Here and Now...What's Happening?

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Posted by Calz (here)
Dropping by ... just because ... sorry for my absence.

What happened to ya Calz?

Posted by Calz (here)
Get this ... we will be closing on a house in a couple weeks ... 30 year mortgage at age 58

We're all "tenants in possession" anyway. Ownership is a fallacy. Enjoy it while it lasts.

[Dennis Leahy]

Posted by Calz (here)
...I have joined my wife's perception of reality (at least on the surface to save my family).

...


I feel compromised to a degree because it doesn't follow what I know to be "truth" yet it seems I have not advanced far enough on a metaphysical basis to offer a viable alternative.


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Think of a hard-hearted person or a dyed-in-the wool status quo supporter that somehow found themselves in one of George Carlin's audiences...or happened upon a video and for some reason, let it play...

What likely happens in these cases (not to a true sociopath), is that cracks form. They are not "transformed" overtly and entirely in an instant, but they may never be the same again. There are cracks.

Later, information is received, and instead of being outright dismissed, some of it may seep-in - through the cracks.

Cognitive dissonance is tough to overcome. Tough for those that set out to do it (dive headfirst down the rabbit hole); tougher still for those clinging to the status-quo semi-reality matrix.

I am assuming that you have helped some cracks form in her. Perhaps you experienced blowback by trying to force the cracks open (just my open speculation, not you specifically, Calz, but I'm talking in general terms about humans.)

I have tried with my wife, and have tried to force cracks open, and have received blowback (so maybe I'm really talking about me.) It helps when she hears some of the same (or related) information from others, or when some "authority" that she respects says the same things. An example is that I was able to tell my wife, "The Lancet called fluoride a neurotoxin." And, "There was a study done at Harvard that concluded that fluoride in water drops IQ by about 10 points."

Truth in small doses.

Using authorities that your wife respects.

Forget sharing the conspiratorial aspect - she will either see it on she won't.

Using the angle of protecting your kids' health, you can expose some of the medical/pharmaceutical racketeering, FDA and USDA compliance with corporations, unhealthful and inadequately tested chemicals in food... and not go into the conspiratorial side (let her arrive at it, if she will. If not, at least you've shown scientific justification for your actions in protecting your kids' health.)

Eventually, she will hear corroborating info from "others", and (I assume that) you will gain partial vindication when she processes it on her own. It could be decades for her to "get" what you could tell her in an hour.

You are with your kids, full-time, protecting them more than you could part-time. THAT is no compromise, brother.

:~)

Dennis

[Carmody]

wuz jus' listinin' to:

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=FtngZIBNBbE

[ulli]

[Carmody]

"The Lancet called fluoride a neurotoxin." And, "There was a study done at Harvard that concluded that fluoride in water drops IQ by about 10 points."

and..that can be the difference between a country full of independent thinking college graduates..vs a country full of dependent herd following high school graduates.

when you look at it that way,and look at the rest of the considerations, you see a pattern that says, most seriously, a purposeful retardation of the population, a long term plan to get them into a war, a war for elitist Fascism. a purposeful creation of a retardation for the making of a war culture.


Imagine what happens when approximately 200 million people find out that they've been operated on and had parts of their minds taken out.

[1inMany]

Hugs, Calz. This ain't an easy gig. Choices between the rock or the hard spot abound. imo

I've been realizing things. And learning. And growing. And then putting up a fuss. Then doing the rinse and repeat motion. I picked up the book I was supposed to read, and I read it cover to cover, as instructed. I have some context, now, for what I've been doing the last couple of years. The context, however, is not quite comfortable. What that tells me is that I have to keep sitting. Or quit. One or the other. I have read several very different things in the past month. Completely different topics, I thought. Different subject matter altogether, I thought. But hell. They aren't unrelated at all.

I will tell you what is the most unnerving, which ends up being also the most comforting. I *know* this stuff. I cannot come up with a good explanation of *how* I know this. I cannot access it as if I learned it recently, or even in college. It isn't that kind of familiarity.

The sense I get when I am reading these texts is that they are in here somewhere. But dammit, I cannot find the knowledge in here. So it perplexes me. It is like reading my diary from another lifetime.

Yet...this personality will not let go. Which also tells me that I need to keep sitting. Keep meditating. Or quit. One or the other.

If this personality will not let go, it is a constant struggle. Old crap. For example, there was a time when magic was in a compartment, in a box quite contained. And spirituality was also in a compartment. And religion, the same.

Now? The boxes have disintegrated, leaving me a big effing mess to clean up. It's all jumbled, and I know nothing about anything. Yet...somewhere...in here...

Here and Now, as I tiptoe through these tulips, I am preparing M to start classes. She is once again driving, after the wreck that totalled her car left her a mess. Em has written up her own list of subjects for homeschool, without my knowledge actually, and it is far longer than any public school I've ever heard of. This makes me chuckle. K and Little One are doing well, depending on one's standards of measurement. Whatshisname would be dead if he were to show himself, so that takes care of that.

Sending my love to All passersby...and of course to the Village residents.

[ulli]

Posted by Carmody (here)

"The Lancet called fluoride a neurotoxin." And, "There was a study done at Harvard that concluded that fluoride in water drops IQ by about 10 points."

and..that can be the difference between a country full of independent thinking college graduates..vs a country full of dependent herd following high school graduates.

when you look at it that way,and look at the rest of the considerations, you see a pattern that says, most seriously, a purposeful retardation of the population, a long term plan to get them into a war, a war for elitist Fascism. a purposeful creation of a retardation for the making of a war culture.


Imagine what happens when approximately 200 million people find out that they've been operated on and had parts of their minds taken out.

Denial?

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Posted by ulli (here)
Denial?

I thought De-Nile was a river in Egypt?

[Flash]

Posted by Carmody (here)
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Imagine what happens when approximately 200 million people find out that they've been operated on and had parts of their minds taken out.

nothing, nothing happens, this is the purpose of brain tampering.

[eaglespirit]

Posted by Flash (here)

Posted by Carmody (here)
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Imagine what happens when approximately 200 million people find out that they've been operated on and had parts of their minds taken out.

nothing, nothing happens, this is the purpose of brain tampering.

oh something happens...we crowd, by choice


and not by choice


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daaaaaa ummmmmm... I don't get it Grip

[ulli]

Here is my (Baha'i) perspective on the current situation.
May it give some consolation.
The current crisis won't go on forever, although it may get worse, for a while.
But this baby WILL be born.
And it won't be Agenda 21, nor a fascist superstate, nor a socialist superstate,
nor a Taliban superstate, nor a Zionist superstate. It will be far greater than the sum of all those visions.

Some births may take a few minutes, and some take over 30 hours.
This one is about the happiness of the whole human race, of future generations.
In this world every minority will still have a voice, to express their needs.
Understandably many people are currently in a state of fear as they are clinging to their respective cultural and religious traditions. If they had a vision of where the Creator (Source) is taking this world and would get into the spirit of unity
which is where the winds are blowing us, they would put all their efforts in this direction, and get to work to do their bit.


"The turmoil now convulsing human affairs is unprecedented, and many of its consequences enormously destructive. Dangers unimagined in all history gather around a distracted humanity. The greatest error that the world’s leadership could make at this juncture, however, would be to allow the crisis to cast doubt on the ultimate outcome of the process that is occurring. A world is passing away and a new one is struggling to be born. The habits, attitudes, and institutions that have accumulated over the centuries are being subjected to tests that are as necessary to human development as they are inescapable. What is required of the peoples of the world is a measure of faith and resolve to match the enormous energies with which the Creator of all things has endowed this spiritual springtime of the race.

“Be united in counsel,” is Bahá’u’lláh’s appeal,
be one in thought. Let each morn be better than its eve and each morrow richer than its yesterday.
Man’s merit lieth in service and virtue and not in the pageantry of wealth and riches.
Take heed that your words be purged from idle fancies and worldly desires and your deeds be cleansed from craftiness and suspicion.
Dissipate not the wealth of your precious lives in the pursuit of evil and corrupt affection,
nor let your endeavors be spent in promoting your personal interest.
Be generous in your days of plenty, and be patient in the hour of loss.
Adversity is followed by success and rejoicings follow woe.
Guard against idleness and sloth, and cling unto that which profiteth mankind,
whether young or old, whether high or low.
Beware lest ye sow tares of dissension among men or plant thorns of doubt in pure and radiant hearts."

[meeradas]

Elephant Rock, Heimaey, Iceland.
Photographer unknown.

[dan33]

Firts of all, a Big Hug to Calz! If we meet someday, i'll cook for you Tortilla de Patatas, Gazpacho and Sangría (Sangre que ríe -Blood smiling ) Be well my friend.

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I was in Torino-Italy last week and I saw this Duran-Lynch poster on a "closed cinema".

"A great idea is great when it gives you a thrill to your soul"

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=koh0eC5emsQ

[ulli]

No shoot zone Ferguson

[Catsquotl]

Posted by Calz (here)
Actually I have pulled a Cypher (Matrix movie) perhaps at what cost to my soul???

I have joined my wife's perception of reality (at least on the surface to save my family).
Get this ... we will be closing on a house in a couple weeks ... 30 year mortgage at age 58 ...
She refuses to go offshore nor move out of the city ... hey ... she makes a good chunk of the money so short of losing my family I have to try to do what I can to find a happy medium.
3 months paid ahead mortgage, water, food, etc ...
So for now ... I decided f*ck it and go with the "dream house" and enjoy my family and the time we as humanity have left ...
I feel compromised to a degree because it doesn't follow what I know to be "truth" yet it seems I have not advanced far enough on a metaphysical basis to offer a viable alternative.

Good for you.

You realize of course that every negative tone you lay in there is entirely you rown right?
I think the Cypher analogy may be a tad much? I mean do you really feel like a murdering traitor of your soul at the moment?

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=DVdKQ0I35qo

WIth Love
Eelco

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Sometimes you just know not to follow road signs.

[RunningDeer]

I hit the wall several days ago. Been busy focusing on the world, that I lost my focus. Among the pile, now reading John Parkin’s book, and it’s my new desktop pic.

Five Principles:
Relax, Let Go, Accept, Watching Impartially, Conscious Breathing

<3

[dianna]

Posted by RunningDeer (here)
I hit the wall several days ago. Been busy focusing on the world, that I lost my focus. Among the pile, now reading John Parkin’s book, and it’s my new desktop pic.

Five Principles:
Relax, Let Go, Accept, Watching Impartially, Conscious Breathing

<3

Definitely will be reading this over the weekend …

In this inspiring and humorous book, John suggests that saying F**k It is the perfect Western expression of the Eastern spiritual ideas of letting go, giving up and finding real freedom by realising that things don't matter so much (if at all). It's a spiritual way that doesn't require chanting, meditating, wearing sandals or eating pulses. And it's the very power of this modern-day profanity that makes it perfect for shaking us Westerners out of the stress and anxiety that dominate our meaning-full lives.

[ulli]

Here was the choice before me, this morning, between two videos:

The Corbett Report on Ebola, and Bill's interview with Marcel Messing (thanks, Dianna, for bringing it to my (our) attention.)
For the time being I decided on being really neurotic about my indecision, and turn both off.

Jumping into my "lost soul" persona, and here and now, even my confession persona.

[Carmody]

Clarity only begins to come when the last thing to cling to - is gone. When the ability to cling, even at the most subtle and unconscious levels, is gone. One cannot think it, one cannot out-think it, one cannot game it, or play with it. It cannot be fooled, it is a real thing. Hovering on the border of dissolution, in the most base of all that represents one's given capacity to perceive and be, is where it is. When the deepest formational directive to emote in the production, emanation and relation of self is finally gone (is released and relaxed) -then it finally begins to emerge.