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The short story is that Shannon tried to figure out the minimum amount of bandwidth to convey information.. I think two and a half kilohertz is about the minimum for spoken information.. Single Sideband transmissions take about 3 kilohertz per channel. More than enough for a human to recognize the intent and content of another's speech.. I might not be exact on the numbers here. Bell labs made extensive use of this kind of research. This WAS about money.. they wanted to figure out how many phone conversations they could intelligently crowd on a congested cable.

Raf, I hope this whole thing wasn't over a wager.. You're still my friend.. but. I've revealed secrets of my soul here, along the way.. but no problem. it's nothing I haven't talked about publicly, here or somewhere else.. Like the professor who asked me "what got you on this.." my first response was.. "I'm not sure if you really want to know.." "Naw.. go ahead.." well, you asked.. I will still send you the resulting paper, if you would like to see it.

Perhaps. But I'm still thinking.. in a known language, fluently spoken by a native so to speak.. we would expect to find the occurrences of sounds to follow some kind of pattern.. as far as statistics are concerned. statistically speaking.. for example, the number of times a person spoke a word that sounds like "dog" vs. the times one speaks a sound of different character.. I am by far no specialist here. But it just seems.. how many words do we speak in the english language? after a few years, would they follow some kind of normal distribution? if tongues were a language, would we or would we not expect the same kind of pattern.. in terms of the number of words spoken, and their statistical number of occurrences? wow.. three posts in between. Lively thread, Raf.. my current post was in regards to this statement.

No, I never did. Though you could probably do all kinds of neat things with computers, Fourier analysis, etc.. Probability distributions with the different kinds of sounds.. maybe somebody has, but I have not heard of it. It is an interesting idea though. They have software where computers can do voice recognition.. there has to be some statistical analysis that might apply, at least as to the reasonableness whether it is some kind of "language" to begin with..

maybe beauty is in the eye of the beholder.. one man's "junk" is another man's treasure..

maybe people need another frame of reference.. I've seen/ had some pretty wild things happen.. and I've gone through several models before I came to a rational, half-way believable explanation of what happened.. at least as to my own personal satisfaction.. in at least one or two cases, the jury is still out. "something" happened. And its just your word, against mine.. but at the end of the day, I have to live with myself. If you think with s.i.t., "something really happened".. I wouldn't settle for a half-baked, abusive alcoholic and nicotine addicted abusers explanation.. just a couple of thoughts. Carry on. I won't interrupt again.. unless you wish.

just a question.. say that what we know as sit is NOT sit as supposedly known in the early church. Would that make it meaningless? OBVIOUSLY the practice is not speaking in a known language. At least as far as in recent times being genuinely documented.. and the interpretation messages.. not in any way can they be shown to even reflect what someone spoke in a tongue.. if even anything was spoken to begin with.. but does that make the practice actually meaningless? Maybe that's what troubles some here. Meaningless, yes. As far as in way terms, definitions and conditions.. maybe other terms need to be considered..

I wish we lived in the same Zip Code, friend..

after two, three, four, or some such beers, I generally have far too much to say. Thankfully, the reader can tell. Generally, I don't slur and miss-spell my words. there HAVE been a few times here.. OldSkool usually picks up on it first.. "the Squirrel is Drunk, tonight.."

It's fun to be able to do that in dreams..

today was maybe only the second or third one I've ever had.. I've had math classes emerge from chaos, to perfection, so to speak.. did you know that there are two decimal representations for the number one.. there is: 1.00000000000000000000000 (keep adding zeros as long as you wish..) then there is 0.9999999999999 (keep adding nines..) Could you actually prove that both are the same? So we are in math 097. after a very, very short version of math 096.. at first, I objected to going through math 097 material so fast. but now.. everybody who had a millionth of an inclination is in math 097. So they already know how to add, subtract, multiply, and divide real numbers.. maybe we can really learn something here, other than the mindless repetition of a few rules.. and they loved it.. these students actually have more than half a chance to understand advanced calculus..

I faced my aloneness and wrongness alone once.. it's nice to be able to do that in terms of a community.. :) when my "wrongness" looked me square in the eye.. I still had the logic of mathematics to keep (at least the logical or practical side of) me going.. true story. well.. true. at least as far as one could take it as true..

I really liked Bullinger's Companion Bible. The one I had has long since disintegrated, and is currently resting in peace at the local land fill. I didn't "lose" anything. So many notes, I refused to add more.. no dechomais and lambanos, no way interpretations or anything.. not a drop of ink except for enough to inscribe my name. I thought the structures were kind of cool. Bullinger died before the work was complete. Guess who finished it.. it was not Welch. Bullinger's survivor rejected Welch, claiming that he'd fundamentally change what Bullinger had in mind..

Does anyone know if they filled even the lower part of the auditorium this year?

Another brand of fakery Interesting, no?

I wonder if he will be "welcome at the way".. they've already run off all the victims, haven't they? In other words, nobody is left there to lodge any complaints or anything..

But.. but.. but.. they could label their brand of fakery, unlike other brands, not possessed..

So many of the links seem to be "coming soon". I think the only "new" thing is the copyright notice.. copyright 2012.

Who says (all) Seances are counterfiet? well.. who knows.. First.. I've never seen any manifestation of the dead, living in the after-life. Except.. for once, and it was only in a dream. Some poor sucker trying to reach some kind of closure on the way out of this existence.. but it was only a dream, or was it? I couldn't prove this is true any more than somebody proving their "tongue" was really some known language as per Raf's challenge.. Mom hasn't come to me in the middle of the night, neither my long dead father.. maybe they've tried and I'm still too dense to listen OH.. seances. It just seems to me.. you mix any thing like "worship manifestations" or messages from the dead.. or any other supposed, or unsupposed supernatural manifestation precluded with "now a message from our Sponsor". Followed by a request for "donations" or a sale.. even it it were real, once the greasy price tag is slapped on it, it is transfigured immediately to snake oil..

Hmmm. Could have been worse.. could have named the kid victor in memory of gramps or something. Then raise him to think he has a "ministry" or something..

it is a hundred percent mine. a hundred percent my fault.. a hundred percent my delusion. That is "reality", isn't it? I chose to be blinded by some godless religion, like thousands of others like me.. I dunno. I still believe in Jesus. In a logical frame of reference, why, I do not know. sounds like the same for you Excie.. I just hope he shows up, sometime, somewhere.. don't confuse the laughter with lack of faith or something.. there always seems to be some ungodly thread to hold on to..

Townsend was the same guy who outlawed Bullinger Bibles in California.. wasn't he? because of why? Bullinger offered intellectual, if not spiritual superiority to Da Vey International Doctrine? i.e. he could not understand it, even after careful reading.. just an observation. so I've left several spoons lying where they be. In the road.. sowy..

I've shriveled up, slightly. But I think it is more the nature of things, than the lack of perfect praise or something..

a very small question. but I can wait. or not wait.. or not bother to wait.. or just to plain forget about it.. or.. whatever you want friend..

I dunno. It keeps playing in my head.. "here comes another one, just like the other one.." clem clone.. (can't remember the rest of it. I have it on cd, so I will listen yet once again to it..) back to the shadows, again..