[MD] Metaphysics and the mystic.

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Yeah, you got to love those wacked-out scientists.  And people think
that Artists hold a monopoly on the strange, bizaare, and creative.  I
know some scientists that outclass Dali by a long shot.  I know
scientists that put Christo to shame.  I have friends who put
Performance art in a whole new level.  I live in a museum who's output
just doesn't stop.  Warhol, eat your heart out!

Just don't take science so seriously, it was never meant to be
serious.  We get paid to play with toys and build new things.  We get
presented with riddles and try to solve them.  How serious can that
be?  Seriously!

Those bohemians who claim to be artists have no idea of creative
potential.  Those arrogant film makers have never tried to create a
movie on the dual nature of light.  Those silly actors have never
tried to act out a reality experiment in crazy psychology using a
double-blind technique.  Those art collectors have no idea what it
means to collect.

If you want to experience a frenzy of creativity, you need go no
farther than a lab.  We put it all on display for you to see and be
astonished by.  It is a hard act to follow!

Not only that, but you believe everything we tell you!  Yes, there
absolutely is a black hole in the center of our milky way.  You can
take that to the bank!  Oh, and that expanding universe?  Well you had
better believe it!  We can't just make something like that up.  And,
don't forget, the Earth is becoming a toaster!  I can tell you that
without smiling, while I get into my SUV.  Heh, Heh.  I wonder what we
can come up with next?  How about that man popped out of a monkey!
(OK, maybe that is stretching it a bit).  How about that man very very
very slowly popped out of a monkey, there, that kind of wool will keep
you from seeing.  We know that such is absolutely without question the
case, so you had better act accordingly.

The next Revelations are being formulated as you read this.  Stay
tuned!  Nostradamus does not hold a candle to the Super Scientists!
Just wait, we will develop an H1N1 virus that is freely air
transmissible if you do not watch it!  What else do you expect out of
children that are given all the toys they want?

By artists I am not referring to my friend Tuukka, by the way.  He is
more of a scientist, not just some random painter or metaphysician
eeking along :-) .

Cheers,
Mark

On 2/3/12, David Thomas <combinedefforts at earthlink.net> wrote:
> On 2/3/12 12:11 AM, "Carl Thames" <cthames at centurytel.net> wrote:
>
>> This is the problem I have with the current brain research.  Yes, we know
>> which areas of the brain lights up when we experience specific emotions.
>> The problem is the stimuli.  For example, you're walking through the park
>> on
>> a beautiful spring day, the weather is perfect, and your significant other
>> is beaming at you.  I walk up to you and hand you a pretty flower and say,
>> "Peace, Brother."  You smile and take the flower.
>
> Or this one:
>
> MEDICINE PRIZE: Mirjam Tuk (of THE NETHERLANDS and the UK), Debra Trampe (of
> THE NETHERLANDS) and Luk Warlop (of BELGIUM). and jointly to Matthew Lewis,
> Peter Snyder and Robert Feldman (of the USA), Robert Pietrzak, David Darby,
> and Paul Maruff (of AUSTRALIA) for demonstrating that people make better
> decisions about some kinds of things — but worse decisions about other kinds
> of things‚ when they have a strong urge to urinate.
>
> REFERENCE: "Inhibitory Spillover: Increased Urination Urgency Facilitates
> Impulse Control in Unrelated Domains," Mirjam A. Tuk, Debra Trampe and Luk
> Warlop, Psychological Science, vol. 22, no. 5, May 2011, pp. 627-633.
> REFERENCE: "The Effect of Acute Increase in Urge to Void on Cognitive
> Function in Healthy Adults," Matthew S. Lewis, Peter J. Snyder, Robert H.
> Pietrzak, David Darby, Robert A. Feldman, Paul T. Maruff, Neurology and
> Urodynamics, vol. 30, no. 1, January 2011, pp. 183-7.
> ATTENDING THE CEREMONY: Mirjam Tuk, Luk Warlop, Peter Snyder, Robert
> Feldman, David Darby
>
> http://www.improbable.com/ig/winners/#ig2011
>
> ;-)
>
> Dave
>
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