"Life" After death studyFollow

I've known a fair number of people who've used psychedelic drugs and I've never heard of a single one experiencing this. No real point except that maybe your source(s) of information isn't accurate, or is overly focused on the assumptions they want to promote. Dunno. I'd stop at "people's minds fill in the blanks with all kinds of crazy stuff", and move on.

And BTW, I've personally experienced some pretty strange and arguably unexplainable stuff. I just happen to arrive at a similar position as Smash, via the opposite path. Some things in this world just are unexplainable. Trying to codify and quantify them is likely to be a waste of time.

And here we learn that Smash has a hard time grasping the difference between "some" and "all".

Some of them, or all of them?

(ﾉಥ益ಥ）ﾉ ┻━┻

That is the most honest explanation right there. The universe is filled with things humanity will never know because they don't seem to affect our immediate daily lives. It is a waste of time and effort if its implications are not instantly discernible-- if it does not make money in particular. At this point, we will continue to try and fit alarm clocks into things that have already been invented instead of trying to come up with something new.

I get the feeling we will never again have a real space program. There will never be any new breakthroughs in physics because it's getting too scary and weird for us, or does not fit neatly into our unbreakable and unchangeable system of laws that have done well to bring us to this point, but now act as shackles and inhibitors. Stem cells? Phhh, Waste of money. The Koch Brothers need another oil line built.

What? Isn't that the root basis of science in general?
- There is something unexplainED (we cannot know what is unexplainable.. only what is unexplained.. though we can know WHY it is unexplained)
- We observe the unexplained condition and then we attempt to codify and quantify for the purpose of compiling data to research
- We take the results and adjust them as our abilities to observe things evolves.

To say that this is likely to be a waste of time simply because we have no answers and cannot be bothered to take any leaps of faith is just asinine
You are discounting that there is an answer solely because you have seen no answer that fits with your opinion and limited view-point. It doesn't mean that there are no answers nor does it mean that we are unable to receive the answer.

It's self willed limitation. As I said: the truth is that the chains that bind us within Plato's cave are chains of our own making.. based on our own fear of the unknown. All that binds us to these changes are our own fists clutching onto the womb-like comfort of ignorance.

Some of them, or all of them?

This isn't working as a joke because it's simply not at all plausible that I don't understand the "some and all" thing, and also the small point that it was in no way incorrect or confusing when I used either term. Just so you are aware. No one is quietly chuckling at your cleverness.

Try these, maybe:

"The sum of them? "
"I'd need an awl to make a point to someone as hard headed as you"
"Sounds like a battle of the Somme"
"Some of a *****!"

Etc. Or maybe just prat falls and hitting yourself in the face with pies. Honestly, I can't really think of a way to make your monotonous droning funny, but I guess you'd have to start with the fact that you're a drooling simpleton and try to work with that.

Edited, Nov 24th 2014 10:53am by Smasharoo