tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-75096429446146203852024-03-19T12:27:38.249-07:00OftheSoulUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger146125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7509642944614620385.post-70893703369320334962014-01-01T18:54:00.001-08:002015-11-03T11:57:40.259-08:00Blessings and Peace - Happy New Year - 2014<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">The Last Days of Troy</span></b><br />
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In the last days of Troy<br />
Cassandra saw <a href="http://ofthesoulblog.blogspot.com/2013/01/considerations-for-post-disclosure.html" target="_blank">the angels fall</a>,<br />
and how the sky had darkened so,<br />
<a href="http://ofthesoulblog.blogspot.com/2013/07/undulations-ahead.html" target="_blank">how the land had heaved so</a>,<br />
how the gods, like vengeful Apollo,<br />
had openly proven themselves false,<br />
only fake smiles from the skies.<br />
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She’d glimpsed beyond the smoky<br />
firmament, searching for <a href="http://ofthesoulblog.blogspot.com/2013/08/there-has-to-be.html" target="_blank">an invisible sun</a><br />
that might give its heat to everyone,<br />
but found, instead, a cold fate envelop-<br />
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And she pondered the fate<br />
of her father, Priam,<br />
<a href="http://ofthesoulblog.blogspot.com/2013/11/bane-of-cassandra-complex.html">who hadn’t believed</a>,<br />
as hadn’t the others,<br />
to their avoidable demise.<br />
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You see, there were<br />
the “could haves,” and<br />
the “should haves,” and<br />
the “might have beens.”<br />
There were endless “if onlys,”<br />
as in for instance, "<a href="http://ofthesoulblog.blogspot.com/2013/07/planet-terra-sol-system-iii-or-project.html">if only</a><br />
<a href="http://ofthesoulblog.blogspot.com/2013/07/planet-terra-sol-system-iii-or-project.html" target="_blank">the slaves had not revered</a><br />
<a href="http://ofthesoulblog.blogspot.com/2013/07/planet-terra-sol-system-iii-or-project.html">their chains</a>...if only..."<br />
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But, in the last days of Troy,<br />
the Trojans would suddenly<br />
realize through the merciless<br />
clarity of collective regret,<br />
how their cherished apathy<br />
had lulled them for so long.<br />
And they would conclude<br />
that one does well to look<br />
<i>every</i> gift horse in the mouth,<br />
no matter how gracious<br />
a gift it may seem.<br />
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For too high is the risk of<br />
what <i>may</i> be hidden in plain sight,<br />
of what <i>may</i> be a bitter nightmare<br />
masquerading as a sweet dream,<br />
of what may be dwelling <i>now</i><br />
both within, and without.<br />
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The rest is silence.<br />
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<i><b>If everyone waits until the other man makes </b></i><br />
<b><i>a start, </i><i>the messengers of avenging Nemesis </i></b><br />
<b><i>will come steadily closer. </i> --<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_Rose" target="_blank">The White Rose</a></b><br />
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<b><i>Who will make the first bid on the dove of peace</i><i>?</i></b></div>
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<i><b>Will it be you?</b></i></div>
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May humanity pursue peace on Earth, ascend out of the darkness and illusions under which we've allowed ourselves, for milennia, to be oppressed, under which we have been fighting false, politically and financially <b>orchestrated</b>, cave-wall-shadow wars over:</div>
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<b>* Race</b> (among us, there is only one race: human)<br />
<b>* Gender</b> (among us, there is only one gender: spirit)<br />
* <b>National boundaries </b>(among us, there is only one<br />
national boundary: the entire surface of the planet)<br />
<b>* Political parties</b> (among us, there is only one<br />
true political party: Peace & Mutual Respect)<br />
* <b><a href="http://ofthesoulblog.blogspot.com/2013/02/whos-your-scapegoat.html" target="_blank">Other Convenient Scapegoats/Bad Guys</a></b></div>
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Instead, may humanity one day collectively commit to a clear, unified <b>Vision Statement</b> for itself, a self-determined raison d'être free of the old, idiotic notions carefully and quietly socially-engineered into its consciousness by <b><a href="http://ofthesoulblog.blogspot.com/2013/01/you-have-no-power-over-me.html" target="_blank">its many handlers</a>, </b>those hostile, parasitic alien races parading as fake smiles from the skies, along with their misguided human hybrid lapdogs who have worshipped and obeyed them (incorrectly deeming themselves, "elite"). In reality, these "elite" are merely middle management. They are overseers of a slavery system wherein they themselves are but mere slaves, deluded and controlled with velvet chains and gilded cages of all sorts. And what happens to most, if not all, middle management when a company decides to...downsize?</div>
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<b>May Humanity Realize a Vision for Itself Centered in</b><br />
<b>~ Fearlessness, Intelligence, Compassion and </b><b>Peace </b><b>~</b><br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7509642944614620385.post-12029976805138091642013-12-24T09:37:00.000-08:002015-05-17T10:54:36.626-07:00Stephen Hawking, Rapper Extraordinaire<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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There was a day when many of the Israelites found themselves in bondage in Babylon. There was a king of Babylon by the name of Nebuchadnezzar, you read about him a good deal in the book of Daniel, and it stands as an epic that will remain stenciled on the mental sheets of unfolding generations. Nebuchadnezzar was a mighty king, and when he ruled, he ruled and when he issued an order he meant business. And Nebuchadnezzar issued an order. He made a golden image and his order was that everybody under the reign of his kingship had to bow before that golden image and worship it. Now those of you who read the Bible remember that story. One day Nebuchadnezzar called in the judges and the governors and the sheriffs, and they had a dedicatory service for this golden image, and then he said to them, "I'm instructing you to see that<i> everybody </i>bows before this golden image." <br>
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And I tell you this morning, my friends, that history has moved on, and great moments have often come forth because there were those individuals, in every age in and every generation, who were willing to say, "I will be obedient to a higher law." These men were saying, "I must be disobedient to <i>a king</i> in order to be obedient to <i>The King</i>." And those people who so often criticize those of us who come to those moments when we must practice civil disobedience never remember that even right here in America, in order to get free from the oppression and the colonialism of the British Empire, our nation practiced civil disobedience. For what represented civil disobedience more than the Boston Tea Party? And never forget that everything that Hitler did in Germany was legal. It was "legal" to do everything that Hitler did to the Jews. It was a law in Germany that Hitler issued himself that it was wrong and illegal to aid and comfort a Jew in Hitler's Germany...but I tell you, if <i>I</i> had lived in Hitler's Germany, with my attitude, I would have openly broken that law. I would have practiced civil disobedience.<br>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7509642944614620385.post-62111498394328159042013-11-30T00:13:00.003-08:002014-04-16T17:17:22.636-07:00Troubled Terra<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Terra, you'll never know what hit you when it hits. It's just as well.<br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7509642944614620385.post-45369219597220653932013-11-28T17:20:00.003-08:002014-08-09T09:48:09.114-07:00Curse of the Cassandra Complexx<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7509642944614620385.post-61255146143346177872013-11-23T11:53:00.002-08:002013-11-23T16:00:48.492-08:00Rewire Your Brain to ENJOY Sobriety<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-size: x-small;">Adopted from "<a href="http://campaign.r20.constantcontact.com/render?llr=hayfwadab&v=001a8Hy8I3nCiT0-6DX4xOKhSvLtIxniIbrsSao_FFymBr85KjxiyqoL0KkgTMrsnF4QZQ6QujOJ6YvKg4HfS5WFyNppizkG_YQqU6MF6lPUTocAjRA0nLVgPObicJWExo9A52t3jbhTWhwGVdruRxFP-WXSVnSls2BVZzVaVRcHASOt-mFpD8qagBV4L23p_HLAFG1ZCrBxIJfSBlUHChpNxzUZbTn21Bdcwr290H4LIXKgNM7QDk4eA-KMm7C4cbPHjuRLYwjLGXuhs3nf8D-O2CRxcczsujDsg83jtE2dGn-N54CxKP-Q4cjtFP0-mdJuezF8rcPpAsqc-PoVEHt7y9BvyBYjJOZvJ9tvD1mG0tsk2amAxM2yh7z26cipfHAWto_jQQNUj5hjo3RkiG-G_RmjLDGFVVQ8gp-LpEYiGCfqpglsdbSoQshMTk4DGu1FHgEYK2nWQc%3D" target="_blank">Enjoy Sobriety</a>,"<o:p></o:p> </span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;">by Rick Hanson, Ph.D., neuro-<br />
psychologist and author</span><br />
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<i>"Sober traits are <u>grown</u> in your brain by actually <o:p></o:p></i></div>
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<i>installing sober states. If you don't <u>register</u> your <o:p></o:p></i></div>
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<i>positive states...help them sink in...then there's <o:p></o:p></i></div>
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<i>...no improvement in neural struc</i><i>ture or func-</i></div>
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<i>tion, and thus no lasting benefit."</i> --Rick Hanson</div>
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"sobriety," I mean healthy self-control, a centered enjoyment of
life, and an inner freedom from "drivenness." We typically apply this sense of balance and
self-care to things like food, drugs and alcohol, sexuality, money, and risky
behaviors. And if you like, you could bring sobriety to other things as well,
such as to righteousness, contentiousness, over-working, or controlling others.<o:p></o:p></div>
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At bottom,
sobriety is the opposite of craving, broadly defined: you're not going to war
with what's unpleasant, chasing after what's pleasant, or clinging to what's
heartfelt. You might think of sobriety
as a kind of loss, but it's actually fueled by a sense of gain. Sure, there's a
place for using your will. But studies show that willpower gets depleted fairly
quickly in most people. Instead of willing yourself to avoid the bad, enjoying
the good - the benefits of your sobriety - will naturally draw you in a higher
direction.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<li><i style="font-weight: bold;">Set yourself up to succeed</i>. Do what you
can to take care of your deeper needs so you feel less driven to distract
yourself, numb out, or get high. </li>
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<li><i><b>Reduce temptations</b></i>. If you're trying to stop
drinking, don't have alcohol in your home. </li>
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<li><i><b>Get support</b></i> from an honest
conversation with your partner to a 12-step program (or secular alternatives)
and/or counseling.</li>
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<li><i><b>Don't underestimate the power of craving</b></i>. If you've tried to
change in the past and not succeeded, recognize that you'll need to increase
your inner and outer resources for sobriety to have a different result this
time around.</li>
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As they say in Tibet: If you take care of the minutes, the
years will take care of themselves. Take it a minute at a time, a day at a
time. When you have a chance to enjoy your sobriety, really help the experience
sink in, which will gradually incline your mind and brain toward the high road
instead of the low one. <u> Sober traits are grown in your brain by actually
<i>installing</i> sober states</u>. If you don't <i>register</i> your positive states -if you
don't take the dozen seconds or so to help them sink in- they make little or
no difference to your brain: then there's no learning, no improvement in neural
structure or function, and thus no lasting benefit (for more on this, see <a href="http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?e=001I3t92KLoPlg5TXHjO92BpnNaI2fnI9xY4GqUHZZzRzH4KfdD2yKIlXL3iBit0ENaE68ezW-JRoaJBol2d8uVUWb-USTQ1Gl1BP9RUydrrIzSwlzQ2NF_zyA0MDtblebdDYVWNg4_YBV4bJPsWbE67nzFxZVAnloq" target="_blank">Hardwiring Happiness</a>).<o:p></o:p></div>
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So, to support and maintain your sobriety,<i> enjoy and really
take in</i> its benefits. At the start of a day, an evening, or even a minute,
commit to and enjoy the anticipated positive results of sobriety. While you are
being sober in some way, enjoy the results. After being sober, looking back,
take in the sense of its benefits.<br />
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<li><i><b>Enjoy the bliss of blamelessness</b></i>. The feeling that there is
nothing to be ashamed of, that you are taking an honorable path. The knowledge
that you are putting distance every day between yourself and problematic past
behaviors. Enjoy the sense of worth, of self-respect.</li>
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<li><b><i>Enjoy the pleasures of a clear mind and a healthy body</i></b>. Be
glad about not putting toxins - the source of the word, intoxication - into
your body and mind. Feel good about the gift you are giving your future self.</li>
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<li><b><i>Enjoy the results in your relationships</i></b>. Enjoy not feeling
embarrassed the day after, or hung-over, or tired because you stayed up too
late. Savor the respect of others. Be glad you avoided needless quarrels. Feel
good about not harming others. Be glad you've cleared the field so you can
focus on getting your wants met in the relationship.</li>
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<li><i><b>Enjoy learning how to manage stress</b></i> and have fun in more
wholesome, psychologically mature ways.</li>
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<li><b><i>Enjoy the freedom</i></b> in not being compelled to drink, etc. The
pleasure in feeling in charge of your own actions, mind, and life.</li>
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<li><b><i>Enjoy the opportunity to learn about desire by not
fulfilling it</i></b><i>.</i> Be more realistic about the actual rewards of indulging desires;
enjoy waking up from the spells cast -<i>Drink this! Smoke that! Eat
these!</i>- by addictive hungers.</li>
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Enjoy how sobriety supports your practices in the upper reaches of human potential, including in spiritual life. Most deeply, enjoy relating to the world and to your life
not gripped at the throat by desire. Enjoy the inner peace that comes from not
being compelled to do things that may feel good in the moment but have big
lingering costs for you and others.<br />
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<i><span style="font-size: x-small;">"Piggery," by <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=80Eh3i71RkY" target="_blank">Belinda Berger</a></span></i></div>
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<i>Amusing is that greed-driven, mad dash they do to be </i><i>Boss Hog, </i><i>the </i><br />
<i>one that's </i><i>oiled </i><i>the blind machinery of the American Dream for so long. </i><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>Cultivating Your Inner Monk</b></span><br />
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Nothing like focusing your energies at a meditation retreat, whether for one day, one month, or what have you. It's a great way to recharge your spiritual batteries, no matter how many years you've been meditating.
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I often see tips on the internet for getting the most out of the <i>spiritual</i> aspect of the retreat experience. But rarely do I see helpful advice for dealing with the more, shall we say, earthy aspects of the experience, simple ways to avoid easily-avoidable inconveniences. After all, when your body is free of distracting discomforts, your mind is freer to relax and meditate. So, here are some things that may help you better enjoy your meditation retreat, and to a certain extent, help people around you better enjoy theirs, too. <br />
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Yep, I'm gonna' go there. [sigh] OK, I'm glad to finally get this off my chest. For the past few years, I've been meaning to blog about this issue, but I always forget. Seriously. I don't usually beg, but <i>please</i>, if <i>you know</i> need it, for the love of all humanity, pack some Bean-o or other gas relieving product in your suitcase...and remember to <i>use it</i> at the retreat. There ain't enough Buddha Dharma Love in the world for anyone to have to tolerate your "outs" during their otherwise-blissful meditation sessions. <br />
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You will be eating lots of methane-producing beans (the "magical fruit"), as well as vegetables for the duration of your stay. Unless your body is already well-acclimated to a vegetarian or vegan diet, and you have learned to artfully master the management of your methane, you need to make plans for this. If you don't, no matter how meek and nice people seem at these things, inwardly they'll think of you as a thoughtless barbarian when they see you coming. I can't help but make up names in my mind for such folk and allow myself to laugh under my breath to decompress from my disgust: "Oh boy, there's Freddy Fartsalot," "Here comes Silent-But-Deadly Girl --does she <i>really</i> think we don't know it's her?" I know, I have to work on my sardonicism issues. But, just...yeah.<br />
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Maybe you didn't already know that most meditation retreats follow the traditional Asian tendency to serve vegetarian food. Or, maybe you're a retreat veteran and already know this, but you've been forgetting to, um, "prepare" properly in the past. Either way, consider this a friendly reminder.<br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">Love Yourself with </span></b><br />
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"All painful and pleasurable sensations are 'impermanent,' after all, so just suck it up" is the thinking. Yeah, whatever. Call me whacky, but I don't see how self-torture is a necessary ingredient for "enlightenment." I say, take good care of your back and it will take good care of you. Here are some things that have worked for me:
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<b><i><span style="color: #351c75;">Meditation Bench</span></i></b>. If you choose to meditate on the floor, you will have to try all manner of cushions and/or benches until you arrive at what works for you. Personally, I like meditation benches because they lift the body's weight off the legs (no numb "pins and needles legs" afterward). <br />
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The rounded bottom design of the bench at right allows one to ever-so-slightly adjust one's angle from time to time, easing tension on the spine and hips (and be sure to buy a bench with some padding on the seat).
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7509642944614620385.post-8103196531012089832013-11-03T08:34:00.001-08:002014-07-12T18:35:46.000-07:00Freedom of the Press<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>News reporters and politicians, mind-controlled </i><br />
<i>talking </i><i>heads of the Matrix Clown Show, </i><i>once </i><br />
<i>in </i><i>a </i><i>while </i><i>glitching in their </i><i>program</i><i>ming, </i><i>like</i><br />
<i> </i><i><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d8UDGoAdZKc" target="_blank"><b>this</b></a>, </i><i>and </i><i><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=glDPegX_0_M" target="_blank"><b>this</b></a>, or like <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GzpSGMjFYTg" target="_blank"><b>this</b></a>, </i><i>and </i><i> </i><i><a href="http://www.dataasylum.com/mindcontrol-examples-directtospeech.html" target="_blank"><b>these</b></a></i><i>, </i><i>and </i><i><b><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hes0egoMyO4" target="_blank">this</a></b></i><br />
<i>...yeah, it can get pretty disturbing sometimes.</i><br />
<em><a href="http://www.jeffpolachek.com/mind-control/mc-exhibits/39-mc201-brain-implant-bloopers" target="_blank"><strong>Here's why this happens</strong></a>.</em><br />
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John Swinton, editor of the New York Tribune in the 1880s, is known to have said at a banquet of his fellow editors:<br />
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"There is no such thing in America as an independent press, unless it is in the country towns. You know it and I know it. There is not one of you who dares to writes (sic) his honest opinions, and if you did you know beforehand that it would never appear in print.<br />
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I am paid one hundred and fifty dollars a week for keeping my honest opinions <i>out</i> of the paper I am connected with –others of you are paid similar salaries for similar things– and any of you who would be so foolish as to write his honest opinions would be out on the streets looking for another job.<br />
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The business of the New York journalist is to destroy the truth, to lie outright, to pervert, to vilify, to fawn at the feet of Mammon, and to sell his race and his country for his daily bread. You know this and I know it...and what <i>folly</i> is this to be toasting an 'Independent Press'?!<br />
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We are the tools and vassals of rich men behind the scenes. We are the jumping-jacks; they pull the strings and we dance. Our talents, our possibilities and our lives are all the property of other men. We are intellectual prostitutes."<br />
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And thus spake the <a href="http://ofthesoulblog.blogspot.com/2013/07/send-in-clones.html" target="_blank">Oblahma clone</a> to this esteemed conference of well-dressed, keenly-educated and fine-smelling intellectual prostitutes:
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<i>Good afternoon. Uh, blah. Blah, blah, blah, blah, and blah,
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blah, blah, blah, blah, and blah, blah. IN CLOSING, blah, blah, blah, and blah, blah,
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And they take notes on this nonsense and submit it as lamestream news --dutiful little mama birds regurgitating worms for the eager consumption of we, the hungry birdie masses. We lap it all up every drop, day after excruciating day, 'cause we want to stay "well-informed." Nope, absolutely nothing's changed since your day, Mr. Swinton. The tools, vassals and jumping jacks still do the <i>same</i> dance, and we clap our hands to the beat.<br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7509642944614620385.post-79808834297881046162013-10-20T12:09:00.002-07:002013-11-04T23:32:59.417-08:00 Panem et Circenses<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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I've lost my family and mates to pigskin-itis once again, a longstanding, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bread_and_circuses" target="_blank">epidemic addiction</a> here on the U.S.A. Corporation's vast land holdings (humorously known as, "states").<br />
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This means that if I disappear today...live on a 5th dimensional Andromedan biosphere for the next three months hanging out with telepathic, plant-pellet-eating, blue people, then come back promptly the day after Superbowl Sunday...no one would notice the difference.<br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7509642944614620385.post-58710517236237559092013-10-12T23:48:00.001-07:002013-11-06T19:39:34.454-08:00Hey, if the Earth Goes to Pots...<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7509642944614620385.post-63436388714054970682013-10-08T17:28:00.001-07:002014-08-04T13:13:18.545-07:00Mind Control<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<i>"I'm a Puppet," by <a href="http://www.hijiriyahagi.com/" target="_blank">Hiijiri Yahagi</a></i></div>
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Actual <a href="http://www.geneamusings.com/2012/10/who-knew-barack-obama-and-mitt-romney.html" target="_blank">bloodlines</a> are another thing,<br />
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Just ask <a href="http://www.rense.com/general80/obmw.htm" target="_blank">Brother Barry</a>, he knows.
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Ha, isn't this rich, <a href="http://ofthesoulblog.blogspot.com/2013/07/send-in-clones.html" target="_blank">isn't it queer</a>?</div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7509642944614620385.post-20210503350708014192013-10-02T23:53:00.001-07:002014-10-24T13:43:28.499-07:00They Walked Openly Among Us, Once.<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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They still walk among us, less openly though, for various reasons.<br />
Just like us, some are loving and benevolent, some cold and<br />
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<i>"...hahaha, just joshing, chaps! <a href="http://www.bibliotecapleyades.net/sociopolitica/esp_sociopol_fed06.htm" target="_blank">We've always had 'em by the </a></i><i><a href="http://www.bibliotecapleyades.net/sociopolitica/esp_sociopol_fed06.htm" target="_blank">Fed</a></i><a href="http://www.bibliotecapleyades.net/sociopolitica/esp_sociopol_fed06.htm" target="_blank"><i>er-</i></a><br />
<a href="http://www.bibliotecapleyades.net/sociopolitica/esp_sociopol_fed06.htm" target="_blank"><i>al </i></a><a href="http://www.bibliotecapleyades.net/sociopolitica/esp_sociopol_fed06.htm" target="_blank"><i>Reserve, </i></a><i><a href="http://www.bibliotecapleyades.net/sociopolitica/esp_sociopol_fed06.htm" target="_blank">haven't we</a>?! Hehe, look at 'em now, r</i><i>un</i><i>nin' </i><i>'</i><i>round </i><i>l</i><i>ike </i><br />
<i>sheep that</i><i>'ve </i><i>lost their way...hehe, 'Oh no, <a href="http://ofthesoulblog.blogspot.com/2013/07/send-in-clones.html" target="_blank">our little puppet govern-</a></i><i><a href="http://ofthesoulblog.blogspot.com/2013/07/send-in-clones.html" target="_blank">ment</a>'s </i><i>been </i><i>shut </i><i>down,'</i><i> hehehe,</i><i> '</i><i>oh </i><i>what </i><i>shall </i><i>we do, what </i><i>shall </i><i>we </i><br />
<i>do?' B</i><i>o</i><i>o-bloody-hoo, bwahahaha!!! Eh. </i><i>[sigh] H</i><i>ehe.</i><i> </i><i>Mmm. Well.</i><i> </i><br />
<i>Right. </i><i>(</i><i>ahem) </i><i>B</i><i>ack to work. B</i><i>reak's </i><i>over. </i><i>Now, where were we?...</i><i>"</i><br />
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"<a href="http://ofthesoulblog.blogspot.com/2013/01/bamboozled.html" target="_blank">Bamboozled</a> redux, sucka's!"<br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7509642944614620385.post-75407807696967361582013-10-01T06:23:00.001-07:002013-10-01T16:33:18.461-07:00October Surprise!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7509642944614620385.post-84731434407784176012013-09-25T13:23:00.000-07:002013-10-01T17:40:00.241-07:00False Flag Operation<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<i>Open your eyes. See the Oz behind the holograms,</i><br />
<i>and there will be holograms a-plenty soon, trust me.</i><br />
<i>Have eyes to see and ears to hear the Puppetmasters.</i><br />
<i>Above all, let go of hubris. </i><i>You are not your </i><i>things,</i><br />
<i> </i><i>you never were. </i><i>That was all just part </i><i>of Oz's illu-</i><br />
<i>sions. You bought into them. Now, buy out of them.</i><br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7509642944614620385.post-18851196783593313972013-09-13T18:17:00.000-07:002014-04-08T09:04:34.215-07:00Matrix 101 for Dummies<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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"There is far more to this world than taught in our schools, shown in the media, or proclaimed by the church and state. Most of mankind lives in a hypnotic trance, taking to be reality what is instead a twisted simulacrum of reality, a collective dream in which values are inverted, lies are taken as truth, and tyranny is accepted as security. They enjoy their ignorance and cling tightly to the misery that gives them identity.<br />
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Fortunately, some are born with spiritual immune systems that sooner or later give rejection to the illusory worldview grafted upon them from birth through social conditioning. They begin sensing that something is amiss, and start looking for answers. <b>Inner knowledge and anomalous outer experiences show them a side of reality others are oblivious to</b>, and so begins their journey of awakening. Each step of the journey is made by following the heart instead of following the crowd and by choosing knowledge over ignorance.<br />
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Knowledge is the key to unlocking our potential. It gives us the self-determination, responsibility, and power necessary to cast off the chains of covert oppression. Knowledge is therefore the greatest protector, for it also gives us foresight to impeccably handle the challenges of life and, most importantly, to sidestep the traps on the path to awakening. <b>The more you know of higher truths and apply what you know, the more you begin operating under higher laws that transcend the limitations of the lower</b>." <br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7509642944614620385.post-72595075823417960692013-09-12T18:43:00.003-07:002013-10-01T00:58:19.747-07:00Come on People, We Can DO This!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<i>You know, </i><i>one fine day, </i><i>after </i><i>Disclosure, </i><i>we'll all be </i><i>sittin' </i><br />
<i>around </i><i><b><a href="http://www.thesurvivalistblog.net/fema-camps-2013/" target="_blank">FEMA </a></b></i><i><b><a href="http://www.thesurvivalistblog.net/fema-camps-2013/" target="_blank">camp </a></b></i><i><a href="http://www.thesurvivalistblog.net/fema-camps-2013/" target="_blank"><b>fires</b></a>, </i><i>hand in hand with our dear </i><i>Space </i><br />
<i>Brothers,</i><i> </i><i>singin' happy songs. </i><i>They had </i><i>me </i><i>sold at </i><i>free </i><i>wi-fi </i><br />
<i>...but </i><i>I'm still goin' for that $100 day </i><i>pass! How 'bout you? </i><i> </i><br />
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<i> "Uh, listen. OK. Now, <a href="http://ofthesoulblog.blogspot.com/2013/07/send-in-clones.html" target="_blank"><b>I'm a puppet</b></a>. And, uh, you're all </i><br />
<i>pup</i><i>pets. </i><i>And </i><i>this </i><i>is, uh, this is just what puppets </i><i>do. Now, </i><br />
<i>ahem, </i><i>remember. You </i><i>all </i><i>...you </i><i>signed </i><i>up </i><i>for this, uh, </i><i>from</i><br />
<i> the begin</i><i>ning, from the very beginning. Don't forget </i><i>that, OK?"</i></div>
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<i>brings out </i><i>the </i><i>best </i><i>in all men everywhere, and I'm always more </i></div>
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<i>impressed </i><i>than I could possibly say. </i><i>So, come on everybody... </i></div>
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<i>Let's </i><i>Kickstart WWIII</i></div>
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