Is that really what the LHC is for. Hmmm I didn't know that. I thought they were going to try and create antimatter and matter by colliding particles together at a very high speed. Thus creating a universe.

That was hilarious because of the ambiguous meaning I can't quite decide you were trying to convey of yourself upon to us.

Who here wants to bet rep points on the outcome of the results of the LHC? Come on who's got guts here. See its so absurd to treat rep that way so it may be taken as a joke but its unclear of whether I was serious or not.

Hey Justin there's an idea. We should have betting points. A point per win.
It's the closest thing to relevant philosophy as my dad would put it, because we'd be pondering truths that would have an ending answer, instead of "dawdling with irrelevant notions that are unanswerable anyways". (Not my IMO of course).

I don't think it would be a good thing to communicate with the dead, unless you were to find some sort of relevent piece of information about the past. Then I can see it worth while.

I'd think such a conversation would be incredibly one-sided; much like they were between myself and my ex-wife.

Oh man, I'd mess with the living constantly.

Could be they're already doing it to us though. You know . . . if you're a guy and you're talking to an attractive female and you keep hearing that voice whispering in your ear: "Psst! Dude! Your nose . . . Dude, you've got something hanging out of your nose! Seriously! You're grossing her out! Dude! You gotta fix it!!"

That's not just you talking to yourself. It's the voice of some dead guy. Screwin' with you from BEYOND.

are there any websites or boards or anything with organized thoughts on what the lhc might find? I've love to read them

I like the how you said that the dead should not personify the qualities of the living. good stuff.

based on this logic, we should not celebrate Halloween



:bigsmile:

Depends if you celebrate the corporate version or the Gaelic version.

Why would we need to communicate with the deceased if it is inexplicable and labyrinthine now since the world is in a pandemonium of dire living calibre.

Ticktockman,

Ha! My sentiments exactly. I would be among those messing with the living as well? but I think I would have more of a challenge messing with other ghosts.

I had a very enlightening discussion when the ring came out with one of my friends. You know, the one with that little girl that gives you the seven days message. In my mind, things would be a little different.

See, this is how it would go down. Say I get that seven days call. This would be my response to that call. "Little girl?. You may in fact kill me in the span of 7 days? but I would not recommend it. The fact that you are dead and are able to haunt me tells me that I would be able to do the same thing to you. But unlike you, a little girl, I have a very warped imagination and a far more diabolical revenge mechanism than you ever had when you were living. You say 7 days? I say 7 minutes. That's all it would take. I'll be at home watching horror movies and getting ideas as to how to haunt you best." LOL!

Ennui,

Invariably, the inconsequential colloquium of discourse post-mortem necessitates the ad-hoc converse regardless of the pseudo-chaotic corporeal size incongruences.

Ha! Good one. I like your "you haunt me, and I'll haunt you back," strategy.

Movies like The Ring utterly fail to creep me out.

Dr. Wayne Dyer, however, does.

The best part of The Ring? Two words: Naomi. Watts. As a bonus, she's close to my age, so I can gaze longingly at her without feeling too much like a creepy old man.

Hi,

White noise was a load of rubbish, but nevertheless I believe that we can sometimes get a glimpse of he other side of life.

I have had a profound near death experience I would even go further saying I had a death experience and that other reality was more vivid beautiful and alive than this mortal plain

Alan

Did you learn anything about the other side?

My near death experience taught me that :
every side is 'the other side', relative some other, other side.

'other sides' being in a linear fashion like this?

(LIFE) -> (DEATH) -> (DEATH 2) -> (DEATH 3)

or completely random?