Here and Now...What's Happening?

[Selkie]

Posted by Lost N Found (here)
...It is this way with my brothers and sisters today, the conversations do not go into beliefs and I and they love each other for who we are...

(my emphasis)

This is very, very beautiful, Lost N Found, and very, very wise

[Guest]

Here's tom. He has a few things to say about Lilith and Venus.

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=Y7x6a7oE7r4

Love

Nora

[araucaria]

Posted by Calz (here)
After about 5 words I politely say "no thank you" and close the door.

Need not be any more complicated than that.

Well, I agree: nothing complicated. Just a different kind of No from the can't-be-bothered sort, or from the get-orff-my-land sort.

1inMany would probably have some input on this topic, but she's taking a break just now. Hi there if you're reading this!

[ulli]

[ulli]

Library cake

[araucaria]

Posted by ulli (here)

Not bad at all, except we are still waiting for our personal flying machines. Rapid easy travel is way behind what it needs to be, except of course for the megarich.

[ulli]

The three VRs,
Virtual Reality,
Vegetal Reality,
Validated Reality.

Haven't quite finished reading the article but thought I'd share.
https://www.academia.edu/1081142/Biophotonic_Flux

[RunningDeer]

My JW tri-team stopped coming when I told them I was a Buddhist and would they like to come in to hear about my thoughts on life. They politely declined and never returned. Up to that point I never answered the door and they continued to stick their brochures in the screen door.

My sister has a dear friend that was shunned from the Jehovah's Witnesses. She finally got up the courage to divorce her physically abusive husband whom was high up in rank in the organization.

Her advice is when Jehovah's Witnesses knock at your door, tell them not to come around any more. You are not interested. To their way of thinking, every time you respond, it’s because there’s a part of you that is interested in knowing more but aren’t ready to fully commit.

[ulli]

Now here is something for the followers of superstitious beliefs:

[araucaria]

Posted by ulli (here)
Now here is something for the followers of superstitious beliefs:

Yes, and Christmas will fall on December 52nd...

It would all be a fiddle anyway because of the Gregorian calendar reform of 1582
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gregorian_calendar

[Lost N Found]

Posted by araucaria (here)

Posted by ulli (here)

Not bad at all, except we are still waiting for our personal flying machines. Rapid easy travel is way behind what it needs to be, except of course for the megarich.

Well here is another person that was talking about the same thing.

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=ikb8CtEK1qQ

[Selkie]

Posted by ulli (here)
Now here is something for the followers of superstitious beliefs:

Spoooooky... I love it!

[spacejack]

Sound of gta music loading on my tv. Its night time. No one is home. Just me and the dog who is sleeping on the bed (mine). Playing a game online is nice, even if Im not playing. Just hearing the interaction of the simulated people in game is nice. Sometimes I see someone drive by (a real person online). Its a precursor matrix, but its still comforting. There may be a motive to this type of entertainment to mess us up, but in idle, its just art.

[araucaria]

This is a quote from Billy at the end of the Flat Earth thread. I wrote the following just before I realized that Bill had closed the thread, for us to take serious debate to other less polarized contexts, such as here.

It is much more important to think about our Mother earths well being, rather than the distraction of her curvy or flat figure.

Talking of curvy and flat figures, one of the unmentioned causes of this epidemic of obesity that has hit the US and other western countries is probably the switch from 16/9 TV screens to the 4/3 format. When everyone used to appear taller and slimmer than they really were, all of a sudden they began to seem shorter and podgier than in real life. I am sure this two-dimensional flat-screen image has had on people’s self-image, and in turn affected their actual 3D format. Sometimes it helps to check things out in real life for oneself. What you see on a monitor is not what you get: the idea of WYSIWYG is a scam. I have spectated sporting events where the same guys I sometimes watch on TV are definitely more like their 16/9 pictures. But most of the time, you never get to make that comparison, or at least not enough to notice what is going on.

Transposing this to the flat earth argument, it may be that too much time spent on flat-screen images has rubbed off on folks. This is a couch potato’s eye view of the world. It is intellectually regressive, i.e. centuries out of date, and politically reactionary. None of the solutions we are looking for are to be found in the past. The past is what got us in this mess. To use a concept dear to Terence McKenna, we are in the age of novelty. Staying in the here and now is to go with the natural flow, which is inevitably progressive. We discover more facets and dimensions to things, not less. And that includes the Earth, which is not flat, nor even simply 3D spherical; She is much more than that.

[Jean-Marie]

Hello villagers!

I want to share an update on my son Kyle. A few days before I left for camp, he was kicked out of the VA program and ended up in a homeless shelter in Chicago. He has hopefully hit bottom and he seems to be coming out of it. Kyle has now applied for jobs. Has one lined up to start next week. He also has applied for an apartment and I hold my breath that he is really wanting to get his life back together. That he will not Fall down again, but actually gets his life together. He wants to see his children again on a regular schedule and tomorrow I will spend the day with him and my grandchildren.

At first I wanted to wait and post when he actually started the job and got the apartment, but I believe in the miracles of healing that Ulli's thread is well known for. If any of you have time to send intent/energies/healing to him, I would very much appreciate the help you can give!

I have hope!

[RunningDeer]

This morning out on the deck in reflection and experience:

- There’s no need to eradicate ego and its’ annoyances. It does what it does. Its tiny. Its’ silliness gets reabsorbed.

- I tried to fit more of spirit into the body when I re-remembered that it’s the other way around. Now how that fits in the day to day, I didn’t want to go there. I wanted to bask in the experience. It was freeing from all that’s easy for me to get sucked into from 3D perspective.

- It’s not a cause and effect exercise on how to apply spirit and body in the world. I’m it. Its it. Beyond that the rest is gravy on how to play within it in this platform.

Lastly, I keep having flashbacks of when I was younger. Often, I felt I was on a stage of an on-going play. At times I’d experience expansiveness of being. It was my belly that exploded with laughter which brought me back to Small-Pauler. I tried to replicate but it was tiny by comparison. Then I’d forget.

Replication of feelings is a trinket side effect. Presence is the blessed gift.

♡

[RunningDeer]

Posted by Jean-Marie (here)
...but I believe in the miracles of healing that Ulli's thread is well known for. If any of you have time to send intent/energies/healing to him, I would very much appreciate the help you can give!

I have hope!

Love and blessings to Kyle, Jean-Marie and Family.
Paula ♡

[ulli]

Life in the tropics. Although right now it's quite chilly.
Anyway, guy is coming to finish the new bathroom and connect the hot water heater any minute now.
Some small smart heater under the sink. This is the last task in a much delayed job.
It is. 6:00 am Sunday morning and he wants to get it done before he goes to church at 9:00 am.
Still half asleep here.

Took this picture to share the view and Suzie the cat walked across the terrace ...making a surprise appearance.

[meeradas]

Right now (what else)

[ulli]

Posted by meeradas (here)
Right now (what else)

By the way, I read it.
Looks like you are in Costa Rica, except the deforestation seems a bit more advanced.