Why this is an evil warning from staff

[Lightenup]

Quote (Stu @ Aug. 03 2009,00:57)

Lightenup I agree regarding the mods.  A thankless task it must be to maintain a site like this in the face of the many problems posed by the way unknown people use and abuse the internet.   I also agree about strongly dissuading people from issuing personal abuse to one another. However under your system of punishing everything ungodly, I think I would last four more posts before being terminated for having five increasingly yellow little squares. I am sure you would not mean that to happen to such a frequent and valued contributor to Heavennet as myself! Stuart

Hi Stu,
My opinions about tiles are the least of what you should be concerned with. You might be interested in watching this:

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=4136610474021109864

Great hope for tomorrow,
Kathi

[Stu]

Quote (Lightenup @ Aug. 04 2009,05:47)

Quote (Stu @ Aug. 03 2009,00:57) Lightenup I agree regarding the mods.  A thankless task it must be to maintain a site like this in the face of the many problems posed by the way unknown people use and abuse the internet.   I also agree about strongly dissuading people from issuing personal abuse to one another. However under your system of punishing everything ungodly, I think I would last four more posts before being terminated for having five increasingly yellow little squares. I am sure you would not mean that to happen to such a frequent and valued contributor to Heavennet as myself! Stuart   Hi Stu, My opinions about tiles are the least of what you should be concerned with. You might be interested in watching this: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=4136610474021109864 Great hope for tomorrow, Kathi

At least you did not try and prostyletise directly to me. Have you actually sat through the whole tedious miserable 88 minutes of this video?

I lasted about 40 seconds, and maybe it gets really jolly and upbeat after that. I will never know.

Christianity: misery for humans since 33CE!

Stuart

[theodorej]

Quote (Stu @ Aug. 04 2009,07:12)

Quote (Lightenup @ Aug. 04 2009,05:47) Quote (Stu @ Aug. 03 2009,00:57) Lightenup I agree regarding the mods.  A thankless task it must be to maintain a site like this in the face of the many problems posed by the way unknown people use and abuse the internet.   I also agree about strongly dissuading people from issuing personal abuse to one another. However under your system of punishing everything ungodly, I think I would last four more posts before being terminated for having five increasingly yellow little squares. I am sure you would not mean that to happen to such a frequent and valued contributor to Heavennet as myself! Stuart   Hi Stu, My opinions about tiles are the least of what you should be concerned with. You might be interested in watching this: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=4136610474021109864 Great hope for tomorrow, Kathi At least you did not try and prostyletise directly to me.  Have you actually sat through the whole tedious miserable 88 minutes of this video? I lasted about 40 seconds, and maybe it gets really jolly and upbeat after that. I will never know. Christianity: misery for humans since 33CE! Stuart

Greetings stu….. it is always a pleasure….you are indeed part of the seasoning in this forum….you are engaging and in doing so you cause me to think…I have not got the time to proseletise and I am not sure what would be accomplished if I tried….

[Admin]

Quote (Nick Hassan @ Aug. 03 2009,13:14)

Hi, Th owner of the site is T8 but he is not here often. We know each other and chat from time to time. Consistency is the aim for fairness as far as tiles go but I think they should be removed if not added to within a certain time period.

I agree.

I have deleted some tiles from members just now.

If you would like to be detiled, I will consider it if you PM me.

[Proclaimer]

If anyone wants a tile just let me know.
I have a few spare ones to give away.

[Not3in1]

Quote (t8 @ Oct. 03 2009,10:18)

If anyone wants a tile just let me know. I have a few spare ones to give away.

I also think Nick's idea of taking them away after a certain amount of time is an excellent idea.

See, CA, this is why we need Nick around. I was think about this over lunch…..it really is a thank-less job. And like t8 said, it's not a sign of spiritual maturity, it's a job.

Thanks guys for putting together a great site that we can enjoy!

Love,
Mandy

[Douglas]

Quote (t8 @ Oct. 03 2009,10:18)

If anyone wants a tile just let me know. I have a few spare ones to give away.

I don't suppose they come in green?

Or with a letter Z on with a handy triple letter score nearby?

[Proclaimer]

They would need to be specially made. Expect a delay and a surcharge.

[Douglas]

Quote (Stu @ Aug. 04 2009,07:12)

Quote (Lightenup @ Aug. 04 2009,05:47) Quote (Stu @ Aug. 03 2009,00:57) Lightenup I agree regarding the mods.  A thankless task it must be to maintain a site like this in the face of the many problems posed by the way unknown people use and abuse the internet.   I also agree about strongly dissuading people from issuing personal abuse to one another. However under your system of punishing everything ungodly, I think I would last four more posts before being terminated for having five increasingly yellow little squares. I am sure you would not mean that to happen to such a frequent and valued contributor to Heavennet as myself! Stuart   Hi Stu, My opinions about tiles are the least of what you should be concerned with. You might be interested in watching this: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=4136610474021109864 Great hope for tomorrow, Kathi At least you did not try and prostyletise directly to me.  Have you actually sat through the whole tedious miserable 88 minutes of this video? I lasted about 40 seconds, and maybe it gets really jolly and upbeat after that. I will never know. Christianity: misery for humans since 33CE! Stuart

Hah, no, it goes on and on rather repetitively. I didn't watch it all either, after around 12 minutes I started skipping chunks, because it repeats on a theme so grindingly (and I don't have that much time).

A few obvious observations:

The strong religious slant doesn't enable any discussion of alternate possibilities (like the fact a dying brain could dream just as a sleeping brain does) It also led to a very strong bias in the selected people (I bet a statistical analysis of the dreams of the dying would result in inability to draw a provable link between lifestyle and their dying experience – eg. there would not be a cut off point at which it would be a pleasant versus unpleasant dream).

He did differentiate between clinical death and biological death. None of those people had finished dying, all had sufficient functionality remaining in their systems to be resuscitated.

And what's with all the mist and theatrical effects the person presenting it felt the need to use?

Have to say it's an interesting question as to whether or not the brain can dream as it shuts down. However I don't have any data to support the idea of life after death (it has something of a vain and selfish obsession with the idea of continuing forever). I am of course always amenable to changing my opinion if someone can come up with a sufficiently convincing theory or proof.

Key problems you'd need to address:
As an individual there is a certain quantity of information and functional logic that must be represented somewhere for you to exist (quite a large quantity actually)
To alter the states of whatever medium you're using to store that information and logic would require some sort of power source.

I'm also curious what the point would be, since a finite system (you or I) has a finite number of possible states (albeit a very large number) and in an infinite amount of time you would precisely repeat yourself an infinite number of times (you'd exhaust all the possible states you could represent)

Anyway, as a general and open question – if people can't look after the world we do know we have, why on earth should they think they have some sort of entitlement to anything more?

[Douglas]

Quote (t8 @ Oct. 03 2009,22:09)

They would need to be specially made. Expect a delay and a surcharge.

In a world where instant gratification is the main theme for most people, it sounds like altogether too much trouble!

[Douglas]

Quote (Douglas @ Oct. 04 2009,00:17)

Quote (t8 @ Oct. 03 2009,22:09) They would need to be specially made. Expect a delay and a surcharge. In a world where instant gratification is the main theme for most people, it sounds like altogether too much trouble!

Oh, for me, individual and unique almost every time.
Won't make sense to anyone else, but that doesn't matter!

[eveh]

I have found it is to my benefit to type out an answer, let it set to gel awhile and then go back and read it again before I post it. It is rather like counting to ten. Mama used to tell me, “Put your brain in gear before putting your mouth in motion”.:p

[Proclaimer]

Good advice.

[Author]

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