changing my name?

Sorry if this is answered elsewhere. I checked FAQs and searched, but didn't find it.

I'm wondering if it is possible to change my user-name. I'm "mr-e" and I've recently noticed that there is now another person (who joined last month) who is posting as "Mr. E". I suppose I should have chosen a more original name. Is possible to change my username? Is it better for me to simple re-register and have the old account deleted (I hate leaving things lying around)?

August 2007?

For a while now, I've had that feeling (again ) that something was going to happen. Mind you, I've been predicting the end for years. At one time, I thought it was going to be November 1997.

A few points I'd like to bring up:
1) I've often stated that I believe the end of the world is kind of like the Death card in Tarot (which actually indicates, not actual death and dying, but change), or that quote from the philospher Seneca and the music group Semisonic: "Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end." I've sometimes wondered if the world perhaps is actually ending every day and that our predictions of global catastrophe might not actually be merely a perception of change in the world.

2) I recently came across a video on You-Tube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CyXIKaLas0c
It should be noted that this was right next to a video predicting the end of the world on 9/2006.

I then found this article:
http://blog.washingtonpost.com/worldopinio...ar_of_2007.html

3) I have a theory that sometimes ideas are kind of like radio waves, in the way that it sometimes seems to me that there's a sort of global consciousness, that the human race sometimes seems to tune in for a second and act on a larger scale, that sometimes something as simple as a joke or as radical as a new invention sometimes springs up in several places simultaneously and independently, as though people in different places, all at the same time, suddenly had the same idea. I see it in the way that sometimes it seems that, although everyone (as usual) is wearing different colors on a particular day, more people seem to go for one particular color, like the way that three out of four coworkers one day all showed up in blue shirts and khaki pants. I relate this to the phenomenon of bees dancing. Each bee does a little dance to communicate to its neighbor, who then passes it on. The question is: do the bees realize that they're doing it? My question is, could it be possible for people to communicate ideas, one to one, like a chain letter or a virus, without realize that they're communicating?

I bring this up because sometimes its weird how we get these ideas. I remember once that my Mom freaked out a little because my aunt and I both predicted an imminent earthquake and devastation, an early signal we both said of The End, and we both independently placed the earthquake about the same time. The earthquake never came! However, it was interesting that my aunt and I had the same idea at the same time, even though we hadn't spoken in years, and the only common link was that my mother had spoken to both of us.

Still, the question comes: I've been having a 'feeling' about August 2007. Other people are having it too. Has anyone here been having it? Where is this idea coming from?

Former Canadian Defense Minister Urges Use of Alien Technology for the Environment

I found this interesting.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/canadaenvironmentkyoto

If you do a websearch for keywords, sometimes other news sources add details.

My question is: Is he off his rocker, or does he know something we don't?

Alternate Dimensions: There is no wall.

I'm not sure where this would go, so I'll just put it here.

Do you believe in alternate dimensions? Is it possible to have two things (such as planets) that occupy the same point in time and space, but remain separate? Is possible that two dimensions might be so close as to overlap, e.g., that beings in one dimension might be able to interact with beings in the other, even crossover; or that the beings in each dimension might not realize that they are separate, that beings might believe they ALL inhabit one dimension? Imagine for a moment that this is true. In Dimension A: Aliens visit the planet and abduct or instruct people, Sasquatch haunts the woods, Mothman flies at night, and ghosts infest our houses. In Dimension B: None of these things are possible. Could this be why the 'believers' see evidence and 'nonbelievers' don't? I spoke to a perfectly normal guy who once told me he saw a flying saucer land in a field ... next to a busy highway: and nobody slowed down to watch. He said to his mom: "Hey, Mom! Look at that!" and she said in a bored voice "Yeah. It's a flying saucer." Later, according to him, she didn't remember the incident at all. Did he momentarily cross over? Was he delusional? He seemed to believe it. Was he just testing my gullibility? Was this a true story? I've heard weirder stories than that.

Are there ideas that exist outside of us, vibrations in the universe, that we pick up like radio waves? On a dark night, years ago, over a couple of beers, a friend of mine pointed to the wall and said something like this: "You see that wall? If I really wanted to, I could put my fist through that wall without damaging either my fist OR the wall. I could do this, you see, because the wall's not really there. There is no wall. I only think it's there. I believe it so strongly, that if I were to hit that wall right now, I would believe that I broke my fist, but if I could unbelieve it, if I could focus myself to see that the wall doesn't really exist, I could break the rules: I could put my fist through that wall, without damaging my fist and without damaging the wall, because my fist: it doesn't exist either. However, if I did that, you'd never know it. Life is like a big monopoly game. It has rules. It has rules because we give it rules. We all agree what the rules are: There are walls, and you can't put your fist through the wall. Likewise, monopoly has rules: wait your turn, don't steal from the bank, if you land on Parkplace, you pay out the wazoo. If you broke the rules, what would happen? One of several things: A) maybe everybody would start breaking the rules, in which case, it would no longer be monopoly! everybody would ignore you and keep playing like you weren't even there. C) they'd kick you out of the game, tell you to play somewhere else. So you see, if I were to go outside and fly like superman, or put my fist through the wall, or do something else to break the rules, you'd never know it. You'd blank it out because it doesn't follow the rules. Or maybe I'd get kicked out of the game: sucked into another dimension where EVERYBODY breaks the rules. Or maybe, just maybe, you'd see me fly off like superman or put my fist through a wall, and you'd be inspired to do the same. And why? Because there is no wall."

And this was probably 12 years before Matrix, this guy said this.

Are we in different dimensions? Are weird things possible in your dimension? Have you ever crossed over from one side to the other? (I have, and it's very weird on the other side, let me tell you). What color is the sky in your world? Is it as blue as the sky over here? Are there walls where you live? We have walls too, but once there was this guy who told me something, and I kinda believe maybe there's a form of truth in it. He said: There is no wall.

What are orbs?

Okay, so I know that orbs are weird little semi-transparent balls or bubbles that appear on photos from time to time. I know the typical scientific explanations of orbs (glare), but what are the paranormal explanations of orbs?

The reason is that I took a series of photos using a digital camera, all photos within a couple of days. All photos were normal ... except that one had an orb over one of the people in the picture (there were about 15-18 people in the picture as I recall). The orb was located about where the abdomen meets the chest. Photo was taken in a largish room with lots of windows. Partly cloudy day, lights on, curtains open.