I'm pirate 2, about to get zero in this scheme. Here's what I'd do. ..
I'd take pirates 1, 3 and 4 aside and tell them; "Arrr, matey's! Here's what we'll do. We're all about to get screwed into nothing while P5 takes all the loot. So-called 'Logic' dictates that there's no other way out! So follow my plan, and the four of us will all be better off!
"We vote down P5 and feed him to the sharks, but first we promise that immediately after killing the old bastard, we stop this voting nonsense and cut the loot four ways! That way we all profit and we get rid of that old blackguard! Are ye in or are ye out? If yer in you get 25 gold, if yer out, you get only one gold or nothing. What say ye?"
This is why logic problems are retarded. They only work in closed systems which never adapt, and this is why they don't work in the real world.
Interestingly, this is also why the Powers That Be want to make the world more and more controlled so as to make it so that their dipshit game theories CAN work. Luckily, this is quite impossible. Un-luckily, everybody gets hurt as they try to do it anyway.
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But a hint, start with the worst solution, then 'think up' a better solution while you're writting out the first. Do not try writting out the optimal solution from scratch from your head.
Ah. A cheat tactic to get through some of their testing scenarios. If so, it suggests that the people they select are those who are good at using manipulations of people's perceptions in order to get ahead.
Sociopathy is very hard to weed out. I hope at least some part of their hiring process was designed to pinpoint dangerous assholes. Google, after all, is heading towards becoming the brain of the planet. We certainly don't want a bunch of creeps at that switch, now do we?
You have some interesting thoughts, but your arguments are as sloppy as your use of grammar. And for goodness sake, start employing some <BR>'s and <P>'s.
Every major outlet in the Big Media was very pro-war when the Bush government was busy pulling the wool over the public's eyes, promising a short, easy, inexpensive war where the Iraqis would welcome foreign troops and everybody would be richer and the world would be a better place, blah, blah, blah. --Which turned out to be a bunch of lies based on more lies about WMD's, and all of which was driven by the desire to rape the public purse for insanely over-priced 'reconstruction contracts' and weapons sales which is right now making certain people very, very rich.
The whole thing stunk to high heaven and nearly everybody bought it because they had been trained to believe that the talking heads on TV were smart and wise and good rather than being a bunch of state-owned propaganda dupes. -Amazingly, this was all largely done in the same style of tactical manipulation employed by other great psychopathic power mongers throughout history.
And the Big Media pushed and sold this bullshit. 'Freedom Fries', anybody? (Does everybody still hate the French for not being as gullible? Nobody likes to be shown up as stupid after the fact, so I bet most people do still hate the French.)
Anyway, my point is. ..
The ONLY place I was seeing the opposing message in any force during those horrible 'watching a train-wreck in slow-motion' days was on the Web, --primarily through individuals posting their views and research on simple web-pages and discussion groups. Like Slashdot.
Bloggers can post anything they want, w/o refutation, or consequence (barring libel suit, natch)-- there's no way to proximally refute a blog's BS. Journalists, at least, are held to some standard, and their outlets -- papers, magazines, networks, have to at least occasionally genuflect at the altar of veracity. A journalist who lies and is caught becomes unemployed; not so the blogger, who can spew and rave unchallenged.
Nonsense.
Deliberate lies, misrepresentation and lies by omission happen every single day all throughout the Big Media without penalty. --The most effective lies being those which the journalists have themselves been sold on. There is a LOT of state mind-control and propaganda going on. Most of what people see in Big Media is designed to manipulate and control and weave falsehoods.
Now, it is of course true, as you point out, that no single source on the web can be automatically trusted. However. . , an individual with information is able to post without restriction, through blogs or other means. And when the reader takes the responsibility of cross-referencing information and above all, THINKING for his or herself, then a picture of the true objective reality can begin to emerge where blind faith in Big Media makes such a thing much, much less likely.
If you are an artist, will you get a cut of the tax?
Short answer: No.
Long answer: Not unless you are Big Corp or otherwise part of some sort of union of artists, which leads other problems.
The most stupid part of this whole dumb-ass affair is that the Powers That Be want people addicted to the media. Keeps them from thinking too much. This whole legality distraction is just that. Distraction. (People crave what they can't have. Seems to work like a charm.)
I'm currently staying away from home at a place with a satellite dish. So I've been watching regular TV for the first time in a few years. Man, it sucks.
I sat through two episodes of Star Trek DS9 which SUCKED ASS, an episode of Star Trek Voyager which SUCKED ASS, an episode of Enterprise which SUCKED ASS, and an episode of Stargate which, you guessed it, SUCKED ASS.
So much for Starfleet. I remember liking that stuff.
So then I watched two back to back episodes of something called, "Lost". -A popular show which sucked in a totally different way. Man, that show had me squirming in my chair. It's like all the writers out there think that the bullshit facades which they call their lives are accurate measurements of what it means to be human, and so map that onto the characters they try to "Bring to Life", and end up with a bunch of shallow and utterly false mannequins parading around on screen. Ugh!!!! It's maddening.
Yes, I've seen some fairly good episodes of some of these shows, but three days of trying and getting nothing but shit? I think I'll take that as a hint to stay on the wagon and be damned happy about it.
Or maybe it's an abstinence thing; I hear people who have quit cigarettes often feel sick at the smell of tobacco smoke afterwards. ..
Wow, talk about a prime terrorism target! Now one well-placed bomb could simultaneously disrupt car/truck transportation, freight railways, commuter railways, electicity, water, oil, gas, AND broadband.
Ugh. Just keep right on believing that nonsense. Ossama is in your basement. Oooh. Fear!
--Because, you see, it's very important to establish a pecking order. That is, to make sure there is a strong base to the pyramid (or cube), peopled with the most foolish, the most easily ridiculed, most easily scorned, and then to populate the structure upwardly until we reach the top, where of course the builder of the structure (the narcissist) tries to place his or herself in the seat of power.
Mean-spirited humor designed to cause pain -of the spirit- is the prime tool, and it is very effective in so far as it works. Truncheons and guns have also proven effective over the ages. Just as long as there is a victim and a bully.
And so the feeding goes. -And it is feeding. You meet these types all the damned time. --At parties, in politics, in business structures. Such people are simply not comfortable unless somebody is hurting beneath them. The Pecking Order represents one of the two fundamental structures for making a world as we know it function. And in my opinion, it is the wrong one; self-destructive and limiting.
The alternative is that of the Network where communal growth is encouraged, where there is no top of the pyramid and energy doesn't move in a single direction, but rather is distributed where needed and where asked for by those who are not out only for themselves.
That is. . . Nothing to see here, folks. Nothing more than informed opinion accumulated for no other purpose than social climbing.
What difference should it make to any of your plans? Seriously? If the rocks fall next week or eight years from now, you still have to focus on the problems facing you right now. -It IS very important to not pretend that everything is all okay and all normal, because that's just not how things are, not on any level; not politically, not environmentally, not even solar-systematically; choosing to believe in lies is right up there in the top three or four most self-destructive things a person can do. Life is about growing one's spirit, and that cannot be done by embracing falsehoods. When one is given to pretending that things are okay, that sets the rhythm for a life; if you view the external world through wishful thinking, then you will inevitably use the same tools on the internal, which means you will simply never fix the problems inside yourself because you will pretend that the problems are not even there. Truth hurts, which is what drives us to fix the ugly parts of ourselves. But that being said, at the same time it is also foolish to get needlessly upset by the various nerve-jangling truths when they become apparent. Like impending asteroid strikes.
Asteroid disasters, (among other things, including the most recent 9.0 earthquake in the East), are going to start pounding the crap out of us with increasing regularity until there's not much left but a lot of debris and the cold wind whistling. That's all part of the show. Everybody dies, so why stress over it? Recognize it, adjust course as necessary and move on.
You're here to work on the spirit, not the physical. The interesting part is that if you're ready to advance, you might actually avoid the big crunch. It'll all be clear soon enough.
When I read the original story I thought to myself. ..
"Huh? 10,000 Slashdotters all jostling to flip half a dozen toggles on some guy's house lights? As if that could possibly work. Talk about bottle necks! So either this is a Fool's plan, or it's a hoax and anybody who believes it has been Fooled, --as well as demonstrating themselves to be immature enough to still believe that they are the center of the universe where all rules including band-width averages only apply to other people. (Bad things can't happen to me because I'm special!). --Either way somebody somewhere is playing the Fool, and how the heck did this rate being posted on Slashdot?"
I almost posted something to that effect, but then I figured, "Aww. Don't be a humbug. It's Christmas. I'm sure the editors are just being cute."
I was under the impression that it was a sort of natural result of that much mass, but that's just me) of our binary star system, you're going to have to provide more evidence than just making an offhand reference to it.
At least, you are if you want me to believe it.
That's very fair, but let's be clear about one thing; I don't want you to believe anything. Your search for knowledge is yours alone. --I do, however, think it is important to make avenues of learning available when possible. To share.
That being the case, I will explain a bit more of what I understand about the issue. ..
Our solar system has two stars; one did not achieve enough mass to start the fusion process, and so remains a giant ball of matter invisible as it is beyond the reflective range of the Sun, and because it emits no visible light. One would think that it might be found by radio telescopes, but nobody is looking for it, and the sky is large. It's orbit around our sun is quite massive, taking about two hundred and thirty thousands years to complete. It is an elliptical orbit, and at it's nearest point to the Sun, it brushes just beyond Pluto's orbit, passing through the Kuiper belt.
This theory is called the 'Dark Star', or 'Nemesis' theory. This you can look up for yourself. The general concensus among astronomers who give credence to the theory is that such a body is needed to explain orbital irregularities seen in the other planets which remain otherwise unaccounted for. This is, of course, a fairly unpopular theory and it is not taught anywhere I know of in orthodox learning institutions, but the theory itself appears to be sound.
It was expected to be seen at its closest orbit, as within Pluto's range, it ought to have been visible. Interestingly, back around 1999, a large object was noted, and discussed, but it was played down and called different things, explained in different ways. --Made out to be a fairly small planetoid, between the size of Pluto or the Moon, but this I believe was probably a misdirection since such a small body would not account for the irregularities in the planetary orbits of the rest of the solar system.
Anyway. ..
The theory regarding regularly appearing comet impacts resulting from this body knocking debris from the Kuiper belt into low orbit is less easily discussed, coming as it does from a channeled source. --That would be, from alien intelligences communicating through a ouija board. Information of that kind is generally ignored by most serious researchers for a variety of reasons, all largely stemming from social programming and bias. --On one side of the fence are the religious types who fear such communications come from biblical monsters, while on the other side of the fence are those who have been successfully brought to bear under the reigns of the 'cult of science', which limits and twists the powers of rational thinking so that its followers remain easily led and easily blinded to un-profitable ways of thinking. Proper science without social controls and knee-jerk emotional reactions is rare.
Interestingly, though, when using these esoteric leads to investigate the possibilities of regular comet impacts, lots of evidence does in fact turn up, through historical texts, geologic evidence, etc.
In any case, those are some leads you may follow if you choose.
Now consider a rain storm of such rocks in the hundreds of thousands, or more. Rocks of this sort come from somewhere after all. They tend to travel in huge clusters, being disturbed from their regular spots in the Kuiper Belt as they are by a certain enormous passing gravity well which makes up the un-ignited other half of our binary star system. --And no, you probably won't hear about that in school or on the 'Discovery' channel.
But whatever the cause, there are without question massive geologic features on this planet which suggest that such rock-storms have happened in the past, and are in fact fairly regular events which are probably cyclical. --Their cyclical nature results from the fact that rock clusters don't go away, but continue to orbit.
There is also reason to think that we're not just entering such a cycle again, but that the cluster of rocks are a fresh lot. It's not about one big rogue asteroid. When the shit hits it's probably not going to be isolated to just one event.
Of course, many people who don't like to think about scary ideas, or indeed any ideas which did not appear in their state-sanctioned text books, -such people will tell you that the huge increase in the number of recent news stories about rocks hitting the ground are simply the result of better reporting techniques and that nothing has otherwise changed. I think such people are not dealing with full data, and often not even the desire to have full data, but that's just me.
Find out who drafted it and what their affiliations were, because I'm of the opinion that it was almost certainly crap written by guys who either don't want to think about scary things, or who don't want you to think about scary things. Or both. (Nobody likes to drink alone, after all.)
The media is designed to control and misdirect. NASA is a government body owned by the military and corporate interests, --the same people who own the media, and the filthy consumers like to feel safe and secure in their current fuzzed-out head-spaces.
Comet disaster is the elephant in the living room. Or, one of them, anyway. There are several others. --From my understanding the Earth is on its way to being hammered by a whole lot of rocks all at once, and the boys at the very top know it. Hence, the underground bunkers and the mad scramble to secure resources. Among other things. The big shewww is expected sometime during the next eight years or there about. It ought to be interesting, to say the least! I hope I survive the police state to see it all come down. (Pun intended.)
I've seen some things posted about the possibility of resonance. This would seem to indicate that a MRI scan of a human body would show the vunerabilities by virtue of antenna reciprocity. Yet, because of the self sheilding nature of our conductive tissues, it would take substantial amounts of RF radiation to have much effect on specific chemical bonds in the body. The amount of power we're talking about is high enough that I believe the predominant concern would be thermal rather than any resonance.
Based on the -many- items I've read, forms of resonance are indeed key. There are, however, a couple of vital elements you are overlooking if your above statements are properly representative of your knowledge on the subject.
Significant in this area are the investigations by a fellow named Robert O. Becker. He is one of the best recognized researchers in the field, so you may already be somewhat aware of his work. If not, then your career-based interest would be well served in looking him up. Cross Currents is available on Amazon for seven bucks plus postage.
If you read, then you have the time, if you surf the web, then you have the money, and if your curriculum vitae are an honest representation, then you also have the background required to benefit strongly.
Not one study has demonstrated repeatable results of any non-thermal effects. Some positive studies were just poorly done. Others were shining examples of outright fraud, such as the Liburdy (sp?) case at Stanford University a few years ago.
And you are. . ?
Thanks for backing up your little wall of denial with nothing but air and one fraudulent example I've never heard of and which even you don't know well enough to be assured of its correct spelling. It seems to me that this might be an indicator of just how well you really know the subject matter upon which you are expressing such a final word.
There have been several thousand studies done, and among them I've read some excruciatingly detailed examinations, and they are rather more convincing than your all-caps, bolded, italicized bit of 'nothing'.
rather more fantastic than you might care to indulge, but. ..
Look up "Alternative 3" to get a general idea of what's in store. --Or play Halflife 2 for the cartoon version with 'War of the World' aliens standing in for whatever the heck is coming down the pike.
Neither version is too far off the mark, I'm afraid. It's going to be interesting times, to say the least! I sort of hope I live long enough to see the monsters land! The subconscious of the world has been preparing for this for the last hundred years or so.
Oh yeah. --A tip from a survivor of WWII I spoke with today. When the enemy army advances, don't run with the mob in the opposite direction. If you do that, you guarantee being on the wrong side of the front-line, which is going to catch up. Being bombed and shot at sucks. The advice of this old European damme was to stay put, keep low, and let the army advance past your position. She only had to hide for about two days and then the coast was clear. After that, it was just a matter of riding out the war for the next few years.
I don't know how that advice applies to current plans and technology. But it's the pattern of thinking which counts, I suspect. If you think out of the box, then you're not boxed in!
Part of me wonders if the negative health effects are to do with the nicotine, or the hundreds of poisonous additives included with corporate tobacco. These days, it is both largely illegal to grow your own, and almost impossible to find non-GM plants.
The Nazi regime was the first goverment to start propagandizing against smoking. Interesting, that. ..
I knew a guy who went crazy whenever he ate junk foods. He was on ritalin, but he never managed to get off the stuff.
A clean system and a good diet free of artificials is the first step to a clear mind. Many know this, but few act on it. Seems weird that this obvious step is so rarely observed or taken.
The point is not to know what's going on with every man, woman and child on the face of the earth, but to limit and control the actions of every man, woman and child.
This is best done when fear is in place. --You don't have to be aware of accurate information on everybody. You just need instant access to accurate information on everybody. That way, you can make your quotas of public beatings and arrests without hassle. This, by itself, provides the impetus for the good sheep to stay good sheep.
My main concern is their definition of a 'terrorist'. I have no problems with law enforcement agencies going after real, or suspected terrorists, but I do disagree with the slow creep of the word to include people who have different opinions then the government.
S'already working, since there are no terrorists other than those the government deliberately allowed to act. The 'terrorism' bugaboo is just a way to trick people into being heavily controlled. But you know that already.
You're not paranoid. It's simply that you're not stupid.
The question is, do you know why reality is shifting in that direction?
Is that so many highly engaging games should be released right now. --Why downloading whole television series is suddenly in vogue. Movies don't do enough to distract. A film has its propagandic power, but when you need to kill hours of awareness time, nothing beats a personal television screen with personalized content!
Kinda makes me wonder what's going on which is so important that the PTB can't afford for anybody to have any spare energy or awareness to spend looking around scratching their heads. ..
Then again, those who don't play the games or watch TV could probably explain it. ..
What with the fraudulent election quietly unravels as those who rigged the thing are beginning to murmur in discontent about not having been paid for their efforts. --And the Ohio recount officials complaining of mysterious voting machine employees arriving unannounced and to pull and replace pieces of machines. Esteemed muck-raker reporter Gary Webb, (who played a big part in opening up the Iran Contra scandal), dying of "suicide" two weeks ago by, count 'em, two gun shots to the head, (or was that shotgun damage?).
And meanwhile the Punch & Judy bullshit parade starts again with more idiot political drama about Russia selling nuke technology to Iran.
I wonder what would actually happen if everybody stopped staring at their CRT's for five minutes if they might actually be able to get off the cattle track leading to the slaughter house?
by the fruit it bears. Think of what the U.S. was five years ago. Consider what it is today. Some of us knew this was coming, and some of us have a good idea of where it is going and why.
Those who look into the details of our reality and choose to see them without bias and to learn from them and to adapt accordingly will have a far less difficult time as things continue to heat up. Those who choose to rationalize and avoid looking at the problems will get flattened. They will look up one day in horror and wonder how it ever came to pass.
I agree whole-heartedly that we should question everything, but we must remember when doing so to keep our minds open to all possibilities, including that something may even be good.
This is a rational response, and this is exactly the problem. Psychopaths are like diodes; energy only travels one-way. Bush is wired so that all his actions lead to misery and destruction, whereas the general wiring of normal people is such that we feel a gut-level desire to give the benefit of the doubt and auto-correct in our own ears and minds the broken logic of the psychopath because we assume we are dealing with another rational being.
Here's a clip from an article on Psychopathic behavior. ..
Expert warns of dangers of the corporate psychopath - Corporate executives should be screened for psychopathic behaviour disorders, just as teachers and police are, a leading Canadian researcher says. "Why wouldn't we want to screen for them?" Robert Hare said yesterday after a speech to 150 members of the Canadian Police Association. "We screen... police, teachers. Why not people who are going to handle hundreds of billions of dollars?" - He turned his attention to a little-known subset of psychopaths: the corporate kind. - The problem, he said, is corporate headhunters rely on resumes and standard face-to-face interviews, which reveal little about a candidate's psychological profile. "The average psychopath has no trouble moving through that process," Dr. Hare, who teaches at the University of British Columbia, said. "That's not even a hurdle." - When there's chaos, when the rules no longer apply -- enter, stage right, the psychopath. A psychopath flourishes in that atmosphere."
Some Bush 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
Yes. Bush is a reasonable person who needs our understanding and support at all times. He must never be questioned, because he has never done anything irrational, deceitful or corrupt. None of his actions have ever resulted in needless wars, needless environmental destruction, needless economic failure, and in general, needless fascism.
So I wholeheartedly agree. Everybody who has any desire to question the wisdom of this latest measure should sit down and shut up. You are very smart and very cool in your performance of 'impatient level-headedness' and we should all listen to your thought-provoking arguments about air planes.
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I'm pirate 2, about to get zero in this scheme. Here's what I'd do. .
I'd take pirates 1, 3 and 4 aside and tell them; "Arrr, matey's! Here's what we'll do. We're all about to get screwed into nothing while P5 takes all the loot. So-called 'Logic' dictates that there's no other way out! So follow my plan, and the four of us will all be better off!
"We vote down P5 and feed him to the sharks, but first we promise that immediately after killing the old bastard, we stop this voting nonsense and cut the loot four ways! That way we all profit and we get rid of that old blackguard! Are ye in or are ye out? If yer in you get 25 gold, if yer out, you get only one gold or nothing. What say ye?"
This is why logic problems are retarded. They only work in closed systems which never adapt, and this is why they don't work in the real world.
Interestingly, this is also why the Powers That Be want to make the world more and more controlled so as to make it so that their dipshit game theories CAN work. Luckily, this is quite impossible. Un-luckily, everybody gets hurt as they try to do it anyway.
-FL
Ah. A cheat tactic to get through some of their testing scenarios. If so, it suggests that the people they select are those who are good at using manipulations of people's perceptions in order to get ahead.
Sociopathy is very hard to weed out. I hope at least some part of their hiring process was designed to pinpoint dangerous assholes. Google, after all, is heading towards becoming the brain of the planet. We certainly don't want a bunch of creeps at that switch, now do we?
-FL
You have some interesting thoughts, but your arguments are as sloppy as your use of grammar. And for goodness sake, start employing some <BR>'s and <P>'s.
Otherwise, just stop typing. Please.
-FL
The whole thing stunk to high heaven and nearly everybody bought it because they had been trained to believe that the talking heads on TV were smart and wise and good rather than being a bunch of state-owned propaganda dupes. -Amazingly, this was all largely done in the same style of tactical manipulation employed by other great psychopathic power mongers throughout history.
And the Big Media pushed and sold this bullshit. 'Freedom Fries', anybody? (Does everybody still hate the French for not being as gullible? Nobody likes to be shown up as stupid after the fact, so I bet most people do still hate the French.)
Anyway, my point is. .
The ONLY place I was seeing the opposing message in any force during those horrible 'watching a train-wreck in slow-motion' days was on the Web, --primarily through individuals posting their views and research on simple web-pages and discussion groups. Like Slashdot.
-FL
Nonsense.
Deliberate lies, misrepresentation and lies by omission happen every single day all throughout the Big Media without penalty. --The most effective lies being those which the journalists have themselves been sold on. There is a LOT of state mind-control and propaganda going on. Most of what people see in Big Media is designed to manipulate and control and weave falsehoods.
Now, it is of course true, as you point out, that no single source on the web can be automatically trusted. However. . , an individual with information is able to post without restriction, through blogs or other means. And when the reader takes the responsibility of cross-referencing information and above all, THINKING for his or herself, then a picture of the true objective reality can begin to emerge where blind faith in Big Media makes such a thing much, much less likely.
-FL
Short answer: No.
Long answer: Not unless you are Big Corp or otherwise part of some sort of union of artists, which leads other problems.
The most stupid part of this whole dumb-ass affair is that the Powers That Be want people addicted to the media. Keeps them from thinking too much. This whole legality distraction is just that. Distraction. (People crave what they can't have. Seems to work like a charm.)
I'm currently staying away from home at a place with a satellite dish. So I've been watching regular TV for the first time in a few years. Man, it sucks.
I sat through two episodes of Star Trek DS9 which SUCKED ASS, an episode of Star Trek Voyager which SUCKED ASS, an episode of Enterprise which SUCKED ASS, and an episode of Stargate which, you guessed it, SUCKED ASS.
So much for Starfleet. I remember liking that stuff.
So then I watched two back to back episodes of something called, "Lost". -A popular show which sucked in a totally different way. Man, that show had me squirming in my chair. It's like all the writers out there think that the bullshit facades which they call their lives are accurate measurements of what it means to be human, and so map that onto the characters they try to "Bring to Life", and end up with a bunch of shallow and utterly false mannequins parading around on screen. Ugh!!!! It's maddening.
Yes, I've seen some fairly good episodes of some of these shows, but three days of trying and getting nothing but shit? I think I'll take that as a hint to stay on the wagon and be damned happy about it.
Or maybe it's an abstinence thing; I hear people who have quit cigarettes often feel sick at the smell of tobacco smoke afterwards. .
-FL
Ugh. Just keep right on believing that nonsense. Ossama is in your basement. Oooh. Fear!
-FL
--Because, you see, it's very important to establish a pecking order. That is, to make sure there is a strong base to the pyramid (or cube), peopled with the most foolish, the most easily ridiculed, most easily scorned, and then to populate the structure upwardly until we reach the top, where of course the builder of the structure (the narcissist) tries to place his or herself in the seat of power.
Mean-spirited humor designed to cause pain -of the spirit- is the prime tool, and it is very effective in so far as it works. Truncheons and guns have also proven effective over the ages. Just as long as there is a victim and a bully.
And so the feeding goes. -And it is feeding. You meet these types all the damned time. --At parties, in politics, in business structures. Such people are simply not comfortable unless somebody is hurting beneath them. The Pecking Order represents one of the two fundamental structures for making a world as we know it function. And in my opinion, it is the wrong one; self-destructive and limiting.
The alternative is that of the Network where communal growth is encouraged, where there is no top of the pyramid and energy doesn't move in a single direction, but rather is distributed where needed and where asked for by those who are not out only for themselves.
That is. . . Nothing to see here, folks. Nothing more than informed opinion accumulated for no other purpose than social climbing.
-FL
So what?
What difference should it make to any of your plans? Seriously? If the rocks fall next week or eight years from now, you still have to focus on the problems facing you right now. -It IS very important to not pretend that everything is all okay and all normal, because that's just not how things are, not on any level; not politically, not environmentally, not even solar-systematically; choosing to believe in lies is right up there in the top three or four most self-destructive things a person can do. Life is about growing one's spirit, and that cannot be done by embracing falsehoods. When one is given to pretending that things are okay, that sets the rhythm for a life; if you view the external world through wishful thinking, then you will inevitably use the same tools on the internal, which means you will simply never fix the problems inside yourself because you will pretend that the problems are not even there. Truth hurts, which is what drives us to fix the ugly parts of ourselves. But that being said, at the same time it is also foolish to get needlessly upset by the various nerve-jangling truths when they become apparent. Like impending asteroid strikes.
Asteroid disasters, (among other things, including the most recent 9.0 earthquake in the East), are going to start pounding the crap out of us with increasing regularity until there's not much left but a lot of debris and the cold wind whistling. That's all part of the show. Everybody dies, so why stress over it? Recognize it, adjust course as necessary and move on.
You're here to work on the spirit, not the physical. The interesting part is that if you're ready to advance, you might actually avoid the big crunch. It'll all be clear soon enough.
-FL
"Huh? 10,000 Slashdotters all jostling to flip half a dozen toggles on some guy's house lights? As if that could possibly work. Talk about bottle necks! So either this is a Fool's plan, or it's a hoax and anybody who believes it has been Fooled, --as well as demonstrating themselves to be immature enough to still believe that they are the center of the universe where all rules including band-width averages only apply to other people. (Bad things can't happen to me because I'm special!). --Either way somebody somewhere is playing the Fool, and how the heck did this rate being posted on Slashdot?"
I almost posted something to that effect, but then I figured, "Aww. Don't be a humbug. It's Christmas. I'm sure the editors are just being cute."
-FL
At least, you are if you want me to believe it.
That's very fair, but let's be clear about one thing; I don't want you to believe anything. Your search for knowledge is yours alone. --I do, however, think it is important to make avenues of learning available when possible. To share.
That being the case, I will explain a bit more of what I understand about the issue. .
Our solar system has two stars; one did not achieve enough mass to start the fusion process, and so remains a giant ball of matter invisible as it is beyond the reflective range of the Sun, and because it emits no visible light. One would think that it might be found by radio telescopes, but nobody is looking for it, and the sky is large. It's orbit around our sun is quite massive, taking about two hundred and thirty thousands years to complete. It is an elliptical orbit, and at it's nearest point to the Sun, it brushes just beyond Pluto's orbit, passing through the Kuiper belt.
This theory is called the 'Dark Star', or 'Nemesis' theory. This you can look up for yourself. The general concensus among astronomers who give credence to the theory is that such a body is needed to explain orbital irregularities seen in the other planets which remain otherwise unaccounted for. This is, of course, a fairly unpopular theory and it is not taught anywhere I know of in orthodox learning institutions, but the theory itself appears to be sound.
It was expected to be seen at its closest orbit, as within Pluto's range, it ought to have been visible. Interestingly, back around 1999, a large object was noted, and discussed, but it was played down and called different things, explained in different ways. --Made out to be a fairly small planetoid, between the size of Pluto or the Moon, but this I believe was probably a misdirection since such a small body would not account for the irregularities in the planetary orbits of the rest of the solar system.
Anyway. .
The theory regarding regularly appearing comet impacts resulting from this body knocking debris from the Kuiper belt into low orbit is less easily discussed, coming as it does from a channeled source. --That would be, from alien intelligences communicating through a ouija board. Information of that kind is generally ignored by most serious researchers for a variety of reasons, all largely stemming from social programming and bias. --On one side of the fence are the religious types who fear such communications come from biblical monsters, while on the other side of the fence are those who have been successfully brought to bear under the reigns of the 'cult of science', which limits and twists the powers of rational thinking so that its followers remain easily led and easily blinded to un-profitable ways of thinking. Proper science without social controls and knee-jerk emotional reactions is rare.
Interestingly, though, when using these esoteric leads to investigate the possibilities of regular comet impacts, lots of evidence does in fact turn up, through historical texts, geologic evidence, etc.
In any case, those are some leads you may follow if you choose.
-FL
But whatever the cause, there are without question massive geologic features on this planet which suggest that such rock-storms have happened in the past, and are in fact fairly regular events which are probably cyclical. --Their cyclical nature results from the fact that rock clusters don't go away, but continue to orbit.
There is also reason to think that we're not just entering such a cycle again, but that the cluster of rocks are a fresh lot. It's not about one big rogue asteroid. When the shit hits it's probably not going to be isolated to just one event.
Of course, many people who don't like to think about scary ideas, or indeed any ideas which did not appear in their state-sanctioned text books, -such people will tell you that the huge increase in the number of recent news stories about rocks hitting the ground are simply the result of better reporting techniques and that nothing has otherwise changed. I think such people are not dealing with full data, and often not even the desire to have full data, but that's just me.
What you believe is up to you.
-FL
Find out who drafted it and what their affiliations were, because I'm of the opinion that it was almost certainly crap written by guys who either don't want to think about scary things, or who don't want you to think about scary things. Or both. (Nobody likes to drink alone, after all.)
The media is designed to control and misdirect. NASA is a government body owned by the military and corporate interests, --the same people who own the media, and the filthy consumers like to feel safe and secure in their current fuzzed-out head-spaces.
Comet disaster is the elephant in the living room. Or, one of them, anyway. There are several others. --From my understanding the Earth is on its way to being hammered by a whole lot of rocks all at once, and the boys at the very top know it. Hence, the underground bunkers and the mad scramble to secure resources. Among other things. The big shewww is expected sometime during the next eight years or there about. It ought to be interesting, to say the least! I hope I survive the police state to see it all come down. (Pun intended.)
-FL
Based on the -many- items I've read, forms of resonance are indeed key. There are, however, a couple of vital elements you are overlooking if your above statements are properly representative of your knowledge on the subject.
Significant in this area are the investigations by a fellow named Robert O. Becker. He is one of the best recognized researchers in the field, so you may already be somewhat aware of his work. If not, then your career-based interest would be well served in looking him up. Cross Currents is available on Amazon for seven bucks plus postage.
If you read, then you have the time, if you surf the web, then you have the money, and if your curriculum vitae are an honest representation, then you also have the background required to benefit strongly.
-FL
And you are. . ?
Thanks for backing up your little wall of denial with nothing but air and one fraudulent example I've never heard of and which even you don't know well enough to be assured of its correct spelling. It seems to me that this might be an indicator of just how well you really know the subject matter upon which you are expressing such a final word.
There have been several thousand studies done, and among them I've read some excruciatingly detailed examinations, and they are rather more convincing than your all-caps, bolded, italicized bit of 'nothing'.
-FL
Look up "Alternative 3" to get a general idea of what's in store. --Or play Halflife 2 for the cartoon version with 'War of the World' aliens standing in for whatever the heck is coming down the pike.
Neither version is too far off the mark, I'm afraid. It's going to be interesting times, to say the least! I sort of hope I live long enough to see the monsters land! The subconscious of the world has been preparing for this for the last hundred years or so.
Oh yeah. --A tip from a survivor of WWII I spoke with today. When the enemy army advances, don't run with the mob in the opposite direction. If you do that, you guarantee being on the wrong side of the front-line, which is going to catch up. Being bombed and shot at sucks. The advice of this old European damme was to stay put, keep low, and let the army advance past your position. She only had to hide for about two days and then the coast was clear. After that, it was just a matter of riding out the war for the next few years.
I don't know how that advice applies to current plans and technology. But it's the pattern of thinking which counts, I suspect. If you think out of the box, then you're not boxed in!
-FL
-FL
The Nazi regime was the first goverment to start propagandizing against smoking. Interesting, that. .
-FL
A clean system and a good diet free of artificials is the first step to a clear mind. Many know this, but few act on it. Seems weird that this obvious step is so rarely observed or taken.
-FL
This is best done when fear is in place. --You don't have to be aware of accurate information on everybody. You just need instant access to accurate information on everybody. That way, you can make your quotas of public beatings and arrests without hassle. This, by itself, provides the impetus for the good sheep to stay good sheep.
Harvesting begins shortly. Please stand by.
-FL
S'already working, since there are no terrorists other than those the government deliberately allowed to act. The 'terrorism' bugaboo is just a way to trick people into being heavily controlled. But you know that already.
You're not paranoid. It's simply that you're not stupid.
The question is, do you know why reality is shifting in that direction?
-FL
Kinda makes me wonder what's going on which is so important that the PTB can't afford for anybody to have any spare energy or awareness to spend looking around scratching their heads. .
Then again, those who don't play the games or watch TV could probably explain it. .
What with the fraudulent election quietly unravels as those who rigged the thing are beginning to murmur in discontent about not having been paid for their efforts. --And the Ohio recount officials complaining of mysterious voting machine employees arriving unannounced and to pull and replace pieces of machines. Esteemed muck-raker reporter Gary Webb, (who played a big part in opening up the Iran Contra scandal), dying of "suicide" two weeks ago by, count 'em, two gun shots to the head, (or was that shotgun damage?).
And meanwhile the Punch & Judy bullshit parade starts again with more idiot political drama about Russia selling nuke technology to Iran.
I wonder what would actually happen if everybody stopped staring at their CRT's for five minutes if they might actually be able to get off the cattle track leading to the slaughter house?
-FL
Those who look into the details of our reality and choose to see them without bias and to learn from them and to adapt accordingly will have a far less difficult time as things continue to heat up. Those who choose to rationalize and avoid looking at the problems will get flattened. They will look up one day in horror and wonder how it ever came to pass.
Knowledge protects. Ignorance endangers.
-FL
This is a rational response, and this is exactly the problem. Psychopaths are like diodes; energy only travels one-way. Bush is wired so that all his actions lead to misery and destruction, whereas the general wiring of normal people is such that we feel a gut-level desire to give the benefit of the doubt and auto-correct in our own ears and minds the broken logic of the psychopath because we assume we are dealing with another rational being.
Here's a clip from an article on Psychopathic behavior. .
Some Bush quotes. . .
... 9/22/97
... 5/20/96
"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."
"Illegitimacy is something we should talk about in terms of not having it."
"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
"They misunderestimated me."Bentonville, Ark., Nov. 6, 2000
"I know how hard it is for you to put food on your family." Greater Nashua, N.H., Chamber of Commerce, Jan. 27, 2000
"I know the human being and fish can coexist peacefully."-Saginaw, Mich., Sept. 29, 2000
"The most important job is not to be governor, or first lady in my case."-Pella, Iowa, as quoted by the San Antonio Express-News, Jan. 30, 2000
"I think if you know what you believe, it makes it a lot easier to answer questions. I can't answer your question." - Reynoldsburg, Ohio, Oct. 4, 2000
"Natural gas is hemispheric. I like to call it hemispheric
So I wholeheartedly agree. Everybody who has any desire to question the wisdom of this latest measure should sit down and shut up. You are very smart and very cool in your performance of 'impatient level-headedness' and we should all listen to your thought-provoking arguments about air planes.
-FL
--Which would not exist at all without community enthusiasm and support. These are POSITIVE things. Why do some people have a problem with this?
Your stick is in the mud.
-FL