Welcome Class, to Room 666...Again

[ABC]

what the hell is this s**t?

[The Spawn]

What was my old quote....?

[Abaddon]

He means the old Spawns quote.

[Assassin32]

Yeah. The one that said "Those who oppose me are only looking for their 15 minutes of fame." BADASS.

[The Spawn]

Oh...that one.

[The Spawn]

Read this book:

http://theplucker.com/

[The Spawn]

Definitions of Halloween on the Web:

All Hallows Eve, is the night of October 31 st when the spirit and nor- mal world allegedly become one.
www.wrexhamparaskeptics.4t.com/definitions.htm

the evening before All Saints' Day; often devoted to pranks played by young people
wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn

Halloween is a holiday celebrated on the night of October 31, usually by children dressing in costumes and going door-to-door collecting candy. It is celebrated in much of the Western world, though most commonly in the United States, Ireland, Scotland and Canada. Irish, Scots and other immigrants brought older versions of the tradition to North America in the 19th century.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halloween

The Halloween films are a series of horror movies, of which the first film is considered one of the most important and influential of the genre.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halloween_(film)

Some teens, including Buffy, Xander, and Willow, turn into their Halloween costume personas after purchasing costumes from a store run by Ethan Rayne. Willow becomes a ghost, Xander a soldier, and Buffy, a helpless seventeenth-century noble.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halloween_(Buffy_episode)

[The Spawn]

http://uncyclopedia.org/wiki/Chuck_Norris

[Holly Goodhead]

chuck norris vs vin diesel, who would win?

[X-Chick]

Vin Diesel. Chuck Norris is too old now and Vin is a hell of a lot hotter. :o

[The Spawn]

Chuck Norris does not hunt because the word hunting infers the probability of
failure. Chuck Norris goes killing.


Answer to your question?
































Chuck.

[The Spawn]

http://urbanlegends.about.com/od/historical/a/twas_the_night.htm

[The Spawn]

http://www.metacafe.com/watch/37272/what_now_what_next/

[The Spawn]

http://www.metacafe.com/watch/37272/what_now_what_next/

[The Spawn]

http://www.skytopia.com/project/illusion/ambig.gif

[The Spawn]

Quotation:
bullet

"About the time of the end, a body of men will be raised up who will turn their attention to the prophecies, and insist upon their literal interpretation, in the midst of much clamour and opposition." Sir Isaac Newton (1643-1727 CE) 1
bullet

"The prophecies are to be unintelligible to the ungodly but intelligible to those who are properly instructed." Blaise Pascal (1623 - 1662 CE) 2
bullet "The Earth is degenerating today. Bribery and corruption abound. Children no longer obey their parents, every man wants to write a book, and it is evident that the end of the world is fast approaching." Allegedly this came from an Assyrian tablet, c. 2800 BCE. However I seem to recall that an almost identical message was said to have appeared as graffiti on a wall in Pompeii.
bullet "Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia." Charles Schultz, creator of the Peanuts comic strip. 4

Introduction:

For many centuries, people have been predicting the year, month and sometimes day when:
bullet A violent and sudden end would terminate all life on earth;
bullet Major social and political upheavals would occur around the world;
bullet The war of Armageddon would take place in the Middle East;
bullet God would pour horrendous wrath on most of humanity; and/or
bullet Christ would return in the second coming.

The prophesiers have almost always predicted that these horrendous events would happen in their own immediate future. All of these predictions share one factor: none have ever came true.

The year 2000 came and passed -- a year that some considered very special, simply because it contained three zeros. A lot of people predicted that major events of cosmic proportion would happen. 3 But no massive events actually came to pass. There were the usual number of major earthquakes, civil disturbances, tornados, people of different religions trying to exterminate each other -- but nothing of a cosmic or even world-wide nature.

Still more end events are predicted for precise dates our future.
bullet Some people in North America devoutly believe that at least some of these events will happen in their lifetime.
bullet Others expect that they will happen at some time in the far future. They note that such events have not happened in the 19 or so centuries since the Bible was completed, and so they don't expect them in this century.
bullet Many of the public disagree, and does not expect any more that the usual complement of natural disasters in the future, until, of course, the big asteroid hits.

[The Kingpin]

Oh the nostalgia

[Danalys]

good points spawn.

[The Spawn]

http://www.religioustolerance.org/end_wrld.htm

[The Spawn]

Wow, I've been slacking off.

[The Spawn]

History book embarrasses government
U.S. trying to call back all copies in a case of terrible timing

Saturday, July 28, 2001

By PETE YOST
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

WASHINGTON -- The government yesterday scrambled to call back all copies of a State Department history that details the U.S. role in Indonesia's deadly purge of communists in the 1960s.

In a diplomatically embarrassing case of terrible timing, hundreds of libraries across the country are stocking the recently released history of American officials' secret support for the anti-communist campaign that undermined the rule of Sukarno, Indonesia's founding president. Sukarno's daughter became the country's new leader this week.

The State Department blamed the Government Printing Office for issuing the book without its approval, but the GPO said it had gotten clearance from State in April.

The State Department said that it discovered this month, before the internal process of deciding when to release the volume was completed, that the printing office had begun distributing copies.

The National Security Archive, a private group specializing in national security issues, said the CIA had tried to suppress the history.

The text of a four-page CIA memo from then-Far East Division Chief William Colby is deleted in its entirety. The history identifies the source and date of the memo. Colby, who later became CIA director, died in 1996.

The CIA memo is dated the day after a State Department cable contained in the history spells out a U.S. plan to funnel tens of thousands of dollars to a group bent on the destruction of the Indonesian Communist Party.

"This is to confirm my earlier concurrence that we provide Malik with 50 million rupiahs requested by him for the activities of the Kap-Gestapu movement," says a Dec. 2, 1965, document from the American ambassador in Indonesia to William Bundy, assistant secretary of state for East Asian and Pacific affairs from 1964 to 1969.

"The chances of detection or subsequent revelation of our support in this instance are as minimal as any black bag operation can be," the document concluded.

Of the Gestapu, the ambassador's document said, "This army-inspired but civilian-staffed action group is still carrying burden of current repressive efforts targeted against the PKI," a reference to the Indonesian Communist Party that was allied with Sukarno.

In a message to Washington dated April 15, 1966, the embassy acknowledged: "We frankly do not know whether the real figure" of communists who have been killed "is closer to 100,000 or 1,000,000 but believe it wiser to err on the side of the lower estimates, especially when questioned by the press."

Adding detail to revelations of over a decade ago, the volume also points out that the U.S. Embassy supplied lists of top communist leaders to the Indonesians who were trying to destroy the PKI.

[The Spawn]

Tesla's 'Death Ray' In
1940 NY Times
From Frank Warren
frankwarren@pacbell.net
5-29-1

'Death Ray' For Planes
The New York Times
September 22, 1940

Nikola Tesla, one of the truly great inventors who celebrated his eighty-fourth birthday on July, 10 tells the writer that he stands ready to divulge to the United States government the secret of his "teleforce," of which he said," airplane motors would be melted at a distance of 250 miles, so that an invisible 'Chinese Wall of Defense' would be built around the country against any enemy attack by an enemy air force, no matter how large.

This "teleforce" is based on an entirely new principle of physics, that "no one has ever dreamed about," different from the principles embodied in the in his inventions relating to the transmission of electrical power from a distance, for which he has received a number of basic patents. This new type of force Mr. Tesla said, would operate through a beam one- hundred-millionth of a square centimeter in diameter, and could be generated from special plant that would cost no more then $2,000,000 and would take only about three months to construct.

A dozen such plants, located at strategic points along the coast, according to Mr. Tesla, would be enough to defend the country against all aerial attack. The beam would melt any engine, whether diesel or gasoline driven, and would also ignite the explosives aboard any bomber. No possible defense against it could be devised, he asserts, as the beam would be all-penetrating.


High Vacuum Eliminated


The beam, he states, involves four new inventions, two of which already have been tested. One of these is a method and apparatus < section not legible eliminating the need for a "high vacuum;" a second is a process for producing "very great electrical force;" third is a method of amplifying this force, and the fourth is a new method for producing "a tremendous repelling electrical force." This would be the projector, or the gun of the system. The voltage for propelling the beam to its objective, according to the inventor, will attain a potential of 80,000,000 volts.

With this enormous voltage, he said, microscopic electrical particles of matter will be catapulted on their mission of defensive destruction. He has been working on this invention, he added, for many years and has made a number of improvements on it.

Mr. Tesla makes one important stipulation. Should the government decide to take up his offer, he would go to work on it at once, but they would have to trust him. He would suffer "no interference from experts."

In ordinary times such a condition would very likely interpose an insuperable obstacle. But times being what they are, and with the nation getting ready to spend billions on national defense, at the same time taking in consideration the reputation of Mr. Tesla as an inventor who always was many years ahead of his time, the question arises whether it may not be advisable to take Mr. Tesla at his word and commission him to go ahead with his "teleforce" plant.
In ordinary times such a condition would very likely interpose an insuperable obstacle. But times being what they are, and with the nation getting ready to spend billions on national defense, at the same time taking in consideration the reputation of Mr. Tesla as an inventor who always was many years ahead of his time, the question arises whether it may not be advisable to take Mr. Tesla at his word and commission him to go ahead with his "teleforce" plant.



Such a Device "Invaluable"


After all $2,000,000 would be relatively a very small sum compared with what is at stake. If Mr. Tesla really fulfills his promise the results achieved would be truly staggering. Now only would it save billions now planned for air defense, by making the country absolutely impregnable against any air attack, but it also would save many more billions in property that would otherwise be surely destroyed no matter how strong the defenses are as witness current events in England.

Take, for example, the Panama Canal. No matter how strong the defense, a suicide squadron of dive bombers, according to some experts, might succeed in getting through and cause such damage that would make the Canal unusable, in which our Navy might find it self bottled up.

Considering the probabilities in the case even if the chances were a 100,000 to 1 against Mr. Tesla the odds would still be largely in favor of taking a chance of spending $2000,000. In the opinion of the writer, who has known Mr. Tesla for many years and can testify he still retains full intellectual vigor, the authorities in charge of building national defense should at once look into the matter. The sum is insignificant compared to the magnitude of the stake.

[Wilhelm-Scream]

The Spawn is totally "Bumping S***".
He bumps s***.
He's a "S***-Bumper".

[X-Chick]

Tesla is a genius.

[The Spawn]

Yet underrated.

[Wilhelm-Scream]

I like his earthquake box.

[The Spawn]

What else of his do you like?

[Wilhelm-Scream]

The disk-turbine rotary engine, electric energy magnifier, and the free-energy receiver.
And his moustache.

[jaguarr]

The Spawn is totally "Bumping S***".
He bumps s***.
He's a "S***-Bumper".

I thought his post in July about being a slacker followed by a three and a half month lapse before he posted in this thread again was a masterstroke. :up:

jag

[X-Chick]

Impressive. Sadly, most people have never even heard of him.

[maxwell's demon]

sadder, more people think he's a lame-ass band.

[X-Chick]

I thought his post in July about being a slacker followed by a three and a half month lapse before he posted in this thread again was a masterstroke. :up:

jag

What about me? I haven't posted in this thread in like a year. :confused:

[jaguarr]

What about me? I haven't posted in this thread in like a year. :confused:

Yeah, but we KNOW you're a slacker. Spawn goes under the pretense that he is not, which is what made his post funny. :)

jag

[jaguarr]

sadder, more people think he's a lame-ass band.

I like Tesla. They RAWK! :csad:

jag

[maxwell's demon]

not compared to Nikolai:cmad:

[X-Chick]

Yeah, but we KNOW you're a slacker. Spawn goes under the pretense that he is not, which is what made his post funny. :)

jag

True enough.

Hi, btw. Nice to see that after years, you still feel the need to sign each post. :oldrazz:

[Abaddon]

Spawn, start posting pretty pictures.

[jaguarr]

not compared to Nikolai:cmad:

His guitar solo's were teh suck. :down

jag

[jaguarr]

True enough.

Hi, btw. Nice to see that after years, you still feel the need to sign each post. :oldrazz:

It's become a tradition. :up:

jag

[X-Chick]

Spawn, start posting pretty pictures.

Try not to be so stupid. Reading is good for you.

[Abaddon]

Try not to be so stupid. Reading is good for you.


You've lost your touch, babe.

[Darren Daring]

Who hasn't heard of him?

[X-Chick]

You've lost your touch, babe.

I'm out of practice. :(


I need to talk to Spawn again. That was always a good workout.

[X-Chick]

Excerpt from the New York World
Telegram, July 11, 1935 -

Nikola Tesla revealed that an earthquake which drew police and ambulances to the region of his laboratory at 48 E. Houston St., New York, in 1898, was the result of a little machine he was experimenting with at the time which "you could put in your overcoat pocket." The bewildered newspapermen pounced upon this as at least one thing they could understand and Nikola Tesla, "the father of modern electricity" told what had happened as follows:

Tesla stated, "I was experimenting with vibrations. I had one of my machines going and I wanted to see if I could get it in tune with the vibration of the building. I put it up notch after notch. There was a peculiar cracking sound. I asked my assistants where did the sound come from. They did not know. I put the machine up a few more notches. There was a louder cracking sound. I knew I was approaching the vibration of the steel building. I pushed the machine a little higher. "Suddenly all the heavy machinery in the place was flying around. I grabbed a hammer and broke the machine. The building would have been about our ears in another few minutes. Outside in the street there was pandemonium. The police and ambulances arrived. I told my assistants to say nothing. We told the police it must have been an earthquake. That's all they ever knew about it."

Some shrewd reporter asked Dr. Tesla at this point what he would need to destroy the Empire State Building and the doctor replied: "Vibration will do anything. It would only be necessary to step up the vibrations of the machine to fit the natural vibration of the building and the building would come crashing down. That's why soldiers break step crossing a bridge."

"On the occasion of his annual birthday celebration interview by the press on July 10, 1935 in his suite at the Hotel New Yorker, Tesla announced a method of transmitting mechanical energy accurately with minimal loss over any terrestrial distance, including a related new means of communication and a method, he claimed, which would facilitate the unerring location of underground mineral deposits. At that time he recalled the earth-trembling "quake" that brought police and ambulances rushing to the scene of his Houston Street laboratory while an experiment was in progress with one of his mechanical oscillators..."

[The Spawn]

I think tons of people think he's a ficticious character made for the Prestige.

[X-Chick]

I agree. In fact, I'm ashamed to admit my fiance had never heard of him prior to seeing the movie.

[The Spawn]

You have a fiance?

Since when?

I really should update...

[X-Chick]

Since February. I could've sworn I've talked to you since then, though.

[twylight]

See here (http://www.superherohype.com/forums/showthread.php?t=193227)


or here (http://www.superherohype.com/forums/showthread.php?t=220400) :huh:

[The Spawn]

Thank you twy, updating SHH! Protocols now...and there's even pictures.

[X-Chick]

Pictures of what? :confused:

[twylight]

The ring :)

It's for the reading challenged.

[X-Chick]

Oh, right. For a second I thought it was a picture of me or something.

[twylight]

Only your fingers.

[Holly Goodhead]

if you post your picture here then Lackey probably has it saved.

[twylight]

I know he has mine saved *the dirty whore*

[X-Chick]

I posted it for like 3 seconds. You both saw it, right? I think I showed Spawn too but I can't remember. :confused:

[Holly Goodhead]

it's pretty creepy. some strange man out there has a folder with all of our pictures in it. :down

[twylight]

I've never see you XC. :csad:

and Toven..really..I keep a folder as well. :o

[X-Chick]

I've never see you XC. :csad:

and Toven..really..I keep a folder as well. :o

Oh, I thought you had. :(

[twylight]

No, I'm terribly out of the loop on everything.

[The Spawn]

Folders?

Pfft, learn C++ or any coding language and make a program like I did.

I call it, The Oracle.

The password is 666...but I can tell you, because you'll never get The Oracle.

[Holly Goodhead]

I've never see you XC. :csad:

and Toven..really..I keep a folder as well. :o

whatever your folder is like, Lackeys is worse.

[Holly Goodhead]

Folders?

Pfft, learn C++ or any coding language and make a program like I did.

I call it, The Oracle.

The password is 666...but I can tell you, because you'll never get The Oracle.

We can beat it out of you.:cmad:

[twylight]

Folders?

Pfft, learn C++ or any coding language and make a program like I did.

I call it, The Oracle.

The password is 666...but I can tell you, because you'll never get The Oracle.

I'm to lazy.

And I failed my programming Logic course. :csad:

whatever your folder is like, Lackeys is worse.

But..Lackey is my secret Hype crush!

[The Spawn]

If raping and beating won't work, what makes you think beating will?

[X-Chick]

If raping and beating won't work, what makes you think beating will?

I could think of better ways.

[Holly Goodhead]

If raping and beating won't work, what makes you think beating will?

im a great beater, ask anyone

[The Spawn]

Name someone you think I should ask.

[The Spawn]

Rod Stewart on repeat won't work.

[X-Chick]

Not exactly what I had in mind.

[The Spawn]

SW Ep. 1?

[Holly Goodhead]

Name someone you think I should ask.

Kmack

[twylight]

SW Ep. 3 would probably be more...sucessful.

[The Spawn]

Who?

[X-Chick]

Sure, that's what I meant. :rolleyes:

[The Spawn]

I'm feeling a little naive right now...be blunt.

[X-Chick]

Not in front of everyone else.

[The Spawn]

Confidentiality...interesting.

[X-Chick]

Well, I can't have everyone stealing my methods.

[The Spawn]

Patent...interesting.

[X-Chick]

You'll see how interesting it is.

[The Spawn]

Seeing...interesting.

[X-Chick]

You haven't seen anything yet.

[The Spawn]

I'm well aware of that dear.

[X-Chick]

You'll just have to wait until we're one on one again.


And stop being facetious.

[The Spawn]

"One on one" looks like "on top of one another"...or is that just me?

Every time I read the whole sentence, it looks that way.

[X-Chick]

It's just you. We can clearly see what you're thinking about.

[The Spawn]

You? Or me?

[X-Chick]

Both?

[The Spawn]

Agreed.

[X-Chick]

What do we agree about?

[The Spawn]

When conversation consists of 2-3 words from both parties, things get lost.

[X-Chick]

Apparently. I'm confused.

[The Spawn]

Good....next lesson.

[The Spawn]

Sod's Law and its Corollaries

or

The Twelve Laws of Inaccurate Perception



SOD'S LAW, ALSO KNOWN AS MURPHY'S LAW. If anything can go wrong, it will.


O'TOOLE'S COMMENTARY ON MURPHY'S LAW. Murphy was an optimist.


THE FIRST COROLLARY TO SOD'S LAW. Anything that is to go wrong will do so at the worst possible moment.


THE UNSPEAKABLE LAW. As soon as you mention something, if it's good, it goes away; if it's bad, it happens.


NON-RECIPROCAL LAWS OF EXPECTATIONS. Negative expectations yield negative results. Positive expectations yield negative results.


HOWE'S LAW. Every man has a scheme which will not work.


ZYMURGY'S FIRST LAW OF EVOLVING SYSTEM DYNAMICS. Once you open a can of worms, the only way to rican them is to use a larger can.


SKINNER'S CONSTANT. The quantity which must be multiplied by, divided by, added to or subtracted from the answer you get to give the answer you should have got.


LAW OF SELECTIVE GRAVITY. An object will fall so as to do the most damage.


JENNING'S COROLLARY. The chance of the bread falling with the buttered side down is directly proportional to the cost of the carpet.


BARTH'S DISTINCTION. There are two types of people: those who divide people into two types and those who do not.


NINETY-NINETY RULE OF PROJECT SCHEDULES. The first 90% of the job takes 90% of the time, the last 10% takes the other 90%.


FARBER'S RULE. Necessity is the mother of strange bedfellows.

[X-Chick]

Stop ****ing with me.

[jimmy]

Lesson.

[jimmy]

Wow, fast post.

[The Spawn]

I'm the quickest... next to that other guy...

[X-Chick]

I thought I was the quickest.

[Kmack]

I thought I was the quickest.
Whoa, this is my first time posting in this thread, and I only did so because I saw X-Chick (hi!:D):meow:

[X-Chick]

Hi! :) It's been forever.

[X-Chick]

Someone else everyone believes is just fiction, invented solely for The Da Vinci Code or Harry Potter...

Nicholas, or Nicolas, Flamel was a French alchemist who lived in the 15th century. Though accounts of his life are often taken as mythical, evidence attests to the truth of his existence: his house in Paris, built in 1407, still stands, at 51 rue de Montmorency (IIIe arrondissement), though the building has been converted into a restaurant. However, his character and deeds have arguably proven quite legendary.

Flamel is supposed to have been the most accomplished of the European alchemists. It is claimed that he succeeded at the two magical goals of alchemy supposed to have been the chief aims of that discipline, that he made the Philosopher's Stone that turns lead into gold, and that he and his wife Perenelle achieved immortality.

Flamel is supposed to have received a mysterious book, written by an ancient person known as Abraham the Jew, from a stranger. The book was said to be a copy of the original Book of Abraham. The book was full of Kabbalistic words in Greek and Hebrew. Flamel made it his life's work to understand the text of these lost secrets. He travelled to universities in Andalusia to consult with Jewish and Muslim authorities. In Spain, he met a mysterious master who taught him the art of understanding his manuscript. The "master" was rumored to be an adept, or wise man, who had studied the same teaching as the Three Wise Men of the Bible. The adept's name was Master Canches, who was a practicing physician and on his way to Paris. However, on the way, Master Canches took ill and died. Flamel buried Master Canches in Orleans, and was able to learn translations of Abraham the Jew. This taught Flamel the base secrets of how to perform the Magnum Opus and the formula for transmuting base metals into the state of gold.

After his return from Spain, Flamel was able to become rich: the knowledge that he gained during his travels made him a master of the alchemical art. Flamel became a philanthropist, endowing hospitals and churches with the proceeds from his alchemical work. He caused arcane alchemical signs to be written on a tombstone, which is preserved at the Musée de Cluny in Paris. His tomb is empty.




The philosopher's stone, in Latin philosophi lapis, is a legendary substance that supposedly could turn inexpensive metals such as lead into gold ("chrysopoeia") and/or create an elixir that would make humans younger, thus delaying death. It was a longtime "holy grail" of Western alchemy. In the view of spiritual alchemy, making the philosopher's stone would bring enlightenment upon the maker and conclude the Great Work. It is also known by several other names, such as the 'Golden Wedding Garment', the 'Soul body', the 'Astral body' and the 'Living Stone', spoken of in some of the ancient philosophies as the 'Diamond Soul'

Alchemy itself is mostly an original concept and science practiced by the ancient Egyptians. However the concepts of more easily transmutating one metal into a more precious one (silver or Gold) and ensuring youthful health apparently originated in China and from the theories of the 8th century alchemist, Jabir ibn Hayyan, latinized as `Geber'. He analyzed each Aristotelian element in terms of the four basic qualities of hotness, coldness, dryness, and moistness. Fire was both hot and dry, earth cold and dry, water cold and moist, and air hot and moist. He further theorized that every metal was a combination of these four principles, two of them interior and two exterior.

From this premise, it was reasoned that the transmutation of one metal into another could be effected by the rearrangement of its basic qualities. This change would presumably be mediated by a substance, which came to be called al-iksir in Arabic (from which comes the Western term "elixir"). It is often considered to exist as a dry red powder made from a legendary stone — the "philosopher's stone".[citation needed] The stone was believed to have been composed of a substance called carmot.

Jabir's theory and the concept of the philosopher's stone may have been inspired by the knowledge that metals like gold and silver could be hidden in alloys and ores, from which they could be recovered by the appropriate chemical treatment. Jabir himself is believed to be the inventor of aqua regia, a mixture of muriatic (hydrochloric) and nitric acids, one of the few substances that can dissolve gold (and which is still often used for gold recovery and purification).

[Darren Daring]

I'm the fastest:mad:

[X-Chick]

Hardly. And Spawn is crazy if he thinks he's the fastest. He takes a ****ing year to reply. :cmad: I'm the fastest.

[Darren Daring]

Not counting this 40 mintue gap, I am sooo the fastest.

[X-Chick]

Whatever. I can reply within the same minute.

[Darren Daring]

goddamnit:(

[X-Chick]

Yeah, I win.

[Darren Daring]

For now. I'll do some swooping at soem point and show you.

[Kmack]

Hi! :) It's been forever.
I know!:D So um...how's marriage?

[Abaddon]

x-chick doesn't give me the smiley face anymore. *sniffle*



Talk some more about Rasputin.:o:up:

[X-Chick]

Not married yet, but might as well be. :)

Aba: :)
Happy?

And what do you wanna know about him? :o

[The Spawn]

40 minute gap?

While to reply?

You assume I have things to reply to...

[X-Chick]

You do. Me.

[The Spawn]

When you have a sig with my name in it, then I have that obligation.

[X-Chick]

Are you saying I should put your name in my sig?

[The Spawn]

No.

I didn't say anything like that...

[X-Chick]

You're not special enough to be in my sig. Not yet anyway. Especially when you pull an ******* move like you did last night.

[The Spawn]

Wow...really stuck up you are.

[X-Chick]

What? No, I'm not. You're the arrogant one.


I thought you weren't talking to me today.

[Darren Daring]

x-chick doesn't give me the smiley face anymore. *sniffle*



Talk some more about Rasputin.:o:up:

This seems like a code...:meow:

[The Spawn]

A Da Vinci Code?

[X-Chick]

Uvp tjiu fsvhjg

[Darren Daring]

I can't crack it:mad:

[X-Chick]

You're not trying hard enough. Do it before Spawn does. :o

[Darren Daring]

No, I've already applied half a dozen basic codes, and it's gibberish!

[X-Chick]

No, its really a message. And it's pretty simple. Obvious even. :)

[Darren Daring]

The temptation to go back and work on it some more is emberassingly strong.

[X-Chick]

23825?

[Darren Daring]

I will not go look at the hone, I will not go look at the phone.

[X-Chick]

It wouldn't help. That would be too easy. :o

[Darren Daring]

This thread is blowing my mind.

[X-Chick]

These aren't even hard. :csad:

[Darren Daring]

Now I'm embarrassed and ashamed.

[X-Chick]

You're not really trying. :csad:

[Darren Daring]

On the number one, I'm proud to say I'm not.

[X-Chick]

The first one is old school with a slight twist.

2 5 20 20 5 18?

[Darren Daring]

I got that one, :selfsatisfaction:

[Darren Daring]

and the other number one!

[X-Chick]

Nice :up:

Damn, I forgot what the first number one was. :o

[Darren Daring]

why.

[Abaddon]

This seems like a code...:meow:


everything I post Is in Code

[Darren Daring]

everything I post Is in Code

Yes, but I dont' wnat to figure yours out:up:

[X-Chick]

everything I post Is in Code

That is wonderful. :up:

[Abaddon]

you both had the same response.:dry:


What was Rasputins last appearance?

[X-Chick]

Who gives a ****? :huh:

[Abaddon]

who gives a **** about who gives a ****?

[Darren Daring]

Am I Rasputin?:confuddled:

[X-Chick]

Knock yourself out (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grigori_Rasputin)

[Darren Daring]

Oh, you were referring to the actual rasputin? That was my name here for a while and I'm incredibly ego-centric, so, easy mistake.

[Abaddon]

That was you?


Anyway, thanks Chick for being incredibly lazy.

[X-Chick]

Oh yeah, I forgot about that. :o

[Darren Daring]

That was you?


Anyway, thanks Chick for being incredibly lazy.

What did I do?

I love hearing about my explois:up:

[X-Chick]

That was you?


Anyway, thanks Chick for being incredibly lazy.

You're incredibly welcome and a huge hypocrite. If you weren't so damned lazy you could look up the info yourself or read a book like everyone else instead of asking other people asinine questions to which the answers are easily obtainable.

[Abaddon]

You're incredibly welcome and a huge hypocrite. If you weren't so damned lazy you could look up the info yourself or read a book like everyone else instead of asking other people asinine questions to which the answers are easily obtainable.


When I asked I was hoping you knew of a good site that would spare the trouble of trolling through some lame google search results.:whatever:

What exactly is the purpose of this thread?

[X-Chick]

Did I start the thread? No. So why are you asking me? You can talk to ******* about that. :o

And wikipedia is a good site. Besides, I don't remember his last appearance off the top of my head. I never was that into him though, I preferred the story of the Romanov's.

[Abaddon]

Stop being so combative though.:o

[Darren Daring]

But she's totally right.

[Abaddon]

about what?:huh:

[Darren Daring]

you being a lazy prat.

[Abaddon]

No, she isn't.

And what the **** is a prat?:cmad:

[Darren Daring]

It's either british or a word I just made up.

[X-Chick]

It's British slang. :o

Anyway, sorry Aba, for being slightly hostile. But you are a lazy prat.

[The Spawn]

Wow guys, wow.

[X-Chick]

Seriously, what have I done to deserve this ****? Also, I said I'd stop bothering you if you answered my question and you never did.

[The Spawn]

...

What?

Are you replying to something we talked about through PM via a thread?

Not very wise...leads to confusion.

[X-Chick]

Well, you don't like PMing and you won't get on AIM, what other choice do I have?

[X-Chick]

Stop ignoring me. :csad:

[The Spawn]

I'm not...?

[X-Chick]

Then why did it take you so long to reply? Which you really didn't by the way. At least not to my previous statement. All I want to do is talk this out and you won't even give me the chance. :csad:

[The Spawn]

I just don't want to admit the fact that my laptop wireless capabilites are on the fritz.

And I am not using this PC for much longer by the way.

[X-Chick]

Then how are we supposed to work this out? You want to talk about all this in a thread?

[The Spawn]

Work what out?

I'll work this out right now:

You think I'm 19:

---WOW....19? You're about twenty years off and should be spanked.

You think I'm a freshman who majors in computer science:

--- To major in something, I have to be in college...I left that a while ago. I did do Comp Sci but switched to Film. I doubled in Film and Comp Sci and have minors in all of the liberal arts but three.

You think my name is Bryan or Brian.

--- To be honest, I don't know my birth name. I've changed it several times in the course of 13 years. My occupation requires me to do so...I'm stating my occupations. I'm obviously not a conventional teacher...I'm online at noon...should I not be teaching?

What else was there???

As for the information I've denied, they are connected to me...once again, I've given The Spawn mantle away two times already.

I don't exist as sci fi as that sounds.

I can prove all of this but choose not to.

I like the disgust and hatred you people have for me...I thrive on it.

For the few Hypesters who respect me for my intellect and what I have to offer, they'll get my full attention.

I live only to serve.

[X-Chick]

Fine, so my information was a little off. That doesn't explain why you won't talk to me.

Have you ever once told me anything that was true? And what about the other stuff?

[The Spawn]

A little off?

LOL

A little off?

Truth is subjective.

"Other stuff" is a very broad topic.

I have never lied to anyone who deserved the 'truth' in my whole entire life.

[X-Chick]

So you're saying I'm undeserving then.

Just forget the other stuff. I don't want to talk about it here anyway.

[The Spawn]

I'm skipping over the word "here" if you don't mind.

[X-Chick]

No, I still want to talk about it. We can't very well move on without clearing that part up.

[kypade]

talk about what.

[X-Chick]

stuff

[The Spawn]

What kinda stuff?

[X-Chick]

You're an ass. Just forget it then. We'll never talk about it.

[Melpomene]

:dry:

[The Spawn]

You lack endurance...that's why I've decided not to burden you with details.

[X-Chick]

No, I just don't feel like going through it in a thread.

[Demon Within]

I dont exist either.......or so im told.

[The Spawn]

...so you're tactic is to call me an ass and expect me to be nice to you?

[The Spawn]

You're reply to my post is gonna be something about I was mean to you before and always...I'll reply now:

Two wrongs don't make a right.

[X-Chick]

No. I only called you that because you know what I'm talking about, you're just playing dumb so you can avoid ever confronting it.

[The Spawn]

Next post?

[X-Chick]

I hate it when you do that.

[The Spawn]

It's the only way to prove I am as good as the rumors say I am.

Anyway, back on track...

...what is it that you want from me exactly?

And why do I need a clue?

[X-Chick]

I'd tell you if you were on AIM.

[kypade]

i think spawn and xchik should take a time out away from each other. :o :csad:

[Melpomene]

They obviously want each other, they must be speaking in code :cmad:

[The Spawn]

Name all the famous Hypesters who start with 'k'.

Besides you.

I'm trying to place you somehwere and its really been bothering me.

[X-Chick]

They obviously want each other, they must be speaking in code :cmad:

Wow, you got it. :up:



:whatever:

[The Spawn]

We already covered the lesson on code.

[Melpomene]

Wow, you got it. :up:



:whatever:

http://homepages.nildram.co.uk/~ahanley/mega-rolleyes.jpg

[X-Chick]

"We?" You mean me. :o

[The Spawn]

All the professors here are referred to as "we".

[X-Chick]

Oh, okay. :o

Damn, I have the third highest post count here.

Nice image, Mel :up:

[Melpomene]

Oh, okay. :o

Damn, I have the third highest post count here.

Nice image, Mel :up:

Ewww, that's like, Mel Gibson


call me PurplePenisPrancer instead :O

[X-Chick]

I'm too lazy to type that much.

[The Spawn]

You just don't like the word 'penis'.

[X-Chick]

Penis...

[X-Chick]

We need a new lesson. :o

[The Spawn]

Elaborate on the penis.

[X-Chick]

They're creepy.

[The Spawn]

*Writes this down*

[Abaddon]

Give a lesson on DID

[The Spawn]

Dissociative identity disorder is a psychiatric diagnosis described in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, 4th Edition (DSM), Revised, as the existence in an individual of two or more distinct personalities or ego-states, each with its own pattern of perceiving and interacting with the environment. To qualify as dissociative identity disorder (multiple personality disorder), at least two personalities must routinely take alternate control of the individual's behavior, and there must be a loss of memory that goes beyond normal forgetfulness. This memory loss is often referred to as "switching". These symptoms must occur independently of substance abuse or a general medical condition.

Dissociative identity disorder is also known as multiple personality disorder or "MPD", as detailed in the International Statistical Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems. In North America the name was changed to dissociative identity disorder due to the degree of controversy in the psychiatric and psychological communities there regarding the concept of one (physical) individual having more than one personality, where personality may be defined as the sum total of that (physical) individual's mental states.

While dissociation is a demonstrable psychiatric condition that is tied to several different disorders, specifically those involving early childhood trauma and anxiety, multiple personality remains controversial. Despite the controversy, many mental health institutes, such as McLean Hospital, have wards specifically designated for dissociative identity disorder.

Dissociative Identity Disorder is a type of psychogenic amnesia (no medical cause, only psychological). Through this amnesia the person is able to repress memories of traumatic event/s or a period of time. This is a fragmentation of self and experience of the past. Through having several alters the host personality is living through healthy alters, aggressive alters, and often alters that are children. The therapy for this disorder is usually long-term.

Two characteristics of DID are depersonalization and derealization. Depersonalization is the distortion in the perception of self and one's reality. This person will often appear to be detached from reality. Patients often refer to this as "feeling outside of their body and being able to observe it from a distance". Derealization is the distortion in the perception of others. Through derealization, others will not seem to be real to the person. To these patients others may look the same and sound the same, but their real identity is absent or has differed in some way.

Research has shown that patients with Dissociative Identity Disorder often hide their symptoms around others. The average number of alters is 15 and the onset is usually in early childhood, which is why some of a patient's alters are often children. Many patients have co-morbidity, which means that they also have another disorder, for example, generalized anxiety disorder.

[Abaddon]

How do these alters become aware of each other?

[X-Chick]

....

[X-Chick]

How do these alters become aware of each other?

Its usually pointed out to them by a third party. Or they notice things like being exhausted all the time, waking up somewhere else, people who apparently know them though they've never met before, etc. They dont actually wake up one day and say "Hey, I must have another personality!"

[Abaddon]

Name a famous criminal case involving DID.:o

[X-Chick]

There really aren't any. At least none I can think of. Most of the truly famous criminals suffer from anti-social personality disorder or they're just sociopaths or psychopaths.

[Abaddon]

Unpossible! There has to have been a case where someone commited murder under a different identity.

[X-Chick]

You would think so from media portrayal, but in actuality, people don't spawn other identities just to commit crimes. Most of the time, they're other halves aren't even remotely dangerous.

[Abaddon]

Healthy multiplicity is the idea of many minds, persons, souls, identities, or individuals coexisting within the same physical body. Emphasis is placed on a functional co-relationship with shared responsibility and accountability. The idea is presented as an alternative to other more conventional views about multiplicity in which it is viewed as a disorder, often brought about by psychological trauma. It does not, however, seek to deny that such multiples exist. In fact, the philosophy emphasizes that trauma-based multiples are capable of learning to cooperate and function in a healthy fashion, so that integrating the personalities is unnecessary.

Healthy (or functional) multiplicity has found its greatest voice and organization on the Internet, mainly because the risk of stigma, judgement, hostility, and forced treatment led many multiple systems to remain "in the closet" in their day-to-day lives. The ease of relative anonymity and pseudonymity in web-based media allows the multiple community to meet and discuss issues without fear of direct reprisal. However, many members of the multiple community may also confide in close friends and family.

Mental health professionals' opinions vary on whether or not such a healthy co-operative "group of minds" is possible. A relative few believe that it is possible and will help their clients in a kind of "family" therapy. Social worker Pat McClendon describes "families of selves" in traumatized individuals as groups of ego states which the client experiences as separate persons. Some doubt that multiple personalities exist in any form whatsoever, while others believe that any client who experiences two or more minds has dissociative identity disorder and needs treatment to eliminate all but one personality. According to anecdotal evidence from websites and Internet forums, clients who self-report as being multiple, even if fully cooperative, are sometimes diagnosed with a thought disorder and placed on anti-psychotic medication or hospitalized.

Some contend that the unity of the self is an illusion and that everyone is fundamentally multiple (an opinion similar to the observations of William James and other modernist writers). A few writers have pointed out that this multiplicity or fluidity of self is exemplified in the ease with which Internet users adopt many identities. Others take the position that some people are inherently singletons, some inherently multiple, and that people should be allowed to express themselves in a way that is natural to them.

While such evidence suggests a common psychological mechanism for multiplicity, it also highlights the influence of the surrounding culture on the perception and subjective experience of multiplicity. For example, people in nonwestern cultures who are multiple do not express their other selves as "parts of themselves", but as independent souls or spirits. There is no evident link between multiplicity, dissociation or recovered memories, and -- surprisingly -- between multiplicity and sexual abuse.

There is a fair bit of cross-cultural evidence to suggest that a small but persistent fraction of humans everywhere experience themselves as multiple. Many religions recognize shamans, people who claim to communicate with and be possessed by gods or spirits. In yet other religions, like voodoo and the orisha religions of Africa, some devotees aim to be possessed by the gods. Here, multiplicity is not a dysfunction, but a spiritual experience.

[X-Chick]

You're a student, not a teacher. :cmad:

[Abaddon]

TA, biatch!:cmad:

[The Spawn]

Well noted.

[X-Chick]

Edit.

[X-Chick]

Edit

[The Spawn]

Why?

[X-Chick]

Why what?

[Darren Daring]

aw:( I still believe in you.

[X-Chick]

But you're awesome and Spawn isn't. :)

[Darren Daring]

Both valid points:up:

[The Spawn]

If an idiotic person calls you stupid, how do you feel?

If a genius calls you stupid, how do you feel?

[X-Chick]

Either way, I don't give a ****. Mostly because if an idiot calls me stupid, I don't care because he's an idiot. If a genius calls me stupid, I care even less because everyone is stupid compared to him/her.

Why?

[The Spawn]

It just seemed relevant.

[The Spawn]

The Novikov self-consistency principle, also known as the Novikov self-consistency conjecture, is a principle developed by Dr. Igor Novikov in the mid-1980s to solve the problem of paradoxes in time travel. Stated simply, the Novikov consistency principle asserts that if an event exists that would give rise to a paradox, then the probability of that event is zero.

Time loop logic is an application of this principle to (hypothetical) computers capable of sending information back through time.

Novikov's scenario

Rather than consider the usual models for such a paradox, such as the grandfather paradox in which a time-traveller kills his own grandfather (and, thus, prevents his own birth), Novikov used a mechanistic model which was more amenable to mathematics; a billiards ball being fired into a wormhole in such a way that it would go back in time and collide with its earlier self, thereby knocking it off course and preventing it from entering the wormhole in the first place.

Novikov found that there were many trajectories that could result from the same initial conditions. For example, the billiard ball could knock itself only slightly astray, resulting in its going into the past slightly off course, which winds up causing it to knock its past self only slightly astray; this "sequence" of events (actually a causal loop) is completely consistent and does not result in a paradox. Novikov found that the probability of such consistent events was nonzero, and the probability of inconsistent events was zero, so no matter what a time traveller might try to do he will always end up accomplishing consistent non-paradoxical actions.


Potential implications for free will
In another example, taken from an episode of The Twilight Zone, a person travels back in time to discover the cause of a famous fire. While in the building where the fire started, he or she accidentally knocks over a kerosene lantern and causes a fire, the same fire that would inspire him or her, years later, to travel back in time. This situation is entirely consistent — after travelling back in time the person "fulfills" the events in the "past" which "already happened" (from the perspective of the future). In this example the person lacked free will — it is impossible for him or her not to have set off the fire, as that would be inconsistent. Even if the person somehow knew that this would happen, he or she would be somehow bound to "follow" history by the self-consistency principle. Note that there are other equally plausible series of events for this case. For example, the fire could have never happened, and the person would then never travel back in time to discover its cause and make it happen. This is also entirely consistent. Thus we see that under this principle there may be many valid "solutions" to the same initial conditions. For the same reason the reduction of free will is minimal: only paradoxes are prevented, all other choices count.

Assessments of the Novikov self-consistency principle
The Novikov consistency principle assumes certain conditions about what sort of time travel is possible. Specifically, it assumes counterfactual definiteness which is the assertion that there is only one timeline and that multiple alternative timelines do not exist or are not accessible.

Due to these assumptions, some consider the Novikov self-consistency principle merely as a tautology (a self-evident truth) — that is, it is as a principle that cannot be false by definition and does not need a justification.

[X-Chick]

Relevant how? Nobody called anybody stupid.

[Darren Daring]

Being called not awesome is just as bad.

[The Spawn]

You know how to navigate my threads quite well.

[X-Chick]

Being called not awesome is just as bad.

He's not awesome because he's mean to me, not because he's stupid.

[The Spawn]

Doesn't matter.

[X-Chick]

Also, he's a liar and clearly lying = not awesome.

[Darren Daring]

He's not awesome because he's mean to me, not because he's stupid.

And he must be stupid to be mean to you.

[Darren Daring]

You know how to navigate my threads quite well.

I just do what I would normally do, invert it 56 degrees, and wallah.

[X-Chick]

And he must be stupid to be mean to you.

Good point.

[The Spawn]

The way I act is reflective of whom it is I'm interacting with.

Period.

[Darren Daring]

This sentence ends now.


Period.

[The Spawn]

Wait, what?

[Darren Daring]

Gah, you beat me.

[The Spawn]

It's what I do...?