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Reader Survey: How Many Bags of Trash Do You Throw Out Weekly?
This morning we sprung out of bed early and made it a plan to get our home in order. Vacuuming, cleaning, and putting away things and placing them in their appropriate spots. We'd say we're about 60% done (oh, the closet), but we came away wondering about how much waste we produce on average after taking out the trash and recyclables. Since switching to disposing our non-meat leftovers to a compost bin and mostly avoiding shopping at big box stores, we think our weekly trash total has dropped to about 1.5 bags of garbage and 1 bag of recyclable packaging material (mostly from items sent to us for review), compared to about 2-3 bags per week for 2 people and 2 cats in our household....
How about yourselves? Abby asked a similar question earlier this year, but we don't normally weigh our trash output and mostly measure by total bags that hit curbside. And be sure to mention how many are in your household, since we understand this corresponds directly with the total.
We've consider going plastic trash bagless, but this isn't such a great idea when you have to dispose of cat litter regularly, so we just try to keep it in check and stick to paper bags for our recyclable collection (and yes, we bring reusable canvas bags when we shop). Donating instead of throwing out, throwing a yard sale, and just offering our friends extraneous items has culled our total possessions and waste output quite a bit too (trust us, let it go...you'll feel better after the initial discomfort of giving "it" up).
Beth put together an excellent list of ways to cull back your weekly trash output here. The one we're battling is the ongoing delivery of junk mail, despite contacting a million junk mail lists to stop the insanity (yet another reason to shop local). We've also given up on bottled water except in exceptional circumstances while traveling (Kleen Kanteens are excellent replacements). We guess our next step is do a trash audit and break down exactly what and where the bulk of our waste is coming from and make necessary changes. But perhaps after the holidays, since the amount of trash during the holidays is always exceptionally more than normal.
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rarely do i toss more than one and a full blue bin of recycling my newspapers/cans/glass/plastics.
the city i live is instituting a green box recycling program in the new year for food waste, but i have picked out the perfect spot in my garden for a composter.
It's not the garbage from home that has me concerned anymore (I'm down to about a paper-bag's worth a week, the rest is recycled paper which is mostly junk mail)
It's the garbage from work and while traveling: all the lunch bags & covered food containers, containers from frozen entrees, single-use teabag packets, plastic waterbottles (You can't use your own bottles when you travel by air, and do the airlines bother to recycle all those plastic water cups and paper napkins?)
Sure there are recycling bins in the office - but I'd guess that I easily create more garbage at work than I do at home.
2-3 bags a week is about right for my family, and we're two people and two cats. A lot of that is cat waste and takeout containers, which I'd like to avoid, but it's hard because my husband's hours at work are erratic. It still shocks me how such a small family can produce so much trash in a week. And that doesn't even include recycling - that's probably another 1-2 paper bags full every week.
just 1 little bag for a 3-person household. i seriously cannot sing the virtues of municipal composting loud enough! pizza boxes, coffee cups, meat, bones, eggs, egg cartons, milk cartons, leftovers, moldy leftovers, trader joe's compostable plastic trays, paper towels, paper towel rolls...when we're done with our "kitchen scraps" we hardly have anything left to toss. it's the best and i get anxious about possibly moving to a place that doesn't have an anything-goes green waste bin :(
I'm at a bag about every week and a half to two weeks, for just me. Recycling goes at roughly the same pace, I guess.
I'm at a bag every 1-2 weeks (depending on how much I cook and what I cook) typically for just myself. I've started recycling more and more junk mail and shredded paper, which in the past I used to just throw in the dumpster.
We have about a bag a week, and a full blue recycling bin every two weeks. We also compost in our own back yard. Our family is two humanfolk and one puppygirl.
bepsf - i learned a great travel trick from a friend of my mom's. she brings an empty water bottle (or canteen) through security. then, she fills it up at the water fountain in the terminal. no disposable plastic bottles of water needed!
We toss 2 and occasionally 3 bags a week - and there are nine of us... I really loathe packaging and try very hard to buy products without it. I am also quite mad about not bringing things into our home that we will want to to throw out - no.no.no.. My mother in law (1 of her!!!) is always saying you have so much garbage... um person for person we somehow manage to do a lot better than she does... I guess that is what they call economy of scale!
One 13-gallon bag per week for 2 people and 1 rabbit. The bulkiest items are plastic/styrofoam boxes and takeout containers, and litter from the litterbox. Without those two things it would be way less. I guess this would be a good incentive for me to stop ordering takeout.
i throw out a bag of trash every 2-3 weeks. I recycle most everything.
1 garbage bin for a family of four living in a community with no recycling facilities (and before anyone gets on their high horse about this, we're on an island, which means that any recycling facility has to be built on the island, which takes time and money, or stuff shipped far away...which is what they do in Vancouver - ship off to China - and that somewhat defeats the purpose of recycling).
I take out 1 bag (8-gal) of trash and 1 "bag" (8-gal) of recycling a week.
Since I started sending compost to some friends that compost in their yard, I take out a large bag of garbage only once every few weeks/once a month? Also since my building started recycling a lot more stuff, that's cutting down on a lot too. I'm thinking of getting a smaller trash can and selling the one I have on CL and freeing up some space. I might be able to use primarily paper bags for trash too. The only thing I carry to the trash maybe a couple of times a week is a plastic bag full of scoop outs from the litter box. The litter only needs to be changed about every 4-6 weeks and goes into a paper grocery bag which goes into the plastic trash bag with the rest of the trash.
1 human here 1 cat.
I've found that with all of the recycling I do, I seldom take out more than one small bag every other week. It helps that I live in a dorm-type situation and am a volunteer who can't even afford to buy anything and don't have a Target in my town.
But now I'm moving and I'm appalled at how much I have recycled/thrown out/donated! From my little room I have thrown out two big bags, put four big bags in the thrift store pile, and recycled another two big bags worth! I don't understand where it all came from and I wish that it would pick itself up and not make me do it!
1 city purchased, $2.50 garbage bag every two weeks for our family of 2 adults, 1 teen, 2 dogs and 1 cat. We compost for our garden, recycle at a station at the grocery store. It works pretty well for us. I think the charge per bag is an incentive to reduce your waste. We try to be inventive in reusing things we would have thrown away in the past. Plastic food containers make nice seed starters especially the ones with clear plastic lids.
For 2 adults, we average 1.5 bags of trash and 1 bag of recycling per week.
But this guy does it better, a whole year without throwing anything out.
Wow. Amazing. How can a family of 2 and 2 cats only throw out 3 bags a week? Well, I guess when you have a 16 year old dog that pees in the house whereever and wheever she wants . . .the paper towel adds up. A LOT OF IT. And she does go outside, but often comes back in and pees inside. Mia is 14 and pees in the house too. We have four dogs in all and it is my mom and I. We recycle the big gallon plastic water bottles and the smaller 2 liter bottles of soda. Rarely purchase soda and I never purchase cans. So, how many 13 gallon bags do we trash each WEEK? Get ready. I may blow your mind. About 5-6 a week. If we are spring cleaning that week, it could be 8 that week. We shred our junk mail once every 3 weeks and we get a lot of junk mail, we don't want anyone seeing our name or address etc. Shredding takes up 7 gallons very fast. So I guess our little 2 human family with 4 dogs - I guess we waste a lot.


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Doris Hare
|Doris Hare
1 March 1905
Bargoed, Glamorgan, Wales, UK
|30 May 2000
(aged 95)
Northwood, London, England, UK
|Years active
|John Roberts (1941 - 1973) (divorced)
|2 daughters
|Kate Hare (mother)
Bertie Hare (brother)
Betty Hare (sister)
Winifred Hare (sister)
Doris Hare, MBE (1 March 1905 – 30 May 2000) was a Welsh actress, best known for her role as Mrs Mabel Butler in the popular sitcom On the Buses alongside Reg Varney.
Hare was born in Bargoed, Glamorgan. Her parents had a portable theatre in South Wales and it seemed inevitable that she would become a part of it, making her debut at the age of three in Current Cash and appearing in juvenile troupes all over Britain as a child, before going solo as 'Little Doris Hare', appearing in music hall, variety, cabaret, revues and pantomimes.
In 1930, the actress toured in The Show's the Thing, taking the part made famous by Gracie Fields. In 1932 she appeared in the West End in Noël Coward's show Words and Music, alongside John Mills. In 1936 she made her Broadway debut in Night Must Fall. During the war, Hare joined Evelyn Laye to put on a revue for the troops and compered Shipmates Ashore, the BBC's programme for the Merchant Navy, earning her the MBE in 1941.
In 1963 she joined the Royal Shakespeare Company and in 1965 joined the National Theatre at the Old Vic. She acted in plays by Shakespeare, Shaw, Pinero and Pinter.
Having turned down the role of Ena Sharples in Coronation Street in 1960, Hare did play Alice Pickens in the series during 1969. She was due to marry Albert Tatlock, but the wedding never took place.
That same year Hare came to national attention in the role of Mrs Butler in On the Buses, taking over the part from Cicely Courtneidge in the second series of the ITV comedy. The series ran until 1973 and spawned three spin-off films On the Buses (1971), Mutiny on the Buses (1972) and Holiday on the Buses (1973) in which Hare recreated her small-screen role. The cast also performed a stage version of the popular series in Vancouver, Canada, in 1988.
In 1974 Hare spent a year in the West End farce No Sex Please, We're British and made her final stage appearance, aged 87, at the London Palladium alongside John Mills in a tribute to Evelyn Laye.
Hare won a Variety Club of Great Britain Special Award for her contributions to show business in 1982.
Selected filmography[edit]
- Luck of the Navy (1938)
- Discoveries (1939)
- She Couldn't Say No (1939)
- It's Hard to Be Good (1948)
- Here Come the Huggetts (1948)
- The History of Mr. Polly (1949)
- Dance Hall (1950)
- Thought to Kill (1954)
- Double Exposure (1954)
- Tiger by the Tail (1955)
- No Smoking (1955)
- Strangers' Meeting (1957)
- Another Time, Another Place (1958)
- The League of Gentlemen (1960)
- A Place to Go (1963)
- On the Buses (1969–1973)
- On the Buses (1971)
- Mutiny on the Buses (1972)
- Holiday on the Buses (1973)
- Confessions of a Pop Performer (1975)
- Confessions of a Driving Instructor (1976)
- Confessions from a Holiday Camp (1977)
- Why Didn't They Ask Evans? (1980, TV film)
- Nuns on the Run (1990)
- Second Best (1994)
External links[edit]
- Doris Hare at the Internet Movie Database
- A Video clip of Doris Hare on her This Is Your Life on YouTube

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Southwest Fried Oysters
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Chill: 2 Hours
Fry: 3 Minutes
- 2 pints fresh Select oysters, drained
- 2 cups buttermilk
- 1 cup all-purpose flour
- 1/2 cup yellow cornmeal
- 1 tablespoon paprika
- 1 1/2 teaspoons garlic powder
- 1 1/2 teaspoons dried oregano
- 1 1/2 teaspoons chili powder
- 1 1/2 teaspoons ground red pepper
- 1/2 teaspoon dried mustard
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1/2 teaspoon ground black pepper
- Vegetable oil
- Combine oysters and buttermilk in a large shallow dish or zip-top plastic freezer bag. Cover or seal and chill at least 2 hours. Drain oysters well.
- Combine flour and the next 9 ingredients. Dredge oysters in flour mixture, shaking off excess.
- Pour oil to a depth of 1 inch in a Dutch oven; heat to 370°.
- Fry oysters, in batches, 3 minutes or until golden. Drain on paper towels. Serve immediately.
- Fried Buffalo Oysters: Prepare Southwest Fried Oysters as directed, omitting the chili powder. Stir together 1/2 cup melted butter, 1/2 cup hot sauce, and 2 tablespoons fresh lemon juice. Pour butter mixture evenly over hot fried oysters. Serve oysters with Ranch dressing and celery sticks on the side.
- Fried Buffalo Oyster Po'Boys: Prepare Fried Buffalo Oysters as directed. Split 4 French bread rolls. Spread 1 tablespoon mayonnaise evenly on cut sides of rolls. Place 1/4 cup shredded iceberg lettuce and one-fourth of Buffalo Oysters on bottom halves of rolls; cover with roll tops.
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Knight and Day star Cameron Diaz loves being courted.
She said, "I do get men trying to pick me up (and) I'm always interested. I never shut down any man who's willing to ask me out, unless he's a total douche bag. It takes a lot for a guy to ask out a girl like me...It's not uncomplicated."
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Compilation of Brooklyn Protest Reporting
- "I don't believe the police, I believe the community." - Organizer Fatimah Shakur
- Estimation of 500 marchers being "escorted" by police on scooters.
- Some confrontation, police forcing people onto the sidewalk with scooters and tossing people around. I think I saw someone get slammed into a police car, but I'm not sure.
- Back on the sidewalk, marchers are WALKING and peaceful.
- Police telling people with children to leave the protest.
- Apparently there were a few arrests and oh! there's a helicopter again.
- Cops barricading protesters in the road, keeping journalists away from march
- Police are now pushing people around, things are escalating.
- Two officers on a rooftop doing who knows what across from the precinct.
- Someone's throwing glass bottles, not sure who though.
- Reports of pepper spray on 48th/Church by @rdevro, a really great independent journo.
- NYPD tells @stopmotionsolo "Party's over. Go home."
- RT @rdevro: Just spoke to 90 lb 16 year old girl who was pepper sprayed. "They locking people up for no reason," she said.
- A teen was reportedly arrested on 45th for jaywalking—martial law in Flatbush, Brooklyn
- Around 50 arrests.
- Once again, ICE is in Brooklyn. ICE = Immigration and Customs Enforcement
- The cops at the vigil are from three different precincts, says demonstrator.
- "Crips and Bloods [are] coming together… they're unifying… so they have control," says another demonstrator.
- Councilman Jumaane Williams might have just been arrested by NYPD.
- Also, Kimani Gray's sister has been arrested at the protest.
- Several cops are violently arresting a man on camera.
- "Don't hurt them, you're being filmed." - Chief to officer on film.
- "What are we gonna do next?… right now, we're playing into the system." - Sgt. Shamar Thomas calls for organization of Brooklyn community in order to get real change for Flatbush and other poor communities of color.
- Speaker asking for a moment of silence, sounds like chanting in the background.
- There's some disagreement: to march to a church or the police precinct.
- FAITH (Fathers Alive In The Hood) is in the march.
- NYPD on their little scooters again. Also: on rooftops. Riot cops out.
- Part of the group stays at a church, the rest continues on to the precinct.
- Natasha Lennard is reporting that the debate over going to the church versus continuing on to the precinct was NOT split along community/not lines.
- Street near from the precinct is barricaded, and there are a ton of riot cops out there.
- "They're just some bullies with a badge. Punks without it!"
- Meeting in church about organizing and strategy about what protesters should do to stop racist, terrorizing NYPD policies that aren't held accountable.
- @patrickdijusto: Just saw what looked like a helicopter chase, as an NYPD copter drove off a news copter over. I can't confirm this, but I've seen this tweeted about a lot. There is a blackout on media in the neighborhood, because IDK, the constitution only applies to 49 of the 50 states.
- 100 Blacks in Law Enforcement - "Three police officers that are black who have survived being shot by white officers" were never given instructions to show their hands. Representative calls for a special prosecutor because the prosecution is unwilling to prosecute police officers "when they shoot young black men."
- Organizer Fatimah Shakur calls out groups who are trying to use the growing protests in Flatbush for other agendas. "This is about police brutality victims, and enough is enough!"
- Chants of "Justice for Kimani Gray!" and "Fire Ray Kelly!" as the marchers head to the 67th precinct.
- Elders in the community leading the march tonight, which is why things are smoother— livestreamer stopmotionsolo.
- Protesters chant for the rooftop cops to "jump!"
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SPOKANE, Wash. - Three people were hospitalized in an early morning fire on Wednesday, according to Spokane Fire officials.
Battalion Chief Dave Haworth told KHQ, first on the scene, that emergency personnel arrived at the home on 4th and Magnolia in east Spokane for a medical call before they realized the woman they were treating had inhaled a lot of smoke.
That's what prompted emergency crews to call in a full-response structure fire.
Crews on scene say the fire started in one of the back bedrooms.
Three people were in the house at the time the fire broke out and all three were transported to a local hospital to be treated for smoke inhalation, though fire crews say their injuries are non-life threatening.
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That is the big question here...
Comparing the Xbox 360 and PS3 side-by-side (Joystiq)
Nov 29th 2006 2:26PM If you look at the PS3 launch titles like 70% of them are cross platform... even Ridge Racer 7 is kind of cross platform... there would only be one game out for the PS3 right now if it weren't for the 360... developers were working on games like Tiger Woods and Madden, and Ridge Racer BEFORE the 360 was released...
With the 360 developers were taking their first crack at developing NEXT GEN games... with the PS3 many of the developers have already built the next gen engines for the 360 and it is only a matter of porting those engines to the PS3...
Like it or not the 360 started the NEXT GENERATION and when you compare the difficulty of developing games on the 2 platforms you can bet that MOST developers are going to be building the next gen games on the 360 and porting them to the PS3... the tools on the XBOX are just easier to use. Take Assassins Creed for example... I would bet they were building it on the 360 the whole time and porting it to the PS3 along the way... they have had a system to work with in the 360 for the last year and a half (including time with dev kits)...
Unless the PS3 starts selling BIG TIME this trend will continue... why develop a game for the PS3 when you are only going to be able to sell at most 2 million copies by the holiday of next year... and you could potentiall sell the same game on the 360 to more than 10 million people in that same time frame?
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Nov 24th 2006 3:02PM Sign me up!
Don't expect any HD-DVD's by Samsung or LG Electronics (Joystiq Playstation)
Nov 20th 2006 11:51AM Its seems kind of silly to come out and say that you will never support a format that could win the next gen DVD war... They are just hoping that by saying things like that consumers will be scared into going with Blu-Ray...
Also... where is all the PS3 news!!! This is PS3 Fanboy!!! The system just released last week and there have only been one or two postings since!!!!!!!
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Vodafone slammed for 'short and sharp' price hike comms
Vodafone has been slammed for the "short and sharp" nature by which it informed customers about new "simplified" charges on pay-as-you-go (PAYG) tariffs, which will raise the cost of the majority of calls.
The mobile operator began sending text messages to PAYG customers earlier this week notifying them of the amendment, which will see it charging for calls by the minute rather than the second. Call time will be rounded up to the minute, meaning a customer making a call lasting 1 minute 2 seconds would be charged for 2 minutes, for example.
Vodafone also posted notification about the "simpler" pricing on its website and is responding to the predictably negative customer feedback on social media - although neither Vodafone UK's Twitter or Facebook accounts have created standalone posts about the topic.
Adam Kirby, telecoms expert at uSwitch.com says the restructured PAYG tariffs act as a "Trojan horse" for price rises, but the real gripe with consumers was the way the message was communicated.
He adds: "Sending a text may be a quick, simple and cheap way to communicate with your friends, family and even your boss, but Vodafone breaking the news about price changes this way may be a bit of a stretch. The short and sharp nature of a text may explain why the message failed to tell the whole story - and so went down like a lead balloon with some customers.
"We have seen mobile companies move away from traditional paper bills, and this seems to signal the end of written communication altogether - most likely to save networks money. But if customers can be kept happier for the cost of a stamp, it may be some money worth spending."
One poster on the Vodafone UK forum accused Vodafone of "patronising" customers by attempting to dress the changes up as a simplification of call charges.
Another poster wrote: "Simpler? Maybe slightly. More expensive? Potentially much more. Communicated in a reasonable manner? Certainly not. I am sorry but this is a joke, it is price hike and nothing else and you are treating us as idiots in trying to call it anything other than that."
An Ofcom spokeswoman confirmed the regulator has had no complaints on the issue to date but that all pricing information and related policies should be made available to customers "clearly and transparently". Ofcom does not regulate on the retail prices charged by providers or any rounding policies applied.
A Vodafone spokeswoman says: "We continue to tell our customers about the changes through various channels including text, our social media channels and online. Customers can also find out more at www.vodafone.co.uk, visit their local Vodafone store or talk to us by 191, free from their Vodafone mobile.
"Many of our competitors already offer price plans charged in this way. We believe that by offering propositions with a generous allowance of minutes, we continue to offer our customers great value. For example, our Talk Freebee package includes 1000 minutes over 30 days when a customer tops up £10 and Vodafone Freedom Freebee includes 100 minutes and 300 texts when a customer tops up £10."
In response to a question about the criticism the "short and sharp" text message used to communicate the price changes to customers has amassed, the spokeswoman added: "Telling our customers of any price change is important. Pay as you go customers are not obliged to give us their address, so text messaging is one way we can get in touch."
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It's not that it was communicated by text, it's that the communication was an insult to the intelligence of the customer.
A twofold insult... the idea that the customer is unable to cope with the "complexity" of per second billing, and then that they are stupid enough to be taken in by the corporate speak that tries to present a price hike as doing the customer a favour.
Of course all companies like to make price rise announcements seem a little more palatable if they can, but this one is up there with the Netflix price change announcement debacle in terms of how not to do it.
That one reportedly lost Netflix 800,000 customers.


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Defense Secretary Robert Gates said on Wednesday that all military programs were on the table — including nuclear arms and the joint strike fighter — as the Pentagon tries to meet the president's goal of cutting $400 billion in spending over 12 years.
"If the political leadership of this country decides that it must reduce the investment in defense by hundreds of billions of dollars, then I don't think we can afford to have anything that's off the table," Gates told a Pentagon news conference.
The defense secretary, who leaves office at the end of June, said he opposed across-the-board defense cuts that would hollow out the military force while leaving the current force structure intact.
President Barack Obama set a goal last month of holding national security spending below the rate of inflation for the next 12 years, a move that would save about $400 billion, mainly from Defense Department budgets.
The move came as Republicans and Democrats in Congress grapple with the country's deficit, running about $1.4 trillion this fiscal year that ends September 30, and the national debt, which is over 90 percent of GDP.
Gates said Obama had made it clear the Pentagon should not make specific budget decisions before conducting a fundamental review of America's military missions, capabilities and global security role.
"The new comprehensive review will ensure that future spending decisions are focused on strategy and risks and are not simply a math and accounting exercise," Gates said.
"This process must be about identifying options for the president and the Congress, where the nation is willing to accept risk in exchange for reduced investment in the Department of Defense," he said.
The United States continues to prepare and arm for major battles like those fought in World War Two, even though conflicts in the foreseeable future are more likely to require the kind of light, mobile force used in Afghanistan and Iraq.
Gates wants political leaders to make conscious strategic choices about what kinds of programs they are willing to sacrifice, and in turn what military risks they are willing to accept, to implement the budget cuts.
Asked to what extent the F-35 joint strike fighter would be affected by the cutbacks, Gates said "the country needs the F-35″ but "obviously, if you're going to change strategies or missions, that has implications for the amount of equipment you buy."
"I would expect that to apply across the board, not just to the F-35," he added.
The Lockheed Martin F-35 is a so-called "fifth-generation" fighter equipped with radar-evading stealth technologies that is meant to replace a range of fighters from different service branches.
The plane is the military's priciest current acquisition, with a projected cost of more than $283 billion. The program's projected cost has risen substantially in recent years, and any cuts in planned purchases by the Pentagon would drive unit costs higher.
"Here's where … the rubber meets the road on this," Gates said. "We must buy a fifth-generation fighter. We must replace the ballistic missile submarines toward the end of this decade."
"So the point is there are some significant new investments that must be made," Gates said. "How do you pay for that, in the context that we're talking about? Those are the kinds of hard choices that I want to surface and have people address."
Gates also declined to rule out eliminating one leg of the nuclear triad as a means of cost savings. The United States maintains missiles, submarines and aircraft capable of carrying nuclear weapons. Eliminating one of those systems, which need to be replaced or upgraded, could save billions of dollars.
Gates said all potential cuts had to be on the table so political leaders can make strategic choices rather than fall back on political expedient across-the-board cuts.
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Global security role ?
Political leaders fall back by X percent ?
What happened to run what ya brung, chrome won't take ya home ?
Fire the military contractors, conscript all before it's too late, top to bottom.
People of a like-mind make pretty good armies..
But then originates hunger , perchance, continuance of the dream boldly.
I had the same double take on the global security role. If one nation is to provide global security, then the globe can start picking up the tab.
Right now there's a plan to sneak through a provision in the upcoming "Defense Authorization Bill" to give the President unchallenged authority to use our military forces anywhere and everywhere worldwide in order to fight 'terrorism'. Of course this is the MIC and their 'running dog' politicians' wet dream come true in terms of shaking down the American people until the 12th of forever; ie, 'make work' for our military forces that have evidently become a bastion of our now dead economy which has one of the lowest growth rates on the planet at about 1.8% per annum. We've got guns along with supplied aggression, but no real jobs for anyone.
It was added to the bill by Rep. Buck McKeon (R-Calif.), and it could become the single biggest ceding of unchecked war authority to the executive branch in modern American history.
Outrageously so, there have been no hearings on this worldwide war legislation, nor has its necessity been explained by Rep. Buck McKeon or anyone else in Congress. it's simply another 'sneak through' add-on that will bypass the Constitution and give not only this President, but those in the future unchallenged authority to wage war whenever and whereever on planet earth.
I've contacted my Congressional District rep on the matter, but knowing that the House is controlled by the 'rethugs' it won't surprise me in the least if this add-on makes it through with the overall passage of the bill.
These tactics are now typical when it comes to our Congress, now having simply degenerated into a hand-clapping, regime friendly 'politburo'.
I urge readers to get motivated and to contact their Congressional reps and demand this 'stealth' add-on be stripped from the bill. We're now in Libya. What's next on their agenda? This nation is being gutted by out of control defense spending along with our involvement with endless engineered 'zero sum' wars for profit.
Note: I'm an ACLU member. The link provides a handy 'one-stop' shopping way to protest this unconstitutional add-on provision. Contact your reps now.
Carl Nemo **==
I hope you sent a check from your tax shelter corporation with your letter. That's the only way to get their attention. Unlimited free speech via corporate representation. We used to call that graft.
I sent an email, snail mail and have called Congresswoman Herrera'a office. I'm hoping readers that might run across my link will use it's simple ACLU supplied format to contact their respective Congressperson too, unless they believe this what America, now seemingly AmeriKa an emergent 'banana republic' is all about.
Good thoughts Woody about sending correspondence under a corporate letterhead, especially if the name can be linked to some fat contributions.
My last Congressional Rep was Brian Baird (Dem 3rd District) Washington State, now we have a Republican, Jaime Herrera who went graduated from one of our local area high schools.
My wife and I registered as Independents. We were never enthused with Baird's votes so with Herrera the new rep on the block, hopefully some common sense will prevail, but generally speaking Republicans are acting in seemingly a 'brain-dead' lockstep fashion.
The only thing that's going to stop this endless dog and pony show of 'empire run amok' is fiscal insolvency. We have to borrow money to wage war. So if we want to continue doing so, then both short and long term rates are headed upward and when the 'cheap rate' bubble bursts, rates are going to become a moonshot. It's going to become very expensive to keep the MIC and their running dog's in Congress afloat.
Carl Nemo **==
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The Charlottesville region's growing population and steady influx of retirees is increasing the demand for high-quality health care. Martha Jefferson's upgrades will help accommodate that demand, as well as ongoing expansion efforts at Charlottesville's other hospital.
The University of Virginia Medical Center is adding a Long-Term Care Hospital on Ivy Road, building a tower of more rooms onto the main hospital and constructing the Emily Couric Cancer Center and a new children's hospital facility on West Main Street.
"All this activity means that in the very near future UVa Medical Center will become a $1 billion a year health care facility -- we think that's a significant investment for our region," UVa Medical Center Vice President and CEO Ed Howell wrote in an e-mail.
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My mother pretending to need my class so I feel better about myself when really, she could be teaching this class.
To make a super easy cookie monster cake, I showed the class how to make a dome for the head using a round cake pan for one layer of the cake and the other layer using a Pyrex bowl, though this could be done using two round cakes, trimming the top layer after it is stacked to make it a dome shape.
Then we crumb coated the cake and proceeded to cover the entire thing with bright blue fur using a star tip.
After covering the cake with fur, use black frosting for the mouth and pupils of the eyes, and white frosting for the eyes. I also like to stick some cookies in his mouth.
I learned to make this cake when I was 10 and made it for all of my friend's birthdays. I would have put his eyes higher up on his head with this cake, but forgot what he looked like since it has been many, many years since I was 10 (I will not mention exactly HOW many).
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I would love to get a easy (Beginner) yet fun Elephant cake pattern. My daughters have birthdays 2 days a part and they both love Elephants. But I have no idea what to do to make a cake for them. I never do anything fun but would love you help. I would need instructions and also the tips to use.ReplyDelete
Brenda, hmmm. I'll have to think about how to make an elephant cake.ReplyDelete
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The Proposal (2009)
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Sandra Bullock and Ryan Reynolds exhibit plenty of chemistry, but they're let down by The Proposal's devotion to formula.
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When high-powered book editor Margaret faces deportation to her native Canada, the quick-thinking exec declares that she's actually engaged to her unsuspecting put-upon assistant Andrew, who she's tormented for years. He agrees to participate in the charade, but with a few conditions of his own. The unlikely couple heads to Alaska to meet his quirky family, and the always-in-control city girl finds herself in one comedic fish-out-of-water situation after another. With an impromptu wedding in the
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They may as well have called this one 'Mis-Matched Sham Wedding Comedy #57513' for all the effort it makes to shake new life out of a tattered genre.
Instead of being about dinosaurs and time warps, it's about gags that were old when dinosaurs ruled the earth.
It's impossible to guess why Bullock was ever attracted to this insulting role, and the eternally confident Reynolds is miscast as a young, bullied underling.
Shamelessly derivative, contrived and predictable, The Proposal is nonetheless a crowd-pleasing romantic comedy.
A fresh twist to a proposal that starts out as all business but becomes something warmer and fuzzier before it's over.
The comedy is some good moments, and the chemistry between Sandra Bullock and Ryan Reynolds is strong, but it's too cute and predictable
Simple and clich�d, yet refreshing. As long as you're hell-bent on seeing a romantic comedy, The Proposal will deliver.
annoyingly predictable and barely watchable piece of Hollywood routine
It's not awful, certainly not memorable and - despite the words of at least one quote whore - it's not "the year's best comedy."
Tailored to fit Sandra Bullock more snugly than the antique wedding gown altered for the star during the final act, the film begins to fall apart at the seams after its focus wanders from its promising screwball premise...
Bullock is totally at home in this territory, and she remains fun to watch, but I do wish she would get stronger, possibly more original comedic material.
Unfortunately, this winning team is stuck in a dumb vehicle.
The Proposal doesn't blaze any new ground, but it doesn't raze any old ground either. It's a solid, old-fashioned romantic comedy that's more interested in the romance than in being silly or raunchy. These days, that's refreshing enough.
It's obviously formula stuff, and follows that formula so earnestly that at points you'll wince more than swoon (why does every big proclamation of love in the final scenes need to be made in public?).
There is something to be said for such a relentlessly by-the-numbers chick flick programmer that is nonetheless a breezily enjoyable sit.
I was engaged by the fiery chemistry between Bullock and Reynolds.
The sight of Bullock doing a rap dance with granny in the woods is a traumatising experience.
It is contrived and predictable, squandering the chemistry between co-stars Sandra Bullock and Ryan Reynolds as it creates lazy escapist entertainment that is forgotten as soon as the end credits have rolled.
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Despite some fine performances and pretty scenery, The Proposal is predictable yet incredible, and devoid of any consistent tone. Better call off that wedding.
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Six Most Ridiculous Prison Escapes
Some prison escapes are the culmination of years of planning and hard work, whereas others just involved a guy in a Kangaroo costume. It just goes to show that while the best laid plans of mice and men often go awry, the worst laid often succeed. Well sometimes, at least.
Somewhere, Wentworth Miller is whispering to himself in unspeakable fury.
Australia's Port Arther Prison in the 1800s was one of the harshest penal settlements around. So many inmate developed mental illnesses from all the harshness that they even built a separate asylum just to house them.
Those were hard times and on the minds of every Australian was the prospect of escape. George Hunt was no exception and he too desired freedom.
So one day, George slapped on some kangaroo skin and just plain hobbled off. His half-assed disguise worked surprisingly well and all the guards believed that the man in kangaroo skin awkwardly hopping out was an actual kangaroo.
Unfortunately, his disguise worked too well. The hungry guards started firing at him in hopes of eating roo meat. The shitlessly scared George promptly then shed his kangaroo costume and surrendered. As a reward for the false hope given to the guards, George was promptly given 150 lashes.
Kevin Jerome Pullum was convicted of attempted murder. It was a charge that combined both malice and incompetence and will probably see him going away for life.
Not particularly excited at the prospect of eternal imprisonment, Kevin relied on his natural skills at being McGuyver and made an identity card for himself using some stock office stationery and a picture of Eddie Murphy.
He then changed into his civilian clothes which he had secretly hidden underneath his prison garb and walked out the door while mentally deriding racial stereotypes. Eddie Murphy cannot be reached for comment.
Italian drug trafficker Giulio B.'s plan for prison escape overwhelmed all others in terms of both elaborateness and bat-shit insanity. His escape involved the use of night vision goggles, climbing equipment and a four meter long zeppelin.
We do not know how he intended to use them as he was discovered by the guards before anything could be done, but we imagine it had something to do with a top hat and witty comments
Also discovered by the authorities were a tent and telephoto lenses his gang used to observe the prison from some 600 meters away. The escape might not have been successful, but it sure was fun.
Sometimes the simplest idea is often the best. Why bother with high tech equipment and sophisticated plots when all you need is some prison bars and a bottle of lube?
Minimalist Kristopher Allen White defied all assumptions of prison architects and squeezed through the bars in his cell after lubing himself up. The slippery scoundrel then skillfully navigated around the security cameras by covering himself with a blanket.
Unfortunately, however, he was captured just 14 hours later. Maybe they followed the lube trail.
Timothy Rouse was jailed on counts of burglary, theft and assault and was assessed to be highly dangerous. Understandably, springing him out would be highly difficult and his friends did not even try. Or were just stupidly naive and optimistic.
Whatever the case, their half-assed escape attempt worked. Timothy's friends sent a fax to the jail from a grocery store, demanding that he be freed. The fax supposedly came from the state's highest court but contained numerous spelling and grammatical errors.
How the authorities believed the fax was something known only to the criminal geniuses that were Timothy's friends.
One day, Bob was rammed in the face by a mega epiphany (which no doubt squirted epiphany juice all over him). It dawned on him that since the stationery had a way of getting out of prison, he too could go out the same way. So, he packed himself into a box at the end of his shift and was loaded into the back of the "express courier" (which was just a truck.)


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Consciousness Is Not In The Brain
Ray Tallis
Waking Times
Most neuroscientists, philosophers of the mind and science journalists feel the time is near when we will be able to explain the mystery of human consciousness in terms of the activity of the brain. There is, however, a vocal minority of neurosceptics who contest this orthodoxy. Among them are those who focus on claims neuroscience makes about the preciseness of correlations between indirectly observed neural activity and different mental functions, states or experiences.
This was well captured in a 2009 article in Perspectives on Psychological Science by Harold Pashler from the University of California, San Diego, and colleagues, that argued: "…these correlations are higher than should be expected given the (evidently limited) reliability of both fMRI and personality measures. The high correlations are all the more puzzling because method sections rarely contain much detail about how the correlations were obtained."
Believers will counter that this is irrelevant: as our means of capturing and analysing neural activity become more powerful, so we will be able to make more precise correlations between the quantity, pattern and location of neural activity and aspects of consciousness.
This may well happen, but my argument is not about technical, probably temporary, limitations. It is about the deep philosophical confusion embedded in the assumption that if you can correlate neural activity with consciousness, then you have demonstrated they are one and the same thing, and that a physical science such as neurophysiology is able to show what consciousness truly is.
Many neurosceptics have argued that neural activity is nothing like experience, and that the least one might expect if A and B are the same is that they be indistinguishable from each other. Countering that objection by claiming that, say, activity in the occipital cortex and the sensation of light are two aspects of the same thing does not hold up because the existence of "aspects" depends on the prior existence of consciousness and cannot be used to explain the relationship between neural activity and consciousness.
This disposes of the famous claim by John Searle, Slusser Professor of Philosophy at the University of California, Berkeley: that neural activity and conscious experience stand in the same relationship as molecules of H2O to water, with its properties of wetness, coldness, shininess and so on. The analogy fails as the level at which water can be seen as molecules, on the one hand, and as wet, shiny, cold stuff on the other, are intended to correspond to different "levels" at which we are conscious of it. But the existence of levels of experience or of description presupposes consciousness. Water does not intrinsically have these levels.
We cannot therefore conclude that when we see what seem to be neural correlates of consciousness that we are seeing consciousness itself. While neural activity of a certain kind is a necessary condition for every manifestation of consciousness, from the lightest sensation to the most exquisitely constructed sense of self, it is neither a sufficient condition of it, nor, still less, is it identical with it. If it were identical, then we would be left with the insuperable problem of explaining how intracranial nerve impulses, which are material events, could "reach out" to extracranial objects in order to be "of" or "about" them. Straightforward physical causation explains how light from an object brings about events in the occipital cortex. No such explanation is available as to how those neural events are "about" the physical object. Biophysical science explains how the light gets in but not how the gaze looks out.
Many features of ordinary consciousness also resist neurological explanation. Take the unity of consciousness. I can relate things I experience at a given time (the pressure of the seat on my bottom, the sound of traffic, my thoughts) to one another as elements of a single moment. Researchers have attempted to explain this unity, invoking quantum coherence (the cytoskeletal micro-tubules of Stuart Hameroff at the University of Arizona, and Roger Penrose at the University of Oxford), electromagnetic fields (Johnjoe McFadden, University of Surrey), or rhythmic discharges in the brain (the late Francis Crick).
These fail because they assume that an objective unity or uniformity of nerve impulses would be subjectively available, which, of course, it won't be. Even less would this explain the unification of entities that are, at the same time, experienced as distinct. My sensory field is a many-layered whole that also maintains its multiplicity. There is nothing in the convergence or coherence of neural pathways that gives us this "merging without mushing", this ability to see things as both whole and separate.
And there is an insuperable problem with a sense of past and future. Take memory. It is typically seen as being "stored" as the effects of experience which leave enduring changes in, for example, the properties of synapses and consequently in circuitry in the nervous system. But when I "remember", I explicitly reach out of the present to something that is explicitly past. A synapse, being a physical structure, does not have anything other than its present state. It does not, as you and I do, reach temporally upstream from the effects of experience to the experience that brought about the effects. In other words, the sense of the past cannot exist in a physical system. This is consistent with the fact that the physics of time does not allow for tenses: Einstein called the distinction between past, present and future a "stubbornly persistent illusion".
There are also problems with notions of the self, with the initiation of action, and with free will. Some neurophilosophers deal with these by denying their existence, but an account of consciousness that cannot find a basis for voluntary activity or the sense of self should conclude not that these things are unreal but that neuroscience provides at the very least an incomplete explanation of consciousness.
I believe there is a fundamental, but not obvious, reason why that explanation will always remain incomplete – or unrealisable. This concerns the disjunction between the objects of science and the contents of consciousness. Science begins when we escape our subjective, first-person experiences into objective measurement, and reach towards a vantage point the philosopher Thomas Nagel called "the view from nowhere". You think the table over there is large, I may think it is small. We measure it and find that it is 0.66 metres square. We now characterise the table in a way that is less beholden to personal experience.
Science begins when we escape our first-person subjective experience
Thus measurement takes us further from experience and the phenomena of subjective consciousness to a realm where things are described in abstract but quantitative terms. To do its work, physical science has to discard "secondary qualities", such as colour, warmth or cold, taste – in short, the basic contents of consciousness. For the physicist then, light is not in itself bright or colourful, it is a mixture of vibrations in an electromagnetic field of different frequencies. The material world, far from being the noisy, colourful, smelly place we live in, is colourless, silent, full of odourless molecules, atoms, particles, whose nature and behaviour is best described mathematically. In short, physical science is about the marginalisation, or even the disappearance, of phenomenal appearance/qualia, the redness of red wine or the smell of a smelly dog.
Consciousness, on the other hand, is all about phenomenal appearances/qualia. As science moves from appearances/qualia and toward quantities that do not themselves have the kinds of manifestation that make up our experiences, an account of consciousness in terms of nerve impulses must be a contradiction in terms. There is nothing in physical science that can explain why a physical object such as a brain should ascribe appearances/qualia to material objects that do not intrinsically have them.
Material objects require consciousness in order to "appear". Then their "appearings" will depend on the viewpoint of the conscious observer. This must not be taken to imply that there are no constraints on the appearance of objects once they are objects of consciousness.
Our failure to explain consciousness in terms of neural activity inside the brain inside the skull is not due to technical limitations which can be overcome. It is due to the self-contradictory nature of the task, of which the failure to explain "aboutness", the unity and multiplicity of our awareness, the explicit presence of the past, the initiation of actions, the construction of self are just symptoms. We cannot explain "appearings" using an objective approach that has set aside appearings as unreal and which seeks a reality in mass/energy that neither appears in itself nor has the means to make other items appear. The brain, seen as a physical object, no more has a world of things appearing to it than does any other physical object.
About the Author
Ray Tallis trained as a doctor, ultimately becoming professor of geriatric medicine at the University of Manchester, UK, where he oversaw a major neuroscience project. He is a Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences and a writer on areas ranging from consciousness to medical ethics.
This article originally appeared at PreventDisease.com, an excellent source of information about optimal health and wellness.
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I think the Brain is a filter between physical and spiritual realms.
Conciousness is spiritual, and the brain is required for it to exist in the physical world.
good answer!
I think the brain is like the computer that plays the software, or perhaps interprets the observation of the physical world by the consciousness.
I tend to agree.
are they not looking at the soul,you can leave your body and still be conscious
An injured brain can completely change a person's personality, including memories and interpretations of experiences. So wouldn't something as traumatic as death change the soul into a completely different personality? If not, then how can someone exist outside of their body? It would take in the very least a new form or body of spirit which would have to be given by a non-corporeal, otherwise you wouldn't be you.
do you know who you are?
I think the brain assigns a personality to consciousness. Disembodied, it still exists, but is no longer limited to that narrow view of the physical world by the body it inhabited. If you consider the view that all consciousness is one, as drops of water are part of the ocean, then perhaps this feeling of being separate is an illusion. Buddhism touches on this by saying the ego fears death because that aspect of consciousness, I.e. a distinct personality ceases to exist after physical death. But when people come back from a near death experience, they seem to remember it as a distinct, individual observer, despite having no physical body during that time. I notice that many talk about this feeling of oneness with everything while disembodied, but still retain a feeling of being a distinct being, observing. So is this because now they are remembering it back in the body? Tickles the brain, pardon the pun.
This oneness while being expressed as a seperate "drop" of the whole, could be looked at like a hologram. The holographic universe is an excellent book.
Well, then, the deacon said to Dr. Jekyll at the evening dinner, "Call it the soul". Dr. Jeykll and Mr. Hyde, 1942 Sepncer Tracy, Ingrid Bergman, Lana Turner,etc.
I am a painter. That link is not 'my' website….but the page contains a painting I made one year prior to the 9/11 attacks. I've always wondered how I received and put onto canvas, multiple elements that were eerily similar to the New York skyline of that morning. Thank you for your article. I was not able to grasp it's fuller meaning….only a fraction. Yet I agree that consciousness is quite apart from just brain activity. I believe NDEs prove that notion. They baffle doctors who insist that one can not 'exist' when brain activity flatlines. One of my favorite quotes on the subject is from John Carew Eccles, who said, 'The brain is a machine that a ghost can operate'.
Well this a flaw in "science" – the arbitrary designation of physical measuring sticks to determine the existence of anything. Using the 5 senses as exclusive tools for measurement says these are the only ones that exist, which is about as non objective as you can get.
Maybe the brain is a sense organ for consciousness, just as the eyes are a sense organ for light or the ears for sound.
Of course consciousness isn't located in the brain, the body is a meat-suit or Terrestrial-Bio-Vehicle & the brain the on-board computer with sensors. Its piloted (albeit by most on auto-pilot) by the occupant inside. The occupant inside is obviously the genuine self which is most often mistaken for the vehicle.
Mystery solved have fun & now toast some Pop-Tarts!
I studied neurology and artificial intelligence, and I assure you that those people :
"Most neuroscientists, philosophers of the mind and science journalists feel the time is near when we will be able to explain the mystery of human consciousness in terms of the activity of the brain. "
Are braindead zombies.
Our whole structure of society is based on fear, and the coercion that fear enables. If the collective realised that they weren't these organisms that could be injured or hurt, that there was something to them that was beyond damage and death, that would collapse the system in an instant. The powers that be will find as many moronic experts as money can buy to prop up the idea that you are this physical creature that can be permanently ended and hurt. To do otherwise would destroy the real illusion – their power.
Excerpts from: The Three Parts of Man – http://www.upwardvectorpubs.com/25tpm.htm
"Man is not simply a complex biological organism. The physical body with which we are all so familiar is only one part, one component of a rather complex composite."
"The brain, being a part of the body, is essentially a very complex biological computer and control center for the body, but it also serves as a complex user interface port."
"The mind has often been confused with the brain by those who see man as nothing but a biological organism, but the mind is actually not a part of the body at all, and is not biological in nature, but rather, energetic. It is primarily composed of energies and masses, the masses themselves being composed of condensed energy."
"The mind is an artificial construction originally designed to do our "thinking" for us, and it typically sits and acts as a buffer between the being and his environment, altering his view and perception of it; as well as between he and his body, affecting its operation as well."
"The spiritual being is like the driver in a car (the body), and can exist and be aware independent of a body, and even for that matter, independent of a mind."
More at:
Section 2 – The True Spiritual Nature of Man
Aside from the mind, which is frequently acknowledged, we have to understand what propels it, with it's remembrance and experiental faculties. There has been no mention of intelligence, which is the actual driver of the self. How can we distinguish between the mind and intelligence?
If while at a dinner table your smelly pet dog quickly approaches the table to grab a share of your meal and experiences your chastisement and annoyance, the dog will hesitate to do the same thing again.
Next time you have your meal, and your dog sits nearby, watching and waiting – longing for a tasty remnant – it also knows not to repeat it's last action for fear of rebuke. The mind of the dog wants to eat, but the intelligence of the dog restrains – mind and intelligence are functioning. We are not even speaking of heightened human awareness here yet.
These urges and the suppressing of them for self-preservation and pleasing others (In this case, the dogs owner) reveal a wider set of conscious involvement that escapes scientific scrutiny.
…the eyes only see a small portion of existing light-frequencies – the ears only hear a limited range of sounds – I would say that the senses function as filters on a larger reality.Maybe when our DNAs scalar-wave-antennas have been restored we may have 10 more DNA-options available.
Sensory consciousness has two components, qualia which are transduction processes and internal neurological information – action potentials. The general non- specific support and regulatory activity of the CNS is probably the rest of consciousness or non specific awareness with the content being defined by the specific activity that develops in the output space of the brain. I.e.,we are aware or conscious of something only if we can respond to it, if it is a potential cause of behavior, though this behavior need not actually be produced or externally manifested, i.e., thoughts.
For all the bashing of religion, I have to say I like a passage in the Bible – "Jesus came to free those who were all their lives held in bondage by fear of death". I think he wasn't saying what most religious leaders said he was saying.
I believe that the brain is a mere transducer, and that consciousness is located in another place, unknown ut us.
time to start distinguishing between awareness and consciousness, mind and brain .. these are different things, as you can see in languages like sanskrit, and is experience, as subtlety grows. english concepts are too clunky for neuroscience.
My narcissistic brain has always insisted to me that it is much more important than all of my other organs combined, and I had to concede the point, but once it started claiming to be transcendental, independent of materialism, I realized my brain just makes shit up whenever it feels like it.
Yes, Don, I agree – I've just spent a week inquiring into the pith teachings of Dzochen Buddhism, the first two lines of which: VISION IS MIND. MIND IS EMPTY. And, when one nakedly observes the moment from that perspective, there is NOTHING and EVERYTHING to express.
The brain (nervous system) is hardware to the correlation-seeking software of beings.
A single being would not develop consciousness. It would manage its world at its best. Its brain would be self-sufficient.
Consciousness appears when a being perceives another being, and attempts (intentionally) to unite, as intimately as possible, its brain to the perceived being's one, and reciprocally.
Consciousness is the intentional, imperfect, and evolving interface between two or more brains. As any interface, it synchronously: wraps-up an entity (the "I, me, mine") and intra-connects a unity (the "us").
There exist other attempts to brain unity, but they are not conscious. These attempts turning into conscious are the evolving of the "pathetic 4%" that the mind uses towards the "ideal 100%".
This "unconscious turning into conscious" process ends up with the unity (at synaptic depth, even in wireless mode) of all living things, no matter what type is their chemistry.
The scope of this unity is (and occurring in parallel to) the aggregation of all things into a living single thing, by complete understanding of the existing correlations between-, and the management (through self-regulatory loops) of- all possible existing world parameters.
This process is consuming entropy/disorder (or produces negative entropy), decreasing (balancing) the chaos.
The diversity of life is aimed at finding the absolute optimum, as opposed to local optimums; diversity-, together with the death- of individuals, are the ways of life to avoid local optimums (closed/uninteresting ends).
Life and chaos are transforming one in the other, successively, in a special pendulum phenomenon. Life and chaos are not optional, but intrinsic to each-other.
Chaos is rather slowly becoming completely alive and completely conscious/unconscious – this antinomy loses meaning in fact. The process is called also "the Universe".
At this very stage, life is rather quickly becoming chaos. This is called also "the Big-Bang".
And so on…
Ok, if you agree that something cannot come from nothing …
then who or what CAUSED the Big Bang? In other words, where did the original matter & energy come from that started the Big Bang?
And if you say that the universe always was there … Well, if you're right, that menas the Universe defies the law of cause and effect!
Doesn't it? And that would make the existence of our Univese SUPERNATURAL! Which menas we BOTH belive in a Super natural cause for our existence! and how would the Universe create itself ??? That would also break the law of cause and effect!
You just said that was a big reason you don't believe in God!
So then … shouldn't you stop believing in our Universe? If you talk about "Virtual Particels" If that might come into existence from literally nothing … and you think something CAN come from nothing … Well, if you're right, doesn't that make God scientifically possible? If the Universum comes from other dimension of time, or a enternally oscillating Universe … Wow. Well, can those things be observed scientifically?
That means you can no longer use that law to argue against God!
The brain is in the other film/layer/being of each CELL – hence called the membrane (Brain).The day you recognize this will be when you begin to look after each cell of your body with excercise, nutrition, selective though processes and positive living