Abiogenesis (Origins)

by xeno6696 , Sonoran Desert, Wednesday, August 10, 2011, 00:57 (4637 days ago) @ broken_cynic

What exactly is it about this particular event, or any other that you think sets it apart from all the ones that have been blown apart at the seams?
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> Lack of an explanation is not an argument for anything. Period.
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> In your NIN example, I can think of a perfectly mundane explanation: a radio playing outside the room. Especially in the sort of mindset you describe such a source could seem un-directional or even entirely subliminal. (Hell, it could be that you heard the song at some remove days before and it caught in your memory even though you weren't consciously aware of it at the time.)-Except that I took that into consideration at the time. By that age I had already gotten used to lucid dreams that never predicted anything useful. Its so bad that when I have these experiences as an adult, I have a metanarrative about my metanarrative. (No joke...)-I recall hearing the song *vividly.* NOT muffled. At the time I had no radio, and though I lived in an apartment, I lived in a west Omaha ghetto. My upstairs neighbor was a prostitute, and I can still recall the muffled sounds of her... work. There are a few psychic phenomenon, that while not making me any more likely to believe in a God, make me skeptical about everything we think we know. That includes ideas like synchronicity. -That said, I can assuredly tell you that the song I heard was not preceded or followed by any typical radio jargon. It didn't sound like something that came from a car outside, either. I recognize that my recollection could be shallow, but when it came to weird things, I always zeroed in like a fox. I would accept the radio signals being interpreted through my braces before the near hallucination you posit, because I'm aware of the power of the part of the mind we term unconscious.-You may know that I have a recording studio in my basement. If its one thing I [K]NOW its discerning audio. I can tell you (again) that the audio I heard was NOT muffled in any way.-I would sooner believe that I wrote the same song before believing I didn't hear it as clearly as I did. The lyrics to that song had a special meaning to me at that stage, and I truly felt I had stirred something within myself... when I finally heard that song some two years later, I was rapt... with disappointment as well as awe.-[EDITED]

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