Speaking of farts, I've just watched Top Gear and it seems that Tesla's latest car, Model M3 is packed with all kinds of technical kit. Not least of all a function that allows the driver to emit various fart sounds from any of the passenger seats. Just think of the hours of fun that could be had by all the family. Never get bored on a long journey in that car?
Yes it is. There was a program on tv recently about the Vikings and their influence on England around the end of the first century. I was amazed to learn how many everyday words in English are credited to the Vikings. Their influence was substantial and lasting.
That reminds me, I was searched three times going through Atlanta airport and I was in transit from Panama City on to Manchester. Someone had warned about Atlanta International though, and they were right.
Just being a teenager or in your early twenties in inner city Manchester during the seventies was enough to draw unwanted attention from the police regardless of if you were on a criminal path or not.
I've lost count of the number of times I've been searched. For me, especially in the 70's and even through to the 80's being seached by the police seemed to be just part of life.
Just wondering if this was a normal occurrence with any others on here.
Apart from being the only species that (as far as we know) concerns itself with the meaning of life, we are the only species that sheds tears when sad or upset.
This incident is just a symptom of the inherent madness and collective disfunction of the human race. When ww1 ended in 1918 people looked around in disbelief. Never before had mans madness been so destructive and so visible. Never before had we been so capable of mass murder, the scale of which left ten million dead and countless more injured. But that was only the beginning. By the end of the century our technological advances (the flip side to mans madness) had made it possible through wars , genocide, mass extermination and the like, to murder around another 100 million, and thats a conservative estimate. The new century has shown little respite, the death and destruction continues at an alarming rate with little sign of abatement. Is it any wonder then, with a track record like ours , if openly given the means, random individuals of such a sick society regardless of nationality will commit such acts of unfathomable violence. We are fundementally not sane enough to be allowed to wander around carrying such deadly weapons. By now that should be blindingly obvious to us all.
No, not saying that at all. The mind is unmanifested or empty of substance, pure luminescence. The brain is manifested and conditioned, (spots.) The 'spots' respond to stimulus, the response is not fixed but subject to mind. The ego's job is security, self presevation, scan the past for clues and create the best path for the future. This is where 'transactional trust' comes in where we are counting on a future result to occur. It's an emotional view of past and future and largely performance based measured by outcome. We use this kind of trust every day to navigate our way through life. The other form of trust, 'innate trust' which I think you are talking about, is based on living in the moment trusting that living to your values, even in difficult and testing situations, your life will unfold with greater meaning and harmonious outcomes. In surrendering to innate trust, being in the eternal now allows you to concentrate on being present in this very moment. Innate trust allows us to let life be.
The saying originally came from The Bible verse from Jeremiah 13:23 says “Can the Ethiopian change his skin or the leopard his spots?”
It fits nicely into our perception of the human condition, not sure about the leopards spots but the human brain can certainly be re-wired. Since neuroplasticity became fully understood fairly recently it is now known that due to the maleable nature of the brain, with the right training the brain can change more than we ever though possible. We are not hard wired as was believed.
*"Michael Merzenich is a neuroscientist who has been one of the pioneers of neuroplasticity for over three decades
Merzenich asserted that, "If the brain map could normalize its structure in response to abnormal input, the prevailing view that we are born with a hardwired system had to be wrong. The brain had to be plastic."
Merzenich received the 2016 Kavli Prize in Neuroscience "for the discovery of mechanisms that allow experience and neural activity to remodel brain function."
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RE: Johnny Depp won
But the question many people will want answering....Will he still continue touring with Jeff Beck?