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Old 03-22-2007, 09:02 PM   #16 (permalink)
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Sometimes travel per se isn't necessary if the communications features work well enough. The Bible talks a lot about "foreknowledge". Whaddaya think that meant ? And how do/did prophets receive their information ? Just thinking out loud again.

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Wikiepdia?

Not sure.

Where do you think..?
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Old 04-06-2007, 05:26 AM   #17 (permalink)
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Hi guys and Q:

Sometimes travel per se isn't necessary if the communications features work well enough. The Bible talks a lot about "foreknowledge". Whaddaya think that meant ? And how do/did prophets receive their information ? Just thinking out loud again.

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Now where is the fun in that? It's like National Geographics. Loved to read the articles, but I HAD TO GO there, to see for myself...

First mission to Mars...sign me up.
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Old 04-06-2007, 02:46 PM   #18 (permalink)
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Now where is the fun in that? It's like National Geographics. Loved to read the articles, but I HAD TO GO there, to see for myself...

First mission to Mars...sign me up.
I am sure that I am not the first person to wonder if looking at Mars is to look at the future of Earth?

That is, perhaps once Mars had many beings, just like we do on earth, but they either self destroyed, or died through climate changes..?
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I am sure that I am not the first person to wonder if looking at Mars is to look at the future of Earth?

That is, perhaps once Mars had many beings, just like we do on earth, but they either self destroyed, or died through climate changes..?
Say, you know:

When we look towards the center of the universe, the big bang, are we effectively looking into the past? There's still a huge ball of unknown light there, right? Or dark matter, or something that we can't see past. When we do look at it, aren't we looking at the first moment of creation that we can know? If we travel towards it, then, would we effectively be travelling back in time? Scientists say that time changes (slows down) as the travelling speed approaches the speed of light. Don't they?

Anyhoo, maybe--metaphysically speaking, at least--when we are looking at red, barren Mars, we are looking at a future Earth. If there were life on Mars in the past (some scientists believe there is still a lot of water on Mars, buried underground).

Um... I don't think that last sentence was a complete thought. Dang.
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Hi guys and Q:

Sometimes travel per se isn't necessary if the communications features work well enough. The Bible talks a lot about "foreknowledge". Whaddaya think that meant ? And how do/did prophets receive their information ? Just thinking out loud again.

flow....

I like this thought train. There is accumulating evidence that 'knowledge' is subject to a weird kind of synchronicity not just for us humans but for other species too. Such as laboratory rats in maze experiments in the United States that were somehow able to convey the maze route to another group in the UK. How?

I think the key to getting your head round it is to remember that on a fundamental level time and space are illusions, however vivid, and that all knowledge has, is and will always exist in a single point. We have ways to sometimes access in a non-linear mode all that was , is or has been. There appear to be a few tools that aid us in this, such as prayer, divination and perhaps some forms of dream.

Do I believe what I just wrote? Well all I will say is that I dont discount it as fantasy but I cant prove it either. But it would explain a lot.

My 2 1/2 cents
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Old 04-17-2007, 05:13 PM   #21 (permalink)
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I like this thought train. There is accumulating evidence that 'knowledge' is subject to a weird kind of synchronicity not just for us humans but for other species too. Such as laboratory rats in maze experiments in the United States that were somehow able to convey the maze route to another group in the UK. How?

I think the key to getting your head round it is to remember that on a fundamental level time and space are illusions, however vivid, and that all knowledge has, is and will always exist in a single point. We have ways to sometimes access in a non-linear mode all that was , is or has been. There appear to be a few tools that aid us in this, such as prayer, divination and perhaps some forms of dream.

Do I believe what I just wrote? Well all I will say is that I dont discount it as fantasy but I cant prove it either. But it would explain a lot.

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Hey, you are from Edinburgh too!



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Old 04-18-2007, 12:14 AM   #22 (permalink)
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yeh I am from Leith, to be precise, a good stone throw from the Ocean Terminal. What about you?

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yeh I am from Leith, to be precise, a good stone throw from the Ocean Terminal. What about you?

Had a wee gawk at yer site... impressed!! Applied to join
Tao, yes, I noticed. How? Did I send you the link? I didn't think so, mate! I checked my own profile here, and nope, it is not there, so....
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Tao, yes, I noticed. How? Did I send you the link? I didn't think so, mate! I checked my own profile here, and nope, it is not there, so....

lol it is on your profile under your home page
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Is it?

Sorry mate, I am so tired that you would not believe, I have signed you in anyway.
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Tao, yes, I noticed. How? Did I send you the link? I didn't think so, mate! I checked my own profile here, and nope, it is not there, so....
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Is it?

Sorry mate, I am so tired that you would not believe, I have signed you in anyway.
doh...yes it is.

What would happen if we did this on a larger scale?

Well we wouldn't be a stone's throw away anymore.

Spel chk? when did we get spl chk? Oh htat'll hepl me!
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Old 04-18-2007, 01:15 PM   #27 (permalink)
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And how did prophets receive their information ? Just thinking out loud again.

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..... *thinks*

*blinks*

I got it!! By using anti gravity toys?
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Old 04-19-2007, 03:40 AM   #28 (permalink)
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doh...yes it is.

What would happen if we did this on a larger scale?

Well we wouldn't be a stone's throw away anymore.

Spel chk? when did we get spl chk? Oh htat'll hepl me!

Is there a spellcheck available here? I am still as retarded as I was 10 months ago when it comes to computers, ie I still cant copy and paste here for some reason. And I know I cant spell
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..... *thinks*

*blinks*

I got it!! By using anti gravity toys?
By definition, no devices involving anti-gravity effects could be considered to be toys in any sense of the term. Unless, of course, those using the devices were in some way mentally and morally deficient.

Which, for some reason, reminds me of Robin Williams' film titled, Toys.

Hmmmmm...I believe we've hit upon something here 17th.

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uhh...no that is me that has issues...I don't know what caused spell check to work...but working it was...maybe something firefox was doing...or something my kids downloaded...but it was working everywhere...and isn't now..

maybe I should do this on a smaller scale.
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