The Dino-Aspie Ex-Café (for Those 40+... or feeling creaky)

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I like to listen to Enya when I draw. The trees at the beginning of this video are so beautiful!! ! No worries! Man is doomed to extirpation. The beauty will return and overgrow us, leaving no memory of our existence in a turn of the cosmos.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sB_Hmcv3Flg[/youtube][youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MTwas5a9AOA[/youtube]

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I'm not very musical and often skip the videos. I'm sorry thet I looked at yours Nan, in a way. I loved the beautiful trees but I was once again reminded of what we do to our world. I have been a greenie all my life and I can't believe we've come to this!

if you look at the end of the video, the children are replanting the trees. and they return.
it's too late for us, but there's still the children.

i think these must be photos of heaven and hell.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tCS1edxc6sg[/youtube]

If you listen to the children that are following us it is apparent that they are not going to make the same mistakes that we've made. They are far more ecologically minded than any other generation before them.

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/stor ... 5&ft=1&f=7


If humans vanished from the Earth, plastic, radio waves and reruns of I Love Lucy would be mankind's most enduring legacies.

Days after people disappeared, New York City's subways would flood, and in 10 years, Lexington Avenue would be a river. Streets would buckle and domesticated dogs would fall prey to predators.

Those ghostly images are described in vivid detail in The World Without Us by Alan Weisman, a freelance journalist who has written for The Atlantic, The New York Times Magazine and NPR. The non-fiction book, which is a combination of science reporting and speculation, explores what would occur if mankind disappeared, concluding that the Earth would gradually consume man's massive infrastructure and heal itself despite humanity's indelible — and destructive — imprint.

merle

dunno.

but i've seen and tromped around in plenty of old homesteads, ghost towns, and such out in the sticks in the southwest (usa) that are slowly crumbling to dust. in some places the only way you know there used to be something there is from the outline of the trees that were planted around the building. the trees are there, but the building's long gone. they're be traces of a road that leads nowhere. the old highways, some of them, are still there, but they're cracking and there's grass coming up in the cracks. and the flash floods have washed away sections here and there to where you'd never have known anything was ever there.

Hi, Nan, CC, Merle and anyone else! Just baking cookies and lurking.

That's how I felt. But still, I'm always glad to listen to Enya. It's a shame that we, as a race, are not teaching our children good stewardship of the earth, but hoping that they will practice it despite what they are surrounded with in this "throwaway society." That may sound harsh, but that's my personal opinion. BTW, I found that NPR article very interesting - the one you shared, Merle.

Dang it Hartz didn't you kill the thread last night? I have notches painted on the side of my monitor for thread killing. Give a guy a chance would ya?

I here by kill this thread!!

hi postpaleo, trying to set the café on fire?
(richie you might try to select the books you suggest a bit next time )

HAH!! ! I saw you lurking lemon. I knew you would try to bust my wa (Japanese, loosely translated by a friend as, peace/harmony. Might not be so loosely translated, one of his wives was Japanese.). Fire? Don't need no stinking fire, I've got philosophy's and classic art at my disposal. Don't make me use them to kill this place again.

Dead again!! !! Die, I say!! ! Out, out, damn spot!

There have been some studies on using neurofeedback to control chronic pain. The abstract in the link says they have reached the clinical trials stage. If the treatment passes those, the next question is how cost effective it will be. At the moment, fMRI is still expensive (price is supposed to come down), but I have seen reference to neurofeedback using EEG, which is a lot cheaper. You could ask your doctor to ask around, but remember that you'd have to be lucky at the moment. Right now, the information offers more hope for the future than a practical method available to normal mortals.

For a very general description of what neurofeedback is, you can go to New Scientist, at the end of the article in the link.