> "'My God! There are men in it!' --Capt. Thomas F. Mantell (1922-1948)"
> wrote:
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Speaking of which...
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'Twas brillig, and the slithy toves
Did gyre and gimble in the wabe:
All mimsy were the borogoves,
And the mome raths outgrabe.
"Beware the Jabberwock, my son!
The jaws that bite, the claws that catch!
Beware the Jubjub bird, and shun
The frumious Bandersnatch!"
He took his vorpal sword in hand:
Long time the manxome foe he sought --
So rested he by the Tumtum tree,
And stood awhile in thought.
And, as in uffish thought he stood,
The Jabberwock, with eyes of flame,
Came whiffling through the tulgey wood,
And burbled as it came!
One, two! One, two! And through and through
The vorpal blade went snicker-snack!
He left it dead, and with its head
He went galumphing back.
"And, has thou slain the Jabberwock?
Come to my arms, my beamish boy!
O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!'
He chortled in his joy.
'Twas brillig, and the slithy toves
Did gyre and gimble in the wabe;
All mimsy were the borogoves,
And the mome raths outgrabe.
* Jabberwocky by Lewis Carroll (a.k.a. Charles Dodgson) *
www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=Jabberwocky%%2C+Lewis+Carroll
Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There, 1872
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"The chains that hold the Fenris Wolf are rent asunder,
and the Wolf courses about. Brothers shall fight and slay
one another; sisters' sons shall break the bonds of
kinship. It shall fare hard with the world: great
whoredom, an axe-age, a sword-age, shields shall be
cloven, a wind-age, a wolf-age, ere the world sinks in
ruin. No man shall spare the other."
-- Voluspa
THE DOGS OF WAR
A Note from Val:
http://www.trufax.org/
"Will you allow yourself to be manipulated by others,
or your own reactive emotions, or by body-induced
FEAR? What will you choose? Meanwhile the 'peace
movements' continue to unwittingly supply energy to
the dark side, which feeds off all the energy to
strengthen itself - to no avail in the end. Will you
choose to participate in the polarity drama, watch or
observe and learn? Your choice will influence the
result for you.
"You are here BECAUSE OF IT IS THE WAY IT IS, NOT
IN SPITE OF IT. You cannot stop any sequence of
events that are part of The Game, or the wild cards
that are introduced - nor would you want to (unless
you don't know who you are). It is what you chose
for experience. You will experience it and move on
to new experience, where you will make use of that
which you have learned here. So what's really the
big deal? There isn't one - it's just experience
for every incarnation concerned, uniquely flavored
for each, to be reflected upon afterward. Allow those
in mid and low-level incarnational perspectives to
do their thing, and observe.
http://www.trufax.org/
See also What To Do During EndGame.
[...]
"...both sides are in error.Life is not supposed
to be a struggle, each against the other.It is an
idea that has its origin with Hobbes, and it has
been programmed into people's minds as defining
the way life is.
It, too, is a lie.People have been lied to for
so long they believe it is all the truth.It isn't.
The whole planetary socio-cultural system is a lie.
If you are offered two choices, pick a third one
yourself, but make it reasonable, impeccable, and
characteristic of a non-polaric consciousness."
- Val Valerian
Future Based on the Studies of Robert Monroe
http://www.monroeinstitute.com/contact_us.php
by Val Valerian
http://www.trufax.org/
Robert Monroe is perhaps most famous for his books
Journeys Out of the Body, Far Journeys and Ultimate
Journey. A true pioneer in terms of the evolution
of human consciousness. The notable work in terms
of investigations into the future of man appeared
in Far Journeys. In that book, Monroe details his
discovery that the Earth is surrounded by "bands"
in which individuals congregate after physical
death, for varying lengths of time, based on their
individual resonant vibration and belief systems.
This idea is also quite evident in the work War
in Heaven, which details the manipulative control
structures related to religious belief systems
in some of these interdimensional bands. Monroe's
discoveries about these rings/bands are important
because of what he discovers later about them
around the time period of 3,000 AD.
[...]
Now, this is the interesting part. They told
Monroe that entities newly arriving on Earth
at that time period first had to experience
one human life cycle in a period of time before
the changes were made, and then they were allowed
to spend time there. Monroe was told that these
one-time experiences were going on in the 20th
century for some of those destined to return to
occupy the dimensional area around Earth
in 3000 AD+.
Those who graduated from the Earth environment
in 3,000 AD did not return to Earth.
http://www.monroeinstitute.com/contact_us.php
They no longer needed to experience Earth and
could take on physical forms in lessening
degrees of density and radiation patterns
until they no longer felt the need to do
so....on their journey to the infinite
growth patterns of consciousness that
were developing all the time.
Happy Trails!
http://www.trufax.org/
!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?
Meanwhile, way back in Persia:
I sent my Soul through the Invisible,
Some letter of that After-life to spell:
And by and by my soul return'd to me,
And answer'd "I Myself am Heav'n and Hell."
Omar Khayyam
!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?
...And, speaking of falling rocks...
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... "In pre-Islamic days, called the Days of Ignorance,
the religious background of the Arabs was pagan, and
basically animistic." ...
http://www.valdostamuseum.org/hamsmith/Islam.html
"... Muhammad's uncle was one of the resident priests
of the Shiv temple known as 'Kaaba'. ... this glorious
Hindu temple was made to symbolically represent a
microcosm of the universe. ... Right at the centre
of the Kaaba was the octogonal pedestal of Bramha
the creator. ...
Muhammad destroyed all 360 idols,
but even he could not summon the courage to
completely obliterate the Shivling in the Kaaba. ...
"... Today it [the Shivling] lies broken at seven places
and held together by a silver band studded with silver
nails, bearing the name 'Sangey Aswad' which came from
the Sanskrit Ashwet meaning non-white or black stone.
[...]From the Hindu point of view, it is Shiva's lingham,
or phallic symbol. [...]
"... oral recitation of Vedic scriptures was always done in
a lyrical fashion, utilizing music ... Muhammad decided to
forbid Music. ...".
[...]
"The status of women was that of pride and equal respect.
How could it be otherwise with a people whose chief deity
was the goddess Durga (Alla). Women married men of their
choice and were financially independent. They were
entrepeneurs, artisans, poets and even warriors! Later on
Muhammad would marry Khadija, who was not only a wealthy
merchant but also in the position to choose her own
husband. This clearly demonstrates the level of freedom
women enjoyed in Vedic Arabia. Hind, who was the wife of
Muhammad's chief enemy Abu Sufyan, herself participated
in the battlefield."
[...]
"Gone were the schools, teachers, libraries,
poets, artists, philosophers and scholars that
had littered the Vedic landscape of Arabia like
stars. Everyone had to become a raider if not
from choice then for the sake of surviving the
absolute intolerance of dissenters, that Islam
preached. Thus was the light of learning
extinguished in Arabia. All that remained was
the Koran, the Kalma and the murderous hatred
of anything Non-Muslim."
[...]
"The Shivling is the sacred meteorite. [...]
From the Hindu point of view, it is Shiva's lingham,
or phallic symbol. [...]
"Although the above is not widely known in Eurocentric
societies, it is common knowledge in India, and
indicates some of the history and depth of feeling
that is involved in the Muslim-Hindu conflicts
between Pakistan and India."
[...]
"... Muhammad received his first revelation in
610, on the mountain of Hira outside Mecca. The
revelation came in a time when Muhammad searched
for solitude. ..."
http://www.valdostamuseum.org/hamsmith/Islam.html
[...]
http://www.valdostamuseum.org/hamsmith/Islam.html#earlyarabia
[...]
"... Mohammed stayed [in Mecca in 615] because
his family connections protected him ... He came
into the courtyard of the Kaaba and suggested
that the gods and goddesses of Mecca might be
real after all, serving as saints or angels to
mediate between God and man. ... These are the
so-called "Satanic verses" that have caused much
controversy among scholars of Islam. ... They
[the Meccan establishment] enthusiastically
received his [Mohammed's] recantation, but when
he [Mohammed] saw the reaction he repented ...
He [Mohammed] said that the devil had momentarily
possessed his tongue, and denounced idolatry more
vigorously than before. ...".
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http://www.valdostamuseum.org/hamsmith/Islam.html
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See also Acharys S'
"An Atheist Here to Destroy?"
http://www.truthbeknown.com/atheist.htm
"... JEHOVAH 1 is a VENGEFUL GOD OF WRATH!
JEHOVAH 1 - a.k.a. YAHWEH - is a mad alien,
full of eyes round about, He cometh with the
clouds, radioactive, all-pervading, He has
forged His covenant with the SubGenius
in CHAINS of GENETIC PROGRAMMING and DEMANDS
OBEISANCE to His caveman sense of humor.
He has been denying us SLACK and what He is
making us do dates back to Homo Connectus,
First Whole Man; only by letting our bodies
obey the Code of financial lust survival
that is built into them can our brains
be freed from his INEVITABLE FIST."
http://www.subgenius.com/pam1/pamphlet_p4.html
"You are the knowing, not the condition
that is known." --Eckhart Tolle
http://www.eckharttolle.com/
"Think of timespace as a multidimensional
self-perfecting system in which everything
that has ever, or will ever occur, occurs
simultaneously. I believe timespace is a
kind of object, a geometrical supersolid.
I believe it may even be a type of hologram
in which energy and matter are byproducts
of the overlapping of two higher systems..."
--Takashi
http://mathnt.mat.jhu.edu/new/
Oil and Gas International:
http://www.oilandgasinternational.com/
"Having profoundly modified space and time, and become,
in turn, modified by them, we are gradually evolving from
three-dimensional Euclidean beings into dwellers of the four
dimensional, non-Euclidean, space-time universe of
Dr. Einstein. We are parallel lines approaching infinity.
Those who make themselves at home in this new
universe will be the Homers, Dantes, Leonardos and
Michelangelos of tomorrow."-- William L. Laurence
'Who' perceives this?
Mumon's Twelve Zen Warnings.
1. To observe rules and regulations is to tie oneself
without a rope.
2. To act freely and without restraint is heresy
and deviltry.
3. To recognize mind and purify it is the false zen
of silent sitting.
4. To allow oneself freedom and to ignore
interrelating conditions is to fall into the pit.
5. To always be alert and clear is to wear chains
and an iron yoke.
6. To think of good and evil is to be in heaven
and hell.
7. To have a Buddha view and a Dharma view is to be
confined in two iron mountains.
8. To realize a thought as soon as it arises is to
exhaust one's energy.
9. To sit blankly in quietism is the zen of a corpse.
10. If you advance you will deviate from the principle.
11. If you retreat you will be against the truth.
12. If you neither advance nor retreat you are a
dead man breathing.
Now tell me, what will you do?
Make the utmost effort to attain completely realization
in this life. Do not let yourself circulate karma forever.
---Yamada Mumon Roshi
http://www.zmc.org/
http://www.bigmind.org/
http://www.shambhalasun.com/
http://onedropzendo.org/mumon.htm
~ Interspecies Global Mind ~
"...It is said that we have enraged nature by tearing at
the pattern of her tracery, and for this transgression we
shall be punished mightily. But we are nature incarnate.
We are made up of her molecules and cells.
We are tools of her probings and if, indeed, we suffer and
we fail, from our lessons she will learn which way in the
future not to turn. For all that lives and all that ever has
is part of a collective brain, a neural net of the most
sprawling kind...an evolution-driven, worldwide,
multi-billion-year-old interspecies mind."
[] From: The History of the Global Brain XX
http://www.heise.de/tp/r4/artikel/6/6556/1.html
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"As Thomas Huxley said, the universe acts
a lot like a chess game in which the player
on the other side remains invisible to us.
By analyzing the moves, we try to form an
image of the intellect behind them.
Images that have seemed almost believable
to me at various times have included the
gods and goddesses of ancient Greece (if you
develop a Classic Poetry habit, that kind of
neurolinguistic programming can happen...)
and also, of course, those extra-terrestrials
who have so much popularity these days.
I have also considered the player on the
other side as more impersonal, like the Tao,
or more bizarre, like Shiva Dancing, or more
abstract, like Philip K. Dick's Vast Active
Living Information System (VALIS.)
Mostly, though I think of the player on the
other side as a pookah -- a resident of Ireland,
in rabbit form, who may at any time dump a
truckload of the Unknown and Inexplicable right
on your doorstep." --Robert Anton Wilson
http://www.rawilson.com/main.shtml
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"What is necessary for man is to free himself from
the entire past of mankind, not only his individual
past. That is to say, you have to free yourself
from what every man before you has thought, felt
and experienced -- then only is it possible for you
to be yourself. The whole purpose of my talking to
people is to point out the uniqueness of every
individual. Culture or civilization or whatever you
might call it has always tried to fit us into a
framework. Man is not man at all; I call him a
'unique animal' -- and man will remain a unique
animal as long as he's burdened by the culture."
The "Anti-Krishnamurti":
-- Uppaluri Gopala Krishnamurti
(Born: 9 July 1918 - Died: 22 March 2007)
http://www.well.com/user/jct/mystiq1.htm
Meanwhile... THREE & ONE HALF YEARS AGO:
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Oil and troubled waters
An explosion of demand, plus international rivalry,
will inevitably lead to confrontation.
By Gerry Van Wyngen
BRW. 20 January 2005
The fight in recent times to secure future oil and
gas supplies is likely to lead to international
confrontation within a few years. It is a danger
that most Western countries, including Australia,
have not grasped fully. Oil prices have receded from
their $US50-a-barrel spike before Christmas but seem
unable to fall below $US40, which most analysts
believe is the top of the appropriate trading range
at the present inventory levels. This surprise is
believed to be shared by Organisation of Petroleum
Exporting Countries (Opec) producers. But there are
other dynamics in train.
Perhaps the first shot in this acquisition contest
was the invasion of Iraq by the US-led "coalition of
the willing". Despite the stated moral and security
imperatives, there was also a large slice of business
pragmatism. Russia and France were heavily involved
in Iraq's oil industry, and America wanted in.
More importantly, George W. Bush's strategists
envisaged a doubling of oil production that would
lower oil prices and pay for the cost of post-war
reconstruction. At the time, Rupert Murdoch, [owner
of FoxNews], an enthusiastic Bush supporter, was
predicting that the increase in oil production would
push prices down to $US20 a barrel.
The invasion was one of this decade's biggest strategy
blunders, and did not work out as planned. Iraq's oil
production is now less than before the war, and exports
from the rich northern oil fields have ceased since
the pipeline to Turkey was sabotaged on December 18.
... (Things are L00KING UP, though...)
WHAT A UNIVERSE!
http://news.google.com/news?q=Iraq+Oil+Pipeline
http://www.iraqdevelopmentprogram.org/idp/news/news.htm
The ministry is reportedly working out the final details
of short-term, no-bid deals for technical support and
consulting services with oil companies Exxon Mobil,
Shell, BP, Total, Chevron and a host of smaller
companies that appear to provide each with
delineated spheres of influence over
pre-existing, under-producing fields.
http://www.isn.ethz.ch/news/sw/details.cfm?id=19182
"Iraq Oil, Exxon Mobil, Shell, BP, Total" :
http://news.google.com/news?hl=en&q=Iraq+Oil%%2C+Exxon+Mobil%%2C+Shell%%2C+BP%%2C...
"Bush & Cheney Always Saw Iraq as a Sweetheart Oil Deal"
By Noam Chomsky, Khaleej Times Online. Posted July 12, 2008.
http://www.alternet.org/waroniraq/91123/?ses=359eff9657a511be8b70735b68968062
The deal just taking shape between Iraq's Oil Ministry
and four Western oil companies raises critical questions
about the nature of the U.S. invasion and occupation
of Iraq -- questions that should certainly be addressed
by presidential candidates and seriously discussed in
the United States, and of course in occupied Iraq,
where it appears that the population has little if
any role in determining the future of its country.
Negotiations are under way for Exxon Mobil, Shell,
Total and BP -- the original partners decades ago
in the Iraq Petroleum Company, now joined by Chevron
and other smaller oil companies -- to renew the oil
concession they lost to nationalization during the
years when the oil producers took over their own
resources. The no-bid contracts, apparently written
by the oil corporations with the help of U.S.
officials, prevailed over offers from more than
40 other companies, including companies in China,
India and Russia.
"There was suspicion among many in the Arab world and
among parts of the American public that the United
States had gone to war in Iraq precisely to secure the
oil wealth these contracts seek to extract,"
Andrew E. Kramer wrote in the New York Times.
Kramer's reference to "suspicion" is an understatement.
Furthermore, it is highly likely that the military
occupation has taken the initiative in restoring the
hated Iraq Petroleum Company, which, as Seamus Milne
writes in the U.K. Guardian, was imposed under British
rule to "dine off Iraq's wealth in a famously
exploitative deal."
Later reports speak of delays in the bidding.
Much is happening in secrecy, and it would be
no surprise if new scandals emerge.
The demand could hardly be more intense.
Iraq contains perhaps the second-largest
oil reserves in the world, which are,
furthermore, very cheap to extract:
no permafrost or tar sands or deep-sea drilling.
For U.S. planners, it is imperative that Iraq
remain under U.S. control, to the extent possible,
as an obedient client state that will also house
major U.S. military bases, right at the heart of
the world's major energy reserves.
That these were the primary goals of the invasion
was always clear enough through the haze of successive
pretexts: weapons of mass destruction, Saddam Hussein's
links with al Qaeda, democracy promotion and the war
against terrorism, which, as predicted, sharply
increased as a result of the invasion.
Last November, the guiding concerns were made
explicit when President Bush and Iraq's prime
minister, Nouri al-Maliki, signed a "Declaration
of Principles," ignoring the U.S. Congress,
the Iraqi parliament and the populations of
the two countries.
The declaration left open the possibility of
an indefinite long-term U.S. military presence
in Iraq that would presumably include the huge
air bases now being built around the country,
and the "embassy" in Baghdad, a city within a
city, unlike any embassy in the world.
These are not being constructed to be abandoned.
The declaration also had a remarkably brazen
statement about exploiting the resources of Iraq.
It said that the economy of Iraq -- which means
its oil resources -- must be open to foreign
investment, "especially American investments."
That comes close to a pronouncement that we
invaded you so that we can control your country
and have privileged access to your resources.
The seriousness of this commitment was underscored
in January, when Bush issued a "signing statement"
declaring that he would reject any congressional
legislation that restricted funding "to establish
any military installation or base for the purpose
of providing for the permanent stationing of
United States Armed Forces in Iraq" or "to exercise
United States control of the oil resources of Iraq."
Extensive resort to "signing statements" to expand
executive power is yet another Bush innovation,
condemned by the American Bar Association as
"contrary to the rule of law and our constitutional
separation of powers." To no avail.
Continued....
http://www.alternet.org/waroniraq/91123/?ses=359eff9657a511be8b70735b68968062
