I've dealt with a couple of weird and scary situations, too.
There absolutely are monsters out there. No question.
Invoking Christ is a help; he's a very positive and helpful being dedicated to helping our world, and he's not the only one. Linking him to religion, however, can be very limiting. He was just a very enlightened fellow and the religion which sprung up around him is rather bent and has its own problems. It has often been used to inflict great misery upon the world. Christ is an entirely service-to-others oriented person, and so it doesn't matter who asks for his help. The fact of the matter is that the church and churchy-people are the ones who most often ask. He'll help anyone, but I'd be surprised if he would endorse much of the limited and downright backwards thinking embodied by the religion started in his name.
Demons, however, are not 'demons' as such. They are just severely service-to-self oriented beings which live on other planes and which have access to ours for purposes of feeding on our spirit energy. Fear and anxiety are food sources, and so they have a lot of nasty ways to inflict misery.
Some of them are like wild animals or sharks. Mindless and automatic. Others are very intelligent and are often indeed associated with UFO's.
Being in the physical plane, we actually have a lot of power over our own immediate lives; an ephemeral being of a lower order (sharks) must either possess a mind, whisper to a mind, or manifest directly, all of which are difficult and energetically taxing. UFO types, by contrast, use technology and organized efforts and thus have a great deal of power. Abductions are possible. Individual ephemeral entities must do their 'thing' through personal means, and in such cases, a healthy, mentally secure person is normally very difficult to overcome. Drugs, fear, greed, exhaustion, depression and low self-esteem lower one's resistance and open up channels to manipulation, but for the most part, this is our reality, and we have a lot of power here one on one. It's the UFO types which cause the big problems which are affecting our world and history; which are making Human culture one giant experiment/feeding ground. --They have the power to pluck you out of time and space and directly tinker with your mind. To them, we are lab rats and we have about as much power to stop them directly as lab rats. Since they function from a vantage point where time as we understand it is a spatial vector, to them any point of our history can be entered and exited at will. Religion and indeed, most of history is a highly manipulated affair. As the 'end of the world' approaches, (from our perspective), they are aiming to make the harvest rich indeed!
I also know guys in the military. The kind without identities and have the sort of training which most people think only exists in X-Men comics. The top levels of the military are fully aware of how this works, and they're more into population control working for the aliens than anything else. They don't believe there are any other options, or they are selfish types. They have chosen to work against humanity. We see the result of this every day in our world. The current war and the control measures levied upon society are direct results.
There ARE, however, other options. Since souls do not die, every incarnation is simply an opportunity to learn further through experience. This is an opportunity to further align yourself with the Service-to-others polarity. The more you shine and follow your inner light, the more you tip the scales. This planet, when it changes, is going to be either predominantly self-serving or other-serving. After the shift, all those of the losing side leave. --Like being in a room filled with very negative people when you are a positive person; you feel sick and you need to get out. And vice versa. Same with movies you cannot stand to watch. Each way of existing creates its own harmony, and if you don't fit, you are repelled. Right
Dangit, I'm even giving up mod points for this. That's just stupid. Be careful whose Kool-Aid you're drinking.
Here's one well-researched and very thoughtful rubuttal to the Popular Mechanics article. The Popular Mechanics article is widely considered too silly to even consider. --There are more logical flaws in that article than can be forgiven in any intelligent discussion.
There's a good amount of evidence to suggest that 9-11 was the result of radio-control piloting.
# Behavior of Villains The behavior of the alleged hijackers preceding the attack is inconsistent with skill and discipline needed to have a hope of pulling off such an attack.
* Mohammed Atta allegedly barely caught Flight 11, a key flight in the event that he was supposedly planning for years.
* The alleged hijackers partied at topless bars and drank alcohol, despite being portrayed as fundamentalist Muslims, for whom such behavior would be surprising, to say the least.
# Evidence Void There is no hard evidence that any of the alleged hijackers were on any of the doomed flights, and substantial evidence that some weren't involved.
* No video of any of the 19 hijackers at any of the three originating airports of the four flights has been made public, except for a video allegedly showing hijackers of Flight 77.
* At least six of the alleged hijackers have turned up alive since the attack.
* None of the four flight crews radioed Air Traffic Control about hijackings in progress.
* None of the four flight crews punched in the four-digit hijacking code.
* No public evidence indicates that the remains of any of the hijackers was identified at any of the crash sites.
* None of the contents of any of the black boxes have been made public.
* The only 4-1/2 minutes of the phone call from Flight 11 Attendant Betty Ong made public describes a stabbing but does not provide any details indicating that Arab hijackers were on board.
# Phenomenal Success The success with which hijackers allegedly took over four jets with knives and then piloted the jets to small targets is simply miraculous.
* None of the four flight crews were able to stop the alleged hijackers, in spite of several of the pilots being Vietnam veterans.
* None of the alleged hijackers were good pilots, yet the three buildings were hit with phenomenal precision.
--And what precision! To be able to accurately target a building which is so far away that you can't even see it is amazing. These were guys who couldn't even pass flight school. Sounds like a computer assist to me.
You're right. In fact, that is exactly what happened on Flight 93. They knew the score.
Wow! At last, somebody who knows "exactly" what happened on 9-11! Astonishing! Nobody else in the public has anything but theories and logical guesswork, but you actually know exactly what happened! Can I have your autograph?
According to some conspiracy theories, 911 was done by remote control. Of course that doesn't explain how or why the relatives were then calling from planes that were remote control hijacked.
Who says the hijackers weren't real? According to some of the in-flight audio, it didn't sound as though the hijackers believed they'd be flying into buildings. Logic and analysis dictate that they were chumps being used by a darker agency, (Mossad & American Shadow Gov't). The terrorists who attended American flight schools were twits who couldn't even pass their courses. What does this tell us? That they had no expectation of needing to do any precision flying; and it WAS precision flying. The vectors into the trade towers were exact, and they were course-set from many miles outside New York. Hitting a building dead on without even being able to see it is pretty sharp piloting for a guy who couldn't pass basic flight school. It all cries, "Computer Assisted!" --Which in turn cries, "Auto-Pilot!"
There is a theory which covers all bases in this crazy world of ours, but it is not one which many want to hear.
Too thick. Keyboard and screen too small. Too expensive.
Somebody invested in this idea? Sheesh. I am 100% certain I could do a better job if somebody gave me the start-up capitol. Of course, I'd be making an entirely different product.
The first thing I'd do is to establish who my market is. Mine would be people looking for a dedicated word processor/reader with internet abilities.
My machine would have these features. . .
1. No moving parts! (Other than the keyboard and flip top.) It would have no Hard Drive or CD/DVD drives. It would run on removable memory cards.
2. A touchpad and a 9" keyboard. Yes, 9" is bigger than a PDA, but it is smaller than a laptop. Think a sub-notebook but without all the billion bells and whistles. Something you can actually type on properly. The primary purpose here is word processing and document reading.
3. It would run a version of Linux designed specifically for the system. It would have both basic and advanced versions, (you choose while setting up your device). The Basic OS would work like a standard Palm OS so that anybody could make it run, and the Advanced would give experienced users the ability to do whatever they wanted with the system. Hiring excellent programmers would be a major focus.
4. It would use the latest battery tech. Long battery life is essential. The old Jornada 800's, (similar in design) could run for about 6-10 hours depending on usage. I think, using today's technology we could do about the same, given that the CPU would be faster and screen a bit brighter. 6-10 hours is pretty good.
5. PCMCIA card access, so you can plug in a wireless card. The OS would be prepped up to handle it and cards made optional add-ons. The little guy would have a basic phone modem built in.
6. USB2, Firewire, Ethernet ports.
7. A headphone jack.
8. Rugged, but not over 1" thick.
9. A 9" screen.
10. Whatever the most power-efficient, older generation X64 CPU we could find is; something you can get for chump change. Maybe in the 500 Mhz range.
11. Instant on/instant off.
12. 64 Mb of working memory. For websurfing and wordprocessing, that's plenty, and it'll cost very little. Extra memory can be added with dynamic memory cards.
That's it!
When you cut out CD and hard drives, top-notch processors, gobs of memory and crazy video-cards, as well as not having to pay an OS license, the finished product could probably sell for under $600.
Or maybe I'm deluding myself. Am I the only one who'd be happy with such a device? I don't want to watch movies on my portable. I just want to be able to write and surf on the go. I spent $300 on a used Jornada 800, and it's fantastic, but an updated version would be marvelous.
First off, no one cares what you or anyone else thinks about my grammar, so stop wasting your time.
Yes they do, or they wouldn't call attention to it. You're lucky. Most people don't get that kind of feedback. --I've seen countless examples of people losing out on opportunities without even realizing it, all as a direct result of sounding stupid.
Second, I would like you to point out these "rotten" grammar errors.
Okay. Let's look at the last sentence you wrote. ..
"I almost feel sorry for you and many other, but then again I could care less."
To be grammatically correct, it should read: I almost feel sorry for you and many others, but then again I couldn't care less.
But it still sounds awkward, so instead you might try something like: I almost feel sorry for people like you, but it's not worth the effort to care.
Though the real problem sits with your attitude. Accusing people of stupidity while you sound stupid yourself is just plain annoying. That's why you've seen such a backlash to your post. Arrogance combined with poor communication skills is a self-defeating combo, especially in a forum where communication is the name of the game.
Yeah, your projection sounds like a reasonable game plan.
However, the only problem is that the world has a way lately of throwing in the unexpected.
I can't help but think that the Middle East melting down is going to cause some new dynamics. Do the Christian Apocalypse Occultists pushing for this crazy war have a plan of action for when all the people with brown skin are finally dead? What happens when you throw an apocalypse and Jesus doesn't come? Or worse, what happens when somebody shows up claiming to be Jesus? And how does this painfully boring build-up to, "Life On Mars" figure into it all. And then there's the comets and ice age stuff.
All of which sounds very weird, I realize, but if somebody had told me fifteen years ago that the entire national economy would be shaken to its foundation by a chain store called, 'Wal-Mart', that the presidency would be successfully stolen by rigged electronic voting machines, that the West was going to launch a ludicrously named, "War on Terror" because of a Bruce-Willis production of planes-into-sky-scrapers, that the Israelis would turn the Gaza Strip into a concentration camp without the world batting an eyelash, that the record labels would start hiring SWAT teams to enforce copyright while artists STILL get ripped off, and that the gulf stream would stop flowing, I'd have said, "Yeah, but only if the writers happened to be stoned at the scripting session."
It's all a little too Neal Stephenson for me. The world seems very fake and over the top these days, but surprisingly, I'm actually having a hard time being astonished when each successive bit of surreal fever dream weirdness parades onto the stage. I think it's important to be able to look at insane stuff and recognize it as such. Otherwise, it's the same as being asleep at the circus.
Is the Bush regime really planning on leaving office at the end of his term?
Seriously.
All it would take is another well-timed 9-11, or a total market collapse, or some other disaster at the right time, and I can easily see Bush declaring himself Emperor for Life.
Either that, or the next guy will be even worse. "The Prezinator" anyone?
Ugh. In in world where the RIAA has guys with flak jackets and machine guns, any crazy thing can happen.
Diebold had both a responsibility, and if you are to be believed the ability to put out a quality product. They failed to do so. In fact, they failed so spectacularly, it "seems" like they actually sought to do exactly the opposite.
Haha. Typical. Bash a commenter while complaining about his or her "grammar" skills, of which almost no errors exist and avoid the real point and facts at hand; your alternative OS doesn't stand up to the hype.
Okay. I'll do it for him. (Since I don't use Vista, XP or Linux, I can speak without an OS bias in this case.) --Your grammar is rotten. Wading through your sentence structure is like experiencing a brain hemorrhage. While there may be some validity to your points, the advantage those responding to you have is that they sound intelligent. If I had to choose an operating system based on this discussion, I know exactly which way I'd go.
That's what stupid people are for. Let them ruin their bodies through all that fad dieting...
Well, I doubt people are going to ruin their bodies by seeking out foods which work best for them. There is bio-feedback going on at all times; if it feels bad, you always have the choice to stop.
The problem comes when total trust is put into the "Science" Authorities. People who are willing to experiment for themselves probably are less likely to fall for such traps. --The FDA, in one instance, caved to the grain and cattle industries to create food and health guidelines which made people very unhealthy. What happened was that the board of dietary scientists who designed the original "Food Pyramid" submitted that people should eat lots of greens and fruit, and that bread and meats should fill less of the diet. The grain and cattle industries realized that if the American public followed this advice, there would be significant money loss, and so pressure was put on the FDA to re-arrange the pyramid according to their financial needs. And so now we have tons of bread and meat consumed by Americans, and the high rate of obesity and heart disease among Americans is the direct result. Those who are unwilling to experiment with their bodies needs and responses, and who instead wait for an authority figure to tell them what to do, will become the ones who find their bodies ruined.
As for the Stupid People you refer to. . . I also used to get caught up in anger and conceit and point at all the, Stupid People.
Not healthy. People are people, and many of them are ignorant and hurting themselves because of it, this is true, but so is everybody on some level. Nobody knows it all and everybody is making mistakes all the time. --Which makes us all Stupid People. But rather than get caught up in the negativity of this fact and lay judgment upon myself and others, I prefer to show some compassion and just take it for granted that we are all learning. Some lessons are more trying than others, and many of them are alien to us and many of them we have already worked our ways through, but if one recognizes the fundamental truth that we are all learning, then you can avoid making yourself sick on hate and frustration and contempt. --Such emotional stresses inevitably lead to poor health in both body and mind. And limiting yourself in this manner can easily be considered stupid.
Neat article. It's a tribute to the practice of true Science when things which don't fit are not brushed under the rug.
The Kuiper Cliff (#10) fascinates me. I'd not heard about that, but I was aware that a peculiar wobble in the orbits of all the planets suggested that a very large object was orbiting in the distance. The Twin Sun theories are very interesting, especially in how they link to cyclical comet clusters bombarding the earth into the stone age every few thousand years. We're due right now, according to some.
I also find #12 interesting. (The not-so-constant constants). At first glance, it appears to fit well with the idea that there are various levels of energy 'density', providing different levels of reality in which beings can exist. One idea posits that UFOs are visitors from a higher level of reality which is constantly around us.
#13 is funny. (Cold Fusion), --Largely because the editor used pissy wording to describe Pons & Fleischmann's work, probably because he was numbered among those who scoffed at the pair and would prefer to believe that it was somehow the two researcher's faults that he wasn't smart or brave enough to give them more credit.)
And of course #4. (Homeopathy). The solution to accepting that homeopathy works links nicely with many other theories considered bunkish, but which also "somehow" carry weight. Basically, it's not the molecule as much as it is the energetic vibration of the molecule which carries information, and which responds to the body. This is Chi in a nutshell; a whole layer of energetic reality which affects pretty much everything in our universe, upon which astrology, awareness and the spirit, (among other things) are based, but which nobody wants to look at. Except the dark corners of the military, which know how to manipulate aspects of it. CFL's produce how much radio interference? More than cell phones and microwaves and TV's? Hmm.
Good post! Both witty and insightful at the same time. Around here, that's like finding a nice olive in your salad, (if you like olives, which I do.)
--And if you had posted with a "real" name, I'd have modded you a +1 Something since I have Mod points today. Because, you see, I'd rather spend a point raising a good comment to a higher viewing level AS WELL AS raising the poster's karma. When you spend a mod point on an AC's post, you don't boost his/her Karma. (Well, not the digital Slashdot kind at any rate.) So instead, I'll just post this little note.
My gripe is that there are no legitimate scientific studies concluding one thing or the other. The basis of the fad diet book is anecdotal "evidence"...
Fair enough. But sometimes it's okay to explore an idea yourself, particularly a new one, rather than wait around for some nebulous group of experts to legitimize it, particularly with the media being so un-trustworthy these days. Why let a bunch of scientists have all the fun doing the experiments? We were all born natural explorers! I think the good aspects of the media which have brought us a universe of information, have also served to dull a vital element of human nature. It makes us lazy, serves us up belief systems we rarely test for ourselves with any rigor. It places us in a position where many subconsciously seek approval from talking heads on the news and the "Discovery Channel" before we explore our own lives and bodies for ourselves. I love having new information to play with, but I also believe strongly in learning from my own mistakes and in re-inventing the wheel. That's what makes life fun!
Let me summarize it this way: buying organic does not mean that you are buying safer food. Eating vegetarian does not mean you are eating safer. The US has one of the safest food supplies in the world. Someone earlier mentioned bioterrorism (in this case, agro-terrorism). An 'organic' food supply would never survive an attack of, say, anthrax or hoof and mouth. Simply put, organic is not a viable long-term approach. It is, in fact, a niche that provides value for those who are suspicious and worried about scientifically unfounded fears. If organic is a choice for higher quality food (Wild Oats compared to Wal-Mart, for instance) or for reasons of humane treatment, then the issue is no longer about being organic. The meat production industry often gets an undeserved reputation, and there appears to be very little actual information out to combat those opinions.
Well, one of my farmer friends grows vegetables, and he described to me the lengthy rules and regulations on the subject. To have his land certified "Organic," he needed to meet to strict requirements. Land which had been used traditionally, (non-organically) has to remain unsprayed and untreated with synthetic fertilizers for 8 years, afterwhich the certifiers tested the land for residue. A farm upwind of his had been spraying during that time, and the residue was measured in his soil. As a result, he has yet to be certified.
However, "Organic", as you point out, does not mean "Free Range" or "Ethically Produced". It's just a standard by which chemical and genetic qualities are measured. --But it's the only standard currently attempting to set a worthy bar with regard to the chemical purity of food production. The FDA by comparison is riddled with corruption and is heavily influenced by lobyists. There are numerous shameful examples of how the government food safety bodies have sided with industry over public health.
I would also hesitate before I called the American food supply safe. Safe implies a great deal; just with regard to GM foods, there are a lot of unknowns, (as well as several nasty 'knowns'), but such foods are largely unregulated. In Canada, it is not legally required that such things as Canola Oil be appropriately labeled if they have come from GM crops. There have been studies which show marked reason for there to be concern over this.
Meats which come through the orthodox system, I simply cannot find any rational reason to trust. One of the reasons I moved away from a large city was so that I could meet and know my food producers. It is true; some of them are not people I'd want to support, while others are stellar examples. In the end, no human system of labeling is going to be entirely trustworthy. You have to get out there and walk in some mud to get the 'dirt' so-to-speak. Based on all the organic farmers I now know, I do find reason, however, to place a lot of trust with them. Certainly a great deal more than some of the jerks I've met who run the factory chicken farms around here. The difference in philosophical attitude is very often night and day.
One factory chicken farm out here was being financed by a big corporate venture, and they cajoled the local government into allowing them to put a plant right above an aquifer where many people draw their well water. People fought this for a couple of years, had impartial studies done to see what would happen to the water supply, and despite the dire test results the corporations got the go ahead. It's enough to make you see red. People who push for that kind of travesty are either stupid or evil or both. They are also the kind of people who sneer at the idea of 'Organic' foods.
So I hope you will pardon me if I come at this subject with some bias.
In the end, though, my experiences have been very positive; it's amazing what you can learn by diving into a subject! To think that I was a committed city slicker four years ago leaves me regularly amazed.
Are you thinking along the lines of that fad diet? Because there is NO scientific evidence/peer-reviewed research that shows that people with different blood types have different dietary requirements.
Well, I've not read any literature on the subject, but I did talk with biologist who described the subject to me for over an hour and made a great deal of sense while doing so.
In any case, I can attest that while living in a vegetarian household where we all made and shared veg meals together for a couple of years, that I lost a lot of weight in a bad way and felt like total crud, while the fellow who owned the house remained buff, super-fit and rosy-glow healthy on the exact same diet. After I moved out, I started eating meat again and within maybe a week, I had returned to life. It wasn't until later that I heard that blood-types played a role in the sorts of foods different humans are better able to absorb and benefit from. Fascinated, I ran into the aforementioned biologist who described it to me in depth and then I had my blood type checked later that week, (type "O"). Apparently "O" needs more protein than others. So at least from my perspective, it all fits. I've met others who thrive on vegetables only, but I've never asked what their blood types were.
In doing a quick cruise of the web it struck me that some of the people complaining about the blood-type diet seemed to be vegetarians who were having a strong negative reaction to the idea that there might be rational reasons for eating meat. That kind of argument seems to be emotionally motivated, and such arguments are rife with denial and wilful ignorance, best taken with a grain of salt.
Finally, for those of you that think that 'organic beef' or going vegetarian is the answer, think again. Organic beef costs more because you simply can't produce enough of it. The world's protein need can not be entirely met by organic or free-range methods. And as far as vegetarians, think about the recent food-born illnesses. In the last year alone we have seen high-profile deaths due to contaminated onions and lettuce, and now samonella in peanut butter.
Yeah, I'll stick with my much safer beef. As far as those of you who think that 'organic tastes better,' try purchasing quality, non-organic food, rather than the cheapest that you can find at Wal-Mart. There's a difference.
To quote you, "I am amazed at the number of comments made without any real understanding of the issue."
Organic beef does indeed cost more. That's what happens when you decide to feed a cow something which is food as opposed to chemical-filled garbage, (including parts of other cows). This is a given and it is acceptable. You seem to realize this, since you advise people to buy quality beef over cheaper meats. Why do you think more expensive beef tastes better? They give the animal better food and take better care of it. Organic does this by default and goes the extra step of keeping weird hormones and other chemicals, (and other cows) out of the cow's feed. Why do you have a problem with that?
Regarding the world's protein requirements. . . Humans come in different blood-types which have different needs, but typically, Americans consume far, far more protein than their bodies can ever use. A great deal of it is simply ejected in urine.
As for your issues with fruits and vegetables on the grounds that sometimes there are bacteria present. --It's simple; always wash your vegetables. If you do this, you won't get sick. Simple. Second, eat organically grown vegetables; you'll consume far fewer pesticides and heavy metals and other industrial chemicals. Vegetarians definitely have the ability to eat far more safely than those who consume meat, especially with respect to meat produced on a factory farm. Mmm. Growth hormones, prions, GM weirdness and pesticides. Yummy!
Finally, as per the farmers I know and buy from, some of whom are good friends, Organically Raised Beef typically also means compassionately raised and killed. --Free range and respected. I realize this is unimportant to many, but for me, I think a great deal about the lives which must be taken so that I can live. I've known cows close up and found them to be highly intelligent, gentle and very beautiful animals. If I am going to kill one to eat, I want to make sure that it has had a happy life up until its time of death, and that it is killed in a respectful manner. If you are eating non-organic, you are probably eating an animal which has suffered in fear and pain and misery. That's a personal call. People can live in denial, (try not to think about it). People can live in callousness, (So what? I'm superior and I laugh at others' misery.) Or People can live in compassion.
Aided by the Slashdot Einstein icon next to the story, I thought the title read, "Relativity reaches a new low," --and I eagerly read forth to discover what the heck kind of story could come with a heading like that.
I was rather disappointed. Though I still like being able to say that it will now be so much harder to recover if you happen to lose your marbles.
I like this kind of technology. With the right engineering, I don't imagine fishies are going to get hurt. They're usually smart enough to swim around things.
I like metaphor. --The Celts are the first to benefit from 'Wave' energy, eh?
I was getting tired of all the fear-mongering with regard to China. It's nice to see the editors pull up something positive about our neighbors to the East.
I don't hope for that at all. Anyone who feels this way doesn't understand the terrorist mindset. They're not here to live and let live a good life. They're here to die for Allah's greatness and get the fast pass into Paradise. You can't talk with them. You can't reason with them. You either convert -- or die.
Four words: Turn OFF your television!!
The U.S. bombed it's own city using chump scape-goats. There are more holes in the official story than can be counted. There is plenty of evidence of fishy business all pointing to shadow government involvement. There's plenty of evidence of this for anybody who bothers to look.
The latest piece of evidence to surface is footage leaked wherein. ..
Immediately on the heels of the BBC footage where the presenter talks about the collapse of WTC7 20 minutes before the actual event, footage from CNN from the same day shows the presenter stating that WTC7 "has collapsed or is collapsing" one hour before the event and with the apparently fire-free building standing proudly behind him.
The question: Who was feeding these new anchors this information. Clearly, someone in power had foreknowledge of the demolition of WTC7.
WTC7 housed the records from the Enron case along with a ton of other documents which could have incriminated numerous other wealthy people. There are a lot of reasons some people wanted to demolish WTC7, and using 9-11 as an excuse fit nicely. The question is, how did they know when it was going to happen? The answer is, "Because they planned it themselves. Of Course."
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I've dealt with a couple of weird and scary situations, too.
There absolutely are monsters out there. No question.
Invoking Christ is a help; he's a very positive and helpful being dedicated to helping our world, and he's not the only one. Linking him to religion, however, can be very limiting. He was just a very enlightened fellow and the religion which sprung up around him is rather bent and has its own problems. It has often been used to inflict great misery upon the world. Christ is an entirely service-to-others oriented person, and so it doesn't matter who asks for his help. The fact of the matter is that the church and churchy-people are the ones who most often ask. He'll help anyone, but I'd be surprised if he would endorse much of the limited and downright backwards thinking embodied by the religion started in his name.
Demons, however, are not 'demons' as such. They are just severely service-to-self oriented beings which live on other planes and which have access to ours for purposes of feeding on our spirit energy. Fear and anxiety are food sources, and so they have a lot of nasty ways to inflict misery.
Some of them are like wild animals or sharks. Mindless and automatic. Others are very intelligent and are often indeed associated with UFO's.
Being in the physical plane, we actually have a lot of power over our own immediate lives; an ephemeral being of a lower order (sharks) must either possess a mind, whisper to a mind, or manifest directly, all of which are difficult and energetically taxing. UFO types, by contrast, use technology and organized efforts and thus have a great deal of power. Abductions are possible. Individual ephemeral entities must do their 'thing' through personal means, and in such cases, a healthy, mentally secure person is normally very difficult to overcome. Drugs, fear, greed, exhaustion, depression and low self-esteem lower one's resistance and open up channels to manipulation, but for the most part, this is our reality, and we have a lot of power here one on one. It's the UFO types which cause the big problems which are affecting our world and history; which are making Human culture one giant experiment/feeding ground. --They have the power to pluck you out of time and space and directly tinker with your mind. To them, we are lab rats and we have about as much power to stop them directly as lab rats. Since they function from a vantage point where time as we understand it is a spatial vector, to them any point of our history can be entered and exited at will. Religion and indeed, most of history is a highly manipulated affair. As the 'end of the world' approaches, (from our perspective), they are aiming to make the harvest rich indeed!
I also know guys in the military. The kind without identities and have the sort of training which most people think only exists in X-Men comics. The top levels of the military are fully aware of how this works, and they're more into population control working for the aliens than anything else. They don't believe there are any other options, or they are selfish types. They have chosen to work against humanity. We see the result of this every day in our world. The current war and the control measures levied upon society are direct results.
There ARE, however, other options. Since souls do not die, every incarnation is simply an opportunity to learn further through experience. This is an opportunity to further align yourself with the Service-to-others polarity. The more you shine and follow your inner light, the more you tip the scales. This planet, when it changes, is going to be either predominantly self-serving or other-serving. After the shift, all those of the losing side leave. --Like being in a room filled with very negative people when you are a positive person; you feel sick and you need to get out. And vice versa. Same with movies you cannot stand to watch. Each way of existing creates its own harmony, and if you don't fit, you are repelled. Right
Here's one well-researched and very thoughtful rubuttal to the Popular Mechanics article. The Popular Mechanics article is widely considered too silly to even consider. --There are more logical flaws in that article than can be forgiven in any intelligent discussion.
Cheers!
-FL
--And what precision! To be able to accurately target a building which is so far away that you can't even see it is amazing. These were guys who couldn't even pass flight school. Sounds like a computer assist to me.
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Wow! At last, somebody who knows "exactly" what happened on 9-11! Astonishing! Nobody else in the public has anything but theories and logical guesswork, but you actually know exactly what happened! Can I have your autograph?
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Who says the hijackers weren't real? According to some of the in-flight audio, it didn't sound as though the hijackers believed they'd be flying into buildings. Logic and analysis dictate that they were chumps being used by a darker agency, (Mossad & American Shadow Gov't). The terrorists who attended American flight schools were twits who couldn't even pass their courses. What does this tell us? That they had no expectation of needing to do any precision flying; and it WAS precision flying. The vectors into the trade towers were exact, and they were course-set from many miles outside New York. Hitting a building dead on without even being able to see it is pretty sharp piloting for a guy who couldn't pass basic flight school. It all cries, "Computer Assisted!" --Which in turn cries, "Auto-Pilot!"
There is a theory which covers all bases in this crazy world of ours, but it is not one which many want to hear.
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Somebody invested in this idea? Sheesh. I am 100% certain I could do a better job if somebody gave me the start-up capitol. Of course, I'd be making an entirely different product.
The first thing I'd do is to establish who my market is. Mine would be people looking for a dedicated word processor/reader with internet abilities.
My machine would have these features. . .
1. No moving parts! (Other than the keyboard and flip top.) It would have no Hard Drive or CD/DVD drives. It would run on removable memory cards.
2. A touchpad and a 9" keyboard. Yes, 9" is bigger than a PDA, but it is smaller than a laptop. Think a sub-notebook but without all the billion bells and whistles. Something you can actually type on properly. The primary purpose here is word processing and document reading.
3. It would run a version of Linux designed specifically for the system. It would have both basic and advanced versions, (you choose while setting up your device). The Basic OS would work like a standard Palm OS so that anybody could make it run, and the Advanced would give experienced users the ability to do whatever they wanted with the system. Hiring excellent programmers would be a major focus.
4. It would use the latest battery tech. Long battery life is essential. The old Jornada 800's, (similar in design) could run for about 6-10 hours depending on usage. I think, using today's technology we could do about the same, given that the CPU would be faster and screen a bit brighter. 6-10 hours is pretty good.
5. PCMCIA card access, so you can plug in a wireless card. The OS would be prepped up to handle it and cards made optional add-ons. The little guy would have a basic phone modem built in.
6. USB2, Firewire, Ethernet ports.
7. A headphone jack.
8. Rugged, but not over 1" thick.
9. A 9" screen.
10. Whatever the most power-efficient, older generation X64 CPU we could find is; something you can get for chump change. Maybe in the 500 Mhz range.
11. Instant on/instant off.
12. 64 Mb of working memory. For websurfing and wordprocessing, that's plenty, and it'll cost very little. Extra memory can be added with dynamic memory cards.
That's it!
When you cut out CD and hard drives, top-notch processors, gobs of memory and crazy video-cards, as well as not having to pay an OS license, the finished product could probably sell for under $600.
Or maybe I'm deluding myself. Am I the only one who'd be happy with such a device? I don't want to watch movies on my portable. I just want to be able to write and surf on the go. I spent $300 on a used Jornada 800, and it's fantastic, but an updated version would be marvelous.
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Yes they do, or they wouldn't call attention to it. You're lucky. Most people don't get that kind of feedback. --I've seen countless examples of people losing out on opportunities without even realizing it, all as a direct result of sounding stupid.
Second, I would like you to point out these "rotten" grammar errors.
Okay. Let's look at the last sentence you wrote. .
To be grammatically correct, it should read: I almost feel sorry for you and many others, but then again I couldn't care less.
But it still sounds awkward, so instead you might try something like: I almost feel sorry for people like you, but it's not worth the effort to care.
Though the real problem sits with your attitude. Accusing people of stupidity while you sound stupid yourself is just plain annoying. That's why you've seen such a backlash to your post. Arrogance combined with poor communication skills is a self-defeating combo, especially in a forum where communication is the name of the game.
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However, the only problem is that the world has a way lately of throwing in the unexpected.
I can't help but think that the Middle East melting down is going to cause some new dynamics. Do the Christian Apocalypse Occultists pushing for this crazy war have a plan of action for when all the people with brown skin are finally dead? What happens when you throw an apocalypse and Jesus doesn't come? Or worse, what happens when somebody shows up claiming to be Jesus? And how does this painfully boring build-up to, "Life On Mars" figure into it all. And then there's the comets and ice age stuff.
All of which sounds very weird, I realize, but if somebody had told me fifteen years ago that the entire national economy would be shaken to its foundation by a chain store called, 'Wal-Mart', that the presidency would be successfully stolen by rigged electronic voting machines, that the West was going to launch a ludicrously named, "War on Terror" because of a Bruce-Willis production of planes-into-sky-scrapers, that the Israelis would turn the Gaza Strip into a concentration camp without the world batting an eyelash, that the record labels would start hiring SWAT teams to enforce copyright while artists STILL get ripped off, and that the gulf stream would stop flowing, I'd have said, "Yeah, but only if the writers happened to be stoned at the scripting session."
It's all a little too Neal Stephenson for me. The world seems very fake and over the top these days, but surprisingly, I'm actually having a hard time being astonished when each successive bit of surreal fever dream weirdness parades onto the stage. I think it's important to be able to look at insane stuff and recognize it as such. Otherwise, it's the same as being asleep at the circus.
And hey, you'd miss out on the cotton candy.
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Seriously.
All it would take is another well-timed 9-11, or a total market collapse, or some other disaster at the right time, and I can easily see Bush declaring himself Emperor for Life.
Either that, or the next guy will be even worse. "The Prezinator" anyone?
Ugh. In in world where the RIAA has guys with flak jackets and machine guns, any crazy thing can happen.
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Thank-you! You hit the nail right on the head.
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Okay. I'll do it for him. (Since I don't use Vista, XP or Linux, I can speak without an OS bias in this case.) --Your grammar is rotten. Wading through your sentence structure is like experiencing a brain hemorrhage. While there may be some validity to your points, the advantage those responding to you have is that they sound intelligent. If I had to choose an operating system based on this discussion, I know exactly which way I'd go.
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Well, I doubt people are going to ruin their bodies by seeking out foods which work best for them. There is bio-feedback going on at all times; if it feels bad, you always have the choice to stop.
The problem comes when total trust is put into the "Science" Authorities. People who are willing to experiment for themselves probably are less likely to fall for such traps. --The FDA, in one instance, caved to the grain and cattle industries to create food and health guidelines which made people very unhealthy. What happened was that the board of dietary scientists who designed the original "Food Pyramid" submitted that people should eat lots of greens and fruit, and that bread and meats should fill less of the diet. The grain and cattle industries realized that if the American public followed this advice, there would be significant money loss, and so pressure was put on the FDA to re-arrange the pyramid according to their financial needs. And so now we have tons of bread and meat consumed by Americans, and the high rate of obesity and heart disease among Americans is the direct result. Those who are unwilling to experiment with their bodies needs and responses, and who instead wait for an authority figure to tell them what to do, will become the ones who find their bodies ruined.
As for the Stupid People you refer to. . . I also used to get caught up in anger and conceit and point at all the, Stupid People.
Not healthy. People are people, and many of them are ignorant and hurting themselves because of it, this is true, but so is everybody on some level. Nobody knows it all and everybody is making mistakes all the time. --Which makes us all Stupid People. But rather than get caught up in the negativity of this fact and lay judgment upon myself and others, I prefer to show some compassion and just take it for granted that we are all learning. Some lessons are more trying than others, and many of them are alien to us and many of them we have already worked our ways through, but if one recognizes the fundamental truth that we are all learning, then you can avoid making yourself sick on hate and frustration and contempt. --Such emotional stresses inevitably lead to poor health in both body and mind. And limiting yourself in this manner can easily be considered stupid.
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The Kuiper Cliff (#10) fascinates me. I'd not heard about that, but I was aware that a peculiar wobble in the orbits of all the planets suggested that a very large object was orbiting in the distance. The Twin Sun theories are very interesting, especially in how they link to cyclical comet clusters bombarding the earth into the stone age every few thousand years. We're due right now, according to some.
I also find #12 interesting. (The not-so-constant constants). At first glance, it appears to fit well with the idea that there are various levels of energy 'density', providing different levels of reality in which beings can exist. One idea posits that UFOs are visitors from a higher level of reality which is constantly around us.
#13 is funny. (Cold Fusion), --Largely because the editor used pissy wording to describe Pons & Fleischmann's work, probably because he was numbered among those who scoffed at the pair and would prefer to believe that it was somehow the two researcher's faults that he wasn't smart or brave enough to give them more credit.)
And of course #4. (Homeopathy). The solution to accepting that homeopathy works links nicely with many other theories considered bunkish, but which also "somehow" carry weight. Basically, it's not the molecule as much as it is the energetic vibration of the molecule which carries information, and which responds to the body. This is Chi in a nutshell; a whole layer of energetic reality which affects pretty much everything in our universe, upon which astrology, awareness and the spirit, (among other things) are based, but which nobody wants to look at. Except the dark corners of the military, which know how to manipulate aspects of it. CFL's produce how much radio interference? More than cell phones and microwaves and TV's? Hmm.
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--And if you had posted with a "real" name, I'd have modded you a +1 Something since I have Mod points today. Because, you see, I'd rather spend a point raising a good comment to a higher viewing level AS WELL AS raising the poster's karma. When you spend a mod point on an AC's post, you don't boost his/her Karma. (Well, not the digital Slashdot kind at any rate.) So instead, I'll just post this little note.
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Fair enough. But sometimes it's okay to explore an idea yourself, particularly a new one, rather than wait around for some nebulous group of experts to legitimize it, particularly with the media being so un-trustworthy these days. Why let a bunch of scientists have all the fun doing the experiments? We were all born natural explorers! I think the good aspects of the media which have brought us a universe of information, have also served to dull a vital element of human nature. It makes us lazy, serves us up belief systems we rarely test for ourselves with any rigor. It places us in a position where many subconsciously seek approval from talking heads on the news and the "Discovery Channel" before we explore our own lives and bodies for ourselves. I love having new information to play with, but I also believe strongly in learning from my own mistakes and in re-inventing the wheel. That's what makes life fun!
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Well, one of my farmer friends grows vegetables, and he described to me the lengthy rules and regulations on the subject. To have his land certified "Organic," he needed to meet to strict requirements. Land which had been used traditionally, (non-organically) has to remain unsprayed and untreated with synthetic fertilizers for 8 years, afterwhich the certifiers tested the land for residue. A farm upwind of his had been spraying during that time, and the residue was measured in his soil. As a result, he has yet to be certified.
However, "Organic", as you point out, does not mean "Free Range" or "Ethically Produced". It's just a standard by which chemical and genetic qualities are measured. --But it's the only standard currently attempting to set a worthy bar with regard to the chemical purity of food production. The FDA by comparison is riddled with corruption and is heavily influenced by lobyists. There are numerous shameful examples of how the government food safety bodies have sided with industry over public health.
I would also hesitate before I called the American food supply safe. Safe implies a great deal; just with regard to GM foods, there are a lot of unknowns, (as well as several nasty 'knowns'), but such foods are largely unregulated. In Canada, it is not legally required that such things as Canola Oil be appropriately labeled if they have come from GM crops. There have been studies which show marked reason for there to be concern over this.
Meats which come through the orthodox system, I simply cannot find any rational reason to trust. One of the reasons I moved away from a large city was so that I could meet and know my food producers. It is true; some of them are not people I'd want to support, while others are stellar examples. In the end, no human system of labeling is going to be entirely trustworthy. You have to get out there and walk in some mud to get the 'dirt' so-to-speak. Based on all the organic farmers I now know, I do find reason, however, to place a lot of trust with them. Certainly a great deal more than some of the jerks I've met who run the factory chicken farms around here. The difference in philosophical attitude is very often night and day.
One factory chicken farm out here was being financed by a big corporate venture, and they cajoled the local government into allowing them to put a plant right above an aquifer where many people draw their well water. People fought this for a couple of years, had impartial studies done to see what would happen to the water supply, and despite the dire test results the corporations got the go ahead. It's enough to make you see red. People who push for that kind of travesty are either stupid or evil or both. They are also the kind of people who sneer at the idea of 'Organic' foods.
So I hope you will pardon me if I come at this subject with some bias.
In the end, though, my experiences have been very positive; it's amazing what you can learn by diving into a subject! To think that I was a committed city slicker four years ago leaves me regularly amazed.
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Well, I've not read any literature on the subject, but I did talk with biologist who described the subject to me for over an hour and made a great deal of sense while doing so.
In any case, I can attest that while living in a vegetarian household where we all made and shared veg meals together for a couple of years, that I lost a lot of weight in a bad way and felt like total crud, while the fellow who owned the house remained buff, super-fit and rosy-glow healthy on the exact same diet. After I moved out, I started eating meat again and within maybe a week, I had returned to life. It wasn't until later that I heard that blood-types played a role in the sorts of foods different humans are better able to absorb and benefit from. Fascinated, I ran into the aforementioned biologist who described it to me in depth and then I had my blood type checked later that week, (type "O"). Apparently "O" needs more protein than others. So at least from my perspective, it all fits. I've met others who thrive on vegetables only, but I've never asked what their blood types were.
In doing a quick cruise of the web it struck me that some of the people complaining about the blood-type diet seemed to be vegetarians who were having a strong negative reaction to the idea that there might be rational reasons for eating meat. That kind of argument seems to be emotionally motivated, and such arguments are rife with denial and wilful ignorance, best taken with a grain of salt.
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Yeah, I'll stick with my much safer beef. As far as those of you who think that 'organic tastes better,' try purchasing quality, non-organic food, rather than the cheapest that you can find at Wal-Mart. There's a difference.
To quote you, "I am amazed at the number of comments made without any real understanding of the issue."
Organic beef does indeed cost more. That's what happens when you decide to feed a cow something which is food as opposed to chemical-filled garbage, (including parts of other cows). This is a given and it is acceptable. You seem to realize this, since you advise people to buy quality beef over cheaper meats. Why do you think more expensive beef tastes better? They give the animal better food and take better care of it. Organic does this by default and goes the extra step of keeping weird hormones and other chemicals, (and other cows) out of the cow's feed. Why do you have a problem with that?
Regarding the world's protein requirements. . . Humans come in different blood-types which have different needs, but typically, Americans consume far, far more protein than their bodies can ever use. A great deal of it is simply ejected in urine.
As for your issues with fruits and vegetables on the grounds that sometimes there are bacteria present. --It's simple; always wash your vegetables. If you do this, you won't get sick. Simple. Second, eat organically grown vegetables; you'll consume far fewer pesticides and heavy metals and other industrial chemicals. Vegetarians definitely have the ability to eat far more safely than those who consume meat, especially with respect to meat produced on a factory farm. Mmm. Growth hormones, prions, GM weirdness and pesticides. Yummy!
Finally, as per the farmers I know and buy from, some of whom are good friends, Organically Raised Beef typically also means compassionately raised and killed. --Free range and respected. I realize this is unimportant to many, but for me, I think a great deal about the lives which must be taken so that I can live. I've known cows close up and found them to be highly intelligent, gentle and very beautiful animals. If I am going to kill one to eat, I want to make sure that it has had a happy life up until its time of death, and that it is killed in a respectful manner. If you are eating non-organic, you are probably eating an animal which has suffered in fear and pain and misery. That's a personal call. People can live in denial, (try not to think about it). People can live in callousness, (So what? I'm superior and I laugh at others' misery.) Or People can live in compassion.
As above, so below.
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I was rather disappointed. Though I still like being able to say that it will now be so much harder to recover if you happen to lose your marbles.
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I like metaphor. --The Celts are the first to benefit from 'Wave' energy, eh?
Interesting.
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It looks like CNN was even earlier than BBC to mis-report the event which hadn't at that point happened yet.
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here.
Cheers!
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Four words: Turn OFF your television!!
The U.S. bombed it's own city using chump scape-goats. There are more holes in the official story than can be counted. There is plenty of evidence of fishy business all pointing to shadow government involvement. There's plenty of evidence of this for anybody who bothers to look.
The latest piece of evidence to surface is footage leaked wherein. .
WTC7 housed the records from the Enron case along with a ton of other documents which could have incriminated numerous other wealthy people. There are a lot of reasons some people wanted to demolish WTC7, and using 9-11 as an excuse fit nicely. The question is, how did they know when it was going to happen? The answer is, "Because they planned it themselves. Of Course."
The lie of terrorists is just that. A lie.
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