether or not these perceptual distortions are inaccurate or can be a viable source of information. Perception is always a compromise between fast reporting and accurate reporting. Symbolically, do hallucinations contain all the necessary imagery to navigate reality, i.e., are the details from which the hallucinations are derived and selected for more important than the objects being reported? And if so, is that the case with our normal mode of perception?
Try a new description of reality. Picture consciousness as the action of breathing, akin to the big bang, constantly expanding from nothing and contracting to nothing.
Each human is a speck of consciousness. Consciousness holds vibration/energy patterns. As consciouness expands, the patterns unfold with time, impressing order into reality, a child is born. Life happens, reality interacts with the patterns, the patterns and reality are altered (exchange of karma). Change turns inwards, the patterns coalesce into a new seed. The cycle begins anew.
This doesn't require a big leap of thought and can be quite consistent with what science currently knows. The hardest part for most people to reconcile would be matter as an expression of an underlying reality and not reality itself (this would help explain the other person's question about the difference between meditation and drugs. In meditation the impetus is from within, an undying spring. Drugs mimic the physcial consequences but do not touch the underlying reality). Transference of force and interactions of force are already well known.
What came first? The crystal or the energy pattern?
LIke I said, your's is a good trade-off. It's what makes our society possible... it's also what makes the negative parts of our society possible. However, it is not an argument, or rather it's regarded as a fallacious appeal to authority when used in argument.
Life in general would be a lot simpler if people only stuck to what they know best.
BTW, I'm retarded in some aspects so I actually do try and study everything. It's not so hard when you realize that the one thing that all human experiences have in common is the human body.
That's all well and good as a way to live your life as a comprise of what you can dedicate time to. However, it is not a valid argument as you have no knowledge of how that information was derived. Basically you're a drone for spreading dogma that you believe but don't understand. Please don't do this.
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China and US are pretty close, and if you take into account that it's US money and desire for goods that is funding most of the pollution in China...
umm, like http://www.playonlinux.com/ ?
oh stop with your stupid conjecture and actually learn about what is needed to grow coffee. Fricken philosophers incapable of counting teeth.
Also note, the change in climate has already affected production zones and quantity.
There's the problem, you were trying to do that thinking thing you're unfamiliar with.
My friend has some coffee growing on a small hill, but only on the top 50m is it cool enough to grow. 10 years and she won't be selling coffee.
Why does your mind automatically jump to stupid explanations? Perhaps you should learn what tai chi is and how it differs from other systems first.
Ever heard of this thing called Google? Would have been faster than posting. Then again, just a smidgen of logical deduction on your part would give you the answer.
Always be careful of what you accuse others of, since people can't see the world through themselves all their opinions and advice usually only apply to themselves. Cosmic jokes and everything.
Such western thinking.
I really hate how US'ians just inject their world views into every culture they interact with. You should know better considering where you live.
Yogis perceive and manipulate the field (matrix) directly. What use of martial arts if nothing ever attacks you?
Either someone is really dumb and getting fired, or is getting a raise for figuring out a way to dispose of troubled units while getting insurance money.
Right. It works for us who don't have to live near steaming piles of toxic e-waste. What's with all these people that want to think of the poor, why can't they just do what we did and sell it to some other ignorant people. Do you know how much time and effort has been put into this system of I shit on you and you shit on someone else? Next thing you know they'll want us to take responsability for all our actions!! Long live the USA!!
I think all the other countries would be happy to just get screwed equally. However, the bully has lost his enigma, so it might actually be his turn to bend over and...
Sorry, I don't even know what the topic is.
Please provide the clueless masses with your undeniable proof that all religion is lies.
Perhaps the only lies are the ones that you tell yourself about religion?
Just because a parents answers a child's concern about Santa Claus does not mean that parent suddenly becomes a believer in Santa Claus. Perhaps, he might know what gives rise to the belief in such things, and perhaps what is conceived in the mind has as much an effect on a person as external reality. The gods and heavens are then reality for people with these questions, would a wise man ignore another's reality simply because it is not part of his?
The only thing one should ever assume is that one does not have all the necessary information or personal definitions to make assumptions about anybody else.
If you use the term god as a human that has achieved perfection along at least one human continuum then all the complexities drop away. Indian gods are descriptions of the siddhis attainable when dedicating yourself to control of just one continuum. Omnipotence is for all of consciousness brought together as a functional whole, basically an Einstein-Bose condensate.
Simple and totally consistent with science as it stands today.
The real problem with studying religion, is that it is much harder to get to the truth when you study personal interpretations of peoples perceptions of their spiritual experiences. Much easier, or harder since it requires actual effort, to study the spiritual experiences directly so as to see what gave rise to different cultures different explanations of the same experiences.
You assume that he has religious beliefs. All he said was that he takes really small notes in a bible. He didn't even personalize it to say his bible.
Now, given that he is writing notes, it's quite possible he isn't an unquestionning sheep. Why notes? Is he questionning the dogma? Is he a researcher? Perhaps he is an ignorant inconsiderate prick like yourself and likes to sneak into church and write dirty limericks alongside Psalm 23?
Your lack of logical thinking is a control mechanism far more daunting than religion.
Good info for a heavy handed user, which the asker is not.
It's never good to discourage people from doing something when your reason is based on your inability to use your body properly. Not everybody faces the same demons.
The interesting thing to consider, is whether or not these perceptual distortions are inaccurate or can be a viable source of information. Perception is always a compromise between fast reporting and accurate reporting. Symbolically, do hallucinations contain all the necessary imagery to navigate reality, i.e., are the details from which the hallucinations are derived and selected for more important than the objects being reported? And if so, is that the case with our normal mode of perception?
Each human is a speck of consciousness. Consciousness holds vibration/energy patterns. As consciouness expands, the patterns unfold with time, impressing order into reality, a child is born. Life happens, reality interacts with the patterns, the patterns and reality are altered (exchange of karma). Change turns inwards, the patterns coalesce into a new seed. The cycle begins anew.
This doesn't require a big leap of thought and can be quite consistent with what science currently knows. The hardest part for most people to reconcile would be matter as an expression of an underlying reality and not reality itself (this would help explain the other person's question about the difference between meditation and drugs. In meditation the impetus is from within, an undying spring. Drugs mimic the physcial consequences but do not touch the underlying reality). Transference of force and interactions of force are already well known.
What came first? The crystal or the energy pattern?
Life in general would be a lot simpler if people only stuck to what they know best.
BTW, I'm retarded in some aspects so I actually do try and study everything. It's not so hard when you realize that the one thing that all human experiences have in common is the human body.
That's all well and good as a way to live your life as a comprise of what you can dedicate time to. However, it is not a valid argument as you have no knowledge of how that information was derived. Basically you're a drone for spreading dogma that you believe but don't understand. Please don't do this.