W.H.O. (are you), WHO WHO

[Smitty-48]

JRJ will never forsake you, Dorothy Gale knows deep down, she just calls it something else

HE gave her, He can take her away

So I feel it all right now, say it all right now, while there is still time

[DBTrek]

I was bored one night and couldn't sleep so I started a long chain of wikipedia links that led me to string theory and all this other weird stuff. Tbh it made me realise that I am kind of a dumbshit lol. I am of the opinion that human beings are not evolved or designed or whatever to understand how the universe works. Its beyond our comprehension. I have never read a convinving account of how we evolved to be conscious. Other animals are conscious too, but they don't have religion art etc afaik. How did this come about? It really is like a fairy tale.

That's why I'm perpetually amused by religion-mockers who are like "You believe some fairy tale god made everything? Damn you're a superstitious rube. Go visit a witch doctor with your medical ills, you savage. Hahahahah! Everyone knows that first there was nothing at all, and then it exploded into everything!"


Like . . . if you're gonna mock people for believing ridiculous shit, you need to come to the table with some less-ridiculous shit.

[Xenophon]

I was bored one night and couldn't sleep so I started a long chain of wikipedia links that led me to string theory and all this other weird stuff. Tbh it made me realise that I am kind of a dumbshit lol. I am of the opinion that human beings are not evolved or designed or whatever to understand how the universe works. Its beyond our comprehension. I have never read a convinving account of how we evolved to be conscious. Other animals are conscious too, but they don't have religion art etc afaik. How did this come about? It really is like a fairy tale.

That's why I'm perpetually amused by religion-mockers who are like "You believe some fairy tale god made everything? Damn you're a superstitious rube. Go visit a witch doctor with your medical ills, you savage. Hahahahah! Everyone knows that first there was nothing at all, and then it exploded into everything!"


Like . . . if you're gonna mock people for believing ridiculous shit, you need to come to the table with some less-ridiculous shit.

But...but neutrinos.

[Speaker to Animals]

And to lay my cards on the table.. I think I actually have had this since late Jan or early Feb. I have basically been sick for three months. So have quite a lot of people I know (and friends of friends across North Carolina). Lots of people got extremely ill and never tested positive for influenza, beginning late last Summer.

The route it could have taken from UNC Chapel Hill to Wuhan was from the researchers that collaborated with the Wuhan Institute of Virology. They both were literally experimenting on this bat virus before the pandemic began.

I don't know what actually happened, and neither does anybody else based on publicly available knowledge. Assuming it just had to come from a Chinese lab is not supportable by the evidence. Maybe it did. Maybe it didn't. Evidence supports multiple possible origins, including a highly improbable coincidence of this thing infecting humans naturally in Yunnan at the same time researchers in Wuhan Institute of Virology and UNC Chapel Hill were experimenting on that virus.

But if you are going to fixate on the Wuhan Institute of Virology, consider that you cannot really untangle UNC from that story because the two institutions were collaborating on the same viral research into this specific coronavirus.

Ask Glory of Greece who talked to me on the phone throughout that time. I really have been sick for that long. It's not likely influenza because the other people who have legit health care that caught the same illness tested negative for it.

[StCapps]

JRJ will never forsake you, Dorothy Gale knows deep down, she just calls it something else

HE gave her, He can take her away

So I feel it all right now, say it all right now, while there is still time

That might be plan, but I have a hunch it isn't

Say it anyway, live life like you're gonna write a song about it

[Smitty-48]

That might be plan, but I have a hunch it isn't

Say it anyway, live life like you're gonna write a song about it

i can't help it if i tried, it's a firestorm of music, i'm just being tossed around in it

[DBTrek]

But...but neutrinos.

Fuck a neutrino.
God made that too.


Nah, my point is we're like a couple of ants bumping into the tire of a Ferrari and arguing over whether it was created or came about through natural means. First of all, we're ants. We can't even perceive the whole Ferrari, much less grasp the concept of its purpose or the mechanations that drive it. Ant brains just can't grasp it, man. They can argue all day, but they'll ultimately run up against the limitations of ant-thinking, and never get close to the truth.

So ... ok, ant-person over here thinks these other ant people are dumb. But we're all dumb, because we have the same limited brains.
/shrug

[StCapps]

That might be plan, but I have a hunch it isn't

Say it anyway, live life like you're gonna write a song about it

i can't help it if i tried, it's a firestorm of music, i'm just being tossed around in it

Gangsta Ass Smitty FTW

[Montegriffo]

At this point we don't even know that this virus is real.


Think about it. We've seen people coughing, images of people with masks, hospitals with patients etc, but have you actually seen the virus? Like, with your naked eye? No, you haven't.


It has always made me suspicious that viruses are small. So small, in fact, that we can't see them, yet they can kill a 200 pound man. Lol, how does that work. Ever seen a bar fight? The bigger guy usually wins. The idea that a tiny little critter can make a person sick is absurd at best, and a dangerous lie at worst.

Until I see this virus, I'm riding on the assumption that it is not real. In fact, I'm not even sure that viruses being small as they supposedly are could travel from one person to the next like that. It would take them weeks to walk the distance of even a yard because they must have small little legs.

None of this adds up.

I feel the same about atoms.
This table I'm sitting at is supposed to be made of atoms but I can't see them. I have no proof this table exists at all, or anything else.

I was bored one night and couldn't sleep so I started a long chain of wikipedia links that led me to string theory and all this other weird stuff. Tbh it made me realise that I am kind of a dumbshit lol. I am of the opinion that human beings are not evolved or designed or whatever to understand how the universe works. Its beyond our comprehension. I have never read a convinving account of how we evolved to be conscious. Other animals are conscious too, but they don't have religion art etc afaik. How did this come about? It really is like a fairy tale.

I remember one time in college I was shrooming with some friends and this guy I was talking to just went off on this long tangent similar to mine about existence, reality and all that stuff and finally someone else in the group told him to shut up. He was making us all anxious and sad by bringing that stuff up at the moment lol. It was pretty damn funny looking back.

Our inability to comprehend is why mankind has to invent gods.
It's like Smitty's quote about never getting in the universe's panties that someone had as their sig.
Some things are better just left to geniuses in electric wheelchairs to think about while we watch reality TV programs and sportsball on the box.

[DBTrek]

And to lay my cards on the table.. I think I actually have had this since late Jan or early Feb. I have basically been sick for three months. So have quite a lot of people I know (and friends of friends across North Carolina). Lots of people got extremely ill and never tested positive for influenza, beginning late last Summer. ...Ask Glory of Greece who talked to me on the phone throughout that time. I really have been sick for that long. It's not likely influenza because the other people who have legit health care that caught the same illness tested negative for it.

Hope you recover soon, man. That sounds shitty.
My little girl had three solid days of 103 fever in Boulder City, NV just before the outbreak started making waves. Other symptoms too . . . but she bounced back quick. I still wonder if she got it, but figure not ... since no one else in the family went down.

Either way, get well soon.