Here and Now...What's Happening?

[ulli]

and here is something for us who sail the multiverse



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Posted by araucaria (here)

Posted by ulli (here)

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Posted by ulli (here)
Will Earth turn herself inside out? I hope not.
But She, being the physical mother of humanity might soon open up
and tell her kids (us) that all along she lied to us about Santa Claus.

You mean tell them that she has been married to a wife-beating pedophile or something? We need to take down a formal statement and press charges.

I wouldn't go that far.
After all, it takes two to tango....

Well, with all respect, and without standing in judgement, I think she has some 'splaining to do. Andrew Bartzis, quoted here the other day by eaglespirit, says that the Earth got in with the wrong crowd at some time in the past. That is no longer the case, he says, but there may well be some unfinished business there.

So when does anything ever get finished?
I mean totally and completely finished?


But then again...thinking of Robert Heinlein who said it best in Time Enough for Love: "When the ship lifts, all bills are paid. No regrets."

[Marianne]

Posted by transiten (here)

Posted by Marianne (here)
The thing you might miss in a complete vegetarian diet is B12. You can take it in a supplement, or there are a few natural sources (mostly authentic Japanese, and possibly aquired tastes).

Makes me wonder if we are designed to be vegetarian if we can't get B12 without eating meat

Hi transiten .... the highlighted part isn't what I meant, sorry to confuse you! You can get B12 from vegetarian sources, just not in large amounts like with red meat and certain oriental foods. Authentic miso has a good amount, and some of the Japanese cultured foods that we wouldn't include in our diets unless we knew it was necessary (acquired taste/smell/texture).

Posted by Carmody
You mean that potatoes and butter is a good thing? I will gladly comply with that request. However, I reserve the right to totally cover the mix with lots of fresh black pepper.

Hey, Carmody, you always take it to the limit, don't you? lol
I think they were referring to milk. But let me see if I can dig up that old book ...

[RunningDeer]

Why did the turkeys cross the road? Chickens were purchasing bitcoins on-line.

What Are Bitcoins? Virtual Currency Explained (Like You're an Idiot)

“Members of Congress today will get a crash course on bitcoin, the digital "currency" that allows users to conduct transactions online. In just five years the virtual currency has gone from being worth pennies to nearly $600 apiece. It has funded nascent democracy movements as well as a huge underground marketplace for illegal drugs and weapons.

We set out to answer the question: What Are Bitcoins?

Below is an attempt to answer that and many other questions surrounding the virtual currency. And we promise to speak really, really slowly.”

Bullet Points:

• If I can't hide it under my mattress, how can I know my stash is safe?
• How do I use bitcoins? I have a feeling my kids won't be happy when I tell them they're getting virtual currency for Christmas.
• Drug dealers? I knew this sounded sketchy. Are these things even legal?
• What are bitcoins actually worth?
• So, if they're this invisible, virtual currency, how is it that people keep biting them? Answer: You know what? You're an idiot.

[Crystine]

Too much. Too funny. So sad. Great post.

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Posted by Calamus (here)
Oh all the threads in this forum, this one is the most baffling to me!

Welcome, Calamus.

………………………………………………….

When the outside world sounds like this, "Here and Now" keeps me grounded: Why Can't You Use Phones on Planes

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=txXXCoT2yT0

When my dream time and day time intersect I get to talk about them: The Twilight Zone

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=NzlG28B-R8Y

And some of my posts, I get to play and nobody goes poke-poke: Billy Madison - Ultimate Insult

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=5hfYJsQAhl0

And at the "Here and Now" we all get this: If You Build It, He Will Come - Field of Dreams

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=5Ay5GqJwHF8

[RunningDeer]

UPDATE: please use this link @ shamanicjourney.com

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UPDATE: please use this link @ shamanicjourney.com

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Posted by transiten (here)
Makes me wonder if we are designed to be vegetarian if we can't get B12 without eating meat always puzzled me since i would prefer to be vegetarian...

B12 and Sea Vegetables: this information is from a couple of my resource books.

"Aveline Kushi's Introducing Macrobiotic Cooking," by Wendy Esko and Aveline Kushi, 1987.

Sea Vegetables, page 130

“...Known for their healing powers, sea vegetables have been proven to help reverse hardening of the arteries, reduce high blood pressure, regress and prevent tumors, and even help eliminate radiation and fallout from our bodies. There are even very ancient records from Egypt as well as modern documents to prove this.”

“The New Whole Foods Encyclopedia,” by Rebecca Wood, 1988 & 1999.

Health Benefits, pages 305-6

“...Benefits include reducing blood cholesterol, removing metallic and radioactive elements from the body, and prevent goiter. Seaweed also has antibiotic properties known to be effective against penicillin-resistant bacteria. Seaweed counteract obesity: it also strengthens bones, teeth, nerve transmission, and digestion. Seaweed softens hardened masses or tumors, and so it is used to treat lumps, swollen lymph glands, fibroid tumors, and edema. Furthermore, seaweed is a beauty aid, helping maintain glowing, healthy skin and lustrous hair; it is also credited with anti-aging properties. The thermal property of seaweed is cooling...”

“Ounce for ounce, seaweed is higher in vitamins and minerals than any other class of food. It supplies all the minerals needed for human health in proportions very similar to those found in human blood. The most significant elements are calcium, iodine, phosphorus sodium, and iron. Seaweed is an extremely rich protein source containing up to 38 percent protein. Seaweed is a better than average source of vitamins A, B, C, and E.”

From the internet:

B12 & Sea Vegetables

Edible plants from the sea also contain important vitamins including vitamin A (in the form of beta-carotene), B1, B2, B6, niacin, vitamin C, pantothenic acid, and folic acid. Analysis has shown trace amounts of vitamin B12, which rarely occurs in land vegetables.

A study published in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition suggests that strict vegetarian nursing mothers with low vitamin B12 levels get an acceptable source of this nutrient by consuming sea vegetables that are naturally high in B12. According to research, the relatively high vitamin B12 content of sea vegetables is thought to reflect a high level of vitamin B12-producing microorganisms in these plants.

For those watching their weight, sea vegetables are the perfect food. Their carbohydrates pass through the digestive system as complex fiber, cleansing the intestines while adding no calories to the diet - What Vegetable or Grains Contain


Sea Plants

Sea vegetables, such as kelp or seaweed, and blue-green algae are reported to be a good source of vitamin B12 by the Sacramento Natural Foods Co-Op. Sea vegetables that contain vitamin B12 include nori, also known as sea lettuce, which is commonly used as a main ingredient in sushi and Asian soups, dulse, a sea vegetable that is reported by the Sacramento Natural Foods Co-Op to contain 66 percent of the RDA of vitamin B12, and alaria, a sea vegetable that is frequently used in salads and soups.

According to the USDA's Agricultural Research Service, granola bars, mashed potatoes, potato pancakes, croissants, certain breads, such as rye, cornbread, oatmeal and cracked-wheat, enriched English muffins, and wheat, corn and oat bran muffins contain small amounts of vitamin B12.

[RunningDeer]

Mother Earth calls
Time to ground
Find balance
Refrigerator's all packed

(Gawd, been floodin' the thread. )

[Dennis Leahy]

Posted by Calamus (here)
Oh all the threads in this forum, this one is the most baffling to me!

(Turning over the "8-Ball", I read: "It is becoming clearer")

Posted by Paula (here)
"I lurk around" Cool! That's what a fox would do, but my guess is you knew that. Tee. Your video below on fox speak? That's what I was going for but the body said time for shut eye.

...

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=J6NuhlibHsM

But Paula, you know that is not the actual sound that a fox makes, right?

Here it is:

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

Dennis

[gripreaper]

[Wind]

For all of you astro peeps here.

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=cRu-a2zODwI

[transiten]

Posted by Paula (here)

Posted by transiten (here)
Makes me wonder if we are designed to be vegetarian if we can't get B12 without eating meat always puzzled me since i would prefer to be vegetarian...

B12 and Sea Vegetables: this information is from a couple of my resource books.

"Aveline Kushi's Introducing Macrobiotic Cooking," by Wendy Esko and Aveline Kushi, 1987.

Sea Vegetables, page 130

“...Known for their healing powers, sea vegetables have been proven to help reverse hardening of the arteries, reduce high blood pressure, regress and prevent tumors, and even help eliminate radiation and fallout from our bodies. There are even very ancient records from Egypt as well as modern documents to prove this.”

“The New Whole Foods Encyclopedia,” by Rebecca Wood, 1988 & 1999.

Health Benefits, pages 305-6

“...Benefits include reducing blood cholesterol, removing metallic and radioactive elements from the body, and prevent goiter. Seaweed also has antibiotic properties known to be effective against penicillin-resistant bacteria. Seaweed counteract obesity: it also strengthens bones, teeth, nerve transmission, and digestion. Seaweed softens hardened masses or tumors, and so it is used to treat lumps, swollen lymph glands, fibroid tumors, and edema. Furthermore, seaweed is a beauty aid, helping maintain glowing, healthy skin and lustrous hair; it is also credited with anti-aging properties. The thermal property of seaweed is cooling...”

“Ounce for ounce, seaweed is higher in vitamins and minerals than any other class of food. It supplies all the minerals needed for human health in proportions very similar to those found in human blood. The most significant elements are calcium, iodine, phosphorus sodium, and iron. Seaweed is an extremely rich protein source containing up to 38 percent protein. Seaweed is a better than average source of vitamins A, B, C, and E.”

From the internet:

B12 & Sea Vegetables

Edible plants from the sea also contain important vitamins including vitamin A (in the form of beta-carotene), B1, B2, B6, niacin, vitamin C, pantothenic acid, and folic acid. Analysis has shown trace amounts of vitamin B12, which rarely occurs in land vegetables.

A study published in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition suggests that strict vegetarian nursing mothers with low vitamin B12 levels get an acceptable source of this nutrient by consuming sea vegetables that are naturally high in B12. According to research, the relatively high vitamin B12 content of sea vegetables is thought to reflect a high level of vitamin B12-producing microorganisms in these plants.

For those watching their weight, sea vegetables are the perfect food. Their carbohydrates pass through the digestive system as complex fiber, cleansing the intestines while adding no calories to the diet - What Vegetable or Grains Contain


Sea Plants

Sea vegetables, such as kelp or seaweed, and blue-green algae are reported to be a good source of vitamin B12 by the Sacramento Natural Foods Co-Op. Sea vegetables that contain vitamin B12 include nori, also known as sea lettuce, which is commonly used as a main ingredient in sushi and Asian soups, dulse, a sea vegetable that is reported by the Sacramento Natural Foods Co-Op to contain 66 percent of the RDA of vitamin B12, and alaria, a sea vegetable that is frequently used in salads and soups.

According to the USDA's Agricultural Research Service, granola bars, mashed potatoes, potato pancakes, croissants, certain breads, such as rye, cornbread, oatmeal and cracked-wheat, enriched English muffins, and wheat, corn and oat bran muffins contain small amounts of vitamin B12.

Thanks Paula, but many indigenous pple are not living close to the sea....but in Mountain areas....or in vast planes of Africa...they've got to eat a lot of potatoes...and bread...also not easily available...perhaps Yams contains B12 and Quinoa?

[araucaria]

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Posted by araucaria (here)

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Posted by ulli (here)
Will Earth turn herself inside out? I hope not.
But She, being the physical mother of humanity might soon open up
and tell her kids (us) that all along she lied to us about Santa Claus.

You mean tell them that she has been married to a wife-beating pedophile or something? We need to take down a formal statement and press charges.

I wouldn't go that far.
After all, it takes two to tango....

Well, with all respect, and without standing in judgement, I think she has some 'splaining to do. Andrew Bartzis, quoted here the other day by eaglespirit, says that the Earth got in with the wrong crowd at some time in the past. That is no longer the case, he says, but there may well be some unfinished business there.

So when does anything ever get finished?
I mean totally and completely finished?


But then again...thinking of Robert Heinlein who said it best in Time Enough for Love: "When the ship lifts, all bills are paid. No regrets."

When did the Heinlein get added on? Sounds good, but how do you get to that state of readiness? A high tide not to be missed?


There seems to be some doubt as to whether the game is being played to the rules of tennis, when it could take some considerable time
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isner%E..._Championships
or to the rules of soccer, with time running out and facing a penalty shootout if something is not done first. Of course even a penalty shootout can take quite a while.

Here’s a piece of music I just heard this on the radio: Dudley Moore’s Beethoven parody: it does end, eventually, but don’t hold your breath

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=GazlqD4mLvw

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=BLmcTwTEgt4

Edit to add: The serious researcher will eventually be taken to the following page:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hitler_...y_Got_One_Ball

[araucaria]

Posted by gripreaper (here)

Interesting venue that: 'la petite mort' (little death) means orgasm. So Le Petit Mort means either little dead man or homo orgasmicus.

[Calz]

No words necessary (I like that kind) ...

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=9WZZjXgJ4W8

[Calz]

... and since no words are necessary ... have some more

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=6EXCIWlm1fs

[araucaria]

Posted by Calamus (here)
Oh all the threads in this forum, this one is the most baffling to me!

Calamus, if we told you what’s going on here, we’d have to kill you

The best I can do is remind you of the big picture; here is Gary Hyland’s afterword to his book Blue Fire: the Lost Secrets of Nazi Technology:

’Nothing is more expensive than a start.’ Nietzsche, The Will to Power.

A secretive group of men met secretly to discuss what to do with a secret that had been passed to them by another secret group in secret – in other words, how best to keep this secret a secret. They decided the best thing to do would be to move the secret from its present, secret location and take it – in secret – to somewhere else that could be relied on to keep it confidential. But this new secret location was unfortunately discovered by other people who, while not officially in on the secrets, were keen to learn something of them. This forced the group to move the secret once again, to somewhere new. But before they had a chance to complete the move, some of these secrets leaked into the public domain. The loss of these secrets meant that the new location was missing a small fraction of the original number of secrets. After a short period of time had passed, this new site was itself compromised, so the secret group was forced to move those remaining secrets to yet another new site. This pattern continued for over fifty years, the original secret members of the secret groups by now long gone. But the groups they claimed membership of remained and continued their secret work all this time, adapting and perfecting the original secrets and even creating new ones, the existence of which they hoped future members of the groups would continue to protect. But all along some members have had their own secret agendas and have been secretly tipping off investigators with hints about some of the secrets, which directly led to each secret site being discovered in turn. They knew then as they know now that with the number of secrets growing all the time, continued overall secrecy becomes harder to maintain, so deliberately leaking a few now and again stops the bandwagon from becoming too heavy to move. As some new secrets seem to contradict old ones, the mystique is maintained as far as the general public is concerned and business continues as normal.
What, who and where these groups are or what they’ve been doing all these years, I can’t say.
It’s a secret.

[ulli]

@araucaria

When did the Heinlein get added on? Sounds good, but how do you get to that state of readiness? A high tide not to be missed?

Good question. I don't know the answer any more, since I've forgotten the art of traveling light.

I guess one might have to apply the art of keeping secrets, as described in your latest post.

The ship Heinlein spoke of was a spaceship, so it didn't depend on tides.

But to get to lift-off would still require one kind of art or another.

In the Wingmakers, when asked what does the commander of the space fleet normally do,

Dr. Neruda replied "He is an artist".

[Calz]

Posted by araucaria (here)

Posted by Calamus (here)
Oh all the threads in this forum, this one is the most baffling to me!

Calamus, if we told you what’s going on here, we’d have to kill you

Calamus ... as his lawyer I can assure you he is kidding


This thread is people coming around the campfire to share stories.

Sometimes it has great meaning ... other times it is simply coming together in great friendship.

Sometimes friends simply need a hug ... and that isn't advertised as forum worthy.

Not sure how better to descibe it ... but no doubt others will do a better job