You really think people are making up these experiences? Just because you haven't experienced one doesn't mean people are just "saying stuff" for attention.
Can't speak for previous poster; but studies show that NDE vary by culture. The "step into the light" is a very Western view- and other people experience different things based on what their culture perceives as the afterlife.
A religious view could be "God is making them comfortable by presenting them with what they expect" a non-religious view is that the experience is actually happening as you are resuscitating and disoriented in an almost dream like state and your brain is trying to make sense of what is happening and falls back on its beliefs.
As someone who has aphantasia, I've always wondered if someone with aphantasia could have a NDE. I never "see images" in my dreams so would I in a NDE? (as a skeptic agnostic I'm assuming a purely scientific answer- and it's not really God calling you to step into the light).
My feelings are: why can't Ampex put their advertising sign on their own building?
Stanford shouldn't be beholden to advertise some private company for them. Surely there are better landmarks around there than a billboard.. As you said, not worthy of historical preservation. Sure, take a photo of it and put it in a film museum, but no need to keep the sign up.
I'll preface this comment by I'm not a huge President Trump supporter.
Anyone who is a huge "President Anyone" supporter needs serious medication.
I'm a huge supporter of ex French President- Francois Mitterand. Not because I liked him or his policies... it's just Francois Mitterand is the most fun name to same in the history of names... (if done correctly in a French Accent).
I challenge anyone to come up with a more fun name to same than Francois Mitterand.
Your close, not quite there. Way left is the Communists. Then the Fascists, then the Socialists. Then you have various levels that aren't quite socialist, middle ground, then you're on the right. Ironically Communists, Fascist and Socialists hate each other. All three kill lots of people and destroy culture, societies, good stuff. All in the name of so called equality. Here's a good place to read the diffs http://aynrandlexicon.com/lexi...
Fact is, being an American right now puts you in the top 1% of the world. Just think about that a minute. 99% of the world is worse off? You betcha. Yet people bitch, moan and complain about everything. America has so many first world problems.
In America if we got rid of the socialist parts, it would be a whole lot better. OMG, a whole lot less BS.
Fascists and Communists are at opposite ends of the spectrum. They're both authoritarian but- Fascism is the far right and Communism is the far left.
Religions are neither good nor bad in my opinion. They are religions.
People use their religions for good reasons or bad reasons. Doesn't matter the religion, there is good and bad in both. People are evil and people are good. Religions are just beliefs, and most are ambiguous enough to be applied to either side of many arguments.
"X" is an abbreviation widely used for over a thousand years as a shorthand for the word "Christ"- first use was by Christian monks who presumably got tired of writing out the full word. Most commonly you see it as part of an abbreviation of "Christmas" to "Xmas" but often for Christian "Xian" or "Christianity" "Xianity" too.
Express is hardly biased; it's well known as a right wing newspaper based in a country where right wing usually means Xian.
In the last 100 years- Muslims have faced widespread persecution from Christians (and others- but mostly Christians) in:
Greece, Russia, Armenia, Serbia, Romania, Bulgaria, Parts of Turkey and Albania, Cambodia, China, India, Algeria, Japan, Libya (from Italians), Lebanon, Myanmar, Philippines, Kazackhstan, Tartarstan, Vietnam, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Azerbaijan, Eastern Turkestan, Tibet, Sri Lanka, Tajikistan, ALL OVER AFRICA, but especially in Nigeria and the Central African Republic.
So yeah, Muslims have gone after other people- but they've been targeted a whole lot themselves. Let's not forget that Christianity (or people claiming to represent xianity) is responsible for wiping out the majority of the native population in North and South America, and Australia. Half of all the inhabited continents.
Xians have persecuted way more people than they have been the victim of persecution over time. Again, I'm not saying Xianity is bad- it's just not on the right side of history in many cases.
Before we know it, Alexa is going to start driving around a windowless van offering free Ice Cream and a chance to pet her pet roomba. We must act now.
...about hate speech by Muslim groups in the Middle East and ethnic cleansing against Christians.
Why is that?
Probably because Muslims are more often the victim than the perpetrator. There's a lot of countries in Africa too where xians are performing ethnic cleansing on Muslim populations. Of course, that doesn't go along with the mindset some people have of "xian good" "Muslim bad".
Xianity has a long history of ethnic cleansing, slavery and persecution of others. That doesn't make Christians or Christianity necessarily bad... it just means there are bad people of all religions.
Integration really means- sharing information about users between Microsoft and Amazon so that they can spy on you better. Microsoft know what you buy on Amazon, and Amazon will now know what you fap to on your browser. So stop watching Siri pron.
The trouble is that trees store carbon far, far slower than we dig it up. You cannot stabilize CO2 levels on human-relevant timescales with trees alone, artificial CO2 sequestration is absolutely necessary.
They would be part of a good long term strategy even if they're not a good short term strategy and not the answer by itself.
Like most complex problems- the best answer is probably a multi-directional approach.
Obnoxiously is a separate login and detached ecosystem
Venmo and their parent company PayPal (I still don't understand why people are migrating from PayPal to Venmo, it's got fewer features) do the same thing.
As annoying as that might be- it probably saved people getting compromised in more than one network in this instance.
Socialism has been tried many times on many levels and it simply doesn't work.
I agree. What should we do about our socialized roads?
Get rid of the socialized roads of course. And the socialized military. The socialized police. The socialized education system. Certainly get rid of the socialized IRS- that should be privatized so they can target people more efficiently. Socialised court system... get outta here- courts should be privately run and judges should be hired by private companies. Socialised parks... terrible idea. Public sanitation... much better if we hire private companies to take our poop and just dump it into the rivers as cheap as possible. Socialised polling booths during elections? Not on my watch. Private companies should be organizing elections.
Try the alternative. Medical bankruptcy is pretty common.
Common where?
I'm sure that it happens, but I'm in my mid 60's and no one I've ever known even slightly has had a medical bankruptcy.
I've known a few and I'm no social butterfly. However, what is far more common that I've seen: Someone gets sick and doesn't go to the doctor because it is too expensive- they then get worse and worse until they finally have to go and by that time they are in a much more dangerous position than if they went when first sick.
Or someone breaks a bone and tries to self medicate because doctors are too expensive- despite the fact that this can cause long term injury problems. Or someone has arthritis but can't afford a doctor so live with the pain.
I've known countless people who haven't gone to a doctor when they probably should have (including myself- and I'm not poor). If all you know is well-off people you probably don't encounter this. If you know people from various economic strata you will see that many-many-many people (probably the majority) don't get the medical care they should because of cost.
I earn more than twice the US average household income and medical expenses are too high for me and I skip visits when I know I should really go because of cost. I can't imagine those earning average or less.
You do realize that socialism is mainstream in Europe, right? I'm looking around and I don't see any gulags here.
Socialism is pretty mainstream in the US too for a number of issues- they just don't call it that because people in the US assume that "socialism" is communism.
I avoid social media- but am I not correct in understanding that Instagram is one of Facebook's mini social networks. If you hack an instagram account- do you also by shared id take over their facebook account, or are the two kept separate?
I was a die-hard conservative at 20. At 38, Iâ(TM)m pretty liberal. I make plenty and own my home mortgage-free, but too much of the country is getting the short end of the stick.
I followed the same path- only less extreme. I've gone from right of centre to left of centre (stayed pretty centrist over all- even now).
I probably didn't have much of a heart at 20. I was pretty cold and rational. Getting older, being married, experiencing life, having children, I realised there is more to life than money and society matters. I gained empathy with age whereas many people get jaded and lose empathy.
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You really think people are making up these experiences? Just because you haven't experienced one doesn't mean people are just "saying stuff" for attention.
Can't speak for previous poster; but studies show that NDE vary by culture. The "step into the light" is a very Western view- and other people experience different things based on what their culture perceives as the afterlife.
A religious view could be "God is making them comfortable by presenting them with what they expect" a non-religious view is that the experience is actually happening as you are resuscitating and disoriented in an almost dream like state and your brain is trying to make sense of what is happening and falls back on its beliefs.
As someone who has aphantasia, I've always wondered if someone with aphantasia could have a NDE. I never "see images" in my dreams so would I in a NDE? (as a skeptic agnostic I'm assuming a purely scientific answer- and it's not really God calling you to step into the light).
Give it a few days and I will have forgotten who Ampex is again!
I prefer it's original name, Hollywoodland Kingdom.
Can't beat the originals.
Meh, "The United Realms of Hollywoodland Kingdom By Sea" would have been a better name.
My feelings are: why can't Ampex put their advertising sign on their own building?
Stanford shouldn't be beholden to advertise some private company for them. Surely there are better landmarks around there than a billboard.. As you said, not worthy of historical preservation. Sure, take a photo of it and put it in a film museum, but no need to keep the sign up.
I'll preface this comment by I'm not a huge President Trump supporter.
Anyone who is a huge "President Anyone" supporter needs serious medication.
I'm a huge supporter of ex French President- Francois Mitterand. Not because I liked him or his policies... it's just Francois Mitterand is the most fun name to same in the history of names... (if done correctly in a French Accent).
I challenge anyone to come up with a more fun name to same than Francois Mitterand.
Hey guys, did you hear? Trump is going to close down the Utah Data Center because Obama started it!
Why, has it run out of space, is he going to build a bigger one somewhere else?
Your close, not quite there. Way left is the Communists. Then the Fascists, then the Socialists. Then you have various levels that aren't quite socialist, middle ground, then you're on the right. Ironically Communists, Fascist and Socialists hate each other. All three kill lots of people and destroy culture, societies, good stuff. All in the name of so called equality. Here's a good place to read the diffs http://aynrandlexicon.com/lexi...
Fact is, being an American right now puts you in the top 1% of the world. Just think about that a minute. 99% of the world is worse off? You betcha. Yet people bitch, moan and complain about everything. America has so many first world problems.
In America if we got rid of the socialist parts, it would be a whole lot better. OMG, a whole lot less BS.
Fascists and Communists are at opposite ends of the spectrum. They're both authoritarian but- Fascism is the far right and Communism is the far left.
Religions are neither good nor bad in my opinion. They are religions.
People use their religions for good reasons or bad reasons. Doesn't matter the religion, there is good and bad in both. People are evil and people are good. Religions are just beliefs, and most are ambiguous enough to be applied to either side of many arguments.
"X" is an abbreviation widely used for over a thousand years as a shorthand for the word "Christ"- first use was by Christian monks who presumably got tired of writing out the full word. Most commonly you see it as part of an abbreviation of "Christmas" to "Xmas" but often for Christian "Xian" or "Christianity" "Xianity" too.
That's why I always put my iRifle on airplane mode when I don't want to be detected.
Express is hardly biased; it's well known as a right wing newspaper based in a country where right wing usually means Xian.
In the last 100 years- Muslims have faced widespread persecution from Christians (and others- but mostly Christians) in:
Greece, Russia, Armenia, Serbia, Romania, Bulgaria, Parts of Turkey and Albania, Cambodia, China, India, Algeria, Japan, Libya (from Italians), Lebanon, Myanmar, Philippines, Kazackhstan, Tartarstan, Vietnam, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Azerbaijan, Eastern Turkestan, Tibet, Sri Lanka, Tajikistan, ALL OVER AFRICA, but especially in Nigeria and the Central African Republic.
So yeah, Muslims have gone after other people- but they've been targeted a whole lot themselves. Let's not forget that Christianity (or people claiming to represent xianity) is responsible for wiping out the majority of the native population in North and South America, and Australia. Half of all the inhabited continents.
Xians have persecuted way more people than they have been the victim of persecution over time. Again, I'm not saying Xianity is bad- it's just not on the right side of history in many cases.
Before we know it, Alexa is going to start driving around a windowless van offering free Ice Cream and a chance to pet her pet roomba. We must act now.
...about hate speech by Muslim groups in the Middle East and ethnic cleansing against Christians.
Why is that?
Probably because Muslims are more often the victim than the perpetrator. There's a lot of countries in Africa too where xians are performing ethnic cleansing on Muslim populations. Of course, that doesn't go along with the mindset some people have of "xian good" "Muslim bad".
Xianity has a long history of ethnic cleansing, slavery and persecution of others. That doesn't make Christians or Christianity necessarily bad... it just means there are bad people of all religions.
85% of all Oswalds think that Americans aren't doing enough to stop the spread of Facebook.
Impressive, but where are they planning on going? Mars ain't the kind of place to raise your kids. In fact it's cold as hell.
True, but it's less crowded than Mumbai.
By the time they'd have an effect, severe permanent damage would have already been done.
Severe permanent damage has already been done. The sooner we start to work to fix the problem the less damage will ultimately be done.
Integration really means- sharing information about users between Microsoft and Amazon so that they can spy on you better. Microsoft know what you buy on Amazon, and Amazon will now know what you fap to on your browser. So stop watching Siri pron.
If you wanted to reduce water vapor - plant trees, limit urban sprawl and have more green spaces... ... AND REDUCE CO2 EMMISSIONS.
The warming earth causes more water vapor to be in the air.
The trouble is that trees store carbon far, far slower than we dig it up. You cannot stabilize CO2 levels on human-relevant timescales with trees alone, artificial CO2 sequestration is absolutely necessary.
They would be part of a good long term strategy even if they're not a good short term strategy and not the answer by itself.
Like most complex problems- the best answer is probably a multi-directional approach.
Obnoxiously is a separate login and detached ecosystem
Venmo and their parent company PayPal (I still don't understand why people are migrating from PayPal to Venmo, it's got fewer features) do the same thing.
As annoying as that might be- it probably saved people getting compromised in more than one network in this instance.
I agree. What should we do about our socialized roads?
Get rid of the socialized roads of course. And the socialized military. The socialized police. The socialized education system. Certainly get rid of the socialized IRS- that should be privatized so they can target people more efficiently. Socialised court system... get outta here- courts should be privately run and judges should be hired by private companies. Socialised parks... terrible idea. Public sanitation... much better if we hire private companies to take our poop and just dump it into the rivers as cheap as possible. Socialised polling booths during elections? Not on my watch. Private companies should be organizing elections.
Try the alternative. Medical bankruptcy is pretty common.
Common where?
I'm sure that it happens, but I'm in my mid 60's and no one I've ever known even slightly has had a medical bankruptcy.
I've known a few and I'm no social butterfly. However, what is far more common that I've seen: Someone gets sick and doesn't go to the doctor because it is too expensive- they then get worse and worse until they finally have to go and by that time they are in a much more dangerous position than if they went when first sick.
Or someone breaks a bone and tries to self medicate because doctors are too expensive- despite the fact that this can cause long term injury problems. Or someone has arthritis but can't afford a doctor so live with the pain.
I've known countless people who haven't gone to a doctor when they probably should have (including myself- and I'm not poor). If all you know is well-off people you probably don't encounter this. If you know people from various economic strata you will see that many-many-many people (probably the majority) don't get the medical care they should because of cost.
I earn more than twice the US average household income and medical expenses are too high for me and I skip visits when I know I should really go because of cost. I can't imagine those earning average or less.
You do realize that socialism is mainstream in Europe, right? I'm looking around and I don't see any gulags here.
Socialism is pretty mainstream in the US too for a number of issues- they just don't call it that because people in the US assume that "socialism" is communism.
I avoid social media- but am I not correct in understanding that Instagram is one of Facebook's mini social networks. If you hack an instagram account- do you also by shared id take over their facebook account, or are the two kept separate?
This is what happens when post-modernists take over the school systems and Western Values are treated as bad instead of good.
Both capitalism and socialism are western schools of thought.
I was a die-hard conservative at 20. At 38, Iâ(TM)m pretty liberal.
I make plenty and own my home mortgage-free, but too much of the country is getting the short end of the stick.
I followed the same path- only less extreme. I've gone from right of centre to left of centre (stayed pretty centrist over all- even now).
I probably didn't have much of a heart at 20. I was pretty cold and rational. Getting older, being married, experiencing life, having children, I realised there is more to life than money and society matters. I gained empathy with age whereas many people get jaded and lose empathy.