Kind of related but I went to a talk by a historical anthropologist and he made a remark about how if someone excavated Tuscaloosa they'd think Bryant Denny stadium was used all the time given how much bigger it is than any other building in town. But the reality is it's used for about 10 days a year. Always thought that was interesting in the context of these old marvels we pontificate about so much.
I’m logical at heart. I believe in science and physics not spirituality or mysticism. The Atlantian myth is one that’s always intrigued me though. Maybe not that specifically but an ancient civilization with advanced technology that met their demise before spreading globally. I like Atlantis because if that civilization existed it makes sense we have no evidence if it’s in the bottom of the ocean.
I have a hard time with what happens at death. I'm not religious but the idea the lights just go out when you die is hard to fathom. I want to think there's something else but maybe that's placebo effect
I just kinda think about it like I didn't find the billions of years before I was born to be unpleasant and I imagine it'll be a lot of the same after I die.
Dropping acid and romping around in Mount Rainier National Park is easily one of the most incredible experiences of my life. Buddy that I did that with is a geologist, so it added additional value in that he knows the how and why of what I was seeing, but also ensured I didn’t get lost as fuck while nerding out touching moss and staring at waterfalls.
Every once in a while, I revisit the Fermi Paradox and have my mind blown. I think it’s been posted here before, but I’ll always repost it on topics such as this https://waitbutwhy.com/2014/05/fermi-paradox.html
I think there being absolutely nothing is the most comforting scenario me. It’s having more after death that ties me all up in knots considering the whole how this life works for a ton of people thing
I regularly drive past a Lemurian fellowship, kind of want to go in and grab a pamphlet. Maybe. But Roman history is very well documented and Rome has been continuously occupied. Can't say the same for pre-Columbian American nations(this professors area of expertise). I think his point was more that it's odd that many of the most impressive architectural achievements were for things that were almost never, if ever, used by the society that built them.
I’m an atheist, but of all the theories that exist, reincarnation is the only one that seems feasible to me. If we think of our beings (souls as it were) as a specific bundle of electric impulses and energy, then the laws of physics would dictate that it doesn’t simply disappear at death. Maybe it just migrates.
calm the fuck down dorkstore. you don’t need to wish death on someone just because they called out your shitty post hell yes
staying on this board when you seemingly have decided everyone is adversarial to you is self harm should fix that
But, why is there no real memory of past lives or previous incarnations? I tend to agree with you in the sense of energy, but if that bundle of energy/impulses/consciousness/whatever is broken down and then reanimated in a way that has no memory/history of what it was before, is there really a difference?
I like this one. But everyone here hates my shit, and that's fine, I can live w that, but I'm not leaving the site. You'd be doing everyone a huge favor if you just banned me.
I’m not him but I usually try to tell people this, maybe to help them be more comfortable with the idea. I almost died a couple times in 2017 and 2019. The only time I knew something was wrong was when I woke up in ICU. It’s impossible to explain how peaceful it was because it’s impossible to feel nothing when there is nothing to feel. No worries, no pain, nothing. Idk what happens when it’s all over but if that’s it, it’s okay.
Great thread- have already learned: 1. There is a strong probability that other earth-like planets exist in the thousands (not something I had ever really thought about) 2. We’ve barely scratched the.surface when it comes to exploring our oceans 3. the origin of the cyclops mythology 4. that Egyptians will never get their well-deserved credit for building the pyramids
Appreciate you sharing this. From what you shared, it sounds like you could perceive the nothingness, was that only when you regained consciousness?
Yes, it’s impossible to imagine but there was nothing to fathom or comprehend. The only reason the idea of nothingness is concerning is because we can try to think about it. You take that away completely and there’s nothing to feel. It’s like nothing was ever there to begin with. I sound dumb but I don’t know how to explain it.
Not dumb at all. Still freaks me out though. Admittedly, dying is my biggest fear, mostly because there’s still a lot I haven’t done yet and I have others that rely on me. If/when I’m old, I imagine that dread will dissipate. Did you have a sense of how long you were gone for when you woke up? Is it anything like a dreamless night’s sleep? sorry for the multiple questions, but I find this subject matter fascinating/terrifying.
No problem, and no I didn’t have a sense of time at all. I can pm you if you want the entire stories etc.
Atlantis likely existed. Maybe not an entire continent, but there are several societies/towns/islands etc that have vanished beneath the seas. Also, idk what would be “advanced” like you always hear about that place. Rome was an advanced society vs most places on earth at the same time. The Minoans just disappears and could be the result of an earthquake or volcano. There’s an entire Egyptian town under water like 10 miles off the coast of the Nile. Also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Port_Royal
All the bigfoot talk reminds of the Knowledge Fight episodes with the guy that called in to Project Camelot about traveling to different planets with the Squatch. Very funny shit if you haven't listened.
I used to be a JFK multiple gunmen/conspiracy theorist when I was young. Then I fell down the rabbit hole and am fully convinced Oswald acted alone. I guess if you could question anything it would be if an outside source influenced him to commit the assassination but even that stuff is really thin. You end up having to believe more and more conspiracies to make the original theory work.
In the FBI recreation video, they stick a camera out the window to get the view from the purch. There is what appears to be a bullet hole in the metal trim of the stop light (not caught until decades later). From that angle, it would account the first shot that ricocheted to the under pass…fired when the car first turned onto Dealy plaza. This matches an eye witness that saw the gunman leaning out the window. I think a lot of the secrecy may be due to intelligence failures as Oswald was being monitored and feds failed to act. JMO.
I've seen computer models that tracked the flight path of the bullets. It's a straight line to the sixth floor window where Oswald was.
It's logically easier for me to square that we are an accident of chemistry and time than to make sense of a benevolence that allows all the stuff to happen on earth. I know there are more ways to look at an afterlife than an omnipresent God that impacts daily lives but it makes me feel a lot better if there's nothing. Because then there's really no reason for bad things to happen to good people besides happenstance/bad luck. That logically makes way more sense to me and makes me feel a lot better than that sort of stuff being part of a plan. If it's part of a plan, that's when I have a real tough time understanding things. Also this: Like before you were born.
I mean, I’m no scientist and will readily admit to ignorance, but what was so incorrect that you felt the need to be so insulting? Energy changes forms, but isn’t destroyed, correct? And in death, the energy that once kept the body warm and functioning leaves the body, correct? Is your apparently extreme chagrin because you see this hypothesis as violating the concepts of thermodynamic equilibrium and entropy?
Said this before in here but a conspiracy that apparently has fallen out of favor/interest was that FDR allowed the Japanese to attack Pearl Harbor to gain popular consensus for entering WW2. I don't believe even a tiny bit of it but I had a history teacher in HS that was all in on it and distributed a big collection of materials to students that supported his claims. And this was before google was widespread. That' mf'er had to actually go to the library to put that together.
I mean the softer version of this is true that he knew freezing their assets and restricting their supplies would prob provoke an attack. They just didn't know where or when
Right but this dude thought the American military intercepted Japanese communication as they were traversing the Pacific on their way to bomb Pearl Harbor, that FDR was made aware, and they did nothing about it.
Even if it were true I'm not even sure we could have done anything to stop it. We were not prepared for war at the start of WW2