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Can't he re-book the extension and pay online again as he (presumably) did for the original booking?

minkturtle - it sounds like you're living in bliss - I hope no one spoils it for you by answering any of your questions - just be happy that you don't know: you really don't want to know - trust me! :)

hibbs Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Yep Slave '1' looks exactly like mine. There's a tribe in Outer Mongolia that would worship you as a fertility goddess!

It's a lovely image but I'm not entirely convinced by those snowflakes ... perhaps a special artistic effect was used to enhance the photo's appearance?

legalbeagle Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > No doubt there's a perfectly good and scientific explanation for all of that. Indeed there is: to collapse the wavefunction of a little ghostino one must sleep with a plausible witness - simples!

Past Life Regression is only the first stage. After achieving one or more successful sessions, one can advance to the so-called Life Between Lives Regression to commune with the ?Blue Lights? and then on to Future Progression, which enables one to explore lives yet to be lived - apparently. I've experienced all of the above, both as inductee and inducer - great fun if approached with an open mind. But not everyone can achieve the necessary state of deep reverie. It's nothing like hypnosis, by the way. During reverie, the subject is conscious and fully aware of everything going on throughout the session. I've reached the stage where I can self-induce reverie and guide myself through regressions and progressions. I still don't believe in reincarnation, though. I would advise anyone wishing to try this to exercise caution ? it can be quite addictive and most ?qualified? practitioners charge several hundred pounds per session - it can become a very expensive pass-time.

"When you're one step ahead of the crowd you're a genius. When you're two steps ahead, you're a crackpot." -- Rabbi Shlomo Riskin (Feb. 1998)

Have you considered two groups: one for each extreme of the bipolar cycle? I imagine it might be difficult for hypomanics and depressives to find much solace in each other?s company? The overriding problem, though - I think - might be that the hypomanics are likely to be too busy while the depressives cannot summon the motivation to attend any type of group activity?

These two former slaves of mine will take some beating :)

Great idea.

Jeremy Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > HAL9000 Wrote: > -------------------------------------------------- > > Science has observed the re-integration of > > superpositions through decoherence. > What's your source? ... according to wikipedia, > decoherence is basically "a loss of information > from the system into the environment" ... See Wiki's Quantum Decoherance page, section 6 Experimental Observation: The collapse of a quantum superposition into a single definite state was quantitatively measured for the first time by Serge Haroche and his co-workers at the ?cole Normale Sup?rieure in Paris in 1996. ... Haroche and his colleagues measured the resulting decoherence via correlations between the energy levels of pairs of atoms sent through the cavity with various time delays between the atoms. If you are referring to this Wiki page then the version in your reality must be different from mine ? spooky!

Jeremy Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > HAL - my understanding of the many-worlds > interpretation, is that a particle has many > simultaneous states until it is observed... at > which point, a single one of those states gets > bound to our reality, and the other states fork > off to parallel "worlds". You appear to be conflating many-worlds with the Copenhagen Interpretation? Many-worlds denies observer-induced wavefunction collapse, although incidental observers (as you say) are bifurcated into alternative reality streams (or 'worlds') that experience all possible outcomes, each resulting new instance of the original observer being a superposition. Use of the word 'parallel' is incorrect in this context ? these phenomena are best described as 'alternative' realities. Parallel universes proper are the product of other scientific theories. > I've not read anything about parallel worlds re-integrating with each > other - that's in the realm of science fiction. Science has observed the re-integration of superpositions through decoherence. > Even if such things were possible, the > probabilities are so infinitesimally small, > practically any other explanation is preferable. When dealing with infinite possibilities, it should not be considered anomalous for the more likely outcomes to be quite common relative to our perception of the rate at which time passes ? in my view. Last week's Horizon program What is Reality? attempts to illustrate these concepts for a popular audience. The insurmountable hurdle here is that we are trying to understand a process that affects our own individual perceptions of reality ? even if everyone were to wake up in an alternative reality every morning ? we?d have no way of distinguishing between such a reality and the one we think we are experiencing. We are now literally at the boundary between objective science and subjective phenomenology.

Administrator Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > it may just be the volume of traffic. Do you log http_referrers and/or which pages/threads are being viewed? Is it possible that some combination of words herein coincides with a topical news story or search query? Or has a popular blog linked to a particular thread? Or is the server being crawled repeatedly by a rogue or broken spider-bot? My websites have experienced all of the above sending the stats through the roof from-time-to-time.

Modern scientific understanding supports Sue?s theory. According to plain vanilla Quantum Mechanics (QM), given sufficient time, anything is possible - however improbable. It?s not unreasonable to consider whether the many-worlds meta-theory of QM multiplies those probabilities, surely? Given the intimacy with which QM and the 'act' of observation are bound, experiential evidence cannot be lightly dismissed, I suggest. (See quantum mind and quantum consciousness.)

Tarot - you are the Andrex puppy and I claim my five pounds.

The Moving Finger writes; and, having writ, Moves on: nor all thy Piety nor Wit Shall lure it back to cancel half a Line, Nor all thy Tears wash out a Word of it. --Verse 51 of Edward FitzGerald's translation of the Rub?iy?t of Omar Khayy?m referring to Belshazzar's feast. Apparently, God didn't have an edit button - unlike rubsley/monkeymoo22!

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Marmora Man Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I'm pretty sure that if it had been me, a middle > aged businessman, stopped by the police I would > have been treated more courteously In my experience, one should always be ultra cautious while dealing with the police - many people have been seriously injured or killed during what began as a minor incident through misunderstanding, ego, bravado or just being in the wrong place at the wrong time. If one encounters a wrong'un on a bad day, it could be a life changing experience.

Expert analyses of several recently slaughtered chickens? entrails suggest they are going up.

Does an XP dual boot install create a new partition on the fly - if so, that's useful to know?

Could it be a faulty HDD, I wonder?

Ubj znal jvyy svther bhg ubj gb ernq guvf zrffntr? Whfg vzntvavat fbzr bs lbh (bar va cnegvphyne, npghnyyl) senagvpnyyl pyvpxvat ba gur ynathntr gnof gelvat gb svaq gur evtug bar vf nyernql znxvat zr ynhtu!

Narnia Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Nid fi oedd dim! Oh ie gwnaethoch!

There is a theory that Judaism was founded by priests of the pharaoh Akhenaton (1380-1362 BCE) who were forced out of Egypt when his new monotheistic religion collapsed ? that may be what you are referring to? Or was it simply because the Egyptians believed in resurrection, too? There?s also the enigmatic presence of a Jewish Temple on the Nile island of Elephantine in or around 495-399 BCE that tends to confuse everyone trying to make sense of Jewish history. Anyway, the scribes who compiled the Old and New Testaments borrowed ideas, themes and texts liberally from the religions and cultures of other civilisations including the Romans, Greeks, Persians, Babylonians, Egyptians and even Siberian shamanism and the Hindu, Buddhist and Jain beliefs - amongst others. The parable of the widow's mite is derived from a Buddhist text. Psalm 104 is derived from the Egyptian Hymn to Aten. The relationship between Noah's Flood and the Sumerian Gilgamesh epic has been noted. The encrypted sacred mushroom references are shamanist in origin. The NT contains direct quotes from ancient Greek authors such as Epimenides, Aratus, Cleanthes, and Menander - perhaps from other works too that have since been lost.

I'm pleased to announce that my virginity is still intact!