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 11 Dec 2008 @ 01:14, by Unknown. Recreation, Fun
Not such a long time ago, in a political campaign not so far, far away: More >
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8 Dec 2008 @ 14:53, by vector8. Spirituality
The other day, my mother went to visit a friend. She said when she got out of the train station, she couldn't remember how to get to the house so she asked for directions. She was given a long-winded direction. She reckoned she walked about 2 miles. Fortunately, she found a quicker route back to the station.
"Two miles, hey? I'm impressed," I said.
"I can't believe I walked that far," she said. "At least it was good exercise."
"Well, remember that was then and this is now," I said. "There's no reason why walking should have any effect on who you are now unless you believe it should." More >
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 8 Dec 2008 @ 05:33, by koravya. Ideas, Creativity
First Week
Every class is an experiment. More >
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 7 Dec 2008 @ 16:23, by jhs. Recreation, Fun
Dear Blog Readers,
my mailbox is overflowing after my recent public delcaration and I see myself unable to respond to all of you.
Sorry, truly sorry.
But amongst the many messages, some encouraging, others quite hostile, here is one that impressed me very much and I'd like to share it with you even though it looks like one of those brainless chain letters.
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PLEASE SEND THIS TO ALL YOUR FRIENDS, WHETHER LULUS, ENKIANS OR ENLILIANS !!!!
An Open Letter to Enlil and Enki
(also known as the "Sermon of the Holy Rock")
by Rev. Herbert Zeta-Czandor
Dear Enlil and Enki and All you Supergods!
The word is spreading quickly that you're about to come back and quite possibly stage yet another Sodom & Gomorrah or a Flood or both or more.
Before you give your orders, please take a sec and consider the following:
Observation 1:
OK, OK, humans made quite a bloody mess around here. But they were created in your image, mind you, and perhaps it is time to confront this fact in all honesty.
Observation 2:
This current civilization is full of corrupt governments and secret and not-so-secret but equally corrupt institutions. It is said that they are following your orders. This would indeed fit into the picture. If so. please go to Observation 1 again.
Observation 3:
It may come as a surprise to your Highnesses that in the few societies of Lulu (humans) that your corrupt followers have NOT (yet) perverted, the Lulu ALWAYS managed to live in perfect harmony.
Observation 4:
Furthermore, it can be observed that WHENEVER your followers on Earth are CEASING to corrupt and pervert the Lulu, social and environmental order are being restored very quickly and righteousness and dignity return to the Lulu and all the beings on Earth.
Conclusion:
Dear Enlil and Enki and All you Supergods! It is YOU who is the problem and not the Lulu you created!
If I should ever find out WHO created YOU, I will personally report your demeanors and demand your immediate removal from this world. Your lies and deceptions are a disgrace to the Creation! And whoever created that lousy script for your miserable performance should forever be barred from the Universal Writers Guild.
Recommendations:
1. You should seriously consider getting some genuine education on the true values of life, dignity, responsibility, and righteousness, and all the values that your actions betray.
2. If the Sumerian tablets are any reflection of your social life, you should further consult a good psychological consultant or life coach to fix your general behavorial problems (I can give you some phone numbers if you want to!)
3. You should cease and desist going ahead with any plans of mass destructions except for those for Nibiru and yourselves.
3. If you are unable to do the above, please never come, go away, get lost, and, very importantly, never return.
PS: Don't forget to take the soulless zombies with you which you installed here on Earth as your shady agents.
That's it.
Rev. Herbert Zeta-Czandor
January 1st, 2009, Holy Rock City
(This is the end of the "Sermon of the Holy Rock")
PLEASE SEND THIS TO ALL YOUR FRIENDS, WHETHER LULUS, ENKIANS OR ENLILIANS !!!!
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4 Dec 2008 @ 09:27, by erlefrayne. Peace
Pakistan and India are now on the verge of another war, one that will extend the frontiers of a brewing World War III to the South Asian corridor. Many are befuddled by the events in the region, the continuing animosities among the erstwhile ‘sibling’ neighbors, the latest terror attack on Mumbai, and more to come. Many in India and Pakistan still think that the hostilities are rooted in the Hindu-Islam competition, and/or in the lack of foresight of Nehru for approving the partition plan. Never do they bother at all to reflect about external forces, notably British financier oligarchs, that were responsible for that very faulty partition.
The creation of Pakistan is directly a result of the old British East India Company’s or BEAC’s search for safe opium trade route, in case that Indian independence would galvanize. BEAC enterprises are mired in every kind of underworld financial sources, to say the least, the revenues of which are then used to finance businesses in the aboveground. Among such covert sources were (a) slave trade (Adam Smith was BEAC-hired to design a doctrine that will justify free trade of slaves by the British) and (b) opium trade. More >
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4 Dec 2008 @ 03:58, by anandavala. Philosophy
What is this experiential process that is happening right now?
What is experience?
What is this individual stream of experience? What am I?
Why do I experience things right now and only remember past
experiences? What is the present moment, the arrow of time, time
itself, the process of change and memory?
What do the contents-of-experience (phenomena) represent? What is
the phenomenal world?
What is that persistent complex phenomenon that closely
accompanies my stream of experience? What is my body? More >
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   2 Dec 2008 @ 22:48, by feecor. Housing, Building, Architecture
A Forum, Market/Mall, Museum, Bauhütte, Bürgerturm or Extraterritorial Space in Borderland ?
Stretching and Squeezing the Agora – The castle-forum in Berlin, a new shopping mall behind old facades? More >
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2 Dec 2008 @ 07:03, by gsmla. Economics, Financing, Banking
THE GOVERNMENT TRULY DOES NOT BELONG TO THE PEOPLE !!!!!!
I am a victim of the Indymac Bank Takeover.and I am now at a loss for a significant amount of my retirement savings.
As individuals we are being ignored by our government and the media.
How can the Federal government expect to restore consumer confidence if individual depositors are being robbed of their savings????....... No wonder that personal savings are at a historic low point.
The Federal government should take responsibility for not acting sooner to protect Indymac bank depositors.
The Treasury has a MORAL obligation to bail out the "uninsured" depositors of Indymac Bank. They should have acted sooner to protect the depositors.The majority were badly advised by Indymac bank and never notified that their funds were in jeopardy.
We are not people who made speculative investments - we are individuals who accepted lower returns on our money so we could feel protected by the federal government ....Now we are betrayed by the system.
Fat cats are getting billions 'bailout' funds while we ar left holding the bag.
WE ARE BEING SWEPT UNDER THE RUG !!!
LIVES HAVE BEEN RUINED,....and this terrible loss has been devastating to all involved.....We are living a nightmare.
I have found many internet postings from other depositors who were also deceived by Indymac bank..... all tragedies - College funds lost, retirements postponed, retirement nest eggs decimated, family homes in escrow now up in smoke..........broken dreams we have saved all our lives for.
I have literally spent nights on end looking for help, or even only recognition.
Major newspaper editors and reporters have cold heartedly ignored that we exist. We have no way of communicating with each other - we need a voice.
I would deeply appreciate all feedback !!!
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 1 Dec 2008 @ 11:01, by jazzolog. Economics, Financing, Banking
In mountain light, all sounds
return to silence.
All that remains, the temple
bell.
---Ch'ang Chien
Unexpectedly you find it, welling upwards in the empty tree.
---Rainer Maria Rilke
The meadows were a-drinking at their leisure; the frogs sat meditating, all Sabbath thoughts, summing up their week, with one eye out on the golden sun, and one toe upon a reed, eyeing the wondrous universe in which they act their part; the fishes swam more staid and soberly, as maidens go to church,
---Henry David Thoreau
The Eye of the Artist, c. 1898
Victor Dubreuil, born in New York to French emigre parents
The administration of President Grant, who's on the 5 dollar bill along with the mysterious pyramid we stuck on our money, is remembered for its financial corruption.
There is only one rule of economics for me, and that is I pay my bills on time. I prefer to pay for anything at the moment I buy it, but that isn't always possible so I get bills. My wife and I argue about some things, but we seem to agree about politics and money. We don't borrow. There's a car payment and we have a second mortgage for environmental improvements to the house---which already are saving us money on energy costs. Ilona probably is going to college shortly, so we may need someone to make us a loan then. Otherwise we have lived within our means for 27 years---despite rocky times.
I've been broke and down and out in my day. I've had everything I own in my car, with nowhere to go. I've sat on a curb in New York City, without a job, and wept. I've been grateful for government programs. I support them gladly through taxes, now that I have some money. I celebrate economic simplicity in my life, which principles I probably learned through some hardship and a sound upbringing. I learned only the basics of how a capitalist market is supposed to work in theory, in the single required course on the matter in college. Quite frankly, I haven't been able to see that the market---take gasoline for instance---actually works that way. But then maybe, for the last 10 years, the market hasn't really been working at all. More >
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30 Nov 2008 @ 10:59, by anandavala. Philosophy
Some comments inspired by two fascinating essays written by David
Chalmers, The Puzzle
of Conscious Experience and Facing
Up to the Problem of Consciousness.
The “hard problem of consciousness” is the issue of why is it
that we experience anything at all, or why is it that there is
something that it is like to be something? The reason why this
problem is intractable to empirical science is because in its
philosophical foundations empiricism
takes the contents of experience (phenomena)
to be the foundation of its ontology,
upon which all its later knowledge depends.
However it is impossible to use the contents of experience to
construct a theory of experience because, in a causal sense,
experience precedes the contents of experience. Empirical science
studies phenomena, their perceivable attributes, behaviours and
functional relationships hence it can explain much of the functional
aspects of consciousness such as how do we integrate information from
many sources into a coherent knowledge base or how can we verbalise
our internal states (the easy problems of consciousness) but it
cannot explain experience itself (the hard problem).
However, empirical science is not the whole of science. There are
rationalist
methods which, as quantum physics shows, can be very accurate
(quantum physics is by far the most accurate science ever developed
and it has rationalist rather than empiricist foundations).
Rationalist approaches must eventually connect with, and be verified
by their correspondence with the objects of experience, however these
are not their starting point. They take a rational theoretical model
as their ontological foundation and only when this foundation later
connects with experience are they considered to be verified. It is
conceivable that a rationalist theory could overcome the limitations
of empiricism and provide a scientific explanation of conscious
experience. More >
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