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just messing about

Posted Nov 21, 1999

I dont know if this will work but you dont know until you try


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deterioration

Posted Nov 3, 1999

I would like to make some of my thoughts known about the way standards are sliping to a point where we will no longer be useing our brains. In training circles it is generaly accepted that a student will only absorb about 50% of what he/she is taught.(I am being generous)As he/she passes down the long road of life they become experienced in the subject they trained for, by the end of their long and fruitful lives they are as experienced as a person could get. BUT they never achieve the the amount of knowledge as their tutor had. Let us take a small example.

Try this. If my grandfather was a carpenter, he took om my father when he was young to train him to also be a carpenter. Lets say my father was very gifted in the brains department and he absorbed 60% of what he was taught. As the years went by he gained a further 35% through experience, this still leaves 5% of the original knowledge which has been lost. If my father then took me onto train me in the family business and I was also brainy but the same thing happened. If we take a time scale of thirty years between each generation, it would take approx 150 years before all the original knowlege was totaly lost. Its not very long is it?

Technology will replace it I hear you shout. Will it? Machines will only do what we tell them to do. How many of todays children know how to light or clean a fire, or to cook a meal useing raw materials? They have been brought up on quick foods and microwave ovens. Because of the depression in the 1970/80s there is a shortage of skilled people. There is an even bigger shortage of people to train the next generation. Our fathers and grandfathers are passing into history there is a massive amount of knowledge and experience disappearing and no-one has thought of trying to save it, old gardening tips which have not been used because of all the sprays that are available, (they were also environmentaly friendly).

When are we going to wake up to the fact that our bank of knowledge has got a hole in the bottom and we are losing our future inheritance.

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Posted Oct 25, 1999

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TIME

Posted Oct 17, 1999

What is time? I,like many others have often pondered on this and wondered what the question meant. This is my theory. There is no such thing as time. Time is man made,and as such was developed to serve a function which is to give a measurement in a scientific way,something which is indefinable. You could say that time is cyclic. This could be bourne out by looking around us. The seasons rotate:- summer, winter, autumn, spring. The planet like many others spin at a set speed which gives us night and day as the earth rotates bathing us in the light and heat of the sun. In turn the planets orbit the sun. The solar system and even the galaxy are all but circular. Back to earth again and the molocules which make us are round.

The point I am trying to make is:- Is time (as we call it) the same or very closely linked to matter? Many people believe that there is life after death. The church, when they are burying a body say something to the effect of Please lord look after the dearly departed. They also say the words "in the life ever lasting". It seems to me that long ago in the mists of time there was a belief that there was a life after this one and that this is a remenant of this belief. Then there is the many reports of people remembering their previous lives and taking relatives to another town where they go to a strangers house and describe things which only the strangers know about. All the reports of near death experiences, where people leave the body and can see the doctors and nurses running around the operating theatre trying to save them. Then comes the biggy. Sixth sense, deja vu, and the many instances where a person starts to sing a song and switches the radio on to find the same song on the radio. You can think of a person and they phone you, it totaly freaks you out doesn't it? Do we have a part in our brain which we have lost the use of ie:- mental telepathy? We gan see things in our minds eye which is probably where all the inventions come from. Is it possible that if we could access this part of the brain could we mentaly control TIME?

Now that I have had my brain storm I shall have a cup of tea.

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Posted Oct 10, 1999

I wrote my last entry not so long ago and there are no reply's. I can only sumise that there is no-one out here or the editors ar working like mad to keep up with the entries which people like me submit. Can the controlers of this system confirm that I am not alone? and that all the other entries are not something entered to make it look good.
(Im sorry) Ill make the tea, bye.

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