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RE: the highlighted last sentence.  They aren't mutually exclusive.  Science is a method of observation, investigation, theorizing, testing, forming new theory based on outcomes of tests ad infinitum. 

The fact that many scientists have opinions about dreams, meditation, visualization, psychic powers, astrology and other matters considered metaphysical within our current levels of knowledge has nothing to do with science.  It has to do with scientists, human frailty and being seduced by premature conclusions.

If it was me - both of em.

Course I'da been playin both all along any whuchaway.

We had a real wild discussion here lately.

Someone had the idea of everyone wearing one of the numbers from a jackpot game matrix and then having a free for all. But that broke down into an argument about playing the numbers of first six people to go down or the last six left standing.

Sounds like very bad version of musical chairs.

A lot of the residents here are playing end-of-the-world tickets.

Since Camping says it's 153 days from May 21, they're going heavy on 153.

Someone here agt the Institute questioned why Camping didn't sell off his stuff and give his money away if he really believed what he said.

In other goings on, it looks like there's more insanity away from the Institute than in it.

The modern day edition of the saga of New Harmony is getting really interesting (The town of New Harmony, Indiana was an intellectual utopian colony several times. As one of the guide books says, "While the eggheads solved the world's probelms inside, the hogs were eating up that coming winter's food outside).

We have a discussion going on about lotteris, soduju, the origins of Keno and if people are trying to apply math to something that is a game of symbols and just using numbers for the symnols.

The original Keno ticket was 80 characters of the Chinese alphabet, not numbers. Most people played their names.

The game of sudoku is a logic puzzle, not a number puzzle, it just uses the numbers 1 through 9 as the nine symbols. Those symbols could also bt the nine player positions in baseball, just as one example.

Another interesting week here at the Institute. A few of our residents snuck out and explored other areas.

A couple of them reported a reprobate spouting some Universalist Unitarian doctrine and said the heck with that.

A few more ran into some self-professed math "experts" that had an awfil lot to say about lotteries but had never won a jackpot. That was pretty entertaining to them.

Another loser!!!!!!!!!

I love you too!

Since joker17 started the Lottery Asylum some here at the Instittue want to challenge them to a rumble, some just want to challenge them to a game of checkers or Boggle, and some want a "lotto showdown".

First team top produce a jackpot wins the title.

So far though, between the two the highest 'win' has been $40 on a box ticket, but $281.50 was spent on that drawing.

It seems that there is more insanity going on outside of the institute than in the Institute.

It still looks like the real insanity is going on in Nrews.

Folks here at the Institute are wondering whether or not to play 776 and 476 today, and wondering if it will get locked out.

Well the real insanity continues in the News.

It seems like a praying mantis is terrifying the forum, although a few people said they believe it might be there to introduce a new system.

It also seems like the "free speech, as long as I agree with it" crowd has shown up.

A couple of our residents went off on tangents about persistence recently and have been driving themselves a little more batty than usual.

One tried doing a search here on LP using the word "dream".

Another insists that picking a set of six numbers, five of them in regualr numerals and one in Roman numerals is the key to winning jackpots but is having a heck of a time trying to find such a playslip.