Jacuzzi_Jackson wrote:what does Dag mean? My housemate is nicknamed Dag but its because of Darkplace.
adkm1979 wrote:I know the OP was about more than conspiracies, but having JFK-was-killed-by-his-own-government in the same thread as Derren-Brown-is-a-cheap-con-artist and organic-bananas-taste-better is not helping me take any of it any more seriously than I do now.
Mod74 wrote:Isn't meditation a kind of self inflicted hypnosis?
I was fairly typical cynic/apathetic liberal politically until about 8 or 9 years ago. I remember in early 2003 having an argument with a mate about the Iraq War and telling him how it wasn't a bad thing - we were getting rid of Saddam, and hey it's better for 'us' to be in charge of all the weapons than 'them'. It's not like I believed the conspiracy theories about Saddam being connected to Al-Qaida or anything (and come on, that was a conspiracy theory!), was just pretty ignorant. Not long after I started reading some political books etc. and realised how factually deficient a lot of my opinions were.equinox_code wrote:One final example, although not so clearly a case of right or wrong, is how much my political leaning has changed. As recently as when I first joined this forum, I'd probably have been considered rather right-wing. I had what I'd consider a very short-sighted, simplistic world view, was very trusting of authority, and had a natural rebellion against anyone I perceived to be 'over-intellectualising' issues or presenting ideas that went against the grain.
JonB wrote:Israel-Palestine
Skerret wrote:"The literal meaning is a dung-caked lock of wool around the hindquarters of a sheep - an abbreviation of "daglock"" Also slang for unfashunable but lovable tit.Jacuzzi_Jackson wrote:what does Dag mean? My housemate is nicknamed Dag but its because of Darkplace.
Can't be a coinkydink that these relationships are arising in an environment that's essentially post-scarcity.with a state of anarchism and community lived purely in the virtual world.
SpaceGazelle wrote:Face, interesting to think you thought crop circles might be true, which is quite alarming/amusing, but you deserve some credit for admitting it, especially here.Â
adkm1979 wrote:He had a camera on a rig that mimicked the motion of a handheld camera, and could be exactly copied by another camera, so that a bit of screen wiping meant you couldn't see somebody writing the numbers as they were announced. Â Having made a name for himself as a man who did clever stunts involving confidence, hypnosis, cold-reading and so on it was a pretty cheap-shot camera trick. Â He pretty much undermined himself.
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