Comments on: Because 2012 can’t get any dumber… http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2008/07/15/because-2012-cant-get-any-dumber/ I am an astronomer, writer, and skeptic. I likes reality the way it is, and I aims to keep it that way. My real name is Phil Plait, and I run the Bad Astronomy blog. Wed, 25 Nov 2009 00:28:19 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: D.A.P. http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2008/07/15/because-2012-cant-get-any-dumber/comment-page-2/#comment-157853 D.A.P. Sun, 22 Feb 2009 20:44:53 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2008/07/15/because-2012-cant-get-any-dumber/#comment-157853 You Owe me 500 bucks You Owe me 500 bucks

]]> By: Jeff Gudme http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2008/07/15/because-2012-cant-get-any-dumber/comment-page-2/#comment-106356 Jeff Gudme Mon, 28 Jul 2008 16:34:13 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2008/07/15/because-2012-cant-get-any-dumber/#comment-106356 @todd when I first started to realize I was experiencing something different I had no controll over it. When your a young kid no one believes anything you say anyway just another kid with an over active imagination so your not sure if it happened or not because parents say things like its just your imagination or coincedence. It would just happen like the First time I Remote viewed it was through my dogs eyes. Yes my dog a yellow lab named Charlie I was asleep in the basement where my room was and I had a waking dream where I was looking through the window out to the backyard and the view I was seeing was from that of something or someone low to the ground like the dog. I saw rain drops hitting the deck then I saw a view of my car in the driveway with the window down and rain going in. I immediatly woke up and ran up stairs the dog was laying by the door where he would have had to be for the view I saw and it was raining and his fur was still wet so he had just been outside, I ran out to my car and the window was down. As far as preminitions go one of the first times It came through fairly clear and I knew it was when the Red Wings had that car crash. about two weeks prior they had won the stanly cup, that same week a girl I went to school with and in fact had even gone to drivers Ed with but was never friends with had been killed in a bad alcohol related car crash. Her story and the Red Wings winning the Stanly cup where back to back on the news and as I watched them I felt something or someone tell me (my late classmate Ashley maybe) some of the Wings players would soon meet a similiar fate. Two weeks later when the story came on the radio about the crash itself not only was I physically very close only within two miles of the crash it freaked my out I thought I was loosing it, but when I went home and had my parents turn on the TV news there it was real as can be. And the day I had the preminition I announced it to the room of people I was with so people around me have seen proof. People always assumme predictions and preminitions have to be about huge world events not the case, usually they are about small everyday random seemingly meaningless things. Every once In awhile they are about major world events. Today I can control it better in that when I have a preminition I realize what it was and write it down. Where as before I would wright it off as a passing thought not realizing the signifigance of it until after the fact. Look up the meaning of my last name it may help give some more insight I only found this one out today but makes it sense. and for the skeptics D.A.P has not reached me yet but he did just call my Dad on Friday since I left that message and asked for my number but has not called me yet, any day now. @todd
when I first started to realize I was experiencing something different I had no controll over it. When your a young kid no one believes anything you say anyway just another kid with an over active imagination so your not sure if it happened or not because parents say things like its just your imagination or coincedence. It would just happen like the First time I Remote viewed it was through my dogs eyes. Yes my dog a yellow lab named Charlie I was asleep in the basement where my room was and I had a waking dream where I was looking through the window out to the backyard and the view I was seeing was from that of something or someone low to the ground like the dog. I saw rain drops hitting the deck then I saw a view of my car in the driveway with the window down and rain going in. I immediatly woke up and ran up stairs the dog was laying by the door where he would have had to be for the view I saw and it was raining and his fur was still wet so he had just been outside, I ran out to my car and the window was down. As far as preminitions go one of the first times It came through fairly clear and I knew it was when the Red Wings had that car crash. about two weeks prior they had won the stanly cup, that same week a girl I went to school with and in fact had even gone to drivers Ed with but was never friends with had been killed in a bad alcohol related car crash. Her story and the Red Wings winning the Stanly cup where back to back on the news and as I watched them I felt something or someone tell me (my late classmate Ashley maybe) some of the Wings players would soon meet a similiar fate. Two weeks later when the story came on the radio about the crash itself not only was I physically very close only within two miles of the crash it freaked my out I thought I was loosing it, but when I went home and had my parents turn on the TV news there it was real as can be. And the day I had the preminition I announced it to the room of people I was with so people around me have seen proof. People always assumme predictions and preminitions have to be about huge world events not the case, usually they are about small everyday random seemingly meaningless things. Every once In awhile they are about major world events. Today I can control it better in that when I have a preminition I realize what it was and write it down. Where as before I would wright it off as a passing thought not realizing the signifigance of it until after the fact. Look up the meaning of my last name it may help give some more insight I only found this one out today but makes it sense. and for the skeptics D.A.P has not reached me yet but he did just call my Dad on Friday since I left that message and asked for my number but has not called me yet, any day now.

]]> By: Michael L http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2008/07/15/because-2012-cant-get-any-dumber/comment-page-2/#comment-106321 Michael L Mon, 28 Jul 2008 14:12:01 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2008/07/15/because-2012-cant-get-any-dumber/#comment-106321 Don, OK, it needs some work. Start small. try this: Knock, knock! Who's there? Dr.! Dr. Who!? Get it? Dr. Who! See, Dr. Who is a Sci-Fi show... Well, I thought it was hil - frackin' - larious Don,
OK, it needs some work. Start small. try this:

Knock, knock!

Who’s there?

Dr.!

Dr. Who!?

Get it? Dr. Who!

See, Dr. Who is a Sci-Fi show…

Well, I thought it was hil – frackin’ – larious

]]> By: Todd W. http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2008/07/15/because-2012-cant-get-any-dumber/comment-page-2/#comment-106320 Todd W. Mon, 28 Jul 2008 14:10:03 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2008/07/15/because-2012-cant-get-any-dumber/#comment-106320 @Jeff Can you give any details on the abilities you claim? Can you control it at all? If so, under what conditions does it operate? What precisely can you do on demand? Does anything seem to interfere with your claimed ability? @Jeff

Can you give any details on the abilities you claim? Can you control it at all? If so, under what conditions does it operate? What precisely can you do on demand? Does anything seem to interfere with your claimed ability?

]]> By: Jeff Gudme http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2008/07/15/because-2012-cant-get-any-dumber/comment-page-2/#comment-106294 Jeff Gudme Mon, 28 Jul 2008 13:05:13 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2008/07/15/because-2012-cant-get-any-dumber/#comment-106294 Don Oh ya, your joke needs some work, try it out on your friends first. Maybe its one of those you had to be there moments, but where is the punchline. the mayan number system is as easy as it gets I don't think that was the problem. Don

Oh ya, your joke needs some work, try it out on your friends first. Maybe its one of those you had to be there moments, but where is the punchline. the mayan number system is as easy as it gets I don’t think that was the problem.

]]> By: Jeff Gudme http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2008/07/15/because-2012-cant-get-any-dumber/comment-page-2/#comment-106293 Jeff Gudme Mon, 28 Jul 2008 12:57:10 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2008/07/15/because-2012-cant-get-any-dumber/#comment-106293 Don The etcetera should have been implied as far as the list of paranormal abilities and regardless of what I called it (Ascension, OBE, Astral projection) you should've know what I meant. There are several words which can have the same meaning regardless of their origins. As for Coast to Coast I am Familiar with it but do not listen, it is on way to late where I live. Don
The etcetera should have been implied as far as the list of paranormal abilities and regardless of what I called it (Ascension, OBE, Astral projection) you should’ve know what I meant. There are several words which can have the same meaning regardless of their origins. As for Coast to Coast I am Familiar with it but do not listen, it is on way to late where I live.

]]> By: Don Snow http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2008/07/15/because-2012-cant-get-any-dumber/comment-page-2/#comment-105692 Don Snow Sat, 26 Jul 2008 10:25:36 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2008/07/15/because-2012-cant-get-any-dumber/#comment-105692 Hi,Jeff Gudme - I listen to Coast to Coast, too. (tongue in cheek:) Leaving your body is OBE: Out of Body Expierence. Psychics casll it Astral Projection. Ascension is a religious term; or with the word "Right" in front of it, an astronomical term. Did you forget levitation? I didn't see levitation in your post. They say that Buddist monks can levitate. Why did you leave that out? smilingly, Don Hi,Jeff Gudme -

I listen to Coast to Coast, too.
(tongue in cheek:)
Leaving your body is OBE: Out of Body Expierence. Psychics casll it Astral Projection. Ascension is a religious term; or with the word “Right” in front of it, an astronomical term.

Did you forget levitation? I didn’t see levitation in your post. They say that Buddist monks can levitate. Why did you leave that out?

smilingly,
Don

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