Grounding

Mr. Tea

Let's Talk About Ceps
I'm getting a real sense of cognitive dissonance in @mixed_biscuits's radically inconsistent sense of scepticism. On the one hand, covid-19 vaccines might well be a conspiracy by every government in the world to fatally poison half the world's population. On the other, it might be worth spending 70 quid on a product marketed on Amazon as follows:

Easy to Use: Just plugged into the ground socket of a wall electrical outlet which allows the magic of the earth to travel up the magic of the electrical outlet and actively “ground” the sheet.
 

mixed_biscuits

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You're more sceptical of grounding sheets than a government that has locked you up for months for no good reason while trashing the NHS and filling their mates' pockets.
 
I'm getting a real sense of cognitive dissonance in @mixed_biscuits's radically inconsistent sense of scepticism. On the one hand, covid-19 vaccines might well be a conspiracy by every government in the world to fatally poison half the world's population. On the other, it might be worth spending 70 quid on a product marketed on Amazon as follows:
That would effectively, if not magically, ground the sheet. What's the problem?
 
Do you think that the fast-thinking but puny and always tired veggies should team up with muscular but dull meat-eaters to form a kind of complete machine? They could probably carry you on their broad shoulders and you would tell them where to go.
This was the Mongol horde's MO. They dashed around the steppes, lapping blood and milk from their mares in the saddle, only stopping to besiege and vanquish cities full of conscientious grass eaters. Wonderful symbiosis.

"Raiding is our farming" - Berber motto
 

Mr. Tea

Let's Talk About Ceps
That would effectively, if not magically, ground the sheet. What's the problem?
Well leaving aside the question as to whether any of us is "un-grounded" without one of these products, and whether this is causing us all sorts of health problems - why use the word "magic" to describe something that's supposed to be scientific? Have you ever owned a car with a manual that said it worked by magic?

But by all means, throw your money at these people, I'm not here to stop you.
 

Mr. Tea

Let's Talk About Ceps
You're more sceptical of grounding sheets than a government that has locked you up for months for no good reason while trashing the NHS and filling their mates' pockets.
Again, as Rich (I think it was) said, you are posting from a parallel universe, completely disconnected from the one the rest of us, bar your colleague the erstwhile HMG, inhabit. In this case, a universe in which I've spent a year saying "The more lockdowns the better" and "the present government is doing a really good job of keeping us safe."
 
Well leaving aside the question as to whether any of us is "un-grounded" without one of these products, and whether this is causing us all sorts of health problems - why use the word "magic" to describe something that's supposed to be scientific? Have you ever owned a car with a manual that said it worked by magic?
Everything is magic.

Yes, we have Maxwell's equations. They describe electricity nicely, they represent an incredible breakthrough in human understanding that we all owe our existence to. But they don't explain why, only how, at best. And no-one knows the full connection between consciousness, life cells, their water, the magnetic field, etc. Plenty of room for magic.

Feynman knew this.
 

Mr. Tea

Let's Talk About Ceps
Everything is magic.

Yes, we have Maxwell's equations. They describe electricity nicely, they represent an incredible breakthrough in human understanding that we all owe our existence to. But they don't explain why, only how, at best. And no-one knows the full connection between consciousness, life cells, their water, the magnetic field, etc. Plenty of room for magic.

Feynman knew this.
Feynman believed in magic? News to me.
 

IdleRich

IdleRich
Is there a good fey man book? Keep hearing his name. Alan Moore is into him so he's all right with me
When I was at school a few of my friends read Surely You're Joking Mr Feynman which is probably good for the keen layman who is not a physicist although it may contain what some have described as exaggerations (ie lies).
 

Woebot

Well-known member
Thing is, though, and hear me out - among other animals, the ones that show real intelligence are mostly carnivores or at least omnivores.

Consider:

* cetaceans (whales, dolphins etc.)
* chimps
* crows
* octopuses
fish are fair game i reckon (which accounts for the cetaceans)

and i go with crawford's hypothesis that we grew brains because we ate fish. @146 I.Q. Magical thinker

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