Nungali

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  1. Why is there so much evil in the world?

    Its a human relative judgement .... of course . And it comes from a propensity to ignore or even work against the 'local' groups , agreed upon 'common good' ( 'thriving' ) . So of course some aspects will be seen as variant among different groups . Think like ; a volcano is not evil ... but what it does to you might be . But then again , a few hundred years later it might be considered a good force that made the ground fertile . In ancient Zoroastrianism (possibly the source of this idea , or the first writing down of it ) ; that which benefited the tribe was good and from Ahura Mazda , that which did not was 'evil' and attributed to Ahriman . This went through everything ; eg. some ants where evil ( 'the seed carrying away ' ants ) yet others good . Now with people, we have a duel nature and consciousness ; one primeval that we share with other animals ( eg , the hind brain is reptilian , and we have it , it regulates basic autonomous survival ) but being primates , we are also 'higher order' and our best thriving situation is to exist in extended family groups that are interrelated . Aside from variations in group aims and interest ( that might make one 'evil' or 'good' to the 'outsider' ) there is a basic need to sublimate the 'primal' consciousness ( focused on the self ) to the 'primate consciousness' (focused on the community ) . To this end rites of initiation, passage and induction are held to train and educate the individual about the advantages one gets from this process , with a follow up education in 'Law' - how your community works and what is expected from you and the benefits you will receive from this process . To pass and 'make the grade' you become a member of that society with those benefits . To fail, and think only of one's self , to go against the others and not follow Law , makes you bad, evil and/or outcast . So 'good / evil' can be something that is seen as an internal process ( one's higher and lower natures ) or an intergroup process ( that tribe is friend / enemy ) . There is no 'evil' in the world , its a c that exists within human society .
  2. What is love?

    ... 'attraction lions' ?
  3. It seems like you are saying , on the one hand, you collect energy from the dead that you 'hold on to' to defray your feelings of painful boredom and loneliness , and on the other hand you don't know what this energy is .
  4. Stranger things

    Judaism has '10,000' laws ..... while Thelema has 'the law of the one ' . (ie. 'the one commandments ' )
  5. Stranger things

    You never had a teenage son ?
  6. Stranger things

    Only the ones that where silly enough NOT to take barrels of sauerkraut with them . Capt. Cook was one of the few English that adopted the practice . The Asians were smarter ; Asian cultures have relied on fermented cabbage to survive long winters between fruit seasons for thousands of years. Kimchi, sauerkraut’s Korean cousin, was historically used during winter to stave off vitamin deficiencies, while early records show workers building the Great Wall of China ate fermented cabbage regularly when fruit was not available. https://modernfarmer.com/2014/04/magical-sour-cabbage-sauerkraut-helped-save-age-sail/ Nah ... humans stopped evolving ever since modern HSS 300,000 ya . Indeed . And that has been my major anthropological thesis over the last few decades ; 'What makes 'Man' different from the other animals ? One would think that could be discussed ? Nah . I get attacked merely for posing the question ... with such 'enlightened' comments and accusations as these ; " Man is an animal too you know ! " " There is no difference ! " " Man has a soul an animals don't ! . " .... and so on . One friend offered an answer I had not thought about ; ' Other animals don't seem to delight in banding together and spending vast amounts of time and resources to kill their own species . '' Humans do ..... when we eat those animals .
  7. Modular Homes

    (They even have the same sounding accents as you guys do over there . )
  8. Modular Homes

    What are the beaches like there ? Anything like this ?
  9. Stranger things

    Humans made my Vit C The body evolved away from the need to produce it as it was available in the food system . So ? She also maintained that ; " The intellectual difference between the Aryan and other civilized nations and such savages as the South Sea Islanders, is inexplicable on any other grounds. No amount of culture, nor generations of training amid civilization, could raise such human specimens as the Bushmen, the Veddhas of Ceylon, and some African tribes, to the same intellectual level as the Aryans, the Semites, .... " The Secret Doctrine, Vol II, p 421
  10. Modular Homes

    Its a weird photo ; from here I have to look up, its a lot longer away , looks a lot bigger and is set back more from the front of the cliffs . And strangely the trees look large in relationship to the waterfall, which makes the waterfall look smaller . ... you can see it looks really different from this angle .....
  11. Modular Homes

    Did you get that 'strange feeling' because of what I said about mold and how I explained a fresh air circulation wood heater ? Or what ? Of course TOTALLY sealing a room is crazy, one would suffocate eventually . The moisture comes out of one's body via breath and that moist air with a higher CO2 content needs to be expelled . That's where the moisture comes from How about you explain what you are not understanding here - that lead you to think I am giving you advice 'without knowing what I am talking about ? Hmmmmmmmm ? and while you are at it you can explain what you are talking about and explain how someone can be 'totally full of black mold ' . Did you think that helping you by explaining a remedy to what you are worried about meant I thought you where wrong in outlining the mold problem ? Or what ? - you are becoming hard to follow again .
  12. Stranger things

    Strange goings on at the Egyptian museum . Remember Zawi Hawass ...... whi specialized in 'hawassment ' of ufologists , ancient alien proponents and pyramidiots ? Yes, he got fired sometime back ..... but " ... Hawass was sacked by the country’s ruling army council, which reshuffled the government cabinet to purge it of Mubarak henchmen, a move widely seen as an attempt to placate the millions of Egyptians involved in the nation’s revolutionary upsurge... ... In February of 2011 I wrote The Museum at the Center of Egypt’s Revolution, an article about Mr. Hawass that detailed his record as an ardent supporter of the former dictator Hosni Mubarak (who is scheduled to go on trial Aug. 3 over charges of corruption and having given the orders to murder dozens if not hundreds of pro-democracy demonstrators). ...Typical of Western press coverage of Mr. Hawass’ downfall, the New York Times simply mentioned on July 22, that Hawass had drawn criticism from critics “for his ties to the Mubaraks, his role in sending artifacts abroad on traveling exhibitions and his relationship with National Geographic, which paid him up to $200,000 a year as an explorer-in-residence.” There is much more to say about why Hawass has been such a controversial figure for Egyptians. My above mentioned article not only addressed how Egyptian archaeologists and state museum workers viewed Hawass as running the nation’s archaeology institutions for his own personal profit, it focused on another very disturbing possibility; as Egypt’s chief archaeologist, the Secretary General of the Egyptian Supreme Council of Antiquities, and the Minister of Antiquities (a newly created cabinet post given to him by Mubarak just prior to the dictator’s demise), Hawass certainly had to be aware that the Egyptian Museum was being used by Mubarak’s army as a detention center where prisoners were brutally interrogated and tortured. ...allegations made by Human Rights organizations that Mubarak’s soldiers had “secretly detained hundreds and possibly thousands of suspected government opponents since mass protests against President Hosni Mubarak began, and at least some of these detainees have been tortured.” The article reported that “some of the detainees have been held inside the renowned Museum of Egyptian Antiquities”. While the article published the testimonies of those who claimed to have been mistreated while held inside the museum, Dozens of detainees held a press conference where they said that on March 9 they had been “dragged into the Egyptian Museum where they endured six hours of torture and mistreatment.” Egypt’s largest news organization, Al-Ahram, also published these accounts, reporting that “According to eyewitnesses, thousands are still being held in the military camps with detainees packed inside the Egyptian Museum, which has been turned into a torture chamber by the army.” https://art-for-a-change.com/blog/2011/07/the-firing-of-zahi-hawass.html So if you ever went to the Egyptian museum and noticed part of it was closed off downstairs ... they might not have been hiding the 'alien artifacts' down there after all .
  13. Stranger things

    When .... 'it' ...... gets so bad that the wack-a-doodle 'alternative researchers' are flabbergasted at how far out, wrong, crazy, and double-wack-a-doodle the 'scientific researchers' have become !
  14. Modular Homes

    The systems I outlined above eliminate that . If you draw in warm fresh air and expel warmed used air in a heat closed system, the moisture laden used or 'stale' air is expelled . the same way your house will not fill with moisture if air circulates around it from open windows . Or your car heater .... drive around in the cold, your windows will 'fog' up Fog is water . put the heater on and fresh air is drawn in, warmed, circulates, picks up your 'breath moisture ..... and while it is suspended in the warm air is expelled out of vents from the interior . Me ? I get moisture and mold regardless ..... welcome to the rainforest ! Wow ! Since 'ever' I have never been able to find a pic online of this . It's the waterfall and escarpment opposite my place and the view from my garden - this shot is angled higher than I get from my place . You have experiences with mold ? Wow ! That dance crowd is having a great time ! W
  15. What made YOU laugh today/tonight ?

    Ahhhh ... but you never saw the resultant picture did you ? I will post it in the next post for you .....
  16. Teleportation

    " Rows and floes of angel hairAnd ice cream castles in the airAnd feather canyons everywhere ... " https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angel_hair_(folklore) Beautiful soft fluffy 'angel's hair ' - okay , its got a few 'bits' in it ;
  17. What made YOU laugh today/tonight ?

    Here is mine ; .
  18. New Age Spiritual Sources - Good/Bad

    stupid can exist within an ocean of information access ... even within an ocean of information incorporation. Its what you DO with the info that makes you intelligent or stupid . 'Learning how to learn ' ... as the Sufi;s used to say .
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  20. New Age Spiritual Sources - Good/Bad

    ... perhaps 'calculation' is the better term here ? Whatever we call it , its still 'exploded' beyond our brains ( but perhaps not our 'minds' ? ) .
  21. Teleportation

    yeah ... silly Russians , they could have used any of these instead ; I suppose it was supposed to represent the air rushing into the vacuum created . The whole thing is weird ; the mock 'agents' chasing the 'hero' the running 'time stamp' as if its going to be an official record , the pursuit ... etc etc . I don't think he was supposed to be 'random stranger' - he was obviously being pursued by 'agents' of some type ... so much of that vid is left unanswered ... dudes ! What were you trying to show here . I guess we have to ask Lois ... I am sure we will get a very clear and uncrazy explanation from him If you like large spider-webs ... Come down here for a holiday ... even if its just for a picnic
  22. Teleportation

    Reminds me of the 'Order of the Solar Temple ' . After the horrible chaotic end members where interviewed ; you are a professional intelligent mature man , why did you believe in it ? he saw a 'miracle' in a ritual ; a glowing 'see through' holy grail hovering above the altar ; the same question ; 'Am I really seeing this or imagining it , how can I tell ? ' So he checked with another member present , being careful not to describe or give away anything he had seen . The other described it exactly . Good enough ? ... Nah , because in the aftermath of the police search for bodies and evidence , guess what they found inside the altar ? A hologram projector . https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Order_of_the_Solar_Temple
  23. Teleportation

    It was ? Those transportation scenes where the bread and butter of early Sci Fi (including the 'alien monsters ' ) and often included huge sections of the film in depicting it . Teleportation in Sci Fi actually came about like all the other Sci Fi themes did - an exploration of possible new ideas fueled by scientific technology ., not by some producer trying to save money on a shot
  24. New Member Here

    Well, at least I know it isn't just me frightening them off ! It's strange , IMO to post 'all that' get a response , and then ......