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General discussion, odds and ends

Obni · 2005-05-05 08:54:37

How about a sticky topic where people can just throw out musings, share information, and allow general waffling, all without reference to a particular topic?

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#52 17-08-2005 10:13am

Obni

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Anyone know whether tickets for the RDS Richard Wiseman/Simon Singh lecture need to be pre-booked, or do you just turn up on the night?

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#53 23-09-2005 6:35pm

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A group of our careful friends in the local Paranormal forum are heading off down the country tomorrow to Charleville Castle near Tullamore to do a little bit of light ghost hunting with casette recorders, still and video cameras, protoplasmic wet-wipes, flux capacitors, dilithium crystals, and whatever other paranormal paraphenalia and gear is usual on these trips. Unfortunately, I'll be in Cork for the weekend, so I won't be able to join anybody willing to spend an hour or two under a bush behind the castle, with sounds-effects tape, chilly-air generator and flashlight, but if anybody else is on for it, do feel free to write a report when yiz get back

The last time that intrepid forum dispatched a team of redshirts was a few nights back, when a group spent a while scouting about the Sally Gap. Well, Things Were Seen (lots of black, and some blurry white and red things) and An Anomily (sic) was duly recorded. See the short writeup and photos here.

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#54 01-10-2005 10:45am

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ISAW wrote:

I discover the above links are now dead. but one can locate the chomskybot at:
http://rubberducky.org/cgi-bin/chomsky.pl

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#55 26-01-2006 4:58pm

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Great letter in the Irish Times today on the churchs "mumbo-jumbo", such as exorcism, limbo, churching etc. Just need to add one or two more to that list, say God for example, and the chursh might be worth listening to

"....also welcomes the abolition of the equally barbaric ritual of "churching" and the consignment of the doctrine of limbo to, well, limbo. But why stop there?"

"What a pity all this mumbo-jumbo was foisted on our benighted ancestors by Fr Good's fellow churchmen who lacked his enlightened theological views"

Fairplay Mr. JOHN A MURPHY from Cork

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#56 01-02-2006 12:22pm

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Upcoming Event
Current Research and Treatment in Cancer and Questionable Therapies to Avoid

Speaker: Prof. John Crown
When: 8pm, Wed, Feb 1, 2005
Location: Gandon Suite South, Davenport Hotel, Merrion Square, Dublin 2

Professor Crown is a Consultant Medical Oncologist at St. Vincent's University Hospital and St. Luke's/St. Anne's Hospital. He will examine current progress in the understanding and treatment of cancer and will refer to the many quack therapies that are foisted upon cancer patients and their families.

€3 for members, €6 for non-members.

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#57 02-04-2006 11:33am

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Anyone see the "Generation Mumbo Jumbo" article in The Dubliner's April issue addressing the rise of gobbledegook in Ireland ... a breath of welcome fresh air in medialand ... even quoted the ISS!

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#58 28-03-2007 12:12am

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http://www.theonion.com/content/node/38575

Quotes from article
"following the 1997 publication of physicist Stephen Hawking's breakthrough paper, "Lorentz Variation And Gravitation Is Just About The Hardest Friggin' Thing In The Known Universe."

"To be a scientist, you have to learn all this weird stuff, like how many molecules are in a proton,"

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#59 10-06-2007 2:45pm

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:eek: One can tell that we have a moral decline, since we are not fighting over transubstantiation versus consubstantiation! Gee, what has the world come to?:p

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#60 10-10-2007 2:41pm

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the number 333 does not mean "Expression" not that I have found anyway. In numerology it represents the "Ascendant Masters are with you". Angels of great power who agree with you and are there to help guide you. In Greek Grematica it means " Hope" but the most interesting meaning I have found was from Aleister Crowley who used Grematica to eh ..discover? the meaning to represent the Demoness Chorozon which he changed from Corozon to make it fit better I think. This Demoness is some sort of lord of the Abyss (and yes I mean Lord she is oft represented as male) The Abyss being a Cesspool of psychic waste (anger fear obsession doubt) and the number 333 represents a person about to cross her domain (The Abyss) a very difficult task by the way. This person may transcend to an entire higher level of conciousness if they succeed or...apparently be destroyed if they fail.
333 in the bible represents the trinity and while it is indeed half of 666 it is not representing the anti-christ version 1.5 it is the nearly the opposite.
There is another popular "numerology" where it represents some silly thing about angels as your co-pilot meh I never pay much attention to modern "Numerology" scientists use the term Numerology to mean fake science because the methods used in numerology are very suspect as math can pretty much create any number combination you could ever imagine and obviously some of those are going to be coincidental.

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#61 11-10-2007 11:25pm

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Corozon333 wrote: »

the number 333 does not mean "Expression" not that I have found anyway. In numerology it represents the "Ascendant Masters are with you". Angels of great power who agree with you and are there to help guide you. In Greek Grematica it means " Hope" but the most interesting meaning I have found was from Aleister Crowley who used Grematica to eh ..discover? the meaning to represent the Demoness Chorozon which he changed from Corozon to make it fit better I think. This Demoness is some sort of lord of the Abyss (and yes I mean Lord she is oft represented as male) The Abyss being a Cesspool of psychic waste (anger fear obsession doubt) and the number 333 represents a person about to cross her domain (The Abyss) a very difficult task by the way. This person may transcend to an entire higher level of conciousness if they succeed or...apparently be destroyed if they fail.
333 in the bible represents the trinity and while it is indeed half of 666 it is not representing the anti-christ version 1.5 it is the nearly the opposite.
There is another popular "numerology" where it represents some silly thing about angels as your co-pilot meh I never pay much attention to modern "Numerology" scientists use the term Numerology to mean fake science because the methods used in numerology are very suspect as math can pretty much create any number combination you could ever imagine and obviously some of those are going to be coincidental.

Em ... Whatever you say

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#62 10-09-2008 3:33am

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robindch wrote: »

A group of our careful friends in the local Paranormal forum are heading off down the country tomorrow to Charleville Castle near Tullamore to do a little bit of light ghost hunting with casette recorders, still and video cameras, protoplasmic wet-wipes, flux capacitors, dilithium crystals, and whatever other paranormal paraphenalia and gear is usual on these trips. Unfortunately, I'll be in Cork for the weekend, so I won't be able to join anybody willing to spend an hour or two under a bush behind the castle, with sounds-effects tape, chilly-air generator and flashlight, but if anybody else is on for it, do feel free to write a report when yiz get back

The last time that intrepid forum dispatched a team of redshirts was a few nights back, when a group spent a while scouting about the Sally Gap. Well, Things Were Seen (lots of black, and some blurry white and red things) and An Anomily (sic) was duly recorded. See the short writeup and photos here.

Guffaw!!!
Skeptics, Sceptics, Judean Peoples front?
Nice to find forum...

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#63 09-10-2008 5:12pm

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robindch wrote: »

Hi Solas -

> Takes the oppertunity to cuddle ISAW and Robin while on their territory

Good to have you drop by!

> [555] signifies "change" in the form of redirection.
> 333 signifies "expression".

Interesting. Can you tell us more?

There is book on numbers by Doreen Virtue which explain the meaning of the numbers from 1 to 999. For example "555" signifies "Major changes and significant transformations are here for you. You have an opportunity to break out of the chrysalis and uncover the amazing life you truly deserve." and "333" means "You have merged with the ascended masters, and they are working with you day and night - on many levels. They love, guide, and protect you in all levels."

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#64 14-05-2009 11:56pm

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118.....got your number!!!

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#65 06-03-2015 1:14pm

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ASAI complaint upheld against "Geopathic Stress healing jewellery" , take a look at the advertiser's response to the complaint for a paragraph of concentrated woo so powerful it would rival Cthulu himself in unreason.

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