And if there’s a meat brain in the loop, it’s not “artificial” intelligence, but intelligence augmented.

DARN fat fumbling fingers. tppk should have been took and I MISSED it.

Peacemaker, my understanding is that past lives can’t be disproven, but can only be proven by someone demonstrating memories of a prior time & place. There’s one scientist who did a pretty believable study of only kids younger than, I believe, six. There are many problems with doing a credible study of such, and he seemed to avoid them all. It’s certain that Hubbard’s attempt (“Mission into Time”) was a total bust. Afterwards, even HIS attempts to put a positive spin on the abjectness of the failure were inadequate to the task. 100% fail, and it obviously burned his butt.

Richard, anything I post is free for the stealing, a much more liberal interpretation of the “Creative Commons” idea. I’ll keep trying to think new ones up, nonetheless. Heck, most humor is situational.

Rosemarie, you captured the grind well. We all were trapped by our dreams. It was only when I got enough of a shock to my system that I could step back, take an honest appraisal of the present and possible futures — all the same ol’ same ol’ — that I CRASHED and SOMEthing had to change. Flag decided it was me that had to change & beached me, not caring what happened to me afterwards. I was too DB to take on any post they had. I wasn’t even good enough for the RPF, for chrissakes!

Laura graced us with:
“I love when that guy in Aftermath was told his $$ would be there for him in his next life! 😂

Yeah, RIGHT! But will it be there for him in THIS life?

Of course the “SERVICE” he was being sold wasn’t worth anything, in this or the next lifetime, but we couldn’t see that at the time. It was truly a bubble of an irrational alternate universe.

Missing the SO is identical to missing those migraine headaches. 😉

Hi Jere,
I couldn’t tell you exactly when, but – oh, off the top of my head I’d say circa 9 or so months ago I did read a comment of Foolproof’s in which he gavea heads up that he would no longer be posting here. It wasn’t an angry comment, particularly, as I recall. It was fairly brief and to the point. There was no mention of Mike “kicking” him off the blog either although perhaps there could be a back story where this is concerned. I was a little disappointed to read his farewell also. I did not always disagree with FP. Also he had a clever and amusing writing style.

He made a *statement*? WHERE, perchance, might that have been? And about when? did he post that he was going, or that he WAS gone, but only dripped in to say HI to his many admirers?

He was funny at times.

Also, Jere, as to YOUR Sunday School question, I think its an excellent one for a little kid to formulate – indeed how CAN all of the religions purporting to be the only game in town as regards eternal salvation etc., – how can they ALL be right? Each claiming that its My Way Or The Highway so to speak – effectively that makes each of them (if you’ll forgive the Cultspeak) “Only One”s, no? A really good question, I’d say, and let me guess – it wasn’t answered? You were fobbed off with non-answers?