tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29373297.post1548015785562408821..comments2024-03-23T18:50:32.902-04:00Comments on Telling Secrets: Dream a little dream with meElizabeth Kaetonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06787552280232329081noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29373297.post-53228251587868595782013-01-03T12:21:47.655-05:002013-01-03T12:21:47.655-05:00Here is an article that claims the AK-47 to be the...Here is an article that claims the AK-47 to be the most effective killer. <br /><br />http://www.gizmag.com/kalashnikov-ak-47/12306/<br /><br />Interesting Mikhail Kalashnikov also relies on cirrhosis of the liver to help with his body count. Sextanthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02869179401767968180noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29373297.post-68310453559395132022013-01-03T12:07:21.999-05:002013-01-03T12:07:21.999-05:00Continued from above.
Yes, Teller is quite ironic...Continued from above.<br /><br />Yes, Teller is quite ironically poetic and spiritual for being the Father of thermonuclear weapons. I can throw rocks at Teller for being an egotistical ass and yes for his actions against Oppy...although Oppy was a bit of a dreamer--I am not sure that sharing bomb designs with all of humanity would be in our best interests. <br /><br />One can certainly fault Teller for inventing the most cruel weapon known to man. But I will say this for thermonuclear weapons...they are equal opportunity. The kings, emperors, presidents, and premiers will all get their asses blown away along with we the dung encrusted masses that are usually forced to fight these things. As such, while I am not a proponent of nuclear weapons, I do believe that the world was spared two rather devastating conflagrations...the US invasion of Japan and the Soviet invasion of western Europe. Nuclear weapons may yet come to be our undoing, but I do in my heart believe that many of us, myself included, walk the face of the earth because of nuclear weapons. Although in my own personal history, I owe much to Winston Churchill and the LST. Strange things happen after a world war, a guy that crosses the Pacific on a LST meets a woman that welded them on a street car. Their conversation about LSTs resulted in me (alas a few years after they met--I always have found the notion of being the cause of a shot gun wedding to be romantic and thrilling, but boringly I was conceived well into wedlock). But I drift both from dreams and Edward Teller. We can hate Teller if we wish, but had it not been Teller it would have been some one else, and God only knows with what horrific results. <br /><br />Here is a trivia question. What has been the most lethal weapon in history? Body count wise?<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />I read that it was the AK47. It has killed more people than any other weapon used by man including spears and bows and arrows. Unfortunately I have never been able to verify that. I believe I read it in an article in Newsweek on the 50th anniversary of the weapon. The H-bomb prevented a lot of AK-47s from being fired. <br /><br />Well I should end my maniacal rambling. I did love this post. Very interesting. Well its time to grab the snookums head for my easy chair and take a nap. Wouldn't it be incredible to have a flying dream while holding the cat. We could mutually enjoy the flight. <br /><br />I must snoop around here in your blog and see what other lovely gems you have awaiting to be unearthed. Lovely post.Sextanthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02869179401767968180noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29373297.post-7659128601958847632013-01-03T12:05:56.858-05:002013-01-03T12:05:56.858-05:00Great post! I caught it in your side bar. I love...Great post! I caught it in your side bar. I love the preamble to your flying dream. Let me ask you, when you are soaring around, do you not think to yourself, this is so amazingly easy, why can't I do it all the time?<br /><br />I am curious about the grand production you engender prior to flying. The rare times I have flown were pretty much private affairs. Extremely realistic and wonderful fun. <br /><br />In my more esoteric (woo woo BS) readings, I have read that very realistic flying dreams are out of body experiences. OK so do I believe that? Well I have pretty much managed to compartmentalize my mind, sort of like the colleges in a vast university. There is the college of science, and then there is the college of woo woo. There are about a half dozen other colleges and they all pretty much ignore one another. Anyhow the hard nosed skeptics in the college of the sciences state that dreams are nothing but random firings of neurons and that our rational minds try in vain to put these random firings into some sort of story because we are very much temporal beings trying to make sense of the electro-chemical havoc that resembles more of the anarchy of the quantum foam than the rational manipulation of bits that an Intel Core processor performs. So the professors over at science say balderdash to this flying nonsense. <br /><br />Meanwhile over at Woo Woo, Professor Moonbeam sits on her unicorn and tells me that indeed my spirit has left my body and is connected only by a golden cord. She then gets a dreamy look and starts to talk about chakras. <br /><br />Me? I have been changing cat litter for 30 some odd years and ergo no doubt infected with a microbe that lives in the cat's gut. This microbe is truly one of nature's great achievements. It wants to live in a cat's digestive tract. It is quite harmless to the cat, and probably in some manner symbiotic. Well as you know one of the hazards of gut living is that you may get swept up in the crap of everyday life and lose your situation. Ah not to fear, cat turds sit around and decay a bit and then are often eaten by rodents. Alas, a rodent gut just doesn't hack it. This microbe wants to live in a cat. So it infects the rodent's brain in an immediately harmless manner and causes the rodent to not only lose its fear of cats, but to become attracted to the cats. So the microbe uses the rodent to find its way back home. Perhaps that is the symbiosis. I provide a home for you and you provide a tasty mouse for me. <br /><br />In human beings, the microbe is believed to cause not only a love for cats but it might be a cause for schizophrenia. All I can tell you is that I love my kitty babies, "oh come to da da, you little furry schnookums" and I have no problem with flying dreams being out right BS and out of body experiences of a Divine and Eternal Soul at the same time. <br /><br />Yes you may note, that my professors over at science are male--cold and calculating, and Dr. Moonbeam is not only female but a rather good looking one delivering her lectures from the back of a unicorn wearing Lady Godiva attire. I don't mean to be sexist but how the hell can I control the beings that exist in my mind especially when they are being engendered by microbes in search of a nice kitty. Quantum foam indeed. <br /><br />Oh I exceeded 4096 characters. Continued below.Sextanthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02869179401767968180noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29373297.post-36484582145498716532012-01-27T22:01:37.658-05:002012-01-27T22:01:37.658-05:00JCF - he did indeed. Ironic, ain't it?JCF - he did indeed. Ironic, ain't it?Elizabeth Kaetonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06787552280232329081noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29373297.post-23672334757150978972012-01-27T18:55:42.272-05:002012-01-27T18:55:42.272-05:00Edward Teller said that??? [Are we sure he wasn...<b>Edward Teller</b> said that??? [Are we sure he wasn't quoting?]<br /><br />Inasmuch as I don't like to speak ill of the dead, I'm tempted to make an exception for "the Father of the H-Bomb" (he popularized that nickname for himself), and traitor to his mentor J. Robert Oppenheimer.<br /><br />I met him once.<br /><br />He lived down to his reputation. [Though I didn't know about the Oppenheimier betrayal till years later]<br /><br />Sorry to hijack your dream thread, Elizabeth, but that name set me off---JCFnoreply@blogger.com