River: You gave up everything you had. Simon: [Chinese] Everything I have is right here.

'Safe'


Natter 54: Right here, dammit.  

Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.


tommyrot - Sep 21, 2007 12:32:53 pm PDT #2176 of 10001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.

I think there have been some weird anecdotes where flatlining patients have described events in a surgery theatre that they couldn't have observed from their prone (and at the time, DEAD) position, but I haven't heard of any "proof" of people going wandering from their bodies at will like in Dr. Strange comics.

Yeah. I've never seen any proof either. And didja' know that scientists know how to reproduce this sensation? It's an illusion of the brain, usually caused by a shortage of oxygen. Fighter pilots pulling high-g maneuvers (that reduce blood flow to the brain) sometimes experience it.


beth b - Sep 21, 2007 12:38:52 pm PDT #2177 of 10001
oh joy! Oh Rapture ! I have a brain!

all I learned about astral projection was from the cartoon " adventures of Jackie Chan"

better link to the old Blind dogs

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Connie Neil - Sep 21, 2007 12:43:17 pm PDT #2178 of 10001
brillig

I suspect my cube neighbor is not long for the tech support world.

Neighbor: I've just realized--being good at my job is just another way to get people to go away and leave me alone.

Me: Efficient customer service is just another way to get people to go away.

Neighbor: That needs to be embroidered on a pillow.


sarameg - Sep 21, 2007 12:44:50 pm PDT #2179 of 10001

5:45 on a Friday and it looks like we might have a bit of a problem.

Oh well, I'm still leaving.


tommyrot - Sep 21, 2007 12:47:27 pm PDT #2180 of 10001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.

5:45 on a Friday and it looks like we might have a bit of a problem.

Oh well, I'm still leaving.

Houston, we have a problem....

Ok, as long as your problem doesn't involve astronauts stranded in space, I say you're good to go....


Tom Scola - Sep 21, 2007 12:48:23 pm PDT #2181 of 10001
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.

Everything I know about astral projection I learned from Alex Chilton.

Each room is different, and filled with relics,
That will disorient you like psychedelics.
Thirty thousand monks at his direction,
Practicing things like astral projection.

Dalai! Dalai Lama!
Dalai! Dalai Lama!


tommyrot - Sep 21, 2007 12:51:12 pm PDT #2182 of 10001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.

I think Jonathan Richman met someone on the Astral Plain once....


Allyson - Sep 21, 2007 1:04:43 pm PDT #2183 of 10001
Wait, is this real-world child support, where the money goes to buy food for the kids, or MRA fantasyland child support where the women just buy Ferraris and cocaine? -Jessica

And didja' know that scientists know how to reproduce this sensation?

I read that!

A friend of mine wrote a blog post about some of the frequencies that may causes people to see "ghosts."

Like, a toaster can resonate at the same frequency as your eyeball, causing a weird visual hallucination, and magnets can give you that sensation of having the hairs on the back of your neck raise and give you goosebumps. So if you are lying on a very old spring mattress that has become magnetized over time, that eerie feeling that your room is haunted could go away with a new mattress and box spring.


brenda m - Sep 21, 2007 1:08:14 pm PDT #2184 of 10001
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there

So the ghost wasn't in the mattress after all?


Dana - Sep 21, 2007 1:08:57 pm PDT #2185 of 10001
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.

Eyeballs have frequencies?