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Originally posted by SportTrance One morning I had to get up about 5 hours before usually had to wake up. I hadn't woken up this early in months and months. So I went to bed that night, set my alarm clock. I woke up exactly 1 minute before the alarm went off........Now, it still amazes me, and I honestly can't figure it out. It had nothing to do with my biological clock, because my hours are totally different. Just another "weird" event.....

This constantly happens to me all the time. I always find my self waking up moments before my alarm goes off no matter how early or late it is. It seems to happen when I think hard about the event that I have to wake up for. Strange huh?

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'Truth is a pathless land'. Man cannot come to it through any organisation, through any creed, through any dogma, priest or ritual, not through any philosophic knowledge or psychological technique. He has to find it through the mirror of relationship, through the understanding of the contents of his own mind, through observation and not through intellectual analysis or introspective dissection.

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Originally posted by cbxzcm This constantly happens to me all the time. I always find my self waking up moments before my alarm goes off no matter how early or late it is. It seems to happen when I think hard about the event that I have to wake up for. Strange huh?

That's something I sometimes think about : HOW DOES THIS HAPPEN? It happens EVERY TIME I need to be up early. I awaken between 1 and 5 minutes before the loud alarm goes off. Every time it happens, I always think that some mystical force "woke me up" because "it" realises that this is a VERY important reason for me to get up.

what really gets my brain going is why o why did u cut the boobies off of ur sig??? they were so nice....they were firm and pointy and beauitful....

the matrix has you...

there's more to life than we can imagine. just think about other dimensions - you can't see and imagine how they'd look, but they're still there. when a sphere passes throught a 2-dimensional plane, you see a dot which gets bigger, becomes a circle, and then becomes a dot again and disappears. well, when a hyper-sphere (4D sphere) passes through 3D space, you see what? a sphere!

ET. isn't there a slight chance that there is ET coexisting with the same world as us, but in another dimension? they can see us, we can't see them.

parallel worlds. have you ever watched "Sliders" (damn, that's one of me favorite shows)

and btw, aren't we using only like 10% of our brain?

how'd we know we're not some kind of an experiment? maybe our world currently exists in some kind of a test tube somewhere in the lab of the creatures that are searching for the same, or similar answers.

and as for pain - it's sorta like gravity. it's there, but you can't prove it. i mean, if you really think about it, what is that strange force that makes giant-sized objects attract things. intermolecular attractions? a large number of atom forces? well, scientists don't know what holds atoms together.


oh, yeah, almost forgot. how do we explain such things as love and hope? what is love? an emotional and physical attraction? is it as simple as that? hope? is there even anything to define it? "hope is a denial of reality"? maybe there's another branch of study, larger than both science and religion, something that neither science nor religion can explain.

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I absolutely love that thought of our world, or for that matter, universe, being in some sort of container and having observers look on and see how we progress. I actually think that would be COOL. However, i think this idea pops in peoples heads because of movies where this happens. Regardless i think thats a very interesting idea, that we are just being observed and are pretty much test subjects for some greater being. i love it

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Originally posted by Exponent However, i think this idea pops in peoples heads because of movies where this happens.

you're talking about MIB and MIIB, right, m8?
i'd have to say the idea with the locker in MIB2 was awesome!

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One thing I always think of.....How do you know we are really here? Just cuz you can feel yourself? See others? How do you know its not a simple creation of visual effects? What if the world does revolve all around you? What if everyone is simply a character in a setting? I dunno, think about that one if ya want.....


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I belive that we don't exist we are just dreams of other living people, fair enough it all seems real but our brains can imagine things like that.

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" You bet your ass we're all alike... we've been spoon-fed baby food at school when we hungered for steak... the bits of meat that you did let slip
through were pre-chewed and tasteless. We've been dominated by sadists, or ignored by the apathetic. The few that had something to teach found us will-
ing pupils, but those few are like drops of water in the desert."

Everything can be explained by science, even the so called supernatural.

it's just that our feeble human minds don't quite get it all.
we are figuring out more and more each day though.

imagine back in the 1800's when some guy said that sickness was carried by little things called "germs" that we could't see.

everyone thought he was crazy, but he was right.
such is life. there are things going on you can not possibly begin to understand, but in time, we will figure them out.

and, pain can be detected. it is electrical impulses going up the nerves to the brain, where it is interpreted as pain.

i believe in spirtuality, the 6th sense, and all that.
it can all be explained with science though. for example in the bible, (if you believe in christianity), god was supposed to have destroyed 2 cities on either side of a river with "two balls of white fire"

geologists went back to that same area, and measured the radioactivity levels there. at approximately the same date as in the bible, there were twin nuclear explosions on either side of that river, long before that technology had been developed.
god exists, but he still follows the rules in other words.

kudos to the person quoting the "truth is a pathless land" passage.

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Originally posted by JohnSmith and, pain can be detected. it is electrical impulses going up the nerves to the brain, where it is interpreted as pain.

Well, it doesn't exactly mean there IS pain, you know? We have millions of impulses going to our brain every split second anyway, but exactly what are they....Like I said, we see the affects of pain, but can we officially say "that is pain, it hurts this much, and feels like this" by reading electronic impulses? without ever experiencing the pain or ever speaking to a person? What exactly IS pain and hurt? A doctor will say nerves are affected, etc....and you are IN pain...but thats a science related view. Like we all say "you can't understand someone's pain".....kinda makes you think more about it. Where does this pain come from? Lets face it, pain is miserable, we've all been in severe pain at one point in our life, to the point of tears, causing your body to react, your mind to react, etc. Something so powerful, but there is no exact explanation for it.

I mean, the religion aspect definitely has to come in on this topic. I am looking at it at a level higher than science. As we know, with all emotions, there is good, and bad, simple as that. Pain, bad, orgasm, good. I mean, the distinguishment between them both is odd. Besides any physical element, which doesn't explain anything but just what CAUSES the good/bad feeling, what exactly is it really? Bah, gettin real deep in this one.....I hope you see my point of view, this topic of pain can go on and on forever, if you don't use ANY religious aspect, which is where most of us turn to, when questions like this, aren't answered.

I completely understand your point.

what is pain?
ok, try this one?
what is sound? it's vibrations that move your ear drum, which sends electrical impulses to your brain. it's your BRAIN that interprets them as the wonderful music that trance is. that part is tough to explain with science.

now, with pain and pleasure, it comes from cause and effect. when you touch a hot stove, a certain kind of impulse goes down your arm to your brain, and it knows it as pain. now, if you left your hand there, it would get burned right? so your brain interprets a negative connotation to it, so you won't do that. but really, it is just another sensation.

likewise with orgasms. it feels good, so you want to do it, so you can continue to populate the earth.

it's all about motivation.