You might just want to know what all the noise is about.
Scientology is the 20th Century production of pseudo-religious scientificism in America - much as the LDS church was it's 19th century production. I expect Scientology to be at least as virulent - and ultimately compromised into the mainstream - as its Mormon predecessor. It will even gain them "martyrs" as LDS fallaciously claim for Joseph Smith - beaten to death by a mob he defrauded.
Dead on, Baby. The super-secret outsourcing of "intelligence" to private-sector firms is the "$1000-Dollar Hammer" of the new century. With the added benefit from the both the size of the contracts and the protecting from public scrutiny because such information "is classifed" and discussion of the topic "aids terrorists" and "will result in Americans dying."
If you thought you saw something over the last decade - with big telecom industries operating a revolving-door operation with the FCC regulators, just wait and see what "intelligence" has in store! There is profit in War - that's what the size of the "defense" budget represents: how much of your taxes will be funneled as a subsidy to Haliburton and General Dynamics. Now, AT&T and VeriZion are in on the act.
Car phones, that used a predecessor to radio "cells" without multiplexed signals, were developed by Bell Labs, and sold/leased by AT&T. This was in the post-war 1940's.
and concave lenses, with a relatively low refractive index and arranged in an optimum series for magnification of subtle surface-details, at quite a close range - say between 200 and 400 mm.
Both were north-Indian (Indus) discoveries - with tremendous refinement and extrapolation at the hands of the Persians.
The current vogue is to hold up an enlightened "western" civilization against a decadent and benighted "eastern" one. This is ahistorical.
I propose that there were two "cradles" of the civilizations we know. A Mesopotamian one and an Indus one. The Indus civilization gave us inner vision, personal relations with the divine, and a humanistic philosophy. The Mesopotamian one tended to blood sacrifice, and authoritarian polytheism.
The Greeks - coming on a northern migration from central asia and in close communication with teh Indo-Iranian word is an expression of the Indus culture - not the Egyptian/Judeo/Babylonian axis. The religion and culture of these second peoples becomes somewhat humanized and oriented towards compassion only in contact with the Zoroastrian and Buddhic peoples of Indo-Iranic revelation.
The birth of Jesus is greeted by three Magi of the Indo-Iranian world, not three Pharisees or Shamen of the barbarians.
Look, my basic proposition is that there is no better, friendlier and actually pro-western people in all of the Middle East and Central Asia, than the Iranian people.
This is absolutely true. The Iranian in the street is more pro-US that the average Israeli in the street. When you take into the consideration that the US imposes 30 years of sanctions on Iran while Israel gets USD 30 Billion this year - that is remarkable!
The US hasn't been able to spoil the goodwill of the Iranian people - not even as they foment a potentially nuclear war.
Bullshit about Ahmadinejad and the holocaust red-herrings are aside from the point. David Duke and Dick Cheney have little bearing on the values and real interest of the American people.
Calling Iran an "enemy" in the headline of a front-page article is inflammatory, and demonstrates an uncritical and un-knowledgeable consumption of foreign-policy propaganda.
I don't defend the position of moslems in their persecution of Baha'i - who they regard as a deviant sect. This is a poor perception.
Of course Israel has no argument with the Baha'i! Baha'uddin selected Haifa in Palestine as his holy site, and the location of his shrine, after being rejected elsewhere. This legitimises "holy land" claims for the region. Baha'is have brought with them hundreds of millions of dollars. If they were penniless, you'd see them as summarily rejected as are the christian and jewish refugees from Ethiopia and Darfur.
You will find, if you scratch beneath the "Islamic" surface of the Persian, that there is a much older culture, ethic and metier present - something you don't find elsewhere in the moslem world - except in the Iranized parts of central Asia.
12er Shi'ism in Iran has morphed into a vehicle where some popular expression of this culture can manifest itself under the veil of Islam. The repressive arab-semitic aspects still dominate, but they are softened by the Indo-Iranian element.
The mission of Zartosht and that of Gautama Buddha are so close. They are different expressions of the deep, unitary mysticism rooted in the Indo-Iranian consciousness. This is continued by the Persian Sufism of Love, as revealed through Byazid and Ruzbehan Baqli - a continuous perfection of the kernel that is found in Hinayana schools.
It was eastern, Indo-Iranian cultured people who introduced Buddhism to China and the Turko-Mongolians - from the realms of their Gobi oasis kingdoms of Shanshan and Kashgar.
I suggest reading In Search of Zarathustra for an entertaining exploration of the very real and modern presence of Zoroastrian elements in the life of nominally moslem Iranians and Tajiks - although the author lingers overly on the Mithraic cults of later Zoroastrianism.
In your example, you'll find out a lot more about the residents of Chiapas and Oaxaca, that if you study the Catholic church, or reference Spain or the US.
Yeah. If I kept drinking the Jizz that spurts from the end of Cheney's Dick, my brain would have rotted to the point of believing all that propaganda, too.
It's not nonsense. These are the fruits of the Persian culture, and the real nature of the people. Not the arab-flavoured bullshit of a clerical super-minority.
I don't support IRI, nor their methods of political control - but I'll guarantee you that Israel tortures many more people than Iran does, and has turned Gaza into an open-air prison with millions under illegal, collective punishment.
But they're the "good guys" - who get 30 Billion of your American dollars, while your bridges collapse and cities flood at home...
It is unbelievable propaganda to equate Iran to Nazi Germany. Israeli disinfo and psyops (MEMRI) deliberately mis-translate stories, and the lapdog media in the US and UK eat it up.
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You might just want to know what all the noise is about.
Scientology is the 20th Century production of pseudo-religious scientificism in America - much as the LDS church was it's 19th century production. I expect Scientology to be at least as virulent - and ultimately compromised into the mainstream - as its Mormon predecessor. It will even gain them "martyrs" as LDS fallaciously claim for Joseph Smith - beaten to death by a mob he defrauded.
Una's her own lady, Doc!
Airtight garage? I think you gots to speak en francaise.
I do have the key to a Rolls - with minor oil-pressure issues. And maby Frank has a hit of "something," other than Tempodex.
Dead on, Baby. The super-secret outsourcing of "intelligence" to private-sector firms is the "$1000-Dollar Hammer" of the new century. With the added benefit from the both the size of the contracts and the protecting from public scrutiny because such information "is classifed" and discussion of the topic "aids terrorists" and "will result in Americans dying."
If you thought you saw something over the last decade - with big telecom industries operating a revolving-door operation with the FCC regulators, just wait and see what "intelligence" has in store! There is profit in War - that's what the size of the "defense" budget represents: how much of your taxes will be funneled as a subsidy to Haliburton and General Dynamics. Now, AT&T and VeriZion are in on the act.
Motorola would contend otherwise.
Car phones, that used a predecessor to radio "cells" without multiplexed signals, were developed by Bell Labs, and sold/leased by AT&T. This was in the post-war 1940's.
Men? Other women?
I want TWO! One for each head.
"Hey, doll! Is this guy boring you? Why don't you come and talk to me? I'm from a different planet."
They have only one button, and a featureless slot, in an otherwise blank surface.
If you play this name backwards you hear Steve Job's voice saying "I buried Paul."
The Symbians. I think they were defeated by the Klingons, and their superior Photoshop skilz.
Not even a Stanza...
But maybe I can mod this, and make a trade for a refurbed Segway.
Well, in any case, I'm holding out for the ZunePhone...
It seems that these releases are targeted for distinctive Victorian-period engravings.
"...The most fabulous object in the universe!"
Here's a man who understands modular design.
and concave lenses, with a relatively low refractive index and arranged in an optimum series for magnification of subtle surface-details, at quite a close range - say between 200 and 400 mm.
Thanks. I'll be here all week.
Both were north-Indian (Indus) discoveries - with tremendous refinement and extrapolation at the hands of the Persians.
The current vogue is to hold up an enlightened "western" civilization against a decadent and benighted "eastern" one. This is ahistorical.
I propose that there were two "cradles" of the civilizations we know. A Mesopotamian one and an Indus one. The Indus civilization gave us inner vision, personal relations with the divine, and a humanistic philosophy. The Mesopotamian one tended to blood sacrifice, and authoritarian polytheism.
The Greeks - coming on a northern migration from central asia and in close communication with teh Indo-Iranian word is an expression of the Indus culture - not the Egyptian/Judeo/Babylonian axis. The religion and culture of these second peoples becomes somewhat humanized and oriented towards compassion only in contact with the Zoroastrian and Buddhic peoples of Indo-Iranic revelation.
The birth of Jesus is greeted by three Magi of the Indo-Iranian world, not three Pharisees or Shamen of the barbarians.
Look, my basic proposition is that there is no better, friendlier and actually pro-western people in all of the Middle East and Central Asia, than the Iranian people.
This is absolutely true. The Iranian in the street is more pro-US that the average Israeli in the street. When you take into the consideration that the US imposes 30 years of sanctions on Iran while Israel gets USD 30 Billion this year - that is remarkable!
The US hasn't been able to spoil the goodwill of the Iranian people - not even as they foment a potentially nuclear war.
Bullshit about Ahmadinejad and the holocaust red-herrings are aside from the point. David Duke and Dick Cheney have little bearing on the values and real interest of the American people.
Calling Iran an "enemy" in the headline of a front-page article is inflammatory, and demonstrates an uncritical and un-knowledgeable consumption of foreign-policy propaganda.
I don't defend the position of moslems in their persecution of Baha'i - who they regard as a deviant sect. This is a poor perception.
Of course Israel has no argument with the Baha'i! Baha'uddin selected Haifa in Palestine as his holy site, and the location of his shrine, after being rejected elsewhere. This legitimises "holy land" claims for the region. Baha'is have brought with them hundreds of millions of dollars. If they were penniless, you'd see them as summarily rejected as are the christian and jewish refugees from Ethiopia and Darfur.
My wife is a direct descendant. There is an extensive genealogy - one of the meticulous disciplines maintained by both Zoroastrianism and Shi'ism.
Aren't these servers dependent on availability of the Skype protocol? :-)
You will find, if you scratch beneath the "Islamic" surface of the Persian, that there is a much older culture, ethic and metier present - something you don't find elsewhere in the moslem world - except in the Iranized parts of central Asia.
12er Shi'ism in Iran has morphed into a vehicle where some popular expression of this culture can manifest itself under the veil of Islam. The repressive arab-semitic aspects still dominate, but they are softened by the Indo-Iranian element.
The mission of Zartosht and that of Gautama Buddha are so close. They are different expressions of the deep, unitary mysticism rooted in the Indo-Iranian consciousness. This is continued by the Persian Sufism of Love, as revealed through Byazid and Ruzbehan Baqli - a continuous perfection of the kernel that is found in Hinayana schools.
It was eastern, Indo-Iranian cultured people who introduced Buddhism to China and the Turko-Mongolians - from the realms of their Gobi oasis kingdoms of Shanshan and Kashgar.
I suggest reading In Search of Zarathustra for an entertaining exploration of the very real and modern presence of Zoroastrian elements in the life of nominally moslem Iranians and Tajiks - although the author lingers overly on the Mithraic cults of later Zoroastrianism.
In your example, you'll find out a lot more about the residents of Chiapas and Oaxaca, that if you study the Catholic church, or reference Spain or the US.
Hezbollah is no more a terrorist organization than the US Marines.
Yeah. If I kept drinking the Jizz that spurts from the end of Cheney's Dick, my brain would have rotted to the point of believing all that propaganda, too.
It's not nonsense. These are the fruits of the Persian culture, and the real nature of the people. Not the arab-flavoured bullshit of a clerical super-minority.
I don't support IRI, nor their methods of political control - but I'll guarantee you that Israel tortures many more people than Iran does, and has turned Gaza into an open-air prison with millions under illegal, collective punishment.
But they're the "good guys" - who get 30 Billion of your American dollars, while your bridges collapse and cities flood at home...
TROLL ALERT
It is unbelievable propaganda to equate Iran to Nazi Germany. Israeli disinfo and psyops (MEMRI) deliberately mis-translate stories, and the lapdog media in the US and UK eat it up.
Here is the country, and the people, that you smear as "enemy".