I don’t think you grasp the full significance of this. This isn’t the longest woosh in SDMB history-this is actually the first and only case of an SDMB member successfully wooshing himself.
Thanks so much for the informative reply.
Who here owned, or still owns, a Nintendo 64? If so, did you ever own/play Banjo Kazooie? (The original one I mean). If not you missed out - not only was it a great game, but it also has the answer to this riddle.
On the graveyard level, there is a giant Ouji board, with a Cate Blanchett big enough to sit on. Cate moves around the board, spelling out certain things, at the end of which something good happens. You win a prize, or something.
This PROVES several things:
1)The boards ARE fueled by magic. You never even touch Cate Blanchett, only the controller, but it moves… BY ITSELF!
2) This leads to physical effects - the board shows you how to get the prize!
3) Mst crucially, it is reproducible. I played that game a thousand times, and every single time the results were the same. They call that science, bitch, it just got served to you.
So… Gruntilda is Satan… and Banjo and Kazooie together form the Holy Trinity, minus one… it fits!
No lottery.
How do they decide who to throw rocks at?
No lottery in the spirit world.
I doubt it.
No lottery in the spirit world my friend.
Been there.
And how about pie? They’ve gotta have pie, right?
Do they get to see Pixar films, or just Dreamworks? How do they feel about Wall-E in the spirit world?
So have I. There IS a lottery.
In your dreams.
But they know all sorts of things about our world with which to beguile the unwary. And the lotto would be such a tempting bait for young, naive souls. Yeah, they know about the lotto; probably MySpace also.
You’re skirting the issue, my friend, and it’s because you were caught making contradictory claims regarding the spirit world. You said:
Now even the smartest spirit will not give you the lottery numbers because the numbers are not known until drawn.
There obviously are lotteries- in this world. And you knew that’s what was being asked because you stated that spirits can’t give the lottery numbers not because lotteries don’t exist, but because the lottery a human would be interested in would be in the future and spirits can’t see the future.
But…you also said:
In the spirit world events happen simultaneously. So there is no past, future, time, and space, and no calendar.
So, how about admitting that at least one of your statements are inaccurate?
So you’ve been there, and you learned all this… how? Somebody tell you? Something? You experienced all of time — past, present, future — first hand? Elaborate…
No, I get it! Our world has time all spread out, like an elephant standing on toothpaste, but the spirit world is timeless! So they can’t predict our lotto numbers, because our time is different.
I GET it now!
Time is just an illuuUUUuuuussion!
So… does that mean if two spirits are having sex, they are ALWAYS having sex, and always have been having sex? Don’t you see, they would only need to get laid once, and then they’d be orgasming for eternity!
So why would they want to leave that to nudge my finger four centimetres to the left?
Your logic is wackey
Actually, no, it isn’t. You obviously have the answers. We don’t. Please answer.
And I second cmyk’s request. I really would like to know how you know all this. You may have been there. I haven’t.
And there is no sex in the Champagne Room.
Life is full of disappointments.