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Fun that is Funny Test You Can Take
Find out if you are a tree huger or?….
it might be free publicity but such fun I did want to have you all try to find out what your inner child or inner secret agent. My friend is a tree huger and I took the test twice…
I am an Extroverted Healthy Believer
0.23% of the 228228 people who have taken this quiz are like you.
or
You are a Romantic Spiritual Extrovert
0.32% of the 228229 people who have taken this quiz are like you.
Misfitmonrotardiphelia.
Killing by habitual lateness as in I don’t give a ‘darn’. I can hear Clark Gable saying those words in early Kodak Chrome Synesthesia.
It seems a societal juncture, we are all just prior to the heart felt change of Heart! The time is coming where people come on time.
Lately I have been breathing with the rhythm of space weather. Big Time. My little breath is actually breathing with the in and out of space. You can get in touch with space weather through the
http://www.nasa.gov
site and click on space weather. In fact you can have NASA send you an email about the sun spots and the magnetic waves that are always exploding in that dark indigo which is filled with energy. Choose which space weather information page from this site:
http://search.nasa.gov/search/search.jsp?nasaInclude=space+weather
Leave your incorrect imaginations about space with the fogged facet of misfitmonrotardiphelia and participate in the big breathing. This is a real way we can each participate in changing both our life and the life of our planet for starters. When we change the Earth, then we can wake up to our solar system and galaxy and out to the shimmering angel dust of billions and billions of galaxies beyond the understanding of our little finite gray and white brain matter.
Let us enjoy this breath together, right on time with the universe!
Meditate As A Water Buffalo
I offer a few ideas for those who are frustrated with the week’s ever-present mosh pit:
1. Breath. Breath deeply and slowly. Imagine palm trees in front of you and feel sand between your toes.
2. Watch people as if you were an anthropologist – the colors, the outfits, the faces. Think to yourself, where are they going? Are they the ones cooking? Are they doomed to a table of grumpy stepparents or gleefully awaiting meeting a new niece for the first time? How many dorky cocktails will they have before they sit down to dinner?
3. If you need an escape, head to the nearest 24-hour diner and have your own little moment, whether its a whole greasy meal or just a cup of cocoa. How can we so easily forget just how good hot cocoa is?
4. Pretend you are a water buffalo on the African plains making a yearly migration south and be one with the crowd. Don’t stampede, instead look at all the very many types of shoes people wear for the journey…
Expand Your Meditation
What I would like to talk about is what is known about meditation and not continue the edge bordering on conjecture and channeling. People are always asking for the latest theory in management or productivity and social skills. How can I manage my complex life? Why do I think that death is falling off the edge into a black hole of nothingness? I hope to help my readers to understand meditation using though and feeling as a process in our place in this solar system and its far-flung outlying place in the galaxy to engender poise in the here and now.
Our place is in this solar system and its far-flung outlying deep seeming dark space is swirling with the same ‘sign’ wave pulsing energy as our thoughts and desires. Last night I watched a Star Trek episode about time/space travel. They went a billion light years outside the farthest know edge of space. An alien and the engineering staff were using all the positive thoughts from all the members of the Enterprise crew to move the ship ‘where no man had gone before’. The hammered hint was that we are entering a place in human history where the intersection of time / space is now known to be moved by thought. Physics has labeled time as a consensual habit mankind has adopted to keep us sane in our cocoon of safety.
From Wikipedia.com For the many for whom this is the first contact with the Uncertainty Principle:
Schrödinger’s Cat: A cat, along with a flask containing a poison, is placed in a sealed box shielded against environmentally induced quantum decoherence. If an internal Geiger counter detects radiation, the flask is shattered, releasing the poison that kills the cat. The Copenhagen interpretation of quantum mechanics implies that after a while, the cat is simultaneously alive and dead. Yet, when we look in the box, we see the cat either alive or dead, not both alive and dead.
Quantum mechanics Uncertainty principle
In physics, specifically quantum mechanics, the Schrödinger equation is an equation that describes how the quantum state of a physical system changes in time. It is as central to quantum mechanics as Newton’s laws are to classical mechanics.
Schrödinger’s equation can be mathematically transformed into Heisenberg’s matrix mechanics, and into Feynman’s path integral formulation.
Schrödinger’s cat is a thought experiment, often described as a paradox, devised by Austrian physicist Erwin Schrödinger in 1935. It illustrates what he saw as the problem of the Copenhagen interpretationquantum mechanics applied to everyday objects. The thought experiment presents a cat that might be alive or dead, depending on an earlier random event. In the course of developing this experiment, he coined the term of Verschränkung — literally, entanglement.
A Copernican constraint in our galaxy has been as far as most people can possibly imagine. We have an entanglement of our imagination. The contemplatives of old understood how important it is for mankind to untangle their hearts to see with the most powerful electrical organ in the body and not the head which is the servant of the heart. The steps of meditation were conceived to lead people toward a greater understanding of the Infinite Universe, one level at a time.
Many believe that our solar system is a safe home and every possibility outside the orbit of Pluto is both dangerous and impossible. Strengthening our hearts in meditation will engender poise in the here and now.
I have been meditating in a new way. I see meditation as a rhythm. It is my finally coming to a beginners understanding of the rhythm of my breath as a fractal of the solar and galactic breath. If you have not had the experience of the Mandelbrot Fractal images, this is the easiest to understand as it relates Celtic iconography with ferns and more in easy to grasp steps:
http://www.miqel.com/fractals_math_patterns/visual-math-natural-fractals.html
In addition, while you are watching the fractals spin listen to The Staple Singers sing I’ll Take You There.
Oh . . . mmm I know a place Ain’t nobody cryin’ Ain’t nobody worried Ain’t no smilin’ faces Mmm, no no Lyin’ to the races
Help me, come on, come on Somebody, help me now (I’ll take you there) Help me, ya’all (I’ll take you there) Help me now (I’ll take you there) Oh! (I’ll take you there)Oh! Oh! Mercy! (I’ll take you there) Oh, let me take you there (I’ll take you there)
Oh-oh! Let me take you there! (I’ll take you there)
Play your, play your piano now All right
Ah . . . do it . . . do it Come on now Play on it, play on it Daddy daddy daddy Ooh, Lord All right now Baby, easy now Now, come on, little lady All right Dum-dum-dum-dum Sock it, sock it
Ah, oh, oh! I know a place, ya’all (I’ll take you there) Ain’t nobody cryin’ (I’ll take you there) Ain’t nobody worried (I’ll take you there) No smilin’ faces
(I’ll take you there) Uh-uh (Lyin’ to the races) (I’ll take you there) Oh, no Oh!
(I’ll take you there) Oh oh oh! (I’ll take you there) Mercy now! (I’ll take you there) I’m callin’ callin’ callin’ mercy (I’ll take you there) Mercy mercy! (I’ll take you there)
Let me (I’ll take you there) Oh oh! I’ll take you there (I’ll take you there) Oh oh oh oh Wanna take you there! (I’ll take you there)
Just take me by the hand Let me (I’ll take you there) Let me, let me, let me lead the way Oh! (I’ll take you there) Let me take you there (I’ll take you there)
Let me take you there! (I’ll take you there) Ain’t no smilin’ faces (I’ll take you there)
Up in here, lyin’ to the races (I’ll take you there) You oughta, you gotta gotta come let me, let me (I’ll take you there) Take you, take you, take you over there
(I’ll take you there) Ooh! Oh! Oh! All right (I’ll take you there)
Oh-oh! All right! (I’ll take you there) Oh! Oh! (I’ll take you there) Mmmm . . . ah Oh! Yeah! (I’ll take you there) Whoa! (I’ll take you there) Let me lead the way (I’ll take you there)
‘In the beginning is my end’ The central focus of the Four Quartets is man’s relationship with time, the universe, and the divine. Time is depicted as a binding force that prevents mankind from transcending the boundaries of the material world and hinders them from finding redemption. The overall message of the series is that only through realizing the spiritual sacrifice for mankind is an individual capable of being saved. In describing his understanding of the divine with the poems, Eliot blends Christian theology with Science and Western History.
V
So here I am, in the middle way, having had twenty years-
Twenty years largely wasted, the years of l’entre deux guerres-
Trying to use words, and every attempt
Is a wholy new start, and a different kind of failure
Because one has only learnt to get the better of words
For the thing one no longer has to say, or the way in which
One is no longer disposed to say it. And so each venture
Is a new beginning, a raid on the inarticulate,
With shabby equipment always deteriorating
In the general mess of imprecision of feeling,
Undisciplined squads of emotion. And what there is to conquer
By strength and submission, has already been discovered
Once or twice, or several times, by men whom one cannot hope
To emulate – but there is no competition -
There is only the fight to recover what has been lost
And found and lost again and again: and now, under conditions
That seem unpropitious. But perhaps neither gain nor loss.
For us, there is only the trying. The rest is not our business.
Home is where one starts from. As we grow older
the world becomes stranger, the pattern more complicated
Of dead and living. Not the intense moment
Isolated, with no before and after,
But a lifetime burning in every moment
And not the lifetime of one man only
But of old stones that cannot be deciphered.
There is a time for the evening under starlight,
A time for the evening under lamplight
(The evening with the photograph album).
Love is most nearly itself
When here and now cease to matter.
Old men ought to be explorers
Here or there does not matter
We must be still and still moving
Into another intensity
For a further union, a deeper communion
Through the dark cold and the empty desolation,
The wave cry, the wind cry, the vast waters
Of the petrel and the porpoise. In my end is my beginning.
The great naturalist John Muir found out during his many years of quiet contemplation and meditation that,
“When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world.”
I tug on you as I tug on myself to start, build, maintain and delight in creating a meditation rhythm with the individual spirit that feels right in your heart.
John Muir, String Theorist
“When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world.” –John Muir
Dan Comments With Thoughfulness
How could everyone have forgotten that Afghanistan was the Soviet Vietnam? Even Russian immigrant liberals think the US should proactively drop a nuke rather than risk a repeat of their experience. Obviously this is absurd, but the operative phrase is "intrinsically unwinnable". They kicked invaders' butt 1000 years ago, they kicked the Soviets' butt 30 years ago, and they'll kick ours. No matter what "surge" strategy the generals propose (which is in all but name exactly what they sold to Johnson in 1965), the outcome is 100% certain to be a Soviet-style disaster. Obama promised the MI (Military Industrial) complex a nice war to get their support to win the election. If he had just proposed shutting down Iraq, they would have opposed him and he would have lost. So he offered them an alternative so they could keep feeding at the public trough (something Bill Clinton refused to give them, and they hated him for it) and now he's delivering on that campaign promise. Obviously it worries him that he'll definitely lose the support of most Americans, and that he'll go down in history as another lackey of the MI complex just like both Bushes and Johnson. But if he stands up to them and doesn't deliver on his promise, they'll engineer his demise in the next election if not sooner. So Obama's caught between a rock and a hard place. But this is exactly where presidents with strong integrity stand up and navigate a workable course for the future instead of bowing to the pressure from enormous entrenched interests. The US has to stop playing at being the world's policeman: it's bankrupted the country and utterly failed as a strategy. Thanks for listening. Danhttp://www.stratfor.com/weekly/20091201_obamas_plan_and_key _battleground?utm_source=GWeekly&utm_medium=email&utm_ campaign=091202&utm_content=readmore An Open Letter to President Obama from Michael Moore Monday, November 30th, 2009 Dear President Obama, Do you really want to be the new "war president"? If you go to West Point tomorrow night (Tuesday, 8pm) and announce that you are increasing, rather than withdrawing, the troops in Afghanistan, you are the new war president. Pure and simple. And with that you will do the worst possible thing you could do -- destroy the hopes and dreams so many millions have placed in you. With just one speech tomorrow night you will turn a multitude of young people who were the backbone of your campaign into disillusioned cynics. You will teach them what they've always heard is true -- that all politicians are alike. I simply can't believe you're about to do what they say you are going to do. Please say it isn't so. It is not your job to do what the generals tell you to do. We are a civilian-run government. WE tell the Joint Chiefs what to do, not the other way around. That's the way General Washington insisted it must be. That's what President Truman told General MacArthur when MacArthur wanted to invade China. "You're fired!," said Truman, and that was that. And you should have fired Gen. McChrystal when he went to the press to preempt you, telling the press what YOU had to do. Let me be blunt: We love our kids in the armed services, but we f*#&in' hate these generals, from Westmoreland in Vietnam to, yes, even Colin Powell for lying to the UN with his made-up drawings of WMD (he has since sought redemption). So now you feel backed into a corner. 30 years ago this past Thursday (Thanksgiving) the Soviet generals had a cool idea -- "Let's invade Afghanistan!" Well, that turned out to be the final nail in the USSR coffin. There's a reason they don't call Afghanistan the "Garden State" (though they probably should, seeing how the corrupt President Karzai, whom we back, has his brother in the heroin trade raising poppies). Afghanistan's nickname is the "Graveyard of Empires." If you don't believe it, give the British a call. I'd have you call Genghis Khan but I lost his number. I do have Gorbachev's number though. It's + 41 22 789 1662. I'm sure he could give you an earful about the historic blunder you're about to commit. With our economic collapse still in full swing and our precious young men and women being sacrificed on the altar of arrogance and greed, the breakdown of this great civilization we call America will head, full throttle, into oblivion if you become the "war president." Empires never think the end is near, until the end is here. Empires think that more evil will force the heathens to toe the line -- and yet it never works. The heathens usually tear them to shreds. Choose carefully, President Obama. You of all people know that it doesn't have to be this way. You still have a few hours to listen to your heart, and your own clear thinking. You know that nothing good can come from sending more troops halfway around the world to a place neither you nor they understand, to achieve an objective that neither you nor they understand, in a country that does not want us there. You can feel it in your bones. I know you know that there are LESS than a hundred al-Qaeda left in Afghanistan! A hundred thousand troops trying to crush a hundred guys living in caves? Are you serious? Have you drunk Bush's Kool-Aid? I refuse to believe it. Your potential decision to expand the war (while saying that you're doing it so you can "end the war") will do more to set your legacy in stone than any of the great things you've said and done in your first year. One more throwing a bone from you to the Republicans and the coalition of the hopeful and the hopeless may be gone -- and this nation will be back in the hands of the haters quicker than you can shout "tea bag!" Choose carefully, Mr. President. Your corporate backers are going to abandon you as soon as it is clear you are a one-term president and that the nation will be safely back in the hands of the usual idiots who do their bidding. That could be Wednesday morning. We the people still love you. We the people still have a sliver of hope. But we the people can't take it anymore. We can't take your caving in, over and over, when we elected you by a big, wide margin of millions to get in there and get the job done. What part of "landslide victory" don't you understand? Don't be deceived into thinking that sending a few more troops into Afghanistan will make a difference, or earn you the respect of the haters. They will not stop until this country is torn asunder and every last dollar is extracted from the poor and soon-to-be poor. You could send a million troops over there and the crazy Right still wouldn't be happy. You would still be the victim of their incessant venom on hate radio and television because no matter what you do, you can't change the one thing about yourself that sends them over the edge. The haters were not the ones who elected you, and they can't be won over by abandoning the rest of us. President Obama, it's time to come home. Ask your neighbors in Chicago and the parents of the young men and women doing the fighting and dying if they want more billions and more troops sent to Afghanistan. Do you think they will say, "No, we don't need health care, we don't need jobs, we don't need homes. You go on ahead, Mr. President, and send our wealth and our sons and daughters overseas, 'cause we don't need them, either." What would Martin Luther King, Jr. do? What would your grandmother do? Not send more poor people to kill other poor people who pose no threat to them, that's what they' d do. Not spend billions and trillions to wage war while American children are sleeping on the streets and standing in bread lines. All of us that voted and prayed for you and cried the night of your victory have endured an Orwellian hell of eight years of crimes committed in our name: torture, rendition, suspension of the bill of rights, invading nations who had not attacked us, blowing up neighborhoods that Saddam "might" be in (but never was), slaughtering wedding parties in Afghanistan. We watched as hundreds of thousands of Iraqi civilians were slaughtered and tens of thousands of our brave young men and women were killed, maimed, or endured mental anguish -- the full terror of which we scarcely know. When we elected you we didn't expect miracles. We didn't even expect much change. But we expected some. We thought you would stop the madness. Stop the killing. Stop the insane idea that men with guns can reorganize a nation that doesn't even function as a nation and never, ever has. Stop, stop, stop! For the sake of the lives of young Americans and Afghan civilians, stop. For the sake of your presidency, hope, and the future of our nation, stop. For God's sake, stop. Tonight we still have hope. Tomorrow, we shall see. The ball is in your court. You DON'T have to do this. You can be a profile in courage. You can be your mother's son. We're counting on you. Yours, Michael Moore MMFlint@aol.com MichaelMoore.com
Today Is The Day Rosa Parks Changed America
On this day in 1955 Montgomery, Alabama a white man entered a bus, INSISTING that the African-American woman who had taken a seat in the front of the bus move where blacks “belonged” to “the back of the bus”. The woman refused, saying she had a right to be there, and started the modern American Civil Rights movement, changing us all for the better forever. The man’s name is lost in obscurity. The woman’s name was Rosa Parks. Yesterday was International AIDS Day and today Is the Birth of American Civil Rights! Oh what a week!
I Am Completely Against More Troops Sent
I am completely against sending more troops into an endless caretaker of a nation that will never get healthy. We are never building always tearing down a country that has been torn apart for 50 years. What are people doing over there? Where are the roads or schools or hospitals. What is the double game and who is pocketing the money since the 1950’s when Russia just left? Opium will rule and the war lords will continue to not allow woman any semblance of freedom let alone going out of their houses alone with out being stoned or killed. The vast ocean of corruption under Karzi is impossible to stop. What will happen to the woman when we are there and when we leave. The United States is in the middle of the greatest economic depression of this century. What is our president thinking ? What part of this choice is part of candidate Obama’s CHANGE pledge? Long term costly war when I have to question, who is being served? Scratching my head and thinking what sort of leader is Crystal? One hundred thousand American are scattered with no logistical abilities to succeed.Who gave him the power to drive this strategy of killing young Americans? Has he no idea of how to stop the Taliban? We can succeed by allowing real progress to proceed by giving structures and tools for the Afghan society to move into the 21′ st century. What is vital? The haven of criminals or service to humanity by supporting progress. Not just the central government but serving the communities and working to assure woman’s rights. Allow them to work out their societies while turning toward global relations. The CIA in bordering countries waging a undercover war will soon explode because there are no answers. I am very unhappy with Obama especially in his handling the Crystal memorandum.
Right now it is more smoke and talk than a truth. Nothing full and frank!
