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originally posted by: Direne
No, no bullets. I will talk with the guys in "Ask everything you wanted to..." and will rephrase the question. In any case, we will need those bullets, just to prove if that antigravity thing they rub in our faces really works. Just wait. Right?
Enkidu exits the hole made in the netherworld he explains that Utu "As one who daily makes the journey from the Netherworld to the land of the living, the sun god is uniquely positioned to open such a hole. Enkidu's shade duly escapes through a chink in the wall like a pigeon flying from its nook
The word in question, Sum.ab.làl// Akk. takkapu, signifies a small opening in the city wall of the Netherworld: The dead shades were often perceived as bird-like in form
Winds and dreams seem at one time to have been considered the same thing for the name of the god of dreams Sisig means "the winds" or "the ever blowing one." The point of similarity is apparently the evanescence of the dream world, on awakening it is gone like the wind
In the dream experience the dreamer moves about and acts independently of his stationary body and this may underlie the notion of separate mode of being, as "spirit" as in evanescent manifestation that would arise and pass on like the wind. One word for it was lil2, and was sig3-sig3, which denoted the god of dreams. Both words mean "wind." The lil2 can be that of a living person or one dead, of one awake or one asleep, it can occur of its own volition to plead its case or to ask for help or it can be called; and it is, it seems, capable of engendering a child. There is no proper translation for it in English
The idea that the future is born in the nether world finds confirmation in the Babylonian understanding of the nature of dreams. This means that dreams are merely a variety of ghosts. As such, they fall under the authority and regulations of the sun god, who transports them from Below to Above, in the same manner as he brings up ghosts in necromantic rites.....Thus, there is a complete analogy between the future and dreams: both of them are created by - and actually are - the sun god.
Mr. Everett claimed that the formalism of quantum mechanics, taken completely literally, describes a reality where every macroscopic superposition of quantum states is really a splitting of the universe into parallel copies.
originally posted by: Direne
If these speculations are correct, then what would human experience be like in such an interconnected universe?
("Mind and Matter", by D.M. Appleby, arxiv.org...)
originally posted by: Direne
a reply to: abeverage
You used to create worlds. Landscapes. From distant worlds. Sitting in front of your computer. I am sure you remember those days. And you used to dream of them. I am sure you remember those nights.