I was reading an article on the tube about some of the problems with investigation of consciousness in reference to near death experience.
Was pretty interesting, about the lack of funding due to nobody taking it seriously and all the people doing research slagging each other off instead of working. Do you find your field of expertise marred by abuse from outside or fights from within?

Alt: lady on my train eating a horrid smelling sandwich, do you have coworkers with smelly food?

Altalt: badger vs Rory.
( Windy Pig I'm naturally quite suspicious about the moon., Mon 7 Oct 2013, 11:24, 28 replies, latest was 12 years ago)

I work in IT so nobody takes me seriously
meh

I also hate the whole PC/Mac/Unix bullshit where this is better than that, etc. They are all shit - this is what keeps me in a job.

Alt:
We had a lad who worked here who brought in unknown food to eat that both smelled and looked like Pedigree Chum. When he left we threw our microwave away
( sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Mon 7 Oct 2013, 11:26, Reply)

Maybe he had a dog hiding in his desk?

( Windy Pig I'm naturally quite suspicious about the moon., Mon 7 Oct 2013, 11:36, Reply)

Yeah
Ken Dodd's Dads
( sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Mon 7 Oct 2013, 11:38, Reply)

I have to do a lot of work with some Americans, so naturally I think they're all cretins and they probably think I'm an objectionable sod who can't do anything without raising five hundred complaints
We're both right of course

alt: the window I sit by is above a cafe vent, so all day long it smells of cooking bacon and fried eggs.
( Theoban What of it, Mon 7 Oct 2013, 11:36, Reply)

That sounds nice.
Do you smell of bacon and eggs?
( Windy Pig I'm naturally quite suspicious about the moon., Mon 7 Oct 2013, 11:37, Reply)

Nah I smell of pig and chickens

( Theoban What of it, Mon 7 Oct 2013, 11:59, Reply)

Even better.

( Windy Pig I'm naturally quite suspicious about the moon., Mon 7 Oct 2013, 12:00, Reply)

My old office was above a Mongolian restaurant.
I don't know what mongs eat but it smelled divine.
( GeordieJay Bummers are deaf, Mon 7 Oct 2013, 11:42, Reply)

Mung beans

( Windy Pig I'm naturally quite suspicious about the moon., Mon 7 Oct 2013, 11:52, Reply)

Windows

( sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Mon 7 Oct 2013, 11:53, Reply)

I think near death experiences is your body in limbo between conscious and unconscious.
No MARRRRRS involved in Office Management apart from some monkeys trying to up their game, only to get shot back down.

Alt. A lot of Carribean food involving fish gets eaten in these offices.

Altalt. In what respect?
( GeordieJay Bummers are deaf, Mon 7 Oct 2013, 11:39, Reply)

Possibly yeah,
Problem with that is though they focus on people revived from cardiac arrest. So 0 brain activity, but memory of procedures to save them and so forth. I always passed it off as hokum, and it probably is, but it's interesting from a psychological point of view as a possible constructed coping method to avoid the stress of nearly dying.
( Windy Pig I'm naturally quite suspicious about the moon., Mon 7 Oct 2013, 11:45, Reply)

Bought this a while back, still haven't got round to reading it:
www.amazon.com/Light-Death-Michael-Sabom/dp/0310219922
I hear that it's very good though
( drimble he'd been white, he'd been black, Mon 7 Oct 2013, 11:50, Reply)

That was mentioned in the article,
I might see if I can find a copy.
( Windy Pig I'm naturally quite suspicious about the moon., Mon 7 Oct 2013, 11:51, Reply)

It's amazing how the body responds to things and how quickly it reverts to primitive ideals.
No brain activity but does this record sub conscious?
( GeordieJay Bummers are deaf, Mon 7 Oct 2013, 11:58, Reply)

I don't know enough about it if I'm honest.

( Windy Pig I'm naturally quite suspicious about the moon., Mon 7 Oct 2013, 12:00, Reply)

Well it's difficult to do research in an area that requires inducing a near death state, I'm not sure many ethics committees would approve that.
Alt: yes. but it always smells good.

Alt alt: badger. Doesn't matter which one, they'll all win.
(Poppet some assembly required., Mon 7 Oct 2013, 11:50, Reply)

Just hang around with fat people and wait for the inevitable heart attack?

( Windy Pig I'm naturally quite suspicious about the moon., Mon 7 Oct 2013, 11:52, Reply)

so just wait for you to die then, is that what you're saying?
Is there a way I can speed that up?
(Poppet some assembly required., Mon 7 Oct 2013, 11:54, Reply)

I'm not fat. :(

( Windy Pig I'm naturally quite suspicious about the moon., Mon 7 Oct 2013, 11:57, Reply)

( drimble he'd been white, he'd been black, Mon 7 Oct 2013, 11:54, Reply)

Thanks for that
Nick Berry.
( JeffTheDogFucker Can you dig it?, Mon 7 Oct 2013, 12:04, Reply)

who what?

( drimble he'd been white, he'd been black, Mon 7 Oct 2013, 12:25, Reply)

wasnt the recent thoughts
that the near death experience is essentially a brain dump, you do so many things automatically but your brain registers and catalogues them all... The NDE is your brain searching through all its accumulated knowledge in order to try and find a solution. i.e.. you are being attacked by a shark and your brain goes through all scenarios in which there was an element of escape to see if any of them would work.
(Bonzodog29 is an unemployed sponge of the worst kind, Mon 7 Oct 2013, 11:53, Reply)

It's a theory, and a popular one,
But there are other thoughts and everyone in different research departments hate each other and spend as much time showing up the oppositions research and results as they do actual active research. All seems a bit playground. But I guess if you're fighting for funding, you gotta be brutal.
( Windy Pig I'm naturally quite suspicious about the moon., Mon 7 Oct 2013, 11:59, Reply)

Eventually, the unanimous opinion will be that our bodies are in fact prisons for our spiritual selves, a 'living hell' as it were,
and the best way forward is for everyone to kill themselves
( drimble he'd been white, he'd been black, Mon 7 Oct 2013, 12:27, Reply)

Don't forget to delete your accounts first

( hartley hare Just some prick who thinks it doesn't apply to him, Mon 7 Oct 2013, 12:30, Reply)

BM will have to send the same gaz about 90,000 times
It'll break the internet :(
( drimble he'd been white, he'd been black, Mon 7 Oct 2013, 12:33, Reply)