Staying in touch 2007-09-16T03:50:58Z User 456 http://www.newciv.org/nl/newslog.php/_v456/ OrgSpace NewsLog

I have returned to this community, and over the last two years and at the completion of my adolescence, I have learned.....

At the age of eighteen, I was just rooting in to my spiritual self, and that of those surrounding. I have learned much, and I have learned this.
That it will never be us who change the world. It will always be the world that changes us.
Generally speaking, of course. I speak of mankind as a whole, as, is obvious from spending any time at all on this very site among others, there are quite a number of exceptions.
But think about it. Nothing has been done about global warming. Hybrid cars? Great, but it doesn't solve the cars that are already there, it doesn't solve the traffic, and it doesn't solve the many forms of grid power.
Legalized personal powering via solar power etc. Great! But once again, the grid.
Recycling. Great! That we don't recycle everything we go through, and that inadequate waste is biodegradeable. not so great.
And then we have this: The Kyoto Accord. Not everyone follows it, you know. It's a fact that China doesn't. And they're the most populated country in the world, so think about the amount of oil they go through! The rest of the world can stop polluting right now, and China would still get us all killed...nevermind the damage we'll have done twenty years from now as is, from the pollutants we've already consumed.
More and more, there are talks of the gravitude of the situation. Al Gore is one of many who believe in changing our ways. Bono of U2, another. I, myself, contribute how I can, as I'm sure many of us here do.
Unfortunately, most people would rather ride it while it lasts, and worry about the price later, and hope the ticketmaster forgets to charge them.
But he won't. Didn't last time. I mean, what do you think the Plague was about?
If you're a scientist before a spiritualist, then you know that as the planet heats up, diseases are going to exponentially multiply beyond our control. It will pick and choose who lives and dies, until the planet cools down, or until the immune are all that's left, whichever comes first.
And nevermind the Plague. There's also energy crisis. If we don't slow down our consumption rate, or at least find an alternative source of energy (the Moon, for example), soon? Then we'll have a bloody war *and* a plague. The war will be for resources and for vaccines, likely, since the "richer" nations have more access to medicine. The rest of the world will have to go by herbalism, the many less-known forms of healing, or by faith alone in a deity or in our survival.
Will we live or die? Both, as always. But see? How the world changes us? if the planet wasn't heating up, would we have slowed down gas consumption at all before gassing ourselves out?
Not likely.
Earth itself isn't suffering, trust me. It didn't take long to patch itself up 65 million ears ago, a few relative minutes of the Earth's lengthy life. If we end up incinerating everything on the planet including ourselves? It'll just sort itself out and keep on going without us, some other being will come to sentience and pick up where we left off, and maybe get it right next time.
The world is giving us warnings, though, not because it's suffering, but because we will. If a massive hurricane ripping through a city, and an icecap rapidly vanishing, isn't a sign enough, then we're just too blind and clingy to tradition to heed the warning, and will suffer the fullest penalties of the monstrosity we have created for ourselves. But that's our own fault.
If the world ices over? We'll change. If the world is torched to cinders, we'll change. If the magnetic field of the planet shut down, we'll change.
If the world keeps on doing what it's kept on doing, so will we.
So who's gonna make the first move? The mother or its children? Because something's got to give, and I give it...hmm...5 years. Isn't that what the Mayans predicted, anyway?

On a lighter note, I'm glad to be back to this community. I have gotten back in touch with things, and have becomre more, founded on enough opinions that I could actually share them and say years later that that's stil what I think, until the day comes I am shown otherwise.
Cheers

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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...

A routine day at work turns into something more enlightening, as people begin to comment on just how...kind I am, if even only for picking up their dishes for them, or helping an elder to his/her table, or pointing out the best ice cream shop in town.
It's too easy to forget that while the generous millionaire keeps pouring their wealth into charities, it's the simple acts of kindness that truly uplift spirits, albeit on a more local, personal level.
And it seems kindness is constantly rewarded. I arrive at work in the rain, and I leave when it shines.
On my birthday, it was warm, breezy, and dandilion fluff snowed away throughout the town...really something to watch, it was beautiful. My favorite event in the season. it constantly reminds me that while there are millions of places I'd like to at least see...this place is like a vacation every day, for all its beauties year round.
And somehow, it's always warm at night in the summer. I love heat, I never complain, even if the temperatures reach about 45 celsius, or well into the hundreds in farenheit. It's my kind of weather.
But it also seems like a good place to mention if i was somewhere out in the midst of the world, with some friends on other ends of the global map. i can tell them about this place so little it's not on the map, but so beautiful that it's just too much so, for the map. A paradise, privy only to those who knows where it is. The world could end and this town would likely be fine.
Then again, if anyone knows about what happened to Tibet shortly after World War 2 (taken over by the People's Republic of China), then anyone can truly say that this unearthly beauty was made to be enjoyed while it was here, because it wouldn't be, forever...]]> http://www.newciv.org/nl/newslog.php/_v456/__show_article/_a000456-000023.htm 2006-06-13T04:43:19Z 2006-06-13T04:43:19Z

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?

I've been in martial arts for more than three years now, and so far so good. It's become the love of my life, especially so in the absence of any companion.
But since the last tournament I won in combat, I came to realize that...somehow, I already knew exactly what moves my opponent was going to make, seemingly ages before they were made. I had realized but dismissed this many times before, but then I came to thinking of the fabled 'Psychic Duel.' Two would make an attempt through each other's minds to figure out an exact weakness in their form, and once someone found such a weakness, this duel was broken and the real one began, the winner of the Psychic duel also the winner of the actual one.
Of course this can be actually dismissed as logistics, right?
Only so if one knows their opponent inside and out. If one is faced with a completely new opponent (almost always in my case) then this possibility, this "more realistic" possibility, becomes impossible.
But that leaves us with the question, 'Why?' Instinct alone can only allow you to activate Adrenaline (Endorphin if you're really good to yourself) and use your reflexes (Average human reaction time of 0.3 seconds, but mine's 0.1 anyway...).
To know a move before it's coming, well, that is something truly different.
Of course, another possibility, alternative to but not opposing psychic dueling, is that of spiritual intervention. Take into account that we are all born with one guardian angel but many pick up more along the way. Angels, with certainty, can reach into minds of Humans. Perhaps they are 'whispering' into us what our opponent plans to do, or even what the opponent's angel (should the opponent have accepted that entity into one's life) had suggested to one whom he/she guides.
The reason I said 'Not opposing' above, is that it's entirely likely that these two possibilities can be in combination of varies ratios depending on the person. but take into account that, as there are billions of angels, they too have different personalities. Some may favor peace but still have a place for sportsmanship. Others may favor fighting for one's beliefs. Others still would have nothing to do with what they call a bloodsport...even when no blood is drawn, such as in the Friendship tournaments.
But is it man's place to take upon themselves the understanding of the...psychology of these higher beings? Is it a folly? A fantasy even? Or perhaps is it about the time to take a better assessment of where we stand as Human and one's loving guide(s). Of course, God/Alah/Buddah/Tao/Akasha (etc.) have to fit in there somewhere too, right?
Straying from topic...
The point is I'm led to believe that there's more to this world than mind puppeteering body. i've now seen way to much to believe this game we must play, has only our rules in the bigger-than-we-thought book of 'How to Play.' ]]> http://www.newciv.org/nl/newslog.php/_v456/__show_article/_a000456-000022.htm 2006-06-10T15:12:18Z 2006-06-10T15:12:18Z

You know how easy it is for one to be subject to the habits of man, even when one is in full knowledge of it? How one has such a firm belief in something and, with one defying question from one soul, even one's own, a person's morals can be shattered?

I have been absent for some time from NCN, regretfully. While at one point I had one idea flowing into the next, spurring and stirring inspirations, epiphanies of perceptions of all that exists within and without...it did not last. Not only did I have severe writer's block, but I also had a doubt of morals. I imagine saying too much of something not entirely founded by, at least, oneself, you tend to lose little pieces of thatr ideal mindset upon each spoken word, as if speaking, jettisonned who you are, simply because you truly haven't thought it through enough yet.
And, i am back, my mind regathered. I feel once more prepared to tackle the big things of life. Once more, i am ready to percieve, albeit with greater caution and, with greater insight.
Given enough time to reflect upon myself for what and who I am, what and who I am becoming, I have returned to be once more, a usual writer. Expect more from me in the near future.]]> http://www.newciv.org/nl/newslog.php/_v456/__show_article/_a000456-000021.htm 2006-06-10T03:55:43Z 2006-06-10T03:55:43Z

I had been thinking, for some time, 'What if we followed Aristotle in Science instead of Democratus?' It seems there is indeed an answer, and it's not a 'what if,' but a 'what IS.'

Aristotle lived a few hundred hears before Christ, and Democratus thousands of years before. While Demo believed in 'atomos,' something being cut down until at such a size it could no longer be cut down...Aristotle believed in all that is being made up of Five elements: Fire, Water, Air and Earth, In their respective order of creation, the Fifth being Akasha, or 'The Ether'. Many refered to this fifth element as God or something supreme, upon which everything depends. This was an existence of continuity, meaning you could extend infitely into the micro and macrocosms.
Dalton acted on Demo's rules...but he was a bowler, not a scientist. And ever since, we've been using bowling balls the size of atoms to represent this branch of science.
It has been proven time and again that these 'atomos' CAN be cut up. Consider Nuclear reactions. Consider Quarks, Strings etc. Ions, even.
While thinking of whether it was Aristotle who was right or Demo, I came to realize, indeed, todays known elements can easily be categorized into the four elements.
They were both right.
The next day my dad handed me a book on Hermetics. I didn't even talk to him about this kind of stuff, but he seemed to know anyway, that i was 'ready' for this book.
For anyone who knows nothing of this science, just type in Hermetics and you'll have a lot of feedback.
It is indeed a science, but it's unfortunate that so many 'scientists' look at it as hocus pocus. Really, it's not illusory in the slightest, plus, as it applies to all sciences and ties GOD into it all, it really is a more complete study.
I proudly say that I am now a disciple of Hermetics, and am well on my way to becoming a hermetician.
Don't go being a disciple right away, but fellow readers, i'd at least have a look into it. It's well worth the time spent.
As I build understanding of it I will disclose a few bits and pieces here while not spoiling the good stuff.]]> http://www.newciv.org/nl/newslog.php/_v456/__show_article/_a000456-000020.htm 2006-01-20T01:43:58Z 2006-01-20T01:43:58Z

Ever wonder what impact we play on the rest of the world? That is, NewCivNet, or any spiritual groups, new and old? Ever wonder where the actions are? Where the reactions are?

I have put myself purposely into a deep thought and have taken greater understandings on things, such as the controversies of a spokesman.
People talk. We are social creatures. Once, we lived and it was that simple. We hunted, foraged, found a mate and continued on.
Now we bathe in every form of communication the planet will ever see. We are so comforted by this that action has become less and less important. We've become more social now than ever, what with the Internet and the Telephone and all...
2005 has come to a close. So much and yet so little has happened this year. Take the numerous disasters, for example.
Take Live 8, for example. What happened there? It all went hush-hush after the people stopped singing...our political heroes just disappeared, why?
The problem is, people just live on with their lives, treating the news like the news, having nothing but opinions on it.
Heroism's too short-term these days. And it's not that people can't keep it up, only that they won't. Just no endurance, no...profit.
Heroism is a seed, and it must be constantly watered. Frankly it takes a long time for heroism to even begin to grow, so people give up watering the seed and it never grows, off to try and water some other seed, like money, which grows easier and thus is a more favorable seed.
However, Heroism when it does grow is something that roots in deep, grows bigger, stronger and is always green, never losing its leaves. It blossoms more miraculously, too.

Perhaps what the problem is patience...people can't wait for something to happen..no wonder nothing ever does, because those who can make things happen, lose the support they need due to sheer impatience...truly sad.
I hope people will learn to truly see what needs to be done, and look a little beyond their own welbeings. If we are such social creatures, then we ought to learn to help one another. ]]> http://www.newciv.org/nl/newslog.php/_v456/__show_article/_a000456-000019.htm 2005-12-31T08:51:46Z 2005-12-31T08:51:46Z

I'm ready to construct the New Enlightened World Alliance website, but will need some advice from whomever has it, on what might go in it.

Originally I was going to tackle this project alone, but I have come to realize that a project made for the many should not be made manifest by the few. I'm still a little rusty with my HTML coding but I should have a site with no problems. However, whatever useful input anyone has would be very valuable to me, and this project will take time so don't worry about being too late.
Input can include opinion, perhaps suggestion of content, or sections...perhaps it can be joining of the group even. I am especially keen on having a group going here, purpose of NEWA.
Even some html coding for something should I be stuck somewhere, hehe.

I most appreciate any help given while i construct the site, to speed the project up and to perhaps make it better than if I did it all by myself
Again, thanks :D
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This is a response to GWB's confession (NOT Gavin William Bellis, but George W. Bush). You could say, GWB vs. GWB.

He actually admitted that his assault on Iraq was a mistake...I never would have thought he'd say that. Honestly, bravo for him, that's the smartest thing he's ever done.
Has he pulled out of Iraq though?
No.
It's a diversion. He wants the mainstream public calmed down, so that Iraq becomes as old news as Hurricane Katrina, and as 9/11. Nobody talks about them anymore.
And I don't blame him...millions of people wanted me dead? I would say at least something.
Doesn't mean that he's all of a sudden not wrong anymore. He's still got an icy grip on the warm Iraq.
This may be action of a guiding hand, so that 'Freedom' can be better distributed over the world.
What worries me most is the possibility of economic victory over Canada...
Sara Graham and I have spoken about the upcoming Canadian elections, once or twice...I have concluded at least myself that should the Conservatives win, heartless and emotionless as Harper seems to be...then there is a great possibility of Canada's oldest and largest province, Quebec, seperating.
BC has spoken once or twice of Independance as well.
The worst disadvantage of this idea of seperation is that they won't be independant, as they depended sooo heavily on trade, or at least exports. With this cut off initially, it's enough of a catalyst for an economic snowball effect which will make them victim to American Economic Conquest.
This cannot happen. Canada is relatively democratic and everyone here has wonderful rights. The medicine is better, and standards of living are also better.
And we still have the greatest minds here. Who invented the Avro Arrow? Who invented the Canada Arm? (duh). Who invented the jet engine the size of a car engine with the power of engines much larger?
Who invented the PeaceKeeper?
Who's inventing the next Moller-like Flying Car?
That's us. That's Canada. And look at us, we're on our way to American Imperialism. And we all know how much that's going to stir up.

Bush has to do more than admit he was wrong. He has to right his wrongs. Pull out of Iraq. Entirely. Re-negotiate with Martin about the Lumber dispute. And finally, get the economy back on track.
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Notice how almost always, the News is about all the bad stuff happening? Earthquake here, Murder there, car crash somewhere...and then a little bit of politics, which at least in Canada are always depressing.

What's happened to the news? Besides the one odd story of someone saving a cat, it's all bad news. Is it that there's only bad news available? Or is it that the news thinks that nobody cares about the good news, and it doesn't attract watchers?
Either way, the News is very...disgruntling, now. It really is. Anyone i see watching the news will always have some sort of negative reaction to it....for some peoiple it just outright ruins their day.
I, my observant self, just become more and more disgusted with Society as it stands.
Do you see new Orleans on the News anymore? What's happening there? Surely, something's being done over there, no?
And how about this new Al Quaeda News Network?
Perhaps the Trade dispute between America and Canada?
What about North Korea's Nuclear Arms dispute?

Dispute, dispute. We are in dispute here.

The North Korea's Nuclear Arms dispute, this brings something up...Is America disarming? They are surely telling everyone else on the planet to disarm, but are they?
Doubtful. They're holding onto this...Pandora's Box of theirs, using it as a playing card for all who oppose.
Bush said once, as he began the War of Iraq:

"You're either with us...Or you're with the Terrorists."

That makes about, almost 40% of Americans, Terrorists, and an even bigger figure of Canadians, and this doesn't even account for the rest of the known world! Not very many people like what Bush and his pre-Imperial group is doing, and even fewer like that he's in power at all. He's caused nothing but trouble.

If a Terrorist is as Bush states, then I, for one, am PROUDLY one! Because I am Proudly Canadian, Proudly a protector of the Earth, and proudly a warrior of the Light! And I don't care if he likes that or not. Who should?]]> http://www.newciv.org/nl/newslog.php/_v456/__show_article/_a000456-000016.htm 2005-12-13T20:54:53Z 2005-12-13T20:54:53Z

I'm beginning to just have a disgust with society as it stands, and it's sad, because while we should appreciate what wonders we have, we should also note...its worldly cost.

I wake up at a little before noon, and on and out I go job hunting, as I always used to. Not a great time to be job hunting, as the better times are earlier in the day.
I go to a cafe in town and apply, knowing the place and liking the coffee...and knowing that its beans are not slave-collected.
And here I am, thinking of how good the coffee tastes, and then thinking....if I'm boycotting slavery-induced economy, then how will the slavers take it? Will the slaves be further punished?
Then I get to thinking, 'What the hell happened to the Emancipation act?' we were supposed to put a stomp on slavery ages ago, and what...we've let it slip. In fact, we profit off of it now! I mean, how twisted is that? We fight for their freedom, then later turn around at some other slaves and say, 'hey, it's cheap products, we can use that!'
And then what happened to good old tradeswork? Before it was all mass-produced? When all the parts were hand-made?
Look at the Victorian Era: Most everything from the victorian era is so very precious to us, so valuable and in such wonderful shape. And the work and beauty, the heart and soul placed into every facet, was wonderful.
We had an era like that in the 50's when everything was curvy, smooth, classy. When people polished your hub caps while refueling your car at the gas station.
Now it's all self service. The flashy suits those fuel servers wore are all gone, replaced by a bum in a teeshirt and oily jeans.
It's just gas now. There's no pleasure in getting it, and...they place an insane price on it and they KNOW we'll pay for it. It is, after all, cheaper than water. Water in some places is 12 dollars a litre...and this is CANADA! 80% of the world's fresh water bodies, and look...we can't even go and drink it. it's polluted, it's contaminated, it's the home of the local Empire's big dumps.
I own a home well. Free water, good water.
And if that breaks down, there's the mountain streams just a few kilos from home. It's not uber clean, but it's not contaminated by a human, so it should be alright to go have a drink of it. After all, what would we have done when we had no tech? We'd have to go and cup our hands and drink this way.
It's always cool, always fresh. I've never been let down by fresh streamwater.
What's wrong with people? They think that it'll be the end of the world when the power grid fails, or when we have food shortages or water system poisoning, or even down to when there's no coke in the vending machines, in some extreme though existent cases.
As far as gas? I'll never drive anything gas powered. I prefer a bike with only as much power as I can give it, because it's all natural.
Something about a bicycle, when cruising over long distances on forested bike paths, that is so humbling...though you can't think too hard on it or you veer off the path and die.
I followed one woman in particular today, an employee at the cafe, but she wasn't on duty. 'like usual' she said, she shopped her bank card dry for the day. She was dropping in to say hello and then goodbye, and it's only by that existence of coincidence/fate that I just found myself tagging along.
I felt like I could have gone with her right into her apartment. She gave the hint, and, having no real knowledge of who this woman was, I just gave her a good hug and told her I'd likely see her again. Not that I'd go follow her to her apartment should I have known her. See, men are like that, and often are women too...I guess it's just not on my interest list.
I attended my martial art again today, but attending an older class I used to go to. everyone recognized me and wondered where I've been all this time, but simply it was a different timing I attended. they were happy to have me back, and I had my fun. I cleaned house in all my combats.
I don't know what to credit that to...maybe i'm getting better, but I was already sore from the day before. Maybe it's just will pushing beyond skill? Mohammed Ali said something like that once...I think he might be right. I just was in the mood for it, and I devastated every opponent.
But I was merciful with those tired from previous fights. I never let all go on someone with their guard down, unless I set them up that way.
I have always striven to be one of the best fighters...and it's funny just how pacific I am, but also how ready to be a warrior (as defined in my last message) I am...but one who would use tactics much like chinese ambush teams did in World War 2. No guns. In fact, no affiliation with the Army, just, doing my own thing on my own soil.
Yeah, the Chinese weren't doing so well not too long ago. And now look: China can swarm the lot of us with its grand population.
America, same thing, not long before Roswell and Einstein and, whoever designed the first German Rockets.
Yes indeed people, if Americans weren't theives, they wouldn't have been anything. They stole the nuke, they stole the rocket, they stole the combustion engine...hell they even stole the 'first to fly' title, clearly the French in 1904, with a monoplane.
So the Americans' technology depends on the theft of other's ideas and implementing them later, then calling it all theirs.
Pretty sick...this bad economic breakdown they're experiencing might make them desperate...so everyone watch out. And expect the unexpected.
Noting from Star Wars: Chancellor Palpatine, behind the lines, incited reasons for his figure self to enforce new rules, adding more power to him, until when the jedi finally found out about him, and were fought off, he made it Imperial to 'make things safer'. he also made this big witch hunt to kill all the jedi, those who opposed him in his power.
He was Emperor for 23 years.
I doubt Bush is smart enough to do something so clever as our Palpatine has...but I think it's also clear that not only Bush is running the show...something more is behind him. Whispering in his ear, possibly.
Again, we must be watchful.


I am constructing a website to be christened NEWA. It is difficult to say when it will be done, but it should not take long.

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