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Post by shin on Nov 17, 2005 1:14:52 GMT -5
I believe what Dee is trying to explain to us is also known as an "endorphin rush." Or perhaps an " over abundance of dopamine."
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Post by limitdeditionlayla on Nov 17, 2005 1:25:19 GMT -5
People suffering from schizophrenia often describe identical experiences. Its called psychosis.
Cokeheads get it too. Its called "a fucking good rush".
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Post by phil on Nov 17, 2005 7:45:08 GMT -5
Or maybe it was just a case of really bad ham !!
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Post by kmc on Nov 17, 2005 7:53:53 GMT -5
JAC, its ok. Ken is proud of me because I'm killer in the sack, is all. He respects me for my body and not for my mind. That bastard. I dig the mind too. It's just that, in the sack, great brains can only take you so far. |
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Post by phil on Nov 17, 2005 8:19:22 GMT -5
pigs have no sweat glands, Yuk! Neither do dogs !  ! Pigs are very intelligent, friendly animals. We always kept a few around the farm ... Méchoui, Prosciutto and Freezer were their names !!
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Post by phil on Nov 17, 2005 9:07:08 GMT -5
Top 10 Missing Links
Every few years scientists unearth the bones of humanity's forefathers. From Lucy to the Hobbits of Flores Island -- we are gradually seeing building the puzzle of mankind's evolution ...
- 10 Australopithecus Afarensis
The most famous member of this species is Lucy, an adult female skeleton discovered in 1974 and nicknamed after a Beatles song. Lucy lived about 3.18 million years ago and was fully capable of walking and running on two legs.
- 09 Australopithecus Africanus
A. africanus was an early descendent of Lucy and lived in Southern Africa between 2 million and 3 million years ago. Its brain was larger than Lucy’s and its facial features were more human-like.
- 08 Paranthropus Aethiopicus
This early ape-like hominid walked on two legs and lived between 2.8 million and 2.2 million years ago. Based on skull measurements, scientists concluded this species had the smallest adult hominid brain ever discovered.
- 07 Paranthropus Bosei
If P. bosei and its relatives weren’t such picky eaters, we might not be here to wonder about them. They split from the line leading to modern human some 2 million years ago and lived alongside our ancestors for millions of years, but died out after failing to adapt their diets.
- 06 Homo habilis
Many scientists believe H. habilis is the missing link between the ape-like hominids like Lucy and the more human-like ones that came after. It had long ape-like arms but walked on two feet and was capable of creating crude tools.
- 05 Homo ergaster
Scientists can't decide whether this African hominid is just a failed predecessor of H. erectus or the rightful ancestor of modern humans. It had a thinner skull than H. erectus and was more proficient at making tools and using fire.
- 04 Homo erectus
For H. erectus, it may have paid to be dense. According to one theory, males rammed each other with their thick skulls in order to win females. H. erectus is generally believed to be the direct ancestor of modern humans and also the first hominid to live in caves and tame fire.
- 03 Homo floresiensis
It turns out those Floresians were actually on to something. For centuries, their mythology described a race of very small human-like creatures called the Ebu Gogo. Hardly anyone took them seriously, however, until 2003, when word broke that a new species of diminutive hominids was discovered on the Indonesian island.
- 02 Cro-Magnon
These people looked identical to modern humans and lived in Europe between 35,000 and 10,000 years ago. Their cave paintings and sculptures are the earliest known examples of art by a prehistoric people.
- 01 Neanderthal
Stocky and squat and well suited for the cold, Neanderthals looked distinctly different from modern humans. But they were like us in other ways: they buried their dead, cared for their sick and injured and may have been capable of language and music. Scientists recently put together a complete Neanderthal skeleton and are working on the genome
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Post by Rit on Nov 17, 2005 9:24:51 GMT -5
i, for one, would have liked to meet my Neanderthal brethren. if only they had not been extincted off of the face of the Earth. They'd still be around, and the party would still be on. oh yeah.
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Post by phil on Nov 17, 2005 9:28:32 GMT -5
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Post by Nepenthe on Nov 17, 2005 9:39:05 GMT -5
pigs have no sweat glands, Yuk! Neither do dogs ! ! Pigs are very intelligent, friendly animals. We always kept a few around the farm ... Méchoui, Prosciutto and Freezer were their names !! Phil are you in the habit of eating dog meat  |
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Post by JACkory on Nov 17, 2005 9:43:10 GMT -5
JAC, its ok. Ken is proud of me because I'm killer in the sack, is all. He respects me for my body and not for my mind. That bastard. I dig the mind too. It's just that, in the sack, great brains can only take you so far. I dunno...the dumb ones tend to just lie there and giggle like they're being tickled, while the brainy ones are much more imaginitive and creative... And the smart ones know how to fake it, so I don't get my feelings hurt. Can't believe I just said that. j/k of course. |
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Post by Thorngrub on Nov 17, 2005 9:44:44 GMT -5
Hmmm, Roc: "asymptotes" - - - > I'm unfamiliar with the word, but it sounds as if, from what you described, that its a word used to showcase the theory that if you cut the distance in half each time you approach a wall, you will theoretically never get there. A sort of "infinite regression", it seems. Interesting
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Tuatha:
You mentioned something about God being the ONLY one who has existed "In The Flesh". I think that's interesting, but I wanted to share my alternate take: I think that we humans are the ONLY manifestation OF God becoming flesh. Kinda th opposite. But still along the same lines. I just think that we humans are the "flesh coat" which the otherwise "formless" God puts on, when he wants to go out for a "walk".
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Post by Nepenthe on Nov 17, 2005 9:45:12 GMT -5
Phil, they have already worked Neanderthal's genome, they aren't like us. Their DNA is completely different.
Lucy's knee bone was found a few layers under the strata than her original JAW BONE. The rest of her was scattered many feet, yards and even further away.
As a matter of fact, most of the finds they find are very limited and they duplicate what they feel should be the "missing pieces" of the skeleton. Sometimes all they find is a jaw bone or a piece of skull.
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Post by Nepenthe on Nov 17, 2005 9:48:23 GMT -5
Thorn, indeed we were made in God and the Elohim's image. Elohim, being the Angels.
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Post by Thorngrub on Nov 17, 2005 9:49:17 GMT -5
One bowl of porridge was too cold, one was too hot, but one was just right. THAT is wisdom, right there. It achieves optimum efficiency only by being just so; neither too much, nor too little. BUt right on the money. That is not "infinite"; that is balance. I believe that finity is a far more valid concept than infinity. And I believe infinity to be the crutch which has leached out all the muscular power from our intellects. (We now depend on this concept as if it were very real. We seldom question the validity of it, for instance. And so we're doomed to spin in endless cycles . . .treading the waters of ignorance, and getting nowhere. Ironic, huh?) But I do truly think knowledge, wisdom, whatever, is without bounds. We will probably never know everything. Maybe because so much of what we know is restricted by man-made concepts (like 'infinity'). I believe I'm well qualified to understand you there Thornwolf *coughs up a lung* You know somethin' La - - yeah I can also go along with that possibility, I mean, just think about it: "Wisdom is infinite" . . . sounds right, don't it? Perhaps because "wisdom" = "absolute (total) knowledge" = Includes the "AFterlife"/"Heaven"/"Godliness" = Eternal = Infinite, so yeah. . . it makes sense, it does. Mainly I'm of the mind it's something we cannot access until we die. ETernity that is |
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Post by Nepenthe on Nov 17, 2005 9:49:48 GMT -5
This is what they found in Ethiopia, I mentioned this one earlier. These are the bones that they consider to be the oldest near-humans. But they are indeed not exactly the same as Modern Humans.  |
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