Lawrence R. Spencer's Blog, page 104
March 6, 2022
INNOCENT SOULS
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Today I felt a wound so deep
my eyes refused to weep.
may innocent souls
find rest and peace.
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in memory of 15 december 2012
Lawrence R. Spencer
March 5, 2022
YOUR COSMIC AGE
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Time is a measurement of the motion of objects through space.
The planets in our solar system orbit around the sun. One orbit of the Earth takes one year. Meanwhile, our entire solar system orbits the center of the Milky Way galaxy. Our sun and solar system move at about 800 thousand kilometers an hour – that’s about 500 thousand miles an hour – in this huge orbit. So in 90 seconds, for example, we all move some 20,000 kilometers – or 12,500 miles – in orbit around the galaxy’s center.
Our Milky Way galaxy is a big place. Even at this blazing speed, it takes the sun approximately 225-250 million years to complete one journey around the galaxy’s center. This amount of time – the time it takes us to orbit the center of the galaxy – is sometimes called a “cosmic year.”
Revolve means “orbit around another body.” Earth revolves (or orbits) around the sun. The sun revolves around the center of the Milky Way galaxy.
On the other hand, rotate means “to spin on its axis”. The Earth rotates every 24 hours. The sun rotates, but not at a single rate across its surface. The movements of the sunspots indicate that the sun rotates once every 27 days at its equator, but only once in 31 days at its poles.
What about the Milky Way galaxy? Yes, the whole galaxy could be said to rotate, but like the sun it is spinning at different rates as you move outward from its center. At our sun’s distance from the center of the Milky Way, it’s rotating once about every 200 million years – defined by the length of time the sun takes to orbit the center of the galaxy.
If you are an Immortal Spiritual Being, how “old” are you in “Cosmic Years”? (this is a rhetorical question…)
MISSING YOU
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March 4, 2022
8 TRUE FACTS
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Well, at least men understand the importance of proportion and priorities….
March 3, 2022
THE AGE OF REASON
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“I read the most excellent treatise and critique of that superstitious body of mythology written by the American revolutionary, Thomas Paine. Although Mr. Paine is not a popular fellow in Britain, having fathered the uprising against King George which resulted in the loss of the greatest possession ever claimed by the throne of England, he is nonetheless a man of preeminent intellect and prodigious reasoning ability.
His book, The Age of Reason; Being an Investigation of True and *Fabulous Theology, to my own system of logical assessment and evaluation represents the most thorough, factual and incontrovertible dissection of the Bible, which unfortunately serves our civilization as a guideline for survival. After having read his preeminent work of logical vivisection upon the content of the Bible, and by abstraction, a commentary upon the paradigm of Western Civilization, it is no longer a mystery to me that humanity has endured so great an extent of war, misery, chaos, greed, destruction and mayhem inflicted by Western imperialism upon the Earth at the behest of, and with regal and religious blessings.
As for my personal observation and conviction concerning the matter of religion, I concur with the statement most ably stated by Thomas Paine himself:
“I hope for ha ppiness beyond this life. I believe in the equality of man; and I believe that religious duties consist in doing justice, loving mercy, and endeavouring to make our fellow-creatures happy. I do not believe in the creed professed by the Jewish Church, by the Roman Church, by the Greek Church, by the Turkish Church, by the Protestant Church, nor by any church that I know of. My own mind is my own church.
All nati onal institutions of churches, whether Jewish, Christian, or Turkish, appear to me no other than human inventions, set up to terrify and enslave mankind, and monopolize power and profit. I do not mean by this declaration to condemn those who believe otherwise; they have the same right to their belief as I have to mine. But it is necessary to the happiness of man that he be mentally faithful to himself. Infidelity does not consist in believing, or in disbelieving; it consists in professing to believe what he does not believe.”
(Definition of the word “fabulous” — adjective: based on or told of in traditional stories; lacking factual basis or historical validity)
— An excerpt from SHERLOCK HOLMES: MY LIFE, by Lawrence R. Spencer
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MEATHEADS
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THE MEAT MYTH
“Better get under cover, Sylvester! There’s a storm blowin!–a whopper–to speak in the vernacular of the peasantry!”–Professor Marvel, in ‘The Wizard of Oz’
Like a twister swirling across the plains of America, the consumption of animal protein is killing Americans who do not know enough to protect themselves from the storm of false information furnished by the vested interests who profit from the sale of animal flesh as food.
Clearing up confusions about the human body’s need for protein sheds a different light on health and diet.
The word “protein” is derived from the Greek language and means “of primary importance”. Amino Acids, the component parts of protein, are the biochemical basis for life and are required by every cell. The immune system’s antibodies are protein. Endrocine hormones are protein. The cement that holds our cells together is made of protein.
HOW MUCH PROTEIN IS “ENOUGH”
Human mother’s milk contains no more than 5% protein. This is enough protein to enable an infant to double its weight and size during the first six months of life! After that, the need for protein DECREASES.
Independent researchers around the world agree that the human need for protein each day is only 25 to 35 GRAMS (about one ounce). Many nutritionists feel that only 20 grams a day are more than enough. Meanwhile, the AVERAGE AMERICAN eats more than 100 GRAMS of protein a day–five times the actual need!
Reports in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition say that people do not need to consume more than 2.5% of their daily caloric intake from protein. Even the World Health Organization says people need no more than 4.5% of their calories from protein.
So, as an alternative to animals flesh, how many calories are provided from protein in common raw fruits and vegetables?
SPINACH = 49%
BROCCOLI = 45%
CAULIFLOWER = 40%
LETTUCE = 34%
PEAS = 30%
GREEN BEANS = 26%
CUCUMBERS = 24%
CELERY = 21%
POTATOES = 11%
SWEET POTATOES = 6%
HONEYDEW MELON = 10%
CANTALOUPE = 9%
STRAWBERRIES = 8%
ORANGES = 8%
WATERMELON = 8%
PEACHES = 6%
BANANAS = 5%
PEARS = 5%
WHERE’S THE PROTEIN IN THE BEEF?
Since our bodies recycle 70% of the protein waste, we lose only about 23 grams of protein a day (there are 28.35 grams in one ounce). To replenish this lost protein, your body needs only about 24 ounces (1.5 pounds) of protein a month. So, why do we think we must eat huge amounts of meat to be healthy? Advertising. The meat and dairy industries spend vast sums of money in television and magazine advertising every year to convince Americans that we must eat huge amounts of cow meat, cheese, milk, eggs, chicken and other assorted animal products.
What’s the truth about meat as a source of protein? The Food and Nutrition Board of the National Research Council states: “One of the biggest fallacies ever perpetuated is that there is any need for so-called ‘complete protein’.”
The fact is that protein is composed of amino acids. Amino acids are the building blocks of the human body. There are a total of 23 amino acids needed by the body, of which 15 of these our bodies manufacture in the liver–provided the liver is in good working order. The other eight amino acids must come from food so the body can build a complete protein.”
— Excerpt from THE OZ FACTORS, by Lawrence R. Spencer
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