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A picture of me blowing dope smoke in my dogs ear ok?  

  

 

B-

 

An 'A' would have been using a cat carefully put in a large paper shopping sack, blowing the smoke in it, and then putting the cat on the dash of your Pinto and going for a drive.

 

(no animals were harmed in making this post)

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More "primer" stuff than not, but useful info if it's new to you---and if the stuff interests you. It's in here because to me it's cool in subject, and as a decent and interesting synopsis of material I'd figure few here would ever seek.

 

Note: this is not any serious research material, but seems accurate, historically, from my previous exposure--all IMV--YMMV.

 

 

Religion in the Ancient World

 

 

Religion (from the Latin Religio, meaning 'restraint’, or Relegere, according to Cicero, meaning 'to repeat, to read again’, or, most likely, Religionem, to show respect for what is sacred) is an organized system of beliefs and practices revolving around, or leading to, a transcendent spiritual experience. There is no culture recorded in human history which has not practiced some form of religion.

 

Religion (which, in ancient times, is indistinguishable frommythology) concerns itself with the spiritual aspect of the human condition, gods and goddesses (or a single personal god or goddess), the creation of the world, a human being’s place in the world, life after death and how to escape from suffering in this world or in the next.  And every nation has created its own god in its own image and resemblance.

 

The world’s oldest religion still being practiced today is Hinduism (know to adherents as 'Sanatan Dharma’, Eternal Order) but, in what is considered 'the west’, the first records of religious practice come from Egypt around 4000 BCE. The Egyptian Creation Myth tells us that, at first, there was only Ocean.

 

This ocean was breadth-less and depth-less and silent until, upon its surface, there rose a hill of earth (known as the ben-ben, the primordial mound, which, it is thought, the pyramids symbolize) and the great god Ra (the sun) stood upon the ben-ben and spoke, giving birth to the god Shu (of the air) the goddess Tefnut (of moisture) the god Geb (of earth) and the goddess Nut (of sky). Ra had intended Nut as his bride but she fell in love with Geb.

 

Angry with the lovers, Ra separated them by stretching Nut across the sky high away from Geb on the earth. Although the lovers were separated during the day, they came together at night and Nut bore three sons, Osiris, Set and Horus, and two daughters, Isis and Nephthys. Osiris, as eldest, was announced as 'Lord of all the Earth’ when he was born and was given his sister Isis as a wife.

 

Set, consumed by jealousy, hated his brother and killed him to assume the throne. Isis then embalmed her husband's body and, with powerful charms, resurrected Osiris who returned from the dead to bring life to the people of Egypt. Osiris later served as the Supreme Judge of the souls of the dead in the Hall of Truth and, by weighing the heart of the soul in the balances, decided who was granted eternal life.

 

This same pattern of creation of existence by a supernatural entity who speaks all into being, of how the world came to be as it is (the canopy of sky over the earth, for example) other supernatural beings emanating from the first and greatest one, a son who is a powerful entity himself who is killed or dies for his people and comes back to life for the good of his people and an afterlife similar to an earthly existence is repeated in religious texts from Phoenicia (2700 BCE) to Sumer (2100 BCE) to Palestine (1440 BCE) to Greece (800 BCE) and finally to Rome (c. 100 CE).

 

The Phoenician tale of the great god Baal who dies and returns to life to battle the chaos of the god Yamm was already old in 2750 BCE when the city ofTyre was founded (according to Herodotus) and the Greek story of the dying and reviving god Adonis (c. 600 BCE) was derived from earlier Phoenician tales based on Tammuz which was borrowed by the Sumerians (and later the Persians) in the famous Descent of Innana myth.

 

This theme of life-after-death and life coming from death and, of course, the judgement after death, gained greatest fame through the evangelical efforts of St. Paul who spread the word of the dying and reviving god Jesus Christ throughout ancient Palestine, Asia Minor, Greece and Rome (c. 42-62 CE).

 

The religion of Christianity made standard a belief in an afterlife and set up an organized set of rituals by which an adherent could gain everlasting life. In so doing, the early Christians were simply following in the footsteps of the Egyptians, the Sumerians, the Phoenicians and the Greeks all of whom had their own stylized rituals for the worship of their gods.  

 

After the Christians, the Muslim interpreters of the Koran instituted their own rituals for understanding the supreme deity which, though vastly different in form from those of Christianity, Judaism or any of the older 'pagan’ religions, served the same purpose as the rituals once practiced in worship of the Egyptian goddess Hathor(c.3000 BCE) over five thousand years ago: to lend human beings the understanding that they are not alone in their struggles, suffering and triumphs, that they can restrain their baser urges and that death is not the end of existence.

 

 

 

(the author--not any great researcher IMV, but then this is a "entry level" offering)
A freelance writer and part-time Professor of Philosophy at Marist College, New York, Joshua J. Mark has lived in Greece and Germany and traveled through Egypt. He teaches ancient history, writing, literature, and philosophy

 

 
 

Another link of even more general info tracking the oldest recorded forms of worship.

 

Consider the source--even more "lightweight"; investigate further.  :)

 

http://www.answers.com/Q/What_is_the_oldest_known_religion_in_the_world

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Gravity Simulator

 

http://codepen.io/akm2/full/rHIsa

I see your 2D Gravity simulator and raise you a Universe Sandbox 2.

edit: Also, I've decided the Gravity Simulator is flawed. It does not appear that displacement is taken into consideration for the calculation of gravitational pull. It just assigns an acceleration based on the angle and strength of the gravity wells.

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Today I Found Out: The Origin of the Looney Tune’s “ACME” Corporation Name

 

Most of the article is pretty, well, "duh".  They picked the name because the phone book was full of all kinds of businesses named "Acme". 

 

Although there are some interesting reveals in it.  Like no, there apparently is no support for the claim that the name was an acronym for A Company that Makes Everything. 

 

And, if you read through to the trivia at the end, the last one is a real hoot. 

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^^ Way cool!

 

And if the dam breaks open many years too soon 
And if there is no room upon the hill 
And if your head explodes with dark forebodings too 
I'll see you on the dark side of the moon. 

 

And if the cloud bursts, thunder in your ear 

You shout and no one seems to hear. 
And if the band you're in starts playing different tunes 
I'll see you on the dark side of the moon. 

 

- Brain Damage - Pink Floyd

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Western Michigan Football finds a creative way to reward a walk-on player with a scholarship (one or 2 NSFW words in background):

 

 

I'm most impressed with how the rest of the team reacts to him.  Hope he has a great season.

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Wormhole Created in Lab Makes Invisible Magnetic Field

 

Ripped from the pages of a sci-fi novel, physicists have crafted a wormhole that tunnels a magnetic field through space.

 

"This device can transmit the magnetic field from one point in space to another point, through a path that is magnetically invisible," said study co-author Jordi Prat-Camps, a doctoral candidate in physics at the Autonomous University of Barcelona in Spain. "From a magnetic point of view, this device acts like a wormhole, as if the magnetic field was transferred through an extra special dimension." 

 

The idea of a wormhole comes from Albert Einstein's theories. In 1935, Einstein and colleague Nathan Rosen realized that the general theory of relativity allowed for the existence of bridges that could link two different points in space-time. Theoretically these Einstein-Rosen bridges, or wormholes, could allow something to tunnel instantly between great distances (though the tunnels in this theory are extremely tiny, so ordinarily wouldn't fiticon1.png a space traveler). So far, no one has found evidence that space-time wormholes actually exist.

 

The new wormhole isn't a space-time wormhole per se, but is instead a realization of a futuristic "invisibility cloak" first proposed in 2007 in the journal Physical Review Letters. This type of wormhole would hide electromagnetic waves from view from the outside. The trouble was, to make the method work for light required materials that are extremely impractical and difficult to work with, Prat said.

Magnetic wormhole

But it turned out the materials to make a magnetic wormhole already exist and are much simpler to come by. In particular, superconductors, which can carry high levels of current, or charged particles, expel magnetic field lines from their interiors, essentially bending or distorting these lines. This essentially allows the magnetic field to do something different from its surrounding 3D environment, which is the first step in concealing the disturbance in a magnetic field.

 

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A new deviceicon1.png can cloak a magnetic field so that it invisible from the outside. Here, a picture of how the wormhole would work.

 

Click on the link for the full article

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