Crop Circles

I am sorry but I have never and will never believe in crop circles. Believe that it is aliens or other creatures that are doing these crop circles. I will never believe that Aliens or extraterrestrials have anything to do with crop circles because it is not a proven fact. I have yet to see an alien or creature from another planet on our earth, let alone in the middle of a field designing a crop circle. I infact believe that it is performed becuase they are real, crop circles exist and thats the only proven fact that we have. But it is surely done by human beings. A crop circle is forsure in my mind performed by human beings, maybe trying to fool others in believeing their are extraterestrials out there or maybe for a deeper reason. We dont even know why crop circles are done, what is the true meaning behind a crop cirlce? Are the intrecit designs something we dont understand? Do they stand for something we are not piecing together? It could be humans messing around or it could be humans trying to tell us something we dont know. We have no idea in this world what is behind a crop circle and I tell you it is very interesting.

Re: Errol Flynn

So he would adjust to certain groups, he would conform to the ways of others he would be around. I totally understand that, I think we all do that at some point in our lives if not all the time. We all have to adjust and conform to the people around us, we are all social at one point or another. You act appropriately when you go in for an interview just as you act way different when you are out at a bar with friends. If someone lives in this time we have to adjust appropriately. Imagine someone not being able to adjust, they would be seen as an outcast and not be able to get jobs or socialize with people. We act entirely different when we are at work in responsible mode, then at home hanging on our couch or in a classroom with a teacher present. We all know the difference in the ambiance and environment. And with those differences we act accordingly.

FLAME ON

Homosexuality seems like an on going problem in society. I myself see nothing wrong with homosexuality. The problem is that people use the word "GAY" or "FAG" as a bad word, people say this to others in a derogatory way. When you say words like that to others in a bad way then they are seen as bad people. As an example the word "bitch" is used in such a bad way that if you call someone this word its an insult, but in reality the definition is just mierly a female dog or a small animal like a fox. The word itself was made into a derogatory term and used in a bad fashion. If I am calling for my female dog and use that word everyone will look my way and think I am cussing at someone and the same goes for the words gay and fag. I have no idea why or how these terms in society became so volgure but they have and its makes the situation of a homosexual even harder to cope with in society.

Re: Voodoo Voodoo

Voodoo does seem rather magical. Like when it is chanted or used the desired outcome happens but I believe it is all in our minds. We wish for something and if it comes to us even just that once we believe it is true. Like the quote that you reffered too, it seems if it worked 2 out of 10 we believe it is true. And when we believe it is true in our minds, then our mindset is set to believe in voodoo. Even magic, when I go to a famous magic show with a magician thats known for his magic I tend to believe in magic. I watched one on TV one year and I believed magic was real for many years to follow. Until one day I seen an episode that revieled how the magician accomplished his magic. It was all fake, they showed how every trick was in reality a trick. It was heartbreaking but atleast I knew the truth. Just to think I believed in magic until I seen how it was all false with my own eyes.

The Mummy vs. the Wolfman

Egyption immortality! To keep intact the physical body. Death was very known to human beings, even way back in the past. They wanted a way to keep the body intact. Imagine, advancing science to a point where we can prolong the deration of life in our human bodies. That is so crazy, but even if we can maintain the human body we cant live forever. I think we are rather scared of transitioning into death, so we come up with ways to try and perserve our lives for as long as possible.

I dont think the body can be perserved forever, nor do I think its right to do so. No one would be left to enjoy or experience anything in that body so why perserve it? Death is something that is going to come no matter if we want it or not. Its the inevitable so why fight it? Why come up with a way around it or a way to stop it? I know we are scared of the unknown but just like birth we all have to go through death at one point or another.

Voodoo Voodoo

I have never believed in Voodoo personally, but then again I have experienced times where I would chant it and the desired affect would happen. Once when I was a young girl I sat at the bottom of my great aunts stairs and chanted with my cousins 'If Voodoo is real, something with come rolling down these stairs" and I promise you that 2 out of the 10 times we said that chant it happened! The first time was an old coca-cola can, my aunt collected coca-cold products that were antiques. The second time it was more like a thump and a sign fell, rolling down to the bottom of the stairs. It made us run and scream, we were young but it was rather scary knowing that voodoo could be true. After many years of thinking about Voodoo and how real it seemed, I came to realize that it is all in our minds.Voodoo is in our minds, we want to believe it is real so we allow it to be real in our minds. Anything could have fallen from my aunties stairs at any moment and it would happen quite frequently. There were times when thing came rolling down those old stairs and no one chanted or even thought about voodoo. Things can happen at anytime but we hype our minds to believe that it is real so we tend to believe it. To me voodoo gives people hope, like they can have control over something at that very moment and even if it happens just once then they believe it in their minds to the fullest. Because even those other 8 times that nothing happened after we all chanted voodoo we still believed it was real.

Re: The Perfect Coke

That is a great thing to point out in this video, the fact that his mother was a horrible cook could of had alot to do with him feening for his taste buds to be fullfiled by a cold coke. I think the ambiance of the lady serving him his coke really made it a special feeling as well. I was just talking about how important the ambiance is, like if you have appealing things then your eye will stop in that direction. I also spoke about the differences between WANT and NEED, do you think that he turned his WANT for a Coke into a NEED? To me when you dont really NEED it and say you do, its an addiction like your feening and when you finally get it your going to say its the best (perfect coke).

The perfect Coke

Honestly, I watched this video and perceived it totally different then others. For one, I myself can not enjoy a meal without a coke. And Im being completely honest. If I had a wonderfull hot feast infront of me and did not have a soda, I could not enjoy the food that I am eating and in most cases wont even eat the meal. Im not sure if this is because im addicted to the taste of a cold coke (carbination), or its all in my mind that I wouldnt be able to taste the food the same. It could very well be in my head that my mind is made up, I think about a meal and the coke completes it. When I seen the video I related to the enjoyment of having the taste of a cold coke, so I was side tracked and asked myself if it was in our minds that we NEED something we dont really need. And then the packaging and abiance (whos serving the soda, how others enjoy soda) that makes us WANT it and feel there is a NEED for it. My WANTS become NEEDS and it gives you a feeling of addiction.

Re: Time Machine

If I was able to see the future in the time machine I dont know if I would be able to do that. I would be rather scared to see the future played out for me right in front of my eyes. What if something bad happens and there is nothing I can do to change it from happeneing. And just knowing the exact time its going to happen is like a ticking time bomb in our minds. But to travel back into the past would be pointless unless we are able to travel back to change the outcome of something, like a bad mistake we made or to warn other about a horrific tragedy. Only go back or forth in time to change things, but if we are ineligable of chenging the outcome then it would be kind of pointless.

First Time Machine

Imagine a time machine that starts from the day you turn the machine on, not to go back in time from now to the past but rather to start today and years from now you can go to this day. However this time machine would work I think its fascinating to know that there is a time machine that is capable of taking you to a different year day and time then the one you are presently in. I would think something like this is impossible, uncapable of accomplishing. Its strikes me as amazing just to know the things we are capable of doing and how far technology has come. Now if you would ask me if I would use this time machine my answer would definitly be NO but I would be very interested in watching someone else use this, recording exactly what I observe.

Re: The Codex Funeral, Books are Dead

A huge pro that I see about having a book in your IPAD or IPHONE is that they are portable, they are very convienient. You can read them in the comfort of your own home or take them on the go and read them at a local starbucks or at the park while the kids play. I love the convienience of having more than one book (which paper books can be very big) in such a small portable item. I even dowload several books at one time. The only con I see is that I have no idea if it is affecting my retinas, I have bad vision as it is and I feel a need to blink or even close my eyes for a few seconds after reading a few pages on my IPAD. Also if your battery dies then you have 0 books..

Ray Kurzweil

TECHNOLOGY!!!! Can you believe that in 2020 we will have computers so powerful that they can simulate the human brain!! Technology is way too powerful and growing way too fast. A million times more powerful 20 years from now. Smart phones are moving soo fast, they have apps forjust about everything you could imagine. Computers in the future will be far more powerful then even the human brain. It kinda scares me to know how fast technology is moving, a computer that is far smarter then us dosent sound good to me. I look at technology in both ways, good and bad. Good becuase we have so much information and information leads to knowledge but what if this knowledge is used in bad ways by terrorists? Computers can teach us just about anything we want to know and learn, google can give me answers to anything I desire. But that also means it can give anyone those answers, the good people the bad people and the ones that do ugly things. I love technology so much, I love having a smart phone that can give me directions or answer my questions like where is the nearest gas station, I love seeign a vehicle that can practicaly park itself and has cameras in the rear for extra safety. But technology is moving far too fast and far too powerful for the likes of me. It can be a scary thing if people are using this technology for BAD.

Re: The Disneyland of Consciousness: Exploring the Animatronic Image

Yes, dreams that become so realistic are rather scary becuase you can wake up in a daze and not know your surrounding or what time and day it is. I know that everyone has had a dream about falling, like your falling down and you wake up all shakin up, thats how real dreams can be! Adream can actually wake us up in such a scary way, that tells you how realistic it can be. HeHe about the late fee =)

Disneyland is a joyous place but in the pirates of the carribean I totally get that feeling that someone is watching you, it has to be the ambiance. Im sure thats what they want you to feel on that ride, like a little creeped out. But how do they add the lighting just right to make the characters look at you, like eyeball you right in your eyes. Its rather amazing, especially the new ride at universal studios transformers 3d..Its amazing how realistic technology really is.

Re: The Disneyland of consciousness

That is very true, you went to Disneyland knowing these caracters were fictional. Since you had an idea that these were nothing more than comuters you were aware that they were fake and your mindset was set. But for me, it was a little different. The first time I went to Disneyland I was just a young child. I had no idea that these characters were fictional and man made. I thought as a child that everything that moves and talks is real, and the haunted mansion ride was the worst. I remember riding that ride and believeing in ghosts, believeing in the holograms and whatever else I seen. And its kind of scary becuase even now at 27 years old I go to Disneyland and still believe, until I tell myself these are fictional.

Patricia Churchland on Neurophilosophy

The two questions is the nature of knowledge and conciousness. Just a brain and yet it has awarness and is able to allow you to talk, are we just molecules????? Watching this video gave me a clearer understanding on what philosophers 2 main questions are and how that is broken down. And as I watched I realized that even with all of the information we gathered we still go back to Plato and Aristotle and they were philosophers from so long ago. We have come such a far way with technology and vehicles and architecture but its so interesting how we are still in the same area regaurding these questions in philosophy. We still ask the same questions and even with all the answers we have thus far it goes back to the very question we start out with, its a wide spread question. Patricia talks about how religious philosophers can be inaccurate, and how we talked about what "matter" means.

A Glorious Piece of Meat: An Overture on Consciousness

Your brain is just a piece of meat? It seems so harsh to hear such a statement.We are more than just neurons firing, or atleast we believe we are! To me, it seems our brains control our conciousness. The video talks about if we would get hit in the head with something hard and for that second we forget whats going on around us and even blank out then that means to me that our brains are our conciousness, they are the power behind everything. They are like our personal computers. My last post was about how we confuse computers for humans and it reminded me of this video because of the first thing that came to my mind "our brains are our personal computers", if something walks and talks and moves we see that as a living thing. This video was very informal and taught me that everything I know comes through my conciousness, inturn comes from our very own brain.

Radiance without an Edge: Wisdom in 56 seconds

It is LIFE and not DEATH that is scary. That is exactly what this video relayed. No one can recal their birth, the time they became concious, it is impossible to recal that second that you were born. And believe it or not, death of consciousness is not something we experience either. It seems like everyone including myself is scared of death because its the unknown adn we have no idea what we are going to experience but according to this video there is nothing experienced at all. Im not too sure if I truely believe that, I have herd of people dieing and talking about the feeling they had and how they travel through a bright light at fast speeds. They all had the same answer as to how they felt and what they seen exactly. I myself believe we feel the death of conciousness, as for the birth of conciousness we have the answer and its we do not remember the feeling of being born, but death is totally different in my perspective.

The Disneyland of Consciousness: Exploring the Animatronic Image

All I have to say is that technology is on such a deep level that its evolving and changing soo fast. Watching this video reminds me of my trips to Disneyland. When I was a child, even until now I honestly thought the characters in the rides were so life like. I was horribly scared the first time I rode pirates of the carribean, I remember looking at the pirates and seeing real live human men starring right into your eyes. They are able to move and open their mouths and blink. One that was sitting on top of the bridge even drinks out of his beer bottle. Im 27 years old and know for a fact that these pirates are made from technology and I still doubt myself. On the haunted mansion there is a part on the ride when your looking at yourself in the mirror and a ghost appears right next to you, these holograms are so life like that it even scares you for a bit. Our minds are able to play tricks on us. But it has a lot to do with this technology and how far it has come. Then again when I think about my dreams and how people in my dreams are so realistic and when you wake up it feels like whatever it was that you dreamt about just happened to you in real life. And dreams have nothing to do with technology in any way. It makes you think about how easily our minds are fooled.

Re: What scares us most about death?

I totally agree, we have no idea what will happen to us when we die. Will it be painful? Will it be peaceful? And alot of people wonder about after life, will we be re born again? I use to believe that after we pass away we are reborn and have a different life. I know different people have different views on death and we have no real evidence and proof about what happens to us. Its definitly fear of the unknown. And the wierd part is sometimes people think of exactly how they are going to die, in an accident? Peacefully in bed? heart attack? Most of these ways are scary. And plus, it seems like in movies and stories that death is a scary thing to face. Movies and stories get to us and we become scared, it makes people think of their death. Even watching the news, some scary strories (true stories) about how people have passed away.

RE: aids in Africa

Africa still greatly suffers from aids and HIV. It makes me rather upset to see how far we have gone with technology and yet we still dont have a cure for HIV. Can you believe that we have apps that do pretty much everything you can think of, even one where you bump your phone up against another phone and it exchanges your numbers automaticaly! But still no cure for HIV.
And to think a baby is born with HIV, its the worst thing to be born with a desease that can kill you without having a choice. Born unhealthy, it saddens me deeply. Atleast most of us have a choice to use protection and keep ourselves healthy, some dont dont have that choice.