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The end of a day
near Summer Solstice
burning sky moved northward
nearly passing western mountains
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It is relative
like Truth
like Position
on an eternal edge
of One Reason
expressed upon continuums
unfolding constant
Revelation
as looking
as dreaming…
Wondering on a star
here most near
yet far
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It seemed to be turning into 2009; tornadoes in the South and East, the Plains–boring!
Until now.
May 10 may be a big day for the tornado seekers of Vortex 2, with an outbreak possible right up their alley.
Then comes the choice dilemma; chose a storm to chase that the whole armada can catch in time. That will be the question.
They picked just one whole of last year, not that the storms that do not produce tornadoes are not important–they are a major part of the study to determine why one storm is capable of a twister and another not quite. However. I do not believe the chase team wakes up thinking; I wish we would finally get a non tornado producing storm, all these tornadoes are getting dull.
The sweat on the heads of the decider, if lucky, will add to the humidity just enough to tip the scales, but not too much to interfere with the RFD.
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The other luck to wish for would be that no people or structures are destroyed no matter Vortex 2 or not.
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Home page for the VORTEX2 tornadogenesis research project at the National Severe Storms Laboratory.
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http://www.weather.com/newscenter/topstories/cil_plainssevere051010.html
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So this year, when I got a chance to document Vortex The Sequel, … photos of Vortex 2, so I’m going to post some of my favorites here. …
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The view last evening
I’ve been working outside and sweating on occasion. Helping a restorative justice project move locations today in sunny, warm weather. Much of the rest of the US is quite cold, and for that I send you who are warm wishes this new year.
Hey!
There is some frost outside at the moment. That counts for something.
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You Are The Star
I should correct the title, by including that you will be the one writing your movie, and not some ghost or other writer. You will be narrating the plots storyline, doing the set production, including designing landscaping, rooms, buildings and even planets and qualities of physics, while creating all the characters, and keeping it all a secret from you as you do!
Now that is genius! Maybe you did not know that you were actually a creative genius? I do not know you, but I know you are. The issue is access to you phenomenal abilities.
No Really.
Next Caveat:
This revelation of mine about your movie is not a “Cold Reading”; the fact that most of us, thinking we are all unique and one of a kind, actually have many of the same interest and goals of sorts.
For instance. Someone says you planned to write a book one day of your life’s interesting stuff. Well, something like 80% of folks have that fantasy, but if a “psychic” told them of it, they might be quite sure of the “proof” of this psychics unique ability to decipher inner consciousness metaphysically.
Not necessarily.
Anyway. This is not that. Not playing to your ego or perhaps ignorance in some manner. Well now, that is not quite precisely true, since I assume you do not know what I am referring to yet. At least some of you may still not know what this movie and genius stuff is leading up to.
No More Mystery
I’m speaking of your simple nights dreaming since you were very young. You’ve been designing whole movie productions while reproducing elements of known environments and people into fantasy worlds. You’ve been writing this stuff on the nights fly—-seemingly instantaneously designing dialogue, storylines, fears and who knows what else; ALL IN AN INSTANT!
You have no artistic ability? Baloney! Double baloney!! !!!
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Now the question is; Do you or I tap our own deep creative well?
This will determine to what degree our talents are for public, or only private consumption.
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I do not need an I-phone or anything like it.
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Never had nor required a new car, so forget about it.
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I have no need for computer games. No thanks.
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Not wanting any wine, beer or other liquor. Sorry.
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Please, no sport tickets or any pop performers. Thanks.
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I will not be Tweeting, so not wanting any of those.
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Not text messaging as well, and I’m glad for that.
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But if anyone would like to give me WordPress gifts, I’d take them like a greedy blank.
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I did give myself a new little canon camera which I took this moon shot from tonight.
We’re getting ready right now to see old Christmas Shows we see every year.
It looks like I can tweet or type right here on WordPress! Who knew?
Have some Happy Holidays you all.
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Subject: Can I own a Canadian?
Why Can’t I Own a Canadian?
October 2002
Dr. Laura Schlessinger is a radio personality who dispenses advice to people who call in to her radio show. Recently, she said that, as an observant Orthodox Jew, homosexuality is an abomination according to Leviticus 18:22 and cannot be condoned under any circumstance. The following is an open letter to Dr. Laura penned by a east coast resident, which was posted on the Internet. It’s funny, as well as informative:
Dear Dr. Laura:
Thank you for doing so much to educate people regarding God’s Law. I have learned a great deal from your show, and try to share that knowledge with as many people as I can. When someone tries to defend the homosexual lifestyle, for example, I simply remind them that Leviticus 18:22 clearly states it to be an abomination. End of debate. I do need some advice from you, however, regarding some of the other specific laws and how to follow them:
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When I burn a bull on the altar as a sacrifice, I know it creates a pleasing odor for the Lord – Lev.1:9. The problem is my neighbors. They claim the odor is not pleasing to them. Should I smite them?
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-I would like to sell my daughter into slavery, as sanctioned in Exodus 21:7. In this day and age, what do you think would be a fair price for her?
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I know that I am allowed no contact with a woman while she is in her period of menstrual uncleanliness – Lev.15:19- 24. The problem is, how do I tell? I have tried asking, but most women take offense.
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Lev. 25:44 states that I may indeed possess slaves, both male and female, provided they are purchased from neighboring nations. A friend of mine claims that this applies to Mexicans, but not Canadians. Can you clarify? Why can’t I own Canadians?
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I have a neighbor who insists on working on the Sabbath. Exodus 35:2 clearly states he should be put to death. Am I morally obligated to kill him myself?
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A friend of mine feels that even though eating shellfish is an abomination – Lev. 11:10, it is a lesser abomination than homosexuality. I don’t agree. Can you settle this?
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Lev. 21:20 states that I may not approach the altar of God if I have a defect in my sight. I have to admit that I wear reading glasses. Does my vision have to be 20/20, or is there some wiggle room here?
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Most of my male friends get their hair trimmed, including the hair around their temples, even though this is expressly forbidden by Lev. 19:27. How should they die?
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I know from Lev. 11:6-8 that touching the skin of a dead pig makes me unclean, but may I still play football if I wear gloves?
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My uncle has a farm. He violates Lev. 19:19 by planting two different crops in the same field, as does his wife by wearing garments made of two different kinds of thread (cotton/polyester blend). He also tends to curse and blaspheme a lot. Is it really necessary that we go to all the trouble of getting the whole town together to stone them? – Lev.24:10-16. Couldn’t we just burn them to death at a private family affair like we do with people who sleep with their in-laws? (Lev. 20:14)
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I know you have studied these things extensively, so I am confident you can help. Thank you again for reminding us that God’s word is eternal and unchanging.
Your devoted fan,
Jim
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Why can’t I own Canadians? I have a neighbor who insists on working on the Sabbath. Exodus 35:2 clearly states he should be put to death. …
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No Canadians for you this Christmas!
Probably all sold out.
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Well.
I do not speak econolingo, but the metaphorical connection seems clear enough. Though investors may seek to get in early on a bubbles bandwagon before it burst, hopefully selling out before the OH NO! event. I believe the phenomenon speaks, or gurgles for itself.
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Our economy operates on Consensus Realities and attendant Appearance Realities. Money does not actually make money or grow on trees, it shifts around in circulation as a manner of distribution of wealth. Fruit on trees must be picked. The other side of that coin; redistribution of wealth, is endemic as well. These schemes are designed to “make money”, as applied to a population, willing or not, submersed in an economy fundamentally based on opportunism, particularly the stock market realms of the economy.
When I picked fruit, it was all day long up tall ladders, while at the same time someone sold stock they bought at $10 and sold at $20. Nowadays a phone call or button pushed. Merit and worth in the culture seems assigned by assets and income, yet this is all human ideas not necessarily based upon fact of individual worth or character at all.
We treat the criminal buying a new car the same as someone who picked fruit their whole life to afford that car. Inherit a fortune, win a lottery, and you think you are fixed for life. You may be fixed in more ways than one; your heart nd soul may be disconnected from this world you are immersed in.
With our joy in winnings, personal economic goals achieved, is the economy, usually loaded with schemes detached from ground realities, even on the self radar? Though they involve much gaming and a money based identity framing, winning and success are their mind frames, based not on true reality, but consensus and appearance presupposition and opinion.
The have and have not dilemma, provided with sanctioned ways of getting and a plethora of negative framing for the losers and or under-achievers. Right in the wording; the best way to cast a spell over perception.
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Bubbles are an indication of the “Ownership Culture” expanding into the population, upping the scale of up and down. We are expected to be invested in stocks, bonds and the like for our future security. Owning is perceived as having. Having, as achieving self fulfillment. We are dependent, or lead to be, on manipulative mechanisms fundamentally based upon an identity of lack, but narrated as goal and planning responsibilities. The American Way perhaps. But it is not all that America is.
The Appearance Reality belief of material fulfillment tends to totally ignore as nonexistent, the choice of human beings who decide not to be invested in a materialism driven consumption paradigm; where earths ecosystems are already reeling from the abuse of so much “success”.
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When economic “Bubble” appear, they are not perceived or acknowledged as being bubbles, not at large. Instead they are “The Future”, the way of the new world, and you better get on board or be left behind. Soon it seems everyone is raking in the bonus for investing in the new world order. Why if only I…
By this time critical thinking is so old world, except for some of those really long term investment types who bank on fundamentals. The power of making a profit is seen; folks buying bigger homes and cars, seeking the status of their alleged achievement.
Achievement, that is, based upon a scheme to tax someone. Stock earnings are taxes; they are levied somewhere onto someone to make that “profit” for you. Unlike government taxes however, we do not “get” to vote on private tax schemes called profit. You take a product or service or leave them. Most do not even leave a suggestion box as far as caring what you think.
The banking/debt meltdown was initiated on bubble mentality being exposed. Schemes, as long as they seem legal, remain invisible or are not understood, inflate pocketbooks and egos, not unlike picking the winning horse from lucky intuition and study, or a tip. Now I can take my gass guzzling vacation around the world! YES!!! The proof of achievement is in the profit.
But proof of what?
Changing Directions
For most Americans, the last half century was one begun with rising wages, then came the era of debt; credit financing, credit cards and more credit cards. We banked, not necessarily on tangible rising wages this Friday, but leveraged “income” credited to the future. This is a dramatic and fundamental change in economic policy, oddly coinciding with the rise of exporter nations pouring goods into a globalized setting. This helps keep our declining real wages look as if we really are better off.
Real wealth growing is in ways gone for many Americans. Hard work does not necessarily give you more than a bad back and bills unable to be paid. But look! Another credit line! This fundamental shift is base upon the usual opportunistic exploitation. Now other countries become the makers of much of our goods, while we become a kind of service/investor economy. Some still get rich from the use of cheep labor or paying workers enough to hold their effort, while skimming profit as an unseen working class tax. Clean as apple pie. As is usual in human gain; the profiting people tend to minimize the negative use of others energy. They justify and rationalize those “others” place in life instead.
While “They” of “Their country” enters the consumer driven consensus reality, Why I am helping them come out of poverty. Giving them work and a much higher standard of living. But all while American workers, overall, are demoted on the international scene. Companies want wage cuts to compete with the lowly paid international worker. This drives wages down by competition inference on the world market. The once promised health care and retirement are now: ‘Your bankrupt! what happened to my retirement contract?!’
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There is a great industry of denial cranking propoganda out regarding Freedom, Tax, Government, Regulation, Free Markets, Capitalism, Socialism, etc. The handiest way to detect who does not base their beliefs on fact or objective context are by detecting who is espousing “faith” and attacking science as if it is just a made up simplistic faith based endeavour of liberals or egg headed elites. Park your Volvo and Latté hear. You non realistic person you.
Some science is faith based, but in general peer review science encourages critical thinking based on provable theory, and acknowledges a fundamental claim; not to a-priori unquestionable knowns, but data that must both fit theory and continue to, or a “higher reason” establishes a new understanding.
Me believing in climate change driven by human influence, does not make it true. The data and knowledge of chemistry must, along with unprecedented double hemispheric meltdowns moving in tandem with changes in earths chemistry directly correlated (albeit with time delay ecosystem absorbtion dampening and other dynamic influences) with human injections into the environment.
But complexity and nuance is the nemesis of science, as corporate invested industries profiteering off of said changes in chemistry can debunk complicated understanding with ease of application emotional mind paint sprayers.
Ah. The simplicity of faith, so easy to steer when critical thinking is unplugged and rationalization inserted as reason.
Investment, as in the stock market, is gambling. It also is a pyramid scheme; it takes a mass of buyers somewhere for something, to make the pyramid grow, and especially to make the top higher.
We, or the culture, the society, sanctions some gambling and not others. What the culture allows is usually removed from its negative connotation. Now kinds of cognitive dissonance can be assuaged, especially for some of the religious and others who believe is system “wholes” or the unity of Life and process.
Your investments become your business in a Darwinian winners and losers like contest. But this contest never was truly fair, no matter the parade of abstractions such as success or freedom or responsibility one drags in for gambling to provide a facade of niceness. If not nice, a detached individualism keeps the cash in the mine column. Nicely compartmentalized form whole-istic conceptualizations that respect the inner and inter-relatedness of all things.
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The BIG BUBBLE is the bubble of denial regarding both materialism and consumerism at a practically exponential rate on the world stage. The relative elites who play the investment games require in place cognitive dissonance abating outlets; be they philosophical or detached energy such as spectator sports or other means of not paying attention to what is the Whole of Life.
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Economic bubbles are indicating that our culture is drowning in its own excesses, and these are spreading throughout the world. The industry of denying the excess and exploitation of environments, while codifying “achievements”, “individual goals” and “success” into narratives detached of social, economic and environmental consequence and accountability.
The bubbles are indicative of cultural denial and obfuscation.
Oh Yeah
Bubbles are for bursting. And the real life raft left is not materialistic or on any investment portfolios.
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Now I should let you know that I have a family member who says she thinks like Glen Beck. Upon hearing that, it is like someone coming p to yo and saying; Hey! Lets go to Jonestown Guyana. My preacher Jim Jones is moving there, he’s such a good guy. A real Christian! He helps the poor and those left behind.’
OK. Maybe unfair. But it hit me as if I was told; ‘I think like a crazy but comfy megalomaniac propagandist. I’m kinda in synch with his insight into the conspiratorial and paranoid nature of all things liberal. Liberals are all so deceptive don’t you know? Wait until you hear what OBAMA is an anagram for!’
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Jul 27, 2009 … Thank you, Glenn Beck. I don’t think any of us will ever walk by a building … best Glenn Beck video ever…) in which he attempts to create an anagram: … There were signs comparing President Barack Obama to a Nazi and …
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http://mediamatters.org/research/200911190043
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Fox News caught red-handed (again) doctoring video – Nov 18, 2009
Fox News — home of outrageous smears, falsehoods — promotes “tea … – Oct 17, 2009
On Fox, Mark Sanford “(D)” holds press conference – Jun 24, 2009
REPORT: Time and again, Fox News doctors video to smear … – May 5, 2009
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Nov 10, 2009 … The Fox philosophy is never admit a mistake or lie. …. Real news organizations don’t just make stuff up. … The average Fox News watcher will fail to notice because they want to believe …. 2 hours and 32 minutes ago …
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-Something to think about on this Veterans Day. Those who put their lives on the line for this nations health may show the most contrast of the consequence of needing to decide on your money or your life; the apparent code of the corporate bottom line health industry narrative.
With so much undiagnosed PTSD, does the public ignore reality?
We have reason to wonder—
PhysOrg.com |
Uninsured veterans is a crime on Veterans Day – 18 hours ago
Is this what our veterans were fighting for? Harvard Medical School estimates … because they lacked health insurance and thus had reduced access to care. …
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