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So last night after dinner I'm having a glass of Merlot called "Little Black Dress". Some of you may know of it. I am thinking about watching Ron Howard's Angel & Demons with Tom Hanks. I end up picking up my camera instead. I'm off and about for 15 minutes or so and come back to the computer with these off the camera. Now you tell me what the ??

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In thought experiments philosophers occasionally imagine entities with special abilities in order to pose tough intellectual challenges or to highlight apparent paradoxes. Examples include:

Descartes’ malicious demon - Cartesian skepticism (also called methodological skepticism) advocates the doubting of all things which cannot be justified through logic. Descartes uses three arguments to cast doubt on our ability to objectively know: The dream argument, the deceiving God argument, and the malicious demon argument. Since our senses cannot put us in contact with external objects themselves, but only with our mental images of such objects, we can have no absolute certainty that anything exists in the external world. In the evil demon argument Descartes proposes an entity who is capable of deceiving us to such a degree that we have reason to doubt the totality of what our senses tell us.

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Comment, all just in fun. Trying to create a mind set if it worked I did my job, if not oh well!
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Old 12-16-2009, 12:51 PM
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Cool shots, Duane! Very demonic! A and D is a great movie!! You'll love it! I thought, great, another Davinci code or something like that...but altogether different! You'll enjoy it! I've seen LBD in the stores, but haven't tried it yet. How is it? Not sure what these pics are, but they're cool! TFS
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Hehe! Looks like you possessed your own demon for those 15 minutes Duane! I hope sometime along this thread you tell us what this actually is - I'll be watching it carefully! Great coloring - would make a good backdrop for a spooky collage or something like that.

Is it a close-up of an open fire burning?
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ohhhh wow! amazingly creepy... sorta. cool shot! what is it?
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Outstanding series of Pictures captured by You Duane.
All i can say i will be very happy when there is no Demons at all as they are here on earth To Rob,Kill destroy and so i can go on.
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two amazing captures - I think I can see a face in the second - what does that say about me???
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Cool images Duane. My first thought was "I wonder what was in that Merlot and, where can I get some." Lol, just kidding, very cool shots. What are they?
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Hi Duane, just wrote a very long response to this based on my student days and "Philosophy of Education" studies, but when I tried to 'Send Message' my computer inexplicably shut down!!!! Oh well. PAUL
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Hi Duane - oh please tell us what that thing is or how you achieved this weird effects ..
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I know, I know! It's a river of lava flowing through your living room! Hope no one got hurt! Seriously, though, beautiful glowing colors. Thanks for sharing them -- should we thank the merlot too?
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