2:46
PM Mr. Mustard
2:59
PM Mr. Silver
I
like it.
2:59
PM Mr. Mustard
I
thought you would.
3:07
PM Mr. Blue
Hehe
The
year was wrong too?
3:10
PM Mr. Silver
"We
second guess all...including the date on this."
11:17
AM Mr. Silver
So...Near
Death Experiences
I
was thinking about it.
It
doesn't sound like they are that uncommon...and they are on the rise
as medicine improves.
11:17
AM Mr. Blue
I
had one Thursday.
A
truck swerved into my lane going home. I had to run off the road to
avoid him.
I
didn't see angels or anything, if that's what you mean.
11:19
AM Mr. Silver
Yes...I'm
not talking about close calls. I'm going with the "clinically
dead come back" variety
11:19
AM Mr. Blue
Ok.
I
don't know anyone that's had anything like that, but I hear a lot
about the bright light, or going out of body and watching yourself
from above.
11:19
AM Mr. Silver
I
nearly died at 7 Springs, had a mystical experience, and it was a
great thing, but I didn't die.
Anyway,
I was thinking about it, and it seems to me from the tales I've
encountered over the years that...Good (90%) or Bad experience...the
survivor seems to have come away a much better person.
11:20
AM Mr. Blue
Just
like any illness, you're more appreciative of what you have if you
live. Or if you've seen evidence of an afterlife (real or
perceived), that would make anyone feel more content.
11:22
AM Mr. Silver
That
and a sense of a larger experience and interconnectedness...the other
side is more real to them. They have “proof” (real or perceived
as you wish) there is something after this mess.
11:22
AM Mr. Silver
So
I was wondering...
Maybe
we should kill everybody.
11:23
AM Mr. Silver
We
certainly have the technology to turn a person off and back on.
11:23
AM Mr. Blue
Didn't
they do a movie about that? “Flatliners”?
11:24
AM Mr. Silver
That
was a horror film on topic, yes, but its story doesn't match the data.
What
if it started as a penal reform technique or something? Temporary
execution.
All
these people of the world are worried about death and the other side
and eternity. It really occupies some peoples' lives and can even be
dangerous.
So...
Take
a spirit vacation: Elective Temporary Death.
Go
visit dead relatives and angels and see The Light.
11:25
AM Mr. Blue
You
can't kill someone for more than, like, 30 seconds though.
11:25
AM Mr. Blue
It's
probably one of those things that is individual to the person.
If
you're a good person, you'll be a better person after. If you're a
shitty person, you might come back shittier. Because if it's not a
real experience, it's just in your head, it'll just be yourself
reinforcing what you're already doing
11:26
AM Mr. Silver
It
doesn't sound like it from the accounts.
I'm
not sure even being one of the few who goes to Hell is going to make
most people good or bad come back as worse.
11:27
AM Mr. Blue
But
they're not really going to Hell
11:28
AM Mr. Silver
But
the experience impresses them that they are, whether you can prove its real or not.
11:28
AM Mr. Blue
If
90% of people have a positive near death experience, does that mean
90% of people are good? That's doubtful.
11:30
AM Mr. Silver
I'm
not suggesting this as an opportunity to conduct a study of
clinical/psychological analysis of death physiology or people's
morals/ethics.
It's
a proposed psychological therapy, elective experience, or even an educational option for some professions.
11:32
AM Mr. Blue
I
think electric shock therapy has similar effects, and you don't
risk brain damage.
11:32
AM Mr. Silver
But
it appears that most come back motivated, happier, nicer...
It's
not just relief from depression symptoms.
Fear
of death and eternity would become a non-issue (great for the
Catholics...hehe)
11:33
AM Mr. Blue
Heh
11:35
AM Mr. Silver
Fearful
"What happens when we die?" conversations can be turned to
"I've been there 5 times. You should try it out. There's a place downtown."
11:41
AM Mr. Silver
You
go in, get a routine checkup. They put you to sleep like any of a number of
common procedures. Then they turn the 'vacationer' off and monitor
the brain signals for the right patterns. Run for a while.
Turn the customer back on. They wake up in bed, enlightened.
11:41
AM Mr. Blue
How
long a period of no oxygen is tolerable?
11:41
AM Mr. Silver
If
I was a doctor, I'd tell you. But you can live in space about 5
minutes, if I recall.
11:42
AM Mr. Blue
Yes
“After
five to ten minutes of not breathing, you are likely to develop
serious and possibly irreversible brain damage.”
11:42
AM Mr. Blue
So
basically you can be dead for 5 minutes and still be revived without
long term issues.
11:43
AM Mr. Silver
Right.
It
wouldn't be that extreme in this process
A
vacationer would be under supervision throughout, as well.
But
again...the movement would start with an appropriate social
experiment.
Say
you are a complete bastard, but instead of going to jail you're given
the near death "reform" option. Wouldn't you consider it?
12:00
PM Mr. Silver
It
was too quiet through all that...where's Mr. Brown?
12:00
PM Mr. Amethyst
Hopefully
he went home to get me gumbo.
12:27
PM Mr. Silver
(Judge)
"...and so the sentencing is as follows: For your crimes, you
may choose incarceration for not more than 10 but not less than 3
years, temporary execution, or to go home and come back bringing this
court gumbo. You may confer with your lawyer before deciding."
Mr.
Blue
I
could write short stories. That fits my attention span.
Everything’s
already been done.
10:15
AM Mr. Blue
I
guess I could use that awareness to create something I *know* hasn't
been done.
“A
crime-solving unicorn with crohn's”
10:17
AM Mr. Silver
See...not
everything has been done.
There's
your story!
10:29
AM Mr. Blue
I
actually like the unicorn idea. Play it completely straight.
10:29
AM Mr. Silver
"My
Little Pony" noir.
10:29
AM Mr. Blue
A
hard drinking, hard smoking unicorn.
10:31
AM Mr. Silver
(mournful
sax music...sounds of the city)
"The
name's Piffy Puff...I was a cop til I broke my leg. They didn't
put me down, but maybe they should have. I get a bag of oats a
day, plus expenses working as a private detective takin' dirty snaps
for jealous stallions who want to know who is mounting their
wives..."
"I
can't work the camera with hooves, but as long as the feed is coming
in, I'll keep trying to figure it out."
11:04
AM Mr. Blue
"It
was a hot August day when she came in. Red jacket, blue eyes,
blonde hair, knee high boots on legs that went on for days. She was carrying a
riding crop. She knew just what buttons to push."
11:07
AM Mr. Silver
"Tally
ho, babe," I said with a wink. The gesture was lost on her
because she looked pretty dim...or maybe it was because my eyes are
on the sides of my head.
11:19
AM Mr. Silver
"I
could tell by the way she mounted the saddle in front of my desk that
this girl was no virgin. Lotta 'corns know better than to lay
their head in the lap of a girl who's been around, but frankly it's a
trap either way, and I didn't give a damn anymore."
9:57
AM Mr. Blue
I
watched the documentary on the making of “Fitzcarraldo”... that
movie took 4 years to complete. The engineer quit because he
calculated a 70% chance that people would die during the filming of
the pulley-system that pulls the boat up the hill.
Two
of the boats are still there, rusting in the jungle.
10:01
AM Mr. Silver
(Engineer)
"I compared my results with the standard "People are gonna
die" and "Deadly pulley activities" charts, and all 3
came up 70%, with a margin of error of +-2%."
"Did
you make up the 'standard' charts?"
"Yeah!
They were part of my master’s thesis."
So.
How
many actually died?
10:06
AM Mr. Blue
None.
10:08
AM Mr. Silver
Quite
some error.
10:19
AM Mr. Blue
They
had filmed a lot with Robards and Mick Jagger, and then had to start
over.
10:23
AM Mr. Silver
(director
aside to producer during filming...Jagger posing and chicken
strutting in jungle) "My God! Just LOOK at him. We
HAVE to can him."
10:31
AM Mr. Blue
Heh
