What the bleep do we know? Down the rabbit hole. part 6

oh lord

good thread idea

POLL: CaptainLorax vs. deeznuts ?

I believe

What should we talk about?

I was always under the impression that the question of what to talk about was mainly the responsibility of the thread starter. But what the heck do I know? *ba dum dum*

what's the next step?
"if thoughts could do that to water, what could thoughts do to us"
"the deepest level of truth is the fundamental truth of unity, at that deepest subnuclear level of our reality, you and I are literally one"
what are you all thinking about after reading this?

this should've been posted to the church

i'd love to see a church what the bleep thread endlessly revived by googlers

"the deepest level of truth is the fundamental truth of unity, at that deepest subnuclear level of our reality, you and I are literally one"

i believe that this is true and also that it doesn't mean anything.

what did we do to water??

what the hell is going on in part 8 LOL
What The Bleep Do We Know-8

our thoughts make instantly frozen water crystals look pretty or ugly

par 8 diminishes all the profound science in the other parts

OH FUCKING A NOT WAHT TEH BLEEP

HAVE YOU READ THE SECRET? MINDBLOWING SHIT

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

The movie was made, in part, by a crazy New Age lady who channels the spirit RAMTHA. Channeled entities, as we all know, are physics experts! Full story here.

Fuck this noize.

uh, what about the profound parts of the movie that the average joe doesn't know about. like the water crystals experiments, or clicking noise in the ear experiment, other "miraculous experiments", or how to control your own life (rid yourself of addictions). There is something to be said for that part of the movie, even if its just a science discussion.

After watching the video, I decided there should be a life course taught at schools (one for 5th grade, one for 8th grade, one for 12th grade).

For instance, a teacher should ask students to write a sentence on the bored like "I am bored", and then teach the students how to not be bored by starting some simple art project.

Or, "I am lazy, and I don't excercise". Solution, the class all goes outside and walks the whole period.

Or, "I never accomplish anything I want to do with my life". Then the class spends time making prepartations and what not.

teachers should teach The Art of Living(tm) at schools.

uh, what about the profound parts of the movie that the average joe doesn't know about. There is something to be said for that part of the movie, even if its just a science discussion.

It's science given an air of profundity by someone with a vested interest in selling the profound.

I think the art of living is profound, how our thoughts shape our lives (and other people's lives). Negative causes negative. Positive causes positive. etc. Selling the profound, is to help people change for the better.

I know you didn't say it's not profound. You just made a simple comment.

"Change in itself means then, that we have to abandon our old self, it means that we have to leave behind our identity for a few moments and begin to speculite who we could be. To change means, modifying our behavior enough so that it's permanent." -part 9, the gospel of rabbit

we are a wave of possibilities coexisting beside ourselves in multiple dimensions and are also each other or something like that.

this is the shittiest movie ever

anyone for tennis?

or DESTRUCTION DEATH DEATH DEATH DEATH

this is newage pomo english professor "science"

better: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_VxQuPBX1_U

altho there's a lot of bullshit in this movie too

do not take the bait

bait for what? we haven't even discussed anything yet

this is newage pomo english professor "science"

-- abanana, Sunday, August 24, 2008 2:07 AM (41 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

waht u got against pomo english profs

LOL a woman who got fired from the last ISP I worked at sent an email round to everyone as a parting shot, urging them to go see this film. She was... odd.

After reading that Salon article linked to... do we have a new contender for "best cult"?

It's a real shame as I really love popular science as a genre, and wish there were something along the lines of this movie - but without the cultic nonsense.

I hate this movie, I find it really offensive. "cult" is exactly the word I was looking for. It's not quite 5ci3nt0l0gy, but it is heading in that direction in the way that it tries to "prove" things with "science" while at the same time asking you to totally ignore the basics of scientific method.

originally when I made this thread I wanted to discuss the quantum physics experiments that are real. the one where people's thoughts made a binary random generator program spew out more 0s than 1s. the one where a person tries to make more audible clicks come out of either the left or right side of the headphones... the one where people bless water crystals or say stuff like "hitler" and the water molecules make different shapes when instantly frozen... these awesome science experiments mostly from part 6 and part 7 are the things that we should discuss and make up our own philosophies and theories.

so do you think those experiments and the results are real at least?

zomg dnftt Abbott namyohorendenkyo

I really don't feel like wasting my bandwidth watching cult indoctrination.

Judging by the quotes of the scientists involved in the program, I reckon whatever experiments there are, are either faked, heavily edited to change the content, or else just plain misinterpreted.

you don't even believe the work of Masaru Emoto?
http://staceyrobyn.typepad.com/photos/uncategorized/gratcrystal.jpg
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ss69kfHqN1A

FUCKING A

PEOPLE IN THE WORLD BELIEVE THE MOST FOOLISH SHIT

ARE YOU GOING TO MEASURE THE EKGS OF A SAD CARROT TOO

FUUUUUUUUCK

If I'm going to waste my time watching wackos on YouTube, I'm gonna watch Thomas Dolby mucking about with primitive samplers, thanks. I think Thomas Dolby's method is probably far more Scientific, as well.

so why do you choose not to believe the water experiments?

abbott

because believing that people can bless water to make cool looking crytals = cult?

I just don't see your logic

people can bless water to make cool looking crytals = bullshit more like

yes, believing that people can bless water to make cool looking crystals = cult.

xp ha

It's not science, you sillypants!

Because he admits himself that he's not a scientist - and that he blatantly selects the "most beautiful" photographs rather than according to any verifiable process. NOT SCIENCE. End of.

Oh wow! Europa and the Pirate Twins! I didn't know there was a video for that!

Oh, jesus, a few years ago at my company's annual sales meeting the company brought in some guest speakers, and one of them whose job it was to talk to the sales staff (I do not work in sales) about how to address people best in a business setting started going on about that water crystal bullshit, thinking she was going to wow the whole audience, and was instead met with skepticism and laughter. Yay, my company!

hmmm, we can all do the rice experiment at home
if we put the rice jars in a room we don't use everyday.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KeTTCeqBwjc

Sheesh!

I heard that if you press your forehead against your computer screen, the energy from your brain's electrical impulses will affect the cathode ray tube and make your monitor run more efficiently! Apparently it works even better with liquid crystal flatscreens. How about you give it a go for the next 20 minutes? I'll be the Control and just watch Thomas Dolby videos for the duration.

Wow, he just held up a disconnected lightbulb and made it light up! Do you think he did that with the POWER OF HIS MIND?!?!?

We'll be the pirate twins again, EU-RO-PA!

so am I going to have to do the damn rice experiment

Windpower! Radio Silence! I haven't seen these in years!

God, i want to *be* Thomas Dolby circa 1981. OK, I did, back in 1981, too. Do you think I could rock the haircut? I got the 1920s scientist gear and goggles down already.

Red beret is the rub.

i've lit lightbulbs with static electricity before

You should do some battery-licking science experiments.

Plus massive WWI greatcoat. I had one of those in the 80s. I'm sure it's around somewhere if I can just dig it out.

I'm trying to remember how the light up the lightbulb trick was done. my ex boyfriend used to do it in the living room, but that was just from tossing loads of electricity around with violet ray machines and the like.

all you need is a balloon and a fluorescent tube. turn off the lights, rub the balloon on your head, and touch the tube socket, and presto it lights up. I did this for school once.

I saw Thomas Dolby in some Boise club like three years ago...his equipment kept effing up, and he was making all these quips that I'm sure would have been hilarious if I could've followed his accent. He was rocking the red beret tho! Is it like GLUED onto his head?

ABC did a much better job the next week. :(

here's that car that runs on water... now that we are off-topic
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CrxfMz2eDME

No, it wasn't like this at all. He and his best mate were practising for the Royal Society - where they'd actually get to use a Van Der Graff generator. They took to pieces one of those glowing electric balls and hooked it up to this antenna thing - then lit up violet ray things with it. And regular light bulbs.

Now there's some experiments you could be doing - muck about with violet rays! Edgar Cayce and mad folks like that used to swear it had some kind of health benefits.

http://blog.modernmechanix.com/mags/qf/c/PhysicalCulture/3-1922/xlg_vi_rex_violet_rays.jpg

Gree-an-a-hum flumma SHEENDEEDEE

She blinded ME – with science!

Do you get his accent K8?

Errr... what's wrong with his accent? As far as I know, he's from London. It's not like he's a Geordie or anything.

Dammit, I KNOW that there are pics of this thing of my ex-boyfriend's on the web, but I can't find them. (she's tidied up and I can't FIND anything!) I know there are bloody pictures, because I TOOK them.

Dammit, I can't find any pics of it all ON but you've got to imagine all this shit glowing and sparking and tossing electricity around.

In your living room while you're trying to work in the bedroom...

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/111/307060763_7d31083746.jpg
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/3/5405789_f98780b071.jpg

Kinda like this, actually...

http://www.chem.bg.ac.yu/~mario/VdGG/vdgg_lighting.jpg

Yes! Here it is! Captain Lorax, I'd like to see you do some of this in yr living room. (With yellow rubber washing up gloves to protect you from the electricity.)

When he got bored of lighting up the neon tubes, he'd light up the big lightbulbs in the front. Yeah, he got like, arts grants and shit to do this shit. So you never know!

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2218/2794095980_d1beaa5230.jpg

what does this have to do with rice or water experiments? what is this electricity experiment anyways (you all only posted pictures)?

http://rense.com/1.imagesH/obam.jpg

This experiment~! We think you should do it!

http://stuffem.files.wordpress.com/2007/06/dolby.jpg

here is some evidence in support of thoughts effecting the outside world
evidence

I totally am buying in. For instance, right now I'm thinking about pushing Captain Lorax into a vat of wet cement. Will this actually have any affect on the cap'n? Only time and the archaeologists of the future will tell.

eh, maybe the global awakening in 2012-2013 will change your mind.
I mean do any of you believe any of that astrology stuff - people are similar to their sun sign descriptors....

mook mook mook mook

mook mook mook mook

shh

study finds happiness is contagious, even for strangers

mook mook mook mook

lol wtf thomas dolby and abc go to boise

When does the global nap happen?

http://www.irvinehousingblog.com/images/uploads/lateaugust2008/KoolAidMan_Fullpic_2.gif

so has there been any new revelations regarding quantum mysticism lately? (or proof of old revelations - like the rice experiment or random number generator thing)

this was the mind crystals thread wasn't it

http://img30.imageshack.us/img30/8643/bazinga.png

you tell us, capitán

I don't know honestly, I don't keep up with science
but yes I still believe in a lot of astrology stuff

it's not science :/

I think the happiness is contagious stuff is science even though the link is dead
and there are still lots of debates about quantum conscious that if I knew anything about I would gladly lead the thread in that direction

if you can find some quantum couscous i'm up for some of that

give me a day or two..

r u a troll or

i finally found regular couscous at the store the other day. who knows when they'll get the quantum stuff in.

In S2E5 "Is There a Sixth Sense?" of Through the Wormhole with Morgan Freeman we get to see some of the random number generator experiments in action. In essence, we have proof that thoughts can effect the results of random number generators. In fact, collective consciousness effects random number generators. The generators were spewing significantly uneven (=/= 50 %) results on 9/11, when Obama was elected, etc..

Further experiments have shown that our minds create a morphic field. People really can sense that someone is looking at them ( > 50% of time). A blindfolded person, in a separate room from another test subject, will have a measurable reaction when the other subject is suddenly exposed to a flashing light 3 minutes into the experiment.

Our education system done failed

Well it was the scientific method that was used to test the random number generators/morphic fields/thoughts effecting the outside world. The results are significant. The application of this "sixth sense" science is admittedly limited at the time being - like most theoretical science.

stop looking at me

pervert

morgan freeman did 9/11

The government of Saudi Arabia has strong ties to 9/11 (not to say anything about the US or Pakistani government)