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 28 Nov 2005 @ 06:53, by skookum. Death & Dying
Rascal succumbed to some unknown malady tonight. Nevertheless, his memory and the stories I write about him will continue on. Speaking of something odd...A true story for you... More >
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 27 Nov 2005 @ 21:06, by jmarc. Conspiracy
Dear Amnesty International, More >
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 27 Nov 2005 @ 10:48, by jazzolog. Liberty, Sovereignty
I would like to beg you to have patience with everything unresolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves as if they were locked rooms or books in a very foreign language. Don't search for the answers, which could not be given to you now, because you would not be able to live them. And the point is, to live everything. LIVE the questions now.
---Rainer Maria Rilke
Truth is something you stumble into when you think you are going someplace else.
---Jerry Garcia
Watching the moon
at dawn,
solitary, mid-sky,
I knew myself completely:
no part left out.
---Izumi Shikibu
William Blake (1757-1827)
The Omnipotent
Oil on canvas, 1794
I'm not much of a joiner and never have been. I haven't sought out many groups in my life. Such pursuit never entered the picture much. My parents came from individually quite different backgrounds, weren't joiners either, and didn't bring with them any cultural baggage that got me involved in groups. They both were something like 3rd generation Swedes in America, but they didn't celebrate any traditions from the "old country" except smorgasbord at Christmas...and then it was at a paternal relative's house and not ours. Those people still could speak some Swedish, but I never heard but a few words in my house. Maybe the farming Swedes on my mother's side had been on these shores longer because I never saw a flake in them of any traditions except universally countrified ones. Their generation came out of the Depression and went to World War II, both of which catastrophes encouraged a style of surviving that was tightly knit to the institutions of the United States. My family was middle class America in the 1940s and 1950s, and if any "group" came out of that it probably was The Organization Man. More >
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27 Nov 2005 @ 10:36, by swanny. Spirituality
SOME QUESTIONS!
NOVEMBER 27,2005
CANADA
EARTH
SUNDAY
1. Why..., do we humans, try to bite or modify, the planet that feeds and sustains us?
2. Might there be some "consequences" in doing this?
3. Are the problems and challenges we now face the result of doing this?
4. Is the reason for our doing this, that we foolishly want or desire or need to have things both ways at the same time? i.e.: We wish to be masters of our destiny but do not want to acknowledge, face, or take responsibility for the consequences of our decisions and actions.
5. Can we have it both ways at the same time or are we in vicious cycle of denial?
6. Are some, most or a few of us in denial and delusion and if so what will or should
be done about that?
7. What can be done in a concessionary manner to mitigate this unfortunate global condition if we can maybe admit that it even exists?
8. Could or should we do some soul searching perhaps and see how we can live more appreciatively of the planet that is feeding and sustaining us and how and what will we do in that regard?
9. Could we set a time table of goals or targets or plans and actions we should take
before we..... well you know and might this be the intent of say the Kyoto Protocol ?
10. What else should or could we do to show the planet our appreciation and mend our ways and what must we do to prevent this from occurring again i.e.: how and why did we mess up in the first place, not to bear blame but to teach and learn from?
11. Was it possibly our own "human" arrogance that led us to believe that we could do a better job feeding and sustaining ourselves from nothing and of running the planet in and with all it's details than the planet or the Universe from which it came and in hindsight what is with that?
12. How's your day going so far?
A concerned earthling. More >
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27 Nov 2005 @ 05:43, by nemue. Activism
This coming Friday a young Australian (Van Tuong Nguyen) will be hanged In Singapore if we can not get the Singaporean Prime Minister to change his mind. This young man is 24-years old. He was arrested in March 2004 (In Changi Airport) whilst in transit back to Sydney. He was carrying 396.2 grams of heroin. This is a crime granted, but the circumstances were that he was taking the drugs back to Australia to clear the debts of his brother, who was a heroin addict. Van should be punished by death by hanging in this day and age is barbaric and inhumane. There is also a legal question that has yet to be addressed and that is did the Singaporean authorities have the legal right to arrest and condemn to death a citizen of another country who is fact did not set foot outside of the airport.
Please sign the attached petition. Van’s days are numbered. Van is not a drug baron. He is a young and silly courier. He does NOT deserve to die for this is foolishness.
[link] More >
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25 Nov 2005 @ 13:56, by swanny. Environment, Ecology
Quote
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The first snow... this morning in my little town!
How lovely to wake up to a crispy white morning ..
So unexpected..
Take a deep breath..
Cold!!
Hmmmm!!
Tiger, the pussy-cat, doesn't know what to think of it..
She carefully steps outside, then turns her head around and looks at me, looks back at this strange world again, then shakes her paws and takes a running spurt back into the house, and I laugh..
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Snowflakes...
"How full of the creative genius is the air in which these are generated!
I should hardly admire more if real stars fell and lodged on my coat."
~H.D. Thoreau
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The best snow crystals fall during cold, quiet, light snowfalls, and occasionally you can find some real stunning specimens. Each snowfall has its own character, and each brings its own kind of snowflakes..
[link]
Take a look at their beauty.
White magic..
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I wanne go outdoors now..
See ya!
*R*I*A*
Heh heh. First snow here yesterday, cat tried the "sniff test" three times, running back in, and the third time I threw her out a ways and she took off happily. For her, this is the first snow underfoot.
She's been hunting lately, leaving offerings on the stoop.
She moves to the lake with S and A soon... no traffic. We will miss her.
Cold here. The deep sleep begins...
A.
Ah snow and crystals....
we had really nice and warm stuff here
although they say its to get colder now
now ... Now is approx morning Novem 25 2005
ah it Friday aye? thank G its Friday?
ah maybe.... why? thank G for time?
why? time is all we've got ? for a while?
whatever... but back to the topic
fleeting beauty.... yes beauty is fleeting
the desire to hold on to beauty is proportional
to the appreciation of it...
and some appreciate beauty not or differently
perhaps...
although there is beauty and ugliness together
in most things hard to find beauty sometimes
and when found yes it is often fleeting
hard to find the beauty in ugliness as well
yet in togetherness is their worth
without ugly would there be beauty and without
beauty would there be ugly....
oh.... this is not poetic....
this is anaylsis or overanalysis....
this is trying to finding some underlying meaning or
understanding when all it began as was
the "appreciation" and thanks for a "drop" of beauty
from the heavens.....
why question the gift.....
ah I have lived to long perhaps....
have forgotten how to be simple.....
how to find meaning in the simple appreciation of all
that is.....
I have an interesting place.... and now ....
well now is alright....
the fridge hummminng away..... the birds having
their porridge.... hee hee
the radio and tv off.....
the sounds of silence from the street
the sounds of a city waking and the sun
streaching to the horizon.....
and wondering perhaps what this day holds
or what I choose or wish "to make" of this day....
a day that on the surface seems like so many other days
yet snow has fallen in holland and cats are playing
and cats and snow is falling in the USA and cats are
playing and its dark and cold in alberta but the place is
warm and dark....
Is there beauty here in this silence?.....
I suppose the continuum of life....
the continuum of now......
thankyou you rhea for the crystal
and you have gone out to "experience" and here I experience
it as well so thanks for sharing your beauty with me here
in this silent darkness.....
I can only imagine it though... or?
well.... teatime
sir
Blessed are We and They
That serve Love and Truth
Most of the time.
Alfie More >
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 24 Nov 2005 @ 16:50, by raypows. Environment, Ecology
If you've had an inspiring wild animal story please post it here. Our communion with nature is something to be grateful for. So goes my story.......
I had an incredible experience yesterday. I felt like St. Francis of Assisi. A Canyon Wren had found its' way into my cabin. I tried to escort it out but it kept buzzing around the top ceiling beams and such. Finally it knocked it self out, slamming into a window up on a indoor ledge by the roof. I climbed on a chair and picked it up with a t-shirt. I thought it might be dead because it wasn't moving, the inner eyelids were closed and it's beak was frozen open. It was very still. I brought it outside and started stroking it's back and blowing on it's body and down it's beak. I also wrapped my hand around it and did the sort of energy mojo I do. After about five minutes, (it seemed longer than that), it's eyelids pulled back, but it's legs, feet, body and beak were all still frozen. I didn't know if it had a broken wing or had internal damage. It never fluttered but it closed it's beak after I blew more resusitation (spl?) air into it and hopped up on its' legs, even though it's feet were still paralyzed and curled under. I walked into the yard, more onto a grassy area and bathed it in sunlight and energy work and then it perked up and started walking up my arm and back down and very cool, check this out, perched itself on my finger and started singing and chirping. I thought it would fly off once it realized, oh no I'm on a human, but, again a beautiful gift, it stayed perched on my hand for like 10-15 minutes as I walked around the yard with it and listened to it's song. I felt so blessed to have a free, wild bird be in such fearlessness of me and I in connection with it. I was in this altered zone paying rapt (not raptor {-:) attention to it and then felt a Oneness with the land and everything around me that was sublime. I walked back to my cabin with it still on my finger and when I reached it, it fluttered up to the roof and hung out awhile looking at me, singing and then flew up into the pine tree that hovers over my home. More >
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22 Nov 2005 @ 16:25, by oasiian. Spirituality
Rainbows have a lot to say about our spiritual existence, and here is how: More >
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22 Nov 2005 @ 00:32, by sylhara. Science
Polarised Time ..or.. How to be in two places at once without really trying...
All matter's normal state is to exist in Spherical Time. All particles normal state of being is spherical or in a non-linear state or Quantum State. When matter comes under the influence of Gravity, it is pulled into alignment, it is polarised into Linear Time.
This is observed as the Gravitational effect on the Space-Time Continuum. The force of Gravity pulling matter into orbits/gravity wells. When Particles are bound together in mass through Gravitational attraction, the effect is to pull each particle into Polarised or Linear Time. The physical effect seen by the Observer, is the warping of the Space-Time Continuum. Gravity acts as a time lens, pulling Spherical Time into alignment with particles under its influence, polarising into Linear Time.
Each element or particle that exists in Spherical Time carries its own pocket of Spherical Time. Because of each particles individual pocket of Spherical Time, to the Observer in Linear Time cannot see the movement of the particle from one point to another. What the observer does see, is the Wave Phenomena, which is the wake created by the particle in its path, but not the movement of the particle in Quantum Flux or Spherical Time.
The Wave Form is aligned along infinite lines, with points of reference or destinations or Physicality along it. At these Points is the Observable Point of Reference of Physical Observation. This is the reason particles seem to 'jump' from point to point without traveling in between.
Just a few thoughts...
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21 Nov 2005 @ 07:44, by vaxen. Government, Public Sector
TOTAL POLICE STATE TAKEOVER
"All truth goes through three stages. First it is ridiculed. Then it is violently opposed. Finally, it is accepted as self-evident."-- (Schoepenhouer)
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Socio-Political Report
Patriot Act 2: TOTAL POLICE STATE TAKEOVER
The Secret Patriot Act 2 Destroys What Is Left of American Liberty * Bush seizing dictatorial control
"The second Patriot Act is a mirror image of powers that Julius Caesar and Adolf Hitler gave themselves. Whereas the First Patriot Act only gutted the First, Third, Fourth and Fifth Amendments, and seriously damaged the Seventh and the Tenth, the Second Patriot Act reorganizes the entire Federal government as well as many areas of state government under the dictatorial control of the Justice Department, the Office of Homeland Security and the FEMA NORTHCOM military command. The Domestic Security Enhancement Act 2003, also known as the Second Patriot Act is by its very structure the definition of dictatorship. ....
Usually, corrupt governments allow their citizens lots of wonderful rights on paper, while carrying out their jackbooted oppression covertly. From snatch and grab operations to warrantless searches, Patriot Act 2 is an Adolf Hitler wish list." More >
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