PF Random Thoughts

trueo

Nice Evo, you don't take some night sleep, or
you have just moved back to Hawaii ?

Evo

I have trouble falling asleep lately. I tried going to bed early the other night and layed awake all night I was up making sushi at 2:30 am the other night. It was REALLY good.

Force

Just joined the forum. Hoping to have great time with you guys. :)

rootX

Maybe some chamomile to ease your mind and put it to good dreamy sleep?


Hi Force!!

Evo

Funny, my mother rinsed my hair with chamomile tea because I wanted to lighten it.

What I remember was whenever my stomach hurt, she would make vervain tea. Worked every time. When I had kids, I could not find vervain anywhere (it's called verbena in the US), so I would have it sent to me from France where fine tea grades were available.

I really got into blending my own teas back in the 60's. Peppermint tea for headaches. And sarsaparilla root tea was delicious. My girlfriend and I started cutting up fresh fruit and putting it into the teapot to flavor teas. Make tea, play some Bob Dylan and The Incredible String Band, she read Ts Elliot and Ezra Pound, I read Richard Brautigan.

I miss the chemist shop at Westbury square. I could buy any herb or root there.

Gad

Just a pure question out of curiosity: What did you drink in the last 24 hours, Evo??

Force

Gad, what your signature mean?

@rootX Hya, great to meet with you.

zoobyshoe

I'm interested in using this is a drawing and am thinking of something inscribed in stone. In some google images the sigma seems to be represented by a capitol C sort of thing
http://image.shutterstock.com/displa...e-92164759.jpg

and in others it's the sigma of calculus (so to speak).
http://i.istockimg.com/file_thumbvie...background.jpg

I'd rather use the latter because it's more Greek looking, but am not sure what I might be implying, if anything, by doing so.

zoobyshoe

I was actually interested in discussing his strong bent for debunking things, which comes out directly in some of his writing, and indirectly in some of his characters, most notably the proto-Sherlock Holmes character, C. August Dupin.

I found out, though, after starting that thread that his mind started apparently to break down in his late thirties and he wrote a very long crackpot work that mixes philosophy, mysticism, and physics to explain the universe.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eureka:_A_Prose_Poem

On the other hand, Eureka may have actually been a joke in the vein of Andy Kaufman, intended to skewer the Trancendentalists. Poe's sense of humor was very strange and it would be consistent with his modus operandi to never admit it was a joke. No one has been able to figure this out for sure, though.

AlephZero

This may be Coptic with the letters simplified to straight lines for easier carving on stone, not strictly "Greek".
http://www.suscopts.org/deacons/copt...c_alphabet.pdf

The attachment is a clip from an encylopedia describing a manuscript which is actually an ancient forgery, the only original copy having been accidentaly detroyed in a fire in 80 BC - note "the place of composition is evidently Egypt", which is where the Copts were, and still are. Working in the 2nd century AD, the forger "forgot" that Christ wasn't around in 80 BC!

In your image, there is clearly the word "pros" = "towards" near the bottom left, with a C for an S.

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lisab

imagination sets in, pretty soon I'm singing, dooo dooo dooo looking out my back door...

rootX

Everyone has an animal inside!
http://www.keshasparty.com/ca/spirit-animal/quiz

I am Narwhal!

Gad

An owl, not new!

trueo

I like PF because I mentally feel good with whatever comments people offering me or anyone that seems to be me. .
Whether it is true or false compliment doesn't matter really, provided that I feel good and happy, because I always ask myself what if all PF members attack me.

rootX

Your wish, my command

zoobyshoe

Thanks, that clears up that confusion for me.

Borek

Doo doo doo makes me think about The Police, not about The Doors.