Whatzit?

[Rufus T. Firefly]

Just what you need, Murph. Get that big pot out and start boiling that cow's rump.

I'm having a hard with the visual there,

A hard what?

...gazornenplatt...

[Rufus T. Firefly]

Rufus: "Visualizing Murph boiling a cow's rump is challenging.......of course, one does presume that it's no longer attached to the rest of the cow, "

LOL

Dan Weinhold

Few possess a large enough pot otherwise......seems unlikely in Murph's neighborhood!

[MurphOnMillerAve]

Ouija Board.
What is it?
Actually ?

(Ah, man, I could tell you a story, but I better not.)

[robert.]

Rufus: "Visualizing Murph boiling a cow's rump is challenging.......of course, one does presume that it's no longer attached to the rest of the cow, "

LOL

Dan Weinhold

Few possess a large enough pot otherwise......seems unlikely in Murph's neighborhood!

Every now and then. a few show up in the flea market around here. Rice's ever gone there? a guy brings a few large scrapple/apple butter pots. Large cast iron pots on a tripod swing. They usually sell before he parks his truck and trailer. People buy them for flower pots. They drill a few holes in the bottom and fill the pots with dirt I always wanted one. Thought it would be fun for homemade beer with a little eye of newt.

[webenda]

Ouija Board.
What is it?
Actually ?

(Ah, man, I could tell you a story, but I better not.)

I know your story and sorry to tell you, you were fooled into thinking it was something it was not.

A Ouija Board planchette is pushed around by one of the participants in a most strange phenomena that is unique to humans... the prime pusher often does not know that they are moving it. Other participants help to push it without even knowing they are helping. It is a grand magic trick using the power of suggestion to fool humans into thinking it is something it is not.

[webenda]

A great experiment of similar nature involves a string with a washer or nut on the end (a pendulum.)

This is more fun with a classroom full of students but I have done it with individuals.

Ask the class (person) to hold the end of the string very still so as not to swing the nut.
Ask them to not move their hand but imagine the nut swinging right and left.

After the nut starts swinging, ask them to imagine it hanging motionless.

Then repeat the experiment but this time ask them to imagine the nut swinging out and in.

I just did it to myself, holding my hand very still and imagining the nut swinging. It started swinging of course.

What causes the pendulum to swing?

[rogruth]

Wayne,
I think I am more interested in the photo background.
What are the structures and what does the light in the sky represent?

[webenda]

Wayne,
I think I am more interested in the photo background.
What are the structures and what does the light in the sky represent?

In December 2009, a spectacular spiral light show appeared in the sky above northern Norway: A giant spiral, with a green-blue beam of light shooting from its center, lit up the sky in a raindrop-ripple effect pattern.

It looked like a wormhole to another dimension, but it turned out that the lights were caused by a Russian missile that failed just after launch, according to Russia's defense ministry. The botched Bulava ballistic test missile spun out of control, thus creating the mysterious rotating spiral effect.

The image shown in my post, and on the BBC program, "BBC The Sky at Night - What Have UFOs Done for Us?", has been photoshopped to make it more mysterious. No other information was given to answer your question fully.

Reference: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SWpt0O-ekME
https://www.livescience.com/32849-7-way ... -hoax.html
http://jerseyastronomyclub.weebly.com/n ... ver-norway

[Rufus T. Firefly]

A Ouija Board planchette is pushed around by one of the participants in a most strange phenomena that is unique to humans... the prime pusher often does not know that they are moving it. Other participants help to push it without even known they are helping. It is a grand magic trick using the power of suggestion to fool humans into thinking it is something it is not.

Exactly.

[webenda]

Ouija Board.
What is it?
Actually ?

(Ah, man, I could tell you a story, but I better not.)

No comments from you, Murph?

Maybe you can discuss this with your priest?

Deuteronomy 18:9-13 (New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition)

Child-Sacrifice, Divination, and Magic Prohibited

9 When you come into the land that the Lord your God is giving you, you must not learn to imitate the abhorrent practices of those nations. 10 No one shall be found among you who makes a son or daughter pass through fire, or who practices divination, or is a soothsayer, or an augur, or a sorcerer, 11 or one who casts spells, or who consults ghosts or spirits, or who seeks oracles from the dead. 12 For whoever does these things is abhorrent to the Lord; it is because of such abhorrent practices that the Lord your God is driving them out before you. 13 You must remain completely loyal to the Lord your God.

[MurphOnMillerAve]

I am assiduously loyal because I understand and believe, but I can still ask questions and wonder . I'm not loyal out of fear; rather, out of love. I just like to hear what other folks think about and have figured-out about some of the mysteries and shenanigans (?) floating around out there in the universe.

I'm not fearful of wondering, nor of questioning.

For example, I have found, through my wonderings and wanderings , that Buddhism and Judaism have a lot to say well worth the listening and the learning.

[webenda]

I am assiduously loyal because I understand and believe, but I can still ask questions and wonder . I'm not loyal out of fear; rather, out of love. I just like to hear what other folks think about and have figured-out about some of the mysteries and shenanigans (?) floating around out there in the universe.

I'm not fearful of wondering, nor of questioning.

For example, I have found, through my wonderings and wanderings , that Buddhism and Judaism have a lot to say well worth the listening and the learning.

Questions are good. Have you studied Islam?

[MurphOnMillerAve]

Have you? Are you recommending a look-see?

[Rufus T. Firefly]

Have you? Are you recommending a look-see?

If you've not read the pertinent literature regarding a religion, how much do you really know? Depending on others is a waste of your time - formulate your own informed knowledge as opposed to relying on the opinions or ignorance of the less informed.

When I was rather young, this is exactly what I did rather than blindly follow along - embrace your own informed self.

[MurphOnMillerAve]

Yes, indeed, being informed is a personal responsibility , and discerning fact from belief can be a challenge. Science and such academic disciplines as anthropology can help, but even they have presented change from time to time .