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That killer white pine, leaning toward some bedrooms, is now in burnable pieces. Got a fat insurance Co. check to replace the roof damage she, her branches and the ocean wind did. Before spliting large trunk pieces into morsels, it was surprising how many Mainers the "free wood" sign attracted. Put a "free" sign on a dead cat on the lawn here, and some bearded crusty north woods character will take it, feeling happy to be getting a deal. People said they used the stuff to make all sort of items..... bowls, spoons, lake dock walkover platforms, table legs, and so on. Burning the rest in the yard in controlled fashion, rather than pay to take it to the dump. Break from the usual summer coastal boat trip. Not the best wood for stoves. But how the mind wonders in the fire induced warmth, flickering consuming flames, and attendant near induced trance. As in driving long distances, where autopilot miles pass, without awareness of driving functions, tossing needed branch pieces into the flames just seems to happen, while the thoughts flow. How to rewrite the draft of memoirs, what has been my role in lifes's woes, plusses/minuses of a next partner, new riffs for another song. Or, are the numerical repetitions seen near universally when applying chaos theory to examine observations in everything from heart palpitations to weather more than mere quirks of math? Yikes! Aa.

...all things must come to an end
Time to move over. Or on.
Whatever.

What difference, at this point, does it make?

YouTube Guy McPherson - Human Extinction Within 10 years

He's has a place in Belize, Central America.
Perhaps he figures he'll get a few extra months there.
Or maybe he just likes Belize & wants to enjoy the time left.

Whatever.

We'll get ringside seats for the ringing down of life on Earth

YouTube Guy McPherson - We Get To Be Here At The End

Should be quite a show, I reckon.

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The immediate answer to this question is yes. But just how bad can science really get? Of course all of our weapons were developed from science. Then there are many great things that science has produced. How about science holding us back from realizing our true nature on this planet? There are so many things out there that science cannot explain.

I am watching Ancient Aliens on the History Channel and I keep hearing repeatedly, episode after episode, science cannot explain this or that, or the other. We as conditioned humans just automatically do not put much credence into these things and just somewhat ignore them. What if there is something out there that is right under our noses and because of the limitations of current science, we are ignoring some sort of important message.

What about those crop circles?....just to name one.

Over the years I've seen the comments. I've seen the articles. It's a subject I've avoided because I don't want to get sucked into the whole topic of what has all my life seemed to be an innocuous and normal thing.

This morning it wasn't normal. It was weird!

I was driving into work this morning and holy Batman! but the contrails (or whatever you call them) were all over the sky! Like someone was up there playing tictactoe....all over the place! Okay, I live near an airport, yet only see the occasional jet fly above. The fly zone to PGH In'tl is further south of me. We see more helicopters than jets or planes.

Took me 10 mins to get to work. Was so blown away by the contrails I counted them. 53 and gave up counting as I was running late. That's dozens!

I'm a very proficient googler, but I really just don't want to go there.

Are there things going on in this world that YOU just don't want to know about???

spirituality. Not being trained formally in physics (astro-, particle-, modern-, quantum-, etc.), just merely a wannabee dilletante, I still know which end of a telescope to look through. On a dark clear crisp night, new moon, here in the north east of the USA, with a small quality refractor, adjusting by hand for the earth's movement, sure, the solar system beckons. But all sorts of galaxies are easily resolved as well, right from the back deck of our home. Pass the Gluehwein. Galaxies! We are told that each such galaxy contains a billion stars. Billion! And that even though we can hardly see them all, even with the deep field studies, best guestimates are that there are at least a billion galaxies, of various types, ages and sizes. Billion! Light millennia apart from each other and us. Closest star to us is some two light years distant. Light years! (light, in vacuum, travels around 300,000 Canadian miles in a second.) Second! Our fastest methods of propulsion would take a ship hundreds of years to get there. Hundreds! Now think how big and powerful just ONE star is. Our little sun, for example, is just quite ordinary in size, etc. And we now believe that with so many stars, at least some (we'll never reach them), perhaps millions, have planets that could support life as we know it. Millions! It boggles the mind. Aa.

We like to think we can have theories "proved" by sophisticated science. Sadly, the scientific method is rather a way to try to show theories are NOT correct, usually by way of careful repeated experiments. The more this is done, and a given theory resists getting dumped, the more we can safely believe in it, and use it for technology, etc. Sure, the ability of a given theory to predict things, how it fits with other observations, the logic and consistency of its parts, and much more are involved in our believing it. But doubt always remains, which is the mark of good scientists. For real proof, there's mathmatics, QED. Aa.

White guilty, self loathing member of the tribe. New evidence tends to discredit much of his linguistic babbling on syntax,---especially the vapid insistence that such complex human actions can be somehow based on one gene locus. JFC. His USA hating politics go downward from there. Aa.

I had no idea this was going on !!
Must stick my head out the door more often

We would all like to think that there is a form of life after death; There have always been stories of people who have died and come back to life after an accident or during surgery, however recent studies by a Dr. Robert Lanza suggests that our consciousness moves to another state after death.

His research has been based on the use of stem cells to develop technology to prevent the extinction of endangered animals. The research uses the principle of quantum physics, atoms are predictable according to Einstein’s theory of relativity but at a subatomic level they are not, if particles can exist in more than one place are there alternative universes?

I always have very bizarre dreams and wonder if it’s my consciousness telling me something, I can hear and see during my dreams and to a certain extent feel, So when I do become worm food will my consciousness continue? I am certainly not religious and this is not about religion, more about Scientific facts and would this explain people’s experiences of reincarnation?

We are a worldly bunch of people here, what are your thoughts?

I find it odd that during the campaigns , Trump was so bombastic voice wise, now he whines , he mumbles, and he sounds like "wont you pity me because the news and Democrats are taking advantage of poor little me".
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