Posted on 02/19/2024 7:02:54 PM PST by SeekAndFind
I’m strangely comfortable with that.
/but gimme another Boondock Saints please
There’s only one Boondock Saints…
Same for The Matrix.
But the boys are still in prison!!!!
I have heard of one experiment that might indicate genetic memory. Little 2 year olds were shown a fuzzy stuffed animal. When they reached for it they received a mild shock. It took 23 reachings and shocks before they stopped doing that. They were also shown a snake, but it only took 3 shocks to extinguish reaching behavior. If you were an ape or monkey ancestor, either you stopped reaching or you ended up dead. Or else you responded quickly when mama indicated NO to reaching. So I would not be surprised if there are genes left in our genome for snake avoidance.
Duke University has done research on ESP and telepathy. One type of experiment showed one subject an object who then tried to think the object to someone in a different room. These objects were shown at one minute intervals. Not much success with this methodology. Based on some personal experiences, I think experiments causing fear or alarm (particularly using creatures) in one person, with the other person distant to receive impressions would work better. Also with much longer intervals than a minute. Here are three of my experiences.
Two were with my son when he was between 2 and 3 years old. The first happened when my babysitter said she could no longer babysit after the end of the week. As son and I walked home, I was very upset and thinking “I must phone my husband and talk about this.” We walked into the house, my son walked to the phone, handed it to me and said, “Here, mommy.” THe second happened a few months later. Our kitchen and laundry were in the basement and I kept a carton there with toys for him to play with. One evening as I walked down stairs to do laundry, I saw a large waterbug (roach) run up the side of the box, perch on the cut out handle, and disappear into the carton. The next day as son and I were walking down the stairs, hand in hand, I thought, “Oh, I must empty the box and make sure the roach is not there.” He stopped and said “woach”, then looked up at me with a puzzled look. I asked, “Did you see a roach?” He nodded “Yes”. I asked him to go touch the place where he saw the roach. He walked to the carton and put his finger on the bottom of the hand hold hole where I had seen it the night before and had looked as we walked down the stairs. It had NOT been there that morning. I believe his puzzled look was because he got a memory flash from me and could not see an actual roach that morning. But he touched exactly the spot where I had felt strong alarm the night before and mild alarm as we walked down the stairs with the memory and need to make the box safe for him.
A third experience was with my husband. He had gone to visit my girlfriend’s brother for language practice. It was a 20 minute walk to their home. I was cooking and called her to find out when he would be home for dinner. She said he left 10 minutes earlier, just then a centipede scurried across my rug. I yelped, jumped up, and stomped on it. I sat to continue talking to my friend, but it started wiggling again, and I stomped some more. I ended the call, and cleaned up and disposed of the carcass. After ten minutes, my husband arrived. I was in the kitchen but called out, “Guess what I saw today?” He said, “A centipede.” I was shocked, and after a moment of thought asked, “Did anything interesting happen while you were walking home?” He said, “I was halfway home and had a strong feeling something was wrong. I stopped and looked around but everything seemed normal, so I walked to the corner, but then had that feeling again. I looked around but still saw nothing strange, so walked home.” We had never seen a centipede in that apartment. Roaches and mice, but no centipedes. So anyway, I do believe telepathy exists in unusual circumstances. I am not worried about human hating mammoth memories, although mistreating them would probably be a bad idea. If a toddler will avoid a snake with 3 mild shocks, how long would it take for abuse to create a raging mammoth.
As to mammoth ivory, yes, craftspeople/jewelers do use it as a substitute for illegal modern ivory, or else for its antique aspects or darker color or stain patterns.
I don’t think it will get quite that bad. It is more possible that large herds of buffalo on restored prairies will become a bigger source of meat protein. Semi wild buffalo can be kinder to the ecosystem than commercially grown cow meat. Also, Covid or similar pandemics may reduce world populations enough to reduce the influence of the greenies. Another scary thought.
UMGOWA!!
Interesting post.
There are people in my life for whom I have great respect, they’re intelligent, reasonable folks, but such things as you mention NEVER happen to them.
They happen in my family too often to be considered remarkable.
Nope, not going into details. And I’ve no explanation or much of a theory either.
But then, until maybe 150 years ago nobody believed in radio waves. Imagine trying to tell someone about that, back then.
Where’d I put the keys to the Time Machine? ...
I read a book once about Psychic Phenomena in the Soviet Union. There was a chapter called, Sender, the Forgotten Psychic. I have the characteristics of a Sender, strong will and strong visualization ability. My husband was predominantly Scotch ancestry with 1/16th Canadian Cree Indian, That Cree might have had some Eskimo blood because the dentist asked my son, 1/32nd Cree Indian if he had any Eskimo blood as he prepared to pull 4 of my son’s 8 wisdom teeth. I only remember getting one flash, and that was ESP, not telepathy.
“I want a thylacine.”
That would up your “cool” score into, at least, low earth orbit.
I’d be a King at the dog park.
To those of us who love the Cool factor and also hate the mouthy little lapdogs of the world, you would reach demi-god status.
But those arent likely to be bright enough to train for work.
Maybe you could pop down to Bobs Used Ice Age Mammals and pick up a nice Doedicurus or other glyptodont.
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