Here and Now...What's Happening?

[Carmody]

On the genetic side of things, the widespread genetics (people's results) don't surprise me at all. In my case, I know of at least 9 and more like 12 genetic splits and splices going back just 3 generations.

Which means if I tried the genetic trace package, I'd expect a minimum of a 12 to 16 group breakdown. Probably more.

Which is obvious, in hindsight, if the occupant of the given avatar can generally align with others, ie, overlay with just about anyone...anywhere on the globe.

My weakest is probably going to be Asian-polynesian, and hindi/indian, etc. When looking at women, I find that those sort of genetics are what I personally find to be 'exotic', so that is possibly a very loose confirmation.

[Carmody]

Posted by ulli (here)
Made me laugh. Except the idea that the future has yet more wars in store for us.

And Bread. (up and coming gluten intolerance)

[Constance]

Thought I would drop in and say G'day

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[ulli]

Not for everyone.
Social conditioning...

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=4rnJEdDNDsI

[ulli]

[ulli]

[Mike]

Posted by Carmody (here)
On the genetic side of things, the widespread genetics (people's results) don't surprise me at all. In my case, I know of at least 9 and more like 12 genetic splits and splices going back just 3 generations.

Which means if I tried the genetic trace package, I'd expect a minimum of a 12 to 16 group breakdown. Probably more.

Which is obvious, in hindsight, if the occupant of the given avatar can generally align with others, ie, overlay with just about anyone...anywhere on the globe.

My weakest is probably going to be Asian-polynesian, and hindi/indian, etc. When looking at women, I find that those sort of genetics are what I personally find to be 'exotic', so that is possibly a very loose confirmation.

About 5-6 weeks ago I purchased an ancestry.com dna kit. (Yes, of course my conspiracy sirens were blaring..but I was drunk, so I didnt care. Actually, thats how confident I am that i'm no one special...if I even had an inkling that black ops recruiters were going to abduct me on my nightly walk, I wouldnt have done it.

It was $100. On the one hand i'm glad I did it, but on the other theres a twinge of regret. Having recently told my boss to go f#ck himself, I am now unemployed. I could use that 100 bucks. There's a beautiful euphoria I usually experience after quitting a job, but its short lived. It isnt long before it morphs into the dreaded realization that I must get a new job, quickly, or I won't be able to eat soon. Currently i'm aggressively segueing into the dread part of the process..

So I get an email yesterday from ancestry. "Good news" it said. My dna has arrived in the lab and it will only be 6-8 weeks till the results are ready. They tell you from the start that it'll take 6-8 weeks to process the dna, but they never tell you it'll take 6 weeks just to get the stuff to the lab. I was a little pissed.

Anyway, despite my mixed feeling i'm glad I did it. Theres a great debate in the family about what, if any, percent native american we are. So it'll be worth it just to settle that. Besides, i'm tired of all the guesswork and speculation. I'm ready to find out

[Carmody]

'Murica!

Man (living on welfare) kicked out of all-you-can-eat buffet after eating more than 50 lbs of food, sues for $2-million

Snopes says this is false, but 'murica is so messed up, that I have no trouble believing it is true. None whatsoever. Far stranger things have happened that are true.

(what really happened was..I posted it..then decided that I had better fact check it. I ended up at snopes and they explained the falsehood. So I let the posting stand, but altered the text a bit....in order to hide my mis-step)

[araucaria]

What is the wordl coming to? Since when did the mainstream press offer insolent articles about the Bilderbergers like this:
http://www.theguardian.com/world/201...ton-bilderblog

[animovado]

Posted by araucaria (here)
What is the wordl coming to? Since when did the mainstream press offer insolent articles about the Bilderbergers like this:
http://www.theguardian.com/world/201...ton-bilderblog

A quote from the article:

With so many politicians present, including three members of the German cabinet, the German military has been drafted in to oversee security.

The deployment of the german military in the interior is not in alignment with the german constitution, except for situations of catastrophic proportions (e.g. floodings), afaik.
Is the Bilderberger meeting kind of catastrophic?
Well, maybe.

[RunningDeer]

Oops, video posted on two other threads.

[ulli]

Guardian Bilderberg article on Kissinger:

"And speak of the devil! The ageless 93-year-old former US secretary of state will be holding court at Dresden, croaking out his wisdom from the throne of bones he has shipped everywhere he goes. You just can’t keep a bad man down. Henry Kissinger still meets with George Osborne to advise the chancellor on geopolitics, and recently had a much publicised meeting with Donald Trump. I would say I’d like to have been a fly on the wall of that room, but I fear Kissinger’s tongue would have had me off the wall in seconds.

Kissinger must be thinking harder than usual about the future, which perhaps explains Bilderberg’s recent interest in artificial intelligence. Henry must be desperate to upload his consciousness into a Pentagon drone, so he can flit more easily between geopolitical summits, and drop the occasional bomb on a village for old times’ sake. In Dresden, Kissinger will be getting tips on where to have his USB sockets fitted from the AI expert Demis Hassabis, the director of Google’s DeepMind project, as well as the co-chairman of OpenAI, Sam Altman."

[meeradas]

The light is/as the artist.

[DNA]

Posted by ulli (here)
Guardian Bilderberg article on Kissinger:

"And speak of the devil! The ageless 93-year-old former US secretary of state will be holding court at Dresden, croaking out his wisdom from the throne of bones he has shipped everywhere he goes. You just can’t keep a bad man down. Henry Kissinger still meets with George Osborne to advise the chancellor on geopolitics, and recently had a much publicised meeting with Donald Trump. I would say I’d like to have been a fly on the wall of that room, but I fear Kissinger’s tongue would have had me off the wall in seconds.

Kissinger must be thinking harder than usual about the future, which perhaps explains Bilderberg’s recent interest in artificial intelligence. Henry must be desperate to upload his consciousness into a Pentagon drone, so he can flit more easily between geopolitical summits, and drop the occasional bomb on a village for old times’ sake. In Dresden, Kissinger will be getting tips on where to have his USB sockets fitted from the AI expert Demis Hassabis, the director of Google’s DeepMind project, as well as the co-chairman of OpenAI, Sam Altman."

From what I've heard Kissinger and Cheney have been atop the shadow government here in the US for a while.
There was a scene from Captain America's "Winter Soldier", the movie gives quite a few tells, including Nazi's controlling aspects of the government since project paperclip.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=62cjheqv-nw

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=62cjheqv-nw

[seah]

thanks for the treat of beauty, meeradas, amazing light and shadow show.

it's remarkable how much we can learn about our reality from movies...I finally watched The Martian, so I've been contemplating how there's really no need for me to see any 'actual' photos or footage of any future Mars exploration.

Don't forget to breathe deeply and play, enjoy your day everyone.

[Stephanie]

Posted by meeradas (here)
The light is/as the artist.

You are the the artist and the light, dearest Meeradas,
thank you, always...siempre.

[Billy]

Here and now, much love to the village, but i had to share about this guy that has decided, after 5.000 yrs, that he would like to experience some feminine energy and bare some fruit instead of pollen

Quote :
Fortingall Yew, in Perthshire, has been recorded as 'male' for centuries, but in recent years it has started to sprout seeds, suggesting that part of it is changing gender. This 'rare and unusual phenomenon' move has baffled botanists.

http://offgridquest.com/green/5000-y...land-is-changi

I know this tree and have hugged it many times, I loved this story

[araucaria]

Posted by DNA (here)

Posted by ulli (here)
Guardian Bilderberg article on Kissinger:

"And speak of the devil! The ageless 93-year-old former US secretary of state will be holding court at Dresden, croaking out his wisdom from the throne of bones he has shipped everywhere he goes. You just can’t keep a bad man down. Henry Kissinger still meets with George Osborne to advise the chancellor on geopolitics, and recently had a much publicised meeting with Donald Trump. I would say I’d like to have been a fly on the wall of that room, but I fear Kissinger’s tongue would have had me off the wall in seconds.

Kissinger must be thinking harder than usual about the future, which perhaps explains Bilderberg’s recent interest in artificial intelligence. Henry must be desperate to upload his consciousness into a Pentagon drone, so he can flit more easily between geopolitical summits, and drop the occasional bomb on a village for old times’ sake. In Dresden, Kissinger will be getting tips on where to have his USB sockets fitted from the AI expert Demis Hassabis, the director of Google’s DeepMind project, as well as the co-chairman of OpenAI, Sam Altman."

From what I've heard Kissinger and Cheney have been atop the shadow government here in the US for a while.
There was a scene from Captain America's "Winter Soldier", the movie gives quite a few tells, including Nazi's controlling aspects of the government since project paperclip.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=62cjheqv-nw

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=62cjheqv-nw

You have a rather different perspective in Van Vogt’s World of Non-A, which I’ve been rereading lately. Non-A means non-Aristotelian, i.e. rejecting Aristotelian dualism, and also includes such things as non-E (non-Euclidian). Here the Machine of central government is on the opposite side of the equation, and one of its functions is to select suitable candidates to colonize Venus in a purely non-A environment. It comes under attack, the Machine is destroyed, and it turns out the multiple avatars of the hero trace back to its builder himself.

[DNA]

Posted by seah (here)
“a complete understanding of reality lies beyond the capabilities of rational thought."
― Gary Zukav

For all of the profanity in this scene where Samuel L Jackson reprises his role from Pulp Fiction, and recreates the "what" scene, I feel this scene kind of points out Carlos Castaneda's "known" and "unknowable" tenents on the Universe as well as can be done in such a short piece, this piece of philosophy seems reflected in the signature you have chosen Seah.

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=f27SorMvn5U

[Carmody]

Posted by araucaria (here)
You have a rather different perspective in Van Vogt’s World of Non-A, which I’ve been rereading lately. Non-A means non-Aristotelian, i.e. rejecting Aristotelian dualism, and also includes such things as non-E (non-Euclidian). Here the Machine of central government is on the opposite side of the equation, and one of its functions is to select suitable candidates to colonize Venus in a purely non-A environment. It comes under attack, the Machine is destroyed, and it turns out the multiple avatars of the hero trace back to its builder himself.

A.E. van Vogt was always a favorite. It's 'The World of Null A" in English. Then, 'The Weapons makers', 'The Wizard of Linn', 'Empire of the Atom', and so on. I just love the cover designs of the 50's 60's and 70's sci-fi novels. Totally whacked, exactly as they should be.

example:


I have no idea where that is..but I desperately wished I could get enough drugs in my body to get there. Or magically appear there. Mostly I feel like John does in Dark city, when asked. He does not know where or what it is, but he wants to go 'Home'.



If you are looking for something more modern that actually has that incredible heady feeling of reading at those hard to find peak levels, those airy spacey moments that are so difficult to come by these days, Radix does a decent job.



The most difficult thing for a novel to do, for me, these days, is give me a perspective that I do not already possess. It's been +20 years since that has happened, which is why I gave up reading about 17 years ago. After a few hundred novels of nothing, I had to throw in the towel.

Wow. Hot Fudge Sundae fell on a Tuesday.

The fans of such, and I count myself among them, finally got a chance to go back to the Ringworld. For 5 glorious novels. And I was quite sad when I reached the end of the 5th: