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13 Jun 2006 @ 04:43, by oasiian. Spirituality
A strange day where it's warmer at night...somehow it always goes down this way where i live, the nights are always warm, pleasant... More >
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12 Jun 2006 @ 13:21, by vector8. Spirituality
[["Everything comes from Intelligence. There is nothing but Unity; there is nothing but Freedom; there is nothing but Completeness; there is nothing but Totality." The Science of Mind, Ernest Holmes]]
Have you ever visited a House of Mirrors at an amusement park? It is a building filled with mirrors that reflect distorted images of yourself. Some mirrors make you look extremely tall with arms like tentacles; some make you look huge; some make you look skinny; some make you look flat; some make you look round; etc. Other distortions in the House of Mirrors include uneven floors that give you the false impression that you're sliding. More >
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 11 Jun 2006 @ 21:56, by hgoodgame. Ideas, Creativity
Wait until you see what we can do with it!
One of our current hobbies is sphere making. That’s right, spheres, like tiny model planets. Soon I’ll have an entire new universe to populate. ;) More >
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11 Jun 2006 @ 21:36, by inanna. Spirituality
The Betrayal of Krishna, Vicissitudes of a Great Myth
Krishna Chaitanya/K.K. Nair
Clarion Books, 1991, New Delhi
Vyasa and the Exaltation of Krishna
In the first half of ‘The Betrayal of Krishna’, the eminent Indian scholar, Krishna Chaitanya/K.K. Nair, elucidates the metaphysics of the hero and deity Krishna presented in the Bhagavad Gita, which is within the epic Sanskrit poem, The Mahabharata. The remainder of Nair’s book delineates in detail the misunderstanding and thus betrayal of the eternal wisdom in Krishna’s Gita by such luminaries as Sankara, Ramanuja, and Madhva, the Alvar poets, and the Sanskrit texts, the Harivamsa, the Vishnu Purana, and the Bhagavata Purana (also known as the Srimad Bhagavatam).
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11 Jun 2006 @ 02:26, by nemue. Recreation, Fun
In the year 2006, the Lord came unto Noah, who was now living in the United States, and said, "Once again, the earth has become wicked beyond belief, and I see the end of all flesh before me.
Build another Ark and save 2 of every living thing along with the few true believers that exist."
He gave Noah the blueprints, saying, "You have 6 months to build the Ark before I will start the unending rain for 40 days and 40 nights."
Six months later, the Lord looked down and saw Noah weeping in his yard - but no Ark. "Noah!" He roared, "I'm about to start the rain! Where is the Ark?"
"Forgive me, Lord," begged Noah, "but things have changed.
I needed a building permit. I've been arguing with the inspector about the need for a sprinkler system.
My neighbors claim that I've violated the neighborhood zoning laws by building the Ark in my yard and exceeding the height limitations. We had to go to the Development Appeal Board for a decision.
Then the Department of Transportation demanded a bond be posted for the future costs of moving power lines and other overhead obstructions, to clear the passage for the Ark's move to the sea I told them that the sea would be coming to us, but they would hear nothing of it.
Getting the wood was another problem. There's a ban on cutting local trees in order to save the spotted owl. I tried to convince the environmentalists that I needed the wood to save the owls - but no go! When I started gathering the animals, an animal rights group sued me. They insisted that I was confining wild animals against their will. They argued the accommodation was too restrictive, and it was cruel and inhumane to put so many animals in a confined space.
Then the EPA ruled that I couldn't build the Ark until they'd conducted an environmental impact study on your proposed flood.
I'm still trying to resolve a complaint with the Human Rights Commission on how many minorities and illegal immigrants I'm supposed to hire for my building crew.
Immigration and Naturalization is checking the green-card status of most of the people who want to work. The trades unions say I can't use my sons. They insist I have to hire only Union workers with Ark-building experience.
To make matters worse, the IRS seized all my assets, claiming I'm trying to leave the country illegally with endangered species.
Forgive me, Lord, but it would take at least 10 years for me to finish this Ark."
Suddenly the skies cleared, the sun began to shine, and a rainbow stretched across the sky. Noah looked up in wonder and asked, "You mean you're not going to destroy the world?"
"No," said the Lord. "The government beat me to it."
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10 Jun 2006 @ 15:12, by oasiian. Investigation, Intelligence
Psychic phenomena come in a great many forms, such as Telekinesis, Astral Projections, Telepathy...but can it actually be used as a sense? Like, a semi-instinctual foresight? More >
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 9 Jun 2006 @ 22:44, by jhs. Knowledge Management
I started an experiment, called "SimpelDeutsch".
The idea originally came from Wikipedia's Simple English section. Why should there be Simple English but not also Simple Deutsch?, I asked myself.
There was the Basic English project. Wikipedia sez:
"Basic English is a constructed language with a small number of words created by Charles Kay Ogden and described in his book Basic English: A General Introduction with Rules and Grammar (1930). The language is based on a simplified version of English.
Ogden said that it would take seven years to learn English, seven months for Esperanto, and seven weeks for Basic English, comparable with Ido. Thus Basic English is used by companies who need to make complex books for international use, and by language schools that need to give people some knowledge of English in a short time."
A similar approach should be possible for SimpelDeutsch.
In addition, there is another particularity that didn't exist in 1930 at the time of Ogden: the global exchange of concepts promoted a set of words practically identical in many languages. Those words don't even need a translation.
In the SimpelDeutsch project, if one starts reading beginning from the first Blog entry (Note, that a BLOG begins at its end!), one should be able to understand basic German (in a written form) in a very short time.
A main concept of SimpelDeutsch is that it is NOT a constructed language. I'll leave it up to the readers/commentators to determine the basic set of words to be used. The time necessary to achieve a basic dictionary shall be an interesting part of the experiment.
I am testing an online database (and Wiki) for the purposes of crossreferencing and invite all of you to participate in your particular language once it's open for business!
Hope to see many of you playing with me (and language) at [link] !!! More >
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9 Jun 2006 @ 00:11, by newpeacepl. Activism
it is true that there are millions of problems - is it enough to pick one we like and contribute an effort? - is it possible that problems are very difficult to effectively deal with one by one, and relatively easy and solvable if we go to the root of the millions of problems? - if we wish to maximise happiness in this world, must we be sure that we cant do a more effective job by going to the root - a vine can cover a tree and be impossible to eradicate by getting ladders and risking life and limb going out the branches to every leaf and cutting leaves one by one - and be easy to eradicate by cutting the trunk of the vine - the solution presents itself easily in the case of the treevine, because the trunk of the vine is close to us, but problems in the world are close to our eye - we are like birds living in the tree and seeing the leaves of the malicious vine - if we just jump in and try to peck leaves off we will fail, the vine will win - if we rethink and do something unbirdlike and go down to the root, and peck there, we can do so much more and have so much more success
what is the root of the millions of problems? what is the most efficient place to put our energies? why do we allow wealthpower giants? money is power - letting anyone have unlimited fortunes is like allowing anyone to be a giant - in relation to people as if people were ants - it is like everyone goes around in a tank, but allowing people to have fortunes a million times the average means their tanks [their power] is a million times as big - they are going to cause a lot of damage, and they are going to be unstoppable, uncontrollable - they are going to be loose cannon in society - and they are
the average person works 50 hours a week or more [american housewives work over 90 hours a week, i read] and no one can work more than 100 hours a week, so no one works more than double the average - and yet we have pay per hour up to a million times the average - the 1% of people who are paid more than the average pay [which is US$15 an hour if we pay all housewives and tertiary students as well - 2006AD, it doubles every 12 years or so] get over 90% of world income - 90% of people are on less than a 10th of the average pay - less than US$1.50 an hour - the 90% are on between a 10th and a 1000th [thousandth] of the average - 90% are in deep slavery - what is the benefit of having 1% get over 90% of world wealth? - of 0.1% getting over 80% of world wealth?
what is wrong with limiting fortunes to the maximum a person can contribute to social wealth? - which cannot be more than double the average? cannot be more than about US$3 million att eh end of a lifetimes working? allowing unlimited fortunes is really letting the cat out of the bag! - allowing over 90% of the earnings of 99% of people be sucked up into superwealth and superpower - and still sucking US$200 billion a year out of the third world! -
a simple law, moving overfortunes on decease to the most enslaved, disempowered, robbed and angry, counterbalancing the ceaseless automatic legal shift of wealth from poor to rich which has gone on unbalanced for 1000s of years, causing endless conflict and suffering and waste and destruction and misery and pain - endless and *everincreasing* conflict and suffering and pain - growing war from sticks and stones to ICBMs, from village squabbles to world war -
time to look at the big picture - where all these problems are coming from - the globe built on injustice cannot stand - we have super hyper extreme injustice - we cannot stand - we are racing to extinction - we already have the bombs powerful enough to end the world, to put the world in permanent global snowstorm, a triple iceage
everyone gains from justice - justice is essential to happiness - we have super hyper injustice, so we can be SUPER HYPER HAPPIER - for 1000s of years philosophers, observers of humanity have noticed we have great difficulty in seeing the big picture - the big picture is the root - attack there and you have effective successful activism -
how many will be against a law limiting fortunes to say $20 million? - which is 6 times the maximum a person can create wealth by their lifetimes work - ie, 6 times what a person puts in to the social pool of wealth by their work - the less superoverpay there is the less super underpay there is - the more jsutice there is, the more peace there is
imagine your anger to be on 100th of your present income - multiply by 5 billion - that is the anger, the violence, the war and crime in the world that will disappear with justice
there is super-plenty for all - enough income to pay every family working average hard US$75,000 a year - it is time to wake up, see the root cause of all the human problems, start to be kind to yourselves and commit some justice - is it more important for someone to get out of the social pool of wealth a million times what they put in, than for everyone to have peace by justice, by fairsharing?
we can have all the features of capitalism, except unlimited fortunes - unlimited fortunes is unlimited freedom to extract wealth from the world's humans, unlimited freedom to enslave humanity, to put humanity into super hyper unnecessary suffering - when we could all work average hard and have US$75,000 a year per family! -
the american dream was based on limited fortunes - it was obvious to the founding fathers as it is obvious to us that tyranny requires unlimited fortunes, concentration of wealth in the hands of the few, ie super injustice - so the founding fathers tried to limit fortunes - and failed - we must succeed or go down in a heap of smoking ruins
see the big picture, teach the big picture - if everyone who hears of this passes it on to just two people close to them, every adult in the world will hear of this in just 32 times the time it takes to pass it on to two people - and word of mouth is nonviolent, nonconfrontational, non dangerous - and when a great majority see the simple sense of it, there is a general will and therefore an easy way to the necessary goal
we have pay from $1 to $1 billion for a fortnight's work! - and violence to match - how can any solution to any problem work as long as that big picture situation continues, as long as a few have most of the power, as long as a few are allowed to charge around freely in tanks of power up to a million times the size of the average person's? [and a billion times the size of the most underpaid robbed enslaved person?]
nigel@orcon.net.nz
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 8 Jun 2006 @ 01:58, by hgoodgame. Farming
For the last 10 years I've tried to grow strawberries and every year the deer seem to keep them clipped back drastically, preventing them from really spreading and filling in their alotted area. I was about to give up last year, figuring that if you want to live out in the country, don't fight nature. Even so, as a last ditch effort, before giving in to the deer and buying my strawberries at the store like everyone else, I came up with a hair-brain idea. And it's working!! More >
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7 Jun 2006 @ 17:35, by gabacho. Spirituality
--Copyright 27MAR06 Don Heraldo Renacido B.
The origin of the universe (astronomy) and the evolution of life (biology) are fields of scientific inquiry. Creationism (religion), although it seems unrelated to science, is really just a pre-scientific attempt to explain the universe and life in anthropomorphic terms.
In my opinion, the two approaches are not as unrelated as they might at first appear. Let me explain.
The latest scientific (astronomical) theory is "The Big Bang" in which latent light suddenly (and inexplicably) burst forth from nothingness and began coalescing into matter some 16 billion years ago in a process that continues to this day.
The Judeo-Christian version is actually just a pre-scientific intuition of the same scenario: in a formless void (emptiness), latency "speaks" the universe into being, "Let there be Light". When considered together in this light, the religious version is as true in its essence as the scientific one. The only essencial difference is the (somewhat) more magical statement in the religious theory.
My personal belief, based on my actual experience in this reality, is that consciousness is primary to matter. Consciousness is the non-physical and non-local matrix which we all share, and in which the physical universe arises and flows. Thoughts give rise to and energize/propel things (matter/energy) in time, which we experience in Mind. As you may discern, my belief/experience is also congruent with both scientific theories and religious dicta. The best evidence of this is that which is provided by our own conscious experience.
What we actually experience is generated within our own consciousness, which is the one universal consciousness which we all share. We interpret this mental experience as exterior, but it is not. We ARE the universe. We are at its very center. All celestial objects are spreading away from us in this wave of creation at the speed of light. We are constantly creating afresh the world that we perceive in Mind.
Summary
The "physical" universe arose within Consciousness (Mind) some 16 billion years ago and flashed into existance in a burst of light, the movement of which we call time. This consciousness is the Mind that we all continue to share. The creative nature of Mind propels and directs the unfolding of the reality in which we live and have our being. Thoughts are things, and the creator of things.
Thus Mind is primary to matter, which flows in a wave of creation under the direction of Consciousness. What we say, goes. As a man thinks, so is he.
Heraldo aka "gabacho"
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