I read of a researcher who spent his entire career trying to find out where memories were stored in mice brains. He'd teach the mouse to run a maze, then cut out a portion of the mouse brain, with the assumption that the mouse's mental map of the maze was stored in some specific location, and by removing the mouse's maze map, it would be unable to navigate the passages. But after having chopped every region of the brain out, the mice always remembered how to run the maze.
The book offered that memories are stored as holograms - everywhere all at once, and not just in the physical structures of the brain. I'm away from my library at the moment, and the title eluded me for quite some time, but I was able to pick up the thread (as words to search for on Amazon), and I think it was Radin's Entangled Minds. Upon further consideration, I'm certain that it was this book.
And stocking a home like a future model space ship or something will create jealousy and resentment
Federation starships have an auto-destruct feature. If I was redoing a home in New Orleans (or anywhere else, for that matter), especially in this post-housing-bubble economic reality, I'd be sure to rig similiar functionality for my house.
If jealous gangsters took over my house, I'd just trigger the self destruct feature. bwahaha! Also good for foreclosure - "whoops, house burned down. Must've been a bug in all that cat 6a cable somewhere..."
Exactly. Better inventions come from acting on information received in dreams, like Elias Howe & his sewing machine. (he'd worked for years trying to get a 'sewing machine' to work, without any luck. One night he fell asleep at his desk and dreamed of being threatened by savages with spears. The spears had a hole at the tip - when Elias awoke, he realized that he needed to move the hole in his sewing machine needle from the middle to the tip...)
You think maybe the rest of the students might be there to learn something?
Most of them are there because they have to be.
My daily refrain for about... 5 years was, "do I have to go to school today?" I hated school, and I was good at it. My teachers tried, but it was almost as if the system was designed to keep all of us from ever gaining any traction.
Only after I graduated from teh college did I realize how right I was. Picked up a copy of Gatto'sA Different Kind of Teacher, and realized that I'd never really learned how to read. I did just fine with the multiple-choice tests, but comprehension was another matter entirely. I do alright with certain non-fiction books, but I can't read fiction worth a damn.
John Holt recognized the scam 50 years ago - How Children Fail was published in 1962, iirc. Holt's How Children Learn gives some good strategies for working within the system...
Mark Ames says so in Going Postal Rage, Murder and Rebellion. According to the book, Rage murders took off in the 1980's, under Reaganomics & the breaking of the unions. Rampages at postal facilities began after the efforts to move the postal service from a subsidized to self-funded endeavor, and there was much pressure placed on workers to support this transition. Most took the pressure alright, some snapped. School murders follow a similar formula: students get tormented to a breaking point, snap, and 'go postal' on their fellow inmates.
The fact is that if schools remain wretched places, the shootings, and sympathy for the shooters, will continue. Sympathy for them is a common sensibility. The desire to destroy one's own school is expressed not only in pathos-drenched messageboards, but also in popular black humor. -pg 207
I decided to finish the book after the virginia tech thing. That massacre seems to fit the pattern - Cho was continually tormented by his peers. I bet there was a ton of pressure to "stay in school", to "just get his degree"... Glad I'm out of the "education" madhouse.:)
The emergency room doctor's book is titled Conspiracy of Silence. I've only read bits and pieces, one being about how Secret Service agents 'stole' the president's body from the hospital. The doctors & local police wanted to keep it around for a while, to perform a proper investigation, as the crime & death did occur in their jurisdiction. But, as we all know, the government is pretty good at getting inconvenient evidence to go away (Oklahoma City Federal Building, structural steel from the World Trade Center buildings, etc)
Sorry. None of the [skeptic/conspiracy nut] stuff is even a little credible. You need to offer credible counter-evidence, rather than smugly braying "open your eyes, you fools!"
Taken individually, episodes of conspiracy are hard to prove because the conspirators do a half-way decent job of covering their tracks. But when conspiracies are viewed collectively, the entirety of a grand plot against The People begins to take shape.
Rothchilds financing Rockefeller & Standard Oil, the implementation of compulsory schooling to dumb down regular folks (see Gatto's Underground History of American Education), establishment of the federal reserve bank, the sinking of the Lusitania & entry into WWI, mismanagement of the economy by the new Federal Reserve bank leading to the 'Roaring 20's' and the Great Depression, coercing the Japanese into attacking Pearl Harbor, but making sure the most valuable ships (aircraft carriers) were out at sea, JFK assasination and Warren Commission whitewash, Vietnam, Iran releasing the hostages the day of Reagan's inauguration, Iran-Contra, Reaganomics and breaking organized Labor, Free Trade (NAFTA was a joint Bush-41/Cliton betrayal), 9/11, media consolidation, etc.
Listen to Chomsky's Class War talk (buy the CD or find a torrent), read Gatto's Underground History of American Education (link above), read Mark Ames' Going Postal Rage Murder and Rebellion, find a copy of The Screwing of the Average Man (1973 or 1974, iirc), read Kenneth Cole's The Misdirection Conspiracy (early 1980's, I think), etc. Everything fits together nicely into a grand plot against ourselves - I know you didn't join the Army to wage war on yourself, but it's kinda funny how things work out, huh?
Pretty amazing what a little concerted inter-generational organization can accomplish. They can't keep their conspiracy secret, but they can use their bull-horn to drown out everyone who's on to their plot ("they" own the mass-media through four or five media conglomerates, of course).
My 30mpg '93 Ford Escort kicked the bucket a few weeks back, and I started looking for a replacement. I felt fortunate to find a 1994 Honda Civic VX. It had 133,000 miles, and was being sold by a lady who didn't want the standard transmission anymore due to degeneration of her knees. Just got back yesterday from a 4000 mile road trip, and if I exclude the sub-40mpg tanks that resulted from a bad sensor ("Lean Air Fuel", iirc, replaced before the return trip), we averaged 50mpg.
The Civic VX has Honda's economy engine, the VTEC-E. Whereas most engines are optimized for perfomance, this one is optimized for fuel economy. It's kind of gutless on normal driving, but has decent acceleration in 2nd and 3rd gear above 4000rpm - better than my escort, certainly.
If my 13-year old civic can get 52+mpg (best tank was 57mpg for 417 miles, before the sensor went bad), why does the fuel economy of all new cars suck? The only new cars rated at 50mpg or higher are fat hybrids (read that the new civic gained 500 pounds). Auto manufacturers could build a non-hybrid car with a 40 or 48 volt electrical system, and a starter/generator to stop the engine whenever it idles, and electric power brakes and Air Conditioning (essential in certain markets). After 13+ years of drivetrain development, the new Honda Fit should get at least 70mpg. Maybe someone can explain to me why it's only rated for 38 on the highway - what I got when my car was missing due to the bad sensor.
No, Hybrids and Ethanol and Hydrogen and Peak Oil and CO2-caused Global Warming are just meant to distract 'teh masses' ('us') from the fact that we're getting screwed by the 1% who own 70% or 90% of all wealth. Their auto companies only buld us cars that get crappy gas mileage, and now that we're all mostly dependant on the "everyone has their own car" philosophy of transportation, they jack the price of gasoline to squeeze the last little bit of wealth from the common peoples' wallets.
Hopefully someone will figure out cold fusion soon, and make the energy establishment ('big oil') obsolete.
I believe in my fellow man, in the intrinsic goodness of average folks. I just recognize that a small group of people have organized to take advantage of the naivety 'the rules of the game' induces in the general population ('us'), where the game is the whole earth/life system.
that is an original weakness on your part.
Humans have no original weaknesses. Our original attribute is pure, unadulturated power, which gets covered up by the societies we find ourselves in. The present society is especially good at creating weakness in the mass humanity. See Ingo Swann's Secrets of Power, Vol. 1 and 2.
I'm familiar with your troll from K5, so... I have no need to say anything else. g'day.:)
a community that doesn't take care of itself is more difficult to quantify
Communities generally take care of themselves, that is, until members of the community get tricked into thinking someone else is going to do the work for them. And 'The Government' never does as good a job as the community itself, even though government workers are generally a part of the community they 'serve'. Something about taking pride in a job well done vs. doing a half-assed job because they're a wage-slave working for teh government.
The Medical-Industrial complex is not about taking care of the community. The primary concern is profit, patients be damned. The little people in the system do their best to take care of the patients/customers, but the profiteers at the top don't give a damn. The pharmaceutical holy grail is a pill that costs next to nothing and retails for $xxx (patent protection), manages the patient's symptoms well but doesn't fix the of the actual problem - anatacids or statins, for example.
The medical-industrial complex is given far more credit than it's due. I am refering here primarily to allopathic medicine, where drugs and surgery are the primary modalities.
we'd never have extended the average life span by 20 years + and made the advancements in medicine we have.
Improvements in sanitation are responsible for most of that 20 year increase in average lifespan. I hope you thank your municipal sewage plant operators for your quality of life every day, and the garbage man for keeping rodents from ruling the streets.
Life is precious and until someone proves otherwise, we only get one shot at it.
If reincarnation is a fact, it is so regardless of whether someone has 'proved' to be the case.
Survival of the human personality after the death of the body is a concept that has long intrigued those engaged in psychical research. This survival, if it occurs, might take the form of reincarnation. Although this hypothesis has not been widely accepted in the West, some eminent thinkers have given it attention. Among them are Pythagoras, Plato, Hume, Kant and Schopenhauer.
In this study Ian Stevenson presents twenty cases that are suggestive of reincarnation. In these cases, which Dr. Stevenson has personally investigated, people have claimed that they remember having lived an earlier life on earth. These claims are usually made by a young child, whose memories of his earlier life fade after several years. When the child remembers certain facts that he has not been able to learn in a normal way in his present life, it is difficult to account for his memories unless the hypothesis of reincarnation is accepted. Nevertheless, Dr. Stevenson does not claim that these cases offer positive proof of reincarnation; he claims only that they are suggestive. The investigation he undertook and the subsequent reports he makes provide fascinating reading. Of the cases he studied, seven occurred in India, three in Ceylon, two in Brazil, one in Lebanon, and seven among the Tlingit Indians of Southeastern Alaska.
First published in 1966, this is the second edition of the book. In this edition Dr. Stevenson presents the material he obtained from follow-up interviews with eighteen of the twenty subjects. In each of the eighteen cases, at least one interview was held not less than eight years after the original one....
I actually haven't read this particular book yet - I picked it up because Stevenson's work was referenced in another book of mine on Reincarnation, and at $3, the price was right.
The continuity of existence pre- and post- physical life is something you can 'prove' to your own satisfaction. See Robert Monroe's three books, for example (especially Far Journeys).
I valued my grandmother and great grandmother all the way up till the end and would have paid any costs asked of me to keep them alive longer.
The powers that be encourage the 'this is the only life we get' meme because it makes the populace easy to whip up into a homicidal rage. GWB: "Boo! Saddam is trying to kill us! We're gonna go kill him & a bunch of brown people first, before they get the chance!" Military enlistments go up, and it's only years later that 'teh masses' figure out that 'we' were tricked.
There aren't many historical examples of Buddhists or Hindus going out and waging aggressive wars of conquest. Reincarnation has been stripped from Christianity, Islam and Judaism, and look which groups are busy killing each other. I wonder who would sign up to go kill 'towel heads' if they knew the karmic burden they'd be incurring...
You know that chemistry experiment with sugar and water? You dissolve a little sugar into a glass of water. While stirring, slowly add more sugar. All the sugar will dissolve, up to a certain point. Then you'll get solid sugar crystals at the bottom of your glass, and every additional sugar molecule will collect on the bottom.
The market for chips is analogous. After years of expansion, the world has the capacity for all the chips it can possibly use. Instead of pulling back, Intel and AMD have been pouring money into more new fabs, thusly producing even more chips that aren't needed.
Intel isn't alone. There is too much inventory nearly everywhere, as Fred Hickey recently noted in his High Tech Strategist subscription newsletter: "We have excess PC inventories, excess cell phone inventories, excess auto inventories, excess networking inventories (the Cisco 'Lean' initiative), excess telecom inventories (carrier consolidation), excess PS3 and Xbox game consoles (disappointing sales), excess iPod inventories, excess computer server parts, excess disk drive inventories, excess DRAM inventories, excess microprocessor inventories -- and it will all be cleared during the housing and credit bust, and the first consumer cutbacks in 16 years."
While Intel is the stronger of the two, both will get slaughtered in the coming economic realignment (aka recession/depression). Seen big-picture, the rich can't get richer forever, and eventually 'teh masses' will figure out that we're getting screwed by 'the system' (perpetually broken government schools, taxes, corporate welfare, military-industrial complex, medical-industrial complex, perpetual war against phantom enemies, etc), and rise up to take back what's rightfully ours.
Got back to my computer with the Cayce readings, and decided to look up the 'bedbug juices' and the application of rabbit fur you mentioned. There are five bedbug hits, four from the readings and one from a report. One of the hits says that the microorganism which causes Pyorrhea looks like a bedbug, but with longer legs, and gives instructions as to how this organism could be isolated. The other hits all recommended "bedbug juice":
Also would it be well for those properties as are given for such conditions, in the Homeopathic applications, be used, or what is COMMONLY called (though not of the extraction) bedbug juices - though these are for such conditions. We will find that this given in minute quantities will reduce this condition.
(5514-3) (bold in all quotes is my emphasis)
So, Cayce never recommended "bedbug juice", but a homeopathic preparation. YHBT, by someone who intentionally misquoted what Cayce's actually said.
It was a bit harder to find the rabbit recommendation, as cayce didn't actually say anything about the "the raw side of a freshly skinned rabbit". But here are a few quotes from readings I did find:
7. Then, for the abrasion, as produced this strain and does not heal, we would cover this with the fur from the rabbit, and as often as possible have this NEW, and as with the life still in same, see? This will bring the greater relief for this body, [4615]. Do that.
8. (Q) Should the fur be put on with the raw side next to the body? (A) With the fur side OUT, for the animal heat will add, OR there may be prepared a serum from the infusion from the pus from this body injected into the rabbit, between the shoulder, and when this brings the infection, this injected or placed on the sore will heal, see? or the culture of same may be made and injected in the blood of this body.
(4615-1)
In this case, the rabbit skin was used like a bandage, it seems. You have other options today, 80 years after this reading was given.
4. In the gland region, under the arm, over the portion of the scapula, we would massage - GENTLY - each day - with those of the Iodex preparation, and keep from the irritation of clothing or pressures on same. We would keep covered with those of a young hare's fur, or rabbit fur - PREFERABLY that recently caught, or skinned; the skin, to be sure, prepared so that no infectious forces may arise from same.
(5662-1)
Again, the rabbit fur seems to be used as a bandage, after the massaging of the Iodex preparation. The rabbit fur is not the treatment itself. YHBT again.:)
(like searching to find the single document that included all of my references about Cayce's head being up his ass)
My last post was a little rush, so I need to clarify a few things:
1. YHBT, not by myself, but by the Establishment. Military-Industrial, Medical-Industrial, etc. The goal of these establishments is to concentrate power (economic and otherwise) for themselves, and depower 'teh masses'.
2. I have one account on Slashdot. I'm not a big fan of the nick I chose, all those years ago, but I do like my UID. I don't need to mod up my own posts - sometimes moderators find value in what I've said, and sometimes they don't. My post in the previous thread got a -1, troll - if I had modpoints from other accounts, I'd be sure to rectify that.:)
3. Randi is a magician first. That means his modus operandi is deception. The slashdot story was on virtual worlds and ESP...
Well, got to go again.. I've just a few more hours to spend with my girlfriend tonight - perhaps I will write more later.
I suppose you also believe that arab terrorists led by a former CIA asset hiding in a cave in afghanistan disabled the entire United States Defense Establishment (most of whom take their job _very_ seriously), and that those two airplanes were all it took to take down all three skyscrapers (the fire in WTC7 was, of course, caused by debree from WTC1 & 2, and a little bit of diesel is all it took to implode a steel building fire-rated to 1700+ degrees).
YHBT, you just haven't realized it yet. Hope the awakening isn't too rough.:)
p.s. There are threads on/. about Randi by people who've met the man. They say he's a fraud.:)
The important thing about Cayce was that he was right more often than not. One or two of his sons wrote a book titled The Outer Limits of Edgar Cayce's Power, in which they covered all the things he said that were wrong/inaccurate/etc.
I've read good things about the brandy keg thing; not familiar with the "bedbug juice" or rabbit skin suggestions. I recently got the cd w/ the readings on it, so I will look sometime and see if there is any truth to this, and if so, the context provided (I'm currently away from the computer where they're installed). If the U.S. Feral Government developed a "death ray" thingy at one of their secret bases (e.g. Area 51), or in a project funded by one of the black budgets, do you think they would tell anyone? I think they'd keep it "on reserve" in case it was ever required. It's also possible that the principles behind such a device were re-discovered in that year, but the implications of the discovery were not realized for all potential applications.
This seems to be the source of your rejection of the Cayce material. I'm not impressed. If you want to trust half-wits and dipshits to think & make important decisions for you, that's fine with me. Be sure to take plenty of Nexium for teh Ulcer, and when you get teh stomach tumor (grandpa chomped down Prilosec® like it was candy), be sure to tell your doctor you want the stongest course of chemo available. Evolution at work, mmm hmm.
A bleeding ulcer (now a benign stomach tumor) almost got my grandfather a few weeks back. He covered up the pain through self-medicated with teh prilosec (don't know if he ever asked his doctor about it), but it's obvious to me that Grandpa has a case of the hyper-acidity, which his doctors never even considered.. He signed himself up for hospice care last week.
I have good cause to distrust pharmaceutical medicine - it's done nothing for me but cover up the health problems I had. The turning point for me was when I decided to do my own research, and eventually finding the Edgar Cayce material. I'm not personally familiar with ulcers, so here's something you might find helpful:
ULCERS
I. Physiological Considerations
Ulcerations of the gastrointestinal tract, particularly the stomach and duodenum, is a relatively common disorder which in most cases is associated with hyperacidity (at least in benign lesions). Increased acidity is brought about by a variety of mechanisms which again can be translated into disturbed function in the nervous, circulatory, and digestive systems.
It is now commonly accepted that people under high stress situations -- e.g., tension jobs, the critically ill patient, etc. -- have a greater tendency to develop ulcers. It is also known that there is ulcer diathesis with increased levels of steroid, whether endogenous (as in Cushon's disease) or exogenous (as in people on steroid therapy for various reasons). Yet another variation is found in the Zoolinger-Ellison Syndrome, a condition associated with a gastrin-secreting tumor of the pancreas which in turn stimulates excessive acid production leading to ulcerations.
Malignant ulcers are more often associated with normal or low acid level, which probably reflects a process of degeneration (from chronic irritation) from an initially benign lesion. The rapidity of such a degeneration would depend on the presence and intensity of a multitude of carcinogenic stimuli and inherent weaknesses (predisposition).
Stomach ulcers
Turning now to the [Edgar Cayce] readings on stomach ulcers, we find that in reading 39-1, the inciting agent was excessive mental stress which brought about changes in the nervous and muscular activity leading to impairment in organ function. First the spleen, heart, and solar plexus were affected and then the stomach. The exact role of the spleen in the process of digestion is not well defined but seems to have to do with enhancement of digestive juices.
Malpositioning of the stomach then occurred with disturbances in pyloric sphincter activity, regurgitation of food (and thus digestive pancreatic enzymes into the stomach, leading to lacerations and ulcerations.
The disturbed activity in the nervous system with attendant circulatory changes (these always go hand in hand) were responsible for a variety of symptoms and signs reflecting other organ system dysfunction, described in the reading.
In the majority of cases disturbances in assimilation and elimination were seen to be the underlying problem. The organs commonly involved are the stomach, pancreas, spleen, liver, kidneys, but other organs may also be reflexly involved.
Representative is case [732], in which there was deficiency in the secretions from the liver and gall bladder leading to overacidity and impaired circulation, and poor eliminations through the blood, lymphatics, and gut. Pyloric sphincter disturbance and regurgitation into the stomach seem to be fairly common features, either causing the ulceration or being an associated condition.
In case [3570] this disturbance in the digestion/assimilation was brought about by an "overloading of the system" (overeating?) and that the resulting abnormalities were being perpetuated by an inadequate diet consisting of just fruits and vegetables (more on this under "Rationale of Therapy").
A somewhat different mechanism in the pathogenesis of ulcers has its origin in lesions in the spine (of traumatic origi
The AC obviously didn't read the instructions for the powder that was being sold:
3. Balanced Base Powder
One can take, by mouth, the necessary quick bases (sodium and potassium bicarbonate, both macro minerals that the body needs a lot of) that the body needs to neutralize the stored acids in the body and correct the relative base deficiency, correct the "latent acidosis". This is what the Balanced Base Powder does. This powder also provides the necessary chloride ions in the form of Celtic sea salt and potassium chloride that are needed to recharge the hydrochloric acid producing ability of the stomach, and thereby and more importantly, the sodium bicarbonate producing ability of the same.
Take 1/2 to 1 teaspoon in water or juice between meals of Balanced Base Powder or, if this is not available, use the same amount of baking soda in water or fruit juice, between meals and before bed, i.e. three times a day.
The important thing is to take it on an empty stomach, so it can suck out the excess "deposit acid" from the acid producing cells lining the stomach (thereby generating more bicarbonate which goes into the blood stream) and not interfere with the acid that is needed at the times of eating. One needs acid in the stomach to digest food obviously so the Balanced Base Powder or baking soda should not be taken around meal times....
It's obvious to me why the site went down: it was a drain on his finances, and he came out & told people directly that plain Baking Soda was an acceptable alternative to the product he was selling. Furthermore, the base powders were only one of thirteen recommendations, and he couldn't sell any supplies for implementation of the other treatment suggestions.
I like the quote - thanks for bringing it up. Where is it from? I put it in my quote file, and right now it's attributed to the URL for your comment...:)
My point was that the presence of the bacterium is not the cause of ulcers, but simply an effect, a symptom indicative of some deeper problem. "The fact that treatment now is becoming more and more ineffective" simply indicates that the treatment does not address the cause.
From the fine article: The alarming statistic that nearly 60 per cent of patients remain hypertensive, even though they are taking drugs to alleviate the condition, emphasises the urgency of looking for new mechanisms by which the body controls blood pressure, and finding new therapeutic targets to drive fresh drug development. (emphasis added)
While the connection between this protein and hypertension might be interesting, it is mostly irrelevant to successful treatment of the condition. Teach a person with high blood pressure how to fully relax their body, take care of the acid/base imbalance, perhaps address other nutritional deficiencies [Omega 3 intake?] and functional problems, and the need for constant dosages of antihypertensive drugs of any sort will usually go away. But such an approach can't be patented and sold in a bottle, so society's health is compromised to protect the profits of our medical-industrial complex.
We know how that ended up changing things with regard to the treatment of ulcers.
Your link says that nothing substantial changed, as the new conventional treatment doesn't work just like the old conventional treatment didn't work:
Unfortunately, an increasing number of infected individuals are found to harbour antibiotic-resistant bacteria. This results in initial treatment failure and requires additional rounds of antibiotic therapy or alternative strategies. For resistant cases, a quadruple therapy may be used. Bismuth compounds are also effective in combination with the above drugs. For the treatment of clarithromycin-resistant strains of H. pylori the use of levofloxacin as part of the therapy has been recommended.
Some people will benefit from any treatment, of course, due to the placebo effect, and sporadic success of treating ulcers with antibiotics is not indicative of accuracy of the theory ('ulcers are caused by bacteria').
Incidentally, your link reminds me of a different overview for health I ran across some years back. Information doesn't sell nearly as well as pharmaceuticals, and the site disappeared sometime last year. Archive.org fortunately still has a copy: Stomach Ulcers to Indigestion from Too Little Acid in the Stomach. If I may be so bold as to summarize this website, it says that stomach ulcers result from an excess of metabolic acids in the body-system; the presence of large colonies of said bacterium are simply indicative of an extreme pH imbalance. The body generates acids as a normal part of the metabolic processes. Modern diets are deficient in the alkaline minerals necessary to neutralize these acids, and most don't get the exercise necessary to 'burn off' the acids either, hence the explosion of chronic disease of all sorts.
There was also a page on heart disease. Too bad you can't bottle this information up & sell it to people for $100/month... I have family members on high blood pressure medication, and they don't work very well. Their treatments would be so much more effective if they addressed the causes (chronic stress is the other big one), rather than just a symptom.
The goal of terrorism is to instill terror. They've failed on my part, but it looks like they're doing a pretty good job with the masses.
The goal of Imperialists is to instill terror, because it makes 'the masses' (aka 'us') easy to control. We fight back by exposing the bastards for what they are. Imagine gwb spending the rest of his life in a glass prison at the zoo, with a little plaque: "Homo sapien, George W. Bush. Presidency stolen on his behalf in 2000 and 2004. Convicted of War Crimes and Crimes Against Humanity, 2010."
But maybe you're not one of us. Do you work for a living? Or, are you friends with the Bush crime family? The Rockefellers? etc, etc...
Our government has become everything that the first settlers to America were trying to get away from.
Read somewhere recently that the pilgrims were used by the British Monarchy to establish a beachhead in the new world:
1. Send some malcontents to colonize the 'new world'. 2. Exterminate the 'savages' who already live there. 3. Follow the first settlers with bureaucrats and more settlers. 4. Profit!!!
(there's no need for a '???' step, because this is what actually happened.)
The profit was interrupted by that pesky rebellion that started in 1776... Independence was never an overly popular proposition, and even though the colonists technically 'won' (due to assistance received from the French), certain elements of the country immediately began to plot the United States' return to the empire (specifically, bankers especially liked the way things were). Fast forward 200 years, and the United States of Amerika and Britain are lock-step once again.
Evidence: Bill Clinton was a Rhodes Scholar. Cecil Rhodes had established his scholarship for the express purpose of returning America to the Empire. Bill Clinton pushed NAFTA (negotiated by his predecessor, Skull & Boner George H.W. Bush) through the congress, which was a decidedly out of character for a President who was supposedly a 'Demoncrat', the traditional party of Organized Labor. NAFTA and other agreements for unrestricted trade have been a steak through the heart of the unions. Listen to Chomsky's Class War talk (I found a torrent with a little searching some months back), for example.
On July 19, 1951, in the Tribune under the title "Rhodes' Wards Hawk Global Scheme In U.S.," subtitled "Peddle Propaganda for 'One World," by William Fulton, we quote:
"New York, July l9 - Rhodes scholars, returning from schooling and indoctrination at Oxford university, England, are the principal hawkers of globalist propaganda in the United States. The American scholars obtain their education abroad through terms of the will left by the late Cecil Rhodes, British empire builder and South African despot. Rhodes aimed at the return of the United States to the British empire and a world federation dominated by Anglo-Saxons. He hoped his scholars would be instilled with 'political bias' toward these ends, according to his intimate friends.
"Previous articles in this series have disclosed that many of the 1,185 living American Rhodes scholars have obtained key positions in the state department, the United Nations, the economic cooperation administration, the mutual defense assistance program, and other government agencies where they have worked toward fulfillment of the schemes of their imperial patron." End quote.
Oh, but this is a conspiracy, and conspiracies don't happen all the time because they're un-possible. Drats. What's interesting about the collapse of the Bush Dynasty is how individuals in the media are beginning to realize that they've been used like tools, and aren't playing along anymore. McCain's recent trip to Baghdad, for example...
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I read of a researcher who spent his entire career trying to find out where memories were stored in mice brains. He'd teach the mouse to run a maze, then cut out a portion of the mouse brain, with the assumption that the mouse's mental map of the maze was stored in some specific location, and by removing the mouse's maze map, it would be unable to navigate the passages. But after having chopped every region of the brain out, the mice always remembered how to run the maze.
The book offered that memories are stored as holograms - everywhere all at once, and not just in the physical structures of the brain. I'm away from my library at the moment, and the title eluded me for quite some time, but I was able to pick up the thread (as words to search for on Amazon), and I think it was Radin's Entangled Minds. Upon further consideration, I'm certain that it was this book.
And stocking a home like a future model space ship or something will create jealousy and resentment
Federation starships have an auto-destruct feature. If I was redoing a home in New Orleans (or anywhere else, for that matter), especially in this post-housing-bubble economic reality, I'd be sure to rig similiar functionality for my house.
If jealous gangsters took over my house, I'd just trigger the self destruct feature. bwahaha! Also good for foreclosure - "whoops, house burned down. Must've been a bug in all that cat 6a cable somewhere..."
Because no one ever prayed up a better microchip.
Exactly. Better inventions come from acting on information received in dreams, like Elias Howe & his sewing machine. (he'd worked for years trying to get a 'sewing machine' to work, without any luck. One night he fell asleep at his desk and dreamed of being threatened by savages with spears. The spears had a hole at the tip - when Elias awoke, he realized that he needed to move the hole in his sewing machine needle from the middle to the tip...)
You think maybe the rest of the students might be there to learn something?
... 5 years was, "do I have to go to school today?" I hated school, and I was good at it. My teachers tried, but it was almost as if the system was designed to keep all of us from ever gaining any traction.
Most of them are there because they have to be.
My daily refrain for about
Only after I graduated from teh college did I realize how right I was. Picked up a copy of Gatto's A Different Kind of Teacher, and realized that I'd never really learned how to read. I did just fine with the multiple-choice tests, but comprehension was another matter entirely. I do alright with certain non-fiction books, but I can't read fiction worth a damn.
John Holt recognized the scam 50 years ago - How Children Fail was published in 1962, iirc. Holt's How Children Learn gives some good strategies for working within the system...
I decided to finish the book after the virginia tech thing. That massacre seems to fit the pattern - Cho was continually tormented by his peers. I bet there was a ton of pressure to "stay in school", to "just get his degree"... Glad I'm out of the "education" madhouse.
Beliefs are easy to mold - who picked yours?
The emergency room doctor's book is titled Conspiracy of Silence. I've only read bits and pieces, one being about how Secret Service agents 'stole' the president's body from the hospital. The doctors & local police wanted to keep it around for a while, to perform a proper investigation, as the crime & death did occur in their jurisdiction. But, as we all know, the government is pretty good at getting inconvenient evidence to go away (Oklahoma City Federal Building, structural steel from the World Trade Center buildings, etc)
Sorry. None of the [skeptic/conspiracy nut] stuff is even a little credible. You need to offer credible counter-evidence, rather than smugly braying "open your eyes, you fools!"
Taken individually, episodes of conspiracy are hard to prove because the conspirators do a half-way decent job of covering their tracks. But when conspiracies are viewed collectively, the entirety of a grand plot against The People begins to take shape.
Rothchilds financing Rockefeller & Standard Oil, the implementation of compulsory schooling to dumb down regular folks (see Gatto's Underground History of American Education), establishment of the federal reserve bank, the sinking of the Lusitania & entry into WWI, mismanagement of the economy by the new Federal Reserve bank leading to the 'Roaring 20's' and the Great Depression, coercing the Japanese into attacking Pearl Harbor, but making sure the most valuable ships (aircraft carriers) were out at sea, JFK assasination and Warren Commission whitewash, Vietnam, Iran releasing the hostages the day of Reagan's inauguration, Iran-Contra, Reaganomics and breaking organized Labor, Free Trade (NAFTA was a joint Bush-41/Cliton betrayal), 9/11, media consolidation, etc.
Listen to Chomsky's Class War talk (buy the CD or find a torrent), read Gatto's Underground History of American Education (link above), read Mark Ames' Going Postal Rage Murder and Rebellion, find a copy of The Screwing of the Average Man (1973 or 1974, iirc), read Kenneth Cole's The Misdirection Conspiracy (early 1980's, I think), etc. Everything fits together nicely into a grand plot against ourselves - I know you didn't join the Army to wage war on yourself, but it's kinda funny how things work out, huh?
Pretty amazing what a little concerted inter-generational organization can accomplish. They can't keep their conspiracy secret, but they can use their bull-horn to drown out everyone who's on to their plot ("they" own the mass-media through four or five media conglomerates, of course).
Cialdini's Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion might be what you're looking for.
My 30mpg '93 Ford Escort kicked the bucket a few weeks back, and I started looking for a replacement. I felt fortunate to find a 1994 Honda Civic VX. It had 133,000 miles, and was being sold by a lady who didn't want the standard transmission anymore due to degeneration of her knees. Just got back yesterday from a 4000 mile road trip, and if I exclude the sub-40mpg tanks that resulted from a bad sensor ("Lean Air Fuel", iirc, replaced before the return trip), we averaged 50mpg.
The Civic VX has Honda's economy engine, the VTEC-E. Whereas most engines are optimized for perfomance, this one is optimized for fuel economy. It's kind of gutless on normal driving, but has decent acceleration in 2nd and 3rd gear above 4000rpm - better than my escort, certainly.
If my 13-year old civic can get 52+mpg (best tank was 57mpg for 417 miles, before the sensor went bad), why does the fuel economy of all new cars suck? The only new cars rated at 50mpg or higher are fat hybrids (read that the new civic gained 500 pounds). Auto manufacturers could build a non-hybrid car with a 40 or 48 volt electrical system, and a starter/generator to stop the engine whenever it idles, and electric power brakes and Air Conditioning (essential in certain markets). After 13+ years of drivetrain development, the new Honda Fit should get at least 70mpg. Maybe someone can explain to me why it's only rated for 38 on the highway - what I got when my car was missing due to the bad sensor.
No, Hybrids and Ethanol and Hydrogen and Peak Oil and CO2-caused Global Warming are just meant to distract 'teh masses' ('us') from the fact that we're getting screwed by the 1% who own 70% or 90% of all wealth. Their auto companies only buld us cars that get crappy gas mileage, and now that we're all mostly dependant on the "everyone has their own car" philosophy of transportation, they jack the price of gasoline to squeeze the last little bit of wealth from the common peoples' wallets.
Hopefully someone will figure out cold fusion soon, and make the energy establishment ('big oil') obsolete.
I believe in my fellow man, in the intrinsic goodness of average folks. I just recognize that a small group of people have organized to take advantage of the naivety 'the rules of the game' induces in the general population ('us'), where the game is the whole earth/life system.
... I have no need to say anything else. g'day. :)
that is an original weakness on your part.
Humans have no original weaknesses. Our original attribute is pure, unadulturated power, which gets covered up by the societies we find ourselves in. The present society is especially good at creating weakness in the mass humanity. See Ingo Swann's Secrets of Power, Vol. 1 and 2.
I'm familiar with your troll from K5, so
a community that doesn't take care of itself is more difficult to quantify
Communities generally take care of themselves, that is, until members of the community get tricked into thinking someone else is going to do the work for them. And 'The Government' never does as good a job as the community itself, even though government workers are generally a part of the community they 'serve'. Something about taking pride in a job well done vs. doing a half-assed job because they're a wage-slave working for teh government.
The Medical-Industrial complex is not about taking care of the community. The primary concern is profit, patients be damned. The little people in the system do their best to take care of the patients/customers, but the profiteers at the top don't give a damn. The pharmaceutical holy grail is a pill that costs next to nothing and retails for $xxx (patent protection), manages the patient's symptoms well but doesn't fix the of the actual problem - anatacids or statins, for example.
we'd never have extended the average life span by 20 years + and made the advancements in medicine we have.
Improvements in sanitation are responsible for most of that 20 year increase in average lifespan. I hope you thank your municipal sewage plant operators for your quality of life every day, and the garbage man for keeping rodents from ruling the streets.
Life is precious and until someone proves otherwise, we only get one shot at it.
If reincarnation is a fact, it is so regardless of whether someone has 'proved' to be the case.
I have a copy of Ian Stevenson, M.D.'s Twenty Cases Suggestive of Reincarnation: Second Edition, Revised and Enlarged. From the jacket:
I actually haven't read this particular book yet - I picked it up because Stevenson's work was referenced in another book of mine on Reincarnation, and at $3, the price was right.
The continuity of existence pre- and post- physical life is something you can 'prove' to your own satisfaction. See Robert Monroe's three books, for example (especially Far Journeys).
I valued my grandmother and great grandmother all the way up till the end and would have paid any costs asked of me to keep them alive longer.
The powers that be encourage the 'this is the only life we get' meme because it makes the populace easy to whip up into a homicidal rage. GWB: "Boo! Saddam is trying to kill us! We're gonna go kill him & a bunch of brown people first, before they get the chance!" Military enlistments go up, and it's only years later that 'teh masses' figure out that 'we' were tricked.
There aren't many historical examples of Buddhists or Hindus going out and waging aggressive wars of conquest. Reincarnation has been stripped from Christianity, Islam and Judaism, and look which groups are busy killing each other. I wonder who would sign up to go kill 'towel heads' if they knew the karmic burden they'd be incurring...
The market for chips is analogous. After years of expansion, the world has the capacity for all the chips it can possibly use. Instead of pulling back, Intel and AMD have been pouring money into more new fabs, thusly producing even more chips that aren't needed.
From Bill Fleckenstein' Inventory glut spells doom for techs:
While Intel is the stronger of the two, both will get slaughtered in the coming economic realignment (aka recession/depression). Seen big-picture, the rich can't get richer forever, and eventually 'teh masses' will figure out that we're getting screwed by 'the system' (perpetually broken government schools, taxes, corporate welfare, military-industrial complex, medical-industrial complex, perpetual war against phantom enemies, etc), and rise up to take back what's rightfully ours.
It was a bit harder to find the rabbit recommendation, as cayce didn't actually say anything about the "the raw side of a freshly skinned rabbit". But here are a few quotes from readings I did find:In this case, the rabbit skin was used like a bandage, it seems. You have other options today, 80 years after this reading was given.Again, the rabbit fur seems to be used as a bandage, after the massaging of the Iodex preparation. The rabbit fur is not the treatment itself. YHBT again.
(like searching to find the single document that included all of my references about Cayce's head being up his ass)
Googling "bedbug juice" for heart failure turns up three documents.
HAND.
My last post was a little rush, so I need to clarify a few things:
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1. YHBT, not by myself, but by the Establishment. Military-Industrial, Medical-Industrial, etc. The goal of these establishments is to concentrate power (economic and otherwise) for themselves, and depower 'teh masses'.
2. I have one account on Slashdot. I'm not a big fan of the nick I chose, all those years ago, but I do like my UID. I don't need to mod up my own posts - sometimes moderators find value in what I've said, and sometimes they don't. My post in the previous thread got a -1, troll - if I had modpoints from other accounts, I'd be sure to rectify that.
3. Randi is a magician first. That means his modus operandi is deception. The slashdot story was on virtual worlds and ESP...
Well, got to go again.. I've just a few more hours to spend with my girlfriend tonight - perhaps I will write more later.
I suppose you also believe that arab terrorists led by a former CIA asset hiding in a cave in afghanistan disabled the entire United States Defense Establishment (most of whom take their job _very_ seriously), and that those two airplanes were all it took to take down all three skyscrapers (the fire in WTC7 was, of course, caused by debree from WTC1 & 2, and a little bit of diesel is all it took to implode a steel building fire-rated to 1700+ degrees).
:)
/. about Randi by people who've met the man. They say he's a fraud. :)
YHBT, you just haven't realized it yet. Hope the awakening isn't too rough.
p.s. There are threads on
The important thing about Cayce was that he was right more often than not. One or two of his sons wrote a book titled The Outer Limits of Edgar Cayce's Power, in which they covered all the things he said that were wrong/inaccurate/etc.
I've read good things about the brandy keg thing; not familiar with the "bedbug juice" or rabbit skin suggestions. I recently got the cd w/ the readings on it, so I will look sometime and see if there is any truth to this, and if so, the context provided (I'm currently away from the computer where they're installed). If the U.S. Feral Government developed a "death ray" thingy at one of their secret bases (e.g. Area 51), or in a project funded by one of the black budgets, do you think they would tell anyone? I think they'd keep it "on reserve" in case it was ever required. It's also possible that the principles behind such a device were re-discovered in that year, but the implications of the discovery were not realized for all potential applications.
This seems to be the source of your rejection of the Cayce material. I'm not impressed. If you want to trust half-wits and dipshits to think & make important decisions for you, that's fine with me. Be sure to take plenty of Nexium for teh Ulcer, and when you get teh stomach tumor (grandpa chomped down Prilosec® like it was candy), be sure to tell your doctor you want the stongest course of chemo available. Evolution at work, mmm hmm.
I have good cause to distrust pharmaceutical medicine - it's done nothing for me but cover up the health problems I had. The turning point for me was when I decided to do my own research, and eventually finding the Edgar Cayce material. I'm not personally familiar with ulcers, so here's something you might find helpful:
It's obvious to me why the site went down: it was a drain on his finances, and he came out & told people directly that plain Baking Soda was an acceptable alternative to the product he was selling. Furthermore, the base powders were only one of thirteen recommendations, and he couldn't sell any supplies for implementation of the other treatment suggestions.
I like the quote - thanks for bringing it up. Where is it from? I put it in my quote file, and right now it's attributed to the URL for your comment... :)
My point was that the presence of the bacterium is not the cause of ulcers, but simply an effect, a symptom indicative of some deeper problem. "The fact that treatment now is becoming more and more ineffective" simply indicates that the treatment does not address the cause.
From the fine article: The alarming statistic that nearly 60 per cent of patients remain hypertensive, even though they are taking drugs to alleviate the condition, emphasises the urgency of looking for new mechanisms by which the body controls blood pressure, and finding new therapeutic targets to drive fresh drug development. (emphasis added)
While the connection between this protein and hypertension might be interesting, it is mostly irrelevant to successful treatment of the condition. Teach a person with high blood pressure how to fully relax their body, take care of the acid/base imbalance, perhaps address other nutritional deficiencies [Omega 3 intake?] and functional problems, and the need for constant dosages of antihypertensive drugs of any sort will usually go away. But such an approach can't be patented and sold in a bottle, so society's health is compromised to protect the profits of our medical-industrial complex.
Achieving good health is simple; the medical system we have today makes staying/becoming vibrantly healthy difficult, because it can't see the forest for the trees.
Your link says that nothing substantial changed, as the new conventional treatment doesn't work just like the old conventional treatment didn't work:
Some people will benefit from any treatment, of course, due to the placebo effect, and sporadic success of treating ulcers with antibiotics is not indicative of accuracy of the theory ('ulcers are caused by bacteria').
Incidentally, your link reminds me of a different overview for health I ran across some years back. Information doesn't sell nearly as well as pharmaceuticals, and the site disappeared sometime last year. Archive.org fortunately still has a copy: Stomach Ulcers to Indigestion from Too Little Acid in the Stomach. If I may be so bold as to summarize this website, it says that stomach ulcers result from an excess of metabolic acids in the body-system; the presence of large colonies of said bacterium are simply indicative of an extreme pH imbalance. The body generates acids as a normal part of the metabolic processes. Modern diets are deficient in the alkaline minerals necessary to neutralize these acids, and most don't get the exercise necessary to 'burn off' the acids either, hence the explosion of chronic disease of all sorts.
There was also a page on heart disease. Too bad you can't bottle this information up & sell it to people for $100/month... I have family members on high blood pressure medication, and they don't work very well. Their treatments would be so much more effective if they addressed the causes (chronic stress is the other big one), rather than just a symptom.
The goal of terrorism is to instill terror. They've failed on my part, but it looks like they're doing a pretty good job with the masses.
The goal of Imperialists is to instill terror, because it makes 'the masses' (aka 'us') easy to control. We fight back by exposing the bastards for what they are. Imagine gwb spending the rest of his life in a glass prison at the zoo, with a little plaque: "Homo sapien, George W. Bush. Presidency stolen on his behalf in 2000 and 2004. Convicted of War Crimes and Crimes Against Humanity, 2010."
But maybe you're not one of us. Do you work for a living? Or, are you friends with the Bush crime family? The Rockefellers? etc, etc...
good catch - I usually find the typos, either before or after 'Submit', but I didn't notice that one myself.
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Thanks for pointing it out.
Read somewhere recently that the pilgrims were used by the British Monarchy to establish a beachhead in the new world:
1. Send some malcontents to colonize the 'new world'.
2. Exterminate the 'savages' who already live there.
3. Follow the first settlers with bureaucrats and more settlers.
4. Profit!!!
(there's no need for a '???' step, because this is what actually happened.)
The profit was interrupted by that pesky rebellion that started in 1776... Independence was never an overly popular proposition, and even though the colonists technically 'won' (due to assistance received from the French), certain elements of the country immediately began to plot the United States' return to the empire (specifically, bankers especially liked the way things were). Fast forward 200 years, and the United States of Amerika and Britain are lock-step once again.
Evidence: Bill Clinton was a Rhodes Scholar. Cecil Rhodes had established his scholarship for the express purpose of returning America to the Empire. Bill Clinton pushed NAFTA (negotiated by his predecessor, Skull & Boner George H.W. Bush) through the congress, which was a decidedly out of character for a President who was supposedly a 'Demoncrat', the traditional party of Organized Labor. NAFTA and other agreements for unrestricted trade have been a steak through the heart of the unions. Listen to Chomsky's Class War talk (I found a torrent with a little searching some months back), for example.
Also see Coleman's The Misdirection Conspiracy, for example.
Oh, but this is a conspiracy, and conspiracies don't happen all the time because they're un-possible. Drats. What's interesting about the collapse of the Bush Dynasty is how individuals in the media are beginning to realize that they've been used like tools, and aren't playing along anymore. McCain's recent trip to Baghdad, for example...