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You reckon they know what a Galah is mate?
This American had to google.
Some insults are universal. Some are so geographically or culturally specific that they don't work too well as insults outside those areas and groups. A little red bird with a funny call. hmmmmm......
google found me this video
adorable!
Yes, yes Oldavid I get that the insult is for anybody who just repeats back things they've heard. But that adorable Galah in the youtube video just charmed me
so sweet
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23 Mar 2015, 12:02 pm
Remember how John Lennon asked us to “imagine there is no Heaven”? Let’s try taking that out a little further. Unlike Lennon’s mental exercise, this may be a little trickier, since your human memory has nothing to compare it to, but strain your brain and give it a shot.
Imagine there is no existence. No you. No world. No Solar system, No galaxies, no outer space of any kind. No anything. No anywhere. Not even a pinpoint.
Imagine there is nothing, except emerging consciousness. No universe, no matter, no time. Only consciousness.
Within consciousness emerge patterns, repetitive constructs of thought. Consciousness imagines these patterns vibrating, bringing into existence spatial dimensions and some form of time.
Each vibrating pattern is its own form of individual consciousness. As the patterns vibrate, they produce waves, which interact to form particulate matter, building more patterns and acquiring mass. Each level of creation births its own new forms of consciousness and matter, each still part of the source, yet with its own independent form of awareness, through which the source can experience itself, each vibrating in harmony with the base patterns.
Only now can the interacting waves patterns form electrons and elemental particles.
Now, from here on, you can accept the Big Bang Theory of the expanding and contracting universe, because that’s what you’ve been told for years is the gospel according to The Cult of Science, but the BBT has recently been called into serious question, so you might look into the equations that indicate the universe has “always” been here (at least so long as there has been “time”), that every imaginable universe that could exist actually does exist, or that time somehow actually runs forward and backward at the same…er...time.
Quantum Equation Predicts Universe Has No Beginning
A Web of Alternate Timelines
What if dreams are just glimpses of all the weird stuff happening to other incarnations of our consciousness in alternate corners of the Multiverse? 
Point being, there is no reason to assume that all of existence is a complete accident, because that theory actually makes less sense than the notion of intelligent design. Some people are just so angry at having been fooled by the Santa Claus story as a child, that they make it their life’s mission to viciously assault anything that might even remotely lend support to the Christian Myths that they also feel are an intentional attempt to deceive and humiliate them.
Unfortunately, they’re throwing the baby out with the bath water. You don’t have to accept Yahweh the Hairy Thunderer or Jesus the Cosmic Muffin in order to imagine that the universe is a living, vibrant, conscious organism and you aren’t just a bag of insensate chemicals, whose awareness is created entirely by your brain and ceases to exist utterly when your body stops functioning. If that were true, it would be impossible for patients whose bodies experience clinical brain death – cessation of all electrical and chemical activity – to start breathing, wake up and describe in detail events that took place in the operating room while they were technically and completely dead. And like it or not, it does happen.
What has never happened, is that living microbes have magically and spontaneously generated out of a vat of “Primordial Ooze” in the lab, proving that life itself is a random accident. Nor have there been discovered the missing links that clearly demonstrate the gradual evolution of one species into another distinctly different species. Mutation, yes. Evolution, not so much.
So there isn’t that.
Modern man does not have all the keys of wisdom and knowledge that could ever be known. Only about a hundred and fifty years ago, we didn’t even know that bacteria and viruses caused disease, so assuming that we can know absolutely what is and what can never be, is pretty arrogant, not to mention closed-minded. Which is probably why the aliens still don’t think we’re worth talking to. 
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Imagine there is no existence. No you. No world. No Solar system, No galaxies, no outer space of any kind. No anything. No anywhere. Not even a pinpoint.
Imagine there is nothing, except emerging consciousness. No universe, no matter, no time. Only consciousness.
Within consciousness emerge patterns, repetitive constructs of thought. Consciousness imagines these patterns vibrating, bringing into existence spatial dimensions and some form of time.
Each vibrating pattern is its own form of individual consciousness. As the patterns vibrate, they produce waves, which interact to form particulate matter, building more patterns and acquiring mass. Each level of creation births its own new forms of consciousness and matter, each still part of the source, yet with its own independent form of awareness, through which the source can experience itself, each vibrating in harmony with the base patterns.
Only now can the interacting waves patterns form electrons and elemental particles.
Now, from here on, you can accept the Big Bang Theory of the expanding and contracting universe, because that’s what you’ve been told for years is the gospel according to The Cult of Science, but the BBT has recently been called into serious question, so you might look into the equations that indicate the universe has “always” been here (at least so long as there has been “time”), that every imaginable universe that could exist actually does exist, or that time somehow actually runs forward and backward at the same…er...time.
Quantum Equation Predicts Universe Has No Beginning
A Web of Alternate Timelines
What if dreams are just glimpses of all the weird stuff happening to other incarnations of our consciousness in alternate corners of the Multiverse?
Point being, there is no reason to assume that all of existence is a complete accident, because that theory actually makes less sense than the notion of intelligent design. Some people are just so angry at having been fooled by the Santa Claus story as a child, that they make it their life’s mission to viciously assault anything that might even remotely lend support to the Christian Myths that they also feel are an intentional attempt to deceive and humiliate them.
Unfortunately, they’re throwing the baby out with the bath water. You don’t have to accept Yahweh the Hairy Thunderer or Jesus the Cosmic Muffin in order to imagine that the universe is a living, vibrant, conscious organism and you aren’t just a bag of insensate chemicals, whose awareness is created entirely by your brain and ceases to exist utterly when your body stops functioning. If that were true, it would be impossible for patients whose bodies experience clinical brain death – cessation of all electrical and chemical activity – to start breathing, wake up and describe in detail events that took place in the operating room while they were technically and completely dead. And like it or not, it does happen.
What has never happened, is that living microbes have magically and spontaneously generated out of a vat of “Primordial Ooze” in the lab, proving that life itself is a random accident. Nor have there been discovered the missing links that clearly demonstrate the gradual evolution of one species into another distinctly different species. Mutation, yes. Evolution, not so much.
So there isn’t that.
Modern man does not have all the keys of wisdom and knowledge that could ever be known. Only about a hundred and fifty years ago, we didn’t even know that bacteria and viruses caused disease, so assuming that we can know absolutely what is and what can never be, is pretty arrogant, not to mention closed-minded. Which is probably why the aliens still don’t think we’re worth talking to.
There is wisdom here.
This IS refreshing.
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23 Mar 2015, 1:34 pm
What has never happened, is that living microbes have magically and spontaneously generated out of a vat of “Primordial Ooze” in the lab, proving that life itself is a random accident.
The Miller-Urey experiment hasn't been running for a billion years which is how long it took the first single celled life to arise. But it did manage to make amino acids out of its version of primordial ooze.
There have been lots and lots of them discovered. They are called transitional fossils and many have been found.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transitional_fossil
"Missing link" is still a popular term, well recognized by the public and often used in the popular media. It is, however, avoided in the scientific press, as it relates to the concept of the great chain of being and to the notion of simple organisms being primitive versions of complex ones, both of which have been discarded in biology.[59] In any case, the term itself is misleading, as any known transitional fossil, like Java Man, is no longer missing. While each find will give rise to new gaps in the evolutionary story on each side, the discovery of more and more transitional fossils continues to add to our knowledge of evolutionary transitions.[4][60]
We don't know everything there is to know. But then no scientist ever said we did- only that fictional narratives don't fill the gap too well. I can accept not knowing. I'm not going to try to fill my knowledge gap with 'well it might be true you just never know' narratives. But give the history of microbiology a little credit for its age. Its actual age is 469 years, not 150.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Germ_theory_of_disease
Of course that was just a hypothesis. It was over a hundred years until somebody started running experiments. This is one of my all-time favorite experiments because it is so simple and elegant and you can do it at home yet it destroyed the concept of spontaneous generation- the first step in refining germ theory.
Beautiful! Of course the Miller-Urey experiment seems to contradict that but not actually. The original spontaneous generation theory wasn't using billion year time scales.
