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| Thread ID: 53873 | 2005-01-29 23:53:00 | Insight. | Cicero (40) | PC World Chat |
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| 319274 | 2005-01-30 07:53:00 | Heh? well insight at times is often to me, that dawning after something happens like . . . . . oh dear how did i miss that one . . . . . like oh bugga, was that the answer . or what was the question . At the moment, i would consider myself at times a good esp person, when i actually get time to focus on feelings more often than not they happen . . . . . The insight i am currently experienceing badly is . . . a large assignment i can so no way in hell of getting finished in time to be handed in, the time i need to focus on it, the ability to think, and work on it is nil, and the amount of work is huge . . . . . . . so a case of deja vue is coming i think . I think my esp and insight was useless for me, when it was singing loudly at me . . . . . . . . when 2 yrs ago we had a choice, and i shoulda stuck to me guns and said No! and not had the enormous amount of grief we have now . or is that also hindsight? but all along i new it was wrong, just wanted to be supportive, and sometimes you just have to follow not lead . Insight is what we didnt ask, but should of, but vaguely already new? dont worry its a beetle thing . Insight is knowing youre talking and still nobody is listening . :( even if ya said pink elephant flying past . . . . . . I think for me, insight has come to late, and i just have to live with the messy result . That we may have indirectly, inknowingly caused . . . . . . and time may be the only cure . :illogical beetle |
beetle (243) | ||
| 319275 | 2005-01-30 08:39:00 | Of course he was a hydraulics engineer wasn't he? He invented the propeller that was fitted to early steam powered ships, that is where the name "screw" came from as in Archimedes Screw. No Terry - screw for lifting water to a higher point ... ( which of your 4 computer are you using tonight ?) Cheers Tony |
TonyF (246) | ||
| 319276 | 2005-01-30 08:46:00 | Females No male alive under 30 has anything but a microscopical insight into what makes them tick. Anyone over that age begins to have a tenuous insight. Some will never gain an insight (since they are incable) but others will by gaining experience (=age.) Again depends on what you define as insight. |
the highlander (245) | ||
| 319277 | 2005-01-30 09:02:00 | No Terry - screw for lifting water to a higher point ... ( which of your 4 computer are you using tonight ?) Cheers Tony Archimedes collaborated with one Francis Petit Smith to fit one of his archimedean screws to a canal boat. During trials half the screw broke off to leave a shortened screw somewhat more like a propeller we recognise today. immediately the boat increased speed dramatically, so dramatically that Archimedes was compelled to shout Eureka again. Da Vinci tried to lift air in his helicopter design, but Archimedes was more into water and hydraulics than air. www.boatbuilding.com |
Terry Porritt (14) | ||
| 319278 | 2005-01-30 09:10:00 | Archimedes yelled Eureka in the bath the first time because he had that sinking feeling... | TonyF (246) | ||
| 319279 | 2005-01-30 09:19:00 | Just think though, if he had never had the sudden insight into boyancy, he would never have yelled "Eureka" . Then we wouldn't have eureka jars or eureka resistance wire, or silliness on PF1, and only the Greeks would know what eureka means . BTW, Im using the XP2400+ tonight :thumbs: |
Terry Porritt (14) | ||
| 319280 | 2005-01-30 09:50:00 | A rather trivial example of insight is in clues to cryptic crosswords. You can be quite baffled and then the solution comes in an instant of insight. It is then suprising that you couldn't see it in the first place. Example of one I was doing tonight:- Natal political faction's anniversary (8,5) |
Dally (6292) | ||
| 319281 | 2005-01-30 09:55:00 | Natal political faction's anniversary (8,5) Birthday Party? |
godfather (25) | ||
| 319282 | 2005-01-30 09:58:00 | V quick GF ! You have a suitably devious crossword mind... | TonyF (246) | ||
| 319283 | 2005-01-30 10:04:00 | Quite right but it is so annoying when you don't see it straight away. It's quite strange that you can leave a cryptic with 3 or 4 cluers undone and get up the next morning and finish it in seconds so perhaps insight needs the brain to sometimes sign off and let another part of the cortex have a go. | Dally (6292) | ||
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