"dust in the wind, all we are is dust in the wind..." -Kansas
TOTALLY RANDOM POST II
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No barking sign at Montreal dog park unleashes fury from pet owners
Owners can be fined $500 - $2000 for dogs that bark, whine or howl.
Owners can be fined $500 - $2000 for dogs that bark, whine or howl.
moose eater
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Saw this the other day. 2 fishermen spotted something floating in the river and investigated.
The large object they'd seen from a distance was just the hind leg of a dead croc. The entire length of the critter measured 5.4 meters!! A giant croc..
https://au.news.yahoo.com/monster-5...81TuQJfVnE_h9Dn8vJpa4IEtJ35ZKAMZXgKiMazvxuxFt
The large object they'd seen from a distance was just the hind leg of a dead croc. The entire length of the critter measured 5.4 meters!! A giant croc..
https://au.news.yahoo.com/monster-5...81TuQJfVnE_h9Dn8vJpa4IEtJ35ZKAMZXgKiMazvxuxFt
Three Berries
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This monkey has a big knife, and he's 𝘀𝗵𝗮𝗿𝗽𝗲𝗻𝗶𝗻𝗴 it!
I don't know what happened in that forest, but it's about to go down.
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This monkey has a big knife, and he's 𝘀𝗵𝗮𝗿𝗽𝗲𝗻𝗶𝗻𝗴 it! I don't know what happened in that forest, but it's about to go down.
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This monkey has a big knife, and he's 𝘀𝗵𝗮𝗿𝗽𝗲𝗻𝗶𝗻𝗴 it!
I don't know what happened in that forest, but it's about to go down.
@V_its_me_
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This monkey has a big knife, and he's 𝘀𝗵𝗮𝗿𝗽𝗲𝗻𝗶𝗻𝗴 it! I don't know what happened in that forest, but it's about to go down.
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I think he's just doing his job....
moose eater
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i watched a meteorite go in on a mountain less than a mile from here a few years back about three AM. never showed up in news, nothing. if metallic, could fund a nice retirement plan. unfortunately, no (legal) way to search for/recover it. make one hell of a door stop though...
The endless circular discussions about certain topics got me thinking about memory. A little bit of research and I was into the maze of The Forgetting Curve, Flashbulb Memory, Long Term Memory – LTM for memory aficionados – which has subdivisions for both Explicit and Implicit memory. Whew. All I wanted to know was just how accurate the average person’s memory was of personal events that occurred once or twice 30, 40 or 50 years ago. Could I – or anyone – truly accurately remember an experienced that involved an intoxicant, when the whole point of that experience in the first place was to get high and distort reality? Well, it is a deep and divisive subject. Kind of like the discussions about all of those memories. I think it is time for another toke. 
moose eater
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If you haven't done so, look into the concept of 'state-specific memory.'The endless circular discussions about certain topics got me thinking about memory. A little bit of research and I was into the maze of The Forgetting Curve, Flashbulb Memory, Long Term Memory – LTM for memory aficionados – which has subdivisions for both Explicit and Implicit memory. Whew. All I wanted to know was just how accurate the average person’s memory was of personal events that occurred once or twice 30, 40 or 50 years ago. Could I – or anyone – truly accurately remember an experienced that involved an intoxicant, when the whole point of that experience in the first place was to get high and distort reality? Well, it is a deep and divisive subject. Kind of like the discussions about all of those memories. I think it is time for another toke.
JumpinJimmy
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No matter how much you shake and dance the last two drops always fall in your pants
moose eater
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moose eater
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By the way, even in the 'immediate perceptions' category, F. lee Baily did an experiment in front of a live audience years ago. He had a person run behind him while he was on stage and the person screamed something as the person ran behind him.The endless circular discussions about certain topics got me thinking about memory. A little bit of research and I was into the maze of The Forgetting Curve, Flashbulb Memory, Long Term Memory – LTM for memory aficionados – which has subdivisions for both Explicit and Implicit memory. Whew. All I wanted to know was just how accurate the average person’s memory was of personal events that occurred once or twice 30, 40 or 50 years ago. Could I – or anyone – truly accurately remember an experienced that involved an intoxicant, when the whole point of that experience in the first place was to get high and distort reality? Well, it is a deep and divisive subject. Kind of like the discussions about all of those memories. I think it is time for another toke.
They went into the audience and asked audience members what the person had said/done.
The majority of the audience member witnesses swore the person had threatened Mr. Baily.
in fact, what the person had yelled was something to the effect of, "I'm going to fill you with love."
That experiment and others have been used to show that 75% of eye-witness testimony is erroneous, even in current time, let alone 40-50 years prior.
Then there's those of us who spent decades either gifted or cursed with amazingly accurate memories, the likes of which frighten the hell out of those near us. Just ask my wife, even though mine is FINALLY starting to become, as she says, like a normal human's.
And trust me, there were many years that the handicap or burden of an extra-accurate memory was apparent to me. And over those years, some told me I should write a book (sometimes maybe as a polite way of telling me to shut up), and I would reply to them that if I were to ever write such a book, there'd be numerous people who wanted me dead.
Another downside of a really good memory... especially after over a half-century in the black markets.
