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    Hi:

    I have mentioned that many of my fellow travelers began their FE journeys with the energy crisis that ended the Postwar Boom, but none of us really thought about FE at the beginning, and few if any of us had even heard of FE. But all roads led to FE, and each one of us had interesting personal journeys to get there. On one hand, we were trying to solve the problems of running out of fossil fuel energy, on the other, we could see where FE could take us.

    Because my fellow travelers were mostly overgrown Boy Scouts, we were trying to achieve our visions of heaven more than we were trying to avoid the visions of hell. One was motivated by love, and the other by fear. In my experience, the motivation by love is the fun one.

    We also realized that FE made the visions of a healed planet and humanity feasible, and without it, they weren't. And that, probably more than anything else, is my big essay's message. It is probably FE or bust for humanity. This week, I will edit the big essay's last half, searching for typos and style issues. Like I did for the big essay's first half recently, the changes will be subtle. All of my site's essays have had several rounds of editing, which is just normal for any writing process for material like mine. At this time, with my editing most of my site's essays this year, it is all up-to-date, as far as being aligned with my understanding of the state-of-the-art of the issues that I write about. I do not know of any uncorrected blunders in my work, but I might find one tomorrow.

    Time for bed.

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    Hi:

    I just finished editing a couple of chapters (tiny tweaks, as usual), and just finished the fire and growing the human brain chapter, and I admit that it is fun for me to read, especially when I have had a break from it. I can think of a bunch of topics of discussion from editing those chapters, and will do one based on Wrangham's cooking hypothesis.

    Q: Wade, you write a great deal about Wrangham's cooking hypothesis, which is considered marginal today. I am surprised to see you promoting something as "fringe" as that. How important can it really be?

    A: Great question. It could be argued that I am being seduced by a clever new hypothesis that has slim evidence for it, and time will tell how Wrangham's hypothesis fares, but I think that it has a great deal going for it and the issues it addresses are very relevant to my essay's themes.

    Whatever the fate of Wrangham's hypothesis will be, the subject matter is extremely important on a number of fronts. I almost use it like I do the controversy over the Cryogenian Ice Ages and the Shuram excursion, as an example of how science works. Like most audacious hypotheses, Wrangham's hypothesis calls for a discovery that nobody has really confirmed yet. The date of the control of fire is critical to aspects of Wrangham's hypothesis. Wrangham has presented a lot of circumstantial evidence for the early control of fire, such as the anatomical changes in Homo erectus (growth of brain, adaptations for sleeping on the ground and walking great distances, and its shrinking digestive system, including the teeth), the split between the honeyguide and its ancestors, but his hypothesis is not going to be widely accepted until there is physical evidence of fire of around two million years ago. Scientists have been using new tools and techniques to roll back the date of controlling fire. I will follow those developments with great interest, and even if Wrangham's hypothesis dies out or becomes cannibalized and pieces become incorporated into new hypotheses, the subject matter is vitally important for understanding human evolution and even aspects of today's societies.

    The control of fire was one of the greatest watershed events in the human journey and made humans radically different from all animals that came before them. The significance of the control of fire cannot be overestimated, and was arguably humanity's first Epochal Event, even more important than fashioning stone tools. It definitely happened long before the appearance of our species, and our species would likely not have appeared without the control of fire.

    Even today, industrial economies are dependent on the control of fire. About all that humans are doing with hydrocarbon energy is burning it for heat or running our machines. It is really only a more sophisticated version of the first campfires.

    Understanding the control of fire and where it fits into the human journey is vitally important to understanding where humanity is today. I will follow that controversy with great interest in coming years.

    Best,

    Wade
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    The cooking hypothesis makes perfect sense to me. I suspect that with FE we would see further physiological and behaviorial changes over the next several million years, perhaps eventually looking similar to classic "grays", with larger brains and diminished musculature/sexual dimorphism.

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    Hi:

    I just tweaked the chapter on the rise of the human super-predator, and as usual, I could probably write 50 different posts on the subjects that that chapter covers, but I will just make one representative choir Q&A.

    Q: Wade, so what led to humanity's domination of Earth?

    A: Boy, that is a big question. I think that a very important concept in my essay is that life on Earth could have gone in many different directions. However, the organisms that thrived were those that played the energy game the best, and the big innovations of life on Earth were usually energy related. The creatures that played the energy game the best did well, while the others became marginalized or went extinct. But there is a huge caveat to that rule. Many "disruptive" events have happened over the course of life on Earth, and what may have led to success in one era led to extinction in another.

    For instance, growing large was the strategy of plants and animals from the beginning, from the Cambrian Explosion to the invasion land by plants and the appearance of trees. But life was always a gamble. Dinosaurs had energetic advantages over other land animals, especially the line that became mammals, and it led to nearly 200 million years of dominance. So, archosaurs dominated all of Earth's ecosystems, and got all the best stuff, which was always primarily in terms of energy, but when a catastrophic energy event happened courtesy of a bolide, dinosaurs found themselves in the worst position and all died off, and those that had been eking out existences on the margins came to dominate, primarily mammals. Some mammals soon got as big as dinosaurs, and when the achieved their maximum size, they stayed that way until humans arrived 40 million years later and again turned that advantage into a fatal disadvantage, as they drove most or Earth's larger animals to extinction to fuel their conquest of Earth.

    The strategy of growing large also was a winner for plants for nearly 400 million years, until humans came along and learned how to burn them up. Then big trees began to go the way of the dinosaurs. The same happened with whales, as they invaded an empty niche and did great for 40 million years, until humans arrived, and then they were quickly driven to the brink of extinction. So, the energy practices of highly successful organisms met energy-devouring humans, and then it was game over.

    So, I have kind of already answered that question, but it can become more human-specific. Basically, when humans developed an unprecedented toolset that included sophisticated weapons, clothing, fire, boats, and the mastery of language, which allowed for quick learning adaptations, Homo sapiens was ready for the show, and a few hundred of them conquered Earth over the next 50,000 years and nothing could stand in their way, including all other human species that existed when that founder group left Africa. It was an onslaught that no other creature had ever inflicted on Earth's ecosystems, and humanity came out on top. No animal ever dominated Earth like humans have. Does that answer it?

    Best,

    Wade
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    Hi Enishi:

    Wrangham's hypothesis indeed makes a lot of sense, and aspects of it are almost certainly true. Cooking would have had a huge impact on humanity, including anatomically. If his hypothesis does not prove accurate in all of its particulars, it is a "big idea" hypothesis that deserves a great deal of testing.

    Yes indeed, an FE-based civilization would see plenty of evolutionary changes, even leaving aside genetic engineering. There are probably no mesomorphs (or endomorphs), in this society. You may be aware of what research has found for ancient humans. Their brains were 10% larger than ours 30,000 years ago, and they would have kicked butt in our Olympics and dominated all strenuous sports. Chimps traded brains for brawn when they split from gorillas, and the human line continued that trend. A chimp can easily kill a human.

    That growing brain of the human line created great problems for mothers, and death in childbirth was a big problem. The gray "solution" of cloning is one way to do it.

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    Hi:

    I have long written about the USA's torture programs. The USA trained Latin American torturers for decades at Fort Benning. It is well known that the USA not only tortured people at Gitmo, but had a bunch of other detention and torture centers, some farmed out to "allies," so that the USA would not have to face human rights issues.

    In the wake of the today's release of the USA's (heavily watered down) torture report (I try to avoid the USA's mainstream media on issues like this – the British media is far better on these kinds of subjects (1, 2), and with some exceptions (1, 2), the USA's alternative media has yet to weigh in). Op eds like this one will not run in the USA's media.

    Bush, Cheney, the CIA, and friends like Murdoch (1, 2) are rushing to justify torture. People were tortured to death, people who were innocent. The CIA always lies. It is their job.

    I am not sure how I feel about any of it. We have murdered several million people, quite indefensibly, since 2001, but none of it will ever get more press coverage than torture centers will. The torture report is a kind of limited hangout and distraction, it seems to me. I am sure that almost nobody outside the USA is surprised in the slightest, and I doubt how much it will help any Americans wake up. We will see.

    Best,

    Wade

    Here is one of the people I expected to weigh in on the torture report:

    http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-1...cutive-summary

    Really, what is the difference between Nazis and Americans, on this topic and many others?
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    Hi:

    I recently wrote about the Hitler mentions in my work, which the "skeptics" do not like. I found myself recently digging into my library and rereading parts of Norman Rich's Hitler's War Aims. Hitler was frank in Mein Kampf about his grand plans, which Rich discussed. Hitler really admired the way that the British had viciously built their empire. All of the "free market" ideology emanating from British economists was a load of crap. The British superiority of violence paved the way for its "free market" practices, and Hitler pointed it out.

    The USA is history's most racist nation, and Hitler received his anti-Jewish ideology from one of the USA's leading industrialists. Hitler truly believed in a destiny for the Germanic race, and like Marx, whose work he studied, he believed that the establishment of a German empire in Eastern Europe could only be accomplished though violence, and Hitler particularly admired the way that the English and Americans did it in North America: exterminate the natives and take their lands. That was the way to do it, to keep the race pure. Hitler's lebensraum policy was little more than a retread of the USA's Manifest Destiny ideology, which was a modern version of the Jewish Promised Land ideology.

    Hitler felt that the Spanish method, of making harems out of native women and making a bunch of "half-breeds" diluted the strength of the race, and that the British method of ruling their empire (tens of millions ruling hundreds of millions) was unwieldy and doomed to fail. Hitler actually felt a noble calling, and in the 1930s he wanted to ally with the British against the French and Soviets. Hitler sought a quid pro quo with the British in which he would respect their imperial concessions if he could have Eastern Europe, which he would treat as English and American settlers had treated North America.

    As crazy as it may have seemed, Hitler just wanted to come to the imperial table and carve out lands for his "settlers." He saw himself carrying the "White Man's Burden" for Germanic people. When you get down to it, the only difference between him and the English and Americans was seeing Slavic peoples like the English and Americans saw the Indians. Of course, the Jews would have to go, too, and Hitler planned to expel them, as they had been expelled so many times before. When it turned out that no other nation would take them, that was when Hitler began thinking in terms of extermination.

    This stuff is not even controversial, as far as the facts and interpretation go, but do not count on the British or American people to do much introspection on those issues. I found myself thinking about it again, as I read about the torture report, the defenses being put up by Bush (whose family supported Hitler) and company, as they parse words and call it "not quite torture" or justify the "good intelligence" that it obtained. The Nazis even used the same terms that the USA has been using for its torture. Does the fact that the USA founded the CIA with Nazis have anything to do with it?

    The USA had a window open for a little introspection today, but I doubt that many will avail themselves of the opportunity. But some might.

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    Wade
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    Wade,

    Went for a hike today since our Wisconsin weather has been a bit on the nasty side the past few weeks.

    In the Mid West we get this not winter weather in Nov and part of Dec but its tough going for a cyclist


    I have a question for you...

    What of the Bonaboe monkeys and how they lived in trees and when the surface dwelling Apes departed there territory there food source doubled since they could forage on the ground for that food source also.

    Q: How did this effect their society in terms of the females taking control of the male gangs with the help of co-operating males to reign in the male gangs and to control their violent tendencies?

    I was thinking about this on my hike today and your post above about our out of control human male(military) gangs who are competing for the low EROI oil in the mid east and these "male" gangs are not just American but of several nations now with weapons so terrible that they could destroy us all and the earth with it.

    Could you explain how Women could come to the fore in American society in particular since our society is the most violent to effect change with co-operating males to effect a change to reign in our terrible male(military) gang problem?

    For example, how in American society we are expected to reverence a military vets service and give them free education?

    The women in my family find this particularly ridiculous....to reward a young man for maiming and killing people while peaceful non military young folks must take out student loans and suffer?

    This is an important topic for American society Wade, and possibly a source of information about human nature and how to deal with this massive problem which IMO is blocking the implementation of free energy projects already payed for by the American people under various national security letters and basic secrecy.

    thanx

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    Hi Nine:

    It was not so much that the chimps came down from the trees and ground-foraged, but the gorillas left the area during a glacial maximum when the rainforest shrank, and they never returned. But you are right in that the fruit was in the trees, and the leafy snacks (gorilla food) were more on the ground. But the chimps did not live in the trees. They just lived on the rainforest periphery more and had to range far to find their fruit staple, while gorillas did not have to range that far. The gorillas got the good stuff, due to their size (they would win any fight with a chimp).

    If you study hunter-gatherers, there is an enforced egalitarianism so that nobody gets too much power. Bonobos did it differently. When they could have stable foraging parties that were more than twice what chimps could manage, females could go along. That doubling of the food supply allowed for that social organization, but that was not all. The females then used sex for social bonding, largely between females. They settled everything with sex, and when two bonobo bands encountered each other, the females from the each band would kind of start an orgy, and this overcame the patrilineal nature of chimps, where the females were isolated and the related males formed their coalitions.

    So, the coalition of the "sisterhood" and non-dominant males broke up the violent males gangs that vied for dominance, and bonobo males get their status through their mothers. So, even though females still left their natal society to mate, those female bonds formed female-run societies. Infanticide ended, the males do not fight for dominance, and they are peaceful. It was an amazing transformation, and the females took advantage of relative economic abundance to do it.

    The closest thing to bonobo society among pre-civilized humans was matrilineal societies, generally horticultural societies in which women brought in the most calories. Their status rose enough so that men had to leave their natal societies to mate, which broke up male gangs of relatives that vied for dominance, like chimps.

    The only thing that I see creating the opportunity for radical social and political change is economic abundance. The bonobo situation, or the horticultural situation, shows how social change is dependent on economic change (the very point of my Epochal Event perspective), and until there is absolute economic abundance, we will have wars. Fuller saw this clearly. That is why I keep saying that the social circle approach will not work, and almost all "activism" hacks at branches, at most. Reshuffling the social and political deck to make things better, in an economic decline, is not feasible, IMO. It has never worked that way.

    There are no social or political solutions to the predicament that humanity is in, or the USA. Politics and social organization is the tail, not the dog, which Fuller also understood. We are running out of the energy that powers industrial civilization. Everything else is noise and an effect. As the USA's energy consumption declined, so has its standard of living, which has led to the increasing social dysfunction that we see every day.

    The kind of world that FE can make possible is not possible without FE, particularly the cognitive and social changes that I envision. This is the conundrum that all FE activists eventually encounter, if they walk the path very far. TPTB are actively blocking FE from public awareness and use so that they can block any economic changes that will allow for the radical social and political changes that will make their positions obsolete. Godzilla knows full well that the world will end as we know it if FE makes its appearance, and he does not want to lose his position, even if his game makes Earth inhabitable, but as I have stated, sanity is slowly dawning on them. They have strange bedfellows among the 99.9% of humanity that reacts with fear and denial at the mere mention of FE. That is one of the bizarre aspects of the entire situation. It is like the sheep crave the shepherd, even as they are being stampeded off the cliff.

    Personally, I have really given up on American society, as far as it being the catalyst for making FE happen (Dennis and Brian were both run out of the USA), and I am trying to form a global effort, looking for those needles in haystacks scattered across the planet. The USA is dead, as far as I am concerned, and is quickly going the way of Rome.

    Best,

    Wade
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    Wade,

    I am sure you heard about the 300 mpg volkeswagon already in Germany in pre production but not allowed in the American market.

    Not even a huge multi national can get it done...

    http://themindunleashed.org/2014/04/...efficient.html

    I could not see most of your links due to system maintenance...

    I will get to them when/if they come back online...

    thanx

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    Wade,

    links came back up...

    In your opinion, when the American empire collapses will not the land and the people still be here? Or will it devolve into war and chaos as the conspiracy buffs pontificate?

    I am quite sure the spooks and military folk read this stuff. One thing I understand quite well is how bureaucracy really works....

    Do they not understand that their OPM pension is tied to this stuff? If anyone doubts this they are quite foolish Wade!!...

    Would it not make more sense to give up some power now to prevent such a catastrophe?

    Wade I view the problem as global in nature and no bank reform will fix the problem nor as you say is there a political solution to the conundrum...nor is there an ultimate military solution that I see other than destruction.

    What I see being played is a "USA" bad vs the "east" powers good type of scenario and that they all are in on the game ....as it were and of course ....just an opine....

    With just a shift to the east by the global overlords as a pal of mine calls them...

    Wade's world is saving me a lot of time that I have been spending on the net reading about conspiracy with no power whatsoever to do anything about what I might read and in the end what you posted to me through your links is how the world really works and I thank you for that Wade...

    I believe it is wise to see how the world really works and leave ones fantasies behind....

    I am three quarters threw your essay and I only have more questions...

    Much thanks for being of help to me.


    thanx


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    Hi Nine:

    I have written about the organized suppression of high MPG carburetors and cars for a long time. Dennis's being run out of the country is just the latest instance. Yeah, you are not going to bring anything new to the energy and FE table that I am not bombarded with. About the only energy-related developments that I am really interested in on the Internet are scientific papers that cover the subject matter in my big essay. Almost everything else is just chatter, especially related to FE, and I am bombarded with it. FE newbies wander all over the Internet and bring me stuff that they think is new and unusual, and it is stuff that I have been familiar with for many years. I have been at this since I was 16. YouTube in particular is not where you are going to find much new and important, even though some of my interviews are hosted there. YouTube is the TV of the Internet, and interviews and TV can only scratch the surface of the material. My big essay and website is about going deep and reaching comprehensive understandings, and there is nothing else like it that I know of, which is why I did it.

    My "choir" approach is what is new and unusual in the field, but as you can see on another thread recently started, people are stuck in the inventor of the hour, the FE inventor who claims that he is the Messiah, and so on. It is why I needed to start my own forum.

    I wrote on this thread about European cars that get much higher MPG than American cars (and they are even built in the USA!) that have been banned in the USA, and that 300 MPG car is just the latest instance, and the masses are clueless. That is why the collapse of Detroit is strangely poetic to me.

    Dennis and I, and our merry band, gave Godzilla some interesting days at the office and sleepless nights, and Mr. Professor and I springing Dennis from jail was not supposed to happen, so Godzilla has never forgotten about me. I have been contacted by soldiers who read my work, and I am sure that it is on spook reading lists. But it is easy to get sucked up into and strung out on "conspiratorial" goings on, and IMO, it is just one more way to think like a victim.

    As you get to the end of my big essay, you will see that the very idea of nations will disappear when FE makes its appearance, so your concerns will simply become meaningless in a world based on FE, similar to those New Yorkers in 1900 who were so concerned about the horse manure piles in 2000. So yes, North America will still exist as a land mass, but today's political and social organization will disappear, cities will become obsolete, and almost nothing about today's world will look the same, but nobody will mourn its passing. The world can begin to look like this.

    To return to my previous post for a moment, I have long written about Peak Oilers, environmentalists, and others with their austere "solutions," which nobody in their right mind would want to pursue, not with what I know exists, as do my fellow travelers. The "vision" of those Peak Oilers and environmentalists literally turns people suicidal. But they have the ear of "progressives," and my fellow travelers have banged on every door that there is to bang on, and there is nobody at home, anywhere on Earth, so I will have to roll my own.

    Best,

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    Hi:

    I am in the middle of editing my Domestication Revolution chapter. I am finding the stray typo or something to tweak ever-so-slightly. What a monster of a chapter, and this is where many readers begin to perk up, as it is more familiar to them. There are no great works of literature or history that exist from preliterate times. Investigations of everything before the invention of writing are largely the province of scientists.

    I want to briefly revisit my previous post, and the Peak Oilers, environmentalists, and so on. If you read Peak Oiler literature, they unremittingly beat the drum of doom, as the end of the Hydrocarbon Age is coming quickly, and maybe quickly enough to avoid an environmental calamity, if we do not have World War III fighting over the remaining oil, which may already be happening. Their "solution" is a 90% depopulation of Earth, because we are running out of energy, and the carrying capacity of today's Earth (which has already been severely degraded) in the absence of fossil fuels is probably less than a billion people.

    Some of the same drumbeaters feigned interest in FE, and one killed himself in his despair of where it is all heading. I eventually understood that their reaction was a close cousin to those people I knew who chose certain death rather than question their beliefs. For me, it was like trying to understand dark pathers, it was so surreal to me.

    So, question your beliefs (which you did not get via experience, but indoctrination), and heaven on Earth can beckon, or stay addicted to your perspective and seek certain doom. What makes it really bizarre with Peak Oilers and environmentalists is that for their "plan" to "work," all of humanity would have to reach unprecedented levels of sentience and essentially commit mass suicide on behalf of the planet. Any volunteers for that? Their plan requires it, although with the kind of "plan" that they advocate, it is far likelier that Hitler-type figures will arise and "get the job done," and rather brutally, of course, making sure that "their people" did most of the surviving. It is absolute insanity to think that such a "plan" would have a prayer, and makes my plan seem like the easiest thing on Earth to do. But it's not. It might the hardest plan on Earth to implement, but it would be child's play compared to convincing about seven billion people that they need to die off, and soon.

    That is just a sampling of the craziness that I continually encounter. It comes from all directions, and I was able to eventually see it all as an addiction to scarcity.

    Back to work.

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    Wade,

    I just came across the following words towards the end of your big essay:

    Quote I received the impression that the zero-point field was divine in nature, and that if an intelligent species did not approach the issue with sufficient divine intention, then it could not access the field or access it for long. The GCs might be doing humanity a favor by acting as some kind of integrity threshold that humanity must clear before the path to FE will open……………………………………………..If love is understood as the best of all possible feelings, and acts from the heart are recognized as the most powerful that we can achieve, that is probably sufficient spiritual understanding, and achieving some mystical experiences may be critical for awakening the aspirant. Anything less than a divinely intended approach toward FE may not work, for reasons that go far beyond organized suppression or the public’s inertia. That is just something that slowly dawned on me, which I cannot prove to anybody, but it guides my thinking and efforts.
    You may not be able to prove it, but i suspect those sufficiently heart-centered will recognize the authenticity of such words.
    Perhaps you'd be willing to expand on the concept somewhat. This is the aspect of the conundrum which has possibly been focused on the least and yet may well be the crux of the whole subject (imho - not that I have any experience or direct insight into the FE topic - it's just a hunch/feeling). Maybe tapping into "god-consciousness" in light of the FE task will provide the divine insight required to implement it, as in some of the other mystically guided discoveries mentioned previously in the essay.
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    Hi Akasha:

    That is a huge and important subject that I could write for days on, but I will try to give the short version, if I can.

    It is rooted in my experiences most of all, but it is also something that came from my spiritual studies. I write about it in a few places on my site, such as here. I have stated many times on this thread that love and FE are joined at the hip, in both practical and mystical ways. In order to really begin to understand where I am coming from, I need to start at the beginning, I suppose.

    I was a precocious, over-grown Boy Scout from the time I was born, and became a bookworm from the time I could walk. The last time I saw my mother, she was demented, but she repeated something I had heard her say before, in that I was a freak. I was her first child, born at the peak of the Baby Boom, but I was highly unusual. My mother would say, "Doesn't he even cry?" My brother born a year later more than made up for it, and he was a trouble-maker from the time he was born and had graduated to criminal activity as a teenager. I have a genius level IQ, but it was only the third highest in my nuclear family. Three geniuses and two whose IQs were about 90 and 80. That "intelligence" spread sure made for some odd family dynamics. So, I had the first child's disease and looked out for my brothers, and by the time I went to school, I was immediately recognized as gifted, and was in gifted programs throughout school. I was in training to become a scientist, but I had my mystical awakening at age 16. In my second year of college, I reached my first existential crisis when I realized that I did not want to spend my life in a chemistry lab. After months of directionless flailing around, a desperate prayer was answered, and a voice in my head suggested that I might change my studies from science to business, and I became an accountant. I was always at the top of nearly all of my classes (especially math and science, but also history, English, and other subjects), and it was no different when I began to study business.

    But I can clearly see the pattern of my approach and study back then that is evident in my writings today. While I was studying accounting and business, I was also reading The Aquarian Gospel every night, and reading Richard Bach and Seth. I read the newspaper every day from age 10 to 30 (thinking that I was getting the "news" ), had my first girlfriend (we lasted two years, and she dumped me the week after we got to the college that I followed her to), was a track star, worked in the restaurant of a retirement home, and was living large. I so clearly recall that first semester of my business studies, when I had three classes: Introduction to Bookkeeping, Introduction to Business, and Philosophy 101. I tried to marry them all together in my mind, along with my spiritual studies. I wish I still had a paper that wrote in my philosophy class, in which I tried to marry Jesus's message with the philosophers'. It would give me a good laugh today.

    I see myself as a kind of mystical version of Ralph McGehee in those days. Oh, were we naïve, and we believed the BS, just like Dennis did, and just like Brian and Mr. Professor did. I woke up a lot faster than Ralph did, as I began questioning my business school indoctrination immediately after graduating. But we believed in the ideal, and had a need to believe, while everybody else just accepted whatever cover story could salve their conscience as they went about their lives. How on Earth could Ralph or I believe that the CIA or capitalism could be vehicles of the light? Well, it was what we were raised on, is all that I can say.

    My cognitive dissonance began upon graduation, and within a couple of years, I was thrust into a situation which eventually made it clear that my profession was worthless. While in LA, which were my life's unhappiest years, I got pretty deeply involved in the mystical stuff, subscribed to the "alternative" Christian Science Monitor (again, I had a lot to learn), and was pretty frustrated, as the gulf between what I did for a living and my energy dreams was so vast that they seemed to be on opposite ends of the galaxy. But I was such an avid mystical student and knew that love and integrity were the keys. I clearly recall being enthralled by my mystical studies, but wondered what on Earth they had to do with making a living. I was about to find out.

    Eight largely frustrating years after the voice first spoke to me, I felt backed into a corner again and for the second and so far last time in my life, I prayed for guidance, and the voice came through again. The next week, I was interviewing at Dennis's company in Seattle. As I write this, I have a hard time believing that it happened, and I lived it.

    Anyway, the rest is history, and Dennis could not get rid of me. I recently made a series of post on those days, with some anecdotes that I had not previously revealed. It was then that my spiritual training began to come in handy. I could see a great soul in Dennis. You really have to see him to believe him, but I watched him try to maneuver the company through the deaths blows that were being rained on it, and it was inspiring to witness. As I noted in that series of posts, the mark of my naïveté was thinking that everybody there was motivated like Dennis and I were. I began to impress Dennis as I busted my tail, almost for free, for three months, reconstructing the company’s books, before the company was stolen. One night, after a couple of months there, I drove Dennis home from work, and he told me about his employee who died, courtesy of Bill the Hit Man, and I could tell how deeply it impacted Dennis.

    As I have written about plenty, when my boss helped engineer the theft of the company from Dennis, and all of those "loyal" employees cheered as the theft was complete, it was one of my first awakening moments. Three years later, my life was shattered and my journey's primary lesson had been driven into my head in no uncertain terms: personal integrity is the world's scarcest commodity. I saw that people's lack of integrity was why efforts like ours failed, and it was not so much all the psychopaths that worked in law enforcement, the media, and for Godzilla, but because the people in the efforts had such low integrity that if the effort did not self-destruct first, from greed, delusions of grandeur, and the like, just a little organized suppression defeated them, as the efforts imploded in a bloodbath.

    This is where my mystical training came in handy. When all of those people acted so dishonorably (Dennis and Mr. Professor were beacons in the darkness (and that voice led me to both of them), but there were only a few of us), I could see that fear was at the root of their behaviors. Love and integrity are the same thing, or maybe it is more accurate to say that acts of integrity arise from love. So, I could see how fear was the problem, and love was the solution. But manifesting love in a world of scarcity and fear is no easy trick. Nine has an evangelical Christian background and wonders why Dennis is a literalist Christian, and my reply was that it saw Dennis through his trials and he was raised with that stuff (but did not believe it as a child), but it is what is in Dennis's heart that makes him great, not what is in his head, and I saw that in all the greats that I have known. So, in very practical ways, fear defeated FE efforts, from Godzilla on down, and the great hearts of the greats I knew was the only thing that gave any FE effort a prayer of success. But a hero and saint here and there cannot get it done, which eventually led to my "choir" strategy. All of those failed paths to FE that I list, to one degree or another, are doomed because of a lack of integrity.

    But that is just one aspect of the love/integrity issue and FE, and I'll tell a little technical tale. In the published version of Mark C.'s tale, what it does not state is that Mark got his mystical awakening when he was in college, around age 20. It was a Kundalini experience, and the insight from that awakening allowed him to construct that device. Mark had his life wrecked in California, just like Dennis, Brian, Mr. Professor, Sparky, and I did. California is a black place. So, a mystical awakening and accessing what has been called "intelligent infinity" enabled Mark to construct his gizmo, but it was not enough to wake him up to how the world really worked. He learned the hard way, as we all did. Brian told me that Mark's family also had a hand in wrecking his life when the hammer came down on him, and that is a familiar theme.

    I accessed the ZPF myself in healing episodes, and that was all love, before I met Dennis. And that situation with that hooker I can tell was a final "test" that that voice in my head had for me, before it sent me to Dennis.

    So, love, energy, integrity…they were all kind of joined at the hip, in my experience, and it was only about 15 years ago that I began to suspect that the ZPF was divine in nature, and that if the people accessing it did not have the highest integrity (love in their hearts), there were practical and probably mystical reasons why their effort would fail. Again, I certainly cannot "prove" that to anybody, but it was a realization that slowly dawned on me, after experiencing so many failed efforts, watching others fail, and trading notes with people like Brian and Mark.

    My choir idea is actually aligned with that understanding, and for those who fear FE, if I can amass the choir that can hit those notes, and get enough momentum to manifest FE in the way that I envision, it will be proof that enough people can reach the level of integrity necessary to manifest FE, and will be well on the way to an enlightened implementation. If an idea like mine does not work, then it is evidence that humanity is not ready to make the next step, and might fall all the way down to the bottom of the ladder, instead.

    How can there be an effort of higher integrity than developing history's most lucrative technology, to only then give it away? Nobody in the history of the world has done anything like that. It will be an unprecedented act of integrity, and probably anything less does not have a prayer of success.

    So, that is the short version. I really could go on for days on the events I lived through, how they impacted my awareness, and nudged me further down the path to my understanding today.

    Best,

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    Dearest Wade,

    I have let the fact that Dennis Lee was an evangelical just to go by the wayside since it is irrelevant to the big picture. It does not matter in regards to his personal integrity which he had plenty of! I suppose I would have followed him also if given the chance like you did to the moon and back...

    Thinking upon the zero point field and its possible divinity one must admit that on planet earth the most wretched creatures have control over this technology and yet we still remain here!

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    Welcome to the twenty first century... hahaha!

    I missed Ozzy's great work because we had large evangelical parties and burned his records..that evil rock and roll music...

    Maybe looking at it in terms of good and evil are not productive?

    I was reading somewhere in your work about people who pursue the dark path will not be accepted by source but do get rewarded for there efforts of a sort but are not allowed to be more than they are and so they rise to a certain point and then can go no further and their path in the end is pointless.

    In the Christian scriptures Jesus said that the truth would set one free and to love ones enemies. Both very difficult things to do or understand.

    Evangelical Christianity is about a personal relationship with Jesus Christ in its most fundamental form. It is how "they" say a person can commune with God and through the spirit to be one with the savior who leads to the creator God. That is a primitive rendering of the gospel message of the street preacher!

    Of course the lead in by said street preacher is the sure path to death through sin. "for the wages of sin is death"

    And in those terms one has a choice of damnation and eternal suffering or paradise and so looking at how Dennis Lee sees it seems to be an accurate picture of what humanity is facing in a way...

    And so I see why you followed him Wade...much more to him than what the world would say....

    I have dear Christian family members that have a very sweet spirit based upon love through belief in these scriptures. And of course I would imagine that Dennis Lee was a quality person such as what I described.

    When I read New Age stuff it is the same thing...do your inner work so you can ascend or to have power to live in love.

    And so even uncle Noam has a so very sweet spirit and is loving even while dealing with terrible things in his work.

    I have a dear friend that is down the wrong rabbit hole and is angry that I will not follow down that hole since I view it as unproductive.

    She is obsessed with the study of the dark path in order to show folks all the evil that is in the world and when exposed enough and by enough folks humanity will "wake up" somehow ....

    Of course this path is the way of failure and is a dead end IMO..

    I have chosen my path just as many choose the path of evangelicalism....destruction or salvation...heaven on earth or hell on earth....our choice I suppose...

    I have made my choice Wade...

    No one is home on planet earth and I can think of no one that I know to invite to this discussion both in real life or upon the internet...

    Yet still I am hopeful that the young will read and come along...

    the path is treacherous and dangerous and as Jesus said one must choose the straight and narrow path...


    thanx


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    Hi Nine:

    You probably read about that dark path "dead end," here. It is my interpretation, shaded by the Ra Material, among other sources. I'll take the loving parts of any religion, and witnessing how much enlightenment Dennis and his wife attained with their literalist Christian approach was something else.

    I recall somebody asking Silver Birch about how Christianity had produced some great people, as a way to defend Christianity, and Silver Birch replied that those great ones would have been great no matter what religion they belonged to. Silver Birch did not state it like I have, in that Christians are also history's most murderous people, but he also noted Christianity's shortcomings.

    Religion is a response to warfare, and not in an enlightened way, and all religions, like all ideologies, are conditioned by scarcity and fear, and elevate the in-group at the expense of the out-group. Jesus tried to help people see a bigger picture, but it largely fell on deaf ears.

    Just as slavery did not end until it became economically obsolete, while we live in a world of scarcity, all scarcity-based ideologies will thrive, although religion's grip weakened with industrialization and the rise of science (which became a religion unto itself). And as we run out of energy, the social advances will be reversed, and we even see the revival of slavery-like ideologies. The human mind has always been economically conditioned (which is another reason for doubting that humans are really sentient), which is another reason why the social movement approach to FE will not work. Realizing that there is nobody in your life that you can share "Wade's World" with is wise. Almost nobody on Earth can handle it, especially those who worship at the scarcity-based altars of our dominant ideologies.

    Yes, a common rabbit hole, once one begins to wake up, is to obsess on the "conspiratorial" side of life, live in outrage at all the evil deeds being committed by "the bad guys," and think that if you can get others to understand the depths of evil that exist, that we would all "wake up" and end Godzilla's reign. I have watched people disappear down that rabbit hole, and it could really wreck them, as they became intensely negative, paranoid, and I even watched them lose their minds.

    It took about 15 years before my editor really understood why I have stated that making the dark stuff the focus of one's attention and strategy was doomed to failure. It is one thing to acknowledge the darkness, and maybe even see the divine role that it plays (that is one of the hardest tricks of all, IMO), and another entirely to see the "bad guys" as the root of our problems. As I repeatedly state, they are only a symptom, and seeing them as the cause of our problems is just one more way to think like a victim. If only 0.0001% of humanity woke up to the material in my work and learned to sing, heaven on Earth is around the corner, no matter what the "bad guys" did. As Brian O said, the power of combined positive intention is the trick for success for this FE and world healing project.

    Best,

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    .....That is a huge and important subject that I could write for days on.....
    OK, that was day one's post on the subject..... I'd be more than happy for you to spend more time on it if you deem it appropriate.

    The synchronistic aspect of the "hooker" story is without doubt indicative of the divine guidance behind the scenes, especially given the likely life-saving results of you rocking up when she was about to get mown down or worse. Naturally, the skeptics would put it down to coincidence.

    One of my own personal experiences of love's effect on matter (here) leaves me with no illusions as to it's reality and the huge untapped and largely unacknowledged potential which resides within it if and when we align ourselves unconditionally (fear always makes the conditions) with it.

    I'm in total agreement about the Pauline doctrine essentially undermining our collective access to this "tech" by making it about him (Jesus) rather than it (love). That's in no way meant to demean his (Jesus's, not Paul's) achievements. If the references to Jesus are in any way accurate, they paint a blueprint which in many ways sets the universal standard on how to (co)exist.

    Also from your essay with regards to love's role:

    Quote sources that I respect have stated that the means become the ends
    I think I understand where where you were coming from but would appreciate it if you could elaborate on that too (also for more than one day if you feel suitably compelled )
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    Hi Akasha:

    Your own journey is an inspiring one, and you can probably tell when you are being "messed with" by your unseen "friends." Well, thinking about my journey to write yesterday's post led me to another attempt to contact a long-lost friend, and I got the news this morning. After I had that "hot hands" experience with that dying girl (in late 1984), I became friends with her mother. It is a long story, but in the mayhem around her daughter's decline to her death, her mother failed to keep making her insurance premium payments, the insurance lapsed, and the hospital seized all of her money, which left her destitute, and I ended up helping her financially.

    I began my wild ride with Dennis in early 1986, and she was one of those whom I gave stock in our company to, when I raised money in Boston to get us going again and became Dennis's partner. She actually attended the show two days before the raid, and she was one of thousands who called the sheriff's office in protest after the raid, and Mr. Deputy even called her back, in a quasi-threatening manner.

    She had a fractured vertebra from a car accident that gave her chronic pain, and I worked on healing that with my hands-on technique a few times, and in 1997, the last time that I saw her, she credited my efforts with healing it. I last saw her when I picked up my wife where she had been living in the Bay Area, when I lived in New Jersey while I was last with Dennis, as I moved her to Seattle.

    We kept in touch, but around 2002, as I entered the dark phase of my midlife crisis, her phone no longer worked, and I began withdrawing from the world as I resumed my career in 2003 (and the NEM fiasco really drove me into my shell). I sporadically tried to look her up, but really did not make another good attempt until last year, just before I took that Bucket List 9,000-mile road trip (when I saw both Dennises, among my 20+ stops), when I mailed a letter to her home when I saw her last, and hoped that I could see her on the trip. The letter was returned as undeliverable while I was on the trip.

    So, last night, I finally tracked down her sister whom she lived with when I last saw her (the Internet makes that so much easier than it once was), and this morning her sister gave me the news: she died in 2003. So, it has been a teary morning, and this post will be my tribute post to my friend. Her name was Lori, and attached is a picture of us, in one of my innumerable long-armed selfies, taken in the summer of 1990, just as I was staggering out of my home town, never to return. I'll continue to miss her.

    Yes, I'll reply to your post today, after I get some more editing done.

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    Hi:

    Dammit, I am getting a little sidetracked with the waltz down memory lane, and decided to dig up a photo, attached. It is a picture of that hooker that I rescued. My historian's nature was evident early on, I suppose, and I have a packing box (the small one used for books) that is a memory box of my lifetime, and has documents and items that go back to my childhood. I have not added to it much in recent years (clippings of hair and toys from our cats that died in the past several years has been about it). I dug that picture of her out of that box just now.

    That hooker's name was Deena, and like my friend whose death I found out about this morning (it was not a surprise, but the tears still came), I would be surprised to learn that she was still alive (I just looked her up quickly on the Internet, and there is some record of her, but there also was some record of my friend who died in 2003), as her path did not look promising.

    That Polaroid of her with her son, who was being raised in an orphanage, was probably the only picture that she had of him, and was her gift to me, and I know that it came from somewhere in her heart. Giving me that picture was a fleeting moment of grace in her grim life, and I still have it, nearly 30 years later, and somebody will find it in that box after I am gone.

    I have not actually looked through that box, strolling down memory lane, for many years, and right now, as I look at that box sitting next to my desk, it is tempting to peek into it, but back into the attic it goes. I have work to do!

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