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LarsMac wrote: Sun Sep 14, 2025 10:02 am Nothing is not all that new.
The Buddha was talking about Nothing centuries ago.
He said that it was something to think about.

And you can put things into nothing. But I doubt you can take anything out.

And - a minor point perhaps, but '"We got him," said Utah's Gov. Spencer Cox' is overly self-congratulation. No, Governor. You-all were given him. You-all had no idea up to that point, and then he was in custody. "We got him" is not what happened. Or it's just bad English, that's always possible ...

Tommy Robinson appears to be out of prison again, most recently after decking some passer-by at Kings Cross station and fleeing the country.

So there was a rally. 110,000 followers out in London.

This is from 1909:

We, the Futurists, are scorned by the crippled and paralysed.
We, the Futurists ...

I'm at a bit of a loss to know why Mandelson was fired as Ambassador in Washington. He was selected for the post because he and Trump had so many common acquaintances going back decades.

Sir Keir Starmer explicitly asked Lord Mandelson about his links to convicted paedophile Jeffrey Epstein before ...

Your statement, if meaningful or applicable to reality, demonstrates the foundation cannot be Nothingness. Which I would sympathise with if we're talking about the universe in which we live.

Only Nothingness can be the absolute foundation. Simply put, nothing else can be the Absolute.

Do ...

OK, it appears that he is alive and in custody after his father turned him in.

We now watch the media have a tussle over what he would have voted if he'd grown up, presumably. Where did he get his marksman skills?

eta:
In a phone interview on Friday, one of Tyler Robinson’s high school ...

Action will be taken against foreigners in the United States who are considered to be “praising, rationalizing, or making light of” Charlie Kirk’s death, a top state department official has said.

The statement comes in a wider context of an aggressive crackdown on free speech and dissenting views ...

Another transcript clip...

Donald Trump 00:02:16-00:04:03
So this is something we thought long and hard about. We've been talking about it for months, Pete and I and Dan. Dan came into the fold. By the way, a great general. He headed up the -- I wouldn't call it an attack, I'd almost call that ...

Next year you could focus on a walking tour of Wales instead.

That is not a pleasant succession of events but well done the NHS anyway. I almost asked how do you inflate a bowel but on second thoughts - no.

And the cataracts. I'm having mine out in seven weeks or so, as far as I can make out from ...

A dozen names flitted past me but these are the obvious big ones:

David Lammy will be justice secretary and deputy prime minister

Yvette Cooper will be foreign secretary in his place

Shabana Mahmood will be home secretary

And the previous deputy prime minister Angela Rayner onto the back benches ...

he claims to have other nations (like India) lining up to "kiss my ass"

Chinese leader Xi Jinping told India’s Narendra Modi the “right choice” is for their countries to be friends as the two met in China for first time in seven years – a new milestone in a nascent rapprochement between the ...

I could base a legitimate religion on idol worship, it's not out of the question. Small local gods are approachable while being equally powerful with any of the big hitters. I have my grove, my well, my lares. The same Zaoshen keep families for centuries. It's hard to think how Islam, to pick an ...

I watched. This was meant to be an anniversary of the army day? With that front row of Trump leeches? Come on, that was a birthday party. Stop messing about.

So, the parade. I've seen parades, I know parades, that wasn't a parade.

[...] I have seen more organized, more professional marching on ...

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I propose this passage:

The condensation theory of Nothingness assumes that everything is just a condensed form of Nothingness and Darkness.

If the foundation is Nothingness, and there is also Being, then it must be a form of Nothingness. It seems the only possibility here is condensation ...

If you could highlight an enquiring passage in which you're interested in developing understanding rather than dictating your solution we could discuss that as an enquiry.

Are you referring to the excerpt from the first post ?

Absolutely. It's the only excerpt I have access to. It's the ...

Would it be helpful to suggest your presentation is dogmatic rather than open enquiry? You state a position as fact rather then describe observations from which a synthesis can be attempted.

If you could highlight an enquiring passage in which you're interested in developing understanding rather ...

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And here, from a conversation still in progress but appropriate here:

Forum Management Nightmare:
Twenty years of dealing with these personalities teaches you to recognize the signs early:

Verbose posts that say little of substance
Resistance to simple questions about basic premises
Moving ...

I am perhaps not spoken to.

I have paintings on my walls, all of which are paintings nobody else would give wall space to. Which was probably not the fault of the paintings, to be fair.

And this has a bearing:

Democratic senator Chris Murphy put it more bluntly, writing in the Financial Times in April that the tariffs are not designed as economic policy but as a “means to compel loyalty to the president”.

Rollo says: “It’s a way of the United States to compel as much of the ...

For reference, we're still on 3.3.15, it's still current, I'm not sure why so long has elapsed between revisions.

Because they're talking about doing that again despite nobody lifting a finger this first time round.

Which is yet more of a lie, I reckon, if the first just got ignored when the going got a little rough.

And here it is:

What does history tell us?

We have been here before. In 1994 Kyiv ...

Here we are, before the kickoff today in Washington, this is what happened the last time there was a commitment to Ukraine's independence:

"The World and Japan" Database (Project Leader: TANAKA Akihiko)
Database of Japanese Politics and International Relations
National Graduate Institute for ...

Today's papers are nonsensing about Putin prepares nuclear-delivery missiles as warning about Kiev's upcoming decision.

It's a test flight of a new hypersonic cruise missile delivery system. If it works then it works but it's not a system in an inventory, it's a test article in a series of tests ...

What do we expect?

As a final settlement, what we said here at Easter. The Russian-majority-speaking Oblasts to become a part of Russia - that's Donetsk, Luhansk and Crimea.

Putin told Trump that in exchange for Donetsk and Luhansk, he would halt further advances and freeze the frontline in ...

Well, they arrived, they had there several hours together, they said nothing to the press, no doubt they came to an understanding on where things would go next.

Nothing was documented for the public, no questions were allowed from reporters, polite comments were made by both parties. I'm almost ...

Today sees the Amateur Dramatics production of Presidents Trump and Putin on a stage together, with Sergei Lavrov, Marco Rubio and Steve Witkoff lined up on either side. As of an hour ago all of them were in Alaska getting into a succession of cars.

What do we expect?

As a final settlement, what ...

I once got one that read Opportunity knocks only once. I stared at it for a moment, then realized I’d already eaten it!

Welcome to the garden - have fun :-)

Hi Sara,

I've never seen a fortune cookie. I don't know what they do or who they're made by or whether they're edible. Nor what ...

He's doing anything & everything to deflect from the Epstein Files.

Sadly, It actually seems to be working.

My impression is that his supporters know absolutely that he's been a sex-crazed pest toward women for as long has he's been a socialite, Epstein's entourage included, and have never ...

The Reverend has pled Not Guilty, apparently. Roll on next month.

And elsewhere, the latest award of the Senator Mike Lee Prat of the Year award goes to "A Senior US Diplomat" - I'm not even going to look up who - and "... the UK would be speaking German!". What a gimboid. No Sir, such a thing ...

Very much so. Months went into the construction.

We're delighted to have you post, lolesloles. By all means exchange your outlook on the world. I was in Poland post-Covid to remind myself, it still feels properly serious.

Ah.

The potato is a multicellular life-form originating from the New World at the time of Walter Raleigh, who was executed in the Tower of London for still being alive under a Scottish monarch. It is in all probability still to be found in American soils.

Baking is a technique designed to soften ...

For complaint:

(609) 905 4128 (ask for the CEO of babyandtoys).

Some bogus SEO being paid for here - surely someone on the management team at babyandtoys can get kicked for this.

The actual post comes, surprise surprise, through some cheapskate farm in Pakistan.

irt: IRT-PTCLBB-PK
address ...

They were explaining before that so many times they thought they could get there. It never happened, just never happened. I also want to thank Secretary of State Marco Rubio, Special Envoy Steve Witkoff and their teams at the State Department. And I see that we have Chris Wright, outside and ...

Bryn Mawr wrote: Fri Aug 08, 2025 2:56 am
spot wrote: Thu Aug 07, 2025 11:32 pm And it's half past seven, the sun's up and so is the site. So it could all be lots worse.
And a much faster response time, thank you

We migrated overnight to a replacement server with more memory and 8 cores, we have also firewalled several million IP addresses in China.

Jacket/baked potatoes, with cheese and beans. :D

I'm not sure what I'm still allowed to eat, I appear to have fallen back on salads. I do not prefer salads but they're not entirely full of banned things which might include baked potato. And beans. I'm not sure about cheese but if I'm allowed ...

And it's half past seven, the sun's up and so is the site. So it could all be lots worse.

spot wrote: Thu Aug 07, 2025 1:03 pm The site will be back in a while - there are significant changes in the works because of Chinese web-crawlers slowing down the board - something needs to be done.

We are, after slightly more than a half hour, up again.

Please note any exceptions as they arise.

The site will be back in a while - there are significant changes in the works because of Chinese web-crawlers slowing down the board - something needs to be done.

The earthquake was one of the most powerful ever recorded but resulted in relatively small amounts of damage thanks to a global and highly successful disaster response effort.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/aug/06/russia-nuclear-submarine-base-earthquake-damage-rybachiy-kamchatka ...

I might not find this a useful thread but who knows, Mr President is way off his head at this point.

I'm not going to track the rubbish noise, I'm simply going to note the length of periods when he's not seen addressing a camera day after day. My guess is they'll become more extensive and more ...

No no no sunshine, we're not having another write-only poster splashing his beliefs over the site. If you want to engage in dialogue then you're adding value and you can start new threads, but if you just want to flypost we'll delete your account. We had Katsung, we had truthbringer, we had the ...

An expedition group from the Russian Geographical Society was on the Kuril island of Shumshu when the tsunami swept away their tent camp, AFP reports.

“When the wave hit, all we could do was run to higher ground. It’s very difficult to do that in boots on slippery grass and in fog,” group member ...

A powerful magnitude 8.8 earthquake struck off Russia's far eastern Kamchatka Peninsula at about 11:25 local time on Wednesday.

Tsunami warnings and evacuation orders were issued around the world, including in Japan, Ecuador, Hawaii and the west coast of North America.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news ...

There's two sides to the expression, I believe.

On the one hand there's this so-called "news" is untrue, it is a conscious deliberate lie put out in order to steal headlines and deflect people from real news.

And on the other hand there's who cares whether that fake news is true or not, it's not ...

I shall press this point for a moment, if I may.

Conservative ministers used an unprecedented superinjunction to suppress a data breach that led the UK government to offer relocation to 15,000 Afghans in a secret scheme with a potential cost of more than £2bn.

The Afghanistan Response Route (ARR ...

This is based on EMPIRCIAL EXPERIENCE. It's an experience of the impressions and sensations the ring provides, further confirmed by historical and contemporary sources that describe similar effects. Therefore, it's based on my own experience and that of others who have used the ring.

At the ...

Dear Engineer Podgorniak,

Your description of the Atlantis Ring demonstrates a pattern seen in your previous contributions: the presentation of metaphysical assertions as established facts, without supporting evidence or ways to verify them.

The device you describe claims to affect "energy flow ...

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