I think I found something worth checking out today.

[Jabberwocky]

(It's probably more entertaining if you happen to be a morris dancer.)

STORY OF MY LIFE BROTHER

You're a morris dancer? What side do you dance with?

[Grimm]

No I meant that things in my life would be more entertaining for me if I were a morris dancer.

[Confidence Interval]

No I meant that things in my life would be more entertaining for me if I were a morris dancer.

Which of us would not say the same about ourselves?

[Grimm]

SO TRUE IT HURTS

[Confidence Interval]

I have the solution.

New background proposal: Morris dancer. (This would go under zealots, I think.)

[Jabberwocky]

That would mean that accordions would have to be added!

[BlackSheep]

Ogres should be able to wield a giant spiked accordion.

[Grimm]

That's a good idea.

[MyOtheHedgeFox]

Spiked with what beverage?

[Confidence Interval]

With a cordial.

[BlackSheep]

Only Grand Marnier will do.

[Confidence Interval]

Blue Bols.

[Jabberwocky]

Spiked with what beverage?

Ale and cider are the most common morris beverages, in my experience.

[aegis]

I was addicted to this steampunky shooter with the name of Stormwinds: http://armorgames.com/play/3099/stormwinds-the-lost-campaigns
Basicly you defend the Kingdom you are serving for, from an overwhelming invasion force, long enough so that the princess of the kingdom can flee.

[Grimm]

I found a picture of Confidence Interval: http://imgur.com/Ok3pNp6

[Confidence Interval]

I found a picture of Confidence Interval: http://imgur.com/Ok3pNp6

My ex posted that online, despite promises to the contrary. Trust no-one.

[Grimm]

You shouldn't have badgered her.

[Confidence Interval]

i didn't specify it was a female person.

[prozacelf]

For that matter you didn't specify it was person originally.

[Grimm]

Your X - was it an Orb Guardian? How are they in the sack anyway?

[Confidence Interval]

I don't know how they are now. At the time they were very good. Or maybe that was me. Memories fade with time.

[prozacelf]

My favorite webcomic of all time: http://dresdencodak.com/2009/01/27/adva ... discourse/

The whole thing is good, but this one makes me chuckle every time.

[evktalo]

http://openxcom.org/

can't write more must go play

[Grimm]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yImWF2tJDJc

[Grimm]

Ray Bradbury (reported by Kingsley Amis):

In writing the short novel “Fahrenheit 451,” I thought I was describing a world that might evolve in four or five decades. But only a few weeks ago, in Beverly Hills one night, a husband and wife passed me, walking their dog. I stood staring after them, absolutely stunned. The woman held in one hand a small cigarette-package-sized radio, its antenna quivering. From this sprang tiny copper wires which ended in a dainty cone plugged into her right ear. There she was, oblivious to man and dog, listening to far winds and whispers and soap-opera cries, sleep-walking, helped up and down curbs by a husband who might just as well not have been there. This was not fiction.

Kingsley Amis, New Maps of Hell (London: New English Library, 1969), p.96. First published 1960.

[Grimm]

While I’m remote from most technology to the point that I’m kind of Amish, I have played a couple of computer games — until I realized I was being bloodied with adrenalin over something that wasn’t real. At the end of a couple of hours of very addictive play, I may have procured the necessary amount of mushrooms to save a princess, but I also wasted hours of my life that I’ll never be able to get back. This is the reason I am not on the Internet. I am aware of its power as a distraction, and I don’t have the time for that.

Alan Moore

[evktalo]

Bah, mr. Moore, I waste my time with your funny papers so shaddap. I hope you're planting trees somewhere right now for wasting all that paper.

Here's more 'em funny papers, actually a crowdfunding campaign: http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/driftwood--6 The books are already done, the campaign is about helping out with funding the printing by preordering. You can read the comic online to see if you like it.

--Eino

[nicolae]

do you like geometry
do you like puzzles
then perhaps you will like this thing http://www.sciencevsmagic.net/geo/

[Grimm]

That puts the "Gee!" back in geometry.

[Plutonium]

Hira Ratan Manek(aka HRM) is one of the first human-beings(though I think he should be considered as a plant now) to reveal his sun-gazing techniques to modern science. This sun-eater has now been observed for at most 411 days, by multiple doctors and university scientists, surviving on nothing but sunlight and water. He claims that he has not eaten solid food since June 18th, 1995!

What else don't you know?
Question Everything.
Deny Ignorance.

[Sporkman]

*Snip strange shit*

... what the fuck?

[Plutonium]

*Snip strange shit*

... what the fuck?

Haha, do some research. no strange shit here. Factual information, ridiculed by science, dating back as far as human history. Sun-gazing has been lost to most for many thousands of years.

[nicolae]

He claims that he has not eaten solid food since June 18th, 1995!

so, like... baby food?

[tasonir]

Hira Ratan Manek(aka HRM) is one of the first human-beings(though I think he should be considered as a plant now) to reveal his sun-gazing techniques to modern science. This sun-eater has now been observed for at most 411 days, by multiple doctors and university scientists, surviving on nothing but sunlight and water. He claims that he has not eaten solid food since June 18th, 1995!

What else don't you know?
Question Everything.
Deny Ignorance.

It's obviously pseudoscience and untrue, but this actually has a pretty long history not only in the east, but also western culture. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fasting_girls

Also, HRM apologized about lying about eating: https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=p ... V9E8xkzoAs (I haven't watched this yet since I'm at work, but I will tonight)

Also, lest you take this too lightly, these kinds of spiritual leaders have been known to actually kill people (by suggesting no food or drink for 7 days) http://darwinawards.com/darwin/darwin1999-58.html The leader then claimed the follower died because she wasn't spiritual enough, and keeps on telling people she can live without eating. This has to be one of the worst kinds of new age fakes, because you know they're eating, and so it rules out any chance that they're just plain stupid; they have to be knowingly deceiving people.

[Plutonium]

Hira Ratan Manek(aka HRM) is one of the first human-beings(though I think he should be considered as a plant now) to reveal his sun-gazing techniques to modern science. This sun-eater has now been observed for at most 411 days, by multiple doctors and university scientists, surviving on nothing but sunlight and water. He claims that he has not eaten solid food since June 18th, 1995!

What else don't you know?
Question Everything.
Deny Ignorance.

It's obviously pseudoscience and untrue, but this actually has a pretty long history not only in the east, but also western culture. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fasting_girls

Also, HRM apologized about lying about eating: https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=p ... V9E8xkzoAs (I haven't watched this yet since I'm at work, but I will tonight)

Also, lest you take this too lightly, these kinds of spiritual leaders have been known to actually kill people (by suggesting no food or drink for 7 days) http://darwinawards.com/darwin/darwin1999-58.html The leader then claimed the follower died because she wasn't spiritual enough, and keeps on telling people she can live without eating. This has to be one of the worst kinds of new age fakes, because you know they're eating, and so it rules out any chance that they're just plain stupid; they have to be knowingly deceiving people.

Believe what you will about HRM, but he has done no such thing as suggesting to people not to eat. Is it untrue because YOU cannot survive without food? This practice is referenced in many spiritual orders across the world, old and new. Are they all lying?

I really don't have an opinion on this whole light for energy thing, for I do not have any real experience or information on it, but I have come across this subject multiple times including HRM and other monks/laypeople within articles and research dating back to the 1850's. I believe everyone should at least hear of these things to formulate their own beliefs.

"I would rather have a mind opened by wonder than closed by belief."

[Amnesiac]

go away sectarians, I want to eat tasty food even if I can survive without it(I think I can, because I'm highly spiritual)

[Sporkman]

Believe what you will about HRM, but he has done no such thing as suggesting to people not to eat. Is it untrue because YOU cannot survive without food?

If a simple experiment can be devised to prove it, and the experiment fails beyond all rational doubt, it is most likely untrue. Additionally, HRM himself said he was lying about not eating.

This practice is referenced in many spiritual orders across the world, old and new. Are they all lying?

Just because there are many people saying that something is true does not make it so. Reality does not bend to popular opinion.

I really don't have an opinion on this whole light for energy thing, for I do not have any real experience or information on it, but I have come across this subject multiple times including HRM and other monks/laypeople within articles and research dating back to the 1850's. I believe everyone should at least hear of these things to formulate their own beliefs.

Well, good sir, I believe in science. Science has an advantage over faith or belief: it can be proven. And science has conclusively shown that it is impossible for the human body to go without any form of nutrition (and energy is NOT nutrition - converting matter to energy is the stuff of high-energy physics labs). Go look up what happened to victims of the concentration camps if you need any further proof.

Additionally, I'd like to see that research you refer to.

"I would rather have a mind opened by wonder than closed by belief."

I would also avoid considering thoroughly debunked ideas unless significant new evidence appears for them.

[nicolae]

Believe what you will about HRM, but he has done no such thing as suggesting to people not to eat. Is it untrue because YOU cannot survive without food? This practice is referenced in many spiritual orders across the world, old and new. Are they all lying?

probably

granted, i suppose it's possible for a member of an ascetic order to claim that they survive on very little food, or to describe going through periods of fasting where they are (metaphorically) sustained by some manner of spiritual energy, and then such claims getting blown out of proportion when others retell the story, and so you end up hearing about some monastery where no one's eaten a thing in thirty years or whatever and people take those claims Very Seriously

but literally every time a specific person mentions that they themselves no longer have to eat, it turns out that they sneak food when no one's looking, and it usually requires very little investigation to discover this beyond thinking "hunh i wonder if that guy might be lying to me" and then sneaking a peek

[Grimm]

http://imgur.com/kZZf2kn

[Grimm]

"Pikachu [is] the Vidkun Quisling of the Pokémon universe." - source

[joellercoaster]

Are they all lying?

Effectively, yes.

[Siegurt]

Are they all lying?

http://www.theskepticsguide.org/resourc ... acies.aspx

[Grimm]

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[prozacelf]

BURN IT NOW

[Grimm]

Francesco Filelfo (1398-1481)
‘Ad Gasparum Mercatum Valentiae Comitem.’

Non venio, Gaspar, nam sudant inguina multo
aestu, quo testes tres mihi bella movent.

I am not coming, Gaspar, for my groins sweat with so much heat that my three testicles make wars against me.

Carlo de’ Rosmini, Vita di Francesco Filelfo da Tolentino, 3 vols (Milan: Presso Luigi Mussi, 1808) I, p.113.

*Filelfo had adopted the Greek nickname ‘τριόρχις’ (‘three testicles’).

source

[Confidence Interval]

my groins sweat with so much heat that my three testicles make wars against me

I hate it when that happens.

[Grimm]

testes tres mihi bella movent.

my three testicles make wars against me.

Surely "my three testicles move beautifully"?

[Confidence Interval]

I guess you had to be there.

[Grimm]

One man's war is another man's beauty.