Ghosts, Time Travel, and Space / Inter-dimensional Neural Communication...

[JimWagner]

But what if you don't like the destination? Can you at least get a transfer to another bus?

Sorry, we all end up at the same destination regardless of the route we take.

 

[HudsonHawk]

Star Trek VI: The Voyage Home - where they take the whales back to their own time to solve their extinction?

I thought the Prime Directive was a Next Generation thing, but I could well have misremembered that.

That must be the one. And "Prime Directive" was first used in the first season of the original series. Many people thought it was a commentary on the United State's foreign policy of the 60s, specifically in Vietnam.

 

[HudsonHawk]

You mean Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure? I did.

So Crates!

 

[GHT]

Yet for thousands of years people have made a pretty good living out of claiming that they know exactly that, and charge for temporary salvation from it.

Some years ago, the newspaper magnate, Rupert Murdock, became embroiled in a scandal, involving his newspaper: "The News of The World." In a fit of pique, he closed the newspaper down. The astrologer for that newspaper was a lady who called herself Mystic Meg. She was a minor celebrity and quite well known. But the internet went viral with jokes when the closure was announced. The best graffiti I saw was: "I bet Mystic Meg never saw her redundancy coming!"

 

[MisterCairo]

When you posted that it was now but now it ain't so it can't be perpetual.

Say it ain't so!

 

[Zombie_61]

Any one else just wondering what to have for supper?

Always.

Pay no attention to the man behind the car @Zombie_61 .

But I like the man behind the car.

Nowhere doesn't exist, everywhere is somewhere...

I don't know about that. I've found myself in the middle of nowhere a few times in my life; can't say I'd recommend it.

 

[LizzieMaine]

Nowhere
Now here

It's all in how you justify the line, as we used to say around the linotype machine.

 

[DesertDan]

I thought the answer was 42.

It is, but that answer is a code.
M+A+T+H
13+1+20+8 = 42

 

[JimWagner]

It is, but that answer is a code.
M+A+T+H
13+1+20+8 = 42

Douglas Adams always maintained 42 was just a number he picked out of thin air because it was funny to him and had no hidden meaning.

But I really like your answer. If it wasn't Adams' explanation, it certainly should have been.

 

[GHT]

It is, but that answer is a code.
M+A+T+H
13+1+20+8 = 42

A mathematician named Dan.
Mulled over a problem whilst in the can.
The answer he knew,
had to be forty two,
So he contrived a smartass plan.

 

[GHT]

Sorry, we all end up at the same destination regardless of the route we take.

 

[GHT]

But I like the man behind the car.

Is this a compliment in my direction, Sir? Or am I just being a tad conceited for thinking so?
Either way, it inspired me to come out from behind the car, see the new avatar.

 

[Zombie_61]

Is this a compliment in my direction, Sir?

If saying you like someone can be construed as a compliment, then indeed it is, Sir!

...Either way, it inspired me to come out from behind the car, see the new avatar.

Very nice, though I saw nothing wrong with your previous avatar.

 

[LuvMyMan]

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Heading to heaven always makes me think of a bit of humor my Husband says about the a man that dies and goes to heaven. St. Peter shows the man instead of wings and a halo...you get a car (or some means of transportation) for your eternity.

Now this man was not a very good person and St. Peter could not even give him a Volkswagen Beetle! All he could have is a new Schwinn bicycle. Several centuries pass and St. Peter observes this man walking down main street in Heaven and noticed his bike chain around his neck, handle bars in his hands and the seat sticking up out of the back of his pants! So St. Peter asked the man as to why he would keep those bike parts and not have just tossed them out as the bike was already long gone and worn out! The man replied, "Are you kidding me, I LOVE that bike and am proud even of what I have left..."!

St. Peter asked the man how could he love a Schwinn bike and be so proud if it? The man answered, " I am so proud of this bike as about 200 years ago, I passes my Pastor and he was on roller skates!"....

 

[GHT]

The Pastor was innocent!
Here on our little Island, we have made a whole industry out of Health & Safety, to the point of ridiculous. When you meet the makers of these petty, pointless rules, it's obvious that they work in Local Government because they couldn't get a job in the real world. How I would love to send the head honcho, who, by the way, used have the title: "Town Clerk," but these days it's: "The Chief Executive," a copy of that famous photo of the guys sitting on a beam, taking a break during the construction of The Empire State Building, with a caption like: "Sack the lot, not one Hi-Viz vest or Hard Hat between the lot of them.

 

[Fading Fast]

Heading to heaven always makes me think of a bit of humor my Husband says about the a man that dies and goes to heaven. St. Peter shows the man instead of wings and a halo...you get a car (or some means of transportation) for your eternity.

Now this man was not a very good person and St. Peter could not even give him a Volkswagen Beetle! All he could have is a new Schwinn bicycle. Several centuries pass and St. Peter observes this man walking down main street in Heaven and noticed his bike chain around his neck, handle bars in his hands and the seat sticking up out of the back of his pants! So St. Peter asked the man as to why he would keep those bike parts and not have just tossed them out as the bike was already long gone and worn out! The man replied, "Are you kidding me, I LOVE that bike and am proud even of what I have left..."!

St. Peter asked the man how could he love a Schwinn bike and be so proud if it? The man answered, " I am so proud of this bike as about 200 years ago, I passes my Pastor and he was on roller skates!"....

Yup, hard to see how all of humans' earthly foibles - pride, I guess in this case - would not following them to heaven. I love the concept of heaven until I scratch the surface and, then, I'm the kid watching the Star Trek episode when they beam down to some planet where each crew members' every wish is granted and Kirk explains that man cannot live, man cannot be man, without challenges. Ever since then, I've questioned how heaven can really work - day to day, year to year - would people really be happy there, is paradise possible, do we need struggle to also have happiness? Is an always happy, always good person - still going to be human?

 

[LuvMyMan]

Yup, hard to see how all of humans' earthly foibles - pride, I guess in this case - would not following them to heaven. I love the concept of heaven until I scratch the surface and, then, I'm the kid watching the Star Trek episode when they beam down to some planet where each crew members' every wish is granted and Kirk explains that man cannot live, man cannot be man, without challenges. Ever since then, I've questioned how heaven can really work - day to day, year to year - would people really be happy there, is paradise possible, do we need struggle to also have happiness? Is an always happy, always good person - still going to be human?

Robin Williams was in a movie about Heaven. Just my person belief, that is most likely how it will be for each of us.

Friends we have at times ask me or Daniel, why we have faith about a heaven existing!?! Daniel will always say, "I'll be fairly much ticked off if not....!" Not much any of us could do IF there is no heaven. At such a point it could be said, "sorta late in the game to worry about your knickers now"!

 

[GHT]

"sorta late in the game to worry about your knickers now"!

There's a website that I have the guilty pleasure of lurking on, I've never taken part, but I do enjoy the quips and the bafflement of some of it's members. It's a forum for American Anglophiles, they share anecdotes, stories and what they seem to like most, are Brit-English expressions. The top two being Knickers, as in ladies panties, and, bollocks, as in the male trouser furniture. When someone gets irate over something trivial, whether they are male or female, they are known: "To get their knickers in a twist." Bollocks has a resonance far beyond genitalia. It's an expression of stupidity, (Did I really say that,) of scepticism (talking bollocks) or a reprimand, (My boss gave me a right bollocking) So entrenched is it Brit society that VW thought it clever to include it in one of their car adverts. Little did they realise that bollocks can be extremely vulgar, or just poor taste, yet acceptable if in context. Their advert was withdrawn, it's still very funny though.

 

[Edward]

VW advertising has always been terribly clever. Their "If only everything in life was as reliable as a Volkswagen" slogan has so entered the public consciousness, they had a whole string of ads where it didn't even need to be said.

Course, there's reliability, and then there's honesty (specifically, about your emissions figures... ).

 

[LizzieMaine]

VW's genius was in creating an image in the early sixties of itself as this scrappy little outsider company that had the courage to do things its own way, in contrast to the chrome-crusted lumbering dinosaurs of Detroit, and in a lot of ways they've been riding on the goodwill created by that campaign ever since. But they haven't actually *been* that scrappy little outsider company for a very long time now.