That every one of us has godlike powers that control reality and the only thing holding each reality in check is the perception of others with the majority opinion prevailing. It’s scary.
Then I accidentally hit my thumb with a hammer and realize I’m full of crap.
You think that’s *air *you’re breathing now?
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I believe that what we now perceive to be “spooky” or “weird” quantum behaviour will actually turn out to be logical, sensible and intuitive behaviour - we’re just hostage to the big gaping holes in our understanding of energy/motion/matter…
Eg, there’ll be a physics lecture given one day where the professor says to his class something like “… so that’s why results of things like the ‘double slit experiment’ seemed so awfully strange to the early quantum physicists…” with the class all nodding along in an ‘oh yeah, makes sense’ kind of way.
That Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer, the old stop-motion TV Christmas special, is full of barely-concealed anti-Semitic propaganda. Seriously, I swear it could have been produced by Goebbels.
I knew a professor at Murray State who bought into that. I doubt that we’re talking about such a broad conspiracy as that, though. What I am saying is that any time I hear someone opine about the character of someone like Pompey or critique the military tactics of Alexander or Julius Caesar, I roll my eyes a little. To the extent that all of the generally-accepted classical personages existed at all, we see them through a glass darkly, at best.
I agree. I’ll add that I don’t think we can know yet if the Earth’s core is really a ball of molten iron, or a plutonium reactor, or something we’ve never imagined as it is so far from our experience on the crust. The Earth is opaque to most wavelengths.
You guys don’t think Mormons tend to be good looking? In a bland sort of soft American Norman Rockwell way? I’m surprised. In my experience, they all look alike but they’re a pretty handsome lot.
They do all look like Rick Steves, though.
Naw, it’s a parable of being gay. Seriously, Rudolph gets in trouble in gym class for displaying his big red… nose? Herbie doesn’t want to [del]date girls[/del] make toys, he wants to be a [del]interior decorator[/del] dentist. And they sing a song about being misfits. They run away together, make the acquaintance of burly bear Yukon Cornelius, find a [del]gay bar[/del] Island of Misfits, and finally earn respect in the eyes of the Patriarch of the North Pole.
More off the wall theories of mine:
IQ scores keep going up because cesarian section now allows children whose heads would have been too big to be born survive.
Quantum physics makes sense if you allow that small-scale time reversals are creating Grandfather paradoxes at the particle level.
I too think that the Gulf of Mexico is a huge impact crater.
I also think today’s polarized politics is solely among the electorate and that the politicians secretly share the same goals and are playing good cop/bad cop with us.
Ha, can sort of see that. But I think Rudolph’s large, strange nose is reminiscent of the grotesque noses found on Nazi propaganda posters. Herbie doesn’t want to slave away in a [del]work camp[/del] toy factory, and wants to become a dentist, a fairly stereotypical occupation for a Jew. Santa wants to get rid of/banish Rudolph until he finds a use for him, etc. It makes more sense when I’m sitting down watching it.
In the Warner Brothers cartoons, The Coyote (who doesn’t speak), Wile E. Coyote (who does), and Ralph Wolf (with a bit of makeup on his nose) are three distinct characters portrayed by the same actor.
Of course these days you couldn’t get away with having a coyote in makeup play a wolf. 
Dogs that fetch incessantly hate doing it, but are compelled by Poochy-type OCD. Their heart sinks when the tennis ball comes out. They know what’s comming. Behind their panting faces they beg you to stop. You don’t. They hate you. They hate themselves.
Global warming is the most recent messianic Northern European campaign to be foisted by them onto the rest of the world - like Christianity, scientific materialism, industrialism, capitalism, nihlism, communism, fascism. This one, like some of the others, is tinged with some good old fashioned Teutonic/Götterdämmerung conniption.
I’m woking with some people who have discovered a number after 2. We call it 3. We think there may be another number after that. But don’t tell anyone. We haven’t published it yet.
Yeah, I think something similar. Or, at least, I think that quantum physics has led to so many strange conclusions that I suspect physicists have the model way wrong. I think we’re in a similar state to when astronomers had to have crazy arcane formulae to explain the motion of planets and stars because they thought the earth was stationary, and the center of the universe. Or when physicists axiomatically accepted the aether and had dozens of little exceptions to explain to make it match to observable reality.
I suspect maybe matter and energy are just a mapping, or something, of some more inner reality that doesn’t have things like probabilities of things in the past still being uncertain. Or, just recently, physicists claiming to have merged particles that didn’t exist anymore. I think Einstein’s relativity was right in a very fundamental way, and quantum physics is a hack job that predicts “well” (if saying that at subatomic scales probability is reality can be considered “predicting well”), but that misses some huge core fact that makes everything ‘make sense,’ if you will.
I hope I’m alive when the breakthrough that I think is coming comes.
Also, I think American wars go popular/unpopular each generation, because each generation’s wars are started by those who were in formative years when the last year was fought. I think an unpopular war keeps the US masses from succumbing to the stupid drumbeats of war by chickenhawks…for a generation. Then the next generation is susceptible again.
The Civil War was unpopular. The Spanish American War was popular. WWI was unpopular. WWII was popular. (The Korean War is an aberration in the data). Viet Nam was unpopular. Gulf War I was popular. Gulf War II was unpopular.
Also, Frosty the Snowman is an allegory of the Christ.
Miyazaki’s Spirited Away is one huge allegory for a young girl overcoming the fears of puberty. To me, the Freudian symbolism is so blatant as to be almost embarrassing, but of course my wife doesn’t see it and thinks I’m nuts.
Electricity is like snake venom – you build up a tolerance for it with repeated exposures.
I just read that wiki. Holy shit. Does the author really believe what he wrights?
I think this, too. I hope to be alive when the new model of physics comes. I’m enough of a physics geek to think that would be a really exciting thing.
I would really like it if someone I know were involved in making this new model. Mr. Neville and I know a lot of astronomers, so that’s not out of the question.
I believe this, too. I’m not planning to sanitize the house when our new baby comes, because of this. Get rid of things like lead paint that we know are dangerous, yes. Freak out if the baby swallows some cat hair or if there is dust in the nursery, no. I think making things too sanitary is likely to do more harm than good.
Do you remember those old merged/averaged pictures that went around? If this guy and that girl had a baby it would like “X” type things?
I always used to look at those and wonder: If you put a bonobo on one side and one of thosebig-eyed alien heads in the other; wouldn’t you get Celine Dion?
Seriously though, I think humans are a hybrid of the known primates and something else which is now gone.
My old crazy theory that my family had more than the average Neanderthal DNA has not entirely been proven. But the base point that there does in fact exist an average level of Neaderthal DNA has been accepted.
It’s in Wikipedia, so it must be true.
