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Re: Complicate the Person Above death tribble was once mistaken for Darren Watts, by Steve Long. @ Roter Baron Mr Roter Sir, I've thought of another plus for the new Tom Cruise film: the DVD "special features". Hopefully the DVD will come with a second or third DVD and it will have a documentary (or something close) explaining the 20 July plot from a historical point of view. One of my favourite DVDs because of its extensive special features, is The Great Escape.

Re: Longest Running Thread EVER incriminating screenshot.

Re: Musings on Random Musings Ditto, and add an extra 1d6 from me.

Re: The cranky thread Which platform?

Re: The Last Word But Nyarlathotep does!

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Re: The Last Word Is L. Marcus aka Dream of The Endless one of the many forms of Nyarlathotep, Lord of The Dreamlands!? More from Randol Carter shortly. (unless something happens in the meantime *hint* )

Re: A Thread for Random Musings Not sure if this has appeared before, but if so is worth repeating -- Alan Moore's unpublished proposal Twilight of the Superheroes. Basically it was to be a retelling of the Norse myth Ragnarok, The Twilight of the Gods.

Re: Musings on Random Musings ditto.

Re: Longest Running Thread EVER *bump*

Re: Complicate the Person Above Roter Baron fancies himself the reincarnation of Stefan George. I think that the reason why as that he was an honorable soldier of the German state, regardless that its current leader was a poison apple. That he kept his honour intack after the Bomb Plot says a lot about his character, IMO. IIRC, Claus and his brother Berthold were present at the funeral of Stefan George, held in Switzerland. Also, IIRC the George Circle told the Nazi leaders the funeral was to be held in the evening so they could have a private service and escape the Nazi's attempt to make a "national hero" and politize SG. It is my impression that Claus held firm to SG as his fuhrer (and mentor) not Hitler. Why else whould he name the military coup Secret Germany and read George's poetry to the group? I can understand that. The whole german resistance deserves equal recognition, Claus is just a natual figurehead, as his action had the most "impact". Agreed. (see above) Agreed also. I think the movie at least will open people's eyes that there was a German resistance to Hitler and the Nazi Party. The French resistence is more well known, hopefully the movie will go a long way to alert people to the Widerstand. I can recall a few times on the NGD where posters were surprised that there was a German Resistance. I was just looking up Stefan George on wikipedia, and his poem (or prose) Secret Germany was a proposed system of government. Did this poem have an impact on the "future government" plans?

Re: Complicate the Person Above L Marcus has been playing with dice with my sleep over the last few days. STOP. Stauffenberg is a personal hero, and I admire him. His last words were my sig here for a long period of time. I have only read a populist account of his life/bomb plot. I have been meaning to read a more scholarly account which is on my bookshelf. Are you saying that the government to be created from the coup was non-democratic? Since the coup was instigatated my military men, the government would be in effect martial law? To my understanding (and I recall you probably teach this for a living thus know your stuff much better than me) the Kreisau Circle was a civilian group independent from Stauffenberg's Secret Germany group, with little communication between the two. And I wholeheartly agree with your views of Scientology.

Re: Musings on Random Musings Thanks gal and guys. This afternoon I felt good but now with the onset of night, my symptoms are returning. Gonna blast them away!

Re: What Are You Listening To Right Now? To Susan On The West Coast Waiting - Donovan

Re: Complicate the Person Above Roter Baron fell madly in love with Scientologist Tom Cruise. ( ) ( I heard that Tom hasn't been welcome in Berlin since he is a Scientologist and is playing Claus von Stauffenberg in the movie, is this true? )

Re: A Thread for Random Musings L. Marcus lay of the D&D product line dreams, will ya. The state I was in last night, being forced to come up with a name for a adventure module, and then whist sleeping being forced to name a D&D product line was killing me. Please stop, for my sanity. Two days ago around lunchtime I didn't feel very well. It turns out that I have a cold/flu. Yesterday my day consisted on 1) wake up and take mediciene 2) do something positive, get out of the house and go to the movies (had more medicine before going out) 3) have an afternoon sleep, 4) watch movie on tv Son of the Mask, and Batman Begins. BB finished at 12:30. At 10pm I have more medicine (should have had it around 6, I woke up from my seista at 5:45pm) Last night I went to bed around 1:30, 15 mins before I cough lots and spew. Wake up at 3-4 (I forget what time it was) and had a cold & flu capsule for nighttime. Today, woke up ay 6:45am and went back to sleep at 7am. Woke up again at 9am dozed until 9:15 am, had breakfast at 9:30am and it took 20 minutes longer than usual, finsihed at 10:00am. The time now is 10:50 and I feel slightly woozy, have a headache and it feels like my right forearm, like my forehead has a fever. (Mum called it a "hot spot") Hopefully today goes better than yesterday, I feel like I don't have any energy, and feel lethargic. The basic movements eg walking or moving my limbs are slowed.

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Re: The Last Word I used to be like that, although at the time I didn't know the philosophical term. Would you still be able to help this anti-positivist out with the New Scientist articles?

Re: The Last Word In talking to a person studing for a physics doctorate I made a typo. I typed "quantum chronodynamics" instead of "quantum chromodynamics". Needless to say he had a good laugh (at my mistake). sidenote: I think at the time I was reading Hawking's A Brief History of Time as my rpg character had access to "cosmic power" sort of like a VPP. IIRC I created a black hole from Earth that appeared in Hell, well the black hole was my nemesis, I made the black hole contract, then expand infinitely, no more arch-devil who was literally blown apart, scattered to the winds of Hell.

Re: The Last Word What about the philosopher in you? Edit: Yeah I know it will be difficult, nay impossible, to design a scientific test to prove/disprove my theory. Metaphysics is by literal definition (after physics) impossible/impractical to test scientifically.

Re: What Are You Listening To Right Now? What put the "bang" in the Big Bang?

Re: The Last Word Expanding on my theory in the above post: I read this in a book (The Holographic Universe by Michael Talbot) : "...have reported cases in which NDEers said that the buildings of higher learning they visited were not just devoted to knowledge, but were literally built out of knowledge." That combines with the mid September New Scientist article that suggests math might be the nature of reality, well the two points together has me intruiged. Are they compatible? The quote above refers to the Heaven which the author (Talbot) identifies with Bohm's Implicate Order. This is to say that Heaven (to use the Christian term) as a realm above our universe reflects itself onto our universe and this is what science studies. So what I am endeavorering to find are articles in New Scientist that go "beyond" our universe and impact on or discuss from different angles - the Implicate Order - hoping to find information that supports my hypothesis -- our universe/reality is essentially abstracted conceptualised information reflected from the Implicate Order*. Also, if in Heaven schools are made of the knowledge they contain (music schools built from songs/music) and as that filters down and gets more dense it passes through the Implicate Order to the Explicate Order (our universe) which we can perceive and with science, measure**. Continuing this further, I've thought about the ramifications of how this would impact consciousness, our alphabet, hieroglyphics, the oral tradition of the ancients and what it would mean for us as humans. Yeah, I'm a philosopher, but not trained in any professional capacity, just naturally weird. * I could talk more about this (and for my sake I should) but not now. **It occurred to me just now that Plato's Theory of Forms covers the same ground, however my current perspective differs from his.

Re: The Last Word I found a page that lists the archives for New Scientist. Below is a listing of issues with the article article from that issue I'd like to read. My idea that I'm trying to develop/test is that the universe is essentially a reflected form of abstracted conceptualised information. The ones below are the ones I think would be most beneficial, there are others that would be useful, I'll list those after I have a chance to read these ones. I'll PM you my e-mail address. Most grateful. New Scientist - 17 March 2007 - http://www.newscientist.com/contents/issue/2595.html The illusion of reality in a quantum world - http://www.newscientist.com/channel/fundamentals/mg19325951.900-the-illusion-of-reality-in-a-quantum-world.html New Scientist - 14 April 2007 - http://www.newscientist.com/contents/issue/2599.html Impossible things for breakfast, at the Logic Café - http://www.newscientist.com/channel/fundamentals/mg19425991.400-impossible-things-for-breakfast-at-the-logic-caf%E9.html New Scientist - 30 June 2007 - http://www.newscientist.com/contents/issue/2610.html The flexi-laws of physics - http://www.newscientist.com/channel/fundamentals/mg19426101.300-the-flexilaws-of-physics.html New Scientist - 15 September 2007 - http://www.newscientist.com/contents/issue/2621.html Mathematical cosmos: Reality by numbers - http://www.newscientist.com/channel/fundamentals/mg19526210.500-mathematical-cosmos-reality-by-numbers.html Note: If you are using Mac OS X, in the print dialog box you can save a document as a Acrobat file (pdf) by clicking on the PDF button. This would be easier for me. If you have to use a Windows box to access the articles, well there is nothing then I can do about that is there?

Re: The Last Word For something to interest Cancer: The Hooke Folio