Here and Now...What's Happening?

[Kraut]

one way, may be..is to..over time...let her understand that it is not a break with her, but internal evolution and change. A thing that has grown over time. Not a rejection, but an evolution, over time..in you. for she may be in the moment and space of always perceiving it as rejection. This, if she has suffered similar programming in her life, as that of rejection and breaks. what is her moment of perception? What does she understand the situation as, on the deepest formation levels? - That indeed may be a part of the core issue. Separating yourself from the situation to be able to see that more clearly, will take time, as it will similarly, for her.
Very good point(s). She may think she did something wrong while "inculcating" me and might feel rejected herself. Sigh. It's a bit like walking through a mine field with all these aspects of mental conditioning. Sad thing is that on her part the conditioning goes on and on, every day, every week. Witnesses are regularly reminded how to deal with those who leave, worst case is complete shunning.


Oops, if/when I hear something like that come out of my head, I remind myself that I am the sole owner for my beliefs and actions. Then I am filled with gratitude, and thank myself for wearing my custom-designed, self-empowered sneakers.
:cool: Couldn't resist customizing mine a bit more:
http://picload.org/image/aoclaog/adidas_gold2_zps.jpg


In my last year in Barbados, before I knew that I was going to move to Costa Rica one day,
I still had my boutique there, and the girl working for me was a Jehovah's witness.

She was still in training, and used me as an exercise machine. Two nuts trying to crack each other.
Ha, would have been interesting to watch, I bet.


So she insisted to bring her bible and a pile of books to work, and during the off season there were few customers...
so we would have these debates.
It ended with me discovering that they don't believe in getting into heaven, not until the final judgement,
and then only a small number....
all based on the position of one comma,
which was in a different place from the bibles I knew. It was about the promise that Jesus made to the thief on the cross next to him...
where he told him that today he would enter paradise. meanwhile she argued, backed up by her bible, that Jesus meant he was saying it TODAY, but it would not actually happen until two thousand years down the road when the dead would come out of their tombs.
It's a shame that most Witnesses are unable to debate without using any kind of book or publication. If they took a closer look at the bible, they'd see how much of the doctrine is garbage. I used to have similar debates with my Dad, but always with a friendly tone and respect. Ironically now we see eye to eye and I am glad to have him, he's been a great support for me and also opened my eyes to new views.


That's when I gave up all discussions.....realized there was no way to win the argument. And once I showed an unwillingness to discuss her bible with her she also dropped her work standards until I decided that I would just have to let her go.
Yeah, it really isn't about debate but about getting you and I and others to accept their views and beliefs. If JWs meet someone while preaching who can stand his ground or even persuade them, they'll hit the road quickly.


So I went to work the next day, nervous about the idea of giving her notice, because I hated firing people,
and as I walked in the door and before I could tell her anything, she announced that she was pregnant.
And this meant I couldn't fire her, under Barbados law.
And I ended up having her right until the end, and even pay for her three months maternity leave as well.
By then it had become clear to me that we were going to move to Costa Rica,
and I handed the business over to new management. So there was my personal saga...
and how spirit used a JW to drive me to a new country.
At least it was good for something. Good thing that she drove you to a new country, not crazy. :lol:


And I would add with mothers, always remain on the love side, kind of "i know you love me and want my well being - I love you too and want the same for you, can we just share our love for the moment" this is a no fail argument with a mom. But do not give up on yourself, follow as well Ulli and Carmody's advice.
That's good advice. When I read that it felt like just the right thing to remember.

Thank you all for listening and for your advice. :wave:

Lately I've been finding lots of meaning in this song:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=96fd5o8Xq8w

[ulli]

@1inMany
Thanks for sharing that. Wow, can I relate!
When I left the Bahai community and was subsequently shunned I also went through a deep low.
But then I found in my solitude that spirit became louder than ever...and on the Internet I found the balm I was looking for.

I became a member of several Bahai dissident forums, which was very healing.
Despite the fact that the Bahai teachings have lots of passages about an individual's path, and even empowerment, yet in recent decades there has been a tendency to ignore that aspect, with an insistence of obedience to the elected elite, the Universal House of Justice, who now run every aspect of Bahai life, as they are supposedly infallible.

This is now what it means to be faithful to the Covenant of Baha'u'llah.
Reform is needed. All the answers are there in the early writings of Baha'u'llah.

The sad reality is that the purging of scholars and mystics since the eighties has left the community with a leadership that seems spiritually bereft.

[ulli]

http://pix11.com/2013/03/14/chelsea-clinton-purchases-posh-manhattan-apartment-for-10-5m-video/#axzz2NXIkqKj6

Chelsea Clinton's new Manhattan apartment. If I had a spare $10.5 million bucks I might have chosen that, too.
No way I would ever give up my shack in the Orosi Valley, though.

[Kraut]

Oh, Kraut, I wish I had the answer for you. As it is, your expressions have led me down a hole in myself that used to be extremely painful and I am finding out now that it was a crucial turning point in my soul development.

I was born into a JW family, born into the Truth. My father was the director of music for the district back when orchestras played at assemblies. I grew up napping on concrete floors being lulled by beautiful interpretations of Myriads and Myriads of Brothers before the assemblies started. I grew up being paraded around and showered with positive reinforcement because I was a good girl, answering questions during the Watchtower Studies as soon as I could speak. I was on stage from the time I could walk, a good example. I learned to read using the Watchtower and Awake, and of course the Bible. We went to meetings on Thursday nights and Sundays, and usually held the Tuesday night Book Study in our living room. Saturday mornings our house was full of Brothers and Sisters, and families, getting ready to go in Service. On Monday nights and Wednesday nights, our family sat in a circle and every member took a turn reading something aloud, usually studying for Sunday, but very often we had some part or other at the meeting that we needed to prepare for. I was a proficient public speaker at about 6. I placed many, many magazines before then, countless number probably, just on the cuteness factor alone.

When my parents divorced, there was the necessary Disfellowshipping of one party or the other, my Mom took that one. Upon remarrying, she relocated all of us across the country, which was so far away that we actually did not get to see our Dad even annually. What this did, of course, was send me into a tailspin of nightmares (because of course my Mom was demonized at this point) and secret (forbidden) midnight calls to my Dad so that he could pray with me. Many, many nights I awoke from a nightmare of demons, and after I got the courage to get out of bed (which it felt like took an hour), would get in bed with my Mom shaking with fear. I would make her say "Jehovah" out loud, the only way to make the demons go away. This, I'm certain, infuriated her, having been disfellowshipped and trying to give me a sense of normalcy.

When I moved in with my Dad at 15, I did so because I missed him very much and it seemed the only way to be able to touch him. Upon making this decision, my mother put everything I left behind at home into a pile and lit it. Literally. Every item of clothing. Every picture. Every award since grade school. I no longer existed.

My father then took me out of high school to watch my younger brother, an infant. He wanted, first and foremost, to keep me from becoming worldly. My Dad and step mother also could not afford day care. And, to them, it seemed the perfect opportunity for me to Pioneer. So, here I was a 16-17 year old girl, Pioneering with my brother on my hip. My Dad made frequent trips to Bethel, and helped to compose many songs in the new song book. He also helped record all the "new" music, now heard in Kingdom Halls all over the world. I used to play the piano at assemblies, Circuit and District, Dad standing on the stage directing the music. 2,000 or more people's voices behind me.

I understand the emotional and spiritual abuse that takes place in fundamentalist religions. Even opening up this much, I still could not explain how much a part of my life "the Truth" was.

Upon moving out at 19, maybe 20 years old, I was disfellowshipped as well. (Already shared that elsewhere, not going through that whole story again.) The Truth was such a part of me, and I a part of it, that I cannot describe the sensations on the morning I woke up knowing the Elders had met the night before to decide my "fate." I sat and cried for hours, literally, because the birds were still chirping, the train still blew at 6am outside my window, the traffic noise still existed, the alarm still went off, and I looked in the mirror and still saw myself. I am not joking, here, in the least. I am not sure what I expected to happen, but that moment of realization was the worst and best moment I have ever experienced.
Years ago I had to face a judicial committee, it was terrible. But back then I was still a firm believer and "took my medicine", at least that's how I felt. One Elder was really abusive, so much that the other two weren't happy about it. When I started figuring out the truth about the truth I felt very liberated knowing that the Elders have absolutely no authority over me. In my years I've seen plenty of Elders that are dorks, to say the least, which often got me frustrated, so many like the glory but they care little about others. I'm glad I have to answer to none of them, not all are bad, but still...


And in one night, I went from having a million brothers and sisters and aunts and uncles to not one. None. And you know what? Had that one moment not occurred, I would not be here. And now.
For a while I felt that all Christians were my Brothers, then and now I feel that all people are my Brothers and Sisters, regardless of what they believe or don't believe. The JW view of Brotherhood is really messed up and friendship among them is as conditional as can be. That was a sad realization for me, I have to hide who I am, how I have progressed as a person because no one will understand.


I am so, so sorry, Kraut, right along with you, that religions are more than "just" religions. After having the experiences I have had, I would venture a guess that there is not one single thing you will be able to say to your mother that would even make her comfortable being around you. I tried calling my Dad, for years actually, and only once or twice did I ever get him to come to the phone. I visited him a couple of months before he died, in the hospital actually. He could not speak, so they had made him a poster of common words and letters, and he had a pointer. After 6 or 7 years, finally seeing him in person, do you know what he said? He said, "are you going to meetings?"
The coldheartedness that many Witnesses have even towards their own children is something I will never understand. All this talk about love, but what do they practice? What a shame. I'm very sorry it was that way for you. The bond between me and my Mother is strong, so for me there is still hope. But I have to be careful so none of the Elders know about my "apostate tendencies", I don't want to force my Mother to have to choose.


When this is ingrained so deeply, and especially from birth, it takes a shock to get away from it. But it isn't the kind of shock someone else can give you. I was disfellowshipped for something I actually didn't do, but for one reason or another didn't feel like battling the whole thing. So I let it happen. But this haunted me for 20 years. Twenty years of my life, every waking moment and every sleeping moment. The guilt. The fear. At some point, in therapy even, I decided that there would be no way to get any peace unless I just went back. (This is quite an undertaking, following this rule and that, doing first this step and then that, until the Elders decide to re-instate you.) I went into a Kingdom Hall, asked to see some Elders. Told them I was considering coming back to the fold. But before I did, I wanted to study with them first, because I had been born into all these beliefs, and I wanted to ask questions as an adult. They refused. That's not the way it was done. First you jump through the hoops, then you can ask questions. The only way past after that, was to accept that I would die at Armageddon. So I did.

And you know what happened? One day, out of nowhere, a thought popped into my head. It was something like, hey wait a minute. Jehovah knows my heart, and is a just God. I will wait to talk to Him and see what He says.
The Elders hold far too much power, how many people have had to suffer because of that? They are just like Pharisees. Not asking questions? Even that is clearly against biblical principles. I am glad that you overcame the fear of Armageddon. It's a tool that keeps most in check for all their lives.


After all this, the only advice I would give you is to not share too much. The risk of alienation is HUGE. Let your light shine, let your attitude show her that Jehovah didn't forsake you, turning His back on you until you get your **** together. Build on what is still in common, we are all actually moving toward the new system of things.
Thanks for the advice. I hope you're right that there's a new system coming, I doubt it.


But even saying that, only you will know if there is a way to reach her. Look at me, here. Some point after 20 years away from it, I let every single bit go. I learned about the Law of One, something that resonates with me like nothing else I have ever found. I know to the core of my being that Jehovah is not "God," just wanted to clarify for anyone reading that I'm way past all this now. This was a painful share because I accessed some memories in such a way as to put myself back there for a moment.
The way I see it (the gnostic view makes sense to me) is that Jehovah is not God at all, just the opposite, it's interesting how JWs resemble Jehovah far more than the Father or Christ. Doom, death and destruction that's what they focus on, all wrapped up in some tasty bits so it isn't too obvious.

Sigh. I'm grateful that you shared your experience. Sending some peace and positive energy your way.


Why did I do this? ****. I have no clue.

I got home from the city, and all I could think about was rest. I'm so worn out. But, being how I am, I thought I would check in and catch up in the village...and Kraut, I simply could not dismiss your posts.

There is always, always hope. Always. Follow your intuition. And know, please, that you are not alone. None of us is, your mom isn't either. And when the time is right, and I hope this is in your lifetime, she will awaken to All that Is. The work you are doing now will mean that you will be such a source of strength and love for her when her awakening begins. You know as well as I do, it won't be easy. She will be absolutely blessed to have your support.

Much Love,

Usually I'm not much of a huggy person but you deserve a hug or two. :peace::hug:


Oh, Kraut, I wish I had the answer for you. As it is, your expressions have led me down a hole in myself that used to be extremely painful and I am finding out now that it was a crucial turning point in my soul development.
You wish you had the answer for me? I wish I had one for you, your experience was far worse than mine. Mine can still get worse, but not as bad as yours. It's sad you had to go through it and I hope you can let go of the pain once and for all soon.

Most likely I forgot to say a hundred things, my tired brain isn't working that well anymore. And I'm slowly getting older too. :lol:

[eaglespirit]

Just stopping by again...great sharing and suggestions and recourse and resurgent thoughts shared : )

And if it is any consolation...My Mother's Voice came to me in a whisper on that Indian Hill in 2007 and said, "Danny....You were right, I Love You!"
And that whisper of Hers had to do with my sharing through the years on Catholic-based-tinted-and-tainted-deliverance of control and distortion..
Each of Us HAS Everything Needed to Shine with Pure and Honest Higher Love!

And the Village IS Living It and Expanding It : )

...
and Thank You Paula : )

[ulli]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=96fd5o8Xq8w

Thanks for that. One of my son's favorite bands. I was the opposite mum to yours,
I could never get enough of his discoveries...but getting him to share was like pulling teeth.

And I even picked him up from a Primus concert in Toronto at 2 am
and drove him and his buddies back to Oakville where he was at art school.
That was during snow storm, as well. I still can't believe I offered to do that...me, only used to life in the tropics.

[Dennis Leahy]

I died last night...in my dream.
...
I laid in bed for a little while, thinking. ... I thought about the fact that I am not ready to leave. I'm not done yet. I haven't accomplished what I came here to do (or at least try to do.)

Dennis

Death dreams can be so scary, Dennis. But they have important messages, too.

...
I should note that there was nothing scary or frightening in the dream. It is possible that the one NDE/OBE that I had decades ago removed any fear of death, so the death experience was not scary. The crash was more of a Zen experience - happening too fast for either logic or emotion - only observation.

And, my thought about not being done with my self-assignment/purpose in this incarnation was only a first layer of the onion: an observation, not really an in-depth attempt at interpretation (which I'm not sure I have the skills - other than intuition - to really do.) So, your possible interpretation is very interesting.

I'd love to hear other interpretations, if anyone is willing. I don't really know anything about dream symbology.

Thanks,

Dennis

[ulli]

I'd love to hear other interpretations, if anyone is willing. I don't really know anything about dream symbology.

Thanks,

Dennis

Yet your own interpretation is the only truly valid one,
since it was your mind or subconscious which created it in the first place.
You have to ask yourself what do you associate cop cars with?
It's all about association.
The best books I read and from which I got the most were by Frederic Perls, founder of Gestalt Therapy.

[Dennis Leahy]

Kraut and 1InMany... thank you for sharing those powerful stories.

At 17, I told my Catholic father I had had enough - after all those years and all those Catholic masses (every Sunday since I was an infant, and 6 days a week from 1st grade to 8th grade) I wasn't going to church again. He was furious. He said, "If you're going to live in this house, you're going to church." I said, "OK.", and walked away. He was surprised when I packed a backpack full of stuff and walked out.

(I'd like to say I stayed away, but I caved-in when my sister begged me to come home, "because it is destroying the family." I stayed for one more year, pretending to go to church at a different time than my dad.)

Not nearly as dramatic as your stories (especially 1InMany - holy sh!t!), but I do understand being born into oppressive and unwavering religious indoctrination.

Dennis

[ulli]

I was always a restless child and easily bored.
So before going to church on Sunday mornings I
would paint my fingernails with nail varnish
which I would then peel off during the service...
that's how desperate I was to have something to fiddle with.
The tiny bits of pale pink varnish were left on the floor where I had been sitting.

First time ever that I confessed this. Not even my mum knew.

[1inMany]

Hmmmm. I'm getting ready to run some errands, but before I go... I can't leave "the story" like that. After you sent me loving intentions for peace, Kraut, I have to stop for a minute. First of all, thank you. Nothing, absolutely nothing means more than sending each other love, peace, well wishes, prayers, healing... anyway that I can think of right now.

But secondly, I don't want anyone to think that I am in any way, shape or form, stuck in that same spot. This village is intimate, but it also has a lot of stories tucked in little nooks and crannies. Mine here have been extensive. My "story" is all over the pages, though I'm not an original villager.

I would feel downright terrible if I thought that story caused anyone any negative feelings whatsoever.

If anything, my heartfelt intention is that it is a story of hope. A story that helps even one person, one other self. Having lived it means nothing unless I can offer it to help.

I have had so many utterly indescribable moments of peace, moments where memories have opened up from other lifetimes, other dimensions (for lack of a better word)...

I bet some of you remember when I about wrecked my car with the realization I have wings. Or how about when all of these Angels appeared one day, and I thought I would lose my mind. Or the Obi wan hooded gentleman on my left, and the Angel of compassion on my right.

I have nothing but compassion and love for most everybody these days. I'll not make it sound like I just oogle and oggle over every person I meet, because I can think of several that I have to really work at being in the same room with. However, what I mean is that in the past year, I have come upon understandings beyond compare. There are tons and tons of things I don't share, lol, believe it or not. And every time something comes to me, it makes me sit in awe...and then it settles...and then I realize how much more there must be that I am not even close to yet.

My Dad...my Mom...I still love them very much. And I know they love me very much. Everything they ever did was the best they could do with the information they had at the time. And I have even received messages long after their respective passing(s) that they "know" now.

Okay, off to run errands...

Much Love,

[Dennis Leahy]

... I don't want anyone to think that I am in any way, shape or form, stuck in that same spot. ...

I would feel downright terrible if I thought that story caused anyone any negative feelings whatsoever.

If anything, my heartfelt intention is that it is a story of hope. A story that helps even one person, one other self. Having lived it means nothing unless I can offer it to help.

If you had not come through it (and were still in it) you wouldn't/couldn't have written the story. It does come across as a story of triumph over great adversity. One of my high school English teachers used to tell me, "man against man, man against nature, man against self" were the three classical themes of conflict. I always have thought that 'man against self' is the most powerful and the most ubiquitous.

That you escaped - from the mobius strip in your own mind - is an astounding accomplishment. And joyful. :~)

Dennis

[astrid]

How the pope was really elected.


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[Flash]

Kraut and 1InMany... thank you for sharing those powerful stories.

At 17, I told my Catholic father I had had enough - after all those years and all those Catholic masses (every Sunday since I was an infant, and 6 days a week from 1st grade to 8th grade) I wasn't going to church again. He was furious. He said, "If you're going to live in this house, you're going to church." I said, "OK.", and walked away. He was surprised when I packed a backpack full of stuff and walked out.

(I'd like to say I stayed away, but I caved-in when my sister begged me to come home, "because it is destroying the family." I stayed for one more year, pretending to go to church at a different time than my dad.)

Not nearly as dramatic as your stories (especially 1InMany - holy sh!t!), but I do understand being born into oppressive and unwavering religious indoctrination.

Dennis

i told my dad the same Dennis, but I was 8. The family would go to church every Sunday, often except him. We were living in a small village and it was not well seen not going to church. So my mom would force us, but she could not force my dad. The province of Quebec was as fanatic about catholicism then as Pentecotist are down Southern US now.

When I was 6, the nuns at school had told my sister and I, and the rest of the class, that people not going to church would die and go straight to hell. Therefore, my sister and I started praying for my father daily, because we loved him and wanted to avoid him hell.

I finally asked my mom if dad was a bad person. She asked why do I ask? I told her about the nuns discourse. The following dinner, we had a family discussion to understand the difference between good and bad, asking us what our hearts felt. When we answered, my parents told us that we should always follow our hearts, not what people say, that if our hearts felt my father as a good man, it was because he was, period.

No need to tell you that when I woke up on a Sunday morning at 8 years old, and told my dad I did not want to go to church anymore, there were no arguments. His answer was, ok, you don't want, therefore you don 't go anymore. My sister kept going for a while and then she stopped too.

That was really great.

[RunningDeer]

I died last night...in my dream.

I don't remember ever dying in a dream before. I have had lucid dreams where I left my body and flew, and have had dreams/nightmares where something was happening that would have ended in death...but would awaken before the death scene. Not last night.

I got into a car along a busy highway, started it up and was trying to defrost the windows when a cop car, traveling at high speed on the wrong side of the road, came racing down the road towards me - and smashed into my car. My car spun around and flew the opposite direction from where I had been pointed, scraped along a concrete wall and hit a large pole. I (my spirit) must have then popped out of my body, as my viewpoint was instantly on the outside of the car, watching my body get ejected from the car. The pole then fell on my body.

One second later, I was with my daughter, and she could see and feel me. I held both of her hands and told her that I had just died in a car crash. She was pretty calm, but listening intently as I told her goodbye and how much I love her. Just then, my wife came in, worried, and said, "Your dad's car is outside and it's smashed!" I then realized my wife could not see me, but only saw our daughter holding her both of her hands out if front of her.

There were some real-world sounds in the house, and I awoke.

I laid in bed for a little while, thinking. I thought about the inadequacy of words in trying to convey a message of emotion. And I though about the fact that I am not ready to leave. I'm not done yet. I haven't accomplished what I came here to do (or at least try to do.)

Dennis

Hi Dennis,

A little tongue and cheek, but that’s what’s left right now. Been studying and writing and in the middle of it all my stoneware fermentation pot arrived! So of course, I had to make my first batch of red and green sauerkraut with garlic, bermuda onion, carrots and spices. But I’ve digressed...


My car spun around and flew the opposite direction from where I had been pointed, scraped along a concrete wall and hit a large pole.

spinning of car = spirit leaving the body (I’ve experienced that spinning in meditation.)
hitting the pole = coming up and out the spinal column/chakras systems, and through the top of the head


One second later, I was with my daughter, and she could see and feel me. I held both of her hands and told her that I had just died in a car crash. She was pretty calm, but listening intently as I told her goodbye and how much I love her.

The love you feel for your daughter and your responsibility for her, never leaves you. To the point that the love is so great that even in your dream, you find your way to her.


I laid in bed for a little while, thinking. I thought about the inadequacy of words in trying to convey a message of emotion.

Stop that... Words muddy the purity of experience. Just go right to emotion. Don’t “think” the emotion.


And I thought about the fact that I am not ready to leave. I'm not done yet. I haven't accomplished what I came here to do (or at least try to do.)

From one Irishman to one that is 100% Irish (or so my father said, I think there’s some English) we/they never feel like it’s enough - good news/bad news thing - we just love challenges. Drool, drool.

Antidote to it’s never enough: my mantra - "Life in balance is a Jenga thang."

Love, love, love,
Pauler

http://i1262.photobucket.com/albums/ii610/WhiteCrowBlackDeer/Jenga.jpg

[astrid]

The Equinox is next week, we should see more settling after that,
right now its still wild and crazy out there.

[RunningDeer]

I’m behind reading the posts.

Thank you, 1inMany. That was a powerful story! If there’s any bits of gunk left to release, I have no doubt that it’ll be quick like a tupperware burp!

I just saw the Catholic thing up there. I went to a Catholic Academy. Was going to become a nun until I learned that nuns don't do sports.

I was late in leaving the establishment at age 26. My ex-mother-in-law told me I couldn't receive communion because I was divorced. I asked then why haven't I been struck down? “Officially excommunicated,” I believe were her next words.

She said it was okay to go to church but I couldn’t receive communion. I told her that I was the same person before as after, so, I'll have no part of it. Her answer to that was, she'll pray for me.

[RunningDeer]

How the pope was really elected.
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Pointy hat-guys must manifest? Or reverse ascension?
Here's the music that popped into my head and then I got it. bwahaha!!! http://www.bigtenfever.com/forums/images/smilies/rofl.gif

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[Carmody]

My church story (some here have heard it already)

At the age of 8 or so, we had moved again,and my parents decided to enroll us in Sunday school. we were going to get us some churchin!

I read the bible and the good news version. lots of blood, violence, all kinds of stuff.

My mother taught me stilled mediation at the same time, almost by accident. I discovered kundali and the stilled mind at age 8.

I was tired of the things I was supposed to learn in Sunday school I thought it was a bit of er...trite dogmatic military enforcement, so I decided..no more of this. I questioned everything. out loud. all the time. I basically started acting out in the church choir, during practice. I swallowed air and burped out the hymns, until I was caught. I kept doing it. I did it until they tossed me from the church.

No, I said, i wasn't fired...I quit first!

I was irritated enough of all that crap, that the next thing I did is I taught the pastor's son how to be a delinquent. Which didn't work out so well, for him. He went home to his dad, crying. Oh well, so much for adventurousness and breaking the mould.

What did the passerby say to Dick Cheney? (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EpO9p-s6HmI) I said the same to the church.

[ulli]

My religious confusion got to the point that in the end I personified the Groucho Mars joke:

Q.: “What do you get when you cross an insomniac, an agnostic, and a dyslexic?”

A,: “Someone who stays up all night wondering if there is a Dog.”

[tnkayaker]

got home for work late, around 7:00 pm, out the doggies out and unloaded the truck, made din din and and siting here in the kitchen listening to talk radio on the radio, i just re-located to the southern part of tenn. and having all kinds of issues with my new landlord ( now she is being hispitable) bbut i still have to find a difffernt place to live, ( we both agreed to this seeing my doggies need a country setting to live in ) i mean i can survive anywhere but i love my doggies and i think God is telling e ,HEY LISTEN HUMAN, THIS IS NOT YOUR PLACE ) i will tell the entire story in a few nights but im too wupped to type it all now, basically more **** has happend to me in the last 4 weeks than in the last 5 years of my life put together, i mean bad ****, **** that makes life difficult, vehicles breaking, cell phone issues, people issues, al kinds of ****ty issues! like a ton of **** needed to get dumped somwhere and i was standing there and said go ahead man, dump it here, on my head! transmission went out, doggies got out the new fence, chased them for 2 days, put the doggeis in the house for a half hour when i went to the water company to get the water turned on, the landlord comes by and see my buddy putting the doggies in the house ( which i promised i would have outside only) :( anyways i did what i thought was best at the time and i figured i could eventually ease them in the house full time , lol ih well she drove by just at the time my buddy was putting the doggies in the house and was waiting with an eviction notice when i got home- with the sherriff in tow mind you,she has eased off a bit now and im renting week by week, but what this all gets down to is i have been listening to the radio full time ( george norry YEA!) lol and have been reading tons of stuff on P Avalon so thats what i think God is telling me through all this ****, read this, know this, prepare for some **** man cuz its coming down the pike, if i had everything hunky dory i would never had heard or read any of this and would have missed all the warnings, thanks to everyone thats posted in the last few months and years as i have catching up just getting accepted here, so if it wasnt for all this ****, i would be just rambling along, saving up food (still) and wondeirng what is really going on, well its happening, all kinds of **** with the internet the last few days, cell phone **** the last few days, landlord **** is calmd down now and we are getting along i am actually working for her part time exchanging rent for labor hours, but i still have to find a place to live when i can she said, but man i hate not having running hot and cold water, i have to haul water every other day in 5 gal containers like i was camping in a 3 bedroom house just no running water or bathroom facilitys, so yeh im humble, REAL HUMBLE LOL well if anyone has in on a lottery ticket or landfall they want to share, let me know, im trying but it tough right now, peace all,dennis

[ulli]

got home for work late, around 7:00 pm, out the doggies out and unloaded the truck, made din din and and siting here in the kitchen listening to talk radio on the radio, i just re-located to the southern part of tenn. and having all kinds of issues with my new landlord ( now she is being hispitable) bbut i still have to find a difffernt place to live, ( we both agreed to this seeing my doggies need a country setting to live in ) i mean i can survive anywhere but i love my doggies and i think God is telling e ,HEY LISTEN HUMAN, THIS IS NOT YOUR PLACE ) i will tell the entire story in a few nights but im too wupped to type it all now, basically more **** has happend to me in the last 4 weeks than in the last 5 years of my life put together, i mean bad ****, **** that makes life difficult, vehicles breaking, cell phone issues, people issues, al kinds of ****ty issues! like a ton of **** needed to get dumped somwhere and i was standing there and said go ahead man, dump it here, on my head! transmission went out, doggies got out the new fence, chased them for 2 days, put the doggeis in the house for a half hour when i went to the water company to get the water turned on, the landlord comes by and see my buddy putting the doggies in the house ( which i promised i would have outside only) :( anyways i did what i thought was best at the time and i figured i could eventually ease them in the house full time , lol ih well she drove by just at the time my buddy was putting the doggies in the house and was waiting with an eviction notice when i got home- with the sherriff in tow mind you,she has eased off a bit now and im renting week by week, but what this all gets down to is i have been listening to the radio full time ( george norry YEA!) lol and have been reading tons of stuff on P Avalon so thats what i think God is telling me through all this ****, read this, know this, prepare for some **** man cuz its coming down the pike, if i had everything hunky dory i would never had heard or read any of this and would have missed all the warnings, thanks to everyone thats posted in the last few months and years as i have catching up just getting accepted here, so if it wasnt for all this ****, i would be just rambling along, saving up food (still) and wondeirng what is really going on, well its happening, all kinds of **** with the internet the last few days, cell phone **** the last few days, landlord **** is calmd down now and we are getting along i am actually working for her part time exchanging rent for labor hours, but i still have to find a place to live when i can she said, but man i hate not having running hot and cold water, i have to haul water every other day in 5 gal containers like i was camping in a 3 bedroom house just no running water or bathroom facilitys, so yeh im humble, REAL HUMBLE LOL well if anyone has in on a lottery ticket or landfall they want to share, let me know, im trying but it tough right now, peace all,dennis


Tell us what kind of a house you wish to live in...we'll help you find one.
Know that this spell will come to an end soon, and believe firmly that you will get in control of your life again.
Those difficulties are about triggering changes in life, once thats done it can all calm down again, and happiness return.
Use common sense and stay away from stuff that could destabilize you emotionally.
Good luck.

[ulli]

Funny astro gifs...
how the 12 signs react to the loss of their favorite fictional character


http://neurolove.me/post/43525522188/the-zodiac-signs-grieving-the-loss-of-their-favorite

[RunningDeer]

Hello Tnkayaker,

I see you standing tall and weathering this storm, as all the rest that have come and gone.

Just a little tweak in your approach to how you see things unfolding, and soon you and your dogs will share space with another that stands tall.

How do I know that? I don't. But I feel that you are a maker of innovative solutions that's just forgotten how in this moment.

Please keep us post.

With love,
Paula


http://avalonlibrary.net/paula/Lighthouses/8.JPG


got home for work late, around 7:00 pm, out the doggies out and unloaded the truck, made din din and and siting here in the kitchen listening to talk radio on the radio, i just re-located to the southern part of tenn. and having all kinds of issues with my new landlord ( now she is being hispitable) bbut i still have to find a difffernt place to live, ( we both agreed to this seeing my doggies need a country setting to live in ) i mean i can survive anywhere but i love my doggies and i think God is telling e ,HEY LISTEN HUMAN, THIS IS NOT YOUR PLACE ) i will tell the entire story in a few nights but im too wupped to type it all now, basically more **** has happend to me in the last 4 weeks than in the last 5 years of my life put together, i mean bad ****, **** that makes life difficult, vehicles breaking, cell phone issues, people issues, al kinds of ****ty issues! like a ton of **** needed to get dumped somwhere and i was standing there and said go ahead man, dump it here, on my head! transmission went out, doggies got out the new fence, chased them for 2 days, put the doggeis in the house for a half hour when i went to the water company to get the water turned on, the landlord comes by and see my buddy putting the doggies in the house ( which i promised i would have outside only) :( anyways i did what i thought was best at the time and i figured i could eventually ease them in the house full time , lol ih well she drove by just at the time my buddy was putting the doggies in the house and was waiting with an eviction notice when i got home- with the sherriff in tow mind you,she has eased off a bit now and im renting week by week, but what this all gets down to is i have been listening to the radio full time ( george norry YEA!) lol and have been reading tons of stuff on P Avalon so thats what i think God is telling me through all this ****, read this, know this, prepare for some **** man cuz its coming down the pike, if i had everything hunky dory i would never had heard or read any of this and would have missed all the warnings, thanks to everyone thats posted in the last few months and years as i have catching up just getting accepted here, so if it wasnt for all this ****, i would be just rambling along, saving up food (still) and wondeirng what is really going on, well its happening, all kinds of **** with the internet the last few days, cell phone **** the last few days, landlord **** is calmd down now and we are getting along i am actually working for her part time exchanging rent for labor hours, but i still have to find a place to live when i can she said, but man i hate not having running hot and cold water, i have to haul water every other day in 5 gal containers like i was camping in a 3 bedroom house just no running water or bathroom facilitys, so yeh im humble, REAL HUMBLE LOL well if anyone has in on a lottery ticket or landfall they want to share, let me know, im trying but it tough right now, peace all,dennis

[RunningDeer]

Funny astro gifs...
how the 12 signs react to the loss of their favorite fictional character


http://neurolove.me/post/43525522188/the-zodiac-signs-grieving-the-loss-of-their-favorite

Those are funny, but I didn't get the Sagittarius one. It is that they outdo everyone in a big way?

[Dennis Leahy]

Even if you don't particularly like gypsy-jazz/swing-jazz music this guy (Joshco Stephan) is so sublime, he'll melt your heart:


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AI6o7UQYSJQ

And that's my goodnight, Avalon offering.

Dennis



p.s. Awwwww ok, ok! Just one more... but this next one is NOT night music! You've been warned! Save this one to enjoy with your breakfast coffee. It's much stronger than a pot of caffeine.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5JeESEd5CfM
(if no parts of your body are moving, call the undertaker)


(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5JeESEd5CfM)

[Guest]

I'm sorry 1inMany and Kraut. Wow.

I grew up with a girl whose family were very old school Apostolic Pentecostal. The things that happened to her by the church and her family I will not repeat, but I still think about her to this day and always keep her in my heart and prayers.

My immediate family took me to a spiritualist church from a very young age until I was 15. It was a very eclectic place. The grounds were on a small vortex with ley lines that crossed through them. It's been there for over a 100 years now. I learned a lot of things through the years, but not from a book. Once in a while I go back; it's a beautiful area in a valley near a stream with Native American petroglyphs nearby.

My mother's side of the family were Protestant -Methodists and Roman Catholic from Ireland. They were also Masons, Eastern Stars & some of the older ones studied and practiced angelic magic -secretly, they were Irish and it originated in England and something one did not talk about. My father was southern Baptist. He was part Native American so the family sat in the back of the church. They were told if they became Christians that they would have proper burials in a Christian cemetery besides being saved.

Any kind of ancient works, literature or bibles were not allowed in the house by my parents. Basically forbidden a long with art & music, but there was a lot of Edgar Cayce, Ruth Montgomery, a couple of books by Jess Stearn and George Orwell laying around. My grandmother gave me a bible when I was 13; some of the passages from Corinthians I & II were highlighted.

I remember telling my mother when I was 3 or 4 why do people go to church God is inside of them and then saying people don't die, there's no such thing as death. What is death?

A lot of weirdness for me growing up.


Love


Nora

[tnkayaker]

i have been having issues with internet and cell phone stuff in the last few days, anyone else? just wonderin...... peace,dennis

[Carmody]

Seeing through time is neither impossible, nor unique:

http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:RLE3A4G2o5cJ:www.unforumzed.com/showthread.php?3417-Obama-use-school-shooting-to-disarm-America%20&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us&client=firefox-a

But it sure does suffer ridicule in the mainstream group-mind.

After a few hundred times of dealing with such things...'project looking glass' does not seem farfetched, it seems rather mundane. This brings quite a few questions about the idea of 'cause and effect'.... it cascades, into other thoughts and explorations.

[gripreaper]

I laid in bed for a little while, thinking. I thought about the inadequacy of words in trying to convey a message of emotion. And I though about the fact that I am not ready to leave. I'm not done yet. I haven't accomplished what I came here to do (or at least try to do.)

Dennis, I don't know if this helps, but when I have a very intense dream energetically, that wakes me up, I try and move from the symbolism and stay absorbed in the energy. For me, it is an old archetype which is dying and the energy no longer fits into that paradigm, and is being transmuted and merged into something else for which I have no symbols or archetypes. The dream experience reverberates the polarities to bring union. I always know when I've had a breakthrough when a dream does this.

[ulli]

Funny astro gifs...
how the 12 signs react to the loss of their favorite fictional character


http://neurolove.me/post/43525522188/the-zodiac-signs-grieving-the-loss-of-their-favorite

Those are funny, but I didn't get the Sagittarius one. It is that they outdo everyone in a big way?

That's right. Over the top exaggeration.

[Ol' Roy]

You know what Carmody?

I see you using both the left side as well as the right side of your brain. Very rare, Enstein comes to mind. You are a true modern day Davinci.

Most respect in all your endeavors. Beleive me, you are going down in history! Keep up the good work, my man!

[Ol' Roy]

Sorry my dears (Ulli and Paula),

Dom't we have enough to worry about here on Earth, without worrying about how the planets line up?

As I said ealier, I am trying to get on the same page as you. Paula, your man looks totally at peace in the video. I visited Hawaii once, it was awesome. Even though I was stuck in a seminar from 12 to 16 hours a day! Heaven on Earth!

[astrid]

Its not worry so much as a guide in steering, and an understanding as to what you might encounter energetically.
I don't tend to look at planets beyond plus or minus a few days of NOW, otherwise i can project and it can become
self fulfilling. Actually, astro can help you to worry much less...

Like last few days, i feel sleepy and my focus is dreadful, even though i have had enough sleep and am eating super well.
I have all those Pisces planets transiting my 6th house, with is health and healing, so chances are that is the cause,
and chances are that i will feel totally fine soon. Without factoring in astro energies i maybe be thinking and worrying alot more
about what my health is doing. Astro falls into the "know thyself" box of tools.
I was never into astro much myself until i looked into it deeper, now i use it all the time in my practice, given i could know it much
better, but I'm a "lazy" Libran and i have too many friends that are very versed in the art/science, so we just swap modalities.

[astrid]

Also....

http://www.swpc.noaa.gov/rt_plots/Xray_1m.gif

As if we are not getting hammered enough right now.

A long duration eruption is currently in progress around Sunspot 1692.


And... The Magnetometer located in Boulder, Colorado just detected a sudden flucuation in ground currents
and this signals the passage of an expected Coronal Mass Ejection (CME) past our planet.
The Sudden Impulse measured 23 nT at 05:26 UTC Friday morning.
An increase in geomagnetic activity at very high latitudes will be possible.


SUMMARY: Geomagnetic Sudden Impulse
Observed: 2013 Mar 15 0526 UTC
Deviation: 23 nT
Station: BOULDER

What is a Sudden Impulse?

A sudden magnetic impulse represents a rapid momentary fluctuation of the geomagnetic field over a
period of only a few minutes. It is generally associated with interplanetary shockwaves produced by
energetic solar events and can (but need not always) be followed by increased geomagnetic activity.

20821

yes, i know... kind of wrong thread, but very HERE AND NOW...
( will also post this on the solar thread)

[astrid]

for further sun updates check the
"Sun Stuff: What's up! thread"

[ThePythonicCow]

for further sun updates check the
"Sun Stuff: What's up! thread"

Link to latest post on that thread: Post #899 (http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?29825-Sun-Stuff-What-s-up-&p=648843&viewfull=1#post648843)

[spiritwind]

Hmmmm. I'm getting ready to run some errands, but before I go... I can't leave "the story" like that. After you sent me loving intentions for peace, Kraut, I have to stop for a minute. First of all, thank you. Nothing, absolutely nothing means more than sending each other love, peace, well wishes, prayers, healing... anyway that I can think of right now.

But secondly, I don't want anyone to think that I am in any way, shape or form, stuck in that same spot. This village is intimate, but it also has a lot of stories tucked in little nooks and crannies. Mine here have been extensive. My "story" is all over the pages, though I'm not an original villager.

I would feel downright terrible if I thought that story caused anyone any negative feelings whatsoever.

If anything, my heartfelt intention is that it is a story of hope. A story that helps even one person, one other self. Having lived it means nothing unless I can offer it to help.

I have had so many utterly indescribable moments of peace, moments where memories have opened up from other lifetimes, other dimensions (for lack of a better word)...

I bet some of you remember when I about wrecked my car with the realization I have wings. Or how about when all of these Angels appeared one day, and I thought I would lose my mind. Or the Obi wan hooded gentleman on my left, and the Angel of compassion on my right.

I have nothing but compassion and love for most everybody these days. I'll not make it sound like I just oogle and oggle over every person I meet, because I can think of several that I have to really work at being in the same room with. However, what I mean is that in the past year, I have come upon understandings beyond compare. There are tons and tons of things I don't share, lol, believe it or not. And every time something comes to me, it makes me sit in awe...and then it settles...and then I realize how much more there must be that I am not even close to yet.

My Dad...my Mom...I still love them very much. And I know they love me very much. Everything they ever did was the best they could do with the information they had at the time. And I have even received messages long after their respective passing(s) that they "know" now.

Okay, off to run errands...

Much Love,

Loved your story and Kraut’s too. Yeah, the JW thing will get you until it doesn’t. My adopted father was an elder but I don’t think I ever got formally disfellowshipped. I just moved away so maybe they did and never told me. I could say tons but I won’t. Suffice it to say that I think I kind of came to terms for good when I was about 25. I would drive to work in the morning having this conversation in my head and I would be , you know, talking to the big Kahuna. I would say, hey, maybe I am just stubborn, maybe there is something I’m missing, maybe they are right. In the same place, not every day, but this would happen quite a few times going over a certain bridge in the city where I live. I truly think there’s a vortex there. But anyway, this amazing feeling would come over me (similar to an experience I had when I was 6) where time seemed to stop, everything became sparkly and I would have tears streaming down my face in profusion and would feel totally embraced in this feeling of warmth and love. I would have this voice in my head that said: No Laurie, you’re on the right path, do not fear, you are very loved and you are okay. I’m not sure who was actually speaking to me but it was very reassuring. And Ulli, the part about painting your fingernails was hilarious. I used to get so bored I would imagine the speakers hair standing on end and other silly stuff like that and sit there trying not to laugh out loud. No wonder they thought I was strange.

[astrid]

xaKhmL3TToc

Awesome stuff

[eaglespirit]

See You All On The Other(This) Side...Shining the Selfless Love and Light : )

[Samsara]

You are all amazing. Thank you!

This is playing in my head this morning...

aBQalkIeE7s

Love to All!

[ulli]

Thank you, Samsara. You just made my husband very happy...one of his favorite songs.
:music:

[astrid]

Ok, sun update... Massive CME....to Impact Earth

March 17, is when the Brunt of the Impact is Expected...

[ulli]

Seeing through time is neither impossible, nor unique:

http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:RLE3A4G2o5cJ:www.unforumzed.com/showthread.php?3417-Obama-use-school-shooting-to-disarm-America%20&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us&client=firefox-a

But it sure does suffer ridicule in the mainstream group-mind.

After a few hundred times of dealing with such things...'project looking glass' does not seem farfetched, it seems rather mundane. This brings quite a few questions about the idea of 'cause and effect'.... it cascades, into other thoughts and explorations.

This really is a clear example. This is why seers should be able to share their vision,
so that others can say' this shall not come to pass'.
The ridiculing is then just part of the package. Ask Jonah.
Fear porn is quite useful, really.

¤=[Post Update]=¤


Ok, sun update... Massive CME....to Impact Earth

March 17, is when the Brunt of the Impact is Expected...

Shields up!!!

[Flash]

Seeing through time is neither impossible, nor unique:

http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:RLE3A4G2o5cJ:www.unforumzed.com/showthread.php?3417-Obama-use-school-shooting-to-disarm-America%20&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us&client=firefox-a

But it sure does suffer ridicule in the mainstream group-mind.

After a few hundred times of dealing with such things...'project looking glass' does not seem farfetched, it seems rather mundane. This brings quite a few questions about the idea of 'cause and effect'.... it cascades, into other thoughts and explorations.

The interesting part is that the thread above was closed in 2010 and the person banned.

It seems the author came back in 2013 explaining he/she tried to tell people about Sandy Hook in 2010 and the person was banned again in 2013. I wonder what that person did in that forum to be banned repeteadly. Was writing on conspiracy off limit there?

http://www.unforumzed.com/showthread.php?3436-Sandy-Hook-Truther-%28bowel%29-quot-Movement-quot&p=318891&viewfull=1#post318891

[ulli]

Seeing through time is neither impossible, nor unique:

http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:RLE3A4G2o5cJ:www.unforumzed.com/showthread.php?3417-Obama-use-school-shooting-to-disarm-America%20&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us&client=firefox-a

But it sure does suffer ridicule in the mainstream group-mind.

After a few hundred times of dealing with such things...'project looking glass' does not seem farfetched, it seems rather mundane. This brings quite a few questions about the idea of 'cause and effect'.... it cascades, into other thoughts and explorations.

The interesting part is that the thread above was closed in 2010 and the person banned.

It seems the author came back in 2013 explaining he/she tried to tell people about Sandy Hook in 2010 and the person was banned again in 2013. I wonder what that person did in that forum to be banned repeteadly. Was writing on conspiracy off limit there?

http://www.unforumzed.com/showthread.php?3436-Sandy-Hook-Truther-%28bowel%29-quot-Movement-quot&p=318891&viewfull=1#post318891

Actually, I also looked a bit further...
seems to have been a trick to prove to Sandy Hook truthers that time stamp manipulation is possible..

http://www.unforumzed.com/showthread.php?3436-Sandy-Hook-Truther-(bowel)-quot-Movement-quot/page13&p=328506#post328506


"I have try to inform unforumzed.com about Sandy Hook shooting in December 17, 2010 but my discussion was censored by unforumzed.com Administrator. I received a message from Churubella that my topic is lock down.
Yeah . . . there was some timestamp manipulation here. If you look at the thread, the ID is 3417. Around that time, all other thread IDs were in the low to mid 1000's. Nice try though."

"Yeah, it was done to prove to a Sandy Hook truther here on our forum that not everything "timestamped" on the internet is accurate. Things can be manipulated. But I guess that was lost on some people..."

Hmmm....
Ok, here is another edit. I'm not so sure now. There is intensity on both sides of the discussion, and it would take more time to see who is the real liar.

[1inMany]

One might think I'm a morning person. Not so. I browse good morning messages sometimes because I figure this gets me into some positive frame of mind for the rest of the day. This one looks good...

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_80JyxSvcb_Y/TU2RNU3Xj7I/AAAAAAAAACg/t5RuSOWhuw4/s1600/good_morning_poem-1809.jpg#Good%20Night%20And%20Good%20Morning%20poem

Much Love,

[1inMany]

So, I walked in the door yesterday, and was greeted by Em, bubbling over with excitement. She had a shopping list for me, and set out reading it before I even sat my purse down. Mind you, I was half listening and really my focus was on getting everything out of the car and unpacking, laundry, etc., etc.

"Okay, Mom, I need some scented oils. Do we have some scented oil?"
"Um, we have rosemary and lavender I believe. But your birthday's coming up, and they sell those sampler sets..."
"Oh, yes! That's perfect! Now, I need...a trunk."
"Mm-hmmm."
"And a pretty blanket to cover it with."
"Mm-hmmm."
"And a statue of an angel, or a paperweight or something. Oh, and one of an eagle."
"Mm-hmmm."
"And all different colors of candles."
"Mm-hmmm."
"And some sea salt."
"Mm-hmmm."
"And an athame. But tell Dad to not worry, if it actually cuts anything it becomes tainted."
"WHAT?!"

That snapped me out of it in a hurry. An altar. She wants to set up an altar. Ohhhh. Okay.

So she overtook the shed out back. I really was very tired, lol, and didn't even realize what she was doing, and when she came running in excited for me to come look, it was all I could do not to chuckle. It was sweet, it really was. But, there's no air conditioner in there, no heat, no electricity. The light is the open window. All that is fine, but... candles will melt, just... very problematic. So we spent several hours looking for a place where we could set up an altar. I've done that before, many times, unbeknownst to her, but the reason we don't have one is because I really cannot find just the right place. And after all that, we are back at square one.

She gave me her binder and shared it with me, her diary, Book of Shadows. And the first thing I read was, "I am a witch because of my mom." Eeeeeeegads. It continued, "she does reiki, and it is beautiful. And that led me to all kinds of energy. A witch is someone who works with energies, all kinds."

I have definitely been reminded, now, why most things happen to me first, and I find out what they are ... later. There is beauty and sincerity in her focus and in her efforts. I support what she is doing wholeheartedly. But had it unfolded differently, I honestly might have had some trouble with it.

This is where a label is a disservice. I suppose I already do a lot of the things she is embarking on, so that would make me some kind of witch. But it's not something I consciously set out to learn or do.

And so it goes...

Much Love,

[Dennis Leahy]

xaKhmL3TToc

Awesome stuff
Wow.

Dennis

[Calz]

xaKhmL3TToc

Awesome stuff

Thank you astrid :thumb:

I posted it on another forum.

[Kraut]

A few months ago, while I was always processing my JW experience I wrote this:

We see not what eye cannot behold,
only hear the stories told,
often helpless when our lives unfold,
shaking heads as history unravels,
moving on with baby steps,
sometimes it seems a pointless travel,
reaching out for the spark divine,
striving to overcome the ends of time,
if only it weren't such a struggle,
when all we want is to discern,
surrounded by fog and darkness,
when all we seek is to learn,
to find the purpose behind it all,
grasp the light and warmth of stars,
transcend such terms as near and far,
we wish that we had angels wings,
not held back by weight of sin,
but deep inside in everyone,
there is warmth and brightness,
if we believe, if we have faith,
we have weightlessness and lightness,
shake off the dust and clear our minds,
we can surpass the end of times.

It's about the struggle to find truth and meaning, to leave behind our "outer shell" and the confines of this life here, how sometimes it almost seems pointless but you just can't quit, it's not an option. Came to my mind again today, when I was thinking about the experiences you've all had. I'm definitely not a writer but sometimes I have this stuff just pop up and I can't help but put it on paper.

[Lunesoleil]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r7Y2ELvbbIQ
Saturn retro phase in conjunction with North Node in the sign of Scorpio
http://lunesoleil23.wordpress.com/2013/03/15/saturne-en-phase-retro-en-conjonction-au-noeud-nord-dans-le-signe-du-scorpion/
Must change its view of the suffering man carries in himself and the world will change ♥

:wizard:

[1inMany]

That is a beautiful expression of your journey, kraut. I am not sure why you put the disclaimer that you are definitely not a writer. There is a writer in all of us. And you have just proven that, haha.

I don't know where you are with processing, but some people have found that in bridging from anything religious to anything more spiritual, that sin might actually be separation, our separation from Source. Just a thought... And, since I'm obviously forthcoming with lots of thoughts, here's another... The divine spark of which you speak... seems like the search without produces less than the search within. Imo.

Much Love,

[Carmody]

Ok, sun update... Massive CME....to Impact Earth

March 17, is when the Brunt of the Impact is Expected...

OK. I thought the headache was from cheap food. But the universe does give the mundane minded objectivist their way out. Reality formation flows for all of us, and they can have their cake and eat it too.

Arguing about who has what cake and which is real..this becomes the core problem..in the context of a reality formation and flow which answers all projected questions.

[Carmody]

Seeing through time is neither impossible, nor unique:

http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:RLE3A4G2o5cJ:www.unforumzed.com/showthread.php?3417-Obama-use-school-shooting-to-disarm-America%20&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us&client=firefox-a

But it sure does suffer ridicule in the mainstream group-mind.

After a few hundred times of dealing with such things...'project looking glass' does not seem farfetched, it seems rather mundane. This brings quite a few questions about the idea of 'cause and effect'.... it cascades, into other thoughts and explorations.

The interesting part is that the thread above was closed in 2010 and the person banned.

It seems the author came back in 2013 explaining he/she tried to tell people about Sandy Hook in 2010 and the person was banned again in 2013. I wonder what that person did in that forum to be banned repeteadly. Was writing on conspiracy off limit there?

http://www.unforumzed.com/showthread.php?3436-Sandy-Hook-Truther-%28bowel%29-quot-Movement-quot&p=318891&viewfull=1#post318891

Actually, I also looked a bit further...
seems to have been a trick to prove to Sandy Hook truthers that time stamp manipulation is possible..

http://www.unforumzed.com/showthread.php?3436-Sandy-Hook-Truther-(bowel)-quot-Movement-quot/page13&p=328506#post328506


"I have try to inform unforumzed.com about Sandy Hook shooting in December 17, 2010 but my discussion was censored by unforumzed.com Administrator. I received a message from Churubella that my topic is lock down.
Yeah . . . there was some timestamp manipulation here. If you look at the thread, the ID is 3417. Around that time, all other thread IDs were in the low to mid 1000's. Nice try though."

"Yeah, it was done to prove to a Sandy Hook truther here on our forum that not everything "timestamped" on the internet is accurate. Things can be manipulated. But I guess that was lost on some people..."

Hmmm....
Ok, here is another edit. I'm not so sure now. There is intensity on both sides of the discussion, and it would take more time to see who is the real liar.

Yes, the manipulative side of things that wants people to maintain a linear mind and pattern, to look no further -- it has NO PROBLEM committing such manipulations, in order to make sure there is a perfectly located and phrased landing pad for linear thinkers and limited views to (comfortably) lie down on and in.....and look no further.

If it is a manipulation it is an incredibly simple one, a simple bit of work to insert into the systems and then have people point to it as a fundamental, when it comes to dismissing anyone (or any related story) which may be capable of so called 'psychic' timeline viewing.

[Kraut]

That is a beautiful expression of your journey, kraut. I am not sure why you put the disclaimer that you are definitely not a writer. There is a writer in all of us. And you have just proven that, haha.

I don't know where you are with processing, but some people have found that in bridging from anything religious to anything more spiritual, that sin might actually be separation, our separation from Source. Just a thought... And, since I'm obviously forthcoming with lots of thoughts, here's another... The divine spark of which you speak... seems like the search without produces less than the search within. Imo.

Much Love,

Thanks 1inMany. I tend to be very critical with what I do.

It took me a while to get used to the idea or truth that I have to look within, I continually have to remind myself of that. For a while I thought that my religion was wrong, but that there must be one that's more truthful, at that time I still viewed Christianity as "the way", it didn't take long though and I started dismantling that too. That was a low point for me, I had become friends with another exJW, an older guy who is very knowledgeable about the bible. We often exchanged e-mails. When he noticed that I was starting to question Christian doctrines and the bible he cut me off telling me that I may be lost beyond saving. It was sad to realize that many exJWs still hold on to the same dogmatism and his rejection was very harsh. Now I see that religion is not the way at all. Being in tune with Source is far more individual than most believe. The thought of personal sovereignty has become very important to me, but that wasn't easy to get used to after all this "God's sovereignty" programming for years.

Not sure myself where I am with processing, but I've gone through many phases in a very short time and feel much more steady now. Someone told me I was going through it at a very quick pace, but it wasn't conscious on my part, there's this drive in me and I still feel like I'm going too slow. :rolleyes: Often I have this feeling that there is something specific I need to do here, but I don't know what.

Much love and peace to you too,
-Kraut

[yukondiva]

Off topic here but. ...... I had seen a bird eat a butterfly a cat eat a cricket and was contemplating it when I was attacked by flying ants. You can't make this stuff up!

[ulli]

Actually, I also looked a bit further...
seems to have been a trick to prove to Sandy Hook truthers that time stamp manipulation is possible..

http://www.unforumzed.com/showthread.php?3436-Sandy-Hook-Truther-(bowel)-quot-Movement-quot/page13&p=328506#post328506


"I have try to inform unforumzed.com about Sandy Hook shooting in December 17, 2010 but my discussion was censored by unforumzed.com Administrator. I received a message from Churubella that my topic is lock down.
Yeah . . . there was some timestamp manipulation here. If you look at the thread, the ID is 3417. Around that time, all other thread IDs were in the low to mid 1000's. Nice try though."

"Yeah, it was done to prove to a Sandy Hook truther here on our forum that not everything "timestamped" on the internet is accurate. Things can be manipulated. But I guess that was lost on some people..."

Hmmm....
Ok, here is another edit. I'm not so sure now. There is intensity on both sides of the discussion, and it would take more time to see who is the real liar.

Yes, the manipulative side of things that wants people to maintain a linear mind and pattern, to look no further -- it has NO PROBLEM committing such manipulations, in order to make sure there is a perfectly located and phrased landing pad for linear thinkers and limited views to (comfortably) lie down on and in.....and look no further.

If it is a manipulation it is an incredibly simple one, a simple bit of work to insert into the systems and then have people point to it as a fundamental, when it comes to dismissing anyone (or any related story) which may be capable of so called 'psychic' timeline viewing.

This is the real bummer, AFAIC, that while I need no further proof of time doing odd things,
having had prophetic dreams since my youth,
yet there are still people who are close to me and who have challenged me to prove it to them.
And every time I fall into the same trap, in my desire to enlighten them,
and hope to come up with that type of irrefutable proof, only to discover that they find yet another hole
and do their debunk job, leaving me with egg on my face.
This is why this whole exploration has to be a very private matter.
Until a person has a personal relationship with the universe they will never develop the eyes to really SEE.

I read stuff in 1998 about the 2000 election, and that it would be George W and that they would go to incredible lengths to make sure he won....and some of that I even printed out for myself... and yet it would never prove anything to a convinced skeptic.
I've also made some accurate predictions when dealing with clients or family members' charts
who got so freaked out when it came true that they stopped seeing me because it frightened them away for good.
The challenge to their existing world view was just too great.

So the final word on this is that this knowledge keeps itself hidden for a reason.
I just wish I could say with certainty that only the "good" are given access so as to not abuse such knowledge,
although now Im not so sure....

[RunningDeer]

Off topic here but. ...... I had seen a bird eat a butterfly a cat eat a cricket and was contemplating it when I was attacked by flying ants. You can't make this stuff up!

All good signs that the world is in flux. Open to the new and diverse possibilities. Big is the new small. Small is the new big.
Note to self: get off this computer...NOW.

[Carmody]

Thank you, Samsara. You just made my husband very happy...one of his favorite songs.
:music:

He might like this. I can't find some of them, they get moved around when they are played.

TNQ7IQ5tCcc

[Guest]

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Nano-oxygenated Silver in a bottle is now available to the public as a health supplement.


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Love


Nora

[Playdo of Ataraxas]

I died last night...in my dream.

I don't remember ever dying in a dream before. I have had lucid dreams where I left my body and flew, and have had dreams/nightmares where something was happening that would have ended in death...but would awaken before the death scene. Not last night.

I got into a car along a busy highway, started it up and was trying to defrost the windows when a cop car, traveling at high speed on the wrong side of the road, came racing down the road towards me - and smashed into my car. My car spun around and flew the opposite direction from where I had been pointed, scraped along a concrete wall and hit a large pole. I (my spirit) must have then popped out of my body, as my viewpoint was instantly on the outside of the car, watching my body get ejected from the car. The pole then fell on my body.

One second later, I was with my daughter, and she could see and feel me. I held both of her hands and told her that I had just died in a car crash. She was pretty calm, but listening intently as I told her goodbye and how much I love her. Just then, my wife came in, worried, and said, "Your dad's car is outside and it's smashed!" I then realized my wife could not see me, but only saw our daughter holding her both of her hands out if front of her.

There were some real-world sounds in the house, and I awoke.

I laid in bed for a little while, thinking. I thought about the inadequacy of words in trying to convey a message of emotion. And I though about the fact that I am not ready to leave. I'm not done yet. I haven't accomplished what I came here to do (or at least try to do.)

Dennis

Hey Dennis, your dream post described something very similar that happened to me in a dream. This was back in 2000 when I was at the university. I dreamed that I was lying on the floor in the house that I was renting at the time watching a black and white Shirley Temple movie. The door to the house had a large glass window and no curtain over it. Two friends, both girls, were watching the movie with me. All of a sudden a large white male dressed all in black leather with wet, stringing black hair approached the door. I felt a very ominous and frightening feeling as he stood there outside the door looking at me. I made one move, an effort to get up off the floor, and the man instantly opened the door, pulled out a gun, put it to my head, and blew my head off. I did not wake up but rather I floated up from my body and I could view the scene below me. The girls both starting screaming and I could see my body lying there dead. As the man began shooting the girls, the gun and the screams of the girls faded. The sound faded but I could still see the scene. I looked on with indifference, but I felt a strong feeling of sadness and despair as I began to think of my family and friends whom I would never see again. Slowly, that faded too as I exited the house and kept rising above the city. That's when I woke up. And that is the only time that I have died in my sleep, and stayed within the dream post mortem without waking up.

[ulli]

That is a beautiful expression of your journey, kraut. I am not sure why you put the disclaimer that you are definitely not a writer. There is a writer in all of us. And you have just proven that, haha.

I don't know where you are with processing, but some people have found that in bridging from anything religious to anything more spiritual, that sin might actually be separation, our separation from Source. Just a thought... And, since I'm obviously forthcoming with lots of thoughts, here's another... The divine spark of which you speak... seems like the search without produces less than the search within. Imo.

Much Love,

Thanks 1inMany. I tend to be very critical with what I do.

It took me a while to get used to the idea or truth that I have to look within, I continually have to remind myself of that. For a while I thought that my religion was wrong, but that there must be one that's more truthful, at that time I still viewed Christianity as "the way", it didn't take long though and I started dismantling that too. That was a low point for me, I had become friends with another exJW, an older guy who is very knowledgeable about the bible. We often exchanged e-mails. When he noticed that I was starting to question Christian doctrines and the bible he cut me off telling me that I may be lost beyond saving. It was sad to realize that many exJWs still hold on to the same dogmatism and his rejection was very harsh. Now I see that religion is not the way at all. Being in tune with Source is far more individual than most believe. The thought of personal sovereignty has become very important to me, but that wasn't easy to get used to after all this "God's sovereignty" programming for years.

Not sure myself where I am with processing, but I've gone through many phases in a very short time and feel much more steady now. Someone told me I was going through it at a very quick pace, but it wasn't conscious on my part, there's this drive in me and I still feel like I'm going too slow. :rolleyes: Often I have this feeling that there is something specific I need to do here, but I don't know what.

Much love and peace to you too,
-Kraut


The revelation and history of the Baha'i Faith is worth investigating. I'm not suggesting to join or practice it,
just to know that here are prophecies to do with the system change this world is going through, and how to build a just society.
Since it is an off-shoot of Islam, it gets misunderstood by many.
Yet the liberal teachings which give women equal status were the main reason
Bahai's were being tortured and killed to the tune of 20,000, incited by the Muslim clergy, until this day.

[sheme]

I have been living with a really bad smell in my kitchen -I knew something was BAD but I couldn't find it -three days later, the bad smell has been revealed- ASDA salmon portions -so disgusting i decided the dogs should have them so I microwaved them - that was a long time ago-LOL the moral of this story wait long enough and the truth will come to you.

[Playdo of Ataraxas]

Kraut and 1InMany... thank you for sharing those powerful stories.

At 17, I told my Catholic father I had had enough - after all those years and all those Catholic masses (every Sunday since I was an infant, and 6 days a week from 1st grade to 8th grade) I wasn't going to church again. He was furious. He said, "If you're going to live in this house, you're going to church." I said, "OK.", and walked away. He was surprised when I packed a backpack full of stuff and walked out.

(I'd like to say I stayed away, but I caved-in when my sister begged me to come home, "because it is destroying the family." I stayed for one more year, pretending to go to church at a different time than my dad.)

Not nearly as dramatic as your stories (especially 1InMany - holy sh!t!), but I do understand being born into oppressive and unwavering religious indoctrination.

Dennis

i told my dad the same Dennis, but I was 8. The family would go to church every Sunday, often except him. We were living in a small village and it was not well seen not going to church. So my mom would force us, but she could not force my dad. The province of Quebec was as fanatic about catholicism then as Pentecotist are down Southern US now.

When I was 6, the nuns at school had told my sister and I, and the rest of the class, that people not going to church would die and go straight to hell. Therefore, my sister and I started praying for my father daily, because we loved him and wanted to avoid him hell.

I finally asked my mom if dad was a bad person. She asked why do I ask? I told her about the nuns discourse. The following dinner, we had a family discussion to understand the difference between good and bad, asking us what our hearts felt. When we answered, my parents told us that we should always follow our hearts, not what people say, that if our hearts felt my father as a good man, it was because he was, period.

No need to tell you that when I woke up on a Sunday morning at 8 years old, and told my dad I did not want to go to church anymore, there were no arguments. His answer was, ok, you don't want, therefore you don 't go anymore. My sister kept going for a while and then she stopped too.

That was really great.


I’m behind reading the posts.

Thank you, 1inMany. That was a powerful story! If there’s any bits of gunk left to release, I have no doubt that it’ll be quick like a tupperware burp!

I just saw the Catholic thing up there. I went to a Catholic Academy. Was going to become a nun until I learned that nuns don't do sports.

I was late in leaving the establishment at age 26. My ex-mother-in-law told me I couldn't receive communion because I was divorced. I asked then why haven't I been struck down? “Officially excommunicated,” I believe were her next words.

She said it was okay to go to church but I couldn’t receive communion. I told her that I was the same person before as after, so, I'll have no part of it. Her answer to that was, she'll pray for me.



I grew up Southern Baptist, it was a large part of our community. Reilly knows what I'm talking about. We joke today and call the church Six Flags Over Jesus. I think it was at age 13 or 14 that I stopped going. Thankfully, my parents weren't pushy about it. Since I was the youngest child and I quit going, my parents quit too. I think they were going to support me, and were probably glad not to go back once I quit. My wife's family is strictly Catholic, and so is my sister-in-law. We are seen as pariahs since we are the only ones that don't go to mass. I would always catch hell for not going to mass and I would be pestered to do so. Until I figured out something about Catholicism. I learned that you are not supposed to take communion if you are not Catholic. Well, that didn't seem very Christian to me. I couldn't imagine Christ himself turning me down because I wasn't adhering to a certain dogma. Anyway, every time I went to mass I would take communion. I wasn't doing it to piss anybody off, but I figured if I was going to church, I might as well take communion. Long story short, they stopped asking me to go because I would always take communion.

[Carmody]

And then you switched to Pringles (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pringles).

Can't eat just one!

Apparently I'm the token heathen bastard among this bunch here in this thread.....

[Flash]

Kraut and 1InMany... thank you for sharing those powerful stories.

At 17, I told my Catholic father I had had enough - after all those years and all those Catholic masses (every Sunday since I was an infant, and 6 days a week from 1st grade to 8th grade) I wasn't going to church again. He was furious. He said, "If you're going to live in this house, you're going to church." I said, "OK.", and walked away. He was surprised when I packed a backpack full of stuff and walked out.

(I'd like to say I stayed away, but I caved-in when my sister begged me to come home, "because it is destroying the family." I stayed for one more year, pretending to go to church at a different time than my dad.)

Not nearly as dramatic as your stories (especially 1InMany - holy sh!t!), but I do understand being born into oppressive and unwavering religious indoctrination.

Dennis

i told my dad the same Dennis, but I was 8. The family would go to church every Sunday, often except him. We were living in a small village and it was not well seen not going to church. So my mom would force us, but she could not force my dad. The province of Quebec was as fanatic about catholicism then as Pentecotist are down Southern US now.

When I was 6, the nuns at school had told my sister and I, and the rest of the class, that people not going to church would die and go straight to hell. Therefore, my sister and I started praying for my father daily, because we loved him and wanted to avoid him hell.

I finally asked my mom if dad was a bad person. She asked why do I ask? I told her about the nuns discourse. The following dinner, we had a family discussion to understand the difference between good and bad, asking us what our hearts felt. When we answered, my parents told us that we should always follow our hearts, not what people say, that if our hearts felt my father as a good man, it was because he was, period.

No need to tell you that when I woke up on a Sunday morning at 8 years old, and told my dad I did not want to go to church anymore, there were no arguments. His answer was, ok, you don't want, therefore you don 't go anymore. My sister kept going for a while and then she stopped too.

That was really great.


I’m behind reading the posts.

Thank you, 1inMany. That was a powerful story! If there’s any bits of gunk left to release, I have no doubt that it’ll be quick like a tupperware burp!

I just saw the Catholic thing up there. I went to a Catholic Academy. Was going to become a nun until I learned that nuns don't do sports.

I was late in leaving the establishment at age 26. My ex-mother-in-law told me I couldn't receive communion because I was divorced. I asked then why haven't I been struck down? “Officially excommunicated,” I believe were her next words.

She said it was okay to go to church but I couldn’t receive communion. I told her that I was the same person before as after, so, I'll have no part of it. Her answer to that was, she'll pray for me.



I grew up Southern Baptist, it was a large part of our community. Reilly knows what I'm talking about. We joke today and call the church Six Flags Over Jesus. I think it was at age 13 or 14 that I stopped going. Thankfully, my parents weren't pushy about it. Since I was the youngest child and I quit going, my parents quit too. I think they were going to support me, and were probably glad not to go back once I quit. My wife's family is strictly Catholic, and so is my sister-in-law. We are seen as pariahs since we are the only ones that don't go to mass. I would always catch hell for not going to mass and I would be pestered to do so. Until I figured out something about Catholicism. I learned that you are not supposed to take communion if you are not Catholic. Well, that didn't seem very Christian to me. I couldn't imagine Christ himself turning me down because I wasn't adhering to a certain dogma. Anyway, every time I went to mass I would take communion. I wasn't doing it to piss anybody off, but I figured if I was going to church, I might as well take communion. Long story short, they stopped asking me to go because I would always take communion.

Makes me think: a secretary working with me in the nineties was really annoyed by Jehovah Witnesses ringing her door and waking her up every Sunday morning for preaching. She came back a Monday morning at work all smily and tells me that she still had the JW at the door on Sunday morning but that this time she answered naked. It seems they turned away so fast that is was ridiculously funny calling her devil. She never saw hem again.

[Flash]

And then you switched to Pringles (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pringles).

Can't eat just one!

Apparently I'm the token heathen bastard among this bunch here in this thread.....

I do not know what is a heathen bastard, so I will just say you are our poor bastard....:)

¤=[Post Update]=¤

I may have been right after all Carmody


"Heathen" redirects here. For other uses, see Heathen (disambiguation).

Heathen is from Old English hæðen "not Christian or Jewish" (c.f. Old Norse heiðinn). Historically, the term was probably influenced by Gothic haiþi "dwelling on the heath", appearing as haiþno in Ulfilas' bible as "gentile woman" (translating the "Hellene" in Mark 7:26). This translation was probably influenced by Latin paganus, "country dweller", or it was chosen because of its similarity to the Greek ἐθνικός ethnikos, "gentile". It has even been suggested that Gothic haiþi is not related to "heath" at all, but rather a loan from Armenian hethanos, itself loaned from Greek ἔθνος ethnos.
Terminology
Further information: Idolatry, Polytheism, and Ethnic religion

Both "pagan" and "heathen" have historically been used as a pejorative by adherents of monotheistic religions such as Judaism, Christianity and Islam to indicate a disbeliever in their religion; although in modern times it is not always used as a pejorative.[13] "Paganism" frequently refers to the religions of classical antiquity, most notably Greek mythology or Roman religion; and can be used neutrally or admiringly by those who refer to those complexes of belief. However, until the rise of Romanticism and the general acceptance of freedom of religion in Western civilization, "paganism" was almost always used disparagingly of heterodox beliefs falling outside the established political framework of the Christian Church.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heathen#Heathen

[araucaria]

And then you switched to Pringles (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pringles).

Can't eat just one!

Apparently I'm the token heathen bastard among this bunch here in this thread.....

If you're talking about consuming the wrong stuff, Carmody, I'm with you :)

But I did hear there was something deadful in Pringles can't remember what :eek:

Edit: don't panic, I meant dreadful :)

[Playdo of Ataraxas]

And then you switched to Pringles (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pringles).

Can't eat just one!

Apparently I'm the token heathen bastard among this bunch here in this thread.....

And some people prefer hot cheetos and takis:

7YLy4j8EZIk

[Playdo of Ataraxas]

And then you switched to Pringles (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pringles).

Can't eat just one!

Apparently I'm the token heathen bastard among this bunch here in this thread.....

If you're talking about consuming the wrong stuff, Carmody, I'm with you :)

But I did hear there was something deadful in Pringles can't remember what :eek:

Oh no! From the anal glands of which animal are the natural flavors of Pringles derived? I told my dad about Castoreum and he told me to shut the &$%# up! Apparently, he really loves raspberry yogurt.

[Guest]

There are a lot of dreadful somethings in Pringles....

as Modwiz would say "don't drink the Kool-Aid."


Love


Nora


I think someone needs to redefine their idea of "civilized"

[araucaria]

Anybody know about any significant objects on the east coast last night. This picture was posted on one of V's FB friend's page, saying it was a comet he was seeing now. He lives in New Jersey, and the comments indicated he had just taken it (which kinda coincided with one of her dizzy spells)

I am eagerly awaiting her questions to him on how he knows it was a comet and how he managed to capture it in a photo (aren't they pretty fast, and usually even anticipated?), anyway it is a pretty awesome shot:

http://projectavalon.net/forum4/attachment.php?attachmentid=20798&d=1363224698

Missed this 15 hours/pages ago. That certainly looks like a comet - the tail makes it look like Super Mario playing tennis.
A propos, played my best ever game last night. I usually put away a couple of impossible shots, as proof that there is an element of skill here, but last night was crazy, too many things happened that shouldn't have. Sport is generally decried on this forum, but it can be another way of producing disbelief (and possibly disgust) with in-your-face evidence of paranormal goings-on.

On another subject, I mentioned a while back a nephew who had psychiatric problems. Excellent news to report: he seems very much better, after a couple of weeks at home during the day, and now on reduced meds and soon home for good. Recognizes his previous condition and is grateful to everyone for their timely intervention.

So many thanks to all on this thread who had a (not so) small part in this :) :)

[araucaria]

And then you switched to Pringles (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pringles).

Can't eat just one!

Apparently I'm the token heathen bastard among this bunch here in this thread.....

If you're talking about consuming the wrong stuff, Carmody, I'm with you :)

But I did hear there was something deadful in Pringles can't remember what :eek:

Oh no! From the anal glands of which animal are the natural flavors of Pringles derived? I told my dad about Castoreum and he told me to shut the &$%# up! Apparently, he really loves raspberry yogurt.
I don't know, it's worsse than this:

http://io9.com/5851487/how-are-pringles-made

I found out a while back, so it's not shavings of Rumanian horses' hooves either, but it certainly put me off ...

Edit: I read the story of the neurologist who survived a 7 day coma with no brain functions, basically because it wasn't his time. So I reckon a few pringles or whatever are not going to get us out of Dodge until we're done...

[Flash]

I was ready to jump bandwagon and become heathen by changing my catholic blood and flesh (wine and hostie) eating habits for something tastier, with you guys.

But I read this:


The Pringles Company (in an effort to avoid taxes levied against "luxury foods" like chips in the UK) once even argued that the potato content of their chips was so low that they are technically not even potato chips.

So if they're not made of potatoes, what are they exactly?

The process begins with a slurry of rice, wheat, corn, and potato flakes that are pressed into shape.

This dough-like substance is then rolled out into an ultra-thin sheet cut into chip-cookies by a machine.

According to io9:

"The chips move forward on a conveyor belt until they're pressed onto molds, which give them the curve that makes them fit into one another.

Those molds move through boiling oil ... Then they're blown dry, sprayed with powdered flavors, and at last, flipped onto a slower-moving conveyor belt in a way that allows them to stack.

From then on, it's into the cans ... and off towards the innocent mouths of the consumers."

I suspect nearly everyone reading this likely enjoys the taste of potato chips. However, they are clearly one of the most toxic processed foods you can eat—whether they're made from actual potato shavings or not.

Potato Chips are Loaded with Cancer-Causing Chemical

One of the most hazardous ingredients in potato chips is not intentionally added, but rather is a byproduct of the processing.

Acrylamide, a cancer-causing and potentially neurotoxic chemical, is created when carbohydrate-rich foods are cooked at high temperatures, whether baked, fried, roasted or toasted. Some of the worst offenders include potato chips and French fries, but many foods cooked or processed at temperatures above 212°F (100°C) may contain acrylamide. As a general rule, the chemical is formed when food is heated enough to produce a fairly dry and brown/yellow surface. Hence, it can be found in:

Potatoes: chips, French fries and other roasted or fried potato foods
Grains: bread crust, toast, crisp bread, roasted breakfast cereals and various processed snacks
Coffee; roasted coffee beans and ground coffee powder. Surprisingly, coffee substitutes based on chicory actually contains 2-3 times MORE acrylamide than real coffee

How Much Acrylamide are You Consuming?

The federal limit for acrylamide in drinking water is 0.5 parts per billion, or about 0.12 micrograms in an eight-ounce glass of water. However, a six-ounce serving of French fries can contain 60 micrograms of acrylamide, or about FIVE HUNDRED times over the allowable limit.

Similarly, potato chips are notoriously high in this dangerous chemical. So high, in fact, that in 2005 the state of California actually sued potato chip makers for failing to warn California consumers about the health risks of acrylamide in their products. A settlement was reached in 2008 when Frito-Lay and several other potato chip makers agreed to reduce the acrylamide levels in their chips to 275 parts per billion (ppb) by 2011, which is low enough to avoid needing a cancer warning label.

The 2005 report "How Potato Chips Stack Up: Levels of Cancer-Causing Acrylamide in Popular Brands of Potato Chips," issued by the California-based Environmental Law Foundation (ELF), spelled out the dangers of this popular snack. Their analysis found that all potato chip products tested exceeded the legal limit of acrylamide by a minimum of 39 times, and as much as 910 times! Some of the worst offenders at that time included:

Cape Cod Robust Russet: 910 times the legal limit of acrylamide
Kettle Chips (lightly salted): 505 times
Kettle Chips (honey dijon): 495 times

Beware: Baked Chips May Be WORSE than Fried!http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2011/11/07/the-shocking-true-story-of-how-pringles-are-made.aspx

In my idea, still not as bad as Castoreum (the um ending must betray what it is)

[Kraut]

The revelation and history of the Baha'i Faith is worth investigating. I'm not suggesting to join or practice it,
just to know that here are prophecies to do with the system change this world is going through, and how to build a just society.
Since it is an off-shoot of Islam, it gets misunderstood by many.
Yet the liberal teachings which give women equal status were the main reason
Bahai's were being tortured and killed to the tune of 20,000, incited by the Muslim clergy, until this day.

Interesting, I'll look into it. Expanding my horizon is always good. Danke.



Makes me think: a secretary working with me in the nineties was really annoyed by Jehovah Witnesses ringing her door and waking her up every Sunday morning for preaching. She came back a Monday morning at work all smily and tells me that she still had the JW at the door on Sunday morning but that this time she answered naked. It seems they turned away so fast that is was ridiculously funny calling her devil. She never saw hem again.

Sounds like they couldn't stand being in the presence of such beauty. No sackcloth for the sinners. :lol:

[araucaria]

And then you switched to Pringles (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pringles).

Can't eat just one!

Apparently I'm the token heathen bastard among this bunch here in this thread.....

I do not know what is a heathen bastard, so I will just say you are our poor bastard....:)

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I may have been right after all Carmody


"Heathen" redirects here. For other uses, see Heathen (disambiguation).

Heathen is from Old English hæðen "not Christian or Jewish" (c.f. Old Norse heiðinn). Historically, the term was probably influenced by Gothic haiþi "dwelling on the heath", appearing as haiþno in Ulfilas' bible as "gentile woman" (translating the "Hellene" in Mark 7:26). This translation was probably influenced by Latin paganus, "country dweller", or it was chosen because of its similarity to the Greek ἐθνικός ethnikos, "gentile". It has even been suggested that Gothic haiþi is not related to "heath" at all, but rather a loan from Armenian hethanos, itself loaned from Greek ἔθνος ethnos.
Terminology
Further information: Idolatry, Polytheism, and Ethnic religion

Both "pagan" and "heathen" have historically been used as a pejorative by adherents of monotheistic religions such as Judaism, Christianity and Islam to indicate a disbeliever in their religion; although in modern times it is not always used as a pejorative.[13] "Paganism" frequently refers to the religions of classical antiquity, most notably Greek mythology or Roman religion; and can be used neutrally or admiringly by those who refer to those complexes of belief. However, until the rise of Romanticism and the general acceptance of freedom of religion in Western civilization, "paganism" was almost always used disparagingly of heterodox beliefs falling outside the established political framework of the Christian Church.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heathen#Heathen

The Greeks had their barbarians, and the Athenians their Boeotians, all it means is the people next door.

[Flash]

I just learned that I had one of those distance taking usage electric meters on my house for more than two years. They still had to have the guy come in the street to collect, but is was a distance meter. I can't believe it.

They now want to install the new one that emits every fifteen minutes. If I opt out (at least i do have a choice) they will have a manual meter installed, but I will have to pay 95$ for installation and 209$ a year for service of the meter.

I would really like to know what this kind of meter truly does to human without having all the panicky people throwing tons of data to me. The hydro electric company says that is does not emit more than a wi=fi in the home. And it is 10 times below actual regulations. I wonder if it emits anything else.

I was asking the Electrical company why taking data every fifteen minutes, this is ludicrous. The agent could not answer.

[william r sanford72]

Anybody know about any significant objects on the east coast last night. This picture was posted on one of V's FB friend's page, saying it was a comet he was seeing now. He lives in New Jersey, and the comments indicated he had just taken it (which kinda coincided with one of her dizzy spells)

I am eagerly awaiting her questions to him on how he knows it was a comet and how he managed to capture it in a photo (aren't they pretty fast, and usually even anticipated?), anyway it is a pretty awesome shot:

http://projectavalon.net/forum4/attachment.php?attachmentid=20798&d=1363224698

Missed this 15 hours/pages ago. That certainly looks like a comet - the tail makes it look like Super Mario playing tennis.
A propos, played my best ever game last night. I usually put away a couple of impossible shots, as proof that there is an element of skill here, but last night was crazy, too many things happened that shouldn't have. Sport is generally decried on this forum, but it can be another way of producing disbelief (and possibly disgust) with in-your-face evidence of paranormal goings-on.

On another subject, I mentioned a while back a nephew who had psychiatric problems. Excellent news to report: he seems very much better, after a couple of weeks at home during the day, and now on reduced meds and soon home for good. Recognizes his previous condition and is grateful to everyone for their timely intervention.

So many thanks to all on this thread who had a (not so) small part in this :) :)

seen comet here last night around 11.30 12.00..very large. woke up did chores and come back on line to see if any body else out there seen it. one site of several i checked confirmed what i saw. the site was www.lunarmeteoritehunter.com i cant download sites or files.but it was confirmed and it was one of bigger ones ive seen over the years. in this part of the usa anyways.IOWA.

[Guest]

And then you switched to Pringles (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pringles).

Can't eat just one!

Apparently I'm the token heathen bastard among this bunch here in this thread.....

If you're talking about consuming the wrong stuff, Carmody, I'm with you :)

But I did hear there was something deadful in Pringles can't remember what :eek:

Oh no! From the anal glands of which animal are the natural flavors of Pringles derived? I told my dad about Castoreum and he told me to shut the &$%# up! Apparently, he really loves raspberry yogurt.


A family member told me they were taking a Raspberry diet supplement to lose weight. I said to them make sure it doesn't have Castoreum in it. They ran to the bathroom and got sick after I told them it was from the anal gland of beavers. They threw the bottle away.


Love


Nora

[RunningDeer]

Not nearly as dramatic as your stories (especially 1InMany - holy sh!t!), but I do understand being born into oppressive and unwavering religious indoctrination.
No need to tell you that when I woke up on a Sunday morning at 8 years old, and told my dad I did not want to go to church anymore, there were no arguments. His answer was, ok, you don't want, therefore you don 't go anymore. My sister kept going for a while and then she stopped too.


I was late in leaving the establishment at age 26. My ex-mother-in-law told me I couldn't receive communion because I was divorced. I asked then why haven't I been struck down? “Officially excommunicated,” I believe were her next words.
I learned that you are not supposed to take communion if you are not Catholic. Well, that didn't seem very Christian to me. I couldn't imagine Christ himself turning me down because I wasn't adhering to a certain dogma.

Makes me think: a secretary working with me in the nineties was really annoyed by Jehovah Witnesses ringing her door and waking her up every Sunday morning for preaching. She came back a Monday morning at work all smily and tells me that she still had the JW at the door on Sunday morning but that this time she answered naked. It seems they turned away so fast that is was ridiculously funny calling her devil. She never saw hem again.

I posted this on the other site: The last time a Jehovah triad came, it was the usual gig. One in the car and two came up. This time I opened my door before they had a chance to knock. I told them I was a Buddhist and also did Tai Chi. I said I’ve got a fresh pot of coffee on, and invited them in to hear my beliefs. They politely declined, didn't leave any literature, nor did they ever return. Tee...


http://avalonlibrary.net/paula/Photoshop/yin-yang.GIF

How To Maneuver a Government Checkpoint
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[RunningDeer]

And then you switched to Pringles (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pringles).
Can't eat just one!
Apparently I'm the token heathen bastard among this bunch here in this thread.....
If you're talking about consuming the wrong stuff, Carmody, I'm with you :)
But I did hear there was something deadful in Pringles can't remember what :eek:
Edit: don't panic, I meant dreadful :)

Are You Eating This All-Time Favorite "Cancer-in-a-Can" Snack? (http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2011/11/07/the-shocking-true-story-of-how-pringles-are-made.aspx)

"The chips move forward on a conveyor belt until they're pressed onto molds, which give them the curve that makes them fit into one another.
Those molds move through boiling oil ... Then they're blown dry, sprayed with powdered flavors, and at last, flipped onto a slower-moving conveyor belt in a way that allows them to stack..."

Potato Chips are Loaded with Cancer-Causing Chemical

One of the most hazardous ingredients in potato chips is not intentionally added, but rather is a byproduct of the processing.

Acrylamide, a cancer-causing and potentially neurotoxic chemical, is created when carbohydrate-rich foods are cooked at high temperatures, whether baked, fried, roasted or toasted. Some of the worst offenders include potato chips and French fries, but many foods cooked or processed at temperatures above 212°F (100°C) may contain acrylamide. As a general rule, the chemical is formed when food is heated enough to produce a fairly dry and brown/yellow surface. Hence, it can be found in:

Potatoes: chips, French fries and other roasted or fried potato foods
Grains: bread crust, toast, crisp bread, roasted breakfast cereals and various processed snacks
Coffee; roasted coffee beans and ground coffee powder. Surprisingly, coffee substitutes based on chicory actually contains 2-3 times MORE acrylamide than real coffee

There as some worse than Pringles: Cape Cod, Kettle Chips lightly salted & honey dijon.

Beware: Baked Chips May Be WORSE than Fried!

If you think you can avoid the health risks of potato chips by choosing baked varieties, which are typically advertised as being "healthier," think again. Remember that acrylamide is formed not only when foods are fried or broiled, but also when they are baked. And according to U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) data on acrylamide levels in foods, baked chips may contain more than three times the level of acrylamide as regular chips!


Now I know why Jessica Biel doesn’t eat that chip on the David Letterman show video.

Jessica Biel Pringles Comercial
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UPDATE: Araucaria, I'm reading in order, so I missed your post. This was the vid on your site. BTW: Great news about your nephew!

UPDATE the UPDATE: Flash, just got to your post. :wave:


@ 2:15
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[RunningDeer]

I just learned that I had one of those distance taking usage electric meters on my house for more than two years. They still had to have the guy come in the street to collect, but is was a distance meter. I can't believe it.

They now want to install the new one that emits every fifteen minutes. If I opt out (at least i do have a choice) they will have a manual meter installed, but I will have to pay 95$ for installation and 209$ a year for service of the meter.

I would really like to know what this kind of meter truly does to human without having all the panicky people throwing tons of data to me. The hydro electric company says that is does not emit more than a wi=fi in the home. And it is 10 times below actual regulations. I wonder if it emits anything else.

I was asking the Electrical company why taking data every fifteen minutes, this is ludicrous. The agent could not answer.


And it is 10 times below actual regulations.
Yeah, my guess is the 'regulations number' is one they sorta pulled out of the air. It changes as best fits the Electrical company.


...but I will have to pay 95$ for installation and 209$ a year for service of the meter.
300$ X how many customers?
Phase I: They know most people will pick the cheaper route. Classic illusion of choice.
Phase II: Then when enough numbers come out in favor of their data, everyone must convert to the unhealthy one. And, yes, healthy profits for the wart-ones. Grrrrr!

Please let this be what wakes more and more up!


http://i1262.photobucket.com/albums/ii610/WhiteCrowBlackDeer/wake-up_zps0f25ab1b.jpg

[Carmody]

And then you switched to Pringles (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pringles).

Can't eat just one!

Apparently I'm the token heathen bastard among this bunch here in this thread.....

If you're talking about consuming the wrong stuff, Carmody, I'm with you :)

But I did hear there was something deadful in Pringles can't remember what :eek:

Oh no! From the anal glands of which animal are the natural flavors of Pringles derived? I told my dad about Castoreum and he told me to shut the &$%# up! Apparently, he really loves raspberry yogurt.


A family member told me they were taking a Raspberry diet supplement to lose weight. I said to them make sure it doesn't have Castoreum in it. They ran to the bathroom and got sick after I told them it was from the anal gland of beavers. They threw the bottle away.


Love


Nora

Hey, I'm still eating raspberry yogurt!

"Fruit Bottom" Yogurt.

'tis fitting -- At least the descriptor is accurate!

I am cutting back, though. I try not to think about it. As i sit there and eat one...I keep thinking I can separate the flavors. I probably can. Then I mentally move to seeing the beavers 'in action', as a visualization. Sure helps damp my enthusiasm for raspberry yogurt.

[Playdo of Ataraxas]

And then you switched to Pringles (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pringles).

Can't eat just one!

Apparently I'm the token heathen bastard among this bunch here in this thread.....

If you're talking about consuming the wrong stuff, Carmody, I'm with you :)

But I did hear there was something deadful in Pringles can't remember what :eek:

Oh no! From the anal glands of which animal are the natural flavors of Pringles derived? I told my dad about Castoreum and he told me to shut the &$%# up! Apparently, he really loves raspberry yogurt.


A family member told me they were taking a Raspberry diet supplement to lose weight. I said to them make sure it doesn't have Castoreum in it. They ran to the bathroom and got sick after I told them it was from the anal gland of beavers. They threw the bottle away.


Love


Nora

Ha! As I keep explaining to family members, once you learn something you can't unlearn it. So, moral of the story methinks, tread lightly, and don't go reading something unless you're willing to learn!

[Playdo of Ataraxas]

I just learned that I had one of those distance taking usage electric meters on my house for more than two years. They still had to have the guy come in the street to collect, but is was a distance meter. I can't believe it.

They now want to install the new one that emits every fifteen minutes. If I opt out (at least i do have a choice) they will have a manual meter installed, but I will have to pay 95$ for installation and 209$ a year for service of the meter.

I would really like to know what this kind of meter truly does to human without having all the panicky people throwing tons of data to me. The hydro electric company says that is does not emit more than a wi=fi in the home. And it is 10 times below actual regulations. I wonder if it emits anything else.

I was asking the Electrical company why taking data every fifteen minutes, this is ludicrous. The agent could not answer.

Just recently, I found the meter man installing a smart meter at my house. I've learned that I don't have a choice, unless I want to go without electricity. WTF? I found this article explaining the EM frequencies emitted from it:

http://www.wakingtimes.com/2013/03/07/the-great-smart-meters-hoax-electromagnetic-fields-are-real-and-dangerous-to-our-health/

[Playdo of Ataraxas]

Hey Flash, following up with our Acadian discussion (I really enjoyed reading the Wiki article. I had no idea they were deported to France and then sailed to Louisiana!) I bought this six-pack today. The beer is actually brewed in Mississippi by Lazy Magnolia Brewery. It's yummy:

[Guest]

I love raspberries and tried not to think about it. My relative asked me -where do you learn all of this stuff? Lol

I'll buy raspberries from the local farmers market and make my own syrup, pudding or eat them fresh.



Love


Nora

[RunningDeer]

Take Back Your Power - Official Trailer [HD]
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Published on Oct 5, 2012

Click Here to Subscribe (http://www.youtube.com/user/ThePowerFilm?feature=watch): to our website to learn how you can choose not to have a "smart meter", subscribe, and support us in completing the film: http://takebackyourpower.net/

Take Back Your Power is a historic community-funded film which exposes the technocratic "smart meter" agenda, by which corporations are currently attempting to quietly assert the basis for further control in the lives and homes of the world's citizens. The film will also focus on specific solutions -- which are presently available -- for humanity to leapfrog outdated ideas of control, and co-create a better future.


[Playdo of Ataraxas]

Thanks Paula! That is great information. I might be able to do something with this. Definitely gonna try......

[ThePythonicCow]

Smart-Bots in a bottle

The CDC after testing APeX refused to publish the results claiming the technology top secret -classified.

Nano-oxygenated Silver in a bottle is now available to the public as a health supplement.
Some readers may find your earlier posts on this "stuff" (before it was available for sale) also useful. See for example Nora's Post #14735 (http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?30405-Here-and-Now...What-s-Happening&p=504557&viewfull=1#post504557) earlier on this same thread, from June 2012.

Personally I am a bit amazed this "stuff" is for sale now via a website based in the US. Listen to Bill Chastain's 2011 interview with Spectrum Radio (http://www.spectrumradionetwork.com/Archive/bill-chastain-apex-revolutionary-cancer-program.html) for why I use that word "stuff".

A Google search for "site:projectavalon.net apexuap" will find more posts on this forum regarding APeX UAP.

[lookbeyond]

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The Secret Life of Trees -- Relax and Chill Out

[lookbeyond]

http://youtu.be/brWOsbcmFlw

Hi i wanted to share this beautiful music, have just been told "how to", tho am unable to get text onto same post, anyways- enjoy!

lookbeyond

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Oh thats how ( press reply with quote?)

[lookbeyond]

Hi,just a brief description of the music i posted above-it is tranquil yet emotive continuous pieces of music with piano and i like to put it on when im doing my boring housework to elevate me back to what really matters-higher thoughts!

love lookbeyond

[1inMany]

Hi,just a brief description of the music i posted above-it is tranquil yet emotive continuous pieces of music with piano and i like to put it on when im doing my boring housework to elevate me back to what really matters-higher thoughts!

love lookbeyond

Thank you, lookbeyond, it is truly beautiful music. I even bookmarked it so tomorrow when I continue on this cleaning spell I'm in, I will have something to listen to.

Here and Now...man, I'm tired. Built a house, garage, dog & doghouse, yard, car, and helicopter. Oh, and a garden. Okay, fine, it was Lego's....but still. That's a lot.

Went outside to look at stars and heard some critter or other in the dark, rustling through branches and whatnot. Reminiscent of last spring...think I will soon have to quit going for late night strolls in the yard, drat.

Also need to mow, holy crap do I have to do that every year? Least the tires aren't flat. Yet.

Musings to sleep by, that's what this is. Brainpower for the day exhausted. Yep.

Sweet dreams, Village...Much Love,

[AutumnW]

@Amzer Zo
Laura and the Cassiopaeans once were part of my path, but I left it.
Don't want to go into the reason why other than that I used to be a bit like her...
And was going around warning people of the bad stuff that was coming,
instead of empowering them to the potential they had within.
While having their fear oven stoked works for some, and I don't deny this,
as some of it helped me wake up, too,
yet I'd now much rather focus on the alternative option, which is to have everyone's light shine brighter...
Turn up the dimmer switch, people.
Much easier than worry about which ETs will do what...
Then let the moths come to your candles and see what happens.

To illustrate this attitude some more...
I drive in the crazy traffic conditions of Costa Rica, and have figured out how to get home safely.
I look out to the front, and focus my eyes on the empty spaces ahead of me.
Sometimes I can see several hundred yards ahead, and it looks to me like the parting waters of the Red Sea.

Meanwhile I had this neurotic friend who was the most fearful backseat driver I ever encountered...
who kept pointing out what was going on inside the other cars.
Like, 'watch that car on your right, woman driver talking on her cell phone', or 'that guy is hung-over, he might do such and such'. On and on, this person was seeing danger everywhere.
After six months of reading Laura and Ark's The Wave I realized the effect this was having on me...it was turning me into that neurotic backseat driver. Instead of focusing on getting home I was imagining what was happening inside other drivers heads.
So I made my choice and left that path.

Her particular path encourages spiritual exclusivity and fundamentalism. How is preaching that half of humanity is soulless in any way helpful? Beliefs like these are mean spirited and profoundly paranoia inducing. Good for you that you broke away.

[araucaria]

We smile at Roman saturnists poisoning themselves to death with lead crockery, but at least their food and drink were probably OK. We have aluminium and and teflon and we have multiple methods of poisoning our stuff first anyway.

Edit: the Rumanian horsemeat I gather was the result of a new traffic regulation in that country: no more horses and carts on tarmacked roads. Hence a glut ofsubstandard equine material. Wonder what the did with the carts :eek:

[araucaria]

Pursuing my thoughts on leadership in an earlier post. If the leader is acting out on behalf of/driven by the grassroots, then we may take the counterintuitive view that politicians of late have been no exception, and have continued to fulfill voters’ expectations. As these expectations approached zero and worse, they have behaved accordingly. We do not get the leadership that we deserve or want, we get the leadership that we expect.

The key then is to expect what we really want (and deserve). This is a form of the ‘naïve optimism’ that is so decried on this forum and that some of us see rather differently. It cannot be truly naive since it is conscious. It is actually ‘sophisticated innocence’, which only sounds like an oxymoron to the extent that we haven’t fully understood the concept.

How do we get from where we are to where we want to be? Well some sophisticated innocents have been voting in a few politicians like forum member Simon Parkes, who are already acting upon these positive expectations. As our expectations gradually increase, their performance will follow. This will be so, just as surely as the same principle has so far applied in the opposite direction: the more corrupt we can imagine our politicians to be, the more corrupt they have shown themselves to be.

Unfortunately, I am not sure that forums like Avalon, yes Avalon, have turned this corner yet.

[ulli]

Pursuing my thoughts on leadership in an earlier post. If the leader is acting out on behalf of/driven by the grassroots, then we may take the counterintuitive view that politicians of late have been no exception, and have continued to fulfill voters’ expectations. As these expectations approached zero and worse, they have behaved accordingly. We do not get the leadership that we deserve or want, we get the leadership that we expect.

The key then is to expect what we really want (and deserve). This is a form of the ‘naïve optimism’ that is so decried on this forum and that some of us see rather differently. It cannot be truly naive since it is conscious. It is actually ‘sophisticated innocence’, which only sounds like an oxymoron to the extent that we haven’t fully understood the concept.

How do we get from where we are to where we want to be? Well some sophisticated innocents have been voting in a few politicians like forum member Simon Parkes, who are already acting upon these positive expectations. As our expectations gradually increase, their performance will follow. This will be so, just as surely as the same principle has so far applied in the opposite direction: the more corrupt we can imagine our politicians to be, the more corrupt they have shown themselves to be.

Unfortunately, I am not sure that forums like Avalon, yes Avalon, have turned this corner yet.


Thank you for this very good post. I have been thinking about his for years, how the cycle of life works...
Being born ignorant, naive and innocent we are plunged into a world of contradictions,
to which we react each in our unique way, often angry, bewildered, or withdraw altogether.
To find a balanced response that does not perpetuate the vicious circle we expose ourselves as naive, and encounter ridicule.
Yet the alternative, with its accompanying cynicism, can never take us out of the vicious circle of ever perpetuating hostility.
Sophisticated innocence, which means innocence by choice, is the only true option that stands a chance to bring about the world we desire. Thank you for bringing this up. I hope others can join in and add their thoughts.

[RunningDeer]

Planetary Alignment Interactive

http://i1262.photobucket.com/albums/ii610/WhiteCrowBlackDeer/planets_zpsab0cbc16.jpg

A Geocentric view of the solar system

This page provides a different way of looking at the solar system. It is geocentric and shows where the Sun and all the planets (and the moon) are in the sky. It doesn't show the distances to the planets and so this version of the orrery does not have any of the usual orbit controls or centre object selector. However all other controls work as stated in the guide (http://www.theplanetstoday.com/help.html).

Whats so useful about a geocentric view?

Well the first thing you'll notice is that it's easy to see when there are conjunctions e.g. planets appear close together in the sky.

The second thing is that the planets are always shown in the correct zodiac signs. With the standard orrery, if the orbits were not set to be realistic, then the planets would not be shown in the correct sign.

In summary, this view is much more useful if you just want to know where the planets are (or were or will be) in the sky rather than where they and the earth are in the solar system.


Astrology interactive (http://www.theplanetstoday.com/astrology.html) & Geocentric interactive (http://www.theplanetstoday.com/geocentric_orrery.html) & App Controls Explained (http://www.theplanetstoday.com/help.html)

This interactive is introduced in the beginning and demonstrated at the end.
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[1inMany]

Good Morning. Trying to focus on that, being grateful for the sunshine. Grateful for the birds' chirping songs this morning, the clear, blue sky. Little One's presence, Mike's visit today, M coming home. Lots to be grateful for.

K and Chris are apparently moving today, from renting an apartment to renting a house. It doesn't appear they have told Little One. And I am hearing this second hand, as she didn't tell me herself. And this house is close to an elementary school, so I see what's coming. I wonder if they will leave him out here one more week. sigh.

Em and M are both sick. Fever, stomach, head, throat, head congestion. You know how I had to have that stupid truancy meeting at school for Em, attendance and test scores being tied to funds from the state. It's ridiculous that I have to think about pushing Em to school sick. She's taking tylenol for the fever, alka thyme on a rag for the head and throat, benedryl because she can't sleep and breathe...I'm trying what someone suggested and overdosing her on D3. I have two days to let all this work before a judgment call on antibiotics and school. Well wishes, healing energy, positive thoughts, prayers...all welcome and appreciated.

Much Love,

[WhiteFeather]

Good Morning. Trying to focus on that, being grateful for the sunshine. Grateful for the birds' chirping songs this morning, the clear, blue sky. Little One's presence, Mike's visit today, M coming home. Lots to be grateful for.

K and Chris are apparently moving today, from renting an apartment to renting a house. It doesn't appear they have told Little One. And I am hearing this second hand, as she didn't tell me herself. And this house is close to an elementary school, so I see what's coming. I wonder if they will leave him out here one more week. sigh.

Em and M are both sick. Fever, stomach, head, throat, head congestion. You know how I had to have that stupid truancy meeting at school for Em, attendance and test scores being tied to funds from the state. It's ridiculous that I have to think about pushing Em to school sick. She's taking tylenol for the fever, alka thyme on a rag for the head and throat, benedryl because she can't sleep and breathe...I'm trying what someone suggested and overdosing her on D3. I have two days to let all this work before a judgment call on antibiotics and school. Well wishes, healing energy, positive thoughts, prayers...all welcome and appreciated.

Much Love,

Caughing......,Wish i could share your vortex. But unfortunately we were fiercely crop dusted in the skys of NY in the past few days. It feels like Mordor. Low energy and coldness lurking. Those damn chemtrails. Caughing....

[eaglespirit]

The Only Way Out Is Within...and UP : ) : : )

[Wind]

Wow, I'm feeling really dizzy and surreal now thanks to that solar storm. I just need to lay down.

http://aishanorth.wordpress.com/2013/03/16/the-manuscript-of-survival-part-283/

[ulli]

http://sphotos-a.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc7/c0.0.403.403/p403x403/482676_346537052129652_1182742368_n.jpg

[RunningDeer]

Today is a
Villager 'fill in the blank day'
Allow it to wash over You

I received Serenity.

http://i1262.photobucket.com/albums/ii610/WhiteCrowBlackDeer/Fantasy%20Fun/IMG_1078.jpg


I should be heading out the door to a huge Irish cousins' reunion. Couldn't decided whether to wear green for St. Patrick's Day or go with comfy flannel and cotton and Uggs. Serenity worked. Comfy won. :wave:

[mojo]

it wouldn't be proper to walk past the village gate without saying hello every now & then...hello...:)

[ulli]

In a few hours we'll pass the 1 million views mark.


Giving everyone something to look at, like this multi-dimensional zebra.

http://i.imgur.com/4SY5HVq.jpg

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it wouldn't be proper to walk past the village gate without saying hello every now & then...hello...:)

Stick around, mojo, there'll be drinks on the house tonight.

[ulli]

CANNONBALL!

http://i.imgur.com/mjjt90o.gif

[Dennis Leahy]

...I should be heading out the door to a huge Irish cousins' reunion. Do you have any idea how upset your cousins are going to be when they find out that you called them "huge?" Perhaps we can help you refine that word, so it doesn't sting so badly.

How about: "dimensionally challenged in the equatorial plane" or "supra-adequately funded in the adipose bank."

Luv ya, Pauler. Have fun at the reunion. Have an extra green tea on me!

:~)

Dennis

[yukondiva]

Now a story of when I had a tiger by the tail.
One day we were went to a place to rescue some animals. The owner could no longer keep his animals so he called us to get them. We had been to his place before to make a plan. It was decided that since his animals were hand raised it would be better to walk them out of their enclosures. Sedating is very hard on animals and there was no way to get a container big enough to transport the tigers and lions. So there were four of us and we went into the cage wich housed a lion and a tiger. We had two guys who had lassos wich they put around the neck of the lion, and there was a guy and me who had the job of holding the tail to keep them on track. The lion walked out of the cage under our suprivision, into a large transport truck we had modify into sections with airholes punched into the top. Safely in the cage we went back to move the tiger. So we approached the tiger put the lassos over her head and the other guy and I grabbed her tail. Me being closer to the rear end. When all of a sudden the tiger decides to shake off the lassos. Everyone scrambled. Being that I was in the back of the cage, I ended up as the only one who could not get out of the enclosure. People who witnessed what happened next related this.
Somehow I levetated to the top most corner of the cage hanging by all fours. I don't remember it happenning because when your in real danger two things can happen. Everything can slow down very slow and you can think a milion thoughts in less than a minute or you go into total self preservation mode and adreneline takes over, which is what happened with me, henceforth me hanging in the corner of the cage. I do remember specifically what happened next. As I looked down into the cage.
I could see the tiger about to lunge at my butt(the lowest hanging body part) and I thought, oh **** this is how I am going to die! This is going to be embarrasing when the ambulance comes and I have no butt! The cat starts lunging and just then one of the guys with the lasso landed the rope around her neck, I could feel her hot breath on my rear as she gasped and fell to the floor. Well we continued to get her under control and walk her out. I was shaking like a leaf someone was like, here have a cigarrette. I smoked three in a row as I tried to get myself together. After that I was dubbed spider woman, a name that stuck with me for many years.

[Dennis Leahy]

yukondiva, your animal stories are worthy of a book! Or a movie! Or both!

Dennis

[ulli]

brWOsbcmFlw

The Secret Life of Trees -- Relax and Chill Out

This is just lovely. Thank you!

[yukondiva]

yukondiva, your animal stories are worthy of a book! Or a movie! Or both!

Dennis

I have been writing my autobiography for ten years. One day I will complete it. I have had so many interesting things happen in my life. I feel truly blessed to have lived thru them all unscathed. Thanks Dennis.

[ulli]

yukondiva, your animal stories are worthy of a book! Or a movie! Or both!

Dennis

I have been writing my autobiography for ten years. One day I will complete it. I have had so many interesting things happen in my life. I feel truly blessed to have lived thru them all unscathed. Thanks Dennis.

Us Villagers love animal stories.
Many of us have had weird lives, including missing memories and strange implants.
But none so far have had tigers by the tail. your stories are precious.
Please proceed!

http://i.imgur.com/0MmIm.jpg

[ulli]

Volcan Turrialba right now: (sunset)
http://www.ovsicori.una.ac.cr/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=43&Itemid=74



http://www.ovsicori.una.ac.cr/images/stories/liveturrialba/camara.jpg?1363476389830

earlier:

[AutumnW]

YukonDiva, What an extraordinary story! I gotta say--if someone didn't read the post from beginning to end the part, "I could feel her hot breath on my butt as she gasped and hit the floor," would work equally well as erotica!;)

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yukondiva, your animal stories are worthy of a book! Or a movie! Or both!

Dennis

I have been writing my autobiography for ten years. One day I will complete it. I have had so many interesting things happen in my life. I feel truly blessed to have lived thru them all unscathed. Thanks Dennis.

That is one autobiography I would LOVE to read! Let us know when you are done.

[ulli]

Shadowstalker started a new thread and called it "I'm getting weird readings"...

Here is a gem from there:

https://sphotos-b.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash3/598862_478543122200494_35016640_n.jpg

[astrid]

Ulli, I'm getting blank pages from your messages,
invisible ink again?

[Carmody]

yukondiva, your animal stories are worthy of a book! Or a movie! Or both!

Dennis

I have been writing my autobiography for ten years. One day I will complete it. I have had so many interesting things happen in my life. I feel truly blessed to have lived thru them all unscathed. Thanks Dennis.

Same here. So many dead friends. almost like an inner city war zone, except out in the backwoods.

[Carmody]

http://sphotos-a.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc7/c0.0.403.403/p403x403/482676_346537052129652_1182742368_n.jpg

It is then easy to understand why the Buddhist has the person come to them, arriving of their own volition.

It is also, as stated earlier, impossible to unknow a thing.

That is the component that is being thrust in people's faces, right now. 'Here is knowledge, here is knowing..you cannot undo this, now you must decide'.

[yukondiva]

yukondiva, your animal stories are worthy of a book! Or a movie! Or both!

Dennis

I have been writing my autobiography for ten years. One day I will complete it. I have had so many interesting things happen in my life. I feel truly blessed to have lived thru them all unscathed. Thanks Dennis.

Same here. So many dead friends. almost like an inner city war zone, except out in the backwoods.

Yes I have lost alot friends too.I have stories that would curl peoples hair! But cant post here due to legality issues. But I will tell you at that same compound when we first arrived, the guy who was on the tail end of the tiger with me, was standing next to a cage with a chimpanzee in it, staring at the chimp, I was about a foot away from the guy. The guy who owned the animals screamed across the yard( I wouldnt stand that close to the chimpanzee) just then the chimpanzee reached out and grabbed that guy by his shirt and started raking him against the enclosure. The guy who had screamed to not get so close came running over, we sprayed the chimp with a hose but he was not going to let the guy go, he had fainted by now, but the chimp continued to rack him back and forth against the cage, so the owner got a stun gun and stunned the chimp and he let the guy go. The guy fell to the ground, he was a bloody mess. He lived but his nose would never be the same.

[yukondiva]

http://sphotos-a.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc7/c0.0.403.403/p403x403/482676_346537052129652_1182742368_n.jpg

It is then easy to understand why the Buddhist has the person come to them, arriving of their own volition.

It is also, as stated earlier, impossible to unknow a thing.

That is the component that is being thrust in people's faces, right now. 'Here is knowledge, here is knowing..you cannot undo this, now you must decide'.

What is truly sad is what has been done by the eskimo in the name of religion. They took children away from villages to get a good christian upbringing. Several generations later (100 years after) the eskimo still struggles to find their identity. It screwed them culturally and spriritually. Drug abuse and alcholism is rampant in the native community. Many villages are dry villages meaning no alchol can be sold. But they live in the most deplorable conditions, using honeybuckets, no running water, now they can buy a six pack of coke for two dollars but a bottle of water cost eight dollars, a carton of juice is $13 dollars,traditional food is now replaced with the worst imagined food products, they have lost the knowledge that has kept them alive. When I return I am going to villages to teach wildeness survival with my friend who works for the North American Outdoor institute. Then you have people who hate the eskimos calling them useless, not understanding when you destroy a culture, it takes forever for them to find their way back if they ever do.

[1inMany]

Here and Now...our canner arrived. Of all the things to try for the first batch, Mike thought spaghetti sauce would be cool. I'm so sick of smelling spaghetti sauce, that it will truly last for months...and months...and months... I know I won't want to open any for awhile, haha. Guess that would mean the canner is a success? After all, isn't the point to have prepared food...for months?

Meanwhile, in sick bay, Em is being a real trooper. Was feeling better for awhile, but has been in bed all day. Lots of rest and lots of juice, none of it having to be forced. She did eat some homemade chicken noodles, as did M. I figured, hell, with the kitchen wall to wall pots and steam and boiling, might as well actually cook something.

Little One will be here for about another week. My focus will be enjoying every moment of it, and hopefully strengthening the connection we have so that he can access it while he isn't here.

I'm reviving my Wow! for the million views.

http://www.picturesanimations.com/w/wow/1wow.gif

What a lot has gone on here, in this Village. A million thanks :)

Much Love,

p.s. someone raise a glass for me, as I will soon be passing out.....

oh, also thank you to everybody for your help with all the crud at my house, I appreciate you all!

[yukondiva]

Wow almost a million views. What an accomplishment!

[ulli]

Ulli, I'm getting blank pages from your messages,
invisible ink again?

How strange. Who else? And which number posts?

[astrid]

It seems to be my Fire Fox, Safari is fine
as Paul said.. its could be a blocker

[eaglespirit]

Okay Villagers, I can't sleep...gotta alot of work to do up at the house tomorrow but this is roaming around in my heart-brain so strongly I have to share right now.
You are powerful, powerful energy...each of you are living vortexes and it is time to step into your higher power fully and use it humbly and wisely. There are billions of souls on earth depending on us...and I mean that, the time has come to step up and each of you have that full ability because of your background and experiences and strength and resilience... going way back and way forward and all over the places and it is now the time to put it all to full use....go help create whatever world is necessary in front of you to help get this job done we came here to do, no kidding....the time is upon us. It will simply become one of the most momentous times of higher creation for humanity Mother Earth has ever experienced. This is about the only place this is post-able on the internet and each of you personally knows why. I Love You!

[Flash]

Okay Villagers, I can't sleep...gotta alot of work to do up at the house tomorrow but this is roaming around in my heart-brain so strongly I have to share right now.
You are powerful, powerful energy...each of you are living vortexes and it is time to step into your higher power fully and use it humbly and wisely. There are billions of souls on earth depending on us...and I mean that, the time has come to step up and each of you have that full ability because of your background and experiences and strength and resilience... going way back and way forward and all over the places and it is now the time to put it all to full use....go help create whatever world is necessary in front of you to help get this job done we came here to do, no kidding....the time is upon us. It will simply become one of the most momentous times of higher creation for humanity Mother Earth has ever experienced. This is about the only place this is post-able on the internet and each of you personally knows why. I Love You!

you are a beautiful soul eaglespirit. Thanks for your presence on this planet.

[ulli]

Okay Villagers, I can't sleep...gotta alot of work to do up at the house tomorrow but this is roaming around in my heart-brain so strongly I have to share right now.
You are powerful, powerful energy...each of you are living vortexes and it is time to step into your higher power fully and use it humbly and wisely. There are billions of souls on earth depending on us...and I mean that, the time has come to step up and each of you have that full ability because of your background and experiences and strength and resilience... going way back and way forward and all over the places and it is now the time to put it all to full use....go help create whatever world is necessary in front of you to help get this job done we came here to do, no kidding....the time is upon us. It will simply become one of the most momentous times of higher creation for humanity Mother Earth has ever experienced. This is about the only place this is post-able on the internet and each of you personally knows why. I Love You!

While you can't sleep I can't stay awake...
soo tired after meeting with the engineer today, and spending hours over the plans.
And so I'm asking you to light the fireworks
because in less than two hours this thread will pass an amazing mile stone.
I see Astrid, Marianne and Flash are here now to help out as well.

So I'm probably going to be the one who does the clean-up after the party tomorrow morning.

Enjoy yourselves everybody!!
LOVE LOVE LOVE
and a MILLION THANKS to all who have contributed over the last 18 months since this thread began.

http://i.telegraph.co.uk/multimedia/archive/01775/december-party_1775392i.jpg

[ulli]

one more funny cartoon from Shadowstalker's thread:
ROFL

https://sphotos-b.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-prn1/555100_478805678840905_1938946517_n.jpg

[RunningDeer]

This picture was one of my props back in the days when "The Secret" was big.
Before I head off to catch some zzzzzz, happy just shy of 1,000,000!

http://i1262.photobucket.com/albums/ii610/WhiteCrowBlackDeer/millions_zps345e13a2.jpg

[astrid]

QxU9ZWdNpdo

Paul's daughter, lovely voice.

update..
yes Paul as in Paul SImon..

[astrid]

http://edition.cnn.com/2012/10/01/tech/mantle-earth-drill-mission

more insanity

http://i2.cdn.turner.com/cnn/dam/assets/120928014907-deep-earth-drill-on-vessel-horizontal-gallery.jpg

The $1 billion mission to reach the Earth's mantle

Actually this is from last year... but still insane,
man just has to keep messing with nature.

[RunningDeer]

QxU9ZWdNpdo

Paul's daughter, lovely voice.

LOL, I thought it was our Paul :cow:. The name didn't click. Bedtime... Is this Lulu Simon as in Paul Simon's daughter, beautiful voice, yes!

[astrid]

a look at the Loop of Plasma just Before it was Released by the Grasp of the Suns Magnetics....

Stunning Image


20851

[astrid]

http://www.wimp.com/beaverexperience/

beas8hgBl0k
Sorry i can't embed... This is an amazing video of beavers at work,
real close up.

[astrid]

WOAH
Views: 1,000,006 !!!

Congrats Ulli and all the amazing Villagers
what a blessing its been to have been a part of this
thread from its early days, who would have thought
we would be here and now???

[ThePythonicCow]

One million (and six) views:


http://thepythoniccow.us/here_and_now_one_million_views.png

[ulli]

I just woke up...
Thinking Are we there yet? Are we there yet?
And YES, but then the only post I saw was about close ups of beaver butts....
and sun farts.


P.S. ok...sorry about the whining..

Someone DID notice!

Thanks, everyone. (Of course, 800,000 clicks were from me, so not such a big deal.)

[RunningDeer]

1,000,006 Yippie!!!!! Thank you, Ulli. Thanks you, Villagers. Lots of appreciation and gratitude for the "Here and Now Village". Such a healing, supportive place.

Love,
Paula

[RunningDeer]

http://www.wimp.com/beaverexperience/


Sorry i can't embed... This is an amazing video of beavers at work,
real close up.


Hard working partners!
beas8hgBl0k

[Marianne]

A million-plus views! Congratulations Ulli and Villagers!

http://fc05.deviantart.net/fs70/i/2011/348/2/d/cat_ball_party___leonid_afremov_by_leonidafremov-d4j3e6r.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/gmbHHSo.gif

http://i212.photobucket.com/albums/cc11/chicogarcia_bucket/1million.png

http://releasingmetoday.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/6309361445_430e6abc02.jpg

http://images.dailydawdle.com/funny-pictures-dancing-animals-cute10.jpg

http://www.thecoolhunter.net/images/1mil.jpg

[araucaria]

Thanks a million Ulli and all :)

[araucaria]

http://sphotos-a.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc7/c0.0.403.403/p403x403/482676_346537052129652_1182742368_n.jpg

It is then easy to understand why the Buddhist has the person come to them, arriving of their own volition.

It is also, as stated earlier, impossible to unknow a thing.

That is the component that is being thrust in people's faces, right now. 'Here is knowledge, here is knowing..you cannot undo this, now you must decide'.

That sounds like a heretic priest. I think the murderous conquest of the Americas happened because the orthodox answer was Yes.

But of course the Eskimo and his cousins were heretic priests.

[astrid]

Ok this might be a bit out of turn, but i will take a risk there and post all the same.

Our beloved Bright Garlick has been given 6 months to live
and has humbly started a campaign to support his family
and take his son on a holiday.

Please find it in your hearts to send whatever you can,
healing, in any form that you are moved to do so.

Seeing this email just now broke my heart he is a dear friend
and a truly beautiful soul.
I shall be donating any of my client gifts for the next month.

Thank you and love to all of you

http://www.youcaring.com/other/A-Tumour-Called-Freedom/47676

[astrid]

Clif High's latest Wujo - For those that follow his work...
E41 - March 16, 2013 - haboo, nummo, annunaki - salish creation stories

http://www.halfpasthuman.com/wujo/clifswujo3132013haboo.mp3

http://www.halfpasthuman.com/wujo/clifswujo3132013haboo.mp3

[astrid]

And meanwhile the sun..

Energy...Still on the Rise!
Heavy Ionization Occurring in the Upper Atmosphere...
It hasn't Peaked.....Yet!

20852

[1inMany]

Here and Now, sitting outside having coffee. Boy, the birds sure are noisy today. Must be the sun activity or something, I don't know. My porch isn't the place for peace and quiet this morning. There is a quiet, melodic chirping, then there is an extremely loud, chaotic chirping. I, um, prefer the melodic song, but then I don't direct nature's music.

Pondering this, this morning.


You are powerful, powerful energy...each of you are living vortexes and it is time to step into your higher power fully and use it humbly and wisely. There are billions of souls on earth depending on us...and I mean that, the time has come to step up and each of you have that full ability because of your background and experiences and strength and resilience... going way back and way forward and all over the places and it is now the time to put it all to full use....go help create whatever world is necessary in front of you to help get this job done we came here to do, no kidding....the time is upon us. It will simply become one of the most momentous times of higher creation for humanity Mother Earth has ever experienced. This is about the only place this is post-able on the internet and each of you personally knows why. I Love You!

I just love your posts eaglespirit, they are so inspiring and uplifting. I would like to get up and do this today, but I don't know how. I can intend to do the dishes today, and I know the steps involved, so I can set out to do the steps, and the dishes get done. I can intend to step fully into mySelf, but then no process comes to mind. So, I'm pretty sure this isn't getting done, exactly. That's frustrating, because I want to jump in with everyone else and create like crazy!

Ulli, making me chuckle with those comics...and I thought I was increasing the views, lol!

The beaver video was amazing, but I was distracted the whole time looking for raspberries.

And, Paula, Universe directed me to the video you posted...that laughter on the bus, and I must thank you! It reminded me that laughing raises one's...well, vibration I guess. I have to repost it here, and now, just in case someone else hasn't gotten the giggles today.

2HSzvsXF9TY

Much Love,

[1inMany]

Omg, this struck my funny bone!

https://sphotos-b.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash4/482246_502635163127016_2128497252_n.jpg

:roll:

[Samsara]

Congrats on the 1 000 941 views this morning ! I'm late for the party again ... hehe. Loving all you You's!

20853

[ulli]

@1inMany...the comics I post are helping with views, for sure, but so is the general dynamic created by the diversity of our group.
I have Mercury opp Saturn right now, and am feeling really low. Two things had happened yesterday...one was a nasty dream, which brought up stuff from long ago, and the other was to do with two bluebirds crashing into our glass window while I was talking with the engineer. We each picked one up from the floor, and both birds seemed dead at first. But his came back to life, slowly, it took about ten minutes until it was ready to fly again, but the one in my hand was dead...no matter how much life I tried to breathe into him. I just could not revive him. Felt very sad from then on.
So, having always had this type of omen really live up to the reputation omens have, I was also a bit disturbed for the rest of the day, not only sad, ...wondering what it could mean.

So the engineer, who is my son's age and already has four kids, was talking about having this responsibility to raise them all, while I was saying how when one is past fifty and no more children to feed, the main worry is more about which one would die first, leaving the other one behind. Since both my husband and I are oddballs in this (very Catholic) society, that is a bit of an issue. I would not know where I belonged anymore...or even if I would want to stay in Costa Rica.
So, yes, typical planetary transit type of thoughts, and a fresh and positive attitude has to be re-built. Saturn connections will do that every time, Saturn being old Father Time, the guy with the cloak and the sickle, so he will bring thoughts of doom and gloom. Yet a positive attitude is so much better for one's health...

[yukondiva]

Congratulations on a million plus views, beaver butts and rabbit ears to the village.

[ulli]

Ok this might be a bit out of turn, but i will take a risk there and post all the same.

Our beloved Bright Garlick has been given 6 months to live
and has humbly started a campaign to support his family
and take his son on a holiday.

Please find it in your hearts to send whatever you can,
healing, in any form that you are moved to do so.

Seeing this email just now broke my heart he is a dear friend
and a truly beautiful soul.
I shall be donating any of my client gifts for the next month.

Thank you and love to all of you


http://www.youcaring.com/other/A-Tumour-Called-Freedom/47676 (http://www.youcaring.com/other/A-Tumour-Called-Freedom/47676)

This is indeed sad news. For all concerned, including you.
Although the doctors have been known to make mistakes.
While there is life, there is hope.

[yukondiva]

@1inMany...the comics I post are helping with views, for sure, but so is the general dynamic created by the diversity of our group.
I have Mercury opp Saturn right now, and am feeling really low. Two things had happened yesterday...one was a nasty dream, which brought up stuff from long ago, and the other was to do with two bluebirds crashing into our glass window while I was talking with the engineer. We each picked one up from the floor, and both birds seemed dead at first. But his came back to life, slowly, it took about ten minutes until it was ready to fly again, but the one in my hand was dead...no matter how much life I tried to breathe into him. I just could not revive him. Felt very sad from then on.
So, having always had this type of omen really live up to the reputation omens have, I was also a bit disturbed for the rest of the day, not only sad, ...wondering what it could mean.

So the engineer, who is my son's age and already has four kids, was talking about having this responsibility to raise them all, while I was saying how when one is past fifty and no more children to feed, the main worry is more about which one would die first, leaving the other one behind. Since both my husband and I are oddballs in this (very Catholic) society, that is a bit of an issue. I would not know where I belonged anymore...or even if I would want to stay in Costa Rica.
So, yes, typical planetary transit type of thoughts, and a fresh and positive attitude has to be re-built. Saturn connections will do that every time, Saturn being old Father Time, the guy with the cloak and the sickle, so he will bring thoughts of doom and gloom. Yet a positive attitude is so much better for one's health...

I am having the opposite thing, my dreams are crazy fantasy a slingshot plane for two that defies gravity, a small dog that turned into a very small four legged man......and about the bird, sometimes birds well they run into windows depending on speed velocity etc... Sometimes they live and sometimes they die. Besides according to Eaglespirit we need you now, so don't worry be happy and FIESTA for a million views, girlfriend (add snap here)

[RunningDeer]

Here and Now, sitting outside having coffee. Boy, the birds sure are noisy today. Must be the sun activity or something, I don't know. My porch isn't the place for peace and quiet this morning. There is a quiet, melodic chirping, then there is an extremely loud, chaotic chirping. I, um, prefer the melodic song, but then I don't direct nature's music.

Pondering this, this morning.


You are powerful, powerful energy...each of you are living vortexes and it is time to step into your higher power fully and use it humbly and wisely. There are billions of souls on earth depending on us...and I mean that, the time has come to step up and each of you have that full ability because of your background and experiences and strength and resilience... going way back and way forward and all over the places and it is now the time to put it all to full use....go help create whatever world is necessary in front of you to help get this job done we came here to do, no kidding....the time is upon us. It will simply become one of the most momentous times of higher creation for humanity Mother Earth has ever experienced. This is about the only place this is post-able on the internet and each of you personally knows why. I Love You!

I just love your posts eaglespirit, they are so inspiring and uplifting. I would like to get up and do this today, but I don't know how. I can intend to do the dishes today, and I know the steps involved, so I can set out to do the steps, and the dishes get done. I can intend to step fully into mySelf, but then no process comes to mind. So, I'm pretty sure this isn't getting done, exactly. That's frustrating, because I want to jump in with everyone else and create like crazy!

Ulli, making me chuckle with those comics...and I thought I was increasing the views, lol!

The beaver video was amazing, but I was distracted the whole time looking for raspberries.

And, Paula, Universe directed me to the video you posted...that laughter on the bus, and I must thank you! It reminded me that laughing raises one's...well, vibration I guess. I have to repost it here, and now, just in case someone else hasn't gotten the giggles today.

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Much Love,

I just found this one.


The bright side of life, it’s up to you.
It’s not the miles, it’s how you live them.

Funniest, most contagious laughs ever
3LYKOYr2cWE

[1inMany]

@1inMany...the comics I post are helping with views, for sure, but so is the general dynamic created by the diversity of our group.


I think what I said came out all wrong. What I meant, lol, was that I thought all my check-in clicks were probably at least half of the million, when you said 800,000 of the views were yours. Hahaha. And the comics you have been posting are cracking me up.

Of course, reading your response another way....it's true, too :)

Much Love,

[RunningDeer]

...the other was to do with two bluebirds crashing into our glass window while I was talking with the engineer. We each picked one up from the floor, and both birds seemed dead at first. But his came back to life, slowly, it took about ten minutes until it was ready to fly again, but the one in my hand was dead...no matter how much life I tried to breathe into him. I just could not revive him. Felt very sad from then on.


Blue Bird Ascension

http://avalonlibrary.net/paula/Animals/bluebird300.JPG


This is a very rare and precious moment, so open up all your senses and simply enjoy this time.
Take a risk and speak your truth to that special someone rather than holding back, whether expressing positive or negative feelings.
You’re coming into your own in many different ways, so welcome this milestone with a relaxed sense of confidence and happiness.
You have the knack for speaking up at the right moment and saying the right thing.

L,
P'er :wave:

[Dennis Leahy]

Good morning Villagers!

There was no (obvious) Aurora Borealis display last night, and the clouds did part for a good peek. This (Duluth, MN) is the furthest northern latitude where I have lived, and so my best chance of seeing the elusive Northern Lights. There was one spectacular show while we have lived here, (about 8 years ago, I think), but I missed it.

I know that a million is just a number, but...
Congratulations to Ulli for reading the pulse well enough to have started this thread (and to have been so instrumental in keeping it going), and congratulations to all who have contributed.

Very sad to hear Bright Garlic's news. I would hope he has tried cannabis oil , alkalinizing his body, and a few other physical treatments that seem to have the brightest chance to fully rid the body of cancer (along with the spiritual cleansing.)

Dennis

[Samsara]

Ohhh ViralSpiral ! I can get it out of my head now, I just know I will teach it to my grandson, and it will become a family thing. Boom borhoom... I need to clean house....

jATg3WXTnH0

http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?45758-Theories-of-the-Deep-Understanding-of-Things&p=649909&viewfull=1#post649909

[donk]

And now deep thoughts, by Jack Handey:

If a kid asks where rain comes from, I think a cute thing to tell
him is, "God is crying." And if he asks why God is crying, another
cute thing to tell him is, "Probably because of something you did."

[astrid]

What a day,
night all

XX

[Flash]

And now deep thoughts, by Jack Handey:

If a kid asks where rain comes from, I think a cute thing to tell
him is, "God is crying." And if he asks why God is crying, another
cute thing to tell him is, "Probably because of something you did."

I am sorry Donk, but what a stupid thing to say to a kid. Furthermore adding up guilt programming makes it utterly disgusting. My opinion.

edit: I don't even find it poetic. Sunday wake up time. I had promised myself I would never lie like this to my dauhgter, she was worth much more, being an intelligent being. I lied for Santa Claus, thinking it was making her happy in her wild imagination about it. When she discovered Santa did not exist, she cried for days. You know what she said: the hurt is not that Santa does not exist, the hurt is that you did not tell me the truth, you lied to me mom. My mommy can lie to me.
Gosh, do I remember, lesson well taken.

[Kiforall]

I was a few days late watching the Pele report but got round to it last night.

He was ABSOLUTELY mirroring the information I had just been telling my partner. It all fit in perfectly!

I know we've been talking astrology over the last few days but this was mad that it was so true, and talking about truth I'm getting there.

I want to thank the village who always seem to be there when you need them, visiting threads, with comments and pictures etc. But I know why now, I know who controls what is here and now and I know we are all a part of it.

And three days off the nicotine :victory:

[ulli]

And now deep thoughts, by Jack Handey:

If a kid asks where rain comes from, I think a cute thing to tell
him is, "God is crying." And if he asks why God is crying, another
cute thing to tell him is, "Probably because of something you did."

So is this the Jack Handey guy from Saturday Night Live?
Maybe he thinks up quotes that come in "handy" when you need revenge ....
Kids do know how to press the buttons of their elders....

[ulli]

And now deep thoughts, by Jack Handey:

If a kid asks where rain comes from, I think a cute thing to tell
him is, "God is crying." And if he asks why God is crying, another
cute thing to tell him is, "Probably because of something you did."

I am sorry Donk, but what a stupid thing to say to a kid. Furthermore adding up guilt programming makes it utterly disgusting. My opinion.

edit: I don't even find it poetic. Sunday wake up time. I had promised myself I would never lie like this to my dauhgter, she was worth much more, being an intelligent being. I lied for Santa Claus, thinking it was making her happy in her wild imagination about it. When she discovered Santa did not exist, she cried for days. You know what she said: the hurt is not that Santa does not exist, the hurt is that you did not tell me the truth, you lied to me mom. My mommy can lie to me.
Gosh, do I remember, lesson well taken.

Ok, this guy is basically about taking political correctness to task.
Here is another of his quotes....I happen to find funny:


"If trees could scream, would we be so cavalier about cutting them down?
We might, if they screamed all the time, for no good reason."

[RunningDeer]

And now deep thoughts, by Jack Handey:


And now deep thoughts, by Jack Handey:

If a kid asks where rain comes from, I think a cute thing to tell
him is, "God is crying." And if he asks why God is crying, another
cute thing to tell him is, "Probably because of something you did."

I am sorry Donk, but what a stupid thing to say to a kid. Furthermore adding up guilt programming makes it utterly disgusting. My opinion.

edit: I don't even find it poetic. Sunday wake up time. I had promised myself I would never lie like this to my dauhgter, she was worth much more, being an intelligent being. I lied for Santa Claus, thinking it was making her happy in her wild imagination about it. When she discovered Santa did not exist, she cried for days. You know what she said: the hurt is not that Santa does not exist, the hurt is that you did not tell me the truth, you lied to me mom. My mommy can lie to me.
Gosh, do I remember, lesson well taken.

@Ulli, I'm reading in chronological order. Just discovered your post. :wave:

Hi Flash,
People that watch 'Saturday Night Live' understand this humor of Jack Handey, who may not be a real person (http://deepthoughtsbyjackhandey.com/bio.html). Here's a full page of examples of "Deep Thoughts by Jack Handy (http://www.babson.us/quotes/deep_thoughts.html)" and I've added just a few here. One last point the show comes on @ 11:30 p.m.


When you're riding in a time machine way far into the future, don't stick your elbow out the window, or it'll turn into a fossil.
If you were a pirate, you know what would be the one thing that would really make you mad? Treasure chests with no handles. How the hell are you supposed to carry it?!
Better not take a dog on the space shuttle, because if he sticks his head out when you're coming home his face might burn up.
If you're a horse, and someone gets on you, and falls off, and then gets right back on you, I think you should buck him off right away.



Sunday Night Live - Deep Thoughts
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[Playdo of Ataraxas]

And now deep thoughts, by Jack Handey:

If a kid asks where rain comes from, I think a cute thing to tell
him is, "God is crying." And if he asks why God is crying, another
cute thing to tell him is, "Probably because of something you did."

I am sorry Donk, but what a stupid thing to say to a kid. Furthermore adding up guilt programming makes it utterly disgusting. My opinion.

edit: I don't even find it poetic. Sunday wake up time. I had promised myself I would never lie like this to my dauhgter, she was worth much more, being an intelligent being. I lied for Santa Claus, thinking it was making her happy in her wild imagination about it. When she discovered Santa did not exist, she cried for days. You know what she said: the hurt is not that Santa does not exist, the hurt is that you did not tell me the truth, you lied to me mom. My mommy can lie to me.
Gosh, do I remember, lesson well taken.

My parents and brothers went nuts when they found out that we told out kids the truth about Santa Claus and the Easter bunny. They accused us of threatening their own children's innocence. My wife and I were polite but firm: "Sorry, our kids asked us an honest question, and we gave an honest answer. We are sorry that you don't approve of us being honest to our children." To this day, my kids love the idea of Santa and enjoy the festivities and have fun, but they know its only pretend. I recounted it before here, but I remember asking my great-grandmother if Santa was real when I was about 6 or seven, and she said yes. She said that one Xmas eve she awoke to find Santa and that he gave her a shot with a large hypodermic needle to put her back to sleep. That scared the piss out of me! WTF? I think I would've been less damaged by the truth in that case.

[Carmody]

Just received this:


Technology has clearly outstripped mankind's ability to handle it.

For instance, because of overly aggressive spelling auto-correct, the time travel application I created for my computer, only wants to send me into the furniture.

This is kind of hilarious for the OBE types, as you can get stuck in walls, stone, rock, ..and....furniture.

[RunningDeer]

Breaking News - Cyprus bank robbery. Is your bank stealing your money?? with Barbara Goldsmith
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Published on Mar 17, 2013

http://www.yourastrologysigns.com 
Governments and authorities often make important announcements that people won't like during Mercury retrograde. And Cyprus and the EU and IMF have done just that. The are introducing a bailout levy which is forcing savers with under 100,000 euros to pay 6.75% and those with over 100,000 euros must pay 9.9%.


It's daylight robbery!! It was announced at the weekend when most banks are closed, and people are queuing at ATM's to try to get some money out...........People could not prepare for this....so I am advising you ALL wherever you live to beware of the banks. All banks are interconnected and your money is not safe in a bank.

Make sure you have enough cash out of the bank. And invest the rest in gold and silver. Right now, the prices of bullion are low. We will have to learn how to work together - bartering and exchanging services rather than engaging in the tax regimes which are going to get stronger and tighter as the months go by. In the long run, this can be a good thing as we can work in communities and support one another. But let's not let the banks rip us off and let's try to prepare for the coming changes.

[Carmody]

ouch

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[Flash]

And now deep thoughts, by Jack Handey:


And now deep thoughts, by Jack Handey:

If a kid asks where rain comes from, I think a cute thing to tell
him is, "God is crying." And if he asks why God is crying, another
cute thing to tell him is, "Probably because of something you did."

I am sorry Donk, but what a stupid thing to say to a kid. Furthermore adding up guilt programming makes it utterly disgusting. My opinion.

edit: I don't even find it poetic. Sunday wake up time. I had promised myself I would never lie like this to my dauhgter, she was worth much more, being an intelligent being. I lied for Santa Claus, thinking it was making her happy in her wild imagination about it. When she discovered Santa did not exist, she cried for days. You know what she said: the hurt is not that Santa does not exist, the hurt is that you did not tell me the truth, you lied to me mom. My mommy can lie to me.
Gosh, do I remember, lesson well taken.

@Ulli, I'm reading in chronological order. Just discovered your post. :wave:

Hi Flash,
People that watch 'Saturday Night Live' understand this humor of Jack Handey, who may not be a real person (http://deepthoughtsbyjackhandey.com/bio.html). Here's a full page of examples of "Deep Thoughts by Jack Handy (http://www.babson.us/quotes/deep_thoughts.html)" and I've added just a few here. One last point the show comes on @ 11:30 p.m.


When you're riding in a time machine way far into the future, don't stick your elbow out the window, or it'll turn into a fossil.
If you were a pirate, you know what would be the one thing that would really make you mad? Treasure chests with no handles. How the hell are you supposed to carry it?!
Better not take a dog on the space shuttle, because if he sticks his head out when you're coming home his face might burn up.
If you're a horse, and someone gets on you, and falls off, and then gets right back on you, I think you should buck him off right away.



Sunday Night Live - Deep Thoughts
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OK, thanks Paula, just caught something that is related to cultural difference. I never watch Saturday Night, ever, only once or twice in my life, once because of Sarah Palin. So i did not have any point of reference. I thought Donk had fallen on his head....:p

Thanks

¤=[Post Update]=¤


Just received this:


Technology has clearly outstripped mankind's ability to handle it.

For instance, because of overly aggressive spelling auto-correct, the time travel application I created for my computer, only wants to send me into the furniture.

This is kind of hilarious for the OBE types, as you can get stuck in walls, stone, rock, ..and....furniture.

Yes, funny. It is also hilarious for French Canadian trying to write something in English on IPhone. Auto correct always corrects it back to French, it makes for hilarious sentences.

[Dennis Leahy]

Yes, Flash, it is parody. The character "Jack Handy" says atrocious, ignorant remarks - delivered as if they are words of wisdom.

Dennis

[ulli]

And now deep thoughts, by Jack Handey:


And now deep thoughts, by Jack Handey:

If a kid asks where rain comes from, I think a cute thing to tell
him is, "God is crying." And if he asks why God is crying, another
cute thing to tell him is, "Probably because of something you did."

I am sorry Donk, but what a stupid thing to say to a kid. Furthermore adding up guilt programming makes it utterly disgusting. My opinion.

edit: I don't even find it poetic. Sunday wake up time. I had promised myself I would never lie like this to my dauhgter, she was worth much more, being an intelligent being. I lied for Santa Claus, thinking it was making her happy in her wild imagination about it. When she discovered Santa did not exist, she cried for days. You know what she said: the hurt is not that Santa does not exist, the hurt is that you did not tell me the truth, you lied to me mom. My mommy can lie to me.
Gosh, do I remember, lesson well taken.

@Ulli, I'm reading in chronological order. Just discovered your post. :wave:

Hi Flash,
People that watch 'Saturday Night Live' understand this humor of Jack Handey, who may not be a real person (http://deepthoughtsbyjackhandey.com/bio.html). Here's a full page of examples of "Deep Thoughts by Jack Handy (http://www.babson.us/quotes/deep_thoughts.html)" and I've added just a few here. One last point the show comes on @ 11:30 p.m.


When you're riding in a time machine way far into the future, don't stick your elbow out the window, or it'll turn into a fossil.
If you were a pirate, you know what would be the one thing that would really make you mad? Treasure chests with no handles. How the hell are you supposed to carry it?!
Better not take a dog on the space shuttle, because if he sticks his head out when you're coming home his face might burn up.
If you're a horse, and someone gets on you, and falls off, and then gets right back on you, I think you should buck him off right away.



Sunday Night Live - Deep Thoughts
KSrXpFb7jFo

OK, thanks Paula, just caught something that is related to cultural difference. I never watch Saturday Night, ever, only once or twice in my life, once because of Sarah Palin. So i did not have any point of reference. I thought Donk had fallen on his head....:p

Thanks

¤=[Post Update]=¤


Just received this:


Technology has clearly outstripped mankind's ability to handle it.

For instance, because of overly aggressive spelling auto-correct, the time travel application I created for my computer, only wants to send me into the furniture.

This is kind of hilarious for the OBE types, as you can get stuck in walls, stone, rock, ..and....furniture.

Yes, funny. It is also hilarious for French Canadian trying to write something in English on IPhone. Auto correct always corrects it back to French, it makes for hilarious sentences.

You can get your iphone configured for any laguage you use with frequency.
I configured my iPhone for German, Spanish and English, which then can be accessed via the globe key on the left of the space bar.
Still, I sometimes forget to switch and funny shyte happens.

[Dennis Leahy]

I've got my eyes on you!

http://www.leahyguitars.com/Imagez/Two/EyesOnYou.png

Dennis

[astrid]

20858

Funny but sadly true still for so much of the planet.
pretty much sums up the mess we are in.
Pass the buck and if you cant do that, hide or throw it out,
trashing the place even more.
Thankfully there are new models popping up everywhere at the grass
roots, ready for when the old becomes so sick that it just falls over.
There is hope

[ulli]

Capitalism:

http://i.imgur.com/aQ53Rnd.jpg

[Dennis Leahy]

Two images:

One is a girly pin-up version of a St. Patrick's Day message. C'mon, you know you like her more than some saintly guy scaring snakes out of Ireland.

The second one is what they saw in Alaska last night, and what I had hoped to see: the Aurora Borealis putting on a spectacular show.

http://www.leahyguitars.com/Imagez/Two/Happy-St-Patricks-Day-pin-up-girl.gif

http://images4.fanpop.com/image/photos/20100000/Happy-St-Patricks-Day-pin-up-girls-20166341-568-574.gif

https://sphotos-b.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-frc3/891687_10151795404727892_1431578244_o.jpg

Dennis

[Guest]

Happy 1,000,000 views Ulli and Villagers....:target: it's been awesome.

20861



Just for fun:

What's your glyph? ;)

20860


Input in your birth date here:
http://www.starroot.com/cgi/daycalc.pl

Find your glyph here and interpretations
http://www.astrodreamadvisor.com/free_mayan_readings.html#


Love


Nora

[RunningDeer]

Two images:

One is a girly pin-up version of a St. Patrick's Day message. C'mon, you know you like her more than some saintly guy scaring snakes out of Ireland.

The second one is what they saw in Alaska last night, and what I had hoped to see: the Aurora Borealis putting on a spectacular show.

Dennis


Happy St. Patrick's Day, DL and All! :wave:
http://i1262.photobucket.com/albums/ii610/WhiteCrowBlackDeer/patrick_zps89a9a802.gif
http://i1262.photobucket.com/albums/ii610/WhiteCrowBlackDeer/lights_zpsb682453f.jpg

[1inMany]

Very busy day, Em has Influenza B, the flu. Out of school for at least one full week. I keep telling myself the stupid school can't hurt me, haha, I'm a divine being. But I really do not know what to expect from another week out of school. Could be she will be required to do Saturday school, could be summer school, could be just catching up her work, but after talking to them a month ago, that doesn't seem likely.

I will just have faith that the Highest and Best will occur.

Much Love, village...

[Dennis Leahy]

Just for fun:

What's your glyph? ;)

20860


Input in your birth date here:
http://www.starroot.com/cgi/daycalc.pl

Find your glyph here and interpretations
http://www.astrodreamadvisor.com/free_mayan_readings.html#


Love


NoraWhere, on those pages, did you find your glyph? (I see many glyphs, nothing that appears to hone down to a single glyph, and none that look like what you posted.)

Can you imagine how long it took to write all that (having seen what was written for my birth date.)

Just out of curiosity, does everyone find the description you were given pretty, um, mighty?

Dennis

¤=[Post Update]=¤

1inMany: what non-pharmaceutical goodies do you have to combat the flu?

Dennis

[Guest]

Hi Dennis,

The glyph in the post is called The Hunab Ku -it's the Mayan symbol of energy balance.

Your glyph is in the center -top left, directly over where you input your birth date.

The information is "ancient" -their interpretations would be on the order of mighty and I think that much of it is soul, spirit and path oriented -as above so below.


Love

Nora

[RunningDeer]

Just for fun:

What's your glyph? ;)

Input in your birth date here:
http://www.starroot.com/cgi/daycalc.pl

Find your glyph here and interpretations
http://www.astrodreamadvisor.com/free_mayan_readings.html#
Love
Nora

UPDATE:
@ Thanks Nora, I haven't read the whole thing, but so far it's what I aspired to do. My favor descriptors are "spontaneity and simplicity". They are listed here.

@Dennis, I couldn't figure out the glyph either. I just added the whole thing. I was looking for one like Nora had on her post, i.e. more detail.


http://i1262.photobucket.com/albums/ii610/WhiteCrowBlackDeer/White-Electric-Wind_zpsfce26705.jpg

Kin 42; harmonic 11: overtone Input; inform flowing of radiance
Tone 3: Electric - Rhythm & Change - Movement, flow, current, creativity, integration, sacred trinity.

White Wind is your Conscious Self - who you are and who you are becoming.
White Wind is the galactic wind, the catalyzing current, the Spirit that moves through all things. It is the divine breath that gives life to all creation, the unseen essence of solar energy. White Wind is the breath of inspiration, the fertilizing force of the wind. Its essence is the movement of Spirit as it penetrates into form to enliven, purify and inspire.



White Wind represents spontaneity and simplicity. As you experience the truth of the present moment, White Wind leaves you free to move on to the next moment without the baggage of desire, regret or expectation. White Wind is the simple knowledge that invisible forces are always moving in your life, guiding and inspiring.



White Wind also embodies the concept of presence. Presence is an expression of beingness, a creator of intimacy. It has to do with being wise in your simplicity. From simple beingness, your true identity emerges. Presence is being open, aware, and in the now. Presence is 'being there' for whatever is.



[Dennis Leahy]

Hi Dennis,

The glyph in the post is called The Hunab Ku -it's the Mayan symbol of energy balance.

Your glyph is in the center -top left, directly over where you input your birth date.

The information is "ancient" -their interpretations would be on the order of mighty and I think that much of it is soul, spirit and path oriented -as above so below.


Love

Nora
...right above where birth dates is input...

20864
was this

[astrid]

Meet Maxim, the young inventor of a truly jaw-dropping new technology with limitless applications
that will eliminate the need for screens and monitors — and all manner of electronic junk.

http://myscienceacademy.org/2013/03/18/is-the-next-steve-jobs-living-in-a-remote-russian-town/



Holy crap

[ulli]

This is the city of Barcelona where Dan33 lives.

http://i.imgur.com/MiL5k6Z.jpg

[astrid]

I couldn't resist this one...

20865

The Pope, wearing a fabulous vintage chiffon-lined Dior gold lame gown
over a silk Vera Wang empire waist tulle cocktail dress,
accessorized with a three-foot House of Whoville hat and
the ruby slippers Judy Garland wore in the Wizard of Oz, on his way to tell us it's Wrong to be Gay.


I'm naughty when it comes to religious humor, a side effect from being the
preacher's daughter. Men in "frocks" were common place in our household,
at one stage Father was even cross dressing for his part on the Xmas pantomine,
which he was so good at that he did it yearly for over a decade.
This to me was all normal, lol

[Guest]

Finished my taxes today. Feel good to get them done and over with.

Sitting on the front porch enjoying a quiet night in the forest. Built a good hot fire in the woodstove earlier
this evening. Our nights are still cool up here in the mountains, but the days are filled with clear skies and beautiful
sunshine.

Really glad this Mercury retro is finally moving direct.


Love


Nora


LOL Astrid

[astrid]

http://www.practicalprimitive.com/skillofthemonth/pineneedletea.html

"Pine Needle Tea has long been a favorite of traditional and indigenous peoples,
both for it's refreshment and for it's medicinal values.

You may not realize that Pine Needle Tea contains 4-5 times the Vitamin C
of fresh-squeezed orange juice, and is high in Vitamin A. It is also an
expectorant (thins mucus secretions), decongestant, and can be used as an
antiseptic wash when cooled. So not only does it taste good, but it's good for
you. Each varietal of pine has it's own flavor to impart, so experiment and see which
needles you like best."

http://www.practicalprimitive.com/images/newsletters/PineNeedleTea/SteepingTea.jpg

No accidents that i should find this page as this past month i have been playing
around with fresh herbal teas, nature provides all . I have a huge pine right at my
back fence, so I will give this one a try.


Cool more here.. another gardening project for the list...

http://www.wikihow.com/Grow-an-Herbal-Tea-Garden

[astrid]

lm8S4ExJ8ss

Love this mans work

[1inMany]

1inMany: what non-pharmaceutical goodies do you have to combat the flu?

Not too many, actually. The first day, I gave her D3 in massive quantities...she consumed probably 70,000 units. She was breathing alka thyme on a rag for a good 24 hours, very often, until it started burning her throat terribly and couldn't do it any more. She's been drinking a lot of juice and water, but the juice is burning now also. Tylenol or Advil for fever. And they want her to take Tamiflu and some prescription cough medicine. I can't get her to drink any tea, or actually anything warm or hot.

So, whatever suggestions you have, I'm more than open to them. This world away from big pharma is new to me, I'm not familiar with too much yet.

I swear I bought some MMS here a few months ago, and I just thought of that this morning. If I can find it, I will have to figure out how to use it. But, if it works, I'll try it. (No promises getting it into her body, but I will try.)

Much Love,

[donk]

Yikes, jeez--sorry...American humor...was nostalgic for me--trying to stay find something to lighten my mood when I found out Dennis Miller was now a Fox News commentator. Most of the SNL crew from youth had rougher roads than the generation before (mostly superstars)--I thought it was funny.

I apologize to all who find it offensive. I'd never say anything like that to a kid, it's outrageous. Guess is why I found it (and all his bits) funny. Might have something to do with first seeing them as a pre-teen. Also knowing I don't like hurting children is an important piece of info to add to the context...I figured you might have picked up on by now.

Again--very sorry, I'll keep my sick humor to myself

[ulli]

Astrid posted his TED talk on another thread in 2011. I'm bringing it here for a little extra exposure.
Greatest TED talk ever. Thanks, Astrid.

Bunker Roy:

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[Dennis Leahy]

1inMany, I would recommend Oil of Oregano, in gel capsule form (so you don't taste the strong taste of oregano.) Here are 2 recent posts from me. In the second one, read the "quoted" section, where I was quoting what I had written to a friend in a PM, and the dosage correction below it.

http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?56720-New-Nightmare-Superbug&p=645972&viewfull=1#post645972

http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?56720-New-Nightmare-Superbug&p=646213&viewfull=1#post646213

I only have the original MMS, which tastes awful (but I will use it when really needed.) The newer stuff supposedly does not taste as bad.

donk, the JackHandy post was funny. Yes, it's dark humor, but once someone realizes it is parody they are likely to chuckle at the outrageousness of his "wisdom." I get caught occasionally forgetting that English is a second or third language to many Avalon members, and then there's that cultural thing as well. If you are really concerned, you can add something in the post that specifies it as humor, but then, that may remove the surprise that makes humor funny.

this would have been funnier if it had caught you by surprise<---fake humor tags. joke spoilers.

Ulli, I forgot to mention a couple of days ago how cool that zebra shadow illusion is.

Dennis

[RunningDeer]

Yikes, jeez--sorry...American humor...was nostalgic for me--trying to stay find something to lighten my mood when I found out Dennis Miller was now a Fox News commentator. Most of the SNL crew from youth had rougher roads than the generation before (mostly superstars)--I thought it was funny.

I apologize to all who find it offensive. I'd never say anything like that to a kid, it's outrageous. Guess is why I found it (and all his bits) funny. Might have something to do with first seeing them as a pre-teen. Also knowing I don't like hurting children is an important piece of info to add to the context...I figured you might have picked up on by now.

Again--very sorry, I'll keep my sick humor to myself

I love Dennis Miller! I understand it didn't work out so good for him as a Fox News commentator. I could be wrong.

Dennis is brilliant at what he does. Maybe it's hard to find work because more and more are dumbed down now. Folks, this is not meant as a put down. Just the sign of the times. He's a couple of generations removed from the main targeted watchers of TV. Current events and his lexicon style is unappreciated.

[1inMany]

Dennis, I cannot thank you enough for the information on Oil of Oregano. I'm ordering some immediately. Of course, I probably won't have it until this flu is gone. Grrr. I may look around in town, but I doubt this is something I can find in this area.

You mentioned in your post
Goldenseal for 40 years, Raw Honey and Tea Tree Oil for maybe 20 years,...I know about raw honey for allergies, but that's it. What do you use Tea Tree Oil for? And the goldenseal? If you don't mind me asking.

Reading about this stuff is great, but the personal recommendation based on your experience is what sold me on the Oregano. Many, many, many thanks!

Much Love,

Oh, edit to add: They did a chest x-ray on Em, and there is no pneumonia (yet), but some congestion in her right lung. Otherwise, I would have thought about having her breathe some of the MMS. I see you have to be careful doing that...

Also, made it up to the school. Seems like "flu" is some magic word, like leprosy or something. Em will probably have to do some Saturday school, but the principal looked relieved she isn't in the building. Standardized tests two weeks away and all. Eye Roll...

[ulli]

http://i.imgur.com/ALs77Fb.jpg

[Swan]

1inMany: what non-pharmaceutical goodies do you have to combat the flu?

Not too many, actually. The first day, I gave her D3 in massive quantities...she consumed probably 70,000 units. She was breathing alka thyme on a rag for a good 24 hours, very often, until it started burning her throat terribly and couldn't do it any more. She's been drinking a lot of juice and water, but the juice is burning now also. Tylenol or Advil for fever. And they want her to take Tamiflu and some prescription cough medicine. (No promises getting it into her body, but I will try.)

Much Love,

Hi 1inMany :)

My best advice is to let the fever run its course. Fever is the body´s way of fighting the infection. By bringing it down one is hampering the body´s self defense system. My son and I had the flu a couple of weeks ago, and his turned into pneumonia. He sat asleep in the couch a whole day with a very high fever. I woke him occasionally to give him fluids, and the next day he was fine.

My understanding is that fevers are seldom dangerous as long as one is taking fluids.

[Dennis Leahy]

If you have a "health food" or "nutrition" store with ANY herbal supplements, they are likely to have Oil of Oregano. You could always call them first to see, and get it today if possible. You know, the longer you let the bad guys rule the roost, the harder it is to evict them.

You'll get ripped off (probably) and you'll pay $15 to $20 for a small bottle - but it will be more than enough to knock that flu out (and thus easily worth the money.)

Then for your herbal medicine cabinet, you can get 3 to 5 bottles (http://www.puritan.com/oregano-547/oregano-1500-mg-006555) of the same oil online - for "next time" a LOT cheaper! You can also cut or poke the gelcaps to put the oil directly on a cut or abrasion or other skin infection.

Local bee pollen is the miracle cure for pollen-borne allergies (won't really help dust and mold allergies.) I think if honey helps allergies , it would be local raw honey (because it has some of the local bee pollen in it.) Raw honey is also an antibiotic, and I have read near-miraculous results using raw honey collected by bees visiting Tea Tree bushes (Manuka Honey, New Zealand and Australia.)

I have not used goldenseal all by itself in many years. Then, I took capsules for some sort of infections (and don't remember what they were.) I honestly don't remember it being very effective, but that is one of the problems with anecdotal testimonies - it might be more powerful than what I remember, or I might have been taking a natural antibiotic for a virus. Oil of Oregano is both antibiotic and antiviral.

Tea Tree Oil is a topical antibiotic (and I think maybe antiviral and anti-fungal - I'm being lazy and not researching) that I have used on abrasions, scalp problems (beard folliculitis and/or ingrown hairs), and on toenails that had fungus - though I found something better for that.) My current mouthwash (http://www.4allvitamins.com/product_info.php?products_id=14935&product_configuration_id=21361) has Tea Tree Oil too.

Dennis

[Marianne]

Dennis, so good to see you posting again.

Goldenseal should not be taken longer than 2-3 weeks. You likely wouldn't take it longer than that, but just fyi.

1, if I were you, I'd try the other remedies first ... goldenseal is a bit strong for a child. Not saying you shouldn't use it, but wait to see if it's needed. Research it first, or PM me, if you decide to use it.

Astrid, we used to drink white pine needle tea, in herb class. I made a massage oil from pine needles too, it was wonderful, smelled like the forest.

Love to the village.

PS: And love to Donk, don't stop being funny.

[Dennis Leahy]

I agree with Swan that fever (controlled to make sure it does not bake the brain), is not a symptom to fight, but rather a sign the body is doing its job against the infection. I think of it as your body raising its temperature to a point where the bugs can't thrive (though I don't really know if that is true or just an old husband's tale.)

If her throat hurts: herbal tea (something containing echinacea (http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/81HnMEpX4wL._SL1343_.jpg) would be great) with lemon and raw honey, raw honey alone, colloidal silver spray, and the old standby, salt-water gargle. Linus Pauling was not alive to hear the results of the study showing that vitamin C does not help colds (I'll extrapolate flu), or he would have been in their faces. I still think taking this essential nutrient and anti-oxidant/free radical scavenger IS helping the body to recover perhaps in several ways the study did not focus on or that are hard to quantify.

Tamiflu is a scam. Should change the name to Scam-a-flu.
http://www.forbes.com/sites/harlankrumholz/2013/01/08/the-myth-of-tamiflu-5-things-you-should-know/

http://www.swine-flu-h1n1.com/tamiflu-rumsfeld.html

(when "W" was in office and Rummy was a sideprick, er, I mean sidekick, millions of units of Tamiflu were ordered by the US government - despite the fact that it was well known to medical personnel that it is worthless. This, of course, was one of the rewards that the 9/11 co-conspirator got while in office.)Tax payers were happy to pay for it.

Dennis

[Carmody]

Yikes, jeez--sorry...American humor...was nostalgic for me--trying to stay find something to lighten my mood when I found out Dennis Miller was now a Fox News commentator. Most of the SNL crew from youth had rougher roads than the generation before (mostly superstars)--I thought it was funny.

I apologize to all who find it offensive. I'd never say anything like that to a kid, it's outrageous. Guess is why I found it (and all his bits) funny. Might have something to do with first seeing them as a pre-teen. Also knowing I don't like hurting children is an important piece of info to add to the context...I figured you might have picked up on by now.

Again--very sorry, I'll keep my sick humor to myself

OK. But be it known, my favorite of his is this one:

One thing kids like is to be tricked. For instance, I was going to take my little nephew to Disneyland, but instead I drove him to an old burned-out warehouse. "Oh, no," I said. "Disneyland burned down." He cried and cried, but I think that deep down, he thought it was a pretty good joke. I started to drive over to the real Disneyland, but it was getting pretty late.

http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~jbruce/humor/deep_thoughts.html

jack's comments are supposed to be sick and put on backward, like a hospital gown. It's social satire. Bill Hicks, done with a straight face.

[Carmody]

I agree with Swan that fever (controlled to make sure it does not bake the brain), is not a symptom to fight, but rather a sign the body is doing its job against the infection. I think of it as your body raising its temperature to a point where the bugs can't thrive (though I don't really know if that is true or just an old husband's tale.)

If her throat hurts: herbal tea (something containing echinacea (http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/81HnMEpX4wL._SL1343_.jpg) would be great) with lemon and raw honey, raw honey alone, colloidal silver spray, and the old standby, salt-water gargle. Linus Pauling was not alive to hear the results of the study showing that vitamin C does not help colds (I'll extrapolate flu), or he would have been in their faces. I still think taking this essential nutrient and anti-oxidant/free radical scavenger IS helping the body to recover perhaps in several ways the study did not focus on or that are hard to quantify.

Tamiflu is a scam. Should change the name to Scam-a-flu.
http://www.forbes.com/sites/harlankrumholz/2013/01/08/the-myth-of-tamiflu-5-things-you-should-know/

http://www.swine-flu-h1n1.com/tamiflu-rumsfeld.html

(when "W" was in office and Rummy was a sideprick, er, I mean sidekick, millions of units of Tamiflu were ordered by the US government - despite the fact that it was well known to medical personnel that it is worthless. This, of course, was one of the rewards that the 9/11 co-conspirator got while in office.)Tax payers were happy to pay for it.

Dennis

that cascades into the unlimited black ops money feed which is STILL GOING ON.

they created the anthrax scare.

they signed a 'go black' order on the anthrax vaccinations. That the company that was to make all the anthrax vaccines, was bought by The Carlyle group. Then they pushed through an order where huge allotments of cash could be put into that company to produced the vaccine.

then, they SEALED the package, with a black ops money draw where the amount was and is entirely open ended. that no one could inquire of the amount and the amount was unlimited.

every year, they simply ask for the funds they want and the US federal government delivers. and the amount of money taken is sealed, and remains an unknown. National security!!!!

That's the major black ops money hole that they created.

It was 20 billion a year at the start, for a few years, then it went unlimited and black, for TWENTY YEARS.

this is going on right now.

People who bring this one to light, have a tendency to die.

We're talking about a trillion dollar black ops money drain. Totally off the books and hidden.


~~~~~~~

they could fund NASA 50 times over, or make USA oil Free, poverty free..or stop starvation, any thing.

But no, it is a private bleed off of America's fortunes into an unknown privately owned black ops hole.

[Dennis Leahy]

Hi everybody!
Here and now, i'm in front my computer, the fireplace in the back, it's 6h30pm and the night is going to fall.
I'm stuck at home for 10 days minimum , I've a sciatica... ...
Hi Alexis,

How are you doing?

I am sorry to be replying to your message so late, because I have occasional sciatic pain that sort of takes over when it comes - and I have found a few things to help. Let this post be a placeholder - I will return to this post very soon and list a few things that do help me.

Dennis

OK, I'll add them as I think of them:

1.) Hot bath. (I'm not one to sit in a hot bath, but as a muscle relaxor, it sure helps)

2.) Whirlpool (not really my second choice, just the second thing on the list. This adds massage to hot water!)

3.) Massage (OK, the last one made me think of this, and it sounds like a good idea, but I have never really done this for sciatic pain)

4.) Allow your spine to decompress. The easiest way I know how to do this is to use an inside corner of your kitchen countertop. Back-in to the corner, put your palms onto the countertop as if you were going to lift yourself up to sit on the countertop. Now lift. Let your body hang, even if your feet are still touching the floor. For extra decompression, don't allow your butt to touch the cabinets, and allow your knees to collapse so your arms are carrying your weight. Try to relax your entire spine - let your shoulders and arms do all the work. Hang at least 5 seconds. If you have strong arms and you have not put 10 pounds of blubber on your belly this winter like I just did, try to hang longer 10 seconds, 20, 30... If my sciatica is from spinal compression, this is sometimes the most important exercise.

5.) this is actually usually the first thing I do: (a bunch of stretches, many lying on my back) Grab a thin pillow and your most comfortable blanket (have it within easy reach.) Do the following while on carpeting or a mat (like a yoga mat.)

5a.) Start with a back stretch in something similar to a "child pose (http://images.wisegeek.com/woman-in-a-child-yoga-pose.jpg)" in yoga: from a kneeling position, start to lean back as if you are going to sit back on your legs, then reach your hands out in front of you and allow your spine to go in a bit of a reverse curve. Give yourself a minute in this position. You might find a vertebrae or two that relax and pop back into alignment.

Now, lie on the floor on your back, knees up. You should use a relatively thin pillow that supports your neck.

Prepare to do a sit-up, but don't do one. By tightening your stomach muscles, your lower back will press down into the floor. Now you have your spine in the correct orientation. Relax your stomach. No sit ups! Yay!

Keep your shoulders on the floor. Now, with your hands coming from the outside (not over top), bring your knees up and grab each knee. Using mostly your arm strength, pull your knees toward your chest. Breathe. You might feel your lower spine 'pop.' Relax a little, and breathe. Pull your knees toward your chest again. Breathe. Do this a few times, slowly, over a couple of minutes.

Relax your knees back to the position of just grabbing them, and start doing "figure eights" with your knees - side-to-side and dance your knees in that figure eight pattern. (about 30 seconds to a minute)

Put your feet back on the floor. Let them slide down until your legs are flat on the ground. You are now completely flat, eyes closed (yoga: "corpse pose.") Time for a very deep relaxation in this position (in yoga, called shavasana (http://www.himalayaninstitute.org/yoga-international-magazine/asana-articles/shavasana/).) Gently grab that blanket beside you and cover at least your lower half. Surrender to the floor, allowing the floor to catch you. Relax your muscles starting from feet and ankles and go up the body, consciously relaxing muscle after muscle. Finally, relax facial muscles, forehead, temples, and allow your jaw to relax to the point your mouth is open - breathing through your nose - with absolutely no muscle tension anywhere in your body. Remain here for about 5 to 10 minutes, but do not quite fall asleep. Try not to worry if the sciatic still hurts at this point - surrender to complete muscle relaxation, knowing that any muscles pinching the nerves are being relaxed, and it may take some time for the nerve to "realize" that it is not being pinched.

When done, slowly bring yourself out of that pose, slowly start to move your body parts, and then you can roll to one side to help you get up.

[RunningDeer]

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[1inMany]

Reilly asked me to share with the Village the most exciting news :) The new addition to their family, a baby boy, born just this morning. I'll leave all the details for when he can share, when he gets back to a computer.

Blessings to your family, Reilly.

http://projectavalon.net/forum4/attachment.php?attachmentid=20872&d=1363636364

Much Love,

[araucaria]

I am posting this here, as it would be off-topic on Observer’s What controls the hologram? thread, which is another search for ‘objective evidence’, which of course I don’t have. Rather than derail that thread, allow me to use the sidetrack of the Here & now, which I personally consider to be the main line to where we’re heading. Here we don’t bring theories to the table to argue over, we bring people together to chat, often playfully, about whatever comes into our heads. Tongue-in-cheek is not frowned upon.




The following is a re-editing of a popular image that can be found in the reference links (below).

http://i1289.photobucket.com/albums/b509/POV_At_Exit_0/HolographicUniverseRevised_zpsf7e1062c.png





This is Observer’s diagram in his opening post. I took issue with the vertical line, now I want to take issue with the whole diagram. In my opinion it is a matrix-eye view of the matrix. According to this view, there is no spoon, but a hologram of one. I think we want to know who/what made/is projecting the hologram only as long as we have fun bending spoons. Who/what? imo is not the right question, and David Icke’s idea of a ‘force’ ‘feeding’ on us (mentioned in the thread) is probably not the most helpful answer either.

In the Bioy Casares novella I mentioned in both threads (The Invention of Morel), the Who? switches from the original perpetrator to the ‘victim’, who rewrites the whole script to suit himself. How this is done is a narrative trick. He simply says he finds the switch to the machinery, but as someone who has never fully got the hang of a VCR :), I would need to know a little more than that. At the higher level where the reader operates, the perpetrator and the victim are like characters from a Robert Heinlein story, ‘By his Bootstraps’ in which there is only one character, a time-traveller who keeps meeting himself (there is another one as well that has been quoted recently on the forum). Here the ‘victim’ as narrator has made the whole thing up: there is no workable machinery, no machinery at all in fact – except words on the page. And ultimately the narrator-perpetrator and the reader-victim merge, with the disappearance of even the machinery of words on the page. There is only me here, doing a little thought experiment all by myself.

I would therefore like to suggest a different model of what I think is going on, from the ‘I am/We are all that there is’ viewpoint. In this model, there ain’t no matrix…

araucaria’s Leaky Watering-can Universe

A watering-can is a device to control/guide a flow of energy (water) – in through the top and out through the spout on the front. Imagine this watering-can developing a leak (whether from the inside or the outside is immaterial): the energy flow is partly diverted downwards, negligibly so at first until at some point it starts interfering with the usefulness of the device. This is ‘a bad thing’ because while my shoes are getting soaked my potted plants are drying out. The only force involved here is natural: gravity, and no one is really benefitting (unless my shoes are getting cleaned :) ).

The natural reaction is not to look for a culprit: a leaky watering-can is probably just suffering from wear-and-tear, and the likely suspect would have to be the user anyway. The natural reaction would be to accept that it is broken and needs fixing. Or does it?

From a ‘hyperdimensional’ standpoint, I am all that is: the water energy, the watering-can, its designer/maker, the wet shoes, the dry plants, and a whole lot more besides. To realize this is to think, ‘What am I doing trying to mend a leaky watering-can, when I can make it rain?!’ And, ‘Hey, if I can get it to rain, I can have a proper garden instead of a few potted plants’. A watering-can after all is a very inefficient, small-time way of transferring water energy from source to destination when we can think so much bigger!

The trouble with this scenario is that it deals a body blow to at least two of our pet theories. One of course, as implied by the above, is the idea that exposing conspiracies is the way to awakening people to these conspiracies and thereby overcoming making the world a better place. I would suggest that this is very likely mistaken. Understanding the matrix is the ultimate way of being entrapped in the matrix, it is just another illusion. There will always be another outside controller controlling the controllers. This is the symbolism of the topless pyramid: endless hierarchy.

An interesting read on the idea that conspiracy theory is bad for your health is Umberto Eco’s Foucault’s Pendulum, or failing that, this review of the book by Anthony Burgess, the author of A Clockwork Orange.


http://www.nytimes.com/books/98/12/06/specials/eco-pendulum.html

Another pet theory that we need to forget about is the idea that we have to ‘save our beautiful planet’ (as Bill was saying the other day), a difficult proposition, I know, but to think that the Earth is somehow more real than anything else I fear is clutching at straws. We can readily conceive of distant Saturn as being the headquarters of the matrix, we would be happy to wave goodbye to the Moon as it sets off back to wherever it came from, but we still cling to the soil under our feet. I am talking here about the Earth as the illusion that appears to our five senses (and maybe to more than those). The Real Earth, which some call the New Earth, is to the rain as the present one is to the leaky watering-can. Rain is a part of the living cycle of nature, the watering-can is technology gone bust, as it always does. If this present Earth is possibly based on the reality of a living planet, dismantling and repairing – or even upgrading – our poor technology is a very poor imitation. As a ‘living’ being, our Earth may be no more than an overused dead version, mockup or hologram that we have been dissecting in anatomy class. There are limits to dissection, the main ones being incompleteness and lifelessness. You can always try artificial respiration on a cadaver, but I wouldn’t expect the patient to respond…

[1inMany]

Thank you everyone for the great advice. This breaking free from all that medicine-crap is really exciting! I decided to go back to bed this morning as I was so tired. Woke up with my sinuses burning.

It took me a 45 minute drive, but I (by gawd) found me some Oil of Oregano, and everyone in the house has had a dose of 2 already. It's 1140mg, which I thought was an odd number. But the $15-$20? Nope. $29.99. And there are only 60 in the bottle. At first I was feeling a little taken advantage of, but then I got to figuring. The Scam-i-flu (haha) was $60, and that was just my co-pay. Considering that, $30 is not so bad. Plus it will treat everybody in the house, flu or not, until the other bottles arrive. And, it was a one-time purchase, as that website offers a package of 5 bottles for $13. I will lay off the Tylenol and Advil to allow the fever to do it's job, too. I think the highest it got before we started Tylenol was 102.6, so not in danger there.

Going to check on the patient...love to all,

[Dennis Leahy]

Thank you everyone for the great advice. This breaking free from all that medicine-crap is really exciting! I decided to go back to bed this morning as I was so tired. Woke up with my sinuses burning.

It took me a 45 minute drive, but I (by gawd) found me some Oil of Oregano, and everyone in the house has had a dose of 2 already. It's 1140mg, which I thought was an odd number. But the $15-$20? Nope. $29.99. And there are only 60 in the bottle. At first I was feeling a little taken advantage of, but then I got to figuring. The Scam-i-flu (haha) was $60, and that was just my co-pay. Considering that, $30 is not so bad. Plus it will treat everybody in the house, flu or not, until the other bottles arrive. And, it was a one-time purchase, as that website offers a package of 5 bottles for $13. I will lay off the Tylenol and Advil to allow the fever to do it's job, too. I think the highest it got before we started Tylenol was 102.6, so not in danger there.

Going to check on the patient...love to all,One, (can I call you "One?"),

Good onya for being diligent and getting that Oil of Oregano! I'll bet in 1 to 3 days from now, you'll be yet another Oil of Oregano "salesperson." hehehehe It's hard not to be excited when something natural really works powerfully well. Many herbal meds are subtle in action.

I know I have said it several times, but let me jump up and down and say to make sure you get some food in the stomachs when they take the Oil of Oregano. It's just a precaution, because when a kid belches up a bubble that tastes overwhelmingly like a spice/herb (doesn't matter what herb or spice), it will be hard to get them to keep taking the pills that are that herb.



Reilly asked me to share with the Village the most exciting news :) The new addition to their family, a baby boy, born just this morning.


And Reilly! Wooo hoooooo! Congratulations! Wonderful news! How are mom and little Dennis? hahahahahhah

[RunningDeer]

I am posting this here, as it would be off-topic on Observer’s What controls the hologram? thread, which is another search for ‘objective evidence’, which of course I don’t have. Rather than derail that thread, allow me to use the sidetrack of the Here & now, which I personally consider to be the main line to where we’re heading. Here we don’t bring theories to the table to argue over, we bring people together to chat, often playfully, about whatever comes into our heads.

Hi Araucaria,

I’ve been in stealth mode on that site. And only watched about 35-40% of the videos. I have nothing concrete or objective to offer. So far, my life design is all about experiential. I have thoughts but nothing that helps you because we are all on our personal journeys. We’re too busy trying to figure what it’s all about. When, for me, it’s just to experience life within, it’s simplicity, and lastly, to give and to receive Love.

My action plan is cleansing the mind, body, and spirit. See how trickster thoughts and beliefs hold me captive. Whether from archonic or ego, it’s the same antidote. Discovery that I am Love-Light. ‘I’ cannot begin to fathom what's around the corner. Only that my custom-made expectations are fulfilled. It’s nothing provable, but deep down at soul level...I Just Know.

Some Points I’ve Gather Along the Way

On God, the One Source

In the complexity of the topic, and if/when I see from the larger perspective of sub-God, i.e, Higher Self incarnate within each body makes it easier to:

Not fall prey to ego specialness
Comprehend that we are all equal and equally one
It’s our innate nature to be knowledge gatherers, not for knowledge sake but for higher consciousness

It sheds light on the importance of uniqueness of each of our perspective. Unique but not egoic special. The Maker of ‘this’ System gathers the consciousness from the building blocks of a complex and multi-dimensional structure. A structure of ‘The One’ that simultaneously encompasses and partakes within this experiential and on-going creation-whole.

What I discovered a few weeks back

There may be a “war for us/our souls”. Who to believe and whom to trust? I thought once you have enough Light, then you are safe from archonic attachment. But I’m beginning to understand one has to be more vigilant. That journey encompasses awareness, and an impeccable honesty of one’s thoughts and deeds, and the whys and hows of them.

And me now? “Within” is where’s it’s at

God/Source is not a caretaker in the sense that humans perceive. The Love of Source, and because we are a part of it [Source], means that humanity is endowed with free will.

I use free will to discover “Who am I”. The goal is for the question and answer to dissolve from ‘I am that Source’ to just being ‘Source’. My interactions with others, and interactions within, assist in the query.

So what was once perceived as horrific is redefined as a gifted opportunity towards things like acceptance, forgiveness, knowledge, wisdom. That’s one step. I want to reach a place where even those words don’t need explanation in the mind-body.

For now, I’m aware of egoic play. And there are others which include humans, galactic families, Angelic Beings, Guides, and Masters that are from the same Source as I. We grow together in this dance too vast for me to comprehend, from this dimensional point of view. The Source of God knows of the Source within. And that ‘I’ doesn’t need protection, only life-living to blossom. And...egoic play forgets that sometimes.

And for the rest of the unknown?

Let the chips fall where they may. When fear creeps in, I remind myself that I'm doing the best that is humanly possible, given where I am NOW.

I keep the journey simple. Gather knowledge because I enjoy it, some of it spills over to the wisdom column. And because I don’t do crossword puzzles. The challenge is...beyond Unconditional Love to Love.

Peace,
Paula

[Samsara]

Congratulations Reilly and Lotusblossom !

[WhiteFeather]

Congrads Reilly to your newest addition. Its A Boy!


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yza3Z1zkrdQ

[Kiforall]

I am posting this here, as it would be off-topic on Observer’s What controls the hologram? thread, which is another search for ‘objective evidence’, which of course I don’t have. Rather than derail that thread, allow me to use the sidetrack of the Here & now, which I personally consider to be the main line to where we’re heading. Here we don’t bring theories to the table to argue over, we bring people together to chat, often playfully, about whatever comes into our heads. Tongue-in-cheek is not frowned upon.




The following is a re-editing of a popular image that can be found in the reference links (below).

http://i1289.photobucket.com/albums/b509/POV_At_Exit_0/HolographicUniverseRevised_zpsf7e1062c.png





This is Observer’s diagram in his opening post. I took issue with the vertical line, now I want to take issue with the whole diagram. In my opinion it is a matrix-eye view of the matrix. According to this view, there is no spoon, but a hologram of one. I think we want to know who/what made/is projecting the hologram only as long as we have fun bending spoons. Who/what? imo is not the right question, and David Icke’s idea of a ‘force’ ‘feeding’ on us (mentioned in the thread) is probably not the most helpful answer either.

In the Bioy Casares novella I mentioned in both threads (The Invention of Morel), the Who? switches from the original perpetrator to the ‘victim’, who rewrites the whole script to suit himself. How this is done is a narrative trick. He simply says he finds the switch to the machinery, but as someone who has never fully got the hang of a VCR :), I would need to know a little more than that. At the higher level where the reader operates, the perpetrator and the victim are like characters from a Robert Heinlein story, ‘By his Bootstraps’ in which there is only one character, a time-traveller who keeps meeting himself (there is another one as well that has been quoted recently on the forum). Here the ‘victim’ as narrator has made the whole thing up: there is no workable machinery, no machinery at all in fact – except words on the page. And ultimately the narrator-perpetrator and the reader-victim merge, with the disappearance of even the machinery of words on the page. There is only me here, doing a little thought experiment all by myself.

I would therefore like to suggest a different model of what I think is going on, from the ‘I am/We are all that there is’ viewpoint. In this model, there ain’t no matrix…

araucaria’s Leaky Watering-can Universe

A watering-can is a device to control/guide a flow of energy (water) – in through the top and out through the spout on the front. Imagine this watering-can developing a leak (whether from the inside or the outside is immaterial): the energy flow is partly diverted downwards, negligibly so at first until at some point it starts interfering with the usefulness of the device. This is ‘a bad thing’ because while my shoes are getting soaked my potted plants are drying out. The only force involved here is natural: gravity, and no one is really benefitting (unless my shoes are getting cleaned :) ).

The natural reaction is not to look for a culprit: a leaky watering-can is probably just suffering from wear-and-tear, and the likely suspect would have to be the user anyway. The natural reaction would be to accept that it is broken and needs fixing. Or does it?

From a ‘hyperdimensional’ standpoint, I am all that is: the water energy, the watering-can, its designer/maker, the wet shoes, the dry plants, and a whole lot more besides. To realize this is to think, ‘What am I doing trying to mend a leaky watering-can, when I can make it rain?!’ And, ‘Hey, if I can get it to rain, I can have a proper garden instead of a few potted plants’. A watering-can after all is a very inefficient, small-time way of transferring water energy from source to destination when we can think so much bigger!

The trouble with this scenario is that it deals a body blow to at least two of our pet theories. One of course, as implied by the above, is the idea that exposing conspiracies is the way to awakening people to these conspiracies and thereby overcoming making the world a better place. I would suggest that this is very likely mistaken. Understanding the matrix is the ultimate way of being entrapped in the matrix, it is just another illusion. There will always be another outside controller controlling the controllers. This is the symbolism of the topless pyramid: endless hierarchy.

An interesting read on the idea that conspiracy theory is bad for your health is Umberto Eco’s Foucault’s Pendulum, or failing that, this review of the book by Anthony Burgess, the author of A Clockwork Orange.


http://www.nytimes.com/books/98/12/06/specials/eco-pendulum.html

Another pet theory that we need to forget about is the idea that we have to ‘save our beautiful planet’ (as Bill was saying the other day), a difficult proposition, I know, but to think that the Earth is somehow more real than anything else I fear is clutching at straws. We can readily conceive of distant Saturn as being the headquarters of the matrix, we would be happy to wave goodbye to the Moon as it sets off back to wherever it came from, but we still cling to the soil under our feet. I am talking here about the Earth as the illusion that appears to our five senses (and maybe to more than those). The Real Earth, which some call the New Earth, is to the rain as the present one is to the leaky watering-can. Rain is a part of the living cycle of nature, the watering-can is technology gone bust, as it always does. If this present Earth is possibly based on the reality of a living planet, dismantling and repairing – or even upgrading – our poor technology is a very poor imitation. As a ‘living’ being, our Earth may be no more than an overused dead version, mockup or hologram that we have been dissecting in anatomy class. There are limits to dissection, the main ones being incompleteness and lifelessness. You can always try artificial respiration on a cadaver, but I wouldn’t expect the patient to respond…

Can I throw this in here as it has just been washing about in my head since watching part 1 and 2.

It comes across as computer V's biological/spiritual.

If you believe you are no more than a character in a hologram then so be it.

But if you see yourself as your true self you become free.

[astrid]

oh wow, the village has a new addition,
Congrats to Reilly and Lotusblossom
what wonderful news

He looks divine, a new angel has landed

Love to all three of you

[Samsara]

Hey 1... it's been bothering me...no Oil of Oregano for Little One ... I don't know about the tablets, as I use the liquid form, then you can give 1 to 2 drops only to young children.

Next time you're out shopping, get some echinacea as tincture (liquid form). That is safe for children too, only use less drops.

I always prefer tincture as it is less processed and easier for the body to use (does not have to be digested first).

My 2 cents

[astrid]

https://fbcdn-sphotos-a-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-snc6/246582_450137428388584_1758312401_n.jpg

holy wow,

Iceland..

[1inMany]

Hey 1... it's been bothering me...no Oil of Oregano for Little One ... I don't know about the tablets, as I use the liquid form, then you can give 1 to 2 drops only to young children.

Next time you're out shopping, get some echinacea as tincture (liquid form). That is safe for children too, only use less drops.

I always prefer tincture as it is less processed and easier for the body to use (does not have to be digested first).

My 2 cents

Hmmm. That's interesting, because the lady at the "health food" store said I could cut open a gel cap and squeeze a drop or two into his chocolate milk. She said she has the liquid form and does this with a drop or two. Actually, it seems there is only a drop or two in the gel caps, they are very small.

Really, though, I didn't trust her. She had on her worn out Church of God T-shirt, or some such. She's the one that told me all I need for protection in my home is Jesus. Now, I appreciate the sentiment, it's just that she doesn't have a clue. And at those prices, I know she is also in it to make a pretty penny, not just make a living.

Little One likes sweet tea, his mother's doing lol, and I was thinking of doctoring up something to give him that tastes sweet...but...I didn't think of that when I was at the store, and it's a 45 minute hike...yadda yadda. I am just hoping, at this point, that the positive side of Em not getting out of bed for days is that the virus is contained. Probably wishful thinking.

The good news is that so far, I haven't gotten any worse! Yay!!! Headache, scratchy throat, sinus burning...and very tired. But watching Em, if it doesn't get any worse than this, I'm going to be soooooo grateful!!!!!

Oh, and Dennis...(in my best midwestern drawl, I say) honey, you can call me whatever you want, lol, I answer to most anything. Hahahahaha. (I am quick to point out the midwestern drawl, because most people I love end up being called honey, sugar, or sweetie at one time or another...)

Much Love,

[RunningDeer]

Congratulations Lotus Blossom and REILLY!

http://avalonlibrary.net/paula/Photoshop/Reilly_Lotus_Blossom2_zpsd1ab7d5e.JPG

[Samsara]

Hey 1... it's been bothering me...no Oil of Oregano for Little One ... I don't know about the tablets, as I use the liquid form, then you can give 1 to 2 drops only to young children.

Next time you're out shopping, get some echinacea as tincture (liquid form). That is safe for children too, only use less drops.

I always prefer tincture as it is less processed and easier for the body to use (does not have to be digested first).

My 2 cents

Hmmm. That's interesting, because the lady at the "health food" store said I could cut open a gel cap and squeeze a drop or two into his chocolate milk. She said she has the liquid form and does this with a drop or two. Actually, it seems there is only a drop or two in the gel caps, they are very small.

Really, though, I didn't trust her. She had on her worn out Church of God T-shirt, or some such. She's the one that told me all I need for protection in my home is Jesus. Now, I appreciate the sentiment, it's just that she doesn't have a clue. And at those prices, I know she is also in it to make a pretty penny, not just make a living.

Little One likes sweet tea, his mother's doing lol, and I was thinking of doctoring up something to give him that tastes sweet...but...I didn't think of that when I was at the store, and it's a 45 minute hike...yadda yadda. I am just hoping, at this point, that the positive side of Em not getting out of bed for days is that the virus is contained. Probably wishful thinking.

The good news is that so far, I haven't gotten any worse! Yay!!! Headache, scratchy throat, sinus burning...and very tired. But watching Em, if it doesn't get any worse than this, I'm going to be soooooo grateful!!!!!

Oh, and Dennis...(in my best midwestern drawl, I say) honey, you can call me whatever you want, lol, I answer to most anything. Hahahahaha. (I am quick to point out the midwestern drawl, because most people I love end up being called honey, sugar, or sweetie at one time or another...)

Much Love,

All is good then. Drink plenty of liquids and get some rest ! :p

[CD7]

I am posting this here, as it would be off-topic on Observer’s What controls the hologram? thread, which is another search for ‘objective evidence’, which of course I don’t have. Rather than derail that thread, allow me to use the sidetrack of the Here & now, which I personally consider to be the main line to where we’re heading. Here we don’t bring theories to the table to argue over, we bring people together to chat, often playfully, about whatever comes into our heads. Tongue-in-cheek is not frowned upon.

Nicee Araucaria! Yes i go about searching in a different way, so thanks for the post, i too did not want to continue to derail observers thread--

This subject whether it b about a hologram or whtever we call it...is a great interest to me at the moment, actually has been for along time, ive just searched through different subjects to peel any layer of the onion off tht i possibly could!

After much peeling...ive come to a point where i sit back at times and go wht the heck am i in?? The world many times over reminds me of Alice in Wonderland...it appears fake to me..especially when i can see balls bouncing into each other in the air! (very similar to a tv screen when the signal goes)

Its ALL about change for me, (searching out ways to make the biggest impact) so to even venture into those directions one must KNOW wht they are dealing with...At the moment i think whether we are discussing this subject through scientific methods or from subjective/objective experience--its all the same to me--just appears different as the semantics and order of operation go by certain laws and regulations.

All in All...it is just humans cackling there ideas, theories, observations, experiences.....What makes one more noble and true?? To me its just using different symbols/expressions to formulate a conclusion WHICH still leaves us ignorant to who and wht we are...no matter where the information has come from...............

So again thanks for bringing this up and letting me spew out a little more spewg...hahahaha

[astrid]

In the garden today, organizing my beds for autumn plantings
Have loads of trays of babies on the go, all looking cheery and
ready for their life of sun worship.

Early Garlic crops as going in now, so i am dowsing on exactly
the right time and where to plant them

Today we have a glorious sunny autumn day, here so I'm taking some time
to prepare and bless my garden for the next season of crops.

Later i meet with some fellow energy workers in circle to take advantage of
the coming equinox, for the next 3 or 4 days we have the chance to work
with some awesome energies. Life is good.

[Dennis Leahy]

OK, this is light and frivolous and neither earth shaking nor soul shattering... but really, this is the best place on the 'net for me to post it. (And am I ever grateful to be with like-minded yet independent beings to share with!)

So, I was gifted a copy of the movie, "The Life of Pi."

The movie itself, the storyline is very good, the acting (especially the lead character) is great. As a piece of cinematography and as art, it is extraordinarily beautiful, and it was a thoroughly enjoyable distraction from my "real" life (which has become too heavy over the past few years.) I would recommend it highly to anyone, though I know some atheists that would be irritated with the storyline, as its main theme is the character "Pi" going from religion(s) experience to direct experience with God.

Oh crap! I realize I cannot give away what was so mind-blowing to me! There is an aspect - a huge aspect - that lifts the movie from incredible to... well, nothing short of a masterpiece. I did not even see it in the movie! (Remember, we are to "suspend disbelief" in order to be entertained.) I only became aware of this aspect in the "bonus features" on the DVD. It made my jaw drop and my eyes pop.

So there, dammit! That's as close as I can get to discussing it until people have had a chance to rent the DVD, and watch the "bonus features" AFTER watching the movie. I know some of you know - but don't spoil it for others that don't know - yet.

Dennis


http://vimeo.com/52492553

[ulli]

I've been really busy lately, but am missing the Village, and also missing out on some cool conversations.
But so very happy to hear about Reilly and Lotusblossoms new baby boy....what a treat!!
Congratulations, and wishing you quiet nights. Lots and lots of love to all in your household.

[Carmody]

Yes, I dreampt about this birth, last night. As usual it got mixed up in the day's impressions.

I've had a day where I've had to deal with a heckler, on anther forum. Finally. I had to finally shoot back. And when I shot back, I shot hard. And he went down hard. And when that happened, I turned for another shot. when I turned for another shot I nearly shot a heavily pregnant woman. Just grazed her. When that happened, she gave birth. Oh Dang. Why the heck was there a heavily pregnant woman walking through the middle of a multi-person gunfight?

I'm dealing with a bunch of young guys, so that's why there's such mental gunplay going on. It's the atmosphere they live in. When one is living in formative reality, 'pre-time', so to speak, things get mixed up.

[onawah]

I read the book recently and loved it, and can't wait to see the movie.
It looks so magical, and I know I will love the nature scenes and the animals, though I'm sure I'll cry during the shipwreck and drowning scenes.
And I am a big fan of the "bonus features" of movies, so I will be certain to check that out.
I think for many of us Baby Boomers whose first deep spiritual awakenings came via the cultural importing of Hindu philosophy in the 60s, this movie will reawaken many of those Eastern flavored spiritual urges.
Thanks Dennis!

[Playdo of Ataraxas]

Prayers and blessings LotusBlossum and Reills! Much love to you! Can't wait to see ya! Here's my song to you:

Well, the one song wasn't enough. Here's the whole album:

h2NJ-alquqM

Cheers and love y'all!

[gripreaper]

So, I was gifted a copy of the movie, "The Life of Pi."

It's not on XBMC yet, so I haven't seen it, but I've heard the same reaction from others as a "must see". I'll keep my eye out for it to show up.

[yukondiva]

OK, this is light and frivolous and neither earth shaking nor soul shattering... but really, this is the best place on the 'net for me to post it. (And am I ever grateful to be with like-minded yet independent beings to share with!)

So, I was gifted a copy of the movie, "The Life of Pi."

The movie itself, the storyline is very good, the acting (especially the lead character) is great. As a piece of cinematography and as art, it is extraordinarily beautiful, and it was a thoroughly enjoyable distraction from my "real" life (which has become too heavy over the past few years.) I would recommend it highly to anyone, though I know some atheists that would be irritated with the storyline, as its main theme is the character "Pi" going from religion(s) experience to direct experience with God.

Oh crap! I realize I cannot give away what was so mind-blowing to me! There is an aspect - a huge aspect - that lifts the movie from incredible to... well, nothing short of a masterpiece. I did not even see it in the movie! (Remember, we are to "suspend disbelief" in order to be entertained.) I only became aware of this aspect in the "bonus features" on the DVD. It made my jaw drop and my eyes pop.

So there, dammit! That's as close as I can get to discussing it until people have had a chance to rent the DVD, and watch the "bonus features" AFTER watching the movie. I know some of you know - but don't spoil it for others that don't know - yet.

Dennis


http://vimeo.com/52492553

Loved the book read it when it came out years ago, loved the story. It had layers and a great ending. They often change the story when they make a movie, I am hoping that they stayed true to the original story.

[yukondiva]

https://fbcdn-sphotos-a-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-snc6/246582_450137428388584_1758312401_n.jpg

holy wow,

Iceland..

I had the immense pleasure of living in Iceland when young. My first encounter with the northern lights was waiting for the bus to take me to school. I fell in love. Sometimes missing the bus. Will never forget how wonderous it was to see the dancing lights in the sky. Great picture. Thanks for the reminder of those halcion days.

[Samsara]

We're having another snow storm ... :gaah: Some 20-30 cm more ! :gaah: I'm telling myself it's the last one, what I call the Crow Storm which always comes around mid-March. I'm also saying to myself that the fresh snow will help to melt the icy crusted 2-3 feet of snow left on the ground. But I'm still dreading going to freeze my butt at the bus stop.

It must be an important day for me to go to work... my radio-clock went on at the usual time even though we missed electricity during the night and was on the flashing mode. Have not figured that one out yet... the alarm-radio never never did that when we missed electricity during the night. :suspicious:

Be well everyOne !

[PurpleLama]

Everything has gone as well as it possibly could in a modern medical environment. The hospital is the best in the area, except for a few brief moments, the baby is kept in the room with us. He is very calm, very sweet, just like his big brother was whe he was born just down the hall a few years ago.

He came just after midnight on the morning of the 18th, 6lbs 14oz, 20in long, and on Edgar Cayce's birthday, no less. Pisces Sun, Gemini moon, Sagittarius rising. My sun is Gem, and Lotusblossom's is Sag, so it works out. :) We are all going home early this afternoon. We are missing our older son terribly, and can't wait for him to meet his new baby brother.

Thanks for the well wishing, we love you guys.

[1inMany]

Update from sick bay. Em did not wake up last night coughing, did not need any cough medicine. This is a big deal. She is so weak she cannot sit up, so I'm forcing some juice, though it is difficult to keep her awake to drink it. Can only get her to eat toast at this point. On the bright side, she is not complaining that it is burning her throat, either! Slow going getting her back up and around. I told her tomorrow maybe we can get her onto the couch. (I've lost track, has it been four days in bed, or five...)

I am better than yesterday, which is quite a surprise (probably not to you who are already spokespersons for Oil of Oregano, haha). Other than exhaustion, I really do feel better. My head isn't killing me, my sinuses only burn a little, my throat doesn't hurt at all. I'm...shocked (happily). We are all eating when we take it, every time, but that stuff does make you burp, haha, food or not. I can't decide what gave me a busy dreaming night, weird dreams, what kept me from resting. Will try to catch up some this morning.

Much Love, and Many Thanks :)

[soleil]

i dont think i've ever posted on this thread as of yet.

hi everyone! i cant wait to join in here. :)

[Dennis Leahy]

I read the book recently and loved it...


... I've heard the same reaction from others as a "must see". I'll keep my eye out for it to show up.


...
Loved the book read it when it came out years ago, loved the story. It had layers and a great ending. They often change the story when they make a movie, I am hoping that they stayed true to the original story.

Onawah and Yukondiva, I did not read the book, and although it did receive numerous awards for "screen adaptation", I have no idea how closely the movie matches the book. If the movie was not true to the book (which, as we all know, is typical, often because inner-dialog is so hard to portray on-screen), then I would bet that there is a good chance you'll enjoy the movie anyway.

Grip, I had never heard of XBMC. It looks like a free/open source media player - do they also have titles specifically encoded to their own codec? Since this is a 2012 movie, I would not expect it to be available free for quite a while (other than a bootleg on torrent - don't answer that one publicly.) As for media players, I have been using VLC (http://www.videolan.org/) for a while, but I will check out XBMC as well.

To All, I'd say this is not a movie that should be watched on an iPhone-sized screen - the art and artistry was intended to be immersive, and bigger-than-life. I now wish I had seen it "on the big screen", rather than on a TV set.

Dennis

[Kraut]

Liebe Grüße an alle im Dorf. :wave:

I heard the rumor that the galactic community intends to adopt German as the common language. :lol:

[Calz]

Everything has gone as well as it possibly could in a modern medical environment. The hospital is the best in the area, except for a few brief moments, the baby is kept in the room with us. He is very calm, very sweet, just like his big brother was whe he was born just down the hall a few years ago.

He came just after midnight on the morning of the 18th, 6lbs 14oz, 20in long, and on Edgar Cayce's birthday, no less. Pisces Sun, Gemini moon, Sagittarius rising. My sun is Gem, and Lotusblossom's is Sag, so it works out. :) We are all going home early this afternoon. We are missing our older son terribly, and can't wait for him to meet his new baby brother.

Thanks for the well wishing, we love you guys.


Another Purple Wiz ... Terra is a better place.

So happy for you Reilly :)


http://www.princesse-story.com/268-1164-thickbox/deguisement-merlin-enfant.jpg

[Calz]

One of, if not *the* best James Gilliland shows ... and that says a lot.

Saying what needs to be said ... right here and now ...


http://www.4shared.com/mp3/np6MC1MJ/as_you_wish_talk_radio_2013-03.html

[ulli]

WHERE IS DONK??????
DONK, where ARE youuuuuuuuuu???

[Carmody]

https://fbcdn-sphotos-a-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-snc6/246582_450137428388584_1758312401_n.jpg

holy wow,

Iceland..

I had the immense pleasure of living in Iceland when young. My first encounter with the northern lights was waiting for the bus to take me to school. I fell in love. Sometimes missing the bus. Will never forget how wonderous it was to see the dancing lights in the sky. Great picture. Thanks for the reminder of those halcion days.

bV-hSgL1R74

[RunningDeer]

One of, if not *the* best James Gilliland shows ... and that says a lot.

Saying what needs to be said ... right here and now ...


http://www.4shared.com/mp3/np6MC1MJ/as_you_wish_talk_radio_2013-03.html

Yes, absolutely! I just finished 10 minutes ago and posted back on the other thread a thanks for getting that link out, Calz. :wave:

[CD7]

https://fbcdn-sphotos-a-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-snc6/246582_450137428388584_1758312401_n.jpg

holy wow,

Iceland..

I had the immense pleasure of living in Iceland when young. My first encounter with the northern lights was waiting for the bus to take me to school. I fell in love. Sometimes missing the bus. Will never forget how wonderous it was to see the dancing lights in the sky. Great picture. Thanks for the reminder of those halcion days.



How do we receive neon green colors?...where's tht reflecting from? Red in the sky is supposed to be from dust in the atmosphere...so the particles/dust tht are neon green come from space? :rolleyes:

[CD7]

Ok this is some info i found...still i find it makes a curious color!





What causes the Northern Lights?


The Northern Lights are actually the result of collisions between gaseous particles in the Earth's atmosphere with charged particles released from the sun's atmosphere. Variations in colour are due to the type of gas particles that are colliding. The most common auroral color, a pale yellowish-green, is produced by oxygen molecules located about 60 miles above the earth. Rare, all-red auroras are produced by high-altitude oxygen, at heights of up to 200 miles. Nitrogen produces blue or purplish-red aurora.

[ThePythonicCow]

Aw, I opened the computer too late to get on page 1221. Happy Solstice everyone!

ditto that!


i dont think i've ever posted on this thread as of yet.

hi everyone! i cant wait to join in here. :)

Hi there again :).

[1inMany]

Why is it that this kind of crap keeps finding it's way to my eyes? Since that conversation a few days back...it is getting aggravating.

https://sphotos-b.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash3/62712_576538539023795_123872190_n.jpg

Maybe I should just laugh. Probably should. But it's just irritating at this point. Guess there's something here I need to work on. In my spare time.

Much Love,

¤=[Post Update]=¤

Oh yes, so much better.

https://sphotos-b.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-snc7/303099_576446605699655_267134872_n.jpg

Couldn't leave the village on that other note.

Much Love,

[ulli]

One of the principles that attracted me to the Bahai religion:

Baha'u'llah emphasizes the fundamental obligation of human beings to acquire knowledge with their "own eyes and not through the eyes of others."

One of the main sources of conflict in the world today is the fact that many people blindly and uncritically follow various traditions, movements, and opinions. God has given each human being a mind and the capacity to differentiate truth from falsehood. If individuals fail to use their reasoning capacities and choose instead to accept without question certain opinions and ideas, either out of admiration for or fear of those who hold them, then they are neglecting their basic moral responsibility as human beings. Moreover, when people act in this way, they often become attached to some particular opinion or tradition and thus intolerant of those who do not share it. Such attachments can, in turn, lead to conflict. History has witnessed conflict and even bloodshed over slight alterations in religious practice, or a minor change in the interpretation of doctrine. Personal search for truth enables the individual to know why he or she adheres to a given ideology or doctrine.

Bahá'ís believe that, as there is only one reality, all people will gradually discover its different facets and will ultimately come to common understanding and unity, provided they sincerely seek after truth. In this connection, 'Abdu'l-Bahá said:

Being one, truth cannot be divided, and the differences that appear to exist among the many nations only result from their attachment to prejudice. If only men would search out truth, they would find themselves united.

[RunningDeer]

i dont think i've ever posted on this thread as of yet.

hi everyone! i cant wait to join in here. :)


Hello Teradactyl, sending spring colors your way. :wave:

Hearts,
Paula (was WhiteCrowBlackDeer)
http://avalonlibrary.net/paula/Notices/balloons3.JPG

[PurpleLama]

Why is it that this kind of crap keeps finding it's way to my eyes? Since that conversation a few days back...it is getting aggravating.

Laugh about it, it's the healthy response. Intrestingly enough, A of G was the church I grew up in.

[Playdo of Ataraxas]

Aw, I opened the computer too late to get on page 1221. Happy Solstice everyone!

ditto that!


i dont think i've ever posted on this thread as of yet.

hi everyone! i cant wait to join in here. :)

Hi there again :).

And that is synchronistic. Tomorrow is the Spring Equinox, in contrast to the Solstice. Thanks Paul, and Hello Teradactyl!

And Happy Equinox Everyone! God bless the Fae, god bless We, and God bless God especially!

[Carmody]

Regarding upsetting church signs:

I know it's dirty pool, but when I was a kid (teens to early teens), I'd re-arrange church signs and what-not. Nothing brutal or nasty, just humour. Sick humor was allowed, but not vicious. Sitting there stoned, trying to be inventive, wishing for a vowel or consonant.