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Hope and trials

 Hope and trials

In the greatest sense of "newpersonhood" I must give thanks to God and the Christian theme outside the narrow belief system of denominations that bicker and reject one another on a variety of arbitrary interpretations.  This is not to signal superiority on my part.  Rather, that all religion, religio (linking back) actually arrives at a unification of all comers to a very simple belief. Thus many interpret the speaking of the prophets or their holy book as an exclusionary device rather than an inclusive one.  There are many potential self gratifying reasons for this phenomena. To view one selves members of a small but chosen group that has the only true path to heaven or to gods ear, is quite congratulatory and certainly safer. Many of these  groups are living and dying for metaphors unfortunately. Despite these diaspora  of belief, anyone can find among them many persons that tend toward unification rather than schism.They know it and yet live as a sort of subversive .... living that subtle but inclusive theme " John 3:16 -17 For god so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten son, that whosoever believeth in him should not parish but have everlasting life.  For God sent not his son into the world not to condemn the world, but through him the world might be saved.  ALL INCLUSIVE! To believe in him does not mean to worship him and exclude others,.. but to act as he did, in his stead, as a sentinel of forgiveness to all the world. It says in the gospel of Thomas (a gospel rejected by Christians, Protestant and Catholic alike) The kingdom of heaven is spread upon all the earth and men do not see it. This transformation like its predecessor (The Ten Commandments ) is the new paradigm that civilizes man in steps of greater and greater transcendence.  Thus we have an Old and New testament. We first were lifted above barbarianism.  Once this achievement to civil organization was achieved, it was replaced by the individual personal human idea of cosmic consciousness. A loving of all the world, for you and the other are One.  Statements of this intention by Christ are obvious.  No greater love hath this but a man lay down his life for a friend.   Or, even more direct: A new commandment I give unto you: That you love one another even as I have loved you, that ye also love one another Matthew 5:44.. But I say to you love your enemies; bless them that curse you. Do good to them that hate you and pray for them that despite fully use you and persecute you. These Ideals appear as a Sisyphean task. It is a mystery that can not be fully understood yet by all. I do not see how this unifies and stabilizes a society.  It appears to weaken the initiates.  No one has yet seen its power, yet,  but through the example of Jesus Christ whose compassion has transformed history.  What might an army of such ideals affect the world?  It is hard to know given the abuses nurtured by the Catholic church during its times of corruption and colonial usurpation of freedom of belief among native inhabitants.  Christianity has gone through so many abuses, distortions and perversions that it seems that one can only hope to do ones best to represent what earlier civilizations had already preserved as virtue.  We can only try to tend toward the light.  Our own United States founding fathers saw fit to put freedom expression above all in so far as that expression did not infringe ( that is in the sense of (harm) not offense) on the same freedom among all others.  Our reading of this right has gone somewhat askew in recent times to mean: we cant offend someone.  I think we have every right to offend because being offended is in the hands of the person taking offense. We do not have the right to harm or obstruct another's free expression.  This is not the same as offending someone.  I'm sorry if someone doesn't like my opinion even if it is repulsive to them.  But this is not the same as harm or obstruction.  Any one who doesn't like whats on channel 8 or 12 can just change the channel.  In any case, I would hope that tolerance of others life styles and choice of self expression would and should include sensitivity, however sensitivity is not part of the law.  Nor should it be.

I  haven't posted in quite a long time. I am now headed past 50 yrs. of age and I have mellowed as well as gained a much needed infusion of wisdom...( actually I think it was building up but I was to distracted by a rather distructive lifestyle.) Therefore the change seemed greater once I'd elimanated the ditritus from my vision so to speak.  To cut to the chase, I am a newer better me.  If I continue my present course and try to make regular blog entries, the contrast I hope will be evident, even if no one reads it. Few have. I will see it my self, and will reflect what I see in me.  Until next time, I sign off.

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I astonish myself my ravenous sexual obsessiveness seems almost insane! I am truely bipolar and I am more aware of it each time I return to this blog for perspective. I have had to delete some of the most perversely descriptive posts.  I hope I stay stable for some time.

Nuclear Weapons - Israel

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Nuclear Weapons - Israel

Nuclear Weapons - Israel: "Avner Cohen and William Burr, Israel Crosses the Thresshold, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, May/June 2006
Israel Crosses the Threshold, National Security Archive Electronic Briefing Book No. 189, April 28, 2006
Bibliography of Israeli Nuclear Science Publications by Mark Gorwitz, June 2005
Israeli Nuclear Forces, 2002, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, September/October 2002
The Bomb That Never Is by Avner Cohen, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, May/June 2000, Vol 56, No. 3 pp.22-23
Israel and the Bomb, a supporting repository on the National Security Archive web site for Avner Cohen's book Israel and the Bomb (Columbia University press, 1998), including declassified documents.
Obsessive secrecy undermines democracy By Reuven Pedatzur Ha'aretz. Tuesday, August 8, 2000 -- Cohen published"

Spring 2009 Virtual Conference Speakers and Topics

Spring 2009 Virtual Conference Speakers and Topics: "From Atheism to Spirituality
From Tokyo, the President of the Edgar Cayce Center in Japan shares the story of his spiritual journey with the Cayce readings as he sought to discover his mission and purpose."

Subject search - CompList

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I think a lot of time has passed such that i can alert any and all readers if there are any. some folks may occasionally check up on me here and if they do they can at least note that Maverick is no longer an issue in my life. He has made it an unqualified effort to make certain I never hear from him again. So that takes care of that issue
Other areas of my life remain disasterously full. I have twice been arrested. I have legal fees and other costs in abundance where as my income has diminished. I feel that I might begin to write again and this note is evidence of the fact. I still have maintained 3 friends that I consider good friends. I hope I can hold on to these friends because i have come to learn that maintaining good friends is of paramount importance. Bill, Harley, and Tracey. I have other aquaintances but real friends are hard to find. And, if even 1 of these people remain in the category of REAL friends I will still be blessed.
Pray for me if you are out there and still consider yourself one of my friends. Even my stepchildren for whom I gave up a huge portion of my life, all 6 of them have abandoned me. I try to forget if i can. But, I won't because I still love them all very much and wonder how they are and what has become of them. If you are still out there you know this blog is hear. Send me a message. If you wish to call my # is 14798838743.

Egypt: Opening of the Mouth Ritual, A Feature Tour Egypt Story

 

The effect of the ritual was to animate the recipient (or, in the case of a deceased individual, to re-animate it). The ritual allowed the mummy, statue, or temple, to eat, breathe, see, hear and enjoy the offerings and provisions performed by the priests and officiants, thus to sustain the ka.

. The Egyptian terms for the ceremony are wpt-r and wn-r, both translating literally to "opening of the mouth." The verb wpi denotes an opening that entails splitting, dividing or separating, and is used to describe the separation of two combatants, the dividing of time or even a determination of the truth. The verb wn emphasizes accessibility and exposure, used in contexts such as wn-hr, literally "open the face", but more correctly meaning "see" or "be seen".

Egypt: Opening of the Mouth Ritual, A Feature Tour Egypt Story

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American Meltdown

A shattering moment in America's fall from powerThe global financial crisis will see the US falter in the same way the Soviet Union did when the Berlin Wall came down. The era of American dominance is overAll comments (437)
John Gray The Observer, Sunday September 28 2008 Article historyOur gaze might be on the markets melting down, but the upheaval we are experiencing is more than a financial crisis, however large. Here is a historic geopolitical shift, in which the balance of power in the world is being altered irrevocably. The era of American global leadership, reaching back to the Second World War, is over.

You can see it in the way America's dominion has slipped away in its own backyard, with Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez taunting and ridiculing the superpower with impunity. Yet the setback of America's standing at the global level is even more striking. With the nationalisation of crucial parts of the financial system, the American free-market creed has self-destructed while countries that retained overall control of markets have been vindicated. In a change as far-reaching in its implications as the fall of the Soviet Union, an entire model of government and the economy has collapsed.

Ever since the end of the Cold War, successive American administrations have lectured other countries on the necessity of sound finance. Indonesia, Thailand, Argentina and several African states endured severe cuts in spending and deep recessions as the price of aid from the International Monetary Fund, which enforced the American orthodoxy. China in particular was hectored relentlessly on the weakness of its banking system. But China's success has been based on its consistent contempt for Western advice and it is not Chinese banks that are currently going bust. How symbolic yesterday that Chinese astronauts take a spacewalk while the US Treasury Secretary is on his knees.

Despite incessantly urging other countries to adopt its way of doing business, America has always had one economic policy for itself and another for the rest of the world. Throughout the years in which the US was punishing countries that departed from fiscal prudence, it was borrowing on a colossal scale to finance tax cuts and fund its over-stretched military commitments. Now, with federal finances critically dependent on continuing large inflows of foreign capital, it will be the countries that spurned the American model of capitalism that will shape America's economic future.

Which version of the bail out of American financial institutions cobbled up by Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson and Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke is finally adopted is less important than what the bail out means for America's position in the world. The populist rant about greedy banks that is being loudly ventilated in Congress is a distraction from the true causes of the crisis. The dire condition of America's financial markets is the result of American banks operating in a free-for-all environment that these same American legislators created. It is America's political class that, by embracing the dangerously simplistic ideology of deregulation, has responsibility for the present mess.

In present circumstances, an unprecedented expansion of government is the only means of averting a market catastrophe. The consequence, however, will be that America will be even more starkly dependent on the world's new rising powers. The federal government is racking up even larger borrowings, which its creditors may rightly fear will never be repaid. It may well be tempted to inflate these debts away in a surge of inflation that would leave foreign investors with hefty losses. In these circumstances, will the governments of countries that buy large quantities of American bonds, China, the Gulf States and Russia, for example, be ready to continue supporting the dollar's role as the world's reserve currency? Or will these countries see this as an opportunity to tilt the balance of economic power further in their favour? Either way, the control of events is no longer in American hands.

The fate of empires is very often sealed by the interaction of war and debt. That was true of the British Empire, whose finances deteriorated from the First World War onwards, and of the Soviet Union. Defeat in Afghanistan and the economic burden of trying to respond to Reagan's technically flawed but politically extremely effective Star Wars programme were vital factors in triggering the Soviet collapse. Despite its insistent exceptionalism, America is no different. The Iraq War and the credit bubble have fatally undermined America's economic primacy. The US will continue to be the world's largest economy for a while longer, but it will be the new rising powers that, once the crisis is over, buy up what remains intact in the wreckage of America's financial system.

There has been a good deal of talk in recent weeks about imminent economic armageddon. In fact, this is far from being the end of capitalism. The frantic scrambling that is going on in Washington marks the passing of only one type of capitalism - the peculiar and highly unstable variety that has existed in America over the last 20 years. This experiment in financial laissez-faire has imploded.While the impact of the collapse will be felt everywhere, the market economies that resisted American-style deregulation will best weather the storm. Britain, which has turned itself into a gigantic hedge fund, but of a kind that lacks the ability to profit from a downturn, is likely to be especially badly hit.

The irony of the post-Cold War period is that the fall of communism was followed by the rise of another utopian ideology. In American and Britain, and to a lesser extent other Western countries, a type of market fundamentalism became the guiding philosophy. The collapse of American power that is underway is the predictable upshot. Like the Soviet collapse, it will have large geopolitical repercussions. An enfeebled economy cannot support America's over-extended military commitments for much longer. Retrenchment is inevitable and it is unlikely to be gradual or well planned.

Meltdowns on the scale we are seeing are not slow-motion events. They are swift and chaotic, with rapidly spreading side-effects. Consider Iraq. The success of the surge, which has been achieved by bribing the Sunnis, while acquiescing in ongoing ethnic cleansing, has produced a condition of relative peace in parts of the country. How long will this last, given that America's current level of expenditure on the war can no longer be sustained?

An American retreat from Iraq will leave Iran the regional victor. How will Saudi Arabia respond? Will military action to forestall Iran acquiring nuclear weapons be less or more likely? China's rulers have so far been silent during the unfolding crisis. Will America's weakness embolden them to assert China's power or will China continue its cautious policy of 'peaceful rise'? At present, none of these questions can be answered with any confidence. What is evident is that power is leaking from the US at an accelerating rate. Georgia showed Russia redrawing the geopolitical map, with America an impotent spectator.

Outside the US, most people have long accepted that the development of new economies that goes with globalisation will undermine America's central position in the world. They imagined that this would be a change in America's comparative standing, taking place incrementally over several decades or generations. Today, that looks an increasingly unrealistic assumption.

Having created the conditions that produced history's biggest bubble, America's political leaders appear unable to grasp the magnitude of the dangers the country now faces. Mired in their rancorous culture wars and squabbling among themselves, they seem oblivious to the fact that American global leadership is fast ebbing away. A new world is coming into being almost unnoticed, where America is only one of several great powers, facing an uncertain future it can no longer shape.

• John Gray is the author of Black Mass: Apocalyptic Religion and the Death of Utopia (Allen Lane)

Intersting article about plants and ecosystem health

Posted by David Pescovitz, September 19, 2008 10:47 AM | permalink
When plants are stressed out, they generate aspirin-like chemicals. The aspirin isn't used to reduce headaches, primarily because plants don't have heads. Scientists from the National Center for Atmospheric Research detected significant quantities of methyl salicyate, a chemical form of aspirin, above a forest canopy. The capability of plants to emit the chemical had been known previously but only observed in a laboratory setting. From a press release:
(Lead researcher Thomas) Karl and his colleagues speculate that the methyl salicylate has two functions. One of these is to stimulate plants to begin a process known as systemic acquired resistance, which is analogous to an immune response in an animal. This helps a plant to both resist and recover from disease.

The methyl salicylate also may be a mechanism whereby a stressed plant communicates to neighboring plants, warning them of the threat. Researchers in laboratories have demonstrated that a plant may build up its defenses if it is linked in some way to another plant that is emitting the chemical. Now that the NCAR team has demonstrated that methyl salicylate can build up in the atmosphere above a stressed forest, scientists are speculating that plants may use the chemical to activate an ecosystem-wide immune response...

The discovery raises the possibility that farmers, forest managers, and others may eventually be able to start monitoring plants for early signs of a disease, an insect infestation, or other types of stress. At present, they often do not know if an ecosystem is unhealthy until there are visible indicators, such as dead leaves.

"A chemical signal is a very sensitive way to detect plant stress, and it can be an order of magnitude more effective than using visual inspections," Karl says.
"Plants in Forest Emit Aspirin Chemical to Deal with Stress" (UCAR)

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