tbourner

How about if I live a morally good life, and basically do everything right with the single missing thing of not believing in him? Can I still get a pearly pass?

I don't personally think it's incorrect to use i instead of I, the Roman's didn't have lower case as mentioned earlier, we do have lower case so we can use either. All scientific/Engineering reports and books and all sorts that I've read that have RN in the appendix or anything use i), ii), iii) etc. Regardless of that, the thread was asking why it isn't a '1', not why is it an 'i'. Can we continue taking the piss out of that rather than questioning his backtrack please.

Sounds interesting. I've often wondered whether there are 2 dimensional beings living out their lives - we would have no way of detecting them if they were truly 2D I suppose. Maybe our existence effects theirs in some way so we would be like gods to them? Similarly then we would have a very limited ability to understand 4th and 5th dimension beings. I wonder if 2D and 1D space is still linked with time as ours is?

I saw this pop up when it was 1 page, didn't want to comment as I didn't want to upset the guy - guess it's too late for that now. I haven't tried to be funny, that 1 really is a 1, and the I really is an I, sorry for the confusion.

Does that not sound a bit like fascism though? "Obey me and follow me and you will be rewarded - disobey me and spend eternity in pain and suffering."

I want to know! Just write: *** SPOLIER ALERT *** Or something before you write your comments. Maybe put them in a different colour as well.

Ref: NDEs and lucid dreaming etc. We still don't really understand the whole concept of consciousness, we think we exist in this world but all we know is what our brain knows, and all that knows is electrical signals from our sensors (imagine losing your sense of smell, then taste, then hearing and sight, all you could do is touch - lose that and what can you know?). Just like the Matrix you could fake those signals to a brain and tell it whatever you want it to believe. So then, what is consciousness? What makes us understand those inputs and put them all together to form this 'reality'? Whatever that process is it controls our entire life - including dreaming, and also people with mental problems, hallucinations etc. It's a small step to think that when you 'die' that consciousness process takes over again and fills your 'reality' with images that just so happen to agree with your own beliefs.

See why can I never explain it like that when talking about this stuff!! that's exactly the idea in my head - and like I've said in the ghost threads we're linked to the beings in higher dimensions in some way that we can't comprehend (when you open a book and have a peek at the bookworm I guess).

Your body is linked with a higher level energy that we can't measure, when you die the energy exists in a higher dimension, it's not physically here but still effects this time and space. It's sentient in a different way than we are, but it's NOT the same person that lived here. These energies can communicate with each other in some way and we are linked to these energies also, our brain sometimes communicates their effects to us in whatever way it can (hence; ghosts, telekenesis, mind-reading, etc.). Whether or not WE move on I don't know, but an essence of what we were lives on in a higher dimension.

What got me was when they said you could travel through space and with the finite principle you would eventually come back on Earth again - how would you know it was really 'your' Earth and not just one of the infinite exact copies in the infinite principle universe? Because they would still say you left them heading in one direction and came back on yourself from another dimension - but it was another (identical) you that left!!

Need some help. We're running 32Bit versions of Windows 2003 Server, and we're soon to be testing 3TB drives and apparently 32Bit Windows can only address 2.2TB drives. Question is can we upgrade our software to 64Bit and use the current licence keys? Someone mentioned that XP home allows you to do this but wasn't sure about Server.

Twas a good programme I thought.

Ooh I love infinity!! Bit of a strange thing to say but I love all the ideas behind it which hopefully this programme will go into.

Tells it how it is.

don't you have to inform your insurance company to a change in your licence - ie: passing your test? To which they will undoubtedly say it's going up!

Learners are a lower risk generally, because they drive very carefully and within the law, and have someone sitting next to them at all times telling them to slow down and indicate more etc.

He likes colouring almost as much as me.

Yeah but Jack looked around after and couldn't see him, when whats-her-face said she's been asleep, it was obviously meant to show that he wasn't actually there. Some kind of crossover between parallel worlds so Jack recognised him - but did he imagine him or is it another 'dead man walking' type thing? Those paradoxes are the most commonly brought up but wouldn't actually exist in reality - what you've done in the past/present/future is what you've done - if you go back and kill your grandma you still exist (in the past) if you go back to the future (through your time machine or through the natural order of time rearranging itself) you still exist in the future it's just a different future than you knew (because your gran never lived her life). Back to the Future is almost the way it would work - but you wouldn't just cease to exist and therefore not go back and kill her! your own timeline is what it is, whether it crosses everyone elses or not or goes back and forth between other peoples or not you do what you do it won't change your existence. However, having said all that, I think LOST is heading towards a fate type storyline ending. No idea how or what yet but I think it's going to be along the lines of Final Destination that you can't change what's foretold or designed or whatever. Is he not just on the plane in the cargo then?

ATM I'm just confused by the 2 parallel timelines. I get that the plane one the bomb went off and sunk the island in the past (meaning 'the incident' wasn't the bomb and it in fact did prevent it), but why is it now split into 2? And why did Desmond appear on the plane? I got the impression he knew what was going on and was just playing with Jack - did he tell him anything important?

The many worlds theory again. Come to think of it when is Flashforward coming back?

The bloke in blue and the guy with the brolly have obviously seen it all before - they were moving almost before the car came round the corner!

Ooh what happens? You can tell us cos the thread title includes 'spoiler'.

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This is Alien vs Predator.