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That's the nature of the Abrahamic religion faith-based group-think.

The media is media-ting the word ISIS,...but the governments (and IS) use the word ISIL. It is so weird to watch an interview between a government person and a media person. Sometimes, a media person will use ISIL, and quickly change to ISIS, as if being told by someone off screen to use ISIS.

On the Marco Polo historic trail. If we lived in a Peaceful World, hiking or cycling the Silk Road would be awesome adventure.

With ever growing snowmobile restrictions in the US,...Bradian would be a nice winter destination resort for snowshoers, xcountry skiiers, and snowmobiles. And with a yearly Tumo Festival, it could attract Qi Gong practioners from around the world. The yearly Tumo winner (how many wet towels they can dry while sitting nearly naked in the snow) would get a free Bradian historic house. https://images.search.yahoo.com/search/images;_ylt=AwrBT7esHvhTvxMAU6xXNyoA;_ylu=X3oDMTB0dmVubnU5BHNlYwNzYwRjb2xvA2JmMQR2dGlkA1NNRTY0MV8x?_adv_prop=image&fr=fp-yie10-s&va=bradian+bc+canada

I would wager everything that neither Bush could have been elected in the 18th or 19th centuries. And yes,...Arab animosity towards the US began in the 18th century,...and why the Treaty of Tripoli was devised. Did you know,...the first US intervention into Vietnam occurred in 1845.

I don't know about the UK and Israel,...but Martin Luther King thought the US was a leading purveyor of terrorism. Martin Luther King stated in 1967, "My government is the world's leading purveyor of violence." It doesn't take much research to understand what Martin was saying. From the Native American massacres to the current times, America is indeed a leading purveyor of violence. Yes, the 9-11 tragedy was shocking and horrible to watch as the WTC Twin Towers were attacked by "faith based initiative" terrorists, resulting in the deaths of thousands. (SEE LAST PARAGRAPH). However, was it not equally as shocking and horrible when Bush's father attacked Baghdad and the rest of Iraq, and killed 200,000 people during that "war", which includes the infamous "highway of death" in the last days of the slaughter when U.S. pilots literally shot in the back retreating Iraqi civilians and soldiers. Was it not Shocking and horrifying when the sanctions on Iraq, which have resulted in the death of over 1,000,000 Iraqis, including over 500,000 children, about whom former Secretary of State Madeline Allbright has stated, their deaths "are worth the cost". What about the U.S. sponsored coup against democracy in Guatemala in 1954 which resulted in the deaths of over 120,000 Guatemalan peasants by U.S. installed dictatorships over the course of four decades. What about the events when the U.S. overthrew the government of the Dominican Republic in 1965 and helped to murder 3,000 people. Or the shock in 1973, when the U.S. sponsored a coup in Chile against the democratic government of Salvador Allende and helped to murder another 30,000 people, including U.S. citizens. How about the shock and horror in 1965 when the U.S. sponsored a coup in Indonesia that resulted in the murder of over 800,000 people, and the subsequent slaughter in 1975 of over 250,000 innocent people in East Timor by the Indonesian regime, with the direct complicity of President Ford and Secretary of State Henry Kissinger. What about the shock and horror of the U.S. sponsored terrorist contra war (the World Court declared the U.S. government a war criminal in 1984 for the mining of the harbors) against Nicaragua in the 1980s which resulted in the deaths of over 30,000 innocent people (or as the U.S. government used to call them before the term "collateral damage" was invented--"soft targets"). Anyone remember the horror inflicted by the U. S. war against the people of El Salvador in the 1980s, which resulted in the brutal deaths of over 80,000 people, or "soft targets",...or the shock and horror during the U.S. sponsored terror war against the peoples of southern Africa (especially Angola) that began in the 1970's and continues to this day, and has resulted in the deaths and mutilations of over 1,000,000. What of the shock and horror as the U.S. invaded Panama over the Christmas season of 1989 and killed over 8,000 in an attempt to capture George H. Bush's CIA partner, now turned enemy, Manual Noriega. What about how the Shah of Iran was installed in a U.S. sponsored brutal coup that resulted in the deaths of over 70,000 Iranians from 1952-1979. What about the shock and horror of the how the U.S. has "manufactured consent" since 1948 for its support of Israel, to the exclusion of virtually any rights for the Palestinians in their native lands resulting in ever worsening day-to-day conditions for the people of Palestine. What of the hundreds of towns and villages that were literally wiped off the face of the earth in the early days of Israeli colonization,...or the horror in 1982 as over 17,000 civilians were massacred by Israeli. No, those scenes were not repeated over and over again on the national media to inflame the American public. What is shocking and horrifying how mainstream commentators refer to "Israeli settlers" in the "occupied territories" with no sense of irony as they report on who are the aggressors in the region. Isn't it strange that the Israelis are always "retaliating", but the Palistinians are always commiting terrorism. Of course, the largest and most shocking war crime of the second half of the 20th century was the U.S. assault on Indochina from 1954-1975, especially Vietnam, where over 4,000,000 people were bombed, napalmed, crushed, shot and individually "hands on" murdered in the "Phoenix Program" (this is where Oliver North got his start). Was anyone shocked and horrified as the U.S. attacked and bombed with impunity the nation of Libya in the 1980s, including killing the infant daughter of Khadafi. Was anyone shocked and horrified as the U.S. bombed and invaded Grenada in 1983,...or horrified by the U.S. military and CIA actions in Somalia, Haiti, Afghanistan, Sudan, Brazil, Argentina, and Yugoslavia. The deaths in these actions ran into the hundreds of thousands. America needs to realize that the tragedy of 9-11 was not an unsolicited attack, nor a "sucker-punch",...it was a "faith based initiative" by those who agreed with Martin Luther King, that America is the world's leading purveyor of violence. Once Americans begin to realize this, then the healing can begin,...the healing of this Planet can begin, but not before. Oct 2001

Wow! That has to be one of the top 10 conspiracy storoes in patriarchal history. The comments below were quite interesting as well. If you hear why the media calls ISIL by the acronym ISIS, although governments and ISIL themselves say ISIL, let me know.

Because ISSL has not been able to attack Israel, that must mean that Israel invented ISSL,...and as the USA supports Israel, they must be co-conspirators. He forgot to mention that the recent beheading of the American journalist was done by a London accented executioner. I think maybe ISSL is run by the British to win back the Levant. But most likely, George W Bush created ISSL,...because George W Bush talks to God, and the Muslims listen to God's messengers. Of course the real conspiracy here is why does the media call ISSL by the acronym of ISIS? The Levant is much more than Iraq and Syria. What are the String Pullers of the media attempting to media-te to the Sheeple? I've never heard US government officials from the executive branch, even once, saying ISIS. They use the name that ISSL used t identify themselves. Even ISSL does not like ISIS,...as seen by the name change to IS,...yet the media continues using ISIS. Yes,...there could be a conspiracy. Maybe the head String Pullers of the media created ISSL, to fill in for slow news days.

Amazing....with the depth of Cream's individual ego's, that they did what they did. Imagine if they were cooperative. In the meantime, here's some Shamanic Rock

No,...it was a 1971 LSD experience that suggests an awareness of the Tao: Yesterday you know it never really happened Tomorrow you know it never really had You, you're only what you think you might be I am only what you think I am It happened today It happened today It happened today It happened today I know that you're afraid of what might happen Uncertain what to give and what to take Already you've forgotten why you came here I can see exactly why you came It happened today It happened today It happened today It happened today What I was I find it hard to be now Now I am and very soon you'll feel You keep tellin' me the time is tellin' I tell you the time will tell in time It happened today It happened today It happened today It happened today Today

I was at Mae Kuang reservoir today for lunch,...near Chia's Tao Garden resort. Everyone around seemed to be in a microcosmic orbit.

Soulestial Orienteers Or,...scroll through the Theosophical Glossary for other possibles. I like the word Sabda. http://www.theosociety.org/pasadena/etgloss/etg-hp.htm

In the first video,...min 48 - 56....the discussion is on the subconscious programming of children. It is a fact, to the consternation of many, that Jewish parents indoctrinate their children to be superior,...there is no prejudice or judgment,...the proof is in pudding. Here,...perhaps this will relax you Robin Williams....master of improvisation

I did not care for Bruce Lipton's approach (or personality) either,...but he was raised in a Jewish household, and children of Jews are indoctrinated with a sense of superiority,...which is likely why they (Jews) are more successful in business than most,....however, the message, which challenges the status quo, like the "central dogma of molecular biology" (see wiki), would obviously upset the many whose life work is invested in the central dogma paradigm. I did like his analogy of epigenetics functions with computer science terms, which seem helpful for understanding. But as Planck said, , "A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die." Of course, as Lipton said, the theory of Central Dogma was never a scientific truth to begin with,...just an accepted one by scientists. However, the message I liked the most was that we are not really individuals. In fact,...individuality = auto immune deficiency. Comment about Jews is directly related to subject matter in the video regarding subconscious programming.

Man goes to doctor. Says he's depressed. Says life is harsh and cruel. Says he feels all alone in a threatening world. Doctor says, "Treatment is simple. The great clown Pagliacci is in town tonight. Go see him. That should pick you up." Man bursts into tears. Says, "But doctor... I am Pagliacci." R.I.P Robin Williams

Got a kick out of a news story saying that Jackie Kennedy enjoyed matching her husbands sex affairs with her own, including William Holden and Gianni Agnelli - in retaliation for the Presidents indiscretions. Sex. That would make a great change of pace in the news. Anyone wish to comment on this old, but interesting article: Walter Russell, said that lack of higher sex knowledge is facilitating a rapid degeneracy of the whole of our civilization. Russell continued, that civilizations have fallen from high places many times in history for lack of sex knowledge and wrong sex practices. It is most possible that the present civilization will fall for the same reason. He said, by higher sex knowledge I mean the effects of wrong sexual practice and wrong mate choosing from a spiritual, mental, character building viewpoint, instead of just a physical, biological and emotional point of view. It has been said, "a man is what he thinks". To this, Russell adds "a man is what his sex practice and sex ideals make of him". Sex practice can be the most spiritually uplifting, or the most mentally, emotionally and physical defiling thing in one's life. The greatest injury from promiscuous sex relations lies in the fact that each person has his own wave length pattern - promiscuous sex relations affect both by undermining both. Few realize that every cell in the body, plus the nature of the blood stream, is permanently affected, for better or worse, by sex relations. The sex relations unifies two close mates, but badly distorts unbalanced ones. Thus, years of hard climbing towards one's spiritual goal can be nullified, according to Russell, in one brief costly hour of thoughtlessness in violating this most holy relationship between the sexes. The ever thoughtless average human thinks that sexual promiscuity leaves no damaging effects unless one of the participants is diseased. Mr Average Man would be shocked to learn that the very Self-pattern of his emotions, his blood stream, his individual ideal and his very character is degenerated by choosing the wrong mate and by every promiscuous sexual experience. Electrical connections between any two unequal sex mates distort the human wave forms which make up the human pattern. That, according to Russell, is the danger of promiscuity, and makes the idea of a mate choosing the most serious business of any man's life. Human sex interchange must be a balanced one. What about sexlessness? Russell said, one who forgoes sex can hardly expect to have a creative mind, or become a great leader, inventor, composer or artist. Sexless people tend to become copyists or imitators. They do not create - they repeat. They do not imagine - they remember. Technical skill may develop in them to a high degree, to disguise their lack of inspiration, but there is little art in those skills. For sexless people, their mental status is progressive only through reflection from other sources outside of themselves. It does not arise from a well-spring within themselves. Sexless lives add very little new knowledge and new creations. For this reason, celibacy and impotency are prone to develop reformers, fanatics and zealots. Celibacy and virginity are unnatural, abnormal states, which create abnormal and subnormal people. In time, either atrophy of the generative powers or neurotic conditions or sublimation, causes a permanent derangement of body, mind and spirit. from Scientific Explanation of Sex, 1949 by Walter Russell

Yes,...I fully agree with the Law of Three in nature,...duality could not be duality without it,...the Law is Three is completely fundamental to the nature of light, and how light condenses into form, and unwinds back to emptiness, within duality. It is why 3 divide 7 = 0. 428571428571….or 142857 × 3 = 428571,...it is essential to the matrix of duality. First, for discussion, understand that nothing is outside the cube. There is no thinking out the box. A single cube is part of an interconnected matrix that includes all space–time. As spectra or donuts of divided light (particle-wave duality) condense into form through a multiplication-division process, space is simultaneously extended to accommodate time. There is neither space without time, nor time without space. All phenomena, both emptiness and form, are within the cube. A cube is bounded by six square sides, which in this presentation will be called six convex optic planes. These convex planes facilitate the flow of divided light along ninety-degree arch-angles. This flow of pressure follows the recursive pattern of 142857. That is to say, from plane one, the flow of pressure goes ninety degrees to plane four, then from plane four, ninety degrees to plane two, etc. As you can see on the enneagram, the numbers 142857 are not directly connected with numbers 9, 3, and 6. The numbers 142857 can be likened to the singularly aspected Mayan gods one through six in the Popol Vuh. Thus, the dynamics of interrelationship between the six convex boundary optic planes and the three inner, or zero, optic planes are how all emptiness and form come in and out of being. The law of three is like “god seven” in the Popol Vuh text, an account of Maya cosmology. The Popol Vuh speaks of seven gods whose individual urge is to create progeny through the heart of the galactic center, yet their efforts were barren of form, and they remained alone. God seven, who has three aspects, then directed them to undertake the urge together, and form was manifested. God Seven exemplifies the three centering optic planes within a cube, which divide the cube into eight parts or optical chambers. Keep in mind that the universe is an optical universe. Everything in duality and beyond duality is light. Impermanence is divided light, whereas permanence is undivided light. (Undivided Light is not outside the cube, but can be accessed at the center-point of the cube). Once light is divided and enters space–time, it cannot return to source (Undivided Light), just as the light projected on a theater’s screen does not return to the bulb, which is “still” in the projector. In sacred geometry, the optical cube upon which light is projected is called Metatron’s cube. In this holographic theater, all phenomena are unmanifest or manifest. The cube contains all emptiness and form. Diagrams of the Metatron matrix often show extended layers of the process, that is, how the cube extends or duplicates into other cubes, forming simple structures. Duality is a manifestation of divided light. The divided light of duality is both emptiness and form. Undivided light is nonduality. Nonduality contains neither emptiness nor form. Our authentic consciousness is not dual, although it records its thoughts within the dualistic structure, which is to say that form is a record of thought. The phenomenal personal consciousness of third-density thought is as evanescent as a dream, whereas authentic consciousness is permanent. Unlike the dream state in which you don’t know you’re dreaming while dreaming, an uncovered authentic consciousness is cognizant that life is a dream and as such can play in it without attachment to hope or fear. Undivided light is like the still light within a projector. Emptiness is as the flow between the film stock and the screen. The form with which we interact is as the image on the screen, a nine-optical-planed multidimensional holographic matrix. The form got on the screen through simulated light, not real light. Emptiness and form are impermanent simulations. The still light from which the simulation effects motion is in the center of the screen, that is, in the center of the cube. Our duality reality of divided, projected, simulated light is 299,792 kilometers per second slower than the stillness of what mahamudra calls the clear light of Vajra. When you realize that, you begin to gnow who you are because you have had a taste of when you are. In duality, everything is in the past. . All divided light is in the past. It makes no difference how fast energy equal mass square divided light (E=mc²) is moving, for even at 299,791 kilometers per second, undivided light is perceived as moving 299,792 kilometers per second faster. That’s why Einstein called it relativity. Everything in duality is sexual. V Marco

. Maybe Jesus belonged to the cult of Attis, whose priests were called Gallaens, and who strongly influenced the invention of modern Christianity. In fact, the Vatican, named for mons vaticanus or Vatican Hill, which antedates Christianity, was the place of worship of Cybele, and her fertility rites with her youthful lover Attis were performed on Vatican Hill. In other words, Vatican City sits atop the most sacred place of the Phrygian religion.

No! Jesus was likely not from Galilee. A Nazarite or Notzri, meaning consecrated, was a Jew who took the ascetic vow described in Numbers 6:1–21. Among famous Nazarites was James the Just, whom the Ebionites revered as the legitimate apostolic successor of the Nazarites. Jesus the Nazarite (not of Nazareth or Galilee). The word scribe(s) is mentioned at least sixty-six times in the New Testament. Thus, repeatedly, what was not mentioned says much regarding the history of the invention of present-day Christianity. For instance, why was the capital of Galilee, Sepphoris, known as the ornament of Galilee, just four miles down the hill from the archeological site of Nazareth, not alluded to in the Gospels, although they all mention Nazareth? Could it be that the authors of the gospels were unaware that the city existed because Rome leveled it during the Jewish Revolt of 66–71 CE, some forty years after the Talmud’s Jesus was hanged for sedition? It is unlikely that Nazarites lived in Galilee, but were instead Jerusalemites. Interestingly, in 1980 a tomb was uncovered in the Talpiot neighborhood of Jerusalem. Because of inscriptions on the ossuaries there, it was asked, "Is the Talpiot tomb the family tomb of Jesus of Nazareth?" A leading question that suggests with authority that Jesus was from Nazareth. Biblical scholars, who apparently cannot separate fact from devotion, answered no,..."Why would Jesus of Nazareth be buried in Jerusalem when his ancestral home was in Nazareth?" Why? Because Jesus was not a Nazarean, but a Nazarite. It is most likely that Nazareth did not exist at the time of Jesus, but grew out of a refugee camp from the survivors of Sepphoris. When a documentary came out (2007) about the tomb, Biblical scholars attacked the producer as having no academic credibility to be presenting such a film, even though he never claimed to have such credentials. The documentary, The Jesus Tomb, was subsequently buried by those whose reputations and earnings depend on the Nazareth myth.

As I mentioned,...today's Jesus is more a physical prototype of Serapis http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serapishttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serapishttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serapis As for some interesting facts about Serapis: The Egypto-Greek Sarapis, whose devotees, according to Hadrian, called themselves Christians and bishops of Christ. Sarapians had temples in most of the major cities of the time, including Alexandria, Rome, and even Bithynia, where Pliny the Younger was governor at the beginning of the second century CE. Under Trajan (who was married to Pompeia Piso), Hadrian was governor of Syria. As every Bible hobbyist should know, as per Matthew 4:24, Jesus’ fame was said to reach throughout all of Syria, yet the evidence shows that no one there knew Jesus’ followers as Christians until well into the second century. Why was that? Actually, the word Christos, referring to an “awakened one,” crept into 5th century BCE Greek subculture, and this word can be found in the works of classical writers, such as Aeschylus and Herodotus, the father of history.

Nope,...I never heard of that. I'm aware of many interpolations, but not 1 Cor 11:14 Many think Jesus would have looked something like this....a bit less Caucasian. http://www.popularmechanics.com/science/health/forensics/1282186

Sure,...I could be in error as to the suggestion that to the Greeks, thymos was more feminine in nature, and psyche more masculine. I'm not a Greek historian,...but a PhD Greek historian did introduce me to some of it. In ancient Greece, according to Greek historian/philosopher David Karnos, when one spoke of the higher mind (or as Socrates said, High spirit), one pointed to the chest and said, “Thymos.” Homer said, “Thymos is in our chests.” The other mind, the lower mind, the accumulating intellect, was known as psyche. From the higher mind arises gnowledge, whereas through the lower gray goo, one synthesizes knowledge. As mentioned, To Gnow Thyself, Gnothi Seauton, one can only proceed through the thymos. An enlivened thymus or heart chakra is one of three thresholds to the conscious realization of the fulcrum upon which duality effects its motion. Thanks for your input and critique. It is best to discuss things on TTB, before one discusses them in a less spiritual group. It very well could have been Socrates that initiated a more cerebral-centric view of gnowledge and thymos, vs. knowledge and psyche. Gnothi Seauton was said to have been engraved on the Delphi temple two or hundred years before Socrates. The ancient Egyptians, Mesoamericans, and Bönpo/Buddhists all considered the Higher Mind to be associated with the chest. No cerebral-centric person can understand why that is,...IMO, only a person with an active thymus gland can. Plato's tripartite theory that life has three parts is IMO irrelevant for any spiritual understanding,...which can be seen by the fact that no Greek of that era was known to have uncovered enlightenment. Which shouldn't suggest that any Greek of any era did uncover enlightenment.