The Mayan calendar doesn't "end" in 2012, it starts over again. In Mayan cosmology, everything moves in cycles. 2012 is both the end and beginning of an era. Look into the Hopi worldview too - we're said to be in the "Fourth World", and the prophesies indicating the end of that world have mostly come to pass already. "Thunder sticks" (white man's firearms), cattle (different than the buffalo), etc... The Hopis describe a "Fifth World" to follow.
The years to come won't be easy, certainly, but it is still an exciting time to be alive.
You might find Michael Mandeville's work interesting. Also investigate John La Tourrette's Nightengale Connant course - Silva Ultramind RV/RI.
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Send an email if you'd like more suggestions. I don't check that account all too often, but I do keep it active.
It's a multifaceted problem, and no solution is readily available.
The way I see it, the problem is by design. It's well known that there's been a lot of "media consolidation" over the past few decades, so that the major outlets are controlled in the hands of a few corporations (e.g. Clearchannel).
John Taylor Gatto tells us in his books & presentations that the government's schools were set up to provide workers for industry. Before government schools, the American dream was an independant livelihood. After government schools, the expectation shifted to finding employment with a good company with good benefits.
The problem is that the same group of people are behind both efforts. Is it really so odd to propose that a small, dedicated group of families has been steadily concentrating wealth in their own pockets for centuries?
Furthermore, why is it that the same group of rotten scoundrels install themselves in government? George H. W. Bush was in the CIA at least as far back as the 60's. Head of the CIA, Vice President for 8 years, president for another 4.
Donald Rumsfeld was in the Nixon, Ford & Reagan administrations, according to Wikipedia. He even got his picture taken with Saddam Hussein back in 1983. Now he's secretary of defense. Dick Cheney was Secretary of Defense under Papa Bush, and before that he got himself elected as representative from Wyoming.
I'm sure there are more examples. The problem, as I see it, is that the same rotten bastards keep getting recycled through the political system. Watch for the keywords: Project for the New American Century, Bilderburg Group, Trilateral Commission, Council on Foreign Relations, etc... And that's not even mentioning the more secretive enclaves. See The Controllers: Secret Rulers of the World for a timeline of the consolidation of power over the last 100+ years.
What's more, anytime this sort of observation comes up, the masses have been conditioned to just snicker and dismiss the messenger as a "conspiracy theorist". But how do said masses know that there is no conspiracy? They don't "know", but social conditioning has implanted a nearly impervious belief.
Expose the so-called "illuminati" and their plots, and the problem will begin to go away.
Osteopathic Manipulation is my magic bullet. Nothing else worked for me.
Osteopathy is putting the body's structures back where they're supposed to be. Lets see... This post wasn't too long ago, I know I've mentioned osteopathic medicine a couple times in the last year (buy a subscription?).
the "commonly accepted" mad cow theory states that BSE is transmissable, and the vector of transmission is feeding meat to ruminant (vegetarian) animals.
An "alternate" theory (alternate because only non-mainstream types consider it) is that BSE/et al are environmental diseases. The brits made their own cows mad, by requiring all cows be dosed with Phosmet, an organophosphate pesticide. This pesticide chellated copper ions out of the cow, leading to big problems in the british cow fleet.
The pasture land in Western Canada is copper-deficient, making their cows susceptible to BSE.
British organic beef farmer Mark Purdey figured this out, because he fought to keep the pesticide OFF of his cows.
"jury nullification" is for when the jury thinks the person on trial is getting a raw deal. The system's been rigged so that the judge won't instruct the jury members of their right to acquit even if they think the accused technically broke the law.
Common Law only has two parts that've been discovered thus far:
Do all you have agreed to do (contract law)
Do not encroach on other people or their property (golden rule)
Civil law is when someone says "there oughta be a law". Legislators make shit up, try to pass it off as Law. Think of the damage done by drug laws. Yah, drugs are bad, but drug prohibition is worse.
No harm, no foul, no conviction.
[The American Jury Institute's] mission is to inform all Americans about their rights, powers, and responsibilities when serving as trial jurors. Jurors must know that they have the option and the responsibility to render a verdict based on their conscience and on their sense of justice as well as on the merits of the law.
And of course, you don't want them to get too far ahead in any one area, since a kid who's terribly advanced in math, but behind in social skills, will have a rough time in school.
Funny... Yesterday someone had the T.V. tuned to CNN, and I heard about an upcoming report on "unschooling". I thought it was neat that unschooling made it through the corporate censors to appear on CNN... (the link is very on-topic, as in the piece several of the kids talked about using technology to educate themselves)
Anyways, based on my non-scientific interviews, all children have a rough time in school. Children hate school because school doesn't teach the way children learn best. Children learn best on their own schedule, persuing their own desires. Government school forces children to learn on the teacher's schedule, about things they don't care about at the time the teacher's trying to teach it.
So, children hate school, and teachers get depressed that their enthusiasm isn't shared by most of their charges/inmates. The local paper keeps talking about how there's a problem keeping teachers beyond a couple years, not understanding the problem: school is a "psycopathic institution", as John Gatto says...
Exposing children to technology is no different than any other educational endeavor. If the kids are interested, they'll teach themselves what they need to know. If you force the lesson, they'll learn it poorly.
a snippet from the CNN piece:
GUTIERREZ: Alex told me he did go to preschool once. It didn't go well.
ALEX KANSTUL, 5 YEARS OLD: School is terrible. They tell you raise your hands and it's actually a really, really terrible place.
GUTIERREZ: Do you learn more at home, do you think?
KANSTUL: Yes, yes, yes, I learn a lot, lot more.
GUTIERREZ: What's your favorite thing to do during the day?
KANSTUL: Go shopping on the computer.
GUTIERREZ: Alex is only 5, but check out his computer skills.
KANSTUL: You go into Internet Explorer, also know as Google....
A competent hypnotist I know says 'addictive' things are the ones where you die if it's taken away, or at least get some serious withdrawal symptoms. If there's no physical dependancy, it's not a "real" addiction.
You might get a few jitters if you quit your internet habit cold-turkey, but you'll be okay. "Addiction Medicine" specialists deal with people who've developed chemical dependancies. Good hypnotists help deal with the psychological aspects of an addiction, but they need to work with a doctor-type to keep an addict's withdrawal symptoms under control.
No, what you & I share is an internet compulsion. I was doing pretty well getting mine under control, with the help of a capable cranial osteopath (one who utilizes the 'biodynamic' contribution. Biodynamic Cranio-Sacral Therapists also seem to be good, but my experience is that the Osteopathic vision prescription is important too, and therapists can't do that).
Then I went to a giant used booksale this weekend, and strained my poor shoulders carrying 50+ lbs of books back to the car (in the free parking, 3/4 mile away. Yah, 50lbs isn't a whole lot, but I gave up the wheel and rubber band training when they didn't do jack for my typing problem. Ended up going to the Osteopath for that, and am finding that my compulsive behaviors are going away too. Sweet!).
My upper spine is now totally jacked (strains in the muscle & facial tissue pulling the vertebrae out of place), and I went straight for the internet vices I thought I'd kicked (2 weeks without internet porn). Oh well... I've tasted freedom, and I LIKE IT. Guess I ought to move up my next appointment.
I was done with this post, but since it is Valentine's day... One of the things my doctor said after 8 or 12 sessions was that my head was finally working right, and that I'd be making all sorts of snappy comebacks to people (I took a knock to the chin 7+ years ago; slight bleeding on the brain, don't remember 2 weeks, misshapen head [my experience is that cranial bones don't fuse, and are slightly mobile], years later followed with an RSI, TMJ, etc.). True enough, later that week I shot back at my mom, insteading of taking it on the chin like I had before.
While I'm currently single (had a girl friend once, last few months of high school, years ago), part of my problem talking with the ladies has been that I'd always been tongue tied in their presence. But now that's going away too, and I know it's the Osteopathic treatments. You can study all the seduction technique in the world, but you still won't get laid if you freeze up around the opposite sex.
(note to moderators: some of you don't believe in what's been slanderously labeled as "alternative medicine", and will waste your modpoints knocking this down. This post is not "ra-ra" cheerleading for hokey 'therapies', but simply sharing my experience with health technologies that are working for me. Hence the italics. It's more than a placebo effect, because the first 3-5 placebos didn't do anything. If you don't agree for whatever reason, please share your experience in a post. Thanks.)
I started seeing a gifted Osteopath (a profession whose competitors tried to eradicate, but were successful in lobbying for parity with Medical Doctors) last year, and I happily pay the $175/visit out of pocket. He doesn't take insurance because it's not worth his time to file. He'd need to hire another person to chase after the insurance company, and why bother if he can just give his clients a receipt and let them deal with the headache?
His practice is full regardless. Recently he said that he's thinking about not taking any new patients, until he fixes the ones he's got.
everyone knows that pumping kids full of environmental toxins is what causes autism. The big one used to be Mercury in Vaccines, but new environmental pollutants have something to do with the outbreak too.
Amish kids don't get Autism. They don't get vaccines either.
Do vaccines really eliminate diseases?
According to the World Health Statistics Annual 1973-1976, Volume 2, there has been a steady decline in infectious diseases in most developing countries regardless of the percentage of vaccines administered. Researchers point out that infectious diseases disappeared as the result of sanitation, improved public water supplies, improved personal hygiene and better consumption of fresh fruits and vegetables. From 1850 to 1940, diseases had declined by 90% and were at an all time low when vaccines were first introduced. (Most vaccines were introduced in the 1950's). (emphasis added. source)
But it's silly to question "science" on slashdot - just about the same as walking into a fundamentalist church & telling them their Xian religion is all about control, and NOT about what the founder actually taught.
and MOST IMPORTANT OF ALL on the PRICE - AMD is slowly giving up the most important weapon they had against Intel and without some cuts on price for the X2 line AMD might seriously loose market share to Intel in 2006 !!!
Real world experience with marketing demonstrates that there are much more important things than 'price' in selecting a product. Wally World puts their cheapest "microwave" in the main trafficways. Mesmerized Customer says, "hey, good idea, I could use a new 'microwave', and damn, this thing's dirt cheap. But it's probably a POS, so I wonder what else they have..." Then they go into the isle and pick out a more expensive microwave, which has a significantly higher profit margin for WW, which is probably cheaper elsewhere (source: Frontline documentary on WalMart).
If price is all you push, your company will end up like General Motors ("We just lowered the sticker price on EVERYTHING!"), mismanagedinto the ground, and have to give away your product at a loss...
gonna disagree with you there. Bacteria are our allies, not our enemies. All of us have billions of bacteria living in our digestive track. Antibiotics kill off the 'good' bacteria - the ones that help us digest our food, synthesize vitamins, etc - allowing 'bad' bacteria to take over.
So eating dirt might be a good idea - gotta populate those intestines & train your immune system somehow, unless you're planning on living in a bubble...
EVERYONE has had less than positive experiences in their life.
What's important is the lesson that we learn from those experiences. Sometimes the lesson contributes to our own personal growth, and sometimes the lesson inhibits it.
BUT - every less-than-positive experience has some positive learning associated with it.
Maybe you have a fear of heights, that was installed when your mother pulled you away from the edge of the deck when you were 2 years old. Positive learning: Mom cared about her baby, and was concerned that you might injure yourself. Heights in and of themself aren't 'bad', but you as a 2 year old were unaware of the potential hazard, and Mom needed to protect you.
This is basic Hypnosis / NLP Timeline work.
I used to work with a lady who was always pissed off. I told her I knew some hypnotic techniques that were good for anger. Several months later she calls me up... "Remember how you offered to help? Well, I'm worse now, is the offer still open?"
She had a good idea where her problems came from - self-described "military brat" who moved a lot growing up... Got pregnant when she was 14, divorced from the father of her 2 other kids, financially unstable, maybe some sexual abuse, etc. But having a good idea what created her problem didn't help. I guided her into a trance state and led her through some "timeline" work, taking her back to some of the less than positive experiences in her past.
Everyone has had times that weren't so great, it's the lessons we take away that count. With the benefit of hindsight, even the worst of experiences have some positive lesson that can benefit you.
So - I directed the co-worker to a less than positive experience in her past. Find the positive lesson, go back to the start of the event, re-live the event with that lesson in mind, and experience how everything changes from that point in your past all the way down through your personal timeline to the present...
I'm just an amateur, so "D" is still kind of angry. But after going through 3 or 4 or 5 separate less-than-positive events (I didn't ask what they were, but I do know that she was surprised at what came up) the all-consuming rage is gone.
It's stupid to expect a drug to fix every problem we might have, because it concentrates power in distant pharmaceutical companies, when local professionals (Hypnotists/NLP Practioners/etc) are better able to help us with our problems.
Scientists in the persuasion of Materialism believe that the universe is fundamentally composed of matter.
Vitalists maintain that the physical universe is just a very tiny subset of "all that is". Conciousness is primary, the physical universe is the playground that we all are currently occupying.
Matrix terminology: Conciousness is "the real world", whereas the physical universe is "the matrix". The movie was based on buddhist philosophy, so it is an apt analogy.
See Ingo Swann's Psychic Sexuality for more on the age-old Materialism vs. Vitalism debate, from a decidedly pro-vitalist perspective. (Sexuality being, of course, where most of us encounter vitalism-related phenomena).
I welcome it because there is little justice in the world today. Some of us in the "western" world have comfy lives, but each of us lives on the backs of a thousand people in poverty. And even amoung us, wealth is becoming increasingly concentrated into the hands of the few, who use their newfound wealth to find new ways to concentrate an even greater percentage in their own pockets.
The American revolution only worked because there was new land, unclaimed by any existing [european] nation. Disregarding the fact that tens or hundreds of thousands of native peoples were displaced, anyone could come to America and make it on their own labor, and be free from paying "tribute" to any self-proclaimed "king". As the years went by the dream became more and more perverted, until you get to the present, where power is concentrated in the hands of a few politically connected families (e.g., the Bush family, 1 ex-pres, 1 current pres, 2 current govenors) and distant "international" organizations (U.N.).
A shift is a chance to wipe the map clean, and start fresh again.
Besides, I'd much prefer to die suddenly in an earthquake than slowly due to starvation.
'Evolution' moves in fits & starts - short periods of rapid change, followed by long periods of relative stability.
What we've seen over the last 10,000 years is relative stability. A little over 100 years ago things started to change quicker, culminating in a crisis-level change.
As the oceans expand and the sea level rises, people will simply move further up the shore. When islands disappear, people will be unhappy but they quickly build new lives in new countries.
This assumes slow, gradual change. Which I sincerely doubt is going to be the case. Volcanic/earthquake activity has picked up in recent years. The Indian Ocean earthquake a year ago (which caused the giant tsunami) shifted the crust of the earth by 50 feet. A volcano in Alaska has been going off for the first time in 20 years. Mount Fuji in Japan doesn't have any snow on it right now, possibly portending an upcoming eruption. Mt. St. Helens in Washington started erupting again in the last year or two... etc, etc.
I'd wager that the fabled 'big one' will hit California's San Andreas fault sometime in the next few years, preceded and followed by massive earthquakes all over the world.
What's interesting is that any number of prophets all say the same basic thing. St. John the Divine (book of Revelation), Nostradamus, Edgar Cayce, Hopi tradition, Mayan tradition, etc... A couple short years of chaos, and then the emergence of a real peace.
A good example is with potatoes -- there are about 200 different varieties of potato, but my understanding is that only four or five of them are seriously grown on a large scale in the US.
Heirloom vegetables are still grown on a small scale just about everywhere. Plants are prolific seed producers, so it'd only take a season or two to get enough seeds for everyone.
The author of this book has traveled around the world, doing research on "seed savers", generations of people who farm, save and share their own seeds.
Also see The Meat You Eat by Ken Midkiff, for how Agribusiness makes us all unhealthy.
I found both books at my public library. Well, I wasn't looking for those particular titles at the time, so I guess they actually found me.
Organic seed companies are a good source for heirloom varieties. Seeds of Change, for example.
technically, you're supposed to get a new picture every 10 or 12 years.
I know the date on the card says it's good until you're 65, but I guess they'll send you a letter telling you to report at 12 years from the date of your last photograph.
And even in this kind of hybrid regenerative braking can result in a net loss of fuel economy if you are primarily driving it at constant speed on the highway, because you don't do much braking in the first place.
Now, I'm not overly familiar with the Prius' electric motor system, but I do know that AC-electric drive motors have regeneration built in by nature of their design. While a DC electric car has to have a separate generator to recharge their batteries, AC cars such as the EV1, ACPropulsion's system, and Siemen's systems (as sold by Metric Mind) all have regen without any extra hardware.
I heard from someone who had an EV1 at an EV club meeting. They took it on a 200+ mile round trip. Going uphill they had to stop & charge at ~60miles, but coming home they got a free ride down the hill...
When I click on the parent's comment number, it says "I propose that the reason he's so good is because he's done it [colon close-parenthesis]". When I look at the page source, it has the word 'before' before the happy face. When I hit 'reply' to that comment 'before' shows up like it should. Hmm... Wonder how it shows up in Firefox (my usual browser; I'm visiting family and they have IE 6.0.2900 w/ XP SP2, and the last time I installed Firefox on this particular computer I got blamed for Windows ME subsequently crapping out).
Just in case anyone doesn't look at/.'s source pages, that line's supposed to read:
"I propose that the reason he's so good is because he's done it before."
It's not my job to convince you that there's something here worth looking into, so I'm not inclined to do a point-by-point response. But there are a couple of things I'd like to say.
child proteges - You seem to be suggesting that prodigies are born with memories/experiences of a past life, but that leaves a lot of questions. Why so few, why aren't we all like this?
Most of us are still learning the ropes. If I've only spent a couple of lifetimes focused on Music, I'm probably not going to be as good as someone who's spent dozens on the same persuit.
Why do almost all of them focus on math or music? And most importantly, there are perfectly natural explanations for prodigies, so why go with "past lives" when you can go with "learns numbers fast"?
Talent in a particular area builds over lifetimes. Some people are really good at sports, some at math, some at music, some at a given science, etc. I had a roommate in college who was a natural with anything chemistry-related. I propose that the reason he's so good is because he's done it before.:) Gina Cerminara's Many Mansions is a good book convering reincarnation.
They know because the experience is undeniable
I won't deny that their experiences had profound effects, but I will question whether they are real experiences.
The neat thing is that it's easy to have the experience for yourself, and make your own determination.
So - if you're interested, you can get the Monroe Institute's Gateway Experience home study program ("Wave I" would suffice. Any of the other OBE-training procedures would probably be good too, Monroe's just happens to be one of the best.), put your predjudice on a shelf behind you, have the experience, then decide for yourself if it's worth continuing.
(In the interest of continuing my full disclosure: The experience is easy to have for 95+% of the population. The other <5% are capable of having the experience too, they just have some extra homework to find out what exactly's standing in their way. I'm one of the <5%. When I was first getting started, all I wanted to do was be able to remember my dreams when I woke in the morning, and to see pictures when I closed my eyes. Over the years, I found that I couldn't dream because I couldn't relax. Being able to relax the physical body is important for any type of "meta"-physical work. I couldn't do it, and it took me a long time to figure out why. During that period of searching, I became convinced that there's something worth investigating in this general classification of experience. I've almost finished fixing my relaxation-blockage [see my posts in this thread for more on my personal experience, from a different lauch point], and will be personally evaluating the field soon.)
If a majority of the population knew that death of the physical body is not the end (just as we exist prior to birth in our present physical bodies), they wouldn't be so easy to manipulate.
If we knew that, you might be right, but we don't really know that. Some might believe that, others don't, but there's no proof of a soul (and no real evidence, for that matter).
If you believe that this "soul" business is a bunch of crap, and the world is fundamentally mechanical in nature, it takes extraordinary evidence to convince you. If, on the other hand, you're open to the possibility of higher planes of existence, the evidence is sufficient.
I'm not inclined to get into it right now, but off the top of my head - child proteges (12 year old mozarts), children who remember past lives (fairly common), the ubiquity of Near Death experiences (even among non-believers), etc...
Robert Monroe said that everyone who goes through his gateway program comes to know (beyond a simple belief) that they've lived before, and will continue to exist after they finish their present lifetime. They know because the experience is undeniable. (I haven't had such a confirmatory experience yet, so what I've expressed here is just a belief, though I have had other experiences which are hard to explain any other way).
Sooner or later people's lives do have a monetary value.
The sad truth is usually the other way round : people die because we lack money and can't afford helping everyone.
Sad truth? People die because dying is a part of living. Less primitive cultures accept this as a fact, and deal with it appropriately. Australian aboriginals are said to throw a party when a member of the tribe passes on. Old-time Native Americans (pre-European Invasion, mostly) are said to have left the tribe for the wilderness when they reached the point where they couldn't pull their own weight. I forget what it's called - some kind of walk? - but they leave the tribe and enter the spirit world directly.
But mainstream Christianity, Judaism and Islam were stripped of the doctrine of reincarnation, and today western countries' populations are conditioned to be fearful of death. People who believe they only live once are easy to control - "terrorist might KILL YOU, so we need your rights to protect your security." If a majority of the population knew that death of the physical body is not the end (just as we exist prior to birth in our present physical bodies), they wouldn't be so easy to manipulate.
But hey, this is slashdot, and we (er, most of us) believe that "matter is the most fundamental unit of existence". Nevermind that every particle is composed of smaller particles, particles all the way down. Scientists just haven't found the smallest one yet.
(Assigned reading: Robert Monroe's Journeys Out of the Body and Far Journeys. Ultimate Journey is optional)
I think it was Richard Maybury'sWhatever Happened to Justice where I first read about the "bandit theory of government". It goes something like this: in the beginning, people got together to work to provide for a living. But some people didn't want to work. So they set up a camp, and periodically raided the surrounding villages. Eventually they decided that banditry was too much work, so one time they moved in, and never left. "I am your King, these are my royal officers, it is your privledge to pay us tribute." Then tribute became "tax", and the government began to provide services to justify collection of said tax.
According to Mr. Maybury, there are three politcal systems: Liberty, Tyranny, and Chaos. Liberty is what America is about; bandits have successfully re-taken the American government over the last 100+ years, leading to the problems facing the country today. Government schools were instituted to "dumb down" the population, and strip them of the possibility of an independant livelihood. (Reference: writings & speeches of John Taylor Gatto, specifically On The Scientific Management of Children: A Short Angry History ).
Government is the problem. Many people advocate that the bandits set up false terrorist attacks, to solidify their power. Some of these people are certainly kooks, but following the general principle of 'where there's smoke, there's fire', there has to be something to the claims of a grand conspiracy.
Richard Maybury predicted the current World War III 10 years ago. He's certainly worth investigating...
Then again I also fractured both elbows a few years ago.
This falls under the "trauma" category, and is likely still with you. Find a new doctor. See this post for help in picking a new one. Go to the "Cranial Academy", or craniosacraltherapy.org (for practitioners of manipulation who haven't been through med school). Then you won't have to waste time & years with braces which will only cover up the real problem.
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The Mayan calendar doesn't "end" in 2012, it starts over again. In Mayan cosmology, everything moves in cycles. 2012 is both the end and beginning of an era. Look into the Hopi worldview too - we're said to be in the "Fourth World", and the prophesies indicating the end of that world have mostly come to pass already. "Thunder sticks" (white man's firearms), cattle (different than the buffalo), etc... The Hopis describe a "Fifth World" to follow.
The years to come won't be easy, certainly, but it is still an exciting time to be alive.
You might find Michael Mandeville's work interesting. Also investigate John La Tourrette's Nightengale Connant course - Silva Ultramind RV/RI.
Send an email if you'd like more suggestions. I don't check that account all too often, but I do keep it active.
It's a multifaceted problem, and no solution is readily available.
The way I see it, the problem is by design. It's well known that there's been a lot of "media consolidation" over the past few decades, so that the major outlets are controlled in the hands of a few corporations (e.g. Clearchannel).
John Taylor Gatto tells us in his books & presentations that the government's schools were set up to provide workers for industry. Before government schools, the American dream was an independant livelihood. After government schools, the expectation shifted to finding employment with a good company with good benefits.
The problem is that the same group of people are behind both efforts. Is it really so odd to propose that a small, dedicated group of families has been steadily concentrating wealth in their own pockets for centuries?
Furthermore, why is it that the same group of rotten scoundrels install themselves in government? George H. W. Bush was in the CIA at least as far back as the 60's. Head of the CIA, Vice President for 8 years, president for another 4.
Donald Rumsfeld was in the Nixon, Ford & Reagan administrations, according to Wikipedia. He even got his picture taken with Saddam Hussein back in 1983. Now he's secretary of defense. Dick Cheney was Secretary of Defense under Papa Bush, and before that he got himself elected as representative from Wyoming.
I'm sure there are more examples. The problem, as I see it, is that the same rotten bastards keep getting recycled through the political system. Watch for the keywords: Project for the New American Century, Bilderburg Group, Trilateral Commission, Council on Foreign Relations, etc... And that's not even mentioning the more secretive enclaves. See The Controllers: Secret Rulers of the World for a timeline of the consolidation of power over the last 100+ years.
What's more, anytime this sort of observation comes up, the masses have been conditioned to just snicker and dismiss the messenger as a "conspiracy theorist". But how do said masses know that there is no conspiracy? They don't "know", but social conditioning has implanted a nearly impervious belief.
Expose the so-called "illuminati" and their plots, and the problem will begin to go away.
Osteopathic Manipulation is my magic bullet. Nothing else worked for me.
Osteopathy is putting the body's structures back where they're supposed to be. Lets see... This post wasn't too long ago, I know I've mentioned osteopathic medicine a couple times in the last year (buy a subscription?).
It's bad because americans are now becoming wage-slaves to people on the other side of the world, rather than to their neighbors across town.
the "commonly accepted" mad cow theory states that BSE is transmissable, and the vector of transmission is feeding meat to ruminant (vegetarian) animals.
An "alternate" theory (alternate because only non-mainstream types consider it) is that BSE/et al are environmental diseases. The brits made their own cows mad, by requiring all cows be dosed with Phosmet, an organophosphate pesticide. This pesticide chellated copper ions out of the cow, leading to big problems in the british cow fleet.
The pasture land in Western Canada is copper-deficient, making their cows susceptible to BSE.
British organic beef farmer Mark Purdey figured this out, because he fought to keep the pesticide OFF of his cows.
Common Law only has two parts that've been discovered thus far:
Civil law is when someone says "there oughta be a law". Legislators make shit up, try to pass it off as Law. Think of the damage done by drug laws. Yah, drugs are bad, but drug prohibition is worse.
No harm, no foul, no conviction.
Funny... Yesterday someone had the T.V. tuned to CNN, and I heard about an upcoming report on "unschooling". I thought it was neat that unschooling made it through the corporate censors to appear on CNN... (the link is very on-topic, as in the piece several of the kids talked about using technology to educate themselves)
Anyways, based on my non-scientific interviews, all children have a rough time in school. Children hate school because school doesn't teach the way children learn best. Children learn best on their own schedule, persuing their own desires. Government school forces children to learn on the teacher's schedule, about things they don't care about at the time the teacher's trying to teach it.
So, children hate school, and teachers get depressed that their enthusiasm isn't shared by most of their charges/inmates. The local paper keeps talking about how there's a problem keeping teachers beyond a couple years, not understanding the problem: school is a "psycopathic institution", as John Gatto says...
Exposing children to technology is no different than any other educational endeavor. If the kids are interested, they'll teach themselves what they need to know. If you force the lesson, they'll learn it poorly.
a snippet from the CNN piece:
A competent hypnotist I know says 'addictive' things are the ones where you die if it's taken away, or at least get some serious withdrawal symptoms. If there's no physical dependancy, it's not a "real" addiction.
You might get a few jitters if you quit your internet habit cold-turkey, but you'll be okay. "Addiction Medicine" specialists deal with people who've developed chemical dependancies. Good hypnotists help deal with the psychological aspects of an addiction, but they need to work with a doctor-type to keep an addict's withdrawal symptoms under control.
No, what you & I share is an internet compulsion. I was doing pretty well getting mine under control, with the help of a capable cranial osteopath (one who utilizes the 'biodynamic' contribution. Biodynamic Cranio-Sacral Therapists also seem to be good, but my experience is that the Osteopathic vision prescription is important too, and therapists can't do that).
Then I went to a giant used booksale this weekend, and strained my poor shoulders carrying 50+ lbs of books back to the car (in the free parking, 3/4 mile away. Yah, 50lbs isn't a whole lot, but I gave up the wheel and rubber band training when they didn't do jack for my typing problem. Ended up going to the Osteopath for that, and am finding that my compulsive behaviors are going away too. Sweet!).
My upper spine is now totally jacked (strains in the muscle & facial tissue pulling the vertebrae out of place), and I went straight for the internet vices I thought I'd kicked (2 weeks without internet porn). Oh well... I've tasted freedom, and I LIKE IT. Guess I ought to move up my next appointment.
I was done with this post, but since it is Valentine's day... One of the things my doctor said after 8 or 12 sessions was that my head was finally working right, and that I'd be making all sorts of snappy comebacks to people (I took a knock to the chin 7+ years ago; slight bleeding on the brain, don't remember 2 weeks, misshapen head [my experience is that cranial bones don't fuse, and are slightly mobile], years later followed with an RSI, TMJ, etc.). True enough, later that week I shot back at my mom, insteading of taking it on the chin like I had before.
While I'm currently single (had a girl friend once, last few months of high school, years ago), part of my problem talking with the ladies has been that I'd always been tongue tied in their presence. But now that's going away too, and I know it's the Osteopathic treatments. You can study all the seduction technique in the world, but you still won't get laid if you freeze up around the opposite sex.
(note to moderators: some of you don't believe in what's been slanderously labeled as "alternative medicine", and will waste your modpoints knocking this down. This post is not "ra-ra" cheerleading for hokey 'therapies', but simply sharing my experience with health technologies that are working for me. Hence the italics. It's more than a placebo effect, because the first 3-5 placebos didn't do anything. If you don't agree for whatever reason, please share your experience in a post. Thanks.)
American health care sucks because a certain brand of 'healer' successfully lobbied for a monopoly almost a hundred years ago.
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I started seeing a gifted Osteopath (a profession whose competitors tried to eradicate, but were successful in lobbying for parity with Medical Doctors) last year, and I happily pay the $175/visit out of pocket. He doesn't take insurance because it's not worth his time to file. He'd need to hire another person to chase after the insurance company, and why bother if he can just give his clients a receipt and let them deal with the headache?
His practice is full regardless. Recently he said that he's thinking about not taking any new patients, until he fixes the ones he's got.
(biodynamic cranial osteopathy is the greatest
Amish kids don't get Autism. They don't get vaccines either.
But it's silly to question "science" on slashdot - just about the same as walking into a fundamentalist church & telling them their Xian religion is all about control, and NOT about what the founder actually taught.
and MOST IMPORTANT OF ALL on the PRICE - AMD is slowly giving up the most important weapon they had against Intel and without some cuts on price for the X2 line AMD might seriously loose market share to Intel in 2006 !!!
Real world experience with marketing demonstrates that there are much more important things than 'price' in selecting a product. Wally World puts their cheapest "microwave" in the main trafficways. Mesmerized Customer says, "hey, good idea, I could use a new 'microwave', and damn, this thing's dirt cheap. But it's probably a POS, so I wonder what else they have..." Then they go into the isle and pick out a more expensive microwave, which has a significantly higher profit margin for WW, which is probably cheaper elsewhere (source: Frontline documentary on WalMart).
If price is all you push, your company will end up like General Motors ("We just lowered the sticker price on EVERYTHING!"), mismanaged into the ground, and have to give away your product at a loss...
gonna disagree with you there. Bacteria are our allies, not our enemies. All of us have billions of bacteria living in our digestive track. Antibiotics kill off the 'good' bacteria - the ones that help us digest our food, synthesize vitamins, etc - allowing 'bad' bacteria to take over.
So eating dirt might be a good idea - gotta populate those intestines & train your immune system somehow, unless you're planning on living in a bubble...
EVERYONE has had less than positive experiences in their life.
What's important is the lesson that we learn from those experiences. Sometimes the lesson contributes to our own personal growth, and sometimes the lesson inhibits it.
BUT - every less-than-positive experience has some positive learning associated with it.
Maybe you have a fear of heights, that was installed when your mother pulled you away from the edge of the deck when you were 2 years old. Positive learning: Mom cared about her baby, and was concerned that you might injure yourself. Heights in and of themself aren't 'bad', but you as a 2 year old were unaware of the potential hazard, and Mom needed to protect you.
This is basic Hypnosis / NLP Timeline work.
I used to work with a lady who was always pissed off. I told her I knew some hypnotic techniques that were good for anger. Several months later she calls me up... "Remember how you offered to help? Well, I'm worse now, is the offer still open?"
She had a good idea where her problems came from - self-described "military brat" who moved a lot growing up... Got pregnant when she was 14, divorced from the father of her 2 other kids, financially unstable, maybe some sexual abuse, etc. But having a good idea what created her problem didn't help. I guided her into a trance state and led her through some "timeline" work, taking her back to some of the less than positive experiences in her past.
Everyone has had times that weren't so great, it's the lessons we take away that count. With the benefit of hindsight, even the worst of experiences have some positive lesson that can benefit you.
So - I directed the co-worker to a less than positive experience in her past. Find the positive lesson, go back to the start of the event, re-live the event with that lesson in mind, and experience how everything changes from that point in your past all the way down through your personal timeline to the present...
I'm just an amateur, so "D" is still kind of angry. But after going through 3 or 4 or 5 separate less-than-positive events (I didn't ask what they were, but I do know that she was surprised at what came up) the all-consuming rage is gone.
It's stupid to expect a drug to fix every problem we might have, because it concentrates power in distant pharmaceutical companies, when local professionals (Hypnotists/NLP Practioners/etc) are better able to help us with our problems.
it's the old materialism vs. vitalism "holy war".
Scientists in the persuasion of Materialism believe that the universe is fundamentally composed of matter.
Vitalists maintain that the physical universe is just a very tiny subset of "all that is". Conciousness is primary, the physical universe is the playground that we all are currently occupying.
Matrix terminology: Conciousness is "the real world", whereas the physical universe is "the matrix". The movie was based on buddhist philosophy, so it is an apt analogy.
See Ingo Swann's Psychic Sexuality for more on the age-old Materialism vs. Vitalism debate, from a decidedly pro-vitalist perspective. (Sexuality being, of course, where most of us encounter vitalism-related phenomena).
I welcome it because there is little justice in the world today. Some of us in the "western" world have comfy lives, but each of us lives on the backs of a thousand people in poverty. And even amoung us, wealth is becoming increasingly concentrated into the hands of the few, who use their newfound wealth to find new ways to concentrate an even greater percentage in their own pockets.
The American revolution only worked because there was new land, unclaimed by any existing [european] nation. Disregarding the fact that tens or hundreds of thousands of native peoples were displaced, anyone could come to America and make it on their own labor, and be free from paying "tribute" to any self-proclaimed "king". As the years went by the dream became more and more perverted, until you get to the present, where power is concentrated in the hands of a few politically connected families (e.g., the Bush family, 1 ex-pres, 1 current pres, 2 current govenors) and distant "international" organizations (U.N.).
A shift is a chance to wipe the map clean, and start fresh again.
Besides, I'd much prefer to die suddenly in an earthquake than slowly due to starvation.
'Evolution' moves in fits & starts - short periods of rapid change, followed by long periods of relative stability.
What we've seen over the last 10,000 years is relative stability. A little over 100 years ago things started to change quicker, culminating in a crisis-level change.
As the oceans expand and the sea level rises, people will simply move further up the shore. When islands disappear, people will be unhappy but they quickly build new lives in new countries.
This assumes slow, gradual change. Which I sincerely doubt is going to be the case. Volcanic/earthquake activity has picked up in recent years. The Indian Ocean earthquake a year ago (which caused the giant tsunami) shifted the crust of the earth by 50 feet. A volcano in Alaska has been going off for the first time in 20 years. Mount Fuji in Japan doesn't have any snow on it right now, possibly portending an upcoming eruption. Mt. St. Helens in Washington started erupting again in the last year or two... etc, etc.
I'd wager that the fabled 'big one' will hit California's San Andreas fault sometime in the next few years, preceded and followed by massive earthquakes all over the world.
What's interesting is that any number of prophets all say the same basic thing. St. John the Divine (book of Revelation), Nostradamus, Edgar Cayce, Hopi tradition, Mayan tradition, etc... A couple short years of chaos, and then the emergence of a real peace.
I, for one, welcome the coming shift.
A good example is with potatoes -- there are about 200 different varieties of potato, but my understanding is that only four or five of them are seriously grown on a large scale in the US.
Heirloom vegetables are still grown on a small scale just about everywhere. Plants are prolific seed producers, so it'd only take a season or two to get enough seeds for everyone.
Heirloom Seeds and Their Keepers: Marginality and Memory in the Conservation of Biological Diversity
The author of this book has traveled around the world, doing research on "seed savers", generations of people who farm, save and share their own seeds.
Also see The Meat You Eat by Ken Midkiff, for how Agribusiness makes us all unhealthy.
I found both books at my public library. Well, I wasn't looking for those particular titles at the time, so I guess they actually found me.
Organic seed companies are a good source for heirloom varieties. Seeds of Change, for example.
technically, you're supposed to get a new picture every 10 or 12 years.
I know the date on the card says it's good until you're 65, but I guess they'll send you a letter telling you to report at 12 years from the date of your last photograph.
http://www.azleg.state.az.us/ars/28/03173.htm
And even in this kind of hybrid regenerative braking can result in a net loss of fuel economy if you are primarily driving it at constant speed on the highway, because you don't do much braking in the first place.
Now, I'm not overly familiar with the Prius' electric motor system, but I do know that AC-electric drive motors have regeneration built in by nature of their design. While a DC electric car has to have a separate generator to recharge their batteries, AC cars such as the EV1, ACPropulsion's system, and Siemen's systems (as sold by Metric Mind) all have regen without any extra hardware.
I heard from someone who had an EV1 at an EV club meeting. They took it on a 200+ mile round trip. Going uphill they had to stop & charge at ~60miles, but coming home they got a free ride down the hill...
When I click on the parent's comment number, it says "I propose that the reason he's so good is because he's done it [colon close-parenthesis]". When I look at the page source, it has the word 'before' before the happy face. When I hit 'reply' to that comment 'before' shows up like it should. Hmm... Wonder how it shows up in Firefox (my usual browser; I'm visiting family and they have IE 6.0.2900 w/ XP SP2, and the last time I installed Firefox on this particular computer I got blamed for Windows ME subsequently crapping out).
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"I propose that the reason he's so good is because he's done it before."
child proteges - You seem to be suggesting that prodigies are born with memories/experiences of a past life, but that leaves a lot of questions. Why so few, why aren't we all like this?
Most of us are still learning the ropes. If I've only spent a couple of lifetimes focused on Music, I'm probably not going to be as good as someone who's spent dozens on the same persuit.
Why do almost all of them focus on math or music? And most importantly, there are perfectly natural explanations for prodigies, so why go with "past lives" when you can go with "learns numbers fast"?
Talent in a particular area builds over lifetimes. Some people are really good at sports, some at math, some at music, some at a given science, etc. I had a roommate in college who was a natural with anything chemistry-related. I propose that the reason he's so good is because he's done it before.
They know because the experience is undeniable The neat thing is that it's easy to have the experience for yourself, and make your own determination.
So - if you're interested, you can get the Monroe Institute's Gateway Experience home study program ("Wave I" would suffice. Any of the other OBE-training procedures would probably be good too, Monroe's just happens to be one of the best.), put your predjudice on a shelf behind you, have the experience, then decide for yourself if it's worth continuing.
(In the interest of continuing my full disclosure: The experience is easy to have for 95+% of the population. The other <5% are capable of having the experience too, they just have some extra homework to find out what exactly's standing in their way. I'm one of the <5%. When I was first getting started, all I wanted to do was be able to remember my dreams when I woke in the morning, and to see pictures when I closed my eyes. Over the years, I found that I couldn't dream because I couldn't relax. Being able to relax the physical body is important for any type of "meta"-physical work. I couldn't do it, and it took me a long time to figure out why. During that period of searching, I became convinced that there's something worth investigating in this general classification of experience. I've almost finished fixing my relaxation-blockage [see my posts in this thread for more on my personal experience, from a different lauch point], and will be personally evaluating the field soon.)
If you believe that this "soul" business is a bunch of crap, and the world is fundamentally mechanical in nature, it takes extraordinary evidence to convince you. If, on the other hand, you're open to the possibility of higher planes of existence, the evidence is sufficient.
I'm not inclined to get into it right now, but off the top of my head - child proteges (12 year old mozarts), children who remember past lives (fairly common), the ubiquity of Near Death experiences (even among non-believers), etc...
Robert Monroe said that everyone who goes through his gateway program comes to know (beyond a simple belief) that they've lived before, and will continue to exist after they finish their present lifetime. They know because the experience is undeniable. (I haven't had such a confirmatory experience yet, so what I've expressed here is just a belief, though I have had other experiences which are hard to explain any other way).
Sad truth? People die because dying is a part of living. Less primitive cultures accept this as a fact, and deal with it appropriately. Australian aboriginals are said to throw a party when a member of the tribe passes on. Old-time Native Americans (pre-European Invasion, mostly) are said to have left the tribe for the wilderness when they reached the point where they couldn't pull their own weight. I forget what it's called - some kind of walk? - but they leave the tribe and enter the spirit world directly.
But mainstream Christianity, Judaism and Islam were stripped of the doctrine of reincarnation, and today western countries' populations are conditioned to be fearful of death. People who believe they only live once are easy to control - "terrorist might KILL YOU, so we need your rights to protect your security." If a majority of the population knew that death of the physical body is not the end (just as we exist prior to birth in our present physical bodies), they wouldn't be so easy to manipulate.
But hey, this is slashdot, and we (er, most of us) believe that "matter is the most fundamental unit of existence". Nevermind that every particle is composed of smaller particles, particles all the way down. Scientists just haven't found the smallest one yet.
(Assigned reading: Robert Monroe's Journeys Out of the Body and Far Journeys. Ultimate Journey is optional)
I think it was Richard Maybury's Whatever Happened to Justice where I first read about the "bandit theory of government". It goes something like this: in the beginning, people got together to work to provide for a living. But some people didn't want to work. So they set up a camp, and periodically raided the surrounding villages. Eventually they decided that banditry was too much work, so one time they moved in, and never left. "I am your King, these are my royal officers, it is your privledge to pay us tribute." Then tribute became "tax", and the government began to provide services to justify collection of said tax.
According to Mr. Maybury, there are three politcal systems: Liberty, Tyranny, and Chaos. Liberty is what America is about; bandits have successfully re-taken the American government over the last 100+ years, leading to the problems facing the country today. Government schools were instituted to "dumb down" the population, and strip them of the possibility of an independant livelihood. (Reference: writings & speeches of John Taylor Gatto, specifically On The Scientific Management of Children: A Short Angry History ).
Government is the problem. Many people advocate that the bandits set up false terrorist attacks, to solidify their power. Some of these people are certainly kooks, but following the general principle of 'where there's smoke, there's fire', there has to be something to the claims of a grand conspiracy.
Richard Maybury predicted the current World War III 10 years ago. He's certainly worth investigating...
Then again I also fractured both elbows a few years ago.
This falls under the "trauma" category, and is likely still with you. Find a new doctor. See this post for help in picking a new one. Go to the "Cranial Academy", or craniosacraltherapy.org (for practitioners of manipulation who haven't been through med school). Then you won't have to waste time & years with braces which will only cover up the real problem.