In the end, they both sell more units to the piglets.
God, I detest corporate marketing.
I've been accused of being, 'Too Serious' and not allowing myself to just, 'Have Fun'. Fine. I can sort of see the argument. . .
After all, this is the only time in history, a window which will be open for only a few brief nano-seconds on the geologic time scale, where I can buy scratch-n-sniff stickers and scratch-n-win lottery tickets, and fizzy sugar water in a can, and pop a high-tech ecstasy pill and wear spandex and running shoes and play video games and watch movies and all of that other crazy stuff. Hey. Sure. It's all fun. This is a once in a billion chance of a lifetime to try all those funky toys out.
But pardon me for thinking there are FAR more interesting things in life than falling in line with some corporate promotional department's greedy wishes so that some millionaire can make another million off everybody's inability to resist their fascination with shiny plastic doo-dads and fake boobs.
Sure, perhaps I might seem, 'Too Serious' to the average burger-eating, cell-phone fashion zombie. --But I also have self-respect and an identity of my very own which I didn't buy at some death star mall. I take pride in not jumping whenever some corporate marketing shill tells me to get addicted to his ice cream.
And I DO NOT CARE whose microchip is faster.
But then. . , perhaps I'm just getting old. All that crap was fun when I was a teen, so to each his own. Live your life in whatever way suits you best!
Sexual energy is the base form of energy which we need to function properly and generally exist. It recharges during sleep, drawn from the universe and entering in through the sexual center just below the stomach. (Or so it is said in various ways by various sources.)
In this society, we are powerfully encouraged to discharge that energy as quickly as possible through orgasm. According to some, sexual energy, once thus spent, is collected and consumed by etheric beings who exist in a higher level of reality and keep the human race like cattle for this purpose, (among others). True or not, you don't get to use your sexual energy once it's been given up through orgasm.
On the other hand, sexual energy can also be saved up and used in other ways. People who have a lot of regular sex tend to be exhausted and dim behind the eyes because their primary source of 'income' energy is much reduced. One's level of awareness and the availability of energy are directly linked to one another.
This is not to say that having orgasms is 'bad'. Physical sex is part of why we all came to this reality. It's fun, and it can be used to link in very powerful ways to other people, as well as link to otherwise difficult to access knowledge. But for the most part, people are instructed by the media to channel away their sexual energy immediately before it can be effectively used for anything else. In the morning, people often wake up in states of heightened arousal. This has nothing to do with holding back urination as conventional medicine tells us, (you don't get a woody any other time during the day when you need to 'go'. And it happens for women as well, who don't have the same plumbing) Sexual energy is there to be used as you wish.
In any case, sleep is the way this energy finds its way into us from the Universal source. Drugs which prevent sleep are, I assume, accessing stored wells of energy, which cannot last forever. There is a reason why they say, "Speed Kills". --Of course, there are other ways in which to draw energy from the world around us other than sleep, including drawing energy from the earth through grounding meditations and exercises, (good!) Eating food and consuming life force, (standard), energetic vampirism through direct and indirect methods of torturing others, (nasty and ultimately self-destructive.). But above all of these, Sexual energy is potent and pure and freely available to anybody who can catch 40 winks.
How the parent got modded up for this is beyond me. If you're mind is weak enough a game will keep you distracted from the real world, the Xbox 360 isn't the first of your problems.
Tha parent was not modded beyond the normal posting parameters, so something clearly is beyond you. Perhaps less time in your game cube would help. . ?
Scientology is a creepy and messed up cult with a lot of twisted ideas. I think they were put here just to scare people away from really searching.
NEVER try to learn how the world works from a single source. The moment you open yourself up to many different sources and start cross-examining and cancelling out the crap, you begin to free yourself.
When you've got enough background, reading the Scientology stuff is a royal, (albeit creepy), laugh.
I'm not saying you're right or wrong, just wondering where your facts are coming from.
I don't really adhere to a particular school of thought. I think it is a good idea to go to many different sources when trying to learn. Different perspectives are required and allow you to cross-examine, which is essential when it comes to the New Age world, (which is literally swimming in nonsense).
I've been piecing things together from many different sources/experiences for several years now, testing and using basic logic to cancel out the falsehoods. So far I've got a fairly workable picture, albeit, with many blank spots.
Among my sources are three different channeling experiments which purported to communicate with various ethereal sources with access to a much broader range of knowledge than is generally available to Joe Public, and which were each well documented. These include, The Evergreens, (which claim to be a group of up to 3000 individuals who lived varied lives in this world and are now dead and spend time communicating through a fellow in BC, Canada.) The Pleadians, a group claiming to be alien intelligences channeling through a woman named Barbara Marciniak. Her 'valid' material is largely summed up in a book called, Bringers of the Dawn --Which is rather kitsch around the edges, but passed my various bullshit tests rather well. --And the third is from a source which is not quite so easy to get hold of; a series of communications with a similar group calling themselves the 'Cassiopeans', via a group channel led by a fascinating woman named, Laura Knight. --Whose little group manages an otherwise very solid news-reserver rather like slashdot for socio-politics which is kept at arm's length from their New Age beginnings.
Then there's Science from the Fringes, including a book I just recently dug out for a reference on Stem Cell research, Robert O. Becker's Book, Cross Currents. This one deals with aspects of electricity and magnetism and it's affects on the human brain and nervous system. It is solid stuff from a real scientist, and it serves to verify numerous small elements from the other sources. Another key book is one written by a fellow named, Richard Dolan. His book, UFOs and the National Security State is a watershed work, it examines the history of UFOs from the forties up to the seventies. (The Amazon reviews do this book justice, I think).
Carlos Castaneda provided an excellent series of books which introduce an interesting perspective on the spirit world and the use of energy. Good for people trying to get a grasp of all this, but a rather morbid approach with several built-in problems I later discovered while talking with a powerful Shaman.
Astrology, when thoroughly properly examined, is a good demonstration for how things are not as they are claimed to be by the conventional sciences. There's a lot of nonsense in this arena, so it requires a bit of earnest searching before you find the 'good' stuff and begin to see how it all works. (Essentially, small systems are not necessarily influenced by large systems, but are mirrored. Consider that one part of a graphic created using fractal mathematics replicates on b
Stem cell research is largely an unnecessary scientific goose chase created thanks to orthodox science's willingness to be led by the nose.
A toenail cell can be made to de-differentiate into a stem cell. It's done by triggering built-in responses within the cell with micro-DC currents.
Salamanders can re-grow whole legs because all the cells in their bodies can de-differentiate, and do so.
The cells at the end of the wound, (where a leg was amputated), receive intructions through the DC nervous system to regress from 'shoulder' cells into a pulp of un-differientiated cells, from which a whole leg can then grow anew.
The DC nervous system is universal to all animal life, it sits beneath the regular nervous system, (far out-dates it, it is thought, in terms of evolution), and it plays a complex role in how cells develop and deploy.
The chances are, however, that you've not heard of this. There's a reason for that, and it has nothing to do with being, 'junk science'.
Acupuncture accesses the DC electrical nervous system. Metal pins are inserted into key points, and set to gently rotating. The rotating creates a micro DC current, which then activates certain aspects of the human body's natural systems. Accupuncture works for a reason.
You can read more about this in Robert O. Becker's Book, Cross Currents
Science, as it currently stands, is a highly limited affair which is only allowed to look in certain directions which won't upset the status quo.
The concepts which give rise to all these agruments are generally not well understood.
The main point is that awareness and individuality is the soul, which is timeless. "Life", as defined by both the scientists and the relgious seems to be defined by the body.
It is possible for a human body to grow and enter the world without a soul; there is enough automatic survival response in a brain and body to function more or less completely in this world without full awareness. Automatic response machines. You've probably met many in your time. Psychopaths are the ones which are broken, but otherwise they're hard to spot unless you can see and interpret energy.
Actually, to say that they are 'soulless' is not entirely accurate; even a psychopath like Bush plays host to something like a small proto-soul which is either in a state of regression and decay (George Bush), or is otherwise engaged in the game of advancement and are working their way up to full souls. Such human containers provide a bridge; a body in which to practice and ease into human soul-hood after graduating from the 2nd level of density, (the animal kingdom), to the 3rd, (where humans exist.)
Interestingly, we are quickly approaching a period where computers are fast and complex enough to provide a matrix suitable for a soul to integrate with. The science community will probably call this AI, and think they're being terribly clever. Movies like 'I Robot', 'Terminator' and the 'Matrix' are somewhat prophetic.
An infinite, non-repeating number must contain ALL possible data, right?
--Including next week's winning lottery numbers, a picture of your face, blue prints to your house, your brain, and a nice little faster-than-light getaway vehicle and the formula for its shocking-pink meteorite-resistant paint.
It's just a matter of finding the right sequences. Or building a device which can find those sequences for you upon request. --I call such a device an, "Infinity Box".
Yeah, I think we're on the same page. (Helluva book, eh?)
I'll just offer that, surprisingly, Echelon is actually not in the tin-foil hat section. Its existence is a fact accepted by big media. --60 Minutes did a piece on it; the story was not about whether or not Echelon exists, but rather on how the information it collects might be abused. Transcripts of the program are easy enough to find on the web.
Basically, the subject of Echelon was 'outed' in a session of British parliament some years back. It seemed to me that the British government felt they were being unfairly kept out of the info sharing club and so went public with the existence of Echelon in order to make a childish stink. --Or that was my impression when the story broke in all the papers. It was all damage control from that point on.
Anyway, that was a long time ago now, so who the heck knows what's really going on at the moment?
Somebody higher up than the cops is already listening in and nobody complains. Echelon, damn it!
If you ever start saying things which are of interest to those who are plugged in, then you will be recorded. Why is nobody upset about this? Why are the politicians not hanging from lamp posts? Why are the spy agencies and secret military outposts not flushed out?
This current stuff in the news is just a bit of low-level fluff for the public to consume and integrate into their state-managed fake version of reality so that they think they are still in control. Phooey.
In the USA we have a thing called a recall petition. The people who voted the bastard in can recall him anytime they want. A small group of 30 or so people can collect enough signatures to get a vote going and if enough people agreee, the guy is out of there!
So then why is Bush still in office? How do you go about starting a recall petition?
If everybody thought that way, then everybody would be a sociopath. What sets apart normal people from sociopaths is that normal people trust in each other, forgive each other, and cooperate with each other and don't think everybody around them is out to get them.
No. Sociopathy is, from my understanding, the same as psychopathy, except that sociopaths haven't killed. --Though, the terminology even within medicine (at least ten years ago when I last checked), was not very well established or agreed upon. Perhaps things have changed.
In any case, I'm afraid I must disagree with you; I think that normal people have to learn to trust in each other. People offer low levels of basic trust, and if those are not betrayed, then higher levels of trust are offered.
The problem is that there are all these little guilt triggers which prevent people from making what would seem to be very basic decisions when trust is betrayed. Abusers are often protected by the silence of the ones they abuse because the victim is too embarrassed to speak, or has been taught to forgive and forget far beyond the margin of logically forgivable error.
There is nothing noble about allowing yourself to be abused by somebody who is not capable of learning proper behavior.
As for law enforcement. . , that only works when crimes are reported. And how can the law be realistically expected to protect us from those who manipulate co-workers and tell destructive lies? Those things are best protected against on a personal level by being open and aware and not allowing silly social programming to bind us. What better environment could there be for a predator than one in which everybody universally 'forgives and forgets' and seeks to protect the abuser by not warning others when it really matters? Yet this is the way society is currently built.
Forgiving is fine and necessary when the person who betrayed you is penitent and wants to grow. But why should we forget? All experience is valuable; it allows us to know how we and others are growing. If others are not growing, then forgiveness no longer makes sense. Memory is required to learn.
Our culture is filled with many dangerous little social programs which were designed to make us easier prey. One of the biggest being the whole fabrication of Christ dying on the cross. --That story compels believers that it is better to be tortured and to suffer a 'noble' death than to refuse to be abused. --Our culture has been programmed to allow us to be lied to horribly and to forgive the liar so that s/he can repeat the crime again and again.
"Saddam has WMD's." "Our troops will be home in ten weeks."
If being too dumb to synthesize useful sentences qualifies you as psychopathic, then there's probably an alien race vastly smarter than us which thinks every human is psychopathic. Most politicians rank above 13 on that quiz. George Bush is too dumb to get above 6.
Yeah. Bush is so dumb that he's managed to steal the U.S. presidency. Twice. Sell the lie of terrorism to the world, neatly install all the infrastructure necessary for a fully-operational fascist government, and start two wars based on bullshit.
The thing about psychopaths is that they are able to create chaos and get away with it by lying and appearing harmless. They do it by not acting within the accepted human behavioral parameters, but because normal humans do behave within those parameters, they naturally attempt to also interpret the psychopath's actions within that same rule-set. Thus Bush is just, 'dumb'.
Your claim that Bush is a psychopath is unconvincing. He may be to a certian extent, the question of how severe a psychopath he is remains unanswered. Were that question answered it wouldn't necessarily cast light on his suitability for presidency.
[Spits coffee.] "What???"
--Define 'mild' psychopath, please. And how could ANYBODY think that even a 'mild' psychopath is a suitable person for one of the world's most powerful seats of government?
And you might want to think twice about accusing anybody of spewing propaganda. --A common tactic of the psychopath is to accuse others of what he is himself guilty of.
It's hard to screen for psychopaths, because they are adept at fooling tests. --The biggest one being the day-to-day test of basic social interaction which fully funtioning humans pass using their emotions, and which psychopaths can only pass using aped behavior. It's like a bunch of broken humans regularly passing the Turing test. So a paper test with check boxes is going to be hard to refine into something useful.
There are certain characteristics which Psychopaths do often share. Certain language problems
I think it's more a matter of being aware and making smart choices. If somebody continues to do harm while smiling, there comes a time when you no longer, 'Forgive and Forget' or 'Turn the Other Cheek', and feel guilty for, 'Gossiping'.
Simple as that. Basically, the way to defend against manipulative, abusive people is to regularly network and share knowledge, (Psychopaths love secrecy and cannot help but tell lies, and regular networking will show up a liar for what s/he is). You need to be objective. "Yes I like this person, but do the results of his/her actions match their words?" It takes time, because you need to see a pattern of behavior, but the patterns will emerge. Then you need to stand up for yourself, always sharing information openly with those around you so that others can be aware.
If everybody thought this way, then psychopaths would not rise so easily to the tops of power structures in both business and government.
What makes psychopaths different from all others is the remarkable ease with which they lie, the pervasiveness of their deception, and the callousness with which they carry it out.
But there is something else about the speech of psychopaths that is equally puzzling: their frequent use of contradictory and logically inconsistent statements that usually escape detection. Recent research on the language of psychopaths provides us with some important clues to this puzzle, as well as to the uncanny ability psychopaths have to move words - and people- around so easily. [?]
Here are some examples:
When asked if he had ever committed a violent offense, a man serving time for theft answered, "No, but I once had to kill someone."
A woman with a staggering record of fraud, deceit, lies, and broken promises concluded a letter to the parole board with, "I've let a lot of people down? One is only as good as her reputation and name. My word is as good as gold."
A man serving a term for armed robbery replied to the testimony of an eyewitness, "He's lying. I wasn't there. I should have blown his fucking head off."
From an interview with serial killer Elmer Wayne Henley:
Interviewer: "You make it out that you're the victim of a serial killer, but if you look at the record you're a serial killer."
Henley: "I'm not."
I: "You're not a serial killer?"
H: "I'm not a serial killer."
I: You're saying you're not a serial killer now, but you've serially killed."
H: "Well, yeah, that's semantics."
And so on. The point that the researchers noted was that psychopaths seem to have trouble monitoring their own speech. What is more, they often put things together in strange ways, such as this series of remarks from serial killer Clifford Olson: "And then I had annual sex with her." "Once a year?" "No. Annual. From behind." "Oh. But she was dead!" "No, no. She was just unconscientious." About his many experiences, Olson said, "I've got enough antidotes to fill five or six books - enough for a trilogy." He was determined not to be an "escape goat" no matter what the "migrating facts." [Hare]
Some Bush Jr. quotes. ..
"You're free. And freedom is beautiful. And, you know, it'll take time to restore chaos and order order out of chaos. But we will." George Bush, Washington, D.C., April 13, 2003
"People that are really very weird can get into sensitive positions and have a tremendous impact on history." "If I decide to [run for President], it will be to restore the promise of America. And I'll define what that means later." (11/15/98)
"The vast majority of our imports come from outside the country."
"The Holocaust was an obscene period in our nation's history. I mean in this century's history. But we all lived in this century. I didn't live in this century."... 9/15/95
"I have made good judgments in the past. I have made good judgments in the future."
"The future will be better tomorrow."
"I stand by all the misstatements that I've made."... 8/17/93
"We have a firm commitment to NATO, we are a part of NATO. We have a firm commitment to Europe. We are a part of Europe."
"We are ready for any unforeseen event that may or may not occur."... 9/22/97
"Illegitimacy is something we should talk about in terms of not having it."... 5/20/96
"Well, I think if you say you're going to do something and don't do it, that's trustworthiness."
"I mean, there needs to be a wholesale effort against racial profiling, which is illiterate children."
"You f--cking son of a bitch. I saw what you wrote. We're not going to forget this."-- to writer Al Hunt, 1998
Sure, it would be great if we could identify dangerous people before they can do harm. But centuries of experience with that have shown that giving government and society the power to label and lock up people in that way is even more dangerous than the people themselves.
I'm not certain that it's possible to have accurate testing for psychopathy. I think it's more a matter of being aware and making smart choices. If somebody continues to do harm while smiling, there comes a time when you no longer, 'Forgive and Forget' or 'Turn the Other Cheek', and feel guilty for, 'Gossiping'.
Simple as that. Basically, the way to defend against manipulative, abusive people is to regularly network and share knowledge, (Psychopaths love secrecy and cannot help but tell lies, so regular networking will show up a liar for what s/he is). You need to be objective. "Yes I like this person, but do the results of his/her actions match their words?" And you need to stand up for yourself, always sharing information openly with those around you so that others can be aware.
If everybody thought this way, then psychopaths would not rise so easily to the tops of power structures in both business and government.
A company called, Wizards of the Coast put out this little game called, "Magic the Gathering".
Played with little rectangular bits of cardboard imprinted with color images, each unit cost well under a cent to make.
Can you see where I'm going here. . ?
As it happened, these little bits of cardboard proved to be immensely popular. People were willing to shell out hundreds of dollars for single cards at the height of Magic's half-decade rule of high popularity. --Thing is, you couldn't eat 'em. You couldn't build much of a shelter with them. In fact, they were pretty much useless. . , except as a means of holding a little bit of information by way of printed text.
As printed text is worthless to anybody who hasn't got a functioning and integrated human brain, all the value contained on those bits of cardboard existed entirely because everybody agreed at the same time that those little bits of cardboard were valuable. It was an huge act of group imagination filling a dead artifact with pretend value. --But that by itself is interesting, because it creates the reality in which people were willing to shell out hundreds of dollars, (more printed bits of paper, BTW).
So what gives?
Simple. Imagined value is just as powerful as any other kind when everybody agrees to participate in the illusion. Heck, it has been said that the health of the economy is entirely, (100%) dictated by people's belief in what the health of the economy happens to be.
Thus, Cybercrime, if enough people agree that matter-less bits of coded data, (which you can't eat or build a shelter out of), are worth something, then yeah, people are going to go to dramatic extremes to acquire said bits of imagined 'property'.
Physical property is usually just a place-holder for imagined value. In the digital world, the place holder for the illusionary value just happens to be made of the same stuff as the illusionary value itself. Thin air and the spark of imagination.
Sable Island in Nova Scotia has wild horses variously descended from people who brought and left them under a variety of circumstances over the past hundred and fifty years. Some say that there was a ship wreck which introduced the livestock, but this is supposedly more romantic myth than anything else.
In any case, the animals on Sable Island, which is only about 40 Km long and a couple of Km wide, were not native. There are about 250 of them at present, and they run wild and do their own thing and generally get alone very well.
This probably has something to NLP. In NLP when a stimuli occurs there is about a half second window in which an anchor can be set. Anchors can usually be set immediately after something "shocking" occurs.
Reminds me of a flurry of adverts which made the rounds a couple of years back; where highly stressful social situations were depicted, (a family arguing over their teen daughter's announced pregnancy, a couple in a strained relationship having an argument, etc.), followed immediately by a product placement. Icky and not very cleverly disguised, but then most of the audience didn't understand what was being attempted.
The moral of the story: Never trust a Coca-Cola product or company. --Any corporation willing to play creepy mind games to sell their product should be denied existence.
Slashdot Mirror
In the end, they both sell more units to the piglets.
God, I detest corporate marketing.
I've been accused of being, 'Too Serious' and not allowing myself to just, 'Have Fun'. Fine. I can sort of see the argument. . .
After all, this is the only time in history, a window which will be open for only a few brief nano-seconds on the geologic time scale, where I can buy scratch-n-sniff stickers and scratch-n-win lottery tickets, and fizzy sugar water in a can, and pop a high-tech ecstasy pill and wear spandex and running shoes and play video games and watch movies and all of that other crazy stuff. Hey. Sure. It's all fun. This is a once in a billion chance of a lifetime to try all those funky toys out.
But pardon me for thinking there are FAR more interesting things in life than falling in line with some corporate promotional department's greedy wishes so that some millionaire can make another million off everybody's inability to resist their fascination with shiny plastic doo-dads and fake boobs.
Sure, perhaps I might seem, 'Too Serious' to the average burger-eating, cell-phone fashion zombie. --But I also have self-respect and an identity of my very own which I didn't buy at some death star mall. I take pride in not jumping whenever some corporate marketing shill tells me to get addicted to his ice cream.
And I DO NOT CARE whose microchip is faster.
But then. . , perhaps I'm just getting old. All that crap was fun when I was a teen, so to each his own. Live your life in whatever way suits you best!
-FL
In this society, we are powerfully encouraged to discharge that energy as quickly as possible through orgasm. According to some, sexual energy, once thus spent, is collected and consumed by etheric beings who exist in a higher level of reality and keep the human race like cattle for this purpose, (among others). True or not, you don't get to use your sexual energy once it's been given up through orgasm.
On the other hand, sexual energy can also be saved up and used in other ways. People who have a lot of regular sex tend to be exhausted and dim behind the eyes because their primary source of 'income' energy is much reduced. One's level of awareness and the availability of energy are directly linked to one another.
This is not to say that having orgasms is 'bad'. Physical sex is part of why we all came to this reality. It's fun, and it can be used to link in very powerful ways to other people, as well as link to otherwise difficult to access knowledge. But for the most part, people are instructed by the media to channel away their sexual energy immediately before it can be effectively used for anything else. In the morning, people often wake up in states of heightened arousal. This has nothing to do with holding back urination as conventional medicine tells us, (you don't get a woody any other time during the day when you need to 'go'. And it happens for women as well, who don't have the same plumbing) Sexual energy is there to be used as you wish.
In any case, sleep is the way this energy finds its way into us from the Universal source. Drugs which prevent sleep are, I assume, accessing stored wells of energy, which cannot last forever. There is a reason why they say, "Speed Kills". --Of course, there are other ways in which to draw energy from the world around us other than sleep, including drawing energy from the earth through grounding meditations and exercises, (good!) Eating food and consuming life force, (standard), energetic vampirism through direct and indirect methods of torturing others, (nasty and ultimately self-destructive.). But above all of these, Sexual energy is potent and pure and freely available to anybody who can catch 40 winks.
-FL
Tha parent was not modded beyond the normal posting parameters, so something clearly is beyond you. Perhaps less time in your game cube would help. . ?
-FL
NEVER try to learn how the world works from a single source. The moment you open yourself up to many different sources and start cross-examining and cancelling out the crap, you begin to free yourself.
When you've got enough background, reading the Scientology stuff is a royal, (albeit creepy), laugh.
-FL
Never judge a book by it's. . . Heck you can't even see the cover.
-FL
I'm not saying you're right or wrong, just wondering where your facts are coming from.
I don't really adhere to a particular school of thought. I think it is a good idea to go to many different sources when trying to learn. Different perspectives are required and allow you to cross-examine, which is essential when it comes to the New Age world, (which is literally swimming in nonsense).
I've been piecing things together from many different sources/experiences for several years now, testing and using basic logic to cancel out the falsehoods. So far I've got a fairly workable picture, albeit, with many blank spots.
Among my sources are three different channeling experiments which purported to communicate with various ethereal sources with access to a much broader range of knowledge than is generally available to Joe Public, and which were each well documented. These include, The Evergreens, (which claim to be a group of up to 3000 individuals who lived varied lives in this world and are now dead and spend time communicating through a fellow in BC, Canada.) The Pleadians, a group claiming to be alien intelligences channeling through a woman named Barbara Marciniak. Her 'valid' material is largely summed up in a book called, Bringers of the Dawn --Which is rather kitsch around the edges, but passed my various bullshit tests rather well. --And the third is from a source which is not quite so easy to get hold of; a series of communications with a similar group calling themselves the 'Cassiopeans', via a group channel led by a fascinating woman named, Laura Knight. --Whose little group manages an otherwise very solid news-reserver rather like slashdot for socio-politics which is kept at arm's length from their New Age beginnings.
Then there's Science from the Fringes, including a book I just recently dug out for a reference on Stem Cell research, Robert O. Becker's Book, Cross Currents. This one deals with aspects of electricity and magnetism and it's affects on the human brain and nervous system. It is solid stuff from a real scientist, and it serves to verify numerous small elements from the other sources. Another key book is one written by a fellow named, Richard Dolan. His book, UFOs and the National Security State is a watershed work, it examines the history of UFOs from the forties up to the seventies. (The Amazon reviews do this book justice, I think).
Carlos Castaneda provided an excellent series of books which introduce an interesting perspective on the spirit world and the use of energy. Good for people trying to get a grasp of all this, but a rather morbid approach with several built-in problems I later discovered while talking with a powerful Shaman.
Astrology, when thoroughly properly examined, is a good demonstration for how things are not as they are claimed to be by the conventional sciences. There's a lot of nonsense in this arena, so it requires a bit of earnest searching before you find the 'good' stuff and begin to see how it all works. (Essentially, small systems are not necessarily influenced by large systems, but are mirrored. Consider that one part of a graphic created using fractal mathematics replicates on b
Stay away from these things, kids.
Ascending takes a fully charged and properly functioning mind, and these boxes exist to make sure you never reach such a state.
-FL
A toenail cell can be made to de-differentiate into a stem cell. It's done by triggering built-in responses within the cell with micro-DC currents.
Salamanders can re-grow whole legs because all the cells in their bodies can de-differentiate, and do so.
The cells at the end of the wound, (where a leg was amputated), receive intructions through the DC nervous system to regress from 'shoulder' cells into a pulp of un-differientiated cells, from which a whole leg can then grow anew.
The DC nervous system is universal to all animal life, it sits beneath the regular nervous system, (far out-dates it, it is thought, in terms of evolution), and it plays a complex role in how cells develop and deploy.
The chances are, however, that you've not heard of this. There's a reason for that, and it has nothing to do with being, 'junk science'.
Acupuncture accesses the DC electrical nervous system. Metal pins are inserted into key points, and set to gently rotating. The rotating creates a micro DC current, which then activates certain aspects of the human body's natural systems. Accupuncture works for a reason.
You can read more about this in Robert O. Becker's Book, Cross Currents
Science, as it currently stands, is a highly limited affair which is only allowed to look in certain directions which won't upset the status quo.
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The main point is that awareness and individuality is the soul, which is timeless. "Life", as defined by both the scientists and the relgious seems to be defined by the body.
It is possible for a human body to grow and enter the world without a soul; there is enough automatic survival response in a brain and body to function more or less completely in this world without full awareness. Automatic response machines. You've probably met many in your time. Psychopaths are the ones which are broken, but otherwise they're hard to spot unless you can see and interpret energy.
Actually, to say that they are 'soulless' is not entirely accurate; even a psychopath like Bush plays host to something like a small proto-soul which is either in a state of regression and decay (George Bush), or is otherwise engaged in the game of advancement and are working their way up to full souls. Such human containers provide a bridge; a body in which to practice and ease into human soul-hood after graduating from the 2nd level of density, (the animal kingdom), to the 3rd, (where humans exist.)
Interestingly, we are quickly approaching a period where computers are fast and complex enough to provide a matrix suitable for a soul to integrate with. The science community will probably call this AI, and think they're being terribly clever. Movies like 'I Robot', 'Terminator' and the 'Matrix' are somewhat prophetic.
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--Including next week's winning lottery numbers, a picture of your face, blue prints to your house, your brain, and a nice little faster-than-light getaway vehicle and the formula for its shocking-pink meteorite-resistant paint.
It's just a matter of finding the right sequences. Or building a device which can find those sequences for you upon request. --I call such a device an, "Infinity Box".
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I'll just offer that, surprisingly, Echelon is actually not in the tin-foil hat section. Its existence is a fact accepted by big media. --60 Minutes did a piece on it; the story was not about whether or not Echelon exists, but rather on how the information it collects might be abused. Transcripts of the program are easy enough to find on the web.
Basically, the subject of Echelon was 'outed' in a session of British parliament some years back. It seemed to me that the British government felt they were being unfairly kept out of the info sharing club and so went public with the existence of Echelon in order to make a childish stink. --Or that was my impression when the story broke in all the papers. It was all damage control from that point on.
Anyway, that was a long time ago now, so who the heck knows what's really going on at the moment?
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If you ever start saying things which are of interest to those who are plugged in, then you will be recorded. Why is nobody upset about this? Why are the politicians not hanging from lamp posts? Why are the spy agencies and secret military outposts not flushed out?
This current stuff in the news is just a bit of low-level fluff for the public to consume and integrate into their state-managed fake version of reality so that they think they are still in control. Phooey.
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I'd guess that the two are one and the same.
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A small group of 30 or so people can collect enough signatures to get a vote going and if enough people agreee, the guy is out of there!
So then why is Bush still in office? How do you go about starting a recall petition?
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No. Sociopathy is, from my understanding, the same as psychopathy, except that sociopaths haven't killed. --Though, the terminology even within medicine (at least ten years ago when I last checked), was not very well established or agreed upon. Perhaps things have changed.
In any case, I'm afraid I must disagree with you; I think that normal people have to learn to trust in each other. People offer low levels of basic trust, and if those are not betrayed, then higher levels of trust are offered.
The problem is that there are all these little guilt triggers which prevent people from making what would seem to be very basic decisions when trust is betrayed. Abusers are often protected by the silence of the ones they abuse because the victim is too embarrassed to speak, or has been taught to forgive and forget far beyond the margin of logically forgivable error.
There is nothing noble about allowing yourself to be abused by somebody who is not capable of learning proper behavior.
As for law enforcement. . , that only works when crimes are reported. And how can the law be realistically expected to protect us from those who manipulate co-workers and tell destructive lies? Those things are best protected against on a personal level by being open and aware and not allowing silly social programming to bind us. What better environment could there be for a predator than one in which everybody universally 'forgives and forgets' and seeks to protect the abuser by not warning others when it really matters? Yet this is the way society is currently built.
Forgiving is fine and necessary when the person who betrayed you is penitent and wants to grow. But why should we forget? All experience is valuable; it allows us to know how we and others are growing. If others are not growing, then forgiveness no longer makes sense. Memory is required to learn.
Our culture is filled with many dangerous little social programs which were designed to make us easier prey. One of the biggest being the whole fabrication of Christ dying on the cross. --That story compels believers that it is better to be tortured and to suffer a 'noble' death than to refuse to be abused. --Our culture has been programmed to allow us to be lied to horribly and to forgive the liar so that s/he can repeat the crime again and again.
"Saddam has WMD's." "Our troops will be home in ten weeks."
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Yeah. Bush is so dumb that he's managed to steal the U.S. presidency. Twice. Sell the lie of terrorism to the world, neatly install all the infrastructure necessary for a fully-operational fascist government, and start two wars based on bullshit.
The thing about psychopaths is that they are able to create chaos and get away with it by lying and appearing harmless. They do it by not acting within the accepted human behavioral parameters, but because normal humans do behave within those parameters, they naturally attempt to also interpret the psychopath's actions within that same rule-set. Thus Bush is just, 'dumb'.
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[Spits coffee.] "What???"
--Define 'mild' psychopath, please. And how could ANYBODY think that even a 'mild' psychopath is a suitable person for one of the world's most powerful seats of government?
And you might want to think twice about accusing anybody of spewing propaganda. --A common tactic of the psychopath is to accuse others of what he is himself guilty of.
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There are certain characteristics which Psychopaths do often share. Certain language problems
I think it's more a matter of being aware and making smart choices. If somebody continues to do harm while smiling, there comes a time when you no longer, 'Forgive and Forget' or 'Turn the Other Cheek', and feel guilty for, 'Gossiping'.
Simple as that. Basically, the way to defend against manipulative, abusive people is to regularly network and share knowledge, (Psychopaths love secrecy and cannot help but tell lies, and regular networking will show up a liar for what s/he is). You need to be objective. "Yes I like this person, but do the results of his/her actions match their words?" It takes time, because you need to see a pattern of behavior, but the patterns will emerge. Then you need to stand up for yourself, always sharing information openly with those around you so that others can be aware.
If everybody thought this way, then psychopaths would not rise so easily to the tops of power structures in both business and government.
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And so on. The point that the researchers noted was that psychopaths seem to have trouble monitoring their own speech. What is more, they often put things together in strange ways, such as this series of remarks from serial killer Clifford Olson: "And then I had annual sex with her." "Once a year?" "No. Annual. From behind." "Oh. But she was dead!" "No, no. She was just unconscientious." About his many experiences, Olson said, "I've got enough antidotes to fill five or six books - enough for a trilogy." He was determined not to be an "escape goat" no matter what the "migrating facts." [Hare]
Some Bush Jr. quotes. . .
I'm not certain that it's possible to have accurate testing for psychopathy. I think it's more a matter of being aware and making smart choices. If somebody continues to do harm while smiling, there comes a time when you no longer, 'Forgive and Forget' or 'Turn the Other Cheek', and feel guilty for, 'Gossiping'.
Simple as that. Basically, the way to defend against manipulative, abusive people is to regularly network and share knowledge, (Psychopaths love secrecy and cannot help but tell lies, so regular networking will show up a liar for what s/he is). You need to be objective. "Yes I like this person, but do the results of his/her actions match their words?" And you need to stand up for yourself, always sharing information openly with those around you so that others can be aware.
If everybody thought this way, then psychopaths would not rise so easily to the tops of power structures in both business and government.
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Played with little rectangular bits of cardboard imprinted with color images, each unit cost well under a cent to make.
Can you see where I'm going here. . ?
As it happened, these little bits of cardboard proved to be immensely popular. People were willing to shell out hundreds of dollars for single cards at the height of Magic's half-decade rule of high popularity. --Thing is, you couldn't eat 'em. You couldn't build much of a shelter with them. In fact, they were pretty much useless. . , except as a means of holding a little bit of information by way of printed text.
As printed text is worthless to anybody who hasn't got a functioning and integrated human brain, all the value contained on those bits of cardboard existed entirely because everybody agreed at the same time that those little bits of cardboard were valuable. It was an huge act of group imagination filling a dead artifact with pretend value. --But that by itself is interesting, because it creates the reality in which people were willing to shell out hundreds of dollars, (more printed bits of paper, BTW).
So what gives?
Simple. Imagined value is just as powerful as any other kind when everybody agrees to participate in the illusion. Heck, it has been said that the health of the economy is entirely, (100%) dictated by people's belief in what the health of the economy happens to be.
Thus, Cybercrime, if enough people agree that matter-less bits of coded data, (which you can't eat or build a shelter out of), are worth something, then yeah, people are going to go to dramatic extremes to acquire said bits of imagined 'property'.
Physical property is usually just a place-holder for imagined value. In the digital world, the place holder for the illusionary value just happens to be made of the same stuff as the illusionary value itself. Thin air and the spark of imagination.
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In any case, the animals on Sable Island, which is only about 40 Km long and a couple of Km wide, were not native. There are about 250 of them at present, and they run wild and do their own thing and generally get alone very well.
Perhaps some elephants would be interesting.
Terraforming begins at home.
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Reminds me of a flurry of adverts which made the rounds a couple of years back; where highly stressful social situations were depicted, (a family arguing over their teen daughter's announced pregnancy, a couple in a strained relationship having an argument, etc.), followed immediately by a product placement. Icky and not very cleverly disguised, but then most of the audience didn't understand what was being attempted.
The moral of the story: Never trust a Coca-Cola product or company. --Any corporation willing to play creepy mind games to sell their product should be denied existence.
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