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ss of time it took time for the waters to bring forth abundantly science gives us some idea of the time as it can be measured in hundreds of millions of years oh for all you hebrew fans out there the term bring forth is the hebrew sharats which means to breed breeding is the means by which god populated the earth now that s not so hard to understand is it not even the most ardent creationist would dare suggest the bible is describing accelerated breeding and the subsequent births as all occuring within 24 hours yet this is the means by which the bible itself describes the earth being populated clearly the day described in genesis is a general rather than a specific term please let s read what s written not simply those affirmations that support our pre existing bias posted by peter at 9 48 pm 2 comments saturday august 08 2009 why so much friction why is there so much friction between people cultures races nations in the words of jack nicholson as the joker a homicidal maniac bent on killing everyone in gotham city why can t we just all get along oh the irony in that statement is a thing of beauty the answer lies in the way our minds work the book of proverbs declares every man is right in his own eyes we all inherently consider ourselves infallible consider this every problem in human relations from a marriage on the rocks to rockets pounding the gaza strip all stem from this one flaw in our perception of reality we assume we re right as milton observed evil is never so foul in our own eyes henry robinson s the mind in the making we are incredibly heedless in the formation of our beliefs but find ourselves filled with an illicit passion for them when anyone proposes to rob us of their companionship we not only resent the imputation that our watch is wrong or our car shabby but that our pronunciation of epictetus is subject to revision we like to continue to believe what we have been accustomed to accept as true and the resentment aroused when doubt is cast upon any of our assumptions leads us to seek every manner of excuse for clinging to it the result is that most of our so called reasoning consists in finding arguments for going on believing as we already do damn that last statement says it all most of our so called reasoning consists in finding arguments for going on believing as we already do so what should you do when you find yourself in an argument at work remember truth is the first casualty in any war what actually happened or what was actually said unless recorded on tape is irrelevant it s not what was said that s important but the reaction to what was said passion in the heat of the moment will have more to do with offended pride and the need to save face than any kind of logic or reason dale carengie said the little word my carries the greatest impact in life if it s mine it must be right it must be the best it couldn t be wrong it is beyond dispute it is divine don t forget it s easy to see this in others it takes courage to see it in yourself posted by peter at 9 37 am 1 comments thursday august 30 2007 another satisfied microsoft customer wow and you thought xp had problems a ex cop in the us recently ran into problems installing vista and struggled to get his old programs up and running after three hours his patience had run out but his ammunition hadn t the unfortunate computer took five slugs to the monitor a sixth missed passing through into the next apartment i only wish i could get in contact with him and say it s ok we know and understand the feelings and frustration you ve been through all is not lost you missed the tower case altogether so you can still upgrade to ubuntu and save yourself a lifetime of aggravation posted by peter at 10 35 am 7 comments monday august 13 2007 greetings fellow sagittarians if you have a distorted brain like mine you ve probably wondered about the angle on which the milky way cuts across the sky it s just all wrong the moon orbits the earth around the equator both north poles point roughly in the same direction in like manner the earth orbits the sun around its equator and again both north poles point in roughly the same direction but neither the sun nor the earth are in line with plane of the milky way and the question is why the answer is quite astounding over the past couple of billion years the milky way has been devouring a near by dwarf galaxy we have come to call sagittarius the process of colliding galaxies is quite complex and if you have ubuntu quite spectacular as ubuntu includes a screen saver that shows you the interactions of colliding stars graphically we ve always thought of our sun as forming on the spiral arm of the milky way but the reality is our sun formed from the fragmented ruins of the sagittarian dwarf as it collided with milky way rather than being a part of a spiral arm we re thundering through a spiral arm of the milky way our solar system is punching a hole in the spiral arm passing through it like a bullet which is not a bad analogy given the phenomenal speed our sun is moving at and the evidence the proof has been staring us in the face each night as we ve gazed up at the milky way rather than being on the same plane as our host galaxy we re passing through at roughly 60 degrees surprised find this incredulous unbelievable remember all truths start out as heresies curious you can read more about this from these links abc science the solar system s direction of travel we are not from here posted by peter at 9 15 am 5 comments labels astronomy science saturday august 04 2007 loyalty or honesty which is the greater trait loyalty or honesty it doesn t take most people too long to realise you can be loyal without being honest yet history is rife with examples of people who were loyal when honestly they knew better the most sensational example of this is of course the nazi s but the concept hits a little closer to home than that loyalty will always be valued over honesty by those in a position of authority be it political religious secular businesses or social groups simply because no one wants to be told they re wrong we instinctively and inherently resent honest notions that force us to justify ourselves and so our natural sense of values are topsy turvy someone that s loyal is seen as more valuable more of a team player more of an asset while someone that s honest is difficult a trouble maker reality of course is just the opposite the seemingly loyal devotee isn t at all loyal they re dishonest while the honest devotee is loyal to principle before position if you find yourself in a position where you are challenged to be either loyal or honest choose the tougher road less travelled and be honest posted by peter at 11 49 pm 7 comments labels ethics liberty politics sunday july 29 2007 why are we so easily fooled yep there s a bit of a common theme running through the last few posts the ease with which the mind can be fooled here s another one for you take a good look at this image the squares marked a b are the same shade of grey absurd ridiculous i hear you say i thought so too until i checked by opening the image with gpaint the linux equivalent of ms paint although it s a misnomer to call it an equivalent when its clearly superior yes this is simply an optical illusion but think about it if we can be so easily fooled by something so simple what does that say about other judgements we make in life a bit too sobering or negative perhaps but the most astounding thing about this is the mind s stubborn refusal to see things as they actually are even though i can logically convince myself that these too shades are identical i can t see it try as i may i can see the shades are the same when they re put next to each other but as soon as i look up again b is clearly lighter than a even though i know it s not so why is the mind so easily fooled i d like to hear what you think for my part i think it comes down to the fact that perception is a mental action not a function of the eyes think back to your high school biology class and how the lens in the eye inverts everything making everything upside down the mind then has to process that image turn it right way up so it reflects reality so everything we see has been processed to one degree or another it s all be tampered with subconsciously in short we see what we are supposed to see posted by peter at 12 17 am 8 comments friday july 27 2007 the ambidextrous mind the mind is a remarkable thing perhaps more remarkable than we dare imagine take for example this image which way is it turning clockwise or anti clockwise why don t be silly i hear you saying of course it s turning clockwise ah you must be right handed you see it s actually not turning clockwise or anti clockwise it s an illusion it will turn which ever way you want it to turn don t believe me give it a try as you re reading slowly become aware of the shadow at the bottom of the image try to ignore the legs and just let your eye settle on the shadow and presto you ll see she begins to turn anti clockwise ah the ambidextrous mind now are you ready for a real challenge can you make her turn either way at will that s a real test of mental strength you can do it the trick is in training your mind to recognise which leg she has extended if her right leg is raised she d be turning clockwise if her left leg is raised she ll be turning anti clockwise it helps if you focus on the shadow again the funny thing is it is harder to unlearn getting her to turn clockwise again is harder than getting her to turn anti clockwise the first time the mind loves a rut isn t it bizarre how you can literally talk your mind into seeing whatever you want to see there s a lesson in there somewhere posted by peter at 12 37 pm 14 comments labels health human sunday july 22 2007 mistakes were made but not by me looking for some light reading then this book probably isn t for you but regardless it is well worth adding to your collection mistakes were made but not by me is a rare look into the sordid world of self justification it examines how decisions that are clearly wrong can be made by people and justified or even strengthened when events go belly up take for example a cult that believed the world would end on december 21st and that they would be spared by being abducted by aliens at midnight on the 20th surely you would think when 12 01am rolled around the faithful would be faithless in a rational world that would be the outcome but not in the surreal world of emotional illusions by 4 40am when it was absolutely clear to the most ardent of the faithful that the prophecy had failed the prophet had another vision what a surprise and the vision was that the steadfast belief of the faithful a group of about 30 had spared the earth the billions of us outside the fold the salvation of the entire earth lay with those 30 kind souls quite thoughtful really after this instead of loosing momentum the faithful then became more passionate and devoted than ever before ah i hear you saying but i m no freak that could never happen to me yet this same mental mechanism cognitive dissidence works on numerous levels consider smoking the consequences of smoking are inescapable and horrendous and yet still millions persist moral of the story whether its alien saviours or a fag after a pint proverbs 21 2 still holds true every man is right in his own eyes i ve painted myself into a few corners over the years and got my feet dirty trying to get out of them mistakes were made by me here s a few others worthy of note in this category the lucifer effect with a title like that how can you resist dont believe everything you think is another a mind of its own how your brain distorts and deceives brings some humour and wit to the arguments so if you re stuck in the middle of the uk floods and a little bored go to amazon com and order some of these the military may not be able to get help to you but amazon will posted by peter at 11 34 pm 3 comments labels books ethics human religion wednesday july 18 2007 courage stupidity or a remarkable example of discipline it s silly i know but it does make a point life is how you see it so how do you see it courage stupidity or a remarkable example of discipline posted by peter at 10 37 am 6 comments sunday july 15 2007 the problem with religion the one universal tenet of all religions regardless of flavor is they don t think could it be put any more eloquently than this religion is based on unquestioning acceptance and for that reason it never progresses beyond where it is sad but true the great reformers from moses through to christ paul and luther all shared one thing in common the courage to question the status quo you would think we would have learned from that posted by peter at 12 09 am 6 comments wednesday july 11 2007 contribute to cutting edge astronomy want to be part of genuine astronomical research now s your chance computer operated machines have photographed more than a million galaxies or galaxy candidates but the human mind is still far superior to computers at pattern recognition and even if you teach a computer to recognise a spiral or eliptical galaxy the computer would still fail to recognise anything really unusual or new the scientists themselves are going nuts trying to classify this many photographs so they ve asked for help you can be the first human to set eyes upon a distant galaxy be the first to classify it here s one i classified as a clockwise from an observer in the milky way spiral galaxy i feel 80 sure if you can do better then you need to sign up quick right now i m the best they ve got on the web site you set up a user name then do a five minute tutorial in galaxy categorisation at the required level then do a quick test if you get 8 out of 10 you can contribute perfect for a lunch break have a go posted by _ at 8 08 pm 3 comments labels science monday july 09 2007 winning the lottery on the train into work this morning i caught sight of a fellow passenger sharing indignation with the sun newspaper mugger won 4m on lottery it turns out the winner had previously mugged an 88 year old lady for 6 to fuel his gambling habit apparently fury among readers of the sun is stoked by such an undeserving winner well gamblers and readers of the sun that s how gambling works you see winners are not chosen on merit a person gambles in the hope of getting something without earning it it seems just a little two faced to get upset that someone else gained what he never deserved a gambler s winnings are wholly at another s loss but don t let the exploitation gnaw at blunted conscience the odds are overwhelmingly in favour of once again becoming one of the chumps funding another unworthy winner posted by _ at 2 44 pm 5 comments labels ethics human sunday july 08 2007 what does it take to succeed what does it take to succeed if the trend of the last 20 30 years is to be believed all you need is pretty little posters with nice positi...