Here and Now...What's Happening?

[Carmody]

Posted by eaglespirit (here)
...indifferent is as indifferent does

Meh .

[RunningDeer]

Posted by Malerogro (here)
Hi everybody! It has been over a year since I have been online at Avalon.. I feel so much love now to be back! So much has happened since. Much healing and growth. I still have a long way to go of course but I feel so much gratitude and joy to be back just the way I am now..
And I did not have to think very long to know who you are RunningDeer <3. I don't know how often I will be back but for now I wanted to express my love and gratitude and deep connection I still feel with Avalon.

Much healing and growth. I still have a long way to go of course but I feel so much gratitude and joy to be back just the way I am now..

Hello Malerogro

I’m happy to hear about your healing and growth journey. I’ll be on the look out for next time you pop in.

For me, it’s not how far or how much. It’s to bring clarity and change to aspects that benefit who I am now. Sometimes it’s the small that breaks open the unseen.

And a relatively new concept I play with is that nothing needs to change, only love who I am.

And hello to All, seen and unseen, that stop by for a visit.

<3

[TargeT]

So.... The Terminator (T100 and its variations) was created by a company (in the movie) called Cyberdyne Systems... which led to the downfall of humanity.



and Now we have.....

Japan robot firm showcases thought-controlled suits

A Japanese robot-maker on Wednesday showed off suits that the wearer can control just by thinking, as it said it was linking up with an industrial city promoting innovation.

Cyberdyne founder Yoshiyuki Sankai said he was allying with Kawasaki, a city south of Tokyo, to explore ways to expand real-life applications for his robo-suits.....

http://www.technotification.com/2014...s-thought.html



So... Uhhh...... panic?

[meeradas]

Costa Rica.


PS:
Once again,

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=nY7GnAq6Znw

[ulli]

Smiling Costa Ricans? What smiling Costa Ricans?
You mean screaming, roaring, car horn honking Costa Ricans...

even out here in the sticks, far from civilisation, with no media turned on,
I could not escape the effects of the emotional tsunami that just rolled in.

P.S.
Just got a call from my husband. He is trying to get home from work, and I could hardly understand a word as the noise from the people in the street and the other cars was deafening.
What I did get, without a doubt, was his total hysteria...
like I have not witnessed in 25 years of marriage.
(Plotting now how to capitalise on this mood.... )

[meeradas]

Posted by ulli (here)
honking

... will always 'hate' this.


PS:
Strange [?], the increased medial use of the "heart mudra" induces a puking reflex in 'my system'.

[eaglespirit]

Posted by Carmody (here)

Posted by eaglespirit (here)
...indifferent is as indifferent does

Meh .

Meh, Meh !

[araucaria]

Posted by ulli (here)
Smiling Costa Ricans? What smiling Costa Ricans?
You mean screaming, roaring, car horn honking Costa Ricans...

even out here in the sticks, far from civilisation, with no media turned on,
I could not escape the effects of the emotional tsunami that just rolled in.

P.S.
Just got a call from my husband. He is trying to get home from work, and I could hardly understand a word as the noise from the people in the street and the other cars was deafening.
What I did get, without a doubt, was his total hysteria...
like I have not witnessed in 25 years of marriage.
(Plotting now how to capitalise on this mood.... )

This is what I was trying to prepare you for, maybe too gently...

[ulli]

Posted by araucaria (here)

Posted by ulli (here)
Smiling Costa Ricans? What smiling Costa Ricans?
You mean screaming, roaring, car horn honking Costa Ricans...

even out here in the sticks, far from civilisation, with no media turned on,
I could not escape the effects of the emotional tsunami that just rolled in.

P.S.
Just got a call from my husband. He is trying to get home from work, and I could hardly understand a word as the noise from the people in the street and the other cars was deafening.
What I did get, without a doubt, was his total hysteria...
like I have not witnessed in 25 years of marriage.
(Plotting now how to capitalise on this mood.... )

This is what I was trying to prepare you for, maybe too gently...

well, can you FEEL it?!?!?!?

[eaglespirit]

Wanna go for a ride on my Honda?

The old one:


The new one:


If these are online by the time my 'stuff' comes to fruition I'm gonna be pickin' Ya up for a cruise,
and I ain't kiddin',
don't worry...
I'll have a pilot that loves flying so You don't have to be concerned
about me piloting and heading to another realm by way of partial seizure : )

...and bye the bye, I'm on a mega ormus kick after my driving occurrences...
smokin', snortin', topical, ingested/digested...whatever gets it in the system.
It has been 'out of this world' in a very, very calming, cohesive, get the job done, surrealist/realistic kinda way...
Love, Love, Love : )

[ulli]

Posted by eaglespirit (here)
Wanna go for a ride on my Honda?

The old one:


The new one:


If these are online by the time my 'stuff' comes to fruition I'm gonna be pickin' Ya up for a cruise,
and I ain't kiddin',
don't worry...
I'll have a pilot that loves flying so You don't have to be concerned
about me piloting and heading to another realm by way of partial seizure : )

...and bye the bye, I'm on a mega ormus kick after my driving occurrences...
smokin', snortin', topical, ingested/digested...whatever gets it in the system.
It has been 'out of this world' in a very, very calming, cohesive, get the job done, surrealist/realistic kinda way...
Love, Love, Love : )

So now this valley needs a landing strip as well. (And they just sold Dad's old bulldozer....)
Unless that new Honda of yours can land on water...
it's nice and flat over by the dam, 3 miles from here.

[Violet]

Posted by eaglespirit (here)

My desk for that kingdom

[meeradas]

360 Degree Night-Sky Time-Lapse by Vincent Brady, Music by Brandon McCoy

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

[Violet]

Posted by araucaria (here)
Thanks for this interesting ‘mise en abyme’, Violet. It suggests a photograph, but in the place of the photographer there would have to be just a few fingers holding a mirror over an armchair. It suggests a mirror, but what you see is not behind but in front of you. So there is no subject, and no photographer, and no mirror, and of course no chair and no landscape either: nothing but a pattern endlessly repeating itself. Food for thought.

Attachment 26120

Oh my, j'entends déjà ces vieilles disant: bongs mayeneize...

That picture was simply the best expression of what I experienced when I discovered that one of my characters in my book...is actually me. It was when a child character suddenly asked something...And how the truth comes from the child's mouth.

Replace the chair by a book and viola...

[araucaria]

Posted by ulli (here)

Posted by araucaria (here)

Posted by ulli (here)
Smiling Costa Ricans? What smiling Costa Ricans?
You mean screaming, roaring, car horn honking Costa Ricans...

even out here in the sticks, far from civilisation, with no media turned on,
I could not escape the effects of the emotional tsunami that just rolled in.

P.S.
Just got a call from my husband. He is trying to get home from work, and I could hardly understand a word as the noise from the people in the street and the other cars was deafening.
What I did get, without a doubt, was his total hysteria...
like I have not witnessed in 25 years of marriage.
(Plotting now how to capitalise on this mood.... )

This is what I was trying to prepare you for, maybe too gently...

well, can you FEEL it?!?!?!?

France three goals up at half-time (should be four): I may be wrong but, maybe Yes??

[eaglespirit]

Posted by ulli (here)
So now this valley needs a landing strip as well. (And they just sold Dad's old bulldozer....)
Unless that new Honda of yours can land on water...
it's nice and flat over by the dam, 3 miles from here.

Well, we'll have to get innovative and find a way, Ulli : )
It has been done...and I'm sure the secret military has some in use and hidden in plain site!

In any event...I'll get the Honda or Mustang down somewhere near You...a visit, some meditation and country walks... and a ride or two...maybe to Barbados : )

Convair won the competition with their Sea Dart design. This sleek, delta-winged fighter had two retractable water skis on the bottom, which would enable it to cruise along the surface of the water in essentially the same way that a water skier would. A special watertight hull and turbojet intakes mounted high above the wings would make the Sea Dart a fully sea-worthy aircraft that could take-off from the surface of the water. - See more at: http://strikefighterconsultinginc.co....Q9pS8gum.dpuf

http://strikefighterconsultinginc.co...t-flying-boat/

[Dennis Leahy]

I'm much closer to Carmody's feelings about competitive sports in general, but exponentially moreso with watching professional sports. I consider professional sports as a powerful opiate to the masses, a major circus in the "bread and circuses" used to manipulate us into complacency with the status quo - or worse, to make us accept competitive outcomes (a few winners, many losers) as natural and normal and positive.

This desire to watch competition is a learned behavior, and a negative one. I believe "cooperation, not competition" is the motto for an enlightened populace. Competition, driven deep into the psyche as "normal", programs acceptance for competitive behavior that ranges all the way to sociopathic and criminal. People would not be blind and numb to the global Elite's deeds if this competitive mind infection were not so prevalent.

Playing competitive sports is a bit more of a gray area for me, but I do see that (because of lack of education about not allowing competitiveness to become an all-encompassing personality trait/attribute, and deprogramming that) it is the unbridled funnel towards that sociopathic-level competitiveness. I think we can have the exercise of sport and the challenge of sport with an "ubuntu" attitude as our major and deepest attribute, and maybe, if carefully and thoughtfully taught and expressed as a strictly temporary mindset - not allowing it to unconsciously breed sociopathic competitiveness - then maybe it could be a strictly positive experience. I do see coaches at the kid level of competitive sports trying to instill "good sportsmanship", but it is not fully explored and taught as a boundary that - if crossed - becomes programmed and has negative outcomes in society.

Not trying to make more of it than that, but didn't want to stay silent either.

Dennis

[eaglespirit]

My oldest brother(I have two and honor each of them) was an athletic director and football coach for years and was an all-star quarterback in high school.

He instilled 'good sportsmanship' in a loving and tough way...if those attributes can be accepted together in the young football world, Dennis.

He pretty much lived his career as an 'it is what it is' modus operandi ...but loved those kids dearly in our male societal way.

He knows there was something very wrong in there...but shrugged it off making a living and embraced the sports world as many in my family do.

The third generation of kids in my family all excel at some sport...when I meet one on one with them I can see and feel their own inner knowing that something is not right with intense competitiveness...and each of them are well rounded enough to simply make it a personal goal of achievement without garnering jealousy or judgement, to them or from them, they are simply good kids. And that has alot to do with a loving family life..although very sports oriented.

I played sports and was pretty good but never gained any incentive to excel. I am a bit of a 'black sheep' in my family in that regards but am loved and accepted for what I am and how I live.

Changes are going to come, I feel...and come on strong to turn all of these worlds within our world more right-side up as we grow more humane as the inevitable light around us shines stronger and stronger.

Just my 2 cents on a very wary topic and issue...as are most that need abrupt correction now...but it will happen, inevitable again, imho!

[Wind]

I just discovered that our city is actually using Monsanto's roundup to root out the weeds on the lawns and parks in here, they say that it is completely safe and eco-friendly. I don't know if I should laugh or cry.

http://articles.mercola.com/sites/ar...herbicide.aspx

[Violet]

Rotterdam bans Monsanto's Roundup