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Re: Vivi's back!
« Reply #900 on: October 16, 2007, 05:12:03 PM »
it's not weird at all that a scientist would be a witch. witches are scientists by nature, if you ask me. would you agree?

that's a really interesting idea -  :plus: for making me think already this morning!   :clap:

yes, i think i'd agree with you.  inquisitive; wanting to know how and why things work as they do; finding alternative ways to do things; interested in cause and effect; troubleshooting; healing work; cause and effect...

yep, i can think of lots of ways in which a witch (groan) uses scientific processes.  good one, milla.  ;D   :-*

thanks. :green: :-*

it's funny how some want to separate spirituality and nature. they are sides of the same coin. quantum science has different rules than regular science. that already explains a lot. a lot of quantumical things can be seen as magical.
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Re: Vivi's back!
« Reply #901 on: October 16, 2007, 11:40:44 PM »
indeed - when everyone else in my student group (when i was doing my teaching degree-thing) knotted their brains trying to understand "in search of schrodinger's cat", i breezed through it, having more of a inclination towards things which can't be explained in "normal" ways (yet).

also, there's a school of thought which combines eastern (particularly) mysticism and quantum physics - fritjof capra's "the tao of physics", and gary zukov's "the dancing wu li masters" are two books i can think of, off the top of my head.

the easiest way i explain "magic" is by saying that everything is energy (simplistic, i kow), and that the desk your computer on isn't solid, but made up of mostly space, with teeny little things whizzing round.  "magic" is just manipulation of that energy.

oh, and "quantumical" is fab!  :laugh:

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Re: Vivi's back!
« Reply #902 on: October 17, 2007, 02:18:27 AM »
 :-* thanks, i like it myself. :P

yeah it's all energy. and when you think of it that way nothing's really too wacky to be tossed in the X-files pile. :laugh: it can all be understood. it's all very simple really, people just like to complicate things. they think complicated things are smarter than simple things. when understanding and appreciating simplicity is what is really wise, and is lacking in current science. if you ask me. also scientists need more intuition. it's all so mechanical to them, and the universe is alive, it's no more a machine than man.
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Re: Vivi's back!
« Reply #903 on: November 02, 2007, 03:00:19 PM »
If electricity comes from electrons, does morality come from morons?

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Re: Vivi's back!
« Reply #904 on: November 02, 2007, 03:04:22 PM »
If electricity comes from electrons, does morality come from morons?
Electricity doesnt "come" from anywhere. Energy is merely converted between forms.

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Re: Vivi's back!
« Reply #905 on: November 02, 2007, 03:05:10 PM »
If electricity comes from electrons, does morality come from morons?
Electricity doesnt "come" from anywhere. Energy is merely converted between forms.
Hey, he wasn't asking you.
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« Reply #906 on: November 02, 2007, 03:05:39 PM »
If electricity comes from electrons, does morality come from morons?

aubergines.

/nods, sagely.

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Re: Vivi's back!
« Reply #907 on: November 02, 2007, 03:06:28 PM »
If electricity comes from electrons, does morality come from morons?
Electricity doesnt "come" from anywhere. Energy is merely converted between forms.
Hey, he wasn't asking you.
So. He should have asked a fizzycist...

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« Reply #908 on: November 02, 2007, 03:07:31 PM »
how do you know i'm not?

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« Reply #909 on: November 02, 2007, 03:09:04 PM »
how do you know i'm not?
Your area of research, when you hinted at "possibly saving my life" a few months back. I doubt you would have flipped between 3 completely different subjects in your academic life.

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« Reply #910 on: November 02, 2007, 03:10:51 PM »
If electricity comes from electrons, does morality come from morons?

aubergines.

/nods, sagely.

You mean if an aubergine falls in the forest, what is the sound of one of its hands clapping??

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Re: Vivi's back!
« Reply #911 on: November 02, 2007, 03:11:23 PM »
If electricity comes from electrons, does morality come from morons?
Electricity doesnt "come" from anywhere. Energy is merely converted between forms.
Hey, he wasn't asking you.
So. He should have asked a fizzycist...

I am one (well, my speciality is astronomy), and he's right, in a roundabout sort of way. :laugh:
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« Reply #912 on: November 02, 2007, 03:11:48 PM »
If electricity comes from electrons, does morality come from morons?

aubergines.

/nods, sagely.

:LMAO:

I owe you a :plus:
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« Reply #913 on: November 02, 2007, 03:12:12 PM »
how do you know i'm not?
Your area of research, when you hinted at "possibly saving my life" a few months back. I doubt you would have flipped between 3 completely different subjects in your academic life.

er, let's call it four, shall we?

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Re: Vivi's back!
« Reply #914 on: November 02, 2007, 03:13:06 PM »
If electricity comes from electrons, does morality come from morons?

aubergines.

/nods, sagely.

You mean if an aubergine falls in the forest, what is the sound of one of its hands clapping??

tut.  don't be stupid - aubergines don't have hands.  ::)

but that was Zen, and this is Tao.