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30 Apr 2009, 9:41 pm

The topic of this forum area has sparked a frequently pondered concept of mine. I often feel that randomness is not truly random. I don’t mean like a computer’s RND command (which only seems random), but in the sense of true Brownian motion/stochastic process randomness in general. Sometimes when I think about it deeply and the world drops away, I can almost see a pattern there – some kind of chaotic logic. I never can really grasp it; it’s just at the edges of understanding. Like when you stare at something intently without moving your gaze and the black edges start to creep in around your vision. This usually happens to me when looking into a fire or watching water flow by.

Are things random? And isn’t randomness itself a pattern? Bell curves are bell shaped, after all. I know on a quantum level, physicists have been saying that there is true random motion among subatomic particles, but I even wonder if there is just something there that we haven’t discovered or stumbled upon. Something that would explain our universal model more fully.



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30 Apr 2009, 9:48 pm

i wanna talk about the new slipknot, would you like to discuss this with me?



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30 Apr 2009, 10:34 pm

ultimate random is still in a system of cause and effect. everything moves from the point of the big bang, no pause, no "new chapters", just one single continous move.

ahhhhhh...


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30 Apr 2009, 11:10 pm

eidigpnjep;ninfeipnjenineinnoo201i2q3


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30 Apr 2009, 11:49 pm

a sudden aroma of pine just came into the room and i am loving it :pig:



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01 May 2009, 6:49 am

The Thatcher Flu makes you unable to roll your tongue.


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01 May 2009, 1:01 pm

It occurred to me today (the reason why would be a bit TMI) how delicately balanced the human body is. You cannot really mess with any part of it without somehow disturbing something else, it's all so interconnected. I knew this, but I never really thought about it that way before.


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01 May 2009, 1:20 pm

philoceratops and mongoliensis, altho O. mongoliensis is most likely applicable to a separate genus, namely "Rinchenia" as soon as that mess gets sorted out batman batman batman, on another note, "mongoliensis" seems a fairly common species designation in mongolian dinosaurs, probably other batman batman batman mongolian creatures as well, since




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