NASA Day of Remembrance -
Tuesday, January 31, 2017
And I did it on stage, even... (Those were the days!) :P (y) Karaoke: (care-a-owe-kee) [Jp] - Definition: Tone-deaf
And I did it on stage, even... (Those were the days!) :P (y) Karaoke: (care-a-owe-kee) [Jp] - Definition: Tone-deaf - Singing Bruno Mars @ a Chinese bar...what has gotten into me!
Monday, January 30, 2017
Sunday, January 29, 2017
At least a few Christians have their heads in the right place...
At least a few Christians have their heads in the right place... - The actions that this new administration have already taken should be a call to arms for Christians who wish to truly follow the life and teachings of Jesus.
No surprise whatsoever... Now, if only the tragically misguided and ethically bereft remainder of the US population would come to their senses, we could get back to 'real life' again and dispense with 'reality politics'. (y)
No surprise whatsoever... Now, if only the tragically misguided and ethically bereft remainder of the US population would come to their senses, we could get back to 'real life' again and dispense with 'reality politics'. (y) - A startlingly brief honeymoon for the new GOP President
- A book titled “Biocentrism: How Life and Consciousness Are the Keys to Understanding the Nature of the Universe” has stirred up the Internet, because it contained a notion that life does not end when the body dies, and it can last forever. The author of this publication, scientist Dr. Robert Lanza w...
For those of you who are unaware (and didn't vote for Donald Trump), here's some useful information that may become useful, though, let's hope not... For the rest of you, please pay no attention to this post. ;) (y)
For those of you who are unaware (and didn't vote for Donald Trump), here's some useful information that may become useful, though, let's hope not... For the rest of you, please pay no attention to this post. ;) (y) - With the current global tension in mind, we thought it would be a good idea to provide you with a quick guide to surviving a nuclear attack.
This is a profoundly excellent interpretation. It's very well-written... This also explains why I am Buddhist - but I am also *not* Buddhist. "You can’t smooth out the entire earth to make it easier to walk on with your bare feet, but by wearing shoes you protect yourself from rough, unpleasant surfaces." Maybe, if you have the ability to read and comprehend this article, you'll understand what I mean by the 'duality' of my claim above. And if anyone is wise, it's this guy right here! (y)
This is a profoundly excellent interpretation. It's very well-written... This also explains why I am Buddhist - but I am also *not* Buddhist. "You can’t smooth out the entire earth to make it easier to walk on with your bare feet, but by wearing shoes you protect yourself from rough, unpleasant surfaces." Maybe, if you have the ability to read and comprehend this article, you'll understand what I mean by the 'duality' of my claim above. And if anyone is wise, it's this guy right here! (y) - It’s not the clothes you wear, the ceremonies you perform, or the meditation you do. It’s not what you eat, how much you drink, or who you have sex with.
- It's really tragic when I make a comment on this woman's G+ page about her obvious misunderstanding of the purpose of being a teacher - and she bans me, blocks me and removes her post. It's a sad state of affairs when you have 'teachers' doing such things. It's not my fault if she doesn't understand that teaching should be a selfless act, not a matter of self-promotion, ego and arrogance...regardless of one's gender. It's not my fault if, though she is a teacher, she fails to understand that teaching is about working for 'a cause', not working for 'applause'. At any rate, it's just one of the many problems plaguing the poorly managed and applied 'education system' that routinely allows people to 'fall through the cracks'. My suggestion: go find another occupation...
- “I have realized; it is during the times I am far outside my element that I experience myself the most. That I see and feel who I really am, the most! I think that's what a comet is like, you see, a comet is born in the outer realms of the universe! But it's only when it ventures too close to our sun or to other stars that it releases the blazing "tail" behind it and shoots brazen through the heavens! And meteors become sucked into our atmosphere before they burst like firecrackers and realize that they're shooting stars! That's why I enjoy taking myself out of my own element, my own comfort zone, and hurling myself out into the unknown. Because it's during those scary moments, those unsure steps taken, that I am able to see that I'm like a comet hitting a new atmosphere: suddenly I illuminate magnificently and fire dusts begin to fall off of me! I discover a smile I didn't know I had, I uncover a feeling that I didn't know existed in me... I see myself. I'm a shooting star. A meteor shower. But I'm not going to die out. I guess I'm more like a comet then. I'm just going to keep on coming back.” - C. JoyBell C. | Stoic Esoteric Writer & Published Author ____________________________________ This is a very good read for everyone... If you're Christian, I would say it should be a requirement. The theme is Christian in nature. Please take just a few minutes and read it. You have nothing to lose and only knowledge to gain...
Mouse-over for an awesome animated experience! (y)
Mouse-over for an awesome animated experience! (y) - Sometimes you just have to die a little inside in order to be Reborn and Rise again as a Stronger and Wiser version of you.. Pass it on
- "The whole educational and professional training system is a very elaborate filter, which just weeds out people who are too independent, and who think for themselves, and who don't know how to be submissive, and so on -- because they're dysfunctional to the institutions.” ~ Noam Chomsky Via ॐ Collectively Conscious ॐ
I added my wife's painting in the comments below. :P (y)
I added my wife's painting in the comments below. :P (y) - I think most intelligent people already knew what was going on. They always try to bury the one who's going to bring radical change and rock people's boats, either because they fear radical change (even when it is necessary) or because they don't want to screw up their nice, little money machines that are destroying the planet and billions of other people's lives. Anyway, if you didn't know, you might want to read this article: (y)
Friday, January 27, 2017
Thursday, January 26, 2017
- Rest in peace, Jessica... I know your life with us was brief and was difficult for you, but in the entire time you were with us, I never had a single reason to be upset with you. I always felt closer to you since we shared a birthday...and many wonderful experiences. I will never forget you... :o) My eternal love... <3 -Uncle Doug-
- Well, how do you do, Private William McBride, Do you mind if I sit down here by your graveside? And rest for awhile in the warm summer sun, I've been walking all day, and I'm nearly done. And I see by your gravestone you were only 19 When you joined the glorious fallen in 1916, Well, I hope you died quick and I hope you died clean Or, Willie McBride, was it slow and obscene? Did they Beat the drum slowly, did the play the pipes lowly? Did the rifles fir o'er you as they lowered you down? Did the bugles sound The Last Post in chorus? Did the pipes play the Flowers of the Forest? And did you leave a wife or a sweetheart behind In some loyal heart is your memory enshrined? And, though you died back in 1916, To that loyal heart are you forever 19? Or are you a stranger without even a name, Forever enshrined behind some glass pane, In an old photograph, torn and tattered and stained, And fading to yellow in a brown leather frame? The sun's shining down on these green fields of France; The warm wind blows gently, and the red poppies dance. The trenches have vanished long under the plow; No gas and no barbed wire, no guns firing now. But here in this graveyard that's still No Man's Land The countless white crosses in mute witness stand To man's blind indifference to his fellow man. And a whole generation who were butchered and damned. And I can't help but wonder, no Willie McBride, Do all those who lie here know why they died? Did you really believe them when they told you "The Cause?" Did you really believe that this war would end wars? Well the suffering, the sorrow, the glory, the shame The killing, the dying, it was all done in vain, For Willie McBride, it all happened again, And again, and again, and again, and again.
Wednesday, January 25, 2017
Still waiting for the Trump Administration to do something impressive... ...this is *not* it.
Still waiting for the Trump Administration to do something impressive... ...this is *not* it. - Though recreation on public lands creates $646bn in economic stimulus and 6.1m jobs, Republicans are setting in motion a giveaway of Americans’ birthright
posted this before - but it absolutely needs to be posted, shared and spread as far and wide across Social Media as possible, since there are, apparently, far too many people who don't realize they are selling their souls and slitting their wrists for something that anyone living on US soil should feel shamefully guilty about, whether they are directly or indirectly responsible. Sadly, that particular disgraceful, shameful lack of wisdom is something that the new President of the United States ( #POTUS ) is tragically suffering from. I hope he lives long enough to realize the long-term material, environmental, spiritual and intellectual mistake he is putting his name on. Please share this as far and wide as possible...if you are proud to be an American, whether you are here through evolution or through immigration, and honor all Americans that preceded you as far back as this land has had a history...
posted this before - but it absolutely needs to be posted, shared and spread as far and wide across Social Media as possible, since there are, apparently, far too many people who don't realize they are selling their souls and slitting their wrists for something that anyone living on US soil should feel shamefully guilty about, whether they are directly or indirectly responsible. Sadly, that particular disgraceful, shameful lack of wisdom is something that the new President of the United States ( #POTUS ) is tragically suffering from. I hope he lives long enough to realize the long-term material, environmental, spiritual and intellectual mistake he is putting his name on. Please share this as far and wide as possible...if you are proud to be an American, whether you are here through evolution or through immigration, and honor all Americans that preceded you as far back as this land has had a history... - MSNBC segment about how Native American resistance to the construction of the Dakota Access Pipeline and the subsequent reactions of apathy, disdain and anger from the American public are all deeply tied to the troubled history this country has had with our people, for centuries. Once again, we here at TVCDC #StandWithStandingRock.
Secrets of the profoundly wise... ;) (Well worth reading - and applying!) (y)
Secrets of the profoundly wise... ;) (Well worth reading - and applying!) (y) - Have you ever wondered why it matters that you care for other people? It seems commonsense that this is a good way to live life. But there are dominant philosophies today that suggest we need to maximize our own individual self-interest. This comes from economic theories of capitalism that suggest w...
Tuesday, January 24, 2017
This is so perfect... (y) The Netherlands' welcome to Donald Trump. (RoFLMaO!) :D
This is so perfect... (y) The Netherlands' welcome to Donald Trump. (RoFLMaO!) :D - Nederland verwelkomt Trump in zijn eigen woorden.
NASA Simulates Orion Spacecraft Launch Conditions for Crew
NASA Simulates Orion Spacecraft Launch Conditions for Crew -
Monday, January 23, 2017
Early culture... Also, language without a translation. Fascinating stuff (to me, anyway)! (y)
Early culture... Also, language without a translation. Fascinating stuff (to me, anyway)! (y) - A fort destroyed in a deliberate conflagration in the seventh century may have been the seat of the lost kingdom of Rheged.
New Weather Satellite Sends First Images of Earth
New Weather Satellite Sends First Images of Earth -
Sunday, January 22, 2017
Only the strongly biased and clearly uneducated would fail to understand the wisdom of this message. Unfortunately, it seems there are many such people in nations worldwide. There is no future in avoiding wisdom. (y)
Only the strongly biased and clearly uneducated would fail to understand the wisdom of this message. Unfortunately, it seems there are many such people in nations worldwide. There is no future in avoiding wisdom. (y) - As the spiritual leader of Tibetan Buddhism and leader of the Tibetan government in exile for half a century, the Dalai Lama has well considered views of the kind of government that is most appropriate for the flourishing of human nature. For the Dalai Lama, the “truth is the best guarantor and the…
- I don't think it takes a brain surgeon to realize that the people most often 'crowing' about lost profits are neither the fas nor artists - but are, instead, leeches trying to capitalize from them. Is it just me...or do the majority of SOPA, RIAA, MPAA and other 'cartel' fat cats seem like vultures? http://t.co/bBgWNhVD
- I find it strange that people in the financial and business world don't really listen to those who are clearly aware of what is going on unless...well...those people are profiting from the failure of others. By this, I mean these people think that your knowledge of what's going on should make you rich when your predictions become truth since they will net you a lot of money. Unfortunately, they don't realize that some people are satisfied already with what they have and they also have a conscience, meaning they don't like to profit off the suffering of others...no matter how much these people have lied, cheated and stolen on their way to the bottom (which is usually where they wind up). Case in point, China... Many have been predicting this for a long time and it took a long time but it is happening spectacularly fast now, as I always said (and knew) it would. In fact, anyone can go back in my history online and see clearly that I've been saying this for many, many years...since shortly after I got to China and saw what was really going on. In addition, they are free to talk to other foreigners (at least, the ones who were smart enough to leave and aren't still there), those who valued my knowledge and had the strength of character to admit truth as well as many of the Chinese people who are my close friends because they knew the value of what I was saying and were far more aware of Chinese history than foreigners are (and honest enough to admit it, rather than trying to hide it with false confidence and pride). These are things most foreign people don't get to know or see and have only the words of the people in finance to follow (who want to lie to them to get them to invest so the financiers can profit from it), so they are tragically misled. They have also probably lost fortunes investing in a tragedy waiting to happen. I suppose, when all is said and done and since technology now allows us to chronologically store our past comments and predictions, I will have the satisfaction of being able to say "I told you so". Not that it matters, since my intention in the first place was to help people and prevent such a horrific future. That is the sole reason I don't feel like I wasted a decade or so of my life there. I just wish it would have turned out a lot different than it is going to. I suppose that's what happens when people think they know what they're doing, assume you don't and decide not to heed the warnings which were given with the very best of intentions. It's called karma. There is no escaping it. Maybe one day people will value my keen sense of finance and economics despite my not meeting their 'standards of success' and start listening. I'm sure they'll save themselves a lot of suffering. Time will tell - at least, for a while. I'm not sure how much of it I have left. None of us are. At least I had the good sense a long time ago to start making better, more ethical and responsible choices. I give my best of luck to the people of China, those foreigners still over there trying to 'beat the dead dragon' and to all who thought it wise to invest without really having any clue what was actually going on and taking the criminals and profiteers at their word. That is never a wise choice...
- Frightening...and very real. It's kind of like giving the keys to a car - or a loaded handgun - to a 3 year old. Humans are ill-prepared for the future. This is the future we face when so many people are disregarding ethics, responsibility and truth for foolish reasons. When everything goes south, nobody will be able to say they weren't warned. People should be thinking now about the incorrect things they do, however minor, since minor things have a way of accumulating and becoming the norm. For example, we had terrorism in the Middle East that has now spread to malls and schools in America. We have had the sacrifice of education for the sake of profit, which was largely a third-world problem in the past but has now become a mainstream one in the US. We have corporations fighting to exist as 'people' for the sake of exploiting other people...sure, that is an American innovation - but it too will spread throughout the 3rd world nations and cause havoc long after Americans, assuming they ever do, realize what a mistake it was. Just think about how China has destroyed their economy with the very same activities and set of circumstances that led to the housing and financial crises that affected the entire world in 2007-2008. Even what is happening in China, to some degree, is affecting the rest of the world now and, no doubt, other nations will continue to affect the entire planet as they go through this stage of 'development' that was ingrained by irresponsible, ignorant, unethical, greedy people who started it in the US. Many of them still haven't learned the lesson and are actively still destroying the economy for their own neighbors in the US as you read this text. It doesn't really take a brain surgeon to understand which way all of this is heading...or how detrimental it will be to the future of the human race. If this is the best that humans can do, I have to reconsider whether or not I am actually happy to be a part of the species. Personally, I'd rather be abducted by aliens... (y)
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