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1   NDrLoR   2020 Dec 23, 3:08pm  

The tats say a lot. I think a lot of people of a certain class are simply losing their minds, will believe any kind of malarkey. She's British so she's probably on every kind of public assistance known to mankind, doesn't do a thing all day long.
2   Tenpoundbass   2020 Dec 23, 8:31pm  

Mom has chilling conversation with 4 year old daughter after discovering this...

That's the Commie Youtube stuff topics I was talking about.
4   richwicks   2020 Dec 24, 8:09am  

NDrLoR says
https://www.yahoo.com/news/mom-past-life-tiktok-something-173450003.html


It's BS. I wonder when the fuck people will ever stop trusting their media?

Have we found that fucking weapons of mass destruction program in Iraq yet? No? That's because our "news" media is entirely full of shit. It's clickbait and propaganda now, nothing more. It absolutely has no obligation to the truth whatsoever.

If there was reincarnation, we'd be seeing people at 5 years old that had all the education of a physicist or a medical doctor. When has that ever happened?
5   HeadSet   2020 Dec 24, 8:57am  

richwicks says
If there was reincarnation, we'd be seeing people at 5 years old that had all the education of a physicist or a medical doctor. When has that ever happened?


Well, that may explain those child prodigies that are classical piano or violin music prodigies as 5 year olds. Maybe the powers that be are keeping the Einsteins for themselves, and only recycling the Bachs.
6   georgeliberte   2020 Dec 24, 9:19am  

Imagine how chilling it will be if Hillary Clinton does this through a child!
7   Shaman   2020 Dec 24, 9:36am  

richwicks says
If there was reincarnation, we'd be seeing people at 5 years old that had all the education of a physicist or a medical doctor. When has that ever happened?


My theory (and it’s heresy) is that reincarnation is a real thing, and is reserved for those who “didn’t get it right” in their first lives.
I have some science based ideas to back it up.
First is the actual structure of memory. It’s been a mystery. Scientists have theorized that it’s a function of neural pathways that get imprinted with chemicals that leave a memory. But honestly, that’s still a bunch of hand waving over things they truly don’t understand.
A better theory is Quantum Cognition
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_cognition

Memory as quantum mechanics could very well work and explain how memory retrieval is contextual and dependent. Assume your neural pathways to various memories are pathways that form a quantum matrix where memories are stored in a multiverse not dependent on our own reality or universe.
Could memories therefore survive the death of ones physical brain? Quantum theory suggests this could be the case, as they aren’t stored in the brain, only accessed through it.
And if quantum cognition is a valid theory, it would also suggest the existence of a soul, a guiding extra-planar source of will that sits in the brain experiencing the world and making choices about it while being influenced by the physical body it inhabits.
This soul would certainly survive the body’s death, retreating to that alternate plan of existence where all souls wait to be reborn or repurposed.

I can’t prove any of this, but it does tie a lot of things together that are otherwise unexplained about our existence and our relationship to the universe and these bags of meat we inhabit. It would also be a universal tie-in for religion, giving a scientific theory to explore the nature of our existence.
8   Shaman   2020 Dec 24, 9:42am  

Oh, and I forgot to answer @richwicks statement that I quoted above.
If quantum cognition/memory is how human memories are stored, and neural synapses in your brain are how they’re accessed, then if you were reincarnated into a different body and brain you wouldn’t have the same links to your old memories. You wouldn’t have links to any memories at all beyond whatever memory your soul could recall. And yet stories like this persist, of recovered memories of past lives. So perhaps some people sometimes can access some of their memories from other lives. It would just be a matter of making the connections that no longer exist because the brain you linked them with is dead and gone. If the soul can learn or be taught to remake those connections, the memory could also return.
9   richwicks   2020 Dec 24, 10:39am  

Shaman says
My theory (and it’s heresy) is that reincarnation is a real thing, and is reserved for those who “didn’t get it right” in their first lives.


I don't mean to be a dick about this, but you mean hypothesis. This is a pet peeve of mine. A theory is when you have a model that accurately represents past observations and makes good predictions. Again, I honestly am not trying to be a dick about this, but it drives me nuts when people say theory when they mean hypothesis.

Shaman says
And if quantum cognition is a valid theory, it would also suggest the existence of a soul, a guiding extra-planar source of will that sits in the brain experiencing the world and making choices about it while being influenced by the physical body it inhabits.


It would be true hell if I existed for all of time. I honestly cannot think of something more horrifying. If I continue to exist in some other plane of reality when I die, fine, I can deal with that - but getting back into this fucking world? An utter nightmare to re-enter it when I've come to understand it so well. I'd rather go to oblivion than start out as a child in this insane asylum again.

We live in a world where the most vapid, evil people rise to the top, and the most moral and integral people sink to the bottom. I am well aware of this planet being ruled by bullies and sociopaths, and who the fuck wants to be at the top when that's the goddamn top? When you really truly look at life and completely understand it, you realize you can only help a single individual, maybe a few at a time by shielding them from the world, but you can't possibly improve the world as a whole. You can improve lives, one at a time, with great effort, and great sacrifice, and that's it.
10   stfu   2020 Dec 24, 4:20pm  

richwicks says
I don't mean to be a dick about this


This should be tattooed on my forehead.
11   richwicks   2020 Dec 24, 7:59pm  

stfu says
richwicks says
I don't mean to be a dick about this


This should be tattooed on my forehead.


Correcting people must be done gently. They aren't stupid, they are not idiots, they are only misinformed. I have found you have to be very gentle with a person's misconception.
12   Onvacation   2020 Dec 24, 8:09pm  

richwicks says
Correcting people must be done gently

With humility. Those that know that they don't know may know more than you ever think you know.

Ya know.
13   just_passing_through   2020 Dec 24, 8:10pm  

Shaman says
A better theory is Quantum Cognition


I buy into Quantum affects relative to thinking as well but to make a quote from the Princess Bride: I don't think that word means what you think it means. <- Doesn't really extend to the ideas you posted.

I'm pretty sure reincarnation is bullshit as well.

Some think quantum affects are the wall that will keep the human intuition/creativity beyond the reach of artificial AI. Maybe so. We're finding quantum affects in biology more and more now. For instance chloroplasts, the bits of plants that make them green and glean energy from sunlight can actually use a single photon of light in twice. This is because the photon at the quantum level can be in two places at one time! Crazy stuff even without the made up stuff that people pull out of their ass. Incidentally the fact that we are so good at making up stuff and pulling it out of our asses is being attributed to quantum affects at the neural level.
14   Onvacation   2020 Dec 24, 8:31pm  

just_passing_through says
I'm pretty sure

But not certain.just_passing_through says
This is because the photon at the quantum level can be in two places at one time!

How do we really know that?

just_passing_through says
made up stuff that people pull out of their ass.

Yeah that would explain it.

Humans are constantly making stuff up to try and explain their perception. Some people believe the earth is flat and they used to be Napoleon before they were reincarnated.
15   Shaman   2020 Dec 25, 7:12am  

richwicks says
It would be true hell if I existed for all of time. I honestly cannot think of something more horrifying. If I continue to exist in some other plane of reality when I die, fine, I can deal with that - but getting back into this fucking world? An utter nightmare to re-enter it when I've come to understand it so well. I'd rather go to oblivion than start out as a child in this insane asylum again.


That’s hardly an original thought. The Buddha based an entire new philosophy/religion around the idea of transcendence beyond endless reincarnation. He called it Nirvana and it’s also a great band. :)
I think it’s more complex than he postulated, but that’s not a terrible jumping off point.
16   richwicks   2020 Dec 25, 7:14am  

just_passing_through says
Quantum affects


Quantum Effects. Affect and Effect can both be nouns and verbs and I don't know what the fuck the rules are, but I know generally which one to use. Constantly have to look that one up though.
17   just_passing_through   2020 Dec 25, 8:16am  

richwicks says
Quantum Effects.


Yeah, you're right, I usually get that correct but also have to think about it. Too much eggnog.
18   HeadSet   2020 Dec 25, 8:55am  

Too much eggnog.

There is no such thing as "too much eggnog."
19   Shaman   2020 Dec 25, 9:06am  

richwicks says
just_passing_through says
Quantum affects


Quantum Effects. Affect and Effect can both be nouns and verbs and I don't know what the fuck the rules are, but I know generally which one to use. Constantly have to look that one up though.


Effect is like cause and effect: a direct consequence of something else. Affect is more like a metaphysical or emotional result of something.
20   Onvacation   2020 Dec 25, 9:07am  

Shaman says
Affect is more like a metaphysical or emotional result of something.

I thought affect was when queers went limp wristed.
21   Automan Empire   2020 Dec 26, 10:46pm  

Affect with the accent on the first syllable is a psychological term meaning level of emotional response/display. Someone who is emotionally stiff and robotic is said to have a flat affect.

Affect with the second syllable stressed refers to the state of having experienced or been influenced as or by an effect. "The event had a powerful lasting effect on the hostages, even those who tried not to let it affect them."

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