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You know, they say "you're what you eat"??

It's a conspiracy! Arrrr!

I have had a few experiences which are the sort of thing described in Buddhism. These are experiences where the 'self' has vanished for a few moments and one experiences somethign akin to being totally open to the Universe. Similarly I have had moments when I look at the world and see it as a menta...

Al Qaida you say? These guys?

Sorry, I just had to go back to this issue of Black Fridays and review a few of my classic books on the subject. I have a knack for this kind of things ya know :D History doesn't usually interest me at all but there's something special in these kinds of cataclysmic events where wealth is instantly a...

Ah the Finest hour of Economics .Like a row of parrots, lots of talking but no real thought .And as for the Markets and the City that's just a load of thieves passing a bag of other peoples money around and taking a handful every time they get the bag .The world was too busy grasping for the latest...

Bart, Black Friday is generally accepted at the start of the Great Depression, Oct., 1929. :whisper: As you can see the term is used in conjuction with more than one depression. The economic crisis of 1990s started with the event that was called as "Black friday" as well. Strangely enough it was a ...

The US had about 20 depressions and recessions during the 1800s. We survived them all. Aye but this is a global systemic crisis. It's not about US alone. The world has never encountered anything like this one before. Erm, "Black Friday"? Indeed. We're still here, no? Quite so. The world doesn't pro...

The US had about 20 depressions and recessions during the 1800s. We survived them all. Aye but this is a global systemic crisis. It's not about US alone. The world has never encountered anything like this one before. Erm, "Black Friday"? Do you mean the black friday of 1989? This one: http://en.wik...

I pumped it all in to blue chip wine, my reasoning being that... a) there is only a finite amount of the world's greatest wines b) no matter how bad things get there will always be rich people c) rich people will always want nice things. Not bad. :) Not bad at all. Plus: ... d) having your wealth t...

Gawdzilla wrote:The US had about 20 depressions and recessions during the 1800s. We survived them all.

Aye but this is a global systemic crisis. It's not about US alone. The world has never encountered anything like this one before.

The world is soon going to need Zimbabwean methods for covering all the debt with... MORE debt! A grand idea, eh? We simply need a couple of new prefixes for the dollar amounts. Yotta of dollars ought to fix the crisis! :D :hehe: http://www.neatorama.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/SI-scale-units-500...

The Economic Crisis of 20xx The first visible symptoms of the current economic crisis started to show in sub prime based loans in the US. The financial devastation proceeded from sub primes to CDOs and other "financial instruments of mass destruction" and soon covered the whole world in an unpreced...

Yup. I find it difficult to understand the blind acceptance of such uber-arguments that override any other counter-arguments. "it's god's plan" zippit. The very definition of fatalism. Me, I'm not a fan of any isms. Not even onanism? :biggrin: Ehm, almost got me there but luckily I can go on chasin...

Yup. I find it difficult to understand the blind acceptance of such uber-arguments that override any other counter-arguments.

"it's god's plan" zippit. The very definition of fatalism.

Me, I'm not a fan of any isms.

I have an project to design a car park using the correct architectural methods. Ideally multistory. Ahhh.... I don't know if rammed earth would be suitable, but look into it anyway. Certainly some form of concrete made with lime would make the building carbon neutral or nearly so. Multistore ... no...