Brian

https://www.crtv.com/#sthash.5pOhdQnb.dpbs It is worth watching.

https://www.thenation.com/article/a-new-report-raises-big-questions-about-last-years-dnc-hack/

I'm watching the first video, Wells, but wanted to pause to introduce something local and current -- recent report practically in my backyard which the authorities have tried to dismiss as "a wandering shaman wearing animal skins." The Cherokee called him "the slant-eyed giant" and the early white settlers named him "Boogum." http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-40892336 BTW, the Great Smoky Mountains National Park, a few miles West of here, is one of those locations where people disappear. The article I posted mentions the town of Boone, NC -- I lived there (well, a few miles into the country from there) for 18 years.

Mmmmm... Word salad. <sigh>

Well... Air is roughly 0.000053% hydrogen and that hydrogen is in H2 molecules which would have to be ionized first (as would the O2 molecules). Ionization takes energy. Recombining hydrogen and oxygen releases energy. There's a risk, BTW -- if the oxygen is fully ionized -- of creating hydrogen peroxide instead (although biological processes tend to be highly selective here because H2O2 is a dangerously strong oxidizer). Not sure how air would reach the "third eye" but that's a different discussion (and it's not clear that "air" is the source being considered above but, given the title of this thread, I figured that was a reasonable starting point). For comparison, air generally contains more than ten thousand times that percentage of water vapor. Condensing liquid water straight from airborne water vapor is a fairly straight-forward process (se the Namib Desert beetle, for instance...) EDIT: probably should have mentioned that the human body is typically about 65% water (roughly 55% to 75% range).

Move out of the People's Republic of California and you'll find things change. When I get a chance, maybe I'll take some pictures of gardens I see in my "neighborhood" (if I remember...)

Talking to yourself again?

If a tree falls in the woods and the person it falls on didn't hear it fall, do I exist?

<grin> When I was in high school, I started telling people who asked that I was "a modified theistic existentialist with Taoist tendencies." It wasn't an exact fit (and is less so now) but it was in the right ballpark -- and it drew some interesting reactions (which I guess is what I was wanting then).

I haven't actually looked at that now-hidden thread but, given that it contained me quoting me and given that I have secret IT superpowers, I probably fat-fingered something...

Your usage of "one" was grammatically appropriate in both instances and quite understandable to boot. Just for the record...

An 18-wheeler has never hurt me or anyone I know but ants have bitten me and some sent my nephew to the hospital in anaphylactic shock. No, I'm not suggesting we discard useful perspectives just because we learn they are not completely true. On the contrary, our understanding should grow to incorporate all the aspects of reality we encounter.

Unless, of course, it's all just a butterfly's dream.

Oh, I had finished it. I added the bit about when I had been there. I haven't been back since they sort of reopened it as primarily a nostalgia trip for people who remembered it from the '70s but I might some day just for fun.

I was editing my post when you replied^^^

I've been there! http://www.landofoznc.com/ I was there before the fire and then, in later years, we would hang out there as minor-league juvenile delinquents. The Enchanted Forest and the Yellow Brick Road were interesting places during high school...

Keep zooming and you find that even the electrons, protons and neutrons are not immutable, solid, stable "things." Appearance is often taken as reality but looking beyond or through appearances provides a different perspective. Cicero wrote "esse quam videri" -- to be rather than to seem -- in his work "On Friendship," suggesting that most people are more interested in appearing virtuous than being virtuous. Machiavelli turned the phrase around -- "videri quam esse." Both my State and my undergraduate alma mater have that phrase as their mottos -- Esse Quam Videri. It is not always an obvious distinction.

Ah sweet contentment Ah! Sweet mystery of life at last I've found you!

dividend

I do like mulberries, though...

Why does no one ever speak of The Blackberries of Agelessness?

Always be yourself -- unless you can be Batman and then always be Batman. I am of the opinion that one cannot be anyone other than one's self. "Yourself" is multifaceted and constantly changing, and "yourself" includes how you respond to changing conditions. "Yourself" in isolation or in a vacuum is static and unrevealing.

Pie? Never! Cobbler doesn't count though, right?

Well... I've been eating them for years now and I'm not dead yet so... Maybe they are! <shrug> I have no great interest in immortality, though -- I just like eating them.