From: david@edenroad.demon.co.uk   
      
   On Thu, 03 Feb 2005 02:33:07 -0600, personalpages.tds.net/~rcsilk wrote:   
      
   > "David Mitchell"  wrote in message   
   > news:pan.2005.02.03.07.42.30.572724@edenroad.demon.co.uk... silk said:   
   >>> one third of the people say they get nothing, no REMs, nothing.  I   
   >>> suspect   
   >>> they're not applying the technique *precisely* --   
   >>   
   >> Not so; but it still doesn't work for me, and the "explanation" is   
   >> nonsense.   
   >>   
   >> "Imagine your eyeballs not just as RECEIVERS of light, but also of   
   >> TRANSMITTERS   
   >> as well.   
   >   
   > there's no nonsense here... your eyeballs DO transmit signals to your   
   > brain... I was referring, I believe, to the concept that neurons firing   
   > thru your body indeed give off chemical energy forms of light.   
      
   "Chemical energy forms of light".   
      
   If you're talking about nerve impulses, then describing them thus is so   
   elliptical as to be inaccurate.   
      
   But you weren't, you said:   
   >> then so too your thoughts may be re-converted and formed in your   
   >> "mind's eye" (or the back of your retina) and transmitted back out thru   
   >> your eyes, only in a much much more gentler form of energy."   
      
   Which is simply, as you might put it, bullshit.   
      
   > this is simply a bull-shit way of saying that the eyes are the windows   
   > to the soul.   
      
   If that's what you mean, say so.  Don't invent pseudo-scientific   
   mumbo-jumbo to dress it up with.   
      
   > Of course, you don't believe you have a soul, so this (of   
   > course) means nothing to you.  You're philosophically handicapped.   
      
   And you're scientifically illiterate.   
      
   >> Dick, the rods and cones do not transmit.  Period.   
   >   
   > what utter bullshit!  of COURSE they transmit, otherwise you'd not be   
   > able to distinguish between dark / light / colors / motion!   
      
   They do not transmit in the way you are talking about.   
      
   > And furthermore, David, it's well established that you and I do NOT see   
   > eye-to-eye on just about everything, so do ME a favor and just can-it.   
      
   No.  I'll continue to correct your scientific boo-boo's, so long as you   
   continue to pretend that you know what you're talking about.   
      
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