Mike_GX101

Yes I think that was the pub the documentary was referring to! But check out the following link: Next generation memory chips Perhaps soon there will literally be the stone_wall:/ drive!

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Some ritualistic behaviours are communicative in how one is feeling too.

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I watched a documentary along time ago where there was a theory that hauntings that were taking place in an old pub were in fact 'recordings' left over in the silicon within the sandstone walls at times of upheaval and stress. Now whether you believe such nonsense is up to you but it is true that sand does often contain silica (S102) which is silicon dioxide. And silicon is the same material computer memory chips are made of which is rather intriguing to say the least!

He's saying he's doing the best that he can do and it doesn't seem to be enough and he's focusing that anger towards himself. Go easy on him.

Question: How do you find autumn/winter? I find this time of year to be particularly depressing because you know it's going colder and the leaves are falling from the trees and starting the car in the mornings becomes a nightmare and no longer takes seconds but more like half an hour of scraping ice and wiping condensation from the insides of the windscreen. Then you sit there frozen as the engine warms up for what seems like an eternity as your clock ticks by slower than it does usually. When you do get out on the main roads you find the gritters haven't done their jobs yet and it's dicey as hell - you grit your teeth for each passing mile just hoping/praying the next corner won't be the last corner you ever do. And this is all after having braced yourself for the coldness outside your bed and then braved the coolness of the supposedly-hot shower. Winter is not for me. I don't like it. It makes me depressed. It makes me cold. It dashes my spirits. It is bleak and hopeless and rotten. It's even worse this year because the summer we had didn't really feel like one.

I've had my fair share of alternative methods of curing things. For example I learned about 10 years ago that by pressing lightly on certain areas just below my patella I could get rid of patella tendonitis which I used to get a lot due to a knee injury. I then had another fall about 2 years ago twisting my leg agonizingly so and my knee swelled up massively. I went to A&E and they requested that I rested it and went back in for an x-ray the Thursday after (4 days later). During those 4 days before then sitting alone at home with my knee sheer agony I very carefully brought the swelling down with acupressure and deep muscular massage and when I went back for the x-ray the original doctor couldn't believe it and I had him scratching his head. I had performed the impossible. The x-ray was done and it showed I had no broken bones (I already knew this). I was back in business again shortly after with some continued rehabilitation via a physiotherapist who could massage and manipulate my knee in a way I could never do myself - it worked wonders! However tread with caution when using the same technique to clear blocked noses and things. I found out that touching particular pressure points on my face caused a relaxing sensation and I would hear little 'pops' where apparently the lymph was suddenly flushing away. This helped me to relax in the evenings and I felt wonderful afterwards. One day earlier this year however it all went wrong and I must have pressed in the wrong place for a bit too long. I started feeling dizzy and a strange sense of falling into myself occurred. Let's just say I experienced a full blown panic attack after this as my lips went numb and I felt really cold. I jumped into a hot shower to stimulate blood flow again and dashed out and walked where there were people in case I did pass out. Better to be with lots of people when such things happen than not for what would have happened if I'd fallen unconscious there and then with no one round to see? Ever since this incident I very rarely use acupressure (even finding that when I use it for my knee every now and then, as needed in the way it used to work, it now causes heavy pins and needles to set in down my shin and leaves my foot cold and numb and leaves me battling yet another panic attack at the thought of the many possible consequences including maybe even having to have my foot amputated). Where acupressure used to work it no longer does and for that reason I'm going back to more conventional methods of healing particularly where blocked noses are concerned.

Some interesting words of wisdom there - thanks Sa Skimrande. I'll certainly read up on echinacea - yes our sense of smells are very clever. But I'm guessing that it could go the other way and be bad for you as smelling the wrong keys could have less than positive effects on the body. I seem to remember there being something on the market a few years back which was available that if taken before the onset of a cold could thwart it's progress significantly. The only problems were that it was difficult to time it right (i.e. to know a week in advance of an upcoming cold) and it was incredibly expensive to buy and after my first and only bottle I decided not to buy it again for these reasons. Nothing annoys me more though than seeing a medication come on the market said to have healing effects over whatever it is for only to then find out that each unit of it costs an extortionate amount and you're (unknowingly) going to need at least 20 units just to begin to notice a difference. And this happens for pets too - vetinary medications can cost an absolute fortune. This is where a competitive market would be a real advantage for consumers. Take down the barriers to entry into these industries and lets see some fair competition and some fairer prices.

It is no coincidence that synonyms for energy include: dash, drive, fire, force, get-up-and-go, life, liveliness, spirit, vitality, zeal and zest. Without energy there would be no life (consider how much food we need each day for example). Also without energy our electronics would not work. Without energy there would be no light, no stars, no supernova and no movement. Without energy the whole universe would be a still and lifeless place. It is hard therefore not to consider there might be some connection in ourselves with the energy we use for our electronics and that which makes everything else in the universe happen. It's as if the whole universe is just one huge chain reaction and our own lives and DNA make-ups are just another part of that process thereby moving matter onto ever more complex chemistries until finally a big bang occurs once again and the process begins all over again.

Thanks Mannify - it keeps going back onto my chest. I'm eating plenty of oily fish, drinking lots of orange juice, having lots of vegetables but seemingly to no avail!

Pleased to meet you Ben - and sorry to hear about your losses! These revelations you've made must have been difficult to do since many of them are quite contradictory particularly the following ones: My question to you Ben is this - supposing you entered the forum as very gentlemanly, kind, embracing and open-minded Ben and A-S Warrior was another poster would you like what he has to say? Would you be awed by his words? Would you be in good company? Or would you find A-S Warrior went against your better nature and found his brash and slightly rude attitude and emotionlessness to be difficult to handle? You've made a positive first step in identifying the two characters but now you have to decide which one you'd rather be? Which one creates opportunities? Which one brings people together? Which one do you most easily associate with? Which one would you rather meet in the street? 'Brash and slightly rude' or 'kind and gentlemanly'? When you have the answer to these questions Ben you will better have an idea of who you are and which character does you the most favours and provides you with most opportunity. A-S Warrior may have helped you in the past as like an older brother looking over your shoulder but circumstances change and some times your better nature is required in the more grown-up world of real life. It's time to let Ben take over - let Ben take the driver's seat and let Ben decide the route.

Anyone remember that scene in Jurassic Park where the main characters get back to the park's central building and find an entire banquet set out on the tables and they tuck into it all thinking they're safe when they're not? Well that's the kind of final meal I would like. I'd have a spoonful of everything and would most likely go up for seconds...and er...thirds (but shhh don't tell anyone!).

The update on my cold is that it has been a devil to shift - it has lingered all this week and had gone well above the 7 day period colds are said to last for. It should have ended on Tuesday night but I've been coughing ever since - it's now Friday night. Colds are worse than ever in my opinion and even worse when you're fit and don't get them often. I could have done without a whole fortnight of missed training on my bike and this is what it amounts to. Colds cause misery and even the pharmaceuticals are run by people who get colds so everyone stands to gain by a cure for the common cold. And with fewer people off sick there would be more productivity to look for cures for other things too - so everyone gains there too.

I've got a stone chimney stack which is covered in eerie-looking faces where the stones come together as if the people who built the house put them there deliberately as like an art centre-piece. Any way I had a particularly eerie sensation once when watching the TV - one of my pictures fell off the wall revealing a pair of big beady eyes set in the wall upon which the lounge went stone cold and I felt quite unsettled - and cold. I don't believe in ghosts but this spooked me somewhat. I do wonder some times if there is a life form so tiny that it moves around in large colonies through atoms of reality like our radio waves do. Viruses weren't discovered until fairly recently and perhaps it is only a matter of time before we discover that life can be smaller still and that the ghostly apparitions some people see are in fact large swarms of such things unsettled, for example, by our increasing reliance on radio wave devices such as microwaves and mobiles. Perhaps the visual form they create with increasing recurrence is like a distress beacon we keep missing. I seem to remember the Replicators take on such forms in the TV series Stargate Atlantis. Of course generally I don't believe in ghosts and think much of it is psychological but there are times when most of us experience something we cannot explain and when that happens one can only wonder and I think it's good to exercise the imagination some times. It is afterall imagination which sparked the discovery of many inventions where the science fiction concept came first and the real-life discovery came after; if no one had imagined it in the first place, a technology would not have been invented for it.

I have learned in recent times that I do have something known as "auditory discriminatory disorder" which means while I have very powerful hearing I might not interpret what's said as accurately as the next person. I also have a verbal disability known as a stammer but the way I understand it now is that it seems closely related to what those with dyspraxia experience. While I do have a diagnosis of dyspraxia, I do believe there is some cross-over here which cannot merely be ignored. In fact it may even be that my stammer could have been classed as DVD (Developmental Verbal Dyspraxia) as named on Wikipedia.

No but what I'm saying is stammering is a similar phenomena to dyspraxia only rather than tripping over one's own feet, one is tripping over their words! The common ground is the "tripping over" part. Often insights are made when seemingly incongruent subjects are cross-correlated. Okay yours is physical dyspraxia; well mine is a kind of verbal dyspraxia and I know that when the atmosphere in a situation is socially tense that I will stammer more by falling over my words more. It took me a long time to realise this and couldn't understand why some times I would stammer but other times my speech was perfect. Yes I went to speech therapy and took all the courses of speech modification they threw at me but no one could understand why even with these I still stammered when I did. I had the physical ability to speak perfectly (or like those who didn't stammer) and some times this was even true. At other times (such as times of upheaval when moving house or something) my stammer would suddenly flare up again and right when I needed good speech to make new friends at new schools my stammer would prevent me from doing this. And as the bullying kicked in from my speech impediment so this would make my stammer even worse. In retrospect I see it now but back then I couldn't and neither could the experts. Plunged into a can of uncertainty and put under intense pressure and expectation from my peers who (at 13/14) were very unkind towards someone with a stammer, my situation was hairy at the best of times. It's amazing what such stresses can do - they either make you or they break you. My speaking confidence was in ruins and it took a lot of hard work to claw back that confidence and turn things around. When I got to Sixth Form and had found a good group of friends to spend time with my confidence grew and I stammered less. It came back again at the end of school when I was to face my next set of challenges. And I have since learned to stay away from circumstances I know will cause me to stammer more. At times when this is not possible I know I need to take a step back for a bit until the upheaval settles and I can once again speak with confidence and a smile.

That's right Shnoing - he put his own life on the line to save the rest of tribe. Heroes of this nature really do exist and yet if you walked down any street it would be impossible to identify the heroes-in-waiting from the crowds of people there. And that's the nature of true selflessness - it often crops up when one least expects it. It is quite an unexpected phenomena. The opposite is true with selfishness though - one has to choose to be selfish as it often goes against their inner principles of what's right. Take the film Scrudge as a perfect story of selfishness - it's a tale of one mean but very rich boss who fires people at Christmas time and fails to take into account the problems his staff face in difficult times. He then goes through a series of 'lessons' cast upon him until he learns the error of his ways and he winds up dumping his selfishness and becoming the man he initially chose not to be through the temptations of greed.

I have a friend who does and they assure me that whenever they're rushed to do anything their problem tends to be exasperated. A similar thing happens with stammering - when someone stutters on their words and someone barks at them "come on hurry up!" they're even more likely to stammer because their brain is suddenly fogged by emotion and the words stumble all over the place as the focus on co-ordination is stressed. Take the stressful situation away, free the person of unnecessary expectations, and conversation runs much smoother.

Is self-centredness a learned trait or something inherited down the generations (i.e. is it nature or nurture?)?

But then as the pack of tribal humans ran for their lives one man stopped, picked up a stone with a sharpened edge he noticed lying on the ground, and stood up to the fearful tiger. Risking everything he plunged the stone deep into the heart of the tiger and the pack of humans lived on. Such people are called "hero's" and they can be male or female and such people really do exist. Are you guys telling me that such people do not deserve some kind of reward for their bravery? Our hero risked his own life for the survival of the pack - isn't that worth some kind of honour?

A little less haste puts the clumsiness to waste!!!!!

Not really although it's never really been a calling of mine to go out and and grab a haul of fireworks, light them up and duck for cover just in time as they all go up at once! In fact I have never actually lit a live firework and neither do I want to. Yes I like to appreciate them from a distance perhaps on a hillside or other great view point but I've never wanted to actually work a firework display. I guess you either do or you don't! Maybe there is a gene for being into lighting 'em up! I did try my dab-hand at rocketry at school but again I wasn't exactly enthused by it unlike some of the people there! Some people seem almost to be born for it!