Here and Now...What's Happening?

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Suppose you know that Sweden is the main loyal helper of NSA with the surveillance? There's this American (don't know his name) who stated that in mainstream media just some week ago. Our rightwinged prime minister Reinfeldt doesn't want to take a stand and has not attended the European meeting and our foreign minister Carl Bildt has been flirting with the US for years going for solo trips without the conscent of the govt.

[Calz]

Posted by transiten (here)

Suppose you know that Sweden is the main loyal helper of NSA with the surveillance?

Suppose we suspect there is a whole lot more than one other "loyal helper"???

[Carmody]

Posted by ulli (here)

Posted by araucaria (here)

Ulli, that's eighty thousand thank yous. Wow, that's a lot of very grateful admirers

You know and I know that's not true.
Ten Villagers being polite and thanking my 8000 posts...that's all that is.

Yeah, but strangers don't know that. You can walk out there and pwn the newbs with your "80k thank you's" stick. (whack whack)

edit:
oh yes. On other subjects:.... two x-class solar flares today. So far. Might be another, never know.

[ulli]

Posted by Carmody (here)

Posted by ulli (here)

Posted by araucaria (here)

Ulli, that's eighty thousand thank yous. Wow, that's a lot of very grateful admirers

You know and I know that's not true.
Ten Villagers being polite and thanking my 8000 posts...that's all that is.

Yeah, but strangers don't know that. You can walk out there and pwn the newbs with your "80k thank you's" stick. (whack whack)

Yeah, right. I used to have more friends on Avalon when I was below the 800 mark.
What happened to all of them? Stats can be off-putting.

[Calz]

Posted by ulli (here)

Yeah, right. I used to have more friends on Avalon when I was below the 800 mark.
What happened to all of them? Stats can be off-putting.

I love you ulli ... put that into your spreadsheet ...

[ulli]

Posted by Calz (here)

Posted by ulli (here)

Yeah, right. I used to have more friends on Avalon when I was below the 800 mark.
What happened to all of them? Stats can be off-putting.

I love you ulli ... put that into your spreadsheet ...

You DO????

[Calz]

As always ... and you know that

[Flash]

Ulli: Thanks. I just saw it in perspective...
from my end it doesn't seem such a big deal.
I wonder why? Because of the guilt feelings I carry around for letting slide opportunities in the past?
When I ignored people I met, like publishers, who wanted me to sit down and write....
I know I'm lazy. German programming running deep here.
That 80,000 is nothing compared to the 80 million copies I could have sold if I had told all....

I definitely would be the drop in the millions reading it.

Posted by Calz:

I love you ulli ... put that into your spreadsheet ...

Ulli: You DO????

I have the weird feeling that if it were me saying this it would have an entirely different impact.... don't know why... oh, Calz is a men.. (teasing yous here)


Carmody has missed of my psychic readings of the future, his future, it seems (teasing again)

I am in a better mood, I have done other psychometric tests this afternoon and scored top notch. Everything based on schooling and past learning is top. The problems is with the new learning abilities it seems..... sigh.

[ulli]

I'm feeling sick now because I just saw the most awful photograph on Facebook....
Poachers are using chainsaws to get the ivory off of elephants....

They simply slice off the whole face and leave the animal lying there to die.
Apparently in Tansania alone it's one elephant every 15 minutes.
The market for this ivory is China. The same goes for Rhinos....no mercy killings...just cut off their horns..
This HAS to be halted.
I can't even repost the picture as I don't want anyone else to feel the distress and horror Im feeling now.
But it has to become known, and focused on, to stop this cruelty once and for all.

[Guest]

This piece of your artwork Ulli looks very similar to the Wing Makers chamber wall paintings.

Posted by ulli (here)
Here is a typical doodle...1967, just before I got into art college

I love you too.


Nora

[ulli]

Thanks Nora. I guess it explains why I related to the Wingmakers materials...
What had me really captivated though was the First Source music..the early stuff.

Here is another trippy picture...I was 19 when I painted it......

[Flash]

your paintings are beautiful Ulli, wow

here for fun

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=ypZcP12uk5I

[Robin]

October
Robert Frost

O hushed October morning mild,
Thy leaves have ripened to the fall;
Tomorrow’s wind, if it be wild,
Should waste them all.
The crows above the forest call;
Tomorrow they may form and go.
O hushed October morning mild,
Begin the hours of this day slow.
Make the day seem to us less brief.
Hearts not averse to being beguiled,
Beguile us in the way you know.
Release one leaf at break of day;
At noon release another leaf;
One from our trees, one far away.
Retard the sun with gentle mist;
Enchant the land with amethyst.
Slow, slow!
For the grapes’ sake, if they were all,
Whose leaves already are burnt with frost,
Whose clustered fruit must else be lost—
For the grapes’ sake along the wall.

[Lefty Dave]

Good evening Ulli (et al,)
Me thinks you have been a WingMaker long before the website !!! LOL That piece you did in 1967 has a very similar movement to the Ancient Arrow materials ...and impressively absorbing...(same as the cave art)...thanks for sharing .

[Marianne]

'Jean'

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=TmqChP6-uuc

[Ernie Nemeth]

Do not buy a Nokia phone. They fasten the battery in with screws. If your new phone freezes you have to take it in for servicing! Stay away from Nokia...

[eaglespirit]

Posted by Ernie Nemeth (here)
Do not buy a Nokia phone. They fasten the battery in with screws. If your new phone freezes you have to take it in for servicing! Stay away from Nokia...

Telepathy...step it up : )

[Ernie Nemeth]

What I meant to say was, I miss you guys, and the light of understanding that shines from the words that are posted here on Ulli's, our, thread. I wish I could live amongst such humans every normal day. It is frustrating bringing the light to those living in the dark. It is rewarding of course, but it also requires me to uphold standards others do not see as meaningful. I think often of how others here would respond to the scenarios I come across at times. I catch myself often thinking if only we all could just get along, see the bigger picture, put our little self-concerns aside, rise to the occasion, stand up for what is right, that sort of thing. Like it was just a simple choice we could make in the very next moment, or the next or the one after that. The moments are just zipping by and the choice is still not made. But it could be the next moment...

The tension in the air is thick with this choice, hanging just beyond normal sight. It makes me feel like I need to run out and do something, change something - ACT! Doors are closing all around me - while other doors open wide. It is a wild and scary ride. I hope I'm up to the challenge. I hope I have done my homework. I hope hope is appropriate. Either way, life goes on and on and on...

[ulli]

Posted by Ernie Nemeth (here)
What I meant to say was, I miss you guys, and the light of understanding that shines from the words that are posted here on Ulli's, our, thread. I wish I could live amongst such humans every normal day. It is frustrating bringing the light to those living in the dark. It is rewarding of course, but it also requires me to uphold standards others do not see as meaningful. I think often of how others here would respond to the scenarios I come across at times. I catch myself often thinking if only we all could just get along, see the bigger picture, put our little self-concerns aside, rise to the occasion, stand up for what is right, that sort of thing. Like it was just a simple choice we could make in the very next moment, or the next or the one after that. The moments are just zipping by and the choice is still not made. But it could be the next moment...

The tension in the air is thick with this choice, hanging just beyond normal sight. It makes me feel like I need to run out and do something, change something - ACT! Doors are closing all around me - while other doors open wide. It is a wild and scary ride. I hope I'm up to the challenge. I hope I have done my homework. I hope hope is appropriate. Either way, life goes on and on and on...

I know exactly what you are saying. How many times have I been in that calm space...understanding all the issues, and responding perfectly, only to mess up big time a few days later. Now matter how much we grow, the universe always figures out a fresh way with which to test our resolve.
Just now I suffered a wave of anger at some guys who passed on the road above us, and who threw rocks down at us, nearly hitting one of the workers.
I was gardening once where they could see me, and they pelted me with stones, and as a result my husband raced up there and took a picture... there were two adolescent boys and a girl...the only people on that road. When he confronted them they blamed some guy on a bicycle...yeah right, ...anyway, husband reported the incidence to the head master of the local school, and showed him the picture. The kids were told off. Then the parents then made a stink about my husband taking those pictures...
Some people in the village know this family to be a criminal element who terrorize the neighborhood. So this stone throwing happens at least once a month now. We are going to build a tall awning there, to protect our yard. We dare not walk freely across our court yard.
I must be those solar flares.

[eaglespirit]

Hmmmmm...I'll be right there and will chase 'em around the hills with BIG stick : )