Guys? bibble, metaphorge, nihilanth, etc...

[azurelunatic]

I'm hard up for a topic for my upcoming ten page research paper. Got ideas? Must be argumentative.

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[elynne.livejournal.com]

Swipe one from myles_otter: "Under God" in pledge of alleigence, yes or no?

[azurelunatic]

Hmm.

[azurelunatic]

Hmm. Sounds like an idea. I've got a few under review.

[xoexohexox.livejournal.com]

psychadelic chemicals are the precondition for human conciousness.

[azurelunatic]

Not my area of specialty; I'd get generally bored, most likely.

[xoexohexox.livejournal.com]

whats the point in researching something you already "know"?

all right, all right, bad subject, should have taken my "target audience" into consideration (hmm...whats the name of the hallucinogen that was so important to european witchcraft?).

You could talk about all of the exponentially accelerative trends in technology (speed of computers, precision of brain-mapping, patents granted per year, mass use of inventions, etc.), which, when mapped out, shows an asymptote that is coming up very soon...

another interesting topic that came up at the bar the other night, a few of us were wondering what the percentage of housewives married to US military serviceman were proscribed anti-depressants during the vietnam war. From the data we've sponged over so far, it looks like they were mass-proscribed around that time. Could be an interesting connection there.

A favorite subject of mine is Biofeedback therapy. A subject is connected to a device that measures their brainwaves, and gives them feedback visually on a computer in the form of "games". My sister uses this therapy, and its pretty much completely eliminated her symptoms of bipolar disorder, without using any drugs whatsoever (!). The research that started this began when the university scholars were forced to cease experimenting with psychadelics, and instead started studying yoga, and wrote computer programs that actually accelerated someone's progress in yogic meditation. interesting stuff.

I was going to say check out memoryhole.org, since it archives news articles that quietly dissapear...but the site has quietly dissapered...go figure. check out yellowtimes.org for good ideas pertaining to current events.

[azurelunatic]

Hmm. Closer, but I don't see Bill Clinton.

[xoexohexox.livejournal.com]

bill who?

that website, by the way, was actually www.thememoryhole.org, not memoryhole.org. it's still up, and full of fresh controvercial craziness. The archived articles towards the "back" are slightly better.

[azurelunatic]

Hmm. Might check out in copious spare time. Probably should; likely won't.

I'm in a dizzy blonde mood. Odd, as am natural brunette.

[justjohn.livejournal.com]

"Was Ma Bell Really the Antichrist?"

It's been decades since AT&T lost its monopoly status. Use quotes from the bygone monopoly era, contrasted with current indicators of consumer satisfaction to see which side back then had it right in their predictions.


_{(And send me a copy when you're finished. I'm kinda curious, and I don't think anybody's delved into the story from a current perspective.)}

[azurelunatic]

Hmm. Interesting idea.

Doesn't interest me a bit, though.