If you believed in past lives and reincarnation, what was your past purpose before this one? Who were you, what did you do, and why do you believe you are who you are now? Sorry for the long question. Take your time
Dude thats such an interesting question. When I was little I kept on having dreams of me as a male British knight riding around on a horse from like the 1200s.
The dreams happened so frequently and were so oddly specific I always thought that I just had to have been that if reincarnation was real lol.
Yeah I agree, I believe reincarnation is definitely real. Lol I've had some crazy dreams too, for me I'd have to say some type of explorer. I've always dreamt of being on crazy adventures around the world, but adventures a long long time ago. Like caveman days lol. And I had an adventure one set in the future, and in this one I thought it was funny that in my other life I don't believe I'm adventurous. I'd say some type of explorer, I do have a need to be in nature I'm just finding out about.
That is so fascinating. I can't remember me ever talking about this subject with anyone, so weird to think about.
I can relate, I go camping as often as I can and I try to do as much as I can outdoors (I'm a teacher so I take my class outdoors to do lessons often). I get this feeling of being couped up all the time.
I understand. Yeah I thought I'd give you a good thinking question lol that's just the stuff I think about. Well I bet you're a great teacher! Thank you for the great convo
ooo so i can't name an absolute favorite song because there are so many that give me chills the entire time i listen to them but if i am going to promote just one song i am going to say DakhaBrakha – Пливе човен (2019) because they are a Ukranian folk/punk band that are anti-Putin and i just can't stop listening to all of their songs all of the time. here's a link https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3iRYtfkfp94
thank you! you're awesome. =) honestly AOC for president 2024, i love Bernie for life but having a woman who was a waitress busting her ass in the restaurant industry would be the biggest kick in the ass to everything that unfortunately happened in 2016. Bernie can definitely stay exactly where he is, Chairman of the Senate Budget Committee. =)
The only thing I'm concerned about is the Democratic party establishment undermining AOC like they did with Bernie. Would love to see her make a run for the presidency though. The country needs a younger voice in office and like you mentioned, someone who understands the plight of the working class.
Our eyes are constantly moving, and while some of those movements are under conscious control, many of them occur subconsciously. When we read, for instance, we make a series of very quick eye movements called saccades that fixate rapidly on one word after another. When we enter a room, we make larger sweeping saccades as we gaze around. Then there are the small, involuntary eye movements we make as we walk, to compensate for the movement of our head and stabilise our view of the world. And, of course, our eyes dart around during the ‘rapid eye movement’ (REM) phase of sleep.
What is now becoming clear is that some of our eye movements may actually reveal our thought process.
Research published last year shows that pupil dilation is linked to the degree of uncertainty during decision-making: if somebody is less sure about their decision, they feel heightened arousal, which causes the pupils to dilate. This change in the eye may also reveal what a decision-maker is about to say: one group of researchers, for example, found that watching for dilation made it possible to predict when a cautious person used to saying ‘no’ was about to make the tricky decision to say ‘yes’.
Watching the eyes can even help predict what number a person has in mind. Tobias Loetscher and his colleagues at the University of Zurich recruited 12 volunteers and tracked their eye movements while they reeled off a list of 40 numbers. The common octopus (Octopus vulgaris). The octopus can see with its skin.
They found that the direction and size of the participants’ eye movements accurately predicted whether the number they were about to say was bigger or smaller than the previous one – and by how much. Each volunteer’s gaze shifted up and to the right just before they said a bigger number, and down and to the left before a smaller one. The bigger the shift from one side to the other, the bigger the difference between the numbers.
This suggests that we somehow link abstract number representations in the brain with movement in space. But the study does not tell us which comes first: whether thinking of a particular number causes changes in eye position, or whether the eye position influences our mental activity. In 2013, researchers in Sweden published evidence that it’s the latter that may be at work: eye movements may actually facilitate memory retrieval.
They recruited 24 students and asked each one to carefully examine a series of objects displayed to them in one corner of a computer screen. The participants were then told to listen to a series of statements about some of the objects they had seen, such as “The car was facing to the left” and asked to indicate as quickly as possible if each was true or false. Some participants were allowed to let their eyes roam about freely; others were asked to fix their gaze on a cross at the centre of the screen, or the corner where the object had appeared, for example.
The researchers found that those who were allowed to move their eyes spontaneously during recall performed significantly better than those who fixed on the cross. Interestingly, though, participants who were told to fix their gaze in the corner of the screen in which objects had appeared earlier performed better than those told to fix their gaze in another corner. This suggests that the more closely the participants’ eye movements during information encoding corresponded with those that occurred during retrieval of the information, the better they were at remembering the objects. Perhaps that’s because eye movements help us to recall the spatial relationships between objects in the environment at the time of encoding.
Eyes not only reflect what is happening in the brain but may also influence how we remember things and make decisions
These eye movements can occur unconsciously. “When people are looking at scenes they have encountered before, their eyes are frequently drawn to information they have already seen, even when they have no conscious memory of it,” says Roger Johansson, a psychologist at Lund University who led the study.
Watching eye movements can also be used to nudge people’s decisions. One recent study showed – maybe worryingly – that eye-tracking can be exploited to influence the moral decisions we take.
I want to go a step beyond that and why the sky is just not blue, but in the mornings and afternoons it is a beautiful array of colors.
The sky” is just our atmosphere as we see it from underneath.
When the Sun is high in the sky, it appears its true color: white. At sunrise and sunset, we see a much redder sun.
This is because the sunlight is passing through a thicker layer of our sky.
This scatters the blue and green light along the way, allowing the redder light to pass through and illuminate the clouds in a beautiful array of red, orange, and pink.
1. Saber Toothed Tiger 2. Black Bears 3. I looked this up, couldn't find anything that really jumped out at me 4. mushrooms and marijuana 5. Now politically but from a technological stand point the 50's. I'm obsessed with gadgets and the 50's had some peak gadgets.
Honestly probably getting dropped off by a friend at college in Virginia the day after I graduated from high school in Ohio. I was legally homeless and financially independent at 15. I always got good grades (the reason why I went) but I was so poor and did not know a single person in Virginia. I had to immediately get a job so I rode my bike aimlessly until someone hired me a few days later. 100% worth it, I do not regret any decision I made.
Have you ever heard of the word of God and accepted Jesus Christ as your Lord and savior for your life and soul? If you haven't, today is the great day to take the chance to accept Jesus Christ into your heart and soul to be your savior, he is the only way to heaven. * Behold I stand at the door, & knock: if any man/Woman hear my voice, and open the door, I will come into him, and will sup with him/her, and he/she with me. Revelation 3:20* God Bless you ^_^
I have a question for you- How do you as a Christian feel about the wars that America fights especially when Jesus clearly said numerous times "Love thy neighbor as thy selves". Please do not tell me about how it says in proverbs "there is a time for everything, time for war...". That is not enough justification.
You must know very well that Satan will not rest on gaining power over the whole world (those who call evil good and good evil) that is against God. Those who have removed God Jesus Christ out of their lands, schools, malls, homes, and us humans that we removed from our own hearts we have also removed Jesus Christ that is why Satan is ruling over in Destruction in all areas he can be able to reach even over your own will. If we brought Jesus Christ back into our lives and everywhere else that has removed the Word of God living under his law and love doing what he commands us to do, we wouldn't be seeing so much wars, all the terrible causes we keep seeing in this day and age. We must have America under God; the whole world must live under God also; Satan does not want that to happen that is why our hearts who are not right with God go astray easily to be deceived by and live a blinded world in their own minds leaning unto their own understanding. You should rise up and become the light of this darkened world that really needs Jesus Christ spreading his gospel, even those who deny it are really in need of God in their hearts. Give your life to Christ today tomorrow is not promised. Our LORD is soon to return, don't get left behind we are living in the end times and you do not want to get left behind take the chance now, cannot get mad on your free choice you have made if you miss the coming of the LORD in the rapture get saved now.
Just to summarize- It is okay to support the war effort as long as you understand that there is always going to be sin and darkness until everyone repents. Do not say, "Hey! Stop killing people and love people instead."
*Create in me a clean heart, O God; And renew a right spirit within me Psalms 51:10. *Thou shall not kill Exodus 20:13. *Be ye angry and sin not: let not the sun go down upon your wrath: Ephesians 4:26. *By swearing, lying, and killing, and stealing, and committing adultery, they break out,and blood toucheth blood. Therefore shall the land mourn, and everyone that dwelleth therein shall languish, with the beasts of the field,and with fowls of heavean; yea the fishes of the sea shall also be taken away Hosea 4:2-3. *The thief cometh not, but for to steal, and to kill, and to destroy: I am come that they might have life and that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly John 10. * Stand in awe, and sin not: commune with your own heart upon your bed, and be still. Psalm 4:4.
So you agree with me, Christians should not kill/murder and war is inhumane and against the Bible and the teachings of Jesus. Good! Every Christian I have met likes to make justification for this. Making progress.
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Ghost_b
If you believed in past lives and reincarnation, what was your past purpose before this one? Who were you, what did you do, and why do you believe you are who you are now? Sorry for the long question. Take your time
Dude thats such an interesting question. When I was little I kept on having dreams of me as a male British knight riding around on a horse from like the 1200s.
The dreams happened so frequently and were so oddly specific I always thought that I just had to have been that if reincarnation was real lol.
I feel like reincarnation would make sense.
You?
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Yeah I agree, I believe reincarnation is definitely real. Lol I've had some crazy dreams too, for me I'd have to say some type of explorer. I've always dreamt of being on crazy adventures around the world, but adventures a long long time ago. Like caveman days lol. And I had an adventure one set in the future, and in this one I thought it was funny that in my other life I don't believe I'm adventurous. I'd say some type of explorer, I do have a need to be in nature I'm just finding out about.
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That is so fascinating. I can't remember me ever talking about this subject with anyone, so weird to think about.
I can relate, I go camping as often as I can and I try to do as much as I can outdoors (I'm a teacher so I take my class outdoors to do lessons often). I get this feeling of being couped up all the time.
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I understand. Yeah I thought I'd give you a good thinking question lol that's just the stuff I think about. Well I bet you're a great teacher! Thank you for the great convo
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Thanks dude, I try lol.
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scientist_axolotl
What's your fav song?
ooo so i can't name an absolute favorite song because there are so many that give me chills the entire time i listen to them but if i am going to promote just one song i am going to say DakhaBrakha – Пливе човен (2019) because they are a Ukranian folk/punk band that are anti-Putin and i just can't stop listening to all of their songs all of the time. here's a link https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3iRYtfkfp94
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wow i like it, for both the political messages and the music lol
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Not a question, just wanted to tell you that you rule based on your "Heroes" section and your posts on the News and Politics forum
thank you! you're awesome. =) honestly AOC for president 2024, i love Bernie for life but having a woman who was a waitress busting her ass in the restaurant industry would be the biggest kick in the ass to everything that unfortunately happened in 2016. Bernie can definitely stay exactly where he is, Chairman of the Senate Budget Committee. =)
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The only thing I'm concerned about is the Democratic party establishment undermining AOC like they did with Bernie. Would love to see her make a run for the presidency though. The country needs a younger voice in office and like you mentioned, someone who understands the plight of the working class.
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exactly!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! =)
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「Ｂｌａｃｋ Ｗｉｎｇｓ Ｓｏｃｉｅｔｙ」
What does the eyes see when there is only truth?
Welcome the post-fact, prepare for the unification.
Our eyes are constantly moving, and while some of those movements are under conscious control, many of them occur subconsciously. When we read, for instance, we make a series of very quick eye movements called saccades that fixate rapidly on one word after another. When we enter a room, we make larger sweeping saccades as we gaze around. Then there are the small, involuntary eye movements we make as we walk, to compensate for the movement of our head and stabilise our view of the world. And, of course, our eyes dart around during the ‘rapid eye movement’ (REM) phase of sleep.
What is now becoming clear is that some of our eye movements may actually reveal our thought process.
Research published last year shows that pupil dilation is linked to the degree of uncertainty during decision-making: if somebody is less sure about their decision, they feel heightened arousal, which causes the pupils to dilate. This change in the eye may also reveal what a decision-maker is about to say: one group of researchers, for example, found that watching for dilation made it possible to predict when a cautious person used to saying ‘no’ was about to make the tricky decision to say ‘yes’.
Watching the eyes can even help predict what number a person has in mind. Tobias Loetscher and his colleagues at the University of Zurich recruited 12 volunteers and tracked their eye movements while they reeled off a list of 40 numbers.
The common octopus (Octopus vulgaris).
The octopus can see with its skin.
They found that the direction and size of the participants’ eye movements accurately predicted whether the number they were about to say was bigger or smaller than the previous one – and by how much. Each volunteer’s gaze shifted up and to the right just before they said a bigger number, and down and to the left before a smaller one. The bigger the shift from one side to the other, the bigger the difference between the numbers.
This suggests that we somehow link abstract number representations in the brain with movement in space. But the study does not tell us which comes first: whether thinking of a particular number causes changes in eye position, or whether the eye position influences our mental activity. In 2013, researchers in Sweden published evidence that it’s the latter that may be at work: eye movements may actually facilitate memory retrieval.
They recruited 24 students and asked each one to carefully examine a series of objects displayed to them in one corner of a computer screen. The participants were then told to listen to a series of statements about some of the objects they had seen, such as “The car was facing to the left” and asked to indicate as quickly as possible if each was true or false. Some participants were allowed to let their eyes roam about freely; others were asked to fix their gaze on a cross at the centre of the screen, or the corner where the object had appeared, for example.
The researchers found that those who were allowed to move their eyes spontaneously during recall performed significantly better than those who fixed on the cross. Interestingly, though, participants who were told to fix their gaze in the corner of the screen in which objects had appeared earlier performed better than those told to fix their gaze in another corner. This suggests that the more closely the participants’ eye movements during information encoding corresponded with those that occurred during retrieval of the information, the better they were at remembering the objects. Perhaps that’s because eye movements help us to recall the spatial relationships between objects in the environment at the time of encoding.
Eyes not only reflect what is happening in the brain but may also influence how we remember things and make decisions
These eye movements can occur unconsciously. “When people are looking at scenes they have encountered before, their eyes are frequently drawn to information they have already seen, even when they have no conscious memory of it,” says Roger Johansson, a psychologist at Lund University who led the study.
Watching eye movements can also be used to nudge people’s decisions. One recent study showed – maybe worryingly – that eye-tracking can be exploited to influence the moral decisions we take.
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That was an interesting answer that I found in the Guardian Newspaper.
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rai-rai
r.o.u.s.
are you happy right now?? if so why!! if not, tell me what makes you happy!!
I am happy. My students gave me lots of hugs and really thoughtful gifts for Christmas today and that made me feel really appreciated. Are you happy?
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Gershon
Why is the sky blue?
Explain to me like I am 5 years old.
I want to go a step beyond that and why the sky is just not blue, but in the mornings and afternoons it is a beautiful array of colors.
The sky” is just our atmosphere as we see it from underneath.
When the Sun is high in the sky, it appears its true color: white. At sunrise and sunset, we see a much redder sun.
This is because the sunlight is passing through a thicker layer of our sky.
This scatters the blue and green light along the way, allowing the redder light to pass through and illuminate the clouds in a beautiful array of red, orange, and pink.
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I really wish my 5th grade teacher did this. Appreciate the effort.
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No problem! :)
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Jannylili
How long is the equator surrounding the earth?
40,075 km (24,901 mi) in circumference
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Thx a lot. I appreciate it.
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you're welcome
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R4PT0R
What is your favorite:
1. Extinct animal
2. Extant animal
3. Extinct plant
4. Extant plant
5. Time period
..and why?
1. Saber Toothed Tiger
2. Black Bears
3. I looked this up, couldn't find anything that really jumped out at me
4. mushrooms and marijuana
5. Now politically but from a technological stand point the 50's. I'm obsessed with gadgets and the 50's had some peak gadgets.
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Regualr
whats the most riskiest thing youve done
Honestly probably getting dropped off by a friend at college in Virginia the day after I graduated from high school in Ohio. I was legally homeless and financially independent at 15. I always got good grades (the reason why I went) but I was so poor and did not know a single person in Virginia. I had to immediately get a job so I rode my bike aimlessly until someone hired me a few days later. 100% worth it, I do not regret any decision I made.
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You?
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Lily Flores🌺
Have you ever heard of the word of God and accepted Jesus Christ as your Lord and savior for your life and soul? If you haven't, today is the great day to take the chance to accept Jesus Christ into your heart and soul to be your savior, he is the only way to heaven. * Behold I stand at the door, & knock: if any man/Woman hear my voice, and open the door, I will come into him, and will sup with him/her, and he/she with me. Revelation 3:20*
God Bless you ^_^
I have a question for you- How do you as a Christian feel about the wars that America fights especially when Jesus clearly said numerous times "Love thy neighbor as thy selves". Please do not tell me about how it says in proverbs "there is a time for everything, time for war...". That is not enough justification.
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Read the book of Revelation
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You must know very well that Satan will not rest on gaining power over the whole world (those who call evil good and good evil) that is against God. Those who have removed God Jesus Christ out of their lands, schools, malls, homes, and us humans that we removed from our own hearts we have also removed Jesus Christ that is why Satan is ruling over in Destruction in all areas he can be able to reach even over your own will. If we brought Jesus Christ back into our lives and everywhere else that has removed the Word of God living under his law and love doing what he commands us to do, we wouldn't be seeing so much wars, all the terrible causes we keep seeing in this day and age. We must have America under God; the whole world must live under God also; Satan does not want that to happen that is why our hearts who are not right with God go astray easily to be deceived by and live a blinded world in their own minds leaning unto their own understanding. You should rise up and become the light of this darkened world that really needs Jesus Christ spreading his gospel, even those who deny it are really in need of God in their hearts. Give your life to Christ today tomorrow is not promised. Our LORD is soon to return, don't get left behind we are living in the end times and you do not want to get left behind take the chance now, cannot get mad on your free choice you have made if you miss the coming of the LORD in the rapture get saved now.
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Just to summarize- It is okay to support the war effort as long as you understand that there is always going to be sin and darkness until everyone repents. Do not say, "Hey! Stop killing people and love people instead."
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I have read the book of Revalation, you do not know who you are talking to. Let me see where it says "It's okay to kill people?"
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*Create in me a clean heart, O God; And renew a right spirit within me Psalms 51:10. *Thou shall not kill Exodus 20:13. *Be ye angry and sin not: let not the sun go down upon your wrath: Ephesians 4:26. *By swearing, lying, and killing, and stealing, and committing adultery, they break out,and blood toucheth blood. Therefore shall the land mourn, and everyone that dwelleth therein shall languish, with the beasts of the field,and with fowls of heavean; yea the fishes of the sea shall also be taken away Hosea 4:2-3. *The thief cometh not, but for to steal, and to kill, and to destroy: I am come that they might have life and that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly John 10. * Stand in awe, and sin not: commune with your own heart upon your bed, and be still. Psalm 4:4.
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So you agree with me, Christians should not kill/murder and war is inhumane and against the Bible and the teachings of Jesus. Good! Every Christian I have met likes to make justification for this. Making progress.
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