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Umm, what??? That's pointless...
GarandMarine:
I am a panic attack grade arachnophobe.
Not only no, but HELL no.
http://www.camelspiders.net/camel-spider-bite.htm
They can in fact do pretty solid damage. Anything causing an abscess is not to be trifled with.
For the record I have worked extensively for years to attempt to overcome my arachnophobia. I have let three different species of tarantula walk on me, and even given one "pets". I have researched spiders. I have watched video, I have interacted with them. I still hate them and their kind with every fiber of my being while acknowledging their place in surrounding ecosystem.
SageJiraiya:
Re: Philosoraptor:
Ah, but what if each new life is like being continually reincarnated to do everything correctly to live the longest? You reach a checkpoint, you run, you trip and die, you are reborn as someone else, you try again, you get past, it feels like something that happened to you but that you know did not, and the cycle repeats.
Perhaps that's not only Deja Vu. Perhaps you are experiencing the lives of the dead. Perhaps it's even proof of a linear timeline which lacks a future. Maybe all predictions are past selves attempting to aim for the optimal result (?).
What if even those who make the stupid decision to drive 4 times over the legal blood alcohol limit had lived several times over, and what they experience as Deja Vu is really the subtle skip in the beats of the ever-moving timeline.
This could also explain the ability to dream of things you could never feel. (e.g. the man born without legs feels pain in his absent limbs). Maybe past selves have lived in alternate realities with subtle differences, and when you dream, they get to live their lives, or you get to see them living theirs.
Ahhh, philosoraptor.
LTK:
--- Quote from: GarandMarine on 29 Sep 2013, 13:19 ---http://www.camelspiders.net/camel-spider-bite.htm
They can in fact do pretty solid damage. Anything causing an abscess is not to be trifled with.
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How did they know it was a camel spider bite if the soldier only noticed he'd been bitten after he'd woken up?
--- Quote from: SageJiraiya on 29 Sep 2013, 13:21 ---This could also explain the ability to dream of things you could never feel. (e.g. the man born without legs feels pain in his absent limbs).
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As far as I know, phantom limbs can only cause pain if the person had experienced pain in those limbs while they existed. Regardless, even if you cannot feel something from an external source, you can still imagine and dream of those sensations. A man born without legs will still have legs in his somatosensory map of his body.
Sorry to ruin your musings with science. ;)
SageJiraiya:
My musings can not be silenced!
My existential ranting shall go on!
Edit: I found a typo! First to find it gets in my signature saying whatever they like. :-D
Pilchard123:
--- Quote from: SageJiraiya on 29 Sep 2013, 13:21 ---Ah, but what if each new life is like being continually reincarnated to do everything correctly to live the longest? You reach a checkpoint, you run, you trip and die, you are reborn as someone else, you try again, you get past, it feels like something that happened to you but that you know did not, and the cycle repeats.
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--- Quote from: Terry Pratchett in Thief of Time ---Faced with danger, or any kind of task that involves risk of death, a yeti will save its life up to that point and then proceed with all due caution, yet in the comfortable knowledge that, should everything go pancake shaped, it will wake up at the point where it saved itself wit, and this is the important part, knowledge of the events which have just happened but which will not not happen because it's not going to be such a damn fool next time.
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So, Loki, how long did you think it would take?
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