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patrick.net/memes's avatar

Thanks! I always look forward to your posts.

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CF - The Curiosity Files's avatar

Glad you enjoy them!

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Katherine's avatar

Patrick, I always look forward to your MEMES.

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patrick.net/memes's avatar

Thanks Katherine!

Just yesterday I was starting to get tired of the work though. I used to do them every day when our lives were all in immediate danger from the mRNA death jab mandates, then backed off to 3x/week, but might do them only once a week now.

Readership growth has stalled for some reason. If I were still rapidly getting more readers I'd keep it up.

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RVSN's avatar

The Spirals story. They are everywhere in nature. "There is something universal about the spiral". Indeed. As above, so below, as the mystics said. Spiral galaxies, the nautilus shell, hurricanes, whirlpools, all spirals. A cosmic structure that exists at every scale of reality. Reminds me of the 1998 film Pi by Darren Aronofsky about what happens when you figure out the math that underlies reality!

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CF - The Curiosity Files's avatar

Love that film!

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RVSN's avatar

Ha! Didn't think it was coincidental that you posted another story about Pi being an infinite number under the Spirals story! The film Pi and these 2 stories hint at an underlying reality that the psychedelic experience also points to. Not only is the Universe infinite (as Einstein said, along with human stupidity😂) but that infinity is hard coded into the math that underlies the Universe. Pi, Phi (the Golden Ratio that governs spiral forms), fractal geometry, the shape of coastlines, tree branches, blood vessels in the lung, it's everywhere and like a nudge, when you see it, you can't unsee it! Spooky...!

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Mary Lou Tringali, PhD's avatar

I love all these stories and new scientific findings. Rather than plowing through voluminous journals, the curiosity Files has piqued our attention with a few fun lines of commentary. Thank you. 🙏

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CF - The Curiosity Files's avatar

I'm here to save you time!

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Ol' Doc Skepsis's avatar

"In fact, the study suggests that being irrational, or making illogical choices, might simply be another way of measuring lower intelligence."

This perfectly explains my observations in the year 2020 here in the US - the year I finally achieved 20/20 sociocultural vision:

When a donut was a good enough reason to queue-up to receive an untested gene therapy injection to stave-off the flu...and cloth masks and 'social distancing' could protect you from the death-virus...but it was OK to riot in public to protest the martyrdom of St. George Floyd.

Autism + Narcissism + Low IQ = social collapse. I blame man-made chemical poisoning.

TYVM CF.

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