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  1. hiphopaddict

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    Charles I was gonna guess
     
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    Oh I'm pretty chilled about our impending deaths lol
     
  3. hiphopaddict

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    Who said anything about death? We're plugged into the mainframe and this is all part of the dream like state we are kept in. Did you take the blue pill or the red pill?
    But don't think about that. Be scared of the immigrants. Your latest attention diverting scapegoat and public enemy.
     
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  5. hiphopaddict

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    I learned this not today, but yesterday.....

    You cannot read in your dreams. It's impossible.

    I had a lucid dream (one when I was aware I was dreaming). ....the winning lottery ticket dream....dunno if yous have had that one or no.
    Well...on realising I was dreaming I also realised it was very important that I read and memorised these 6 numbers....then my plan was to wake up and write them down.
    But no matter how hard I tried, I could not read them. It was numbers but I couldn't read them.

    I woke up raging and searched it and apparently naw...you can't read in your dreams. It's not possible
     
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    Whenever I dream it always takes place in the borders or outskirts of my area. The same footpath and traffic lights i've been dreaming about for at least 20 years. But whats freaky is that the feeling attached to the dream or the emotions I feel when I wake up do not exist in the real world, thats to say once i've woke up i'm in a much safer place or plane of consciousness
     
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    That I can actually get to the toilet before following through. :84:
     
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    I love all things historical (apart from rangers 1873-2012)....So I learned today that there is a theory that people a few thousand years ago could not see the colour blue..

    There is no mention of a word for blue in ancient Phonician or Babylonian texts...later still no mention of it in Ancient Egyptian either...or Ancient Persian. ...
    It is somewhere between Greek being superceded by Latin as the prominent language that the word for 'blue' first appears.

    Other colours were often mentioned. The colour of the sea is described as a type of green. Naturally you would imagine that constants like the sea and the sky are mentioned in countless texts....but no mention of 'blue'

    If there is not a word for it...it would suggest that the colour is not recognised...therefore not perceived because it is not actually seen at all. Nobody will know this because no one else sees it either.
    Much the same theory that....if everyone in the world was blind then nobody would know they are blind
    We may evolve to see other colours that we can't see right now. That's the theory
     
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    Also learned that I agree with a couple of interesting questions that flat earthers around the globe all ask....

    Flying costs a lot mostly due the cost of fuel. If the earth is spinning, then why not fly directly vertically into the air, wait for the world to spin to the point you need, then land again?....good point

    Secondly...if the earth is spinning, why is not a lot faster to fly against the way it spins? If a plane can fly at 500 mph and the world underneath the plane is spinning in the opposite direction from the plane..surely that would make the flight much shorter than the other way? It doesnt
     
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  11. hiphopaddict

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    I've learned that things become clear when your smoking.

    We'll never be able to time travel

    Time didn't exist until we created it. Humans created numbers. Humans started counting. Started quantifying how long it took to count. That was the first ever consideration of time. It never happened before. Before counting there was only dark and light and cold and hot that made anything different. After counting you had days, then dates, then people counted their age .
    Point being humans created time.

    So there can be no space-time continuam. Cause if there was then it must run backwards into the past, before humans created time, so therefore there is no time by which to have a space-time continuam. Cause time had not been created.
    Perhaps not space either as this concept is also created by humans. If space is a vacuum, meaning a space void of anything, a complete nothing. Then there is no space between anything either as you can't quantify nothing or indeed an infinity of nothing.
    Especially when in order to quantify infinity we'd need to use numbers and counting and time....all things thst we have created

    We can't count to infinity. We even run out of names for the numbers eventually.

    It's all very confusing. But we won the league again so it's all fine and dandy
     
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    I want to know why I've been taught that everything multiplied by zero equals zero.

    If I was a baker and had 2 loaves of bread ready at the start of my day. Then 4 hours later I had 10 loaves ready. I have multiplied my loaves of bread by 5 and now I have 10 instead of 2.
    If however I just didn't make any more that day. I would be multiplying my 2 loaves by zero.

    As any good Baker will tell you. In that case you'd still be left with the 2 loaves you started with. But apparently not. If you multiply them by zero it causes them to vanish into thin air and you are left with nothing as apparently 2 x 0 = 0.


    Why is this? Can someone try and explain this?
     
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    Also learned that when Albert Einstein came up with his theory of relativity, commonly narrowed down to....E=MC squared....that he was the only person in the world that had the intellectual capacity to understand and comprehend the theory. No one else could.

    So how the * did anyone know that what he was saying was right? And not just something he'd made up?

    I could tell everyone that we live in an air bubble in a massive ocean that's been pushed up the epicentre of an anti-matter whirlpool. I could be the only person on earth who is capable of understanding what this means (its obviously Eb1 x 15 (4÷1.85) ...meaning I'm the most intelligent person in the world....or I could be mentally disturbed and having hallucinations....or just a lying *.

    How did anyone know Einstein wasn't bullshitting if only he could understand his equation?
     
  14. FATLAZYBHOY Born in the steamie Gold Member

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    Peppa Pig has had a wee sister called Evie ……… Awww the wee sausage.. :35:

    Aff work today, and seen this on the news banner at the bottom of the screen while watching good morning Britain.
    I kid you not !!!
    Is this the sort of pish that’s on morning tv ? :43:
    I’m going out for a walk. :58:
     
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    I would go with the mentally disturbed theory.
     
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    I doubt you only learned that today :40:
     
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    Interesting.. I can't help but get stuck on the idea that many words are in fact labels. They sometimes indicate a solid fact or true state but in reality there are many elements to consider and a critical one is our perception..Think about how words developed into our vocabulary. How difficult it must be and how long it would take to have a coherent system for language, it blows my mind how we developed over time. Some humans take credit for collective enhancement of society but humanity as a whole has to take credit for it aswell. Theres an example of what i'm talking about because it seems like I haven't considered all of the senseless killing.
     
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    Factor 50 sun screen doesn't stop a baldy heid from burning - Fact
     
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    Flaking skin
    On your head
    Sunburnt flesh
    Let it shed...
    :notworthy
     
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    Fingerprint conspiracy. For everyone who has ever lived to have a different fingerprint is impossible by my understanding based on this concept. We must assume the number is infinite but there will always be a point at which we run out of combinations on the canvas which is our finger. Someone tried to counter my theory once with what looked like algebra, so I told them to * off!