What if I told You

[chenGOD]

10 hours ago, Brisbot said:

If an average 1 in 100 billion earthlike planets has contained intelligent life from when starts stars forming, there would have already been well over a trillion civilizations. Not even counting  more basic life.

And life is supposed to be possible for around another trillion years so that's a lot of aliens

Think of all those intergalactic cummies!

[cruising for burgers]

what if i told you

every time you jump in the air

you actually fly

at 460 meters per second...

Be the Light that radiates unconditional Love, Forgive, Heal and have Fun

:^)

[Brisbot]

12 hours ago, chenGOD said:

Think of all those intergalactic cummies!

flol

[diatoms]

On 5/19/2019 at 3:32 AM, ambergonk said:

Interface

So Awesome!!!

I

Really needed to Experience Interface Right Now

Thanks  ambermonk:)

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[diatoms]

Mum with terminal cancer baffles doctors by ‘treating herself with cannabis oil’

Basit Mahmood

Sunday 7 Apr 2019 4:17 pm

https://metro.co.uk/2019/04/07/mum-terminal-cancer-baffles-doctors-treating-cannabis-oil-9129504/

'A mum who was given weeks to live after she shunned chemotherapy has stunned doctors by ‘treating her cancer’ – with illegal super strength cannabis and Manuka honey.'

"Susan Dhillon, 51, a mum-of-three, was diagnosed with inoperable stage four cancer of the mouth, nose and lower skull in June 2018.

Doctors said unless she had chemotherapy – and then incredibly risky facial surgery – her only option was end of life care.

But despite the tumours growing at a rate of 5% a month, she shunned the treatment.

She started taking a near-pure form of illegal cannabis tablets which her friend makes at home, by growing her own cannabis plants and using oil to make tablets.

Sue, a grandmother-of-one, then buys the drug from her friend at a cost price of around £16 a day.

After five months of taking a tablet a day, doctors were shocked to discover some of the tumours had disappeared, and others had stopped growing or shrunk altogether.

A letter from her ‘pleasantly surprised’ consultant confirms the regression and states: ‘I can only conclude that Mrs Dhillon appears to have gained significant benefit from the Manuka honey and Cannabis oil treatment’.

Nine months since her diagnosis, a scan carried out last month showed ‘encouraging’ results – her disease was found to be ‘completely stable’ with no sign of progression.

Susan is now holding out hope she will one day enter remission and is still taking a cannabis tablet every day. Sue, a former NHS prescription administrator, from Slough, said: ‘It’s an absolute miracle.

‘I was told I could die in weeks or months. They told me it was inoperable.

She added: ‘I was over the moon. It was the best news I could possibly have been told.

‘I didn’t think I’d see my next birthday. The cannabis is keeping the cancer at bay.’

Sue went to the doctors after food started to come out of her nose while she was eating and she noticed she had holes in her mouth, in May last year.

She was fast-tracked to see specialists at Wexham Park Hospital, Slough, for an urgent cancer referral and given an MRI scan and a biopsy.

Two weeks later, in June last year, she was told she had stage 4 advanced sinonasal carcinoma involving the skull – a rare cancer of the nasal cavity.

Sue, said: ‘I went through a really sad time with my family.

‘I didn’t know what to do with myself and spent a lot of the time being very upset.

She added: ‘I didn’t want chemotherapy. It’s not natural and I don’t believe in it.

‘I was willing to try anything. I didn’t know what else I could do.’

After five months of daily doses, she went back to hospital in December for a scan to see if her tumours had grown.

Incredibly, her consultant was stunned to find ‘no obvious sign’ of a tumour in her mouth or nasal cavity – despite being diagnosed with advanced tumours in both areas six months earlier.

The consultant was ‘pleasantly surprised’ to see the cancer had regressed, and told Sue he was happy for her to continue taking the illegal cannabis oil drug.

Sue received the positive scan results a few days before Christmas which she described as ‘the best Christmas present ever’.

She says her case is ‘proof’ that medicinal cannabis can be used to treat cancer and wants ‘all cancer patients’ to be prescribed medicinal cannabis so others can benefit in the same way she has."

 

Be the Light that radiates unconditional Love, Forgive, Heal and have Fun:)

[YEK]

35 minutes ago, diatoms said:

Mum with terminal cancer baffles doctors by ‘treating herself with cannabis oil’

Basit Mahmood

Sunday 7 Apr 2019 4:17 pm

https://metro.co.uk/2019/04/07/mum-terminal-cancer-baffles-doctors-treating-cannabis-oil-9129504/

'A mum who was given weeks to live after she shunned chemotherapy has stunned doctors by ‘treating her cancer’ – with illegal super strength cannabis and Manuka honey.'

"Susan Dhillon, 51, a mum-of-three, was diagnosed with inoperable stage four cancer of the mouth, nose and lower skull in June 2018.

Doctors said unless she had chemotherapy – and then incredibly risky facial surgery – her only option was end of life care.

But despite the tumours growing at a rate of 5% a month, she shunned the treatment.

She started taking a near-pure form of illegal cannabis tablets which her friend makes at home, by growing her own cannabis plants and using oil to make tablets.

Sue, a grandmother-of-one, then buys the drug from her friend at a cost price of around £16 a day.

After five months of taking a tablet a day, doctors were shocked to discover some of the tumours had disappeared, and others had stopped growing or shrunk altogether.

A letter from her ‘pleasantly surprised’ consultant confirms the regression and states: ‘I can only conclude that Mrs Dhillon appears to have gained significant benefit from the Manuka honey and Cannabis oil treatment’.

Nine months since her diagnosis, a scan carried out last month showed ‘encouraging’ results – her disease was found to be ‘completely stable’ with no sign of progression.

Susan is now holding out hope she will one day enter remission and is still taking a cannabis tablet every day. Sue, a former NHS prescription administrator, from Slough, said: ‘It’s an absolute miracle.

‘I was told I could die in weeks or months. They told me it was inoperable.

She added: ‘I was over the moon. It was the best news I could possibly have been told.

‘I didn’t think I’d see my next birthday. The cannabis is keeping the cancer at bay.’

Sue went to the doctors after food started to come out of her nose while she was eating and she noticed she had holes in her mouth, in May last year.

She was fast-tracked to see specialists at Wexham Park Hospital, Slough, for an urgent cancer referral and given an MRI scan and a biopsy.

Two weeks later, in June last year, she was told she had stage 4 advanced sinonasal carcinoma involving the skull – a rare cancer of the nasal cavity.

Sue, said: ‘I went through a really sad time with my family.

‘I didn’t know what to do with myself and spent a lot of the time being very upset.

She added: ‘I didn’t want chemotherapy. It’s not natural and I don’t believe in it.

‘I was willing to try anything. I didn’t know what else I could do.’

After five months of daily doses, she went back to hospital in December for a scan to see if her tumours had grown.

Incredibly, her consultant was stunned to find ‘no obvious sign’ of a tumour in her mouth or nasal cavity – despite being diagnosed with advanced tumours in both areas six months earlier.

The consultant was ‘pleasantly surprised’ to see the cancer had regressed, and told Sue he was happy for her to continue taking the illegal cannabis oil drug.

Sue received the positive scan results a few days before Christmas which she described as ‘the best Christmas present ever’.

She says her case is ‘proof’ that medicinal cannabis can be used to treat cancer and wants ‘all cancer patients’ to be prescribed medicinal cannabis so others can benefit in the same way she has."

 

Be the Light that radiates unconditional Love, Forgive, Heal and have Fun:)

I've heard the government is working on regenerating limbs buy studying salamanders. I wonder if they could find a cure for cancer by studying marijuana. 

[diatoms]

On 5/15/2018 at 2:44 PM, Salvatorin said:

sidenote: I tend to think transhumanists miss the big idea entirely and need to spend more time researching instead of putting magnets in their fingertips or whatever. ultimately they just wanna float around in infinitely fun simulated ballpits as bloated furries stroking each other's multitudinous new and improved genitals. Completely unaware that all of that would likely become completely irrelevant. I think a hivemind intelligence is the most likely outcome, ending up with entirely alien motivations, building matrioshka brains and joining up with some kind of universal intelligence and ultimately merging totally with the universe, essentially "waking up" all matter and completing a cosmic loop, becoming Brahman.

 

I know I'm descending into shroomy DMT talk but well, if you've taken enough of it, the notion of individual consciousness starts to seem like a cruel joke.

Awesome Thoughts:)

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[diatoms]

wild:)

from: http://www.somethinggeography.com/2016/10/where-is-south-america.html?m=1

Where is South America?

Someone discusses the Americas and you instantly create a mental map of the two continents.  How accurate do you think your mental map really is? Are you picturing jagged coastlines? national borders?  Did you even put South America in the correct location? Try looking at the image below. North America has been sliced through at Mexico.  Central America is missing.  South America has been pushed further north to make it easier to compare.

So which is correct? A or B?

 

It is A.  As seen in the Google Earth map below, most of South America extends east of North America.  

 

Locate the meridian (line of longitude) 80 degrees west. Travel the meridian from north to south and discover that it resides on the extreme eastern portion of Florida and only barely crosses the western portions of Ecuador and Peru.

 

The rest of South America lies east of Florida.

 

The two continents could have just as easily been called East America and West America.

 

First read on:

https://old.reddit.com/r/Retconned/comments/bsca9y/geography_website_inadvertantly_points_out_north/

I Remember B

On 3/23/2017 at 4:27 AM, diatoms said:

My memories:
South America is directly south of North America, lined up

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[diatoms]

6 hours ago, prdctvsm said:

 

danke prdctvsm:)

reachupnpulltheplugcreateyourownmatrix

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[cruising for burgers]

On 5/24/2019 at 12:46 AM, yekker said:

I've heard the government is working on regenerating limbs buy studying salamanders.

this is getting too cronenberg, yuck...

Edited May 27, 2019 by Tim_J

[user]

I genuinely got nothing but love for you, diatoms, but this thread is like being stuck in perpetual 11am squatparty chat.    

[diatoms]

1 hour ago, user said:

I genuinely got nothing but love for you, diatoms, but this thread is like being stuck in perpetual 11am squatparty chat.    

What if I told You that the World you know is just an illusion, that none of this is Real

user or anyone, how did I Create these Original Lyrics on April 03, 1999 in a movie theater in kansas?

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[cruising for burgers]

What if you woke up in front of a static sunrise or sunset, were you able to tell which one you were watching?

Be the Light that radiates unconditional Love, Forgive, Heal and have Fun

^◊^

[diatoms]

5 minutes ago, Tim_J said:

What if you woke up in front of a static sunrise or sunset, were you able to tell which one you were watching?

Be the Light that radiates unconditional Love, Forgive, Heal and have Fun

^◊^

east west

Be the Light that radiates unconditional Love, Forgive, Heal and have Fun:)

[cruising for burgers]

24 minutes ago, diatoms said:

east west

Be the Light that radiates unconditional Love, Forgive, Heal and have Fun:)

How come you know where you're facing if you're in the middle of nowhere, like, watching it in the horizon in the ocean?

Be the Light that radiates unconditional Love, Forgive, Heal and have Fun

^◊^

[cruising for burgers]

Why is it east/west and not north/south???

Be the Light that radiates unconditional Love, Forgive, Heal and have Fun

^◊^

Edited May 28, 2019 by Tim_J

[diatoms]

14 minutes ago, Tim_J said:

40 minutes ago, diatoms said:

east west

Be the Light that radiates unconditional Love, Forgive, Heal and have Fun:)

How come you know where you're facing if you're in the middle of nowhere, like, watching it in the horizon in the ocean?

Be the Light that radiates unconditional Love, Forgive, Heal and have Fun

^◊^

the sun sets in the midwest and rises in the mideast

in kansas:)

Be the Light that radiates unconditional Love, Forgive, Heal and have Fun:)

[cruising for burgers]

9 hours ago, diatoms said:

the sun sets in the midwest and rises in the mideast

in kansas:)

Be the Light that radiates unconditional Love, Forgive, Heal and have Fun:)

there's no ocean in kansas... 

Be the Light that radiates unconditional Love, Forgive, Heal and have Fun

^◊^

[diatoms]

32 minutes ago, Tim_J said:

10 hours ago, diatoms said:

the sun sets in the midwest and rises in the mideast

in kansas:)

Be the Light that radiates unconditional Love, Forgive, Heal and have Fun:)

there's no ocean in kansas... 

Be the Light that radiates unconditional Love, Forgive, Heal and have Fun

^◊^

I Remember

http://oceansofkansas.com/

the Western Interior Seaway:)

Be the Light that radiates unconditional Love, Forgive, Heal and have Fun:)

[auxien]

12 hours ago, diatoms said:

I Remember

http://oceansofkansas.com/

the Western Interior Seaway:)

Be the Light that radiates unconditional Love, Forgive, Heal and have Fun:)

hahaha sick burn diatoms :D

diatoms did you hear they're going to be doing new matrix movies?

[YEK]

56 minutes ago, auxien said:

hahaha sick burn diatoms

diatoms did you hear they're going to be doing new matrix movies?

Matrix starring Steven Seagal? I member.

[prdctvsm]

  #no spoon4u 

[diatoms]

6 hours ago, auxien said:

diatoms did you hear they're going to be doing new matrix movies?

The Muppet Matrix trailer:)

Morpheus/Laurence Fishburne-ing Kermit:)

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[diatoms]

Awesome article:)

It makes economic sense to legalise drugs

May 7, 2019

David McWilliams

http://www.davidmcwilliams.ie/it-makes-economic-sense-to-legalise-drugs/

The corner of Middle Abbey Street and Marlboro Street in the centre of Dublin is a heroin bazaar. Every day about 10am, almost in the shadow of our national theatre, dozens of addicts line up in a reasonably orderly queue and one dealer arrives with a plastic bag of wraps of heroin and a second dealer holds another plastic bag open for the cash.

This goes on in broad daylight. Once the deals are done, the addicts head off, usually up one of the lanes off O’Connell Street or down to the Liffey boardwalk to bang up. The street dealer heads off to get more gear from a bigger dealer higher up the chain.

And the miserable cycle of dealer, addict, money, heroin, crime and destitution, rotates with life-numbing daily regularity.

The Abbey Street market is a snapshot of one end of the drug business. But Irish drug taking comes in various forms, from the Friday night, after-work few lines in the loos of pubs, to the bags of yokes for Saturday night or a few joints for the weekend.

The reality is that many Irish people, all sorts of Irish people, take drugs, and some of them take a lot of drugs.

In the UK, traditional inner-city dealers are spanning out, usually using rookie dealers, into the most remote parts of rural England. Mirroring the UK, drugs in Ireland are now available in almost every small town in the country.

I have written on this subject before, but recent events in Drogheda bring it back to mind. As we are seeing in Drogheda this week, drug dealing, criminality and drug-related violence are not limited to the largest cities.

The reason for this is that drugs are illegal. Once you make anything illegal, you change the nature of the trade. When you criminalise the business, it becomes a vortex of criminal activity.

The economics of prohibition are straightforward. When a product is made illegal – such as drugs today or booze under American prohibition – prices sky rocket, and the drugs become more not less potent and, interestingly, the price difference between more and less potent disappears because the penalty of being caught is the same.

As a result, drug prices go through the roof, as does drug potency.

In the US for example, most recent studies indicate that in the market for weed, 93 per cent of the price is due to prohibition. (About one-fifth of states have legalised recreational marijuana.)

In terms of purity, the number of deaths from overdoses in the US has increased by a factor of 10 since the start of the “war on drugs”, yet the Drugs Enforcement Agency stops less than 1 per cent of drugs destined for the US.

With huge profits being made by dealers who manage to stay in business, these gangs become fabulously wealthy and viciously violent when it comes to protecting their patch from other gangs. We all know that alcohol prohibition was boom time for the Mafia; it’s exactly the same with drugs, here and elsewhere. Drug gangs fear legality far more than incarceration.

Our prisons are full of people incarcerated for drugs-related crime. The taxpayer foots this bill. Our courts are clogged with drug-related cases; again, the taxpayer foots the bill.

And our streets and shops need extra security and extra gardaí on the beat because of addicts who are shop lifting and robbing to get cash to pay the inflated prices for incredibly potent drugs that are killing them and enriching gangs who are threatening entire communities.

It is time to realise that the so-called “war on drugs” has been a monumental failure. There are more drugs available than ever before, more people in prison for drug-related crime than ever before and more money being made in the business than ever before, attracting in more dealers.

In short the market is reacting exactly as Leaving cert economics would suggest when all your efforts are focussed on restricting supply. On the demand side, making drugs illegal has almost no impact on whether people take drugs or not because lots of humans, rightly or wrongly, like getting a bit off their heads, or even completely wrecked. It has been ever thus.

Magic mushrooms were used by ancient people in the Saharan Desert as well as throughout central and south American cultures for millennia. Mushrooms have been found in north African murals dating broadly from 9000 to 7000 BC. Opium is believed to have been first cultivated by Sumerians in 3400 BC. Some of the ancient users of the drug include Romans, Greeks, Indians, Egyptians and Assyrians.

The psychoactive plant blue lotus was a favourite among ancient Egyptians, the scribes noting that it put users in a more talkative, relaxed mood. The drug was known to get people stoned and lethargic as alluded to by Homer in The Odyssey. When the normally vigorous, energetic Odysseus consumed the plant, he lost his desire to fight the Greek gods and continue his journey back to Ithaca.

This article is not addressing the morality of drug taking; it is addressing the facts on the ground. Prohibition drives prices higher and makes drugs more potent. This makes the user more desperate for money, so crime increases.

The gangs make more profits, so they expand into more remote areas. The profits attract others, and turf wars ensue. The gardaí need more resources, the prisons and courts fill up and the taxpayer pays. And all the time, more and more drugs are produced and shipped because profits are so high.

Is it not obvious that the war on drugs has failed to reduce the drugs business and made the drug business much bigger? How long can this stupidity last? We are doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. We can pretend it’s not happening or step up and begin to start having an adult conversation on drugs.

The choice is ours.

from: http://www.davidmcwilliams.ie/it-makes-economic-sense-to-legalise-drugs/

 

Be the Light that radiates unconditional Love, Forgive, Heal and have Fun:)

[diatoms]

alien/pika got its tail a bit burnt

https://old.reddit.com/r/Retconned/comments/bwam9t/nice_bit_of_residue_seen_on_another_sub_today/

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