Experience Definition and 451 Threads

does anyone have experience in pharmecuticals? supposedly in britain this pill actually caused diabetes in one of the test people. effects range all tha way to fatality, anyone know some concrete positive effects or even negative ones?

I am thinking of switching over to VOIP but I have unanswered questions. What exactly does "transfer of phone number" mean? VOIP needs broadband to work. Currently I am buying DSL from the local landline operator (LLO). So my broadband operator is my current telephone provider, and my...

Hey guys. I was just wondering how your first experiences with real analysis was, such as "how it was taught," "how the exams were like," etc. I thought it was relatively easy since the lectures emphasized the proofs of theorems and a sufficient amount of examples. The exams were to prove...

I'm currently working towards my MSc in physics. Pretty much all I have left is to finish my thesis project. I hope to have the research portion done by december and my thesis written and defense done by february, so I've started looking for work. The problem is I've never had a job in...

My sister, whose pyscho about spiders, is *****ing about seeing a black widow. We live in Canada. She says she knows that it's black widow because it was red on the top. But it's their belly, not their top, that's supposed to be red right? (Although maybe I misunderstood her...maybe she saw the...

This is one topic I'm really into at the moment and possibly the one which will one day really bring the truth to us when we die. I'm currently on an astral website, and you know what, the people on there gave the best answer ever to astral projection." Try it"! they give courses on there as how...

What movies, animations, paintings, novels, poems, songs, etc. have you come across that transport you 'inside' someone's head? That is, what artistic portrayals have you seen or heard that effectively communicate a sense of what it is like to experience a certain set of perceptions, thoughts...

Does anybody have experience in home schooling ? Would OLCI be a good choice?

Hello. I am a year 12 student and everyone around me is currently doing work experience (e.g. people interested in medecine are working in hospitals) and I am obviously interested in a Physics degree and was wondering if anyone could recommend a place for me to do work experience relating to...

does anyone have some recent experience with scolarships for out-of state scholarships they could let me know about...I already meet all the requirements on my sats and what not for anything instate, but i live in florida and was looking at either caltech, or mit definately for a major, and...

Lots of thoughts come to my mind recently... I'm an undergraduate in mechanical engineering. I would like to pursue further studies and hopefully get a Ph.D if possible. I would said I am a bit like a theorist-type person, a bit crap in mechanical skills. But I am doing very well in simply...

From the panoply of metaphysical beings, places and perceptions, what personal event has brought you to an understanding outside the world of conventional reality?

For the prospective graduate student, will anyone provide a link that displays a graduate student defending his/her thesis? It must be intense. Just want to know what it's like. Thanks

Any Experience of "ImageMagick"? I am *trying* to program a cgi script using perl. The purpose of which is to create a "birthday ticker" (often seen in sigs on forums) I have been attempting to use image magick to composite the to images (the rule and slide), however, I am having issues...

Some of you may be aware of the Join Me collective; a group of like-minded people who perform one random act of kindness (RAoKs), on a complete stranger, each and every Friday. Tens of thousands of people have now experienced random acts of kindness as a result of other people joining this...

Does anybody out here know C.N.R. Rao The reason why i am mentioning his name here is because i met him today and i found that guy is awesome..

We thought some friends of ours were in trouble with business problems and we just came to see if we could be of any "help", but whatTheX, it then turned out that we were being used as a motivation for more and more production of an infamous inventor who is looking for fame and a bright future ...

help me to find this one! the weight of the door is 110N. what is the moment experience by each hinges?the diagram can be seen in the attachment file!

With the passing of Pope John Paul ll, perhaps some reflection on religious beliefs is appropriate. Religion is defined as a set of beliefs concerned with explaining the origins and purposes of the universe, usually involving belief in a supernatural creator and offering guidance in ethics and...

Anybody had a colonoscopy? what was your experience like? any advice?

Recently I had a slightly transcendental moment during a band trip, and it involved me throwing a rock into a pond. So if that sound uninteresting, it probably is. It turned out to be more philosophical than I would have imagined though, which is why I bring it up here (it might make some...

Hey Guys, I'm new here, this is my first post. I am a member of other message boards, but they are primarily for fun. I think this board may acutally help me out with some of the work "opportunities" I run into now and again. First, I should tell you that I'm a ME, not an EE, so although...

http://www.saionline.org/video/ http://www.saibabalinks.org/videoclips.htm I purposely didnt post this under Skepticism and Debunking.. because.. well because I believe he is for real. What do you guys think?

Does anyone have aquarium? I just bought 120L tank with all the equipment for 200$. I want to have only plants in my tank. Do you guys have any experience with keeping plants in aquariums?

Kevin Sites, the reporter present at the killing in the Fallujah mosque, has written an account of his experience that day as an 'Open Letter to Devil Dogs of the 3.1'. The Middle East scholar who goes by 'Abu Aardvark' comments on how the current absence of al-Jazeera in Iraq affects public...

Was wondering if anyone here has any experience in cracking safes? It seems my now deceased uncle had a safe which we cannot open. We don't know what it has in it but in order to settle the estate the lawyer wants it opened. My uncle never married and has no children. We have pretty well...

How was your voting experience today ? Anything unusual ? Were there challengers at your polling place or any other irregularities that you noticed ?

Did you experience depresion? Yes I did, and I do. I failed most of the courses, I can't work any more, I can't concentrate, I can't like life. I just love life for small irregular peiods and I hate myself. I hate most of the people. I want to kill myself. When you see that I am not...

Now that I am fully immersed in my Philosophy 110 resitation class every friday, I tend to leave class asking many questions about the discussions we had during class. We were discussing something known as the 'experience machine' and the scenario is as follows. Hypothetically, there is a...

Your most recent experience that made you think..."...why the hell did I do it? ... [FONT=Georgia]Some days I wonder if the mistakes I make are initiated by my over-working mind, or my sub-liminal thoughts that lay deep inside my frontal lobe of my brain, are testing me to see if I will (do)...

I didn't know if I should post this is S&D, Biology, or Philosophy, so, since I couldn't resist the title, here we go for fun. http://msnbc.msn.com/id/5479501/

This is a question that has been annoying me for quite some time. If a photon does not experience time then Doesn't that mean that a photon exists in only 3 dimensions? If so, then does that mean that other 3d objects can exist in our 4d space? What about an object that only has 2 dimensions...

Hi Does anyone here have experience of using an AMD 64bit cpu-based computer? Cheers Vivek

Hello everyone, I am truly sorry that I keep on creating new threads about Grad School but I feel I need to get a sense of what other people went/are gone/going through. Remember your responses should be about your experience. So please if you could, tell me: 1)What school you went...

Today I went to the Imax of my city for the first time. To see a 3d movie. I never saw a 3d movie before, so I was quite excited. So, I payed 10 euros for the show, and they gave a special glasses, that permit to see the 3d images. The screen is incredible, 600 square meters of area. Now, I can...

What is experience? :smile:

Describe your experience of "falling in love" :-p :confused: :-p

ABSTRACT: Synesthesia (Greek, syn = together + aisthesis = perception) is the involuntary physical experience of a cross-modal association. That is, the stimulation of one sensory modality reliably causes a perception in one or more different senses. 1. Introduction 2. General Features 3...

Do neutrinos experience tunneling, and thus we think they have no mass yet they do because they are tunneling? Pete

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So basically, I've come to the conclusion that i suck. And it kinda bothers me. So i quit. I'm just done. I uh, i spose i wanted to say goodbye to everyone. Its been swell. Its a great site greg, you should be proud. And everyone's pretty cool. I learned a lot and had fun. Its been a great...

"In recent books on logic, distinction is made between two orders of inquiry concerning anything. First, what is the nature of it? how did it come about? what is its constitution, origin, and history? And second, What is its importance, meaning, or significance, now that it is once here? The...

I was wondering if anyone here did much in the way of 3D computer animation. I downloaded POV-Ray for windows a while back and love it! I recommend that anyone interested in animation grabs themselves a copy. =]

This is an update of a previous one. It's frightening. Past Work Experience I ran for US Congress and lost. I produced a Hollywood slasher B movie. I bought an oil company, but couldn't find any oil in Texas; the company went bankrupt shortly after I sold all my stock. I bought...

Well I would have to say that when bottled water first srpang up in my area about 4 years ago I was very suspicious of this product. I really didn't understand the logic in buying 20 ounces of water for a dollar while I could get it for practically free on tap. Soon enough, my health conscious...

Let's define spiritual experience as "a period of time in which you perceived a profound unity and interconnectedness to existence, an unusually piercing clarity, and/or a sense that 'everything is just as it should be,' far, far above and beyond whatever your normal intellectual and emotional...

addenum to AGE VS Experience debate or You'll understand when you're older This was origninally a sub-topic that was started in the general forum about age, wisdom, and experience, and how they all interact. Some people had some good arguments, so I wanted to add something to it. It's my...

There may be a topic on this already (in which case I'll lock tjis topic), but did any of you watch the French Open match between Williams and Henin-Hardenne? The crowd was really heckling Williams after Williams questioned two of the judge's calls. The predominately French crowd cheered...

Basically, an OBE is where you travel outside of your body as your spirit, there are many books written on the subject and much accounted for within this subject. I am now wondering, what is possible in this four dimensional world that has now been opened through OBE? I have read stories...

I have come to the conclusion, through 4 years of Hell/High School that it is nothing more than a place for social development and clique's. I have found only higher level math and science classes actually teach, all other classes are for social skills and to pass the time. Did/does anybody...