1. Can the rest of us have our planet back?

Comment #68766 by mikeofdoom on September 8, 2007 at 1:31 pm

I do wonder if i find this to be the only funny thing that Brigstocke's done, purely because of the subject matter.

I would very much like to draw people's attention to this interview with the late, great Robert Anton Wilson http://www.positiveatheism.org/writ/rawilson.htm
Someone all you Carlin fans should get to know.

Helps with all of the tedious either/or logic we all seem to get bogged down with.

2. To be Read at my Funeral

Comment #62800 by mikeofdoom on August 11, 2007 at 1:28 pm

'scuse me for signing up then dredging up old threads, but i think it pertinent to point out that Sagan's comment about us being "starstuff" refers to the fact that the elements heavier than hydrogen & helium were ALL forged in dying stars.
Aleister Crowley said much the same thing (from a waaay different angle) as "Every man and every woman is a star".

The most fundamental laws of physics seem to show that all of spacetime, energy and matter are one and the same, we are indeed all one as Buddha would have it.
Personally i find that way more beautiful than anything religion can come up with.

3. Postmodernism Disrobed

Comment #62798 by mikeofdoom on August 11, 2007 at 1:17 pm

I'm a little tipsy (damn Durham Brewery's fine, fine ales), but i dont think this has been linked yet,
Sokal's fake paper on "Transgressing the Boundaries: Towards a Transformative Hermeneutics of Quantum Gravity" - http://www.physics.nyu.edu/~as2/transgress_v2/transgress_v2_singlefile.html

One of the funniest things i've ever read.

4. Charles Brooker's screen burn

Comment #62794 by mikeofdoom on August 11, 2007 at 1:01 pm

One can only dream of the day when Charlie is crowned "Emperor of All Media".
Really pleased to see his stuff appear here.
Enough to sign up, in fact.

Is it possible we're all the dream of a malfunctioning computer at the end of time?
But...possible = true? Eek!!

5. The God Experiments

Comment #10201 by MikeOfDoom on November 27, 2006 at 12:30 pm

The only "god" or spirituality i have ever experienced was while under the influence of mushrooms (i do not advocate their use, but neither would i dissuade anyone from experimenting. it's your central nervous system, no one elses!). But i had the good sense to chalk it up as a totally subjective, internal, neurological and metaphysical phenomenon.